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in Navarre , and to the great extent of the dealings with France and England ; so that had it not been for the cholera , 1855 would have been one of the most prosperous years ever known by -the Spanish agricultural and mercantile classes . Tie want of large bonding warehouses , and of an easy mode of conveyance from one part of the kingdom to otlersclumsy carts drawn slowly by horses being used ia the place of railroads—is also pointed out by the letter writer , who conceives that an . improvement in this respect is only wanted to make Spain the granary of England , and to prove the source oF great national wealth .
" Senor Battles , " says a letter from Madrid , " lately presented a bill to the Cortes Ly which marriage was declared to be a civil contract , which , however , lie has since withdrawn , has introduced another bill , which qualifies as working days all the days cf the week except Sunday . It was referred to the sections as a preliminary proceeding to authorise or refuse their sanction to its being read , and the authorisation to read it has teen granted by six out of the seven sections , one only ( the second ) having refused it . "
M . M . Perare , of the Credit Mobilier Company , have obtained the concession of the projected line of railroad from Lisbon to the Spanish frontier . A masqued ball has been given at Madrid at the Teatro Real for the benefit of the wounded soldiers in the Crimea . Owing to bad weather , the attendance was not large . IJAItf . Inquiries are being instituted at Rome into a conspiracy against the Papal Government . Three men are in . custody . A manufactory for making pongnards has heen discovered . Prince Don . Tomaso Corsini , Councillor of State for Finances , died at Eome on the 6 th . - He was in his nineiaeth year .
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NAVAL AJSTD MILITARY NEWS . Loss of the Transport Ship Barrackjpore .- — The Barrackpore ( French transport ) , Captain Iiouttit , of London , was lost off the island of Marmora on the night of the 14 th ult . The ship was laden with hay for the French army ; and , about nine o ' clock , while under three close-reefed topsails , a strong gale Mowing from the north-eastward , with thick snow showers , she was driven on the east part of the Island of Marmora . So thick was the weather , that ,. withm twenty minutes of ; first seeing the land , the ship was among the breakers , A ] l hands got safely on . shore . They just succeeded in . getting a footing on . the crags , They
had . no means of communicating or getting away from the island until Friday , the 21 st ult ., when her Majesty ' s steamer Oberon carne and took them off . SipeakinCs-tubes i-oii- Floating-Batteries . — The Trusty , fourteen gunB , floating-battery , Captain Frederick A . CampbeD , and the Thunder , floatingbattery , fourteen guna . Captain George Gr . Randolph , are both being 1 fitted with gutta percha speaking-tubes leading from aft to forward on the main gundeck , communicating ; with the intended shot-proof look-out house on deck for the officer in command giving orders for placing" ship in time of action , and for giving , from any given number of guns , a concentrated broadside
. fire . Mr . William Wolfe Bonney , the inventor of this iria . de of communication during action / has recently been engaged in superintending the fitting of similar tubes to all the French floatingba-iteries now fftting at the French Imperial dockyards . The Secretary of State eor War . — Lord Panmure , Secretary of State for War , lias been Buffering for some days past from an attack of gout . The attack is a severe one , and has affected the right hand . A conference would have been hold at the War Department on Friday week , in the middle of the day , of a committee of the Cabinet Ministers to meet some of the principal naval and military authorities ; bufc the illness of the * Secretary of State for War caused the meeting to be postponed .
Testimonial to Lord Cardigan . —A very handsome eiver-gilt sword , richly chased , of tho value of about two hundred and fifty guineas , has been purchased by public subscription in Yorkshire , as a teeti-Doonial of admiration to Lord Cardigan for the gallanry with which he led on the cavalry iu tho celebrated thargo at BaJaklava in . October , 1864 . SiNiawa of an Experimental Mortati Boat . — The' first trial , which took placo on Fridalc week , at *" ortBmoutliJ of the now India-rubber collapsing mortar faoaV or vaft , invented by tho Rev . E . Bcrthon , of Barenarn , was attended by a melancholy accident , After the diBcharge of the fifteenth shoo ) , tho vessel Ju ? II thitteen * n . n » on board . All wore reaouod Trith the exceptio n of one . It appears that tho raft ' s sides wore completely blown out by the concussion .
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OBITUARY . Tnn Right Hon . Hknrit Gocmhjkn , M . P . for tho University of Cambridge , died last Saturday morning at Beeolvworth House , near Dorking , sifter a very short lllnofis . Ho was bom in 178 4 ; educated at Cambridge ; and flrBt » at in tlie House of Commons as mombor for Horahom in 1807 . He entorod official Hfo in 1810 , when ho wa » Under Beorotary oi State for tho Home Department in tho ministry of the Duko of Portland and afterwards in that of Mr . Perceval , He has einco filled various other offioos , tho latoat being tho Chancellorship of tho Exchequer under frir Robert Pool ' s lant administration . Tnn Hon . Must . G . Vilmihis , mother of Lord
Clarendon , died at her Bon ' s seat at Watfoi-d on Saturday night iu her eighty-firBt y « ar . Mr . Serjeant Adams expired on Thursday weelat his residence , 9 , Hyde-park-street , after a short bu » most severe illness . He was in his seventieth year " and until recently appcai-ed in robust health . A * chairman of the sessions , and as assistant-judo-, } , t ] 1 ( J late Serjeant has presided on the Middlesex ^ bench for twenty years , and during his career there lie tried 31 , 400 prisoners . Eccentric in manner , and some times even undignified , so much as to incur reproach ' lie was humane and merciful at heart , carefti )' painstaking , and discriminating , and hi . s acts of private benevolence , even to prisoners after sentence were not " few and far between . "—J ? . r » rcss . '
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THE ROMANCE OF " THE TIMER . " [ Under this head , we reproduce from week to week th (> most remarkable of those mysterious advertisom « nts which appear 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 . ] ADA . —Yes , Write . HOPE . —Direct to the friends you used to cull on . POETICUS —Where are you now ? 4 , 12 S , 250 , 272 , 5 , 96 . Yours have not been received . lie iunt — Tkoph . L \ EAR PHIL . —Let me know where I can see you It is most urgent . Still your Bhieere friend , J . K . OH , Harry , Harry , come back , come back , to yoiu disconsolate friends in the Crescent , Nos . 1 and 2 . E . — No . 3 received on Tuesday ; lN o . 2 on Friday after noon . Have hope , patience , and an indomitable will
—R . N . "FRANGIPANI . —Do not doubt me . Numbers 67 , 412 , 87 . You will now comprehend the delay . R . S . —James still lingers . I am " well . 1 trust your health has improved . R . S . —Ordered . to travel , for my ' health . Shall not return yet . Be happy . H . B . M . —Ho that conquers a fault is even moiv worthy than if he had . never erred . With truth ami honour for your weapons—hope still . — Royal Navy . HEBE . —Did y . pu see my advertisement of the 9 th < I must see or hear from you . Remember how 1 have suffered .
T . V . M . H—Has tho last application failed / Write again to B . I will Bee your'brother again You know that I will use every exertion to get youi affairs settled . Be prudent , alid all -will go well . 1 shall see you on the 24 th . Write . God "bless you ROMEO and JULIA . —Wednesday ' s and Friday ' news have duly arrived . You will find mycomimi nications at the same place , and the same day as las week . —January 12 , 1856 . THE ADMIRAL . —I liave called twice . Presto wn not at home . 1 cannot account for it . One await
you at Porte St . Martin . Do not keep me longer i suspense . Alas ! alas ! THE GENTLEMAN who took by mistake (?) , fron Mrs . do Arroyava ' s Ball , last Friday , a thick gro ; and pink silk neck-haaidkerchief , will do Mr . F . Bloni field a favour by sending it to the Conservativ Club , when he has quite done with it ! DEAREST M INNIE , wo . forgive you , and wish y < v God-speed . Look at the Times daily . TEN POUNDS REWARD . — Missing . — Thoniu . Spiller left tho Orange-grove , Bath , on M ' oiuln ; evening , January 7 th , to go to Twerton , and 1 ms »< j since been heard of . He ia about 40 yea r * of nge , feet C inches high , very stout , 1 mb a profusion * dark hair , and largo bushy black whiskers ; had o a black coat , veouna waistcoat , black trousers , an ft low felt hat ( which has since been found ); aln wore in his Hhirt studs sot in silver , attached by sxnall silver chain . He had in his possession sumlr , papers , koya , &c . Mr . Spillor waa clerk in tho Su Fii-e-offico , Bath j librarian of the Bath Athennjuui secretary to tho Bath City Lodge of Odd Follow M . U ., and corresponding secretary of the Hath di trick Information to bo given to Mr . H . Lloy < Bath City Weighing Engine . —January 14 th , 135
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Bank CiiAn-jim Act of 1844 . — A sped mooting of the council of tho Hirminghuin Chamber Commorco , recently hold , adopted a resolution to tl effect that the war can never bo properly carried oi until the present monetary system bo roformotl , w that therefore it is tlio duty of Parlinaiout to tnl atopa towards considering tho offuotn produced by tl Rota of 1810 and 1844 , and thutt " calling out tl energy and power of tho nation . "
Tum Bkagon Firm on Malveun Hills . —Thin fi was lighted on Thursday week , but oh an oxperiinu waa not bo rmcooBBful as had boou hoped for . T materials of tho fno consisted of tho following oo b-uatibleo : —460 faggots , 5 cordn of wood , 12 t barrols , 2 barrels of tar , 2 tons of ooalu , 3 or 4 Ion of hoppolos , 2 loadfi of furao or goroo , 1 barrel naphtha , and twelvo poplftr-troos . The fire v lighted precisely at Heven o ' clock ( Qroonwioh tim It did not , however , wive out « o largo n . flauxo as li boou autioip « , tod , and tho high wind wliioU blow
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piobibits clergymen from attending political meetings . Mr . George Bowyer , the member for D = iindalk , has recently been making a speech with reference to the Irish party , and has been statiug that it is powerless in Parliament "We shall meet . Parliament- without a leader , without a plan , without union , without independent action . " Decline or Crime in Cork . —The Cork Examiner contains the following paragraph : — " A circumstance as gratifying as entirely unprecedented took place at the opening of the Cork Sessions , the Assistant-Barrister
, Serg-eant Berwick , Laving been pi-esented with a pair of white gloves by Mr . Townsend , Sub-SierifF of the county , there being no criminal case whatever for trial before his worship . This is the fu-st time such an occurrence has taken place in this city ; and , when the nature of the offences usually tried in this court is remembered , the circumstance speaTcs loudly for the absence of crime in a district so extensive as tho Cork division of the East Riding . " Yet the Cork magistrates have decided against a reduction of the extra police force by a majority of forty-four to thirty-nine .
A Meteor in Ireland . —Atmospheric phenomena have been observed in Ireland as well as in various parts of England and in France ^ A LoMgfbrd paper thus alludes to a meteor in that locality : ¦ " At a quarter to ten o'clock on Tlnirsday morning ( Jan . 10 th ) , a meteor of very unusual appearance and magnitude , and at no great elevation ( not over eleven degrees ) , and visible for nearly ten seconds , passed this town from W . to S . by W ., with an oscillatiug motion and a tail of great length . Both meteor and tail appeared of a brilliant silver coloTir . The sun tad not made its appearance at the time . The larometer then stood at twenty-nine degrees , thermometer twenty-six degrees ; wind N . by E ., hard frost during the night . "
A Convict CLEKG-ratAN . — -It is stated that the Lord Bishop of Cork is ab . out to institute proceedings in " the ecclesiastical courts for the purpose of declaring the parish of Inniscarra vacant by reason of the conviction and sentence to transportation for life for forgery of its rector , the Rev . W . Beresford . These proceedings , it is said , will be defended by the creditors of the convict . Th e parish has for a number of years been sequestered , and the revenue collected
by a receiver under the court , for the benefit of the creditors , whose debts . amount to a very considerable sum . The defence which , ifc is understood ^ will be set up is a . denial of vacancy , on the ground that the incumbent is not dead in law , as the prerogative of the Crown may at any time be exercised in his behalf by granting him a free pardon . Many persous lookon this defence as futile , but it is said that legal opinions of high character speak confidently of its sustainment . —Cork Constitution .
The Mcibder op Miss Hinds . — Several men havo been arrested , and are now in Cavon , Gaol charged with the murder of Miss Hinds . With one exception , they are tenants on the estates of the deceased lady . ' A Diogesan Seminary . — The Right Rev . Dr . Murphy , titular of Cloyne , has issued a short pas to mi to the laity under his spiritual jurisdiction , calling upon them for their assistance towards the foundation of a diocesan seminary for tho preparatory education of the youth aspiring to the ecclesiastical state . In the course of this paatoial , he observes : " The gold of England , the influence of tlio nobility and gentry , the violent prejudices of its benighted people together with the und liatred
, - ying and malevolence of the Protestant church in Iceland , are still arrayed against us . Were it not for tho intervention of Providential circumatancea , tho storm of persecution so lately raised by one of tho professing liberal statesmen of England , should , probably erb this , have burst over our heads , and swopt hi its destructive course every trace of that provision made by tho Government for tho education of tho Catholic clergy of Ireland . It becomes , then , our imperative duty to avail ourselves of the respite from persecution , thus vouchsafed to us by a kind Providence , , and to render ourselves independent , as Uv as lies in our power of that provision which rests on the mere sufferance of our enemies .
IRELAND . The Piubbts and * hb p , , iNwmrj , _ SSff f * T J ^ ° announced to aaaemblo next Tu © 84 fty but , contrary to uuual « u « tom , »<> priest * , will bo proseafc , In con ^ quencS o t fio Papal fntovdiot procured by Dr . Cullon , whiol
REOnaANISATION OP THE LAND TRANSPORT COKPS . —This force is to be organised upon a similar nlnii to that of the " Royal Waggon Train , ' ? which wan of very great utility dining the Peninsular war , and subsequently at Waterloo .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 19, 1856, page 58, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2124/page/10/
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