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    France have both lowered their discount . ; that the over-issue of notes at the Bank of England has been repaid ; that persons of a precise turn of mind pronounce the crisis to be ' at an end . ' The decrease is shown under every head of the-revenue . In Customs and Excise it amotitits to 1 , 755 , 0 OO £ ; and although a large portion of the decrease must be ascribed to a reduction of taxes , it is also due to a reduction of consumption and of trade . But while we see this decline , we sec also the quotations of Consols steadily rising . They have never—throughout the greatest crisis that our trade has sustained —been so low as they have been in previous crises . The trade of ournianufacturiiiG ; districts is stagnant .

    Although France should rejoice m great commercial activity at the beginning of the year , all is dulness even there ; and from America , in lieu ol remittances , they send us brilliant promises of reviving trade . In fact , the . whole aspect of commerce is like a gigantic antithesis—interesting to look at , painful to endure . The determination of the Chapter to open "Westminster Abbey for service on Sunday evenings is to be acted upon on Sunday next . This resolution has been adopted in consequence of the demands which have been addressed from without to the

    authorities of the Abbey , ' to make it more available for the great Christian ordinance of preaching God ' s Word to the people . ' A letter from Dean ITkench explains the reasons why there had been some appearance of hesitation on the part of the Chapter to comply with the wishes expressed by those who suggested the experiment—for experiment the Dean confesses he looks upon it as being . He argues that there are already seven churches

    open for evening service in Westminster every Sunday , and that it would be a real subject of regret if the mere attraction of novelty , or of a variety in the preachers , should draw large congregations to the Abbey services at the expense of the others . Nevertheless , the greatest exertions are being made to try * the experiment fairly , by making the building as warm and comfortable as it can be made . We shall watch the results with interest .

    The heroic story of the partial burning of the Sarah Sands will be told in another column of our paper . It is a story of sea-peril in which all the incidents are so striking , all the feelings involved are so fine , that nothing but the most perfect artlessness of narrative seems worthy of it . The danger is not that one would say too little , but too much , in re-telling it . Enough to say that it is as grand a story of its kind as any that is written in that grand collection of naval adventures of which we are , and may well be , nationally proud . But the triumphant rescue of tlris ship from her horrible

    peril points a moral that should be daily insisted upon : it is that the correct principles of iron shipbuilding should be developed with all practicable speed , as ollering the only possible chance of securing life against tho accident of fire nt sea . One good instanco is as useful as five thousand . It is impossible not to admit that , under tho circumstances , had tho Sarah Sands been built of wood , she rtiust havo been destroyed entirely . The principle laid down by the advocate of Madame db J ' isuiros&is , and which tho jury at

    Evrcux accepted aa her justification for causing tho wretched blackleg Guiixot to be fired upon , -has been painfully misapplied by tho Mairo of a littlo town called Ail , near Motz , in the north of France . His daughter , a handsome girl of ninotcon , had favoured tho attentions of a young man named Basset , who , with hor connivance , was used to climb up to the grating of her chamber window . Tho father discovered tho nocturnal visitations of his daughter ' s lover , and took tho desperato resolution of shooting him . Ho instructed his son to lie in wait for him in his sister ' s

    room , wlnoh the son did , and upon tho lover ' s appearing at tho window , tho son firod tho contents of ¦ -. — -a-doubio-bai'i'elled-gutt-at-hiinr ^ -The-poor-follow-i ' ell to tho ground dead , and tho noxt day was discoverod by tho gondarmes lying whero ho had fallen—tho father and son having gono to bod after the deed was dono without taking any further heed of tho victim . Tho two woro at onoo apprehended , and will very likoly bo astonished if tho jury who try thorn mako such a just distinction between their case and that of tho Jeufossks as will send them both to tho souHbld or to the galleys .

    ACQH 5 &NTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . An old woman , living at Liseard , on tbe Cheshire side of the Mersey , leTt her bed during the night , wandered while asleep « o the river , and was drowned . Some of the villager * saw a figure dressed in white walking in the direction of tbe ferry , but had taken no notice of it , out of fear that it was a ghost . But for their superstitious folly and cowardice the poor woman ' s life might have been saved . One of the passengers by the express train on the

    2 tfie « oroner ' s jury , in the case of the deaths resulting from the explosion last week of a steam thrashingmachine , has returned the following verdict : — " We find that the deceased were accidentally killed by the explosion of the . boiler of a steam thrashing-machine , caused- by undue pressure resulting from the incompetency and mismanagement of Thomas . Johnson , deceased . And the jury suggest to the coroner that he should represent to the Secretary of State and other authorities the necessity of Government or other inspectors being appointed to institute periodical inspections of agricultural steam thrashing-machines and the competency of their attendants . "

    night of the collision on the Oxford , AVorcester , and Wolverhampton Railway , near Charlbury , on the 18 th ult ., died suddenly four days after the accident at Warwick . The deceased is Mr . James Hunt , the Poor Law auditor of the Oxfordshire and Warwickshire district . He was on his way to Warwick to attend a trial there connected with some embezzlement by an officer of the Poor Law when the accident happened . The cause of death was the bursting of an anenrismal sac , and the consequent flow of blood into the abdomen . An inquest has been opened , but is adjourned to next Wednesday .

    A portion of a train of waggons suddenly parted from the rest on Monday evening as they were going up the incline at Helmshore , between Kamsbottom and Accrington , on the East Lancashire Kailway . The part thus disjoined , consisting of eight waggons , ran down the incline with great velocity ; seeing which , the guard , who was on the last waggon of the eight , jumped off , hoping to be able to catch hold of the points , and turn the runaways into a siding . But he fell ; the waggons rolled on , and shortly afterwards a collision ensued with an advancing passenger train from Manchester . The consequence was that the engine and the first carriage were nearly destroyed , and both tbe lines were blocked up . The passengers were severely shaken , but not seriously injured , with the exception of one gentleman , who jumped out in his alarm , and received a severe contusion of the left thigh . The guard of the passenger train was also disabled by a blow on the legs . It does not appear that blame is attributable to any one .

    A steam-engine boiler , connected with a colliery at the outskirts of Leeds , exploded on Tuesday morning , causing the death of one of the proprietors of the colliery ( Mr . Joseph Garside ) , and seriously injuring the engineman and a boy . The boiler was old , and apparently made of very inferior metal . The boy has since died . Two engines came into collision , on Sunday evening , at the Gorton station of the Manchester and Sheffield Railway . One was a ballast engine , the driver of which was crossing from one line to another in front of the second engine , . when the crash took place . This he had no right to do , unless authorized by the signal ; and the signal was oft" at the time , the signalman being at a public-house . The driver of the ballast engine was killed ; and two other men were injured , one seriously . The signalman has been taken into custody .

    An inquest has been held on the body of Mr . Henry Adams , aged thirty-one , a gunmakerin Gray ' s Inn-lane . He had lately taken to excessive drinking . On Thursday week , he drank an enormous quantity , and , in the evening , just after swallowing some raw gin , he fell down in a fit , and expired . The immediate cause of death was extravasation of blood on the brain ; and a verdict in accordance was returned . A girl , about sixteen years of age , fell a few days ago down the opening of a shaft at one of the conl pits near Harlford , Scotland . It was night , and she did not see the orifice . She fell about three hundred feet , and , on one of tho colliers going down after her , she was found quite dead with her face downwards on tho bar of the cnge , over which she was literally doubled up and almost broken in two . An unusually largo number of cases of sudden death havo been reported during the present week .

    Liverpool has boon tho scene of an alarming accident . A large pile of buildings in course of erection on tho north aide of the Sailors' Home fell while four workmen were engaged on it . The men woro thrown into tho vaults below , a distance of thirty foot , and , when got out , were found to bo suffering from concussion of tho brain . It is doubtful whether one of them will not die . Tho coroner ' s inquest on tho seven persons killed by the fall of a ehimnqy nt thoOuso Chemical Works , near llowden , was resinned on Wednesday morning . After tho coroner had read the evidence , tho jury deliberated about half an hour , and then returned a verdict of Accidental Death . A man , aged about sixty , lately an inmate of St . Pnncras workhouse , has died from tho effects of outing an enormous quantity of cold plum-pudding . Ho wan in tho act of swallowing a largo piece when ho fell insonsiblo to tho ground . Apoplexy had conic on , a portion of tho pudding having boon imbedded in tho broutlung

    organs . —^ T ) yrdip'ryow tin (> iarMn " a"aio"a ' n ; t"Roihwhitho ''* roTn having put a poa in hist oar , which ho Buid ho would bring out at his mouth , for tho iimusenionl . of somo of his young frionds . On tho pea getting beyond his power of reoul , ho crlod out for help , and medical assistance was sought ; but all was in vain . A child has boon soalded to doulh nt Lambeth in a way which not { infrequently happens In humble life . Ho placed tho spout of a kettle which was on tho flro to 1 i ( m mouth , and drank somo of the scalding wutor . Ho lingered for rather more than a day , and then died .

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    NAVAL AND MILITARY . Shipping Disasters . —Several vessels were either partially or totally wrecked along the eastern coast last week . Mutiny in the Mersey . —A mutiny of a formidable kind broke out on the night of Thursday week on board the American ship J . J . Boyd , lying in the river , ready to sail for New York . When the anchor was about to be weighed , the crew refused to touch a rope , armed themselves with belaying pins and knives , and assaulted the mate . Eighteen were taken before the county magistrates , at Liverpool , last Saturday . The captain being anxious to proceed to sea that evening withdrew the charge of mutiny ; but two of the crew were fined 5 / . each and costs for the assault . The other prisoners were discharged .

    Burnin g of a Screw Transport Steamer . —The Sarah Sands , a transport steamer , has been partially burnt about four hundred miles off Mauritius , while on its passage from Portsmouth to India with the headquarters and a large portion of the men of the 54 th Regiment . The fire was of a most appalling kind ; but the crew and soldiers behaved with the most admirable coolness and courage , and the women and children were for a time sent off in the boats , while the men used every exertion to check the flames . The greater part of the gunpowder was thrown overboard , though in getting it out of the magazine several persons nearly lost their

    lives , being overpowered by the smoke . A few barrel * , however , could not be got at , and a fearful explosion ensued , shattering the port quarter . The flames now seemed to gain a mastery over all parts of the vessel ; but the courage and energy of the officers and men continued unabated , and at length the fire was subdued . The women and children were then brought back ; but the danger was not entirely over , for , the ship being a complete wreck , and the weather being rough and tempestuous , constant baling and working at the pump 3 were necessary to keep her afloat . At length , however , all got safely to Mauritius . The ship was inaui- *> a at Lloyd's . . _ . _ 1 ..

    A Batch op Military Riots . —The Royal Dublin Militia , stationed at Bradford , got drunk on the night of Christmas-day , and commenced a riot which at one time looked alarming . Ultimately , seven of them were taken into custody , but given up shortly afterwards to a party from the barracks . —A disturbance broke out on Monday evening amongst tho soldiers quartered in St . Mary ' s Barracks , Chatham . A great deal of fighting ensued ; and , as tho men used their side-arms , some severe stabs were received . Several of the belligerents were taken prisoners , and sent to the guard-house . —A disgraceful disturbance has been created at Edinburgh by a party of drunken soldiers belonging to tho Staffordshire Militi . i , now Btationed in the Scotch capital . They attacked the populace with their belts , and treated them very roughly .

    Lieutenant Milligan , of the City police , having presented himself in the midst of the fray , ( some of the militiamen , drawing thoir bayonets , stabbed him in tho head in several places . Tho wounds , however , were not serious , and tho lieutenant is now recovering . Several of the men are now in custody . — Somo soldiers of tho Coldstrenm Guards made a ferocious attack , on Thursday evening . on several policemen in tho Broadway , Westminster . Ono of tho soldiors was being apprehended at a public-Iiouho on a charge of felony , and , whilBt he was being conveyed to tho station-house , somo of his comrades succeeded in rescuing him . A desporato affray ensued , and somo of the police wore so seriously injured that thoy woro taken to tho hospital . The whole neighbourhood continued for somo time in a very disturbed stale , and tho riotous soldiors got clear off .

    CoiXDNIOL INCU . IH OP TUB LUCKNOW KF . SIDENCi . Tho pension for distinguished service , rendered vacant by tho appointment of Sir Henry Havclock to tho colonelcy of tho 8 rd Buffs , has been conferred by l > e General Commanding in Chief on Colonel Inglis , of t'io 82 nd Regiment , who so successfully prolonged tho < wfonco of tho Residency of Lucknow . A Military Inhtitutis for Woolwich . —A meeting of ofllcors has been hold nt Woolwich , prosidod over >< y ¦ Mra 3 W = Gvfforal"WHHamfl—tlie ~ objeefc-oi ' -wliioU-w « fl-to , discuss the propriety of the military instituto now m progress in that locality , for the benefit and rocruatuui ol prlvuto aoldiors . A largo majority declared in favour ut tho institution .

    This Static Yacht . —Her Majesty ' s State yacht Viotoria and Albort , Captain tho Hon . Joseph Dornnan , is boing ropainted und ombolUflhed externally and internally for tho special service of convoying tlio PrinccsB Koyal and tho Prlnoo of Prussia to Antwerp en rout * to Prussia aftor thoir nuptials .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 2, 1858, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2224/page/2/