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Amhrosine had also sailed from Geelong for London, with 
49,291 ounces of gold, worth 15)7,164/. The steamer 
Sydney, belonging to the Australian Royal Mail Company, 
had arrived at Adelaide, after a passage of 63 days from the 
Lizard. 
Defence op Australia. — In consequence of the ap- 
pearance of a Russian fleet in the Pacific, the necessity of 
adopting adequate measures for protecting Australia had 
been mooted in the Victoria Legislative Assembly. 
The Filibusters in Lower California.— Walkers 
Filibustero expedition lias miscarried — the pirates have 
been hemmed in, many of them shot, and many of them 
captured. 
M arseilles, Friday, Two a.m. — The Indian Mail has 
just arrived. The Australian Mail has not been received 
by this conveyance, and it cannot therefore arrive for the 
next ten days. 
Plymouth, Thursday evening. — Her Majesty’s screw 
steamship Algiers, 90, having been mimed by the daughter 
of Commodore Superintendent Michael Seymour, was safely 
launched from the Devonport Dockyard this nftertioon, at 
21 minutes to 3 o'clock. Her rudder was slightly injured as 
she dipped into the sea. 
New Summer Trousers for the Infantry. — Tho 
texture of these trousers is the same as those hitherto in use — 
pie colour only being changed to dark blue, with a red 
stripe down tho seam. 
Port Phillip, November 3. — A new paddle steamer 
had arrived at Melbourne from London, for tho intercolonial 
trade. Some of the steamers plying between Geelong and 
Melbourne were taking passengers free of expense, giving 
them a good dinner and a bottle of porter for their patronage, 
owing to the opposition. The Great Britain had made tho 
passage in 65 days, and was expected to leave on her home- 
ward voyage on the 2nd of December. The Fortitude 
arrived at Hobart Town on the 20th October, 103 days from 
Plymouth. 
THE FIELD. 
(BY SUBMARINE and EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) 
TURKEY AND RUSSIA. 
VIENNA, Thursday Evening. 
A Constantinople correspondent writes, on the 12th, that 
the Trebizond steamer, which reached Constantinople on 
the Kith, left the soiling vessels, under Admirals Dundus 
and Hamelin, at Sinope ; and the steamers, under Admirals 
Burbier de Tinan and Lyons, advancing towards Batoum. 
When the Retribution joined the fleet she reported only five 
ships of the line at Sebastopol. Prince Worouzoff's resig- 
nation has not been accepted. 
St. Petersburg, Jan. 18. — It is believed that Count 
Orloff has received a confidential mission from the Czar for 
the Courts of Vienna, Berlin, Paris, and Loudon. 
Hungary. — The Vienna journals announce the death of 
Princess Dowager Kohary, great-grandmother of the King 
of Portugal, on the 19th, aged 82. She leaves a largo 
fortune, but the greater part was held as a fief in Hun- 
gary, and will return to the state. 
Bombay, Dec. 19. — Dost Mahommed is encamped at 
Candaliar. A strong Persian division had gone to Bushier, 
which port was watched by an English corvette. A British 
schooner and u steam -frigate had gone to the Persian Gulf. 
The Russian squadron returned from Nangasaki to Hong- 
kong on the lllh December. It brought a report of the 
death of the Emperor of Japan. 
Portsmouth, Jan. 26. — Rear-Admiral Corry’s squadron 
is ordered to Spithead, and may be expected on Saturday 
(to-day). 
Jlnibcrsitjr ant) Clerical. 
Oxford.— Representation of tii b Umversitt.— When the 
intelligence of Dr. Twiss's refusal to allow himself to be put in 
nomination for the vacant seat reached Oxford, a lull was pro- 
duced in the political atmosphere, which is likely to continue 
undisturbed, except in tho improbable contingency of the 
appearance of a fresh candidate. Sir William lleathcote's 
committee continues to sit, and receives by every post numerous 
promises from oat-voters. 
Lecturbs. — The Regius Professor of Hebrew (Dr. I’usey) 
proposes, during the present term, to lecture in difficult chapters 
of the prophet Ezekiel, beginning with the 21st, on Wednesday, 
the 1st of February, at 2 o'clock, and to continue tbe lectures on 
Mondays, Wednesdays, und Fridays. The two elementary courses 
of lectures in Hebrew will also commence on Wednesday, February 
L and Thursday, February 2. The first is intended’ for such as 
are just beginning tbe language; the second for those acquainted 
with the rudiments of grammar. Those who wish to attend the 
elementary lectures are requested to call upon tho Rev. It. 
Gsndell, M.A.. Magdalcn-hall, on Tuesday the 31st, between the 
hours of 2 and 4. A schedule of the professional lectures for the 
current term lias been for tbe first time issued by tbe body of 
professors. It is far from complete, but will, "nevertheless, 
undoubtedly be found a great convenience to students. 
Notice. — The following notice has been issued: — “Students 
in Civil Law and Bachelors in the Faculty are informed, that 
from the date hereof no gentleman can be presented for the degree 
of B.C.L. or D.C. L., unless ho communicate in writing his in- 
tention so to proceed, at least three days previously, to the Deputy 
Professor of Civil Law. 
“GRANVILLE SOMERSET, D.C.L., 
“ Deputy Professor of Civil Law. 
“ All Souls’ College.” 
Distressing Scbne in St. Mart's Cnuncn, Lambeth. — A 
very painful sensation was caused during the performance 
of divine service on Sunday forenoon last in the ancient church 
of St. Mary’s, Lambeth. It appears that the Rev. W. D. James, 
the senior curate of the parish, was in the desk reading the 
morning service, when, on getting almost to the end of the 
Litany, a sudden scream was heard, and in an instant afterwards 
the rev. gentlemen fell in his desk, apparently in n fit. The 
Rev. Mr. Bosom, his brother curate, ran to his assistance, and 
succeeded in carrying tbe unfortunate gentleman into the vestry- 
room, where be was attended by Messrs. Rewell, Wagstaffo, and 
Collombell, surgeons, who were in the church at the time, and 
after some time he recovered sufficiently to be removed to his own 
residence. An apoplectic fit, it is presumed, was the cause of tho 
rev. gentleman's attack. The remainder of the service was finished 
by the Rev. Mr. Bparkes, who alluded, in most feeling terms, to 
the melancholy scene the congregation had just witnessed. 
New Church at Reading is Burks.— In the centre of tho 
Castle Hill estate, fronting the Bath road, in Reading, a plot of 
ground Lad been apportioned by the original proprietor of tho 
property for a square, which was surrounded by a very hand- 
some iron palisading, with large gates at each corner. The land 
having been recently purchased for the Conservative Land Society, 
the executive committee have decided that tho ground in the 
centre of the square, shall be given for the erection of a new 
church, the increasing population of Reading rendering Ibis gift 
very useful and beneficial to the locality. This is tbe second 
grunt of land for the building of a church, by the Conservative 
Land (Society. 
Rtiiasoe He tvt is a Church. — On the publication of the 
b*on* of marriage on Sunday, at tbe village church of Halton, 
adjacent to the fashionable watering-place of Weston-super-Mare, 
near Bristol, between a young farmer of the parish and his 
intended bride, some constornation was created in the congrega- 
tion by n gentleman rising and in a quiet but firm tone of voice 
saying, “I enter my solemn protest against the contemplated 
marriage of tho parties. The would-be bridegroom is under 
promise of marriage to another respectable young woman, who 
has a prior claim on him.” It seems the young man hud for 
sotno years courted the former sohonlmistross of the village, but 
on her removal to another part of the country, lie become so 
enamoured of tho pretty fueo of her successor, that after a few 
months’ attention he popped the question and was accepted. In 
addition to the public erposi thus recorded, it is said tho faithless 
swain will shortly be subject to an action for breach of promise 
of marriage. 
A Centenarian Author.— The venerable Dr. Routh, Presi- 
dent of Magdalen College. Oxford, who is very fast approaching 
to his 100th year of ago (99 last September), "has just completed 
a work consisting of extracts from some of the ancient fathers, 
with an original introduction. It is intended as an appendix to 
the larger work which he compiled some years ago, entitled 
“ Roligifc Sacra;.” Tho President is in excellent health, in the 
full enjoyment of all his faculties and continues his literary 
labours with unabated zeal and enjoyment. Ho has recently 
lost a eister ten years younger tliou himself, which has had a 
depressing effeot on his spirits. 
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[SatCRDAY, 
Admiralty, .Tan. 21. — Corps of Royal Marines, Gentleman 
Cadet Anthony Malone, Gentleman Cadet Melville Suther, Gentle- 
man Cadet Thomas Prothero Nowall to boSoeond Lieutenants. — 
— Tuesday' s Gazette. 
Rbcuuitino for the Navy.— Tho Advice, Lieut. Balfour, com- 
mander, now in dock, enrolled eighteen active young men in 
Limerick who were accustomed to a seafaring life . — Galway 
Packet. 
Wreck of the Tatlbuii Emigrant Ship.— Immense Loss 
of Life. — A feeling of consternation has been produced in 
Dublin, by news received that another fearful shipwreck had 
been added to the long list of those calamities for which tho 
Irish coast has of late obtained so sad a notoriety. The rumours 
on tho subject were, ns might be expected, somewhat exaggerated, 
but tbe truth is sufficiently awful without any addition toils 
melancholy circumstances. The Tayleur, Captain Noble, which 
sailed from Liverpool yesterday week, with 496 passengers, for 
Melbourne, and a crew, milking in all about 576 adults on 
board, after being tossed about the channel for some thirty 
hours, was at an early hour on Saturday morning driven on the 
rocks off Lambny Island, some miles to the north of Howth, and 
became a total wreck, only about 250 persons of her vast freight 
of human life being saved. Thomas Kemp, one of the surviving 
passengers of the Tayleur, gives tho following account of the 
catastrophe: — “ Tho Tayleur left Liverpool on Thursday week, 
at noon, in tow of tho steamer Victory, with a fine breeze from 
S.E. She had on board ns near as I could learn 670 persons, 
including the crew. All went on well until about noon on tbe 
Saturday. At tlmt time one of the passengers came running 
into my cabin, and said that there was land on the lee bow. 
I asked him how far off ; he replied, that he believed from three to 
four miles. I immediately went on deck, and saw the lund 
distinctly, which appeared to me to be only nbout tbree-quartors 
of a mile distant. From the progress the ship was making 
towards the land, I saw there was no liopo of escape, and I pre- 
pared myself for the worst. The wind was blowing fresh from 
8.W., the ship being under topsails. As soon as it was known 
to tbe passengers tlmt the land was so close, they all crowded on 
deck, and caused such confusion that the crew wero prevented 
from obeying any orders that might have been conveyed to 
them by tho officers. Both anchors were let go, but either the 
culiles broke or the heavy sea caused them to drag, for they did 
not stay the progress of the ship, and she soon struck on a rock, 
which I afterwards learned was cnlled * The Nose ’ of Lambny 
Island. After striking she turned brondside on to tbe rock, anil 
many of the passengers jumped on shore. She remained in that 
position only a few minutes, when she slid off, filled rapidly, 
and went down stern foremost, with only tho top of her mast 
visible above water. The survivors were mustered and counted, 
and it was found that there were about 250 saved ; the number 
that perished will therefore be 420. Tho captain and first and 
third mates are saved. The second mate and surgeon, and his 
wife and child, were drowned. Only three women and two 
children were saved. The Tayleur was a new ship, of 2,290 tons 
register. She was built at Warrington, and commanded by 
Captain Noble.” Mr. Kemp has evidently been mistaken as to 
the number of people on board the Tayleur. We have ascertained 
from the Government emigration-officers that she cleared with 
tho following :— Passengers, steerage, 488: cabin, 16; crew, 
officers, &c., 70 ; total, 574. Five “ stowaways” were discovered 
to boon board after the 6toom-tug left, which would make the 
total number of people on board 579. The number saved is set 
down at 230, which leaves 349 to be accounted for. The cries of 
the unfortunate creatures who perished wliilo struggling in the 
water are described to have been harrowing in the extreme. A 
seaman, who had lashed himself to the mast, was rescued from 
his perilous position by tho officers of the Const Guard. An in- 
quest is being holdon, which we will report in our next. 
FRENCH NAVY AND MERCHANT SERVICE. 
War in the East. — The Const it ntionml save: — Letters from 
Constantinople of t he 6th (a day later than the correspondence by 
the Tancred), mention a remarkable fact relative to the departure 
of the fleets. On the 3rd an English war steamer arrived with 
despatches for the English and French Ambassadors. Imme- 
diately afterwards the Ajaccio was sent to join the squadrons, 
which Imd not then yet left the Bosphorus, and it was then only 
that the admirals ordered the Belleroplion and Queen, and the 
French vessel, the Valrnv, to raise their anchors and follow the 
fleets. 
Constantinople, Jan. 9. — The Anglo-French fleet has been 
met by the steamer from Trebizond, steering with a fair wind 
and splendid weather for Batoum, where it would arrive the day 
after. 
Bois A Brijlbr ! — A story is going the round of the Parisian 
political circles which, if true, would show that M. Ducos is not 
merely a good Minister of Murine but un hovrne d' esprit. In 
a recent conversation M. de Kisseleff was vaunting, in the usual 
Russian style, tbe general invincibility of Russia, und in parti- 
cular the awful power of her fleets ; and he enumerated to the 
Minister, who was listening in silence, tbe ships of tho line, 
steam frigates, &c., which would make the Russian navy more 
than a match for nil the navies of the world put together. After 
having exhausted the formidable list, lie paused to observe the 
effect which it ought to have produced on his hearer. M. Ducos 
drily suid, “ Cost lion, M. l'Ambussadcur : inaiH, on verite, jo lie 
savais pus quo votis nviez tant do bois brulor !” Tho expression 
of M. de Kisselefl’s countenance was, it is said, beyond descrip- 
tion. Tbe Imperial ships lookod upon as so much lirewood was 
too bad ! 
Tho Monitcur contains a report from tho Minister of marine 
on the worthy conduct of u midshipman and six men of the 
Montezuma irigatc, who, oil Gibraltar, made the most energetic 
ellort to save a man who Lad been wuslied overboard in a 
storm. 
STEAMERS. 
Tin: Captures Knoush Engineers. — The statement put 
forth by the Auyibwrg Gazette, that tho English engineers held 
captive had been released by the Russians, is not confirmed by our 
letters from Constantinople of the 9 1 TbA Constantinople 
correspondent of the Trieste Gazette sfs that the government 
of Odessa Imd “obstinately refused” rive the men up. 
Southampton. — Captain Peacock, f dockmaster and super- 
intendent of tho Southampton Dock Cfpany, lias resigned, and 
the directors are consequently cousidc£ of the appointment of 
a new superintendent. 
Bombay. — Tho Peninsular and Oriel steamer Cadiz, intended 
for the Bombay mail service, roach- Bombay oil the 27th of 
December. 
Wnben AirTHRActTB CoAti;*— Tho feat advantages possessed 
by the stone or anthracite coat of Wfc over tho bituminous for 
tho purposes of steam generation to bf lute been so fully 
acknowledged, that collieries in tho (them port of Pembroke- 
shire have been taken by tho Royalist India Mall Company, 
in order to obtain an adequate supplf coal for their large ocean 
steamers. A trial of the anthracites just boen inaJo by tho 
General Steam Navigation Compnnf hen one of the largo screw 
steamers mode the quickest passaknown from Liverpool to 
Lisbon, being three days and 20 lrs. This coal was obtained 
from tho Gwendraeth Colliery, neajanelly, and the experiment 
has boon eminently successful. Cn^rthenshireand the adjacent 
county of Pembroke possess amplePplies of this species of fuel, 
which is now very largely being tn into use; and in a short 
time there cannot be a doubt thatwill exclusively be used for 
sea-going vessels. One thousands were taken out by tho 
Great Britain on her present v<£e, which, on tho report of 
Captain Mathews, have answerfwell, steam being quickly 
raised, the tires burning brightlyjd no injurious uction on the 
bars. Large steamers are now qinually employed in taking 
in cargoes at Llanelly for ocean ptoses. 
Murder of a British OFFiq — Tho Volcano steam-vessel, 
Commander Robert Cootc, has light homo intelligence of the 
murder of Acting Second Mastehrr, n fine young officer, who 
was turned over from the Promeus steam-sloop to tho Myr- 
midon steam-vessel, 6till cruiginfi the west coast of Africa, as 
she has six months of her time trve on that unhealthy stntion. 
The murder was brutally effected the 28th of November, at an 
island called Kanzabac, one of tiijongn group. Mr. Carr bad 
landed on some rocks, inteiidindspear fish, lie had not beeu 
on the rocks ten minutes when! was fired at from the bush, 
and he either tumbled or juied into the sea. Tbe savages 
instantly made their nppearnncsnd one of them ran down and 
stood on the rocks, where ho wuicd t’jl Carr rose — the impres- 
sion on board tho steamer be? that he Imd dived — and the 
African then shot him through p head. The whole transaction 
was done in so short a time, fit as a an was fired from the 
ship the murderers retreated io the bufi agnin. A boat was 
instantly sent to the rocks, bqtbo tide nd flowed so rapidly 
that no traces of Mr. Carr's lef could be »en. On tho follow- 
ing day the body was found i,tbe water— f course quite dead. 
The first shot had hit him n the nbdol^n, an d made an 
awful wound, which would a itself have Gjsed death. Tho 
second shot passed in alongele the nose, dVroying tho upper 
jaw, and lodging in or cloi to the brain. The officers und 
crew of the Myrmidon were liming for revenjf or the foul and 
uncalled-for murder, but the! could do nothin ia8 there arc no 
towns near the sea ; and > advance into a vun t r y thickly 
inhabited with armed men )ns not warrante&itli the small 
disposable force serving in tfe Myrmidon. 
Shipwreck and Loss or Life .— 1 The packet-j p Antarctic, 
arrived at Liverpool from tew York, has brougL portion of 
the passengers and crew oftje ill-fated steam-ship ^ Francisco, 
before reported to be disaljed on her voyage froiu ew York to 
8an Francisco. The San Irancisco sailed from Nev 0 rk on tho 
18th of December, with upwards of 700 persons o board, tho 
greater portion of whom lelonged to an American a|i erv re gi_ 
ment bound for California. On the 24th she was i uc k by a 
sea and had her decks swept, masts, &c., carrieqway, und 
machinery disabled. She continued in this pitiable a t 0 until 
the 1st of January, when her passengers and crew' weaken off 
by tbe ships Antarctic, ar.ived here, tho Three Bellsjund for 
New York and the Kilby, bound for the same port 42 wore 
washed over board previously to tbe above ships fallUjn with 
the San Francisco, ami 59 died after being received onard tho 
Antarctic. — Liverpool Paper. 
New York to Europe in Six Days.— B y tho Hi Mail 
steamship, Africa, we have advices from New York tie lltli 
inst. — The new steamer, William Norris, which Wob \ranted 
to run from New York to Europe in five or six days, Wnearly 
completed. This vessel is simply flat and shurp, witi good 
model for running fast in smooth water. Slio is made usually 
strong by having her timbers strapped diagonally withrs of 
iron, mid by on iron kelson extending from the keel to deck, 
excepting in the central part of the vessel, devoted to thjgine. 
This kelson is composed of two parallel sheets of iro nearly 
half an inch in thickness, less than a foot apart, and so lioned 
and connected as to form a watertank. On either Bidq this 
kelson are bilge kelsons, formed in the eamo manner, u con- 
necting with the deck. It is expected that these unusisup- 
ports will give such an amount of strength and soly to 
the steamer, as to make her excel all other vessels oluilar 
dimensions. 
Crcebus. — The advices from Lisbon regarding tho ex|once 
of the pussengers on board the new Australian screw st ship 
Croesus are favourable to tho prospects of that vessol mag n 
successful passage to the colony. She arrived in the T4 on 
tho 16th inst., and having been put in quarantine, was lively 
to get away for several duys; but the interval would he emyed 
in making some necessary repairs to tho escape and fcodpes 
which had become defective. r ’ 
Liverpool to Boston. — The Cunard steamer Amcriwill 
sail from the Mersey on Tuesday as un extra boat for tou 
having been chartered by the Uuitcd States' Government ion- 
vcy the troops Baved from tho steamer San Francisco tho 
Antnrclic, The America will take ship letters through tlbst- 
oflice. 
itiliteg. 
Preparations of the Czar. — Letters direct from St. irs- 
bursr state that it is intended to form u depot of 150,00(1 tiers 
at Moscow, to leave 100,000 in Poland, elution another j)00 
in columns among the provinces of tho Baltic und in Fjad, 
and raise tho army on the Danube to 200,000 and that of n to 
100,000. Persons best acquainted with Russian attics 
believe thnt these urc merely figures of speech, and llmtisia 
will have great difficulty in bringing together more than Rlio 
numbers here set down. 
India. — Tho Resident at Bushiro has reported that 100 
Persians had reached thnt neighbourhood, intending (it is sr- 
stood) to invndo the pasbalikof Bagdad. An expeditionarjeo 
naval and military, is being rapidly organised by the B*iy 
government, to carry out any orders it may receive from 15u»d. 
or from the Governor-General. 
Corporal Newton, First Life Guards.— This cclcled 
swordsman, whose dexterous exploit of chopping a Blicep $lf 
at one cut with his sword was witnessed by her Mnjcstid 
his Royal HighnesB Prince Albert, and the members of tho ft, 
ut the Cavalry Barracks, Windsor, died on Suturdny lusftd 
wna on Tuesday buried at Clowcr with military honourae 
lino band of the regiment playing tho “ Dead March in Suits 
tho funeral eoi'tcye proceeded from tho barracks to tho ;e. 
Tho deceased was much respected in tbe regimont. 
Chatham, Jan. 25. — On Saturday the 28th 150 men, 10 
East India Company's service, nro to embark at Tilbury t, 
from Warley Barracks, on board tbe ship Lesmoine; and de 
Tuesday following the same number of men will alaocmbwn 
board the ship Malabar, for conveyance to Madras. 
