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BY D; D. T. MOORE, ROCHESTER N. Y. 
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ROCHESTER, DECEMBER 8,1855. 
Our New Premium List. 
All Subscribers and Friends of the Rural 
Nsw-Y orker who inay be disposed to lend 
thtir kind cilices in its behalf, are respectfully 
referred to our new Programme of Premiums, 
on next page. It is so fair and liberal that 
every one who forms a club of six or more, will 
secure some compensation ; and those who 
obtain a greater number will be certain of 
remuneration in proportion to their exer¬ 
tions. Reader, please turn to the list, and 
see if its inducements are not amply sufficient 
to reward you for some little effort to extend 
the circulation of the Rural in your locality. 
If you cannot give the matter much attention, 
we trust you will have the kindness to join 
your efforts with those of the Post-Master, or 
some other efficient person, and thus obtain a 
list which will insure a successful report from 
your township. You can, if you will, directly 
benefit yourself, and at the same time promote 
the interests of neighbors and community.— 
If disposed to make an effort, as we trust you 
are, Note is the Time; and if you wish extra 
numbers, &c., they will be promptly forward¬ 
ed, free of expense. 
Preaching vs. Practice. 
The publishers of sundry so-called cheap 
weeklies pretend that by not allowing com¬ 
missions or premiums to agents, &c., they 
furnish better papers—that what they thus 
save is expended upon their publications — 
Now, this assertion is all gammon, as we could 
easily demonstrate were the game worth the 
ammunition. If it is true that these papers 
improve according to their receipts, why does 
not the Weekly Tribune improve in contents 
and appearance, in proportion to its increased 
subscription and advertising patronage ? It 
now claims more than double the circulation 
it had some two years ago, and charges the 
modest sum of seventy five cents a line, each in¬ 
sertion, for advertising. Its profits on adver¬ 
tising alone must be some $50,000 a year, yet 
we observe no improvement in quality of pa¬ 
per or matter. On the contrary, instead of 
g ving more or better reading, greater space is 
given to advertisements — including quack 
and deceptive announcements of all sorts,— 
thus increasing th e profits while lessening the 
value of the paper. The same is true to some 
extent of several other papers which claim to 
give subscribers the benefit of what is saved from 
commissions, &c. Come, come, gentlemen, 
let’s see you divide those savings and profits 
with your subscribers. Yon have been preach¬ 
ing the doctrine long enough ; now give ns a 
bit of the science in whi^h you are not yet 
adepts—that of the practice. 
— By the way, if any of our subscribers 
fear that the Rural will be lessened in value 
and interest, because we reward its agents and 
working friends for their efforts in extending 
its circulation and usefulness, their apprehen¬ 
sions are entirely unfounded. The truth is 
that the premiums and commissions allowed 
bring us so many more subscribers than we 
should else obtain, that we are thereby ena¬ 
bled to make a better paper than we possibly 
could otherwise. Such at least is our firm be¬ 
lief ; and hence in liberally rewarding agents, 
we are subserving the mutual interests of 
subscribers and ourselves. 
8hip Canal.— The preliminary surveys on 
the Ontario ond Georgian Bay Canal are com¬ 
pleted, and the scheme pronounced entirely 
feasible. If a ship canal should be completed 
on this line, thereby avoiding nearly a thou¬ 
sand miles of navigation by way of lake Erie, 
it would work a revolution in our inland com¬ 
merce. It would be a great injury to Buffalo. 
Fall of the Eastern Towers. 
At about 1 o’clock Tuesday week, just be¬ 
fore the men engaged on the work had re¬ 
turned from dinner, the two iron towers on 
the eastern back of the Genesee, intended for 
the Suspension Bridge at the Lower Falls, were 
prostrated by a flaw of wind. The towers 
were constructed of four cast-iron columns, 
made in sections thirteen feet in length, and 
had been raised to the height of 92 feet. They 
were intended to he secured at regular inter¬ 
vals with wrought iron braces, the first ten 
feet at the base being filled in with masonry. 
This masonry had been laid, and the wooden 
braces which had supported the work on the 
inside removed, with the intention of placing 
them on the outside. Before this was done, 
a gust of wind blowing through the gorge 
blew down one of the towers, and that being 
secured to the other by a wire rope, they were 
both brought down, that prostrated by the 
weight of the falling one being twisted off 
near the base. The iron columns fell upon the 
bank of the river, and were broken to pieces. 
It is estimated that the Contractor w ill lose 
some $2,000 ; hut he is resolved to go on and 
re-construct the columns, having sufficient 
casting for the eastern towers already on hand. 
A delay of two or three weeks will he caused 
in the construction of the bridge. Hereafter 
the towers will be secured with the wrought- 
iron braces, instead of wooden ones, as the 
work progresses. 
Congressional. 
Both Houses of Congress assembled on 
Monday. The Senate organized at once, but 
the House failed to elect a Speaker after bal¬ 
loting four times, and then adjourned. On 
call of the House by the Clerk of the last 
Congress, Mr. Forney, two hundred and 
twenty-five members answered to their names. 
An informal ballot for Speaker was had, 
with the following result Richardson, of 
Ill., had 74 votes ; Fuller, of Pa,, 70 ; Mar¬ 
shall, of Ky., 30 ; Campbell, of Ohio, 53 ; 
Pennington, of N. J., 7 ; Banks, of Massachu¬ 
setts, 21—others scattering. 
The rumor was that the Republicans would 
unite with the Free Soil members of the 
Know . Nothing party, and elect Banks, of 
Massachusetts, on Tuesday. Cullom, of Ten¬ 
nessee, is considered sure for the Clerkship. 
He was a member of the last Congress, and 
voted against the Nebraska bill, for which 
vote he failed of a re-election. The Presi¬ 
dent’s message is prepared, and awaits the 
organization of the House. 
Disastrous Fire. 
On Friday morning of last week, the ele¬ 
gant mansion just completed by Ex-Governor 
Hunt, at Lockpoit, Niagara Co., was consum¬ 
ed by fire. The disaster originated under the 
following circumstances :—There was a cis¬ 
tern in the garret, which was surrounded by 
cotton hatting to guard against freezing into 
which, a tinman who was at that moment en¬ 
gaged repairing a water-pipe, dropped alight¬ 
ed candle. The cotton instantly ignited, and 
before anything could be done to check the 
fire, the building was enveloped in flames. 
Three of Phillips’ fire annihilators were 
about the premises, hut from the confusion 
or gome other cause, they were not brought 
into requisition. The loss is not less than 
$10,000, and there is no insurance. 
Those Premiums. —We are in receipt of let¬ 
ters from two persons who formed clubs for 
the Rural last January, averring that they 
have not yet received the premiums offered. 
In reply, we beg to state that the fault is not 
attributable to us ; but owing to the fact that 
they neglected to advise us as to what books 
they wished, and how to forward. When 
they do this, the documents will he forthcom¬ 
ing ; and 60 of other friends, if any'there are, 
who may be in the same category. We re¬ 
quested all entitled to books, &c., to specify 
their wishes, and have endeavored to prompt¬ 
ly respond to all orders. We trust it is un¬ 
necessary to add, in this connection, that we 
not only offer but promptly pay all premiums 
on or before application. 
Superstition. —A St. Louis correspondent of 
the New York Freeman's Journal (Catholic) 
says:—“ All the Catholic papers note the fact 
that Sebastopol was taken on the Feast of the 
Nativity of the Virgin, hut none save the 
Leader observes the second coincidence, that 
it wag just nine months after the promulga¬ 
tion of the Dogma of the Immaculate Con¬ 
ception. In the coincidences, and in the re¬ 
pulses of the English from the Redan, while 
the French leaped gloriously upon the battle¬ 
ments of the Malakoff, we see the interposi¬ 
tion of Mary the Virgin.” 
Ingraham Medal. —A gold medal has been 
struck at the Philadelphia mint in honor of 
Capt. Ingraham of Koszta memory, and was 
sent to the President last week. It weighs 
twenty-seven ounces and on its face repre¬ 
sents American and Austrian vessels at anchor 
at Smyrna. On the reverse is the following 
inscription :—“Presented by the President of 
the U. 8. to Com. Ingraham, as a testimonial 
of the high sense entertained by Congress of 
his gallant and judicious conduct on the 
second of July, 1853.” 
Lapsus Penn 2 E.— One of our daily cotempo- 
raries published the following dispatch from 
Washington on Monday:-—“The Supreme 
Court met this morning, all the judges ex¬ 
cepting Chief Justice Sawney being present.” 
Arrival of the Star of the West. 
The steamer Star of the West, from San 
Juan, arrived at New York Nov. 28th, with 
California dates to the 5th of November. Re¬ 
ports the Isthmus clear from cholera. 
No news of importance from California. 
The Indian ravages were growing serious. 
From Puget to Sahsa Butle the savages had 
made a simultaneous attack upon the whites, 
and massacreed a large number. Volunteers 
were turning out in all directions, and the U. 
S. troops under Maj. Fitzgerald had turned 
out in pursuit. Nearly all the tribes north 
of Columbia river had confederated and sworn 
to exterminate the Americans. A band of 
1600 attacked the United States troops at 
Pugets Sound under Maj.. Haller, and forced 
them to retreat. The latter had been rein¬ 
forced by nine companies of volunteers, called 
out by Gov. Curry, and was supplied with 
amunition by the slcop-of-wsr Decatur, and 
cutter Jefferson Davis, and were about to as¬ 
sume the defensive. 
Business at San Francisco during the fort¬ 
night had not been very active, hut was im¬ 
proving at the close. 
The Isthmus. —Col. Walker was in full pos¬ 
session of Nicaragua. Col. Wheeler had pub¬ 
licly acknowledged, on the part of the United 
States, the Independence and sovereignty of 
the new Republic, and assured the government 
of the kind regard and well wishes entertained 
by the Chief Magistrate towards it. Corral 
was detected in a treasonable correspondence 
with some of the officers of the late govern¬ 
ment, tried by a court martial, and shot in 
the Plaza at Grenada, on the 7th ult. The 
court martial was composed entirely of Amer¬ 
icans. Other arrests had been made, but no 
names were given. The death of Corral was 
acquiesced in by Rivas, the newly elected 
President. 
A duty of 20 per cent, advalorum had been 
declared by the Nicarauga government upon 
all foreign imports, to he paid in coin. 
Kansas Affairs. 
The Grand Jury sitting at Leavenworth 
City, Judge Le Compte presiding, have found 
a bill of indictment for murder against Mc- 
Crea, for the homicide of Malcomb Clark.— 
There is a great deal of feeling manifested in 
the case, and the opinion is quite prevalent 
that McCrba acted in self-defence. At a pre¬ 
vious session of the court the j ury failed to 
find a bill; but the accused was still kept in 
prison to await the action of a second jury. 
It appears from a telegraphic despatch dated 
St. Louis, Nov. 30, that affairs have finally 
reached a crisis in the Territory of Kansas, 
and unless some measures are taken to quiet 
public feeling, open anarchy and bloodshed 
will inevitably prevail. The despatch leans 
strongly towards the pro-slavery side, and 
some allowance must therefore be made for 
parti zan bids. The following is the despatch : 
St. Louis, Nov. 30. 
The last Independence dates received state 
that three aimed free state men attempted to 
drive Coleman, pro-slavery settler, from hiB 
claims near Hickory Point. Coleman killed 
one, after which a mob gathered and drove 
him and other -settlers off and burned their 
houses. The ring-leader was arrested by 
Marshal Jones and taken to Le Compton.— 
Gov. Shannon has called out the militia. 
Many citizens from Independence, Weston 
and St. Joseph have gone over to offer their 
assistance to the Governor. Lawrence is in 
arms, having five pieces of artillery. A num¬ 
ber of houses had been burned in Douglass 
County, and several families were driven into 
Missouri for refnge. The law and order peo¬ 
ple of the Territory were rallying in large 
numbers to assist the Sheriff to execute the 
laws. Sixteen houses were burned at Hickory 
Point, and several citizens were missing. 
Close of Navigation. —Wednesday, the 6th, 
was the day officially appointed for closing 
the canals of this State. Without waiting for 
their authority, the cold weather partially 
obstructed navigation a week before, but the 
perseverance of forwarders opened it again, 
and sent hundreds of boats on their last voy¬ 
age of the season. The tolls the present sea¬ 
son will probably exceed those of last year 
from fifty to on e hundred thousand dollars. 
It is now stated that the Canal Board has 
issued instructions to the Superintendents 
east of Syracuse, not to draw off the water 
until the 10th of December. 
Liberality of a Corporation. —Four hun¬ 
dred and ninety-five married men in the em 
ploy of the Boston and Worcester Railroad 
Company, received on Tuesday of last week 
from the Company a fine turkey each for 
Thanksgiving. At the same time Mr. May- 
nard Barrister, one of the engineer, who in 
1856 was thrown from his engine, run over, 
and had one of his leg* taken off, was pre¬ 
sented a gold watch. 
Over the Dam. —On the evening of the 
26th ult., three Irishmen were crossing the 
Connecticut at South Hadley Falla, when an 
oar-lock broke, and the boat with the men 
was in consequence precipitated over the dam, 
a distance of twenty-four feet. The men suc¬ 
ceeded in ^Lining a rock in the stream, and 
were all subsequently rescued. 
Illness of a Sf.nator. —For several weeks 
past Senator Douglass, of Illinois, lias been 
lying very ill at Terre Haute, and a report 
was current a few days since that he was dead. 
ThiB report is probably unfounded, but the 
Senator will he incapacitated from attending 
to his duties at Washington for some time to 
News Items. 
Nebraska Election.— A close vote has been 
polled on the election of a delegate to Con¬ 
gress from Nebraska territory. According to 
the St. Louis Intelligencer, Bennett, Republi¬ 
can, is elected over Chapman, Administration 
Demoarat, by a majority of sixteen. 
During the past few weeks about 20,000 
barrels of flour have been purchased from a 
firm in Detroit at an average of $7.75. It is 
all destined for the Crimea and was brought 
for the British Government. 
In three days over forty mackerel vessels 
arrived at Gloucester, Mass., from the Bay 
Chaleur, and the largest firm in town, had 
four thousand barrels of mackerel afloat at 
their wharves, a few days since. 
The indictments against Mr. Danforth, edi¬ 
tor of the Rock Island (Ill ) Republican, for 
perjury, has been quashed, and James Bowie, 
editor of the Standard, on whose affidavit the 
indictment was found, has been indicted in 
turn. 
JosEpn Doe of Boston, supposed to be a dis¬ 
tant relative of the immortal John of litigious 
memorv, was roped into a gambling den in 
New York on Thursday night week, and 
fleeced out of three hundred and twenty-five 
dollars. 
A man has been convicted at Wilmington, 
Del., of stealing a pocket book, and sentenced 
to pay as restitution money $13 66, to be 
whipped with twelve laBhes, to be imprisoned 
three months, and to wear a convict’s jacket 
for the space of six months. 
Mrs. Conover of Onondaga Co., the lady to 
whom was awarded the first prize for riding at 
the “Ladies Equestrian Exhibition” of the 
State Fair, held at Elmira, is dead ! She con¬ 
tracted a severe cold on that occasion, from 
the effects of which she never recovered. 
A bill has been introduced in the Tennes¬ 
see Legislature to purchase the HermiLage, in 
the name cf the State, and to establish an ag¬ 
ricultural and military school at that place— 
the purchase to require the issue of State 
bonds to an amount not more than $60,000. 
Jane Stuart, daughter of the great painter, 
inherits much of her father’s talents, and has 
painted Rachel in the character of “ Phedre” 
so faithfully and beautifully that it found a 
ready and generous purchaser in Forrest. He 
has also ordered from Miss Stuart a copy of 
her father’s great picture of Washington. 
A letter from St. Petersburg says: “The 
new recruitment has thrown the country into 
great terror. It is doubted if 400,000 men 
capable of service can be found. The town 
and districts furnishing recruits will he oblig¬ 
ed to provide them with fur coats, which is a 
heavy burden, owing to the present high price 
of furs.” 
Prescott's New Woik. 
At the celebration of the fifty-first anniver¬ 
sary of the New York Historical Society, on 
Tuesday evening, an able and elaborate ad¬ 
dress was made by Rev. Dr. De Witt. At its 
conclusion Mr. Bancroft moved a vote of 
thanks, and made a beautiful speech. In the 
course of it he said that he heartily joined 
Dr. De Witt “ in his appreciation of the glo¬ 
ry and grandeur achieved by the Dutch, and 
he must add that a scholar of New England, 
and one who had no superior, was about to 
bring before the world a History of the war in 
which the Netherlands emancipated them¬ 
selves from the yoke of Spain. We should 
have a history of that glorious struggle in a 
very short time, delineated in brighter colors 
than has ever jet been spread upon it, and 
illustrated from richer materials We should 
have such a work in a few weeks from the 
hand of Prescott in honor of the Netherlands 
as the world had never yet seen. And we 
might hers see how good never was lost. The 
Netherlands set an example to us of a declar¬ 
ation of independence, and it was well known 
that the Dutch declaration was the model of 
our own. The Dutch Republic had gone 
down, but not until a greater and stronger 
Republic had risen up to preserve alive a life 
of republican freedom, and to preserve it un¬ 
til that day when it should revisit the shores 
from which it had been expelled only for a 
season.” 
This is the work which Messrs. Phillips, 
Sampson & Co. are about to issue, and which 
will afford a rare treat to the lovers of histo¬ 
ry.— Boston Post. 
The First Church in Kansas. —It is now a 
settled matter that the first church erected in 
Kansas will he under the auspices of the Uni¬ 
tarians. The sum of $6000 Has been raised 
in the denomination for the purpose, and the 
agent, Mr. E. P. Whitman, is now on his way 
to the Territory to superintend the work. A 
gentleman of this city has subscribed $500 to 
purchase a bell, on the condition that a clock 
should be placed in the tower, so that the 
New England emigrants, when they are in the 
city of Lawrence, shall Bee a structure to ie- 
mind them of home. I he Sunday School 
library connected with this pioneer parish 
will he one of the largest and most complete 
in the country. The Rev. E. Nute, well and 
favorably known here, will be the pastor of 
the Society. He is now in the Territory as 
th# Missionary of the American Unitarian As¬ 
sociation.— Boston Transcript. 
Sponges — A Key West (Florida) paper asks: 
“ Where do all the sponges go ?” Year after 
year we are shipping from twenty to thirty i 
tons of sponges, or about twenty-five millions 
of separate spoDges, to the Naw York market, 
without any knowledge of what becomes of 
them. The demand and price of this article 
have steadily increased with the supply.— 
Twelve and a half cents per pound were given 
for them but five years ago, and now, though 
the quantity shipped has steadily increased, 
40 cents per pound is already obtained, and 
the demand increases. The value of last 
year’s shipment has been $16,000. 
Returned to his Friends. —John Bateman 
who had participated in the Canadian rebel¬ 
lion in 1838, and was transported to Yan Die- 
man’s Land, returned to this city on Satur¬ 
day, having been pardoned by the British 
Government, through the intercession of his 
friends. He attended the Seaman’s Bethel on 
Sunday, and related some of the experiences 
of his captivity, and yesterday started for his 
old home in Jtfferson county, N. Y., to rejoin 
his family and friends. — N. Y. Herald. 
Insurance Profits.— The shippers of gold 
from California to New York, it is said, have 
paid between three and four millions of dol¬ 
lars to the New York insurance companies in 
the last five years, while the aggregate losses 
of the insurers have not exceeded $200,000. 
•ffeteg Slip})iijcjs 
American coin is not a legal tender in Can¬ 
ada. 
The yellow fever still prevails at Port Gib¬ 
son, Miss. 
The public domain of Texas is estimated at 
102,747,000 acres. 
The free States elect 144 members of Con¬ 
gress, and the slave States 90. 
There were at the hotels in Paris, on the 
1st of September, about 1,200 Americans. 
The corn that took the prize at the Iowa 
State Fair produced 162 bushels to the acre. 
Bisnor Lee, of the Episcopal Church, has 
made Davenport his diocesan head quarters. 
Robert Gray, aged 95, has just been mar¬ 
ried in Fluvanna, Va., to a young lady aged 92. 
The trial of Lewis Baker for the murder of 
Bill Pool, commenced in New York, Monday 
week. 
Over $38,000,000 in stock and bonds have 
been issued by the New York Central Railroad 
Company. 
During the first six months of this year, the 
shipments of gold from Australia reached 
$27,500,000. 
The authorities of Cincinnati are complain¬ 
ing that the New Yorkers are sending their 
paupers west. 
A traveler in Canada West estimates the 
surplus of wheat in that province at fifteen 
millions of bushels. 
The Constitutional Convention of Kansas 
has issued “ script” payable when that Terri¬ 
tory becomes a State. 
In 1853, there was exported from Odessa, 
of wheat of the value of $10,547,244. Other 
produce, $8,033,739. 
In North Carolina, Georgia aDd Alabama, 
$60,000 have been subscribed for the pur¬ 
chase of Mt. Yernon. 
A Bible brought to Georgia by the first col¬ 
onists from Saltsburgh in 1734, was exhii ited 
at the late State Fair. 
Sixteen thousaud acres of land have been 
located for the University at St. Anthony, 
Minnesota, under a government grant. 
One of the Milwaukee Aldermen spent 
Wednesday night last in the watch house.— 
A fine o£ $5 released him ;n the morning. 
J. U. Wright, mail agent on the Georgia 
railroad, has been arrested on a charge of rob¬ 
bing the mail, and has confessed his guilt. 
There are one hundred and seventy places 
called “Washington,” in the United States, 
besides the one in the District of Columbia. 
Kirkland, the street preacher, has been 
fined $20 at Cincinnati, for using obsesre lan¬ 
guage during one of his Sunday discourses. 
The Chinese are leaving California in large 
numbers, in consequence of the tyranny and 
opposition which they are made to suffer there. 
Died in Peekskill, on Saturday, the 27th, 
ultimo, Mrs. Serrine, widow of Major John 
Paulding, one of the captors of Andre, aged 91. 
On the 6th of December, Mrs. Webb, the 
“dark Siddons,” was to read, in Boston, Uncle 
Tom’s Cabin, dramatised by Mrs. H B Stowe. 
Texas has re-elected Mr. Rusk U. S. Senator 
for six years Lorn March 4th, 1867. He is the 
first Senator chosen for the class expiring in 
1863. 
The suit between Georgia and Florida, re¬ 
specting the boundary of the two States, has 
been continued in the United States Supreme 
Court. 
The Norfolk Herald states that the weekly 
shipment of rags from a single house in that 
city to the Northern ports, amounts to 25,000 
pounds. 
The family of Asaph Wales, consisting of 
ten persons, is the only one remaining in Nor¬ 
folk, Va., in which a case of yellow fever did 
not occur. 
There are only three thousand three hun¬ 
dred and sixty-one justices of the peace in 
New Hampshire, there being no timber for 
any more. 
The Sultan has sent to Marshal Pelissier a 
magnificent sabre, and conferred upon him 
the titl of Sirdar, with a pension of 200,000f. 
(£8,000) annually. 
The Five Cent Savings Bank, recently open¬ 
ed in Boston, have succeeded better than was 
anticipated. They are of great advantage to 
the indigent classes. 
Steamboating has been a paying business 
this season. The Commodore and Rip Yan 
Winkle, of 1Toy, are reported to have netted 
some $20,000 apiece. 
Cannel coal, In sufficient quantity to meet 
any demand that may be made upon it for 
fuel or manufacturing purposes, has been 
found in La Salle county, III. 
Bayard Taylor has 70 engagements this 
winter for his lecture on the Philosophy of 
Travel, and expects to make 100. He avera¬ 
ges at least $50 each repetition. 
It is understood that Major Emory, the 
Mexican Boundary Commissioner, will be able 
to present his report by the tenth of Decem¬ 
ber. He is now at Washington. 
The white fishery is now in full vigor on 
the lakes In a single day recently, not less 
than 18,000 fish, weighing.35 tons, and valued 
at $2,500, were taken at Sandusky. 
A California widow in Cincinnati received 
a draft of five hundred dollars from her hus¬ 
band a few days since, and spent the greater 
portion the same day in gaudy dresses. 
The “Landing of the Pilgrims” is to beoel- 
ebrated at Plymouth this year with unusual 
demonstration. The oration will be delivered 
by Hon. Wm. H. Seward of New York. 
The Importations at Montreal for the first 
ten months of the present year, amount to 
£2,700,000, which is a falling off, compared 
with last year, equal to nearly $1,000,000. 
The New Lisbon (Ohio) Buckeye State says, 
a full blooded negro was nominated and voted 
for, by the old line democracy of Butler town¬ 
ship, for the office of Justioe of the Peace. 
' Sir Allan MoNab, Premier of Q*nada, sued 
the editors of the Hamilton Banw*r for libel. 
The verdict was in favor of the editors, and 
Sir Allan gets a lesson in policy for his pains. 
