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      ur of the persons referred to . The Queen , however , mot but feel pleasure at tie sympathy and kind itanee' extended to the distressed relatives of the

      . he r , ATE Major Burton—Mr . Vernon Smith , the lident of the India Board , has just shown his symiy with the family of the late Major Burton , by the ¦ of a cadetship to one of his sons . aiPWKECKS . —The screw steam-ship , Earl of Carrick , been wrecked off tie Isle of Man . All but two la were lost . —The Wallace , of Leith , Captain nea , was struck by a tremendous sea while on her rn voyage from Quebec to Greenock , and capsized , was then eight hundred miles distant from Cape r . Every effort waa made to right the vessel ; but

      her heavy sea struck her , washing- overboard the f officer and the steward . The remainder of the ' held on to the wreck ( for the masts had by this gone ) , and , for ten days drifted without food or sr . They were obliged to Mil a favourite dog , to themselves from death , and to eat the flesh , raw . tnately , they were taken off by the Colina , Captain ins . All but one survived . The Golden Age , of id from Halifax for Ponce ; Porto Rico , was thrown ler Learn ends in a heavy squall , on the 9 th of ember , and all her crew washed overboard , except man , who -was taken from the wreck on the 22 nd , he Reindeer .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . i Court *—The Queen and Royal family removed i Osborne to Windsor last Saturday . he JIabbiage of the Princess Rotal . —The riage treaty of the Princess Eoyal with the Prince of ssia has been signed at the Foreign-office , by the ssian Minister and Lord Clarendon , and also by Archbishop of Canterbury * the Lord Chancellor , and Chancellor of the Exchequer . The nuptials will take : e in January . he Princess Alice . —The story with respect to the I of the Princess Alice having been demanded for the ice of Orange , is denied by the Observer . OMMUTATiO 2 i of Punishment . — In the case of

      ices Harris , who lies under sentence of death at Winter , for the murder of her cliild at Portsmouth , the retary of State has thought right , under all the ciriStances , to advise a commutation of the capital sen-: e to penal servitude for life . ' he Indian Mutiny Relief Fcnd . —The Hon . Chas . rray , her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minis-Plenipotentiary at Teheran , has sent 100 £ . to the t , at the same time expressing a hope that other abers of the diplomatic profession will follow his mple . Our ambassador at Vienna has transmitted ilderman Finnis the sum of 150 ? . the subscription of on Anselm Rothschild , to the fund . he Siamese Ambassadors hare been visiting

      erpool . 'he Christmas Holidays . —An agitation has been lg on throughout the week in favour of making this ( Saturday ) a general holiday , so as to give working ; i and men of business a relaxation from toil of three s . The Lord Mayor , upon leaving the bench at the ision House last Saturday , spoke warmly in favour the suggestion , and > vas loudly applauded . This deistration of feeling , however , was of course checked . , s believed that the day will be very generally obred as a holiday . uicide . —A Mr . Kilby , who a few days ago waa rged at the Mansion House with an attempted rob-| r , but who -was set at liberty by the Lord Mayor i an assurance that there was not the slightest stain Ji 8 character , has cut his throat under the influence

      he depression and mortification caused by his having i given into custody . Ib . James CorrocK , the well-known electioneering nt , died at his house in Cleveland-row last Saturday ning-, after an illness of only four days . He was r-nine years of age . Though a lawyer by profession , devoted himself almost entirely to the struggles of stituencics , and was mixed up with transactions chwero neither to the credit of himself or his clients , appears , however , to have been always faithful to Liberal party , and his word was invariably relied on he case of' comprom isea . ' Last August , on the death Mr . Delune , he was made treasurer of the Kent inty Courts . His death appears to have been occaled by annoyance at the imputations which were cast his character in connexion with the failure of the

      Tey Gardens Company , of which ho was a shareder and leading director . Mr . William Augustus lent ache succeeds him in the otllce which he held for

      jnef a tune . rVii-XiAM Russkll ov TUB Timbs . —Mr . William II . laell , the celebrated Crimean correspondent of the its , takes his departure this day for India , by the irland Mail , to report tlio ddnoumcut of the revolt in leading journal . It is scarcely probable that Mr . ssell will reach the scat of the insurrection in time to fight , but having in the Crimea employed his geniun a painter of battles , he will now havo an opportunity dissecting the causes and consequences of a rebellion last sparks of which will bo trampled out by the n Iia nrrivAa rkti tlin Mr * jknn

      The Reform Movement . — -A . public meeting has been held at Rochdale , convened by the Mayor , at which a resolution was carried" in favour of a very radical reform of Parliament , including manhood suffrage . A petition to the House of Commons was agreed to . — We read in the Daily Telegraph : — " It is with great satisfaction we announce that the Reformers of the United " -Kingdom are making rapid progress in their organization . The manifesto lately circulated by the press has received the adhesion of Mr . Richard Cobden , Mr . Milner Gibson , Mr . Bright , Mr . Hadfield , Mr . White .

      Mr . Coningham , Mr . W . J . Fox , Mr . Miall , and the representatives of Leicester , Dundalk , Clare County , Hull , Bolton , Halifax , Northampton , Frome , Bury , and Lambeth . Moreover , the leading Liberals out of the House of Commons are joining the union with enthusiasm , including , we believe , Mr . George Wilson of Manchester , Mr . Robertson Gladstone of Liverpool , Mr . Titus Salt of Bradford , Mr . Charles Neate of Oxford , Mr . Bass of Brighton , Mr . Samuel Morley , Mr . Humphreys Parry , and others whose names will , of course , attract the materials of a . powerful and continually increasing rganization . "

      Ihe East Indian Government . —The Globe announces , in an apparently official manner , that the double government of India is to be abolished , and that the administration of our Eastern empire is to be brought under the direct authority of the Queen . Retubn of Baron Brunow . —Baron Brunow has been xeappointed by the Czar ambassador to this country . The Crown Jewels . —A dispute has been going on

      for some time between the Hanoverian Ministers and the Court of St . James ' s , with respect to the British Crown jewels . Hanover claims these , on the ground that some of them were taken with him to England by George I ., and that others , which were bought out of his privy purse by George TIL , were left by him and Queen Charlotte to the Royal family of Hanover . The jewels are worth considerably more than a million . After a great deal of private litigation , the matter , it is stated , has been decided in favour of Hanover .

      The Elections . —Mr . Grant Duff has been elected by show of hands , and without opposition , for the Elgin district " of burghs . Sir James Weir Hogg , the other candidate , retired from the contest ; but the proceedings were riotous . —A nomination of a member for Bucks in the room of the Hon . G . C . Cavendish , who has been raised to the House of Peers , took place on Wednesday at the County-hall , Aylesbury , the High Sheriff of the Court presiding . The show of hands was in favour of Captain C . J . B . Hamilton , formerly member for Aylesbury . A poll was then demanded in behalf of Mr . W . G . Cavendish , son of the late member . A third candidate , Mr . Acton Tindal , lord of the manor , withdrew . The polling will take place to-day .

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      Leader Offick , Saturday , December 26 . FRANCE . A council , at which the Emperor presided ( says the Morning Star of this day ) was held on Wednesday , the subject under consideration at "which is understood to have been that of agriculture and assurances . The Emperor ha 3 left Pa / is for Rambouillet , for a day ' s shooting .

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      THE EARTHQUAKE IN NAPLES . Some addititional particulars of this catastrophe are given in a letter from Naples , the writer of which says : — " Vesuvius is now in fall activity ; but , for some days previous to the earthquake , no fire issued from the crater . Whenever the mountain emits fire or lava , we feel quite safe , and you may well suppose how gratifying is the present appearance of our safety-valve . Whatever accounts you may read of the state of this city at the time of the shocks , it will fall short of the reality . Women were seen carrying their children—men helping some father or mother , or some sick person wrapped up in the first covering available ; women screaming , tearing their huir , praying , and calling on their patron saint and the Madonna Inunaculata , all passing frantically in densely crowded streets . " There has been a slight shock of earthquake near Liebcnzcll , Wurtcmbcrg .

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      United Association of Schoolmasters . — The fourth annual meeting of the United Association of Schoolmaster !) will be held at the House of the Society of Arts , on Monday and Tuesday the 28 th and 29 th inst . AH the Nittinga will be given free of charge to all persons interested in the subject . Uk-kstahmshmknt of Political Unions . —A meeting of some of the old reformers of Birmingham luis been held at the public office , the object of which was to consider whether an effective union of the middlo and working classes could be established , for tho purpose of aiding a movement for an extensive measure of reform in the next . session of Parliament . The meeting was adjourned until Tuesday , January 5 , in order that the necessary preliminary steps might bo taken for tho forniattnii nf a 1 £ *» fs \ 1 * 1 nor * ' TTuif \ n __ rt 7 ni * Min / w . ^ Vyii *

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      NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . We are again compelled , by the extraordinary pressure of political , and more especially of literary matter , to omit our' Portfolio * this week . G m is thanked for his suggestion , but there are special reasons for not making the alteration .

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      Several communications unavoidably stand over . No notice can be taken of anonymous correspondence . Whateveris intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of tho writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications

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      CHRISTMAS POLITICS . The season of Christian joy and charitybrings to a close a year of widespread suffering and disaster . To thousands of families this Christmas is but a contrast to the last , bitterly reminding the bereaved of their desolation . To the poor it has not teen one of happy comfort ; they are paying the price of recklessness and criminality among the rich . But Grod tempers the wind to the shorn lamb . Many a home , last week oppressed by an anguish of doubt , waa suddenly irradiated on Wednesday when the glad tidings were announced that those brave men , and beloved

      women , and dear children , so long in fearful peril at Lucknow , had been rescued by ' the Campbell ' s coming . ' The Christmas of England was happier on account of that intelligence , which so many trembled to hear . Yet a blood-coloured ray streams from the prism of our passing history ; the victory was not without its terrible cost , and for those who were saved from death , others died during the conflict of mortal enemies raging for six days in front of Lucknow . The trite language of consolation plays like an . idle wind around the miserable solitude of those

      who had sons and brothers there ; and yet it is gracious to offer balm , although it cannot heal , and it is not perhaps in vain to hoj > e that they who speak in the name of the Prince of Peace and G-iver of Life may piously assuage the sorrows even of those to whom bereavement is newest . The duty of these days of worship and festival is to remember that benevolence is the highest virtue in the heart of grace , and that all men may do something

      towards the promotion of good-will on earth . It is not in the East alone , where rebellion has howled like a tempest , that sufferings deep and poignant have been endured . Our labouring classes at home , now that Christmas tables are bright and warm with abundance , suffer from want of employment and hunger The Christmas of tho poor—thousands of them—has been such that they might well cast wistful glances at the kitchens o £ Milbank and Coldbath-fields . Have we taken

      thought of this ? The year 1857 wears ita holly-crown , and assumes its red-sprinkled sceptre , and stately and modest habitations alike have glowed ruddily with the light of fires and lamps , and merriment has dissipated the night , and children liavo been grateful for the benignant love of their parents , and the end of December has fceen tho summer of English homes . "We would not see tho young facos overshadowed , or an intrusion of melancholy at tho fireside ; but humanity should Hnnm snmo momenta , oven while it reioicea . to

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      No . 405 , December 26 a 1857 . 1 T H E iL E A PER . 12 S 3

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      ? ¦ ¦ There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed-when , all the ¦ world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Dr . Aunold . ¦ ¦ * ¦ ¦ ¦

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 26, 1857, page 1233, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2223/page/9/