against Mr. Forster, the editor and publisher of the
Examiner. The alleged libel was an article in the
Examiner on the subject of the well known action in
the courts of law in Dublin brought by Mr. Birch against
the Earl of Clarendon for money said to be due for
articles in the World in support of the Irish government.
Mr. Birch conducted his own case, and, among other
witnesses in support of it, Lord Palmerston and the Earl
of Clarendon were examined. The defendant pleaded
justification, and the jury returned a verdict in his
favour.

          NARRATIVE OF ACCIDENT AND
                         DISASTER.

A dreadful Shipwreck occured on the night of the
30th ult. The iron screw-steamer Nile, belonging to the
Dublin Steam-packet Company, on her way from
Liverpool to Penzance and London, with passengers
and cargo, struck on the Godrevy rocks, near St. Ive's
Bay. She became a total wreck, and amid the darkness
of the night every soul on board perished.

The Whittington club-house, formerly the Crown and
Anchor Tavern in the Strand, was Destroyed by Fire on
Sunday morning the 3rd inst. The inmates escaped
with difficulty, but the club-house, with the large library,
was almost entirely consumed. Two firemen had a
narrow escape from a falling wall.

A Railway Accident, has been attended with the
destruction of pictures to the value of £14,000. Mr.
Naylor, of Leighton Hall, Montgomeryshire, lent them
to grace the opening of St. George's Hall at Liverpool.
To avoid danger by rail, the pictures were sent home in
a van; as the van was attempting to pass over a level
crossing of the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway, it got
entangled with a gate; a train rushed up, drove into
the waggon, and smashed it and the pictures to pieces.

        SOCIAL, SANITARY, AND MUNICIPAL
                         PROGRESS.

The Annual Cattle Show of the Smithfield Club was
held during the first week of this month. It was
remarked that on no previous occasion since the
establishment of the club has the display of stock been
equalled either in quality or quantity. Among other
prizes, Prince Albert carried off the first in Devon
steers, the second in heifers (third class), and the second
in Hereford steers; the first prizes in the two latter
having been won by the Earl of Leicester, and by Mr.
Isaac Niblett, of Conygre House, Bristol. The Duke of
Rutland obtained the first prize, with a gold and silver
medal, as the breeder and feeder of the best ox in the
show; the Duke of Richmond excels in short- woolled,
and the Marquis of Exter in long-woolled sheep; Mr.
Towneley, of Towneley Park, obtained the gold medal
for the best cow in the show; and Mr. Williams, of
Bridgewater, for the best pig. The Duke of Richmond
presided at the usual dinner. His Grace expressed bis
deep regret that his health prevented his going to the
Crimea; much as he liked dining at agricultural
meetings, he would still infinitely rather have led a
regiment into action at the battle of Inkermann.

The general meeting of the Royal Agricultural
Society of England was held on the 9th inst., at the
Society's house in Hanover-square. According to the
report, since May the Society has lost 45 and gained
135 members; the present number is 5266. The
accounts show a decrease of £1500 in the funded
property of the Society, caused by the non-payment of
subscriptions and losses occasioned by the meeting at
Lewes; but the receipts for the half-year ending in June
last were £4696 0s. 9d., the expenditure £337 3s. 10d.

The Working Men's College in Red Lion Square
closed its first time with a general meeting on the
20th inst. From the statement made by the Principal,
the Rev. Frederick Maurice, it appeared that since the
opening of the college nearly 180 students have been
admitted. The best attended is the bible class; next,
the classes on algebra and grammar. The Principal
spoke highly of the intelligence and industry of the
pupils.

           PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

ADMIRAL Sir Charles Napier has arrived in London.

The Chevalier Bunsen continues to reside in retirement
at Heidelberg, and has just sent to a publisher at
Berlin an historical work, the fruit of his regained
leisure.

The French Emperor has granted from his private
purse the munificent pension of 6000f. a year to Madame
Marrast, the widow of Armand Marrast, the eminent
republican president of the Constituent Assembly. His
Majesty accompanied the grant with a letter, stating
that he entertained a great esteem for her late husband.
M. Achille Marrast, his brother, has lately obtained a
lucrative post in the management of a railway.

Madame Clesinger, the wife of the celebrated sculptor,
and the daughter of Madame George Sand, who was
brought up by her mother as a Deist, and taught to deny
all revelation, has publicly abjured the principles in which
she was educated, and has been received into the bosom
of Catholicism by communicating ("sa première communion")
in the church of Sacré Cœur.

Miss S. Stewart has concluded an arrangement with
her trustees by which the sum of £10,000 is given to
endow an episcopal church at Port-Glasgow, securing
£300 a year to the rector and £100 for a curate. A
magnificent church, having chancel and nave, will be
finished by Whit-Sunday, 1856, by the same lady, which
will cost her £5000 or £6000 additional.

The Rev. C. A. Thurlow, who has just been appointed
to the chancellorship of Chester diocese, has at present
on his hands the duties of the following offices:—Rector
of Malpas (worth £1000 a year), prebendary of York
Cathedral, rural dean of Malpas, canon of Chester, and
chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Miss Stanley, daughter of the late Bishop of Norwich,
has sailed, with additional nurses for the East, to reinforce
the corps under the direction of Miss Nightingale.

            Obituary of Notable Persons

Dr. Barth, the celebrated African traveller, has died at
Medora, on his journey from Timbuctoo, which he left in
March last.

Captain MANBY, the inventor of the life boat, died at his
residence, Pedestal House, South Town, near Great Yarmouth,
on the 2 th of November, in his ninetieth year.

Mr. JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART died at Abbotsford on the 25th
of November, in his sixty-first year.

Miss FERRIER, the authoress of "Marriage," "The Inherit-
ance," and "Destiny," died recently in Scotland.

Lord FREDERICK FITZCLARENCE, Commander-in-Chief at
Bombay, has died there, in his fifty-fifth year.

Lord RUTHERFURD, one of the Judges of the Court of Session
in Scotland, died at Edinburgh on the 13th inst., at the age
of sixty-five.

M LEON FAUCHER, the eminent statesman, died at
Marseilles on the 15th inst., in his fifty-fifth year.

General Sir JAMES KEMPT, G.C.B., died on the 20th inst.
He had been more than 71 years in the service.

The Rev. Dr. MARTIN JOSEPH ROUTH, President of
Magdalen College, Oxford, died on the 22nd inst. He was in his
100th year, and had held the above office for 63 years.

        COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES.

The Overland Mail has brought dates from Calcutta
to the 13th, and from Bombay to the 14th of November.
Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, commander-in-chief of the
Bombay army, died at Poorandhur, near the military
station of Poonah on 30th of October. Tranquillity
prevailed throughout India.—From the accounts from
Hong-kong it appears that the rebels were besieging
Canton, but that the operations were proceeding very