News by the English llaill 
     
    
   
   
    
     One of the most destructive fires which 
     
     has occurred in Sheffield for many years 
     
     took plaice on VVednesday morning, at 
     
     Portobello Works, which belong to Lay- 
     
     cock and Sons, and are occupied by them 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     HASZARD’S GAZI3'I‘TE,, DECEMBER 3|. ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     people. There is not much chance ofa 
     
     war between Prussia and Swtzerland. 
     
     The Prussian monarch would pause before 
     
     he takes such a step, and if he seriously 
     
     entertained it, the present state of the' 
     
     Continent would force upon his Royal,’ 
     
     brothers of Europe, in the interest of abso-: 
     
     lutisrn, the necessity of restraiiaing him. 
     
    
   
   
    
     COMMERCIAL To run Pu-aoxs or IIisuan’s Gas-rrs. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tl" director“ °f ‘he Bnk or Englmd I-‘our ears since-i—n-order to relieve in 
     
     M" been °""l"'d ‘his w°°k lo "due. aw father-,rl’.‘ D. Ilaszard, Esq., whose oonstitutioiyi 
     
    
   
   
    
     rate of discount from 7 per ceiit., at which 
     
     it has stood from the 13th ult., to 6§ per 
     
     cent. This reduction applies alike to dis- 
     
     counts and to loans upon securities. (It 
     
    
   
   
    
     was suffering from the increasing burden 
     
     and severe toil of the neriil printing busi- 
     
     ness conducted by liiru or thirty years previ- 
     
     ously, I took a on myself the managcnient 
     
    
   
   
    
     principally in the inanufrictiire of liair-seat- 
     
     “ll! “hd Olhel‘ hhh"°h’lh h‘h"h35~ Th0 \Ve hear through Paris of nu insurrec- 
     
    
   
   
    
     A Baron 
     
    
   
   
    
     building on the south and east side was 
     
     completely gutted, the front range of the 
     
     building, which contains the othces and 
     
     warehouses, being almost the only por'tion 
     
     oftlie large works which was saved. I‘he 
     
     .value of‘ the weaviiig looms and other 
     
     machinery and the manufactured and other 
     
    
   
   
    
     tion having broken out in Sicily. 
     
     Bentivengri. whs said to be at the head (I ii 
     
     body of insurgents marching upon Palcr-, 
     
     mo. Troops lirid been sent to oppose him, ; 
     
     but there had been no lighting. 
     
    

    
     all was quiet. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Through Paris we also learn that it wlasl 
     
    
   
   
    
     At Naples R 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ll!!! also been decided to make advances 
     
     fat the same rate, until the payment ot the 
     
     dividends,on bills having six inontlis to run. 
     
     The previous limit was three months. The 
     
     discount houses have reduced their rate 
     
     for money at call to 55 per cent. 
     
    

    
     In the Grain markets of the United 
     
     'ingdom a firm feeling has manifested 
     
     itself, and in many of the interior towns 
     
    
   
   
    
     of this paper an the miscellaneous business 
     
     of the oliice. I was in hopes, y the im- 
     
     portation ol' the most approved machinery, to 
     
    

    
     e enabled to ox«-ciito work with profit and 
     
     advantage to inysi-li' and benefit to the commu- 
     
     nity; and had a liberal government placed are 
     
     on an equal footing with those I had to com- 
     
     pete with, I might have succeeded. While 
     
     printed books and foreign newspapers are im- 
     
     portcdfree ol duly, paper and printing nratcrinlii 
     
     are subject to an iiupost duty of five per cent. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ’ doctor finds that the average amount ol 
     
    
   
   
    
     materials destroyed tire very gwfil. lh° 
     
     total loss not being less than from £6,000 
     
     to £7000. The proprietors were, how- 
     
     ever, insured to a large extent in tho Slief- 
     
     field I-‘ire-otlino. Messrs. Laycock eni- 
     
     ployed nearly 300 persons, cliielly women 
     
     and girls, \..iom the fire will tliroiv out ol 
     
     work for some time to come. The origin 
     
     of the fire is at present quite a mystery. 
     
    
   
   
    
     asserted in Constaritinople, that I-Ierzit had 
     
     fallen without a struggle, but the statement 
     
     was not credited. It is quite clear, that the 
     
     Sliali’s obstinucy is the result of Russian 
     
     ,lllll'lgllC, and the probability of that power 
     
     and England coming into collision in Cen- 
     
     tral Asia is witliiii the cycle of events. 
     
     ‘But the expedition to the Persian Golf is 
     
    
   
   
    
     A Rmhilh C‘1lh°h° °°"‘°‘°"Y is “hm” l° , pet-s represents it as the most insane project 
     
     be established in the vicinity of London. revel. u,,de,.,,,ke,,_ 
     
     The arrangeirients will comprise a catlic-l 
     
     drril, a convent, and on hospital. Tl"? lECf)NI_> Coxcynass or riiiiis. 
     
     The Coiislitiilu-imel, in an article on the 
     
     appi-oachiug Coiifcrences, allirnis, that a 
     
     pltzlltlllllilly accord has not been establislied 
     
     betweeii the Powers, but asserts on the 
     
     There M0 llI|'(‘-0 Principal dlphthhlllc contrary, that each one maintains its partic- 
     
     posts at present Vlfliillll-'ll1l|l Of Mhllfilel‘ ular views ofthc existing difiicullies. This 
     
     ,to Hanover, S-'|li|l‘)’ £3,000} ‘hm 0‘. Mh" statciiient is entirely opposed to the lan- 
     
     ifilfll‘ 10 Vvflfihhlghm. Sahll‘ £4,500; find gauge of. the Post and filobe, and to public 
     
     3h“ 0f Mhll5l°1"~° ‘he T.W° Slclhes. -54:‘ rumours in London, as every circuinstaiice 
     
     000. encouraged the belief that England had 
     
     consented to the renewal of diplomatic 
     
     negociutioiis only on the tacit coiidit 
     
     her views of the question being adopted- 
     
     tliat France and Eiigluiid, Austria and the 
     
     Porto were uiice more firmly united on 
     
     Easter-ii policy. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Thirty emigrant ships left Liverpool dur- 
     
     ing tlio past month, with about 9,000 erni-. 
     
     grants bound for all ports 
     
    
   
   
    
     M. Rothschild has entered into ii con- 
     
     tract with the Biinlt of France to supply it 
     
     with ll,‘200,000f. iii specie, in monthly pay- 
     
     ments, in the c.iui-so of next year. 
     
    

    
     Whatever may he the issue of events, 
     
     the Portsinontli dockynrd is preparing for 
     
     the coming spring. Hundreds of convicts 
     
     are daily employed storing up hundreds of 
     
     thousands of tons of \'Velsh and other coal. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Globe says:—Tlic statciiient of the 
     
     Corulilutioiiml as to there being no prelim- 
     
     inary accord between all the great Powers 
     
     's not, of course, untrue, as the bad faith 
     
     of Itussia admits of no doubt as to her 
     
     differ-eiice of opinion with the Westcrii 
     
     rowers; our the inference drown 
     
     these reinrirks by some vi" 001‘ P*“"9 °°“' 
     
    
   
   
    
     At a late meeting oftlic French Acade- 
     
     my of Science, at Paris, Dr. DONNI pre- 
     
     gentcd and explained as new iusuuiuuu or‘ 
     
     his invention, for the purpose of measuring 
     
      ‘,5 ..'... required for respiration |_emp0I'al'lES, to the effect that Engliin , 
     
    

    
     °‘“E'» ‘hick he x,lo-u--i-‘- - x-inner Austria are not substantial y 
     
     " P“e“'“‘“°'“°‘°"» Md “'h'°h h° ""1h°5 agreed as to the execution of the treaty, is 
     
     "59’ °f l° “°°"‘““ "‘° °°“dl'i°“ °f ‘he certainly giving too otiiciulu. character to 
     
     lungs. and the d95""° °r h'.l‘"'Y '°'“5°d 30 tiic state-iiieiits of a paper so often repudia- 
     
     ‘hem h‘ P“h“°““")' ‘h9°"°3- ted by the French ministry. 
     
    

    
     By an extended s"'°"‘ °f "l’°"'"‘°'"3 In the article of the Coiistilutiormel al- 
     
     made °" “ h"“'° n'""b°r °f ‘uh-lea" lh" ready quoted it is said there is no intention 
     
    

    
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     air rcspired by persons of ordinary form 
     
     and good health, from the ages of 15 to 35 
     
     years, from l'..2 to I53 iiiches——the amount 
     
     being largely exceeded or diminished in 
     
     exceptional cases, among which may .be 
     
     mentioned a person of extraordinary sta- 
     
     ture, exhibited in London as a “giant,” 
     
     who rcspired 428 cubic inches, or more 
     
     than one-and-a-half imperial gallons of air 
     
     per minute. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mr. Disraeli, it seems, is in Paris, and 
     
     of course will see the Emperor. Lord 
     
     Derby's Chancellor of the Exchequer must 
     
     be welcomed to the Tuilleries. Count dc 
     
     Persigny was recently at Knowslcy, and 
     
     the question is, have these visi.s a political 
     
     significance? In all probability they bode 
     
     no good to Lord Palmerston, especially 
     
     when taken in connexion with the new 
     
     olicy which it is alleged the Conservative 
     
     chiefs will pursue in the coming session of 
     
     Parliament. But if the newspaper organ 
     
     which has the credit ofrefiecting the views 
     
     of Mr. Disraeli really does so, the ex-chan- 
     
     cellor’s sentiments respectin Bolgrad and, 
     
     the Isle of Serpents are decidedly Russian, y 
     
     and as opposed to the Palmerston policy as| 
     
     light is to darkness. On the subject of 
     
     another Paris conference opinion is divided, ‘l h“ P"°d“°°d “ h“B° ‘lhmihy °f ‘Who 
     
     but the chances are in {nw.ni- or in; bleing greatly prized for its superior flavour. The 
     
     hgld, the secondary plenipoiengiujes of tree grows in a large pine grove at Auck- 
     
     which it will be composed, being, accord- h"'d Chslle 8‘“'d°h5: hhd “l“'“Y3 h‘ ‘h’ 
     
     ing to the treaty of Paris, empowered go summer season attracts a large number of 
     
     Iettle matters of detail. admirers- 
     
     The speech of the King of Prussia on . 
     
     (be opening of the Diet avowed his incon- Great Britain, France aadPrussia have 
     
     testable right'to‘the Principality of Neuf. definitely settled the tcrmsiof a Treaty 
     
     chatel, and it_ contains a passage which with Denmark for the total occasion ofthe 
     
     nnndsnvery ‘like a threat to enforce his Sound D0003 Ind that the tflaty will em- 
     
     figm, in which effort be calculates upon brace the question of the Transit Duties 
     
     ‘hg fidelity and co-operation of the Prussian . between Hamburgh and Kiel. 
     
    
   
   
    
     the Treaty. \Vliat the Coriferciice will 
     
    
   
   
    
     fix the meaning ofcertiiiu points upon 
     
     which doubts exist. 
     
    
   
   
    
     as agents in charge of mails, will probably 
     
     be required. 
     
    
   
   
    
     yesterday rejected in the Arches Court. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Majesty the Emperor of Japan, by Messrs, 
     
    
   
   
    
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     lfor sea. 
     
    
   
   
    
     sion, at Auckland Castle, of one of the 
     
     largest fig-trees in the kingdom; so that 
     
     the bishop may literally sit under the sha- 
     
     dow of his own fig-tree. For many years 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ln-.-t over-popular in India. One of the pa-. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ion of 3‘ may poss 
     
    
   
   
    
     til-urn, 
     
    
   
   
    
     of doing the work of the Congress over a come; ’_I [3 is a visible nmhin 
     
     again, nor of changing the text or terms of 
     
    
   
   
    
     have to do will simply be to iiiterpitt and substitute for potatoes has been introduce 
     
    
   
   
    
     In all probability, the 
     
     Conference will be of very short dui-iitioii. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Under the contract with the European 
     
     and Australian Mail Coinpaiiy, ilie services 
     
     of seven lieutenants of the Royal Navy, 
     
    
   
   
    
     The appeal of Archdeacon Denison was 
     
    
   
   
    
     Srent Yscnr roa THE EMPEROR or 
     
     JAPAN.—-Th8 steam-yacht built-v for his 
     
    
   
   
    
     lioinson, of Blackwell, and launched at 
     
     their building yard on Saturday, has arri- 
     
     ved at Woolwich, and was admitted into 
     
     lthe titting basin to be rigged and completed 
     
    
   
   
    
     Bislibp Longley has come into posses- 
     
    
   
   
    
     aii rulviiiiee of Is to 2s per quarter upon 
     
     English \Vlient, piirtly, however, owing to 
     
     inipioved condition and a better demand 
     
     for foreign at prices not previously obtaina- 
     
     ble. The weather has been extremely 
     
    
   
   
    
     Many hundred pounds worth of printed 
     
     books might have been imported by riio free of 
     
     airy cliarges, save those of importation; but 
     
     when I was desirous of importing materials 
     
     necessary for iroducing books at a cheaper 
     
     lsm.c,.e f,,, me early period of win“),-. 3;,-ong rate than those imported, and which would em- 
     
     frost still prevailing with some snow, but a ‘ Pl°.‘' “ '“""h“' 0f h“"d5 h‘ "9 lhd “"4 °!0lh€d 
     
     tlitiw ll'ls set in u on a iar-tinl change ol'i°i‘ ll” ["l‘““l' hw“ "‘°.t I’-V “ dmy wl"°l' by 
     
     i . " P l .. J iving tho foreigner this advantage over me 
     
     ""'"d- 1'‘ °“'' °“’“ "““'k°‘ “ hm" “'“°‘“"' °l effectually put it out of my power to enter into 
     
     business passing; \Vheiit has advanced . . . . . _ 
     
     labom ad ‘er -0|bs Flam is held fur mu ricom_potitio_n with him which vioiild all'ord a 
     
     ; . ' l ‘ ‘ . . _ 1 sufficient retuuneration. I have done work for 
     
     ",P,“°°9~_‘h“‘ ‘he demhhd '5 "°‘ “°‘'‘‘’ "' books.-llerrl in No°va Seotia New Brunswick and 
     
     tdian porn closes about the rates Of hlsl oven New York, and might have had more, but 
     
     ,week, with it niodcratc inquiry. Oats and having to ny u. duty upon the pflntlngmnte. 
     
     Eonunenl gnaintain previous rn[cs_ l’l&l8, I0. W Ilull thelppinters in “I080 [).ll-I008 ll|'0 
     
     | -———-—————+—  '“l’J°°‘;’ Ib‘i'."”d °m“"'°ld r"°.“'l “fl““";]°°"‘l‘°;. 
     
     ., iron an o IV‘ reeninisi e o e o 
     
    

    
     l THE L“? 0"‘ “'3 ” GREAT “TE” '5'“-” obtaining rumuri;ratii'o W0l‘l{‘f|'0lll thosep aces. 
     
     l—'I‘lic old favourite steainers Great \’\'est- Disappointed in my View, of conducting the 
     
     em and the Severn, being unfit for further_printing business on iin extended scale and 
     
     .mni| service’ have liccn disposed of to n finding tlitlt it took up much time tlltlt could be 
     
     yship_b,.enke,. pm. $57’500_ The .s B,.is.,,|_ niorc profitably i-mp oyed, I came to the con- 
     
     ‘bumn “vcstcrm (me of the firs, su,mm,l.5 e union to tririisfer the estnlilishment to _other 
     
     im Cross me Aunmic as Om] H Sm lirii ds. I have therefore to infoini my friends, 
     
     . I ,, . t_'_ d g‘ f I _kp that after the first of .Iiinuiiry.tlie paper will 
     
     “mp” “_5 °‘°'_' Wm‘ *'”_‘° "“ ° ‘N 2 he conducted by Messrs. l._&b.Ilurris,who,I 
     
     _ lhll’ 5”” h_‘‘'~‘P *1 huh’ hmgel‘ "fl"“l. do not in the least doubt, will give satisfaction 
     
     ‘but, from the ominous designation of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     to the subscribers, and do their utmost to 
     
     jpany ii, whom she is sold, we fear she has iiialre it acceptable as it faiiiiily newspaper. 
     
     i“ walked the waters" for the last time. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     In takirigiiiy leave for the prescnt,—wliet.her 
     
     for ti. longer or shorter period, tiiue and circum~ 
     
     stances can alone determine I should he want- 
     
     ing in duty to myself, were I not to express my 
     
     grateful thanks for the patronage hitherto so 
     
     liberally conferred on this periodical, and to 
     
     venture to hope, that it will still accompany it 
     
     under its new directors. v 
     
    

    
     Your obed‘t. Servant, 
     
     GI-IOR(ll-I '1‘. HASZARD. 
     
    
   
   
    
     I C0.\'snLATORY Doc riti.vE AS TO COMITS. 
     
     -,—M. Biibinct, of the French Institute, in 
     
     ltlic course of some reinarks which he has 
     
     }published concerning the comet which is 
     
     fcxpectcd by nstronoiners in 1858, says:— 
     
     i“ \Vith regard to one of the questions to 
     
     }which this comet has given rise, miist 
     
    

    
     roiesr against me idea, inst a comet poss- 
     
     esses the power of imparting a perceptinl 
     
     mechanical shock- I can prove unit In 
     
     collision ofa swallow, intent on suicide, 
     
     and flying with full force against a train of 
     
     a hundred carriages drawn by ten steam- 
     
     engines, would he a thousand times more 
     
     dangerous for the train in question, than 
     
     would be the simultaneous shock of all the 
     
     iknown comets against the earth. \Vhat is 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Sunsrirure I-‘OR Po'r.i'roEs.—-A 
     
    
   
   
    
     The following came to late for insertion in our 
     
    

    
     g issue but We willingly give it a place, coming 
     
     as it does from a gcntleinan whose exertion: 
     
     in the cause of religious cducaiioii do him 
     
     honour. We vi-oul say more, were we not con. 
     
     vinced that it would be unacceptable to one who 
     
     is actuated by a higher motive than the praise of 
     
     man. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     “We witnessed during the last week the exam- 
     
     inations ofihe Sunday and Infant schools in 
     
     connection with St. l’aul’s (Episcopal) Church of 
     
     this City. In the Sabbath School there were 
     
     ‘over ‘.200 children. and their proficiency in Scrip- 
     
     gtural-knowledge, gave pleasing evidence of ‘h, 
     
     uselul and laborious teaching of their minister. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ood 
     
    
   
   
    
     in France, the Cliterophylliim bulhosiim, 
     
     yielding an abundance ol tubers, of fr-om'.nd w,“,he"_ 
     
    
   
   
    
     M" “" °“"°‘’ ‘° '3" °““°°_ “Ch. "0",Yl 'l‘he Infant School examination took placg on 
     
     Wh°leS°m°. Ulld with a delicate vanilla’Mond:iy, this popular institution has now been 
     
     flavour, containing twenty-one per cent. of in Oprratioii l3yc-airs; ‘luring which time 500 
     
     starch. The Clunroplyylliym suiivum is chi_|d_ren have bniiefited by its moral and religious 
     
     also said to be an excellent salad.—-.Medi'cal. '"""‘~'.‘ I‘ °"“‘""'."°° “"".l' ‘he 559'“ ‘lhfh Of 
     
     Tim“ and Ga_._e“e_ , our national Church, instruction has been afforded 
     
    

    
     \ lt0'llld withoutfdisltnlctioiidof sect and wpigoni |hg 
     
     IIII ro llcllml o pecu till’ enominaiiona . 
     
     H A 3 Z A R. D's G A Z E T T B. we ‘tire (‘)llI\'hVO0II'l’ly It; sdd,htihat lwhpt is :‘l;I:::g 
     
     ——4?—*—— 'pe4'u la!’ in I is s ant to I I so too and ; few 
     
     kindred imtiiuiions is the large share th is. ‘ 
     
     turzlrll ii-aching has in th: all%3meptl3rfinsi:u¢g;:.:!)- 
     
    

    
     TH . pix J‘, H M - -, ivreyercinoie I gin. cit ren present .3 
     
    

    
     . E‘ JV; S “L lninved on Monday theexciminzitinii and their rippearance was charac. 
     
     night. e have gisen the principal tcrized by cleanliness, Intelligence and 'good 
     
     items of news in our columns. ‘humour. The examination was conducied m , 
     
    

    
     ylively: interesting manner and elicited the warm 
     
     .approb‘ation of its numerous friends. And the 
     
    

    
     ReV.r(/."l.loyd thlie _Recior, usll expressed mu- 
     
     own «-9 mgs. w on III in nest speech I || .1 .1 
     
    

    
     Lo llIt|’ ilelit ofgratiiiiiduddup .tpIrh: rel, bH|T|T)[;‘.p“; ft.- 
     
    

    
     er ong-continue an an n :i ors for the 
     
    

    
     welfare of this commuiii . 
     
    

    
     The children inst thslirlieschers in the evening 
     
     and were regaled with a bountiful supply of in 
     
     cakes and the wonders of our worthy friend Mr. 
     
    

    
     ubba_rd’s magic lantern. The following day 
     
     tlhpitgiildren of:ihe school hadrtheir annual feast 
     
    

    
     n is noise so merriment o the 214 cliildred 
     
     "V" l""P9'lY interspersed by the singing of 
     
    

    
     iymns, and a few words of good advice from their 
     
     ind and respected ministers. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Wednesday.   I 
     
    
   
   
    
     In a few hours. the year 1856 will have 
     
     become matter of history. hereafter to be cited 
     
     as the year of the peace between England and 
     
     her allies and Russia ; we would say “ (1110 Por- 
     
     petua” but we fear that would he a vain wish. 
     
     It will be noted as the ear in which the first 
     
     efiort was made to estab ish an electric telegra- 
     
    

    
     hic‘coi'ninunication between the continents of 
     
     amps and America, and which has roved 
     
     successful to far as uniting the Island 0 New- 
     
     foundland with tlic last mentioned continent. 
     
     In the Island, it will be memorable on ae- 
     
     count of the establishment of the first Bank. 
     
     an institution which was loudly called for 
     
     and which. we doubt not, will prove highly‘ 
     
     beneficial in developin the agricultural and 
     
     00l|nlll0fclfll interests of the people d, 
     
     I gives us sincere leasure to record h ' ’ ‘ ‘ - 
     
     bow m--ma  mm s. at-.'.'.“:.’:i ...‘1t::.°.‘:3;':':'.:.:.'.' .*..:.;'::t.i';:;.':;;: '.'t':.'.-''.' 
     
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     once of _rogress and improvement an_ we wire of Ambrose T. Peaks, leaving a nmngmug 
     
     flrinl be ieve that there are few countries of fsmily to mourn her loss—' ii 
     
     whio the inhabitants have more reason to be age. The deceased ws in t '6 sift“! “ h" 
     
     thankful mum Giver ofall good, than those of Devonshire, England - 'uid"'.i'.li,:...i'°.';"ii.i; 
     
    
   
   
    
     Prince Edward Island. 1.1,“ ,3 1339.