kindly undertaken the management of the fund set apart under my second deed of gift of the 19th of April, 1866, for the benefit of the poor of London and its vicinity, that, in pursuance of an intention which I have entertained since the creation of that fund, I am desirous now of adding to it a further sum of 100,000. "In contemplation of this I purchased about three years ago a tract of freehold building land of about fifteen acres in extent at Brixton, near the City of London School, easily accessible, and within a few minutes' walk of frequent trains to and from London. This land has increased in value, and can now be let on building leases of eighty years at rents producing about eight per cent. per annum on the cost, which is 16,285/. 178. 3d. This land I propose to convey to you with the same powers as are conferred by the deed over the other property of this trust, and with discretion to you either to deal with it as a source of income by letting it or any portion of it on lease, or, should you deem it expedient, to retain it in your own hands as sites for dwellings to be erected by the trust. "Pursuant to my letter of the 29th of January, 1866, I transferred to you, subject to a contingency therein explained, 5000 shares in the Hudson's Bay Company, which accordingly stand in your names, together with 642 additional shares purchased by the re-investment of the accruing income of the previous 5000. These 5642 shares I have since redeemed, conformably to the deed of the 19th of April, 1866, by the payment of 100,0007. on the 1st of February last. I have now to acquaint you that it is my intention, so soon as the necessary deeds can be prepared, to hand the shares over to you, to be retained or dealt with according to your best judgment and discretion. The price of these shares shall be fixed on the 17th inst. by the Stock Exchange sales on that day, when I will hand to you a cheque for the balance, to make the gift a cash value of 100,000. "This amount will increase my former donation of the Second Trust to 200,0007., and, including my gift under the First Trust in March, 1862, of 150,000l., a total of 350,0007. "I trust you expression of my entire satisfaction with the manner in which you have conducted the affairs of the trusts. will see manifested in this further donation an “I am, with great respect, your humble Servant, "To the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, M.P. (chairman), his Excellency Reverdy Johnson (United States' Minister), Sir Curtis M. Lampson, Bart., Sir James Emerson Tennent, Bart., J. S. Morgan, Esq." Mr. Peabody's donations to the poor of London now amount to 350,000%. 7. VIOLENT GALE.-On the preceding night a tremendous gale raged throughout the kingdom, and especially along the coast, and early this morning it blew a perfect hurricane in the Metropolis, the effects of which were visible at daybreak, most of the thoroughfares being strewed with wreck. The contents of the timber-yard of Messrs. Saxton, in Upper Ground-street, Blackfriars-road, were scattered by the wind. Great piles of deals and other sorts of timber, fifty or sixty feet high, were blown down. On the river several barges were injured or sunk-one of the latter in a dangerous position off the Temple Gardens. Two lightermen in charge of the vessel were drowned. A boat containing two young men was driven against a barge in Battersea Reach and smashed, the young men being drowned. In Denmark-street, Camberwell Newroad, a water-cistern was carried three houses off, and fell upon a greenhouse. The roof of a cottage situated at the rear of Thomasstreet, Clerkenwell, was blown off, and the occupants were buried in the debris, but were got out but little the worse for the occurrence. A stack of chimneys fell through the roof of a house in Clerkenwell, but none of the inmates were injured. The roof of 12, Cupid's-court, Golden-lane, was blown off, and some people in the rooms below were cut and bruised by the falling débris. Several houses in Frederick-street, Gray's-inn-road, and the neighbourhood had their chimney-pots blown down; and the top of a house in the Back-road, St. George's-in-the-East, was blown off into the street. In the suburbs great damage was done to property. Further on the outskirts, at Barking Reach, a fishing-smack was wrecked, and two men went down with the vessel. Lofty piles of deals were blown down in the timber-yards at Rotherhithe. the river, numerous tiers of vessels were secured by additional anchors, but notwithstanding these and other precautions, several broke away, and caused considerable damage to those with which they came in contact. One man was drowned and several greatly injured. The whole of the market-gardens and the low lands of Surrey were in many places two or three feet under water, and carriage-roads in the neighbourhood of Egham were rendered nearly impassable by the great accumulation of water. At Windsor the wind did considerable havoc among the trees in Windsor Park and Forest. 8. SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW.-The "private view" at the Agricultural Hall took place on the 7th, when the Crown Prince of Prussia, accompanied by Viscount Bridport and the Earl of Hardwicke visited the Show, which passed off smoothly and well this year. Even two wet evenings did not damp the comers, who poured in a steady stream through the turn-stiles; and the relaxation of the cattle-plague restrictions, which enabled the country butchers to take their purchases home to kill, sent up beasts nearly 77. per head in price. This was also the judging day, and the Birmingham Cup Hereford ox of Mr. William Heath, of Ludlow Hall, Norwich, gained the first prize. The Herefords were this year the grandest feature of the show; indeed, the old steers formed the only cattle class that earned a general commendation from the judges, though the entries numbered fewer than last year. Her Majesty gained the first prize for a very handsome Hereford cow, that was placed third at Birmingham. For Norfolk and Suffolk polled steers and oxen the Prince of Wales won the first prize with a compact very handsome steer, while Mr. William Smith, of Witton, took the second. His Royal Highness was also first for a Norfolk polled heifer. In addition to the fullest cattle classes that have ever been collected in the Hall, there was this year also a sheep show without precedent in the number of entries, there being about 130 pens, not including the extra stock classes, against less than 100 last year, and between eighty and ninety in the year before that. There were admitted to the Hall about three thousand persons more than on the corresponding day last year; and during the whole of the day any body who tried to get a good look at a redriband animal, or to travel in any direction along the galleries, found out how intensely popular was the annual exhibition provided by the Smithfield Club. The numbers attending the Show on the 10th amounted to nearly the same as on the previous day, when between 38,000 and 39,000 passed through the turn-tables. The sales of prize stock were very numerous, and most of the chief prizes changed hands. On the fifth and last day the Show was visited by many thousands less than on the previous shilling days, and the sales were very few in number. It should be mentioned that the police regulations for the prevention of robberies at the Show, which is visited generally by a class of persons who are supposed to be easily robbed, were excellent. At each of the doors detectives were placed, and whenever any of the swell mob or others known to the police came, they were warned from the premises. Before the doors closed many purchasers were taking their prize animals away to the slaughterhouse, the regulations requiring that they should be killed, and in a few hours the appearance of the Hall was undergoing a radical change in the preparations being made to convert it into a theatre and circus for the Messrs. Sanger's Christmas stud and spectacle entertainments. 13. DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY.-About three o'clock this morning a lamentable accident occurred at the Three Bridges station, on the main line of the London and Brighton Railway. A down goods train had then arrived at Three Bridges from London, and had been shunted into a siding. It contained a box truck which had been taken on from the NorthWestern line, and which was destined for Newhaven, most, if not all, of its contents being in transitu for France by the Newhaven route. While the train was standing in the Three Bridges siding, the guard of a Tunbridge Wells train, named Frank French, had his attention directed to a leakage from the box-truck, and, undeterred by the odour of naphtha, entered the truck with his lighted lamp in order to see whence the leakage came, and either by ignition from actual accidental contact, or by an explosive vapour, the cask took fire. There was scarcely any report, but the truck was instantly wrapped in flames, amid which French was enveloped. He managed to get out of the truck, and a fellowguard, named John Harris, went to his assistance. Harris also was caught by the blazing fluid, and received severe injuries. The porters and officials on duty with the trains, and at the junction, Îent, of course, immediate assistance, and both the sufferers were at once sent on to the Brighton Hospital. French was deeply burnt all over his body, and, though sensible and able to hold conversation during the day, died in the night at half-past ten. Harris was very much burnt about the legs and arms. The flames did not spread much. The truck which contained the cask was completely destroyed, with the whole of its contents; and the two adjacent trucks, with what they bore, were also damaged a good deal. The railway servants exerted themselves to the utmost, as well in rescuing, so far as they could, their comrades, as in getting the uninjured part of the train out of harm's way. The cask contained refined naphtha, and the fatality acquired considerable public importance from the fact that the closed truck was booked through from Liverpool to Dieppe, from the North-Western Railway, whereon previous fatalities from petroleum had occurred, including, of course, the Abergele catastrophe. A man who happened to be near at hand said that he heard six distinct explosions. The flames were described as lighting up the locality for miles around. The intensity of the heat was such that the hand lamps held by the deceased and Harris were almost completely fused. The rails were displaced and twisted, and the keys of the main down line, some score yards off, were touched and scorched by the liquid fire. The truck containing the inflammable material and its contents were burnt to what looked like a cinder heap. Harris died subsequently of the injuries he had received. 14. THE QUEEN AT THE PRINCE CONSORT'S MAUSOLEUM.-This being the seventh anniversary of the death of the late Prince Consort, shortly before eleven o'clock the Queen, the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, Princes Arthur and Leopold, and Princesses Louise and Beatrice, and the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, proceeded through the private grounds of the palace and the park to the Prince's Mausoleum, at the rear of Frogmore House, where, within the Mausoleum, a special service was commenced by the Dean of Windsor, the choral parts being under the supervision of Dr. Elvey, the organist of St. George's Chapel. first anthem was a chorale composed by Nicholas Decius in 1549. The After a prayer, the 23rd, 112th, and 146th Psalms were read by the Dean of Windsor, the choir responding. The second anthem after the Psalms was as follows:: "His body is buried in peace, But His name liveth evermore. Amen."-Handel. The service was closed with an appropriate prayer. Dean Stanley, of Westminster, was present at the service. The new tomb in which the remains of the late Prince have at last found a restingplace was hewn from a solid block of dark grey Scotch granite. When the sarcophagus was carved, the hollow within was made large enough to receive two coffins. In this the Prince's corpse has been deposited, the coffin occupying just one half, the other being reserved for his sorrowing widow. Upon the lid of the sarcophagus, and exactly over the coffin, lies the recumbent figure of the deceased Prince, in regal robes, and with his head supported by a cushion, executed in white marble by Baron Marochetti. Four large bronze angels, with clasped hands and outstretched wings, relieve the otherwise simple aspect of the sarcophagus, and upon the side of the tomb nearest the Prince's coffin, in carved and gilt letters, is this inscription:- FRANCIS ALBERT AUGUSTUS CHARLES EMMANUEL, Duke of Saxony and Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Second son of Ernest I., Reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Married Feb. 10, 1840, to Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. Died at Windsor, Dec. 14, 1861. The Mausoleum is now nearly completed, with the exception of some further statuary and two large paintings which are yet unfinished. The cost already amounts to some 200,0007., and the whole of this has been defrayed from her Majesty's private purse. 23. ARRIVAL AT DUBLIN OF THE NEW LORD-LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND-Earl Spencer paid a flying visit to the Irish capital, and was invested with the insignia of office as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. His Lordship arrived by the early mail and proceeded at once to the Viceregal Lodge. At one o'clock he drove to the Castle, accompanied by Mr. Boyle, his private secretary, in one of the Duke of Abercorn's carriages, and was received with the honour due to his high position. A guard of honour of the 9th regiment, under the command of Captain Daunt, was drawn up in the quadrangle, and presented arms as the noble earl entered. Mr. Balfour, gentleman usher, conducted him to the Presence Chamber, where the Archbishop of Dublin, Lord Strathnairn, and the Lord Justice of Appeal, and Lords Justices, had been in waiting to install him. All the State forms usual upon such occasions were observed; the Lords Justices sat covered and enthroned as Chief Governors. After the commission had been presented a short conference was held, and their Excellencies intimated to Earl Spencer that the Privy Council were assembled in the Council |