The Aberdare Times

An actor in Mobile has bequeathed his head to the theatre for a Yorick's skull.

ENERAL GARIBALDI'S ADDRESS g 1 TO THE VOLUNTEERS. sight neral Garibaldi has published the following order of the toin to the Italian volunteers, writing from Head-quarters, with ), under date August 9a P o the Volunteers You have marched against the of 1 ny almost without being organised, clad God kno ws final •, and armed in a manner still worse; yet you have roun ertheless marched with the enthusiasm inspired by num holiest of causes, and with the bearing of old rapi iers accustomed to war, you have fulfilled the ex- tare tations of the King and the country, and repulsed lam] Austrians in ten sanguinary combats. The gooi ims strewn on your glorious path fully attest to the the donate ardour of the battles. ChiasBi, Castelhm, ridn nbardi, Buttini, and hundreds of our bravest are no swoi •e It will be indeed difficult to fill up such gaps the 'our ranks. Your wounded and mutilated com- heat es are still counted by thousands, but I have not offic 1 the least indication of discouragement amongst trial and I have not heard a single word of complaint, nun nr only re-net has been the imperfect deliverance of The r enslaved brethren, and with deep emotion I have his i rd nothing but the war-cry "Evviva Italia rea on. nd from your ranks. During the armistice you who re been patient and full of zeal; you have been of b ler army discipline, which, however, was necessary helf account of the large number of your very young ridd arades. With pride I have heard your longing for wer end of an armistice that overtook us in pursuit of the enemy. And when, at the expiration of that pow uistice, you have received orders to throw yourself a I o the combat again, I have found you animated by t offii oyaus satisfaction as if I conducted you to a wedding bra cquet. God bless you Italy may be proud of you; pea. 1 if in a month, whish you will employ in making whi urselves more efficient in the management of arms, onl; ) stranger has not desisted from his attempt to im- eno "e on us unacceptable conditions, then, oh then, ring e by side with our brave brethren of the regular of ny (I proclaim this inspired by the national con- pre ence), shall we break the last fetters which still dis- dot nour this grand but unhappy people. mil G. GABIBALDI. as I i.i — the

HE PROPOSED REFORM DEPUTATION TO THE QUEEN. The following correspondence has passed between r r Thomas Biddulph, private secretary to the Queen, j; d Mr. W. G. D'Giuyther—the latter having re- chj lested permission for a number of working men to lit on her Majesty with a petition for the dismissal the Earl of Derby and his colleagues as ro Mr. D'Gruyther.—Sir,—Tn reply to your letter of the off th instant, I have nothing to say beyond what was con- Ined la my letter of the 4th instant, viz that you should mmunlcate respecting the petition you wish to present to J? e Queen with the Secretary of State for the Home Depart- th< int, with whom I must beg you to correspond on the sub- th< st should you wish for any further information. I am, de< &G. X. M. BIDDULPH. of 3aborne, August 14. yj ro Major-General Sir T. Buddulph.—Sir,—I beg to enclose dii e'ter for her Majesty the Queen, and request you will be mi od enough to deliver it to her, and convey to me her com- th mds. I am, &0 W. G. D'GRUYTHER. 43, Bedford-street, Strand, August 17. go] To Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.—Madam,— irmit me in my own name ar'd that of a large body of my llow-subjects, mostly workinst men, to respectfully solicit sa tur Sovereign protection against the Earl of Derby and his fe] sociates in office. The Ministers caused a riot in Hyde- th irk on the 23rd July last by their factious conduct, and ca herwise endangered the peace of the metropolis and a] mntry; and since we have no guarantee that our lives, jerties and property will be respited for the future, we aD e constrained to apply to your Majesty for the dismissal sp the Ministry, and beg your Majesty will be pleased to ta )point an early day when we may wait upon your Majesty, and •eaent our petition in form. From the correspondence that pr is already transpired on the subject between Sir Thomas w] Idaulph and myself, there is reason to fear that an attemot ill be made to defeat our seein? your Majesty but the u° mrse would jeopardize the Crown, and as loyal and faithful or ibjects we must denounce all proceedings calculated to sh ace jour Msjisty in a false position. By the precedent th itablished in the time of King James II., the withdrawal of sil le Sovereign from the country, coupled with any attempt v > subvert the liberties of the people, renders the throne — icant; and I need not point out to your Majesty that ccording to this precedent your Majesty's refusal to see in s, coupled with the violence of which we complain, would 1 law be a constructive abdication. The deputation Is omposed cbiefly of working men, and as they have in no istance, as a clasi, failed either in their duty to thecountry r to your Majesty, I feel that your Majesty will not only (tend to them the protection prayed for, but graciously give Ie assurance In person.-I have the honour to be, Madam, di our Majesty's obedient humble servant, at W. G. D'GRUTTHER. Ot 43, Bedford-street, Strand, Aug. 17. ro A copy of the letter has also been Bent to Mr. Valpole, the Home Secretary. m ti<

tESCUE OF A SHIPWRECKED CREW. ai The barque Fairlie, bound to Negapatam, after j* acountering the most violent weather, foundered in tie .Bay of Bengal in November, 1865. As the boats re re either all smashed to pieces, or dragged down dth the ship, the only resource of the crew was to onstruct a raft of the loose spars which could be urriedly collected and lashed together. This was one, and 20 men were crowded upon this frail al tructure, the sea meantime threatening to engulf t( hem every moment. For 13 hours they remained in P his dreadful plight, and the mate and one or two of tl he sailors were at length to exhausted that they were 8t n the point of expiring. The poor fellows were up o their armpits in water, and had given themselves p for lost, when they were fortunately seen by captain J. Gibson, of the ship Innesfallen, who, bough the sea was raging furiously, promptly and iravely put off in a boat to the rescue. The men vere all picked up, brought safely on board the innesfallen, and in December landed at the Mauritius, ?' he mate and the others who were so exhausted and V II having, under the kind and constant care of Capt. xibson, quite recovered. The circumstances having teen reported to the Board of Trade, Captain Gibson ras on Thursday presented at the office of the local aarine board, Liverpool, with a handsome silver- Qounted telescope, the gift of the Board of Trade. ?he telescope was inscribed with a record of his inmanity and bravery. —— b:

MEETING OF RAILWAY EMPLOYES. £ a1 A meeting of railway clerks and employes has been ai eld in London to consider the best mode of forming k society to procure Sabbath rest, decreased hours of IS ibour, and increased pay. About 500 were present, tl t was requested that the names of the speakers might a iot be given, sinct. as one of them remarked, he might s< 'et discharged next day for having spoken.. 1 Mr. Vincent, Secretary to a Railway Amalgamated v Benefit Society, stated that it was no uncommon a ;hing for men to be at work on Sundays and have no tl lay of rest for six weeks together; whilst at Glou- w ;ester station there was a man who had not had one v :or over twenty years. He had seen engine-drivers d yho had been at work for twenty-two and even if .wenty-three hours, so exhausted as to fall into a ethargic sleep on the foot plate of the engine, utterly mconscious of falling snow or rain, whilst they were j ;aking in coal or water for another journey. At Carlisle he knew a pointsman who kept a record of lis day's work. In one day, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., le pulled 1,424 levers for altering the points, and was lardly able to crawl out of his box when his relief :ame. Railways gave these men eighteen hours' vork on Saturday. Whenever they read of the iccidental death of such men, they should add ,hat it was "accelerated by over labour." He had q leen a signalman asleep in his box, and one train stopping for the signal and another behind it. The n iverage pay of such men was 16s. to 17s. 6d. a week. How was it possible for a man to liv3 when rent and prices of food had so increased, the former chiefly through the railway companies. After several other speeches the meeting pledged itself to support an association for co-operative appli- cation in agitating for the results wished for. The society already possesses nearly 10,000 members. r A casual fund for the legal protection and relief of 11 any one thrown out of employment by attending the meeting or advocating the principles of the associa- tion is being formed, with a view to the ultimate £ establishment of a benefit society, instead of the compulsory societies existing in connection with the railways, which were strongly denounced as being secretly managed and unjust in operation. It was stated that one of the large companies had expressed a desire to help the movement, whilst two others had officially acknowledged the receipt of memorials and j had discharged men from their employ, one (an in- spector) after thirteen years' service, because they had ( joined the association. The idea of strikes was I strongly protested against, and temperate, respectful, and combined application decided on. = E

THE NEW LAW ON INDUSTRIAL J SCHOOLS. Several important alerations in respect to Industrial: Schools have been made in an act passed on the day t of the prorogation. It repeals three statutes. The schools are to be certified and under government in- spection, and to them counties and boroughs are to t contribute. # 6 Regarding the class of children to be detained at I such places, it is provided that any person may take c a child apparently under the age of fourteen found begging or receiving alms, whether actually or under the pretext of selling or offering for sale anything, or being in the streets for the purpose any child wander- ing and having no home or proper guardianship or visible means of subsistence; any child found desti- tute, either being an orphan or having a surviving parent who is undergoing penal servitude or imprison- ment or any child frequenting the company of reputed c thieves. A child answering any of these descriptions may be sent to a certified industrial school when taken ] before a magistrate. J A child apparently under the age of twelve charged f with an offence, not before convicted, may be sent to such an establishment, and even parents and others ( having a "refractory child" under fourteen may innlv to a magistrate to have that child sent to one ( *f the schools. A parent is, if of ability, to pay a sum j a°For offenefs a3t certified schools children are to be j L reformatory schools, and such schools are to sent to reformatory fi{ sectiona "u'vt° «plicTt\» to of the SiMuhmeU, Md the manner in wluoh th«y are to to SSacSd to ensure proper treatment ot the children.

A BELLICOSE PRUSSIAN. The Prague correspondent of the Star, writing on the 10th instant, gives the following narrative:- There was a pretty little skirmish in the streets at a late hour last night. Five Prussian soldiers overtoo a civilian, whom, by some means or other, they dis- covered to be a Saxon. They picked a quarrel with ] him one of them pulled his stick from him, while an. < other, jan ugly-looking dragoon, with bushy whiskers, < drew his sword, and slashed the man across the fore- 1 head. Of course the poor fellow, whose face was in a f moment covered with blood, cried out for help; and < BO sooner had be done so than three of the soldiers 1 nee fled, while a tew people who happened that: ? passing came running to the place. The of It of the blocd and of the onlookers seemed hirrwi furiate the dragoon. He began to storm and rage up t] a profusion of guttural oaths; he declared Le was was russian, and had a right to kill whomsoever provi bhe —— Austrians he liked (or disliked); and flicte ly he once more drew his long sword, swung it the i Ld his head, and charged upon the bystanders. I navv ibly confess that we made a retrograde movement defei dly, while he stood in the middle of the thorough- to m swinging about his sword, that glittered in the she p-light, and swearing like of course like the dra- woul l he was. Anofficercameridingalongon horseback; oblig wounded man made his complaint; and the officer, after ig after the dragoon, ordered him to sheathe his plac< rd, and follow him. Not a bit. He advanced to defei officer, flourishing the long white blade round his rp 1. He shouted out that he did not care for any in er, and that he had a right to kill as many Aus- vate is as he chose and again he charged upon us. A resid iber of policemen came up, who drew their sabres. raise se he at once attacked, hut they could only ward off feeli" 'andom strokes. The officer stood helplessly looking Doubtless it would have been a hard thing for a man to g had perhaps survived the Koniggratz to run the risk Mm eing killed by a drunken dragoon; but I cannot ever > thinking that an English officer would have a^Uf [en the drunken braggart down. "Our sabres pro[, e six inches longer than his sword," said one of constables afterwards, and we could have over- of. rered him in a moment; but we dared not attack ne, Russian without receiving the command of the rem: jer." And so this tipsy idiot was allowed to in jj ndish his sward in the officer's face, to make re- is n ted charges on the small crowd that bad assembled, in w lIe the constables, with unsheathed sabres, could socii y look on and defend themselves. Foolishly lugh, the dragoon, whose hoarse cries were now ?ing down the quiet street, drew near to the gates who i barrack the officer ordered out the sentries, who GUJ sented their rifles, and swore they would shoot him Kei vn if he did not sheathe his sword then he sub- falIi ;ted and walked in between them. He is as good engi ,hot," said one of these soldiers, not for wounding On man, but for insubordination." wer mei bres

[CIDENTS OF THE BATTLE OF LISSA. doc — by < rhe Austrian Admiral Tegethoff spent a great part ^2? the night before Lissa studying all the possible ? inces, and his captains were so well informed of his ?as. shes that his death would have caused no confusion. 1 j stood on his quarter deck during the fight, and was ?m' cool as he was dashing in his manoeuvres. All his on icers speak of him with enthusiasm, and say that "V3 ha3 well earned the Order of Maria Theresa, which »iven only to those who have done something above eri sir simple duty. When they were asked to select P""e )se among their number who were most deserving of to I corations, they asked for the Maria Theresa Orders ] first and second class for Admiral Tegethoff and the ce-Admiral Retz of the Kaiser, and begged that no I Serence might be made among the rest, but that all ceri ght receive a small medal as a token they had done eir duty at the battle of Lissa. Captain Moll was killed early in the fight. For He' me days previously he had suffered from a severe for in in the head, probably fever, and had repeatedly He id that he felt as if his head was coming off. Poor is u [low! One of the first shots in the action struck Sta e telegraph plate and drove it through his skull, co" rrying away half his head. Captain Klint was killed « j little later by a shell which passed through his body son id burst, blowing him to pieces, that scattered like pre linters, one of them wounding a midshipman. Cap- in Klint's widow is an Englishwoman. The greatest amount of damage done by any single £ eI ojectile during the battle was on board the Kaiser, ellI here one 300-pound shell burst, killing 20 men and alii imaging a gun. Another carried away the muzzle ma a gun and sent a few splinters inside. A 300-pound ot struck the bows of the Don Juan, and passed ™ rough both sides of the ship, but there was little re- ne, stance to its penetration, for the pressure to get ships kd been so great that the whole of the bows of the on Juan, originally intended to be of thin iron plat- thi g, was only covered with wood to save time. — Sh

AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE. by re] On Monday, the 23rd of July, Christina Macarthnr, resi- ml ng with her parents at flolmscroft-street, Greenock, while jn, Quaing herself on a stair at a tenement, got, unobserved, itside of the rail, and in attempting to get over upon the iof of a cellar, fell headlong to the paved court below, a 8,1 !pth of some 18ft., striking her head heavily. She was ap eked up by Mrs. Vosper, a neighbour, to all appearance wl 'eless. Dr. M'Raild, who resides nearly opposite, was im- he ediately in attendance, and from him the following par- th culars has been gleaned:- re I found the child utterly motionless and breathless, wj id to all appearances dead. Her head was twisted wi ineaih the left shoulder, and almost reversed on the jdy. I began to examine whether, and if so, where- bouts the skull might be fractured, when Mrs. pe osper, who had the child in her lap, told me the sn eck, not the head, was broken, and that therefore, wi ledical aid was useless. I saw at once that the do ilation of the neck with the head was unnatural, in nd, instead of waiting for a nice diagnosis, proceeded gu ) use means of reduction. With this object I sup- is orted the back with the left knee, took a grasp of he le head, and began to pull gradually and pretty no ;rong. I had not pulled much when the patient's da yes opened, and an attempt was made at breathing. LS a physiological test of the nature of the injury I fin jased pulling, when immediately every phenomenon ga f life ceased as before. I then pulled strongly, and an le parts came to the natural position with a snap, jf. sactly as occurs after the reduction of displacements, ut not so audibly. Immediately the eyes opened, 'fp nd shortly afterwards gasping took place, and ad 1 a minute or so breathing was established, su 'he child was then carried upstairs, while I con- nc inued to keep the head and neck steady. We placed cu er on a hard, narrow bed, and in the best position ossible, by means of pillows. Mrs. Vosper undertook n > remain beside her to guard against any movement pc t the head. The head, however, was disturbed during of le night, and convulsions supervened, which ceased, A owever, as soon as the head was kept steady by the ef and. Then came vomiting of dark matter, followed ag y much heat and much disturbance. I caused the neck h< > be well leeched, and a counter irritant to be applied V > the epigastrium, on which the convulsions dis- til ppeared. To secure rest laudanum was administered, ct fter which the patient slept. During sleep heat was se ept down by means of iced water applied to the head. tt Fext morning the patient appeared more lively, but 81 le least movement produced distortion of the features ti nd a. minor convulsive movement. She was quite ri jcsible, but could neither articulate nor swallow. g< owards mid-day she could articulate most words, but tl ras deficient in pronouncing linguals. A few hours fterwards she could both swallow and speak. As here was much disturbance of both cerebral and re- piratory orpans, I gave her ten grains of calomel rhich soon settled her»down. The child's neck is still j. istorted to the right side, and for this a stay support j being used; the child is progressing favourably. —————————— a]

f ACCIDENT at the PARTS FETES. J ——————— c; From the accounts in the Paris papers of the dread- t< al accident which took place at tl e Fetes on Wednes- g ay in last week, it appears that directly after the a onclusion of the display of fireworks on the Pont des b nvalides, the crowd, which had been standing watch- p 19 them on both sides of the Seine, began to break up. n L large number of persons who were on the left bank si f the river, made their way to the Pont de la Con- b orde in order to cross to the right bank, at the very p loment when an equally large number of persons were e: bout to pass in the opposite direction. These two n treams met in the middle of the bridge, and despite a he utmost efforts of the sergeants-de-ville, it soon be- tJ ame impossible to prevent a complete stoppage of all tl irculation either way. Every moment, too, fresh ar- ti ivals kept pouring in, ignorant of what had taken o; ,lace, until at last the pressure became so overwhelm- u ng that men, women, and children were forced down fE ,id trampled upon, some being killed, and a large lumber severely injured. For a short time the scene s said to have been one of wild confusion and terror. J1 )ne woman climbed over the parapet, and ran along it ts n a kind of frenzy which blinded her to the danger she P vas incurring. When the bridge became somewhat ilear, it was found to be strewn with fragments of tl slothing which had been literally torn off the backs of vj he wearers in the desperate struggle that had taken St )lace. The wounded were at once conveyed to the Palace of the Corps Legislatif close at hand, and the e: lead taken to the Morgue. The number of the for- C ner is stated to be very large, but no reliable infonna- tt ion on the subject has been published. With regard PI ;o the latter, the Avenir National says that an eye- ti witness counted next day at the Morgue the bodies of tight women and one young man who had been suffo- 1, :ated in the crowd. "While we write," adds the same ii )aper, thousands of persons, controlled by the police 71 igents, form a line at the doors of the Morgue, and (1 ire waiting their turn to penetrate into the interior, g md ascertain whether the relative or friend of whom n ;hey are in search is among the number of the victims." b The Temps mentions a rumour according to which 0: ;he disorder that led to this terrible tragedy was occa- ° lioned, or at all events increased, by a gang of pick- 11 sockets, who profited by it to rifle the crowd in all v lirections, and who were arrested in large numbers. E i — a: I"LII' VV-

Jkllistdhnœûns Jrahgeiut, HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. TOADS AND FROGS !-The Paris correspondent )f the Daily Telegraph writes Toads are now sold in the markets here at 2f fiOc the dozen. Taney buying a dozen of toads They hive not really, you mow-in spite of the "divine Williams "-jewela in their leads; if they had, they might be cheap But they buy hem here to keep flies off plants in green-houses and frames -not to eat, as I heard an Eoglishman insisting they did, mty thi3 week.-The theory that the French lived chiefly on 'rogs is, I am sorry to say, quite exploded; in fact, frogs are )nly to be got at certain seasons with great difficulty, and at 1 very fancy price. They have the same genius of edible frog n Italy. Fly-fishing once between Florence and Bologna, I jaught a great beast weighing about a pound. Now, as it Happens that of all things that run, fly, or creep, I have the greatest antipathy to a frog, I put down my rod and shouted tor help, which came in the shape of an aged female party, who took froggy off the hook, put it in her pocket, and ex- pressed an opinion that he was malto buon da mangiar-a real good thing in delicacies! A DWELLER IN THE CAJE.—An extraordinary case came before the Sunderland magistrates on Saturday. A pitman named Thomas Robson was summoned for refusing to quit a cave he had hollowed out for his occupation in the sea banks, on the lands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who were the summoning parties. Their only object was to induce Robson to quit "the premises;" but neither threats nor persuasion could succeed. It transpired, during the hearing of the case, that the defendant took it into his head to leave his employment at Ryhope Colliery, and the house he occupied, for the purpose jf excavating a habitation out of the sea banks. He made himself a nice entrance, cut out a room of con- iiderable size, and made a hole at the top for a -himney The place was timbered on the sides and the roof; but though he had fitted it up in a style might be comfortable to live m, tnere was danger coat giving way, and some morning he might find was elf on the beach. The cave was about half way Line he bank, and about 40 feet from the beach, and whi( approached by a winding path. The defendant over ing obstinate to the last, a fine of 51. was in- witt id, and, refusing to pay, he was locked up. In disa afternoon some policemen and about a dozen out! ies proceeded to the cave, where they found the fact mdant's wife's sister in possession. On being asked expi love the furniture and leave she refused, declaring peri would stick to the place until she died, and they sme Id have to bury her there. They were u'timately ceiv fed to remove both her and the furniture by force, adei r which the navvies commenced to demolish the spoi e, which had been very strongly built. The pec ndant was then released. the HE BAVARIAN GRUMBLING !—The discontent Tano Munich augments rather than diminishes. A pri- 111 I letter, says that even at Tegernsee-the summer I lence of Prince Charles of Bavaria—the voices in i id against his highness are loud and numerous. A of t ng of indignatiou prevails which threatens to prove dep gerous. As to Von der Tann, the letter went on mir say, he will hardly venture to show himself in whi oich. And as to General Prince Taxis, who, how- for was always reckoned among the incapables, the con se levied against him is so great that his son, just nui noted to a majority, intends to quit the service in Chi sr not to be obliged to hear his father thus spoken Las And it is significant that this letter, coming from Thi of high social rank, contained not one extenuating mix ark. It is clear that the prevalent public opinion alo: dunich extends through all classes. The discontent mu cot only to be found among the people," but also ] rhat, par excellence, is called by its members la fin( ete." e. the I SAD STORY I-On Saturday eveninga labourer, a c )se name is at present unknown, was brought to nec p's Hospital from the tunnel near Sevenoaks, in Lii at, with his head frightfully crushed from the sch ing of a heavy brick from the roof while he was edi aged with other labourers in some necessary repairs^ He his admission to the hospital his struggles and cries titl •e frightful. It required the united strength of six the a to hold him down, and even then he managed to chs ak the bathman's finger, to bite and scratch the un tor, and to grasp the sister of the ward so tightly tol the throat that the mark still remains. After a few po] irs of inteme suffering he expired, the medical th( cers being unable to operate on him. Although he thi been for some time in the service of the company, jes is unknown to them, and has only been recognised na ong his fellow workmen as "Tom." There was mi nd upon him a letter from a young woman belonging me of the boarding-houses attached to Eton College, j>, o was evidently his sweetheart. It is couched in 8J ms of warm affection, and concluded with the ex- jjj ;ssion of a hope that they should shortly meet never pr part again. pg POSING A NOBLE LORD !—A correspondent of foJ > Boston Post relates the following was highly amused at a story told by the captain con- an ning Lord Grosvenor, who was among his passengers some ie since. This nobleman is the eldest; son and heir of the .rquis of Westminster, whose fortune is enormous, and P*' ii to produce the immense income of 450,0:01. per annum. is highly intelligent, and the variety and depth of his in- mation would he considered great even for a commoner. wI has travelled extensively in all parts of the world, and it br lot long since he returned from a long tour in the United ites While at the West he was one day waiting at a mtry station for a tardy train, when one of the farmers of 3 neighbourhood entered into conversation with him. M ieen about these parts consid'able, stranger?" "Yes, for ne length of time." Like 'em pretty well, eh?" "Yes, jtty well." "How long have yer bin here?" "A few r, eks "What's yer business?" "I have no business." iVhat are you travellin' for, then ?" Only for my own ;aeure." "Don't yer do any business? How do you get m r livin' then ?" It isn't necessary for me to work for my oi pport. My father is a man of property, and gives me an ill owance sufficient for my wants." "But 'spose the old t( in should die ?" In that case I dare say he'd leave me ough to live upon." "But 'sposa he should bust up?-' P1 ire the conversation ended, and Lord Grosvenor walked t( 'ay, evidently struck by a new idea, and one which had bi ver been S3 forcibly presented to him until now. si RESPITE OF A SENTENCE FOR MURDER.—At tl e recent assizes at Leeds a young married man P ,med William Turner was convicted of the murder fi his infant daughter, by cutting her throat at a, leffield. The jury recommended him to mercy, but 7" fore the sentence of death was pronounced on him r Mr. Justice Smith, the prisoner, in a rather markable address, expressed a hope that the recom- 1 endation of the jury would not be attended to, f* asmuch as he had marie his peace with God, and that had rather die than lead a life of misery, which he ould have to do if he was kept in confinement. It b rpears that the prisoner had suffered from a sunstroke hile serving as a soldier in India, and that at times & ( was scarcely sane. On Thursday the Governor of e Leeds Borough Gaol, in which Turner is confined, ceived an official intimation that the capital sentence ill not be carried out. In all probability the sentence f1 ill be commuted to penal seivitude for life. SNAILS AS A CURE FOR CONSUMPTION.—The p tasantry of Ireland have great faith in the efficacy of 0 ails as a cure for persons in a decline or consumption, a rites a correspondent of Land and Water, but they t< > not in all places use them in the same way. A lady w Tipperary, who has as large a practice as the re- h liar doctor, tells me that the way to administer snails to boil them in veal broth," and says that she Si irself knew a lady, who was taking cod liver oil with r > result, grow strong by trying this remedy. But a i. lughter of a cleigyman in Galway writes thus iI The snail" used for the broth, as you designate my very a >e syrup, are the common large things that creep about the H rden with their houses on their backs. They are collected id placed on a laygi dish, and plentifully sprinkled wish p rk sugar, then another dish is turned over to prevent them 0 om running away, and the next morning the syrup which 0 is been made in the night is to be drained off, and a table- c i-onfnl taken three times a day; a little lemon peel may be b Ided to flavour the brotb. The same snails should not be c igart'd twice. It. is a really good thing, but of course will 5t cure in a day, but I know a lady who attributes her own ire to it. a HEAD-CENTRE STEPHENS BLUSHING!—The ji 'Ivstration (a Paris paper) publishes an account pur- p jrting to come from Head-Centre Stephens himself n the grand dinner given to him in Paris by the v .nglophobe the Marquis de Boissy. A large party a senators, generals, and titled and decorated person- p jes was invited to meet the Fenian. Before dinner e conversed for a long time at a bay window with iscount de la Gueronniere, in answer to whose ques- 1 ons he gave an account of his career. When the c lief butler announced Madame la Marquise est 8 >rvie," the marquis requested him to give his arm to I ie Marchioness de Boissy to take her in to dinner. I tephens confesses to have blushed a little at this dis- a nguished honour. At table he sat on the lady's I; ght hand, and at dessert the Marquis de Boissy, etting on his legs, introduced him to the company as J ae" future President of the Irish Republic." FLIGHT OF FISHERMEN FROM FEAR OF CHOLERA. ] -It now appears that what at the time was thought j ) be unjustifiable and cowardly conduct on the part < f the Highlanders engaged in the herring fishery at f raserburgh, in violating their engagements and flying I rom the cholera, was only the prelude to a more 1 eneral, and, for many reasons, more serious flight of Imost the entire fishing population from the same nemy. The cholera for the past week, so far from f bating, had all the appearance of becoming more 1 akmitous; and being chiefly confined in its attacks 0 individuals of the sea-faring class, a timorousness I Tadually stole over them until it culminated in j sudden and general break up of the fishing, 1 IY the hasty departure of the crews from that t I!ace. During the whole of Monday cartloads of fur- I titure belonging to the fisher families from the Banff- l hire coast were driven to the boats; and the wind leing favourable to their purpose, the boats one by one ( lut out to sea. A greater calamity than this untimely 11 nd of the fishing could not have befallen the com- s tierce of the town. Besides the heavy losses which I ■re certain to accrue to tradesmen, whose business in ] he fishing season is mostly of a credit character, hrough the non-payment 6f the accounts already con- I racted, the stocks provided by every class of traders 1 n the calculation of former years will now remain I insold, and must necessarily prove ruinous to not a 1 ew. I SPIRITS" IN CHINA !—The Moniteur" pub- ishes a letter from Pekin containing some curious de- 2 ails on the subject of spirits signalised to the Em- ] •eror by the Mandarins of the provinces :— j They are so much in fashion at the present day," says lie correspondent of the official journal, that every pro- ince is determined to have one of its own, and to owe the ( ecurity of a city to the intervention of some protecting ( enius. In order that the affair may preserve a little inte- 1 est, each new apparition is attended by circumstances more ] xtraordinary than the one immediately preceding." The < hinese spirits, moreover, do their work conscientiously; tiey appear not only to the Mandarins, but also to the whole opulation, so as to confound the independent thinkers of lie Chinese Empire—if any such exist. < TV,™ C!rn.a m U r\HTT» 1. 1 h 1. HHj KJUU1VU JX± HVJUJii. JLiU-AJa uLU.^11 ixumuers 1,530 one-roomed houses, of which 825 contain each six inmates and under, whilst no one of the remaining 705 contains less than that number of occupants (we are quoting from the Rev. Dr. Begg). In Glas- gow the state of things is still worse; for there the number of one-roomed houses is 2,212, of which num- ber 1,253 shelter seven human creatures, whilst each of the other 959 dwellings has more than seven in- mates. There are in all Scotland no fewer than 7 964 houses—if they can be called houses—without windows! and 226,723 houses of only one apartment. proving that nearly one million of the people of Scotland, or nearly one-third of the entire population are living in houses—places improperly so called in which neither the comforts nor decencies of life can be secured, and which are thus totally unfit for human inhabitation. What wonder that working men like to spend as much of their leisure as possible in public- houses, and as little of it as possible in their homes ? NAMES IN NEW ENGLAND.—The "Boston Tran- script" states that the name most numerous on the new Triennial Catalogue of Harvard University is that of Williams, of whom 91 have graduated. The Adamses and Smiths have 86 each, the Parkers 75, the Browns 64, and the Brownes 14, the Davises 54, the Rogerses, Whites, and Aliens 50 each, Russells 47, Joneses 41, Emersons and Johnsons 40 each, the Olivers 39, the Warrens and Halls 38, and the Lincolns and Hills 37 respectively. The Lowells there have been graduates of 5 generations, in regular descent; of the Jacksons, 4; of the Quincys, 4; of the Adamses, 4; of the Wares, 4; of the Hedges, Everetts, and others, 3. A COOL CUSTOMER !—San Francisco boasts of a saloon called the "Bank Exchange," where the finest wines and liquors are sold at twenty-five cents a glass, with lunches thrown in free. A plain-looking person went in one morning and called for a brandy cocktail, and wanted it strong. The landlord, as is usual with him, was very considerate, and mixed the drink in his best style, setting it down for his customer. After the cocktail had disappeared, the party leaned over the bar and said that he had no change about him then, but would have soon, when be would pay for the drink. You should have mentioned that fact before you had the drink," said the landlord politely. I tried that on yesterday morning with one of your men, but he would not let me have the whiskey," replied his cus- tomer, coolly; "so you could not play that dodge on me again THE CHOLERA MIST IN IRELAND.—The cholera m ist, it would appear, has been seen in Ireland. In one of the years in which the cholera visited this try, says a correspondent 01 a JL>UDUII paper, JL ■ told that an observer living near the city of j J; srlck was struck by a most peculiar black cloud | h unexpectedly and suddenly appeared and hung the city for some considerable time, then vanished j )ut rain or any other appreciable reason for its Tj ipearance. After the cloud had gone the first Wall reak of cholera took place. On mentioning this A a.bout the cholera mist to a most intelligent and anoo rienced person, I was informed that he had ex- at 3. inced a similar case himself—that a most curious lay 1 I, such as is evolved from stable manure, was per- T. id, and, after examining, there appeared to be no to M uate cause for the odour. It was confined to one It and seemed like a thick fog or steam, with the to st liar aforesaid stench. After this there was, in P0,1 idjoining village an epidemic of jaundice. The or^ s appearance was perceived a short time afterwards locality near the former one. EPRESSED STATE OF MININO.-A gentleman The Titing to the Pall Mall Gazette, says :—"The price II n has fallen so low from the discovery of large forn )sits in the Dutch East Indies that the Cornwall Mr. ;s can no longer be worked at a profit. Machinery and ;h recently cost 10,OCOZ, has been sold by auction atte 900Z., seventy-eight mines are being wound up pulsorily in the Stannaries Court, a far larger mgr iber have been stopped, and it is alleged next gays istmas not 20.000 miners will find employment;, bus! Christmas 200,000 were dependent on the mines. j price of copper is also falling, the lead and iron ann 3S can hardly be worked to any serious purpose of e,' and the people of Cornwall over numerous, Oth t either emigrate or starve." wiu IASTERS IN THE NAVY.—Masters in the navy lia* that there is something in a name. According to vau evidence of H. D. Sarratt, R.N., taken before teil mmittee appointed to examine into matters con- visi ;ed with them, it appears that ladies, especially It erpool ladies, mistake the position for that of the blu< )olmaster. It is curious enough that the office of afte cation is socially beneath that of navigating a ship. chao vever, the masters are useful officers, and if the I under which they sail at present prtts them into wot north of a Liverpool lady's opinion, it ought to be *he aged, for at present they are subjected to^various leasantnesses. Captains and lieutenan teener ally gtre rate the surgeon, treat the chaplain withyan easy at I teness, snub the master, and will barely' recognise n engineer on shore. The sailing, the fighting, and g navigating departments have all their little W01 ousies, which, being confined for exercise to a very ran row space indeed, often renders a man-of-war a tin) srocosm of snobbery. ner CHE JEWS AND THE CHOLERA.—The Eev. Chief hia bbi has issued a form of prayer to be used in all the J agogues of the United Congregation of Jews in the Poc tish Empire against cholera. The prayer is to be ceded by the reading of the 91st, 103rd, and 121st Ou< klms. The concluding passage of the prayer is as am ows:— anc ndow us, 0 Lord, with understanding, that we may live discern that both from the evil and the good spring help sh( salvation. Thou hast created them both in order that sui heavenly seeds of virtue and kindliness may be im- wil nted in our hearts. Grant that we may all feel impelled thr assuage the pains of the afflicted, and to sustain those th: t rise from the bed of languishing, to deal out unto them wo olesome food, pure water, the necessary raiment, and to ng those that are cast out into a home of safety. Bless of 0 Father, with the light of Thy countenance. Turn >u us unto Thee, and we shall be turned; renew unto us fR ear of life, of plenty, peace, and redemption. Dated ill, 5,626 (August, 1S66). FRENCH POLITENESS.—An extraordinary es- ho ?e from prison, followed, however, by recapture, he 3 just taken place at Taraschon, Bouches-du- di1 lone, (says the French paper Galignani). A man he med Lapallu had been arrested for robbery, although £ ly recently liberated after undergoing a sentence of a„ years' hard labour, and had been confined in the tri wer of the old castle of the town. Five other isoners slept in the same room, and all having agreed gh attempt to get away, they contrived to remove a Ir< r from the window, and then tied together the Tt eets of all the beds, torn into strips. Lapallu was of e first to descend by this impromptu rope, but it ac esently gave way, and he fell from a height of about ty feet into a dry moat. The noise attracted the tention of the gaolers, and the remaining prisoners ;re put into irons, but Lapallu had got clear off, (M iving marks of blood where he had fallen. Some st ys later, M. Devismes, procureur-imperial of th irascon, was crossing the bridge between that town K d Beaucaire, when he met a man whose head was und up with linen, and who appered to walk with Biculty. M. Devismes at once recognised Lapallu, it, being with his wife, he simply asked the man vj aether he was in want of assistance, and offered to t him into the hospital. Lapallu, who also knew AI e procureur-imperial by sight, declined with thanks, eq id immediately made off in an opposite direction, pr Devismes at once gave notice to the gendarmes, in id Lapallu being followed was overtaken at a foun- he in where he had stopped to drink, and was recap- co red. After his return to prison he wrote to the ocureur-imperial to compliment him on the presence D mind he had shown when they met on the bridge, d the latter, not to be outdone in politeness, is said hf have since sent to the prisoner a few bottles of good ne, of which Lapallu was greatly in need to recover D( 5 strength. w THE CONVICT BURROWS.—The convict Burrows, ntenced to death at the recent Manchester Assizes r the murder of an Irish labourer at Hopwood, is to ttJ hanged at the New Bailey prison on Saturdaynext, cr stead of on the 18th, which was the day first named hf that for the execution. Mr. Stokes, who sent a tli emorial to the Home Secretary on behalf of a bi Lblic meeting, asking for a favourable consideration Burrows's case, received a letter from Mr. Walpole cs Saturday saying that there was nothing in the *>< rcumstances attending the murder to induce him to )ld out the least hope that the sentence would be tt immuted. The postponement of the execution was h lknown to great numbers of people up to Friday, 111 td on that evening many persons from a distance 01 ok their stand under the prison walls with a view, gt r remaining there all night, of securing a favourable j, )sition from which to witness the spectacle, and w any lingered about some hours, unwilling to believe hi ben told that the execution had been postponed, though they could see no drop or other signs of pre- fi, oration on the part of the prism authorities. w DISEASE AMONG STOCK ON THE WOLDS.—It 'a"] useless longer to conceal the fact that an epidemic ci sease is spreading over. the Wold district, among it leep and pigs. By some this is stated to be rinder- 01 sst, but others deny its identity with the cattle iague. Among sheep Mr. Jordan, of Eastbourne, s! spears to have been the chief sufferer, but the dis- S ise is more widely spread among pigs, and from in- 3 niries made on Monday farmers on various parts of s ie Wolds could be heard of as having lost from 20 to ) pigs by a mysterious disease which they cannot fi uderstand. It is also stated thatthe veritable rinder- v est is reappearing here and there among the cattle. P .fter an interval of some time another case has oc- u irred on the farm above-named, and it is stated ? jveral reappearances have occurred during the late et and cold weather in the East Riding. Farmers ,ok with some alarm on this aspect of affairs. PIRACY IN THE CHINESE SEAS.—A young of- t] 3er of a merchant vessel lying at Hong-Kong writes tl La letter dated June 5th:- p The pirates are still doing their work here. A little Danish 'ig has been boarded, all her guns, compasses, and so forth, P ken from her, and her crew very politely informed that I id they been Englishmen they would have been all killed. v short time since an English barque, cammanded by a Cap- A in Thomas, a west countryman, was boarded. She was t, anned by a Malay crew, who stood their ground like bricks atil ordered below out of the way of the stink pots that II lese fellows always heave on board. On going down aft F ie of the Chinamen discovered the captain stowed away. iptain Thomas directly came out with his pistol and shot the Chinaman. The fellow collared the captain, and S1 Ime more coming down they dragged him on deck, and j, atting his head on the rail were about to cut it off for him, hen the man at whom he had shot saved his life. They len took all they wanted and left the vessel. Now, you d lay perhaps think this fiction, but I can assure you it Is a c Dsltive fact. I have seen the man myself; he has been on P oard here. He has the mark on his neck where the sword 11 ssted. Many of these little affairs take place not 20 miles t om Hong-Kong, and dozens of gun boats are lying in the I arbour all the time doing nothing. t a A KNOTTY POINT OF LAW.—A curious noint E arose on Friday before the Rochdale magistrates as to I the authority of the cattle plague regulations. Two bailiffs, having been entrusted with a distress warrant from the county court, seized two cows, and of course removed the animals from the farm. As they were driving them away they met the cattle inspector, who demanded the certificate authorising the removal, which they had not got. They were therefore sum- moned for infringing the regulations of the Privy Council, and the defence was, that the bailiffs were compelled to remove, or they would have rendered themselves personally liable. The magistrates, unable or unwilling to decide the knotty point whether the cattle regulations or the order of a County Court judge had the greatest authority, dismissed the case, but ordered defendants to pay the costs. THE FULFILMENT OF SCRIPTURAL PROPHECY !— There is, indeed, nothing new under the sun, if preachers of a certain class are to be believed All the great in. ventions and triumphs of human wisdom in modern times have, to the satisfaction of the attempters at least, been reconciled with scriptural prophecy. The inven- tion of printing, of the steam-engine, of the spinning- jenny, of the electric telegraph, the Thames Tunnel and the Great Eastern all are foreshadowed, if we are to believe certain divines, in the inspired writings. A New York preacher has discovered that the laying of the Atlantic cable is distinctly foretold in the third chapter of Habakkuk. This preacher-by name Tresham Dawes Gregg-rejected the accepted version of the chapter alluded to, and substitutes a version of his own, from which he quotes "9. Thou didst make thy bow quite naked; seven rods each spoke Sslah. Thou didst cleave the earth with Sowings." Mr. Gregg explains:— "Here the cable Is the bow—composed of seven com- partments, or seven may stand for a sufficiency. The oracle is marvellous in its accuracy." Mr. Gregg sends this and several other "justifications," of prophecy to the New York Tribune. It would be easy to prove, without going to scripture and with- out special "oracle," that Mr. Gregg is what Artemus Ward would call "an idiot of the deepest dye." TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.—We have been informed of some of the particulars of a most horrible and cold-blooded murder and suicide which has occurred a short distance from Reynolds, in White County, 23 miles north of this city, on the Louisville, New Albany, and Chicago Railroad (says the Lafayette Journal). It appears that a man named Brummer and his wife, from some domestic trouble had separated—both, however, remaining in the neigh- bourhood. On Sunday, about eleven o'clock Brum" mer met his wife about half a mile from the town accompanied by a little boy, when he drew his revolver, and shot her, two balls taking effect in her b°dy. The fiend then threatened to shoot the boy if he did not clear out, and the little fellow started for M Ind died he his the body of' the woman08Thi wtaDt1^' whenhtalir-°ta,nd were,burned completely off,8 so°that ™3L T 6 rfched them, half an ho^ir after- wards, she was perfectly naked, and the flesh in many 4-i 0 the bone. The poor woman lived Intense agon o'clock in the afternoon, suffering j

2PITOME OF NEWS, VE BRITISH AND FOREIGN. lere are at present 14,886 parishes in England and jew\ a maintaining, or liable to maintitin, their own poor. und violent storm of thunder, lightning, hail, and etlu broke over Banchory (about 18 miles from Aberdeen) 1 j'olock on Thursday afternoon in last week. The snow the 1 some places at least six inches deep. m'lf ie Privy Council have made a small grant (500i.) |pr £ r. Simon for the investigation of the cholera. brei Fredonia, New York, the Health Board, in order 0f | ir the people to action with regard to cleaning up. have den d the following notice:—" The cholera is coming By ri r ot the committee." de- he family of Captain Capellini, who was blown fdl the air with the Palestro, will receive the gold medal of j ;*ry valour, only given in very extraordinary instances bravery of Capellini is thus transmitted to his family. is proposed to have a great Parliamentary Re- dec t banquet in Manchester during thi mon'h of October, in I John Bright has accepted an invitation to be present, inti it is expected tbat E ul Russell, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. T. -i Gibson, M. ViLieis and other eminent Reformers, will nd. has Nashville correspondent of the Cincinnati Corn- pe' tial, speaking of the new Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee, ■, "his genialiiy would chirm the very birds off the les." hoi he London Conundrum Society have awarded the ma aal gold medal to the author of the following specimen t-ha harmless insanity:—Why is a man cutting grass like Wll ,Uo ? Because he is a mower—Shade of Tim Moore, r t do you say to that style of literature ? aQ) 'olicemen traverse every part of the Houses of Par- as lent once every quarter of an hour down to the lowest rea ts, and inspectors follow to examine the mechanical jia, tales, on which the policemen have to record their gjr s. is said that many people have seen the celebrated pri mist as they approached London lately, most especially by r pic-nics and excursions that were not of a teetotal ge-v -acter. m3 Or. Lankester calculates that there are 16,000 Clen in London who have murdered children, and says be] horrible sum is rather under than above the truth, as ye inly gives a baby to each to kill. This year he held in- sts on the bodies of eighty children found dead in the ets, and he considered himself justified in assuming that Pa east as many more were stowed away out of sight. 'he following appears in a New York paper: To III oolmaaters :-To be sold a thrashing machine in good king order; has birch, cane, and strap barrels; war- on ted to whip a school of fifty boys in twenty minutes, dis- sai :uishing their offences into literary, moral, and imperti- t. Only parted with because the owner has flogged all of school away, and his sons are too big to be beat." L gentleman went to bed at an hotel in Snap; in the co ket of his trousers was a purse, containing 2ül. and 72. in 0i, se money. When he got up in the morning the purse had an appeared, and the loose money was lying on the floor. re, I of the servants was suspected- but the police, on ex- [nation, found that rats had gnawed a hole in the pocket I dragged the purse beneath the floor. "lock-out" notice has been ported up in the re ,ps of Manchester by the master carpenters. This mea- th e has been adopted on account of the workmen being hdrawn from two shops where a disagreement had arisen ough a demand for increase of wages. It was expected Pi ,t the men to the number of 8,000 would be all on 5 of rk on Monday. rhe Princess Dagmar, the fiancee of the Czarewitch p, Russia, is to leave Copenhagen for St. Petersburgh at the i of nexi month, and the marriage of the august couple io be solemnised in November. A very singular suicide has occurred near Bridg- c,( ter. An elderly maiden lady named Glynn, was left at di me on Sunday afternoon while the rest of the inmates of bj residence were at church. Miss Glynn appears to have 'ested herself of her outer clothing, and then set fire to rself. After running from room to room she rushed into 11 s garden, where she was found by her friends on their mm nearly dead Before she expired she exclaimed, I t( l mad but was unable to give an account of what had 11 mspired. A very interesting return has just been issued f )wing the statute acres in each county and province in 11 iland of land under flax cultivation for the past year. w ere is also appended to it the total extent grown in each 01 the last twelve years. From the latter it appears that the reage in 1866 was 263,419, an extent which has only been oi seeded once in that period-viz in 1864, when the acreage o .s 301,693. This return, however, exhibits an increase of si 986 acres as compared with 1865. 11 In honour of Count von Bismarck, Herr von Roon inister of War), and General von Moltke, Chief of the g iff, who directed all the movements of the army during tl e war), a grand dinner was given on Thursday evening at 0 roll's Hotel, Berlin, which was very numerously attended, ii ? invitations had been Usued by the President of the o >per House. The proceeiiugs were highly interesting, n d the party broke up about half-past nine o'clock, but a h 'ge concourse of people were assembled in the garden, lere thew was concert, illuminations, and fireworks. j, "The result of a comparison between English and c nerican taxation is to show that the burden is more ually adjusted here than across the Atlantic. At the esent moment there is not an article in common daily use tt the United States which is not taxed, and taxed so t avily that the marvel is how people with limited means t( ntrive to subsist at all." Drink has caused two or three murders this week. x ink has made a signalman forget his duty, and then comes „ jollision And—by way cf offset, shall we s->y?—drink is + veil to a murderer to help him to walk to the scaffold and E ,ve the rope put round hid neck !"—Patriot. t Count Eulenburg, who obtained such unenviable a toriety in consequence of the slaying of M. Ott, the cook, is severely wounded at JVtzeldorfi, in an engagment with squadron of Austrian dfagoous. It is thought that he unot survive. £ Many curious things now and then may be seen in « e shop-windows of London, particularly in the Ie's aristo- n atic neighbourhoods. The other day might be noticed a t .irdiessei's, on whose four panes of plate-glass were placed ese several inscliptioua: Clean water," "Clean UShES." "Clean towds," "Clean talk." F Advices from the Western States of America indi- f te, with reasonable certainty, that the harvest of 1866 will r an abundant one, leaving a large surplus for exportation, j] At Kirton, while the family were engaged at dinner, e youngest child, a boy of 22 months old, slipped out of the j )use unobserved. As soon as he was missed search was j ade for him, when he was found perched at the very top a ladder 23 feet high, which stood almost upright against j haystack, the top ef the ladder shooting far above the ack. The little fellow, when found, appeared to be quite flighted with his position, andlaughad pleasantly to those 1 ho stood so anxiously below. After some little manoeuvring B i was got safely to the ground again, ( Governor Humphrey, of Mississippi, reports of- iially that the insane asylums of that State are crowded 1 ith negroes, whose minds have become deranged iu msequence of the excitement of the war and the changes t id privations consequent upon their sudden transfer to a fi m iition of freedom and responsibility. There is much isanity also among white people throughout the South, l msed by the excitement and afflictions of the war. The United Kingdom has 258 persons to the English t luare mile upon an average Italy, 225 France, ISO; Prus- ] a, 179; Austria, 155; Spain (and Balearic Islands), 84; urkey, 19; United States, 11 Russia, 9; Russia in Europ», L; Brazit, 3. The population of the eight abovenamed iates ot the old world exceeds 270,000,000. A dog at the Hotel Pitt, at Liverpool, swallowed a ( ve-frano piece six months ago, belonging to a Frenchman, ith whom it was playing. This week it was putting its aws on the window, when it was seized with a cough, and p came the five-franc piece. No better sign that the tight- ess of money has ceased, and is getting again into circula- on, consequent upon the reduction of the Bank rate. The story of the invention of a bullet-proof coat, hich recentiy appeared in the Nord, now turns out to be hoax. The pistol was loaded with a small cork only, and ie indented bullet, which was afterwards shown to the as- misheli spectators, was dropped upon the floor by the per- strator of the hoax the moment the weapon was fired. The Scotsman says that Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone will ass the later autumn and early winter months in Rome. .ere they will be joined by the Earl and Countess of Gran- ] ule, Mr. and Mrs. Cardwell, Lord and Lady Stanley of lderley, Sir Roundell and Lady Liura Palmer, and one 01 vo other colleagues. The following paragraph appeared in a French paper lilt week:—"A person committed suicide at an hotel at lorence. The head was completely severed from the body. paper was found near the body, containing these words: Do not accuse any one of my death. I have committed f licide by my own hand. Do not seek my head; I have idden it, in order not to be recognized." A shocking suicide has taken place near Derby. A < omestic servant, named EmUy Harrison, having found ac, 3ss to the line where it is intersected by a level crossing laced herself, for the purpose it is believed, longitudinally I pon the rails, and was literally cut to pieces by a passing rain. It is, however, supposed that several trains had ] assed before the catastrophe was discovered. The unfor- mate woman, who was 44 years of age, had enigmatically nnounced her intention to destroy herself on account of the lisconduct of her sister. At the Guildford Assizes an action was tried on < riday and Saturday in which Mr. Loseby, a warehouseman t Wood-street, Cheapside, London, sought to recover >000i. from the General Life and Fire Insurance Company on policy of insurance against are. Afire took place some c nee ago on the premises of Mr Loseby, and he alleged that oods to the value of over 2,0002. were destroyed. The com- any disputed the claim on the ground that no such amount j f goods had been destroyed. Evidence was called on both 1 Ides, and eventually the jury returned a verdict for the de- mdants. ] Referring to the attempts of "certain exalted c ladies in Berlin to arrest the national policy of Prussia the Daily News says that "nanus dear to England" are mentioned among the leaders of tuis palace plot for I thwarting the national developement <«f Germany in order that the heaven-born dynasty the Pumpenknickels may not be despoiled of their sovereign rights. If Hanover had not taught us how easily German royalty can return to its old form out of England, the Daily Neins could not believe what it hears of the conspicuous part taken in thesa transactions by a princess very near the throne, at the impulse of affec- tions which in the family circle are worthy of allrespect, but have no concern with national statesmanship. The rumours and uncertainties which have so widely prevailed as to the fate of Sir Gilbert East, Bart., who mys- teriously disappeared early on the morning of the 12th inst., and who was seen struggling in the water off Ryde Pier, have been set at rest. As tomi men were in a boat off the Sands Head, near Sturbridge Buoy, a few miles below Ryde, they saw a body floating in the water, which proved to be that of the lamented Sir Gilbert East. It was at once taken on shore. Two sums of 601, and 251, had been offered as rewards for his body, or any proof of his death The pain- ful solution of the question has caused a great sensation at the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, of which he was an esteemed member. He paid for a cup of the value of SSI., to be for on Friday last, only a few hours before he was i,! the water. Beelua Whilst the Royal train conveying the Prin™ a Princess of Wales to Scotland was passing near w Station, on the North-Eastern Railway between J and Pelaw Main, and some seven or eight castle, at top speed, a man named Grin o from New" Usworth Colliery, was attempting to cross "l atJ?e train dashed up, and strikim? th« 6 line when the him instantly Hewu m!!t 1 u man, killed the body was not discovered tin °*Cr 8ly- a»d No blame can be attaoh^ l l some. tlme afterwards train as tha mnrniJ™ 6 en8lne driver of the accident. Bg was very dark at the time of the himself ,has Pushed an elaborate defence of and form of a reply to an address from the Bishop i. c*ergy of Jamaica, in which he declares that, m^aeed, he "has the consolation of feeling that there has been nothing in his conduct to merit dismissal, noting to occasion self-reproach, nothing to regret." As for the killing of Mr. Gordon, "he suffered Justly," as the proximate occasion of the riots, and his execution was most beneficial. As to the excesses under martial law ex- cesses must always take place under martial law;" and as for the time during which that law was allowed to continue, if he had attempted to shorten it he should have spread con- sternation among the whites. An important document on the cotton question has just been submitted to the India Council. Dr. Forbes, the Cotton Commissioner of the India Government, was deputed about two months back to visit the cotton-producing States of America, and after a tour through the whole of them, with the exception of Texas, he has now completed his report. His opinion is unfavourable as to the probable result ot the crop. raking the most favourable view he is able to form, the conclusion to which Dr. Forbes finds himself forced is that from all the States, including Texas, the aggregate yield this year will not be more than 1,200,000 bales, and, look- ing at the home demand for the supply of the Northern manufactories, he thinks it would be vain to calculate on there being more than 200,000 or 300,000 bales available for exportation, 'he Failors-euperstiti as they are c;iil«d—who were id from the lie d'Italia ar Palestro are to be all 'rated with the silver meii&l of milt; dry valour. l ri- h lady of Ruail, Madame Martignon. rvc^n.-iy iir.ed, ba3 left by wiil the sum of 16,00o2, and all her sis and (ffects, to the authorities of the town, with the erstandinJ that, they are to build a house to support and cate twenty orphan girls. 'hi n»-s look very uncomfortable at Vienna, where middle and working classes are sulky, and something 'e, at teing punlicly turned out of Germany. Tney can ;ive the withdrawal of their paper constitution, and ik lown of puhjfc credit, and the blundering and jobbing military administration, hut they cannot bear tne iJt a )eing severed politically from race and kindred, and con- med to play a subordinate part in a Slavonic empirtJ. -ha Queen of Hanover has seut gardeners to urate toe graves of the Hanoverians and Prussians who in the sanguinary fight between them. Hea-ures of disarmament continue to be talked of France. It is confidently stated (says the Daily Sews respondent) that the Minister of War is preparing a ree for the immediate discharge of upwards of 40,000 men mticipation of the time when they would pass regularly ) the reserve. [jord Derby, who has been in office barely MX weeks hdd the nominations to four judgeships, a bishopric, two ters, and two lord-lieutenancies, while he has created six rs, three baronets, and a dozen privy councillors. [n a case of stabbing which occurred in a public ise in London the other day the judge said that tuell tnces would never be put a stop to until Government de the publicans pay the expenses of the prosecutions; ,t was the law in King Alfred the Great's time, and he a a wise king. rhe Bishop of Carlisle—who thinks that every boy 1 girl should ltarn to repeat the thirty-nine articles as well the Catechism—recently asked a youthful scholar if he had id the thirty-nine articles. "No," said the boy, "but I ye read the 'Forty Thieves'" "You may stand down said the bishop.-Cottrt Journal. According to the official reports published by the ussian Government, the following are the losses sustained the Prussians during the late war :-2,472 dead, 5,341 rerely wounded, 8,885 slightly wounded, 2,559 missing, iking a total of 19,257. The offences last year against the game laws nuro" red 10,392, being an increase of 275 on the preceding ar. There are to be Free Sundays" at the Crystal lace this year on the 2nd and 9th of September. Four executions took place in different parts of inois on the 20th of July. There were seventy-nine cases of cholera at Berlin the 11th instant, thirty of which ended fatally on the me day. The sister of the late Lord Clyde will receive 35,000k the Banda and Kirwie prize money. Herr vou Drey.-e, the inventor of the needle-gun, has nstructed a new rifle, in every respect a facsimile of the d, but three pounds lighter, and wholly of iron. A ne* d most effective cannon has been also completed by the stless octogenarian. Sir Frederick Bruce, says the Philadelphia correp ,ndent of The Times, has proposed, on behalf of the itisu Government, to the American Government, that 5 ciprocal treaty be entered into by the two countries, fot e.benefit of seamen in distress. There are nearly 80,000 Italians established in •ance, 7,400 in Algeria, 4,500 in England, 13,800 in Switzer- nd, 15,000 in Egypt, &c Also In the United Stated ,000 in Brazil, 18,000; atBuenos Ayres, 10,000; at Rosario Suntafe, 10,000; at Peru, 8,000. These emigrants contC incipally from the Ligurian and Adriatic provinces. Mrs. George Fairholme, of Melrose, formfrly the aroness Poellnitz, appeals to the public on behalf of het >ropatriots, the Bavarians, wounded during the late war- Toe accounts received of the want and misery in istricts where war so lately raged,"she says, are mos. sartrendiug, and cry urgently for immediate relief." Judge on sitting in banco, interrupted the [terminably long speech of a Q.C. upon a very dry subject, ith the folio wing innuendo :—"Ityou think you will put Øe ) sleep, like my three learned friends beside me, you listaken." A London labourer, while drunk and beating ife the other day, fell down, broke both bis legs, and die™ 1 a few hours from his injuries. His wife attended hij* ith unremitting care to the last moment; and then spo» f him in the most affectionate manner. Cholera cigar is the last notion of the tobacconist^ E the East Bud of London. The cigars are prepared pium," and as opium eaters never suffer from cholera nokers of the cigars will be exempt from the epidemic, as :ast so say the traders. Deane's official diary of laying the Atlantic raph Cable has been published, from which it appears he undertaking was in no little danger on the 18th of J u1?: in the night of that day a "foul flike" was disfcsvereo 1 the after tank, but the remarkable coolness and en em f all engaged at that moment soon put matters right, o other hitch occurred. Tha other portions of the diaV ave now lost all interest with the public. According to a Roman Catholic journal, publisbed i Mayence, there are at present 810,000 monks and nun' onnected with that Church. A general "lock-out" of the tailors and the car- ienfers and joiners of Manchester took place on Saturday 'he disputes between the masters and the men, in rade, are of some standing, and > fforts have been 0 submit them to arbitration, but huherto without 1 esulk° Professor Schultzenstein asserts that pure puDIPI pring, or river water contains an inexhaustible t-upply °i lUtriment; that it is tbe real staple fund for plants; hat ths knowledge of this is calculated to throw light 011 aany puzzling phenomena in vegetable physiology ann cut, ure. The art oi making water nutritious should be the fcfl1 im of l orticulture and agriculture. A rather amusing list has just been issued 0 ■rti.les left by the VolunteJrs behind them at Wiiibl;do°; ilcogethir above lWartic'es remain to be claimed, anvuS* hem b-dng a small tens and any number of eye-gla-'S^ pectaele<, aad telescpes. Some one seems to have 1'% tineteen keys without missing them, or at all events, o appiy for them for a fortnight. Mr. Spurgeon has started a project for a Bapt19 mblic school on a large s ;ale The accounts of the harvest in France are 00 nvourable corn has risen neaily twenty-five per cent. du £ ng the last four months, France will, it is said, buy i»r £ 3" rom Russia. The following are the contributions towards the •rmsian war expenses claimed by the Berlin Cabinet iT? s Austria's allies — Wurtentberg, eight miilions of fiorilld R70.000<). Hesse-Darmstadt, seven millons all Javaria, twenty millions (I, 7ÙO,(001). The loss of arms and legs in the late American s said to have been unprecedented At Washington softj. hrewd speculators started «n "American Arm aod Company," formed to meet the demand for artificial linu1 It is said that M. Bismarck and the King of PruS^ ■efuaed to sfe any envoy from Hanover. Tne bitter vhich earned this insult is sa:d to have arisen from the 'Kq hat the Hanoverians hive given the Prussians the 011 1 ound thrashing they have had through the war. K The number of wrecks reported during the past Wee; ias been 40, making for the present year a total of 1,315- In the Income-tax Returns it is curious to n :hat the list of 50,000i. taxpayers was increased by w persons in 1865, and that the 5,OOOZ. a-year taxpayer3 Schedule E" was reduced by five. A proof of the hazardous nature of newsp31?^ idventure in America is to be found in the fact tha« 6Ut iai!y papers have been started in New York in the quarter of a century, of which only five survive. A bankrupt cattle dealer has been committed prison by the Judge of the Dublin Bankruptcy Court » ■efusing to disclose where he had concealed 2461 which11 ionfessed, after much prevarication, to have put away- » A New York paper estimates that the amo^ ■ealiaed by picture sales in tbat city average* upward* 10o,000 dollars a year, and mentions this as a striking evide° )f the growth of the love of art in the community According to the estimates made, the damage OC doned to private properties by the Prussian invasion Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and Lower Austria, amount8 r 1 total of 30,000,0002. sterling. An Australian paper contains the following-^ "We learn that the exploring party have discovered remains of the Icng-lost Dr. Le'chhardt. -who has bee* 1#% anxiously looked after for so many years. We are oniy^ a position to state the fact, but not to give partieu^ which are hourly expected to arrive, as to the details." A plain marble slab has been placed in the nOOt) transept of Westminster Abbey to the memory of the J%, statesman. It is inscribed "Henry John, Viscount (ton, October 18, 1865." A huge ash tree is to be seen in Rhode Island, V'ZL \t the ground surface it is sixteen feet in circumfereB^j, sight feet above the ground it expands to twenty-seven ie°f ind here twenty-three branches diverge, each as big tf' ordinary tree. The tree casts a circular shadow of five feet iu diameter. J It is estimated that since the commencement of ^nt manufacture of locomotives in Newcastle nearly 'hem have been made in that district, and of these af 1,000 have been exported. Taking the average cos' 2,000Z each, it would result that the value of this branoa^ manufacture to Newcastle alone has not been less 5,000,0001. 10 At a fishmonger's in Cheapaide, Londo^ in addict Ion. n. "1' .1. .1.1- t:nl\ ¿L he ro crossed it without the loss of a single mail. The Emperor Napoleon on the occasion of ef national fete, has granted free pardons, commutation9'^ reductions of punishments to 1,527 prisoners of differed gories in the bagnes, houses of correction or penal esta^ ments in Corsica, Guajana, and New Caledonia. ?! vepy large cargo of grouse, in caseSj. m Seotlan■! for sale in the Londou markets, were t rather high conoition, from the close packing. birds vary much in size; many boxes c nt ined gr y half-grown, and others matured to full nze. small grouse were sold at 3s. to 4s. per brac j, and tlie small grouse were sold at 3s. to 4s. per brac j, and the oirds at 5s. 6d. to 6s. 6d per bra e. oø A meeting, attended chiefly by .Tews, was held 00 Saturday night, in Whitechapel, London, to hear 8 Barnett expouud the manner in which he had treated a ber of cases of cholera, in every instance he al Zetft successfully. He said he had gone deliberately and "c,a ihe cholera" that he might test his system on himseli> tie had recovered. Several persons in the body of volunteered their testimony that Mr. Barnett had cured1 friends. 0* The monthly return of the Poor Law Board slloo6 that the number of paupers in receipt of relief in it the end of May was 3 4 per cent, less than at tb0 responding period of 1865; in the north-western dlV'rf* Jl 7 per cent, less; in the metropolis, 6 3 per cent. gpr rhe north-western division heads the list, if arranged reraely to the amount of pauperism, having a proportion of its inhabitants in receipt of relief frclo .-ati-s than any other division of the kigdom. Olt The Nord of Friday night publishes the foll0^ rom the Journal de Liege:—" A correspondent i'j \n tr* who is in a position to be very well informed, writes t^ey ;hat the Emperor, desirous of putting a stop to X'ae VT°fJ«w (ion of plans and projects w&ich are attributed to h»"* JD lome journalists, has ordered the French Ambas" it#" London to declare spontaneously and officially to the 1 jW government that lie never intended to tatLe an inch of J sian territory." An, American correspondent says that he is M u c ™ American people au»~ existence of telegraph communication between America. The JVew Forfc World and the Xeiv York j advise the public not to put too much faith in the sf>S- about a working cable betwetn Ireland and Newfound'?,,# The World ask,, I, the Atlantic £ bleThoaxT" a«d V proceeds co a-gue for the affirmative of the question- ,4 n't tn r^flef general public opinion it difficult to fiua a Yankee who wou d expre.-s u .fces^* confidence 10 the success of the ciov. a lnost miraculous escape the 'l'1''h;!>, accompanied by his son, Colonel w' "!t0. Fxlrle Park. to shoot a buck. After the sh°t. Ii'id Gage took his son's rifle to pract'^d?^ maik on a tree in the park. The rifle had bKen to k for ivpair, and this was tbe first shot fired Jn m it return. As soon as the hammer fell, the piece exp^r^'s" ^4.1? atoms. Lord Gage escaped, with & nicf £ £ i«y«reh,?<h fifteen pieQQ* o| the barrel wef0 v np iu different directions, JL