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fflnton CflrrtspraDtitl. fqy, jl^grptt rlght to state that we do not at all times identify ^BseH'SS; rfitb our correspondent's opinion*. 1 The aspects of public opinion in relation to the in- creasingly important question of Reform, demand reference, not as a foundation for advocacy, but merely as a recognition of one of the most prominent features of the time. On the one hand we see meeting after meeting held in which manhood suffrage and the ballot are advocated, and at which resolutions are passed in favour of these political ideas; and on the other we have almost every day the utterance of some more or less distinguished member of the Liberal party who announces himself as quite op- posed to those extreme views, though in favour of an extension of the suffrage. As a representative man, I extract a remark from Mr. Bruce's letter in reply to an invitation from the Merthyr Tydvil Reform League. He says, "I think I shall best advance the cause of moderate reform, which alone in my opinion is either practicable or desirable, if I abstain from attending a meeting and taking part in the 'demonstration' of an association which assumes as the fundamental principle of acting that nothing less than manhood, suffrage can be accepted." I regard Mr. Bruce, as I have said, as a representa- tive man," to use Emerson's phrase. I feel certain that he represents an increasing feeling and opinion—that manhood suffrage and the ballot are impracticable, even if they be theoretically sound as a future policy. We have then these two great ideas in conflict-an organic change on the one hand, and a partial change or gradual reform on the other and these two ideas will perhaps have a strife for the mastery from the present time till the meeting of Parliament. There is a third idea which many entertain, though I have not noticed its expression anywhere lately—that no reform is needed. The present is not a fitting time to give expression to such an idea; in fact it is just one of those ideas which people cherish in secret and give effect to by a vote. We must wait till next Session to see due weight given to this idea, during the struggle which I, for one, think is inevitable. The signs of the times indicate that next Session will be a most exciting one, and I look forward to the spectacle being repeated that we saw last Session—the fate of a Ministry turning on a Reform Bill. It has frequently been remarked of late that all the agitation and all the meetings on the subject of Reform have been on one side, and it has been asked, why do not the Conservatives organize a counter-agitation ? There is a probability of something of this kind being done. A Conservative Association for London is talked of, the intention being to have branches throughout the country. It remains to be seen whether the same spirit of organization will animate them as has stirred the Reformers. There is a rumour, I see, of a complimentary banquet to the Right Hon. Robert Lowe. I should like to see it take place, if only as a set-off against an unlimited quantity of abuse which has been heaped upon him lately. Everybody knows that he unfor- tunately gave utterance to some words which showed that his opinion of the working classes, in the matter of electoral purity, was a very poor one. Whether there was any or no truth in these remarks, or whether it is that they have given special offence on account of their containing unpalatable truth, I will not essay to determine; but true or false, exaggerated or not, no good can come of having these words posted up in every factory in the kingdom, as Mr. Bright would wish. "Let bygones be bygones." Lord Cowley, it is said, has been prevailed upon to continue his position as Ambassador in Paris for a few months longer. He will be in his fitting place if he occupy the Embassy during the Paris Exhibition. On dit that the Prince and Princess of Wales will pay a visit to this exhibition in the spring or summer of next year, and that then they will be the guests of Lord Cowley. Better late than never, and the royal visit to France will not be an exception to the adage, but still one cannot help thinking that it is a great pity that their Royal Highnesses could not make it eonvenient to pay a visit before this. The Emperor of the French, there is no denying, is no great friend of the Queen's. He is regarded as a parvenu and a usurper and whatever success may have attended his policy, and good government accompanied it, still the fact remains that the Emperor of the French is not one of the old original" legitimate governing families of royalty. The Prince and Princess will, it is to be presumed, pay a visit to the imperial family, and thus something like a rapprochement between the two families may be arrived at. But had there been any wish for this there would have long since been visits to and fro. It is now a long time since The Times, evidently on authority, announced that the Prince of Wales would probably, in his character as prince, pay a visit to the Emperor and Empress, but no approach to anything of the kind has yet taken place. An association has been formed here called the Evicted Tenants' Aid Association, and they have opened a free registry of lodgings suitable to those persons who have been cdinpelled to remove for the best of all possible reasons—because their houses were being pulled down. This association may be of great benefit to evicted tenants, but this free registry is a very poor affair it merely does for the evicted poor what they could easily do for themselves-find out what lodgings are to be let. What is wanted is more lodgings and houses. This want is gradually being met to a certain extent, but the chief evil is that it is the wrong description of houses that are being built, and in the wrong places. What the poor want is lodging in London, near their work, and this can only be accomplished on the system already adopted by Alderman Waterlow and the promoters of workmen's houses on a large scale. I had a chat the other day with an old Greenwich pensioner—not at Greenwich, and it matters not 1 where. He tells me that the new system of paying the men their pensions out of the hospital is liked by many and disliked by others, which is natural enough. The principal ground of complaint, however, is simply a confession of weakness on the part of some of the recipients. Sailors are proverbially improvident, and Greenwich pensioners are no exception to the rule. The consequence is that some of them spend their pensions almost as soon as they get them, and suffer by their foolish carelessness. There is no help for this, I suppose; such things always have been and will be. By the way, there was a talk some time ago of making Greenwich Hospital available for the merchant service, but nothing appears to have been done. Such a reform would be an invaluable boon to the sailors in the mercantile service, and in some respects they are en- r, titled to it, for they subscribe to the institution, a small sum being stopped out of their pay. The press of England may be favourably compared, or rather contrasted, with the press of the world, but the very lowest depth of cheapness has been discovered in Austria. A daily paper has just made its appear- ance in Vienna at a cost of less than a farthing, or about a fifth of one penny. But then this apparent cheapness is easily accounted for by one fact, that the new journal is to support the Government. This explains how eight quarto pages, neatly printed (for Germany) can be given for this ridiculous price. In i our own country a Government paper could scarcely find support at any price; in fact, we could not under- stand such a thing. Here we advocate parties, not governments, and the only Government paper that exists is exclusively confined to official announcements, the Gazette never containing a word of comment. Preparations are being made for the Lord Mayor's show. There's an important fact for you! Does any- y body out of London take the slightest interest in this i Billy Cockney exhibition ? I think not. People laugh at it, sneer at it, ridicule it, bnt nobody out of the sound of Bow bells considers it a matter of the slightest importance. And Londoners, except, perhaps, the lowest class, look upon it in much the same light. Here it is regarded as a nuisance business is stopped, and a great portion of the streets blocked up in order that a ridiculous piece of tomfoolery may be perpe- trated, which has not one redeeming point. But the Guildhall banquet is quite another affair. There the art of dining is carried to a climax, and the after- dinner speeches of Ambassadors, Ministers, and distin- guished guests afford food for comment in the news- papers of the world. Will Lord Derby this year have anything to say about Reform? I trow not. Will Lord Stanley have anything to tell us that we do not already know about our foreign policy? I doubt it. But still the speeches will be significant and in- teresting if they be what speeches at this banquet always have been. The office of Lord Mayor is strangely over-rated and under-rated. Abroad he is regarded as a greater man than the Prime Minister; at home, narrow-minded people think his leading characteristic is a on ess for turtle soup. It is not worth while to combat such "illy prejudices, as everybody who knows anything of civic life. knows that, notwithstanding ste- reotyped jokes which have lost their truth, the Court of Aldermen numbers amongst it many men of high cultivation and refinement. Civic functionaries have in fact improved of late years, and with this improve- ment there has been a corresponding higher apprecia- tion of the office of Lord Mayor. The gentleman who now goes out of office has won golden opinions from all sorts of men, and has just been decorated by the King of the Belgians, though there is seme doubt whether Mr. Phillips can legally receive this honour. A Jew, he has banquetized the clergy, and in his official capacity has attended church a Liberal, he has been unusually "■ oourteous to the Conservatives; and his private libe- rality has, I am told, been worthy ef the highest praise. It has been stated that his successor, Alderman Gabriel, is also a Jew. This is a pardonable error. He might be called a muscular Christian. The poor boy has become a very rich man, hut the intermediate stages have not been characterised by that penurious- ness whioh sometimes marks life's journey in such cases.
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lItistdlanrans Intelligent, HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. DEATH FR«M TRICHINOSIS.—An inquest has been held in London on the body of Miss Emilie lilise Sophie Kleiuan, aged thimy-three, a native of Hanover, who di-d suddenly at the residence of Mr. Ebeling, page to the Duke of Cambridge. Miss Kleinan complained of headache the other evening, and after dining, went into Battersea Park, returning at five o'clock. About eight o'clock in the evening she was sitting by the side of Mrs. Ebeling, and com- plaining of pains in the head. She was asked if she would lie down on the sofa, when without a reply she turned back and died. Dr. Chard had twice attended the deceased, the principal complaint being hysteria and depression of spirits. The post-mortem examina- tion showed on the right hemisphere of the brain a small sack, or hydatid, about the size of a nut. This was produced, and was explained to be the ova of worms, which might be produced by the eating of infected pork or imperfectly boiled German sausages. The cavities of the brain contained about six ounces of serum and six or seven hydatids in the fourth ventricle, causing the fluid to press on the spinal chord, and thus produce paralysis of the heart. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence. EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERIES.—The following is from Galignani, a French paper:— The floods on the Seine have stirred up the deposits In its course tbroueh Par's with the following effect:—A cock at the baths of Henri IV., fished up, mar the Quay Comi, the body of a man of thirty, setm;ngly a mechanic. his linen without a nrark, and wrlO had a >pa enrly bten ab"Ut two months in tne water. Near the P. nt Neuf, that, of a man of forty was found, who had been ab mt a week in the water. Near the Quat de Javel, a workman attached t < the drag-boat fished up a human trunk, with the light arm and part of the left arm missing; the two legs were found a little farther on, with a shoe in which was still a piece of the right foot. Some fragments of clothing still adhered to these remains. An unrecognisable human head was fished up near the Pont au Change; the body of a new-born male infant was taken out of the Canal St. Martin; a child of seven years old, who was floating down, carried away by the current, near the Pont de Pantin, was taken out alive finally, at the same place, opposite the Quai Jemmapes, the body of an old man of sixty was found, and recognised as that of a lock-keeper who had been some days missing. PANIC IN A THEATRE.—On Saturday last a fright occurred in McVicker's Theatre, Chicago, which came near resulting in a fearful tragedy (says the New York Times of Sept. 27). The gauze used over the flies for the purposes of producing different light effects caught fire, went up in a puff of flame, and some of the smoking portions came down on the stage. Some of the audience saw them fall and shouted fire Immediately they were seized with such a panic as can only be occasioned by an alarm of fire in a crowded building. The shrieking of women and the cries of the men soon told of the dreadful crush which was taking place. There was for a time the utmost alarm felt by all, not so much on account of the dreaded con- flagration as of the casualties which threatened to occur in the passages. Mr. McVicker came forward to the footlights and earnestly implored the excited audience to be still, assuring them that there was no fire in the building. After some time the panic began to subside, and eventually order was restored, no acci- dent having occurred, a circumstance which seemed to be almost miraculous. A PEAN IN HONOUR OF ST. MICHAEL.—The Cardinal Vicar at Rome has issued a proclamation calling for special services in honour of St. Michael, which is described by his Eminence in the following terms:— The invincible St. Michael, Archangel, the captain of the celestial phalanxes the first support of divine justice the glorious cOTiqueror of the most earliest re7olt-r-that of the rebels angels the defender of the Church of God under the Old and New Testament dispensations; the patron of privileged souls at the tribunal of the inexorable Judge of the living and the dead he, moreover, who is destined to confound and enchain Lucifer in the consummation of the ages, for the eternal triumph of Jesus Christ, of his immacu- late mother Mary, and his immortal Church. THE SLAVE'S REVENGE !—Another incident illustrates rather forcibly the native's sense of wrong (remarks The Argosy for October). A certain Portu- guese signor, near Shupanga, formed the not un- common habit of spending a great deal of his time in drinking spirits, and when less than half conscious from the effects, making his slaves fan him as he lay on his bed. When sober, his principal amusement was ill-treating them. On one occasion his so-called native wife happened to incur his resentment for want of proper attention, and in tear of the consequences took refuge with some of her friends. Having found out where she was, he followed and brought her away in spite of most earnest entreaties, and soon after had her deliberately shot before his eyes by one of her fellow-slaves. The governor of Quelimane was in the neighbourhood at the time, but witnesses were wanting to prove the killing of a negro, for. of course, no native's word is evidence Not long afterwards he was crossing the river in a canoe, as usual half-intoxi- cated. His own slaves were paddling; but the canoe was large, the weather perfectly calm, and there were no sunken trees for them to run against. Yet signifi- cantly enough an upset took place, and no helping hand saved the murderer from his fate, though every negro on the Zambesi knows well how to swim. MODEL DWELLINGS FOR THE POOB.—The dean and chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, have now in course of erection near the Harmel,i n the parish of St. Thomasi, in that city, a block of model buildings for the poor. The block consists of twelve residences, in flats, three stories high, there being four separate dwellings on each floor. Each dwelling is complete in itself, is approached from an open staircase, has one sitting-room, scullery, water-closet, ash-pit, sink, sepa- rate supply of water from a cistern, which is indepen- dent of the water-closet supply, and three bedrooms. The buildings are well de&igned, being strongly built and fitted with every convenience, and afford a strik- ing contrast to the wretched habitations which pre- viously occupied the site. AN INTERESTING PHOTOGRAPH — A letter from Rome, in the Independence Beige, has the follow- ing passage — You are aware that the Roman Bank, whose notes are at ten per cent. discount against Roman money and twenty per cent. for French, is obliged to provide 30,000f. a day to ex- change at par. The most disorderly scenes take place at the office where this operation is carried out. When a certain number of the holders of notes, amounting to perhaps about one-half the stipulated amount, have bean admitted, the employes declare tbat the sum is exhausted, and cause the gendarmes to disperse the crowd. The National Committee has had one of those scenes photographed, and showing from the life the gendarmes and the sbirri in the exercise of their functions—that is te say, brutalizing the crowd. A copy of tbis was sent to the Pope, from whom there was then no longer any possibility of concealing the truth. The paternal heart of Pius IX. was moved. He required ex- planations to be given him, and called, as you have doubt- less heard, a meeting at the Vatican of men verse l in busi- ness affairs, in order to devise a means of remedying this state of things Card nal Antonelli is said to be much an- noyed at that course, and to have remarked that matters were returning to the bad times of 1846, sinoe laymen were mixed up in State, affairs. A MANIAC IN LOVE !—The following tragi- comic incident is related by a Paris paper. In the street of Cherche-Midi there exists a little eating-house, known under the name of Cabaret de la Mere Rigault, and much frequented by engravers and sculptors. It is kept by an amiable young widow, who received, a few days ago, from one of her customers, a sculptor, named Auguste R., the following curious letter :— Divine Pebble,—Were you not harder than porphyry or agate, the chisel of my love, guided by the mallet of my fidelity, would have made some impression upon you. I, who have given every form to the roughest materials, had hoped that with the compass of reason, the saw of constancy, the fine file of friendship, and the pollsh of my words I should have made of you one of the prettiest statues in the world. But, alas you are but an insensible stone; and yet you fire my soul, yourself remaining cold as marble. Have pity on me. I no longer know what I say or do. When I have a dragon to sculpture it is Cupid that rises under my chisel. Dear column of my hopes, pedestal of my happiness, cornice of my joy, if you make me happy I will raise to you statues and pyramids. To-morrow I will call for your answer.— AUGTFSTH The widow laughed heartily at what she took for a witty joke, and showed the letter to all her customers. A few days ago Auguste R. entered the establishment and was immediately a mark for a shower of compli- ments on the originality of his letter. Fixing a strange gaze upon his friends, he exclaimed, You make a jest of my sufferings, of my love And, becoming suddenly furious, he abused the widow for her perfidy and threatened to kill her. The police had to be sent for. The poor sculptor proved to be out of his mind. A FACKTIOUS BRIGAND !—Lefteri, the famous brigand, is prospering around Broussa (remarks the Levant Herald). Laat week, at the head of a well- armed party of eighteen, he stopped a crowd of nearly 300 Greek and Armenian pilgrims en route to the Panagia at Yeni-keni, a village beyond the provincial capital. His presence in the neighbourhood had been suspected, and the devout company had thus banded together for mutual protection. As soon as he appeared however, the whole surrendered without even an attempt at resistance, and he quietly proceeded to rifle all who seemed likely to repay the trouble. Knowing his business, he searched not the pockets but the shoes of the selected victims, and thus collected a large sum. A portion of this he at once divided amongst the poorer members of the company, but to make up for this generosity he siezed and held to ransom a couple of rich Armenians, for whom he asks 500 liras apiece The cadi of Broussa happened to be of the party, and Lefteri, with a stroke of Claude Duval's humour, in- sisted on this dignitary dancing a saraband, or some- thing like it, for the entertainment of the company. Resistance befng useless, the Effendi capered through -the exercise, and the travellers were then allowed to proceed without further molestation. AMERICAN COINAGE.— Compared with the coins of other nationalities, the American is ea ly deficient ir. and workHiauship, and why it should be so we cannot explain, nor can w. why we "I™" sample after semi barbaric Cnina 10 our improvements upon our coinage, provided improvement .s the proper word to apply to a project which 1S, according to a Phda- deliihia nauer under consideration by tbe Government, of adoption. submitted for one, two, and three cen p > are to be made of nickel, or composition of which that metal is a chief part. The distinguishing imp which is proposed consists in having a raised star m the centre of the coin, the nucleus of which is repre- sented by a hole extending through the piece. The one-cent piece has one perforated star, the two-cent pieces two, and the three-cent pieces three. Thus, by holding the piece up to the light, or by simply passing the finger over the surface, so as to perceive the holes, the denomination of the coin is known. The same principle is proposed to be applied to dimes and half- dimes, which are to be made of a better metal with one and two perforated stars. LANCASHIRE. FACTORY OPERATIVES.—Opera- tives employed in every branch of the cotton manu- facture m Lancashire have now their separate trade union. An adjourned meeting of deputies from the various societies of the twisters and drawers-in, forming an "Amalgamated Association," has been held at Hoghton, Midway between PrØtOn.ci :81Mk.. burn, to devise the best means of securing a uniformity of wages throughout the whole of the county. The delegates showed that no class of factory operatives were so irregularly paid as the twisters and drawers-in for, while in Manchester and most other towns in South Lancashire the price paid was from 6^d. to 7id. per thousand ends, in Preston, Blackburn, Accrington, &c., the price ranged from 4 £ d. to 5Jd. only. The delegates resolved to bring the matter before their several unions, with a view to taking steps for securing a uniformity of price; and in the meantime th- men employed in Preston, as that was stated to be the lowest paid district, are to memorialise their employers for an advance. No SURRENDER !—A "sensation story" ap- pears in the Mobile Times. It is stated that in removing some extensive breastworks near the gaol, on the 19th ult., the workmen came upon a cave in which were found six veteran Confederals, who had taken refuge there at the capture of Mobile rather than sur render. The cave had an outlet among some thick bushes at the side of an old moat, and some persons living in the neighbourhood are supposed to know how the six men have subsisted. NOVEL AND SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF CHOLERA.—The Propagateur of Lille says During the last ten or twelve days, the large woollen establishment of MM. Dillies, brothers, at Roubaix, has re- ceived sixty-five cholera patients, all of whom have recovered by the followin¡;t means :-The patient is taken into a room in which are heat-generators. There he is stripped and wrapped up in an immense quantity of raw wool, until he is, so to speak, in a bath of perspiration. At a height of two yards and a half a trap is opened to let the vapour escape, and to renew the air. Tbe patient, however desperate his state, speedily begins to feel better, and the vomiting and evacnations gradually cease. At the facfory of Ho den and Co., at Croix, a similar result has been obtained. FACTORY SMOKE AND HOUSE SMOKE.—From the researches of Dr. Crace-Calvert, F.R.S., it is ascertained that whilst dwelling house smoke is com- paratively harmless, factory .smoke is hitrhly delete- rious (remarks the Mining Journal). He explains that the smoke from private dwellings carries with it (and that solely at the time, and shortly after fresh coals are added) carbonic acid, carbonic oxide, and sulphuric acid gases, and a small quantity of the most volatile hydrocarbons, the less volatile products forming soot" which remains in the flue. The gases, the escape of which continues but a few minutes after firing, have but little or no action on vegetation or man. In burning coal under steam boilers the results are very different. The fuel is not, as in private dwellings, perfectly consumed, but there is a con- tinuous distillation of deleterious tarry products which by the draught of the tall factory chimney are carried with all the other noxious products into the cold at- mosphere at the top of the stack, where they quickly condense and fall, to poison all within their reach. A CLERGYMAN THREATENED WITH ASSASSINA- TION.—The Rev. George Lloyd, curate of St. Paul's, Darlington, who has publicly denounced trades' unions, has received the following letter :— Rev. Sir,—I wish to pen A few lines to you as it happens I have got plenty of time to do so; Sir, I wonder very much at A man like you pretending to be a faithful follower of Christ to act in the unjust way that you are doing for I assure you that you are not following the precepts of our Saviour by so fond1y embracing and cherishing and upholding the unjust Claims of the Masters and at the same time dispising the poor working Men and trying to drive them in to woi k below the country price and to make black sheep of them, but A man holding the position that you hold should try to make white sheep and not black ones Rev Sir I know very well the reason that you urge upon us to go in is simple because you have not picked up 10 Many Coppers at your Collectian as you done before strike but let me tell you that if I ever see Another letter from you or hear tell of you trying in any shape or form to make black sheep of me and my fellow workmen you may preach your own funeral sermon the day previous to doillg 11'1 for I will shoot you &8 dead al A Nit be you in bed or out of bed in Church Chapel or Sacristy. I will Nap your pecker yes I will delight in being hung on your Account on the Scaffold at Durham, and I will also take away the only spark of life that Mr. SPARE: has got if he does not keep his tongue within his teeth bO you may go and tell him if you like as I intend to give him and you A little time to prepare yourselves for the next world So you may go and try to make either A black sheep or A white one ot him for I will make Black Sheep of both of you. So [hope that you will be warned by me and take no further steps in the same course if you do I swear I will Crok you both for I may as well be hung for a Mule as a Donkey —1 remain yours ViRGIS MEIN MIGHT, Vengeance-street, Darlington. THE FIRST UMBRELLA IN ENGLAND.—Jonas Hanway, an Englishman noted for his benevolence, who originated many schemes of charity for the poor and suffering, and who died in 1786, is said to have been the first man who appeared in the streets of London carrying an umbrella. He had been travelling abroad, and this was probably one of the foreign fancies which he brought home with him but his ap- pearance in this new character gathered around him such a curious crowd, and excited so many not very agreeable street remarks, that he was content to find some other shelter than the silk and whalebone that he carried in hie hand. A similar scene occurred on the introduction of another article into an oriental city. The influx of Western travellers had brought with it quite a rage for the modern invention of laoies' hoops, which some of the orientals appropriated in aU their enlarged dimensions. A company of native soldiers who had come for the first time into the metropolis were attracted by seeing an enormous skirt on the person of a lady, and after much speculation in regard to the nature of the dress, settled down upon the opinion that it was an umbrella, which the lady took this method of carrying. Their shouts and laughter on making the discovery were unbounded. ElGHTY DAYS' CAPTIVITY IN PRUSSIA.—A pamphlet published in Vienna by Dr. Roth, the burgomaster of Trautenau, entitled Eighty Days' Captivity in Prussia has excited great interest there on account of the ill-treatment which the doctor assorts that he received. He states that when he was brought before the Prussian commanding officer, that gentle- man drew a pistol from his belt, and putting it to Dr. Roth's forehead, exclaimed, You blackguard, you have drawn us into a snare. I have a great mind to shoot you at once." In sp'te of the modesty with which the doctor speaks of his own conduct in such a tremendous conjucture, he seems to have shown great presence of mind. Though his life hung upon a thread, he appears to have answered the angry Prussian in words so convincing that the latter replaced his pistol in his belt and stood siltnt for a few moments, after which he dismissed the burgomaster. Dr. Roth solemnly avers that not a single shot was fired by the inhabitants of Trautenau upon the Prussians; as for the stories about boiling water, oil, &c., asserted in the Berlin papers to have been poured upon the soldiers' heads from private houses, he treats them as pure ab- surdities and goes on to say :— I ask how can it be believed that any Trautenauer in the possession of bis lenlel would bave fired upon the Prusaian troops at a time when the whole town and its vicinity was occupied by them, when many private houses were full of them from top to bottom, and when a vigorous combat was ae'ually raging in the southern partof the town Truly such a stupid, purposeless, and yet generally accredited lie I could not have believed possible, if I had not in person experienced the consequences of it. ANOTHER INTERPRETATION OF B.C." —In almanacs and other books for titular reference B.C. is universally adopted as the initials of the phrase Be- fore Christ." An abstract was recently required and obtained from the office of the Registrar General, which, after narrating the names and designations of the parents, quo ed in extract, "A son named Jaaies. twelfth April, one thousand eight hundred and seven.' —"B.C." The certificate was repudiated and sent back for explanation of the "B.C." It turned out that in those days session clerks put B.C." as a con- traction for eertification that the child was baptised Before the Congregation." # TREATMENT OF WOMEN IN PERU.—A letter from Peru gives a ludicrous account of the mode of mounting a horse. The women do all the work, and the men are a good-for-nothing set of gamblers and thieves. The women ride on the hind-quarters of their horses, without a saddle, cross-legged, with the load in front. They mount the animal by taking held of his long tail, making a loop by doubling it up and clasping with one hand the upper and lower parts of the tail, and then putting one foot in the loop and the other foot on the joint of the horse's leg, they ascend as if going upstairs. They usually stand erect on the horse before sitting down. The horses never kick or stir. SOMETHING LIKE A CHEESE.—At the Ingersoll cheese factory, Canada, a cheese was manufactured in June which weighs 7,000 pounds, or tons (says an American paper). It is 6ft. lOin. in diameter, 3ft. thick, and about 21ft. in circumference. In the manu- facture of it 35 tons of milk were used. It was made in four days and a half, kept in press 12 days, then removed and bound together with six large bands of iron. In a few days the hoops were removed and it was wrapped in cloth and. wire. and prepared for removal. It was taken to New York State Fair, at Saratoga Springs, in September, and at the fair many persons wished to purchase it, but though so h gh a price as 6,000 dols. was offered for it, Mr. Harris refused to sell. The cheese was to be at Toronto in the last week of September, at the annual exhibition of the Provincial Agricultural Association. It has never been cut or tasted yet, but feels and looks as if its quality were all that could be desired. It is the intention of the makers to send it to the World's Fair at Paris next year. A TALE OF A DOG.—"La Petit Journal," of Paris, which contains from time to time some very strange stories indeed, has the following anecdote of a dog, which may be pronounced interesting if true :— Lately a traveller passed in a carriage along the Avenue de Neuilly the night was dark: all at once the horse stopped, and tbe traveller saw that the animal had met an obstacle. At the same moment a man raised himself from before the horse, uttering a cry, "Why don't you take care V' said the traveller. "Ah," cried the man, "you would do better, in- stead of halloing, to lend me your lantern." What fort" I had three hundred francs in gold on my person my pocket has broken, and all is fallen on the street. It is a com- mission with which my master has entrusted me. If I do not find the money I am a ruined man." It is not easy to find the pieces on such a night; have you none left 7" "Yes, I have one." Give it to me." The man hesitated. Give it to me, it is as a means of recovering the others." The poor devil gave him his last coin. The traveller wnistled, a mag- mftcent Damsh dog begun to leap around him. Here," said the traveller, putting the coin to the nose of the dog- "look." Tne intelligent creature sniffed a moment at the money, and then began to run about the road. Every minute he returned leaping, and deposited in the hand of his master a napoleon. Iu about twenty minutes the whole sum was re- covered. The poor fellow who had not hb money back turned full 01 thanks towards the traveler, who had cow got into his carriage. Ah, you are my preserver," said he, "tell me at least your name." "I have done nothing," said the tra- veller. )our Preserver is my dog; his name is Rabat- Joie And then, whipping his horses, he disappeared in the dark- ness. PRISONERS SITTING FOR THEIR PORTRAIT.— Some treat the attempt with open defiance, resolutely refusing to sit still during the operation others, with a mock air of submission, flIt perfectly quiet during the preliminary arrangements and focussing operation, but move sufficiently at the vital moment of exposure others, who pretend to have no objection to be por- trayed, contrive to produce such an amount of facile i, contortion by squinting, twisting the mouth, &c., as will effectually destroy identity in the portrait (we are quoting from the British Quarterly Review, in a new number). In some cases this cunning is met with re- solute perseverance, and in others with stratagem, so that in all cases a sufficiently characteristic likeness is obtained. One governor informs us that he generally contrives that the operation shall take place just be- fore dinner, and refractory sitters are informed that no dinner will be dispensed until the portrait has been obtained, a practical argument, the force of which is generally ree»gni»ed. In another gaol, after the Htter has, by movement or contortion, baffled the portraitist, he, or still more commonly she, is handed to a seat in a well-lighted place to rest awhile and watch the opera- tion repeated with the next criminal. The sitter just rejoicing in the cunning which has defeated the attempt of the photographer, generally sits perfectly still, watching with eager interest the operation for which another is sitting. In the meantime, a concealed camera, within range of which the first victim had been placed, is doing its work, and a natural and characteristic likeness is obtained of the unconscious criminal, who had apparently retired master of the situation. A CONTRADICTION.—A story of Baron James Rothschild's blindness, which has been in everyho y's mouth, turns out to be a shameful canard circulated by a Paris paper, the Evenement, which thus jauntily and flippantly contradicts its own news as follows A paragraph in the Evenement has caused great commo- tion in the financial world, and moat involuntarily on our part alarmed the family and numerous friends of the Rothschilds. We were misinformed. Baron James de Rothschild was never better in his life. His sight is ex- cellent. and only last Sunday he was out pheasant shooting in his Ferrieres oovers. The Evenement not only reported that Baron James had lost the sight of one eye, and was likely to lose that of the other, but backed up the statement with details about the long progress pf the disease of the visual organs, and the oculist who had had been con- sulted, which no reader could have supposed to be in- vention. The government journals, the Pays and Patrie, re-produced the painful false news the other evening without a word of contradiction or doubt. RKTCSAL TO CONSKCRATE A CEMETERY.—A good deal of commotion has been caused in the town of Batley, near Dewsbury, by the refusal of the Lord Bishop of Ripon to consecrate a cemetry there situate, which has just been completed at a cost to the parish of 16,000?. The Vicar of Batley, the Rev. Andrew Cassels, M.A., has had a dispute with the Batley burial board about the amount of fees to be charged for tombs and interments in the cemetery. The in- habitants decided that the vicar's charges should be regulated by an ancient terrier, which fixed the fee for a monument or headstone at 3s. 4d. whereas the vicar bas been charging from on", to six guineaR for every headstone erected. These charges, the vicar, supported by the bishop, contends he has a right to transfer to the new cemetery. The burial board have taken counsel's opinion on the matter, and it is stated that the vicar is only entitled by law and custom to charge the fee mentioned in the ancient terrier. The bishop has peremptorily refused to consecrate the cemetery until the matter is settled, and the burial board, acting on behalf of the inhabitants, are going to apply for a mandamus to compel his lordship to do so. THE STYLE OF THE VIENNA WOMEN.—" How well" (says a correspondent from Vienna) people of every class dress here has often struck me, and I think it will strike every observer who comes hither from another great city. And it is not merely the hair of the Viennese women which, I am ready to grant, would set off a less careful toilet, but their dress is really good, well made, well put on, and extremely clean. This last quality is a prominent feature of the Viennese. I have been surprised sometimes to find so many persons, of a class which it might be supposed had little extra money for luxuries, assembled at a bath that, every room being occupied, an hour or more must pass before they could be satisfied. There is a cerrain style—the Austrians call it schic'—about the women of Vienna seen certainly nowhere else. A combination of details produced this—found equally in the damsel who serves you behind the counter and the young lady who can boast the most brilliant lineage. Her walk, her carriage, the cut of her jacket or mantle—and let me add this cut'is unrivalled- altogether conspire to make up that peculiar some- thing which is so characteristic and attractive. Is this natural to them, or have they acquired it by con- tact with their proud neighbours the Magyars, in whom a dignified bearing seems to be inherent? I cannot pretend to say, and leave the question to ethnologists to solve." WANTING A THEME !—The Flaneur of the Morning Star writes:— It surely is to this dearth of subjects for comment that we must attribute the fact that a Jockey who has lately been killed by an accident has afforded a text for eulogistic lead- ing articles in journals where such themes are not usually treated. If not, ic speaks badiy for the tone of journalism and of the soctety watch journalism is supposed to rr11ect, That tho accident should have been noticed with regret in all the newspapers, and made a prominent subject 01 in the sporting press, was natural enough; but that a leading daily journal, and the review of "politics, literature, science, and art," should devote the best portion of their space to the laudation of a young man who, at best, was merely a clever horse jockey, and of whom nine-tenths of their readers had probably never heard, is, to say the least of it, a strange and a not too pleasant sign of the times. Sixty two years ago Mr. Wordsworth lamented To think that now our life is only drest In show: mean haodywork of craftsman, cook Or Groom! If the old hi^o-priest ot nature were alive now more than ever would h" be promoted to exclaim :— We must run glittering like a brook In the open sun-htne, or we are unblest: The weitlthiest man among us is the beat: No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us Rapine, avarice, eX\leuge- This is idolatry: and these we adore Plain living and high thinking are no more. [We may remark that Poor G-rimshaw had injured his life in the Accident Insurance Company for 1,000?., and this amount will, therefore, be payable to his young widow.] AN OSBTINATE WOMAN !—There is an old woman at Pimlico, Lon:Jon, who is driving the medical and parish authorities to their wits' end in attempting to put her down, or get her into the workhouse, or abolish her four cats (remarks the Pall Mall Gazette). She has lived for seven years in a wretched room, clothed in rags, in extreme poverty, and the odours are so offensive to the neighbours that they have called in the police, the inspector of nuisances, and the medical officer of health, but the old woman refuses to stir. She will not go to the workhouse, and she will not give up her cats. And as there is no law against keeping cats, or to compel people to keep themselves clean, the old woman is mistress of the position. The police magistrate says it is a most remarkable and difficult case, and the only thing he can suggest is to circumvent the old woman, as he cannot order her to be washed against her will. So he has given an order that her room shall be washed and disinfected nnder the Nuisances Removal Act, evidently expecting that the old woman will offer some such resistance as shall bring her within the reach of the law. It seems likely, too, that during the disin- fecting and cleansing of walls and flooring the cats may come to grief. Anyhow, it is a striking pheno- menon that the nation which won Waterloo and put down the Indian mutiny is content with laws which allow an old woman in Pimlico to defy authority, with pestilence spreading all around her. A PRACTICAL JOKE.—A crowd of people was last week seen collected together on one of the Paris quays, eagerly scanning a garret window of one of the houses.. Whispers and murmurs grew louder, and the crowd increased rapidly. At the window were observed the legs of a woman dangling and swaying to and fro, and it was clear that a crime had been committed or a suicide had taken place in the room. The guard was sent for, and took observations, coming to the conclu- sion of the crowd. So they proceeded to the room, and as no zesponse was given from within, forced open the door, finding tnemselves in the room of a young sculptor, and that the legs dangling at the window were beautiful plaster of Paris legs of a female hung up to dry. The mare's nest in every sense caused con- siderable hilarity below, and at the expense, of course, of the sergens-de-ville. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—Mr. George Cruikshank has contributed the following on the discovery and introduction of the electric telegraph:— The discovery arose, I believe, from the circumstance of Mr. Wheatstone, when first appointed lecturer at King's College, having seven miles of wire in the lower part of that building which abuts upon the river Thames, for the pur- pose of measuring the speed of lightning, or the electric current, and upon one occasion, when explaining his experi- ments to me, he said,—"I intend one day to lay some of this wire across the bed of the Thames, and to carry it up to the top of the shot tower on the other side, and so make signals," and this was, I believe, the first idea or suggestion of a submarine telegraph. We are also indebted to Mr. Wheatstone for the electric bell, for long before this tele- graph came before the public, in explaining the machinery to me, he said, as it was possible that one party might be asleep at one end of the wire, he had so arranged the working that the first touch should ring a bell at the other end. even if th, usands of miles apart This, it will be admitttd, is an important part of the discovery, and therefore I am sure that everyone will feel that the man who has done such wonders for the public advantage in introducing such instant communication with the" wide, wide world well deserves the honou-s and rewards which your correspondent and yourstlf have suggested should be conferred upon my old and highly esttemed friend. GOOD THINGS FOR GOOD M-N.—" The inaugu- ration of the Jesuit's pa'ace at Arlon," says the Echo du Luxembourg, "has just taken place. The proceed- ings commenced with a mass, were continued by a ser- mon, and ended hy a banquet. Half a dozen laymen and about sixty ecclesiastics were present at the cere- mony. The banquet was magnincent; we a.re indebted to a grateful lay stomach for being able to place before our readers the bill of fare of this repast of anchorites. which will make the mouth water for all those who have not taken vows of poverty and abstinence. It is as follows:— 'Hnitres d'Ostende, potage ala tortue, crepinettes a la Iticheiieu, laumon a la Hollandaise, filet de besuf jardiniere, canneton aux olives farcies, filet de soles, matelote Nor- mande, perdreaux au natural; sorbets aukirsch, ceteris farcis, lievre- a la poivrade. dindonneaux truffes a 1 episcopale, be- casses, anguille au beurre Montpellfer, jambon d Ardenne en gelee, homards, pates de foies gras, bavaroise panachee, Ma- cedoine au champagne, glaces, fruits, dessert. It is hardly necessary to add that this succulent repast was enlivened with old wines of the choicest vintages. Among others is mentioned a certa.in white Tokay, which drew exclamations of delight from the pious guests. In short, it will be seen by the description of this bountiful love feast that our religious communities, cures, and bishops have an easy and agreeable life of it, notwithstanding the abominable persecutions and spoliations of which they are made the victims by the liberals." VERY PARTICULAR!—A letter from Stockholm in the French papers says that the Swedish corvette, Naiad, during a late voyage on the Spanish coast, saved the crew of the English steamer the Geelong, which was in distress. The Captam, it is added, refused to follow bin crew on board the Swedish vessel before he had shaved himself. "It would be un- gentlemanly," he said, to show myself on board a foreign vessel before I have shaved and the Swedish captain was obliged to wait until this operation had been effected. Scarcely had the Captain got on board the Naiad when his own steamer went down. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SHOOTING. On Friday, two men, named respectively Lawrence and Purdoe, were brought up before the Shropshire county m-igistrates, charged with feloniously shooting Crcorge Ball, a collier, living at St. George's, near Wellington, Salop. It appears that Ball was courting one of the servants at Priors Lee Hall, the seat of a private gentleman near St. George's, and on Wednesday night was returning from the hall in company with Lawrence, who i8 employed there as uoder gardener. When he had got some little distance from the house he heard some one call out, Is that you, Ball ? and turning round, received full in the face the contents of a gug., apparently fired fcpm behind the hedge. He fell dowt Mticmny weondiS in the faee and head, and having one of his eyes blown out. Lawrence ran away and gave an alarm, and upon the arrival of the police and several of the neighbours Ball was picked up and carried to his own house, where he now lies in a very dangerous condition. From certain suspicious circumstances which came to light, Lawrence was arrested as an accomplice, and the coachman at the hall, a man named Purdoe, as the principal in the act. Purdoe, on being apprehended, confessed that he had fired the gun, but declared that it was a re- gularly arranged plan got up among the servants at the hall to frighten Ball, and that he had not intended to hit him, and had only put a few shots in the gun. This latter statement, however, is contradicted by the appearance of Ball's hat, which is literally riddled with small shot. The magistrates remanded the case, accepting bail for the reappearance of the prisoners. SANITARY RBFORM.—TNE function of sanitary reform in regard to the conditions of the atmosphere is very simple and easy of comprehension (remarks a writer in Onoe a Week). Ventilation is the great principle by which the due quantities of oxygen and carbonic acid gas may always be obtained. It is only a question of sufficient air, or of a sufficient move- ment in the atmosphere, to secure what is in this respect necessary for health. But sanitary reformers must wage continued and implacable war against the gases of decomposition or putrefaction. They should regard their extinction as indispensable to the public health. Wherever these gases exist in the atmosphere there exists also a preventible cause of sickness. And it should be remembered that this is no Sisyphian labour; no hopeless task impossible of accomplish- ment. It is possible that the thousands of lives annually slain by these gases shall be preserved in health and comfort. But I question, so far as the human race is concerned, whether the moral offence they give is not more pitiful and shocking than even the wasting sickness and the loss of wealth and life which is caused by their baneful presence. INDECENT BURIAL OF LONDON PAUPERS. — When Huod wrote "Rtttle bis bones over the utones he's only a pauper whom nobody owns," he could not have imagined anything so revolting as the tale which a poor woman had to tell last week to the Bethnal Green Guardians (remarks the Morning Star). Two of her children died in July, and having obtained an order for their burial, she took it to a contractor for pauper funerals in the district. She and her relatives accompanied the bodies to the Great Northern Cemetery in a Shilhbeer hearse. Underneath the carriage in which they sat there were seven bodies; two more were under the driver's seat, and two more came behind in a cart. The bodies were with one ex- ception those of persons who had died of cholera. The exception was a fever case. Matter oozed from one of the coffins, and the stench was fearful. No wonder she was made ill; the real ground for astonishment is that she is now alive to tell the story. But the inde- cency of the business did not end here. At the cemetery the coffins were covered with earth without any grave being dug, and no religious service of any kind was performed. The Board of Guardians have had the contractor before them. and virtually he ad- mits the truth of the woman's statement, excusing himself on the ground that, owing to the cholera, he was very busy just then with his ghastly work. The Guardians seem to have reprimanded him, and to have written to the Great Northern Cemetery Company for an explauation of the reason why no funeral service was performed over the bodies. A BEE TAMER.—The following is a description of a bee-charmer who has been exciting great interest at the State fair at Saratoga, and is thus described by an American paper :— One of the greatest attractions on the ground was a great honey-bee monger, whose hat, while on hi a head, was covered with bees, which appeared like a small swarm on a bush. He handled bees as if they were harmles" flies. They crawled all over his person, in his hair, and on his face, and he put some of them in his mouth and blew them out, and handled them at pleasure. And what was most remarkable is, they were strange bees, attracted from the woods or from colonies in the country. Immense crowds of people hung around him, continually asking questions and purchasing the secret of collecting bees from the forest or robbing your neighbours of their busy workers by remaining quietly at home. When every bee was shaken from his ha', and it was returned to his he-d, the buzzing swarm about him would quickly return, completely covering his hat.. The superin- tendent interfered, as he affirmed that such an exhibition drew away too many people. UPSETTING HIS QALCOLAT ONS !—An odd ex- ample of the futility of human calculation on a grand scale has just been given at a village in France. A man of a respectable position inherited a small sum of money, and having a great dislike to work, he con- ceived the idea of making it eke out for his present wants, and the further financial speculation (say that Frenchmen are not imaginative after thi-) of putting by a sum per annum, which at compound interest would increase double, triple, and so on, till at the end of 500 years" he should be a great millionaire, and enabled to live in a style of unprecedented magni- ficence. He had doubt that with care the infirmities of age might be avoided and any amount of life secured. He consequently lived a la hermit in the most simple way-in a cave with dry leaves and straw, with a skin dress—an ass's skin, doubtless-and grow- ing a long beard and mane he became a great curiosity to ail visitors. Unfortunately he had counted without taking into consideration one item of mortality- namely, its pa,sion-and the hermit, in revenge for an insult, in a fit of passion, broke the insulter's windows. For this he was put into durance vile, and having, according to regulations, to be shaved and ma.de clean and decent, he took to the new style of things so badly that he died aged 46, being only 454 years short of the time he had allotted to himself in which to begin life as a jolly young bachelor. What a satire upon humanity! LORD BYRON — Among the miscellaneous articles advertised for sale last week is an antique folding writing tablp, formerly the property of Lord Byron. It appears to have passed subsequently into the hands of the late Dr. Raffles, of Liverpool, a well-known collector of antiquities and worshipper" of autographs and other relics, by whom the table is duly and formally authenticated. If it be true that the author's copyright interest in his published works lasts for forty-two years after his death, as stated by Mr. Anthony Trollope in his paper read the other day before the Social Science Congress at Manchester, then this year has seen the expiration of the copyright of Lord Byron's works, as the poet died in April, 1S24. It appears that, in 1709, copyright was limited to 14 years from publication; in 1814 the term was extended to 28 years; and it was only in 1842 that it was extended to its present duration of 42 years from pub- lication, or to the end of the author's life, if he should chance to outlive that period. The late Marquis de Boissy, it may not be generally known, married about 15 years ago the Countess Guiccioli, Lord Byron's great friend. RATHER DOUBTTDL !—"The Chicago Times" says: Wilkes Booth, whose body Secretary Stanton took so much pain to dispose of so that no man should ever know the spot where it was buried, is reported to be in Europe The story is that the man whom Boston Corbett so heroically shot, and whose body Stanton refused to exhibit to any one that ever saw Booth, was ap>or wretch hired by the assassins to personate Booth, in order to facilitate the escape of the la-te-. Whether there be or not any truth in this story, it will never cease to be a suspicious circumstance connected I' with the fate of Wilkes B, ,oth. that Stauton refused to deliver the body that was brought up from Virginia to his friends, or even to let them look upon it. EXKCOTION OF FOUR PIRATES IN FRANCE.— Advices from Brest announce that the four sailors of the Fasderis-Arca, lately condemned to death, were executed there the other morning in the presence of an immense crowd of the population and of troops of all arms. None but the partisans of the abolition of the punishment of death in all cases will blame the French government for the firmness it has shown on this occasion. It is very rare indeed that the spectacle of the execution of so many as four men at a time is exhibited in France. Some excuse is almost always found for commuting sentences on men equally guilty with those who suffer, from no other motive than the desire to restrict judicial slaughter. One of Orsini's accomplices in the attempt on the Emperor's life was spared at the last moment in order that only two heads might fall on the scaffold instead of three. But in the present case of frightful piracy, when the criminals had been miraculously sought out in all quarters of the world and brought to justice, and almost as miraculously finally convicted after numberless technical objections to the constitution of the court which tried them, it was felt necessary to give a terrible example to the maritime population, and the four convicted murderers, equal in guilt, have all shared in the same supreme retribution. INCIDENTS FROM PALERMO.—The "Amico del Popolo" of Palermo tells a story about one of the in. surgents who having sho". a young soldier down, rushed forward to despoil him of what he had in his pocket, when to his horror be discovered that the dead man was his own son.-The same journal also narrates a horrible story about a guard of the Public Security named Sartorio who at Miailmeri was taken by the brigands and condemned by them to be bitten to death, because he had prevented the sale of pork in that town. The wretches had followed out their barbarous sentence, and the poor fellow was literally eaten till death. If this is true it would seem that the Sicilian lower orders are as bad, if not worse, than the Indian Sepoys, or the Maori rebels. AN INTERESTING BooK.-An enterprising Paris publisher is getting up for the use of visitors to the Exhibition a work to be called Paris by illustrious Parisians." It is to he divided into three parts. The first part will be headed Arts; the second, Sciences and the third, Manners and Customs. Victor Hugo has already written the preface. Thiers promises a history of the Corps Legislatif; Michelet, of the Col. lege of France Theophile Gautier, of the Louvre Ste. Beuve, of the Academy; Restor Roqueplan, of the Theatres and Opera-houses; and Paul St. Victor, "Celebrated Mansions, Past and Present." Vacquerie will contribute a musical review, and George Sand a chapter on the Bois de Boulogne. The illustrations are to be furnished by Meissonnier, Gavarni, and the indefatigable Gustave Dùre. Such a wurk would in a few years be of great value, as it is only intended to strike off a limited number of copies. THE EMPEKOR OF AUSTRIA'S hTLES.- The Em- peror Francis Joseph has directed his Minister for Foreign Affairs to omit in future in the enumeration of his titles, the words" King of Lombardy and Venice," so that the heading of the new treaty of peace will run, We, Francis Joseph I., by the Grace of God, Em- peror of Austria, King of Hungary, Bohemia, Dal. matia, Croatia, Slavonia, Gallicia, Lod imer a, and Illyria; Archduke of Austria, Grand Duke of Cracow, &c." The necessary order for the surrender of the Iron Crown of Lombardy, which has long formed a part of the insignia of the imperial family, has also been given. HARD-WORKED MEN !-In connection with the causes of railway accidents, some facts were stated at a meeting of railway servants held in London which are well worth attention. One speaker said the labour imposed on them was beyond endurance, and, as an instance of the work often required, he men- tioned the case of a guard on the South Western line, who was employed twenty-seven hours without the slightest relief. Mr. Vincent, the founder of the Railway Working Man's Provident Society, stated ^bat he knew of a guard in the employment of the Midland Railway having worked eight days and eight nights without having gone to bed, and he had seen others who had worked three days and three nights without relief, in the service of the same company. It WM also a fact that oniiao-drivero, in cfoutotutae* of being overworked, otten lay asleep on the foot-plate of the engine while the train was in motion; and that on awaking they only knew where they were by observing some familiar spot on the route. The speaker appealed to the meeting for corroboration of the statements he had made, and several of those present, by cries of Right, right!" testified to their truth. INEDITED LETTER OF ROBERT BURNS.-The Inverness Courier prints the following inedited letter, written by the poet Burns to Lord Woodhouselee, and now in the possession of that judge's grandson Colonel Fraser-Tytler, of Aldourie :— Sir,-A poor caitiff, driving as I am at this moment with an exoise quill. at the rate of "devil tak, the hindmost," is ill qualified to round the period of gratitude, or swell the f a, h,i of sensibility. Gratitude like some other amiable qualities of the mind, is now-a-days so abused by imp >aters, thar. I have sometimes wished that the project of that sly dog Mornus, I think it is, had gone into efttlct-plantmg a window in the breast of man. In that caoe, when a poor fellow comes, as I do at this moment, before his benefactor, tongue-tied with the sense of tnese very obligations, he would have nothing to do but place himself in front of his friend and lay bare the workings of his bosom. I again trouble you with another, and my last parcel of manuscript I am I not interested in ary of thesc-blo, them at your pleasure. I am much indebtt I to you for taking the trouble of cor- recting the press work. One instance, indeed, may be rather unlucky; if the lines to Sir John Whiteford are printed, they ought to read- "And tread the shadowy path to that dark world unknown." "Shadowy" instead of "dreary," as I believe it stands at present. I wish this could be noticed in the Errata. THis comes of writing, as I generally do, from the memory.—I have the honour to be, sir, your deeply-indebted humble servt., ROBU. BTTRSI. "OMAN GORED M A Cow.—An inquest has leld at Coventry, on the body of an old woman named Phoebe Hoggins, who had died the preceding day in the hospital from injuries received on the 29th of last August. The circumstances of the case were peculiar. It appeared from the evidence that on the day named, the woman, who was nearly blind, and seventy years of age, was sitting in her house at about seven o'clock in the morning, when two cows came in, one of which attacked her and frightfully gored her about the head and other parts of her person. She was removed to the hospital, and, after a great deal of severe suffering, died on Saturday morning. The young mei who were in charge of the cows appear to have don, 11 they could to manage the cows properly; and a verdict of Accidental death was returned. Great sympathy was felt by the jury for the man Hoggins, and a subscription was made for him, to enable him to decently inter his late wife. Mr. Fawcett, the owner of the cow which caused the death, generously gave a sovereign towards the fund. THE TRIAL OF ADMIRAL PERSANO.—On Friday last the High Court of Justice of the Italian Senate assembled for the first time, and after the necessary formalities had been gone through the president delivered the following address Gentleman Senators-We are here assembled to fulfil one of the gravest duties attaching to our functions. Every one of us, I have no doubt, has understood and felt at this moment the strict obligation incunabent on him to acquit himself of this duty with scrupulous zeal and care. No obstacle not entirely insurmountable can justify a dispen- sation from it It is, indeed, a difficult task to be called upon to fulfil judiciary du,ie;, of such importance. But the strict feeling of justice will to all of us oe the most power- ful stimulant. Our responsibility i. immense, the eyes of the whole nation, I may even tay the eyes of all Europe, are turned towards us But, above all the world, we are watched by Him who is the essence of all justice, of that justice of which we should be the reflection. Upon this the president declared the public sitting to be over, and the Senate shortly after resumed its functions with closed doors.-It is said that the Austrian Admiral, Tegethoff, will be present at this trial, and this will form a curious episode. POISONING THROUGH INTOXICATION.—A sad case of poisoning has just occurred at Bulmoor, nearCaerleon, Monmouthshire. Ann Morgan, aged 75, housekeeper to Mr. Jones, of Bulmoor, while labouring under the influence of drink, swallowed some bluestone which she found in her master's desk. She was put on the bed, and no further attention was paid to her until the next morning, when she was found dead. An inquest was held on Saturday afternoon before Mr. Brever, coroner, and, after hearing the evidence, the jury re- turned a verdict that deceased died from having taken poison while in a state of intoxication, not knowing at the time what she was doing. The coroner and jury expressed their strong disapprobation of 'her master's onduct in not obtaining medical assistance.
EPITOME OF NEWS.
EPITOME OF NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. The Queen of Denmark arrived in London on Satur- day. Her Majesty is the guest of the Prince and Princess of Wales, at Marlborough House. The Empress of Austria is going with her children to Schnnbruon on the 98 h of October. The Moniteur du Calvados states that a peasant who recently sold his wit.. for Ave francs has ju-it been arrested, as well as the purchaser, and both lodged in prison at Caen A servant girl at Sheffield, only twelve years of age, who had for some time been susoecte l of pilfering money, and was detected in the offence, committed suicide by cutting her throat. M. Chambray, a Parisian photographer, has patented a new process, which is said to produce likenesses. with even still greater perfection and truth than any before intro- duced Dr. Jobert de Lamballe an eminent Paris physician, who went out of his mind a few months ago from profes- sional jealonay uuder most extraordinary circumstances, is just dead. The Austrian Government is about to build two new ironclads. At Westbourne, in Hants, there is an apple tree in full bloom fur the second time this year. Near the Blechyn- den station, in Hants, great numbers of people go to see a chestnut tree in tlJwer for the second time. A misprint in a London paper said that the ever. popuUr Christy's Minstrels had taken a lo' g leave of St. James's Hali, in London, instead of a long Uase. J, J. Wright, a Pennsylvania negro, has applied in the criminal c urt of the district of Columbia for permis- sion to practise as a lawler in that court. A little screw steamer, named the Augusta, bas just left Liverpool for Peruamhuco. Tie Augusta is only 4! tons burthen, and proceeds to Pernambuco under sail (fore and aft rig), the screw being stow-d away on d.ck There are only two men, a boy, and a dog in charge of the vessel. The old Council Tree of the Senecas,' nearly five centuries old. at Mount Morris, New York, was blown down a few days ago. It measured twenty-three feet in circum- ference. The solemn councils of the Seneca chiefs were held beneath this tree from time immemorial."—New York Paper. On Friday night last the Grampian Mountains were covered with snow. A countryman who had attended a meeting of the Anthropological Society was asked by a friend what the learned gentleman had been saying. Well, I don't exactly know," he replied; "there are many -hings I could not understand; but there was one thing I thowt I made out; they believe that we have come from monkeys, and I thowt as how they were fast getting back agaia to where they came from." I\n amusing illustration of the sort of blunders which Frenchmen make in writing or speaking English, is afforded by the International, a journal, which, being pub- lished in London as wet! as In Paris, ought to he exempt from such peculiarities Among the spectacles dts Londres. it announces last week "My Husband Gruost" at tne Hay- market, "Nursery Chi okweed "at the Lyceum, "ASheepin Wolsf's Clothing" at the Adelphi, and "weeharts and Wives" at Sadler's Well. After this the "divine Williams" ought no longer to surprise us. The total number of theatres in Europe is 1 584, of which France has 337, Italy (including Venetia) 346, Spain 168, Great Britain 160, Austria 150, Germany 191, Russia and Poland 44, Belgium 34, Holland 23, Switzerland 20, Sweden and Norway 18, Denmark 15, Portugal 16, Turkey 4, Greece 4, Roumania 3. and Servia 1. An inquest has been held at Freemantle, near Southampton, on Saturday, on the bod, of an aged maiden lady named Stodart. It appeared that deceased was a lunatic, but was allowed to attend to small household matters. On Thursday morning, she was seized with spasms, and upon a doctor being called in, he at once said she was suffering all the symptoms of poisoning by strychnine. Antidotes were offered, but deceased refused them all, and admitted having taken some of the contents of a packet of vermin powder. She uied in about two hours. A verdict of "Suicide in an unsound state of mind was returned. On Saturday morning an old man named Desmond, residing in Thorpe-street, Birmingham, stabbed a young fel- low named Taylor in the abdomen. Both had been drink- ing. and Desmond, in a state bordering on delirium tremens, inflicted the wound upon Taylor, who, it is said, had been cohabiting with his assailant's daughter. The unfortunate man was taken to the hospital, where he died in a few hours. An inquest has been held in London to inquire into the death of Dr Thomas Hall, inspector general of hospitals, who died on Wednesday night last at a lodging house, NorthutHberli-n.i court, Strand. Evidence having been given, after considerable deliberation the following verdict was returned: We find that the deceased, Tkomas Hall, died from thi effects of purking produced by an overdose of Saville's mixture, kilo colocyntnine, and we are of opinion that the medicine was taken while the said Thomas Hail was in a state of cn-oum mu.d—Thu Deputy C roner: You think he took ij oy mistake ?-The Foreman: Yes, we think so.—The inquiry then terminated. At Surfleet, October 3rd, Mr. Jackson, caroenter, died in his 96',h year: he had lived in the parish aUbi. life, aud has left nine children, fifty-Ave grandchildren, and fifty- two gr-at grandchildren. About six years back he made his own coffin; the breast-plate he cut out of wood, and he printed his name on it, leaving space for date and age. tie bad never been ill, or taken any medicine until within three months of his death. A paper called the Sunbeam has just been started by the convicts in the State Prison at Trenton, N.J. The Newark Advertiser remarks that it is not generally known that inmates of that prison furnished prose and poetry for a certain campaign paper published in New Jersey not many years ago and it thinks it recognises the style of one of these contributors in some verses in the Sunbeam. The editor states that, with but a single exception, his is the only paper ever issued from a prison cell in any State of the Union. Two men in a barber's shop in Baltimore, the other day, hung up their coats. When the reusorial opera- tion was over, the first one donned his neighbour's coat ano walked away. It contained 2 5u0 ools., w dch No. 2 deter- mined should not go tnat way, and a policeman was de- spatched after him Lading the mbLake he became greatly alarmed, and hastened back, for in his own coat pocket lay 5 nno d >ls The exchange was- mutually satis- factory '-New York Evening Post. One of tho e melancholy and fatal accidents now so common in Lonatn occurred in the Blickiriars-road on Friday evening last, by which Mr James Lowe, said to be the adapter of the screw propeller, lost his life The unfor- tunate deceased was standing on the kirb of the footwav, p'eparatory to crossing the street, when the horses of a heavily lauen waggon, coming at a rapid pace in a dnecim opposite to the one he was looking, caught him by the arm, swinging him into the roadway under the wheels of the waggon, which passed over his chest, causing instantaneous death. It is rumoured that the Hon. Charles Sumner is about to re married to ayoui.g, handsome, and accomplished widow, the daughter in-law of a member of Congress, from Majsachussets.—Writing on this, a correspondent says:- "There Is a soupcon of romance ahout the approaching marriage of S no-tor Sun tier with Mrs. Sutgis Hooper The lady yields up toe right to 100,000 dollars, property bequeitheti to her by her late husbano's father, upon the condition that she should never marry again." The beeinnirg of the end of the Tory Government is visible It is stated tnat Colonel Taylor has issue a citcuUr to the Conservative registration agents throughout the kingdom, urging them to pay particular attention to the register for 1866-7, on the ground that an appeal will be made to the country in the spring or summer of 18n7 -So far as we have had opportunities of ju<iKing, the tff >rts of thesa agents have not, hitherto been var) successful "—Morning Star.-The Globe contradicts the above statement, auu is authorised to state that Colonel Taylor has issued no circular dnce Jaly 4, \qhen the qegolar circular wan scat to the oon- MnratiT* agents throughout the country. ( The vice of gambling is said to be on the increase in high circles in London. On dit, that the Emperor of the French has just made rather extensive purchases of consols at London. All the political prisoners at Venice have been set at liberty. A monster honeycomb, weighing 120 lbs., wai recently discovered under the ooring of a house at Nenagh. The lighthouse on the small islet of the Marmora was recently the theatre of a double murder. During the night of the 22nd ult. both the keepers of the station were assassinated, their repositories were broken open, and their money and arms carried away. An arrangement has been entered into between the C 'li.ion'an Railway, the North British Railway, and; n Scotthl1 Snuth-We,¡tern Railway, not to promote, irecsl1 or indirectly, any new schemes during the next session Parliament The other day a female inmate of the Norwich Union died at the advanced age of 102f having retained the full use of all her faculties up to the last moment. A very novel use of fish has lately been made on the Western Lakes. The sturgeon which get too stale for market are sold on the wharves to the steamboat stokers, who thrust them into their furnaces, and greatly facilitate the combustion of the wood Twenty of these big fish are equal, it is said, to a cord of wood in raising steam. How to stop Irish Emigration by feeding men instead o' feeding bullocks. How to reclaim all our watte lands by tillage for man's wants instead of grazing for cattle.' Such is tbe amazing discovery lately placarded over the wails of Dublin. Paddy is to be kept in hie own country, and made rich and conrented. Howf By being induced to give up flesh meat altogether. Most people think he is too much of a vugetaria>i already; and his being what he is is one of the strongest arguments infavour of a mixed diet; at any rate in our latitude "—Pall Mall Gautt.. The Queen of the Sandwich Islands has arrived in San Francisco, and has undergone the ordeal of a public re- ception hy the civil and military authorites. The Federal war steamer Vanderbitt has been placed at her dispesal for the homeward voyag to Hawaii. A Washington paper says that when the President in his speech propounded a conundrum, Who made me your president?" a wicked strict constructionist in tile crowd responded "Booth." [The assassin ef President Lincoln.] Her Majesty and Royal family, attended by the suite, are txpecied to leave Balmoral and return to Windsor Castle about the 3rd of November. Letters have been received in Glasgow from Dr. Livingstone, the distinguished African traveller, of date May 1,1866 The doctor was then in good health, and pro- secuting his important mission in Africa successfully. A Protestant minister, named Mathys, who died recently at Stanz (Underwalden), haaleft an autobiography written in twenty-seven languages. Sixteen stags and hinds have recently arrived at Havre from New York, for the King of Italy. They are in- tended for breeding in the forests of that country, where large game is becoming scarce; and Tietor Emmanuel, as is known, is passionately fond of the chase. An American paper states that every lady who has been at Mount Holyoke aeminarJ II expected to write an annual letter stating whether she is married or single, how many children she has, and other particulars concerning her status and progress A young lady of the class of 1861 has just written to the class secretary that she is not married, but that she thinks she can see a little cloud that arises out of the sky of the future like a man's hand. Intelligence has been received that the Lord Bishop of Calcutta is deal. He was accidentally drowned in the- Ganges The casualty happened while he was in the act oti dilembarkinllrom a steamboat. The Chamber of Commerce of Venice has conceived the charitable idea of opening a subscription in favour of the Yenetian workmen out of employment, whose distress has been 1B creased by the political crisis. General Revel has subscribed lQ.OOOf. in the name of Victor Emmanuel, and General Lebcsuf 4,000f. in the name of the Emperor Napoleon. A collision between a goods and a passenger train took place on the railway between Odessa and Balta during the night of the 21st September, when 14 persons were killed aud 51 wounded. The accident occurred at the station of Kolontaievska, at about SO miles from Odessa. A short time ago as two ship caulkers, named Boylet and Lyons, were at the Isle of Dogs, on a stage, lacing thai seams of a vessel wlth pitch, the lallhings gave wayano they were both precipitated into the water, two buckets of boiling pitch falling over them at the same time. Both men were quickly got out, when it was found that Lyons was covered with pitch from head to foot. He was removed to the hospital Lord Brougham, at the Social Science Meeting the other day read in a tolerably audible voice but after read- ing about half of his paper he suddenly sat down, apparently owing to a set of tabe teeth getting out of order. He re- adjusted them, remarking, "One'steeth are troublesome* from birth." It is stated that the British army is to be supplied with a new shako, made of "cork in a framework ef sine," and having "a very military appearance." The Northern Dailll Expreat says that at the Gateshead Workhouse the grim economy haa been practised of using the dead-house of the union as a cell for the incar- ceration of paupers, and that corpaell and refractories have been constantly locked up together in it This seems to tui to be too horrible to be true but we shall be glad to see an early contradiction of the fact on authority."—Pall Mall Gazette. The weather in Paris, during the past week has been gloomy and cold, so much so that many persons had to light thdr fires. Something very like pettiness is shown in an order issued by the Prussian Governor of Schleswig. He has pro- hibited the raising of subscriptions by the inhabitalJts of the province for the purpose of purchasing a wedding giftfot the Princess Dagmar. As giving an idea of the value of land in Melbourne, we may welltion that a short time ago Messrs. Buck ey and Nunn, large woollen drapers there, paid seven hundred and forty pounds a foot for land in Bourke-street, on which a portion of their business premises are erected. For twenty" seven feet frontage they pai>t no less a sum than 22,"OOZ. The »nd was originally parcnased from the Sydney Government in 1839 for about ten pounds Mr. Isaac Butt, Q.C., a leading member of the Irish bar, and formerly member of Parliament, has joined the Church of Rome and will shortly sta e his reason for doing RO in a pamphlet. It ia said that toe change il by no møana a b..sty one, as he has been meditating it for years. Game is very scarce this year in Paris. Partridges are selling from three to four francs, pheasants nine francs, wild duces f rur francs, snipes, three francs, hares eight to nine francs, woodcocks five and all: franc. each. The Globe says the paragraph which is going the rounds frum tne New York Home Journal will tie rather amusing to the fr ends of Mr. Sturgeon The rev. gentleman himself ia only 32 years of aga, havwg been born In 1S84. The London correspondent of a contemporary, remarking on the same paragraph, states that Mr. Spurgeon's daughter is much nearer four years of age than 24. It is staged that Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., M.P., haS been specially retained hy the Jamaica Cooimiitee in connec- tion with the pros-cuti ms whicii that body has decided to institute againat Mr. Eyre and others. The phrase working man," as Lord Derby says> has been much abused A speaker the other day caused great laughter by declaring that he had been a working man ever since he was a boy. A strange effect of grief (or joy) has just occurred in Paris. Three months ago the wife of a eoneierge lost bet reasou in consequence of tne sorrow she felt at tne miscon" duct of her husband. He has since committed such excesses that they caused his death-last week. When the news was announced to his widow she suddenly recovered her reason. There are 155 Protestant churches in China, and 96 Protestant missionaries. Protestant missionaries are alsO settled at Nagasaki and Yokohama, in Japan Many of the rich Japanese are learning from these missionaries the language of the Western nations. A pnuematic tube like the one at work in London if being laid down in Paris for the conveyance of letters and messages between the Grand Hotel and the Bourse. A remarkable-looking person astonished the habitutt of the ItaltaD opera in Paria tile other evening He harl 011 a cravat completely covered with diamonds. The nobby gentleman, 8S might be expected, tarned out not to be of tbØ upper ten, but a keeper of a cafe. An American paper, among a miscellaneous coiled* tion of paragraphs, under the title Things in lieneral. publishes the followingA lottery is advertised ? Delaware, for the purpose of drawiug comfortable berths io a burying ground." The newest Yankee notion is an umbrella with gutter round the edge and a spout at one eorner Mrs. John 1'. Hanson, niece of Oliver Goldsmiths died on Friday, the 21st September, at her residence, We*' Hoboken. New Jersey, in the eighty-first year of her aSP* Some time ago the old lady was in very reduced elrouøJ" stances, but public attention was called to her condition ? the columns of the press, and a fund was raised sufficien* to maintain her in some degree of comfort up to her decease* The Moniteur of Saturday says :—" Certainjournalf have announced that the Roman Legion formed at AntibeØ by the efforts of the French Government, and placed by at the disposition of the Pope, bore the French tricelout cockade. This information is quite incorrect. The ne" legion, like all the other corps of the Pontifical army, di** played the cockade and the flag of the Holy Father." The following plan for the preservation of during winter wul 8e found to answer very well -rake th* plants to oe preserved out of their pots, trim off the leave' and outer branches, and then take off all the soil from tile roots, tie them uo in bunches, and hang them roots uP" war.is in a dry, dark cuoboard, loft, or cellar, where frost can touch them. In the spring bring their out (a*d having well cle nsed your pots inside and out), re-pot tnelØ in some good compost. The French farmers are, according to M. Mene. ville, threatened witn a new disease of the potato. Meneville describes tbe attack upon the vegetable myria 's of minute IUlecb He found the floor of bif potato room literally covered with a layer of those insects giving it the appearance of a grayish dust, and he the fear that they are but the forerunners of some serioU* uisease of a new description. A literary announcement from Leipzig runs thus "Our readers will be oblige t to us for drawing tneir atten" tloo to some Sanscrit works which will shortly appear. have not read the books ourselves, but if their contents arfr interesting as their titles, their perusal must be the t>tsme of delight. The titles are' Swapattschakfchavtmahamai1' trastoira, Trigunatmikakalikastotra,' Upangalalitarratod' yapana, 'S^nkarchtatschaturthivratodyapana,' and tatschaturdarivratakatha. Professor de Morgan, it it said, went to hear organ played by a performer who seemed very desirous CO exhibit one particular stop. What do you think of tb*J stop f" he was asked. That depends upon the name of ic> said he. "Oh! what can the name have to do with til' Bound r 'That which we call a rose, '<fec The name h*? everything to do with it," says he; "If it be a flute stop, I think it very harsh; but if it be a railway-whistle stop, think it very sweet." A young married woman preferred a charge °\ assault against an Irishman, at the Devonport Guildhall, kiasing her without perllliaaion Iç appeared that tbe de; fendant went to the house of the complainant respectWjj some lnrig'ugs, and while the apartments were being him he suz d the landlady and kissed her. The sentenced him to 14 days' imprisonment for the'offence. The present hish price of butchers' meat in Mel- bourne—muiton, 7d a d beef, 8d. and » a pound—apP*J rently the result of the late very severe and protrac drought, seem* to have stimulated some of the Austral' provision merchants towards the providing of new articlr food for the people Fish diet has come into much Ø1"( 1 gei eral use than was lormerly the case, and oue origi"* genius at Geelong has taken to smoking Kangaroo baØt » whicn are retailed at 6d. a pound and green hams at These bams have been pronounced very good by those have tried them. In a dispute betwixt two rival undertakers in 1^°?^ don, a woman, in giving evidence before the magistrates. she knew one of them, because he had buried one ot children, but that tie should never do so again 6' According to a correspondence from Madrid to Independance Beige, the report that the English Gove' meut uaa >.eui*naed satisfaction from Spain on account ° the capture of the Tornado is asserted to be devoid of flat ion. The matter had been submitted to the reg0'a Jurisdiction of the Spanish maritime tribunals or PTifg courts, by whom the compensation to the English own' will have to be determined, and there could be no ocC for diplomatic intervention, at any rate not until the jodl ment of the oourt is known. A singular and melancholy affair took place oe Rictimond, Missouri, on the 25th ult., between two li" bojs, ai:en respectively eleven and thirteen years, Wiluam Floumey. They weye huntii gpartridges with father's revolver, but became eugaged in a quarrel, ff the elder fired two shots with the pistol at the yott? wounding him in the forehead and hip. He then handed weapon to his wounded brother and told him to shoot S did so, filing two shota, one ball entering the rUP* other oae tna ¥raln, Mid Killing bim lnjuanny.