The Pembrokeshire Herald and General Advertiser

MAY. Thrice welcome, genial month whose balmy sway Fosters, to full magnificence, the show Of blossoms that rejoice the face of day, And, in the fructifying sunlight, glow, Airs, precious with perfume, are thine to breathe, And particolour'd robes are thine to wear; Favours for thee, the cherry-orchards wreathe; For tbee climbs white the promise of the pear. The pink-ey'd applecup prolongs thy reign Daisies and buttercups, and cowslips gay The hawthorn's flakes; the tulips' <rorg'ou3 train The lilacs' plum'd; the chesnuts' tall array Nature keeps holiday, whilst thou, the Queen Of rustic sports, do'st rear thy Maypole on the green. A Ctutwry of Sonnets. By Jacob Jones.

AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. VIENNA, MAY 5 (Evening.) Tt is rumoured that the Austrian Cabinet have decided to reply to the last Prussian note in conciliatory and moderate terms, declaring, however, at the same time that in the present state ot aflairs Austria cannot disarm. The municipality of this city are making arrangements to provide stabling for 4,0( 0 cavalry horses. Saxony, Wurtemberg, Hanover, and Electoral Hesse are said to have given assurances to the Austrian Go- vernment that they will lend their support to Austria in the event of a conflict witn rrussia. Bavaria nas ad- dressed communications of & friendly nature to the Aus- trian Government, without, however, taking up any decided position. decided position. The Middle States advise Austria to lean entirely on the Federal Diet in the question of the Duchies. Rumours are current here that the Austrian Am- bassador in Berlin and the Prussian Ambassador in Vienna will shortly be recalled. It is believed that important negotiations are being carried on between the Austrian and French Govern- ments with regard to Italy. The Vienna journats publish intelligence from Florence, stating that the Italian Government is in negotiation with a London house for contracting a loan. It is also stated that it is intended to raise an Italian loan ot 750 million lire by voluntary national subscrip- tions. General Prim is expected to receive the command f of a division of the Italian army. It is rnmoared that Venice will shortly be placed in a state of siege. BRERCTA, MAY 5. A camp of 15,000 men will be established at Pola. The coast of Dalmatia is being fortified and the garrison of Trieste has been increased to 14,000 men, consisting principally of Croatian regiments. A GRAM, MAY 5. Intelligence received here announces that great arma- ments, concentrations of troops, and preparations for commencing a campaign, are going on amongst the Austrian forces on the Servian frontier.

PRUSSIA. BERLIN MAY 5 (Evening). Ministerial ordinances have been issued to-day, placing certain restrictions upon the granting of passports to Prussian subjects wishing to go abroad. This measure has been adopted in consequence of the steps taken to raise the different divisions of the army to their war strength.

AUSTRIA. VIENNA, MAY 4 (EVENING). Prussia is said to have declined all negociation on the definitive solution of the question of the Duchies on the basis proposed by Austria. An official notification in reference to the issue of the proposed Government currency is shortly expected. Pa- per money will not be issued by the Government itself, but by the National Bank of Austria, who will issue notes of one and five florins to the amount of one hun- dred and ten millions. This amount will be placed to the account of the Go- vernment, the latter reserving to themselves the right to order the issue of forty more million of florins. VIENNA, MAY 5. An Imperial decree has been promulgated to-day an- nouncing the issue of one-florin and five-florin bank notes, which are to be placed to the account of the Go- vernment. The authorisation granted to the National Bank to issue notes of these amounts for its own account is suspended, and the said notes are placed to the account of the public debt. The decree releases the National Bank of Austria from the obligation of giving speoie in payment of its notes on presentation. The latter will henceforth circulate as Government notes and must be accepted in all payments as legal tender at their full nominal value. The supervision of the same is confided to the Com- mittee of Control over the Public Debt, and the amount to be put in circulation is not to exceed one hundred and fifty millions. The National Bank will be compelled to pay in its own bank notes the equivalent for any sum presented to it (of a higher value) in one and five florin notes of the Government currency. The decree delares this financial measure to be neces- sary in order to meet the demands upon the Treasury, which have arisen in consequence of the complicated foreign relations of the empire, and the threatened out- break of war. The official Wiener Zeitung says:—' This measure, un- favourable as its effect will be upon Austrian currency is, nevertheless, the best thing that could happen in the present difficult state of affairs.' All hopes of peace are not yet abandoned. The Ministry of Marine has issued a notice, stating that surgeons are required in the naval service. 0

DREADFUL COIXIKBY ACCIDENT.—A dreadful colliery explosion is reported to have occurred on Friday evening at the Garswood Colliery, Haydock, near Saint Helen's, belonging to Messrs Bromilow and Co. It is supposed that the explosion was caused by blasting. The only particulars which have come to hand are to the effect that f!.¡ht men were drawn dead out of the pit, some of whom had been burnt to death, and the others suffocated by the choke-damp whilst attempting to escape. It is also said that eight other men were very seriously injured, and four of them are not likely to recover. Another report say-, that the numbers who were drawn up from the pit dead amounted to ten. A LARGE STEAMER SUNK IN THE VICTORIA DOCKS. -Un tsuT.dayat daybreak, a large iron steamer, 2,1)00 tons burthen, called the Indian Empire, belonging to Mr Lungley, the shipbuilder at Depttord, moored off the nouth sbore in the Victoria Docks, was discovered to be in a sinking state. The dock-masters set gangs of labourers at the ship's pumps, and additional pumps were put on board to keep her afloat, but the leak gained so rapidly that she soon went down. On account of her great size, and the difficulty of discovering the where- abouts of the leak, it will be a long time ere she can be raised. The steamer has been lying in the Victoria Docks nearly four years. It will be remembered she was burnt to the water's edge in the river off Mr Lungley's yard under suspicious circumstances. Several thousand pounds were being expended oa her in refitting her out, it was said at the time, for running the blockade, when suddenly she wxt found in flames, and in order to extinguish the tir.) she was scuttled. After some months she was raised a at great expense, and towed into the Victoria Dock, where she was again built up, but has not quitted the dock. STEPHENS, THE HEAD CENTRE.-The Cork Examiner contains the following curious piece of news about Stephens, the 'Head Centre:'—'A clergyman just returned to Ireland from Paris met the celebrated Bead Centre Stephens at the Irish College. He happened to be alone in the reception-room when a visitor came in whom, from the portraits, he recognised to be the gen- tleman concerning whom so much anxiety was felt by the Irish police. Are you the celebrated Mr Stephens?' lie asked. 'Celebrated or not, I am Stephens,' was the reply. The business, which brought him to the college be stated was to find out some convent in which he could place his wife and his sisters-in-law during his absence in America. He stated that he was to leave for New York via Havre on Tuesday, that is a week since, and that he should return in three months. The Sacre Cwur Convent, which is to the rear of the Irish College, was recommended to him as suitable for his purpose, but it was added that it was expensive. L do not mind expense,' was Stebens's remark. The ladies have since, we believe, actually taken up their abode in the convent.' 'A MOONLESS MONTH.'—A correspondent writes to a contemporary as follows :—' The month of February, 1866, which is now gone will be marked in the astronomical calendar as the month which had no full moon. January had two full moons, and March two, but February had none. Of course, this peculiar conjunction of periods which makes the full moon show her face but a few hours before the month comes in, nnd again a few hours after the month goes out, is a rare thing in nature; but how rare, do you suppose, gentle reader? It has not occurred before in your life time, nor ours— not since the time ot W ashington, nor since the discoverv of America by Columbus no, nor since the Christian era, nor since the fall of Adam, nor since the creation of the world, unless that be placed back myriads of years. And it will not p I occur again, according to the computation of astronomers, for two million and a haf of years— or probably NEVER—for before that cycle of ages shall be completed, it is our Christian faith that time will be ended, and the solar system be de. stroyed.' SINGULAR ADVENTURE ON LAKE WINDERMERE.— Three persons were thrown into a critical situation on Monday week while rowing on Lake Winder- mere through the sudden illness of one of the party. About seven o'clock two gentlemen, wishing to proceed from Bowness Bay to Waterhead, engaged Richard Robinson, boatman, to convey them there in a sm;dl boat. When nearly half way, and op- posite (Ja'garth Park, one of the gentlemen pro- posed taking an oar; but no sooner had he changed hirf seat and taken the oar than he was seized with a tit, and in his struggles threw himself out of the boat into the lake. The other gentleman, seated in the stein, immediately reached over the side of the boat and caught hold of him by the coat. In so doing, however, he canted the boat on one side, and in a moment it was filled vvith water. At the same instant Robinson, the boatman threw him- self on the opposite side of the boat, which caused it to rignt itself. In this critical state of things it s impossible to get the gentleman into the boat; 1 Robinson, however, managed to work the oars in a I very carelul manner, and the gentleman in the boat '"••"retaining his hold of the one in the lake, after much c,!rc andjabou.r they got themselves worked to the ] H strke. "The geiukuiaii who had been so long in WIA:F carried to Troutbeck Bridge, where iioway [wit to .bed, and, soon recovered -his con- s 'smoi^Tiefes. Fortunately fhere- was nó wind on at t^c time the accltfcnf bappeuctf. •

AMERICA. NEW YORK, April 24, Evening.-The President has sent. to the House of Representatives important diplomatic correspondence relating to Mexico. On the 12th of February last Mr Seward addressed a communication to M. Montholon, citing and answering in detail the arguments advanced by M. Drouyn de Lhuys, in January, in defence of the course pursued by France in Mexico. M. Drouyn de Lhuys had declared that the objects of the French Mexican expedition were not hostile to the institutions of the New World, nor was it desired to realise ambitious schemes, or to impose monarchical government upon Mexico against the will of the people, but only to obtain just reparation for the wrongs of French residents, and to secure guarantees for their future rights. A number of influential men in Mexico, including one of the late Presidents, despaired of obtaining order under republican government, and favoured the re-establishment of royalty. France sustained an Imperial government in Mexico, founded on the consent of the people, because that government furnished the requisite reparation and guarantees. M. Drouyn de Lhuys further alluded to the aid furnished to the United States by France during the revolutionary war, to the proposal that the United States should join the Mexican expedition, and to the neutrality observed by France during the late rebellion. Mr Seward replied acknowledging the traditional friendship between the two countries, and the respect and consideration due to the representations of France; but the Federal government has seen no satisfactory evidence that the people of Mexico originally accepted the so-called empire, nor could any such acceptance be lawfully procured in presence of the French army of invasion. In another dispatch M. Drnuyn de Lbuya alluded to the former friendly relations between the United States and the Emperor Iturbide. Intestine war had become the normal condition ot Mexico, and the present appo- sition to Maximilian was only the result of previous anarchy. All states needed allies, and French aid did not divest the revolutionary war ot its. true national character. Mr Seward replies that nations have no right to correct each other's errors, except to proteot their own interests. The United States did not regard the govern- ment of Maximilian as legitimate or capable of forming allrances. M. Drouyn de Lhuys urged the advantages to the United States from a stable government in Mexico; these advantages Mr Seward admitted, but declares they cannot counter-balance the injury caused by the overthrow of a republic. The United States would feel gratified when the French Emperor gave definite information when the French forces would be withdrawn from Mexico. The withdrawal need not be delayed under any apprehension that the United States would prove unfaithful to their declared policy of non- intervention. On April 6, 1866, M. Drouyn de Lbuys wrote to M. de Mmtholon that the French government recognised the desire of the Unitei Seates to cause the traditional sentiments of amity between the two countries to pre- vail over the divergencies of governmental relations. France receives with confidence the assurance that the United States will not prove unfaithful to their promise of non-intervention, and finds therein sufficient guarantee no longer to delay the withdrawal of the French forces. The Emperor has decided that his troops should evacuate Mexico in three detachments-the first in Nevember next, the second in March, 1867, and the third in November, 1867. On March 19 Mr Seward wrote to Mr Motley, the American minister at Vienna, acknowledging the receipt of his communication, wherein the latter announced the probability that Austria would consent to and permit the levy of 4000 volunteers for Mexico. Mr Motley was instructed emphatically to protest against such a proceeding, and to state that in the event of hostilities being prosecuted in Mexico by Austrian subjects in the manner described the United States will regard it as war between the Republic of Mexico and Austria, and cannot engage to remain neutial spectators. On April 16 Mr Seward again wrote to Mr Motley, acknowledging the receipt of a dispatch from him informing Mr Seward that 1000 Austrians were about to embark for Mexico at Trieste; Mr Motley was instructed to inform the Austrian government that the United States regarded the dispatch of Austrian troops to Mexico while negociations were pending with serious concern. The Judiciary Committee of the House of Repre- sentatives has reported adversely to the President's re- commendation to modify the test oath. General Foster has informed the governor of Florida that the state law disarming freedmen cannot be enforced, the Attorney General of the state having declared that law to be unconstitutional. It is reported that the British and American admirals in Chilian waters have protested against the bombard- ment of Valparaiso, and insisted that permission should be given to remove the women and children, otherwise they would resist the bombardment by force. NEW YonK, April 26, Evening.-The Senate hr e passed the bill admitting Colorado as a State into the Union. The amendment proposed by Mr Sumner, extending the suffrage to Colorado without distinction of colour, was rejected by 27 against 7 votes. An enthusiastic mass meeting was held at Brooklyn last evening to endorse the policy of President Johnson. General Rousseau, a member of Congress for Kentucky, warmly sustained Mr Johnson, and denounced Thaddeus Stephens as a miscreant who for partisan purposes opposed the reconstruction of the Union. General Canby, of New Orleans, has refused to permit the issue of writs of habeas corpus in cases of defaulting Treasury cotton agents. Heavy crevasses in the levees on the Mississippi river threaten the country around New Orleans with inunda- tion. Seventy-five additional cases of cholera have occurred on board the Virginia since her arrival in quarantine. Twelve deaths took place on Tuesday. Dr Slayter, the Halifax physician who attended the passenger9 on the England, has died of cholera at Halifax, where three other cases are reported. The Fenian excitement is rapidly abating. Federal troops guard the bridge between Calais and St Stephen's. General Doyle has established his headquarters at the latter place. The reason assigned for the release of the Fenian sohooner seized by the Federal authorities is that the vessel had a regular customs clearance from Portland, and was properly consigned to Doran Killian at Eastport. Killian's movements are not stated. It is reported that he is endeavouring to organise a fishing company, for the purpose of bringing about, without a breach of the neutrality laws, a collision between the English and Americans on the fishing grounds, in hopes of thereby causing a rupture between the two governments. Three cases of muskets consigned to prominent Fenians have been seized at Oswego by the Federal authorities; also, on Tuesday, the customs authorities at Eastport seized 100 cases of arms consigned to Fenian leaders. The Fenians are all leaving Eastport for Portland, and but one British war vessel remalas off Campo Bello. Two companies of Federal artillery arrived at Eastport on Wednesday. Two Fenians, arrested for firing at the guard on the bridge of St. Stephen's, were fined 50c. for drunkenness, by the Calais authorities. They were subsequently arrested by order of the Governor of Maine, at the request of General Doyle, and were kept to await the instructions of Mr Seward. A proposal of O'Mahoaey that the Fenian factions should unite in harmonious action, and leave all pending disputes to await the arbitration of Stephens, has been rejected by the Roberts faction. The Now York press generally pronounce the Fenian movement on the Brunswick frontier to be a collapsed bubble. NEW YORX, APRIL 25. Mr Seward has instructed the American Minister in Vienna to protest against the embarkation of Austrian troops for Mexico, and to inform the Austrian govern- ment that the United States cannot engage to remain neutral if Austria permits her troops to continue to make war against the Republic of Mexico. NEW YORK, April 28, Morning.—Spain is re- ported to have proposed to submit the Chilian question to the arbitration of the United States. It is officially announced that M. Drouyn de Lhuys has promised to lay before the Emperor Napoleon the proportions of Mr Bigelow, that France should, through the United States, negotiate with Senor Romero lor the cessation of hostilities in Mexico until the French evacuate the country. All is quiet on the New Brunswick frontier. Three hundred Fenians left Eastport on Thursday for Portland. The cause assigned for their depar- ture is their failure to obtain the arms seized by the Federal authorities at Eastport. Captain Grace the reputed organizer of the Eastport expedition, de- clares the failure to be due to the imbecility of Mahony. He advises the Fenians to furnish no more funds to Mahony, but to adhere to Roberts. The popular subscriptions to Mahony's Fenian Bonds have entirely ceased since the Eastport fiasco. It is reported that the Roberts' faction will now make a desperate effort to secure the support of the disafecteu O Mahoney Fenians by any imme- diate military demonstration against some points of the Canadian frontier. 1:> Unreliable reports are in circulation that the Fenians are gathering at Ogdeusburg, on the St Lawrence. 11 The Fenians wbo fired at the guard on St Ste- phen's-bridge have been released, the British authorities refusing to prosecute. A party of the Fenians from Eastport, on the way from Portland to Boston, mutinied against their officers. The ringleaders were put on shore, and the boat proceeded. The Fenian prisoners at Cornwall, in Canada, ivere yesterday remanded for eight days. President Jchnson has granted Mrs Jefferson Davis permission to visit her husband. The President has ordered the confiscation of property in Florida, to be discontinued. The Governor of Georgia has requested General rhomas to send troops to Fannin County, to suppress a disturbance which has broken out there, and which is beyond the control of the local authorities. The recent report, that a new 5 per cent. loan was about to be issued, is denied. Numerous meetings have been held throughout the country to endorse the policy of President Johnson. The newspaper correspondents from Mexico cor- roborate the report that the Republicans have captured Chilhuahua. The cholera on board the vessels in quarantine at New York is assuming a milder form and is abating, 88 cases were reported yesterday, being a reduction of nine since Thursday.

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE COUNT BISMARCK. T BERLIN, MAY 7. This afternoon, about six o'clock, a well-dressed man fired several shots from a revolver at Count von Bismarck in the Unter den Linden Street. The would-be assassin was immediately arrested, having been seized by Count von Bismarck himself who was not wounded by any of the shots. BERLIN, MAY 7 (11 P.M.) The attempt upon the life of Count von Bismarck was made at five o'clock this evening, as the Count was returning on foot along the Unter den Linden, after having an audience of the King. Upon reaching the Schadow Strasse he was fired at from behind by a man who discharged at him two barrels of a revolver. Both shots, however, missed the count, who immediately turned and seized the man. In the struggle which ensued between them the assassin fired three more shots from his revolver. Count Bismarck remained unhurt, with the exception of a slight contusion. His clothes were also burned by the nearness of the three last discharges. The perpetrator of the attempted assassination, who waa immediately arrested by the police, is a man 35 years of age, a son of the Republic refugee, Car! Blind. It appellrs that he came from Hoheuheim, in Wurtemberg, with the deliberate intention of assassinating Count von Bismarck. BERLIN, TUESDAY. Blind, the assassin, while unobserved in prison stabbed himself in the throat nine times with a pocket knife having several blades. The physicians declared the wounds not dangerous, as no important artery was severed, and he was put in a waistcoat, but he died this morning.

ITALIAN VOLUNTEERS UNDER GARIBALDI. FLORENCE, MAY 8 (Evening.)—A royal decree has been issued this afternoon ordering the formation of a corps of I tiilian volunteers, to be provisionally composed ot twenty battalions, under the command of General Garibaldi. The volunteers will engage to serve for a term of one year.

EC CLESIA S TIC A L INTELLIGRNCE. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Rev G. Aprden, Rector of North Bovey, Devon View of Dunsford, Exeter. Rev A. Atkinson Vicar of Audlem, Cheshire. Rev M. E. Benson; Rector of Ringwouid. Keut. Rev R. V. Biathwayt; Rector of Lillington, Dorset. Rev J. Bardsley, M.A., Secretary to the London Diocesan Home Mission; Evening Reader and Lecturer of the Parish Church of St Mary- lebone. Rev J. B. Cartwright; Curate of Whitestable. Z-1 Rev E. Cornford, Vicar of Cam, Gloucestershire Diocesan Inspector of Schools, diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Rev D. Craven, M.A., Incumbent of Chantry, Frome; Curate of Isleworth. Rev W. W. Darby; Rector of Shottisham, Suffolk. Rev T. Doughty Curate of Walsoken. Rev J. Francis, M.A.; Assistant Chaplain of Millbank Convict Prison. Rev N. M'Grath, B.A.; Curate of Holy Trinity Church, Lee. Ven J. D. Giles, M.A., Archdeacon of Stow; Precentor of Lincoln. Rev E. H. Vernon-Harcourt; Prebendary of Centum Solidorum, Lincoln. Rev H. Holmes; Vicar (Donative) of Durleigh, Z, Somerset. Rev H. P. W. Hughes; Perpetual Curate of Hulland, Derby. Rev W. P. Insley; Curate of Flixborough with Burton-upon-Stather. Rev R. L. Lowe Curate of Saxby. Rev J. W. Marshall Curate of Marnham, Notts. Rev J. Ray Rector of Ashton, Lincolnshire. Rev C. J. Ridsdale; Curate of Norwell with Carlton. Rev T. Rolph Vicar of Chisledon, Wiltshire. Rev M. W. F. St John Vicar of Frampton-upon- Severn; Diocesan Inspector of Schools, Diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Rev E. S. Sanderson Chaplain of East Retford Union Workhouse. Rev J. Smith Curate of Cromwell. Rev G. Watson; Curate of Norton; Rector of Sutton Magna, Essex. Rev J. M. Webb; Rector of Newton-le-Wold, Lincolnshire. Rev D. Whalley, M.A.; Rector of St Peter's, Nottingham. Rev J. A. Whitlock, M.A.; Curate of Portman Chapel, Baker-street. Rev J. Williams Curate of St Mary, Crown-street, Soho. Rev E. C. Wills, M.A.; Vicar of North Shoebury. Patron, Lord Chancellor.

SUGAR IN BREWERIES.—A newly issued Parliamen- tarv return shows that in the year ending September last, the London breweries consumed 4,224,168 lbs of sugar, whilst breweries in the provinces only used 1,686,603 lbs. The quantity used in Scotch brew- eries was 200,799 lbs, and in Irish Sf J 175 lbs. A CHILD EATEN BY A PIG.-A frightful occur- rence took place in Manchester on Saturday evening. Mrs Nash, the wife of a soldier, living in St Michael's-place, Angel-street, Rochdale-road, went out shopping about seven o'clock, leaving her child, a boy about two years o!d, asleep on a couple of chairs. On returning some time after with her brother she was horrified by the sight of her infant lying upon the floor maimed and bleeding near a young pig. The animal was at the moment occupied in gnawing a fragment of the right arm, which it had torn from the child's body. The fragment of the mutilated limb was rescued by the brother, and the child was imme- diately taken to the Royal Infirmary. The senior house surgeon, Mr Clements, found the child in an extreme state of excitement. On examining it he discovered that the whole of the right arm up to within three inches of the shoulder had been eaten off, for traces of teeth were distinctly visible in the remaining portions of the flesh, from which the bone was protruding about half an inch. Marks of teeth were also descernible in the left hand. The brother of Mrs Nash had brought with him the remnant of the arm, which lie had taken from the pig, but it was so shockingly mutilated as to be scarcely recognisable as part of a human body, the bones and flesh being literally mashed into a shapeless mass; not even the trace of a finger being left. Amputation was performed, and all the remedies that surgical skill could suggest were adopted, but without avail, and the child exDired on Monday afternoon about five o'clock. It appeared that the pig bad been won at a raffle by Mrs Nash, who bad kept it about the house for the purpose of fattening for market; and it was to have been sold on the very day that this horrible event happened.—Manchester Courier. CHOLERA IN LIVERPOOL,- ,LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. —On Friday evening the Helvetia, which had been sent back to Liverpool from Queenstown, while on her outward voyage to New York, with cholera on board, arrived in the Mersey, and at once pro- ceeded to her quarantine mooring ground in the Sloyne. On the vessel making good her anchorage she was boarded by Dr. Buchanan, of London, who had been sent down to Liverpool on purpose Dr. Gee, of Liverpool Mr Carr, Captain Roberts, emi- gration officer Captain Harvey, marine superin- I tendent to the National Steam Navigation Com- pany and Lieutenant Sweeney, of the river police. A thorough inspection was at once commenced, and after a careful examination it was found that the reports as to the sanitary condition of the vessel were somewhat exaggerated. All the healthy passengers were, however, at once removed to a separate part of the ship, whilst those who manifested any signs of illness were placed under additional medical attention. One disagreeable fact was very apparent. The German steerage passenger, once on board ship, becomes indifferent to cleanly habits, and entertains no respect for the comfort of his fellow-passengers of another nation- ality. He generally fills a spare box or bag with cabbage before going on board, which be carefully protects until his bout of sea-sickness is over. He then chops up his cabbage, which is then-partly putrid, and alter mixing it with vinegar he has, next to lager beer, his great compound sauer kraut.' If this stuff can to any extent be whole- some on land, its effects at sea, combined with the proverbial filthiness of Germans when on board ship, must be fatal to the health of those who use it and those who do not. Every precaution has been taken to prevent any of the passengers coming on shore from the Helvetia, as two hulks, the Jessie Munu and War Cloud, are now taking on board the sick and healthy passengers, On the 9thof April the Governor-General of Canada, fearing that cholera might be imported into Canada, issued an order to the effect that all passengers must go into quarantine off Grosse Isie, untii after a medical inspection. It is asserted that Queenstown, not heillg a quarantine port, the Helvetia could uot be allowed to come to an auchorage. WIDTII OF THE STREETS OF THE CITY OF LONDON. —There are in the City 440 streets, and in only 70 of them is there room for more than two lines of vehicles to pass at a time for the entire length, so that vehicles may stand still in any part of the street, and not interfere with the progress of one line of traffic. In 111 of the streets one line of vehicles only can pass and 101 have no exit, and are not thoroughfares at all. A HANDSOME ORNAMENT TO A WEDDING VEIL.— A wedding took place in this city last week, which offered convincing proof that all the money had not been spent yet. The bride was dressed in white satin, of course, and point-lace veil. On her veil her father pinned ten one-thousand dollar greenbacks, and she was presented on her wedding day with, sixty-two shares of Pacific Mail Stock. This is con- sidered something 'sensible' by several lately married men, who are revelling in an unlimited quantity of napkin rings, fish knives, and salt cellars.-New York Express. STATISTICS AS TO THE CURABILITY OF CONSUMPTION -In an able paper on the Statistics of Medical Science, the late Dr Alison. of Edinburgh, asserts that 'One fact, recently ascertained on so large a scale as to leave no doubt of i's truth, is the good effect of Cod Liver Oil in tubercular diseases, including pulmonary consumption, provided only that it can be retained on the stomach to the extent of an ounce and a-half or two ounces per day.' This essential assimilating property is remarkably and peculiarly possessed by I)r de Jongh's Light- llrown Cod Liver Oil, which all medical experience shows may be continuously administered for a long period without inconvenience, and until the desired effect is accomplished. Dr Sheppard, Medical Superintendent at the Colney Hatch County Lunatic Asylum, says, • Dr de Jongh's Oil has the rare excellence of being well borne and assimilated by stomachs which reject the Ordinary Oils.' SELF-ACCUSATION OF MURDER.—At the Liver- pool Police-court, on Saturday, a youth named Samuel O'keefe, who was stated to be of unsound mind, was charged on his own confession with having murdered his father. On Friday night the prisoner was apprehended as a suspicious character, but was told that he might go if he would return home. He then made a statement to the effect that on the 29th of March he had had a quarrel with his father, who was ill, and had kicked and shaken him after which he carried him upstairs, and there he died On account of the suddenness of the death an inquest was held but no suspicion fell upon any one. Evidence was given, which in part supported the prisoner's statement, and he was remanded, so that inquiries might be made as to his sanity. CHTTHCn PASTORAL AID BOCIETY.-On the afternoon of the 3rd inst, a meeting of this society was held at St. James's Hall, the Earl of Shaftesbury in the chair. The total receipts for the year amounted tojg42,240. or X4,238 less than the preceding year, the decrease being princi- pally in legacies. The expenditure in the same time amounted *.o £ i6',214. Notwithstanding the diminution of funds, there has been no material curtailment in the number of grants. The Lord Bishop of Peterborough. Mr R. C. Hanbury, M.P., Lord Charles Ru«aell, the Venerable Archdeacon Prest, and Mr B. Shaw, made a few remarks, the latter censuring the demoralising 'gang' system of labour in Suffolk, Cambridge, Lincolnshire, and other counties. The Rev J. Griffiths, of Neath, contra- dicted a statement which had been maee in a public journal about the spread of infidelity in Wil'es, and re- commended that the society should give aid only to those churches where the services are read in the language of the country. The Rev J. Patteson, having briefly ad- dressed the meeting, the Earl of Shaftesbury said a few words in Welsh condemning neology and ritualitm, and urging arguments in support of the eociety. PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.—By a return issued on Monday, it appears that the gross public income in the year ending March 31st, 1866, was £ 67,812,292 4s 6d. The total expenditure (including £560.000 for fortifications) was £66,474,356 13s 3d. The balance in the Exchequer on March 31st, 1865, was £7,690,922 2s JOd. The money raised in the year was as follows—TerminableAnnuities, £ 450,0f»0; Exchequer Bonds, 91,000,000; repayments on ac- count of advances for the purchase of bullion, for local works, &c., £],817,052 17s 2d, and repayments on account of advances for new courts of justice. &c., £ 40,000. The amount issued in the year to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, was £2,131,500 7s 5d Exchequer Bonds paid off, £ 1,000.000; Exchequer Bills paid off in money, £1,678,200; advances for purchase of bullion and for local works, &c., £1,634,805 16s 7d; for new courts of justice, &c., £ 40,000; balance in Exchequer on March 31st, 1866, £5,851,314 7s 3d. CAUSES OF SUDDEN DEATH.—Very few of the sudden deaths which are said to arise from diseases of the heart do really arise from that cause. To as- certain the real origin of sudden deaths, an experiment has been tried in Europe, and reported to a scientific congress held at Strasburg. Sixty-two cases of sud- den death were made the subject of a thorough post mortem examination; in these case only two were found who had died from disease of the heart. Nine out of sixty-six had died from apoplexy, while there were forty-six cases of congestion of the lungs—that is, the lungs were so full of blood that they could not work, not being room enough for a sufficient quantity of air to enter to support life. The causes that pro- duce congestion of the lungs are-cold feet, tight clothing, costive bowels, sitting still until chilled after being warmed with labour or rapid walk, going too suddenly from a close room into the air, especially after speaking, and sudden depressing news operating on the blood. These causes of sudden death being known, an avoidance of them may serve to lengthen many valuable lives, which would otherwise be lost under the verdict of the heart complaints. The dis- ease is supposed to be inevitable and incurable hence many may not take the pains they ^rould to avoid sudden death, if they knew it lay in their power.- American paper. SHOCKING MURDER AT JERSEY.—On Friday morn- ing the discovery was made that a most brutal mur- der had been committed in the island of Jersey. The scene of the dreadful crime was a small thatched cottage called La Frontiere, near Mount des Vignes, in the parish of Saint Peter's, about six miles from the town of Saint Helier's. The victim was a single woman named Esther Susan Le Brun, aged 62 years. Adjoining the dwelling of the deceased was another of the same size—also with a thatched roof-and oc- cupied by an old woman and her daughter, Miss Le Cornu. On Thursday night, about nine o'clock, Miss Le Cornu bade the deceased good night,' and shortly afterwards went to bed. During the night she thought she heard a noise in the deceased's cottage, and the next morning the deceased was found dead in bed, in her night-dress, and presenting the appearance of having been violently strangled. On her night-dress, on the bed, on the floor, the window sill, and about various parts of the house, marks of blood were found, which it was supposed had come from the band of the murderer, one of the panes of glass in the window having been broken. An examination of the pre- mises showed that the place had been thoroughly ransacked, though nothing appeared to have been taken away, not even some stiver spoons which had been overturned in the search. No certain clue has been obtained as to the perpetrators of the horrid crime. BRITISH ANTI-TOBACCO SOCIETY.—On Monday evening, the 16th of April, an audience was convened under the presidency of Dr. Edward Moore, in the Manor Rooms, Hackney, to bear a lecture from Mr Reynolds, the society's representative, who commenced his address by giving a brief historical account of the popular weed. Two miilion tons' weight, he said, were annually grown and consumed, for the production of which 5k million acres of land were prostituted. The greater part had been the produce of slave labour in America, but happily that has terminated. In tobacco there are two constituent principles which are highly poisonous-one an essential oil which acts directly on the brain and the whole of the nervous system, the other a narcotic poison, called nicotin,' which acts especially on the heart and the circulation of the blood. These poisons are received by chewers and snuff-takers. By the action of fire, another principle is generated called empi reumatic oil, a single drop of which evaporated in this room would render the atmosphere so suffocating, that they would all be com- pelted to hasten away from it. An inquiry would naturally arise—How is it, if tobacco be so powerful, that it may be smoked daily for a great number of years without destroying life? The answer is, that as with laudanum so with tobacco, the system may be educated by a gradual process to receive it with conscious benefit. Beginning with 20 diops, and making daily additions to the quantity, as much might ultimately be taken at one time as would destroy the lives of ten or a dozen persons who had not been accustomed to it. if they divided it between them. In describing the effects of smoking on individuals, interviews were instanced which the lecturer has held with persons of varied positions in society com- mencing with medical advisers. As a sample we giva the followillg :-At the c mmencement of the society's labours he called on one of the faculty, who said he was a smoker, and asked him to join him, and added, of all the humbug ever palmed off on this country the Anti-Tobacco Crusadu was the crowner. Instead of adducing reasons for the assertion, he asked the lecturer to state his views, ot which the following is the substance. At the creation it was known to the Divine mind what would be the best rate of the heart's action to preserve the body and mind in harmony and health, that nothing interferes with tha action of the heart more than fumes of tobacco, primarily by exalting nervous force, and subsequently depressing it-that the Creator knew the necessity of saliva to prepare it for speedy elaboration into chyle and blood-that this important fluid the smoker spits away, and that which he cannut ejact descends in:o the stomach, enters into' the circulation, travels the whole round of the system, weakens the brain and affects every fibre of the frame. Instead of an attempt to negative these opinions the medical gentleman -:aid, I There's no answering these arguments, but the fact is I began smoking when I was a medical student, and I have smoked on until now, without thinking anything about it.' DESTRUCTION OF A SPINNING MILL.—On Sunday morning the spinning department of the extensive works of Messrs Scott, I nglis, and Co, Bri lgton, Glasgow, were destroyed by fire. As many as 60,000 spindles in working order and 60,000 in preparation were completely consumed, and 600 people are thrown out of employment by the disaster. The premises were insured. DEATHS FROM DRINKING.—On Monday morning an inquest was held at the London Hospital on the body of John Clarke, aged 40 years. On the 21st of April the deceased was found insensible from drink and carried to the hospital, where he died on Thursday. It appeared that while employed in the London Docks he sucked a quantity of brandy and port wine from some of the casks. The jury returned a verdict of Death from the Excessive Drinking of intoxicating liquors in the docks.—An inquest was also held on the body of Julia Macarthy, aged 22 years, who died from injuries received while in a state of intoxication. Verdict --Death from falls caused by Intoxication. THE WEDDING MARKET.—At a recent dinner of the friends of some • amalgamated benefit associa- tions,' a wit descanted on this subject, and gave the following as the 'report of the present state of the wedding market:—Spinsters Light articles not in demand richer sorts much inquired after terms geneially prompt. This restricts the market. Mediums, well made and carefully got up are steadily on the advance. Widows rule firm, and, if substantial, are occasionally inquired after. Bachelors All sorts of goods find a ready market. In the finer class, swells have nearly disappeared, and a more serviceable article is now offered. Here. too, the mediums are most sought after, the texture is finer and more serviceable than hereto- fore. Flimsy and unwarranted goods are flat. Old maids and old bachelors: Quantities of pre- vious years' goods encumber the warehouses, and are not quoted. If sought after by speculators for export, no doubt good articles may be found at easy prices. ACCIDENT TO MR STEAVENSON, OF TRINITY HALL, CAMBRIDGE.—A serious accident occurred at Cambridge on Sunday afternoon to Mr D. Fenwick Steavenson, B.A., of Trinity Hill, a gentleman well known amongst lovers of aquatic sports, at the same time indefatigable secretary of the Cambridge University Boat Club. Mr Steaven- son rowed No. 5 in the late University race. Mr Steavenson and three companions had been taking an airing in a waggonette, and were returning to Cambridge, dOwfn a dangerous slope known as Barrington hill, when by some reason or other the horse became restive, got the better of the driver, and finally bolted. Mr Steavenson's companions escaped without injury. One slipped off the vehicle on danger being apparent; but at last there was a capsize, and this resulted in Mr Steavenson, who stuck to the reins to the last, being found on the road with one of his legs broken. He was con- veyed to his rooms in Trinity Hall. Dr Humphry was sent for, and it is understood that time and patience are all that are necessary to his ultimate recovery. Meanwhile the crew now nominated or in training for the next University race will sadly miss his valuable assistance and advice. THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S QUARTERLY RETURNS. —The quarterly returns of the Registrar-General concerning the births, marriages, and deaths of the United Kingdom, show that in the quarter ending in December last, out of a population esti- mated at 30,004,519, there were 142,304 persons married; in the quarter ending on March 31, 265,663 children were born; and 185,138 persons of both sexes died. In the quarter that ended December 31, 1865, there were 114.100 persons married in England. In London the weddings rose from 7,856 and 8,711 in the December quarter of the two previous years to 9,746 in that of last year. In Lancashire and Cheshire, which together contain a population not much exceeding the me- tropolitan, the marriages in the same three periods were 7,635, 7,253, and 8,576. In the northern counties they were 2,917, 3,173, and 3,274.. In Monmouthshire and Wales 3,329. 3,416, and 3,538. In Yorkshire 5,659, 6,027, and 6,291. The marriage-rate per annum, in the December quarter of 1865, was 2,148. This result represents the proportion of persons married to a hundred in the population. The average of ten corresponding quarters, was 1,981 per cent. Weddings are always the most frequent in the Christmas quarter, and in that of 1864 the marriage-rate was 2,022; but within the range of the comparison, viz., the ten years 1856-65, a rate as high as 2'1 per cent is without any example, with the single exception of that which is supplied by the present return. Of children born in the March quarter of the present year the number was 196,737, against the high number 194,287 in the corresponding period of 1865. The annual birth-rate for the same period was 3'776 per cent, the average being 3 644. The birth-rate is always higher in the first six months of the year than in the last; but the tables for the last ten years furnish no instance of a rate so high as that which prevailed last quarter. London yielded its fair contribution to the increase; the births were under 30,000 in the metropolis, and slightly above that number in Cheshire and Lan- cashire. In some counties, as Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk, and Leicestershire, there was a decrease, tor which others, chiefly in the northern parts of the kingdom and in Wales, more than compensated by their increase. The births were very numerous in Surrey, Devonshire, Lancashire, Durham, Northumberland, Cumber- land, and Wales. Whilst the births were 196,737, the deaths were in the same time 138,233, and the excess of the former over the latter was 58.504. The natural increase was 650 daily but this was disturbed by migratory tendencies, always in active operation. The weather in the quarter was un- favourable to health, and, by exciting or aggra- vating pulmonary diseases, carried off many per- sons of advanced age. The total number of deaths in England and Wales was 138,233, which implies a rate of mortality above the average of ten pre- vious winters, though not so high as it had been in the winters ot 1864 and 1865. In these two periods 142,977 and 140,646 deaths were registered.

THEOBROMA CACAO. South America is the home of this tree. Dampiers the voyager, who visited the Caraccas in 1682, says: —' The coast is a continual tract of high ridges of hill, and valleys, "which alternately run pointing upon the shores from North to South. The valleys are from two to five furlongs wide, and in length from the sea three or four miles. Cocoa-nuts, of which chocolate and cocoa are made, are the main product.' A Cocoa plantation—or walk, as it is called—may contain some thousand trees, besides which, it has grouped about it the stately coral tree, as a proteotion for the young trees from the too scorching heat. They are not unlike the cherry in form, and seldom exceed twenty feet in height. The nuts are enclosed in pods as big as a man's fists put together, and will number almost a hundred in each. The crops are in December and June, and a well-bearing tree will produce twenty or thirty pods, which are gathered during a period of three weeks or so, as they turn yellow. As a ripening process, they are then allowed to lie in heaps, and afterwards spread out in the sun on mats, and when dry, each nut, (about the size of a kidney bean) has a hard thin skin of its own. When required for use, they are roasted, and the husks removed. Many millions of pounds of Cocoa are now annually consumed in this country, while prior to the reduction of the duty in 1832, the quantity was not half a million. But although this progress has been made, an adverse influence has continually been tending to check its con- sumption in the attempt of some manufacturers to gratify the public desire for a cheap article, and throwing on the market that only which is inferior and adulterated. However, shortly after the reduction of the duty, the doctrine of Homoeopathy was introduced into this country, and greatly stimulated the use of Cocoa. Being almost the only beverage recommended to those under the homoeopathic mode of treatment, it became very essential that a preparation of a quality at once attractive and pure should be made obtainable for their use. James Epps, the horacBipathic chemist first established in this country, was induced to turn his attention to the subject, and with the assistance of elaborate machinery, succeeded at length in perfecting the preparation now bearing his name. The very agreeable character of this preparation soon rendered it a general favorite. An additional recommendation was the facility with which it could be prepared for the table. It but required two teaspoonfuls of the powder to be put in a breakfast cup, then to be filled up with boiling water or milk, and the beverage was ready. But, although this preparation had been especially introduced for the use of homce ipathi.- ts, medical men of all schools soon began to recommend it. Its natural attractiveness of fhvir, and its developed grateful qualities, soon obtained for it a position which bad only been withheld from cocoa through misadventure. Dr Hassall, in his work, Food and its Adulterations,' says:—'Cocoa contains a great variety of important nutritive principles-every ingredient necessary to the growth and sustenance of the body.' Again, As a nutritive, Cocoa stands very much higher than either coffee or tea.' Dr. Lankester, says:—'Cocoa contains as much flesh-forming matter as beef.' Dr Liebig, says' Theobromine, the most highly nitiogenised vegetable principle.' (The most nutritious food is as a rule highly nitrogenised.) Dr Hooper, says :—'Admirably adapted for the sick —for those in health it is a luxury.' Epps's Cocoa, or, as it is more frequently called, Epps'a Homoeopathic Cocoa, is secured in £ lb |lb and llb tin-lined, labelled packets, and sold by Grocers, Con- fectioners, and Chemists. •

ROYAL NAVY IN COMMISSION § STEAMSHIPS, | Abonkir, Jamaica Fox, par. service ,Pyl.ides, N. America Adder, Chatham Frederick William, and West Indies Achilles, Channel Queenstown Racer, Mediter. Adventure, China Galatea, N. America Racoon, Portsmouth Advice, Queenstown Gannett, N. Amer. {Ranger, Coast of Af. Albacore, Bermuda Gibraltar, Mediter. Rapid, Cape Alberta, Portsmouth Gladiator, Devnportj Rattler, China Alert, Pacific Gleaner, Brazils Rattlesnake, W. Af. Algerine, China Grappler, Pacific Research, Chatham Amazon, Devonport Grasshopper, China Resistance, Medit. Autelooe, W. Africa Greyhound, W. Afric Revenge, Pembroke Arethusn, Mediter. Handy, W. Africa Rifleman, China Argus, China Hardy, China Rosario, N. America Assu-anefc, Medit. Harpy, Devonport and West Indies Asp, Pembroke Hastings, Queen's T. Royalist, N. Amer. Aurora, N. America Havock, China and West Indies BarosM, China Haughty, China Royal George,Dublin Basilisk, China Hawke, Queenstown Royal OaK, Medit. Banterer, China Hector, Portsmouth R1. Sovereign, Chan. Bellerophon, Pr'mth Helicon, Portsmouth Salamander, Aus- 151k. Eagle, Wlwich Hcsper, China tralia Blk. Prince, Channel Highflyer, K Indies China Blazer, Queenstown Himalaya, Portsmth Satel ite, Brazils Bouncer, China Hogue, Greenock Scorpion, Portsmth Brisk, Australia Hydra, Mediter. Scout, Pacific Bristol, W. Africa Hvtena, Milford China Britomart, Dvnport Industry, Woolwich Serpent, China Bustard, China Insolent, China Severn, ord home Buzzard, X. America Investigator, W. Af. Sharpshooter, Brazil Cadmus, N. America Irresistible, Sthmptn Shearwater, Pacific Caledonia, Mediter. Jackal, Scotland Sheldrake, Brazils Caradoc, Mediter. Janus, China Skylark, Gibraltar Chanticleer, Medit. Jaseur, W. Africa Slaney, China Charon, Devonport Kestrel, China Snipe, W. Africi Clinker, Plymouth Landrail, W.Africa Sparrow, ord home Clio, Pacific Lee, ord home Sparrowhawk, Pacfic Clown, China Leander, ord home Speedwell, W. Africa Cockatrice, Medit. Leopard, ord. home Speedy, Jersey Cockchafer, E. Ind. Leven, China Spider, S. America Columbine, Pacific Liffey, N. America Sphinx, N. America Constance, N. Amer. Lightning, Scotland Spiteful, Brazils Coquette, ord. home Lily, North America Sprightly, Portsmth. Cordelia, N. Amer. Linnet, Brazils Staunch, China Cormorant, China Lion, Greenock Steady, Xorth Amer. Coromandel, China Liverpool, Channel and" West Indies Cornwallis, Hull Lizard, Sheerness St George, Portland Cossack, Meditter. Lyra, Mozambique Stromboli, pas home Curacoa, Australia Alaiacea, Pacific Styx, North America Cygnet, X. America Manilla, China and West Indies Dapper, Dartmouth Mcanee, Mediter. Supply, Woolwich Dart, Portsmouth Medusa, Sheerness Sutlejj Pacific Dasher, Jersey Megsera, store ser. Swallow, ord home Dauntless, number Mullet, W. Africa Dee, store service Mutine, Pacifiic Tamar, troop ser. Defence. Channel Narcissus Brazils Terrible, Meiiter. Devastation, i rd hm Nettle, Portsmouth Terror, Bermuda Donegal, Liverpool Niger, N. America Torch, W. Africa Dc ris, X America Nimble, N. America Trafalgar, Queen's- Doterel, Brazils and West Indies f"rry, N.B. Dromedary, W. Af. Oberon, Devonport Tribune, ord home Duke of Wellington, Octavia, E. Indies Trinculo, Channel Portsmouth Orontes, Prtsmouth Tiiton, Brazils Duncan, N. America Osborne, special ser. Tyrian, Mediter. Eclipse, Australia Osprey, China Urgent, Portsmouth Edgar, Channel Pandora, W. Africa Valorous, Cape Edinburgh, Queen's Pantaloon, combay Victoria, Mediter Ferry, N.B. Pelican, Portsmouth Victoria and Albert, Elfin, Portsmouth Pelorus, China Portsmouth Enchantress,par.ser. Pembroke, Ilarwich Vigilant, E. Indies Enterprise, Medit. Pengnin, Mzmbique Yirid, Woolwich Espoir, W Africa Perseus, China Wanderer, Mediter Esx, Australia Phoebe, ord home Wasp, Mozambique Fairy, Portsmouth Pigmy, Portsmouth Weazel, China Falcon, Australia Porcupine, Channel Weser. Malta Favourite, Dvnport. survey. Wildfire, Sheerness Fawn, N. America Princess Alice, De- Wizard, coast Syria Fervent, Bristol vonport Wolverine, N. Amer. Firefly, Mediter. Prin. Consort, Chan. Wye, store service Fire Queen, Prtmth. Prin. Royal, China Wyvern, Devonport Flamer, China Procris, Gibraltar Zebra, W. Africa Forward, Pacific J Psyche, Mediter. Forward, Pacific J Psyche, Mediter. SHIPS. Acorn, Shanghai Ferret, Portsmouth President, Tbamel Active, Sunderland Fisgard, Woolwich Royal Adelaide, De- Asia, Portsmouth Formidable, Shrness, vonport Boscawen, South- Hibernia. Malta Saturn, Pembroke hampton Implacable, Devon- Sealark, Devonport Brilliant, Dundee port Seringapatam, Cape Britannia, Dartmth. Impregnable, Devon- of Good Hope Cambridge,Deronpt. port Squirrel, Devonport Canopus, Devonport fndus, Devonport Saint Vincent, Ports- Castor, North Shields Isis, Sierra Leone mouth. Cumberland, Sheer- Meander, Ascension Trincomalee, Har- ness Martin, Portsmouth tlepool. Docdalus, Bristol Naiad, Callao Victory, Portsmouth Eagle, Liverpool Nereus, Valparaiso Vindictive, Fernando Kguiont, Rio Princess Charlotte Wellesley, Chatham Excellent, Portsmth. Hong Kong Winchester, Abrdn 0

SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.—On the evening of the 3rd inst, at the annual meeting of the Sunday School Union, the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., occupied the chair. The income of the Union is principally derived from the sale of hooks, this source of supply bringing in about £500, The entire income is devoted to Sunday School objects, and the labours of the officers and committee are given gratuitously. Paid missionaries are now employed by the Union to form Sunday schools on the Continent, on the same principle as in England, additional subscrip- tions bein^ raised for this special'ohjeet, amounting this year, the first one of the new movement, to £260. Three resolutions were passed at the meeting, two of them of a routine character, and the other commending aperiodi- cil publication, just commenced by the society, intended to provide pure reading for younn people. Among the gentlemen who addressed the meeting were Colonel Griffin, of Chicago, United States; the Rev Charles Charles Clark, the RcT Morton Brown, LL.D, and the Ltev Paxton Hood.

THE LONDON MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANK, MONDAY, May 7. The supply of wheat from Essex and Kent this morning was moderate; that of barley, beans, and peas limited; with few fresh arrivals of oats from Scotland, and none trom Ireland. There have been liberal imports Of foreign wheat and oats; those of barley were moderate* The weather during the past week was alternately dry and wet; cold throughout. Wind in the early part NE, at the close SW. "Scsterday and this morning fine; wind variable. English wheat met a good sale at Is tO 2* per quarter advance on the choicest white, and fully Is per quarter on fine red samples. The demand fof foreign wheat was moderate, and prices were general'^ held In per quarter higher. Town flour was unaltered. Country marks were firm at full prices. French and Americans supported former currencies. Malting barief was in fair request, at quite as much money. Grinding qualities were steady in value and demand. Malt sold Readily at full rates. Beans were Is per quarter dearer. Peas met a good inquiry at no quotable change in any description. A fair extent ot business was transacted 111 oats at former prices for heavy qualities, but from superabundance of light parcels these were bought at to 6d per quarter decline. Linseed was taken slowly 011 about former terms. East India rapeseed could bought lower. English cloverseed was unchangsdj Foreign held higher to keep over. Tares were In limits request at irregular values. JBIUTISH. Shillings per Qr.j Shillings Wheat—Essex and Kent, Oats—English feed 24 white, 41 59 Poland 26 Ditto, red 37 50 Scotch feed 25 2 £ Norfolk, Lincoln, and Ditto potato 28 3v Yorkshire, red 37 45! Irish feed, white 19 Bnrle 1/—Malting 35 40 Ditto, biack 22 Distilling 3? 31 Beans—Green 4« Chevalier Ticka 39 4' Grinding 31 82 Harrow V* PIFPOII O2 8,leX,N,°rf0lk,ana «, «>«"- White boilers' <1 f* Suffolk, pale 61 66 Maple 41 £ Chevalier Q* 37 3*1 Kingstone,Ware,&town J FW-Town' household 44 £ ™ade 69 ,0, Household 37 f. Br°wn 54 50. country 3i & Rye 31 33' Norfolk and Suffoilt 32\J?

BREAD. LONDON, MONDAY, May 7.—The prices of wheatej bread in the Metropolis are from 7jd to 8d of ditto, 6d to 7d per 4lb loaf.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. LONDON, MONDAY, May 7.-There was a full average supply 01 foreign stock on sale here to-day. Its qualitY. however, was very middling. The demand ruled steadf at full quotations. The arrival of beasts from our owa grazing districts, as well as from Ireland and Scotittild, were only moderate, but in excellent condition. Although the demand for all breeds was inactive, prices ruled tbll turn higher than on Monday last. The general figure was 5s 2d; but some very superior Scots crosses produced 5s 4d per 8!b. From Norfolk, S"froixg Essex, and Cambridgeshire we received about 1,000 St'OIN crosses, and shorthorns; from other paris of EogllI" J 600 of various breeds; from Scotland. -295 Scots crosses and from Ireland, 50 oxen and heifers. ThC, was a good supply of sheep in the pen?, mostly out 0 thu wool. The mutton trade was slow; Deverthelegs, very high rates were realised. Prime Downs and b If, breds, in the wool, sold at from 7s to 7s 4d out of &11: wool, 6s per 81b. Prime lambs were scarce and in g0°" demand, at 9s per 81b; otherwise the lamb trade heavy, at late rates. Calves were in short supply f fair request, on former terms—viz, from 5s 4d to 6s 4d 81b. In pigs very little was doing, and prices had* drooping tendency. Per IHba. to sink the Ore., Coarse and inferior rt. d.1 Prime coarse woolled «. d. *•« beasts 3 10 4 2 sheep 6 2 6 Second quality ditt* 4 4 4 8 Prime South Down 4 Prime large oxen 4 10 5 0| Sheep 7 0 7 .p Prime Scots, &c. 5 0 5 2,La>-o-e coarse calves 5 4 Coarse and inferior Prime small uitto 6 0 • j sheep 4 4 4 lO Large hogs 4 0 .p Second quality ditto 5 0 5 14111 Neat small porkers 4 ft Sucking UalvM 22* to 21s; and Quarter old Store rige 30* 33*. eucn.

POTATO MARKET. t LONDON, MONDAY, May 7. —Moderate supplies potatoes are on sale. The trade is dull, yet Pre*'5J|f quotations are supported. A few parcels of newS«'l, potatoes have arrived at market.

HOP MARKET. LONDON, MONDAY, May 7.—The reports for the tations are by no means encouraging; the golding p"1.^ is said to come away very weakly, and on the clay 8°'# the plant appears to have suffered very much from effect of the wet winter. The demand for all descrip" of hops continues good, and prices are gradually a vancing.

BUTTER MARKET. English fresh thirds to firsts per dozen 13s6dtol^ Ostend per dozen, lis to 14s; Dorset fine, per cwt, I to 126s, middling 100s to 112s; Devon 108s to 116s.

SOUTH WALES RAILWAY TIMjETTABLE. APRIL. oj WKKK DATS.—UP TRAINS. J •g 1, 4, i, l,Z,6, Axp. 1, %». Stat,ou*' class, class. 1 & 2| class. 1 ft 2 Mil. Starting from a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. 0 New Milford 8 55 11 20 5 0 i .J 41 Johnston 9 10 11 33 5 14 J «y 91 Haverfordwest 9 20 1141 5 24 J5 I4I Olarbesvoi. Road 9 32 11 56 — 21 Narberth Road 9 45 12 13 5 50 261 Whitland 10 0 12 24 — • ? 32 St. Clears lo 10 12 38 • ,( 40 J Carmarthen Jnc. 9 0 10 34 1 0 6 27 8 it 60 Llanelly 9 50 11 11 1 47 7 6 9 T> Swansea 7 30 10 10 11 27 2 15 7 22 10 77 Neath (dep.). 7 58 10 47 11 49 2 53 7 51 114 Cardiff 9 45 12 41 1 0 4 47 9 2 126! Newport 10 25 1 40 1 SO 5 16 9 24 ••• i 1431 Chepstow jll 15 2 30 1 58 6 0 9 61 •••' 171} Gloucester (dep.) 112 40 4 5 2 55 1&2 12 40 ••••' 178 Cheltenham(arr) jl&2 5 5 3 15 7 45 11 30 t 208 Swindon(d«p.). 2 35 6 10 4 25 9 10 2 20 2H5 faddimrtori 4 45 9 30 6 15 11 10 £ WEKK WAYS.—DOWN TRAINS. il,2,3„l,2,3, 1,&2, Exp. 1,2,3, 1*0 Stat «. class. class, class, jl Sc 2 cla»s« ^jJT Mil. Starting from a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. Jf ij* 0 Paddington 6 0 !n 45 9 15 f 77 Swindon (dep.) 9 25 1 37 il2 40 121 Cheltenham (dep 6 10 10 35 1,2,3 12 15 114 Gloucester (dep.) 6 35 11 15 3 12 45 ij i 1414 Chepstow 7 44 ,12 24 4 S5 1 3» J )t 158i Newport 8 35 1 8 5 35 2 20 4f f 170J Cardiff 9 8 1 37 6 0 2 41 J *? 208 (Neath (dep.) 10 57 3 22 7 52 ( 3 48 i 216 Swansea |1J 12 3 30 8 0 3 *>5 7 45 *$ 225 ILlanen, 11 58 4 15 8 43 4 32 8 22 *}t 2441 Carmarthen Jnc. 12 49 5 10 9 35 5 10 9 1 9 253 St. Clears 1 4 5 27 5 27 9 23 £ 258 £ WhiUana 1 19 5 41 5 41 9 3) t 264 jNarber'h Boad. 1 33 5 54. 5 54 9 48 270-i Clarbeston Road 1 47 6 7 6 7 10 2 j(i 275J Haverfoidwest. 1 58 6 19 6 19 10 13 jl 280.j Milford Road. 2 13 6 32 6 32 10 25 285 N>w Milford 1 24 6 45 6 45 10 35 SUNDAYS.—OF TRAINS. SUNDAYS.—DOWN O/ „ 1 "27^7 i,& 2, 1,2,3, 1,2,3,1,2,3, 1,2, Stations. clags-, elass,I class. ciass. class.' class. *» j From a.m. p.m. p.m. From t.m. a.m. a.«>- > N. ail. 11 0 5 0 Pad.j 10 0 I Mil Road 11 13 5 14 Swin. ,e I p.m. H.West. 11 23 5 24 Chel. de 1 20 *}» Clar.Rd 11 36 — Glou.de 3 3*) l\ f Nar.Rdt 11 49 5 50 Chep 4 38 i jl Whit.l2 1 — New 5 25 4I 5 StClears 12 15 Cardiff 5 49 j1 Car.Jne.il2 37 6 27 Neathdc 7 38 i | Llanelly! I 23 7 8 Swan.de 7 55 j Swan.de 1 45 7 22 Llanelly 8 33 J jl Neath. 2 22 7 51 Car.Jnc 9 20 3 Cardiff. 3 56 9 2 StClears 9 36 ^.1 New. 4 28 9 24 Whit 9 52 -It Chep. 5 6 9 51 Nar.Rdt 10 7 V Olou. d?1 6 25 12 40 Clar. Rd: 10 23 ft Chel. ar 1 & 2 1 5 H.West. '10 34 J jl 8win.dej 8 li 2 20 MilRoad iio 50 }# Pad.r. 15 4 35 N. Mil.! a sjjx I

MILFORD BRANCH LINE OF I From Johnston (late Milford Road) to Mi If or J From Jolandrln ( late Mi?ford Road) to UP TRAINS—WSEK DAYS. a. m. a. m. p. m. p. m. p. m. a. m- J' ti Milford ..dep 8 50 II 10 1 50 4 55 7 0 11 0 It I Johnstonarr <9 ■*> 11 25 2 5 5 9 7 10 DOWN TRAINS WEKK DAYS. DO a-m* a.m. p.m. p.m. p. m, a. m* I ?' J? Johnston dep 9 25 11 10 2 15 6 31 7 20 11 20 P Milford.wr 9 40 11 55 2 30 6 41 7 35 11 30

PEMBROKE AND TENBY RAILWAY. 1 UP TRAINS—WEEK DAT8. I 1 2 3 4 I. 1,2,gov. 1,2. 1,2. 1,2,gov. FROM." ^0.0" a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. ™ Tenbv dep 7 45 10 0 1 30 5 45 Penally 7 48 10 3 1 33 5 48 Manorbeer 7 57 10 14 ] 44 5 59 Lamphey .n n. 8 7 10 25 I 55 610 Pembroke 810 10 30 2 0 6 15 Pembroke DocK an 8 20 10 40 2 10 6 25 Hobb's Point(coach 8 35 10 55 22õ"7 640 DOWN TRAINS—WEKK DATS. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. „ Hobb's Point (ferry) 8 40 11 12 2 45 7 20 fTjfi FROM 1,2,gov. 1,2. 1,2. 1,2, gOT. 1, Pembroke Dock dep 9 0 11 30 8 0 730 Pembroke dep 9 10 lItO 3 10 740 Lamphey 9 15 II 45 3 15 7 45 Mancrbeer 3 26 11 5« 3 26 7 56 PenaUv 9 37 12 7 337 8 7 Tenby 9 40 12 10 3 40 8 10

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