The Illustrated Usk Observer and Raglan Herald

THE ARTS, LITERATURE, &c. --+- A FISE bust of the late Lord Cockburn, by Mr. John Steell, sculptor to the Queen, was on Monday placed in the Parliament House, Edinburgh. AN admirable bust of Lord Palmerston has been made by Mr. E. G. Papworth, and is to be deposited in Sheffield as a memorial of Lord Palmerston's visit to that town. ACCORDING to the census of 1851 there were 1,504 male and 109 female "authors, editors, and writers" in England and Wales. The census returns for 1861 revealed but a very slight increase—namely, 1,528 male and 145 female "authors, editors, and writers." Thus male authorship, as a distinct profession, ap- pears to be stationary, while the only augmentation of the literary profession is due to the introduction of an increased number of ladies into its ranks. HER MAJESTY has honoured Mr. Kenneth M'Leay, R.S.A., of Edinburgh, with a commission for a, whole- length portrait of his Royal Highness Prince Alfred in water-colours. The Prince is to be represented in Highland costume. Her Majesty has further ordered that a duplicate of the portrait of the Prince about to be taken shall afterwards be prepared by Mr. M'Leay for the Royal Gallery at Windsor. IT will afford general gratification to the public to learn that several valuable additions to the collection of Royal pictures at Holyrood are about to be made by command of her Majesty. In the large collection in Hampton-court, says the Scotsman, there are a good many duplicate portraits of Royal personages con- nected more or less directly with Scottish history; and, on the attention of the Queen being drawn, through the proper official channels, to this circum- stance, and the suggestion made that some of these might be spared from the richly-clothed walls of Hampton Court Palace to the more needful and not less Royal and appropriate Holyrood, her Majesty at once acquiesced in the propriety of the transfer, and exhibited much personal interest in the selection of the pictures. As the arrangements are not yet completed, we cannot give any list of the paintings, but may mention that both their number and value are con- siderable. MR. GOODWIN read a paper to the Society of Anti- quaries last week upon some Hieratic papyri, which he has lately deciphered. They oontain a story of 3,000lines, relating the adventures of an Asiatic wanderer, about B.C. 2,400. This person flees from the Court of King Ammenemos I. into Ethopia, where he is hospitably entertained, marries the daughter of a chief, and grows a rich man. In his old age he longs to return to Egypt, and writes to the King for pardon. The King returns a gracious answer, and a copy of his letter is given. The adventurer describes his return to Egypt, the awe with which the King's presence inspired him, the mis- taken zeal of the courtiers, who, fancying the King is about to punish the fugitive, cry out that he is guilty; the turning of the babies by the King, who pronounces him innocent, instals him in a splendid house, with a handsome pension, builds him a magnificent tomb, and continues to smile upon him till the day of his death. Ms. EDMUND YATES writes to state that he no longer writes The Lounger at the Clubs" in the Illustrated Times. THE landing of the Emperor at Genoa during the Italian war.,has been painted by Budin, of Paris. It is a gay picture, somewhat resembling the departure of the Lord Mayor of London on his voyage down the Thames, on the 9th of November. Two volumes of Napoleon's Life of Caesar" are ready, but they are, according to the Memorial Diplo- matique, not to appear as yet, since his Majesty is going to revise them, for the sixth or seventh time, from documents furnished by a learned captain in the Genie Corps. Thus the notices given in the American papers that copies of this work might be there ob- tained, must be incorrect. MR. MAYHEW, the well-known writer on the London poor, has just published a work on Germany, in which he endeavours to prove by statistical reasoning that one-third of the gross gains of the entire people is lavished upon beer. AN elegant novelty in the way of 'book illustration has made its appearance in a volume just issued, en- titled, "Butterflying with the Poets," by Mr. J. Merrin, of Gloucester. A peculiar system of nature- printing" is brought to bear in the illustrations, thirty in number, the upper and under sides of fifteen dif- ferent kinds of butterflies being" printed," or trans- ferred to paper, in all their natural colours. CAPTAIN SPEKE'S work (on the source of the Nile) is creating a sensation, as great as Livingstone's and Du Chaillu's did. Though not written with any grace or beauty of style, it is singularly interesting as a proof of what the pluck and talent of two Englishmen could effect.

POLITICAL GOSSIP. A CORRESPONDENT says any clever young artist who may desire to rival Hogarth's series of pictures known as The Rake's Progress," will do well to depict Life in Washington." IT is said that very unfavourable private news has reached England from India, and was the subject of the last Cabinet Councils. THE Boston Post says the Archduke Maximilian Parts his hair in the middle, like all founders of dynas- ties. We should consider this as a good omen for the side^8' aS s^ows no tendency to favour either THR Garrick Club is going into larger premises near bt. Martm's.iajie. This club has elected two hundred fresh members, most of whom are Guardsmen, or men from the Government offices. The purely social, dra- matic, and literary character of the earlier club seems quite lost. The admirable collection of dramatic poets, many Of which are unique, will follow the mem- bers into their new mansion. NOT A GREAT MISXAKE. — By a misprint in a northern journal, tne line The Russians in Poland" reads The Ruffians m Poland." A BRIOADE of infantry IS about to be sent to Mexico, which seems to squire further aid to bring it into a French state of civilisation. THE office of Lieutenant of the County of Aberdeen, rendered vacant by the death of the Marquis of Huntly, will be conferred on the Earl of Kintore, pre- sently Lord-Lieutenant of Kincardineshire, which will be conferred on Sir James Horn Burnett, Bart., of Leys. A TRIAL of great importance to the inhabitants of Huddersfield is said to be fixed for the Hilary term in the Vice-Chancellor's Court. It is a question of tenant-right between the Huddersfield people and their landlord, Sir John Ramsden. A DEPUTATION from the British Association last week waited upon Earl de Grey to present a report on the application ofgun cotton to warlike purposes, and to recommend her Majesty's Government to institute a full and searching inquiry into its application. THE MINISTRY.—Several of the Cabinet Ministers, all of whom are absent from town, are expected to arrive in London during' the second week in January. After their meeting, the Queen will hold a privy coun- cil, at which the day for the meeting of Parliament will be fixed. Lord Palmerston is residing at his seat, Broadlands, Hants, and Earl de Grey and Ripon at his country residence, Studley Royal, near Ripon, Yorkshire. A STORY is told of a young artillery officer, of a bourgeois family, who asked a young lady to dance bourgeois family, who asked a young lady to dance with him at an Imperial ball at Vienna. She refused with the utmost hauteur. The young Emperor, who overheard her, turned to the officer, and leading him up to a lady present, said, "My mother will dance with you." A STRIKING instance of the popularity of the Polish cause in Paris was offered a few days ago at the School of France. One of the professors, in a lecture on "La Solidarity des Nations," spoke in praise of Poland, and was loudly applauded. A well-dressed, gentleman-like man, however, began to hiss. It was a bpld step. He was saluted as Vilain Russe," taken by two scholars, and turned out of the school. By proclamation the Governor has enacted that the salaries of British Columbian officials shall be as follows:—Governor, with a suitable residence properly furnished, < £ 3,000; Judges of the Supreme Court, < £ 1,200; Colonial Secretary, = £ 800; Attorney-General, with practice, =8500; Treasurer, £ 750 Commissioner of Lands and Surveyor-General, £ 800; Collector of Customs, £ 650; Chief Inspector of Police, £ 500; Registrar-General, < £ 500. LIEUTEN ANT-GENERAL the Duke of Wellington has been permitted to retire from the army by the sa.le of an unattached Lieut.-Colonelcy.

SPORTS AND PASTIMES. WILD BOAR HUNT AT DIEPPE.-The inhabitants of Dieppe were astonished a few days since to see a very large wild boar,' followed by a pack of hounds, arrive on the left bank of the Seine and dash into the water, expecting to reach the opposite bank and take refuge in the forest of Roumare. The loud barking of the dogs attracted the attention of the people in the neighbourhood, and a large crowd assembled to watch the hunt. The animal, hotly pursued by the dogs, landed on an island in the river, which he crossed at full speed, and again took the water in the right arm of the Seine. Two boats well manned were dispatched to intercept his passage. The wild boar, being driven from the right bank, took the middle of the river, again crossed the island, and appeared to be determined to attack the sportsmen. Another boat's crew joined in the pursuit, and a fowling-piece loaded with small shot was discharged at him. The river was dyed with his blood, but the animal continued to, swim, until, be- coming fatigued, a rope was skilfully thrown round his body and he was drawn ashore. The wild boar had been started two hours previously in the neigh- bourhood of Couronne, and was the ninth of his species killed within the. last six weeks by the same pack of hounds. Eulogy on Welsh Hounds. In the Field we have a glowing account of Welsh hounds, written assumedly by "An Old Man," but evidently composed by one whose heart is in the sports of the field. Mr. Powell, of Maesgwynne, he says, has a few of the old Panty Kendy breed in his kennel now, and a right good pack he has, too; the merits of which he has immortalised in a couple of songs. I cannot resist the temptation of recording them, although they lose vastly by not being heard from the lips of the composer himself. The first is entitled the MAESGWYNNE FOXHOUNDS. All jolly fsx-hunters who love gallant sport, To the following pack I would have you resort, They'll lead you with air, through hills, woods, and dales, They scarce can be rivall'd in England or Wales. Tally ho! hark away! forward boys! whoop, tally ho! When away to the meet, if the morning is clear, To have gallant sport, boys, you need not to fear, When the hounds join in consort you'll warrant them good As ever broke covert or dash'd through a wood. Tally ho! &c. They'll dash into covert with the crack of a whip, Then slyly and softly old Reynardmust slip They all break together, and seem all Sv. gay; Hnatls up and sterns down, is the word for the day. Tally ho Ac. There's Doctor and Pilgrim, two charming old hounds, White Cappy and Princess, their echo resounds. And though Marshal's loud note tells us he's getting old, Yet he's safe with the drag be it ever so cold. Tally ho! &c. That Ivghly-bred hunter, old Cadno by name, Superior in knowledge, his actions are game; He'll prick up his ears as he right understood, As well as his rider, ;f the note it was good, Tally-ho 1 &e. When horses are healthv and hounds they are stout, Tho' Reynard is swift, ihay will bring him about; For such rattling paces are true sportsmen's pride, But a very bad spec, 'tis to those who can't ride. Tally-ho I &c. When Reynard is pressed, then as straight as a line He makes for the rocks and snug earths at Pendine But the dens are secure, you forward may push, For once near Tom Harris yeu're safe of his brush. Tally-ho! Ac. Come, lads, fill your glasses, and cheer for the pack, With which true sportsmen good sport cannot lack; For they'll keep up their name wherever they're seen, So a health to the owner and hunt of Maesgwynne! Tally-ho! &c. The next song, to the same tune (" Cappy's the dog, Tally-ho! tally-ho !"), is founded upon an event which took place a season or two ago with Mr. Powell's hounds. The fox being hard pressed, did not care to breast the hill between Pendine and the earths, but, leaping over the rocks, took to the sea, meaning to swim round the point, a distance of nearly half a mile. Nothing daunted, the gallant pack followed, giving tongue lustily in their new and novel hunting-ground. The hunters rode round to Morvabychan, not at all easy in their minds as to the fate of the pack. Two gentlemen, thinking, as they afterwards said, that the water was no deeper than their boots, plunged in, and were with difficulty warned back. The fox and hounds swam round the rocks, and, ere they touched terra- firma again, the foremost hound swam into his game. And. now, having given a preface, I shall subjoin Thos. Morris's song, which must be remembered by many who were at the Llanboidy races last year, and dined with the squire of Maesgwynne. THE Fox- CHASE AT SEA. On the Stq day of April the morning was clear, The huntsman's loud horn gave a heart-stirrinsr cbeer. We all hied to covert, so blyth, bright, and gay, For who could be sad on a fine hunting day ? Tally-ho! frc. Bold Reynard broke covert, and made for the shore, We never knew foxes were sailors' before. He ran over rocks, and mountains so high, — ••••» As if he thought horses and hunters could fly. Tally ho.! See. ',1 .y. Our hounds they ran neatly, no quarter they gave 1- To Reynard, haid striving his distance to save, Thinks he to himself, No more running for me," .11 So the rascal" claps sails on and off sets to sea. L!.1 Tally ho! &c. The fox bore to windward, so neat were his plans, The hounds in full cry, followed, swimming like swans, He sprang on a rock as he forward would push, But two of the crew had him fast by the brush. Tally-ho! &c. There were two sporting pilots who entered the main, Supposing their comrades would follow the train, But they soon made for shore, and full loud were their shouts, "We ne'er thought the water was over our boots Tally-ho! &c. And so I will bid farewell, though not, I hope, for ever, to Morvabychan; wishing all good luck, sport, health, and happiness to its presiding genius, Thomas Morris, and assuring any one who loves nature and genuine courtesy that he will be amply repaid by a visit to Morvabychan,

FARMING AND GARDENING. -+- Preparations for Spring. Compost should now be prepared in quantity, as there is now a chance of getting it well frozen and several times turned before the winter is over. The benefit of attending to this at once will be immense in the culture of specimen plants, and, in fact, with what- ever requires a good compost, well pulverised, and free from vermin. It must be remembered that composts frequently turned at this time not only get frozen, which kills the vermin, but the robins and thrushes explore it every time it is thrown up afresh, and they, perhaps clean it more effectually than frost. Fruit trees of all kinds, both in fruit-garden, orchard, and orchard-house, should now be pruned and painted. For the latter purpose, a mixture of lime, soot, and clay, to the consistence of paint, will answer well; or use the Gishurst compound according to the direections which accompany it. Flower Garden. We cannot advise the planting of evergreen shrubs at this season, though we confess to doing it ourselves and seeing it done by everybody else. It would be much better for the trees, to be content now with marking the places where they arc to go by stakes, and leaving them untouched till April, when the shift will distress them less, and they will commence to make new roots immediately. This plan allows of the planting of deciduous trees and the finishing of all the rough work in laying out a shrubbery; and it may even be carried so far as to the making of the holes for the evergreens, laying the stuff taken out in heaps beside them, to get completely pulverised for filling in. Every cultivator of flowers should secure now a good supply of turf from a loamy pasture, and of bog, peat, or silky yellow loam, in which the common brake grows plentifully. These should be stacked up in high ridges like walls, so that the frost will penetrate the whole mass, and the grass will rot quickly. Manure, roughly spread among choice shiubs, will assist in' protecting their roots from frost. In spring the manure can be levelled, and all rough stuff raked off. This is a good time to make banks and rockeries, as during frost the wheeling can be done without harm to the walks. Tender plants in the open ground, such as fuchsias, erythrinas, bouvardias, oxalis, alstromerias, Japan lilies, Watsonias, and other rather delicate bulbs in the peat-bed, must have some protection, such as coal-ashes piled in the form of a cone over their roots, or heaps of moss put over, and kept from blowing away by means of hoops of willow rods. Kitchen Garden. There ought not to be now a single square yard of unoccupied ground that has not now, been deeply dug since the last crop was taken off. Deep stirring and successive frostings of the soil are immensely bene- ficial, and there never will be much success in the culture of edibles where there is any fear of hard work in winter. The out-door work of this month must be regulated by the weather. When the ground is not fit to be trodden on, get together all the clippings of hedges, prunings of trees, &c. &c., for charring, and keep the produce under cover to use as needful; it is a most valuable top-dressing for peas and other early crops, both to stimulate growth and prevent attacks of slugs. During frost wheel out dung, ready to dig in at the first opportunity. Sow, during fine dry weather, Dillistone's early and Sangster's No. 1 peas, mazagan, long-pod, and Beck's gem beans, horn car- rot, and hollow-crowned parsnips. We have found of late years that parsnips sown at the end of January make very heavy crops, and are rarely hurt by frosts, and if they do happen to be cut off by frost there is still time to sow again, and the loss of the seed is a very trifling matter compared with the chance of a heavier crop. Beans and peas may be sown now in frames, to transplant when the season is sufficiently advanced. These will be useful to replace any out-door sowings destroyed by frost, and to mend and patch the rows that have suffered damage. The best way to sow for transplanting is on strips of turf, which can be lifted out and laid in the rows when the transplanting takes place. Asparagus, seakale, and rhubarb will now be coming in plentifully from the forcing beds. If these beds are allowed to get too dry, the produce will be neither good nor plentiful. But they may be moist on the surface and yet dry at the roots of the plants; there- fore ascertain by stirring the soil with a trowel in the middle of the bed, and if dry give a good soaking with tepid water. Make up fresh beds for successive sup- plies. In ordering in roots for forcing, take care either to plant immediately on receiving them, or keep the roots moist with moss or mould, or they will be much injured by the action of the atmosphere.- The Gardener's Weekly Magazine and Floricultural Cabinet.

TOPICS OF THE WEEK. --+-- THE NEW JUDGE.—Appointments to the Bench of late years have been so uniformly good that the selec- tion of the right man to fill a vacant judgeship is not often supposed to call for any special commendation. We take it for granted that the great prizes of the Bar will be given to those who have fairly won them by their character and success as advocates, and it is very rarely that the expectation is disappointed. The appointment passes, as a matter of course, as some- thing almost inevitable, and no one imagines that there is any occasion to congratulate the Government on the conscientious performance of a duty which it would be disgraceful to neglect. But the selection of Serjeant Shee to fill the post left vacant by the sudden death of Justice Wightman is something more than the choice of the advocate who by common consent had the first claim to the promotion. A judicial ap- pointment which has won the cordial approval of the profession stands in need of no apology or commenda- tion but the first occasion on which a Roman Catholic lawyer has Meen admitted, in England, to the position which the Catholic Emancipation Act opened to the members of his Church, is too important as a precedent, and too significant as a triumph of the principle of toleration, to be passed over in silence. If experience had not taught us how much bigotry can remain in the hearts of those who are readiest with the cant of civil and religious liberty, it might well have seemed impossible that the special form of Christianity held by an honourable and distinguished advocate should be supposed to detract from his fitness for the judicial bench. Argument in support of such an objection there could be none, for even Exeter-hall would not venture to insinuate against Mr. Justice Shee the kind of suggestions which it thought becoming in the case of the unforturiate Mr. Turnbull. But argument is not necessary to sustain bigotry, and there are, no doubt, some who would have rejoiced the more at the continued exclusion of Mr. Serjeant Shee from the Bench, because it would have been impossible to attribute it to any other motive than religious preju- dice. It is only by slow degrees and painful effort that a nation ever really acquires the spirit of tolera- tion but a step once gained in England is gained for ever, and Lord Westbury's disregard of the fanatical objections to the appointment of a Roman Catholic judge will give fresh force to a lesson which, with all our boasting, Englishmen are slow to learn. It is, no doubt, a natural instinct of the human mind to deprive those who differ from us in religion of pecuniary emolument and professional distinction, and, as a means of enforcing uniformity of sentiment, the method, if only carried out far enough, is extremely efficacious. If those who objected (and it seems there were some such) to the recent appointment had pro- fessed to be movid by a sincere desire to convert the learned serjeant to the Church of-England, or, failing. that, to make his position as a member of his own Church as uncomfortable as possible, there would have been a logical, if no other, argument in favour of their principle of persecution. But the awkward position of our English bigots is that they profess not to be- lieve in persecution, and, at any rate, do not venture on the bold pretensions which (granting their own assumption of infallibility) were really unanswerable when put forth by the persecutors of the Middle Ages. The modern fry of petty persecutors dare not take the only ground on which their' practice can be justified. They would exclude an adherent of a different faith from the Bench, not with any hope of correcting or even punishing his theological errors, but on the pre- tence, which they do not themselves believe, that a Roman Catholic judge cannot be trusted to do justice in a Protestant country. Such a theory is not only peculiarly inapplicable in the case to which it has been sought to apply it, but is contradicted by all expe- rience, and openly flouted by our own practice in Ire- land and elsewhere. It is quite clear that, whatever mischief a judge who reverences the Pope may be sup- posed capable of doing in England, where the Roman Catholics are few in number, and, as a rule, high in station and loyal and temperate in their political feel- ings, would be infinitely aggravated in a country where the influence of the Roman Catholic priesthood is exercised chiefly over the lower classes, and has cer- tainly, in times within our memory, been associated with movements not conspicuous either for loyalty or legality. And yet in Ireland, where Riband Societies have to be be put down, and the scales of justice to be held equally between Orange and Papal ruffians, it is the practice to rely upon the uprightness and pro- fessional honour of a Roman Catholic Bench, and it is not pretended that the trust is ever betrayed. The hottest zealot of Exeter-hall would scarcely have fancied that he saw in the career of Serjeant Shee any trace of fanatical blindness to the demands of justice in a case where the interests of a co-religionist might be concerned; but the objection, if it had taken a formal shape, would, no doubt, have been that it was bad to make a precedent which, though safe for once, might be fraught with infinite danger on future occa- sions. The assumption of the influence of religious bias over the minds of laymen is made much more freely than experience warrants; and if there is any class of men to whom it is more than usually absurd to attribute a weakness of this kind it is the class of successful lawyers from among whom the Bench is re- cruited. The whole training and habits of thought of a practising barrister are one course of correction for tendencies of this description. A lawyer is as much open to intellectual bias as any man in the world, but he scarcely knows how to import into his forensic or judicial duties the particular feelings and opinions which he may entertain on politics or religion. The old lawyer who, when asked whether he was a Whig or a Tory, replied that he was a special pleader, is often referred to in a sense by no means complimen- tary to the sincerity of the profession; but there is another sense in which it is perfectly true that a "n judge, however warm may be his political feelings or his religious faith, is of no politics and no religion when he sits upon the Bench. Very few men have ever acquired a position at the Bar which entitled them to aspire to judicial office without having learnt to lay aside their own personal feelings entirely when once they were engaged in forensic business, and only the narrowest of all bigotry would say that this gift of impartiality is enjoyed exclusively by members of the Established Church. The truth is that the murmurs -if murmurs there were-at one of the best appoint- ments that could have been made were but the echo of the old intolerance which lurks in some corner of the hearts of most of us. There will be a long battle yet before this or any other country will be fairly quit of the devil of persecution, and no blow struck in the cause of toleration ought to pass without recognition. In this sense the appointment of Mr. Justice Shee deserves an acknowledgment beyond what is ordi- narily accorded to the selection of the fittest man for a post of high honour and responsibility.— Saturday Review. CONDITION OF THE SOUTHERN STATES AND THEIB PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.—No attempt has been made by President Davis, in the message which he has laid before the Confederate Congress, to paint the present situation of their common country in rose-coloured tints; and the report which he conveys is one that might dishearten even a powerful people. In every department the prospect is in the highest degree dark and severe. The military and naval affairs, the foreign relations, and the finance, are undergoing the harshest trials of adversity, and the progress of the campaign all round the beleaguered territory is ad- mitted to be one of no unmixed prosperity. Grave re- verses at Vicksburg and Port Hudson are con- spicuously mentioned; the desperate struggle which has been necessary to meet and prevent the threat- ened advance on Richmond has never before beenrtold so concisely or so vividly; and the most that can be asserted is couched in these modest terms \Vhile our own success in driving the enemy from our soil has not equalled the expectations confidently entertained at the commencement of the campaign, his further pro- gress has been checked." The advantages gained in Tennessee, Louisiana, and Texas only counterbalance the ill luck sustained elsewhere. The time has arrived when the exigencies of the war, coupled with a con- stant depreciation of the currency, demand a more vigorous style of treatment. Together with the terrible alternatives of a paper deluge or instant and stringent application of the tax-collector, there has been in the South what we have seen in other countries at such periods—heated speculation, an universal propensity to dabble in contracts for private profit at the expense of the community. So vast indeed has been the use of the readiest device of a needy exchequer, that the paper money in circulation amounts to < £ 120,000,000 sterling, or mora than three times the amount required by the business of the country. Such inroads have been made upon the male population by slaughter in the field, cap- tivity, and disease, that the Administration is now compelled to put a severe pressure upon society; and while the age of conscription is taken at a lower standard, those who have heretofore been spared on the ground of superannuation are now called to do duty as the local guard and provost marshal's force, thus to release for the main armies the younger men hitherto detailed for such purposes. Not yet recognised diplomatically, left to the cold comfort of neutrality, the Confederacy derives neither help nor even moral support from any one of the foreign Go- vernments which profess to be "impartial;" while the blockade, manifestly ineffective, is still respected by great maritime Powers whose technical impartiality really lends help to the enemy. Such is the general position of the South; its finance borne down by the load of floating debt represented in the depreciated currency; its armies kept under the strength neces- sary for the service by difficulties of recruitment its relations with the rest of the world operating in the most adverse fashion; the labour and hazard of the future being such as might warrant an immediate surrender.-Telegraph.

OUR MISCELLANY. In consequence of illegible writing printers some- times sadly pervert the author's meaning. A very popular authoress, speaking of her heroine as enjoy- ing more indulgences than usually fall to the lot of her sex," wrote the sentence so badly that it appeared as usually fall to the lot of horses." Paper Collars.—There are five great houses now making paper collars, and these make some 300,000 weekly, or jointly, 1,500,000. Assuming the prices at 5s. per gross, we have a weekly consumption of £2,500 of these collars. Advertising.—One firm alone in the City spends £ 6,000 every twelve months in advertising; and another large establishment, that had expended up- wards of £8,000, reduced it (on the introduction of a partner, and by his advice) to half that sum, when their takings immediately dropped off in the same ratio. They have since gone back to the original ex- penditure, and their business is flourishing again.— Advertise: How, When, and Where. The Boar's Head at Christmas.—Amongst the earliest specimens of carols are those for bringing in the boar's head. The boar's head was the first dish served up at ancient feasts, and was carried in with great solemnity, dressed with garlands. Flourishes of trumpets and singing of carols accompanied the pageant. The custom of bringing in the boar's head is still observed in great houses, and (as has been stated over and over again) at Queen's College, Oxford, where, upon Christmas night, the precentor and choir sing a modernised version of Wynkin de Worde's carol.—Once a Week. The Way to Make Money.-A little property of nine acres, situated at Frampton Cotterell, a few miles from Bristol, was not very long since purchased by two North countrymen, who saw something more valuable than the mere surface fertility in it. They gave for it £600, and, having taken possession, pro- ceeded to raise a quantity of iron ore, which abounded under the property. Of this they now raise 300 tons a week, which is sold for £ 1 3s. per ton, leaving them, after paying all expenses of raising, about CI50 a week profit. We recommend every one to go and do the like. A Bishop's Joke.-The Bishop of Carlisle is credited with a joke which is all the more excellent from the fact that very few of its kind come from the same source. It is said that a young clergyman, located not far from Penrith, being on the eve of marriage, and not wishing to trouble any of his brethren, wrote to the bishop, inquiring if he himself could perform the ceremony, as he had already pub- lished the banns from his own pulpit-in short, could he marry himself ? His lordship made no long appeals to laws ecclesiastical in his reply, but at once capped the query with another, Could you bury yourself ? which, it will be readily admitted, is certainly not the worst joke that has come from a bishop, besides being a happy reductio ad absurdurn. Mrs. Chisholm and the Emigrant Girls.- I remember meeting her on the Goulburn-road, as early as five o'clock in the morning, when the first burst of an Australian spring loads the air with the perfume of the acacias, and the glades of the open forest are clothed in a mantle of bright green. This was the scene I encountered, Mrs. Chisholm herself, wrapped in a loose cloak, seated on the top of a dray laden with casks and bales of goods, provisions for a settler at Goulburn. Beside and around her were seated twelve or fourteen young girls, and alongside of 1 tho dray walked about thirty others. They travelled ) on the "ride and walk plan," taking their seats on I the dray in turn after a walk of four or five miles, the perched-up ones descending to take their place on t,oaf- .These girls Mrs. Chisholm was taking to distnonte in the interior, where she had previously procured employment for them in families whose good reputation she had carefully ascertained. Mrs. Chis- holm accompanied them to their places, and left them there with an earnest admonition to the heads of each lamily to be careful of those whom she said she re- garded as her children, and with an earnest injunction [ to the young emigrants to let her know how they got on, and if they had any complaint to communicate it to her. Thus, unaccredited by any official authority, ano. at the first rather discouraged than aided, she succeeded in placing comfortably two thousand emi- grants, chiefly young unmarried females; and how well she did her work is shown by answers to a circular from ten magistrates and clergymen, stating that not one of the girls cent through Mrs. Chisholm's name had lost character as regarded honesty or morality. — Thevnfs Residence in New South Wales. ■^rentage of Talented Persons.—Although ^lademoiselle Rosa Bonheur, the princess of painters, may be the daughter of an artist, Turner was the sen of a barber; Albert Durer, of a goldsmith; Gains- borough, of a clothier; Barry and Romney, of builders Sir Joshua Reynolds, of a clergyman. There is scarcely a trade or profession but can boast of being the cradle of men of unusual mental attainments; and, in some instances, the same branch of industry can point to various sons who have excelled in most opposite pursuits. Gardeners can point to the Tradescants of one century,, and (Allan Cunningham of the next. Butchers may urge that the materialism of their calling has not precluded them from rearing sons of the most imaginative intellects, such as Akensidc, Defoe, and Kirk White; or of the most consummate political ability, as in the example of Thomas Wolsey. It is deemed likely, too, that the father of Shakespeare turned butcher when his fortune changed. Dr. Isaac Watts and Chatterton were the sons of schoolmasters. Booksellers will rejoice over Dr. Johnson; watch- makers over John James Rousseau; shoemakers over Hans Christian Andersen, than whom no one has written more graceful fairy tales for children hatters will deem their annals relieved by the name of W. Collins, poet; chandlers by that of Beajamm Franklin: distillers will think of Wilkes drapers, of Isaac Barrow, the mathematician and instructor of Newton, and of Alexander Pope; jewellers, of Francis Grose, and the antiquary, Sir Samuel Romilly, and others. The Church has been most prolific of gifted sons .—Builde r. A "Ghost" Adventure.—A person residing in Cheltenham met with a. veritable ghost adventure the other day, the particulars of which lie thus narrates —Mr. was returning to his home, about ten o'clock in the evening, when his attention was arrested by a figure clothed in white, which flitted about some fifty yards ahead, and slunk into the garden in front as he approached. Here it partially concealed itself behind a shrub, but exposed to view some portion of its shroud, and a face whose hideous- ness was made the more unearthly by tho ghastly pallor with which it was overspread. Had Mr. been "well up in Shakespeare, he might have said:— Y/hat may this mean, That thou, dread corse, Revisitest thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous ? But he was a practical man, and instead, rushed into the garden in the wake of the spirit, with the mere sensible query, "What does this mean? What do you do here?" Thus rudely assailed, the ghost attempted to glide over tho lawn in the direction of the house, but was brought to a standstill by Mr. —— who firmly planted his foot upon its trailing shroud, and was only prevented from inflicting personal chastisement by the doubt whether in so doing he might not be guilty of a want of gallantry, as the sex of the ghost waa not apparent. He was about stripping off the shroud to solve this point when an elderly female appeared upon the scene, and begged in piteous accents that the ghost might be released. While Mr. —— was parleying with this personage, and expressing in pretty strong terms his opinion of her behaviour, the ghost seized an opportunity, glided into darkness, and was lost to view.—Court Jcivr&aL The last lift by Dr. Windship, of America., that we have heard of was 2,600 pounds, which is about the weight of seventeen men of ordinary size. The strongest European we have ever heard of or saw was one Becks, a porter of Mayence, who would get under a cask weighing 17 cwt. and lift it up with his back.

THE LATE FIGHT BETWEEN KING AND HEENAN. On Tuesday morning the informations that had been laid against the principals, seconds, and abettors, and others in the recent contest between King and Heenan, came on for hearing before the magistrates sitting in petty sessions at the justice room at Marks-cross, near Wadhurst. The justices present were Messrs. DonaM Barclay (chairman), E. Hussey, H.Dixon, E. W. Smyth, W. C. Molland, G. Field, and the Hon. F. G. Molyncux, The defendants upon being called answered as follows: -Thomas King, John Carmel Heenan, Thomas Sayers, James Mace, John Calvin Noon (alias Jerry Noon), John Tyler (alias Bos Tyler), Robert Travers, John Macdonald, William Richardson, and William Pres- ton. Mr. Simpson, clerk of tho peace, having read the information, Mr. Beard said, on behalf of the defendants for whom he appeared, that he might point out, first, as far as King was concerned, that it was not his intention to fight any more, and that he thought the ends of justice would be fully satisfied if he was bound over to keep the peace. The other defendants would also enter into similar recog- nizances, and as, in the adjacent county (Kent) it had been considered sufficient to adopt such a course, he hoped the bench would consider that would be suffi- cient. The chairman observed that the object was not so much to punish the defendants as to deter others from following their example, and the bench doubting the efficacy of the plan suggested by Mr. Beard, felt that they must go on with the case. Mr. Beard, on behalf of the defendants, said it was quite clear that great favour and countenance was given in certain high quarters to men in the position of the defendants, and some allowance ought therefore to be made for those who, rising invariably from a most humble and obscure position in life, were made so much of by those who so largely supported them. No one could fail to see that persons of rank and position did attend such fights, and that was an additional reason which should induce the bench to deal lightly with those who had been selected for punishment. He (Mr. Beard) was not there to say that they were right in breaking the law, but when the bench considered the cases of the men before them, he felt bound to urge that reliance might fairly be placed upon their promise that they would not further transgress. The defendant Heenan said: Gentlemen, as to Sayers and myself, I am not in a state of health to enter into the ring again, and, if I was, I oertainly should not fight again in this country, and for Sayers, we are both willing to enter into any recognizances that will satisfy you that we should never do this again. After some conversation, the chairman of the bench said We have considered this case carefully, and we feel that in this case the parties should all be bound over to answer any charge that may be preferred against them at the quarter sessions. The defendants must each enter into their own sureties of < £ 50, and find bail to the extent of £50 to appear at the next quarter sessions to answer any indictment for misdemeanour that may be preferred against them. The required bail was then entered into, and the defendants were liberated. ♦ Trial of Bishop Cole n so.—By the Cape mail, which arrived in England this week, we learn that the trial of Bishop Colenso was opened on the 17th o. November. Two bishops conducted the proeecntianf whilst the Bishop of Capetown and two suffragars occupied the bench. Dr. Colenso, through an advo- cate, denied the jurisdiction of the court, and pre- tested against the proceedings. Ultimately, it is said, the case will pass into the hands of the Judicial Corr- mittee of Privy Council. Change of Surname.—Las!, week's Gazette eon- tains a notification that the Queen has been pleased to grant unto Frederick Charles George Fitzclarenee of Wingerworth Hall, in the county of Derby, Esq.' commonly called the Hon. Frederick Charles George Fitzclarence, her Royal license and authority that he may, in compliance, with a proviso contained in the last will and testament of Sir Henry John Joseph Hunloke, late of Wingerworth Hall aforesaid, baronetT deceased, to take and henceforth use the surname of Hunloke only, in lieu and instead of that of Fita- clarence, ana that he may bear the arms of Hnnlobe quartered with those of litzelarence. A