The Brecon County Times Neath Gazette and General Advertiser for the Counties of Brecon Carmarthen Radnor Monmouth Glamorgan Cardigan Montgomery Hereford

EXTRAORDINARY DEATH. On Saturday an inquest was held at the College Arms, Crowadale-road, St. Pancras, on Jane Guseltine, aged 33, of 9, Judd-street. Deceased occupied the back kitchen with a young son, and on Thursday morning her little boy, upon entering the back kitchen after a tem- porary absence, found her apparently dead, and a quan- tity of blood flowing from her leg. The police and medical assistance were called in and the leg was bound up, but she died. Dr. Paul said that death was caused by the bursting of a varicose vein, from which a large quantity of blood escaped, and through the access of air to the heart through the open vein. A full-time male foetus was removed from deceased after death. Verdict, Death from natural causes."

A CARELESS POISON SELLER On Friday afternoon Mr. C. G. Lewis, the coroner for Essex, resumed and concluded an inquiry at the Railway Hotel, Martin-street, Stratford, into the circumstances of the death of Thomas Hicks, who lived at 82, Angel-lane, Stratford, and who died on Sunday, the 26th of July. The deceased had been for nearly 30 years in the service of Messrs. Volckman and Sons, the confectioners. His landlady, Mrs. Smart, procured, as she thought, some milk of sulphur from Mrs. Hills,' a chemist's-shop in High-street, Stratford, some of which was given to the deceased, who was suffering from rheu- matism. In the early part of the Sunday he was found to be Buffering from the effects of some irritant poison which corresponded with the effect of nitrate of baryta on the human frame, and from which he undoubtedly died. As he had lived in the house of a Mrs. Smart, whose daughter was jointly entitled with the deceased to a considerable sum of money, considerable suspicion arose as to the cause of death, considering its suddenness and his previous good health. Mrs. Hills, who had previously stated that she had no baryta in her shop, was then recalled, and persisted in her averment. After a lengthened deliberation, the following special verdict was returned That the deceased, William Hicks, died from the effects of baryta, accidentally sold by Mrs. Hills to Mrs. Smart as flour of sulphur. The jury are unanimously of opinion that Mrs. Smart is entirely exonerated from all blame, and that gross care- lessness existed on the part of Mrs. Hills. The jury also regret that Dr. Hamilton was not more prompt in his attendance." The coroner very severely admonished Mrs. Hills with respect to the statements she had made as to her possession of green fire, or baryta, in any form, and expressed his firm conviction of her unfitness to keep a chemist's shop.

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF PERJURY. Ann Porter, a tolerably good-looking young woman, has been indicted, at the Central Criminal Court, for perjury. The offence, as alleged, was committed in the Divorce Court, on the occasion of the trial of a suit, in which the wife of Mr. Bewick, of Threepwood-hall, Northum- berland, sought a divorce on the ground of her husband's adultery with one Mary Latham, who was in the capacity of housekeeper to Mr. Bewick when his wife was lik,ng apart from him. The prisoner, who had been in Mr. Bewick's service as a domestic, was one of the witnesses called in support of the wife's petition, and she positively swore to acts tending to, and in one particular instance a real act of, adultery. On her evidence principally the court granted a divorce, notwithstanding the strong de- nial of its truth given by Mr. Bewick. The prisoner was now charged with perjuring herself, but the jury acquitted her.

THE MONTPENSIER PROTEST. The full text of the protest addressed to the Queen of Spain by the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier has now been published. TbQ writers say that on the moment of landing on foreign soil they feel that they ought no longer to keep silence, lest it should be considered a sign of apathy and of humble submission to merited punishment. They do not consider it was necessary to remind them of the duties of loyalty, as was done in the royal decree of July 7, ordering them to leave the penin- sula, and they maintain that if Spain is now passing through a crisis, the cause does not rest with them. In protesting against the step taken by the Spanish Govern- ment, the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier say they do not invoke considerations either of rank or family ties. It is solely in the name of their rights, and as Spaniards placed under the protection of the general laws of the country, that they complain of the violence which separates them from Spain. We expect," they say in conclusion, "that the reparation shall be as. public and as solemn as the insult was sudden." The pretest is l dated Lisbon, August 3. I

Extracts from Our Comic Journals, (From Punch.) THE cc BREAD OF IDLENESS. "-Toafing. THE BACK-DOOR BELL. —A pretty kitchen maid. WHY should a chimney sweeper be a good whist- player ?—Because he's always following soot. SHAKESPEARE FOR THE SEASICK.—(After a stormy passage.)—" If after every tempest come such qualms!" A NURSERY TALE.—Topographical.—Who would be the nearest relation to the puss in boots ? A little tiger in tops. "SAVE ME FROM MY FRIENDS."—That Anglican out- and-outer, Archdeacon Denison, is deeply disgusted with Dr. Pusey's letter to the Wesleyan Conference. He de- clares its animus is Pusey-l-animous. WALKER TO WIT.-ElectiOn,We all know, is a synonym for choice. But choice is not a word which we should ever dream of using in reference to people who most thrive by an election. NOT A CASE IN POINT.—When the sensation-leader- writers go in for a telling article on some hard- hearted Bench, and some hard-hearted farmer, for punishing a woman for gleaning, they always lug in Ruth. They ought to remember that, according to their own showing, the justices and farmers they are pitching into are Ruth-less. REJECTED ADDRESSES OR, THE OLD DON AND THE YOUNG DISSENTER. (Respectfully dedicated to Dr. Putty and the Methodist Ministry in Conference assembled.) Where are you going, my pretty maid ?" I'm going to Conference, sir," she said- H Sir" she said- I'm going to Conference, sir," she said. Shall I write you a letter, my pretty maid ? Just as it pleases you, sir," she said- "Sir," she said- Just as it pleases you, sir," she said. "Shall we make one of it, my pretty maid "Name your conditions, sir," she said- Sir," she said- i Name your conditions, sir," she said. How about Oxford, my pretty maid ?" The less on't the better, sir," she said- Sir," she said- The less on't the better, sir," she said. As 'twixt me and Coleridge, my pretty maid ? Of the two, Mr. Coleridge, sir," she said- "Sir," she said Of the two, Mr. Coleridge, sir," she said. Then I've nothing to say to you, my pretty maid," "Nobody asked you, sir," she said- "Sir," she said- 'Nobody asked you, sir," she said. (From Fun.) HOW A TIDB-WAITER SHOULD WRITE.—In a flowing hand. A HOPELESS TOAST.—Able-bodied seamen for the Navy and able-headed Lords for the Admiralty. WHAT MUSICIANS SHOULD BE DEPUTED TO PERFORM ON THE THAMES EMBANK1dENT.-Th'wait(e)s. A STIFF ONE FOR THE FIELD.-Why is a man who rides a good fencer to hounds like Miss Yonge's latest novel ?—Because he's a chap-let-off purls (" Chaplet of Pearls"). MEDICAL QUERY.-A correspondent wishes to know whether a confirmed drunkard can be styled a dipso- maniac. Of course he ean for if he drinks till he sees double it will probably prove to him that he is beside himself. ONLY FAIR.—The southern railway companies have well increased their fares. A great many passengers have consequently paid them fare-well IF 'TWERE WELL DONE, WHEN 'TIS DONE.—A friend of ours, who is a stickler for neat and appropriate titles, says that after reading Not Wisely but Too Well," he felt convinced the name should have been Not Wisely but One Pump! GOING: A KRUPPER !-The Pall-mall alleges that the Russian Artillery Commission appointed, to report on the Krupp ordinance had for their object the establish- ing of that system of ordnance, not the breaking down of it, in consequence of the large orders that had been given for the supply of guns. If this be true the com- mission was guilty of Kruppt practices. A WINDFALL.—The Rev. F. Lowe, who created some excitement in fashionable circles a few years ago by eloping with Lady Adelaide Vane-Tempest, has just been presented "by Mr. Disraeli with one of the best livings in the gift of the Crown. He will no doubt thoroughly realise the truth of the old saw-" It is an ill wind that blows no man any good." That can hardly be rightly described as a vain tempest which blew him a good living. NOT SUCH A CALVES'-HEADED IDEA. Apropos of the practice of slowly bleeding calves to death in order to whiten the flesh-a custom which has been very properly denounced from the judicial bench as a most cruel one-we would hint to certain railway directors that the policy of slowly bleeding the pockets of travel- lers by an unjustifiable advance in fares is not likely to prove in the long run a paying one. John Bull's family are not quite such calves as to stand that sort of treat- ment. (From Judy.) A Disc- COVER-Y.-An eclipse. THE CASE FOR THE CROWN.—A skull cap. GOING TO WORK WITH A WILL.-Altering one. To DENTISTS.—Do "sound" teeth chatter BURROW MEMBERS.Rabbits, PHRENOLOGISTS BELOW STAIRS.—Scullions. THE LAND o' CAIQUES.—Turkey. A MONEY ARTICLE.—A purse. STALE, FLAT, AND UNPROFITABLE." High Soles. POSSIBLY.—Has a humorous person a dry tongue ?" CAN the readers of the "Proverbial Philosophy be called the Tupper ten thousand ? THE best way to find how much a mountain weighs- Why, scale it, scale it," Judy says MECHANICAL.—Is the company for the making of "artificial limbs a "joint-stock" one Too ABSURD.—A gentleman from the Minories writes to ask whether the "muggy hatmosphere" has any- thing to do with "jugged hare ?" SINGULAR CASE.—A railway traveller of our acquaint- ance informs us that he recently caught cold through sitting next to a wet-nurse A "REGULAR QUIZ.We know a gentleman who is such a "regular quiz," that he actually "took off" his own hat, a short time back, in Regent-street! DURING his late visit to his camp, the Pope is stated to have "admitted the officers to kiss his foot." Hav- ing done so, of course he is considered to have paid his footing. ATTENTION! — What is the difference between a civilised diner and a person who subsists at the North Pole ? Attention, again !-One has his bill of fare, and the other has his fill of bear. AN IMPOSSIBILITY.—We know a gentleman who for some time past has been trying to make three pounds a week, and who, as a matter of course, has signally failed in the attempt. Should he try for years he'll never succeed. Time, it is true, is money, but money never was, and never will be, convertible into time. We would advise our experimental friend that, if he has three pounds with which he doesn't exactly know what to do, he had better, instead of vainly endeavouring to make a week of it, go to the stalls of the opera, and somovhere else, after and so make a night of it I A REFLECTION. Therm. S0Q F. The heat that has, this summer time, Such melting moments made [But there! how can a fellow rhyme With eighty in the shade ?] A clime so torrid has begun Our island to invade Not worse than England in the sun Is Hayti in the shade

JOHN CUMMINGS, aged 49, a tailor, charged with attempting to murder his wife by throwing her cut of a window, has been tried at the Central Criminal Court, found guilty, and sentenced to 20 years' penal servitude.

THE BELGIAN TIB NATIONAL. At the national meeting of the Belgian volunteers in Brussels, last September, there was a general feeling of regret that the contest was not shared in by a much larger number of English visitors belonging to the like force. There is a probability that at the ensuing meet- 1139, which takes place some time in next month, a con- siderable party of volunteers from this country will compete for the prizes, which are upwards of X300 in Value. Of this sum the King of the Belgians gives J6150, to be shot for by the volunteers of Great Britain; and it is stated that his Majesty will annually offer the like handsome amount. Lieutenant-Colonel Beresford, of the 7th Surrey Rifles, has been appointed hon. secretary of the English volunteers who may decide upon going. All riflemen who are anxious to try their skill at the Bel- gian targets must send in their names to Colonel Beres- lord before the 1st of September. The arrangements ^11 then be submitted to his Royal Highness the Prince '2* Wales, who is the President of the Anglo-Belgian Prize Fund. No volunteer whose name has not been •illy enrolled will be permitted to enjoy the benefit of the arrangements for railway transit. Although there is ^ot to be any national demonstration, all English volun- "teers may be sure of a thoroughly cordial welcome.

THE EX-DUKE OF BRUNSWICK. Duke Charles of Brunswick, of the strawberry-tinted Palace, Rue Balsac, and so celebrated for his diamonds and variegated wigs, expected several Royal visits last summer, especially that of the Emperor of Austria, to facilitate which it would appear that his Serene Highness ordered a lift to be constructed within his roseate palace. l'he price agreed upon was £ 480. Accordingly, the constructor sent in his little bill, and was much sur- prised to find that the duke declined to pay it because "J10 lift had not been completed within the given time. -This having been clearly proved to have been caused by a freak of the Duke Charles at the last moment, the court not only sentenced his Highness to pay JB480, but C45 besides, for extra work.

AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS. 1 During the last month nearly 80,000 immigrants auded. at New York from Europe. About 23,000 of ftem landed from steamers; about 20,000 were from merman and French ports, and upwards of 26,000 of them were steerage passengers. They arrived in nearly 40 ships. There were 13 births on board the ships 14Qring the Atlantic passage. The bulk of immigrants Were from Germany and the north of Europe, which Contain a population of 70,000,000, and from Which there is a perpetual exodus. The Ger- ^aa steerage passengers are persons possessed of a httle money, who forsake Europe for the far West, vllere there is perfect religious and political freedom o"* a boundless territory and field for enterprise. The ^ans form almost the whole population of some and cities in the United States. They indulge in '"eir social and religious customs in their new home, and "ftly change their language for the English. They are the most welcome immigrants that come to the United States.

A NATIONAL TRAIT. Haydon, who was very angry with his countrymen for ^eir propensity to relic-hunting, told as the most start- example of their love of curiosities, the horrible ory of the woman whe, when she was shown the well Which the Italian boys had been burked, stooped down 0 taste the water. Something almost as horrible appears to be going on at Abergele just now. In his ^dress before the coroner, on Monday, Mr. Roberts, the 80licitor complained of the abstraction of the foot of a cuild from the debris of the carriages, by a person living !Jt Bangor. He trusted the coroner would see that the °°t was brought back again. From the reply of the Ooroller, it appears that this person at Bangor is no soli- "jry miscreant. Will it be believed that the reply took •he form of an earnest request" to the wreckers who had been busy about the dust of the dead, to return all he buttons and other property they had found to the Police ? The coroner was not only surprised, but pain touched," to find so soon after the accident num- hers of persons in possession of articles belonging to the deceased. -319,r.

UNFORTUNATE OCCURRENCE. An unfortunate accident, which may be attended with erious consequences, has occurred at the Spanish lines. party of officers belonging to her Majesty's ship rince Consort were returning in the evening from riding U the beach, when, on entering the road to the lines, e of these officers, Mr. Alexander, a midshipman, rode er an old woman who ran across in front of his horse. e appears to have been riding rather fast, and was serf al the Tmen ,t0 PulLin- The woman was beri°usly hurt. It was found that her collar-bone was r°ken, and there was a deep cut on her head • and as 10 is over 80 years of age, it is feared that she'will not asily recover. Mr. Alexander was arrested by the Spanish authorities, and spent the night in the officers' tllard-room in the main guard at the lines. The matter been referred to General Osorio, commanding at geciras, for his decision, but it is feared that the deten- ton of Mr. Alexander is inevitable. He will, in all pro- a ility, be removed to Algeciras, and will remain there Prisoner upon parole at least, until the unfortunate 0ttlan is out of danger.

THE WEST INDIA MAILS. is r tlle States of Central America business of all kinds run d dul1* The alarm caused in Guatemala by out °UrS' accordlDg to which yellow fever had broken 111 the capital, and in some other towns of the in- ve].10,r' has abated, the report being contradicted on jiable authority. The rainy season had begun in snff!!fSU% and the croPs of grain which were W f1" drousht had much improved. Yel- ^position had nhltny £ TaSf the Gavernment of Costa TT v v e<fhp My on all coffee exported from abf^nSthe fom Chili states that had hZ 2 torrents of rain. A tremendous fire ItTT ^7^ Santiago. An Italian barque from Buen^^A 3 °lnd for Valparaiso, had been totally iost nf/+1S' f'°rt of Albemarle. The crew were saved, and takpn n! £ r°ar(l ship to Montevideo. The British barque Inez Caldera, with a cargo of regulus for England' Aa*g a leak and was obliged to put back. At Callao w fever had entirely disappeared, and was also ^Ported as rapidly diminishing at Lima. The day the left was the anniversary of the declaration of the j.Q ePendenoe of the Peruvian Republics. Congress was tiomeet 051 that day. Shortly afterwards the proclama- a of Colonel Balta, who had been elected President by statrgtv.rnaj0rity' was to come -RePorts from Jamaica fu 6 '"at a Lift Dock Company had been established, and nf8roe8 in the parishes of St. Thomas in the East hehav ^>or^and had again become defiant in their SenHr,!°Uf towards the planters, in consequence of ^ashP,fottered from the Bench by Mr. Justice Were n,ew ^[strict judge, who said the planters e thieves and robbed the labourers.

BOY HORSESTEALERS. Two boys, named Bousquerat and Hocquart, aged respectively 10 and 11, have just been tried at the Paris Tribunal of Correctional Police on three distinct charges of horse stealing. In the first instance they had taken the animal, which was grazing in a field, and left it with a horse-flesh butcher after unsuccessfully offering to sell it to him; the second case showed still more daring, as the young thieves went to the stable of a greengrocer named Bonvallet, harnessed the horse to a cart, and were driving off, when they were detected by the owner's wife. They then jumped out of the vehicle and escaped. They had also stolen a horse and cart they had found standing at a shop door, which they afterwards abandoned on the Buttes Montmartre. They were now condemned to remain in a reformatory institution until they have terminated their 16th year.

A SINGULAR CHARGE. The Picmeer of July 13 gives the report of a court- martial held at Chinsurab, on the 4th, upon Lieutenant Henry Joseph Macdonnel, 2nd battalion 12th Regiment, who was charged with neglecting to see that his men had cholera belts on. The accused held that it was no part of his duty to carry out such an inspection, and he sent a memorandum to that effect to his commanding officer. The charge having been fully gone into, the court was closed for the purpose of deliberating upon the verdict. The Madras Athenccum, in drawing attention to the case, explains that the cholera belts are worn under the shirt. "Surely," it adds, "there are proper medical men attached to each regiment whose duty it seems to be to see to such matters as these."

NICE OBSERVATIONS FROM A BAL- LOON. In a communication addressed to the Academy of Sciences, M. Flammarion gives an account of the phe- nomena he observed during a late scientific ascent in an air-balloon. As regards sound, he states that its intensity is propagated to a considerable height in the atmosphere. Thus, he heard the whistle of a steam-engine at an altitude of 3,000 metres the noise of a railway train passing, at 2,500 metres; the barking of dogs, at 1,800 metres the report of a gun, the same the cries of a large crowd, the crowing of cocks, and the noise of bells at 1,600 metres the sound of drums and the music of an orchestra at 1,400 metres the rumbling of carriages on a stone pavement at 1,200 metres the human voice at 1,000 metres (5-8ths of a mile) the croaking of frogs at 900; and the chirping of a cricket at 800 metres. It is not so in the case of a de- scending sound; for the voice of the aeronaut at an alti- tude of 100 metres cannot make itself heard distinctly. The clouds offer no impediment to an ascending sound. The average veloeity per second in the latter case is about 340 metres. The quiet waters of a lake echo the sound best upwards. While the balloon moves in obedience to the current, its shadow sweeps either the earth or the elouds. It is generally black, but it some- times happens that, falling upon a darker spot than itself on the country, it assumes rather a luminous ap- pearance. In this case, examined through a telescope, it is found to consist of a dark central nucleus sur- rounded by luminous penumbra. On the green trees of a forest it appears yellow. On the clouds, when they are white, and at the moment of issuing again into the pure sky with the sun shining, the air-balloon is minutely depicted with all its details, and of a greyish hue. When it has reached an altitude of 3,000 metres, the sky appears dark and impenetrable, in proportion as there is a diminution of moisture. The light of the rising sun appears to penetrate through every terrestrial object, while that of the moon, which is always red, seems only to glide over them. í!

A YOUTHFUL FORGER. A well-educated youth named Turner, aged 16, em. ployed as an office boy by Mr. Langridge, an estate agent in New Bond-street, was on Saturday charged at Marlborough-street with forgery. He had stolen a blank cheque from a desk, filled it up for £ 175, and imitated his master's signature so nearly that the amount was paid. He left suddenly, but nothing was supposed to be wrong until a man called with a packet of papers he had found in the street, which contained another cheque not so well imitated, which had not been used. On going to the bank the successful forgery was discovered; the prisoner was traced to Bath, and apprehended there at an hotel. In his papers was found one headed The Nativity of Sydney Turner,' drawn out by some star gazer, representing the influence the wanderers" had over the youth's fortunes, but omitted all hints of incarceration in Newgate. He was committed for trial.

THE IRON AND COAL TRADE OF SOUTH WALES. Operations at the various works in the district are being carried on with more regularity since the ehange in the weather, and the mills and forges are now tole- rably well employed. The principal shipments of rails are for the United States, and a slight increase has taken place in the demand from Russia but the season is now too far advanced for any large business being done this season. Continental inquiries continue few in number, but there Is a fair prospect of an increase in the demand. The home trade is still characterised by quietness, but considerable engagements are likely to be entered into before long, the stocks of buyers being exceedingly low. Tin plate makers are selling coke qualities with little difficulty. The steam coal trade is quiet, and for house qualities the demand is below the average.

DUELLING IN BERLIN. A few evenings ago a student of the name of Ferry offered a very gross insult to a young Lieutenant von Rheinbaben, whom he met accidentally at Meser's Salon, a place of public amusement. The lieutenant is reported to have displayed a good deal of self-control, but as the in- sulting language was continued, he eventually challenged the student. A bystander ascertained where the meeting was to take place, and immediately gave information to the police. The lieutenant of police of the district, accompanied by some constables, accordingly repaired to the spot, found the parties on the ground, and having taken possession of the pistols, left the principals at liberty. The only result was that the parties made an appoint- ment for a meeting a few hours later in the neighbour- hood of Spandau. The police again received information of their murderous intentions, but unfortnnately too late. The officers hurried to the second place of rendez- vous, but before they reached it they met a cab contain- ing Lieutenant von Rheinbaben supporting in his arms his recent adversary whom he had shot through the lungs. There is no hope of Ferry's recovery, and his state is such that the judge has not been able to take his depositions.

AMERICAN EPITHETS. The South swarms with swindlers and adventurers, the scum of the North, who practise upon the credulity of the blacks, and, with the help of Federal bayonets and the disfranchisement of the whites, are foisted into office to make laws for the South. The adventurer from e the North or elsewhere is called a carpet-bagger." This is a hideous derivative of carpet-bag." Its value lies in the fact that the person to whom it is applied has no property save such as he can stow in an ordinary tra- velling bag, and has no fixed abode. Exhausting one district, the carpet-bagger seeks fresh woods and pastures new, until he discovers some congrega- tion of negroes willing to make him a leader. The native Southerner who has abandoned his friends and joined the Radicals is known as a scalawag." This word is probably a derivative of "scaly"an -an English vulgarism, wherewith paltriness and meanness are described. The following description of a carpet- bagger is furnished by the Charleston Mercury .— "The genus carpet-bagger is a man with a lank head of dry hair, a la^k stomach, and long legs, ciub kneeg and splay feet, dried legs and lank jaws, with eves like a fish and mouth like a shark. Add to this, a habit of sneaking and dodging about in unknown places habit- ing with negroes in dark dens and back streets, a look like a hound, and the smell of a pole-cat."

THE POLITICAL HORIZON. The Constitutionnel publishes an article, signed by M. Baudrillard, which says :—" The language of the Emperor at Troyes is beginning to bear fruit. In the East as in the West, everywhere, in fact, where dark spots upon the horizon appeared to alarmists to presage approaching storms, the political situation is on the con- trary becoming more settled, and the genius of peace has gained the upperhand. Prussia feels as little as France any desire to go to war, and all the Powers are interested in averting threatening eventualities." The article concludes by an appeal to capitalists, who, it says, will show wisdom by acting boldly, adding :— The evil of uncertainty cannot last any longer. The Government guarantees general security, and says to capitalists, be bold and enterprising; the present and the future belong to you, the evil days are passed. I

NEW STEAMBOAT PIERS AT WEST- MINSTER AND WATERLOO BRIDGES. Since the Thames Embankment has been opened for foot passengers, efforts have been made to bring the magnificent piles of granite where the steamers stop also into use, and already two splendid piers have been placed in the recesses provided for them in the granite wall- one at Westminster-bridge, and the other at Waterloo- bridge. The new piers are entirely of iron, and are as ornamental as the purpose for which they are required will permit. Of the two, that at Hungerford is the longest, and, apparently, most complete. It is furnished with waiting rooms, which add considerably to its appearance, and will be very acceptable to passengers in wet or inclement weather. Chains are to be placed in front of the piers to guard against accident, and they are all to be supplied with life-belts and other life-saving apparatus.

ANTI-MATRIMONIAL "PROOLIVITIES." The Civil Tribunal of the Seine has just given judg- ment in an action for separation brought by M. Gtiey- mard, first tenor at the French Opera, against his wife, prima donna at the same theatre, and whose maiden name was Mdlle. Pauline Lauters. The parties were married in 1858, the lady having been previously divorced from a M. Deligne, in Belgium. After seven years of cohabi- tation, Mdm. Gueymard suddenly left her husband under the pretext that she was not made for domestic life, and had done wrong to remarry. M. Gueymard endeavoured to induce her to return, and, on her persisting in her re- fusal, brought the present suit. The court gave a verdict in favour of the plaintiff, and the parties having been married under a settlement by which each preserved his or her share of property, also appointed M. Huillier, notary, to sell a house and garden at Neuilly, bought by the parties in common, and to share the proceeds. M. Gueymard was ordered to give up certain articles of fur- niture, with a piano, and the scores of different operas, to Mdme. Gueymard, who, on her side, was condemned to pay the costs.

ARTISANS' WAGES IN THE UNITED STATES. The highest paid class are the wood engravers, who receive 55 dols. a week, but bricklayers can earn 35 dols., hodmen about 174 dols., hotel waiters 12 dois., and so forth. These prices look very well upon paper, but there are two important deductions to be made from their nominal value. In the first place nearly every article used in daily life is 100 per cent. dearer than it is in this country, and in the second place the sums mentioned are paid in paper, not in specie. The waiter, for instance, gets 12 dols. a week-equivalent to £ 2 8s. at par. But when gold is at its recent prices —say from 146 to 150, the rates between which it has fluctuated all this month-the dollar is not worth more on an a visage than 2s. 6d. We must, therefore, call the waiter's wages about £ 1 10s. a week. Then the prices he is obliged to pay for everything he or his family may need must be taken into account. The general result is that men who have emigrated to America often complain that they were far better off on lower wages in the old country." In Canada, on the other hand, taxes are very light, compared either with England or the United States, and, therefore, the Dominion is wisely chosen as the field of emigration for the poor of the East-end.-Standard.

SUCCESSFUL ACTION AGAINST GAME- KEEPERS. At the Bamsley County Court an action has been heard in which a furnaceman named James Birch, residing at Penistone, was the plaintiff, and John Smith and Isaac Sheen, gamekeepers to Mr. R. C. Clarke, Noblethorp- hall, were the defendants. The action was brought to recover .£10, the value of a spaniel dog, which had been seized, and was now held by the defendants. On the 10th of May last, the plaintiff and a companion were walking out in a road near to Silkstone, when their dogs ran into a drain, and they began to dig them out. It was alleged that a rabbit ran into the hole, and that the dogs followed it. The keepers got the dogs out, and took them to Noblethorp, as well as the men, who, it was said, for the defence, agreed to pay 2s. 6d. and for- feit their dogs on Mr. Clarke agreeing not to summons them for trespass. Mr. Hamer, who appeared for the defendants, put in a document from Mr. Clarke as lord of the manor, to Smith, one of the defendants, which authorised him to seize nets or other instruments used for the purpose of taking game. His Honour gave a verdict for the plaintiff for X5, or the dog to be given up, it not being proved that it was used for the purpose of taking game.

A HUSBAND'S INTRIGUE AND A WIFE'S JEALOUSY. At the Wandsworth Police-station Mrs. Emma Isaac, living in Arthur-street, Oxford-street, was summoned, on the information of Eliza Turner, for threatening to take away her life, whereby she went in bodily fear. The complainant, a well-dressed young woman, who was ac- companied by her parents, stated that some time ago she was staying with her uncle, who keeps a public-house, when she became acquainted with the defendant's hus- band, who represented himself as a single man, and she went out with him. In May last she discovered that he was a married man by the defendant making herself known to her. From that time she had given up his ac- quaintance, but his wife had both abused and threatened her. On the 13th instant she came to her parents' house for a birdcage, when she threatened to limb her, whether it was a hundred miles away, in a railway carriage, or in any place where she saw her. The witness also stated that the birdcage was given to her by the defendant's husband, but as soon as she discovered that he was a married man it was broken up. In cross-examination the witness declared that she was not aware at the time she went out with the defendant's husband that he was a married man. She gave up the other presents which she received from the husband to his wife, the ring and the hair.— Did he give you a pair of garters Yes.—What became of them? They were destroyed.—The answer to the complaint was that the defendant was under the impres- sion that the complainant knew well the man was married. Mr. Dayman thought the defendant should have been more offended with the husband than with the complainant. He ordered her to find one surety in zC20 to be of good behaviour for three months. Bail was produced, and the defendant was liberated. Her husband was not present.

DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF PETER- BOROUGH. The Right Rev. Dr. Francis Jeune, Bishop of Peter- borough, died on Friday morning after a lengthened illness. The late bishop was the son of Mr. Francis Jeune, of Jersey, and was born in 1806. He was edu- cated at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he took his B.A. degree in 1827, being first-class in classics. In 1864 he was nominated by Lord Palmerston to the deanery of Lincoln; and in the same year, by the same minister, to the bishopric of Peterborough. He had been Select Preacher and Vice-Chancellor prior to receiving these appointments. The late bishop, in his place in Convocation, was a warm supporter of Liberal principles, coinciding on all important points with the Bishops of London and St. David's, in opposition to the Bishops of Oxford and Salisbury. The bishopric, which is worth X-5,000 a year, falls to the nomination of Mr. Disraeli, the second he will have had at his disposal.

AN EXTRAORDINARY RESOLUTION. At an open-air meeting of unemployed poor, held in the Mile-end-road, the following resolution was carried Whereas the repeal of the usury laws, legalising the exaction of any rate of interest, however exorbitant, on loans a mortgagee's arbitrary powers of sale and fore- closure of mortgaged estates the granting and falling in of terminable building leases; the employment of an unlimited number of hands, and the non-taxation of the capital of a rich man's personalty or reality, are some of the enabling means, extra the mal appropriation of land and the mischievous operation of laws of primogeniture and entail, whereby comparatively few persons, with facility and oppression, accumulated, and are still accumulating, increasing and immense wealth and whereas such large accumulations in the possession of a few, as an evil is intensified by monopoly in the food and other markets, &c., this meet- ing resolves to recommend as well worthy the serious consideration of the reformed Parliament the necessity of legislatively limiting the extent and fixing the maximum of a man's wealth, however composed and enacting such other ameliatory measures as will at once and for ever abolish the shameful anomaly of the upper ten thousand, rolling in wealth and surfeited with luxuries, while tens of millions in Great Britain and Ireland are living from hand to mouth, or dragging out a pauper's existence, and many of the latter are driven mad from or dymg of starvation or as suicides, or, what is far worse, following for a subsistence a career of crime culminating ia. the gaol or the gallows."

ALDERSHOT CAMP. On Friday a review of the troops at the camp took place, under the command of Major-General H. Renny. The different brigades of cavalry, Royal artillery, and infantry assembled on Selmore-hiil at 10.30 a.m. The cavalry-which consisted of the 5th Dragoon Guards and 10th Hussars-was under the command of Briga- dier General White, C.B. the Royal artillery was com- manded by Colonel Smyth, C.B. the infantry was formed into two divisions, the first being under Major General Carey, C.B., the second under Colonel Gwilt, C.B., 34th Regiment, as briga- dier-general. The cavalry and artillery appeared on parade without valises, and the infantry without knap- sacks. General Renny and staff arrived on the ground soon after the brigades had formed up, and was received with a general salute. After the different regiments had been inspected, they marched past, the cavalry and artillery by squadrons and batteries, the infantry in grand divisions. A series of evolutions incidental to a sham fight were afterwards gone through, which lasted until about one p. m., when the several brigades returned to camp.

CONVICTION OF AN INNOCENT MAY Some disclosures were made at the Clerkenwell Police- court the other day which ought to teach magistrates to be very careful before they convict prisoners on the unsupported evidence of policemen. On the 28th of February last twelve lambs were stolen from Pewter Platter-yard, St. John-street, belonging to Messrs. Elmer and Jenkins, salesmen. For that robbery a drover named Joseph Bell was taken into custody, and upon the sworn evidence of a police sergeant and two police-constables he was committed for trial, and was afterwards sentenced to five years' penal servi- tude. Within the last few weeks, however, Thomas Daley and Edwin Winder-at present doing five years' penal servitude for another sheep robbery—have made statements to the effect that Bell was not in any way concerned in the robbery at Messrs. Elmer and Jenkins's, and that it was committed by them on the instigation of Frederick Winder, who took the lambs and sold them, and gave them a few pounds a piece for their part in the transaction. Measures have been taken to obtain the release of Bell; and Frederick Winder-brother of the convict Edwin Winder-was brought before Mr. Cooke, at the Clerkenwell Police- ceurt, and committed for trial, not only on this charge, but on anothel charge of stealing 39 wethers.

THE KENNINGTON MARKET COMPANY. The experiment which has been made with such success at King's-cross is about to be repeated in South London. With a capital of £ 80,000, in 8,000 shares of 210 each, it has been determined to establish a public market in a central position; and a site has been chosen for the purpose near Kennington-park, at the junction of the Brixton and Clapham-roads, facing Kennington Church, with frontage to the church, Clapham road, and Brixton- road. It is proposed at once to erect seventy-five shops, with dwellings of a simple but substantial character, and to cover in the avenue between the shops with a light glass roof, in such a way, however, that if the roof be found objectionable it need not be built, or if built, easily removed, and the avenue turned into a street; it is further intended to erect a bakery, and also to erect sufficient stabling, which is to be let to a responsible party able to guarantee a rapid system of delivery for the 75 shops. The shops and stabling will be let at a rent sufficient to cover all expenses, and leave a reasonable profit to the shareholders, the tradesmen being at liberty to supply the public generally at any price they choose, but undertaking to supply the company's share- holders and yearly subscribers at an agreed per centage on wholesale prices, as is now done by numerous tradesmen on the Civil Service Supply Company's lists and others—those selling articles of food being under inspection, so that good, wholesome, unadulterated food will be guaranteed. The directors propose to admit subscribers at the rate of, say 5s. a year, who will be allowed the privilege of buying at the reduced tariff, but will not participate in any way in the profit The project is launched under encouraging auspices, and, if properly supported, the enterprise will, we cannot doubt, be a great boon to the neighbourhood. --q

THE REV. SIR NICHOLAS CHINNERY, who was a passenger in one of the front carriages of the ill-fated Irish mail train, was born in 1804. He was educated at Queen's College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. in 1829. Sir Nicholas, who was formerly assistant minister at Trinity Chapel, Conduit- street, Hanover-square, succeeded his father as third baronet in 1840, and was married, in 1843, to Anne, daughter of the late Rev. John Vernon, of Cavan. In default of an heir male, the title becomes extinct. WILLIAM CHARLES HOLLY, a gas-fitter, aged 24, residing at 24, Caledonian-road, Islington, was em- ployed in doing some repairs to the gas pipes in the Farringdon-street tunnel. He beard a train coming towards him, and he got on the rails of the down line, not perceiving that a train was approaching from Far- ringdon-street, and was knocked flat on his fac&. His right arm, over which the wheels of the esgine passed, was in sueh a frightful state that it was founcl neces- sary to amputate it,. His head was aisa wy seriously injured. was in such a frightful state that it was found neces- sary to amputate it His head was aisa very seriously injured.

CELEBRATION OF A RELEASE FROM PENAL SERVITUDE. A crowded meeting, chiefly composed of cattle drovers and others engaged in the cattle trade, was held on Sun- II day night on Clerkenwell-green, to consider the case of James Bell, aged 20, who was convicted at the Middle- sex Sessions last March of lamb-stealing at the Metropo- litan Cattle Market, and sentenced to five years' penal servitude. Mr. Thomas took the chair, and reminded the meeting that much effort and the outlay of much money had been required to effect the release from penal servitude of James Bell, who was innocent of the crime of which he was convicted. The crime had been con- fessed by a criminal now undergoing sentence, and it had cost the friends of Bell X150 to conduct three prosecu- tions in order to make an innocent man free. No doubt the public would not let them be at the loss of that. Bell had been dischared from Pentonville Model Prison on Saturday morning, under an order from the Home Secretary. No one who read the case or knew anything of it, could doubt that it was through the perjury of three policemen that Bell was convicted. It was suggested that these policemen should be prose- cuted for perjury, but it should be recollected that this could not be done unless the public supported the prose- cutors. It should be remembered that in the very case of Bell the police had a great inducement to procure a conviction, the sergeant getting iil reward and the men 10s. each. Mr. AlSweeny then moved, and Mr. Ayley seconded the following resolution, which was carried amid loud cheers That this meeting recognise with the greatest satisfaction the release from penal servitude of James Bell, the drover, who, although entirely inno- cent, was, through the perjury of three policemen, sen- tenced to five years' penal servitude. At the same time, we gladly avail ourselves of this opportunity of thinking Messrs. Guerrier, Randall, and Edds for their disin- terested labours in Bell's behalf, and for the vindication of justice." The proceedings then terminated, but Bell shortly afterwards appeared, and was received with tremendous cheering.

I VESTRYMEN AT A BANQUET. The Board of Works has had but a poor return for the hospitality it offered the London vestrymen at the Abbey Mills Pumping Station. Some of the vestrymen it will be remembered took too much champagne, quarrelled, and fought, and the publicity given to their proceedings in the police-court has induced another vestryman of the party to come forward with some awkward disclosures about the Abbey Mills banquet, which gradually broaden and deepen into strictures on the general mismanagement of the Board of Works. The vestryman's style is the more piquant from certain experiments which he makes in spelling. He tasted the so-called champagne at the banquet, and found it very bad. He then seems to have remembered that it was very dear, and he justly censures the Board of Works for putting such expensive drink on the table. But he soon dis- misses the banquet, after denying that all the party flung "such nice little missels as champagne bottleff about," and proceeds to complain of the composition ot the board, its recklessness, jobbery, and waste, and its attempts to bribe the vestrymen to silence by offering them bad champagne lunches. He suggests that Go- vernment auditors should be appointed to overhaul the accounts, and this could hardly fail to be productive of good, whether the vestryman's allegations are true or false.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will, with three codicils, of the late Lord Cal- thorpe, who died on the 2nd of May last at his country residence, Elvetham-park, Hants, was proved on the 14tb inst. by the Hon. Augustus Cholmondeley Gough Cal- thorpe, and the Hon. Somerset John Gough Oalthorpe, the two younger sons of the deceased, and twc of the surviving executors, the present peer, the othei surviving executor, having renounced the probate. The personal property is sworn tinder £ 70,000. The will i £ dated the 13th of May, 1856 the first codicil the 6th of As gust, 1861 the second codicil the 6th of October, 1865 and the third codicil in November, 1866. The testator directs his manor and other hereditaments in the county of Warwick, his lands and hereditaments in the county of Norfolk, and the other real estate over which he has a power of disposition, to be sold and the pro- ceeds thereof, together with the residue of his personal property, to be divided into eight equal parts; and ht bequeaths one of such parts to his youngest son, the Hoa. Somerset John Gough Calthorpe, the two elder sons being, as stated in the will, otherwise provided for. The other seven of such eight equal parts are be. queathed to testator's daughters as follows, viz., one each to to the Hon. Charlotte Frances Georgiana, the wife of Francis Joseph Cresswell, Esq. the Hon. Frances Blanche Anne, the wife of the Rev. John R. Ffeilden; Harriet Louisa Esther, the wife of Lord Alfred Churchill; the Hon. Isabel Eleanor Mary Gough Calthorpe, and the Hon. Olivia Georgiana Elizabeth Gough Calthorpe; and the remaining twa eighth parts, as to the income, upon trust, for the benefit of testator's youngest daughter, the Hon. Susan Caroline Gough Cal. thorpe, who is stated to be in delicate health and as to the principal, after her death to be equally divided between all testator's children, except his two elder sons. The testator's daughters Frances, Harriet, Isabel, and Olivia are each to have, in addition to the said one-eighth part, a sum of £1,000, and the two last-named are also to have fourteen new shares of the New River Company between them. The will, dated the 10th of August, 1864, of General the Hon. Sir Hugh Arbuthnott, K.C.B., Colonel of the 79th Regiment, late of the Albany, Piccadilly, who died on the 11th ult., was proved on the 18th inst. by the Hon. William Arbuthnott, the brother, the Hon. Waltet Arbuthnott, the nephew, and Frederic Walford, Esq, lhe executors. The personal property is sworn undei £ 120,000. The testator provides that in case the pro- ceedings instituted by him in the courts in Scotland fot the purpose of declaring a new entail of his estate at Hatton, in the parish of Marykirke, Kincardineshire, fail, and his nephew, the Hon. Walter Arbuthnott, is thus deprived of the estate for life, next after the life estate therein of testators's brother, the Hon. William Ar- buthnott, his said nephew is to have the sum of X20,000 Consols. There is an annuity of £ 325 per annum to Amelia Best, free of legacy duty; and the residue of testator's property is left to his said brother. Th deceased general was formerly M.P fGr Kincardineshire. The will of Sir John Henry Lowther, Baronet, of Swillington-hous9 and Wilton Castle, Yorkshire, who died on the 23rd of June last, at No. 9, Park-street, Grosver -r- square, was proved at the District Registry, Wakefield, on the 17th ult., by Sir Charles Hugh Lowthir, Bart., the brother of the deceased, the sole executor. The personal property is sworn under £ 140,000. The deceased leaves to his agent, John Hogg, a legacy of XIOO to his servant, William Hart, an annuity of X100 to his servant, Jane Morrison, an annuity of X30 to Elizabeth Blyth an annuity of X40 to Mrs. Charlotte Stocken an annuity of .£100 and to another lady an annuity of zCM. The testator devises his estates at Swillington, and all other his real estate in the West Riding, and his sha-e and interest in the Rivers Aire and Calder Navigation to his^broiher Sir Chanes Hugh Lowther for life, with re- mainder to his eldest son George for life, with remainder to his first and other sons in succession in tail male. All the testator's real estate at Wilton and Lazenby and elsewhere, in the North Riding, is settled to the use of the said Sir Charles Hugh Lowther for life, with re- mainder to his second son James for life, with remainder to his first and other sons in tail male. The residue of testator's property, real and personal, is left to his said brother, the present baronet. The will, with two codicils, dated respectively the 6th of July, 1854, the 28th of September, 1860, and the 20th of No vemter, 1867, of the Right Hon. Sarah Countess of Tyrconnel, late of Kiplin-hall, Catterick, Yorkshire widow, deceased, who died on the 23rd of January last' has just been proved in the District Registry at York by John Topham, Esq., and Captain the Hon. Walter Cecil Talbot, R.N., the executors. The personal property is sworn under £ 16,000. The deceased countess has left to Eliza Amelia Bean an annuity of £300 to Mary Ann Frances Wilson an annuity of £ 100; to her "maid Elizabeth Metcalfe (in addition to her wearing apparel and body linen) an annuity of .£50; to John Skinner an annuity of C25 to James Allen an annuity of £ 20 and to Mary Coates an annuity of 10 guineas. All the said annuities are charged upon testatrix's real estate and subject thereto all her real estate at Kiplin, Yorkshire, and elsewhere, is devised to the said Eon. Walter Cecil Talbot, the second son of the late Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, for life, on the condition of his "being and continuing a Protestant," and of bis "not marrying a woman not a Protestant," with remainder to his first and other sons in succession in tail male, on a like condition, with divers remainders over.