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€ptmm of ffofos. FIELD-MARSHAL LORD GOUGH is now the Senior Officer of the British Army. M. BENEDICT has passed through rari3, travel- ling in the direction of Baden. DR. BARRY, the new principal of King's College, will enter upon his duties in September next. THE Figaro computes the aggregate receipts of the billiard-table keepers of Paris at J812,000 a day. THE NEW THEATRE DE BELLEVILLE is now completed. It will seat 1,400 to 1,500 spectators. MRS. LEIGH MURRAY is so far recovered that she will soon resume her professional engagements. THE QUEEN, Captain Brown, has arrived from the seal fishing. Captain Brown brings considerably upwards of 2,000 seals, in all about 30 tons of oil. FRANCE HAS LATELY been visited by very severe storms, which in some parts of the provinces have caused serious injury both to persons and property. IT IS STATED that General Russell and Colonel Merewether are to be created Knights Commanders of the Star of India for their services in Abyssinia. THE INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS at the Middlesex Hospital, on the 1st of October, will be given by Dr. Burdon Sanderson. LADY BRAND, the wife of the Speaker of the House of Assembly, died in Cape Town on the 6th of July, at the advanced age of seventy-one years. PROFESSOR SWEET, the rope walkist, while making an ascension in Warren, R.I., on July 25th, fell to the ground, a distance of 30 feet. A TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH from Odessa to the Jnvalide Russe announces that the Elizabethgrad Olt" opol Railway was inaugurated on the 14th inst. THE DAMAGE DONE to private property through fire in Surrey during the past week exceeds £ 50,000. THE SALES OF ENGLISH WHEAT noted last week were 52,823 qrs. at 55s. against 24,856 qrs. in 1867. The London averages were 60s. 7d. on 5,122 qrs. THE BELLISLE has for the present taken the place of the Seaman's Hospital Ship, the Dreadnaught. The latter is now empty and under repairs. MR. SOUTH'S RESIGNATION as an examiner at the Royal College of Surgeons was received at the last meeting of the council of that body aad accepted. A DUBLIN PAPER states that over 3,000 Liberal voters are expected to be added to the registry in that city. THE NEXT MEETING of the British Association will be held at Exeter, under the presidency of Pro- fessor Stokes. A BOY 13 YEARS OF AGE has just committed suicide by hanging himself at Deurne, in Belgium, because his father had punished him for some trifling fault. MR. DISRAELI has presented, through the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, the sum of X50 to Mr. John Askham, the Wellingboro' poet, from the Royal Bounty Fund. Fanny Lear was played for the first time at the Gymnase Dramatique, Paris, on Monday evening. Mdlle. Blanche Pierson's return to this theatre has been warmly welcomed. MR. TOOLE has been performing in the country as Michael Garner," in Dearer them Life, and other of his favourite characters. His reception in Leeds as Michael Garner was highly enthusiastic. THE CONSUMPTION of tobacco in France is nearer 30,000 tons than 3,000 last year's in England was 40,000,000 of pounds that of France is considerably heavier. IN PROOF OF THE RAPID ADVANCES which Russia is making in material prosperity, it is worthy of record that during the last eleven years her export trade across the frontiers has doubled. THE Curiontes Scientifiques de Vannee 1867 says that in 1840 a Parisian drank on an average eight quarts of brandy a year, and that he now drinks thirty. ON SATURDAY Madame Rousseau, the wife of the editor of the Horizon, was buried at Sevres. At her own express desire she was interred without any religious ceremony. THE FRENCH PAPERS contain immense lists of the promotions and nominations made in the Order of the Legion of Honour on the occasion of the fete of the 15th. MANY FAWNS have been imported into London from Scotland, having been shot by deerstalkers on the moors. They are of the red deer tribe, and are sold at 7s. to 10s. each. AN IMPERIAL DECREE has been issued ordering all goods in the Russian custom-houses on the 1st of January, 1869, to be taxed, without exception, according to the new tariff. THE NUMBER of cases of scarlatina which have occurred at Guildford during the present epidemic now amounts, it would appear, to 406 attacks, with 22 deaths. THE RECENT INVESTIGATION made by Midhat Pacha appears to show complicity on the part of some Russian consuls and Rouman frontier authorities with the recent Bulgarian invasion. REPORTS FROM RICHMOND, United States, states that a Conservative meeting held in that town was attacked by negroes. A fight ensued, in which pistols were used, and two negroes killed. AT THE PRINCE'S THEATRE, MANCHESTER, Dr. „ Westland Marston's play of A Hero of Romance has been successfully produced, with Mr. Sothem in his original character of Victor." THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY have settled with Mr. Nelson Lee for the purchase of the City of London Theatre. X6,000, not including fixtures, scenery, or wardrobe, is stated to be the price. A TELEGRAM FROM IRELAND states that Mr. Scully is rather worse. One ball or slug still remains in his neck, and it is feared is working its way down- ward., in the direction of the left lung. THE TRIBUNAL OF HANOVER has just con- demned a boy of fifteen to a week's imprisonment for having sung in the streets a couplet of the Han- overian national anthem. 's QUEEN MOHELY, who has now been for some time in Paris, is about to leave for Marseilles, there to embark on board a Messageries steamer for Reunion, and thence to proceed to the Comores Islands. THE Gazetee du Midi states that at Marseilles during the review on the occasion of the Emperor's Fete, the populace raised cries of Liberty for ever 1" The press for ever!" Down with war!" MR. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, late Minister at London, declined to speak before a Grant Club in Quincy, Illinois, saying that he intends to take no active part in politics. AT THE LONDON SHERIFFS' COURT last week amongst the proclamation of outlawry was that of the Hon. Richard Bethell, son of ex-Lord Chancellor West- bury, at the suit of J. P. Whitmore. THE Cancan is being danced every night at Florence with great success. A Florentine feuilletonist says The dancers and the dance are very amusing, but it ought to be performed with closed doors." A FRENCH PAPER mentions that a gentleman whose cellar had been greatly infested with rats, found at they disappeared very soon after he placed a cask petroleum in the place. 18 wonderfully abundant this year at 5/ tiio i rinP??0ts ^ave ^een given away, so to speak, aow falling to L° °° 0UMr THE Cloche gives the following mot AS M Soulier's The proof that the Empire really means peace is that peace has been made three or four time since the Empire, and that it will be made again." S A NEW WEEKLY "national" paper is to be published in Dublin, under the name of The Flag of Ireland. It is, apparently, an offshoot of the Irishman, and is to have cartoons, or pictures." IT IS NOW STATED in a Dublin paper, that the announcement as to the bestowal of the ribbon of the Or.Jer St. Patrick worn by the late Marquis of Down- shire upon the Earl of Erne, is premature, no arrange anent having been yet made with regard to it. IN REPLY to an inquiry from the Mayor of Birmingham, ia reference to the date of the general "I, election, the Secretary of State has expressed his opinion ■that ia all probability the writs will be issued early ia -ovember, THE Morning Post understands that it is the intention of the Marquis of Salisbury to rebuild his late father's family mansion in Arlington-street, Piccadilly. It will take two years to rebuild and complete it for the reception of the family. REPORT SPEAKS HIGHLY of a young American lady, Miss Minnie Hauk, 17 years of age, who is now studying in Paris. She is said to have great talent, as well as an exceedingly fine voice. Miss Hauk is to sing in public in the coming winter season. MDLLE. ADELINA PATTI has appeared in Hom- burg, where she is to give 15 consecutive performances. Mdlle Nilsson, her only rival in Germany, as in Paris and London, is to sing at Baden on the llth, and at Wiesbaden on the 12th of September. THE GROUP by M. Aim6 Millet, intended to crown the new opera in Paris, has been cast. It repre- sents Apollo erect, and holding the lyre in outstretched hands. By his side are seated the Muses of dramatic music and of the dance. WE ARE INFORMED that the report of the Church Commission will be published within a fortnight. The voluminous schedules are not yet quite ready. A com- missioner attends each day at the Irish-office to revise them. IN Moscow a shopkeeper was stabbed in seven places standing behind his own counter, at one o'clock in the forenoon. The unfortunate man lingered long enough to identify his murderer, who proved to be one of his neighbours. CHARLES CUTLER, alias Harris, has been com- mitted, on the coroner's warrant, for kicking to death Mr. Siddon, landlord of the Duke of Cambridge Tavern, Wood-green, on the day of the Alexandra-park races. The jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter." CONSUMPTION OF TOBACCO IN FRANCE.— Last year 56,000,000 cigars were sold in France. The consumption of tobacco since 1852 has increased from 800,000 kilogrammes (nearly 800 tons) to 3,046,000 kilogrammes (about 3,046 tons). A SAD ACCIDENT has occurred at Pleasington, near Blackburn. Some platelayers were engaged in getting sand ballast, when a ponderous mass of earth tell upon them, and one poor fellow was crushed to death and another seriously injured. FROM HOPE TOWN we learn that another pre- cious stone has been discovered by a native somewhere near the banks of the Orange River. It has been inspected by competent judges, who declare it to be a diamond weighing from 12 to 13 carats. THE HALF-YEARLY MEETING of the London and North Western Railway was held on Friday. In the face of such a terrible accident on this usually well- managed line, none but the most formal and necessary business was transacted. His GRACE THE DUKE OF PORTLAND has for- warded the sum of £1,000 to the Irish Church Defence Fund; to enable the committee to carry out its objects by lectures, and the circulation of pamphlets and short papers in defence of the Irish Church. THE FAILURE has been announced of Messrs. F. and W. Newlands and Co,, of Glasgow and Rio Janeiro, through losses in coffee and the fluctuations in the Brazilian exchanges. The liabilities are supposed to amount to about £ 150,000. THE MORMON PRESIDENT, Brigham Young, with that power of adapting himself to circumstances by which he has always been distinguished, has taken the contract for the construction of the Utah portion of the Pacific railroad. AMONG THE RECENT ACTS was one as to the keeping and storage of petroleum. After February it is not to be kept within 50 yards of a dwelling, or to ba sold for illumination. The inspectors of weights and measures are empowered to test petroleum. AT THE LAST MEETING of the council of the Royal College of Surgeons, Mr. J. F. South, consulting surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, resigned his chair as an examiner, an appointment which he has held since 1849. FROM ST. PETERSBURG to the station of Bologovo, on the Nicholas Railway, the forests are burning upon vast extents, and almost without in- terruption. The station of Grada is surrounded by the conflagration. Troops have been sent there. THE HEAT has been intense at Madrid this summer, and the thermometer, a few days ago, stood at 39 deg. in the shade (102 1-5 Fahren.). The Ebro is described as almost dried up, and the small thread of water in it is so infected with earthy matter as to be unfit for use. THE SPANISH STAGE has sustained a great loss by the death of its famous actor, M. Julian Romea, at the watering-place of Loches. M. Gonzalez Bravo, his brother-in-law, on learning the intelligence, took leave of the Queen at St. Sebastian, and immediately returned to Madrid to be ready to attend the funeral. A SON of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone will, the John Bull hears, be a candidate for holy orders at the Christmas ordination of the Bishop of Winchester, and will be ordained to the curacy of St. Mary the Less, Lambeth, of which the Rev. R. Gregory is the incum. bent. ALEXANDER ROBINSON, a merchant formerly carrying on business at Great St. Helens, in the City, was on Saturday convicted at the Central Criminal Court of having defrauded his creditors by concealing his property. He was sentenced to 15 months' im. prisonment with hard labour. ON SATURDAY, Josiah Turner, aged 12, was playing on the line of the New Midland Railway, now in course of erection near King's-cross, when his head got jammed between two buffers of some trucks. He was taken to the Royal Free Hospital, where he died in a short time. THE ISLE OF MAN STEAMPACKET COMPANY have issued an order that no more paraffin oil for the island will be shipped on board their steamers. The company have been led to take this step from the fact that a vessel laden with paraffin oil has recently been blown upin the Channel. THE Overland China Mail announces that the reports of gold-fields having been discovered at Chefoo are confirmed, and that lead, silver, and coal have also been found in large quantities. The gold-fields had attracted a great number of Chinese—as many as 10,000 according to one report. FROM YOKOHAMA we learn that a ship had arrived there from Australia with about 18 passengers on board who had left employment in the colony in order to seek a fortune in Japan. The local papers strongly urge other colonists, however dull times may be with them, not to take a similar step* AT A MEETING AT CARLISLE of the subscribers to the Cumberland memorial of the late Earl of Carlisle, it was resolved that Mr. Foley, R.A., be engaged as sculptor, and that the statue should be placed on the moat at Brampton. There is a sum of 9700 available for the purpose. THE RECENT RAINS have done great good to the Herefordshire hop gardens, and on Monday next many of the large growers will be in full swing picking. So scarce had grass got in that usually moist county, that butter sold in the city market at Is. 6d. and 2s. per lb. MR. PERCY M. DOVE, the founder, manager, and actuary of the Royal Insurance Company, died on Monday morning at his residenee, Claughton, near Birkenhead, after many months of acute suffering from a most painful internal complaint. He was about 63 years of age. THE SEMIOFFICIAL Constitutionnel sets at rest all doubt, if any existed, with regard to the rumoured dissolution of the French Chambers, by announcing that that event will not take place until the spring of next year, when the. ordinary term for the duration of the Legislature expires. A ONCE FAMOUS TENOR Roger has written to the Paris journals (to announce Ms return on the French stage; he has, however, he declares, abandoned opera for the drama and will make his re-appearance at the Porte Saint-Martin mMdme. George Sand's new play of Cadto. r J SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.—The NUMBER of visitors during the week ending 22nd August i were :—On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday; free fm ten a.m. to ten p.m., 14,737; on Wednesday Thu day, and Friday (admission 6d.), from ten a.m. till six p.m., 2,365 National Portrait Exhibition, by payment 8,364; total, 25,736 average of corresponding WMk in former years, 11,332; total from the opening of ffca museum, 7,678,676. A TRIAL FOR MURDER of an exceptionably shocking character has just taken place at the assize court of Limoges, in France. A woman named Badi- naud strangled her .husband, a shoemaker, and then de. liberately cut up the body into little pieces, and scattered ,them day by day about the lanes in the neighbourhood. The pieces were picked up by various persons, but could not be identified. At last a hand was discovered, .and the, oculiar marks upon it,, caused by the occupation the deceased had followed, led to ,the detection of the crime. Ens woman was Bevteiuced,to.,Ver servitude iOIlife, A TESTIMONIAL will shortly be presented to Mr. C. J. Monk, M.P., by the Revenue Departments of the Civil Service, for his untiring and successful exer- tions in restoring to its members the elective franchise. Subsariptions to the testimonial are to be limited to one shilling, a sum not exceeding 100 guineas is to be ex- pended, and it will be in the form of an illuminated address, prepared by Mr. Scudamore, assistant secretary to the Post-office. OF THE THIRTY-EIGHT CANDIDATES who passed the last examination, twenty-eight were from Ireland, four from Scotland, one studied in London and Aberdeen, one in Edinburgh and Cork, one in Edinburgh and Dublin, and only three in England exclusively. The service still continues to be chiefly recruited from the Irish schools, and as little as ever from those in England. A decrease is observable in the numbers from the Scotch schools. FATAL FOLLY.-A young man, who, with some friends, was among the excursionists to Havre on the ¡ 15th, met with his death by an act of foolhardiness. He told his companions that he would slide down the cliff which slopes rapidly down to the sea, and which is ex- tremely high, by resting upon his heels. His friends begged him not to attempt it, but when their backs were turned he made the descent. His dead body, frightfully mangled, was shortly afterwards found below. 19 THE DEATH OF MR. SERJEANT GOULBURN, one of the Commissioners of Bankruptcy at Basinghall-street, took place on Monday at the advanced age of 82. The learned gentleman had held his office nearly a quarter of a century. Dr. Goulburn, Dean of Norwich, is a son of the deceased serjeant. The appointment to fill the vacancy thus created rests in the hands of the Lord Chancellor. LORD FARNHAM, the seventh baron, was a representative peer of Ireland. He was born in 1799, and succeeded to the barony in 1858, having for fourteen years previously sat in the House of Commons as mem- ber for Cavan. He was married to the Hon. Anna Stapleton, daughter of Lord Le Despencer, and has no family, the heir to the title being his brother, the Hon. Somerset Maxwell, born in 1803. A STATUE of the Emperor Napoleon I., erected at Grenoble on the Place d'Armes, was inaugurated a few days back in presence of the troops forming the garrison and of an immense cencourse of the population. Senator Larrabit, who had arrived expressly from Paris, presided. In the evening there was a grand banquet, and fireworks followed. THE MOST NOVEL celebration of the golden order has just taken place in Mansfield Centre, Conn. Betsy Huntingdon has lived in one family as a servant 50 years, and the semi-centennial anniversary was ob- served in a manner very gratifying to her, her pleasure being not at all lessened by the presence of many friends of the family and the receipt of many valuable gifts. M. ADRIEN MARX, who for some time occupied the post of Court newsman at the Tuileries, has just published a work entitled" Les Souverains & Paris," full of the most important and instructive details as te the soups, cutlets, and other edibles absorbed by the Imperial and Royal stomachs during their stay in this capital. ONE OF THE STANDING COMMITTEES connected with the Social Science Association has memorialised the Duke of Buckingham with a view to the suppression of the gambling hells which exist at Hong-Kong. In- credible as it may seem, these haunts of iniquity are legalised by the local Government, and made a source of public revenue. IT IS UNDERSTOOD that the appeal in the celebrated St. Alban's case (Martin v. Machonichie) will come on for hearing before the Judical Committee in November. The only questions raised against Sir R. Phillimore's judgment affect lighted candles on the altar and the costs. The appellant is the promoter of the suit. Mr. Machonochie's party are satisfied with the judgment of the Court of Arches. AN ATTRACTIVE ADVERTISEMENT.—"Any gentleman of good family having the entrie to Belgian society is invited by a lady and gentleman highly con- nected to visit them at Spa, and spend the winter with them at Brussels as their guest, quite free of any pecuniary consideration, the only equivalent asked for being the desired introduction. A small establishment. A good cook. The highest references. Galignai?,i. IHE MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY I COMPANY have offered a reward of X200 for the dis- covery of the perpetrator of the diabolical attempt made on the line within about four miles of Ballinasloe, to upset the mail train from Dublin by placing a sleeper aeross the line, which was very near upsetting the engine and train. EVERY YEAR 20,000 children born in Paris are sent into the banlieue and the departments to be nursed. It is shown by statistics that of these only 5,000 return. Out of 100 children reared by the parents, 17 die in the first year, whilst the mortality amongst children handed over to the care of nurses is from 34 to 90, according to the department. AT THE ISLE OF MAN REGATTA, the other day, a pleasing novelty was introduced in the shape of a boat race open to lady competitors only. The prize consisted of two handsome lockets—a locket for each oarswoman, as the boats were pair-oared. The winning boat (the Duchess) was rowed by two young ladies of the island-Miss Stevenson and Miss Kewley. MADAME MARIE SASS will shortly make her first appearance in Italian Opera. It is supposed that Madrid will be chosen for her débiU, which will be made in Norma or in Semiramide. Madame Sass sang re- cently in a private reunion some of the music of the rdle of Armide, in which she will bid farewell to the French Opera. A PRIZE OF f25 is offered by Mr. W. R. Lloyd for the paper containing the best and most feasible plan for the employment of operatives in casual distress. The paper is to be read at the forthcoming congress of the Social Science Association at Birmingham. The prize will be adjudged by the council, and the name of the successful author announced at the opening meeting. THE BOARD OF TRADE has ordered a telescope to be prepared for presentation to Captain Tiemann, master of the Blankenese galleas Louise, for his services to the shipwrecked crew of the British brig Parthian, of Sunderland. The British crew were picked up from their boats by the Louise on the 6th of July last, and landed at Cuxhaven on the 9th of the same month. THE Court Journal says that during the Queen's absence from the Castle it is customary to em- ploy a large number of workpeople on the necessary repairs of the private and servants' apartments, but at the present time scarcely more than from 20 to 30 mechanics are engaged, including carpenters, painters, gilders, masons, &c. THE KING OF ITALY has recently conferred upon Signor Emanuel Biletta, whose musical talents have been long favourably known in this country, the order of the Crown of Italy. Signor Biletta composed the cantata on the occasion of the marriage of Prince Humbert, and had previously received the orders of St. Lewis of Parma and of Ss. Maurice and Lazarus in recognition of his musical abilities. "WE ARE INFORMED," says the Italia of Naples, "a horrible massacre perpetrated by three brigands at Vezzani, in the commune of Castronuovo (Lagonegro). They murdered by poniard stabs Guiseppe Travascio, his brother Fortunato, the wife of the latter, Eleonora Lauria with her infant Mattea, and Angiola Ciancia, aged eight; Giovanni Travascio, the son, was grievously wounded." THE NEW JUDICIAL OATH.—In the new Act just issued the following concise judicial oath is now to be taken by the new judges :—" I (giving the name) do swear that I will well and truly serve our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria in the office of (repeating the name), and I will do right to all manner of people after the laws and usages of this realm, without fear or favour, affeotion or ill-will. So help me God." A HARMLESS DUEL was fought a few days ago between M. Ponet, editor of the Courier de Lyon, and M. Clerc, editor of the Refuse. The two gentlemen have been since brought before the Lyons Tribunal, and charged with disturbing the public peace. M. Clerc, the more bellicose of the combatants, was sentenced to ten days' imprisonment and lOOf. fine, and M. Ponet to 50f. fine. A VERY INFLUENTIAL ASSEMBLAGE met at breakfast in the Ulster Minor-hall on Wednesday morn- ing, under the presidency of Lord Dufferin, for the purpose of presenting to the Rev. James M'Cosh, D.D., LL.D., ex-Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the Queen's College, Belfast, a farewell testimonial on the occasion of his departure to America, to assume the Pre- sidency of the old-established College of Princeton. WE LEARN FROM GOOD AUTHORITY that the late Mr. M. SI. Higgins (" Jacob Omnium") was received into the church before he died. Mr. Higgins was married to a Catholic lady, his children have all been brought up as Catholics, and he was always well inclined to the old faith. Some days before he died he desired to be received into the church, and died & Catholic.— B. LP.— Weekly Register. SIX THOUSAND TREES are required to build a ship of the line of 74 guns, and when we consider that the maritime powers of Europe possessed in 1848 over two thousand of these ships, and four hundred thousand of smaller dimensions, without counting the merchant marine, it can easily be imagined that without the use of iron in ship-building, the Old World would soon have destroyed all its trees.-Avteriecyn paper. THE CHARGE OF FORGERY AGAINST AN OFFICER.—Lieutenant F. H. Goold has been committed to take his trial at the August criminal sessions in Cal- cutta on three distinct counts of forging and three counts of uttering a forged document, with intent to cheat the Delhi and London Bank. He was remanded to the Calcutta gaoL Permission to remain in the police lock-up was denied. His defence has been reserved.— Calcutta Englishman. DESTRUCTIVE FIRES IN FACTORIES. — On Thursday night a mill at New Bank, Halifax, the property of Messrs. John Crossley and Sons, carpet manufacturers, was destroyed by fire. The loss will be about R5,000. Between twelve and one o'clock on Friday morning a fire broke out in the top storey of the Aqueduct-street Cotton Mill, Preston, belonging to Mr. Dawson, and raged for several hours. The damage is estimated at about £ 12,000, which is covered by insurance. BREECH-LOADERS AT BEVERLOO.—A communi- cation from Brussels, in the Courrier de VEscaut, says The news which reaches me from the camp at Beverloo is not very favourable to our improved military armament. The new muskets are certainly loaded at the breech, which is all very well, but some of them also discharge themselves at the same place, which is not precisely advantageous for the soldier, who thus receives the projectile which he wished to send to the enemy." RAILWAY DAMAGES.—At the Liverpool Assizes another addition was made to the heavy sum which the London and North-Western Railway Company have lately been called upon to pay as compensation for damages. A Mr. Pearson was travelling from Man- chester to Wigan on the 14th of Deeember last, when the train oame into collision with some trucks, and he sus- tained such severe injuries that he was unable to attend to his business, the profits of which were 2600 a year. The jury awarded £ 1,000. M. THIERS is, I think, 77 years of age, writes the correspondent of the Observer. As you know, he has written 15 volumes of the History of the Revolu- tion," of The Consulate," and of The Empire." He is still an active-minded politician, and assiduously at- tends in the Legislative Body, where he delivers speeches of four hours' length and of an exhaustive character. I now hear that this indefatigable statesman is engaged writing a History of the Restelration" which will fill ten volumes t BRUTALITY OF A WIFE.—The brutal assaults of a woman named Wigmore, in Hunter-street, upon her dying husband, were inquired into on Saturday. The coroner, in summing up, said that, after hearing the medical evidence, a verdict of manslaughter could not be returned, as the violence of the wife was not the actual cause of death, but the woman could be prosecuted afterwards. The jury returned a verdict of Death from consumption, accelerated by brutal treatment." THE SUM OF S170,000 is to be placed in the next navy estimates, for the purpose of defraying the cost of constructing storehouses on the occasion of the conversion of Deptford Dockyard. The river side of the dockyard will be retained by the Admiralty for the storing and shipment of stores required for foreign stations, and the remainder of the dockyard will be handed over to the War Department, who will erect storehouses on it in connection with the military store department. The Royal victualling yard will remain as heretofore. ARTIFICIAL INCUBATION.—An inhabitant of Berlin lately, during the great heat, experimented on the hatching of hens' eggs in sand. On the 22nd July he placed six in a cigar box filled with that material, and exposed the case to the sun on that and the follow- ing days. The first chick broke the shell on the 9th of August, the second on the 10th, the third and fourth on the 11th, and the other two on the following day. They are all going on well, being fed on boiled eggs cut up small and mixed with millet. The average period of hatching chickens is twenty-one days; in the present case the first was produced in nineteen. LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAY. —According to the half-yearly report of this railway, the gross reeeipts in the six months ended June 30 were JB290,488, as against £ 265,747 last year. The increase was thus at the rate of more than 9 per cent. The expenses were £207,635, and this exceeded by 3 per cent. the expenditure in the corresponding period of 1867. The net result is a balance of 282,852. On the other hand, the accounts show that the aggregate defi- ciency on all the sections, exclusive of interest or divi- dend on Victoria share-capital, is X 13 5,9 9 4. A USEFUL HINT.-In a paper just published by Mr. Spofforth on Borough Registration, we find the following salutary warning :—" Overseers who wilfully insert in the list of voters the names of women or of male persons not entitled to vote, are liable to be sued in an action of debt for the penal sum of £500, with full costs of suit. This action may be brought by any person, and it is not required on such trial to prove a corrupt intent on the part of the overseer (2nd Wm. IV., c. 45, s. 76 I Tarr v. McGabey,' 7 Carr. and P. 383)." A COLLEGE FOR WOMEN .-An excellent project is now on foot for the formation of a college for women which shall hold in relation to girls' schools and home teaching a position analogous to that occupied by the universities towards the public schools for boys. The general committee, the executive committee, and the Cambridge committee, are already formed, and they include the names of many influential ladies and gentlemen. Professor Maurice is on the first; and among those on the second, are Professor Seeley, the Dean of Canterbury, Lady Augusta Stanley, and Miss Metcalfe. A RIOT is an uncommon occurrence in a London theatre, but a scene very nearly approaching it was witnessed at the St. James's, on Saturday evening. The performances of late have not been remunerative, and although there was a tolerably good house on this occasion, the supernumeraries, having received no wages, declined to work, and the manager was obliged to confess that he laboured under the disadvantages of a small capital. The occupants of the gallery, amid the loudest uproar, began to break up the seats, but the place was soon cleared, and a possible calamity prevented. A TERRIFIC STORM, accompanied by hail and torrents of rain, broke over Champagne a few nights back. At Ervy more than 50 chimneys were blawn down, and a tannery totally destroyed. At Saint-Phal several cottages were set on fire by the lightning, and the same at Vauchassis and Laines-aux-Bois. At Saint-Thi. bault three dwellings were burnt to the ground. At Cormort a stable was lifted from the ground by the wind and destroyed, five horses and six cows being killed, and a farm labourer buried under the ruins and killed. At the chateau of Saint-Aventin about 3,000 trees were uprooted, and 1,000 at Clery. In all direc. tions the harvest has suffered severely. THE TRIAL OF MADAME RACHEL, at the Central Criminal Court, was concluded on Friday; Lord Ranelagh went into the witness-box, and denied that he ever promised marriage to Mrs. Borradaile, or borrowed money from her. Nor did he at any time hand her his card, nor write a letter to her as had been stated. The jury retired to consider their verdict at six o'clock, and remained in deliberation until past eleven. Then, as there was no chance of their coming to an agreement, the Recorder discharged them. Madame Rachel, who was released on half the original bail, will be tried again next sessions. THE SUMMER OF 1826.-Miss Martineau, in her "History of England during the Thirty Years' Peace," relates that in the year 1826 There was so little grass that the cattle were fed on dry fodder on the richest meadow lands in England, which were brown and burnt as if a fire had passed over them. The deer in noblemen's parks died of drought; ponds and reser- voirs were shrunk to muddy pools hard working people sat up all night to watch the springs, some to carry home drink to their children, others to have a commodity of cold water to sell in the morning. In some high-lying towns the richest people made presents to each other of little pitchers of fresh water." GAME LICENSES.—The commissioners of inland revenue have issued their annual caution to sportsmen hunting and killing game without being duly qualified with a game certificate. The reduced charges are now X3 for the whole season; and to the 31st of October, X2 and from the 1st November till April 5,22. A certificate does not exempt sportsmen from the law of trespass, or authorise game to be killed other than wiLhin the periods prescribed by law. The commissioners intimate their intention of enforcing the full penalty of 220 and a surcharge of duty on all persons proved sporting without a game certificate. Partridge shooting season commences September 1, and pheasant shooting October 1 am a terminates February 1. Hares and rabbits are un. protected by any specified time for taking or killing. Woodcocks and landrails are within the category of game.

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