The Cardigan Observer and General Advertiser for the Counties of Cardigan Carmarthen and Pembroke

STRUGGLE FOR A PAIR OF BOOTS. At the Westminster Police-court, John Parker, a traveller, was charged before Mr. Partridge, with stealing a pair of boots, value 10s. 6d«, the property of one John Fooks. The prosecutor was Wm. Thomas Smith, who said he lived at Stephen's-road, Bow, and was clerk to a bill of sale man." He went ? to 10, Victoria-buildings, Pimlico, to take possession ¡ of the atock-in trade and furniture of George Henry Gregory, boot maker, under the powers of a bill of sale given to John Fooks, money lender, &c., of Buckingham Palace-road, default having been made. He produced the bill of sale. Mr. Par- tridge having carefully examined it, said he found the bill of sale was for the loan of .£50 over the whole of the stock-in-trade and furniture. The interest was to be no less than .£26 13s. 4d., payable, with the advance, at £210,. per week. It was a most disgraceful document. His worship here threw it down in disgust, and told the witness to proceed. Witness said about half an hour afterwards the prisoner came in and had a conversation with the shopman. At that time a sheriffs officer was in possession. Mr. Partridge asked how it was that they had put in so sharply, the money only being advance-! in November last? The witness said there was another bill of sale on the same property, and they had put in to see what they could realise. Mr. Partridge remarked that it was a case of the biter bit." Witness went 011 to say that he saw the prisoner ttying on a boot, and he said to the shop- man, Don't let anything go off the premises without it's paid for;" but while talking to the man he had put in possession, the prisoner walked out of the shop with the boots he had tried on. Witness went after him and asked him to return the boots, or he would be given into custody for stealing them. He refused to give them up, and went back to the shop, where he still refused, unless a magistrate compelled him to do so. He was then given into custody. The boots were taken off his feet at the station. The prisoner here asked the witness if he gave him an opportunity of paying for the beots ? The witnefs answeied that the prisoner said Mr. Gregory, the proprietor of the shop, owed him 183. for some beer supplied by a firm to which he was responsible. He did not say that Mr. Gregory bad arranged that he should have a pair of boots for the debt. Wm. Harris, the assistant at the shop, said the prisoner put on the boots, and said Mr. Gregory nad given him permission to have them but he told him that they could not go out of the shop unless they were paid for. The pri- soner, however, walked out with the new boots on and his own old onea under his arm, stating that whatever the new boots came to he would deduct the amount from his account with Mr. Gregory. Walter Carson, 3C3B, proved theappre- hension of the prisoner, who gave a correct address, and said that he should keep the boots for what was owing him. Mr. Partridge asked if anything were known of the parties. The ofibers of the court stated that they had known accused for years, and there was nothing against his character. Mr. Partridge, address- ing the constable, said if such a case as this came under his cognisance again, the best thing he could do would be to refer the parties to the magistrate for a warrant. It was quite clear that no felonious intention could be made out in this case. Whether the pro- secutor had a right of action against the prisoner for a trespass in the taking of the boots, or whether the prisoner had not a good action against the prosecutor for false imprisonment he could not say, but at any rate the accused would be discharged. The constable asked what should become of the boots. Mr. Partridge said he should make no order. The constable and Mr. Parker then both made a dash for the boots, but Parker being a taller and stronger man secured them. The constable endeavoured to get them away, but Parker poshed him back, and ultimately walked off the pre- mises in triumph with the boots, much to the chagrin of the other side.

BREACH OF PROMISE. At tke Leeds Assizes, Miss Tillotson, aged 40, sued Joseph Ramsden, detective inspector of Bradford, for X600 damages on account of a breach of promise of marriage. In June last the defendant, who had paid his addresses for several years to the plaintiff, married another lady. In January last year she went from her brother's house at Shipley to Bradford, and de- fendant met her at the station and took her to his house, where she had tea with his mother. Before that she had knitted him some socks. The lady's doubts began to arise in April, and she wrote to the defendant as follows: I placed my hole trust in you. You said you was thrown overboard. I ham left in the swamps. Good by. They tell me to forget thee, Has thoe thoud never been; They say thou art anothers, And to think of thoe is sin; But can I ever banish The memory of the past, Ah. no, the world must vanish, That hour must be my last." After the reading of this, Lord Justice Lush suggested that the case should be compromised, and counsel retired with his lordship into his private room. His lordship t en told the jury that damages had been agreed on which might, not be so large as the plaint; ff deserved, but it had been !eft him to say what would be a proper sum in proportion to tb < defendant's means to pay.-Verdict for the plaintitr-damages £70, wivh costs.

THE LATE JOSEPH DAWSON'S WILL. In the Chancery Division, a question arising out ff the will of the late Joseph Dawson, the Newmarket trainer, came before Vice-Chancellor Sir C. Hall. The point in dispute was whether under the wil! the saddlery, &c., in the stables of the deceased formed a part of his furniture, and consequently whether the saddlery, &c., went to the wife to whom the furniture was devised, or whether it formed part of the residue of the testator's estate. The Vice-Chancellor held that everything in the testator's residence, Bedford House, belonged to the widow, Mrs. Dawson, under the will and that the saddlery, Ac., in her late husband's stables formed a portion of the residue. Mr. North- more Lawrence submitted the question for the judg- ment of the Court.

FORGING A DOCTOR'S CERTIFICATE. At the Chester Assizes, Enoch Thomas Fay, de- scribed as a groom, of Reading, was indicted for forging a doctor's certificate with intent to defraud. Prisoner was a member of Court Oholmondeley of the Ancient Order of Odd Fellows at Knutsford, and, after going to Reading, he sent a number of certificates pur- porting to be signed B. Wright, M.D. and ob- tained about three guineas sick relief. It afterwards transpired that Dr. Wright was dead, and the prisoner then confessed that he committed the forgery to obtain money, being out of work. The prisoner made an ingenious defence, showing that the society was not conducted according to its rules. The Commissioner told him he was a great deal too clever to be at large, and sentenced him to twelve montw imprisonment with hard labour. —

A PUTTY-BUILT HOTEL. An action has just been heard by Mr. J. F. Collier, judge, at the Southport County Court, in which Mr. James Thomas, of the firm of Thomas and Co., painters and decorators, Southport, sued Mr. Thomas Walkden, brewer and hotel proprietor, of Birk- dale, for the balance of .£35 14s. for work done to the Becconsall Hotel, Hesketh bank, near Preston. Plaintiff alleged that he signed a contract, which was drawn up by the defendant to do certain painting and decorating at the hotel for £ 61. Defendant told him he wanted the house made beautiful to the eye," as it was to be sold. Plaintiff told him to paint the house properly it would ooBt.2200, but he replied that he did not want to go to the expense. The work was commenced on the 13th of Mav, 1880, but so bad was the wood with which the hotel was built that they had great difficulty in painting it satisfactorily to them- selves. In some places the ends of the timber were so far apart that they had to fill the holes up with putty, and in this way they used about 1 cwt. It was known as the putty- built house." The hotel has once been offered for sale, but was withdrawn. He believed ;f3000was the sum wanted for it, but £ 1500 was about its value. Defendant conten ed that the house was well built and had cost him over .£3000, and that the plaintiffs had not completed their contract. His Honour, after hearing witnesses, gave a verdict for £127.. 6d., with costs.

TTTW. MANUSCRIPT of Sir Walter Scott's "Guy Mannering" has been sold at Sotheby's for £ 300. A like price is asked for the MS. of Dickens's Christmas OaroL" MR. NEWDEGATB, M.P., speaking at the annual meeting of the Warwickshire Scripture Readers' Society at Coventry, said that for various reasons the agencies of other denominations were now more than usually active, and if the Church of England should seem, however deceptive might be the aopearance, to be careless of her charge, he was quite sure it would produce an effect upon public opinion most detrimen- tal to her. A MAN NAMED CHARLES "WILLIAMS was charged at Exeter with stabbing Henry Turner. The prose- cutor and his wife had had a dispute, and, after Turner had gone to bed, his wife called Williams into the house. Complainant thereupon got up, and fol- lowed Williams into his own house, where a struggle ensued between the two, in the course of which it was alleged that Williams Btabbed his assailant; but no knife was found. The magistrates dismissed the eharge.

THE ROYAL PRINCES "CROSSING THE LINE." According to letters received from the Flying Squadron, with which are the Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales, in the Bacchante, the usual cere- monies which were observed in crossing the line on the 29th of November, when such of the officers and men as had not previoutly crossed were subjected to tho time -honoured ordeal. On board the Inconstant, the first one called for- by Neptune's secretary was Prince Louis of Battenberg. Having been blindfolded below, the Prince was presented in due form to Neptune, who directed his doctor to ascertain the state of his Serene Highness's health. The official ac- cordingly administered the soent bottle and gave him a pill, after which he was transferred to Nep- tune's barber, who placed him in a chair on the edge of the platform, with his back towards the bath, in which position he was well lathered, every device bring at the same time tried to induce him to open his mouth for the entrance of the brush. After being roughly shaved, the Prince was then capsized into the bath, where he was thoroughly drenched by the bears and assistant?. He was next turned over to Neptune's servants, who dried him with wet swabs. The- pro- ceedings on board the Bacchante were very similar, the Royal midshipmen, Princes Albert and George, taking their turn in the shaving and ducking with the rest of the gunroom officers. The Princes entered heartily into the fun.

INTOXICATED PIGS The well known German tale of a flock of drunken geese has been lately revived and gona the rounds of the papers. It is said, indeed, to have happened in many places. Not long ago, we read that it had only just happened at Kostbeim, a village near Mainz on the Rhine. It appears from a report far better authenticated, that other frequenters of the farm yard are not insensible to the fascina, tions of strong drink. At the last session of tho Medical Academy of Paris, Dr. Dujardin- Beaumetz gave an account of the edifying experiments which he bas been making upon the alcoholic tendencies of pigs. He wished to test the poisonous efficacy of alcohol upon the bruteoreation, w;th a view, doubtle-s, to the ultimate promotion of temperance amongst human creatures. With this benevolent goal in sight, he has daily for some time past been in the habit of intoxicating ten swine. The task has not been an easy one. A sturdy old sow is capable of taking in a con siderable amount of strong liquid and being none the worse for it. The learned doctor has one pig who takes her two hundred grammes, two-fifths of a pound, of alchohol. The first effects of drunkenness upon a sow are not alarming; she sleeps all day long, and when awake she rolls about jovially, like a drunkard by profession. A long course of vinous dissipation, however, produces at last just the same phenomena as occur in the human species under the like circum- stances—tremulouaness, loss of appetite, throat dis- ease with consequent roughening of the voice, and other known symptoms. To do the learned intoxicator of pigs justice, we must add that he always subjects them to a reformatory process at the end of his ex- periments. A confinement to milk diet for eight days restores the porcine drunkard to wholesome appetite and normal morality. A group of pigs who were treated by the doctor with absinthe raged insanely and had epileptic fits. _n

THE ELECTRIC LIGHT. Mr. Edison is at last about to make a decided move with his eleotric light, and to show the New Yorkers that he can illuminate the city at a cheaper rate than they do it by gas. For some little time he has had 50Q of his lamps at work in Menlo-park, the circuit of the wire being very nearly eight miles in length. The current for these lamps is supplied by nine dynamo- electric machines, driven by one engine, but Mr. Edisen is of opinion that one large generator, driven direct by the engine, would be more enonomical. Such a machine is nearly finished, and is certainly the largest of its kind yet constructed for the armature alone weighs about a ton and a half, and the engine is to drive it at the rate of six hundred revolutions per minute, working direct on the crankshaft, without the intervention of belts or gearing. To furnish New York with 500,000 lamps of 16-candle power will oost, he estimates, L750,000, or, more accurately, about £1 9s. 4d. per lamp per annum, against an average of nearly X2 now paid for gas, The experiment at Menlo-park has, it is stated, dis- closed the fact that two-fifths of a pound of ooal will supply current for one lamp of 16-candle power for one hour, and at that rate, assuming the cost of plant to be about equal for gas and electricity, the latter is cheaper in New York. But it must be observed that as the incandescent lamps are only equal in illu- minating power to a good gas lamp, it remains to be seen whether the disadvantages of the new method will not turn the balance against it when competing with gas.

FAILURE OF A PROSECUTION. Walter Roberts, 42, engraver, was indicted at the Oentral Criminal Court for feloniously forging and counterfeiting certain dies, used by the Goldsmiths' Company of London for stamping gold and silver wares. The principal witness against the pri- touer was a man named Davis, and he stated that on the 11th of January he met the pri- soner at a public-house in Glerkenwell, and he asked him to buy some rings, and he purchased a keeper ring for fifteen pence purporting to be stamped with the Goldsmiths' Hall mark, which mark turned out to be forged. On the 14th of January he went to the residence of the prisoner, in Charles- street, Islington, and saw him stamp, by means of counterfeit dits, an imitation Goldsmiths' Hallmark upon several rings composed of haw metal. A number of false dies were subsequently found by the police in the prisoner's room. The Commis- sioner in the course of the case inquired of Mr. Rob nson, the deputy-warden of the Goldsmiths' Company, how it happened that no prosecution was in- stituted against the manufacturers of plated forks and spoons at Sheffield and Birmingham, who actually placed marks on such articles to represent the Hall mark. He replied that they were not sufficiently close imitations of tbe genuine mark. The defence was that the marks fabricated by the prisoner were not imitations of the genuine mark, but differed from it in material particulars; and the jury returned a verdict of not guilty.

IRISH CHURCH TEMPORALITIES. The report of the Commissioners of Church Tempo- ralities in Ireland from July 26,1869, to November 1, 1880, has just been issued. It states that the payments for compensation, together with the capital value of uncommuted annuities, amounts to £11,666,518, paid or payable in respect of interests or persons deprived of income, or adversely affected by the Irish Church Act, £ 9,713,804, being the value of strictly Church in- terests. The commissioners have borrowed £9,000,000 from the National Debt Commissioners. The total amount received for property sold was X9,794,790, and the present estimated value of Church property to be dealt with is £ 12,389,728. If it had not been for recent legislation, by which additional burdens have been laid on the property, involving already heavy payments for interest, the entire debt for which the Church estate would now have been liable, would be £6,600,000 to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, and £300,000 the estimated caoital value of annuities and pensions now payable, and therefore the estate, after providing for all claims, would have shown a surplus of about £ 6,500,000.

THE HUDDERSFIELD CHAPEL DISPUTE. In the Chancery Division, before Sir C. Hall, the action brought by the Trustees of the Ramsden-street Chapel, Huddersfield, to remove the defendant, the Rev. Mr. Stannard, from the pastorate of the said chapel—on the ground that his teaching and preaching were not in conformity with the doctrines of John Calvin, which were set forth in ten articles of the trust deed; and also on the ground that he had not been elected by a majority of two-thirds of the members of the congregation, as required by a provision in the same deed-has been concluded. In the early part of last week an injunction had been moved for to restrain the defendant from acting as pastor of the church in question and, after a hearing of the case, occupying seven consecutive days, during which witnesses an both sides were cross-examined upon their affidavits, his lordship gave judgment in favour of the plaintiffs, without casts on either side. -=

ADVANCE IN THE PRICB OF COAL.-In South Staffordshire, circulars have been issued from the Earl of Dudley's offices, stating that the price of coal would be advanced one shilling a ton. and slack sixpence. At the whole of the other collieries similar advances will be made. A WOMAN IN WEST CORNWALL, CONN., having unsuccessfully attempted to induce her husband to move from a house which she disliked, deliberately moved everything of value belonging to herself and busband out of her house, placing them in a woodshed adjoining; went up stairs, piled a feather bed and quilts belonging to her mother-in-law on top of a straw bed, setting fire to the latter. Then, taking her child, very leisurely she walked to the neighbours and told them what she had done. AT BRIGHTON A MAN NAMED JOHN MAC- DONALD dropped lifeless in the street whilst following his child to toe grave. Two FABMEBS WERE FINED £ 1 each at the Boyle Police-court for cheering in the street, and the magistrate, Colonel King-Harman, announced that any other persons brought up for the same offence would get seven days' imprisonment without the option of a fine,

DREADFUL DOUBLE MURDER IN BERNE. The Geneva correspondent of the Times writes undfr date January 31: Fuller and more accurate details concerning the frightful and mysterious double murder in Berne, of which I informed you briefly by telegraph, have been published by the cantonal police. Stockeren, the place at which the orime was committed, is not far from Biglen, which not more than two months ago was the scene of a similar event-a double murder, to which no clue has yet been found. The victims in the present case were an aged peasant and his wife—Christian and Elizabeth Liechtl- in easy circumstances, who were reputed in the neighbourhood always to have a round sum of money in their strong box or hidden away in some corner. They lived alone, and their single servant, a young man named Moser, who lodged in Stockeren, a short walk from the house, came every morning to look after the cattle, Liechti being a yeoman farmer. On Thursday morning last, when Moser entered the farm- yard shortly before six o'clock he found the body of Christian Liechti stretched before the shippen, and not far from him lay the body of his wife. Both were terribly battered about the head. The lamp in their bedroom was still burning when Moser entered the house. All the drawera and boxes had been forced open and their contents scattered about; but the murderer, or murderers, only succeeded in finding some fifty francs, which were hidden in one of the drawers. From, the position in which the bodies were found it is supposed that Liechti and his wife were induced to leave the house by a false alarm, and then struck down as they reached the shippen door. The surgeons who made the post mortem examination considered that the first blow that each received, probably from an axe, must have been fatal. Snow had fallen, during the night and effaced the footsteps of the murderer, as to whose identity no clue has as yet been discovered. At nightfall on Wednesday some school children met a disreputable, dark-looking man, clad in a blue blouse, who inquired the way to Stoekeren. This man is now being sought for, but, so far as is known, there is no evidence whatever of his connection with the murder. Meanwhile, the people of the neighbour- hood, which is one of small villages and isolated farm- bouses, are in a state of great consternation, which, seeing that four murders have been committed in two adjacent communes in the course of a few weeks, is not to be wondered at. These occurrences will, no doubt, strengthen the agitation for the re-establishment of capital punishment which has lately been started in Berne. But before murderers can be punished, by death or otherwise, they must be oaught, and the capture of murderers in Switzerland seems to have become almost a lost art.

PRECAUTIONS AT THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Government deemed it necessary to take great precautions at the House of Commons on the night when the Irish members, to the number of thirty- five, were suspended. Over 400 police were an duty in addition to the ordinary number, and fifty picked constables were stationed at various parts of the palace. Almost every door leading into the lobbies and corridors was watched by detectives. Two policemen were posted outside the office of the Chief Secretary for Ireland, and the Premier's private room, as well as the Speaker's house, was also guarded. The members' lobby was cleared from an early hour, and strangers were not allowed to enter for several hours. The expelled members did not leave the precincts, but,'after holding consultations in small parties, they had a meeting in the conference-room at ten o'clock. A sub-committee- was appointed to prepare a manifesto. This manifesto states that the Irish members were afraid that the Irish people would be excited by the arrest of Michael Davitt, who was, in the opinion of the Irish members, one of the safeguards of order in Ireland, and also, by what they considered the despotism shown towards themselves in the House of Commons, would be seduced into foolish courses. They therefore felt it their duty to call upon the people of Ireland not to overstep by one inch the limits of constitutional and peaceable agi- tation, and the Irish members themselves were endea- vouring to set them a peaceable example by a patient endurance of what they considered wrong, and, in spite of feelings of aggrievement, remaining in the House and continuing to do their duty there. The manifesto, which is signed by Mr. Parnell, on behalf of the Irish members, is addressed to the Irish race at home and abroad." The expelled members intend to return to the House and take their seats in the usual way, notwith- standing, as, they say, the unconstitutional action of the Speaker."

STRANGE INTESTINE EFFECT FROM WORKING UNDERGROUND. After a long series of microscopic examinations Dr. Giaccone, a physician in the service of the St. Gothard Tunnel contractors at Airolo, has succeeded in proving beyond question that the intestines of the men employed in underground work becomes after a time infected with an insect, which hf des- cribes as a species of ankilostomt," whereby their health is seriously impaired. It is said, however, that Dr. Sonderre ;er, of St. Gall, who has been co-operating with Dr. Giaccone in his experiments, has discovered a means of curing or pre- venting the malady thus engendered. The Federal Council are shortly to summon a conference of the physicians of the St. Gothard Railway for the purpose of laying before them the re- port of Drs. Giaccone and Sonderreger and asking their opinion thereon. Less than a year ago a medical expert appointed by the Government sent in a report denying the existence of the presence of animalcules in the intestines of the men employed.

A STEAM PINNACE FOR "THE BHITrSfI AMBASSADOR AT CONSTANTINOPLE. A handsome steam pinnace is being prepared at Portsmouth for the use of the British Ambassador at Constantinople. It is bullt of mahogany on the diagonal principle by Mr. Samuel White, of East Cowes, the double skin not exceeding an inch in thick- ness. It measureR fifty feet long by nine feet of beam, possesses beautifully moulded entrance and run, though designed more for comfort than speed, and weighs when fully equipped about eight tons. At the after end is erected a kiosk constructed of polished teak, affording accom modation for about twelve persons, with clerk's office and other conveniences, the whole being protected from the sun by an awning. The pinnace is propelled by a single four-bladed screw, the engines working up to sixty horses, and a speed of over ten knots was realised on the measared mile. During the steam trial the stiffness of the craft was subjected to a severe test, the helm being suddenly shoved hard over. The rudder head eventually succumbed to the strain, but it was observed that in going round the pinnace did not swerve from the perpendicular, and the Ambassador could have continued his writing without being put to any inconvenience. A couple of masts with sails will be pent out with the pinnace, but they will not be fitted at Portsmouth. Mr. Goschen has taken great interest in the completion of the little craft, and has expressed himself satisfied with the result.

CHARGE OF MUBDEB.—Before the Liverpool stipendiary magistrate, Henry Edward Taylor,, 25, was charged with causing the death of his niece, Agnes Blanche Jones, six years of age, by cutting her throat. The prisoner was said to be of weak mind, and his wife is an inmate of a lunatic asylum. Mrs. Taylor, mother of the prisoner, said that his wife knew he was insane when she married him. He was sober on Wednesday, but rambling in his talk all day. About one o'clock he went to bed in the room where the deceased slept. When he had been gone five minutes witness went upstairs and found the deceased with her throat cut. The prisoner had been subject to fits ever since his infancy.. He had these fits every time the moon changed. The prisoner, who avowed that he had "cut" the child, was committed for trial at the assizes. HOTEL ROBBERY.—The Royal Hotel, Crewe, Cheshire, has been visited by a well-dressed young man, describing himself as a commercial traveller. While the landlord and servants were engaged he entered a bed room and stole from a drawer a lady's gold watch, some handsome carved figures, a lady's gold twisted albert guard, a lady's gold guard, a set of gold earrings, inlaid with diamonds, a valuable gold ring, set with diamonds, a gold stud with diamond centre, a lady's negligee, with locket attached, gold locket, a Maltese cross of rubies and pearls, and a pair lady's gold solitaires. The thief got clear off with his booty. EASTER MONDAY VOLUNTEER REVIEW.—A special meeting of commanding officers of metropolitan volunteers has been held, at which a resolution was carried unanimously that it was desirable that a review should be held on Easter Monday, provided a suitable locality can be obtained, and a committee was formed to make the necessary arrangements. THE IBISH PROCLAMATION .-Copies of the Irish teditious proclamation have been surrepti- tiously posted on the doors of some of the Roman Catholic churches in Leeds, and in the Irish quarter of the town. A good deal of excitement prevails in consequence, and the authorities continue to take every precaution. COLONEL MAXINS wants a flag to be hoisted on the Clock Tower, to show when the House is sitting by daylight. If the Government accept the suggestion, we (Echo) would recommend them to adopt as the flag the Ensign downwards. "A KENSINGTON DISTRICT VIEITOB" writes to us (Globe) "I was urgently asked last week by a woman for a soup ticket, and ventured to inquire whether her husband bad sought work in cleansing the roads, as I heard that men were wanted at 3s. a day. 'OhI no, Miss,' was the reply; 'only quite the lower classes do that sort of work, ■'

EXTRAORDINARY MURDERS IN SWITZERLAND. A correspondent of the Times, writing from Switzer- land, says: I can recall without effort eight murders committed during the last six months, the perpetrators of which are still at large, and, so far as appears,unknown, albeit several persons have been arrested on suspicion. These are the murders of the cattle-dealer on the Gemmi road, of the old woman and her niece at tho auberge of the Col des Mosses, of a cafi keeppr at Geneva, and of two peasants and their wives recently in canton Berne. This, however, may be no reproach to the police, who in most of the cantons are much too short-handed for the work they have to do. The German and Italian vagabonds and foreign gipsies who infest the country in such numbers and the long frontier which hems in Switzerland on every side and makes her the near neighbour of fiye States (reckoning the Duchy of Baden as one) render the detection of crime and the pursuit of criminals exceedingly difficult. One of the most extraordinary attempts at murder oi record, and which is all the more singular is that the would-be murderer has been arrested, is reported from St. Gall. A young man, employed in a house of business, bad made free with a considerable amount of his em. ployer's money, and, in order to conceal his defalca- tions, he hit upon the following expedient: In the office with him was a youth serving his apprenticeship, and one evening about ten days ago, when the two were alone together, just before closing time, the embezzler (whom the St. Gall papers, too considerate to give his name in full, describe as F.), threw a cloth over the other's bead, then twisted it round his neck, and. as he thought, strangled him, after which he hung him up to a book. He next put a 20-franc piece which he bad taken from tbecash-box into the boy's pocket and left the office. if is idea in all this was to make it appear that the boy was the thief, and that, fearing de- tection, he had committed suicide. As it happened, however, another of the clerks returned to the office to fetch something be had forgotten after F. left. He paw the boy hanging to the hook, cut him down, and bad him taken forthwith to the town hospital. Life was found to be not quite cxtinst, and the surgeons succeeded with great difficulty in restoring him to con- sciousness, when he was able to tell how and by whom he had been half-strangled and then nearly banged. When heard that his victim had been taken to the hospital he made off, but after a chase of several days the pollee succeeded in arresting him, and he is now in prison at St. Gall. =--

A CASE OF SINGULAR BARBARITY. At the assize of Gers, a case has just been tried which i8 of singular barbarity. At Mirande there lived a farmer named Balthazard, with his wife and only son, tbe ^a^eF.f ?°uog man of brutal manners and debauched babiw. The g^at wish of the parents, who were miserly 111 the extreme, was to see their hopeful son married to a girl with money, and they were exceedingly Pleased when they were told that he was engaged to an heiress, named Marie Toulouse, with a portion of 80,000f. As a matter of fact, however, she bad only 600f., and the anger of the old people 'vrsb excessive when the son con- fessed that he had led en the subject, and that he was already married to the girl. From the very first she led a dog's life in amiable household she had just entered, repr°a°^e8» threats, and blows being her daily portion, until at last her husband got tired of her and left her with the old Balthazards. Shortly afterwards she went back toner friends, and the son returned home. Unfortunately lorner, she heard of his return, and came again to to claim support from bim. Shortly 8 some young men beating on the perceived the poor creature floating oow be stream and rescued her, Balthazard tne yunger watching the whole proceed- ings from the with his arms folded. Even then she refused to accuse her wretched husband, declaring that it was by that she fell into the water, and within a » 8 ner body was found in a wood adjoining tDf A post-mortem examination revealed she had been suffocated. It is satisfactory rc* that no suggestion of extenua- ting was brought forward, and that the father, wotn • son were all sentenced to per- petual travauxMoi^^

A FAIOTURG DOWAGER QUEEN. A Paris correspondent says: The remains of an octogenarian lady, long called in Parisian society the Dowager Queen of the Faubourg St. Germain, were borne to the tlcpusbOemetery, where l'e the bodies of most of j °oles decapitated in 1793. The defunct the widow of the Due de la RochefouCu, oudeauville. She occupied the first floor Hdtel de la Rcchefoucauld, in the Rue J^nnes, and received every week her old on receiving days, was like » oab,netdf curiosities. Old people in old- fashioned ,1.n8 talked in shaking voices and in correct °* phraseology about old times. When tbey 6 all young the duche?s WM a personage at the Cour harles X., where her husband was superintend, r">e Arts. She was passionately fond of music, '» I. the Duchess de Berri, made the Italian v^Ojiable in Franco. Tbe late duchess made .phages to Goritz and Frohsdorf before the piiude of old age came upon her. She hadGas«o ^tion, aaharptongue, and a high spirit. A bishop her funeral mass in the church of Francois > > *hich was hung throughout with black draperies bordered^ ermine

CaSEof VITRIOL-THROWING A terfi case of vitriol-throwing (says a Paris ) occurred near the Northern Railway. The offe 8 an artisan named Lassieur, who worked ^ectro pi site line. He had a small Yyi- '0,ISP> the rent of which got m arrefti"* the landlord, a Tvl. Patureau, served j c ment he threatened to blow up the house. 8 himself under the ruins. His menace taken seriously by tbe bailiffs who came ",18 goods and eject him. They refu«e £ l. i. Wto the piemises in which he had unless assisted by policemen. Wbe° ?°e was effected Lassieur sent for the landl° > „ he offered full payment of the arreftT .6(1 to remain tenant of the workshop. This W'used. A glass jar was near of nitrjc Phurio acid. Lassieur rushed over to t, i, ?, intention of throwing it I.- VIAO^ w^° raised his arm and • Part of the corrusive fluid, how- ever' his cheek, temple, eve, and neck. Beb'n a police commissary, a bailiff, auc- n, jtahle. They received the fluid which parsed •Patureau's head. The commissary is badly tae face,-and the other men on their they screened their eyes. There wa* 8 hunt after Lassieur, who is now lodged in gaol. — 8

gtJPPOSED FIGUREHEAD OF THE "ATALANTA. figure-head of H.M.S. Atalanta was landed 8 ^rona the barquentine Girl of Devo* a,.0?6? up when eleven davs out from piyi»ou • John's, Newfoundland, a few months since* ui»v» ,eafc WM taken in the landing of the -L^wed behind a boat. The piers at the hned with spectators. The figure was the GtVZ 8J",Pbuilding yard of Mr. Shilston, owner ?' and the Admiralty were Z ™municated with. Opinions are divided at Piy^,°",„ 88 whether the figure is really that of the tala" i Custome officer at Plymouth, who sailed 'believes it is really the figure that 18 well-known that the figure-head of tbe *as similar to that carrried by the JunO' j *en from tbe relic bore the mark of the broad arrow.

OOBCON.FISUIIqG.-On the 2ad inst. Balmon fishi» £ peii6<1 in England, but owing to the late newly-run fish were taken. We f ? Severn district that before tbe severe °8b were seen running up, but that for 1 riyer haa 1)0611 covered with ice, ? __x cleared out. The spawning season bas ilot been a good one. There wa £ a good run of early fish last autumn, but few followed them in tbe winter. A month ago some kelts which had apftwned *"jTA o to the estuary, and in their conoPftnJ und ^H-roed fish, which had not yet ascended to the spawning bed8. The stock in the Severn is believed to be much reduced owing to over netting in tbe lower part of the fresh water, and to the fixed engines w estaary. New fish was on sale at ^r«rc*?8ter on Wednesday at 4s. per lb. IT IS :FEARED (says & Montreal telegram) that the export of cattle from Canada to Great Britain will cease Order in Couocil, requiring the slaughter or the cattle after landing, be enforced by the home authorities. GRAIN MILLS DKSTBOYHD BY FiBB.—A de- structive fire broke out at the grain mills of R. H. Hay, Brothers, James-street, Bridgeton, Glasgow. The fire originated through the overheating of one of the shafts of the machinery,, and in about two hours the building, which is a four-storev brink one with attics, was level with the ground. The damage done will amount to about £ 15,000, and is insured. A PARLIAMENTARY PAPER just issued shows that the total number of votes disallowed for irre- gularity in the making-up the ballot papers at the general election was 11,784, of which 4261 were in counties, and tbe rest in boroughs. THB ROYAL COURTS OF JusTiCE.—The annual expenditure for wages of servants and guardians of the Royal Courts of Justice after that building becomes fully occupied has been officially estimated at £ 10,000. —,Solicitors' Journnl.

BURNING OF A JAPANESE STEAMER. LOSS OF SIXTY-FOUR LIVES. Yokohama papers have been received at Plymouth containing reports of a sad disaster at sea, through which sixty-four persons lost their lives. The pas- senger steamer Toyokuni-maru, a new vessel recently launched from the works of Messrs. E. and O. Kirby and Co., was on a trip from Osaka to Shimonoseki. The owner and a large number of passengers were on board, and everything presaged a pleasant run until an alarm of fire was raised while the steamer was crossing the Iduzmi-Nada. Terrible confusion at once ensued, and as the conflagration was in the coal bunks nothing could be done to extinguish it, the vessel being without pumps or any other appliance useful for such a purpose. The Hiogo News says the steamer was so ill-provided that only three of the ordinary buckets used for wash- ing decks could be found. The solitary boat was made fast over the position of the fire, and could not be cleared awav, so that the wretched passengers were without any means of escape, not even lifebuoys being part of the vessel's equipment. Owing to the heat below it was impossible to get at the engines to stop them, and the flames soon reached the boilers, and caused the steamer to be propelled through the water at terrific speed. Some of the crew managed to get forward and let go an anchor, in the hops that it would impede progress through the water; but the effect was almost imperceptible. By this time the burning ship was only some twenty miles from land, and the Tokiomaru could be seen coming up to the assistance of those on board. It is certain if at this time the Toyo- kuni-maru could have been stopped all or nearly all the people on board would have been saved. But as the vessel sped on the flames drove the unfortunate pas- sengers aft, and the people on board the Tokiomaru could see men, women, and children throwing them- selves overboard to escape the more painful death inevitable by remaining in the burning ship. The excitement on the Tokiomaru was intense, and it must have been a fearful sight to witness these poor creatures perishing without any possible means to save them. At length, owing, it is supposed to the intense beat injuring some portion of the ma- chinery, the Toyokuni-maru suddenly stopped, and the pursuing steamer was enabled to get close up. A boat was immediately lowered and rowed as near the burning ship as the flames weuld allow. Eighteen men were found to be banging over the vessel's side, clinging to ropes, and were taken on board the Tokiomaru,. with the exception of one, the purser, who iusisted upon going to his native place in a small fishing boat which came up just at the time. These eighteen were the sole survivors of eighty-two souls who a few hours previously were anticipating a speedy return to their friends or relatives. "This burning of the Toyokuni-maru" the Hioqo adds," is one of the most terrible catastrophes of the kind we recollect. Here is a new vessel, in calm weather, and within a few miles of land, lost with great sacrifice of life through the criminal negligence of the Government authorities in allowing a ship to go to sea unprovided with the commonest appliances which experience has demonstrated to be absolutely necessary. This small steamer was overcrowded with sixty passengers and a crew of twenty-two men. Yet she had only one paltry boat, which was so secured as to be useless when the time of need came; no force-pumps for extinguishing fire; no buckets or lifebuoys—in fact, none of those appliances without which no vessel, and, above all, a passenger vessel, should be granted a certificate. The owner and captain of the Toyoktmi-maru have both perished therefore we will refrain from commenting perished therefore we will refrain from commenting upon their conduct. But we assert that this frightful calamity demands from the Government rigid inquiry, and exemplary punishment of the officials who per- mitted the steamer to go to sea in such a disgraceful condition."

WILLS AND BEQUESTS. (From the Illustrated London News") The will (dated August 19, 1880) of Mr. John Davidson, late of 6, Albemarle-street, who died on December 3 last, was proved on December 30 last by the Rev. Lionel Davidson, the brother, and Gerard Frederick Miller, the executors, the personal estate being sworn under £ 50,000. The testator bequeaths to the museum of the Royal United Service Institution an embossed helmet, an embossed pistol (in case), a gilt spear-head (in case), his New Zealand jade patapatoo (in case), and the gilt and chased Cashmere sword once exhibited there. There are considerable legacies to his brothers, sisters, god-children, and ethers; and the residue of his real and personal estate he leaves to his brother Thomas. The will (dated September 9, 1876) of Mr. Edward Byron Noden, late of 76, Angel-road, Brixton, who died on December 18 last. was proved on the 5th ult. by John Bragge and William Wagharne. the executors, the personal estate being sworn under £ 25,000. The tes- tator, after giving a few legacies, leaves the residue of his property upon trust for his aunt, Frances Byron, for life; and at her decease, among other lega- cies, he bequeaths £ 1000 each to the Manchester Boyal Infirmary, the British and Foreign Bible Societv, the Lancashire Independent College, With- ington, near Manchester (to be invested and the income appropriated towards the main- tenance of the library of the said college by an annual purchase of books), and the Railway Benevolent Insti- tution (to be applied in the payment of .£10 a year each to four widows of railway officers according to the arrangements now existing, and the investment to be known as the Byron Noden Fund); £ 500 each to the London Missionary Society, the London City Mission the Manchester City Mission; Birch's Home for Orphans, Cornbrook, near Manchester; the Deaf and Dumb Institution, Old Trafford, Manchester; the Idiot Asylum, Earlswood: tha Cancer Hospital, Fulham- roid tho TTosniul for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Ful ham-road and the lieedhwi A avium for Fatherless Children, near Croydon; £ 300 each to the Royal Hospital for Incurables, West-hill, Putney- heatb, and the Orphan Working School, Maitland- park, Haver stock-hill; £ 250 each to Miss Marsh's Convalescent Hospital at Brighton, and the Deaf and Dumb Institution, Old Kent-road X200 each to the London Hospital, Whitechapel; St. Mark's Hospital, City-road; the Lewisham Congregational School, Lewisham; the British Home for Incurables, Clap- ham-road and the Infant Orphan Asylum, Wanstead; and X100 to the Colonial Missionary Society, Memorial Hall, Farringdon-street. As to the ultimate res-due, one-third is to go to the Railway Benevolent Institu- tion, and the remaining two-thirds among such chari- table institutions as the trustees shall see fit.—Tbe will (dated June 12, 1869) of the Rev. Frederick James Jobson, D.D., ex-President of the Wesleyan Conference, late of 21, Highbury-place, Islington, who died on the 4th ult., was proved on the 13th ult. The personal estate is sworn under £ 12,000,

A TERRIBLE BLACK MAN.—At the Central Criminal Court, Joseph Denny, a black man, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny, was brought up before the Common Serjeant for sentence. It was stated that the prisoner bad already been sentenced to seven years' penal servitude, and his conduct was so bad that he was required to serve the whole sentence. He was to have been flogged, but on account of the state of bis health this was not carried out. The prisoner's statement was that during this sentence he had been upon bread and water for 720 days, but it appeared that the reports of his misconduct filled twenty-seven sheets of foolscap paper. The prisoner was sentenced to eight years' penal servitude. Prisoner: Why don't you send me to the gallows right away ? I shall be sure to do something. I shall commit murder before I have done. £ £ THB LONDON AND COUNTY BANK.—Mr. A. H. Phillpotts, in presiding at the annual general meeting of the London and County Bank, called attention to the fact that bankers generally made very few bad debts during the latter part of the year 1880. He wished he cou\d say that that prosperity had been extended to agriculture, but unfortunately that great interest was still under considerable depression. In their relations with the farming class they had pursued generally one policy, that of prudent liberality. They had given assistance whenever assistance could be legitimately asked for. GALLANT ACT.—As Colonel Methuen, British Military Attache was walking towards Char. lottenburg, a suburb of Berlin, his attention was attracted by a crowd gazing into a canal which crosses the road, the object of their curiosity being a man in imminent peril of his life. Without a moments hesitation Colonel Methuen sprang into the water, and at great personal risk succeeded in bringing the drown- ing man safely to the bank. THE DTJCHKSSS OF EDINBURGH, the Duchess of Connaught, Mrs. Gladstone, and the Countess of Granville, were amongst the ladies who, from the gallery of the House of Commons, witnessed the scenes of disorder connected with the suspension of the Parnell party. AT A SPECIAL MEETING of the Reading Town Council, it was resolved to invite the Royal Agricul- tural Society to hold its show at Reading in 1882. I was stated that £ 4000 had been promised towanis the expenses, and that not more than another £ 1000 would be required. A site had been found in close proximity to the South-Eastern, South-Western, and Great Western lines. Fon SUPPLYING MILK to customers at Dover, from cows which he knew to te infected with foot-and- mouth disease, Stephen Dale, a farmer at Wingham, was fined £15, and for allowing manure to be removed from his farm, .£5. BURNING OF AN OLD MANSION.—The fine old mansion of Aberbarden, near Abergavenny, the resi- dence of Captain Scott, R.N., has been totally destroyed by fire. Mrs. Scott, three young children, and the nurse, were rescued, though not without great difficulty.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. .+-- We (Times) understand that Prince Gortchakoff's formal resignation of the post of Chancellor will take place in April, when he will have completed twenty- five years of service. He was appointed shortly after the conclusion of the Treaty of Paris, in 1856, on the retirement of Count JJesselrode. The President ef the United States has sent a special message to Congress asking for a vote of $200,000 to establish United States naval stations on each side of the Isthmus of Darien. In the French Chamber M. Proust brought forward his interpellation on the policy of the Government to- wards Greece. He condemned the arbitration pro- posal, but declared that the Powers ought not now to refrain from further intervention. M. St. Hilaire de- fended the policy of the Government. He said that Greece had misinterpreted the decisions of the Berlin Congress and Conference. It was not in the power of Europe to give away Thessaly and Epirus, aa they did not belong to her. The policy of France was a policy of peace. Greece would act wisely if she ceased her armaments, and patiently confided in the benevolent intentions of Europe. An order of the day approving the statement oc the Foreign Minister and the pacific policy of the Government was then adopted. An Alexandria telegram states that in consequence of a quarrel between tho native colonel of the 1st Khedive Guards and a Circassian colonel attached to the War Office, the War Minister ordered the arrest of the former. The regiment rose and with fixed bayo- nets marched to the prison. Meeting no resistance, they released their colonel. The Khedive, who was well re. ceived by the mutineers, succeeded in restoring order but the coloiielremains at liberty, and the War Minister is dismissed. Jealousy of Circassian favouritism rather than any political reason was the origin 0 r the affair, but the matter would have been more serious if any opposition bad been attempted. The Golos and the official papers, the Gazette and the Agenee Buste, publish detailed statements of the sums assigned by the Government, nominally at least, as loans or advances to the several provinces where the famine or scarcity chiefly prevails, notably Samara and Saratoff on the Volga. It appears that the Government has already advanced some 3,464,000 roubles to these two provinces for the pur- chaso and distribution of corn and other pro- visions, and in providing employment; and additional sums are to be assigned amounting to 2,800,000 roubles, making altogether 6,264,000 roubles for these provinces, and, including other affected districts, 8,469,000 up to the present time. Nevertheless, it may well be as rumoured that exten- sive distress exists; and although cases of actual death by starvation are not reported so far as I can learn, and must therefore be of rare occurrence if they are not known and published, doubtless much disease is engendered in weakened constitutions, and thus death indirectly results from the stupidity and indifference of the local officials, in failing to carry out the inten- tions of the higher authorities and to rise to the requirements of the emergency. An English nurse who was for some time in the service of the Royal Family of Burmah, takes a more favourable view of King Thee Baw than previous visi- tors to Mandalay have brought back. She owns he drinks to excess, but he never seems much the worse, and be is always kind, except when he gets angry." Unfortunately, his fits of anger are very frequent, while his conduct is so bad at the best of times that it could scarcely be worse under any circumstances. The Roman Catholic Archbishop and clergy of the Boston (U.S.) diocese have issued an address assuring the Irish people of their moral and material support, and approving the platform of the Buffalo Land League Convention. While promising sympathy and co-operation with all who are guided by its principles, the address denounces the pernicious and infamous conduct of the emissaries of secret societies, who seek to infuse into the movement the spirit of injustice and disregard for morality. It concludes with a declara- tion in favour of peace and civic order. The address will be immediately followed by a contribution to the funds of the Dublin Land League. A telegram from Cettinje states that the Monte- negro-Albanian frontier, as it runs south of Lake Soutari,f has now been definitely settled according to the claims set forth in the matter by the Turkish Government. Telegraphic advices from Philippopolis assert that a Roumelian officer has been dispatched to St. Peters- burg to give an order there for a supply of 30,000 rifles, of the nme. pattern as those with which the East Roumelian militia are armed. A number of distinguished witnesses were examined in Paris, by the committee entrusted with the investi- gation into the De Cissey scandal. The Due d'Audiffret Pasquier, General Gresley, late Minister of War and formerly Chief of the Staff to M. de Cissey, and General Renson were all heard at length. General de I/admirault also explained the circumstances that bad led to General de Cissey's appointment, after the sur- render of Metz, to the mission to the Commander-in- Chief of the German army, which had been originally entrusted to General Changarnier. A Berlin correspondent, under date of Feb. 3rd, say e: The hesitation displayed by the separate States as to their competency to deal with the Insurance Law, is said to have caused considerable dissatisfaction to Prince Bismarck, and in Government circles generally, The Federal Governments believe that the interference of that measure with the Poor Law system of the various States would involve a modification of the Con- stitution. Prince Bismarck las stated to some members of the Diet that the adoption of the measure is un- avoidably necessary. The Freemasons' Gazette, published in Amsterdam, says the news recently circulated by the papers that the Freemasone of Holland bad communicated with the Freemasons of England on the subjeot of the war in thp. Transvaal is at least premature, and adds that (is soon as any decision is taken in tbo matter it will be made known.

THE TEXT OF MR. GLADSTONE'S AMENDED RESOLUTION. In the official record of votes and proceedings of the House of Commons the following is given as the text of Mr. Gladstone's reeolution as amended Re- solved, that if, upon notice given, a motirn be made by a Minister of the Crown, that the state of public business is urgent, upon which motion such Minister shall declare in his place that any bill, motion, or other question then before the House is urgent, and that it is of importance to the public interest that the same should be proceeded with without delay, the Soeaker snail forthwith put the question, no debate, amendment, or adjournment being allowed; and if, on the voices being given, he shall without doubt perceive that the Noes have it, his decision shall not be challenged, but, if other- wise, a division may be forthwith taken, and if the question be resolved in the affirmative by a majority of not less than three to 'one in a House of not less than 300 members, the powers of the House for the regulation of its business upon the several stages of bills, and upon motions and all other matters, shall be and remain with the Speaker, for the purpose of pro- ceeding with such bill, motion, or other question, until the Speaker shall declare that the state of public busi- ness is no longer urgent, or until the House shall so determine, upon a motion which, after notice given, may be made by any member, put without amend- ment, adjournment, or debate, and decided by a

Two BBTTING-MEN COMMITTED FOB TRIAL. -Two betting-men, named, Clark and Gordon, were charged at the Bow-street Police-court, London, with having obtained from Mr. L. B. Graham, an artioled clerk to a solicitor, two sums amounting to £130. They bad persuaded him to entrust them with this money for bets upon a horse said to belong to Gordon, and which they had arranged was to win a race at Kempton-park. It was now shown that tbe horse, which did not win the race, did not belong to Gordon. The prisoners were committed for trial. FOBTHCOMING VISIT OF THB EMPBKSS OF AusTMA.—A Vienna correspondent says: The Empress of Austria will start on her journey for England on the 14th inst. Her Majesty will travel in strict incognita as the Countess Hohenembs, and will reach Brussels on the 15th, where she will be received by his Majestv King Leopold and tho Comte de Flandres. After spending a few hours with the Belgian Royal family, her Majesty will continue her journey via Calais to London. A LIBEL CASB.—In the Queen's Bench Divi- sion Lord Coleridge and a special jury had before them the case of the Queen v. Ridgway and another, which was a criminal information for libel filed against Messrs.- Ridgway, bankers and army agents, and pro- prietors of the Broad Arrow. The article referred to appeared in that periodical, and called into question the ^management of the Army and Navy Co-operative Society. The jury found both defendants guilty. Sentence was postponed till the Easter sittings. A RETURN Juar ISSUED of Irish agrarian offences reported during November, 1880, shows that the number for that period was 561, convictions being obtained in thirteen cases. The largest number of offences, 255, was committed in Munster, and there were seven convictions. ALARMING EXPLOSION.-An alarming explo- sion, resulting in the destruction of property, has oc- curred in Sheffield, at six o'clock. While two young men were in the window of Mr. J. Donelly's draperv establishment, Sheffield Moor, an explosion occurred, shattering the large plate-glass window, and blowing William Donelly and an assistant up to the ceiling. A Miss Innocent was carried by the force of the explo- Bion to the other end of the shop; but none of these persons were seriously injured. Great damage was done to the stock. The explosion was caused by the bursting of a gaspipe beneath the window.

THE LATE THOMAS UARLYLE. Thomas Carlyle who died at his reaidenca, Cheyne- row, Chelsea, on the morning of the 5th inst.. of natural decay, had but recently entered on his 83th year, having been born on the 4th December, 1795, at Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire. His father, a substan- tial farmer, designed his son for the Church and after having received his preliminary education at Anurtr., young Carlyle, at the age of 14, entered the University of Edinburgh. Here he went through the regular course, studying riathematica under Professor Leslie. He was somewhat remarked for hia lonely and contemplative habits while at colli where be remained for seven years, spending t.ia vaca tions in Dumfriesshire. As has happened with many other remarkable writers and thinkers, the mind of Carlyle soon overleapt the boundaries which profes- sors would prescribe, and refused to run in the narrow grooves laid down by Scottish divines. Not being able to subscribe to the Westminster confession of faith, ho sorely disappointed his father by abandoning all thoughts ot the ministry, and became teacher of mathematics in two Echools successively. In 1823 he commenced his literary career by contribut- ing to Browser's Edinburgh Encyclopaedia." He resumed his Universitv studies in Edinburgh, at the same time engaging in the work of literary translation. His first ei-ay in this lino was Legendre's Geometry," to which ho prefixed a valuable essay on proportion. Ho next set about writing the life of Schiller, and translated Goethe's Wilhelm Meister." He became for a time tutor to Mr. Charles Buller, and in 1S27 he married, after which he resided for several years alternately at Comely Bank and Cr;iiger>-Puttock, about fifteen miles n)rtb of Dumfries. It was not till 1829 that the life of Schiller appeared in the pages of the London Magazine." H'J wrote several translations from TiccV, Jean PavJ Tlichter, and other German authors, and in 1831 wn-to t!¡f:\ remarkable work Sartor E»sartu«," which he tor oren years in vain endeavoured to publish, until at length the editor of "Fraser's Magazine" gave it a place in that serial. In 1837 appeared his "Prenct Revolution," and in 1839, Chartism," a work suggested by recent events in the country. In 1840 he delivered and afterwards published a course of able and original lectures on Hero Worship," and in 1843 appeared his Past and Present." in 1845 he gave to the world his Letters and Speech* s of Oliver Cromwell," in which he vindicated the character of that great man. and set him before the English people in a more favourable light than that in which he had generally been contemplated. His defender cleared away much fallacy and prejudice, and enabled thoughtful readers to arrive at a fairer estimate of the Great Protector than had been readily obtainable previously. His next work was tha Latter Day Pamphlets," which appeared in 1853, and in which he passed a remarkable criticism on the wide-spread ebullitions of the year 1848, which was, he says, one of the most singular, disastrous, and. on the whole, humiliating years the European world ever saw." In 1857, on the decease of the Earl of Ellesuiere, Carlyle, then residing in Chelsea, was appointed in the earl's place a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, and it was about this time that be engaged in the congenial task of inditing the Biography of Frederic tho Great," in which he to no small extent illustrated the subject on which he had lectured some years pre- viously, namely, hero worship. The work appeared in 1865, and in November of the same year the author was chosen Rector of his own University of Edinburgh. On the 2nd April in the following year be delivered a striking inaugural address, and to- wards the close of the year he had the misfortune to lose his wife, whose body was laid in a grave in the ruined choir of the Cathedral of Haddington, where it is said to have been the desire of the philo- sopher that his own mortal remains should also be laid. In 1873, on the demise of Alessandro Manzoni, which created a vacancy, the Emperor of Germany sent to Carlyle the Civil Class of the Prussian Royal Order for Merit, which be accepted, though he afterwards refused to accept from his own sovereign the Grand Cross of the Bath. He took some part in the movement a few years earlier for the repeal of the Paper Duty, sending in a special petition to Parliament in favour of the removal of that obnoxious impost, and mere recently he expressed himself strongly in favour of the policy recommended by Mr. Gladstone on the Eastern Question. But a few months since, also, be protested against the erection ia Westminster Abbey of a monument to the Prince Imperial. Probably very few writers on history and contemporaneous events have had a wider range of admirers than has fallen to the lot of Thomas Carlyle.

THERE IS, IT APPEARS, AT BIBMINGHAM, a regular organisation of roughs to persecute and maltreat actors who refuse to pay them blackmail. The Queen's writ still runs at Birmingham, we believe. Why is it not put in force ? A COLLISION has occurred off Cuxhaven between the steamers Kronprinz Friedrich Wilhdm and Citil of Dublin, when the latter vessel sank and six of her crew were drowned. WHILE AWAITING the recognition of their neutrality by the British Government, should they send medical assistance to the belligerents in the Trans- vaal, the Netherlands Committee of the Red Cross Society are making preparations to establish a com- mittee at the Cape. MR. CHAS. ELEY has returned to his tenants at East Bergholt, Suffolk, the liberal abatement of fifty per cent. of the rents due last October. A like abate- ment was made the previous Michaelmas. ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION of the peculiar dangers to which medical men are exposed in the practice of their profession, says the Lancet, ia afforded by the lamented death of Dr. Ferdinand Jencken, of Kingstown. On January 1st Dr. Jenckon opened an abscess in the arm of a poor woman, having on his thumb at the time of operating a cut or abra- sion so slight as to have been entirely overlooked. The hand and arm, however, soon afterwards became violently inflamed, symptoms of pyaemia rapidly supervened, and death closed the scene. IT IS REPORTED at Bucharest that Hobart Pasha has been requested by the English Government to resign his Turkish commission, but that he has paid no attention to the request. THE ALLEGED KIDNAPPING OF A PBINCE.— The story of the kidnapping at Dusseldorf of Prince Ferdinand of Hohenzollern second son of the heredi- tary Prince of Hohenzollern, and heir presumptive to the Roumanian throne, is a hoax, or, at least, is declared officially to be such, orders being given to telegraph people to reject all telegrams on the subject. INFORMATION HAS REEN RECEIVED in Liver- pool of a serious outbreak of small-pox at Bathuret. British Gambia, and also that quarantine restrictions are again in force at Goree, Senegal. It is supposed that yellow fever has made its appearance again at the latter place. AN INQUEST WAS HELD AT TOPSHAM on the body of a girl about fourteen years of age, who bsj been missing from her home for nearly a week, and whose body was picked up in the river. From the bruises and other suspicious marks on the body it 10 feared violence had been used before death. inquiry was adjourned in order that a thorough medical examination might be made. IT IS TO BE NOTED WITH INTEREST tbat) whereas the total number of votes given at the last election for those members of Parliament who obey the instructions of Mr. Parnell was only 29,053, the aggregate number of registered electors in Ireland ill 231,536. Printed and published by tlie proprietor, JOHH COHWVSOS ROBERTS, at his General Printing Offire, So. 1, lane, Cardigan, in the parish of Saint Mary's in County of OMdifM.—Saturday, Feb. 12, lESl..