The Aberdare Times

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. In the House of Lords on July 27, Lord Shaftesbury, objecting to the use of Hyde-park for public meetings, but considering that some open site should be left free for such occasions, announced his intention at a future period, should the question of legality In respect of public meetings in Hyde-park be decided in the negative, to more an address to the Crown for the provision of some open space near the metropolis where public meetings and discussions could take place free from official controL Lord Berby declined to give any specific pledge as to a hypothetical resolution, but readily admitted that it would be desirable to provide some place where public meetings could be held, and promised that the subject should receive the consideration of the Government. Lord Kedesdale thought that whatever might be the legal JMeWon upon the point, Hyde-park was not a proper place ™ to oonvene public meetings, and instanced parks •Mchtad been presented to the public by Sir F. Crossley ?„_•"» .^hieh were expressly prohibited from being Jor other meetings. and the Courts of Justice Bill .A. number of otherb1l1a w::e alao aitoZa stage, and In the House of Commons there was a mornlns sitting, which was princll^ly occupied by » discussion in Committee of the Reformatory Schools Bill. Several Bills were forwarded a stage and on the report of fhe Committee of Supply being brought up Mr. Hunt took occasion to thank his predecessor, Mr. Chiidera, tor the £ e he had received from him in passing the Estimate,. At the evening sittiDg, Lord Stanley, in reply to Mr. I. .+Zb»<i that the armistice had been prolonged but ^it i-m of the preliminariea I peace. Sir 3 Northco'e, in replying to some observations of Mr. D.Griffith, agreed that there were great objections In many cases to the present system of voting by proxy at the meet- ings of public companies, and expressed a hope that next jear something might be done to amend it. The O'Conor Don, in bringing under the notice of the House year something might be done to amend it. The O'Conor Don, in bringing under the notice of the House the treatment of emigrants on beard the steamers plving between Liverpool and New York, drew a lamentable picture of the overcrowding and deficient food on board these ships, and traced to these causes the recent outbreaks of cholera among the emigrants. Mr. Adderley, in replying, pointed out that all these cases had occurred among the Dutch emigrants, whose shipment in these vessels had been stopped. He denied that any blame attached to the emigration agents, for all the pro- VTakttps of the Passengers Act had been carried out, and he dia not see that these provisions could be materially im- proved. n Mr. Cardwell remarked that the Emigration Com- missioners had power to remedy these shortcomings if com- plaints were made to them and the general administration of the Commissioners, and of the particular company im- pugned, was eulogised by Mr. Lusk and Mr. Graves, while Mr. Maguire, Mr. Had field, Dr. Brady, and Mr. Kearaen insisted on the necessity of further inquiry.. fhrmiBh The Landed Estates Court (Ireland) Bill passed through C°8teveral hours were occupied in the consideration in Com- mittee of the Public Health Bill. w The remaining business was disposed of, and the House adjourned. In the House of Lords, on July 30, the Consecration of Churchyards (No. 2) Bill was withdrawn after some oppo- sition and a division. The County Assessment Bill, the object of which was stated to be to preserve to the county magistrates the power of appointing committees to settle the bases of the county rates, was read a second time. The Foreign Jurisdiction Act Amendment Bill and several other Bills were read a third time and passed Other Bills were advanced a stage, and their Lordships adjourned. In the House of Commons, Lord Naas, in reply to Mr. O'Beirne, read a letter from Mr. Napier stating that though he felt no increase of his infirmity since he was Lord Chan- cellor of Ireland, yet, after the comments which had been made on his recent nomination to be Lord Jllstice of Appeal, and not wishing any impression to prevail that justice would not be efficiently administered, he felt it his duty to decline the appointment. General Peel, in answer to various questions, stated that Purday's expanding bullet had been submitted to the Ordnance Committee that the Lancaster oval-bore rifles (carried by the Engineers) would be converted on the Sniaer principle; and that the attention of the War Department had been directed to several Improvements in the equip- ment of the Prussian soldiers. Lord Stanley (in reply to Mr. Otway) stated that our Minister at Frankfort had originally been directed to follow the Diet, if invited, to any town within the limits of the Confederation; but after recent events the Government was of opinion that the Diet as it existed before the war had practically ceased to exist. Mr. Walpole stated that it was not intended to proceed with the Bill for the Regulation of the Metropolitan Tramc and Lord Naas said he would bring in the Bill for prolonging the suspension of the Habeas Corpus in Ireland to-night, and would take the second reading on Thursday, on wnich Mr. Maguire intimated that he would move the long amendment of which he has given notice on the second reading. Mr. B Cochrane, replying to attacks made upon him in what he called Mr. Bright's organ," referred to the dates to show that his original charge against that gentleman in regard to his recent letter was substantially correct. Mr. Bright was defended by Mr. M'Laren and Mr. Hadfleld. The Consolidated Fund Appropriation Bill was read a second time. „ Ou the order for polng into Committed on the Fortinca- tions (Provisions for Expenses) Bill, Mr. B. Osborne asked for some further explanations as to the present condition of the fortifications and the ultimate designs of the Government in regard to them, as he under- stood that some of the works had been given up. General Peel explained that the Bill, which only involved an expenditure of 50,0002., was not introduced because any fresh money powers were wanted, but simply because, as it contemplated new works—the strengthening of Tilbury and other forts, for the defence of the Thames,—he had thought it right to draw the attention of the House to them in this way, although he had sufficient money in his pos- session to complete them without applying to the House. It had been intended to take a larger sum for the erection of turrets and platforms in the forts, but as he had not had time to make himself sufficiently acquainted with all the details, and as it was not necessary to buy the iron this year he had withdrawn that part of the Bill. Mr. Gladstone objected strongly, in a time of peace and financial prosperity, to commencing a new work by means of loan, particularly at this period of the Session. It was in a time of pressure and alarm, he explained, that it had originally been proposed to pay for these fortifications by loans, and the House had then been committed, not to a precise amount of expenditure, but to certain works, and no others; and, moreover, it had always been the custom to lay an estimate on the table at the beginning of the year. The Chancellor of the Exchequer reminded the House that the present ministers were not liable for providing for the fortifications, by loans—in fact, seme of them had objected to it, and also that the Minister of War was in possesion of ample funds, pointing out, as to the argument of the late- ness of the period, that it was quite as late in the Session when Lord Palmerston made his chief proposal. However, if the House objected to proceeding with a new work in this manner and at this time, the Government had no wish to insist upon it. Some further discussion took place, in the court e of which Mr. Watkin drew attention to the earthwork defences found so effectual in the American war, Mr. O'Beirne recom- mended that the forts should be plated with iron, and Mr. Horsman reminded the House of the circumstances under which the first loan for fortifications was raised. Ultimately, Sir S. Northcote, on behalf of the Government, withdrew the Bill. undertaking that next Session every such new work should be brought before the House la the shape of an esti- mate. The remaining clauses of the Public Health Bill were dis- cussed in Committee, and agreed to. The Reformatory Schools Bill passed through Committee. The Industrial Schools Bill was also taken in Committee, and the first 24 clauses were agreed to. A number of other Bills were forwarded a stage, and the House adjourned.

A SECOND MISS NIGHTINGALE. In the cholera wards of the London Hospital, in a scene of suffering and death sufficient to try the stoutest heart, a lady volunteer nurse has passed her time since the beginning of the epidemic, moving from bed to bed in ceaseless efforts to comfort and relieve. So very youthful and so very fair is this devoted girl that it is difficult to control a feeling of pain at her presence under such circumstances. But she offered her help at a time when, from the sudden inroad of cases, such assistance was urgently required, and nobly has she followed her self-sought duty. Wherever the need is greatest and the work hardest there she is to be seen toiling until her limbs almost refuse to sustain her. And the effect of the fair young creature's presence has been that the nurses have been en- couraged by her never-failing energy and cheeriness, so that dread of the disease has been lost in efforts to combat it. This is an instance of devotion which it would be an insult to praise—it need only be recorded. The Lancet.

THE GREAT REFORM DEMONSTRA- TION IN LONDON. We condense the following account of the Great Reform Demonstration held at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, on Monday evening last from the Daily New of Tuesday:— On Monday night probably the most numerous and imposing demonstration of popular feeling that was ever exhibited under a single roof took place in the Agricultural HalL As the hour of eight approached the spaces left vacant in the hall began to fill rapidly from the ample reservoirs of population who preferred to remain outside and wait in the open air to see the various processions with their bands of music coming up, rather than secure a good position inside by an early entry. The platform for the speakers was erected on the north side of the building. To the left of it, on each side of the great organ, the gallery was occupied by a dense mass of persons, amongst whom were several ladies; and thence all round toe hall, facing the platform, on the western extremity of the building and behind the speakers, the other por- tions of the gallery were filled by those who were anxious to secure what they considered favourable positions. Even some few daring spirits were bold enough to find amongst the iron supports of the roof what they deemed good acoustic situations, over and high above the spot j from which the speakers were to address the meeting. Some twenty minutes before the proceedings com- merced the head of the procession, which came on with banners flying and bands playing, was seen through the open doors in the Liverpool-road, and when the leading flag showed itself within the portals, loud hurrahs and enthusiastic cheers were raised. At this time the people within the hall were, to the eye of the spectator, sufficiently dense, and it was at one time a question of doubt whether the resources of the hall, vast as they were, would have been able to accommodate the accession which now poured in from the doors on the western side. But, like the affluents of some spacious lake, the successive streams of human beings moved forwards through the mass inside till at length they blended, and became one solid, compact, and homogeneous substance. At this moment the prospect from the platform was truly wonderful. Tens of thousands of stalwart men, evidently belong- ing to the working class, packed in front of the platform, the galleries all round the building so filled as to leave no spaces vacant, the bands playing popular and patriotic music, and the banners arranged in the distance presented a spectacle such as could scarcely be equalled in any other part of the world. The open doors on the Liver- pool-road side added to the demonstration, for through them could be seen the thousands who were unable to find admission inside. As a demonstration of political sentiment nothing could surpass the meeting of last night. It was vast in its proportion, orderly in its conduct, unanimous in its sentiment, and resolute in its determination. It would be inaccurate to say that the meeting was or could be deliberative. The voice of the most powerful speaker could not be heard beyond a very limited distance, and the resolutions agreed to were probably not heard by one in a hundred of those present. But no one who was present can deny the fact that the something like 25,000 persons who were congregated in the Agricul- tural Hall last night were resolute and determined, and actuated by a common sentiment in favour of that reform about which they are said to be careless, and for which they are said to be unfit. The banners were inscribed with various mottoes, such as "Manhood Suffrage and the Ballot," "Gladstone and Reform," The Clerkenwell Branch of the Reform League," with a rery well executed medallion bust of Mr. Bright. The appearance of Mr. Beales, the chairman, ac- companied by Mr. Mill, M.P., Mr. Taylor, M.P., and other members of the Reform League, was the signal for enthusiastic and long-continued cheers. When silence had in some degree been obtained, Mr. Beales addressed the meeting in a speech condemnatory of the recent attempt to exclude the people from Hyde P Mr. Woolterton proposed the following resolu- ^TW the Dresent government, by assisting to defeat the kill intfndnced by the late government for the amendment of ™«entation and by themselves indefinitely postponing "J?*?*Question of reform, and finally by their employing the whole question oi >ent the worklng classes from the police J? *°. Hyde-park, on Monday last, to complain £ f'♦ £ >' Lffraclf being witheld from them, have forfeited all The resolution was seconded by Mr. Mason Jones, and carried. Mr. J. S. Mill, M.P., then said Ladies and gentlemen, this building■ b anothj b guarantee that the cause of reform wlU h _e jn^?ead your havfng determined to hold your meeting of repeating the attempt to hold it in the park. B I do not want to talk to yon about reform, you do not 11 be stimulated by me on that subject. This meeting is a sufficient reply to any one who supposes that you do not want to discuss reform. (Hear, hear ) You have been very much attacked for holding such large meetings, on the ground that they are inconsistent with discussion. Bat ais- cu»sion is not the only use of public meetings. One of the objects of guch gatherings is demonstration. (Hear.) You want to make a display of your strength, and I tell you that 6 countries where the people are allowed to show their strength are those in which they are not obliged to use it. As regards the parks, your chairman, who is a lawyer, does not doubt your right to meet in them. I am not n. lawyer, and know nothing about the matter. But you tboigbt it right to assert your claim, and only to withdraw under pro- test Your protest has been made, and you have—I think wisely-determined not to renew it. You have been pro- mised a fair opportunity of having the question settled by judicial decision, and you have widely resolved that until that decision is given the question shall remain where it is The government, without abandoning what they thought were their legal rights, might have permitted the park for one meeting when permission was asked, and I think it would have been a wise policy and a gracious act to nave granted it—{tremendous cheers)—but it was refused. [At this point the crowd in front of the platform became, from the inevit- able effect of pressure, so tumultuous and noisy that it was impossible for the hon. gentlemen to proceed so as to m.ke himself audible even to those who were nparest to him, and accordingly he made no attempt to complete his remarks.] Mr. Bradlaugh proposed the following resolution, viz. :— "That a petition signed by the chairman, on behalf of this meeting, be presented to the House of Commons, praying for the appointment of a committee, to inquire into the conduct of Sir Richard Mayne, and the police under his orders, in forcibly preventing the working classes from meeting in Hyde-park, on Monday, the 23rd of July inst, and like- wise their conduct in ejecting persons from the park and otherwise maltreating them on that and the two following days" He said, Mr. John Stuart Mill has just enunciated a proposition in which I cordially concur. He said if you have not a legal right to meet in the parks yon ought to have it (Loud cheers.) We are to'd that we should not in- dulge in these demonstrations because they are of a menacing character towards the government. The Tories have told us that we don't care for reform, and we are here to tell them that we do care for it. (Cheers.) The Tories have tol<f ut that we shall not meet in the people's parks, and we tell them that we will meet there. The resolution asks for a committee to inquire Into the conduct of Sir Richard Mayne. Sir Richard has made a mistake he fancied that he was a prefect in Paris instead of being a servant paid to keep the peace in England. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) The police must never be the masters of the people. (Great cheering). They have nothing to do with the exercise of our political rights their only duty is to preserve order, while the conduct of the present govern- ment has been such as to break order. (Hear, hear.) I should likeyou to-night to give" testimonyof yourcoofldence In Mr. Edmond Beales, who when the government was weak proved himself strong when the government was cowardly proved hlmseJf brave (Cheers) I impeach the government before the people; I impeach the government that dared to use force to prevent a peaceable meeting I impeach the govern- ment that by its mouthpiece, Sir Richard Mayne, dared to calumniate the people and tell them that their meeting would be disorderly. I don't impeach Sir Richard Mayne alone, he is only the tool; I impeach the hands that direct the tool—(cheers)—I impeach Lord Derby; I dont impeach the Chancellor of the Exchequer alone, I impeach every one who was weak and wicked enough, after having provoked an expression of pubiic opinion, after having called for it, to join in trying to g >g men's mouths The Tories ridiculed our Primrose-hill demonstration, and our Trafalgar-square de- monstration, but I don't think they will ridicule this. (Hear, hear.) My friends let the whole of your agitation be like this. Be calm, be firm, be resolute. As Shelley says; Rise like lions after slumber, In unvanquishable number, Ye are many, they are few. (Loud cheers. ) The resolution was seconded by Mr. Henry Vincent, and carried. Colonel Dickson moved the following resolution :— That it is the imperative duty of this meeting, and of the entire population of this country who value their rights and liberties, to raise funds in support of the Reform League in their great battle for their unenfranchised fellow-country- men, and for the relief of those so brutally beaten by the police in Hyde-park. The gallant colonel called upon the meeting to rally round the Reform League by enrolling themselves as members. That society was. in fact, a peace society. There was no mistake about it. Let not any of them do anything that night which the Tories could lay hold of. (Hear, hear.) The Tories could raise a storm, but their friend the chairman could contest one. He did not believe for a moment that the Tories dare order the troops to fire on the people; they might make a show of it, but a barking dog never bites. (Laughter.) He did not believe they would be in power for three months. They would perhaps just get their quarter's salary. (Laughter.) The only good element in the ministry was poor good, kind-hearted Mr. Walpole. (Laughter.) Mr. Wa/pole was a good man, he had a woman's heart, and he (Colonel Dickson) believed he was going to leave the ministry. One word in conclusion. As they had always followed the wish of the president and council of the League, let them do so that night. If they saw any of their friends about to kick up a row, let them interfere to prevent it. (Cheers.) Mr. Bonner seconded the resolution, which was then put and carried. On the motion of Mr. G. Brooks, seconded by Mr. J. R. Taylor, a vote of thanks was givem to the Chairman. The Chairman, in acknowledging the vote, observed that not all the police and all the military could have restored order and peace the credit of that belonged to the people thamselves and he trusted that those who were assembled would disperse quietly, and go home peaceably. (Cheers.) The meeting then commenced dispersing, and though this was, of course, a work of considerable difficulty and duration, the building was cleared in an orderly and creditable manner. The processions having been re-formed, started ou their route to their respective destinations, the bands playing at the head as they had done on the arrival. It may be mentioned, as an indication of the prac- tical and earnest spirit of the meeting, that upwards of 381, towards the expenses was collected in the two side-galleries. The charge made for the use of the building was 50 guineas.

rThe Times' leader, Tuesday, July 31.] Last night the threatened demonstration against the Government took place at the Agricultural Hill, Islington, and will be pronounced by its promoters a complete success There was a great multitude of people; they were peifecly respectable and inoffensive there ooulft be no doubt of their enthnsiasm for the cause In which they came togetner every speaker was received with applause, and every opinion witli ulllimlted assent. What more can a chairman or a com- mittee want for declaring that the people had pronounced the doom of the Government, and had asserted their own sovereignty and their fitness to exercise it ? Whether such gatherings do really pOSEess the politic *1 Influence .which their promoters attribute to them will now be seen. We are disposed from the remembrance of former agitations to think that they do not; and if we desired to carry a measure we would far rather circulate a few well-written traces and hold real business-like meetings in a moderate-sized hall, after the fashion of the Anti-Corn Law L ague in the old times, than set a number of gentlemen shouting themselves hoarse in the vain attempt to talk to tens of thousands of people. The concourse last evening will be admitted by every one who was present to have been bighly respectable and well-conducted, and composed to a great extent of a higher class than might have been expected to attend. Te bring so large and so decent an assemblajle togetbeT is cer- tainly an achievement for the League, and they will do well to make the most of it, for the proceedings that followed were hardly worthy of the audience and the occasion The twenty thousand people and upwards who congregated in the Hall were the "demonstration," which might be called imposing but the effect would actually have been far greater had they separated in silence after having shown their num- bers, for the scene that followed made clear above every- thing the futility of such gatherings for any useful political purpose. The platform had been constructed In a very rude and primitive manner half way down the Hall, and for more than an hour before the time appointed for taking the chair it had been occupied by the Reformers and their friends. In front of it a constantly increasing crowd gathered, who came thus early and took up their pesitions in order, as they thought to hear some good speaking, for the League bad been profuse in its promise of eloquence. As is the fashion with the promoters of public meetings, Mr. Beales and his friends invited a number of MP.'s, and, without receiving an affirmative answer from tbem, straightway advertised that they were" expected." An advertisement to this effect appeared in our columns as late as yesterday morning The cousequence was that a large number of respectable people attended, chiefly young men of the trading class, who. so far from appearing to belong to the unenfranchised millions, might all of them have been, or have expected to become, substantial householders. Half an hour before the time for taking the chair no stranger, looking at the assemblage in front of the platform, would have supposed that it was a working man'* demonstration. The people were essentially of the middle class in the body of the Hall, while the large galleries on each side of the ) organ were filled with a still more select society, who paid a shilling a head. Up to this time the lower class, chiefly lads and young men, ha t favoured the long galleries which ran round the Hall; the elevated position attracting them to survey from it the world below. The more agile climlied in all directions up and along the girders and made their way into the very roof. But the assemblage was, on the whole, decent, quiet, and trade^manlike, and had evidently come with the notion that they were to hear Mr. Beales and his distinguished friends the members of Parliament with their own ears. The power which political reputation has to draw an audience together was eTident in the interest which the people felt before the performance began, and their dis- appointment at what followed. As eight o'clock drew near the Hall became fuller, and at last the sound of distant music and the waving of banners announced the arrival of a procession. The procession was made of working men, with a considerable admixture of rather well-dressed young men belonging apparently to the superior class of artisans There were "roughs," too, in the train, but in an extremely small proportion, the contrast between yesterday and yesterday week being very striking in this respect Whether it be that the regular "rough" shrinks from a covered building as a Bedouin from a town, or that when no row is expected he does not care to oome, certainly the working men yesterday marched by themselves, and wishont the following of ruffianism which they took with them the week before. But no sooner did the Hall begin to fill than l the utter absurdity of the attempt to hold a meeting in such a place became apparent. At Hamburg visitors are taken to a gallery of the Bourse at one o'clock in the day, and the sight of the busy multitude below and the buzz of their voices are one of the curosities of the place. At the Great Exhibition, fifteen years ago, many of our readers may re- member the tumult of the vast crowds which assembled during the last few days that the building was open. Similar was the effect at the Agricultural Hall last night. The most orderly multitude in such numbers makes a sound which foroids the human voice, or, at any rate, articulate words, to be heard at a distance The noise of movement and Inevitable conversation are sumcient to overpower the strongest speaker. And, of course, it was not to be expected that these thousands of people would be all quiet. They were well-behaved, but they would talk and laugh and move about; and before eight o'clock struck the discerning might perceive that the meet- ing would be more or less in dumb show. There was a steady hum, sometimes d eepening into a roar, which no human lungs could overcome. We have said enough to intimate that the speakers had to speak to the reporters. Mr. Beales was simply inaudible a fe w paces off. A great deal of energetic action, which he surely did not acquire in LincoIn's-nn, accompanied his ora- tory, but the matter of it remained a mystery to all but those who were close beside him. Other speakers, gifted with stronger lungs, extended the radius of their circle of hearers, but none of them could take in any considerable part of the assembled multitude. Mr. Mason Jones bawled till it seemed that he must certainly break a blood-vessel, and Mr. Bradlaugh made a tel ing speech in a most powerful voice, but even these stentorian orators were unable to fill the Agricultural Hall or even a quarter of it. As for Mr. Mill, who ought to have been the lion of the evening, he certainly rose and seemed to say something; but at this period the roar and confusion were, for some reason or other, redoubled, and a shout of applause announced that Mr. Vincent, the Chartist, was on his legs, before we were able to catch a single word of his philosophical predecessor. So the meeting went on. Tremendous were the denun- ciations, but very few heard them. Yet the people in the galleries, who were the most demonstrative, received their favourites warmly, and every sentence of Mr. Bradlaugh and Colonel Dickson was received with a loud, short, sharp cheer which had a peculiar effect. But the mass of the people in the building could not be expected to remain still when they could hear nothing. Before the principal meeting was half over little subsidiary meetings were being held in every part of the Hall- On each side of the organ a succes- sion of speakers addressed the occupants of the benches, and down the sides of the building small gatherings sur- rounded partIcular orators. One of these scenes was curious. On the steps leading to the gallery a young woman wedged in amid the throng was shouting herself hoarse against the Ministers, who, she said, got a great deal of money fordoing nothing, and ought to ba the servants of the public, who paid them. and not the masters. This was Miss Ltws a celebrated female preacher, said tob9 of m, rvellous intellect and to understand Political Economy and other abstruse sub- jects Yet after the strain upon her voicelaltt night it may be doubted whether she will be fit for the pulpit next SU<Mcour*e, the meeting was a failure. The cslebrlties who were announced did not come, with the exception of Mr- Mill, who could not get a hearinar. The other speakers sirririly shuutld their complaints or denunciations at the tops of their voices. or, more wbely addressed t i:.ai lo the reporters Nothing could batter confirm, what we have ventured to tell the League before, that for the purposes of dhcnssion these immense gatherings are utterly useless A speaker cannot fill the Agricultural Hall, and, afortwn. he cannot fill Hyde Park. Yet it must not be for a moment supposed that we underrate the importance of such a gathering as took place last night. At the beginning of the meeting, and before it became evident that the speakers would be inaudible, the Hall was nearly full, and. as we have said, of a generally decent class of people. Whether attracted by curiosity or by political sympathy, there they were, and their assembling bears witness to the interest which they feel in political questions. They came quietly, and went home quietly also but their numbers and be- haviour were the "demonstration," to which the speeches of the League made but a feeble addition.

JEWISH SOLDIERS IN EUROPEAN ARMIES. For a long, long series of years Jews were excluded from military service. It was not a privilege jt was a disability, and intended as such. A regiment in whose file and rank a Jew should have served would have considered itself as degraded. The soldiers would have as willingly associated with robbers and mur- derers as with an unbelieving Jew. We believe it was Joseph II. of Austria, who, in his war with Turkey in 1788, first set Europe the example of incorporating Jews into his army, but not in the capacity of full privates-it. would have been too great an honour for a Jew to fight side by side with his Christian fellow citizens—but as drivers in the baggage trains. Ever since the number of Jewish soldiers has increased, and they have served in every army and dyed with their blood every battlefield, although advancement for them was very restricted; at least, there is no instance in Europe of a Jewish soldier having ever been pro' moted to a grade beyond that of a colonelcy, and even for those few instances we have to look to France. The President of the Central Consistory of France, M. Cerfbeer, is a colonel in the army. At present the number of Jewish soldiers in the various European armies can hard y be less than 60,000. Of course no accurate data are available. The estimate can only be approximative, but yet near enough to justify this figure. We base this estimate upon the number of Jews said to serve in the Austrian armies. In the War-office of Vienna the religion of every soldier is on record; a rough calculation of their num- ber, therefore, is possible. And such a calculation has been made. The result is from 25,000 to 30,000. Now in the Austrian empire there are, in round numbers, a million of Jews. This gives 3.000 soldiers for every 100,000 of the population. Assuming the Jewish population in the belligerent German countries, Prussia included, to be 400,000, and to have furnished to the respective armies a proportionate contingent of sol- diers, we shall have a body of 12,000 men, or 42,000 in the armies now fighting under the respective banners of Austria and Prussia. Is it too much to assume that the two million and a half of Jews in Russia, the hundred thousand in France, the sixty thousand in Holland, and the thirty five thousand in Italy—in all which countries the Jews are liable to the conscription—furnish a contingent of 18,000 men ? We have assumed this low figure, because in all those countries, Italy excepted, the armies are on a peace footing, the Austrian ratio, therefore, being inadmissible.—Jewish Chronicle.

HJisttllmtffras Intelligence, HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAIu A LONDON "SKIT."—The following placard was circulated in London on Monday, in the neigh- bourhood of the Agricultural Hall, Islington:— Agricultural Hall, great donkey show this day, at eight p m Donkeys are coming from all parts of the metropolis. Several noted for their braying propensities will address the meeting It is coufl iently expected that some of these re- markable animals (with ears longer if possible than any of their species in London) will arrive from Manchester and will bray also. Tnere will be much braying from all the Donkeys. Strangers in London should on no account miss so good an opportunity of seeing, and studying, the manners and customs of theoe very remarkable animals, whose late gambols in Hyde Park elicited such universal admiration. NOT SO FORMIDABLE, AFTER ALL !—I had a long conversation this morning with the director of the Tir" at Vincennes, respecting the famous needle. gun (writes a correspondent.) He, who sees all kinds of weapons tested daily, assures me that the Prussian is by no manner of means the best weapon out. He says that the ball does not fit the bore, and has to be cased, which, of course, interferes with its correctness that it will not carry a great distance and, finally, that the powder is ignited close to the ball, instea 1 of at the end of the cartridge. This confirms what we hear of the Austrians getting cured so soon. 1 h French have already got a breech-loader, which kill-, clean. If you use the Prussian needle-guu, you must evidently have a good retriever to pick up the wounded. A FRENCH COMPLIMENT TO ENGLISH PERSE- VERANCE.—A Paris paper, the Temps, is impartial enougti to give the glory of the successful laying of the Atlantic cable to English energy:— It is to the tenacity of the English character that this result is owing It is Euglish capitalists who, for the third tin e Mve proved their conftdencein the completion of this mighty undertaking. Honour, then, to Saxon perseverance and may this electric wire, of which the successful laying is a striking testimony of the power and the will of man, victo- riously resist the fury of the ocean currents; as, in spite of all, we have the firm conviction that ideas of peace, progress, and liberty will prevail at the end over the spirit of des- potism and of conquest. THE WESLEYANS.—A variety of interesting facts have been presented to the Wesleyan Conference at Leeds, showing the present position and progress of the denomination. In educational efforts remarkable advance has been made, 27 new day schools having been established last year, with an addition of 4,669 scholars. The total number of day schools connected with the Wesleyans is 606, and of scholars 93,194. There has b^en an increase of 71 Suuday schools during the past year, and of 5,756 scholars. A very large outlay has been made in chapel building. The com- mittee entrusted with this department has authorised an estimated expenditure since the last Conference of 198,3881., the total outlay of the year having been 2G6,855i., and during the last eleven years 500,000?. of chapel debts have been paid off. TAKING IT COOLLY.—The first thing which strikes one in watching the effect of the income tax on the American public is the general indifference as to its amount, (writes a correspondent). Nobody seems to trouble his head about it, or be willing to get up or join any opposition to it. Congress, I verily believe, might make it to-morrow fifteen or twenty per cent. on all incomes of whatever size, and we should hardly hear a word of remonstrance. This is partly due to the fact that amongst the Unionists or "loyal men," as they were generally called in the late war, readiness to submit to taxation, became a test of fidelity to the government. Of course this motive does not operate on the Copperheads," who on this point are just as quiescent as the Unionists. Their silence is secured, however, by another of a very different nature, and yet a very powerful one, and that is the general American horror of seeming to care about the loss of small sums. No matter what extortion may be practised on him by cabmen, omnibus men, hotel keepers, or railroads, it is rare to find anybody or any number of bodies who will make the smallest resistance to it. Those rows which are so common in England between travellers and waiters, and hotel keepers, porters, and cabs, are here unknown. I never remember to have heard an angry word uttered about an hotel bill but once, though the hotel charges are frequently barefaced and outrageous, and the demeanour of the hotel keepers the very highest expression of cool insolence. A PARIS TALE.—An amusing dodge of some rats at one of the minor theatres in Paris is related. The man who had charge of the lamps, finding that his oil had diminished very rapidly, watched for the supposed thief. After waiting in silence for about an hour, about a dozen rats successively made their appearance. Some six or eight mounted on each other's backs, so as to enable one to reach the top of the oil can. The orifice was very small, but the uppermost rat introduced his tail into the oil, and descending, allowed his accomplices to lick the oil which the tail had imbibed. THE HEIGHT OF LUXURY.—The Paris corres- pondent of the Morning Star, in describing Baron James de Rothschild's chateau at Firrieres, says :— Every single visitor finds at his disposal a suite consisting of a splendid drawing room, boudoir, bedroom, and dressing- room. On every dressing-room table are the ordinary con- tents of a gorgeous dressing-case Ivory brushes surmounted by the baron's coronet—si ver boxes, containing every species of eotmetique, poudre de riz, &c -exqlIlsire hand mirrors, mounted iu sculptured ivory, sandal wood, or silver. Curio osity tempted even old baebelors. A scent bottle of rare workmanship attracted my attention As the spring flew back, lo! a jewelled watch, by Brequst, was revealed encased in the top—so while a fair lady inhales the perfumed con- teut8 she illnformed of the time of day. The grounr18 are extensive, and the conservatories may, indeed, be said to nyalin beauty, it not in ex-cut, those of far-famed Chats- worth The grounds are diversified by sheets of water, on which fairy boats continually ply, and rendered interesting by the numbers of yato, gazelles, antelopes, elands, and foreign animals of all harmlt-ss species, which zoam at their own sweet will evidently enjoying this Eden as thoroughly aa their own native places. THE GOOD TIME COMING !—What the ultimate effect will be of the important changes now taking place in Europe is a question by which many thought- ful men have been puzzled, and are being puzzled, but by which they ought not to be puzzled any longer. The Morning Star has spoken out (n the subject, and has disposed of all difficulties conn. -t with it in the most satisfactory manner. It is idle to speculate as to what the future political relations will be between Italy and Austria, or as to whether Prussia is nore likely to be a valuable ally to England as against France, or France as against England. The three parties to the present war are all going heavily into trade, and mean to put aside politics and the sword for ever. "In Prussia," says the Star, "we believe there will be a great commercial awakening. Having reached the German Ocean, she will speedily transform those petty por s of her new possessions into great emporiums of trade. Austria, capable of solving the constitutional questions which seemed at one time to baffle the wisdom of her statesmen, will become devoted to commerce. Trieste will vie with Venice in obliterating the memory of the struggle by conferring upon each other lasting benefits." All which would be very reassuring if it were based on something a little more substantial than the suppositions of a weak and erring journalist.-Pall Mall Gazette, THE NEXT CAESAR.—The Spectator" says that as to the interference of which the chancelleries are so fond of talking, from France, or Russia, or the moon, there is one single point upon which German opinion is already unanimous. It will settle its own affairs independently of the foreigner, and against a United Germany, armed with the needle gun, con- trolled by Prussian officers, and guided by Count von Moltke, France and Russia together would be power- ful only for temporary mischief. A guarantee of ten words from the Emperor of Germany would call Poland and Finland to arms, ample occupation for Russian troops, and Napoleon will not risk his throne by throwing himself alone across the path of the most powerful nation in Europe just as it has risen to the revolutionary height. The King of Prussia is the only obstacle to a united Germany, and the King, slowly awakening to his mighty position as Emperor by the will of wod and the right of fact, may be enlightened to accept what, it may be, he could nt-ver have been induced to seize. "He will be Caesar then," say Liberals h<ilf appalled by the magnitude of the changes going on around. It is not time just yet to discuss that question, but we may point to one fact which has some little bearing on that fear, and is too often for- gotten. Caesars are not made by their Ministers, and the Emperor of Germany will not be Count von Bis- marck, but a kindly, obstinate, honest, old German, who thinks he has divine rights in Prussia, but can by no possibility extend them over that half of his new dominion, in which he will teel as long as he lives that, but for the people's sanction, he would be an usurper. HEAVY DAMAGES AGAINST A RAILWAY COM- PANY.—On Saturday, at the assizes in Huntingdon, a farmer named Core sought to recover compensation from the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company for losses sustained through the pnrchase of some cattle from them. In September last year a lot of cattle were left on the hands of the company through some accident, and they sought to get rid of them as soon as po-sible by sale. Plaintiff bought 25 of the beasts, and in a short time 23 of them died, as well as two others previously in his Eossession. He attributed his losses to the cattle ought from the defendants beitlg at the time infected with the plague. The defence chiefly rested on the allegation that there was no evidence to show that the cattle had the plague before they were sold. The j try found a verdict for the plaintiff, dami),ges.1,1001. Leave was given to the defendants to move that the verdict be entered for them, and, secondly, to reduce the damages by the value of the aaimals which had not been purchased from them. FRENCH LADIES AND THE WAR.—A Paris correspondent writes:— The war has kept in Paris a number of the fashionable world, who at the present season of the year ought to be imbibing salubrious mineral waters, indulging in pretty eccentric toilettes, and, in fact representing Paris many hundred miles away from this capital. But the court is still at St. Cloud, the ministers are all at home, diplomacy was never so busy, and many of the hotels which are usually shut in July remain open to receive the visits of the fashion- able world. This has produced a singular effect in the vein of thought of the female mind. Instead of ladies discussing yellow boots for the seaside the mode of hat which is best suited for ocean's rude breeze, and the peculiar jacket and skirt which would look pretty at the promenades of Baden- Baden, or Homburg, Trouville, Dieppe, <&c., they are vigor- ously discussing military tactics. You go into a drawing- room, and find two or three large maps stuck on the walls A group of half a dozen ladies present to you a variety of prodigiously-elaborated chlgnens, fearfully and wonderfully made. You see nothing of their faces, for they are all intent on finding out the names of the places occupied by Austrians, Prussians, or Italians, and sticking pins, sur- mounted by little thgs, on those spots where the telegraph tells us the combatants are assembled. You may ask them questions on ordinary events, but the backs of the heads, with their vast netted bosses, show no sign of your presence. The female mind is dominated by Mats, and the most lively debates take place by the respective partizans of Austria and Prussia. AMERICAN SLANG.—The English Language seems likely to be amplified, if not improved, by the luxuriant imagination of our American cousins. An American paper gives the following specimen of the last sweet things in New York slang. A fast young man when thirsty—and fast young men are always thirsty—asks for "a wash;" when he eats he wrestles his hash when he is drunk he is swip- sey;" when he gambles he "slings the pasteboards;" when he sleeps he is under the blinks;" and when he steals he goes through somebody." His friends are "gay ducks," "no slouches," "bully boys," and bricks." His enemies are "hits" and "suckers." A clever writer is said to "sling a nasty pen," a good dancer to throw herself into a "dangerous attitude. A man is nibs and a woman a hen." THE PRESTON MURDER.—At the Lancaster assizes, John Banks has been tried for the murder of Ann Gilligan, at Preston. It will be remembered that the crime was committed about a month ago, and that the deceased, who was wife to a soldier on foreign service, cohabited with the prisoner. Returning together at night from a public-house where they had been drinking, the prisoner charged the woman with having taken some money out of his pocket, and just as they approached their home he beat her most brutally. This brutality was continued inside the house, kicking and stamping upon deceased, and dragging her twice upstairs by the hair of her head. The next morning she was in great pain, but prisoner again kicked her. After lingering for about a day the woman died. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to death. NOT QUITE SHARP ENOUGH.—Swindling in Paris is practised with such finesse and dexterity that it must be clas-ed among the industrial arts. Here is another instance. A very fashionably dressed young lady went a day or two ago to a pawnbroker's office. She offered in pledge a bracelet set with diamondi. The clerk proposed to lend 220f., but she said that was not enough -she had given l,000f. for the article, and she wanted at least 400f. The bracelet, which was in a jewel case, was therefore handed back to her. The lady to >k it, and after hesitating a moment or two said she would accept the amount offered. The case did not appear to have passed from her hand, but pawn- brokers are cautious people, and the clerk opened it and gave it a glance. For the bracelet at first offered another had been substituted in the twinkling of an eye, which was of brass, and not worth Inf. The lady was consigned to a police officer, and it appears that she has several times been more successful in playing this sleight-of-hand trick. A CURIOUS LETTER.—Among other curiosi- ties of the war, chance has placed in the possession of the Austrians a curious letter, found in the papers of a Prussian special correspondent, who was recently captured in the neighbourhood of Olmutz says the correspondent of the Standard. It professes to have been written by General Blumenthal, the Quartermaster General (Chef d'Etat Major) of the Army under the Crown Prince. It has found its way into print, and some parts of it are well worth transcribing:— Marlsch-Trubau, July 10. It appears we have a kind of armistice, and I avail myself of it to write a few llne3. We are pursuing tne enemy as rapiiily as we can, but he moves off stil faster than we do. Up to this time.the campaign has gone off swimmingly so far as I am concerned whatever I suggest is immediately acted upon; and ) ou must not think it unreasonable if I say that I am the ruling spirit of this campaign, not only with this army but with General de Moltke. He is just the sort of man I, xpected. He has ideas, no doubt, but he is not practical, and knotrs nothing about moving troops. I have made it a point to see him as often as possible; he did not appear very much flattered at being told that his orders were not practicable, but nevertheless he on every occasion that I did so modified his dispositions according to my indicatiens. The Prince is in good health and spirits, and particulerly attentive to me. What a difference with F. Cn. (Frederick Charles)! It is a pity, however, he is not punctual and makes people wait hours for him. Steinmetz is a SDlendid general. but among the others there is hardly one that de- serves the name. The troops of Prince Frederick Charles fought like lions for eight hours, but the battle was given uo as lost when I arrived with the army of the Crown Prince We carried position after position, till finally the enemv bolted as fast as he could. enemy A LOVE OF HARD WORK.—NO officers in the Prussian army have during the campaign had more severe work than the young cavalry lieutenants who have accompanied the Head-quarters Staff for the sole purpose of carrying orders (writes The Times' Prussian S^ent). They have to march all day with ihe Stan when the position of the Head-quarters is chanff^H and at night have to ride fast over an unknown country Hlr detachments orders which decide the direction of the next day's march. With tired horses and in the dark, it is wonderful that, from the faret commencement of the concentration of the army on the Saxon frontier, not a single despatch carried by these officers has been ever delayed in its delivery and no accident has occurred to man or horse in their trans- mission, although fords had to be crossed, rivers passed over which the bridges had been destroyed, morasses avoided, ditches and fences got over safely, and often roads to be traversed where the enemy's patrols might stil be lurking. The other evening, however, for the nrat time an accident has happened to one of these omcerB. Lieutenant von Maltzahn, ayoung Cuirassier officer, on his way to the Advanced Guard with a pressing despatch, in order to take a short cut, rode by moonlight at a formidable fence. His horse was too tired to clear it, and, catching his feet in the top, came down heavily, rolling over and over upon his rider. With a collar-bone broken, roughly shaken and seriously bruised, Maltzahn remounted, managed to carry his despatch to the commanding officer to whom it was addressed, and literally obeyed his orders by riding ten miles back to Head-quarters with the answer. THE QUEEN'S SELECTION OF NOVELS. — The Inverness Courier saysWe stated lately that her Majesty had kindly announced her intention of presenting the Working Men's Club here with a selec- tion of books—works of fiction and light literature. As the books were expressly selected by Her Majesty it may be interesting to give a list of them, as sent by Dr. Robertson to Mr. MacdougaU, Hawthorn-walk. They are the "Waverley Novels," Scott's Poetry bmdess Lives of the Engineers," "Cooper's Novels" (26 volumes), "My Schools and Schoolmasters" Hudson's Twelve Fears in India," Grant's Novels" 19 volumes), "Pick wick" and "Nicholas Nickelbv" Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life," Aytoun's Lays of the Cavaliers," "Gleig's Life of Wellington Scott s Tales of a grandfather," "Marryat's Novels" (13 volumes), and Bulwer's Last Days of Pompeii." The books have arrived, and are all strongly bound. A RARE OURIGSITT.—The Emperor Napoleon has just presented a valuable gift to the Imperial Library in Paris. This rare curiosity is a Bible in two vols. quarto, on vellum, a perfect chef d'eeuvre of cali- graphy and illumination. It was executed in Europe in 133d, and thence transported to Arabia, where it has lately been discovered. On the margin is inscribed the whole of the great and little Massore," which, as you are aware, is a collection of Arab criticisms on the sacred writings. The first pages are written on a rich purple ground; the twelve next appear, at first sight, merely arabesque*, and interfacings of extreme beauty; however, on inspecting these ornaments with a micro- scope, one perceives they consist of the whole of the 150 Psalms of David, transcribed in a writing so minute that it requires a powerful magnifier to decipher it, each verse forming a separate arabesque. THE WIDOW AND THE YOUTH.—In the Court of Divorce, the case of Jackson v. Beers has been heard, and was a petition for a declaration of nullity of mar- riage on the ground of the undue publication of banns. In loob the petitioner, who was then seventeen years of age, was apprenticed to a surgeon at Liverpool, in whose house he boarded. The house was kept by the surgeon s sister, Mrs. Beers, who was a widow for the aecond time, and was about forty years of age. Mrs. Beers induced the petitioner to swear upon the Bible that he would marry her, and he soon afterwards per- formed his promise. At her suggestion the banns were published in false names, in order that her brother and the petitioner's family might not find it out, and she gave the directions for their publication. The cere- mony was performed on the 9th of October, 1856 in the presence of the landlady of an inn in the neighbour hood, who was a stranger to both the parties Mrs. Beers afterwards tried to induce the petition. to marry her again by license, but he refused He continued to live in her brother's house until 1 Sfil j the marriage was kept secret until recently f„\ their families. Some letters were b,oth written to him since 1861, o^TaLw > money, and threatening t<> enforce her .ei?fn^s for wife, and to have another Yelverton c*L rig{? as .hls him that she would not allow him ? "niDg another woman', fing* Judge-Ordinary said that, as is was made out that the banns were published in false names for the purpose of concealing the marriage from the relatives of the peti- anI the JesFondei. and that they were botii pities to the fraud, the marriage was void by the nullity accordingly pronounced a decree of THE CATTLE PLAGUE.—The weekly return of the reported cases of cattle plague in Great Britain for the week ending Sa'urday, July 21, says The present return indicates a further diminution in the prevalence of cattle plague. The number of attacks officially reported in Great Britain was 237—viz 195 in England, 11 in Wales, and 1 in Scotland. The number—viz 2«7, shows 'lfjcrease of 97 on the previous return Correcting the total, by adciirig an estimate of attacks commencing during the week, but which may be subsequently reported, the number for the week will be 233 Fresh outbreaks took place in 83 farms, or places where cattle are kept, the number of such outbreaks in the previous week being 41 in 66 counties and "the metropolis" no cases have been reported as occurring during the week. Nine counties and one riding of Yorkshire show an increase of 44 cases; and eleven couiities and the metropolis," and one riding of ?ire a decrease of 141 cases. One animal in every ord]nary st<>ck of cattle iu Great Britain has been attacked, and to every 1,000 attacks, *hose results have mrt JT') ^u861 animals perished. 150 sheep are re- tn/oi ?„ ^r ^g.the week t0 h,iTe heen attacked, making the total to the date of this return 5,596 RELEASE OF A FENIAN PRISONER.—One of the most remarkable of the Fenian prisoners has been re- 63,8 » m Michael Gleeson, a native of the court,y lippnrary, rose from the ranks in the United ates army, during the late civil war, to the position of brigadier-general, owing to his extraordinary ravery. He is a powerful man, nearly seven feet in height, and strongly built in proportion. Since his conhnement m.Mountjoy Prison he had been offered hIS iberty repeatedly on condition of his at once returning to America. But he invariably refused to go out of prison on such terms. He seems to have clung to the delusion that his release would one day be the result of a Fenian invasion from America, and • V6 W0 be able to fulfil his destiny as a general in the army of liberation. If so, he has now been cured of the delusion. His health broke down, and it is said it became a question of life or death with him whether he should remain in prison or avail himself of the clemency of the Government. He gladly availed himself of the permission to depart, and has been set at liberty. beeu set at liberty. POOR CHIASSI A letter in an Italian paper gives the following incident respecting one of Garibaldi s volunteers :— The 5th Regiment, commanded by poor Chiassi, while trying to gain an important position near Bezzicca, was attacked, soon after four a.m. by a strong column of Austrians, consisting of not less than 7,000 or 8,00it men witn guns and rockets, which had come in the night from Riva, and by mountain paths from the north. Tne shock was terrible, the struggle sanguinary. Oar Volunteers out- numbered, and having the disadvantage of the position, gave I71411 thelr ,aces to the enemy, and it was then L ,f v WM m°rtally wounded by a ball in the belly. 1J1 WM raised and carried a short distance by a soldier and by his own aide-de-camp Mazzloni, but, after a few steps, the soldier was killed and Mazzloni wounded TheAustrians got possession of Chiassi's body almost before he had ceased to breathe, and rifled it of his watch and purle. The body was afterwards recovered and sent to Brescia.

EPITOME OF NEWS. BUITISH AND FOREIGN. A Mobile paper states that a large alligator caught near the city is now being tamed" there. The government is allowing a number of the Fenian prisoners to leave this country for America. They have to pledge themselves, however, not to return. It is expected that parliament will be adjourned about the 9th of August Great excitement exists in the Western States of America, concerning the charge brought against a Ger- man named Clasgon ot having deliberately spread trichioee amoDgst his hogs in the St-ite of Iowa with the hope that a reward would be offered by the authorities for every hog so diseased. The Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, it is said, will soon make a report declaring that they have found nothing implicating Mr. Jefferson Davis with assassination of Mr. Lincoln. Charivari (the French Punch) has a picture of John Ball chaneing from one horse to another that he has left is the "Whig" Ministry, which is one-eyed, and his new mount is the Tory Ministry, which is blind. The Dagbladet says that a violent earthquake took place on the 12th of July on the northern coast of Zealand, between Frederiksvark and Gillelein, about thirty miles from Copenhagen. The Greek census of 1864 has just been published in Athens The total population in that year was 1,4110,000. Tnere were 8,500 marriages, 38,500 births, and 28,000 deaths. A church, as a memorial to Washington Irvinsr, is to be erected at Tarr-town, New York, near sleepy Hollow. The corner-stone was recently laid by Bishop Potter. It is stated in American papers that Professor Youmans recently left that country, in order to present to Mr Herbert Spencer 5.000 dollars and a very valuable gold wa cilas a test monial from his American admirers. Tie following nice character of the Hudson's Bay Company is given by the Red River Nor' WesterThe fact is, that the Hudson's Bay Company have lost the respect of foreigners, lost the recpeot of the people of this settlement, lost the respect even of the Indians with whom they trade, and the sooner they give up the farce of attempting to ruie thousands of intelligent free people, without allowing them to exercise those rights which are. born with them the better." A detachment of Prussian troops found some valu- able booty in a Benerlicuue convent at Braunau, ia Bohemia —4,000 bottles of Tokay and Malaga. It is said that General Fanti when on his deathbed begged his doctor, Profetsor Cipriani, to keep him alive until he could convince his colleagues cf the impossibility of taking the Quadrilateral. A negr > woman was recently permitted to kneel be- tween two whites at the Altar of Grace Episcopal Church in Memphis, Tennessee, and partake the Sacrament of the Lord s supper. The occurrence is unprecedented in the his- tory of the Southern States. It is stated that the amount of the war indemnity demanded by Prussia from Austria is 150,000,000f. It has been decided by the Wesleyan Conference that their next sitting should be held at Bristol. Mr. Charles Hemans, son of the poetess, who some years ago was converted to Romanism, is announced as re- ceived back into the English Church. A 12 inch strawberry is reported from Chicago. It is doubtful. Chicago is a big city, but should not make too big boasts."—New York Tribune. Jane Revill, sentenced to death at the last Notts Assizes, for the murder of her child, has been respited during her Majesty's pleasure Tne respite was made known to the unhappy young woman on Saturday evening, when she was so overcome by the intelligence that she was unable for some time to give utterance to her feelings. It is stated on apparently good authority that Mr. Jefferson Davig has expressed displeasure at the tone, and many of the statements in the work recently published pro- pnson life; and that he has authorized P Tho superintended his "shackling," to con- tradict several of the most melodramatic points in the ac- count of that event A Frenchman is said to have invented a species of shot-proof clothing of very light material. The accounts from the Prussian army for The Times are written hy Captain Hosier, of the Guards. The Moniteur ^!Tte^rall8ia^e(i h,s acconDt 'or its pages and it ia said that the King of Prussia is so pleased with the chronicler of his glory that he intends to decorate him. An American paper, in alluding to the death of a Mr. James Humphrey, saysShortly after midnight he raised himself upon his pillow, repeating the wordB, 1 faint, I faint, and without a struggle or a groan the gentlemanly 8pirit of James Humphrey was wafted into the presence of hís Maker. ftL ,s?veral b°ys, who were convicted of o rl l01', 011 the Sunday. were sentenced to attend a Sunday school every week for three months, at the end of which term they are to produce a return of their at- tendance, and In default of regularity (except through ill- '^Prisoned. One of the magistrates observed that the devil had got the juveniles on a very dangerous path, and, unless their wicked propensities were checked, would finally" pitch-and. ton them into very miserable quarters. A number of thieves, who happened to be in the neighbourhood of Skalitz during the late battle there, stripped the wounded of their arms after the battle, and are now spreading tenor all over the country. In the case of militiamen who fraudulently enlist in the regular army, a new regulation has come into force. If the militia commander consents to the man remaining in the army, and the m..n admits his guilt and consents to a stoppage of one penny a day for eighteen months, he will not be tried for his offence; bat if this arrangement be not come to, he will be tried by court-martial. Jo make a young lady six feet deep in haDDiness give her two canary birds, twenty yards silk, a crinoline 8 ^an ice c^eam' several rose-buds, a squeeze of the hand and the promise of a new bonnet If she don't melt it will be because she can t. —Court Journal. The Bishop of London received a very considerable number of the clergy of his diocese again on Saturday at Faiham Palace, and personally requested them all to use' the prayer for the time of any common plague or sickness nlo f churches on the following day on account of the present alarm ing epidemic of cholera. This was cenerallv done, and the prayer will be continued for the next few Sundays in all the metropolitan churches. A man in Florida came into Lake City from the woods one day recently, and having heard some one Toeak of Lee's surrender, could not be made to believe it "No said he, I hear'n tell a right smart spell ago that the Yanks h»d got Richmond, but as for old Bob LeeTsurrendlrlm? he thiDg- He h*int the boy forthaLfor won't doit!" army once myaeU. and I know him. He The locust is appearing in France in large quantities. people have begun to eat them, aud you may restauranU Vr n'y" fdlfferenti .WayB at mo8t fl»bionable douktys"and gra.s "°g«. locusts, hiffhHf Staatsanzeiger recounts, in ? historical style, how at one o'clock on the me- morable day of the battle of Sadowa his Majesty ate a sausage!—The Court painter is to paint his Majesty in the Exhibition the picture 18 to be sent to the Paris Forty German students fought rapier duels in a forest near Friburg, the other day; twenty were for Austria changed611 Prussia. Some severe wounds were ex- In Holland, Massachusetts, the other dav sexton was seen driving into the town at a brisk nar>« i!, light trotting skeleton buggy, with a coffin strapp-d to th" axle, and a funeral proce3*ion coming up in th« L. J as possible. [A fast people, dead or alive ] as An ingenious mode of getting a myy.^4- tionof an actual battle, landscape &c pon-ect representa- has been suggested in Paris. The main fL?f,n0ra#mlc form' ments is a revolving cylinder with feat'lre of arrange- through which the images 1? a vertlcal In it a photographic medium properly sensiM's^ thrown on Antonio Boscolo, an Italian, has been convicted at the high seas Tho mansUughter of Henry Miller, on Marl, E. Camnhnii J^eceased was boatswain on the ship penai servif-nrtn 3 j °3C°1° was sentenced to ten years' communicated tn h? v.en»the nature of the sentence was tence him to death plored Jadge ^gerald to sen- Argyllshire authorities are decidedly taking the I cattle plague by the horns. They have advertised in the public papers that no sportsman is to bring or send into the county of Argyll any dogs without a licence from the central Committee, which will be granted to all persons about to shoot in that county, provided the applicant states the place at which he pr..p >ses to reside, and the period he means to remain there, the conveyance by which his-dogs are to be sent and their description and names, and remits one shilling in postage stamps to de fray the cost of <ii-infecting etch dog. The importation of forage into Argjllshire having also been forbidden, southerners are warned not to pack their wines and their stores in hay or straw. Goods thus packed will be seized by the police and returned to the quarter from which thsy have been Rent. The marriage of the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, second son of the Earl of S^afwsbury, and Miss Sybella C. F ^qnhar, second daus<hti-r of Sir nit. r Tl and Lady Mary K "lulur, was solemn'.ssd .;n Sa-urday at S. James's Church, Piccadilly, London. The Elcho Challenge Shield, the trophy of Scottish marksmen, was on Saturday afternoon placed iu the great hall of the Parliament House, Edinburgh, with great ceremony. The shield was borne by the winners, headed by Captain Horatio Ross, from the City Cnambers. In all there have been thirty-two new members re. turned to the House of Commons this year. The sentiments of Paris towards Italy and its chiefs has undergone an abrupt change, and Garibaldi, the idol of all patriotic spirits, is now caricatured and ridiculed because Italy will ask for the Italian Tyrol and the country of Trent The Dundee Advertiser states that the presidency of the British association for 1^67 has been accepted by the Duke of Buccleuch, and believes that this clrcum- will go far to aecure a highly successful meeting oi tne association on its first visit to the centre of the Scot- tish linen trade. x- i be given at the forthcoming Paris HyXniDltion in prizes awarded by international Juries. At a recent medical dinner the chairman struck out quite a new line, by coupling with the toast of The Royal Family" the name ot Sir Charles Locock, whom he characterizsd as their earliest friend," and congratulated on the dignified position he had attained after numerous and arduous labour8 Mrs. Theiesa Yelverton, or Longworth, has presen- ted a petition t, the House of Lords, praying thit she may be permit'ed to proceed with her second appeal from the Court of Session iu Scotland against Major Yelverton in forma pauperis. This petition was referred to the Appeal Committee. The working classes in Newcastle have already commenced to register their children by the name of "Gladstone." Pelican eggs from Pyramid Lake are for sale in the California ma kets at about 15 cfnts per dozen. They are about three times as large as hens' eggs, and said to be quite as palatable. A 5.000 lb. fire alarm bell is to be erected in Pitts- burg, and rung by electricity. The famous Pomard vineyard has been desolated by a storm of hail, and nearly the whole of the grapes have been destroyed. Philippe, the man who murdered so many women, was guillotined last week in Paris. He grew fat and jocular. The Government intend to have the proceedings of executions conducted in private henoeforth. It is said that Napoleon III. is by no means satisfied with the attitude of Italy, and that the unreasonable demands of Victor Emmanuel and of Garibaldi are the cause of considerable embarrassment. We are also assured that the Italian volunteers now in the Tyrol declare that nothing will induce them to submit to the suspension of hostilities, and that diplomatic stipulations only concern regular troops. A return has just been iseued, which shows that the- enormous sum of 175,490,6462. is proposed to be raised by the- railway and other bills in the present Session as oapitaL The amount In shares is 125,638,7852 and by loans, 49,851,8612. The corresponding total last year was. 126,441,7082. A very large fraudulent failure has just taken place at Lille, where it has been discovered that a banker, called Joire, has managed to issue forged bills to the amount of over 100,0002. 1 he Lille branch of the Bank of France has been victimised for 40,0002. The little girl, Jane Sax, whose throat was cut by a young man, named Longhurst, in a lane between Gomsball and Shere, in Surrey, after laying in a precarious condition since the 28 th of June, when the crime was perpetrated, died on Wednesday in last week. Longhurst has been committed to take his trial ou the charge of wilful murder. The Stiletto, a newspaper in Butler county, Iowa, defends its atrocious name by the statement that so many newspapers have failed in that county that it was deemed expedient to start one that would stick. A French correspondent mentions that at a couple of miles from Brunn hit came acros. a monument which re- callet the fact that the Emperor Joseph II. had ploughed a fleld in thoae parta on the 19th of August, 1759, wishing to do honour to Agriculture. A bas-relief in bronze shows his; Majesty in the act of tu'ning up the soil with a couple of oxen. Other oxen are turning op his ancestor's soJl now. A very laudable instance of religious tolerance haa been given at Cologne, the Catholic administration of the hoard of paupers havi g appointed several Protestant teachers: at thei nil a*trial school, which will shortly be opened as an asylum for Catholic orphans. A private letter from Venice states that a great numb- bar of French officer* there are daily seen in full uniform pro- menadiug on the place of St. Mark arm in arm withAuatriaBt officers. It is added that they are apparently on the best ot terms, drink together, and propose toasts to their mutual good fellowship. A boiler explosion occurred at Tunstall in the Pot- teries district, on Saturday, by which the lives of two men were sacrificed, and several other workmen were severely inj ared. Heavy damages we". awarded against a solicitor at; Staffordshire assizes on Saturday. After winning *0w2 dam- ages in » breach ot promise clUe, he compromised the ver- dict for 1ool., as the plaintiff asserted against her express- wish, and the jury in this instance accepted her statement,, and awarded her the full amount The defendant said he' had the approbation of the plaintiff's mother to the compro- mise, adding that he could not have got the foil amount lrom. the defendant in the former action. The Dresden (Reed), of and for Boston, United States, from the Clyde, sailed from Belfast on the 4th of Deoember, and has not since been hbard of she ,11 therefol'8t classed as a missing ship. Thieves look upon thieving as an art worthy of deep stmy, and pride themselves en their dexterity A woman said when urged to give it up, Of course what yotf say is right, but I am so clever at it Every time you com8' neat me I can see how to ttke something, only I would'nt» of course."—Cornhill Magazine In the Divorce Court, on Saturday, an attachment was granted against Lord Thomas Clinton for alimony of 1002 allotted to Lady Clinton, who was recently divorced from him. His Lordship has been staying abroad, but has lately returned. The Rev. H. Bulmer, of Deptford, near Sunderland, has received from her Majesty the Queen the sum of 3l a* a donatieD to the wife of a shipwright, Damed Henderson, living at Deptford, who last week hore three children at one hirth, all of whom are doing well. Roberts, the Fenian "President," has been indicted1 by the grand jury, in the city of New York, for violation of the neutrality laws, "nd held to bail in the sum of 5,000 dollars. The trial will take place in October. On the 1st of January last all hands in this dock- yard were ordered to work overtime, up to 10 p m, to the close of the fioaicial year. Now, the amount of work actually done between six and ten, p m was ridiculously small, but the understood object was t^o absorb the money remaining unexpended from the vote for the current year." Portsmouth correspondent of The Times. In Bergen there are two large hospitals devoted ex- clusively to the treatment of patients suffering from a. peculiar form of disease brought on by eating badly cured fish. The disease is a mixture of leprosy and elephantiasis. On Thursday week a valuable pony, belonging to Mr. Collingwood, of the Mount Edgware, was grazing in a flald, when in its wandering) it unfortunat-ly came in contact with a nest of wasps, which fastened upon it, and so severely stung the poor animal that death ensued. A pauper, James Maley by name, 106 years of age.. died last week at the Liverpool workhouie. He had been an inmate for nine years. We are told that a great number of canoes are being" built for gentlemen who are delighted at the sensatiooal canoe doings of Mr. Macgregor of the Rob Roy It will be the fashion for every one to paddle his own canoe shortly. A sea-fight took place last week between a Portland' sea dog and a conger eel, off the Isle of Portland. The dog; proved victorious. In Genoa it is said that so much discontent has been; occasioned by the late naval battle of Lissa, that a petition to Baron Ricasoli is In course of signature among the in- habitants requesting that admiral Persano may be tried by a court-martial, as was done in the case of the English admiral John Byng." The petitioners say that public opinion attributes the deplorable event" at Lissa, by which: Italy has lost so many lives, to the proverbial incapacity" of the admiral commanding the fleet, and they suggest that he should be superseded by Rear-Admiral Gaili dells Mantica. The Record has along statement respecting what it calls "Jerusalem Squabbles." It informs the public that "a feud has long disturbed the Jerusalem missions," and is now rending the London Jews' Society Lord Shaftesbury very warmly espousing one side, and the Bishop of Roches- ter, with Lord Claud Hamilton, M P., the other—Of the merits of the dispute (remarks the Patriot) we find it im- possible to get a clear idea but it evidently arises out of tile objectionable practice of pensioning converts" from the Jewish to the Christian religion. This has been the bane of most of the orgauisations of the societies for Christianising the Jews. According to a Florence correspondent, Italian officers from Cialdiui's army report that the Austrians de- stroyed everything they could lay their hands on before they left Eastern Venetia. The country round Rovitro was left a "ith ™»ned villages and prostrate trees The four forts that guarded the town were blown up, nearly a thousand houses were levelled with the ground, and 140 spiked cannon were found in the ruins of the fortifications. The chaplain of the Baltinglass Workhouse states that the convict Buckley, now unOJler sentence of death for the murder of Mr. Jephson, guardian of the poor, has un- douotedly been insane for some time The reverend-geutle- man considered his own life in danger from him, and had cautioned the police to keup their eye on him after he left the house and a short time before the murder. The Queen Dowager of Saxony has issued orders to her household, in pursuance of which considerable reduc- tions will be made in her Majesty's table expenses which economies are to be devoted to the sick and wounded, besides the large sums already sent by the Queen to the International Society of Aid. It appears that the Dowager Queen has always been eetebitted fer keeping the best table in Europe. The example, therefore, is expected to have » beneftciallnfluence among the grand seigneurs of Germany. The Fortifications Bill of the present Session authorizes a further advance of 60,0 02. for works of defence, to be raised bj the sale of annuities for a term not exceeding thirty years. The 50,000i is required for Tilbury and Tavern forts. The sums already voted amount to 6,150,0002, which will now be raised to 5.200,0001 and as the estimated cost of the works is 6 997,0002 the sum ot 1,797,0u02. will still remain to be voted in future Sessions. TT the gross public income of the I e Jear endln* 30th last was fifi 7fi7^R^7 y U. total ordinary exoenditure was lch waa raised by fortification ex- penses (600,0002 ) to 67 3H7.1652 18s. 3d. The total income °'th? year Was 67,726,4362. 0* 7<). the excess of income over total expenditure being 359 2702 2s 4d The balances in the Exchequer amounted to 4,471,6702 Its. 7d. No ba- lance remained of the money raised for fortifications. The Court Journal states that preparations are ordered to be maae at Windsor Castle for her Maje-ty and the royal family's reception by Monday, the 20th of August, it being the Queen's intention to sleep there one night pre- vious to leaviog for Scotland, where the court will reside for two months. The Prince and Princess of Wales will go to Scotland a week earlier than her Majesty. Stephens, the runaway Head Centre," has been arrested in Boston, at the dictation of one P. A. Sinnott, who claims 4,000 dollars from Stephens for services as a lecturer upon Fenianism and a leader in the Campo Bello expedition. This would seem to show that Stephens organized that expedition, although he has loudly denounced it Is public. The Journal de Bordeaux states that an invasion of mosquitoes ha* Just fallen upon that city. They lie concealed in the houses during the day, and at night, as soon as the lights are extinguished, issue forth and render sleep impossi ble. They are supposed to have been brought by some vessels from tropical regions, and all attempts to purge the apartments of them by fumigation or atherwiaÿu been JD- effectual. Two young gentlemen named Baldwin were drowned, while bathing at Scarborough last week. They had chosen a dangerous spot where tnere was a considerable amount of: broken water and a strong current. The younger brother' was soon carried away by the tide; his elder brother seeing; the danger, swam out to him, but although a good swimmer" ne was also carried away. A weekly illustrated periodical published in Pari8, an,1 entitled La Vie Parisienne, has been seized and is to be prosecuted, for soma harmless ct-icitures of Marcelin' on De!113' an "ns itu'.ion where the orphan daughters of officers m the aru,y a ,d aavy are brought Up rution £ Pf h,Sf) Ttle P"}uant part of the prose- of th PnU'dICal ia ^uesuo.i is sm.ject to the Home Offi e. and therefore tbe sketches ritie* had I1,51inn ^tde to prosecution by the judicial authe* rlties had aotually reeelyed the sanction of the Minister o the Intftlor