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FEARFUL TRAGfeDY NEAR SEVILLE.
FEARFUL TRAGfeDY NEAR SEVILLE. Ii pf.ris r.rd London have recently been supping on horror_, each morl-J terrible than its predecessor, 1 th1IJk (writes a correspondent) when ycur readers have listened to the fol- lowing story they wiP allow that Anduliuia is not far be- hind the t-vo groat capitals in affording a tale of blood, which in ferocity a) d dramatic details ont-lle^oda the Tautin aud Uxhridge massacres. The following are the details: — On the outskirts of Casti'le de las Guardias, a village some eight leagues from Seville, s',hndlil a small unpre- tending farmhouse, tenanted by a hitherto thriving aud industrious labouring man and his wife. Trey had not been married very long, nn l a baby had j'lst ar- rived to complete their domestic happiness. Amongst the acquaintances of this young couple ware a gipsy and his wife, with whom they were on very friendly terms, the intimacy b<- ing cemented by business trans- actions of an important nature, the gipsy man being ) employed as 3n agent ia the disposal uÍ the farm pro- duce, and in the purchase and sale of animals, &>. It was, therefore, in Iln way surpiiaicg that on the advent of the little Strang,-r, the gipsy couple solicited the llOnúar of being it" godparents, a request which was readily granted. The baptismal day Laving arrived, tLe whole household, wit,)-¡ tie exception of ihe mother, who was, of course, unable to L-ave her bed, and the gipsy woman, who remained in attendance, proceeded to the church, a d-'stance ot Wo miles. After everbody lad left, and sufficient time hod lwen given fur the party to get villI Ollt. d hearing, the gipsy woman, armed with a pistol, approached the hedt5ide of the invalid, and threatening her with death in case of refusal, demanded of ber all thl" money that was in the house. TÜe poor woman, with rare presence of mimi, and wit,!out a momelit's hesitation, indicated that all their small fortune was in a drawer in the lower part of a chest in an adjoining room. No sooner bad the gipsy entered this room to obtain the ca.sb, than the invalid jumped out of bed, ran to the door, secured the woman inside, and seizing her husband's trabuco. or blunderbuss, rushed outside the house, to the window by which the gipsy might escape, and covering her with the tun threatened her with in- stant death if she moved, at the same time raising loud cries for help, which, unhappily uo one appears to have heard. In the meanwhile the christening party were now on their return. Meethtgtwo guarda civile mutual compliments passed, aLd the soldiers were asked to come to the farm house and partake of the modest fiesta prepared for the occasion. This proposal and its ready acceptance must have somewhat disconcerted the gipsy man, for he now proposed to run on before to Ste that everything was ready, ar,d begged to he allowed to carry the child, so as to return it the sooner to the bosom of its mother. On reaching the house he immediately pirctived that his deeply- laid des;gn had in someway miscarried. Approaching the woman at the window, he desired her to let his wife go free, or otherwise be would kid her child. Never dreaming the man would be so utterly dia^o'icil, she declined. Without another word the man whipped out his knife, and with one blew ntar ly severerl the little innocent's bead from its body, and tossed the quivering corpse upon it3 mother. Maddened by this horrible act, the woman turned her gun upon the man, andlaidhiaidead ather fe-t. Theexpiosion aud screams brought the guarda civile almost ins tan tarn ously to the house, one ot whom rushincr in and unlocking the door where the gipsy wac; contintd, was at once shot throiv h the beart by that woman. The second guarda civile hearing this second explosion hurriedly entered the house, and seeing his comrade; elea 1 OH the fl <or and the woman with b the still smoking pistol in her hand, raised his carbine and arooveo b r liielpos where she stood. As our informant rather curiously observes, this affair has aroused some null¡c at'erition, on account of the peculiar circumstances attending it and giving it an interest which murders and crimes of this nature, unfortunately too common in Andalusia., co not usually command. n_
A PAPAL MIRACLE.
A PAPAL MIRACLE. We (North German C(rrespondent) are indebted to ihe Gartcnlattùe for the following account of a Papal miracle :— Shortly after Easter an event occurred in Rome which had but few wi-nesses, and bus mace been cautiously and timidly whispered through the streets. The scene is at Monte Mario, in the neighbourhood of Vilia Melmi. Leaning heavily on the arm of an nt- tendant, the Pope climbed the steep ascent. Among a troop of mendicants there was one lame of both feet, who seemed to have a particular claim to the com- passion of the benevolent. As his Holiness drew near, the withered countenance of the beggar brightened up he rais-d his hands, and every feature seemed to say, Master, have pity on rne Pope Pyis went tip to him, and when We recollect his very deciJtd penchant for miracles, and his tirm conviction that he himself IS a wonderful instrument of Divine Providence, we can easily comprehend the sequel. Profoundly agitated, be raised his hand, aDd said to the infnm mendicant, Arise, take up they bed and walk It is hardly possibly to form an idea of the effect produced on the p;>or sufferer by these words issuing from the mouth of infallibility. He stood a moment if electrified, and then with sparkling eyes sprang up, and advanced two or three paces. The countenance of the Pope beamed with rapture, bnt in:1. few seconds th" 8eenlingly healed beggar fell heavily to the ground. Like a soldier pie-s- ing forward with desperate energy to the attack of nn inexpugnable fortress, the Pontiff cried a second time "Arise and walk! "but wben the patient sprang up again only to fall down anetv, the hands of the Pope trembled, his voice became hoarse, and he repeated the command a third time, stammering. Yet another con- vulsive effort, and the ens of the half-savage and filthy Lazarus revealed horribly all his suffering and his disappointment. The face of Pope Pius becane deadly pale, and he was boine, half-fainting, to li s carriage. In another moment the vehicle was rolling away at a furious pace, while the unforLullLite mendi- cant by writhifig on the street and groaning "Ma- donua, IÜadonna."
A N ;T.V CASPER HAUSER.
A N ;T.V CASPER HAUSER. The New York Tribune of June 21 narrates the follow ing At X ù. 337, Lon.bard-street, resided a man named Gibson, whoso sleep was disturbed by extraordinary noises and he came to the conclusion that he was lodged in the vicinity of a lunatic. Instituting in- quiries, he learned enough to induce hi u to call in the p-.licemsn, who, on visiting the residence of Jose ph Herriges. found that he was keeping a yennger brother, John, aged 30, in a custody the particulars of which ara both frightful and repulsive. This John was de- tain- d (iccoiding to the l'os¿) in two cooplike back- 1- c ro-ms. one above the otiter, about eight feet by ten." In one of these rooms the prisoner idept, rnd in the other he took his food. There wai co furniture. The flooring was of rough boards in ashockingly filthy state. The personal condition of John Herriges was wortny of hio dondcile. His body was clothed only in a coarse bag he was yellow with uncleanliuess his face was covered with a matted growth of hÜr. He was pro- nounced Impels ssly insane. How did he become so ? It appecr-i that when only eight years old, in ordtr to secure certain pionerfy, his brother shut him up in these coops, and has kept him there f ,r twentj-two years Tnere is reason to believe that during this time he hash. en most cruelly beaten. Tnereis no evidence, we think, that when shut up he was an imbecile or iugane but he was altogether in the power of a brother twenty Je;1iS older than himself. The poor wretch has been conveyed to the Almshouse, and the brother held to bad in 5 000 dols. to answer to charges of creat- ing a nuisance and of aggravated assault.
----UAL PARLIAMENT."
UAL PARLIAMENT." of Lords, Ju'y 4, the Lord Chancellor stated õlrai,b to proceed with tho Prayer- Book and he proposed to move the second reading rde in moving for correspondence relative to et'pl i,inj entered into th-j circumstances, and nations e>'whi!e declining to enter into the policy of R vt r set; ement. to the I> million Go- wned ,11 the miliary expedition had not rebellion. but. to ar-s'si in the peaceful trMr- i~e iro n the Hudson's Bay Company to the tH"Ut defending all the jc:s of the D :"tvi >us to the insurrection, tiny hid, lift ;Cu d vnth Mtwular judgment. caution, and 'i Hi perfect accordance, mortover, wLil the nnent. m exprersed hi3 satisfaction that the Govern- th" s.ff «ir aa Lnpirial question by sending d River. d'iilhoronjh moved the second reading of the mxt pre- :if'vo1;*». Me ed'iii'fctd that the W'l ititer- '^hia Of properly, hut contended that this tho !) jti-y and discredit upon the raffic c .rr-ied on wilder the present P'J.lltU! (ut tù it Ro-nsn Citholics were now I' lo ai.y liii.ics of they were owner?, 1,1 v.'oi.ll amount bit confiscation of thtir 11'110\1. in which the Archb'shop of York and n Chester snpp itel the bill, while Lord art g' ( a; d' UhlS as to to serious witli the ILhts of proper y. Eventually the second tim •, on the the peine ivL a should be reserved until the COill- of amendments to the Benefices Resignation "f \Yinch»ster .-aid it. bad been drawn up by resented in the Lower Tlouseef C nvoc^ioti. Ice to meet the esse ot lunatic cl:-rgym<n, "I to. 1,0111 lid was rend a third time. 0.1 the !o pars, \I1(1;e ,te;, expressed his extreme regret 'J c? of the elf Lord Cairns, he saw sii-g the bill in its original shape. He was ■cn'.t oTiTy rn instalment of the principle that for Hie neneflt of the parishioners and not He moved amendments striking out the fith Ih8 deprivation of the in case (Tlvinn; the Bishop the power, in cases of ) tpjointtbe necessary number of curates, aie3 ic be paid out of the funds otherwise Payment of the creditors fHided the put he had taken in amending nen passed. Vc; (1&58) Amendment Bill parsed a stage, ii L which Louis Lichfield, De Grty, and ait. :0 forwarded a sfpge, and their lordships f Commons the sitting opened with a lively the position of public LU3iilCES and the recent \11', (]'L,tnl1e commEJlced it by a small in- Massacre of the Innocents." The Real n Hm, the Enclosure Bill, rnd the Mer- ode Bill were given Ull altogether; and in post- II re tei.-g of tho Parliamentary Elections Bill ■ eek G mUtone remarked, in ambiguous le the Government would cling as long as hope of pa'sing it., g wad not a very san- i Lord Advocate also announced ttie with- idal Tenures and the Lands Vat nations Bills, ce, however, that all the othtr Scotch busi- •rseverecl with. the opportunity of protesting on behalf of of those below the ghng- side, against trie recent "counts out," and rovernmeiit to give them all opportunity of ;r of their notice*. He was supported by fel- Hibbett, NTr. R Fowl r, and Nlr. 0 Morgan. tte olLer hand, regarded them as a protec- Cabinct :\1i.JÍsters against the long siieeche3 tchetn would-be legislator*. admitted fit general terms the duty of tho ifk-ja Home at, the evening sitting, but if Ftidnj's "break down" he urgeu that ting 4. In urs last week, and he mentioned ifion, owing to improved faei.ities for loco- bly the Metropolitan District Railwa)) the "]Jlt11l'ilt to lift pa House in the middle of sensibly decreased, and they bad been fre- 1 to the compassion of independent predated a chanc e in the rules of the House, ist to the good sense of members and the er. But he suggested that at the nine o'clo.k bu at le.-i-t a (iiiii,tcr of all hour's grace 12 whether a qn.r.rxnn was present. )e s-d its vrat-i Meat ion at Mr. Forster's pro- bir.et by cheering him as he enttred ion of the University Tests Bill, as amended, Ie until p■:st- c-icbt o':h Iii the lirs', »« m,ved by Nfr «xcepting from Iltf'I1"e,1 by the foundeis tll be held by li.u eb of Vh'gl.iiid. Hwas suriporiod 1-y and :H r. >fowdega!,e, but he did not press it 111l1lCicb'.¡ amendment on chnise 2, which f Houses" within the sco;ie (f the bill, being Government, was carried on a division by rfaiit difcui^ion occarrcd in regard to the t of the biil. Mr. Vernon llarcoui t bad origt- to i".elude in the nill all colleges founded j liOW niovtd a clause i\ qui' ing that no ch;ir- coilegH (li til lie valid unul it has heen before iys. Sir M. Beach proposed to extend this ii led to some strong CTitiemns on the 1t.!nI1S of the Govt-.i nmcnt with regard ml collfgcs in I tiii d, their opposition motion fi.r ojeuing Tri;.if.y Colic ge, Dublin, mental Charter of IStiO btiog brought up •I the end Nlr. Gladi'one undertook to hrillg 1 dealing generally with the conditions under rlers are to be granted for the United Kins- his assurance \11', llurcourt'i clause "ud Sir r:dme¡,t t,) it were both with; ravui. The arose again immediately arter on au amend- Mr. Sinclair Ajtoun, to omit the words .ill tn subsisting colleges," and 0:1 this tho (Jiutinjri 1 by 7.33 to5S. 8üDlO minor amend- 3 it. the bill, and this time very thin) processed with the Com- ncation Bill, and alter s.-nw lit'le p.-oyr«.ss he Coninritiee .n,;ain p.djoui ned. n Bdl W,3 Ld in <dmnrHt;e, and, ü,1]:; b'i) se 1 (f, the e ad- f Lord. July 5, iho University Tests Li 1 ime lhH fifsh Land Bill was rec, ive-.l, and tkeir occeued to deal with the ami-nd;uent3. if COH11110r.S, on the order for the third uiver.iity lests Biil. I tho ab.sf-ce of the member for North ho, however, entered tho House directly to move the rejection of the ll!9l,"ure, Foel- ry stroindy on this mbj-jct, he thought Ih9 Ie of such vital importance that it should not nt some expression of opinion noon it. lIe the bill on party grounds, but be protested rferenco wiLh the governing bodies. The )f the bill was to make tne colleges purely refore moved that it ba read a third time mills. having tnken a division last l.ight upon the die bili, had rot thou-;tit it wise to chalk nge jJe third r, adii g. The House tn.d accep'e i alirge majority, and he did not think it aseov.s to thke another division Theperiod visions of the. bill would come into opt ration e couipuratively distant, but one of its ímrre. lid be to introduce into the Universities a controversial teaching thsu hail previously n the smaller colh gestheie miuht be almost ece-^iiy for a purely secular system. No i ii made that the religions te; cbirg should 110 wire members of the Church of England, bet n ooiioivted t > the Nonconformists thin ,l]y asked i> r. lie asked that if this bill tlwt the Universities sh"u;t! be allowed to ilevote ti to the carrying out of :atio:i, which had bren much hindered by attver nvfiht l e dor,e would he hoped, be nd advantage of the country. pported the hill, and urged that if it were not Do succcectd by a severer measure. iplained that the princ:p'e of cuncilia'.ion with- ut the exercise uf which no "txed kind could be satisfactorily settled, had been Tney hio Detn unfairly dealt wiili, and imstariCf s he joined his protest against the s lion, fiiend. s -from S r M. II Beach, Mr. Vernon iowbray, end Col Beres'ord, e said he oJ,po2cd tire bill, bscause it took Church of B:,g\:md it3 rights and its pro- id to dissever tie education at the Univtr- !tiurch. Knough Vad already been concede I, irt, would concede no more. Tae bill was r cli iracter, and it was founded upon the lay member d the Church of England ought entitled to claim, in virtue of his meruber- ince in tho universities1, whilst it pretended clergy the privileges and functions that they in tLe uiiiversitiee. The principle was that Rome, and the bill might well have been i t. ided—For the third reading, 247 sgainst, 31. Tne t ill was then read a third time and u went into committee again on the Eduoa-
MB. GLADbTONE ON THE SUEZ…
MB. GLADbTONE ON THE SUEZ CANAL. NI". Gladstone proposed the health of M. de L fflf pn a grand hamuie? given to that gentleman, on ilt: ii(lay ^'gVic, \\y tin: lJnke of Rut! erlni.d ft Staffoid House, p'lfii n. The Prime Minister taid he r; Re by l.is perniipsiou, dtvia'icK from the (.rdinaiy ruli-s uich gi-v.ri.ed piivate hospitality, to propose a ioafet ^HICH jiistilie'j BUCH A deviation. The j;uent in whofe ii?1 1''e-v W('re as-so in bled was oi.e whose nam? was etit.iaed with < no < f ti e greatest undertakings of dH V •Ui -A-hout eij. lit; days pgo, when his (Jrace htm the honour to rtquest him to appear at that t 8P1>abl« board, ai ii to p.opose the health of M. de CkSfrps, he ha-i hoped tha.t this dntv would have been and wi,li f.a- jnd a elir^ by Lord "r';ll<'t>D. His voice was now tiler,t for evermore., h»d lie lieen spared it would have b.-en a source fihl^'(a,' UTe 1l> hini, a-t an 3'inglish Mioi^ er, to he c to Ustify t'rie sente whicii he. and the whole Uutry f iitertaiut d of the gnatness of that work i lCi their ciistinguislied guei-.t had accomplished, on jehalf) not of one community alone, l.ut of mankin-l. 'd Claimelon's abience he rope to a»k his Grace utir,k J'h« Ilenlth of M. <:e Lis- s. It was ^hpo^sible 1o toiiceive in in surrounded with a«socia- < f greater intertf.t tnd iinj>■ rtance in human ?a'r» than those which were connected with the name de Li-fcteps. They must go back to the great, merits i f former times, and re-member the place ,l'l« in the mimories of u.en who had achieved great -tats of ditceveiy and enterprise, who had crossed jj'opiitabs nr-d tr.vtrsed oce'UtB—he-fore they could ?n-a parallel to the undertaking which had join* d W° eeas and made a new pathway for commerce, 2-hs overy had tow taken a Lew form. 1 hey knew Pretty 11 the geographical featur; s and the extent of face oi tl e habitable globe. I'o connect distant P'Hes and bnz^g the inhabitants of tho globe into Easier and more frequent communication was now the fiieat; v rrit of science and the jreat duty ot the ^hecvere". One of our ciramatitts in a parcaftic mood had put into the mouth of one of his chi-racUrs the Pteyer— "Ye gods, annihilate but tiireand space, And make two loveis happy." '1'1:a1; whtcn was then a jest had now be come mr.tfer of Sober earnest and everyday i cenrrence. Annihi a- ^lon was indeed a ntroxig" wonJ, b it the at)d reduction of ppace and tima by the scientific cist- coveries of the present day would make the innete< nth Cfcntury ever memorable. And certainly their hoi ou "id 8Uest would retain a place in the list of those who deserved that their names should be handed down to Posterity. It was impossible (Mr. Gladstone con- tinued) to estimate the immense benefits that would &rite from his work. It had been given to the electric telegraph to convey thoughts and ideas along the ancient highway, but not men or the commodities of Various countries. This had Deen achieved by M. de I^eEsepa. Glancing at the material benefits which Would rosult from bringing Asia and Australia into closer and more rapid communication with the millions of Europe, he said that the difficulties which it would not become M. de Lesseps to speak of, lie, standing there in the preafEca of men of prac- tical science aiid experience, might- praise, and cal upon tl eaa to co ifirm his eulogy. It wa., i ot for AI. de Lesseps to heighten the difficulties which he 1 ad undertaken, and which he along with his able and energetic colleagues had surmounted. But, while tl e whole civilized world would benefit by t'le courage and perseverance of M. de L sseps, we who inhabited this little island might feel it our duty to be foremost in giving him the meed of our admiration, H« thereto) e felt that his grace had done a wise and graceful tiling felt that his grace had done a wise and graceful tiling ii bxiugin/ together to do honour to M. do Lws ps so many of the representatives of science, common-, s'at on, birti% and political party, so a.-s to enable tuem to say that they were not there in any of these specific c ipacities, but as E-iglishmtn, imd as members of one common family, y rate fill to M. de Lespeps for the great work of genius which he had achieved. (Ap- plause, ) 1\1. de La,st.,ps, in the conrsa cf his reply Ccvhich was spoken in French), said At the commencement of the enterprise which has now been successfully ac- complished, Mr. Gladstone received me with the cordiality which is habitual to liiui, and said to me, "M. de'Lesseps, do not preoccupy yourself with the difficulties you may have to encounter in our country o ■ in other countries. Continue your work with per- se^rarce and when you have succeeded, the Suez Canal will be so useful to }:n::hHl that you are sure to meet in our country wi-h the greatest support; Mr. Gladstone kindly added wlmt I d) not hesitate to re- peat-, "It ig here that you will be crowned with glory." I have no such pretentions. I have but tha single i'ea and desire to prosecute a grtat woik and to earn the sympathy of men of intelligence and heart. And I am happy t) «e that this country, which has so vast a commerce and so vast a navy, is to-day convinced of the ifili/y of the enterprise an 1 of the good which it will do to the commercial community and the world at large. On the day of the opening of the Suez Canal, the great Foreign Minister whom England has had the misfortune to lose, whose death has left so great a void in this country, antl is indeed a loss in which every c mntry may claim to &hare—Lord Clarnndon-wrote to me a letter, in which, reminding me of the difficulties that I had so successfully surmounted, he congratulated me on having accomplished a work so useful to com- merce and to humanity, and destined to strengthen the bonds which unite the nationsof the earth. And, in fact, the words which Mr. Gladstone has just uttered—wordn so eloqueut and so elevated, will do more in the interests ot peace—will do more to confirm the high opinion which all must feel in the loyalty of English policy, than all the events which have occurred si; ce the alliance between France and England was proclaimed.
THE "NOBLE SAVAGE" GOING HOME,
THE "NOBLE SAVAGE" GOING HOME, Red Cloud and his Indianbritvea, who have been attracting such a l::rgJ share of public attention, have goi.e home (wriusa correspondent). By dint of persistency the noble savnge" made the Government promise the gift of thoae 17 horses for the Indians to ride home on which it had so steadily refused. An Indian envoy to Washington tramping back to hia village on foot is laughed at by h;s tribe, but an Indi-in envoy who goes back on horseback is a great man in- deed. Therefore, when the promise was given Red C!oud" in sincerity said it ''made his hears very big." But the savages, nevertheless, go back disappointed, for they got scarcely anything they aI-ked for but the horses, and whether there is to be peace or war with the Sioux i-* a problem yet unsolved. "R-d Cloud" kept his promise of making a speech in New York, and just before his depaiture ppoke to a densely cio'.vried audience at the Cooper Institute, in a meeting called by the Indinn Commission, at which Peter Cooper presided. Dr. Bellows, Judge Daly, Dr. Washburne, Dr. Croehy, ai.d several others made ad- dri s-ies friendly to the Indians. Through the aid of his interpreter, and after shaking band* in the usual Indian fashion, R^d Cloud" said that God Almighty made us all, and was present to hear what he had to say. The Great Spirit had made both races. He gave the Whites lands and he gave the Indian* lands. The Whites came t) the Indians, and the Indians rect-ived them as brothers. When the Almighty made you ho made you white and he clothed you he made the Indians with red skins and poor. You are gftting many ;ii d his race is getting few and poor. "Rd C!Oild" tUUl said,—"You do rot kmrw whom you have before you to-day he is a representa- tive of the eriginal American racr, the first people of this Continent "—at which the Indians all gave a loud grunt of satisfaction, provoking much laughter. He continued,—"We are good and not bad. The reporis you hear about us ara fiom self-interested, bad men. If we had much land, we would give it to you, but we have been driven to a little island, and want you, as good mln and friends, to help us with the people of the United States. Tne Great Father ")ad- us poor and ignorant and made you rich antl wise, as: d abletoioman} tilings we can- not do. You have tame foals and we only Wild ones. Ask all the people who have passed through our lands if we have not treated them wel!. You have children and so have we. We want to rear our cloldren well, and ask you to help us in doin.i; so. In 1852 the Great Fat lit r made a trcatv with ll", by which we were to allow all thepeopid of your cyutry to g,) tliroiigh our conntry. Tney did so; no one banned taem but troops were sent, and then killing began. 35-fore that there was no trouble. Since then iliere have <een goods sent, from time to time, but they seldom rtac'-it-d us. fome of us went on fara.s, ss desiied, near Fort Laramie, but we were very badly treated. All we want is justice. In 18G3 meJl e:;m, nut and brau,dlt us papers. We were ignorant Mid Cou'.d not read them. We understood they v- ouId take away the troops, and bring us traders who would ieach us 10 work, Lu" they deceived us." When e reached Washington, "Rei Ckud" said, Ie saw the Great Father, who showed h:ni the treaty, and made Lira see that the in- terpret sr.* loid deceivid him, and hul not let hm ki.u .• v. hat the real stato of the treaty was. All he wi.nti d was justice. He had tried to get io from the Great Father, but had not quite succeeded. He represente i the whole Sioux nation, and was no Indian like Spotted Tail," who will say one thing one day and another thing another day for any t!nnK he cm get. Look at me," said Red Cloud," "I am the chief of the nation yet.1 am poor and naked, and Lave u(,th:r:g. We cannot take our riches to the other would, and want i i this world love and peace. Secretary Cox (of the Interior) told us we cannot take the money we make in this world into the next why, then, does he send commissioners out to the Indians who do nothing but rub them, if they cannot take out of this world the money they steal?" In hi3 early daj s he was brought up among Indian traders. They treated the Indians well, and taught them to use tobacco and fireaims, and gave them clothes. But now men come who biing whisky, and who are so bad that they cannot he kept at home. They are, therefore, sent out to the Indians, He bad sent a great many words to the Great Father, but was afraid they were drowned on the way, 80 he came himself He was about going heme. The Indians wanted peoule with them they know and can trust, and don't want the people now there. He did not 4aiitinen sent out who are, so poor that all they want is to fill their own pc.civets. He wanted good and not bad men, and con- cluded by thanking them for listening to him. '■Red Dog" followed "Red Cloud" being an- nounced as the orator of the tribs, notwithstanding the brilliant powers and copious ability in that line of It ci Cloud." He said that when the Great Spirit raised them he raised both races with good men for b councils but now you have bad men, and only ours remain good. Thie caused a laugh, when Red Dog" pointing to big comraehs, said they are all young men. Look at them. They are all poor because they are honest. (Great Janghter.) When I call my young men to council they all listen to what I s \y now I want you to listen: You are all men of sense and cf respect, and when the Great Father Bends out men e, e you should see that they are the rh»ht men and just men, and will not do us harm. When the Great Father first pent out mm to them "Rul Dog" s¡¡.id he was thin and spare. He was now stout and fat, because so many liars had been sent eiut and he was stuffed full of their lies.—Ill's causeel the Indians to make a. yell of delight, when the orater of the tribe sat down. Next morning the Indians left. New York, and by this time I they are almost at the end of their railway journey and prepared to mount those 17 horses they coveted so much.
THE HARVEST PROSPECTS.
THE HARVEST PROSPECTS. Subjoined is a review of the state of the corn market and the prospects of the harvest, sent to 7 he Times for publication by II. Kains-Jackson, 60, Mark-lane London, under date, J uiy 2 The current transactions in tIle corn trade, together with anxiety as to the condition of the growing ciopsot tlie Unitt d Kiiipdom and France, have, during the last three wteks occasioned fluctuations and invoked a speculative spirit that have quite changed the position of the grain trade, under circumstances that TJwke tLe present level of prices unceitain and dnigero-as, since a temporary eftect anpears to be re- gal dtd as a permanent i, flu.-me. Whtlethe gre.tt soureesof supply forward grain fully to the extent expected and re- o lir.d and while no serious misgivings e-x st as to the yield of the coming foreign harvests, from which our supplies must, come, a sndden, casua!, anll not extensive de- maid by Fieie h buyers bss quite subverted the usually quiet suno'icr busii e s in Mark-lane, Liverpool, and the E-istCoa.,t markets, where weekly increasing;prices ^mulatei demand until those members ot the cornJJ-de who com- mon!, stand »loof from speculative purchase! have jomed the Movement, and the value of L-ignsh w » t0 505. 5d. i er qr., from 40s. 91 in March, or about ten n l.^ s sterling advanceon iha yeai's consumption of wheat in this country. l'o indicate tho ex tent of recent transactions arefbrence o the reported sales < fleeted in floating cargoes, on p«. for shipment, shows a total of 48 cargoes of wheat, 1M iiiaiz i, a'.d 54 of bxrley and as most of these catgoes caimo be expecteel to arrive until Auuust and September, :nd beiiiq purchased at rapidly advanced currencies, they ii-K-r y.8; ? must rule high for suuio time to come, an opinion in oireet opposi'ion to the HCI iOIl of oillers and the bas s of uitde oil which buveis and sellers agreed in March and Aoril. What- ever the influences "t woik they were strong enough to raise E'igiish red wheat to 54> 6.1. per qr. for export to France; Russian wheat was held off coast at 49J., Canadian and Pacific wheat 52j and English white qualities realised 583. pir qr. the above quotations being exceeded on special occasions. Next to w heat, oats were raised in priee several shillings, while maize, barley, and beans paid a handsome profit to importers and holders. These direct changes in value, occurring at a time when our prospects of summer eui plies adequate to our wants were admittedly good, could have but one effect, which is already noticeable, the return of grain snips estimated on passage showing au increase of 123 vessels in one week, and a large portion of the additional burn- er is made up of wheat cargoeJ thetotiil number on pissage is 544, bringing probably 1 5:0,000 llrs. of grain. In ordinary yea) s the imports of July, August, and September are nearly double those of the three previous months, and this season, as we received less than usual during April, May, and June, we are justified ill expecting future supplies will increase in their fu 1 r"Uo- calculation that any merchant ofexperiei.es would make as a maticrof course. Tho late aelvauces in price ly--va,. therefore, become a superstructure built entirely upon ti e dry cnaracter of tile season in these islands, and espe- cially in France. The dreught is now broken, and the sound of falling ra-.n on the lti'.h and 17th of .1 une was the tirst note of tne reaction in value which is now in progress, and which, having reduced the price of wheat 3s to 4s. per qr. from its highest point, seems likely tome, alter viewing the cornfields Norfolk, Cambridge, Lincoln, and other counties, to carry back the average price of British wheat from 60s. 6d. to 45s. perqr. as rapidly as the advance nor can X suppose this week's cur- rencies for other corn can be maintained under falline mar- kets tor wheat. At present importers show a bold ffontTn face of the general decline m price reported in London and the provinces, a position they may well maintain while the coast is nearly clearly of cargoes, but no longer. Choosing the fortnight when the wheat has come into bloom, I have inspected between the 18th of June and the 1st of July a wide area of the growing crops in several counties, and speaking with the reserve of one who has not seen all the fields—an impossible feat—I find the one decided im- pression 1 now huriiedly record is that there wili this year t-e an average crop of wheat, made so by an excess on fie b st lands, compensating for the deficiency that everywhere arrests the eye when looking over liabt, skinny soils, where the drills can lie followed from hendland to headland, and n > more than 2qrs. per acre is bkely to be reaped. Any one engaged in agriculture will know how critical has been the last fortnight, which has been unexcrpliotiably iavourablo for the blooming corn. There has been some hot sunshine, oftener a cloudy sJ¡y, and the winds have been ither lighter ?o culm that., Wh. n at Ca hridge on the I)nge,t day, the I!np11)Ometer over the Observatory was motionless, and the weathercocks ot the several colleges each had ('l;1unct notions of the air currents th-y could not m- dicate. For the whole fortnight there have Veen no storms, hut several showers, the me ;), rainfall of the last three weeks lid¡,>, one inch, while in the (ait coast counties two inches oad fallen the two hours'rain of last Friday. After such a period, and with ordinary su-miier weather, two ears ( f wheat this year will be worth time c-a, a of such years aa 1867 I had wheat ears in bloom oil the 14th of June, and believe cutting may be expccted to commence by the 24th inst and will be genor >1 before the month is out. "To refer in nioie detail to the different crops and localities', I find my notes show in Kent the proportion of good wheat ii-his we;e 0) to 34 of middling arid 16 of bad, and the probable yield will be from 2 qrs. to 7 qrs. The battle is one of acres—good land against poor land and I estimate the soil cultivated with wheat as three-fourths heavy, suitable land, to one-fourth of shallow, poor grouod, which the system of rotation of crops misplants wittI wheat. The crops of bailey and oats in Kent and Surrey I should certainly not expect to reach an average. Beans are also deficient of promise, while peas seem iikeiy to make a fair return The marsh- lands of the Isle of Tnanet look green aud fl mrishing J-oudonand the -urrey hills having had, apparently, less rain than any other districts I hava visited. With the bay cror) noticeably short everywhere, the fields of yellow clover in Kent were thick and lieal;hy, and the hops, clean and strong, looked very promising. The crops round London, say in Herts and Essex, 20 mlies, have only one good quality about them, and that is a healthy colour—the wheatlooki.g thin and starved; peas and beans short and poor the hay crop, well saved, half au average To show the season there are fields of wheat where average To show the season there are fields of wheat where strips and patches of tl!e soil are deeper than the common area, and there the plant formed a strong contrast to its neighbour a few yards distant. Round Kelveden and Col- chester the wheat and barley Melds were satisfactory, and are likely to pive a fair yield. Round Ipswich they are poor, but Suffolk, as a county, I fully expect, will have an average crop of wheat, bailey, ber.np, peas, potatoes, and roots In Cambridgeshire the gemr. aspect of the fields is healthy, promising good crops without reserves or important excep- tions, an opinion which was ni.Ively endorsed by a resident bidding me visit a certain distdct as the only one he knew "where the wheat did not look well." Here the meadows and parks have fully recovered a green appearance. I was somewhat surpriseel to find the few turnip, rape, and mustarel seed crops 1111 look well, with heavy tops. Bar- ley, peas, and potatoes wore here and there especially good crops. Round Ely, on the light black soil, I should on!y call wheat, oats, and beans middling and fair. The districts round Jlaich' re important from the wide area planted, and, with exceptionally bid fields, the several crops, including flax and mustard, will certainly, with a fair summer, yield a fair crop, fine fields making up for the poor ill-farmed ones; the latter being creditably few. I in- clude ill the above remarks Whittlesea, Peterborough, and Grautham districts. I did net notice heavy fields, but most of them were fair, the straw of wheat being ktiff and strong, bearing good ears. Much of the land approaching Lincolnshire, gravelly on sandy rock a few inches below the surface, recalled the phrase, I poor land, poor crops.' but a drive of 25 miles over Lincoln-beath, with its 50 and ICO-acre fields fenced with stones, showed a large area sown ",Hit turnips, the wheat and barley both even promi-inga fiir yield, neither deficient nor her.vy, the whole c< u..try showing a happy medium between the Kentish clay soils and the shallow gravels of Norfolk, Essex, and Suffolk. I may mention that, in support of the view as to the general vigour of garden vegetation ex- pressed in my last letter, I noticed on the seed f irin of llr. Charles Sharpe, at Sleaford, every description of .-eeii—onion, turnip, wuizal!, paraneps, &c—had. without (xception, matured, or was maturing, in the most satisfactory manner; and I judge that if the want of forage had not generally compelled farmers to feed off their clover and other fields, the yield < f teed would have been excellent. There are many notes I wish to add of the districts round Boston, Spalding, throughout Norfolk and Suffolk, by different routes, but as they do not -ncdly the above impres- and as I propose to refer to foieign a3 well as hi me proipecta in a future letter, I may only aJd that at present the late raic s have given the eastern counties a second spiing-green appearance, the newlj-m.wn meadows looking as healthy as their occupiers can eiesire, while tlia forage stack-i of last jear are far from beiug exhausted."
THE SEA ILLUMINATED. ;
THE SEA ILLUMINATED. A correspondent of the Cologne Gazette, writing from the Gulf of Sism, gives the following account of a remarkable illumination of the st a, of which he wjs a witness: The air quite still, astha wind had two hours before veered round from toe south to nortfc-east, in consequence of a storm which passed by on the horiz m. It still lightened very vividly on thewt-atera horizon the heaven was covered with light clouds, through which the moon shone with some brilliancy. We made the sail f:1st, as the engine was to be set in motion iro- mvdiately. I then noticed large bright flashes ia the water, which I at frit toik to be the reflecti '11 of the moon. These appeared to bo about a fathom in diameter, of uncertain i-hape, like an object seen in a great depthc f water. The snrfaoe of the sea was gen tly heaving up and down, while the white patches swam not far from t')e t-hip, without pcrceptihly brightening th.t part ot the marine mirror which lay in the light of the moon. We tn"ll steamed forward at the rate of six or seven knots an hour, :<nd H, wonderful spectacle now presented itself. Athwart the vessel long white waves of light were K- en ru-hing towards it, ever brighter, and in swittermotios, till they seemed to flow together, and at length nothing couLl be seen on the water but a whirling white light. Looking stead- fat tly at it, the water, the air, and tbe horizon seemed 1 leaded in one thick streamers of mistbeemed to fl int by both sides of the ship with frantic speed. The appearances of colour resembled those which nrise when one turns a black and white striped ball so quickly that the white stripes seem to run together. The spectacle lasted about five minutes, and was re- once :lg:1Ïn for two minute?. No doubt it was caused by shoals (f minute animaicivte in ti e water, and these waves origiuated in the white flakes first described. The ritual iuminous appearance of the sea which shows itself when the water i-ipples in the vake of a L-hip, or the waves re&.k against toe rudder, is not to be compaied with this. Tee light is then brilliant, bright green or flue like phosphorus, dt(Oll mOi't beaut ful in defp clear wacer, mixed with reddish- white {(am-we saw a very pretty specimen of this sort one night in perfectly smooth water in a little lonely bay. It was pitch-dark and quite still, when there fell a heavy shower of rain, consisting of large dr ps not fal in* very close together. Every drop that fell into the water lighted up, flaming drops sprang into the air, and a small luminous circle was formed where the rain-drop met the sea. The whole bay seemed covered with fiery stars, but a rising current of air Boon destroyed the picture.
AN IMPORTANT INVESTIGATION.
AN IMPORTANT INVESTIGATION. Mr. John Charles Steele, M.RC.S., and superin'endent of Guj's Hospital has been summoned at the Southwark police-court, in London, under the Anatomy Act, 2 and 3 VVm. IV cap 75, sec. 7, for untawfu ly causing the body of a certain deceas. d person—to wit, that of Samuel Millbourne — to undergo anatomical examination without the permission of the party having legal possession thereof. Mr Oppenheim, in opening the proceedings for the prosecution, said he appeared on behalf of Mr. Carter Millbourne, of the Blue Anchor-road, Berincmdsey, to prefer a c. mplaint against Dr. Steele, as superintendent of Guy's Hospital, for a breach of theAoatcmy Act, clause 7, which enacted that it was unlawful for the hos- pital authorities to dissect a corpse which had died in their institution without the consent of the party having legal possession thereof. The 18th section declared it to be misdemeanor, and the judge on conviction, could sen- teucethe offending person to LO', exceeding three months impri.-oument, or a fine not exceeding £ 50. On ihura- day, the ICth nlt- the deceased was visiteti by his son who remained with him up to his death, ihe same evening. It being too late to take the body to his house, an arrangement was made for the ne-xt day, bur, it was not sent home until late in the evening, when, on opening the coffin, the complainant found that his deceased father had been cut about the head and body, although he died from an affection of the bladder. The act of parliament specifically says that no post mortem examination shall on any account be performed within 48 hours after death, whereas the deceased was anatomised within that period, and his client particularly desired that no dissection should take place. He was, accordingly, very much horrified at the acts of the hobpital authoiities, and, after con- Bultatiem with the other relatives, he was determined to take the present proceedings, which were of the utmost importance to the public. The magistrate asked if he confined himself to the Anatomy Act ? Mr. Oppenheim replier1 that he did. The learned counsel, after some further remarks, calltd Carter Millbourne, the complainant, who said that on the 1st of June he took his father to Guy's Hospital, and he was placed in No. 5 bed in Job's ward. He and his wife and sister visited him up to the t.ime of his death. On Thursday, the 16;h, te was alive, but was fast sinking. Witness saw him again at four in the after- noon, and continued with him until his death, about five o'clock. His wife and sister were also present at the time. He saw the nurse and lister of the ward, and r^ quested leave to take the body a,vay then, but the latter tolel him he cou'd not remove it without an order from the stewarii, who would not be in attend- ance, until after nine o'clock the next morning. She also told him the body must not be disturbed until two hours after death, when it would be taken to the mortuary. She also tuld him that the house surgeon might wish to make a pod v.orlem examination. Witness informed her he could nut consent to that without mentioning the circumstarco to the other members d the family. Witness left the hospital at half-past five o'clock, and the next morning at twenty minutes pa^t nine o'clock he called and saw Dr. Steele, anel told him he ha i coma to claim the body of his father. Dr. Steele re-commended him to Mr. Powell, undertaker, 148, Tooley street, to remove tne body and he gave the latter instructions to do so as quickly as possible, and impressed on him theneces- aity of bunging ic to his house immediately, but the corpse was not brought until seven o'clock in the evening, fiiid then it was iu a. coffin, Trlè Magistrate asked if auythilig was said about an examination. Witnesses replied in the negative, and he wa.s never more surprised in h1.1. life when he removed the lid of the coffin and found tue body had been shamefully cut and backed about from top to bottom. He found the head had beeu opened flhc.. Witness proceeded to tne hospital on Sa-?rday morning, the 18;11, and saw Dr. Stetle and tolel him he was surprised that his father should have been so cut abnut. Dr. Steele told him it I Icy-"O, was clone without h s knowledge, and he sent for some one, of who til he a.ked respecting the p>st-mortcm ex- amination on Samuel :,Iibbomne. ihe person sent for s-.id "'Yep there had iitcn a complete postmortem, ex- amination. Tho braia a3 wind-pipe, heart, &c." P1, y j "U'\T 'ie replaced the bmiu iu the head..]V.r'P wis the stomach. Tho wino-pHe V, Steele then told witness he had bet.e. see Dr. Poland. Witness wrote to that the patients in Job's ward. S e ted witness in a gentlemanly ar.d cour > > Uj he considered the hospital authority mitted any breach of the act of parhan eofc ^he'r he left Dr. Steele he proceeded to Dr. Clapt« £ hospital, in the first instance, and then t ■ who examined the corpse g k thah Tho Magistrate here observed to ul- f. there was a wide difference between a PA ii°,u examination and an anatomical one, taking sections of the act of parliament.. 1 Dr. Steele said the act was made for special pur- posed-public institutions, such as charitable places, union workhouse?, where the medical authorities bad power to take pathological examinations to meet tè requirements of the registry: general. It would h ..ve be n impossible to learn the cause of death in the present case unless a postmortem examination was made. An anMt)mic11 exawination was merely CUttiDg a body up for the students. ° The Magistrate told him it was a questijn whether they had not done wrong without the warrant of the it spector. Dr. Steele said that the complainant mmt have been aware of the rules of the hospital, as no doubt the sister tfdd him there would be an examination. Mr. Millbourne said the bister never told him so. If she had be should have strongly objected to it without consulting the oilier relatives. Mr. Oppenheiai remaiked that if a corpse was not claimed, tbea it was in the possession of the hospital authorities. Witness, in continuation, said that they, tbehospita-l rmuhorities. told him they could contract to bury his father for 50s. at Nunhead Cemetery, and that the re- lations could meat the corpse at the gate. WiiaecS toto Dr. Steele he should do it himsdf. Mr. Thomas H. R. Hooper, M.RCS., B'ue Ancaor-rrad, said that en Sunday, the 19;li uls, he WilS called on by last witness to se >. the corpse of his father. He examined it, an 1 fuund it inad -com- poseu state, aud found the thorax aud abdomen had be=n opened. Toe head had also been opened and brain removed. In fact is was cut about as though a aortal post-mortem examination had been made. In answer to the Magistia' e, he said the head had been opened in the usual way. Th" scalp had been removed and the brain taken away. It was a thorough post-mortem examination. J n reply to Mr. Oppenheim, "itms3 said the cause of death was stricture, and there was no occasion to remove the brain. Dr. Steele said that the disease might extend to the brain, and it was necessary to open the heal to ascer- tain the cause cf death. The Magistrate here observed that, according io the evidence, it was a question for further investigation whether it did not come und- r the Auatomy Act. Dr Steele said that if such was the case it would criople medical education. 1 he Magistrate was of opinion that when a body was claimed by the relatives and they had arranged to take it away, the hospital authorities had no right to cut H about without their authority. There were some points of law of vast importance to both sides, there- fore he should adjourn the case to give the hospital authorities an opportunity of consulting with their legal adviser.
BRA. VERY.
BRA. VERY. The R^yal Humane S iciety has awarded its silver medallion with elaborately inscribed testimonials recordii gtha services rendend, to Mr. Briscoe, an (ftner of the PeiiinsalHr and Orie? til Company, for gaHant aud courageous conduct under the following circumstances A party of about 3C1 ladies and gentlemen had go"ne from Bombay to Bandora, the stat cf the Hon. Byramjee Jej jebhoy, to a picnic, and when returning an omnibus containing 11 of the party—four laciies a ad seven gentlemen—was upset, and the whole of them hurled off. Onp gentleman, Mr. P. A. B.Oldtieli, aud two ladies, Mrs. Vmay and Miss Phillips, were iiiingheadcormost into a well the others, happily, fell mto a. plantation, and, though very much shaken, cut, and bruised, did not sustain any ilJj aries of a dangerous character. When the sufferers had partly recovered irorn the shock, it wa discovered that Mr. Oldfield was in the well. Ropes were immediately procured, but these not being long enough, Mr. Bris toe tied one of the reins to them, descended the well, a depth of neaclv 30 feet, a: d tied the rope ronnl Mr. Oidfiel l, who was by that means drawn to tho top. In the meantime he had observed a lady's honnet fl jatinv in the well, arid then for the first time it was discovered that Mrs. Vinay and Miss Phillips were missing. Mr. Briscoe at once dived and found a body at the bottom of the well imbedded in the mud, but the water being thick and stagnant, the well not having been used for some v, eeks in conse- quence of a woman having been drowned in it, he wag unable to raise the body. A second attempt was also unsuccessful, and all the natives refu-ing to go in, nothing remained but to get grapnels. They were pro- cured, and the body or Mrs. Vinay WRR recovered, and shortly afterwards that of Miss Phillips, but unfor- tunately too late to restore animation. When all was over, Mr. Briscoe fainted from exhaustion, and subse- quently became s-riously iil irom his long immersion in the well.
A THRILLING SCENE AT A WEDDING…
A THRILLING SCENE AT A WEDDING A French pap^r relates athri!liug scene which lately occurred in a Parisian marie, A couple presented themselves to be married, the bride p.b.mt eighteen years of age, and possessed d considerable perioral at- trsc'i in, the bridegroom an i-x-reuiely small man, aged forty-five. When the ceremony was concluded the dot r of the hall was burst o; en, Hud a woman of gigantic stature, accompanied by a thin damsel of hlteen, burst into the l' Jom aud elbowed her way through the semicircle of guests. Wre'cli, scoundrel, thief she cried, addressing the husband, who turned as white as a sheet; "this is how you leave me in the lurch, who have sighed during fifteen years for the day when I might call myself yourwiff r' Saying this she seized the unhappy man by the collar and jerked him up uuder her left prm as though be were a c»sh hat, taking no notice of his struggles. She addressed the mayor in a voice of thunder" Do I arrive too late ?" The marriage has taken plac" replied the mayor, and I request you to release M. Augustin, and to retire," '• Not," said the giantess, without giving his deserts to < villain who lrwes me with this girl here." I "N 0, no, that girl is not mine," howled the little man. He bad better have remained silent. The I iantess frantically raised him in the air, and whirled him round her hea-3. Repeat what you have said she shrinked this child, who is as Ifite you as one pea is to another-is sbeyouyfornot?"M.Augustindidnotopptihis mou;h. His executioner then seized his nose with her left hand and wrung it violently. About this time two of the guests, moved by the en- treaties of tile hi, attempted to interfere, but the enraged woman using the bridegroom as a weapon, and brandishing him at arm's length, charged her op- ponents with such fury that she put them speedilv to flight-. "Call the police," cried the IJ1::tVOi' "You neecl not give yourself the trouble," hoarsely ejaculated the giantess; I will let go the rascal of my own accord. Ifere, my b, auty," addressing the bride, is your little bil of a man. I have not broken him. We. have no further businessh-fre. Follow Bap'is- tine," aud so saying Fhe flung down her victim :.t the feft (It two .i.enta of police, who at that moment at "I go," she added; "but let him ever appear h;fore nB on his wife's arm, and I win tai-e him i.. {ween my tl unb and forefinger and mahe 'out one i; ii'bful of him." This list: i,ih-i;t cast quite a gloom ov«-r the assembled ii F;, P, (I noone dared even to pidc the faint- ing bridegr torn froin the floor until the last echo of the heavy footsteps of the injured fair one had died away iu the distance, when they raised him to his fe-t, rsd in solema silenca taok ih dr departure.
CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.
CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS. The Da ly Lyre is the name of a new paper which is about to b3 issued. Its professed mission is to tell the truth. A St. Louis man has hung himself because a third wife wanted him to buy her son a new coat. A Pennsylvania, farmer states that he cured his diuffhter of the Grecian bend by p iuring water on her, and holding her out in the sun until she warpsd back agaiu. Toe cmeltv of a Chicago man in forbidding his wife's joining the ballet troupe his enabled her to get a divorce and another piotector. The Ladies Emancipation Society has offered a prize for the solution of the following question in a serious way "IIow long does a widow mourn?" The answer clearly i?, a second." Sorne people ara alwry* taking about "dying in harness." Tney seem to have some faint glimrneiing of sus- picion as to the place tLey so creditably fill in the animal 1; ingdom. The following is reported gi a conversation between two Wall-street men:—"Give the devil his due." "What do you sav 1 Yes, that sounds very well in the proverb, but what woul'i '-lecoiiis of you and me if that arrangement was carried cut ?'* A reporter for oce of the New York dailv pap-r^, in speaking of a young lady !c iturer, says:—"Her floating ikiris of wjitenes3 and Psjh ness, her tiny pinched waist, her pretty little -white kidded feet, her pink roses, her baby hand?, and her fizzles weie not unpleasant to the eye." An Englishman arrived at Chicago at night, and found the place so full that he could nor. get a lodging any- where. He lay down iu a comfortable spot and slept soundly on waking tip he found he was iu the cellar. A house had been built over him in the night—such is the fastness of life in tiiat quarter. Chicago has a new church—the First Congregational — which has just been finished at a. cost of 150,000 dollars. A peculiarity of this church is that; the reading desk, or pulpit, is provided with a copper speaking trampet, which is connected with eleven psws, where, with rubber hose and cup attached, the eleaf may enjoy Ä sermon as well as those not. so uafortutiate. That's a good gun of yours, stranger; but Uncle Dave has one that beats it." "Ah! Mow far will it kill a hawk with No. 6 shot ?" 11 I don't use shot or ball either," ans'vered Uncle Dave for himself. "Then what do you use, Uncle Dave ?" "I shoot salt altogether. I kill my game so far with my gur that without salt the game would spoil before I could get it." A f<r-.igner, who heard of j he Yankee propensity for bragging thought lie would beav the natives at their own game, and seeing some very hrg" wster-melons on a market-woman's stand, ÜMOL.\Ill31, What you raise laiger apples than these in America?" ihe quick-witted wonnrn immediately replied, Aop'.es anybody might know ;.ou arc a foreigner them's gooseberries A younsr lr-dy of seventeen of the sweetest summer*, her rearing having been almost like bee-feeding, resolved re- cently to entrust the remainder of her career to an old deary of seventy. The approaching marriage was duly announced, and tbe whPe-lieadei boy, as a right, put his bead one day on her soft shoulder, but on looki g up out of the corner of his left eje he saw the young one laughing. What are you doirgthat for, Minnie?" "Why, YOll angel," the replied, I was just thinking that for once there was an old head upon young shoulders." He opened the other eye to the left, got cooler, and broke cfif thsre and then, seeing things wide awaka at lust.
EPITOME OF 'NEWS, EMTISII…
EPITOME OF 'NEWS, EMTISII AND FOREIGN. D .iring the past week 22 wrecks have been reported, making for the present year 922. Orders have been dispatched to the Governor of Portuguese Guinea to receive from the British authorities official possession of the Island of Bolama. Cholera is slaying its thousands in Hewah, India. In Govinoghur, the chief town, the deaths are reported to have been more than a thousand a day. The ri j ih has left his capital for Deora, a town thirty miles to the south. The Hon. Miss O'Hagm, daushterof the Iri.-h Lord Chancellor, was married on Saturday, in the Roman Catholic Church, Raheney, to Colonel MDounell, of Glenarm, Antrim. The discussion of the fourth chapter of the Infalli- bility Schema closed on Monday, the remaining Fithen who had. inscribed their names having renounced thiir right to address thc Council. It is believed that the next public sitting will be held on the 17th iust. A French paper says that according to the accounts of the harvest received from all parts of France by the Minister of Agriculture the average yield of rye ::nd corn will be about :i ff,urth less than ntuil. France will therefore have enough for her own consumption. It is said that the Canadian Home Gua.rdf, on learn- ing where the lines would be crosred first by the Fenians, c--irefully meisured out distances and set up marks at 800 and 9 0 yards from whero they had determined to make a stand, so that when the Fenians advanced tliey found them- selves the t trgeis for a fire of extraordinary accuracy. George Tarrant, the celebrated cricketer, died on Saturday Ltvt at Cambridge, after an illness of about ten months." Tear-'em," or "Pepper," as he was familiarly called, suffered greatly during the latter part of hii illness, which was primarily caused by bowling. lie wa; one of the Australian eleven. Four hundred sacks of mails from England, (n route for Australia recently passed over the Pacific Railroad, show- ing (says an American correspondent) that this route from the United Kingdom to its Australian Colonies has been put into practical operation, as the shortest and probably the safest. The llock says an architect has issued a pamphlet, in which be bla'cs his desire to build animmeuee national mausoleum. The building is to contain space for the inter- ment of 2,000,"00 bodies the style ij to be Gothic, and for sizs and magnificence St. Paul's and St. Peter's at Rome will bo to this new building as dwarfs are to a giant. In the Brighton ritualism case, Lord Cairns an- In the Brighton ritualism case, Lord Cairns an- nounced on Monday that the Judicial Committee would make known their decision in a few elajs. The point raised was whether Mr. Henry Hibbert, of Lr'ghton, could be allowed to take the place of the oiiglnal promoter of the Euit., Colonel Elphinstone, who has died since the proceedings began. Friends of the Feniars who are held to answer for viohti, n of the neutrality laws h i.ve been to Washington endeavouring to set the President to release them Senator Fciiton, of New York, is interesting himself in their favour. The President indicated his willingness to deal leniently with them, but Is inclined to permit the laws to take their course. It is said that the contrabandists in Spain train their dogs to attack the gens d'armes by dressing up as gens d'armes themselves, tying-up the dogs, and giving them a thorough good thrashing daily for threo successive weeks After tliat time the dogs are quite ready to fly at the real article when he presents himself and the contrabandist says, "At him, dog I" The personality of the late Marquis of Cholmondtly has been sworn under LSO 000. The personalty of the late Sir Wiliam Willi-ims, of Tregullow, Cornwall, has been sworn under c3, 0,000 Thewill of theR-v. Henry JohnSparke, ALA., Canon of E!y, (1S18,) Rector of I.everington, (1827.) Rector of GiintUorpe, (18X1,) has been proved under £ 140,000. The will ot Air. David Davis, Kensington-gardens, has been proved under £ 50,000. Mr. George Druitt, the general secretary of the London Operative Tailors' Associa'ion left London on Tues- day morning for Cork, to endeavour to mediate between the muster tailors and their workmen The bo iy he represents have sent money weekly to their Cork brethren, althourn they disapproved their action in opposing the introduction of sewing machines, and have felt themselves placed m an anom; luua position, inasmuch as they acquiesce in the use oi the machine by the London masters. The Binningham po,t s tys: The favourable re- port we were ablo to give last we-,k in lcference to Mr. Bright's health is more than confirmed by hter mforma.t1011. Within tiie last feiv days smirked improvement IKS, in all respects tr:ken pl.ce io me right hon. gentleman a condith n. Though'his pri gress towards complete recovery will neces- sarily* bo slow, he i<s in questionably in a fa;'r way to the re- storation of his powers. Mr. Bright i.i sWU at, Llandudno. He has eerived much benefit from sea-batbiog, aud is able to take exercise on horstbucic. A Calcutta j-urord the fol- lowing A yfwf*p 111 dihtrict, having some- how got pes ession oi the ccrtif,cites and the eihloma of another who was a f.rrdna.e of tho Uuiveisity (BA, and B I*.)- but is hop/ dfM, assumed the lisme of tke deceased, and tot hume f enr 1 ed as a pleader in the Comtof adistr.ct judge, where ^e became a sue lessful practitioner in the course cf a few years. About a fortnight; aao the mystery wax exposed, and the u.an has made himself scarce. The authorities are on the look-out." The Pops which is a sort of Moniteur of the duello, publishes a general challenge to the deputies of the Lefifrom '*°f ° „ ^ers .ln tlle French army who want to fight a unknown, who, according to the Journal ujictet, aivai-cc ttie opinion in an exclamation interrupting oi o f'e^ i'J ,lle Prussians could beat the French. The "f i n.'etter would be very happy to take their chance in uirii oi Killing the deputy in question if he would enly de- clale his nanie Should he be so mean as not to tccommo- e them, they threaten to hold hit the membersol the Left re-pousible, ui-d to call them out seriatim The mortality in Paris for the week ending July 2 was 1,200, including 210 deaths from small-pox. The annual production of gold in California has, in eight years, fallen from £6,400,000 to £ 4,600,000. The reported attack on two officers near Gibraltar turns out to be nearly altogether false the brigand was a drunken cobbler. On Saturday niaht a youth who was riding on a velocipede near Twickenham, came into collision with an omnibus, and was instantanoously killed. On Saturday a violent. storm burst over the canton üf Appenzell, ill S dtzulaùd, and after it there was a heavy fall of mow. It is reported in miiit-.ry circles that S;r Fenwick WO'iamj of Ksrs is to bo the next Governor of Gibraltar, iu place of Sr Richard Airev. The inquest, on the four men suffocated in a gas tube at Tlike, it, North Staffordshire, was held on Saturday, al.d a verdic; of Accidental Death returned. Preparations are being made in Berlin for the hun- dredth anni-e-s:iry of Beethoven's birth. The festival will begin cn the 16 h cf Djcen.bir, and last till the 2ist of the month. Ütpt. Preston, 4:)11 Siurwood Foresters, has been severely iranhd by a ti-:<.r i:c-ar llh golee in the Hyderabad districr. No amputation has been necessity, and tiie gallant capt tin is recovering. The Birkenhead rnd Hoy lake Railway has been Bfizsi by the she riff's office? s acting under the instructions of Air. Vyner, the owner of the ]aud traveried by the rail- road. Two elejrant ledirs were put out of the theatre re- cently ut iMonoo e. 'J'o.-y were not content with endeavouiing to compel tne Kins, wila was in the next box, to talk to them but up n hi" deoiiniiig, they opened the door of his box and va'l.ed in. Liberty, Sisterhood, and Equality A ( is expected on the part of the Inoians on the lino of (he Pacific Railroai, an I the Yanckton and Si-ux Indians are t-king the war path. General Sherman is senoing cavalry reinforcements to the west. A curious iitrr,o?phenc effect, of the nature of a mirrga, waa !ate!y observed at Ostend. Above the masts of each vessel visible from the pier was seen another, inverted, with the tops oi its masts resting, as it were, on those of the teal ship. On Monday morning Mr. Thomas Johnson, a draper of W.-rwick, was found in a dying state in his bed-room. Deceased, who was in good circumstance?, had cut his throat with a carving-knife. He died shortly a!tcr having been dis- covered. A du-1 with his just taken place at Bordeaux between M. Lavertuj ui, editor of the Gironde, and M. Gregoj-i, filling a similar capacity on the Province. Both gentlemen were slightly wounded in the thigh, and the en- counter was then brought to a close. A sad accident occurred at Peshawur on the Queen's birthday. Captain Anderson, of the 5th Bengal Native Cavalry, while engaued plaj intj tbe game called hockey, fell from his horse and diilocited bis neck, from the effects of which he expired on the following day. He was only on leave from Nowshera The London Missionary Society are sending out sixteen missionaries to reinforce the existing mission of twelve agents in the island of Madagascar. Eighty rung men have already sailed, and the remainder will be sent oat at the earliest possible period. A collision occurred on Tuesday morning on the Great Western Ri ilwaj. A fastfroods train from Manchester ran into another i.-oods train that wss being shunted, smash ing seven waggons The guard of the goods train was slightly in j urea. 1 he Ene was blocked up for several hours. A table has been published showing the gold yiell in Nova Scotia fiom the first working of the mines In 18G0 unfil the close ot 1869 The total number of mines is b7; mills, 55 tons of quartz raised, 4,086,680 ounces of gold, 176,453 value, £ 717.800 gterlmgf- Stephen Bliir, Esq., who was M P. for Bolton from 1848 to 1^52, died on Tuesday, at Peel Hall, near Bolton, :ged sixty-six jeari. Tbe deceased was eminent amongst Freemasons, and at the time of his death was Provincial Grand Master for East Lancashire. He was also a county magistrate. The Irishman announces that measures are in pro- gress to give effect to the general fteling which, it says, pre- vails that sonno public compensation should be made to Peter Barrett for the sufferings he has undergone in a j rosecution which ia now found to be unfounded. The form of c imper.- sation propised is peculiarly acceptable to him-namely, to raise, by private subscriptions, a sum sufficient to purchase a farm in fee-simple for his father. It has been reported, and then denied, in Feveral Paris journals, that a printing press had been set up at the Tuilenes for the use of the Prince Imperial, who, it is said, has a fancy for the trade of a compositor-the fact is true that his Imperial Highness his really turned printer's devil. His printing press has been arranged, and lessons in the art and mystery of typography are to be given him by one of the chief employes in tho well-known printing and publ shing establishment of M. Firmin Didot. On Fiiday, Plcohe Turner,-about 19 years of pge, daughter of Mr. Turner, of Topperfield. Eiex, wa3 on a visi- to Nir. Dearing, of Charlton, when a gun attracted her ntten, tion, and she took it up and presented it at the maid servant not supposing it to be loadeii, and pulled the trigier, but it did not go off. In a short time alterwards the maid got prs- session of the gun, and in her turn presented it at Miss Turner, when the contents, a full cba-gs, entered her side. It ii greatly feared that she cannot survive the effeets of the accident. With reference to the death of the tour men at an ironworks in North Staffordshire, by waste gas frem the blast furnaces, Mr. J. Percy writes from the Royal S.-hool of M ines that the poisonous ingredient of that gas is carbonic oxide, and the inhalation of it in very small quantity whether pure or mixed with common air, rapidly destroys life. It is im- portant that the managers of sueh works should be acquain- ted with its highly poisonous nature, and take every precau- tion to prevent their workmen frum being exposed to its influence. A young man named Weston, who was clerk to a firm of engineers in K ii gsland-road, London, left his home on Thursday mornintr in last week to go to his employment, and nothing more was known of him until Saturday after- noon, when lie was found sitting on the doorstep of Peabody- buildings, Shoreditch, with his throat cut and a penknife in his hand. About a fjrtntghs ago he was bitten by a dog, and since then he had ber-n very neivoua for fear he should die of li)dropho >ia. ihe jury st the inquest found that he com- mitted suicide while of unsound mind. On- evening Lst week Mr. Di>r.ieli wrote riste and banded it over tho table to llr. Gladstone The PrEriier read it, i-eemed undecided for a few moments what to do with it—whether to tear it or pocket it—and at last, with a nod to tbe writer, pilL the. llOte in his pocset. A quarter of an hour liter thti two right hon gentlemen rose together, met at the Speaker's chair, and left the House in company, here is evi tently souieibiiiz in the wind, and opinion runs after many scents."—Court Journal. A suggestive fact has been comm'1u:cat"d to us by a brewer in the country, who was anxious to ascertain the cause of the constantly increasing value of malt sweepings, which were said to be largely used for feeding pigs. After experimenting upon his own, which daily became poorer under the trial, more minute inquiry was made, and then was discovered the real u;e of the sweepings, namely, to mix with chicory which again in its turn would be sold as c< ffee. Ct" adulteration be carried to a lower deptb?"-Food Jour- nal. The suVjrci; of Mr. Jowett's fermon at St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, London, on Sunday morning, was the Holy Com- munion. Tre tev. professor dwelt upon the mischief which had been wrought in the Church by controversies on this subject, arising in great degree from mere verbal distinctions, and urged that more attention shou d bo given to its moral aspect, so thit, in place of being as it h. s been a means of separating Chiifitiatis, it may be a bend to draw them together. A St; te trial began en Monday at Vienna. Four- teen workmen are charged with high treason. The Public Prosecutor, in his opening address, explained that the pri- soners belonged to a committee which was engaged in spreading a Socialist-Democratic agitation in Austria that they were in communication with trade urions in foreign countries, and, in cor-junction with the latter, aimed at the overthrow of all EOC al and State institutions. During the trial a large number of woiking men gathered in front of the Court-house, but there was no disturbance of order. A letterfrom Darmstadt in the Cologne Gazdte says that our Princess Alice has become very popular there, owing to her energetic opposition to the Ultramontane tendencies of the lIe-slim Court. She has frequent interviews with Herr Strauss, the celebrated author of the" Vfe of Jesus." He has just dedicated to her his last work on Yoltaiie, which, he says, was written at her wish. He had read it to her chapter by chapter, and she had listened with friendly approval. Anuui- ber of charitable establishments, from which all clerical in- fluence ia careful'y excluded, owe their existence to the Princess. Among them is a society for training sick-nurses. G; eat excitement was created in Halifax on Satur- day evening by the report that an Eccident had occurred to an excursion train which left that town for Lincoln at noon, lhoiumour wss founded upon a telegram which had been received in the town from Lincoln, asking fcr a doctor, wine, to be lent immediately. This had evidently been tent for a hoax, as the trip, by which about 1C0 persons bad left Halifax, returned home all safe a few minuUs after the appointed hour. The railway authorities are trying to discover the author of this cruel hoax, who so richly deserves punishment. The Marquis of Lothian died on Monday at Clap- hsm, after a thort illness. The late marquis wis the eldest of the four surviving sons of John Willi,m Robert, seventh marquis, by Lady Cecil Chetwynd Talbot, daughter of Charles second Earl Talbot. He was born August 12, 1832, and married August 12,1S57, Lady Constance Harriet Mnhonesa Ta'bot, eldest surviving daughter of the late Earl of Shrews- bury and Talbot. The late marquis, who succeeded to the marquisate on the death of Lis father, in NoN ember, 1841, does not leave any issue. The fami y honours and estates in Scotland and Norfolk are inherited by his brother, Lord Schomberg Kerr. A Board of Trade inquiry into the circumstances attending the loss of the ship Star of the West was concluded at Greenwich on Saturday. The vessel was bound from Port Elizabeth, Algoa Bay, to London, and on the 9 h of Junf, in a fog, struck on a rock off Ushant and was wrecked. The court found that Mr. Elleiy, the cspfsin, shaped too fine a course with the very light tnd scant north wind to weather Ushant, and thereby came within the influence (f a strong flood tide, which, together with a thick fog obscuring the land, was the proximate cause of the stranding of the vessel, but they were not disposed to treat the case as one of positive neglect, and therefore returned Mr. Eilery hIS certificate. The Rectory of Necton, near Thetford, has become vacant under melancholy circumstances. Three or four weeks since the Rev. William Henry Walker was married and proceeded with his bride on a wedding tour. At Inttrlacken he was seized with brain fever, and died, He was the second son of the late Mr. Matthew Clement Walker, of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arma to William IV. and Victoria. He was a Cambridge man (St. John's), and took his B.A. de- gree in 1854, when he was second junior optime in the mathematical tripos. Prior to his presentation to the family living of Necton, in 1861, he was curate of St. Paul's church Heme-hill, Camberwell. An inquest has been held at the convict prison Portland, on the body of William Pherson Thompson aged 30, a Fenian convict under sentence of penal servitude lor life for being implicated in the murder of Sergeant Brett at Manchester, two or three years ago. He had died of con- sumption. Wm. Roupell, ex-M.P. for Lambeth, one of the hospital warders who attended the deceased, K!.ve evidence to the effect that Thompson had expressed himself satisfied %Mth the treatment be had received iu 4the prison. Tne death of ^hompeon, has furnished a theme of iudiernant re- proach against England to tbe "National" journals. The Jris/iman and Flag of Ireland are in mourning, and have bitter articles on the event. The return of Dr. Turner, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salford, from Rome was celebrated at St John's Uithojral there on Sunday, at two services. A defence of the Pope and the Council, and notability eftheattitudeof the latter in relation to the proposed dogma of infallibility, was undertaken by Canon Benoit. The rev. gentleman spoke with some bitternesB of the malice "v.hictr Protestant journals have displayed in describing the proceedings of the Council lie ascribed to them the oiabolical purpose" of throwing di;credit upon the Pope. The main objtct now before the Council, according to Canon Benoit, was not originally brorght before it by the Pope, but by members of the Council i themselves. Infallibility that the Cnurch will speAk with their fallible voice of God, whenever she speaks in au infallible manner." The Bishop of Manchester preaching at Sh Mark's Church, Worsley, on Sunday morning said his opinion was The Bishop of Manchester preaching at Sh Mark's Church, Worsley, on Sunday morning said his opinion was tlfat the greatest peril of England at the present moment was iu the relaxation of family bonds between man and wife, between father and children, and between master and servant. A heathen poet, describing the course of degeneratio corruption which marked the age In which he first stsp was breaking up and corrupting the sa y which nuptial bond, and from that came tbe who^ ude of e-l which S;:fnt!S ilU&eXen^Think that the relation be- wnicn went before. ±ie am n parent was now what tween parent and child and child ana p Qught t j un(,er it was when be was a boy, j withi care and watchful- ne s 31U There ^vas no "thatre ve re.n ce that there, ought to be child Less, it seemed to him, now than ever couW we afford to^pense with what was called "the religious element" in educj-lioi, I Bronze m;xe-.1 with phosphorus is said to be the gun metal of the future, and to have stood some extraordinary tests. The 60,000 acres of waste Crown lands in tlifi New Forest produce an annual income of about 6J. per acre. Forest produce an annual income of about 6J. per acre. The Journal Officii1 announces that on account of the death of M. Jen ini HonaparteFatergou, recently deceased in America, the Emperor would go into mourning for a week. An earthquake has devastated the island of Santorin. The town is a mass of luins, aLd several small inlets have been submtrgeil. About five hundred turnpike gates and bars wer abolished on Friday (the 1st of Julj ) in England, unaer t! provisions of the act of last yeir. On the lst November ne) nearly three hundred more will be removed. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has acknowledge the receipt of a £ i00 n, te from P. G. S on account of in come-tax. The Board of Inland Revenue has also acknow ledged the receipt from "R. A of a Bank of England no for -£20, on account of income tax. The United States Senate has agreed to Mr Sumner' amendment sti iking out the word" white" from the yendiu Naturalisation Bill. S;ve-r.il senators strongly oljectedt tne smenoment, on the ground that it would admit th Chinese to citizenship. The hot weather 1 as disturbed some of the Parisian, upper stories. One of them went the other day to Marsha Vaflam, aud insisted upon interviewing him with a pro- posal to use an invention which he h-id perfected for watering the whole of France at any given moment or hour of the day A shocking accident ocomrjd on Saturday at Liter- pool, ut Fawcett's iro .foundry in that town A massive piece or iio.ch.jiery, Wci.-bing about i-ight tons, was being iiLeo, wneii the w >odwo;k ot ill* c;at e cava way and fa lint; on the wor-inio •, killtd thO, and seuousiy injured sevtn others. The Paris F aaro is to be prosecut.d f. r an article iu the limn .crufJu y 1, aile^t to contain an attack up in the person of the Emperor. Tiie i be: in qne^ion c mists in an assertion tuat the emperor, having hoi rowed money of L rit C.areiidon, gave him the commercial treaty with E igiund by way of set-off. The anniversary (,f American indeppndcnce wai celebrated m Liverpool Oil Monday (July 4) by a very fii e display of bUTilÎng or, the principal American mercantile houses and shipping offices, as well as on all the American ships in port, and the steirners of the Cunard, inman, Guion, and National Companies. A Circular has hell issued by 1\rr. Bank", secretary to the Operative Spinners and Minder. Association, at Pres- ton, in reference to the wages in question. He the em- plojerg take tne circular as a timely warning, that before long, if no conceision is inside by them, Preston will again be the scene of au extensive strike. The Law Lords of the House of Peers were on Fri- day occupied in hearirg arguments in a cause which has already C}IJlf' before two tribunals in Scotland, and is now brought on as an appeal before their lordship's Lione. Tho question at issue affects tbe ownership of a triangular piece i f ground, about eight iq iare yards in extent, aud esiimitt d to be worih 5s. The Dhsenters of Liverpool a.ppear ti livetaktii exception to the views enunciated by iiaboo Cliundcr t-en, in his public addresses on the conversion cf India, on Stiii- oay the subject was referred to from several pulpits, ol.e Presbyterian minister going so Lr as to say that .v.ahume! wss more of a Christian than Sen. Tne whole of the Black Country, says the Birming- ham Gazette, is rejoicing in the excelltnt feeling tha-: pre- vails throughout iis great sta' le trade, Mid in the prospect of a revival wloci inmy thought had vanished for evermore. Slowly nuny of tie towns aud villagt-s are recovering from the long period of depression. At the Peschiere Theatre of Genoa Iforma wa^beirg played the other evening, aud in the last act the dress of Madame Xilli, who filled the part of the Druidical priestess, caught fire, and for a moment she was in daniier of undei- going her sentence in reality, but several of the actors rushed forward and exiinguished the flames. The Handel's B unk at Vienna has bec-n dt ?riud< <1 of 141,0U0 flirins, having bought from an unknown person a ticket, of the Brunswick Lottesy Loan, which had won S i,t)oo thalers, but proved to be forged. Money-changers in Eng- land are uiged to b9 especially cautiom just now, as forgois are very sictive, varicm forgeiiea of small amounts of paper currency and dividend coupons having been recently tected. A telegram from Salt La'te reports that on the 1!Jdl (f J Iwe, as a train on the Pac.fic Railway approached t-bn Platte river, the engine-driver discovered a band of CO Indians crossing the line. As the train neaped them liey began to jell, and, supposing they were about to attack the train, full steam was put on, driving it through the band at high speed, and killing IS Indians. It is fitate(I that the diamond fields on the banks of the Vaal, in South Africa, are turnii g cut an entire success. A Koranna has found a diamond worth £ ',500, which he dis- waSe°u worth £ 120. Oiher diamonds worth rn » t° 0 have been picked up, and many from £ 50 to iCO. A itw beautiful rubies and ous turou- ise have tieeu unearthed. The Civilian protests against the attempts which at e being m..de at the Treasury to force the first-class supple- mentary clerks to ivit the service. The second-class clerks have also been coolly informed the maximum salary of the establishment will be reduced to £ 350, and that they had no right to expect that the present salary of 4503 would be maintained. I should like this louis put on a number," said a coquette toaFiench croupier at Baden-Baden; "and, for luck, let it be on the number of my age." Frightened at the chance cf overdoing it, or in a very complimentary mocd, the croupier put the louis on uumber one. The dignity of the congregation of a London church was recently somewhat disturbed after tbe announcement froin the pulpit of the handsome receipt from the effect of a charity sermon on the prior Sunday. Some one, whose mind was struck by the magnitude of the sum, thereupon gave veut in the gallery to that long and low whistle, which usually expresses, in polite society, You don't mean to say so The son and daughters of the late Mr. William Ewart, M P have given to each of the forty free libraries in the11 nit«d Kmgd ni a large and valuable portrait of their faLer, bearing the fo.lowing inscription William Ewart, nemoer of the Hou>e of Commons for thirty eight years, 3vWtea 18-^ and 1S63. He was one ef the foremost- pro- movers of the great political aud cosial reforms of his time, end among other important measures he originated and carried fche act which gave frce libraries to the people of Great Britaiu and Ireland." An E.iglish traveller, having passed two days at an hotel in a French counlry town, called for his bill, which amounted to 11J francs. lie wan astonished at the emoun. and indignantly remarked—" one hundred and ten francs for two or thres wreiciied repasts, and for two nights spent in a bed filed with fls«s Fieas x .laimeA the hotel keeper how could I have forgot'eu tliem? Hand me the bill." Tbe traveller leturned t ie biil, aim the hotel-keeper added to the to:al-" FieaE-Fivo francs 1" A new kind of clock has been patented. The pecu- liarity f it is that instead of having the utual cl: ck face, it fhowi the hour and minut"s on a surface of about ilir, e incnes, in the same manner as they are represented in Ilu ordinary time-tables in use Twenty minutes thst twelve would be represented in figures, tl u12 20, so that the pre- else time is shtwn at a glauce, without any addition or sub- traction for the figuies shown by the long hand" in the ordinary clock. On Sunday, at Colchester, while two boys were birds'-nestingin the eastern suburbs of the town, tht Y cams upon a parcel lying In a ditch communicating with the rivtr near. On opening it they found the dead body of an infant. The lads at once communicated with the police, who removed the bo: y to the station-house, where an examination was made, and it was discovered that theboeiy, believed to be that of a lull-grown male infant, and wrappeu in an old apron and other clothes, was beyend identification, rats having eaten the flesh off its arms and legs and partly off the chtst and head. A medical gentleman who was called in, gave it as his opinion that the body had been in the water for a for.- night.
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.J .LU. &v. THE MARKETS. „. MARK-LANE—MONDAY. ine refresh.ng shower3 of the past few days have produced ?hoe?vy fee>;i g in the grain tiade. Tbe demand for whea; mart 7 <0 n'°"erate extent, and in the provincial i on Saturday further reduced rates were occn- sionally accepted. The imports of foreign lind cob nitl prf duce into Loudon last week consisted of 13 558 org of wheat 13,434 of barley 47,1« of oats, 5S„ of nf £ £ 4C0ot tares, 10,bsl of linseed, 7,047 of rapeseed 4 elo of maize, 550 of sundry, 955 barrels and 5,724 sacks of'ft tur Fresh up to Mark-lane this morning the IU rhals cf wheat from E-sex and Kent were limited. There wasa poor attendance of millers, and the demandruUd heavy for bothred and white pro- duce, at a decline in the quotations of from Is to 2s perqr. The show of foreign wheat was good. Sales pre gressed siowiy, ami pricesreceded Is to 2s. per qr. The market was moderately supplied with barley. The inquiry was heavy, at about lato rates. Malt wag "dull, ou former terms. Oats were iu moderate siirply and limited request, at 6d. per quitter IC-SR money. Beans were dull, but withiut change For pess there was very little demand, at about late rates. Maize was dull, and 6J. per qr. easier. Flour changed hands heavily, and country marks were is. per qr. easier. Linseed was quiet, and riipsseed was dull. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.—MONDAY. The tctd import of foreign stock into London last wetk amounted to 10,208 head. In the corresponding week in 18(9 we received 11,870; In 1368, 8 419; iu 1867, 10,343 and in 1SC6, 14 754 heal. The market to-day has been heavily supplied with foreign stock, and the arrivals from our own grazing districts have been on a full average scale. The trade has been in an unsettled state, an t the tendency of prices has teen in favour of buyers. As regards beasts the quality of the arrivals from Lincolnshire has been generally indifferent, although seme prime animals have been occa- sionally seen. From Scotland very few beasts have tome to hani, but the quality has been good, pasturage being much more plentiful in the northern parts of the king- dom. The foreign supply has included a large num- ber of beasts from Spain. The trade has been in a quiet state to-day, and prices have been with diflkult'- maintained. For the best Scots and crosses, 5s. to 5s. 2d. per- 81b. has been paid. Fiom Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, ami Northamptonshire we received about M0 shorthorns, Jfcc from of er parts of E 'glai d, oOO various breeds and Iron; Scotland, 13 Scots and crosses. The supply of sheep has been large. The inquiry has been restricted, and prices have fallen 2d p r 81o. The best Downs and half-breds have sold at 5s. to 5s. 2d., and in some few instances 5s 4d. per 81b Lambs have becu ra'htr firm, at from Cs. 4d. to 6s. 8d. per 81b. Calves have bi en quiet, and the demand for pips has been inactive. 8. d s. d. s. d s. d. Infer, coarse beasts 1 0 3 8, Prime Southdown 6 0 5 4 Second quality 4 0 4 4 Large coarse calves 3 10 4 1<» Prime large oxen.. 4 6 4 10 Prime small 5 0 5 6 Prime Scois.&o. 5 0 5 2 Large hops 4 6 5 4 Infer, coarse sheep 3 0 S 4 Neat small porkers 5 4 5 8 Second quality 3 8 4 4 Suckling calves.22 0 26 n Pr. coane woolled 4 6 5 0 Qr. old store pigs.. 20 0 26 0 Lambs, 6s. 4d. to 6s. 8d. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET.—MONPAY. Full average supplies of meat have been on sale. For all qualities the trade has been dull, at about late rates. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Inferior beef 3 0 3 4 Inferior mutton,. 3 4 3 8 Middling ditto 3 6 3 S Middling di.to 3 8 4 0 Prime large ditto 4 6 4 8 Prime ditto 4 6 4 10 Pi ime small ditto.. 4 10 5 0 Large pork 3 10 4 2 Veal 4 44 8 Small pork 5 0 5 4 Lamb, 5s. OJ. to 5s. 8d. HOPS. The tone of the hop market has been depressed. Very little business has been doing in any description, aud prices have ruled in favour of buyers. From the plantations the accounts continue favourable, and there is every prospect of a good crop. Mid and East Kents, 47 to iC12 12s. Weald of Keuts, X6 to £ S; Sussex, £5 12s. to £ 6 12s. Bavarians. 46 6s. to £ 9; French, zV-5 to 46 141)9. Americans, 44 5s. to A;6 and Vearlings, .ei 10s. tc) jM 15s. per cwt. WOOL. At the public sales of colonial wool the attendance ot foreign buyers has been irore e I\m,e t-r&de has continued to be well support-'d. Biddings for all descrip- turns have been animated, and prices have been sup; urieti. English wool has been Btead>; *r; Previous quotations. Current prices of Enghsa wool. 1< iceces Southdown hogset3, Is. to is. C-M. j h^-u-ed ditto, ls. 2d. to Is. 3d.; Kent fleeces, Is. 2d to Is 2J.J. Southdown ewes and wethers, Is. to ls. Ojd Leicester diUo, Is. Id. to ls. Sorts: Clothing, is. to Is. 4}d. combing, lid. to ls. aid. POTATOES Increased supplies of new potatoes have been on sale, but the show of old produce has been limited. The trade h«s been quiet, at about late rates. Old Enelish and Scotch regents are eeLuig at liOr per ton, new English Shaws at 129., and French at lis. to 13s. per cwt. Eer,ri^' Pickled, 30s. to 38s. ditto red, 20s. te 26s. per kh^ters, 4s. to 6s.; kippers, 5s. to Cs. 61. per box turbots, 10s. to 16s. brill, 58. to 8s. each; plaice, 10s. to 16s. trawl haddocks, 10s. to 15s. per box; soles, Is. 6d. to 3t 9d t per piir whitings, 83. to 12s. per basket; grilse, Is. 3d. trout, is. 3d, eels, is. per poxud mackerel, 2s. to 3s. per d, sail; smoked haddocks, 20s. to 40s. per barrel; red mullets, 5s. to 6& lobsters, 8s. 6d. to 16s.; crabs, 8s. 6d. to 15h. per dozen; native oysters, jClO commons, 15s. to 40s. per busheL TALLOW. The market has been qunt. Y.C., spot, .51. per cwt Town tallow, 41s. 9d. nett ca-h.