The Aberystwith Observer

German papers still dilate upon the recent visit H |he Queen to PRUSSIA, and are loud in her praises. At is rumoured that her Majesty will pay another visit her daughter, to be present at her accouchement. H however, is merely gossip, and meanwhile there 3s little important news. H From SWEDEN we hear that several cases of cholera nave occurred in Stockholm. The Prince Regent has H returned from his tour, and has consequently dissolved the provisional government.

The Queen of SPAIN at the latest dates was still en- H ^i^g the comparative retirement of Gijon. The Gazette favours us with a rather cheering item H nitelligence—that parents and guardians hencefor- H i^'l will have more control over the education of their H ?wldren. The state education that would be conferred by Spain, we are quite sure, would not be of much ser- H VIce to the people.

H The struggle between the Tt; Hits and the MONTISNE- H j.fNs we hope is, for a time at least, at an end, and H nnpe Danilo has acted wisely jn or<1 ering tlie Monte- H to restore to *Jw> SWks the booty the former cap- H Kolatchin. But a new panic has broken out 11 Alepno, where the Mussulmans have been purchasing trrllS t attack or defend themselves against the ■ ^hris? ;us. Our Ambassador, too, at Constantinople, H Jict! occasion to assemble the representatives of the ■ powers in consequence of the municipal corn- el "?1SS1011 Constantinople having threatened imprison- H toent to Europeans, who refused to be taxed at the will rii. Turks; so that the feud between Turk and H Christian seems bitter as ever.

«v ^j00T. following extraor- dinary statement is given in the Bombay Telegraph :— ■, "It is stated in a letter from Banda that General Whit- s column have made a large haul' from the rebels. A of the Madras 43rd Native Infantry, attached to the 4tt Vi™' fouilri 140 cartloads of gold bricks and nuggets and j. 31?s of rupees, and more was expected to be discovered. ^B of tLes this large amount of treasure, an immense quantity 1 iPPnTi -have also been found. These are supposed to have v A1 tlle jewels belonging to the Peishwa's family, which, 50 ag0> mysteriously disappeared from Peona, and were ViPi;1°Seid to 1:ie in the possession of Scindia or Holkar. It is i"hey were stolen by Ra.jee Bow's brother, the CI-IQ Ve ljer of the presens darrein Row, who is now a ^B tlip r11?1*' treasure and jewellery found are said to be of H value of nine crores of rupees, or nine millions sterling." ha f ^aSt ntiw? ^ear^ °f the Nana Sahib was that he i ™f^crossed the Gogra, and has reported to have sold forSr™1^' vaWb3^ natives at 1,000,000?., ROYALTY IN A COAL MINK-The Esrtana con- H an-, °Ltlle Queen of Spain having visited ■ ti' c°al ™ the ne^hlMm.i,00,! of San Juan. Her ■ Majesty expressed a desire to descend into the i.rinci- ■ pal pit, which is upwards of 350 feet, and to go further H m the pit than a,ny one had ever been. The President \)f the Council, Marshall O'Donnell, recommended her H Maj esty not to make the descent, as it might be attended H >,itli some danger, but the Queen persisted. The Min- H AVter and General Lemery then went down to receive H A% Queen, and her Majesty, accompanied by the King attended by the director and by the engineer, Mr. ^1 a^terwards descended. When the Queen got to H bot tom she cried to her suite that they might follow her without fear. The Queen then went along the ■ principal gallery of the pit, which goes on an incline ■ Awards of 300 yards—great part of this under the sea. H he director declared that no woman had ever had the rr^e. so ^ar' and re<Viested and obtained „-rTliission to place a stone on the spot to perpetuate remembrance of the visit. I of w-AY AT Wies^aden.—The bank at the Cursaal ■ ftniAIes^3T ei1, was ^r°ken last week by a Prussian gen- terp fi1 tlian half-an-hour the bank encoun- ? two heavy series, which, being backed with spirit ■ ^uited in a loss to the establishment of 250,000f. The I played the highest stakes (8.500f.) authorised ■ ''he bank, and his example was followed by other I COY^I'V success will doubtless afford immense I to i? a';ion t° those whose hard cash had contributed I J&niri? accumulation of the quarter of a million thus ■ Sicily swept away. I A SWISS MILLIONAIRE.-M. Merian, the wealtli- I left "tb ul1; °f .Switeerland, has just died. He has ■ WarrU f large fortune, amounting to up- after- k forty million francs, to his wife for life, and H Plapp Tr ea^h it will go to the town of Basle, his birth- C0TI0+ i bas bequeathed about four millions to_ spme I am r relations, and a similar sum to be divided ■ A Jsome charitable institutions, missionaries, his I J) caJ attendants, his notary, clerks, servants, &c. I alf a s^nSular clause in his will M. Merian has given to I d ??rties who were indebted to him at the time of his ■ [eath a year's interest on their respective debts. I W .SPANISH MUKDEB.—The Barcelona journals I ass-if1-11 ai^ acC £ U £ a horrible and almost incredible ■ :.rtla^lnatl0x? °J lVe, y0U1^ ^irls at vich' in Catalonia. I thp f Pears that on the 21st ult., as six young girls of I inr^ 1?6S an<l 10 years, were walk- I near i?16 .°m Mataus cotton mills, which are situated I stonn i AlllaSe °f Podas, to Ingarolas, they were I* obiiit j.i ^wo miscreants, who, pistol in hand, I bau^6^d them to turn back to a solitary place in Serra- I whiu ,Ae they were ordered to sit down, and I thp plr]0n+ wJe ^ePt guard over five, the other led I knifJtt L fbPa°f °fTand Pigged his long Catalan I KIAM Herdyinglhriekwas heard by I fcutche3 1t?&' onl hione were led awayand I 0?Sst- y°^gest of all, a child of 10 years, I ^Pon « W ,!leck' fell feigning death ■ tfe ^afassms' after taking the little money U 1 • ab?ut m^em' ^ent to the viHage of Podas, I ^he w™ ^he CnmA WfS Perpetrated at night. I «bp ouV-d.ed child lay motionless till daylight when I %tWr toa neighbouring farmhouse. When the I eld, a+x ;11Saimved at the place, they found the three I ead> and two desperately wounded. The I ^isi6 ° f hloody act is said to have been jealousy, I some display of coquetry at a ball the I oji6 ^unday, where the prettiest of the girls, the I !%s° yeai's, refused to dance with one of the assas- ■ '1 or, return him a ring or some other love token. I a no 1 ^or an accomplice, and found one I ^Posit; yT; The accomplice, it appears, from the ■ PHes of the child, would have spared the younger I Jh^isterl iinon6^ ,0r' alleging the danger of discovery, I autWitie^arP^TP 6tAng theil" butcher's work. I c^scover the lurking T)fao?g f^tm0Sit active exertions to I Wel^ S S In culPrits- whose persons ■ Ml known to the workmen of the different miHs. I llear T)p £ ANI) affair took place I Wf6' 0n^- Q ?b ■ C?Pta™ Betray picked I ^th & re?imef :11aSd isPatched them I old blonH 13 •'0US, Uig °l i Singh, an I ftiurd staine!l scoundrel, who had committed several I 3R,ota6rS rp?"' °ther crimes in the neighbourhood of ■ uddit?' f ? Siklls "bettered their instructions," for in I Hattrav's + fcbing Sungram Singh alive into Captain I and s^aT.r^v& they killed his brother, sons, nephews, I 'liscuised thpr^1"0?1' all nine persons. The Sikhs had I W> the'conSenp68 f mutinous Sepoys, and thus got I <W will illustrate 1the whole ,An0^^ mci" I ^ons are now of service m which our I Allahabad are a g^ed" Within a limited distance of I Afford shelter and num,?er of mud-forts, which I demolish as many of Points for the rebels, and to I ^portant object. On ^en\as POS8ible is of course an I ^"precision in dates is 15ri+a^the 10th of last month I ^arty of our troops attack ,a wavs arrived at—a small I Aear Soraon, which was vio-o of these strongholds, I 0l nearlv 1,000. The result X defended by a force I slain, and the command!^ ,at 700 of the enem3r ■ f C0lisiderable amount of bootv ^aken prisoner, with a • A S'lR INGE STORY_ThI ^^l, the Ost. Deutsche post celebrated Vienna t ig^thy ironmaster of Sika^^e =- rema 1 iri one of his walks' solicited :fr. 1 1WaS her ^5' handsome little girl, but SaV,tyf 7 5 for', & M. "Wm the girl again «yes a"d 111 80 fixed h% lartrblue strurl -lllm in a marked manner. ue blu^ i?ent Vre7rh ller' and waS i°- please,4 with the intelli iier horvF she Save to his questions that he took to adout i, and obtained the consent of her parent" fortun? Three years after ^leK^a directed +1 4,000,000 thalers, and by this will^hg the r4 iat 3,000,000 of it should belong to the m,-] f^et foT-<rto his own relatives; but the will f" «the 3 oor> girl were to die without children, > o-irl lat"lv thalers should go to the relatives. The 'of the ol(jp.1?ariAed Co«^t De Schaffgotsch, head of one and shortly a?fd most distinguished .families m Prussia, f her. Great "t an attempt was made to assassinate fresh attemnt611?^ation has lately been occasioned by a ■v 0 0 the like kind having been made. Nana 55AWTt,V d Sahib, written st ti fOLVf'—A letter from Nana ie beginning of the mutiny, has been intercepted, in which he gives as a reason for Ms rebel- lion^ that the Government had deprived him of the pension of Co.'s Rs. 75,000 a month, enjoyed by his father, Bajee Rae Peishwa, and that he was determined either to get the arrears and interest, or to lose his life. NOT OF MUCH CONSEQUENCE — The rabid French Univers expresses this singular opinion on the successful laying down of the Atlantic Submarine Tele- graph — This event, which is very important for England in a financial and commercial point of view, excites but a limited degree of interest in France. We are too. exclusive, and we are too much wrapped up in ourselves, to pay much atten- tion to what is going on abroad, and particularly in America. and it is of little consequence tD us to be able to receive political news from the United States ten days earlier than we have hitherto done." SPUBTOUS NUGGETS.— The Melbourne Argus says :—There has recently been a clever attempt at fraud nipped in the bud. Nuggets of gold of only nineteen carats fine have been manufactured and sold at Ballarat and Castlemaine, and have deceived gold- buyers of some experience. These spurious nuggets are of fine colour on the surface, but when broken ex- hibit a granular appearance and a deep red colour. They contain gold to a great extent, but are far below the value of any of our present gold-fields in fineness, being only nineteen carats fine, and defraud buyers to the extent of about 14s. per ounce. They were, how- ever, at once detected by the Melbourne bullion-brokers, and none have since been offered. AMUSING BEQUEsT.-The Moniteur du Calvados announces that a bottle has been picked up on the beach near Honfleur, which, on being broken, was found to contain a paper, dated 3rd August, on board the Crocodile, and purporting that the writer on board the vessel, which was about to founder, having neither heirs nor relations, bequeathed his fortune to whoever might find the paper. This fortune the writer declares to amount to 340,000f., and to be deposited in the hands of M. Faiseau-Lavanne, Rue Vivienne, Paris. The writer also expresses a wish that his house at Val- paraiso shall be converted into a chapel, in which mass shall be celebrated on the 3rd of every month for the r vose of his soul. The above-named journal seems to doubt the authenticity of the paper thus found-and so do we! AMEIUCAN FACTS AND FIGURES.—Over 4,000 dogs have been killed in New York since June Ist,- The monument to the Pilgrim Fathers in Plymouth is to cost 400,000 dollars.—There is a goose in New Jersey that has seen the frosts of 82 winters.—If a ship makes eight knots an hour, how long will she take to make a crochet collar ?—The last trip of the steamship Persia from New York to Liverpool was made in nine days, six hours, and twenty-six minutes.-An editor in Iowa has become so hollow, from depending upon the printing business alone for bread, that he proposes to sell himself for stovepipes at three cents a foot.—Only a single copy of the London Times is now allowed to enter France and that is sent to Paris in a sealed en- velope from Boulogne, especially addressed to Napoleon himself. -A Tennessee fellow, named J. P. Perkins, left the Glen House at the White Mountains in great dis- gust, because he was rebuked for summoning the waiters at the table by a whistle.

lUkcIImtmts dStmral EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.—At Ballycastle (Ire- land) petty sessions, a singular case was lately got up against a person named Kingston, who had been thirty- seven years in the coast-guard service, and who enjoys a good pension. Informations were sworn against him that he said that the Queen was guilty of murder--that she murdered the Chinese and Sepoys." Mr. Faucett for- warded the information to the Government, who ordered to have Mr. Kingston summoned to the petty sessions, and if the case were proven to send him for trial. The case was fully investigated, and dismissed by the magis- trates. It is said that proceedings will be taken against the parties who swore the information, as it is quite evident that the object was to injure Kingston, owing te his connexion with the Presbyterian school.—Mayo Constitution. STATISTICS OF RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—A careful comparison of the number of passengers in the five coun- tries which possess the most extensive svstems of rail- ways—England, United States, Prussia", France. and Belgium—with the number of those who have suffered death from railway accidents, and the number of seriously wounded, gives the following result:—There was one person injured in the United States out of 188,459 pas- sengers in England out of 311,345 in France out of 375,092 in Belgium out of 1,611,237; in Prussia out of 3,294,075. This calculation is contained in a report drawn up by a commission appointed for the purpose by the French Government. A MODEL CANDIDATE.—A somewhat curious address to the electors of Ipswich has been issued by Mr. King, the editor and proprietor of a local news- paper. Mr. King announces himself to be a candidate for the representation of the borough at the next general election, but declares that he will not spend a shilling more than the law compels him to spend, and that he will ask no man for his vote, appoint no committee, and solicit no one to move or second his nomination on the hustings. His object is to promote purity of election, and to give the constituency an opportunity of render- ing the Corrupt Elections Bill a dead letter. A "BROKEN HEAIIT !"—A week before the execution of the young man, John Baker Bucknell, for the murder of his grandmother, at Creech St. Michael the culprit was visited by his mother and sister who were much affected thereat, and Bucknell himself told his mother not to visit him again, for he could stand no more of it." Smce the morning of the execution, Mrs. Bucknell, the mother, had taken no food, but gradually sank under her trials, and expired of a broken heart on Tuesday morning, a week within a few minutes of the time when the extreme penalty of the law was carried out upon her guilty, son! The sister, a girl about eleven years old, is dangerously afflicted, and, it is feared, has lost her reason. BELGIAN GossIP.-A Belgium correspondent informs us that a rumour has gained ground there that Mr. Bright M.P., has embraced the Roman Catholic faith. The report is too absurd for contra- diction in England but for the benefit of our foreign friends it may perhaps be as well to state that there is not the slightest foundation for it.-Morning Star. COMFORTABLE AssuRANCE. — A clergyman, on being asked to attend a meeting on behalf of the City Mission, objected that it was a Dissenting society. On being disabused on this point, he said, But Dissenters are connected with it, and I can't work with Dissenters." The lady who applied to him said, But do you not expect to meet some good Dissenters in heaven ?" The clergyman replied, with an air of condescension, that he believed he should. "Then you will be able to associate there, if you will not meet them here ?" The clergyman paused a moment, and then replied, "Well, you know, we are told there will be many mansions."—- Leicester Mercury. AN EXPENSIVE SHAWL.—Among the many sto- ries current in Bristol and its neighbourhood as to the commencement of the love affair between Captain Magan and Miss Miles (consequent on the breach of promise case now arranged satisfactorily to both parties), one is to the effect that the former accompanied his mother to Swan & Edgar's to purchase a shawl, in which depart- ment of business Miss Miles is. It is part of Miss M.'s duty to place the shawl under inspection on her own shoulders, in order to showthe intended purchaser how it looks and, being of an elegant figure, is is said that Captain Magan was particularly struck with her on the occasion of his visit; so that he made another call at the establishment alone. He said he wished to pur- chase a shawl, and was referred to the fair plaintiff's department; one of the most costly was selected by him and Miss Miles requested to put it on. It was entirely approved and paid for and when she inquired where it should be sent," Captain Magan begged her accept- tance of it, made a respectful bow, and retired. Miss Miles consulted her friends, and by their advice returned i°+v ° faJ^ant donor, who soon after wrote to her, vlvwq W followed the old story of plighted and broken for -rpt^rfrvf* PaP^ain Magan gave as the reason refn<jal i- • engagement his mother's stern retusal to give her consent. TNSATT°W RFJSC^™ FIL0M STARVATION.— WUI'3 Glenavo^^nro0^™0^-?^ Party were deerstalking in middle-Tged manononJofft^T f? £ T?h a dered a considerable wav iSn t^T* 'I ing on the road to clstlet^? nf11g v~d °f ke6P" -L 7, ^abmetOii or Braemar. He was in SU'tbout chfficult?heate hunSer and cold that not without, chaculty he^was taken on a pony to Inchoroy- lodf?i innr m.ulon restora«veS were administered and the poox man soon recovered. A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS. The Glen's Falls Republican gives a long account of a novel way of paying old debts. <' citizen of standing," whose "autograph" was in possession of a large number of gentlemen residing m and about Glen's Falls, suddenly became melancholy, and spent most of his time in a lonely meditation beside lamp posts and other convenient ieaning places, while it began to be whispered that he was insane, and the remark, "poor fellow," fell from the lips of all his friends and acquaint- ances. At length the melancholy gentleman dis- appeared, and it was feared that he had made away with himself. The holders of his autograph offered to dispose of the same at a heavy discount. Fortunately for them, as they supposed, a person was found who offered to purchase the demands against the missing man, and did so for a mere trifle. A few days after all the notes and accounts had been thus purchased the, misanthrope reappeared, and hunting up his friend i ^a'l run the risk of purchasing the demands, ancied over to him the amount advanced, and thus paid voir! + at a discount of 75 per cent. He is now 1- 7, 0 c°mmence op'etations anew, with a lieW con- stitution and additional capital. A LOVE TOKEN.—The Court Journal has always something romantic to narrate, and the following is one of its stories :— Jung Bahadoor, the Prince of Nepaul, is expected in Eng- land early in the spring, on a visit to the English Court. The Prince, who, it will be remembered, was lately created a C.B., is married to the eldest daughter of the Rajah of Coorg, now resident in this country. The Rajah's second daughter, the Princess Gauromma,_is being edu.cat.ed under the auspices of her most gracious Majesty, and placed by her with Mrs. Drumniond, at Kew, for that purpose. We have heard rather a romantic story connected with, the reason of Jung Baha- door assisting the English with his brave band of Goorkas, but it is from such an excellent source that we place all re- liance in it. It is to the effect that, during the stay of the Nepaulese Prince in this country, he became deeply smitten with a lady of great rank and beauty, and offered her mar- riage. Birth and creed alike forbade the union with the noble Asiatic, but, ere he quitted the shores of England, he prayed the acceptance of a small token of his esteem, a beautiful Oriental ring, which the lady, with much reluctance, ac- cepted. It was accompanied by the singular promise that, if ever she had a command to make, a wish to be carried out, the return of the talismanic ring to his highness would insure its due performance. As the story goes, the lady, high in rank, returned the jewel, with a wish that Jung Bahadoor should revenge the foul and horrid slaughter of her country- women at Cawnpore. How the Prince has fulfilled his pro- mise every Englishman knows, and will testify their estima- tion of his noble daring when he reaches England. INCOME TAX.— Tlie Financial Reformer for the present month gives a tabulated statement of the col- lection of income-tax under Schedule D. From this it appears that nearly one-third of the tax levied under all the schedules has been paid by 275,469 persons en- gaged in trades and pofessions. The net amount of the tax collected in the year ending 5th April, 1857, under all the schedules, was 16,915,332/ out of which trades and professions contributed 5,161,813^. When we recollect that formerly the whole burden of the pub- lic expenditure was thrown upon the land, and that, at the present moment, the land-tax does not much exceed 1000000l. we shall have no difficulty in recognising the influence that is exercised by the territorial aristo- cracy in the government of the country. THE PROSPECTS OF AGRICULTURE.—Yet a little while, (says the Builder,) and we shall see vast changes in the mode of cultivating land, and vast advantages resulting in consequence. It has long been our confi- dent belief that an era of agricultural deveiopement as ,,7ri wonderful as that which the present age has, already witnessed, in manufactures, is not only within the bounds of possibility, but on the eve of advent; that the day is at hand when models of farm buildings now in use, and the agricultural implements of the past and present time, will be put away, as curiosities, besides the distaff and the spinning-wheel; and even when the steam plough, as it yet exists, will be regarded as a rude and primitive instrument by comparison with others still to be invented. It is interesting, therefore, in this belief, to witness just such beginnings of so grand an era in agriculture as were the first spinning and weaving machines in manufactures, or the first steam- engine, or the locomotives with legs like a horse in a railway system. A NEW NAME FOR AN OLD DISEASE.-Drs. Christison and Peddie have originated anew doctrine in medicine. They have promulgated the opinion that a man who, being in all other respects clear in his intel- lect, rational and intelligent, has yet lost all power of will to resist the opportunity of getting drunk, and whom no fear or conviction of the most destructive con- sequences can keep sober, is to all intents and purposes insane. The malady is variously termed oinous, or dipsomania. They assert that an habitual drunkard, even when perfectly sober is not master of his own actions, and that it is quite preposterous to hold that a person, say lady, when neither shame, ruin, the love of her children, absolute starvation, can keep from habitual intoxication, is anything else than mad. PARALLELS, BY A FRENCH WRITER.—In the in- teresting history of the great struggles between France and England since William III., one fact deserves to be pointed out—Great Britain has never dared to com- bat France single-handed. Once, at the period of the American war; England found herself in face of a France free on the Rhine, and able to direct her forces and her energy towards the sea, and England was obliged to recognise the independence of the American colonies. Those who consider the British power to be so formidable that France could not enter on a struggle with England with any chance of success, forget that if in the wars of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries England had her Cressy, her Poictiers, and her Agin- court France paid off the debt at Orleans, at Beauge, at Bat,ay, at Forimgnij and at Castillon, and followed up her victories Until she drove the enemy back to their island. If, instead of studying the history of England in the articles of the Debat and of the Revue de.3 Dettx Mondes in the works of some men affected with a monomania of parliamentryism and in the writ- ings of superficial men who, seduced by the wealth and luxury of the lords, the bankers, and the manufac- turers, have proclaimed England to be the first nation in the world, those who do soso would give themselves the trouble to study the history of England from facts, they would see that, alone, England is not formidable, particularly for a nation like France. When she wished to knock at the gates of the great Chinese empire she she was too weak to act single-handed, and was obliged, in spite of herself, to submit to the assistance of France a.nd if ever the Chinese war should assume a serious character, and the Western Powers be obliged to send an army there, it may be affirmed beforehand that the war in China would be carried on by French soldiers as Sebastopol was taken by them. In presence of these facts, what has France to fear from England ? Might not the phrase be turned, and it be said, what would not England have to, fear from France, if France were so iiiclined, and would become of India ?—Paris Univers. THE FREAKS OF CRINOLINE. -Crinoline cer- tainly has a good deal to answer for, as after being alleged as the cause of death in numberless cases, we find it now set up as a life-preserver in two re- cent instances. In the first a lady slipped from a gentleman's arm in landing from a boat and fell into the river. She would infallibly have been drowned, but for the copious folds of crinoline with which she was engirdled. These by their buoyancy kept her from sinking; but, unluckily, as the lower parts of her person were those to which the crinoline was at- tached, these floated uppermost, and the unfortunate lady was compelled to assume a very undignified position—legs up, head down in the water! She was ultimately rescued. The other incident occurred near Constantinople, where a female fell in the water, was fortunately borne up by her crinoline, and sailed most gracefully down the stream till assistance was rendered. YACHTS. Vêty lew but those who have looked into the subject have any idea of the aggregate number and tonnage of yachts owned in the ports of the United Kingdom, and yet it_ is desirable that the number and character of these British-owned jdeasure vessels should be known. If we examine the official authority for this class of vessels—the Universal Yacht. List for the present year—we find that there are about 1,200 yachts registered as belonging to the different yacht clubs, comprising vessels ranged from five or six tons up to vessels of from 300 to 500 tons. The aggregate tonnage of these British yachts, may be taken at 33,000 tons. +hf> 1 9Anailleic1.t ey employ we have 110 details. Gut of ,i icra,' standing on the books of the different mi si there are about seventy exceeding 100 tons. There are twenty-two different yacht clubs, the chief station being Cowes, in the Isle of Wight. A WEJÆ MIXED RACE.-There is now in Roches- ,.1 will fin1 «a man aged 106 years, whose ancestry, togethei with his own progeny, will exhibit one of the strangest mixtures of races ever heard of Sis hanie is & S1°'BrieiV aTid lle was Boston, t'i i i- A was an Irishman, and his mother an nt1t 'F at J r?i lbe"i When 12 yeare oid he was sent to h ranee, and there educated as a physician. He rtrrnaftervvnnlflCa and, s.erved in the revolutionary W«^;Pd 'the^WLf'3 i ba £ k to FfanC0> a«d there R«IS T nfteThZ din+i desce.nded from the Teutonic line, th married a negress, who was 50 years X I -i j > and by whom he had four children. T tnm tt Af Unit6d tlle bl00d of the Celts> the -Untted States Paper. AfS tNDEB DIFFICULTIES.—A slight concep e state of affairs at Vancouver's Island Hp tbo fi ^-ei' Can be formed from the Victoria fiond numh Pa?6r Published °n the Island, and the seco d pumber of which, dated June 30, has come to hand. Ihe paper was first called, or proposed to be f +w nf v/!f°- Anierican, but the title was changed ji "a -miblialio^na ^az^tte- It is a semi-weekly paper, ar + Hrnilf f) eJ6i17 Wednesday and Saturday. The f in'he following amusing sketch of the es- tablishm 11 which his paper is produced :— '1 wEn!l!ml)ei' of tlie Victoria Gazette is prepared for publication in a room more remarkable for its extent than convenience. Its walls abound in crevices, through which the wind bears with an impartial equality the seeds of catarrh and bionchial afflictions to the editors, proprietors, and typographers. Its floor is of a shaky character, and each sser in-iparts passer imparts a tremulousness to its service which occasions tne pitj&eui. nutiuj, 10 assume a character that Champollion, were he one ot our compositors, would find it difficult to decipher. Cavities, large and small, lie in wait for indi- viduals passing into and about the establishment, which have already resulted in serious skin damage to the major part of its occupants. The editor's desk" is a bundle of printing paper, skilfully poised upon a leather trunk, vibrating with each movement of the writer's hand, and compelling him to double up his person, in the act of preparing copy," in a manner more curious than graceful. The "Editor's Easy Chair is a Chinese trunk, whose top would be on a level with the desk, but for the brilliant idea of increasing the height of the latter by the paper expedient alluded to. The striking thoughts which pervade the brain of the individual favoured with these facilities would find a much readier ex- pression at the point of his pen but for the drawback of being compelled to retail copies of this journal, receive items ?h Dewis' p01Tect misdirected intruders 011 the point of tneir destination, simultaneously with inditing those remark- able conceptions. Two huge fire-places adorn our sanctum. These ornaments, having been built with a view to convey all the heat as well as the smoke up the chimney, are as little dangerous in the matter of risk of a conflagration as they are but slightly conducive to comfort in modifying the blasts of Boreas, which dispute occupancy with the present sojourners in the establishment we are describing. We had _e. designed supplying these fuel-eaters with a pile of lumber belonging to the Hudson's Bay Company, stored in the pre- mises, but the printers having occupied it in lieu of a table, we have been compelled to postpone indulgence in that (to us) economical expedient. It is possible, also, that the cor- poration in question might entertain some objections to the proposed use of their property, which objections, although we consider them absurd iii. view of our necessities, we are bound to respect. The pleasant sounds of wood-sawing, nail-hammering, &c., add to the facilities for editoral labour of which we are now in existing enjoyment, and an occa- sional procession of Indian cheers and invigorates the the writer by stopping arid surrounding his locality of labour, and gazing upon his deeds with the expression of intelligence common to the physiognomy of the intellectual race of which they are the representatives." ELECTRICITY IN TOOTH EXTRACTING. — The application of electricity for producing local ansethesia in toothdrawing is a recent discovery of Brother Jonathan's, and appears to be creating a considerable sensation on the other side of the Atlantic. Should it prove to be all that is said of it will indeed be a boon. The apparatus for the purpose is extremely simple, and consists principally of the common electro-magnetic machine used in medical electricity. One end of the thin wire conveying the secondary current is attached to the handle of the forceps, and the other end of it to a metallic handle to be placed in the hand of the patient. The instrument touching the tooth completes the circuit, and the current passes instantaneously—and out comes the tooth. REMARKABLE, IF TRUId-The officer who con- ducted a correspondent of the New York Express through the stables at Windsor Castle related the following in- cident It seems her Majesty, as well as Prince Albert, loves fast horses, and she never rides without her nags are upon the quickest trot. Well, she had heard of the speed of New York horses, and somehow the story of the rapid movements of a pair of them in London reached the ears of the Prince and the Qg^en. They were both anxious to see their movements and t.i, their speed, which, being made known to their American oi, ,-er, he forwith challenged Prince Albert to test the mettle of his animals between London and Windsor. The royal party were to have twenty minutes' start, and change horses on the road, while the American trotters were to go through the entire distance. The affair was wholly private, and yet what was in the wind leaked out among the grooms, and all was excitement. Having reached the half-way house and road, with, fresh horses, again for. a start, they all looked anxiously back for the American horses. The Queen and Prince Albert were as interested as if their crown was the issue, and remembering the yacht race where the America was victorious, by a wave of her hand to her postillions, Victoria urged them forward. But it did not avail. The American trotters were soon in sight, and it was but a few minutes before they were neck and neck' with the royal party to their utter amazement they soon passed them, as trotting-horses are sometimes accustomed to do on the Bloom- ingale-road. When the Queen and the Prince reached Windsor the American horses were all nicely groomed, and ready, if need be, for another start. This exploit led to the purchase of some trotting animals, but, having jeopardised the lives of the royal party, they were wisely abandoned. This is the postilion's story, and there is no cause to doubt its truth." THE COlNAGE.-It is a thing not generally known that the whole of the coinage of this country is ,e struck by atmospheric pressure. At the Royal Mint there are eight coining presses, each capable of producing 60. pieces of any kind of coin—from the, silver three- halfpenny piece of our West. Indian colonies to the crown piece of our own circulation-per minute, including stoppages for renewal of dies, &c. These presses are on what is called the screw principle—that is, that the upper die is made to rise and fall by the partial revolution of a powerful screw running vertically through the centre of the press. A hollow shaft rests upon the centre of the fly arms which surmount the screw, and attached to it is a lever about 20 inches in length. A horizontal rod, fastened to the lever by a pin and socket, connects the press with a vacuum pump, placed perpen- dicularly upon a cylindrical vacuum tube lying beneath it. This latter is kept in a state of partial exhaustion (the extent of which is controllable by a relief valve) by the action of an air pump, placed at a distance of nearly 100 yards from the vacuum tube, and worked by a steam- engine. When it is desired to put a press in motion for the purpose of striking any particular kind of coin, the proper dies are fitted, blank pieces brought, and all the proper adjustments made. A communication is then opened by means of a line, lever, and pneumatic valve, between the press, pump, and the vacuum tube; the former is fitted with a piston, and is open at the top. The lower part now, therefore, becomes exhausted, and the atmosphere acting- upon the piston carries it rapidly to the bottom of the cylinder, and since the end of the coining press lever is attached to the piston, and the lever to the screw of the press, it follows that a blow is struck on the disc of metal placed under the die—in short, a coin is produced. The whole apparatus now becomes self-acting, and coins fall out from the press as rapidly as described, until the supply of blanks fails, wljen of qpurse operations cease. The whole coinage of England may be said to have been thus pumped into existence. The eight presses are fitted in precisely the same manner, and when all are engaged in stamping sovereigns the rich stream flows from them with be- wildering beauty and richness.—The Engineer. EXPORTATION OF GEESE.—Of late a considerable trade is done in the sending of geese from Belfast to England and Scotland. Flocks of 200 or 300 each are daily shipped from Belfast, the wonder being where the dealers pick them up. It appears the geese are eagerly bought by the English and Scotch farmers, for the pur- pose of feeding them on stubble and grass lands until about Christmas, when they are sure to.draw double and treble their original price in England. SINGULAR CoNDtCT oi? A DEER. — Anthony SINGULAR CoNDtCT Of, A DEER. — Anthony NiederWeisef, proprietor cif the Washington Garden, is the owner of two pet deers. Night before last he retired to bed, having taken his money-drawer and placed it on a sofa, covering it with a hand kerchief,5 and left the door of the room open, guarded by a couple of chairs. While Mr. Niederweiser was asleep one of the pet deers ascended the stairs, jumped over the chairs, went to the sofa, pulled the handkerchief off the money drawer, and actually ate up 47 dols. in bank bills. When the owner awoke the pet animal had a 2 dol. bill in his mouth, which was rescued from the fate of the 47 dcils., A quantity of silver in the drawer was left untouched, the deer probably knowing it to be indi- gestible, or perhaps thinking it to be counterfeit coin that might not pass.-St. Louis RepvMican. THE SEA POST!—few days since a barrel was found off the coast of Ceara, Brazil, which, when opened, was found to contain a tin box full of letters. Those letters were written on board the ship Conway, on the 19th ult. off the Cape of San Roque, by the passengers, giving their friends at home information of the progress of their passage since leaving Liverpool oil the 15th of June, bound to Melbourne. The Vice Consul for- warded the said box with the letters to the General Post-office, London. A NEW PASTIME FOR BOYS 1-The Fife Journal reports the death of a boy, who, with several associates, amused himself in digging holes in the ground, which one of their number entered while the others covered him up, and the buried boy, by previous arrangement, made a noise for the purpose of knowing who could be heard at the greatest distance, and for this end the others left the place of burial, and they also strove among themselves to see who could remain longest in their subterraneous excavations. On Friday last these youths had been engaged in their pranks, when the boy Brown was interred, and the others had left for the reason stated above. At this juncture Mrs. Brown, who Was returning from Leven across the "links," ar- rived, and perceiving the feet of a boy projecting from the ground, die of course immediately extricated him, when tp her horror and grief she saw it was her own boy, and to add to her sorrow her son was quite dead. his own spade was lying near, and his mouth had been covered with an handkerchief to prevent it being filled with sand and^lirt.

THE HISTORY OF A CHAIR. A Berlin journal has the following strange tale, of which it guarantees the truth :— to An old woman, who lately died in the hospital, left among other things a very old arm-chair of Gothic style, and richly decorated. In the sale of her effects by auction, a foreigner paid as much as SOOf. for the- chair, and surprise having been expressed at his giving so large a sum, he made this explana- tioll :-The chair, with other things, was offered by the States of Moehren to the Empress Maria Theresa, and for many years figured hi her boudoir. After her death it, by her ex- press desire, was sent to Queen Marie Antoinette, in France, and afterwards was one of tie principal pieces of furniture allowed to Louis XVI. in the Temple. The King's valet-de- chambre, Fleury, afterwards became possessed of the chair, and took it to England, where it became the property of the Prince llegent, and afterwards of the Duke of Cumberland. The latter took it to Berlin, and there it was given to an up- holsterer to repair. The workman charged with the job found secreted in it a diamond pin, a portrait in pencil of a boy, and a number of small sheets of paper filled with very small writing. The things he appropriated the pin lie sold, and the portrait and papers he gave to a watchmaker, a friend of his. Although the writing was in a foreign language, the watchmaker succeeded in making out that it consisted oi a series of secret and very important instructions drawn up by Louis XVI. for the Dauphin, his son, the portrait being that of the latter. The watchmaker, whose name was Naun- dorff, some years after gave himself out as Louis XVII., and produced tlie papers and portrait in question to prove his allegation. After making some noise in France and Belgium, mwnicn latter country he passed by the name of Morel de oamt Didier, this man died in 1849, His son, who called himself Duke of Normandy, went to Java in 1853. The Ber- lin workman who discovered the documents naturally did not state how Naundorff became possessed of them,, but just before his death, which took place lately, he made a full dis- closure to his family. They found out that the famous arm- chair had remained in Berlin, and had come into possession of the old woman and they caused it to b3 bought in order to sell it again to Austria."

WHAT WE DIE OF! In nothing have we made greater progress of late than in the acquisition of knowledge respecting our- selves, and the influences which militate against a healthy condition of humanity. If there is any point about which a community of men might be supposed uniformly solicitous, it would be, we should think, the duration of their own lives, and yet we venture to pre- dict that the information we shall presently subjoin (and which we extract from an article in the Times) will contain as much novelty in the eyes of the public, and be regarded, perhaps, with as much astonishment as any prodigy or phenomenon which a journalist could announce. The remarks are founded on some papers proceeding from the General Board of Health, "relating to the sanitarv state of the people of Eng- land," and due to Dr. Greenhow and Mr. Simon, in which an inquiry is instituted into the different pro- portions of death produced by certain diseases in dif- ferent districts of Englandand the contrasts thus furnished are so striking as to place the unnatural and preventible character of the excessive mortality beyond reach of doubt: Foremost of ail in destructive power, above plagues and epidemics of every description, comes that scourge of our island, consumption. If we extend this designation, indeed, so as to embrace not merely phthisis proper, but pulmonary affections generally, we may actually state that almost one death out of every four occurring in England may be set down to this fatal source. The item is terrible 100,000 deaths a-year! Next to consumption, but a long distance from it, follow the three complaints of the bowels, known as cholera, diarrhoea, and dysentery, which together produce an- nually, about 26,000 deaths. After these disorders comes the ever present malady of fever, typhus alone, exclusive o infantile or remittent fever,being accountable for 17,000 deaths a-year—a result equivalent to the mortality of a million of our population at its natural standard of healthi- ness. With this we may almost close our list, for in com- parison with these deadly enemies of life other diseases are of little weight in the scale. Ague, for example, though in for- mer generations one of our most dreaded plagues, and espe- daily in this metropolis, does not now kill its 200 persons in a year, so salutary has been the effect of draining and paving. In Peterborough Hospital—the centre of the fen districts- only one death from ague occurred in nine years out of 1,400 cases treated, though it is highly probable that much injury was done to vital powers. It is a reproach to our sanitary administration that smallpox—now known to be preventable —should still slay its 4,000 a-year but. such is the case, and indeed there is fto point connected with the subject before us more deserving of earnest, consideration than this and other liabilities of children. Children die annually in such numbers and in such a manner that the mortality among them is made matter of distinct computation an art from the mortality of adults, and we shall convey some idea of its pro- portions when we say that its figures exceed any we have mentioned yet. The greatest destructive power is that ascribed to consumptive disorders proper, Which are charge- able with 57,000 deaths but these deaths are of all ages, in- fants included, whereas the mortality of childhood alone, and from three causes only of nervous disorders, common infec- tious disorders, and respiratory diseases amounts to between 90.000 and 100,000 deaths a-year. We will now apply these observations to certain gross results, and to these general figures, indeed, our limits will compel us at present to confine ourselves. Taking the different districts of England, and reckoning the deaths from the several chief disorders in proportion to every 100.000 of the population, it is actually found that the death-rate or destroying power of cholera varies from 0 to 403, that of diarrhoea and dysentery from 4 to 345, of continued fever from 21 to 209, and of smallpox from 0 to 146. In pulmonary affections we find that the death-rate of consumption ranges among women from 229 to 588, and that of lung diseases among men from 66 to 869. In the case of childhood the contrasts discoverable are equally striking the mortality in common infectious disorders, varying from 694 to 2,149; in nervous or convulsive disorders from 280 to 3,832, and in pulmonary affections from 213 to 2,897. In the face of such extraordinary returns it becomes impossible to deny that local or personal conditions—in other words, conditions more or less within our own control—must be chargeable with a great portion of the mortality prevailing. If a disease acted of itself alone, and without artificial aggravation, it could never produce ten times as much havoc in one district as it rloes in another, This conclusion, as well as the deductions it suggests, will be still more evident when we extend our analysis to particular districts and towns, but enough has already been said to show the interest aud importance of the inquiries arising.

ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY; A delicate affair of this nature has occurred (says the Canada Post) Under circumstances calculated to excite considerable conversation in all circles particularly among the ladies. For some months (perhaps a year) back a young man, a clerk in a large grocery store, of quiet deportment, and much esteemed by his acquaint- ances, had been paying his attentions to a young lady of a respectable family, and was well received by the object of his affections so much so that every one inti- mate with the circumstances had no doubt but that the two would soon be one. Wishing to better his worldly condition, the young man aforesaid withdrew from his late employment a few weeks ago, and commenced a store on his own responsibility in a thriving village in one of our western counties. During his absence another suitor appeared on the scene and being from the city of Toronto he doubtlessly was certain of securing the lady's affections, he had such crushing city airs. His suit was encouraged by the young lady's parents—which is not a strange fact to those who know the freaks of human nature. The consequence was, the young lady protested—parents frowned—young citv-gent persisted —until, finally conquered, the young lady gave_ her as- sent to the proposed union—probably from that intuitive cunning peculiar to the sex under difficulties. In the meantime, suitor No. 1. who had kept up a correspond- ence, became aware of the fact, and, like a plucky fellow, resolved to frustrate the conspiracy to defraud him of his intended. To abbreviate the narrative, the wedding with No. 2 was to have been consummated this morn- ing but No. 1 was too sharp for that-he was first on the ground-ni-,ide his arrangements-took the first train going west yesterday morning—and with it the beloved of his soul. Two w fill-known mercantile men in town— a brewer and a wholesale merchant-accompanied the happy pair to Hamilton, where they were finally tied in the holy and indissoluble bonds of the institution matrimonial. The affair was got up so suddenly that we hear one of the two young men—a whiskered six- footer-had to personate the bridesmaid. The thing was kept very quiet, and suitor No. 2 was ignorant of the proceedings until he arrived in town by the steamer Welland last night. We cannot fanr-y his feelings— they must have been lacerated into small particles. Our informant tells us that when he registered his name on the Welland House books it would have taken quite a number of artists to catch an ambrotype of his counte- nance in separate contracts—it was so extremely elon- gated.

DELHI SINCE THE SIEGE. The talented special correspondent of the Times has visited Delhi lately, and gives the subjoined description of its present appearance "Under the sway of Sir John Lawrence the district is undergoing a thorough reconstitution. It is decided, we understand, that the railway shall be diverted from the line marked out for it, and that it will pass at a distance from the imperial city but, although in the very environs of Delhi there are striking evidences of the power of man over the work of his hands, and of the possibility of completely destroying vast cities, it re- mains to be seen if such strength lies in the hands of civilisation, and whether it did not pass away with the race of barbaric conquerors. Delhi is, or was, famous for its gold and silver embroidery, and its worked shawls and laces but that trade is already withering. The mechanics, it is true, rescued their quarter by a ransom, some of which has been remitted to them; but only some half-dozen of these skilled artizans are now per- mitted to remain in the town, and thus the trade will die out, or seek shelter elsewhere. The Delhi jewellers have now become pedlars and packmen. One of those peoplc-a famous engraver, who has the names of crowned heads in Europe and many great Indians in his book of customers—showed us the impression of a seal made for the ex-King of Delhi, and added that he had to summon him to the court of law before he was paid for his labour. An itinerant jeweller, who dis- played, as part of his valuables, certain worthless bits of paper in the shape of promissory notes from English officers and ladies to pay certain sums of rupees and in- terest, which lie assured us he never received, was one of the greatest sufferers by the revolt. "What could I do ?" said he; "the Sepoys rushed in at once and guarded the gates. Had I tried to get out I should fhave been robbed and killed. So I had to remain and the Sepoys came and took all my jewels. Then the siege began, and then the English took the city, and your soldiers broke in and cleared off what the Sepoys had left." Let it not be supposed that I ran about gobemoucheing with an interpreter, and swallowing every story which such men as these liked to tell me. In such cases I have always had by my side some officer of the Company, well acquainted not only with the place and with the natives, but with the particular man whom I was addressing. Of what I heard much will and must keep. The people say that Delhi will never recover the siege, do what we like, and that it will not be much affected one way or other by any efFort of ours to make it prosperous or the reverse, You will not act," they sav, "like the Mahrattas or the Persians. You will not'destroy holy places which they spared, or waste the with universal massacres, but the tliousancis wlio depended on the Court of Delhi are gone for ever. T ou close the city gates against all but a few, and there are none now who care for Delhi, except those to whom it would be a sacred place if all its buildings were rased to the ground." During the heat and fury of the struggle there were some who counselled that the city utterly destroyed—its grand edifices, such as the 1 ala-ce, the Jumna Musjid, the chastest, grandest, es temple ever erected by those great architects the 1 xo *am- medans, pulled down or left to decay; "UL' V, sels have been rejected in the interests of civilisation and ,of good government, and we are now about to try the effect of a slower process. Our policy in reference to Delhi, however, does not seem very decided as yet. We are merely keeping the population out of the city, and there are thousands of miserable, ill-disposed looking wretches huddled toge- ther in the tombs and wretched villages around the city which are so many moral plague-spots and so many nurseries of rebels and Christian-haters. Miserable they must be, for they live 110 one knows how, and the course we have taken is not likely to render them very well disposed towards us. I am not writing a gazetteer or a book of travels, and therefore I shall not attempt a description of the city or of its "environs," "of its grand canal, of the mosques, of the historical spots sacred to Mussulmans, of the ruins of the city some miles away, of the fantastic grandeur of the Kootub, or of the great mausoleums, where, as a small stone in a huge setting, repose some favoured members of the Imperial house of the Mogul. The investigations of the inquiring traveller may sometimes receive very peremp- tory and characteristic interruption. The morning I visited the Kootub I had a great wish to climb the in- terior of the fantastic and extraordinary monumental pillar which stands in the midst of the ruins-a tapering cylinder of sculptured stone as Irgh as St. Paul's, and engraved, like a fine gem, from the summit to the base. My infirmities, however, prohibited the attempt, very fortunately for myself, for it appeared that a leopard had taken up his residence in a recess in a dark interior staircase, and that he had on the very previous day at- tacked and nearly killed a native at the foot of the pillar. Safter Jung's tomb was also the residence at this time of a tiger or leopard, which carried off several goats and sheep, and'had eaten some bullocks but none of our party were in a condition for hunting, and the tiger (or ourselves) escaped.

EPITOME OF NEWS attr jForettrti- A photographer has obtained a photograph of the parasite of an insect which is itself a parasite of the bee. This insect, which has been magnified to a million of times its size in surface, is covered with a shell not unlike that of a tortoise. Its paws are armed both with suckers and claws, which enable it to cling with immense force to the parasite on which it feeds. The Railway Passengers' Assurance Company has paid, since its establishment, the sum of 33.351L as compen- sation for fatal accidents and in cases of personal injury on railways. Mr. Baron Watson at the Mayor of Bristol's table, the other day, that the last time he was in Bristol lie wore red, as officer of dragoons, when he was stationed there in 1814, serving his sovereign and country, not on the bench, but in the saddle." One of the kitchen gardeners at a gentleman's house at Rogate, was moving a heap of rubbish, when he found in it nearly 200 snakes. The Sunday Times says, it is impossible to over-es- timate the importance of Lord Derby's patronage to turf pursuits for, with a Prince Consort who cannot top a three- foot hedge after a pack of harriers, and who thinks an Ascot cup-day a bore, we" can ill-afford to lose the support of the Premier of England." The grave of Belted Will," Lord William Howard, is supposed to have been discovered in Brampton Old Church A man advertises for a comjietent person to under- take the sale of a new medicine," and adds that "it will be profitable to the undertaker." In Perthshire, a hen has been found nestling two kittens, the mother only being allowed by the whimsical fowl to suckle its youngsters twice a day. Harlev the actor died poor, having lost his savings by turning brewer. It is very confidentially rumoured in ecclesiastical circles that Lord John Beresford intends resigning the Arch- bishopric of Armagh, and that in all probability he will be succeeded by the Rev, Dr. Linger, Bishop of Meath, who is one of the leaders of the Evangelical party in Ireland. A director of the Midland Railway has erected, at his own expense, a marble drinking fountain, on the Leicester station. These fountains are becoming very general, and wherever they have been put up drunkenness has decreased. Turn aside, and you will find the remains of James -and the instrument of his death beside him. Observe— done the 28th day of August, 1858. Adieu Farewell 0 vain world !"—was the contents of a note found on a road near Kilconquhar, written by some silly jokers. A little girl hearing it said that she was born on the Queen's birthday, took no notice of it at the time, but a day or tW0 after asked her father if she and the Queen were twins. Mr. James Macgregor, the chairman of the South Eastern Railway Company, has died suddenly in London. He entered a hairdresser's shop, when he was seized with pa- ralysis and expired in a short time. An old woman and her grandson, a lad of seven years of age, were returning home by the side of the Blythe and Tvne Railway, when the boy strayed on the line. A train was coming, and the brave grandmother rushed to save him by jumping before the engine and pushing him from between the rails. The poor woman was killed, being literally cut in two. A fatal accident has happened near Holywell, North Wales, in which three young men were drowned. A London tradesman has been victimised of 8d. postage for a revolutionary pamphlet sent from Hamburgh. The public should be on the alert, and we doubt not that the Post Office authorities will in future guard against distribut- ing such pamphlets. Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, son of Lucien Bona- parte and cousin-german to the Emperor of the French, has been travelling incognito in the Highlands. The Prince is an en- thusiastic philologist, and possesses extensive knowledge of the Celtic in all its branches. The public will be pleased to hear that Mr. Charles Bright, whose name is so intimately associated with the lay- ing down of the Atlantic cable, was knighted on Saturday by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. A frightful boiler explosion has taken place at the mill of a woollen manufacturer near Leeds. The catastrophe, which resulted in the instantaneous death of four persons and the serious injury of seven others, was occasioned by the ignorance and carelessness of the engineer, who paid the penalty by the loss of his own life. In the United States, the consumption of coffee is eight times as great as in Great Britain, and probably the consumption of beer in Great Britain is eight times as great as in the United States. A woman at Warsaw having a desire to get rid of her husband that she might marry another man, put poison into his meal. The eldest daughter, however, by accident drank the potion intended for her father, and died in the arms of her mother, after great sufferings. The guilty wo- man lost her reason, and ran out in the forests, where she wandered about for several days. Queen Yctoria has presented Count Beckler, Marsha of the Court of the Prince of Prussia, with a valuable snuff- box. Her Majesty has also given 18,000f.; to be distributed among the servants at the Palace of Babelsburg, and a similar- sum to the poor of Potsdam. According to advices from Great Salt Lake City, all the Mormons who were able had returned from Provo, and matters were apparently quiet. Brigham Young, fearing assassination, as was alleged, had shut himself up in his resi- dence, under a strong guard of his followers. Dr. Neglar, a French surgeon, says that the simple elevation of a person's arm will stop bleeding at the nose. He explains the fact physically, and declares it a positive remedy. It is stated in the German journals that the ladies of the Court of Wurtemburg have resolved no longer to wear crinoline. We are afraid the news is too good to be true. The first day of the arrival of Gortschakoff at Vichy, lie perceived opposite him at table General d'Allonville, who commanded the French cavalry in the Crimea. Ah said the Prince, "is that you, general! I am better pleased to see you opposite me here, than where we have before met—be- fore Sebastopol." A murmur of applause welcomed the ho- mage thus paid to the brave French general. Nana Sahib is said to have sold his famous ruby H 'value in native estimation i,ooo,oool., for 10,000 rupees to a Maliajun. Since Mr. Charles Mathews arrived in New York ■ last September (1857), he has performed 245 times. His ■ nightly receipts have averaged 120 dollars, making a sum of 29,529 dollars (nearly 6,000^.) The new work advertised under the title of Sam H Slick in Texas," is not the production of the author of The H Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick, the Clockmaker," and he is in no way connected with it. A physician in New York (an Irishman !) who re- H cently conducted the post mortem examination in a case of in auticide, reported that he was "unable to discover whe- ther the child was alive or not at the time of its death." Never let people work for you gratis. Two years ago (says a contemporary' a man carried a bundle for us to Boston, and we have been lending him 2s. a week ever since. The Emperor of Russia has just emancipated the H 200,000 serfs belonging to the Imperial domains. This is a H great fact. Captain Travis, the great pistol-shot," has been in- ■ structing a class of forty-five young ladies at Lexington, Ken- H tucky. in the use of Colt's revolver. Among them, he says, the most timid became the best shots. With practice they acquired courage, and ten times out of twenty they wouia hit the" hull's eye." The widow of M. Poitevin, the aeronaut, has written to the journals denying that her husband had died in conse- qnence of an accident, and stating that the cause of his death was typhus fever he expired after an illness 01 me (lays.

THE MARKETS. I THE PROVISCIAL CORX TRADE. The provincial markets have been better supplied this H week and those who have felt the tunes may still be glad to H turn the leading- article into money but some places already show more tone. MARK LAKE, MONDAY. The tesli arrivals of English grain were moderate, and of foreign tolerably good. English wheat, both old and new, were" firmly held at tlie prices of Monday last, but only a moderate business was done. There was no particular change in foreign. Wheat was taken rather sparingly. Flour was in steady but not active demand, and the currency of this day week was sustained for all descriptions. Fine malt- ing barley was in request at full prices grinding samples were without alteration, Malt of prime choice quality, com- manded a ready sale beans and peas remain scarce and dear. There was a good choice of oats, and the trade was steady at quite previous rates. Present prices ;— BRITISH. OLD. NEW. H WHEAT ..Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, s s s. s H white, per qr 45 to 52 41 to 50 BARLEY ..Malting — to — 35 to 38 (HTS Essex and Suffolk 20 to 25 22 to 26 BEANS .Mazagan 38 to 40 36 to 39 Tick and Harrow 38 to 42 37 to 40 SEED Canary per qr — to 80 to 97 H Carraway ..perewt — to — 44 to «> Rape per qr 46 to 41 — Hempseed ..per qr 46 to 43 to METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, MONDAY. The supply of live stock at the London market this morning was exceedingly heavy but prime breeds were, H nevertheless, pretty steady in price, the demand for them H being active. Middling and inferior kinds, of both beasts and sheen, sold slowly, and in many cases at easier prices. The vealtrade was better, and prices firm Beei, 4si 2d to5s_ mutton, 48. 2d. to 5s. 2x1. vcai 4* to 6s. to H