The Aberystwith Observer

The conflicts between the Turks and the Christians 111 GREECE and the EAST continue at intervals. The animosity of the former to the latter, indeed, appears on the increase, and we continually hear of outrages of the most disgraceful character. The sick men" now possesses at least sufficient vitality to persecute those of a different religion to themselves, and if there be not Some official attention on the part of our country wrected towards these outrages, it will be somewhat Surprising. It should, however, be remarked that the Christians in most cases belong to the_ Greek Church, and hence the hostility of Russia will probably be aroused afresh against Turkey. Under any circum- stances, these outrages are of a very threatening cha- racter.

In PRUSSIA the latest news is of a crisis in the Minis- try consequent on the Regency. The Prince Regent, it appears, has not confirmed the Ministers in their appointments, and hence there is a probability of a change. Baron de Manteuffel is said to be extremely desirous to obtain the co-operation of men of liberal opinions, but his efforts have failed. It is, however, lully expected that the crisis is but temporary, conse- quent on the change from the Monarchy to the Regency.

A little piece of news or gossip, whichever it be, comes from NAPLES. It is very refreshing, whichever it may be, and shows the King of Naples to have some- thing good to say for himself. An Austrian general, on V i Austria, was remonstrating with the King on his having abandoned all attempts to renew diplomatic Relations with the Western Powers, to which his -Majesty replied :— ■g Why, my Kingdom is much quieter ever since France and litti ? have no representatives at my Court, and I care very con t ■ "le maintenance of diplomatic relations with both An«t » es' 1 cl° not interfere either with England, France, or ustria, and lam surprised at those three countries meddling "1th toy affairs." 6 must all admit that there is some sense in this.

F THE PRESS IN FRANCE.—Dragooned and a*l as the French press is, we can scarcely wonder its sinking into a mere vehicle for gossip and scandal, eni congratulate ourselves on the privileges we .1m that respect. The Saturday Review thus Piores the present condition of the Paris journals — 0fee. has recently been a great increase in the number of n.i,- Journals published in Paris—and for the honour is someth^ilfi a.rfe.b°und to say that a satirical" paper humorous than a^nmfr. -ess kmdly> an<* considerably less imitators of the old /hese Jterary scandal, or to put^t ^scandal the lives of literary men; and the En<4ishman who "Uysone of them has never probably before seen so much dTrtv washed in public. ly AN INTERESTING DWARF. —A dwarf, named Richebourg, who was only sixty centimetres (23.1 inches) ^gh, has just died in the Rue du Four St. Germain, ninety. He was, when young, in the service of °hess d'Orieans, the mother of King Louis „ Ulppe, with the title of "butler," but he performed f ne,°f the duties of the office. After the first revolu- on broke out he was employed to convey dispatches the°r ancl f°rtkat purpose, he was dressed as a baby, Pat,uhes being concealed in his cap, and a nurse Veavt W8 carry him. For the last twenty-five time r,S ed i*1 the Rue du Four, and, during all that ^trailer 8Ver w.en^ ou^' He had a great repugnance to Qhe -ff1*' a- w?s alarmed when he heard the voice of ehep'r-f i own family he was very lively and -J-11 conversation. The Orleans family wea him a pension, of 3,000f. SHOCKING ASSASSINATION BY A PRIEST.—The ats contains the following letter from Rome"We w a,most painful incident to record. The day before a Pri^ was brought into the prisons of the ciroi^ J106' gll,11t.y ,°f assassination, accompanied with The m-S ces which excite special horror and disgust. V*s committed in the little village of San is thl •' or S1X miles from Velletri. The following We JTT most edited, and which, unfortunately, stolev, f ^00 true:—A small sum of money had been sf 1 Irom the cure of the place. He denounced a m an ^as v ^"Htry, but in default of evidence the accused "eas released. Furious at being at once frustrated of his to v, nce and robbed of his money, the priest resolved to l °fiUre for himself the revelations which he wanted; this he enticed into a lonely grotto the son of the 11 *hom he suspected, a youth of 15 or 16 years of Having bound him by surprise he commenced Ppiying a sort of torture, by piercing him slightly with «mfe. The boy remained firm, either knowing nothing r»ot wishing to say anything. The sight of the blood bov excitedthe miserable priest, and ultimately the «y succumbed under 32 wounds. When the body intpp °° mir became the duty of this very priest to thev v" nose who assisted at the ceremony thought of >vL erv. 111 i^111 a strange emotion at the moment da Pronouncing the absolution over the coffin. The next him for of the Carabineers having called upon seemed certificate of the registry of the death he cited WpW.more troubled. The suspicions already ex- ere increased, and he was arrested." The SI THEY MANAGE THEATRICALS IN FRANCE.— Place ^fnor}a^ °f Amiens states that the theatre at that of a s+ras scene of a violent tumult in consequence ^ormers°ng °PP0Siti°n being made to one of the per- an outb' naine,i Ceret. The moment the curtain rose Wom^ aPPlause and hisses burst forth, and the Police o Ce was interrupted. The commissary of tearino- mejforward, and, after having obtained an ?>oste(f' Fejld ,a decree of the prefect, which had been any ma3yduring the afternoon. The document forbids they firof1' station to be displayed towards artistes when served r,'me forward, and states that it must be re- iudo-ed f ^eir merits or demerits can be properly Won or ?h anr^ that in all cases these marks of satisfac- Cfinf contrary must not be of a nature to prevent curt- 1?Uance °f the performance. After some delay calmln r°Se' anf^ performance continued, but ^Saimt „ waf,,0^ short duration, the manifestations rjUt the actresses, Mdlle. Dumas, then broke ^dertblv. commissary announced that he should S l cleared. This threat allayed the a*i end Durhio0^33,1106 as aU°wed to be brought ^been for ng-' a company of the line Readiness to act if required 0pposite the house 1"1" ALONE, UNFRIENDED !A sad incident is P°°r ifn? ST I,ranC1SC° Papef'. The remains of a ^ee S'ttun?temafrWerf found in the woods, about cattle n above Yeva4a> b3r a Party in search of which lJ, examination a paper was found near by, On oiio 'J10 doubt but that he had committed suicide. Word .e Was written £ t strychnine/' and also the WrofA poison." On the other side, as it appears, he le following.—"I have found California a Spot to°<rllt^y to live in) and have chosen this lonely 1'emains a ln' 1 die V my own hands, and my name ever Would to ff mystery." No name, or anything that ^tav 1858' wl ¥ found. The paper was dated 11th stance of manyofT is no one knows- T,hisj? 0ne m" ^e mountains, wit £ who die among ocows or friend a hand to soothe their troubled ^"eio York Paper. °m to lisp a dying farewell.— A FAKILY MURNPT! T Hter dated June 30 FR IN AUSTRALIA.—In a r*-°reton Bay, Australia resident in Drayton, ^Urhood, and received 'bv vS f^er in this neigh- ifated that that district is rrlf/-Um 011 Thursday, it is aiat the blacks have become ^0T.se every day, and t]/Jut in numbers, murderino- L j11'111?' and are going a can. About two months r°bbirig wherever fi-r, li'y from Montrose, Scotland ( • ,?ays)there was h^!here, who were aU barbarou'slv^ § & ^^miles The murderers are supn,fSer, "rclered by the kiU^i^em early in the morning bv • ve ,come snccbs mother and then the rest ofPtie%ail(^fir-st 15 There were two fine yount familyin 2o' ai the other 17 years of age—and a yo,"™011 on? I'hew'^fe'with four children, of eight years and 1fnman,0^ iiefchhles were all found lying in a heap, by^e ini! squatters and they appeared to ha vl time }i(1<ired almost without a struggle. +i ^here,, tlle blacks had all gone to the scrub e rnnrdrJI ? man could scarcely enter. The name of °Untiv fni» man was Eraser. They had been in this ^GlC'Jsoov,ery lonS time, and were getting on well. Bi Journal. ?EF/TBRMV^ "GF0RANCE OF FRENCHMEN.—At the a^rable numW1 f14 ^says the Times) there was acon- oof good social ° in France, well educated Jthe events of the°W°+' ^ho knew iiterally nothing S'Vious food Fed uP°n the of 1 the Senate and the judicious reticences and amplifica- tions of the Moniteur, they had been led on from victory to victory, from triumph to triumph, from glory to giory, till at last the dream was only dispelled by the arrival of the Cossacks and the abdication of the Em- peror. Many had never heard of the Battle of Tra- falgar, knew Eylau and Aspern only as complete victo- ries, and would, in fact, have been not a little embar- rassed to give even the most meagre account to their children of the history of the great empire of which they were citizens during the period of its rise, its glory, and its fall. FLIGHT ON THE EVE OF A WEDDING.-A wealthy leather merchant, of Williamsburgh, (says the New York Tribune), named James Fiora, late of the firm of Fiora and Fenwick, who does business in the swamp, and has a branch establishment in Manchester, England, was engaged to be married to a beautiful young lady of Williamsburgh, but on the eve of the wedding suddenly disappeared. The merchant is a man of about forty years of age, a widower, and the father of five children. The young lady is an orphan. She belongs to one of the first families in Williamsburgh, and was in every way a most eligible match. In addition to her personal at- tractions, she is said to be a most accomplished lady, and the heiress to a considerable fortune. She is the junior of the gentleman to whom she was to be united by some fifteen years. He had seduced her. It was supposed that he would leave for England in the steamer City of Washington, and officer Hilliard, armed with the warrant, and accompanied by the brothers, boarded that vessel as she put in the stream, and accom- panied her to Sandy Hook. Captain Petrie afforded them every opportunity of prosecuting their search, mustering all the passengers on deck; but the missing man was not on board. He had, however, shipped sixty tons of leather by the vessel, and from subsequent information it is believed that he sailed for Europe in the Cunard steamer from Boston, last Wednesday. One of the brothers will follow him in the Cunarder from this port next Wednesday if it should prove that he has gone to Europe. Fiora was U. S. Consul at Manchester, England, during the administration of Van Buren and Polk but was displaced by General Taylor. BALLOON RACING.—Two persons, Godard and Steiner, ascended from Cincinnatti, on the 18th ult., in separate balloons, preceded by a gentleman of the press in a smaller one. Some sort of wager rested on the result, which a telegraphic dispatch, dated Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 19, gives as follows:— Goddard, the balloonist, came down last night, at about lialf-past ten, fifteen miles from Sandusky. Stenier, his com- petitor, came down within a mile from Sandusky, at nearly eleven o'clock. How TO CREAT K AN APPETITE FOR DiNNER !— A characteristic incident occurred at Plymouth Church, New York, on October 3 (says the Ghristian Register). After service, in the morning, Mr. Beecher announced that a negro was present who had an opportunity of redeeming his family from slavery at a reduced price. He would stand at the door when the congregation retired, and receive the contributions of the charitable. Thus endorsed, the petitioner took his stand; and speedily his hat was filled and running over-which example his eyes and heart followed. Three hundred dollars, much satisfaction, and several enhanced ap- petites for dinner, were collected. A TELEGRAPH SERMON.—We have been won- dering who would touch the extreme of cable rhetoric (says an American paper.) So far as we have yet seen, we think the palm must be awarded to a sermon preached by the Rev. Mr. Grigg, in New York, entitled "The Telegraphic Cable between Earth and Heaven." One of its figures opens thus When the sulphuric acid of true repentance corrodes the contaminating zinc of innate depravity and actual sinfulness, and the fervent electrical force of prayerful entreaty," &c. Again he says, Go to the telegraphic office of the atoning cross," and" touch the.wire of penitential prayer."

gtkelfemflB fatal fife THE ILLNESS OF THE REV. MR. SPURGEON.-It appears that the illness (inflammation of the kidneys) of Mr; Spurgeon has been of a serious nature. The following is the copy of a letter addressed to his con- gregation Beloved Friends and Kindred in Christ, the days seem like weeks and the weeks seem like months since I went up to the house of the Lord. My heart and my flesh are crying out for the assembly of the saints. Oh, how I long to hear once more the solemn shout of the festal throng who with the voice of joy and praise keep holy day I am slowly rallying. My great struggle now is with weakness. I feel as if my frail bark had weathered a heavy storm, which has made every timber creak. Do not attribute this illness to my having laboured too hard for my Master. For his dear sake, I would that I may yet be able to labour more. Such toils as might be hardly noticed in the camp for the service of one's country would excite astonishment in the church for the service of our God. And now, I entreat you for love's sake to continue in prayer for me. When ye find access to God, remember me. Mind it is not by the words of your mouth, nor yet by the cravings of your heart, but it is by the precious blood of Christ you must draw nigh to God. And when ye find His sweet presence and are bedewed by His holy anointing, then pour out your souls before Him, and make mention of me in your supplications. Yours to love and serve in the Gospel, C. H. SPURGEON. ROMANTIC ELOPEMENT FROM MOFFAT. —- Our community has been thrown into a state of excitement by the elopement of a young lady, da-ughter of Mr. a member of one of the learned professions in Edinburgh, who with his family, has taken up his winter residence in one of the neat villas, Well-road, Moffat. It would seem that the bold Lothario (who appears to be a very young man with a military cast" in his habiliments) had been for some days concocting measures for the issue that has now been arrived at; for on the night of Wed- nesday last a conveyance was ordered from Mrs. Cranstoun's to convey a party to the mail-train due at Beattock at 10.41 p.m. The conveyance was ordered to remain at a distance from the lady's residence, the gentleman keeping watch and ward over it, while the driver, acting under instructions, went for sundry pieces of luggage, which were concealed among the fine shrubbery which the taste of the proprietor had planted round the house. The luggage and lady being duly deposited in the conveyance, they were driven to Beattock station and booked for Carlisle, and were o'er the border and away" before the lady's absence was discovered. The lady's personal attractions are of a very high order. The last thing heard of the happy couple is that they are in Liverpool, where it is supposed arrangements had been made for their marriage.- Moffat Times. THE PROGRESS OF OPINION.-One other revolution of opinion has been in regard to our criminal law. I have lately been reading a book which I would advise every man to read-the Life of Sir Samuel Romilly. He tells us in simple language of the enormous difficul- ties he had to contend with to persuade the Legislature of the country to abolish the punishment of death for stealing from a dwelling-house to the value of 5s., an offence which now is punished by about six weeks' im- prisonment. Lords, bishops, and statesmen opposed these efforts year after year, and since he commenced. them there have been some thousands of persons put to death publicly for such trivial offences. Now,everyman and woman in the kingdom would feel a thrill of horror if they were told that a fellow creature was to be put to death for such a cause. These are revolutions in opinion, and let me tell you that when you accomplish a revolu- tion in opinion upon a great question, when you alter it from bad to good, it is not like giving a begger 6d. and seeing him no more, but is a great beneficent act, which affects not merely the rich and the powerful, but pene- trates every lane, every cottage in the land, and where- ever it goes brings blessings and happiness. It is not from statesmen that these things come. -Mr. Bright, M.P. VULGAR FAILURES AND RESPECTABLE FAILURES. —The Times copies the following paragraph:—" The copyright, goodwill, and plant of the Bristol Adver- tiser, a cheap paper, which has had an existence of about three years, and the proprietor of which has just become bankrupt, were offered for sale by auction in one lot on Monday evening, but as the biddings failed to reach Sool., the amount for which a bill of sale is held on the property, it was announced that no sale had taken place. The copyright was then put up, but no bidding could be obtained for it. The plant also ,e ^alise the reserved price, and it was then i r-0 Ikat if not disposed of by private contract on or day next, the property would be submitted o n?in7 Vf competition piecemeal. It is said that nearly o,uuw. have been sunk in this < rfheap newspaper' ex- f Daily Telegraph says :—We merely a a or some time past one of our high-priced morning contemporaries has been in the market, and that the copyright, goodwill, and plant are about to be sold—if the transfer has not already taken place-for A i 1S, ^°t said" but known, that experiment6! rf ^"Priced newspaper NEWS FROM THE LAND OF GROUSE.- We learn from the north-not by telegram, we must confess- that Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar made a particular shot the other day on the moors of Glen Tiddick. He brought down a most curious specimen of a grouse, which had for two years been well-known to the foresters as "the blue grouse." The plumage is of a blue silver grey, interspersed with fawn or dove-coloured feathers. No doubt our sporting and shooting friends would like to hear more about it, being quite as much interested in this rara avis as astronomers are in the comet. "FALLEN SHORT OF THE MARK!"—The Press says:—" Mr. Bright has fallen short of the mark which the public had set up for him. Not, we think, from want of strength—for his language is as vigorous, and his mind appears as ingenious and full of resource as ever —-but from fundamental difficulties of situation. Mr. flight, at Birmingham, in October, 1858, was some- ning in the position of a photographer attempting to produce a picture upon paper not properly prepared. ptner the mind of the citizens of Birmingham, nor the spmtof the country, is in that state which renders it susceptible to Mr. Bright's process, and the result has been an impression blurred and indistinct, and, as far as Mr. Bright's immediate objects are concerned, un- available." PRINCE ALFRED'S "GOVERNOR." Captain Sentry, of Little Britain," writes as follows to the Daily Lvezvs Sir,-On Monday last Prince Alfred's governor" was a simple lieutenant, on Tuesday he had risen to be captain and brevet-major. But why major? Although, I dare say, a very deserving officer* and undoubtedly a highly- educated gentleman, Major Cowel, B.E., has seen no service whatever, except at Buckingham Palace and Balmoral, where duties, however effectively performed, were hardly of a kind to entitle him to military promotion. I fear the advancement of Major Cowel, like the honours lately bestowed on Sir Charles 'Polonius' Phipps, K.C.B., and his son-in-law, Captain Tozer, of the single clasp, go far to prove the truth of the ancient proverb, One campaign in the Court is worth two in the field." It is but fair to state that a correspondent of the Star says that Lieutenant Cowel served in the Baltic in 1854, and with considerable distinction in the Crimea, from the beginning of 1855 to the end of the war. MR. BRIGHT'S ESTIMATE OF PROTECTION.— Take, then, the question of protection. Not 30 years ago, but 12 years ago, there was a great party in Parlia- ment, led by a duke in one House and by the son and brother of a duke in the other, which declared that utter ruin must come, not only on the agricultural interest, but upon the manufactures and commerce of England if we aeparted from our old theories upon this subject of protection. They told us that the labourer -the unhappy labourer-such friends as he had—of whom it may be said in this country, Here landless labourers hopeless toil and strive, But taste no portion of the sweets they hive"- -that the labourer was to be ruined that is, that the pauper was to be pauperised. The plain, honest, common sense of the country swept away their cobweb theories, and they are gone. What is the result? From 1846 to 1857 we have received into this country of grain of all kinds, including flour, maize, and Indian corn,—ail objects not of absolute prohibition, but which were intended to be prohibited until it was not safe for people to be starved any more—not less than an amount equal in value to 224,000,000^. That is equal to 18,700,000?. per annum on the average of 12 years. During that period, too, your home growth has been stimulated to an enormous extent. You have imported 200,000 tons of guano, and the result has been a propor- tionate increase in the productions of the soil. With all this, agriculture was never more prosperous, while manufactures and goods were never, at the same time, more extensively exported; and with all this the labourers, for whom the tears of the Protectionists were shed, have, according to the admission of the most violent of the class, never been in a better state since the beginning of the great French war. A CLERICAL MEETING ON CHURCH RATES.— The clergy of the archdeaconry of Ely have held an interesting and important meeting on the church-rate question. The Ven. Archdeacon Browne, who pre- sided, said it appeared to him that the subject before the meeting was a vital question involving the stability and perpetuity of the church of England. The legisla- ture of the country were clearly bound to protect all the rights of the church of England. An established church clearly implied this, and its members were en- titled on every ground to appeal to the Legislature for protection and support. He believed an appeal on the subject would be favourably received by the Govern- ment into whose hands the Queen had been pleased to entrust the administration of the national affairs, but in order to produce the desired impression, it was neces- sary that some extensive and simultaneous expression of opinion should be made. The most unscrupulous means were resorted to by the enemies of the church to pro- duce an impression favourable to their views, which was calculated to prepare the way for the utter subversion of the church as established in this country. If they suc- ceeded in carrying the outworks of the church's defences the thin edge of the wedge would be introduced. The venerable archdeacon entered into the historical aspects of the question, referring to an ordinance made by Par- liament in the time of Cromwell, with the view of secur- ing the repairs of churches, power being even given to justices of the peace to compel churchwardens to per- form their duty. A committee was appointed to draw up petitions and a subscription was made to defray the incidental expenses. BARON ROTHSCHILD'S YOUNGEST SON.-A spec- tacle of more than usual interest, even in its ordinary aspect, but fraught with still greater significance when deeply pondered, was presented on Saturday last to the congregation assembled in the Great Synagogue, Duke's place. One who is the embodiment of what wealth and station can command, the representative of a recent triumph of enlightened liberality over ages of prejudice and intolerance, the Baron Lionel de Rothschild, sur- rounded by ail nearest and dearest to him, came to pro- claim his fealty to the hallowed institutions of his fathers, and to bring his third and youngest son, thirteen years of age, as a claimant of his own free will for ad- mission as a responsible member of the synagogue. The ceremonial, sometimes called from analogy confirma- tion, was a most impressive one.—Jewish Chronicle. MEASURES, NOT MEN.—" He believed," said Mr. Buller the other day, at Northampton, "that he might speak his constituents' sentiments correctly when he said that at that moment it was the opinion of his constituents that it was not so much to men as to measures that they looked. He believed, also, such was the feeling of the country at large, for all were anxious for good government, and if they saw good government they would not look with any great anxiety as to the men from whom measures came or by whom they were supported. With these sentiments he should be prepared to give his support to honest and advantageous legislation, from whatever quarter it might come. He believed it was a fact that it was not so much the men who might fill the high office of Government, but that it was the public will and public opinion which regulated the policy of the country, and that, whoever might be the Ministers of the country, they could not guide but must follow that public will and public opinion." COMPARISONs.-There are plenty of men of Mr. Bright's own class both in Birmingham and Manchester to whose sons his description is equally applicable as to that of the youthful peer. Is the eldest son of a wealthy manufacturer never "pre-eminent among his brothers and sisters ?" Is it only in the aristocratic class that it can be said that this fine mansion, this beautiful park, these countless farms, this vast political influence, will centre in this innocent boy?" Is it to rank only that greater respect" is paid, we willnot say by servants," but by every class of society ? Has wealth no share in the unearned honours which Mr. Bright so bitterly en- vies to the peerage? Is it only, the titled heirs of great possessions who can be said to go to school or college, with no great excitement to work hard, because, what- ever they do, it is very difficult to improve their future in any way. What is the meaning of all this miser- able trash gathered out of the gutters of Socialistic de- clamation ?■—Saturday Review. THE LATE DUCHESS OF QUEENSBERRY.—When m Scotland, the Duchess always dressed herself in the ,a garb of a peasant girl. This she seems to have done in order to ridicule and put out of countenance the stately dresses and demeanour of the Scottish gentlewomen j evening some country ladies paid visit, dressed in their best brocades. She pro- posed a walk, and they wei j of course, under the pain- ful necessity of trooping off in all the splendour of full dress, to the utter dIscomfiture of their starched-up frills and flounces. Her Grace, at last pretending to be tired, sat down upon the dirtiest dunghill she could find, at the end of a farm-house, and invited the poor draggled fane ladies to seat themselves around her They stood so much m awe of her that they durst not 'refuse. She had the exquisite satisfaction of spoiling all their sIlks. Let womankind conceive (as only womankind can) the rage and spite that must have possessed their bosoms, and the battery of female tongues that must have opened upon her grace, as soon as they were free From the restraint of her presence.-Court Circular. A M FSKU S HIDING PLACE.—A fruiterer recently died, in -Mim burgh, leaving, as it was well known, a considerable sum m the Royal Bank. But though a strict search was made for the receipts, they could not be found. The premises were taken by another firm, who proceeded to make the necessary alterations in it to adopt it to their business. In doing so, a small piece of wood, about six inches long, six inches broad, and one inch thick, which was nailed on the wall close to the gasrneter, was removed, and it lay about the shop For several days. The other day, a small piece of wood was required to support the end of a shelf, and one of the workmen, taking that which came first to hand, split the piece to which we have referred above with his axe. On doing so, he observed a small roll of white paper in the wood, and on examination it was found that a hole had been bored along nearly the whole length of the wood, into which the two deposit-receipts, of 600?. each, had been placed, the end being closed up with a cork. THE PRINCESS FREDERICK WILLIAM OF PRUSSIA. -It may interest many of our readers to learn that the Princess Frederick William of Prussia sedulously cultivates her talents as an artist in her new home. The Princess makes practical use of her skill in draw- ing in the furnishing and decoration of her residence, and is having a studio fitted up in the new palace in Berlin. Her Royal Highness appears to be a great favourite, and many anecdotes are told to show her kindness. Shall we step out of our way to give one? At the last fair in Berlin, where everything was to be bought that pleases young and old, there was one stall which was filled with things that are comfortable and useful, such as felt shoes and slippers, worsted stock- ings, and woollen gloves. The Princess had been look- ing from the windows of the Palace upon the various groups and knots of people in the fair, noting the har- mony and contrasts of colour with an artist's eye, when her attention was called to this stall, in which sat a lone woman, to whom none went. The following day the same scene presented itself-the solitary figure and no customers. The Princess at last determined that there should be one customer at any rate, and accord- ingly intimated that her pleasure was to walk. On reaching the bottom of the stairs she told the attendants that they could remain there, while she advanced to the gate. Entering the stall, she asked the price of the contents, to which the woman replied that it would far exceed the purse of a young lady-it would amount to "twenty-four thalers." The Princess had but twenty in her purse at the time, but the Prince luckily appeared in sight: four thalers were borrowed, and more old women than one made happy, for the contents of the stall were distributed as soon as bought. The story is told as characteristic of the kind heart of the English Princess.-The Builder. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LABOUR MARKETS.— A writer in the Times, commenting upon Mr. Bright's recent speech, says Labour is underpaid in England because the market is over- stocked it is dear because it is scarce, and no political institution ever devised can possibly alter these respective conditions in the two countries. No nation has ever had such facilities for disposing and locating her labouring classes as America, and none has ever been so cramped and over- stocked as England but, as far as I can see, the British con- stitution has handled this tremendous difficulty with very tolerable success, and when we look around and see the amount of misery in other countries free from a surplus population we only wonder the suffering at home is not greater than it is. NEW SPELLING !—What has happened to our orthography, and to whom are we indebted for the change recently made ? The Times is the avatar of the new style of spelling: our old friend "jewellery" has been abbreviated into "jewelry the Word blackguard" is transformed into blaeruard while the old-fashioned "phial" is gone altogether, and in its place we find the modern vial." But the Times will not leave us even this last word, and in its notice of Mr. Wilkie Collins' piece, spoke of the Red Viol." suggestive of the deep- stained fiddles of childhood.-Illustmted Times. ROBBING A MISER.-At the Liverpool Police- court, a miserable old woman, aged 65, named Kennedy, charged John Armstrong, a porter, with stealing 450Z. belonging to her. The prosecutrix is a woman of pro- perty, but of miserly habits. The prisoner had lived with her upwards of thirty years, and had thought him- self entitled to some portion of her property when the time should arrive for her to be called away. The other day she made her will, leaving the bulk of her money to two half nieces. The prisoner, in great anger, on as- certaining the contents of the instrument, threw her down. and took £ 272 j 16s. 4d. out of her pocket. She had j3760 concealed in the coalhole, among the coals, and no person knew where it was but the prisoner. He sawher put it there, and she observed him to come out of it some time previous to taking the money from her person. She had also some in two bottles" in a box, and the prisoner took this also. He then ran away, and she gave an alarm, and pursued him in conjunction with some neighbours. On being taken into custody, the sum of 2801.1 was found in his possession. The prosecutrix said she did not wish to prosecute the prisoner, and she had no objection to make him a present of 1601. of the money, which was the amount concealed in the coals, if he would give up the balance of the 4501. This was subsequently found at a public- house. in Park-lane, where a carpet-bag which had been left there by the prisoner, containing 17H. 15s., the remaining part of the missing money. ENGLISH DOMESTIC NOVELS!—I recollect hearing a very eminent Frenchman, M. Guizot, say that the literature of France would match—by which, of course, he meant would beat-all our literature with one exception, and that was our domestic novels. He said:—" In science we match you; in poetry we match you, (though in that he was quite mistaken;) in history we match you but we ha.ve not got anything in our literature like' The Heir of Redcliffe,' and your domestic novels. All books of that class are peculiarly English. They are books describing a virtuous domestic life-- books describing a simple domestic life. They do not go to the tragic or dramatic for interest, but they draw it from the simple springs of natural life. This we have not got in the literature of France.Speech of the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M. P., at Warminster. A CUTTING CRITICISM.—Mr. Bright's addresses to his Birmingham constituents remind one of those beautiful skeleton plants, in which every fibre, every grace of form, every peculiarity of outline remains, while colour, substance, and life are gone. Nothing can be finer, exacter, and juster than the reasoning as far as it goes, and the facts and figures as far as facts figures possibly can go. But it is all facts and figures nicely arranged in a mosaic, and handsomely framed. Just as the straight stalk, and finely ramified fibre in the skeleton plant existed before, and are but the bone of a once living and vigorous structure, these facts and figures existed before, and all England knew, them. When, then, they are all presented to us as the best form and measure of our historical retrospect, or of the existing state of things, something within rebels against this ossification of our ideas. Grant the im- posing facts and figures of 40,000 British lives lost in the Russian war, half a million European lives, and a hundred million sterling flung into the Black Sea, does that answer the question whether we ought to have allowed Russia. to take possession of Constantinople; or even the further question whether in the long run we should have really have saved life and money by a base comnivance ?—Times. A PUNALTY of DEMOCRACY — John Hatton Annesley, Esq., of Moreland Lodge, Hants, has recently died childless. Had Mr. Annesley died intestate, his heir-at-law would have been his nephew, Mr. Ernest Jones, the well-known Chartist leader; but so great was the animosity he entertained for Mr. Jones, on account of the extraordinary democratic principles of the latter, that he has left his entire property (reserving a life interest for his widow) to utter strangers, thus cutting Mr. Jones off from a fine fortune, which, by every ordinary and customary course, would have come into his hands. A PLEASANT HOUSEHOLD. — Mr. Sinclair, of Ulbster, in giving some additions to the text of his re- cent lecture, adds the following anecdote:—" I know a lady of fortune who will not allow any work whatever to be done on the Sunday by any of her servants. The table is spread on Saturday night with a sufficient stock of food to last the whole day; coals are provided for the fires, which are all prepared for lighting; and, ex- cept in case of illness, the bell is not once rung from morning to night; the bedrooms are never entered bv the housemaids, nor the dining or drawing rooms by the man-servant during the entire day. The family have morning and evening prayers, attend church twice or three tunes, walk nowhere else for exercise, and neither read nor converse on any but religious subjects." -Edinburgh Courant.

BURNING OP AN, AUSTRALIAN PASSENGER SHIP. News of the total destruction by fire of the Eastern City, one of the BlacK Ball line of Australian passenger ships, running from Liverpool, has been received at Lloyds', and created considerable interest. The Eastern City was a fine ship, of 1,368 tons, and was the property of Messrs. Baines and Co., the well known shipowners of Liverpool; she was commanded by Cap- tain Johnstone, and on the 10th of July she left Liver- pool for Melbourne, having on board 180 passengers, 47 men, officers, and crew, and upwards of 1,600 tons of general cargo. The ship made a successful run to the equator, and all went well for a rapid voyage, when, m the afternoon of the 23rd of August, it was discovered that a fire had broken out in the fore hold. Every effort failed in extinguishing it, and preparations were made for provisioning and launching the beats. The sea, however, was very high, and had the passen- gers been dnven to put off in the boats, there is little doubt that theirs would have been a terrible fate. But while the prospects of the distressed men and women were most gloomy, and they had indeed almost despaired of safety, a sail came in sight. The trans- port ship Merchantman, Captain F. Brown, of and from London, with troops for Calcutta, observed the burning ship, and at once bore down to her aid. With the exception of one steerage passenger, the whole of the passengers and crew of the Eastern City were taken off, and in about four or five hours after they had left the entire ship was in one mass of fire, the masts went overboard, and she was a blazing wreck. The un- fortunate man who perished was a native of Skye. He had been ill for some days, and was below in his berth when the fire was first discovered, and he is supposed to have been suffocated. On Sunday, the 12th of September, the Merchantman put into Table Bay to land the crew and passengers of the Eastern City, and after landing these people here, the Merchantman proceeded on her voyage. A sub- scription was immediately opened and everything done for the relief of the passengers, most of whom have lost all they possessed; and under the direction of Govern- ment, the Emigration Board called for tenders for a vessel to convey them to their destination.

AGRICULTURE IN FRANCE. A gentleman, whose official connection with agricultural improvements in Ireland entitles his opinion to respect (says the Paris correspondent of the Times), has lately made a tour in France with the view of ascertaining the real cause of the depression of agriculture, and the destitution of the labouring classes. He states that it was sad to see the misapplication of time and labour in many places, and the way in which the rescources of so fine a country were neglected or abused. In the darkest days of Connauglit farming he declares he never saw anything worse than in boasted Normandy, and some of the most favoured districts of the south and west small fields and impenetrable hedgerows, scourging and ex- hausting crops and little or no manure to supply the defiCIency ;-ploughs that might have been used by the early Druids, tugged along by a motley crew of dispirited cows, horses, and oxen, with a poor, industrious, well-disposed donkey in the van, which probably does half the work, and which certainly gets all the beating cattle not half fed either in winter or summer :—poor milch cows and bony- looking oxen creeping .along on the dry hard road with waggon-loads of sand or timber, not half what a single Scotch cart would carry ;-pigs as they probably were in the days of Dagobert, long-legged, big-eared, with bodies flat as pancakes, every point about them turned the wrong way; curved backs that might serve as a model for the arch of a bridge noses that would do as good work, if properly di- rected, as half the ploughs hi the country; and, on the whole, the animals looking as if they were quite sick of the world. The sheep, too, would be regarded with pity by any one who ever saw a flock of Leicestershires ruminating in a clover field ;—wiry, weedy, unhealthy-looking things, with tails that crack like a whip, bones that look as if they were already picked, and hopping about on the roadside in search of a stray mouthful. According to the views of my informant, the efforts lately made by the French Government to improve the breeds of cattle in France, and encourage improved husbandry in the provinces, have been productive of little benefit,, so far as he could judge. The introduction of costly cattle for breed and cumbrous implements has failed to produce the anticipa- ted results, for the fact is, the people were not yet prepared for their use, or in a position to turn them to account, for what can men do are tied up by prejudices or absurd customs, and always looking for Government to help them ?

EXTRAORDINARY BIGAMY CASE. The Hampshire Independent says that a charge of bigamy has recently been heard at the Town-hall, Southampton, which revealed transactions of a most extraordinary kind. The facts are are as follow :— Some years ago a man named Collins was married to a woman at Salisbury. For being concerned in some machine riots Collins was transported within a few weeks of the birth of his darghter. A short time after Collins's banishment his wife marries another man (as she didnotlike single blessedness) named Kemish. When Collins's daughter had grown up to womanhood Kentish takes a fancy to her, and by agreement with the mother, who had.for years been styled Mrs. Kemish. he marries the daughter at the same church at which the mother had been married to Collins, and at the same time and place at which Kemish marries the daughter (after, it must be recollected, he ha 1 been married to the mother many years), the mother, Mrs. Collins, alias Kemish, was actually married to a man named Pitt; so that the woman Collins has married three men—Collins, Kemish, and Pitt; and Kemish has married both mother and daughter; and Pitt finds out that the woman he now has is not his wife. Kemish and the woman Pitt, Kemish, or Collins, are both bailed to appear for their trial at the next assizes.

THE PROGRESS OF AUSTRALIA. Messrs. Silver and Co., in their monthly review of the Australian colonies, say:— EMPLOYMENT FOR THE HARDY LABOURER. The Victorian railway works have not as yet given employ- ment to all who speculated upon obtaining it, and they have not, therefore, tended to raise the price of labour. Variously as this fact has been commented on, there is nothing to sur- prise or dishearten. Only a small section of one of the rail- ways was taken in hand while of the other the first sod was about to be turned when the last Australian mail left for England. As section after section is taken up, the demand for 1 bour must increase, and December will find thousands in active employment where in August there was room for a few hundreds only. Spite of all cavillings, there is no deny- ing the fact that i,500,000?, a year is, for three years to come, to be spent on railways in Victoria that certain contractors are bound, under heavy penalties, to complete a given num- ber of miles of railway within a given time that operatives of all classes, far exceeding in number any now disposable in the colony, are required and that the labour market must be strongly affected by this increased and extraordinary de- mand. It is, therefore, but reasonable to supnose that those who left this country in July and August, witP a view to find- ing employment on the Victorian railways, were landed at Melbourne just when their services were most in request. REFORM IN THE GOLD FIELDS. The long-delayed publication of the regulations for leasing portions of the gold-fields to individuals and companies is now expected from day to day. The reform, whenever it does take place, will have a most beneficial effect upon the mining interest; it will increase the production of gold, economise time and labour, make room for a greater number of hands, and add to the comfort while it increases the average earnings of the miners. Such, at least, is the opi- nion of those most competent to judge of this matter. HELP FOR THOSE WHO WANT IT. The Government of New South Wales have adopted a praiseworthy measure, which, originally initiated at the Cape, ought to be imitated by all the Australian colonies. Considering that Sydney is frequently crowded with persons in want of work, and consequently food, while the inland districts are suffering from scarcity of labour, and consider- ing that immigrants newly landed are frequently too timid and ignorant, and almost always too poor, to travel, alone and unaided, to the towns and districts of the interior, the New South Wales Government have undertaken to convey all immigrants of the labouring classes to those places in- land where their services are chiefly in request, and where they find ready employment and good wages. Recent as this measure is, its operation has already influenced the last "Labour Report" from Sydney, which bears witness to an urgent demand for agricultural and a moderate demand for female labour. No hopes of "doing well" are held out to mechanics, clerks, and shopmen.

THE COMING TIME. Our next Reform (says the Times), when it comes, will, no doubt, be in the direction indicated by Mr. Bright's speeches. How far it will go in that direction is another affair. We should be sorry to commit ourselves at this moment to any opinion as to the measure which Mr. Bright will assist to procure for us, or the side he will be found supporting in that emergency. He bestows equal censure on the last two mea- sures of Lord John Russell and the principles on which Ml. Disraelli seems prepared to treat the question. For our part we entirely share his perplexity on this most interesting sub- ject. Convinced as we are that individually Lord John Russell and Mr. Disraeli would go as far as was necessary to success, and would not quite despair of the commonwealth, even if Mr. Bright's views were carried out with arithmetical rigour, we have to remember that neither moves alone, and that neither Whig nor Tory lords and landowners give up per- sonal and territorial influence without a sigh. The beginning of the game is obvious enough, but not so the end of it. Unless Lord Derby offers a very large measure indeed, he is certain to be outbid by Lord John Russell, who, of course, will enjoy for the nonce the support of Mr. Bright and his friends. That is all that can be foreseen at this moment. As the question advances it will become complicated. Sharper wits than John Bright's will be at work to twist and turn it. A division any day on war, on finance, on religion, on national honour, may overthrow a Government and a Bill, and the member for Birmingham will be only too happy to make confusion worse confounded. It may, however, be safely predicted that he will never see the metropolis blessed with 50 members, or Birmingham with half-a-dozen that he will not have that much exaggerated, but purely dis- honest measure, the Ballot; that he will not have our present municipal or parochial franchise applied to all England for Parliamentary purposes; and that, even if his life should last as long as we wish it, he will leave us a Bench of Bishops and a House of Lords. We can imagine England existing without, but we have little doubt it will first exist without Mr. John Bright.

PICKINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS. The foundation-stone of an inebriate asylum has been laid in New York, in the presence of thousand of spectators. Madam, you said your son was a lawyer-has he much practice?" "Why, yes, sir, he has a practice of- smoking cigars." A lady wrote with a diamond on a pane of glass Man at first was made upright; but he—" To which a gentleman added "Most surely had continued so ;but she-" In Kentucky a ploughman became enamoured of a milkmaid on a neighbouring farm. His addresses were re- jected, and the disappointed swain, full of melancholy and revenge, procured a rope, went to the barn, and-tied all the cows' tails together. A poet in the tBoston Post thus imaginistifies over the bit of orange peel on which he slipped down in the street:— It ripened by the river banks, Where-mask and moonlight aiding- Don Whiskerandos play sad pranks, Dark Donnas serenading. By Moorish maiden it was plucked, Who broke some hearts, they say—then By Saxon sweetheart it was sucked, Who threw the peel away then. How little thought the London fair, Or dark-eyed girl of Seville, That I should reel upon that peel, And find my proper level. An exchange paper says that J. Richard Barrett, just elected to Congress from the St. Louis District, is the handsomest man in the United States and then tantali- zingly and maliciously adds, "he is married." A negro driver of a coach in Texas, stopping to get some water for the young ladies in the carriage, being asked what he stopped for, replied, I's watering my flowers." A prettier compliment could not be invented.

MORE ABOUT THE MORMONS. The Oregon correspondent of the New York Tribune gives the following particulars regarding the present condition of this odious community:— On or about the 10th of June one of our party, Mr. Justice, was dispatched by Mr. Lander to Salt Lake City, for men to build the Pacific waggon road. On the 2nd day of August Mr. Justice reached camp with fifty men, principally Mormons, with one or two dis- charged soldiers or teamsters. Of the fifty men there are only five Americans. The Mormons are Swedes, Danes, and Englishmen, all the most illiterate men I ever met with. The majority of the Mormons we have with us are much embittered against Brigham Young. From them I learn that Young has 86 "wives and 49 children. The ages of his wives vary from 17 to 00, or thereabouts. Some of his children are marriageable. His eldest daughter was married a short time since. His son, who is 0 about 19, will not marry, but is a wild young fellow. One of our troop possesses no less than seven wives. I gazed upon the man, when he told me this, with a look of great surprise. He asked me the cause of it. I told him it really surprised me to see a man who had impudence enough to tell me he had what belonged to six other men. I told him I considered him a wholesale thief and a brute. He said it was kind a' bruitish," and I would think it so for certain if I should ever visit his house What is the reason ?" I asked. I'll tell you," said he. "Women is a strange critter; it makes no difference if you have hundred on 'em. they all will want your affection at c UP but, you see, it can't be done. He then in •.«•! me that hi- house contained but three rooms; o -•& his pario jr. one a large bedroom, and the other ms kitchen and eating-room. The bed-room held three large beds, and j the room was pretty well arranged, He said he was getting tired of their quarrels with one another. I told him such was my opinion also, as he appeared to be very thin and meagre. In our whole tiock of saints on their arrival at this camp from Salt Lake, not one of them had a suit of clothing fit even for the poorest slave or begger, and their appetites were surprisingly good.

EPITOSl E 5Y NEWS. ISrtttsf) antr jfomgn. Apropos of the meeting of the Congregational Union at Halifax, the following colloquy is said to have taken place between a weaver and a spinner in the public streets :—" Eh, Jos, what's up, think yer?" "Well, I doant know, but it looks as if the parsons were all out on strike."—Gateshead Observer. The Writer of the Anonymous Letter with post- mark Dumfries, Oct. 26," stating Miss Alice Jane Wilson, nine years old, is in a Popish Nunnery abroad, is respectfully invited to give further information.—E. J. Wilson, Ennis, Ireland.—Advertisement in London Times. The Times, in remarking on the Bishop of Oxford's speech at Bradford, say they understood his lordship to have said he would not be influenced by "nasty hisses from nasty mouths." Another report says the words are, "hasty hisses from hasty mouths.A slight difference, certainly Great activity is now prevailing in the principal naval arsenals of Spain. The Spanish navy, which has five steam frigates and sixteen smaller vessels more than last year, is being augmented as fast as the state of the finances will admit. The Prince of Wales is likelv to be gazetted ere long to one of the regiments of the Household Brigade. We sup- pose he will be an ornamental soldier." In the income-tax scale Liverpool stands first among the provincial towns, and second only to the city of London, being assessed at 5,279,8362. under schedule D. A store keeper in Worcester, Massachusetts, ad- vertises ten pounds of sausages for a dollar whereupon the Boston Bee stingingly exclaims-dog cheap A writer in the Times, speaking about the members' vacation speeches, says" it is more judicious, under such cir- cumstances, to speechify to the country constituencies about the great social evil or the great sea serpent, or to suggest im- possible reforms in the Press, than to commit yourself on the New Reform Bill, or on the regeneration of the War Office." The Teheran Gazette is said to be edited by the Shah of Persia himself, and we may add that his task is very cre- ditably performed. Madame Ida Pfeiffer, the well-known traveller, died at Vienna on the 27th ult. The poor lady was never herself after she had such a severe attack of fever in Madagascar. The state of affairs in Mexico could not be worse than it is at present. Not only is the country in a state of anarchy, but the cause of one party (the Liberals) being es- poused by the Americans, and that of the other (the Conser- tives) by the Spaniards, may lead to a serious complication. The Yorkshireman, a high-priced newspaper printed in York, has published its last copy. According to the vale- diction of its proprietors, it has been fairly beaten by its younger and more vigorous cheap competitors, even though it had attained the mature age of 25. Shall we have a sneer, beginning Born to die," in the leading journals? Not very likely. The immense success of the Cheap Press is a great fact" for the Times to ponder over. The record of marine losses for the first nine months of this year exhibits a very considerable diminution from that of the same period in 1857, both of the number of vessels and the value of property. The Board of Admiralty has just issued a new and very valuable code of regulations concerning the showing of lights by ships at sea. The appearance of the comet created an immense sensation in Egypt; for several days all business and labour were at a standstill, the inhabitants believing that it foreboded some great calamity. At Marseilles, at a banquet given to M. de Lesseps, that gentleman stated, in reply to a toast, That the works of the Suez Canal will commence in three months, and that the canal shall be opened in three years." It is asserted positively that the French Government has resolved to put a stop to the importation of free negroes into the French colonies-indeed, the plan had been aban- doned before the capture of the Charles Georges. It is deliberately mischievous to represent the Peers as a compact body opposed to reforms. Class for class they have been in all times of English history, certainly not least so within these twenty years, as liberal as their inferiors in position. Mr. Bright's scolding may be laughed at and cheered, as Englishmen will cheer vehemence, but it will be totally without eSeet.—So says the Spectator. According to the Paris correspondent of the Literary Gazette, a canard was lately current in Paris that Walker, the American fillibuster, was a Frenchman, formerly an aide-de- camp of one of the younger sons of Louis Philippe, who had to leave France in 1847 for cheating at cards. The English press, at the first glance, appears to be nothing but an universal and permanent indictment against everything and everybody but when we view it closer we perceive that discussion, rectification, or reparation, follow quick upon the heels of denunciation or abuse.-Montalembert on England and India. The Hon. William Ferguson, a Californian State se- nator, shot in a duel with George P. Johnson, in August last, has died of his wounds. Miss Madeleine Smith, who was tried for poisoning her lover in Scotland, is now, it is said, making a pleasure tour of the United States. The authorities have had their attention drawn to the unprotected and utterly defenceless condition of the whole of the south coast of Wales. A battery of heavy guns is to be immediately erected on the high ground at Penarth-head, for the protection of the shipping frequenting the roads. It is said that Swansea is to be better protected. At the Denbighshire quarter sessions, John Roberts was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour, and, what is better, to be once whipped, for having cut out a mare's tongue. He pleaded guilty. A case just tried before one of the Paris law courts shows that in that city the manufacture of "antiques and curiosities" of all kinds is practised on a grand scale. The young Messrs. de Rothschild, who are ardent antiquaries, bought about 1,0001. worth of objects represented to antiques" of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, but which turned out to have been made only a few months be- fore by a skilful Paris trader. Mr. Hubbard, late Governor of the Bank of Eng- land, has undertaken to build a large church, at his own expense, in a densely-populated district in London. The church will cost about 6,000l. M. Nadar, the well-known photographist (says Galignani& Messenger), is just about to make a novel experi- ment in his art—to take a kind of bird's-eye view of Paris and the neighbourhood, with a photographic apparatus placed in the car of a balloon. During the month of September last 2,766,865 yards of calico, and 13,557,252 lbs. of thread and yarn, were ex- ported from Hull to the northern ports of Europe. Her Majesty has signified her intention of conferring the honour of knighthood on Mr. Smith, the Mayor of Mel- bourne. The new French passport regulations have so disgusted foreigners that the number of English visitors in Paris has fallen off from 25,000 to 4,000. The shopkeepers and rentiers are in a state of the greatest distress, and "curses not loud but deep" sound their fearful ground tone" in the ear of the Emperor. The Cheltenham magistrates have fined a young farmer, named Charles Cook, 21, and costs, for kissing a girl, named Mary Ann Ayres, on the Alstone-road. A tax on railway tickets and on all houses, is in con- templation. The former would yield 600,000Z. The latter probably quite as much. The former, perhaps, would not be greatly felt. The latter, to be successful, ought to be freed from the difficulties of a per centage. Houses ought to be divided into classes-as first, second, third, fourth rate, and so on. In no other way can evasion be obviated. Mr. Bright says that the balance of power is like perpetual motion, or any of those impossible things which some men are always racking their brains and spending their time and money to accomplish. A week filled with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor Christian. There are many persons who think Sunday is a sponge with which to wipe out the sins of the week. "A stitch in time saves nine," in boarding-school parlance is now rendered—" The first impression of a needle upon a rent obviates a nine-fold introduction." Donald," said a clergyman to one of his parishioners, "Donald, it is a bad thing, whisky."—"Ay, sir," (with a subservient and Celtic grin,) I- it's a pad thing, whisky, specially pad whisky." "It has-been my fortune," said Lord John Russell the other day, to be in the country-houses of persons who, possessed of great fortunes, had magnificent libraries. But when I have found a party assembled in these houses of some twenty or five-and-twenty persons, I have always observed that the first object of attraction was the newspaper." .Íûd/Í

THE MARKETS. THE PROVINCIAL CORN TRADE. The wheat trade, which seemed recovering from its pros- tration, has not improved, the country markets reporting former rates being rather over borne by those noting a de- cline, while the state of foreign ad vices has not been calcula- ted to give any stimulus to the home trade. MARK LANE, MONDAY. The fresh arrivals of English grain to this morning's market were moderate, but the foreign imports were pretty good. English wheat met a dull demand, and prices must be quoted 2s. lower. Foreign in very limited request, and rather less money accepted. The flour trade is languid, but quotations are not reduced. Malting barley met with a fair inquiry, but grinding samples were dull. Malt taken very sparingly at previous value. Beans move off slowly. Peas are rather more in request. Oats met with a good demand. BRITISH. OLD. NEW. WHEAT ..Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, s. s. S. s. white, per qr 45 to 52 39 to 47 BARLEY ..Malting. to 35 to 40 OATS Essex and Suffolk 20 to 25 21 to 27 BEAMS Mazagan 38 to 40 36 to 37 Tick and Harrow 38 to 42 36 to 40 SEED Canary perewt — to — 72 to 80 Carraway ..per cwt. — to — — to — Rape per qr — to — 68 to 72 HemDseed .ner ar 42 to 45 — to — METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, MONDAY. The number of beasts at to-day's market was large, but 150 were merely store cattle, and a considerable proportion of the others consisted of inferior breeds. Trade ruled at about the same as before, prime qualities meeting a ready sale, but middling and coarse making but a slow market at irregular prices. The supply of sheep was much better than on Mon day last, but the demand steady and prices supported. Vea and pork were in moderate demand at the prices of last day's C;aiket. Prices-Beef, 4s. to 4s. lOd. mutton, 4s. to 5s.; I tA-L 4s. to 5s. pork, 3s. id. to 4s. 2d., per stone of Sib., sinking the offal.