The Aberystwith Observer

J TELIGMNWIFLHTMIGENGE. VIENNA, July 10. The Austrian Correspondence publishes an official account of the battle on the 24th of June, according to which the total number of the loss is as follows Killed, 91 officers, 2,2(51 privates Wounded, 4 generals, 485 officers, and 10,160 Privates. Missing, 59 officers, 9,229 privates. Of those miss- ing are to be deducted nine corps, which have marched back the different bodies to which they had belonged. FRANKFORT, Saturday. The OberpoHamts Zdtung contains the following dispatch direct from Verona, dated the 8th of Ju-ly u At the repeated request of the French, and after their consent had been. obtained to all the conditions we have aàlted. an armistice has been concluded." VERONA, Monday. The Emneror of Austria, accompanied by Generals Hess, ^funne, Kellner, Hollenstein, Homing, Scblitter, and Several other officers of tlie staff, went this morning to the interview with the French Emperor at VUlafranca.

TREATY OF PEACE. VALI/EGGIO, July 12. THE EMPEROR TO THE EMPRESS. A Treaty of Peace has been signed between the Emperor ) \) Austria and myself. t The conditions of peace are the following An Italian Confederation, under the honorary presidency t o the Pope. „ -The Emperor of Austria etves up Ins rights over Lom- tarrty to the Emperor of the French, who remits them to the Hi: Jung 0f Sardinia.. The Emperor of Austria keeps Venetia, but it is to form 8 »art of the Italian Confederation. I; A general amnesty. TTTEIN, July 11. e"! The official bulletin of to-day publishes the text of the if' "°nvention of Armist ice. to j. besides the articles already known, it is said the bel- „Ferent armies will keep the positions whicli they now r 'du.'fhe railways to Verona, Peschiera, and Mantua may, ( fifing the Armistice, be used to carry provisions to those e presses. "eschiera and Mautua are being provisioned, and the r$sjj^visionitjfr 0f the former will be completed in two days. :i *he works offensive and defensive, of Peschiera are to re- «ain in their present state. The convention is signed by S^israls Vaillaat, Martimprey, della P^occa, Hess, ancl W •fcosdorff, VINNNA, Wednesday, 7 Morning. v official preliminaries of peace are as follows :—" Both t?verei8ns \vill favour the formation of an Italian Confedera- k, Austria relinquishes Lombardy up to the Mincio line, *,7 retains Venetia, withPeschiera, Mantua, and Borgoforte. °fe Joins the Italian Confederation, but probably with Vene- fi'ioiie. The Tuscan and Modenese Sovereigns return to "eir States. Ail persons compromised during recent events seeive full amnesty." £ VIENNA, Wednesday, July 13. d France will support [legunstigen) the forma- ■" -an Confederation, to -which Austria accedes. I r as the line of the Mincia, is to be gi ve, i up. ;ra, Borgoforte, and the whole of Venetia possessions. The Princes of Tuscany and irn to their States. A universal amnesty KAPI.KS, STAPX.ES, .Taiy 8. (vln e Swiss troops mutinied in the barracks and killed the 2f the 4th Regiment and several officers. They after- Cliag8 ^Paired to the Royal Palace, but a battalion of 'W6Ur3 and a regiment of Hussars posted there forced 01 to fall hack as far as the Champ de Mars, -where they Grounded. The General Commander-in Chief of the ^sch callecI upon them to surrender, but they replied by a of Are arms, wounding the General and about 20 ^UtiiT8' General >'unziante then gave orders to fire on the 6,jS SraPe> by |which 75 were killed and 233

J BATTLE FIELDANEcDOTES. )s3rPoral Ferriere, of the 3rd company of Foot Chasseurs, at tlle head of his men an eminence on which the ^6o ans ^ac' placed a battery which kept up a murderous Wetcl". "le French On doing so he had his left arm com- W shattered by grape. He exclaimed "No matter be- K thr will bring down one of the officers." So saying V ri w down his rifle, which was no longer of any use to Sip w ^ds sabre, and, with his left arm hanging by merely °f the muscles, rushed forward through a shower of Wir,Vreache(l tl,e battery, arid plunged his sabre up to the 1e body t'le captain. An Austrian colonel, who i^fno ?ct'ran t0 SP°^> aT1d with his pistol blew out the itdma' s llra'ns' an-'l he expired on the body of the captain, ,fl,|'ir>s Cros, a vivandiere of the Foot Chasseurs, a pretty V^of twenty-two, and the wife of one of the chasseurs, lo f0i| et' Permission of her husband, who was in the reserve, rr a0^ *he attack and assist the wounded. Taking with Mil brandy, a canteen of water, and a package of -<11 Sl"' K'lt! weut forward into the thick of the flaht. ?ss the balls, and dressed the wounds of many of the "ick^ amon" tiiem that of the Cent Garde who was Htt-j. the Jiead when close to the Emperor. A short time saw on a of the chasseurs lying on the ground liS Sr> n *he side. She stooped down to him, and gave ^■ti v?1510 W ater with a fe w drops of brandy in it. While the as drinking a ball broke her little finger, smashed the killed the man. Mdme. Cros then proceeded to h y g? ll^lnce to have her wound dressed, and while on the W0r Y a soldier named Hiche, both of whose legs had been "tilj n,Je^ ')y a ball. Being wounded herself, she could not man up, but she adopted another expedient. She ^ovvn. and telling him to clasp both his arms !u 9 »ink neek, in that manner she managed to drag him to ance- On the following day Mdme. Cros was told Sj'S s"rgeon that her finger must be amputated "Well, s^e> "^° at once," and the operation was without her uttering a word. Some rings on her 8e "Ser which were broken hythe ball were afterwards 1 P to the Emperor, to wliom the courageous conduct n'ere v"'ls re'a^fcd." jj!H0 ^STERHVPTEP LKTTKJ!.—Between the tower of Sol- ir k-the vi,)aSe I picked up a piece of paper, folded, 1 a lef ter had been commenced iti German (says It was in a bold, firm hand, and bestan "Dear iWly > the writer then proceeding to inquire how the (%_ i Mng on since he had been obliged to leave K., iree lines, however,"were all that had been written i; ti e sound <-f the drum stopped the pen, and hur- W.,wnter away to meet a soldier's death. There was 'is K,0r S"ide t0 its destination, so T kept it as amomento i!!s!ia, o°0('y the aiicient tower round which- °f the untimely siainwiU henceforward wander

OF THE DEAD ON THE BATTLE FIELD, ^ic'h'i,ntra]fe,"ng the battle-field of Magenta, the saying ?l(Hera !l f°rmeriy been current with respect to Russian at they must not only be killed but thrown IV Ta,V)ro"?.ht to mind. A great number of the }. on f:,cl. retained in part the attitude they were h f' receivtllj? their death blow. Those who had } t],i ora 1I1-uv''es in the hpad usual y fell with their face ? tiw1'1' .wit1' complete lesolution of the limbs. H an ? Younde<1 111 the heart, death, though rapid is ^at some attitude cannot be taken. tain 4 struck had faueh on ],js musket, which V 'd in the position of a bavonet rharo-e his energetic i! WftJ 'ToTui yFai tSSJS.«»";»!« X lion. r*ot far Oit contract 3nv an Aus- KU-'ho 1)3,1 dled,01 ''asmorrhage^ and in his a"or,y WXhe face turned #^ced A HunSLn hussar0ki?id^Vith fl,,ffers flrmly being shot through t^ «ame time as ks exhibited a distinguished physiognomy ™ Ssfw1 with exquisite, almost affected neatness'and features very different from those of most of their V seemed to exhibit courage with resignation w'hr J k. °f*ieoft ;ie impressions upon us while traversing thefw} glltoI*' nse Painful emotions, little calculated ntClP»te those produced by still more dreadful scenes Net J-he ambuUirices, the receptacles of an Bering of every Ki Physical fatigue is gre t, indeed, but so also is the Exhaustion of the surgeon and great is the error of \yvho think his heart is hard, and that his impassibility esult of indifference.

SKBASTOPOL OF THE AUSTRIANS.—The (Ss iails have now retired within their Sebastopol T 4 Respondent), and this not a Sebastopol forii- %tr; '10 !ast moment, but prepared ever since the W ai)s have acquired possession of Lombardy. It Na'of8 Crimean Sebastopol, separated by hun- n !)i,f rn^es steppes from the resources of the em- fai)" connected with the furthest extremities of it H** 8 a™l excellent roads. These communica- numerous, and their position so extended, fW"1 be almost impossible to invest completely for anc! to cut off the former. They have stored rf kinds of warlike pro visions in their Ak,' the Miacio and the Aflige, their ^lpir have made the gronrcd P,» special study, and mMt boav/aro of its vroll as of its w&ak pMntg. WHAT BEATEN SOLDIERS HAVE DONE !-At Solferino the Austrians could not complain that they were taken at a disadvantage they were led by their best Generals, were fighting under the eye of the Emperor, had chosen their own position and fortified it, they were more than equal to their adversaries in numbers, and yet they were beaten in these conditions. They must begin to feel that they are no match for their adversaries in the open field. This is certainly a dis- advantage in an army, but a similar one did not prevent the Turks from holding; Silistria with a handful of men against the Russian army, or the Russians from defend- ing Sebastopol for ten months after the battle of Inker- mann. A HEAVY Loss.-The Rangoon Times mentions the loss of the valuable presents brought from France by the adventurer D'Orgoni for the King of Ava. In order to lighten the Alon Prah, so as to enable her to ascend the river to the capital, they were placed on board a Burmese boat, along with a spare engine which the steamer brought out with her. The boat sank from the weight; but some of the valuables were recovered, and afterwards sold by auction. They were valued at two lakhs of rupees. Is THls A PROMISE OF MARRIAGE ?-A woman not young (says a New York paper), having heard of the success of Effie Carstang, of St. Louis, in recover- ing 100,000 dollars from li!-r lover, determined to pro- ceed against a suitor of her own. She accordingly consulted a lawyer in Richmond, submitting, as the main evidence of his attachment, the following billet- doux that accompanied a bouquet of flowers: Dear I send u bi the boy abuckettof flours. They is like my love for u. The nite shaid menes kepe dark. The dog fenil menes i am ure sla've. Rosis red and posis pail- My luv for u shall never faile." WHAT IS THE NEXT SrEp ?—It appears that there is a question of making Lombardy and Venice an independent kingdom under an Austrian Areliduk-, but two of the parties concerned are sure to object to such an arrangement (says the Times correspondent). Victor Emmanuel evidently considers Lombardy an in- tegral part of his kingdom, and the Emperor of Aus- tria is not the man voluntarily to cede two of the finest and richest provinces in the empire either to his brother or to any member of his family. My private opinion in respect to the recent doings at Verona is, that the Emperor of the French wishes to come to an under- standing with his brother monarch without the inter- ference of the neutral Powers. Austria is in a humour to conclude peace with France, because she is disgusted with the shortsighted and selfish" policy of England, and it would not surprise me to learn from Verona that the two Emperors had met and settled between them the preliminaries of peace. Before France and Austria come to an understanding, the latter will not fail to make conditions in favour of her South-German friends, but she will hardly think herself bound to do as much for Prussia. Austria is an exceedingly revengeful Power, and. consequently not likely to forget that the British and Prussian Governments might, had they been inclined to do so, have prevented the outbreak of the war, THE FRENCH TAKING TOTHE BAYONET.—Bayonet drill is carried to a pitch of great perfection in the French army. It is a regular exercise, against cavalry as well as against infantry, both with the French and Piedmontese, and there is no doubt that the superiority the allies have shown with the bayonet in more than one recent encounter with the Austrians is mainly owing to its being so. A correspondent, writing on this subject, says I presume that this very important point of the foot soldier's training is not neglected in the British service." Pluck and a strongarm, weshallper- haps be told, are the main requisitiesfor the handling of a weapon in which our soldiers have ever shown their superiority; but that is no reason for discarding science, and forstanding still while others are advancing. ONE OF THE THOUSAND SOLUTIONS !-The follow ing, from the Steele, seems rather a reminder or summing up of what has been and will be done The Emperor Napoleon, after four memorable victories, holds prisoner, as it were, the armies of Austria in the strong places of the Quadrangle. Our victorious armies are animated by the most admirable courage, and the Austrian armies are completely disheartened. The Emperor grants an armistice to stop the effusion of blood, and because the object of the war will be attained. Italy, then, Is going to be disembarrassed of the yoke of Austria from the Alps to the Adriatic. The negotiations are probably opened. It will be, we admit, a great and difficult task to organise Italy. The rumours afloat are these :—Lombardy to the Adige will be annexed to Piedmont; Venetia will be inde- pendent Central Italy will form a State composed of the Duchies of Parma and Tuscany, and the Duchy of Modena and a part of the Romagna and the rest of the Pontifical States will be guaranteed to the Pope, whose government will be secularised. Such is one of the thousand solutions given by rumour to the Italian question." The Siecle is right; the organisation of the new conquests will be the great difficulty. BALLOONING IN AMERICA.-—Mr. Wise started on his first voyage to seaboard this evening, July 1, (says an American correspondent). The weather was favour- able. The balloon took the direction of Lake Erie, but when last seen was pursuing a course due east. From Cincinnatti we learn that on the 2nd instant the balloon passed six miles off Fort Mayne, at four o'clock that morning. It passed Fairpoint some miles east of Cleveland, at 9-30 a.m., and was seen to nearly touch tixo water. It rose again, and disappeared in a north- easterly direction. ORIENTAL RED TAPE!—The ex-King of Oude lately forwarded through the Foreign Office an ode composed by himself, and addressed to Lord Canning, in which, in the flowery and figurative language of oriental poetry, he supplicated the representatives of England's greatness in the East, to have pity on a captive monarch, and procure him justice. The ode was a rather lengthy composition, written in Persian, and divided into a number of parts of so many stanzas each, the parts assuming the forms of apostrophes to his lordship's horse, tent, palace, sword, and elephant in turn. The ex-King bestowed some very flattering epithets upon the Viceroy, whom in one part of his composition he styled the Full Moon of the World," a, title at which the viceroy will not feel as gratified as when his new earldom was announced to him,

lilktlfeneoHs (§mxi$Ww. j MATRIMONIAL DISAPPOINTMENT.—ADover paper says that an expectant happy couple, after having had the banns duly published, repaired, accompanied by a goodly array of bridesmaids and groomsmen, no fewer than six couples, to St. Mary's Church, there to be solemnly united in matrimony. To their great mortifi- cation, however, on their arrival, the clergyman refused to perform the ceremony, on the ground that their degree of relationship was within the pale prescribed by ecclesiastical law. It appears that the intended bride is the widow of one of the crew who perished in the ill-fated Violet, and that the disappointed bride- groom is the brother of the deceased. Under these cir- cumstances, in spite of every remonstrance, the clergy- man refused to rivet their relationship more closely; and the whole party werecomoelied to submit to his 1 decision, returning home, as may well be imagined, most bitterly chagrined. HOAX AT PORTOBELLO !—A somewhat amusing scene occurred at this watering place last week. Some wag had placarded the walls of the town for some days with the following bill in writing Swimming Match—On Thursday morning, the 7th inst., at seven o'clock, there will be a swimming match between two gentlemen, members of the Forth Swimming Club (both successful in previous matches in obtaining prize medals). The match will take place at the Joppa Bulwarks. A medal will be awarded the winner, presented by a gentleman, a re- sident of Portobello. This novel announcement brought together a large num- ber of spectators boats were engaged in order to have a view of the aquatics, and a policeman was in atten- dance to preserve order, but the whole affair turned out to be a hoax, much to the chagrin of all parties. THE LAND WHERE THE LEMON TREE BLOOMS! Well, all I can say is," (says a correspondent,) "let every one who wishes'to keep up his iuusions about the iandwhere the lemon tree blooms' keep away from the Mincio and the country about it. I t is aU very well in autumn and in fine times of peace, with here and there an adventurous tourist who goes so far out of his way as to see these hills, but it is quite a different thing in the dog days a short time after a sanguinary battle with an army of more than 200,000 men with its camp followers, and following on the heels of another army of at least the same number as that which occupied the country before it." THE LfBFHTY OF THE SLAVE.—A very impor- tant trial has taken place at the Old Baiiev,'London, involving, as it does, the question connected with the liberty of the slave. The master of a vessel from Genoa brought a slave to this country, and left him in lodgings till he could take him back ngain The slave in the meantime having learned that he was in a free country where slavery cannot be tolerated, it seems was deter- 'a mined not to go back when, as he supposed, a police- man came to take him to his ship, he stabbed him. The jury acquitted the prisoner, amid much applause in the court. Another charge was brought against him on Saturday, when it transpired that he had become insane. THE GRANT FOR CIVIL CONTINGENCIES.—A par- liamentary paper gives the details of the expenditure charged against the vote for civil contingencies in the year ended March 31, 1859. The items are- Special missions abroad, 41.497/ 13s. fid.; outfit of diplo- matic officers, on appointment, 18.025J.: conveyance and entertainment, <fcc., of distinguished persons, colonial °5'lCC??' -f'' f!'580/- 14s M.; royal household expenses, not provided for m tlie civil list, 8,2501, lis. 7d. special com- mission at home, 6,0192. 8s gd. fees, <fcc., pavable on con- feiring at.les of dignity, >ymu 9*. 61. expenses of letters ooni o. VieX llv^ of tll0se inferring titles of diprnity, l,030i 2?. 7d.; cost of presents, oMZ. 18s. expanses incurred for legal and other professional services, 3,455?. 15s. 2d.; rewards, compensations, and expenses connected with crnrurial justice^ 532Z. 12. miscellaneous expenses, itASH. ShJfcsj} 18s. .11d, The amount that trtll pVotfablj' be reapirM tb deftiy eimilai ekp'ensVs in thby'^ar ending March 30, l;6Gr, is lOO.OOOZ,, of which 50,000?. was voted on account" of last Session. KEGKUTTING IN IRELAND —During the past week a considerable number of recruits, principally young lads, were shipped from Belfast for Liverpool, ha., en route to join their respective dep6ts. Hardly one of them. in any sense of the term, will be a soldier for the next half dozen years. It exhibits either a great falling offin the stature of Irishmen, or an extraordinary extent of prosperity which prevents enlistment, when recruiting sergeants, in the prosecution of their duties, have to accept such diminutive specimens of humanity to uphold the honour of the country. WHAT Two MINDS CAN DO.—That dreadful war, which many told us would last to our children's children, and bear us away in the eddy, is ended. A few days for second thoughts and one morning's meeting have composed a hundred difficulties, and dismissed some hundred thousand soldiers to their distant homes. It wanted but the word, and the plains of Venetia were to be strewn with gory carcasses like those of Lom- bardy the air was to be filled with fiery missiles the walls of four great fortresses were quaking to their fall; the sea was contributing its share to the work of de- struction, when at the mere concert of two minds all is once more calm, as if peace had never been broken.— Times. THE MASK OF FASHION.-(8cene-A Lady's Boudoir.)—Julia: Why, dear, you do surprise me- whatever are you putting that abominable roage on for? Lady B. Well, Fanny, if you must know-I am going to confess, and the rouge is to hide my blushes.—Punch. PARLIAMENTARY TACTICS.—It is reported that Ministers have determined that the next Session of Par- liament shall not be called together until nextycar. We are not aware there is any truth in the statement; but it requiies to be prominently noticed, seeing that a Sunday contemporary has declared the rumour to be a fact. Assuming that it is true, the hope which Lord John Russell raised of a special winter session for the discussion of the Reform question comes to nothing, unless the House of Commons should exert itself to in- duce Ministers to reconsider their determination. But it is to be observed that there can exist little inclina- tion on the part of members of Parliament to expedite a settlement which would involve a return to their con- stituencies. We think that Reform is destined to run the round of the session next year, probably with no better result than it has done during the present. DR. SMETHCIRST'S CASK.—The trial of Dr. Smethurst, for the murder of Isabella Banks, began on the 9th inst. at the Old Bailey Sessions. It may be re- membered that Dr. Smethurst, his wife then being alive, succeeded in persuading a Miss Bankes to marry him, and that while residing with him at Richmond she died under very suspicious circumstances. The main evidence tendered at the Central Criminal Court, so far, has already been given before the chief magistrates and the coroner. The medical testimony wilt be the most interesting part of the trial. One of the jury en- gaged in hearing the trial of Dr. Smethurst fell ill on the second dav, and became incapable of discharging his duties. The jury were discharged, and the new trial was fixed for the 15th of August. A JEW D' RSPRIT.—A foreigner, in the count- ing house of Rothschild, wishing to see some straw paper, was facetiously shown a bundle of bank-notes. Punch. THE REVENUE DEPARTMENTS. — The total amount of the Estimates for the expense of the Revenue Departments-the Customs, Inland Revenue, and Post office-for the year 1859-60, is 4,739,153^ being an increase of 16:304:1., compared with 1858-59. The Customs figure for 857,1551., the Inland Revenue for 1,319,1641., the Post-office for 2,051,2132., and the superannuations of the three departments for 481,2211. Part of this money has been voted on account." The Customs employ 5.871 persons, the Inland Revenue 5,419, and the Post-office 25,409. FRANCIS JOSEPH AND LOUISN APOLEON.-A ustria's position in Italy was immoral, and its immorality made her weak but she was attacked because she was weak, not because her position was immoral. Yet her emperor had, in one respect, courted and deserved his doom. He had renounced the protection of that Power which defends the right by a high breach of his alJegi- ance to the law of honour. In sympathy as short- sighted as it was evil with an enemy of truth and freedom, he had extended the hand of a base and fatal friendship to the triumphant perpetrator of the coup d'etat. His portrait, the pledge of that friendship, bangs among other memorials and trophies of a success- ful career in the room of his Imperial friend. Beside it hangs the Order of the Garter.—Saturday Review. SINGLE-HEADED SHOT AGAINST DOUBLE-HEADED. —"Two heads are better than one," says the old proverb. Negatur. The French Eagle with its one head has proved itself more than a match for the Aus- trian Eagle with its two.-Punch. HELP FOR THE WIDOW!—AN earnest appeal is being made to the public by Mrs. Jane Power, widowed mother of the late Assistancf-Surgeon Richard Power, who went through the whole of the Crimean struggle,. the effects of over-exertion during that time having led to his death. He is chiefly to be remembered for having saved the lives of twenty-five men at Alma, who must otherwise have been lost. He was the sole support of his mother, and now, poor indeed, she seeks for a little comfort from the public. LORD STRATFORD DE REDCLTFFE.—The JJ1 an- chester Guardian favours its readers with the following portrait of this nobleman :— To see that noble lord is to pity the Saltan and his former colleagues. He is the very impersonation, and a very striking one too, of aristocratic hauteur. Tall and broad chested, age has not bent by a hail's breadth, the rigidity of his lordly backbone, or bowed the head whose high and prominent forehead, compressed lips, keen eye, and strong jaws bespeak the iron wiil and the imperious temper, which is still further betrayed in the crisp tones of a hard and metallic voice. But when he gets on his legs and indulges in talking, the old habits of the seraglio seem to return, and he simply pours out a torrent of large words, with an excitement and vehemence of gesticulation whose warmth may be imagined from the fact that lie permitted himself to take a solemn oath-" So help me God "-to the concluding asseveration of his speech last Thursday night. ONE GOOD BESULT OF AUSTRIAN ULTRAMONTANE TENDENCIES.—A retreat beyond the Alps.-Punch. KTJSTIO NOTIONS ON THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. -One fine morning, soon after the opening of the Al- ford line of railway, a couple of decent" natives" were overheard sagely discoursing in this wise—"Weel Saun ers, fat think ye o' wur line noo 'at we've gotten 3ran' rain, gran' bit that teliygraph, Robbie, blocks me ayon a'thing." Fu noo ?" answered Bobbie, with an air of superior wisdom. Weel, min, I can never believe that they can sen' the news wi' sic a burner upo that weeries." Tut, Ba-tii ye sudna. discredit the impruvinerits o' science—I've stan't an' hearkent the tellegraph gaen mysel' miles fate the station-hoose 1 ve heard the news bizzen alang the weers like onything, man." THE MARQUIS OF WATEBFORD.—Some time ago it was discovered that a steward, who had long been in his employment, was passing forged drafts, apparently signed by his lordship. A prosecution was instituted, and the man brought up for trial at the Waterford Assizes. He was in sufficiently good circumstances to retain Mr. Rollestone, Q C., and Mr. Curtis two eminent counsel, to defend him. These gentlemen, on consultation, recommended their client to plead guilty. He agreed, but insisted on calling a witness as to character. The Marquis was in court, and the prisoner, to the surprise of every one, called upon him. Mr. Rollestone, Q C., examined him. The prisoner has been in your employment, my Lord." Yes." For how long?" "Eleven years." What has been his general character?" "I never knew him to commit forgery before." This reply caused a general laugh, and his lordship was not asked any further questions. We need hardly say the prisoner got the benefit of his charaeter.- Weekly Agricultural Revieio, "THE DRAUGHTS MATCH."—There is a para- graph in the papers with the above heading. We have read no further than the title-but if called upon to say what was the Draughts Match ?" we should say from our medical knowledge that it was a Blue Pill.— Punch. A HORSE EATING A HAT.—A few days since (says Pulnwn's Weekly Netvs) a. labouring nian was engaged in pruning the hedge of a garden adjoining an orchard in which a young horse was grazing. The man wore a Leghorn bat, which had lately been given to him. There was a refreshing breeze stirring, and so, of course, the Leghorn hat was blown off and carried over the hedge into the orchard. On going round to pick it up, as he^supposed, how great was the surprise of the man to find that the horse had seized it and was just swallowing the last morsel of it with evident relish! THE BABRAHAM RAMS.—The thirty-third letting of Mr. Jonas Webb's celebrated Southdown rams took place on Thursday at Babraham, Cambridgeshire, and, as usual, attracted visitors from many parts of the country, agents of the Duke of Richmond, the Duke of Beaufort, the Earl of Yarborough, the Earl of Leicester, Lord Dacre, Mr. Bramston, M.P., and Mr. Adeane, M.P., being in attendance. Several of these gentlemen hired rams, but the highest bidder of the day was Mr. Waters, of Eastbourne, Sussex, who took one lot at 70 guineas. Mr. Rigden, the well-known Sussex breeder, hired another ram at 62 guineas; the Duke of Richmond's agent another at 56 guineas Mr. Bramston's representative another at 42 guineas and Mr. Heasman, of Sussex, another at 58 guineas. These, however, were exceptional prices, the average obtained being 251. 9s. 13d. per ram. Altogether 54 rams were hit by the a"Pioneer, but, as? usual, private arrange- ments were made with recrard to others, both before and after the letting. In 1858 the number of rams let was 61, and the average price realised 201. 19s. 3d., so that it will be seen that while fewer transactions were publicly effected the total proceeds were somewhat larger. The guests at the dinner which closed the pro- ceedings included Mr. Jacker, a gentleman connected tlfe a&tieto&iMtl ot tlfeVntt- StaVs a'nS Mr. Dight, an Australian "native" from New South Wales. The latter gentleman is about to take out some of Mr. Webb's shorthorn bulls, and also some of his rams. One of the latter has been recently hired for a spirited agriculturist in the United States at 150 guineas. The Emperor of the French was not repre- sented at the meeting as in former years. THE LATE DEATH BY LIOHTNING.-It will be recollected that during the thunderstorm on Sunday, the 26th ult, a poor man named Hudson, in the service of Mr. Herbert, residing at Clapham, London, was struck dead by lightning, while endeavouring to escape the deluging rain by getting under a tree. The deceased has left a widow and four children, the youngest being only three weeks old at the time of the calamity. Great sympathy has been shown to the poor woman and children by the deceased's master, and also by the inhabitants residing in the neighbour- hood, and about £ 250 has been collected for her benefit. On Sunday afternoon the Rev. C. II. Spurgeon at- tracted some 10,000 or 12,000 to the spot where the accident occurred, and addressed the assembly in a very solemn and eloquent manner from the words Be ye also ready." He directed the attention of the con- gregation to the fact that although, in comparison to the number of thunderstorms that occurred in this country, deaths by lightning were very few, neverthe- less the rarity of the occurrence only pointed out the truth that life was uncertain, and that this was one of the mighty engines employed by the Creator to fulfil his vast designs. An appeal was afterwards made to the sympathies of those around him, and several boxes were handed about to receive the voluntary offerings of any who felt disposed to give. The sum of £ 2710s. 4d. was thus collected on the spot. The poor woman has been in a very precarious position ever since, as the, sudden bereavement prostrated her in a terrible man- ner. SAVE US I-ROM Oun FJUKNDS !—The Econo- mist, in a powerful article entitled The Panic in the House of Lords," makes the following sensible obser- vations If every speech uttered by Lord Lyndhurst and his friends produced an additional line-of-battle ship in our navy, would not such a gain be dearly bought in case they should also happen, as is very likely, to call into existence just as many ships of war on the other side of the Channel, and to sharpen that English jealousy of France and that French animosity towards England which, if once fairly set on fire, may cost us scores of actual line-of-battle ships, and the necessity for constructing hundreds more ? That is a poor kind of insur- ance against loss which at the same moment adds equally to theriskof loss and to the means of meeting it. What would England think if influential members of the Corps Legislatiff in France openly advocated the construction of a navy powerful enough to blockade the English ports, to shut up their fleets, or else to compel them to accept battle on their coasts instead of on ours ?" Would not England be in a fer- ment from end to end,-more especially if such language were used by an ex-minister who might claim to represent the views of a powerful section of the French nation ? Yet, change the word "English" into "French," and these are the very words used by Lord Hardwiclce, who has only just retired with his colleagues from the administration of the English Government. Can it be by such language that he hopes to save his country from the risk to which she is ex- posed ? Is it not obvious that itJïis words tend in any degree to stimulate the exertions of the English Admiralty, they tend just as much, or more, to stimulate the exertions of the Russian or French Admiralty, and, what is worse, to foment those mutual national distrusts which must, if they be allowed to grow, at last turn preparation into action ? THE AMUSEMENTS OF MARRIED LIFE.-A remarkable instance in the difference in tastes between man and wife, who are supposed to be two in one in everything, was made apparent in the investigation of an assault case by the Brighton magistrates last week. A womannamed Clapson earnestly entreated the Bench to restrain her husband from beating her. The Bench wanted to know what were his reasons for so doing, and it then came out that the female was in the habit of leaving her home for ten days at a scratch," and that she mostly spent her evenings in dancing at a public house. Her life, however, was not all enjoy- ment, for it appeared that when she got home she in- variably "came in for a leathering." Her husband, it was stated, earned 34s. a week, and spent 14s. in beer. He wanted a separation, and wished to have the children, but the woman also claimed the children, and said her husband had often told her they didn't belong to him. "But," added Mrs. C., "if they don't belong to him, they do to me, and I've aright to them." The Bench fined Clapson 6d. and costs, for an assault which they were of opinion had been committed. SINGULAR FATALITY.—It will be remembered that among the cabin passengers of the nnfortunate Pomona there were a Mrs. Paxton, Master T. Paxton, and the Misses Harriet and Lizzie Paxton. These all perished in the Ponoma, but their bod es were after- wards washed ashore, and, of course, interred respect- ably, a large amount of money having been found on the person of Mrs. Paxton. Mrs. Paxton was the wife of Captain Paxton, of the Savannah ship Cooawattee, and she and her family were going to New York to meet Captain Paxton; but the morning that beheld the wreck of the Ponoma and the fate of Mrs. Paxton and her family ushered in the day on which Captain Paxton died. His ship was lying at Calcutta, and he died there the same day as his wife and family perished off this coast. Thus one entire family—the head of which was in India, the remainder in Ireland—died on the same day.- Wexford Paper. QUACKERY AND ITS PUNISHMENT. — At the Central Criminal Court, London, Waiters and Ed- wards, two men connected with a notorious gang of quack doctors, have been tried on a charge of con- spiring to defraud. They professed to cure deafness, but gave medicines for which they charged large sums, but which did no good whatever. They were found guilty, and sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour. Similar prosecutions in other quarters would render equal service to the community. THE COST OF OUR ARMY.—The supplementary army estimates show an increase of 1.261,000?. to the estimates, amounting to 11,598, OOOl. previously placed before the House. The additional amount consists of 410,000/. for embodied militia, 108,000/. wa^es of artificers, &c., .J0,0(>0.. c.othi.ng and necessaries, 93.000/. provisions,forage^ &c., 414,000*. warlike stores, 123,000*. fortifications, 23,000*. civil buddings 36,000/. barracks, and 1,800/, educational and scientific branches. There is no increase to the number of men. CORN MEASURES.—A Bill of Mr, J. Locke, Mr. Hutt, and Mr. Buxton requires hereafter that corn, grain, and pulse shad not be sold by any local or cus- tomary weight or measure, or otherwise than by the imperial measure or capacity, or by the sack of four bushels, or by the quarter of eight bushels. All con- tracts ma.de otherwise than the act directs will be null and void. 910 is the penalty annexed to the gross offence of making false beams and scales Ins Dehors of weights and measures may inspect beams &c., in the public streets. EQUALITY AT THE CXBAVE. •—A meeting of churchwardens has been held at Stamford, for a some- what n >vel purpose-namely, to take into consiclera- tion the propriety of observing uniform rules in ring- ing the passing bell and minute bell on the death and funeral of pansmoners. A distinction has been hitherto made m respect ta the station in life of the deceased—the bells being raised" and "knolled" for the poox\ while for toy higher^classes ^ey have been simply knolled. A unaimn.JUS feeling prevailed that as the grave levels all distinctions, one uniform rule should be observed in future, and that the bells should be "knolled" only. FIUGHTIUL DEATH OF A LITTLE GTKL — On Saturday an accident of a most frightful description, which ended fatally, occurred in the famihr of Mr. Jones, agentlemanresiding in W arwick-square, London. Jt appears the nursery maid left the children for a few minutes, when one of them, a beautiful little girl named Margaret, about three years of age, climbed upon a chair which was near the window, and on reaching some flowers outside, she overbalanced herself and fell upon the iron rails of the front area, literally being impaled. The frightful occurrence was witnessed by some men at work at some new buildings opposite, who extricated the unfortunate child, and she was conveyed to a doctor's, but so^ dreadful were the injuries received that she ex- pired in about ten minutes. A ROYAL CLAIMANT.—Those who are interested in royal scandal will, it is said, before long have their tastes gratified. I understand that Sir C. Cresswell is likely before long to be called upon to investigate the rights of a person, who claims to be a descendant of the Duke of Cumberland (the brother of George III.), and who wilt apply to the court under that portion of its jurisdiction which requires it when called upon to make declarations of leidUnaey. The case will, I have some reason to believe, be rendered still niore interesting by scraps from the correspondence of the most eminent men of the time, which will form part of the evidence" And unless I am very much misinformed as to the eminent legal practitioners who are to support the claimant's cause, I must suppose if; to be botii bona Me and plausible. Perhaps, indeed, it may be too nlausi fortLT^Wtliai; f°ri- W+?Uld 1\ard!y be Peasant for the highest personage m the realm to see an un- known granger enter the royal family. It ]00ks like a case .for comprolD.1se.-Correspondence of Manchester Examiner. HISTORICAL PARALLELS.—Louis Napoleon- is true to the precedents of the founder of his house (re- mariisi the Times). As Napoleon the great granted an armistice to the Emperor Alexander after the great bautie of i' nedland, and three days afterwards settled the outlines of a treaty upon the raft of Tilsit," so Napoleon, the Nephew, has given to bis victory at polfenno the historical sequences of an armistice, an interview, and a preliminary treaty. What happened on the rah at Tilsit is all now history what happened in that room at Villafrauca we cannot yet know, but we may hope with confidence that);he conversation be- tween the Imperial negotiators of 1859 did not com- mence ill the same words which opened the Conference of 1807. Alexander's first expression to Napoleon was I ha,te the English as much as you do, and am ready to second you in all your enterprises against them." Francis Joseph did Cot, we imagifli|v thus comaieuoe; n^r dfd crar goa'd slly am faift frffNl as his uncle answered,—"In that case everything will be easily arranged, and peace isalready made." Happily, England has for once nothing to do with this arrange- ment; and, when Austria and France make up their disputes, the secret articles that may be agreed upon cannot with any reason bear reference to jealousies or hatred of this Empire. ORANGE AYFRAY AT PAISLEY.—A lodge mustered on Tuesday in the High-street to the number of 400 to 500, among whom were a considerable number of women, and, headed by a band of music, they proceeded to parade the town. On reaching the bridge over the Black Cart, at the south end of the village, they found their further progress opposed by 200 or 300 miners, who as soon as they made their appearance attacked them with stones and bludgeons. The procession was driven back into the village in disorder. A fearful affray ensued, in which severalpersons were dangerously wounded.

SCOTTISH AND ENGLISH DIVORCE LAW The Court of Probate and Divorce is now hard at work again, numbers of cases being daily brought before it. Among others we select the following :— Mr. Henry Bertie Tollemache prayed for a dissolu- tion of his marriage on the ground of his wife's adultery. He was married at Gretna-green in August, 1837, to the respondent, then Miss Amelia Sinclair, the daughter Y)o I -tu, of Sir George and Lady Sinclair. He had at that time an allowance of 200t. a-year from his family, and was a lieutenant in the Fusileer Guards. He sold his com- mission, and cohabited with'his wife at various places, principally in Scotland, where her family lived until 1841. In 1838 a son was born at Rothesay. Mrs. Tollemache formed an acquaintance with a Major Power, and in April, 1841, committed adultery with him at the Black Bull hm, Glasgow. Mr. Tollemache instituted proceedings in the Court of Session in Scot- land, and in July that Court pronounced a sentence of divorce. In the following August Mrs. Tollemache married Major Power, and lived with him until his death in 1855. She has had three children by him. The respondent, in her answer, pleaded the Scotch divorce, and alleged that the petitioner in 1837 ac- quired a Scotch domicile, and retained it until 1841. It appeared that shortly after the Scotch divorce Mr. Tollemache came into possession of the sum of £ 8,000, in consequence of the death of a relative. In 1855 he obtained the opinion of the Queen's Advocate, of Dr. Addams, and of Mr. Rolt, upon his case and in the following year he presented a petition to the House of Lords, praying that an Act might be passed declaring that the Scotch divorce was valid. The petition was opposed by Lord Redesdale and supported by Lord Brougham, but, in consequence of Lord Brougham's absence from town, it was not then presented. In the following year it was_ again presented and referred to a select committee, which reported that they had searched the journals and found no precedent for the prayer with which it concluded, and that in their opinion it ought not to be complied with. The matter then dropped, and no further step was taken until this court was esta- blished. Dr. Deane submitted that the petitioner had been guilty of unreasonable delay in allowing 14 years, be- tween 1841 and 1855, to elapse without making any effort to obtain an English divorce. Mr. Justice Williams said the unreasonable delay mentioned in the Act was something in the nature of connivance or acquiescence in the adultery. There was no reason for imputing delay in that sense to the petitioner, and the Court would dissolve the marriage.

HERVEY V. HERVEY AND LORD RIBBLESDALE. Mr. Henry Arthur William Hervey, a son of Lord William Hervey, was married in October, 1857, at St. George's, Hanover-square, to a Mrs. Cox, who passed by the name of Mrs. Flemming, and who had had three children by Lord Ribblesdale. Her connexion with Lord Ribblesdale had been broken off about two years before the marriage, and in the interval Lord Kibbles- dale had married. Mr. and Mrs. Hervey cohabited in Park-street, Grosvenor-square, until September, 1858, and in that month Mrs. Hervey left the House, and went and resided with Lord Ribblesdale in the Isle of Wight. The facts of the marriage and adultery were proved, but their lordships required additional evidence of the identity of the lady, and also some explanation with regard to the circumstances of the marriage, of the cohabitation, and of the separation. Mr. Baron Martin observed that the case was a very peculiar one, and in his opinion the petitioner had not as yet made out the allegations in the petition. At a later part of the day, witnesses were called who proved the identity c of the lady who had lived with Lord Rihblesdale since the separation with Mrs. Hervey. The jury found the issue of adultery for the petitioner. Two letters written by Mr. Hervey after her elopement were read, in which she acknowledged her guilt, and implored her husband's forgiveness. The Court then dissolved the marriage.

HYMEN AND LOW MEN. Oh dear, what can the matter be ? Oh dear, what shall we do? All the world fain would unmarried be For one Divorce Court we want two! Wedlock's bonds in old times used to tie men So tight, they cost thousands to loose Low men once entangled by Hymen, Had no hopes of unclasping his noose. To file through the steel of his fetters, No metal was potent but gold So the poor sat in chains, while their betters, Drew their bills, and escaped from his hold, like green peas a pound the peck measure, Or house-lamb at Christmas, we saw, Divorce portioned out against treasure, A luxury sweetened by law. Then Lord Kedesdale exultingly reckoned, The Divorce Bills each session saw through And called all the Bishops 10 second His delight that the list showed so few. And in lay and episcopal chorus, Sung the Peers, What a system is ours? Where still horned goes each conjugal Taurus, Till released by a private Bill's powers But now, thanks to wild innovation, Rich and poor on one footing are set; Any couple, no matter their station, For a good cause, uncoupled may get. Like ice-creams, a glass for a penny, Or pines at a penny the slicr, ivo more for the few," but the many, Divorce has come down in its pries, Ko wonder the Bishops look blue, That Kedesdale with horror deplores. When a luxury meant for the few The million find brought to their doors !—Punch.

EPITOME OF NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. A letter from Arlon, in Belgium, states that the crops of all kinds are so fine that there is every reason to expect that the harvest will produce one-third in'U-e than that of 1838. The crop of hay is so heavy that the farmers scarcely know what to do with it. Potatoes also look re- markably fine. A great fuss is being made in the metropolis about an Illuminated Advertising Indicator which has been erected at Hyde Pork corner. It is just opposite Apsley House, the seat of the Duke of Wellington, who is a great opponent of the erection. The matter has been brought before Parlia- ment. The Punch of Munich, in its last number, contains the following :—" P-roud Albion is rejoicing in its neutrality; the Thames becomes daily more fetid." On Tuesday the heat of the weather was severely felt in London, and several cases of sun-stroke occurred. The effect of travel on the Prince of Wales though not very marked, is still noticeable. His complexion'is tinged with the brown of a Southern climate, and his flo-ure though still very slender has become more set. His manner and bear- ing, too, are much more manly. The other day a woman was condoling with the old woman who opens the pews for the congregation of Green- vich Chureh, on the great amount of work she had to do. *e=> sue replied, we used to have only to open, the uoors, but now we have to push in the dresses." Th-' editor ot tl\e Pitlghurg Chronicle is reported by 3. contemporary to have eaten a strawberry half-a-foot in circumference. The Pike's Peak gold-mines, U.S., said to produce laoulous nuggets, was recently visited by three diggers, who brought back sixteen cents' worth of the precious metal. A Scotch paper asserts that Garibaldi is a Scotchman. His father, they say, was a shoemaker, at the Auld Brig o'Stirling, and his n.nne was Garrow. His son's Christian name was HaJdie-n. common Christian name in some districts of Scotland. Inconsequence of some freak or other, the son went to Italy and the natives of that sunny clime, being unable to pronounce the names of Baldie Garrow, transposed them into the more mellifluous Garibaldi. The French speak with great respect of the Austrian artillery, as regards both the material and the practice. But they are of opinion that should they bring their own heavy guns into play—their twenty-four pounders, which it takes eight horses to draw-and point them against the walls of the fortresses, the enemy will not have a chance against them. The Daily Telegraph says that next to a general war, that which Europe has most to fear is a peace dictated at Paris. From a parliamentary paper it appears that in one year the duty on cards and dice amounted to 15,0i6Z. 12s. A learned lord, recently speaking on the salary at. tached to a rumoured appointment to a new judgeship, said it was all moonshine. Lord Lyndhurst, in his dry, sarcastic way, remarked, Maybe so, but I have a strong notion that, moonshine though it be, you would like to see the first quarter of it." Oar constitution after all is a sound one. We are muscular Christians, who are out of order occasionally, and don't mind heiDg told of it; but our normal state is that of which the symptoms are the Armstrong gun and the steam ram.—Saturday Review. At a meeting held at Wakefield recently, in aid of the Yorkshire Scripture Readers, the Bishop of Ripon said it was a fact with regard to a vast number of the most hard- working, self-dsuj'ing clergy in the district, that such was the scanvinessi of. the income ayowetj th«n, that itwajs with great difficulty th'ay cfrald Haft a comm&i tiahfeSetifeeb fi* fheir families. The Constitutionnet savs that two new towns, on called Magenta, the other Solferino, are to be founded in Algeria, and that the Austrian prisoners are to be employed in building them. The Russian Government has issued a notice inter- dicting the sale of lottery tickets just issued in such great quantities throughout Austria, and, indeed, in various other parts of Germany. Even if a peace can be patched up, it will be but an armed truce. The engagements between France and Russia will still subsist, the jealousy of Germany will continue in full activity, nor can England safely intermit the progress of her naval armaments.-Saturday Review. The Russian ships of war which have been for some time fitting out at Cronstadt are reported to be leaving that port in small squadrons, for the purpose of reinforcing their fleet in the Mediterranean. A Montreal paper states that in sawing a perfectly sound pine log an Indian tomahawk was found. At Lloyd's the announcement of the armistice caused a diminution in the charges of war risks on Prussian ships, but no alteration as regards English. It is said that Mr. Disraeli has not accepted liis pension, but has refused it, objecting to make the necessary declaration that he needs it in order to maintain his political position. There is no truth in the report that it is the intention of her Majesty the Queen to visit Ireland this year. Cavxiana, where Victor Emmanuel, then Duke of Savoy, had his quarters in 184S at the time of the action of volta, is the town where the Emperor Francis Joseph was on the morning of the 2tth of June, and where the Emperor Napoieon slept on the night of the same day. AU three occupied the same house. A melancholy event has taken place at the camp, Curragh. Two officers of a regiment had been tried by a court martial, for one of those witless, brainless practical jokes, which we had hoped had died out. Upon hearing the sentence of the court, "that both he cashiered," one of them betook himself to the river, and there, in continuation of his folly, drowned hitmelf. Mortars, shells, and s'ege guns at present arrive no longer (says a correspondent, writing from Genoa' en revanche we have endless cases containing each "15 obiis obloms < £ e 12," the shot fitted with little zinc wings to be used with the French rifled cannon, whether partly or wholly detonating shells, made something after the model of Orsini's iDfeni81 machine. Everybody and everything has its price; and the price of a seat for Marylebone, in London, is 6,0001. Two lumps of gold," the "Welcome" and "Ma- lachite" nuggets, are the subjects of engravings in the Min- ing Joumal, and might pass very well for boulder-stones. At the sale of the late Dr. Squibb's Library in Lon- don, last week, an arm chair, formerly belonging to Dc. Johnson, was sold for 151. 10s. The chair is an uncouth look- ing piece of furniture, of ample dimensions, and such as well became the proportions of the leviathan of literature. A supplement to the London Gazette, of Friday con- tains an order in council in connexion with the royal proclar- mation of bounties for naval volunteers, announcing that i gratuity equal to half the bounty will be paid to all seamen (not being pensioners), according to their rating;, who have now at least five years to serve in the navy, and have set received or are entitled to the bounty. The change which has taken place in the supreioe courts at Naples appears to have but little effect in soothiag the animosities which the late Government of the late TTing has created all over the kingdom. It was stated by a leading dentist of Chicago, in a recent address to his brethren, that the value of the gold plate and leaf used in the United States for the replacing infl repair of defective teeth, was 2,250,000 dollars. This is a fact that tests the existence of a high civilisation aad a good deal of toothache in that blessed land. The news of the armistice agreed to by the two Em- perors arrived at the head-quarters of the King of Sardinia at the moment the artillery was about to open fire against Peschiera. The French greatly vaunt the certainty of their aim with their artillery. A French captain of artillery JaM a heavy bet that at 3,000 metres he would hit a windmill twioe out of three times. He hit it all three times. At that dis- tance the fire is point blank and most destructive against fortifications. The three men charged with kidnapping a voter at Bury have been committed for trial at the Liverpool Assizes, bail being accepted for their appearance. Most of the Austrian muskets in the field near Sa.n Cassiano were broken just behind the lock. It is the custom of the Austrian soldier, when he finds that he cannot avoid capture, to take his musket by the barrel and break it by k sharp blow of the butt against the ground. In well-informed political circles it is said that the British Government brought about the temporary cessation of hostilities by persuading the Emperor of the French tt> make propositions to the Austrian Government, which, if accepted, might serve as a basis for peace. A boy, six years of age, in Brooklyn, America, has killed his brother by thrusting a knife into his breast, Reis at New Haven. The Tuscan Government has issued a decree enact- ing that persons convicted of spreading political rumoaM calculated to disturb the peace, shall be imprisoned for a time not exceeding a week. An eminent Hungarian" has transmitted to the Daily Neics an authenticated contradiction of the report thot Klapka and the Hungarian exiles had offered the crown of Hungary to the Grand Duke Constantine. At Kinderhook, near Albany, United States, a married woman having eloped with a man, a mob seized them, stripped them both naked, tarred and feathered them, and then drew them through the to wn in a waggoa. Sir John Bowring and his eldest daughter were among the passengers unfortunately wrecked on board the Alante the Red Sea and it will be learned with regret that a large portion of his valuable MSS. and public documents were lost in that disaster. Happy England—(exclaims the writer of a letter ia the Daily News, who has passed over the battle-fields Of Lombardy)—happy England, whose soil has not been trodden by conqueror or liberator since the battle of Hastings—may thy shores long remain inviolate!

HARVEST PROSPECTS. Last week the weather was in most parts of the United Kingdom fine, mostly rainless, with the wind blowing prttt- cspaUy from the N. W The hot temperature is bringing the grain crops, in the south of England, rapidly to maturity. In about a week wheat cutting is expected to commence. The dry and hot weather, this week has done mueh good in the way of repairing the injury done to the grain crops by the storm of the 2nd July; still, it is feared that the quality of the crops cannot be so perfect as it might have beea, without being lodged. The prospects of the approachiag corn harvest, in the United Kingdom, continue, on the whole. favourable. The potato disease has shown itself in soa).e parts of England in a very destructive character, but these cases have been, up to this time, too isolated to cause serioufs apprehensions. The agricultural accounts from Ireland are, except partial complaints, on the whole, satisfactory, and nothing appears known to be amiss with the potato crop up to the present time.

THE PROVINCIAL COXN TftAfiE. Iu nearly all the corn markets in the Uaited Kingdom held. at last week's close, holders of wheat had to give way about 2s. per qr. In other kinds of grain very little business was done, and prices were in buyor's favour. SIAUK LANE, MONDAY What with the armistice and the splendid weather the grain trade has received a decided check, being dull and de- pressed, and the eountrv markets likewise- advisp nf a TOA-A* tion of 2s. to 3s. per qr. At Mark-lane, this morning, the fresh arrivals of English grain are limited the foreign im- ports have also been moderate. The trade opened for Eng- lish wneat wn,h a very dull appearance, and buyers insisted upon a reduction of 4s. to 5s. before they would purchase, at which some stands were cleared. Foreign wheat taken in retail at Zs. to 3s. reduction. Country marks of flour were lower by 2s. per sack. Grinding sorts of barley sold cheap. Malt Quiet at late rates. Beans and peas steady, but little doing, The demand for the best qualities of oats was fair, at 6d. to Is. decline. Prices:— BRITISH, s. d. WHEAT ..Essex, Kent, and Suflolii, white, per qr.. 48 to 45 BARLEY ..Malting. — to M OATS Essex and Suffolk 21 to 2f BEANS .Mazagan 40 to 42 Tick and Harrow 40 to SEED Canary per qr. 61 to 66 Carraway per cwt. Do to — Rape per qr, 68 to 78 Hemp seed ..per qr. S3 te 88 MARK LANE, WEDNESDAY. Supplies were moderate. Trade generally dull at Monday1* decline. Barley and malt trade was dull without alteratioli in price. Beans, oats, and peas were unaltered in value. SEEDS. Linseed arrives freely, and prices are rather easier. On the spot, Bombay sells at 49s &i., and two floating cargoes, to getlier about 9,000 qrs,, have been sold for arrival at about present rates. Calcutta quoted 48s. to 4Ss. 6d. Itapeseed continues in good demand for export; fine sound Calcutta, 43s. to 43s. 6d. fine Bombay Guzerat, 52s. to 54s; Ferozepore and Scinde, 32s. to 45s., as to quality. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY. Our market opened dull this morning, but a good numbe of buyers making their appearance, a better tone was estab lished. and notwithstanding the depression in Mark-lane yesterday, holders were enabled to obtain an advance of ld. to 2d. per cental on French wheats over the rates of Friday. Flour had only a slow sale at Friday's reduction. Indian corn attracted a fair inquiry at full prices. Oats and oat- meal little dealt in. Egyptian beans were a shade easier. Pease and barley nominally unchanged. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, MONDAY. The supplies of stock as market were large, and trade dull, but no quotable change took place in prices. These remarki apply to all descriptions of stock. Prices :—Inferior quality, beef, 4s. to 4s. 4d.; mutton, 4s. to 48 4d. veal, Ss. 1M. to 4s. 4d. pork, 3s. 8d. to 4s.; lamb, 5s. to 5s. 4d. Firat quality, beef, 4s. 6d. to 4s lOd. mutton, 4s. 8d to 5s.; veaL 4s. 6d. to 5s. pork, 4s. 4d. to 4s. Sd. lamb, 5s. 8d. to 6s 2d., atper stone of SIbs. sinking the offal.

LONDON PRODUCE MARKETS. MINCING LANE, WEDNESDAT. In the Colonial produce markets the improved tone is well sustained. A large business was concluded in sugar, at a partial advance of 6d. per cwt. Coffee was also dealt ia at stiffer prices. The depression in the cornmarket has cheated the inquiry for rice, and the increasing confidence in tbt return of peace has bad a similar efiect in the saltpetre mar- ket. Manufacturing products generally continue to meet a more steady sale, and altogether the tendency is still in the direstion of improvement. COFME.—A good enquiry prevails, and for small parcels to complete immediate orders extreme rates art paid. TEA.—The market remains without quotable ehange. SALTBETEX.—The probabilities of peace have completeSjf checked the inquiry, and businta remaina at a stand tttM. OlIS—Linseed is still dull and cheaper to fS 28». 9d. quoted; paia rape, *8B. 6d. hands at Cd.tb 6fd. efetfc.