The Aberystwith Observer

HUMOURED EXCITEMENT AT COPENHAGEN. PARIS, Feb. 8. The Patrie of this evening publishes, under express reserve, a report that a revolution has broken out at Copenhagen and that the King of Sweden has been proclaimed in that city. The report also states that King Christian has embarked for England. La Prance of this evening says :— Great excitement is felt at Copenhagen among the mari- population and the workmen at the arsenal, all of demand to be led to battle. A powerful squadron is fo»i5 ou'- Two Bcrew frigates have left Copenhagen Danish ^^u^of ■^8en> to support the movements of the Paris pipers also publish a telegram, dated Copen- "•Ken, Feb. 7, evening:— t. Demonstrations have been made before the palace of King to-day, demanding explanations of the order given the Danish troops to retire from the Dannewerk. The raster of War has declared that he had nothing to do with a order."

POLAND. BBRLIN, Feb. 8. received here from Warsaw announce the est of a person named Fawakl, and state that it had led j'OBiost important discoveries, in consequence of which mf* hadjbeen arrested in Warsaw and the provinces UP to Saturday last. xrnf; 8_aTr>e letters further state that the archives of the RUBM? Government had fallen into the Lands of the Poland and that important personages in Thfi n ahroad were thereby seriously compromised, mack. -Dzwnnik announces the discovery of ten infernal man, ine!> together with bombs and arms, at the vinegar manufactory of M. Eskert.

THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND. BATTLE AT RANGIRIRI. FOREIGN-OFFICE, Feb. 8, 1864. trr?e following telegram has been received by Earl Russell d-iX, Majesty's agent and Consul-General in Egypt, u»»ed Cairo, Feb. 7 11 RANGIRIRI, Nov. 29,1863. lAeutenant-General Cameron, on the 20th inst., with a unrt of 1'000 ar>d three guns, aided by the Royal Navy, nan Commodore Sir William Wiseman, attacked the rebel on iv68' who occupied a very strongly entrenched position sev hank of the river Waikato at Rangiriri, and after a anil engagement, succeeded In dislodging them from it, taking 183 prisoners, including most of the chiefs. The Koiing commenced at 5 p.m., and did not cease till 6am fo«. !ay- 0ur I?8!; includJln« that of the Royal Navy' is officers killed, 11 wounded: 37 men killed 80 wounded fitch* oI kiUed aDd Wouaded wil1 sent by my firat des- COLQUHOra." Advices from Wo™ n ■> MELBOURNE, Dec. 23. have suffered « .a^a.n(* announce that the Maories captured Th* imt J Two hundred prisoners were ^pturea. The 50th Regiment had arrived.

THE CAPTURE OF THE AMTMANN BLAUENFELD. Of thn Times correspondent gives the following particulars 6 arrest of Blauenfeld, as given in the telegrams: af ^)es' my knowledge, however, the affairs allT* Wedelipange, and Kloster Krugcomprise the fighting that nas yet taken place. As regards x?18 P^oners, I hear that about 400 have alto- gether been taken, chiefly at Wedelspange, and_ I rayself saw a considerable number sent off last evening by railway from Rendaburg southward. It is that among the prisoners are a number of ochleswigera, who willingly gave themselves tip. Under the same escort there was a most obnoxious Personage named Blauenfeld, the chief local au- thority at Fleckeby, who is accused by those who lived under his administration, and indeed by tne public voice in all that part of Schleswig, o op- pression, injustice, peculation, and vanous other offences. His capture took place under the follow- ing circumstances Just after I reached the quiet little roadside inn at Fleckeby on Tuesday at night- fall there arrived there a German traveller or ama- teur who, like myself, had been present at the fight at Missunde. He wore the Schleswig-Holstein cockade in his hat, which the people of the place, who were still unprotected by any German force, urged him to ,lp otec remove. The Danes were close at hand, they said, and Blauenfeld was there and might bring them down upon [him. Notwithstanding the said awe of the redoubtable Blauenfeld, for which those poor peasants seemed to have good cause, the stranger laughed at the injunction, and informed them that tbe Prussians would soon be up, and then they would have nothing to fear. Just then a Prussian cavalry patrol, which I before had driven past, ap- peared upon the road, and the Fleckebyans, gather- j ing courage, went to the obnoxious official's house, I ,«ized him, and conveyed him to the nearest Prussian post. It was reported yesterday # that he was to be. j hung, and doubtless such a termination to his career f would give much satisfaction to those who have eutterecl h under his jurisdiction; but the proceeding would have been rather too summary, and he was merely sent on a prisoner to the rear, for further investigation of his alleged offences. —

| SlisttltoflMs Jnkliipitt. | HOME, FOREIGN, AMp COLONIAL. THE MoRmoNs. Our correspondent in Salt Lake City sends us a copy of the message ofArHncr Governor Reid, of Utah, to the Territorial Legislature and other interesting matter from that region (8aVo the New York Herald). The condition of affair [n tne territory is represented as very flourishing; the mterests are attracting unusual attention, era" is recommended to meet the "new t w*»cb the governor says is dawning upon the s °*y> The progress of the Pacific Railroad is the hnJ congratulatory allusion. Indian hostilities rail6 ceased; a sentiment loyal to the Union gene- titrZ P.re7?^,8' and the financial condition of the ter- ritory is highly satisfactory. LI A WELSH GHOST !—Last week a lad aged 14, in a -0 a*a' went out into the back yard Rreaf 6« ?V?J11D £ feturned almost instantly in a ghost e^v \ming that he had seen his own cientliSayS the Cf"lbri.a Daily Leader). When suffi- °Peni^ Trd, j give an account, he said that, on dtatKi ? hack door, he Baw himself, white and Hisf>^ J standing in front, and he at once ran back, tut Wends endeavoured to joke him out of the belief, stated Was D0^ 8 ant^' singular to add, so thouoi,8' trustworthy informant, he sickened, and, ^orse a-rea^hy lad up to the date of his fright grew and died. LINES f ^WXOLIN'E STEEL TRAFFIC. — Crino- J^ot i an increasing item of railway traffic, cam" JSS A hundred tons of crinoline steels are shir the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln- of ^anway weekly. Sheffield is the principal seat ne man.ufacture5 the fabrication of this delicate lIorticle éfiving emploYment to a large number of its ft ^uakinS the average weight of each set of of J? i steel hoops athalf apound, the above quantity ot steel shows a production of about half a million i independent of what passes from effield bv other routes. The (juantity of steel hoops us manufactured weekly to enlarge the seeming pro- Portions of the fair sex, if joined together in a con- tinuous wire, would almost compass the globe. lIE WOULD SPEAK !-The late Mr. Croker, at a dinner partgr at which the Duke of Wellington waa pre- lent, was enlightening the company with sewraf details about the battle of Waterloo. The duke tried to speak several times, but there was no putting down the loud and dictatorial Mr. Rigby," and at last the Duke smiled, and gave it up for a bad job. Rigby settled Waterloo his own way. Later, there arose a discus- I sion on percussion-caps for muskets, and here Mr. I Croker was again, omniscient, and tried to settle the I matter as he had settled Waterloo. Again he j wouldn't hear the duke. But this time Wellington was not to be snubbed by Croker. "No, it I" I said the duke (it was a pity he used the vulgarism, but it was the fashion of his day), I will sPe^k" mayn't know much about the battle of Waterloo, D I do know something about percussion-caps. I do know something about percussion-caps. WHAT WILL IMPROVE TNE,, CONDIFTT^NMIN>« IRELAND.—Speaking at the Lord Mayor of Dubhn s banquet, last week, Lord Carlisle thus referred to the condition of Ireland :— It would be a Zu/aUon0 cWa,not frS eo along with the pathetic complaint of the pleas/ng poet with whose statue we have i lately adorned our highways, when he says- "Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay." i Relieve there would be much more truth In the converse, and that worse would fare the land where men accumulate I and wealth decays. The gentlemen below wish for more mouths and less food to fill them. This state of things is not desirable; and least of all do I wish, and much do I regret, thatlreland should part with any of her hardy and generOUs sons-merely to supply food for the vultures which ) fcover over the Lethean plains of Virginia and Tennessee. But r with respect to the general course and current of emigra- tion, while any attempt forcibly to arrest it would be im- possible as it would be cruel, I for one am not prepared to repine at it until the general average rate of wages in this • country shall amount to at least 10s. a week. This is very far from being universally the case at present I certainly am not prepared to follow the Lord Mayor into the details of the political questions, some of a very delicate nature, of which he has laid the heads before you. I think that one great want of Ireland is what sounds of a very homely and prosaic character; but I believe one great lever of Irish im- provement would be found not so much in any great prin- ciple or doctrine, or in any adjustment of rival creeds and races so much as in the general adoption of abetter system of farming. Let her children attend to her fertile soil; let them consult the genius of her mild but variable atmosphere; let them readily and with alacrity seize upon such openings as the extension of the linen trade, and the opportunity for flax culture now offering to them; and without presuming to guarantee any sudden or startling results, 1 think there is every hope for sure and progressive ones. THE COMET. -The new comet 18 gradually emerging from the solar rays in order to become visible to the naked eye for a few nights. Its distance from the sun which, on the 27th of December last, was 29,469,000 leagues, will be 43 millions of leagues on the 10th instant. Its velocity is about 90 times that of a cannon ball at the moment it leaves the mouth of the piece, namely, about 950,903 leagues per day, but it is constantly decreasing. On the 18th of Feb. ruary it will have fallen to 860,000 leagues, and about the middle of August, 1890, when it will pass through I its aphelion, it will be 20,000 leagues. THE REFUGE OF THE THRIFTLESS.—The prodigal son who has got through his fortune is seldom reduced so low in our time as to fill his belly with husks (says the Saturday Review). Though unthrift may have brought him down to the extreme of neediness, he can generally contrive, somehow or other, to have "a neat repast with wine" once or twice a week at the club, to smoke excellent cigars, and entail no great distress upon anybody, excepting, it may be, his creditors. If things come to the worst, he can take a trip to Boulogne, or some other Continental workhouse for paupers of quality, where there is a good deal of pleasure of a certain kind to be got by the philosophic spendthrift. It would be interesting to know now far the reflections of the pecuniary exue who tries to espy the opposite coast from the Boulogne cliffs, coincide with those of thebarkrupt weaver as he look. up and down the street and suns himself on the work- house flags. We once heard a man with a mass of 'unpaid college debts of many years' standing, enjoin the practice of thrift upon an assemblage of mechanics, every cne of whom had money in the savings-bank, with a fervour that astounded the few persons present who knew the earnest orator's private position. Even those who do not know from their own experience the precious luxury of exhorting other people to be good, are disposed to entertain a general sort of conviction that thrift is a virtue foe which a gentleman has no use-nay, one which, on the whole, is rather unbecoming his position. ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN IN WORKHOUSES.—It appears from a Parliamentary return, which was issued on Monday, that the number of illegitimate children born in the workhouses of England and Wales in 1860, was 7,077; in 1861, the number was 8,020 and in 1862, it was 8,115. The number that have become chargeable to the union was 764 in 1860 (539 of whom were in Wales) 756 (485 being Welsh) in 1861 and 919 (of whom 526 were Welsh) in 1862. The English county highest in the li.t in the year 1862, next to Middlesex, is Lancashire, which is put down for 882 Surrey follows with 485; then the West Riding with 304 Kent, 292 Devon, 260 Lincoln, 253; Gloucester, 249 Norfolk, 242; Warwick, 217; Stafford, 206. SIGN OF THE TIMES.—The (American) Congre- gationalist" states that on the meeting of the Legisla- ture of Massachusetts, a coloured man, the Rev. Mr. Grimes, minister of a coloured Baptist church in Boston, was a candidate for the chaplaincy, and among his supporters was the Governer of the State, influenced by the minister's great exertions in enlisting coloured soldiers. But the times were not yet ripe for it." CHIEF OCCUPATIONS OF THE PEOPLE.—The recent census of England shows this list of oc- cupations followed by more than 100,000 persons Agricultural labourers and farm servants (without in. cluding members of the farmer's family), 1,188,789; domestic servants, 1,106,974; engaged on the cotton and calico manufacture, 456,646 persons; on the woollen cloth manufacture, 130,034 on the iron manu- facture,125,771 on the satin and silk manufacture, 101,670 coal miners, 246,613 dressmakers and milli- ners, 287,101; laundry people, 167,607; shoemakers, 259,581 tailors, 136,390; carpenters and joiners 177,969 blacksmiths, 108,165. There are 309,883 persons described generally as labourers." A NEW THEATRICAL SENSATION" IN PARIS.— In a piece called "La Maison du Baigneur," just brought out at the Paris Gaite, a novel and startling effect thrills the audience every evening. A ponderous movable ceiling, in a room from which one of the characters is unable to escape, gradually descends by machinery, until the unhappy captive is crushed to death beneath its weight. The idea is not new, but it is now carried out for the first time on the stage. For- tunately the victim at the Gaite is one of the most de- testable villains of the piece, so that, dramatically speaking, he may be said to deserve his fate. ACCIDENTS IN COAL MINEs.-The collected reports made by the Inspectors of Mines to the Home Secretary on the year 1862 have just been published. They show that no less than 1,333 lives were lost by coal-mine accidents in Great Britain in that year, and 105 in ironstone mines. In 1861 the lives lost by acci- dents in coal mines were only 943, but the year 1862 saw several accidents of unusual fatality-47 persons were killed by an explosion at Cethin Colhery, near Merthvr • 59 by another at Edmund s Mam Colliery, near Bamsley; and, most terrible of all, 209 persons at Hartley Colliery. This last calamity will long be remembered, if only for the extraordinary sympathy excited throughout the kingdom, resulting in contri- butions for the families of the sufferers to an amount exceeding 80 OOOl.-a sum which proved, in fact, far larger than the reasonable requirements of the case, so that an arrangement had to be made for varying the application of the surplus. PARLIAMENT REQUIRES FEES AS WELL AS LAWYERS.— So indifferent is the eyesight of Her Majesty's faithful Commons," that it has to be quick- ened by a golden salve before it can see the petition for a private bill or the bill itself, or any of its stages (says the Railway News). The rates vary according to the amount proposed to be spent in the undertaking, and soon build up a formidable total. For instance, in the case of a railway scheme with a capital of 750.0001., the fees on the presentation of the petition, on the first, second, and third readings and report, would amount to about 5201., exclusive of the fees for every day the Committee sits, and some other charges, which might bring the sum up to 8ool. In the multi- plication of expenses the Lower House sins more than the Upper, where the same bill would involve an ex- penditure of, at the very highest, only 1821. Parlia- ment having !ed the way, the lawyers are not slow to follow in its footsteps and imitate its rapacity. Bar- risters who practise before Parliamentary committees receive a very much higher rate of pay than any of their professional brethren and so do Parliamentary agents. The consultation fee of a Queen's counsel in Westminster-hall is two or three guineas; in the Par- liamentary corridors above, the smallest junior gets five guineas. At the latter bar the counsel's minimum retainer is 51. 15s. 6d. consultation fee. 51. 15s. 6d. brief fee, IN. Os. 6d. attendance, Ill. Oe. 6d. in all, 33L 12s.; and then, on each succeeding day, there is a refresher of 10l. 10s., and a fee of half as much for con- sultations. The retainer varies in amount, the leaders receiving fabulous sums but the most junior of bar- risters, who may have just taken his oaths in the Bail Court, and has hardly recovered from the headache of his call party, is bound not to take less than the fees mentioned above. The worst of the system is, that the prizes being so great, and the business in the bands of a very few agents, there is a tendency to convert the Parliamentary bar into a close borough, where all are banded together to monopolise the briefs and to keep out new-comers. DISEASE AMONGST CATTLE.-Accounts from Lausanne Btate that the disease of sore mouth and sore feet has attacked homed cattle ir. Switzerland m a c terrific manner. The Executive Council have_conse quently commanded that no more cattle markets shaU be held. A strict watch is set upon all farmyards where the disease prevails and upon those within a hundred yards of them. Cattle in the suspected farmyards are not to be permitted to drink at the public fountains. All gangers are forbidden to approach any farmyard, gangers are forbidden to approach any farmyard, nor is any mendicant to pass the night there, veteri- nary surgeons and police agents are desired, when they quit an infected stable, to wash and change their clothes before they enter another. Farmers are to adopt similar precautions when they attend a fair or market MARRIED THE WRONG WOMAN.—A short time ago a candidate for matrimony arrived in town, and straightway repaired to the office of our obliging county clerk, or the purpope of obtaining a marriage certificate (says the Maysvnie Express). The clerk mis- understood the name of the fair one who had been making inrnads on the affections of the applicant, and consequently inserted the wrong name of the female party who was to be tied by the silken cords. The intended groom was so delighted with the prospect before him that he did not stop to read the document after it was placed in his hands, but forking over two dollars, he thrust the legal privilege m his pocket. Gaining an audience with the object of his heart, the two repaired to the house of a clergyman, where the document was presented, which in the eyes of the minister^ appearing perfectly satisfactory, the two were united in the holy bonds of wedlock. The next morning, upon seating themselves at the breakfast table of one of our hotels, the groom commenced read- ing the record of his marriage in the morning papers, and found that the printers hadmarried him to another woman. Thrusting his hand in his pocket, he pulled out the marriage licence, when lo! and behold, to his utter astonishment, he discovered that the clerk had committed the grave error of ins.the wrong name &ftheintfmed.bnde. Turning to dbjeot of his affection, and with an excited yet tremulous voice, he exclaimed Maria, a mistake has been made, and I am married to the wrong woman. You are not my lawful wife." Maria gave a glance at the document, and, with a half-drawn sigh, answered: "It's no use fretting, Jeremiah—it's too late now!" ESSAYS AND REVIEWS. — The long-pending causes in respect to the Essays and Reviews" came up for judgment on Monday in the House of Lords. The Rev. Rowland Williams and the Rev. H. B. Wilson, authors of some of the essays, were found guilty of heresy by the ecclesiastical courts, and con- demned to suspension. They appealed to the Lords, and on Monday the final decision was given. Their lordships, while refusing to pronounce any opinion on the general tendency of "Essays and Reviews," de- clare that in the extracts therefrom exhibited in the articles of accusation there is nothing to convict the defendants of the charge of heresy. The Archbishops of York and Canterbury dissent from this judgment. Their lordships gave the rev. defendants the costs of the appeal HAVING A CHARACTER OF HIS OWN !— Half- brother of the Emperor, President of the Chamber, devot of the Imperial House, three-fold millionaire, M. de Morny has, besides these claims to attention, a character all his own (says the Spectator). Accused almost publicly of concussion"—an offence so frequent in France that it has produced a word for which we have no English equivalent-sharing in all the discredit and all the mushroom prosperity of the Imperial entourage, suspected of alliance with Mires, and known to be lie with St. Petersburg, M. de Morny is, never- theless, not hated by the freemen left in France. He is what his brother also is, but never appears to be, Beauharnais to the core, that is, a type Frenchman, who has only to question himself to understand his countrymen he never insults opponents, he never ,-lacks the shrewd, almost wise, goodnature which was the characteristic of Eugene, and he is believed to be at heart strongly convinced that France must one day be free. Then he is the personal confidant of the Em- peror, hears his chat as well as his speeches, knows what he really wishes as well as what he says, and is believed on two or three occasions of late to have played the part of his good genius. THE DUKE'S DIAMONDS AGAIN I-The Duke of Brunswick's diamonds must be the worry instead of the pleasure of his life. They have now become complicated by anew incident. Since the jewels were taken from Shaw (who, our readers know, was con- demned last week for the robbery of them) they have remained in custody at the Correctional police, in Paris. After condemnation of Shaw, the duke applied for the property, but could not obtain possession of it, in consequence of an opposition having been lodged in the name of the reigning duke, who claims a great part of the jewels as belonging to the crown of Brunswick. EXTRAORDINARY DOG POISONING.—A most extraordinary system of dog poisoning at present pre- vails in Preston. During the past few weeks scores of dogs, some very valuable, have been poisoned in the town and neighbourhood. The dogs, while out in the streets and in the public walks with their owners, are in most cases taken ill suddenly and mysteriously, and frequently in a few minutes they die in the great- est apparent agony. Sundays, when most of the canine species are out, are the most fatal days. No one seems to know by whom, or by what means the animals are destroyed. In a few instances animals found dead have been analysed, and in their stomachs arsenic and strychnine have been discovered. It is supposed that the poisoning is carried on by a gang of burglars, who destroy as many house-dojgs as possible, in order that they may follow their nefarious profession unmolested and in quietness. A LONG VOYAGE.-A letter was received in Liverpool, on Monday, from Stromness, announcing the arrival at that port of the Adam Carr, which landed the crew and captain of the schooner Matilda, of Dublin, a vessel which had been given up as lost. The Matilda left Limerick towards the latter end of December last for Glasgow, and nothing was heard of her until the 29th of January, when she was fallen in with in a sinking state by the Adam Carr, bound from Sunderland for Liverpool. Two of the crew of the schooner were in a most pitiable condition, both from hunger and exhaustion, whilst the other four were fast merging to the same condition as their shipmates. The poor fellows were at once taken on board the Adam Carr, and as they required both medical and gentle care, they were landed at Stromness. How the poor fellows lived so long in such a state of ex- posure, want, and exhaustion is a miracle. ANOTHER CONFEDERATE CRUISER AT WORK.— A despatch from Bombay received in Liverpool on Saturday states that the ship East had arrived there, and reported being boarded by a Confederate barque on the 9th of October in latitude 3° north in the Atlan- tic. After a chase, the barque fired shells, solid shot, and bullets at the East, and brought her to. A boat's crew then went on board and t-xamined the ship's papers after which they allowed her to proceed, ex- pressing regrtt that they had given the captain trouble, and stating that they thought the East was an Ameri- can ship. The East was from London. TAKING DEATH VERY COOLLY !—A statement of a very extraordinary nature was made by a witness at an inquest on Monday, in London. The inquiry was into the cause of death of George Marjoram, an ostler. The deceased lodged in a room in Bell-court, Gray's-inn-lane. Another man, named Adams, shared his bed with him. Adams was called as a witness at the inquest, and stated that last Wednesday night, just as he was preparing to get into bed, Marjoram, who had already lain down, looked at him, "gave a grin, and then died." Adams gave no alarm, but went to bed beside the corpse, which he says he found werry cold." Next day he went to the hospital for a certificate of death, which was refused. The- body was removed on Friday, but on Thursday night Adams again slept in the same bed with it. Death had been caused by apoplexy, and the jury returned a verdict to that effect. FRENCH ACCOUNT OF ENGLISH MANNERS !— The Parisians have got up a little anecdote of English manner3, which will be recognised at once as most truthful. It is stated that a rich merchant (address given) was excessively fond of play after business, but always lost. Being superstitious, as all gamblers are, he began to believe in the reported merits of a piece of cord which had hanged some one, and that it brought good-luck, so he bought a piece for a large sum, and went to his club (club named), and filayed very high that evening, but lost—lost—lost- Lost Sir Massingberd). At length he grew exasper- ated, and exclaimed, There is no truth then in the saying that a piec# of hangman's cord brings good luck; and he produced a small piece from his pocket amidst the roars of laughter of surrounding friends, who were, however, checked by the fortunate gamester exclaiming, Wait, gentleman, the superstition is well founded. See my piece of hangman's cord is longer than his," and he produced a rope twice the length of that of his opponent. ANOTHER CASE OF SUSPICIOUS DEATH.—An investigation into the cause of death of a Mr. Joseph Hankin, of Stoke Newington, London, was opened on Monday. The deceased died some time ago, and was buried two days afterwards in Abney-park Cemetery. His friends allege that he had a considerable sum of money shortly before his death, but it could not be found immediately thereafter. Since then, however, some notes which were known to have been in his pos- session have been traced, and suspicions having been aroused, the body was exhumed. The contents of the stomach have been sent for analysis, and in the meantime the police will make further inquiries into the money part of the business. THE GLASGOW DRAUGHT MATCH.—The draught match between Wyllie (the Herd Laddie") and Mar- tin, of London, has ended in the match being gained by Wyllie, after eighteen days' play. The match was commenced on Tuesday, the 18th of January, in one of the rooms belonging to the Trades'-house, and was concluded on Saturday evening, four games having been played during the day, both players winning a game, and the other two being drawn. In all, sixty- two games have been played, of which Wyllie has gained ten and Martin five, leaving forty-seven which have been drawn. The match was played for the championship of England and Scotland, the sum of lool., and 5*. for each game. Thus Wyllie, who stood five games ahead of his opponent at the conclusion of the match, claims 25t. in addition to the honour of championship and the major prize of 1001. WHAT ENGLAND COULD DO FOR THE DANES.— The Army and Navy Gazette says We are yet without sensation news for our readers re- pecting the dispatoh of an expeditionary force to Denmark. The brigade of artillery ordered to Copenhagen" does not seem to get nearer its reported destination-a most con- venient one, as the map will show, for reaching the Danne- werke. The debates on Thursday night showed the utter want of foundation for the rumours we contradicted last week. But, should political events render it necessary to send an army to the assistance of the Danes, we could send out a most compact and efficient force. Our troops as a body were never in better condition to take the field and the locality is—as Lord Grey pointed outr- so well suited to them, that it almost tempts one to wish for war. We have now in the United Kingdom, in addition to the household brigade and depots, 17 regiments of cavalry, 50 batteries of artillery, 10 troops of horse artillery, and 38 battalions of in- fantry. In the aggregate the strength of the artillery may be roughly put down at 12,000 men, the cavalry 9,000 and the infantry 32,000, or 53,000 altogether. One-half of this force placed beside the Danes would see the Austro-Prussian army on the south side of the Danneworke for a period far outlast- ing the patience of their compatriots. The household troops at home number nearly 5,000 men, and after sending out 25,000 men of all arms, we should have a good reserve in them, in the 28,000 now forming regiments, and in the 152 regimental depots. EFFECTS OF THE WAR ON SHIPPING. -COD'-i- derable anxiety has been felt in Sund erland and the other north country seaports as to whether, in case of hosti- lities between Denmark and Germany not being stayed, the Danish Government would at once blockade the German ports and prevent British merchants from ob- taining those goods which have been lying there over winter in vessels ready to sail. Several merchants having cargoes of Stettm oak timber, which have been shipped for some time on board vessels lying at Swine- munde, ready to sail as soon as there was open water, have put themselves in communication with the Foreign Secretary, to ask him to use his influence with the Danish Government for the use of permits for such vessels to proceed. The Hull Eastern News states that a German screw steamer, trading between Hull and Hamburg, has just discharged her cargo at Hull, to be transferred to an English steamer, to escape capture by the Danish cruisers.—-—A question has also arisen whether the Hamburg and Bremen steamers that run weekly to New York, calling at Cowes, will be inter- fered with by the Danish fleet. These steamers carry an enormous number of German emigrants to the United States, and large and valuable cargoes to and from Europe and America. Some fears were enter- tained that the Teutonia, which left Cowes last Thursday, on her way to Hamburg from New York, would be seized by a Danish frigate which has been in the Downs. It is probable that these Bremen and Hamburg steamers will be sold in England, and that they will sail under the English flag from Antwerp. The latter port has a railway communication with all parts of Germany. The asie must be bona fide, and must be registered at the English customs. EXECUTION or A SUSPECTED SFY. The legs and arms of the prisoner were pinioned, and the white cap drawn over his face, he all the time being engaged in brief ejaculations of prayer, which were heard by the officiating officers (writes a correspondent from Knoxville). At a signal the bolt was now withdrawn the culprit fell, but the cotton pope broke by the smla den tension, and the man lay stretched and stunned upon the frozen ground below. A murmur of horror, mingled with expressions of pity, ran through the assembled crowd. Recovering for an instant from the shock, for his neck was not broken, he said, perhaps incoherently, Release me quick, if you please." For some ten minutes the unfortunate man lay thus upon his back, withou t moving a muscle. Meantime the officers and men whose painful duty it was to see to the execution of the law, adjusted this time two parts of the rope instead of one, and the half-conscious man was borne up the fatal steps a second time, being partly supported upon the drop until the double noose had been adjusted. Not a word or sign of suffering all this time escaped his lips. In another moment the drop fell, and the prisoner's form now hung by the neck-the knot behind the head. Death finally ensued by strangulation. In ten minutes, Dr. Coxwell, the officiating surgeon, pronounced life extinct, and the body was taken down and buried. We pray we may never witness such an execution again. If the terrible exigencies of war require the deliberate taking of human life, in the name of humanity and of all that is decent, let the criminal be shot, or given up to the merciful guillotine. THE GREAT, GERMAN KNAVY.—The cabinets of Berlin and Vienna are said to have given assurances that the integrity of the Danish monarchy would be preserved. It would be a fine thing if they could pre- serve their own but there is too much reason to fear that they haven't got any.—Punch. THE MALT TAX.—It appears from the following letter addressed by Sir Fitzroy Kelly, M.P. (who has constituted himself the "farmers' friend" in re- lation to the question), to one of his friends at Ipswich, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is about to make a modification in the malt tax in one rather important particular:— Feb. 8. Dear Brlsto,—I have had a communication from the Chancellor of the Exchequer that he is about to concede to us one of the great objects which we sought in relation to the malt tax, by bringing in a bill to permit the use of malt, duty free, in the feeding of cattle.—very truly yours, FITZROY KELLY. MARRIAGEABLE MISTRESSES AND MAIDS.-— The only hypocrisy, both in young ladies and in their parents, is to pretend that marriage is the last thing they think of (says the Saturday Review). It stands first, middle, and last in female life, and as things are, we suppose these things are best left to young people. If it is so upstairs, it is so downstairs. Now, is it seriously meant that the mistress should act matron, chaperone, or duenna to her housemaids, and counsel them in the difficult choice between the butcher and the baker, or suggest those little arts by which a bashful policeman may be brought to the proposing point ? Because, when mistresses are recommended seriously to display an interest in their servants' affairs and welfare, either this is what is meant or it is not. INTERESTING EXPERIMENT !—The Westminster Review" has a paper on the "Physiology of Sleep," giving the result of some experiments made bv Mr. •urham, of Guy's Hospital. This gentleman "chloro- formed" a dog, and then cut away a piece of the bone of the skull, about the size of a shilling, and the sub- jacent dura mater. He then replaced the bone by ac- curately fitting watch-glasses, and rendered the junction of their edges air-tight by means of inspissated Canada balsam." He could then observe the changes in the brain produced by sleep through these windows. FRUCTICULTURAL ECONOMY. — An Apple-pie Order.—Those horticulturists who supply their own fruit puddings and tarts from their own garden, should take care, as early as possible, to order the children to commence making apple-pie beds.—Punch, THE STORY OF A JUGGLER.—Some of the French journals relate the following anecdote of the late Admiral Hamelin :— Hamelin, when a boy aged eleven, was serving on board the frigate Venus, of which his uncle was captain. While on a cruise in the Indian seas, the uncle and nephew were one day ashore together, when a celebrated native juggler went through his performance before them. Among other feats was that of cutting in two with a sabre a lemon placed on the open hand of his confederate. The captain thought there must be some collusion between the two men, and asked for some one to hold out his hand while the feat was repeated. No one replied, with the exception of young Hamehn, who stepped forward and held forth his right hand. The juggler, after having examined it closely, declined to repeat the performance. You admit, then, that there was some trick in what you did?" said the captain. "No," re- plied the juggler, let me see the left hand." He examined it, and then said, "If the boy will hold that hand still, I will do it."—"But why the left hand rather than the right ?"—"Because the palm of the right hand is hollow, and there is a danger of cutting the thumb." The captain, then, in his turn, hesitated, and wished to decline the trial. The boy, however, begged so earnestly that it should be repeated, that the uncle at length consented. The lemon was placed on young Hamelin's outstretched hand; the juggler swayed backwards and forwards for a moment, and then with a stroke, swift as lightning, cleft the fruit into two parts. The boy had remained perfectly firm; he had, he afterwards stated, felt the blade of the sn ord as if a cold piece of iron wire had been drawn across his hand. SERVANTS' DRESSES.—When servants wore mob caps and blue check gowns, all female attire was homely (says a writer in the Saturday Review). A middle-class lady had one gorgeous gown, which lasted her half a life; but on working days her home attire was homely enough. Machinery, improved manu- factures, and cheapness in production have made variety of attire the rule of female dress. As it is with her mistress, so is it with the maid and so it has always been. It would be j ust as reasonable to specu- late on the propriety of a sumptuary law regulating a duchess's jewels as it is to talk of enforced regulations about the lady's maid's silk gown. Servants are now fine and tawdry because everybody else is fine and tawdry; they were neat when everybody else was neat. Everybody would be better, and everything would be better, if everybody did his duty in that state of life unto which it has pleased God to call him. But looking at facts, we fear that everybody falls very short of the standard. The just man stumbleth seven times a day, and the worst of servants does not ex- asperate one much oftener. It is a bad, as well as a mad, world, my masters; and servants are about as good and about as bad as other folks. Their airs and their graces, their shortcomings and their un- tidiness, their crinolines and their bonnets are much what the same things are in other women—that is to say, they are in general offences offered by all woman- kind to all mankind.

"PITY the SORROWS of an OLD MAN!" In the Court of Queen's Bench in London, on Tuesday, the cause of Shuttleworth v. Klrktnan" was tried, and was an action of breach of promise of marriage. The defendant pleaded that he did not promise as alleged, that he had been exonerated from the promise, and that it was made subject to the execution of a deed by the plaintiff which was not executed:— Mr. Coleridge, in stating the plaintiff's case to the jury, said this was a breach of promise out of the ordi- nary way. The plauitiff was a young lady, about 30 years of age, living on her own means, and the daughter of Mr. J. Shuttleworth, of Gore-street, Bedford-square, London. The defendant, Mr. Kirkman, was an M.D., and medical superintendent of the Suffolk County Lunatic Asylum, > and also president of an associ- ation in connection with the medical officers of lunatic asylums. The families were connected by mar- riage, and the parties were therefore known to each other before the engagement commenced. The defendant, judging from a small book he had published, "was a man of vast and apparently of a religious turn of mind. He quoted poetry in that work, and he talked of sweeter manners and purer laws." (Laughter.) In the same work he takes a serious view of the responsibilities of his profession, and he uses high and eloquent language about himself and how the profession ought to be treated. He was a widower, about sixty-seven years of age. (Laughter.) He possessed a salary of 60M., which, with his table expenses (except wine), which were allowed by the county, was equal to about 1,000l. a year. His children were grown up, and the plaintiff and he moved in very respectable society in the county of Suffolk. The defendant, a3 he had said, was sixty- seven years of age, but his letters showed him to be both youthful in mind and body, for he had a youthful and engaging mind, and his passions were by no means exhausted. (Laughter.) He had tasted the sweets of married life, and it appeared he was desirous of renew- ing the satisfaction of that state of existence. His wife, •who was a great invalid, died towards the latter end of 1862, and in 1863, having met the plaintiff* at Mrs. Park Shuttleworth's, at Milton, in Suffolk, finding his lonely position more than he could bear, pressed his suit with fervour and became engaged to her. On the 19th of February, in that year, he wrote her a letter, in which he said he had a very comfortable ride home with the gentleman he spoke to on the platform, but that it would have been a much happier ride if she had accompanied him. (Laughter.) He spoke in that letter of the propriety of postponing the nianiage to some further date, observing that he was willing to be cheerful under the anticipated plea- sure of his having her then, but that he would not, from feelings of selfisb. gratification, subject her to the slightest kind of indelicacy. He also described the desolation of feeling which suppresses all hilarity of cheerfulness, but I bear up now like a hero' (laughter); and he concluded, Yours, affectionately and sincerely, John Kirkman." For an old man of sixty-seven, he called that rather warm. (Laughter.) And things went on in that manner for some time. He addressed her as his "Dear Louisa," and said, "I don't know how it is, but I feel I must trouble you with a letter, if it contains only what I have so repeatedly told you before that I love you" (laughter) and which he hoped to repeat in other words; and the letter concluded by asking her when he should again come up. The-next letter described her as his darling, and stated, You should see the avidity with which I seize the morning letters, and witness the downcast expression which 1 show when I expect one from you and find none. (Laughter.) There were various degrees of happiness the positive, the comparative, and the superlative; and it would appear the doctor passed through the whole of them during his acquaintance with the plaintiff. In one letter he said he would send her a Bible, and enclosed a prayer, which he asked her if she would like to have written in it and on another occasion he wrote I can only now trust to the wind to carry a kiss from me to you, and hope that a corresponding breeze will bring one back from you to me. (Laughter.) During the time things were so warm and this love- making was going on between them, he came to town and remained in London from the 7th to the 11th of March, and during that time he took the plaintiff with him to the Edgeware-road to see the arrival of the Prince and Princess of Wales. He also dined with her at her father's, and he was received by the members of the family as her accepted suitor. Although the parties were known to each other, he asa nice old gentleman, and shealady who has passed tiM rosebud of existence, it was considered desirable that the defendant should make a settlement on her, and on the 4th May the lady's father wrote to him, saying, as his daughter was about to visit a friend of the family in Suffolk, and to be introduced by him to his friends as his affianced wife, it was right they should come to something definite in the matter, and after remarking on the disparity of their ages, he asked him what provision he proposed to mile- >-sr in th* event of r.ny accident happenit.g to him. To that lot.cr uu defendant replied that he was prepared in case of acci- dent, as he had delicately hinted to him, to settle a life dent, as he had delicately hinted to him, to settle a life policy for 500Z. on her, stating, more than this I would settle if I could, and more I will if I can. I am a sad hand in all money matters, and I often wish there were 1 CO such pressing considerations needed," (Laughter.) The learned counsel said he supposed many persons did. However, the defendant afterwards came to town and saw her, and a great deal of conversation passed between them and the lady's friends. They said, You may be a nice old gentleman, and hold a very nice position in Suffolk, but we don't think 500L enough." (Laughter.) The old gentleman could not, however, screw himself beyond the 50M., and so the matter was broken off, and it was on all sides supposed that they had finally separated. The engagement was, however, eventually renewed, and though the letters afterwards that passed between them had more of a "tinge" of business about them than the former ones, still they were dictated in a spirit which, if acted upon, would have been anything but discreditable to him. On the 2nd of July he wrote the lady a letter, in which he said, in reference to their wedding tour, that he had spoken to some friends to know if they were vagrantly inclined. As a specimen of the old gentleman's letters we give this one in extenso I have just answered a letter of inquiry after you from your dear old Marion. You must see her soon, dearest, she is so considerate and kind, and knows almost every feeling of my foolish heart for you. You say you have rivals in my heart. Who they are I don't know. I may be called a changeling, but I do not deserve that name, and this I ask you to credit. I can censure myself and feel that others may censure me, perhaps in either case justly, and I feel myself reproved so indeed; but as the heart knows its own bitterness, it may (personifying it) be tempted to look for sweets from others, and not have bitters upon bitters. But let vain imagining pass, and I will write in another strain, as I am writing to you who have sweetened my path. You know you have, and I know it, and feel thankful for it. I expected to have met Wake at Yarmouth, at the medical meeting, but he did not come. I spent part of last Saturday with an old lady friend of mine, who has a very splendid house near Norwich. Don't be cross; she is 82. No rivalry there, though she jumped into her carriage as light as a lark, and displayed more agility than you did, and much more than I did, at the Blackwall station. By-the-bye, will you dine here again on Tuesday, or go to Camberwell or anywhere else ? We had a very cheerful party here on the Thursday previous to our meeting on Friday, this day week. In the midst of grave faces and solemn gravity I raised a solemn laugh by echoing your inquiry. I always think of what you say, think as you will. What is the clock by your gold watch? —— went off a popgun. To-morrow I dine at Packe's, to meet the usual galaxy of beauty in these parts; but they will pass me by, with all their charms, just as the idle wind, which I regard not. Lilla left me, with her four little animals, last Monday, and I have now a niece ef mine with me for company sake. How I am driven about for companionship. May I not "pity the sorrows of an old man," who only gets cheerful when he sings, Oh, if I was I know where," &c. t I had a present of some lovely foreign birds the other day from Sir Tyrwhytt of Lowes- toft. You remember Lowestoft. I wish you were here to see them. I must be at Maidstone on Wednesday, and the College of Physicians early on Thursday, I suppose the whole of that day, as we dine at the Freemasons' Tavern, but I shall see'you, I hope, the Tuesday before and the Friday after. Shall I bring the two vols. of Robertson's? Thanks'foryour minute account of your picnic. I am glad you did not get wet at all. I sent some patients last year for a frolic to the seaside, and they came home drenched to the skin, but it added only to their pleasure. They screamed and laughed, and tucked up their petticoats to their knees-there was no crinoline, or it would not have done, and they said it was glorious sport. It was more innocent, however, than what Scott tells of glorious sport in courtly circles. Do you re- member? "However, come you not to court; Shelton says it's glorious sport: There are silks and jewels glistening; Trifling tales and wise men listening; Low-breathed talking Marion lispers— Cutting honest hearts by whispers." I would rather have been with my people in the hayfield, as I was yesterday, than in such scandalous society as this. I gave my people a dance upon the green last night; and although I could not exactly ask you, fancy me as Julia de Robignes' lover wrote of his friend. I enjoyed seeing be- tween forty and fifty enjoying themselves. Did you ever read" Julia de Robignes?" "Had you seen me yesterday surrounded by a cluster of grape gatherers," he says, you might have blushed for your friend, but I danced with Julia." (Loud laughter.) On the 14th of July the defendant wrote to the plain- tiff's father, saying the engagement was still existing between them, and expressing a hope to obtain his concurrence to the marriage the latter end of August • and that he proposed to make a settlement of another 50M. by means of another life policy on their joint lives. The father gave his consent, and tlflere was a party in consequence, at which she was introduced .to a great many of Mr. Kirkman's friends as the future Mrs. Kirkman; and, finally, she went on a visit to Mr. Chevalier Kirkman, the defendant's son, who with his wife and family treated her very kindly. The 29th of August was fixed for the marriage, and the defendant obtained a month's holiday from the visiting justices. Her trousseau was purchased, cards engraved, and he had given her directions to get the passports vised "Dr. and Mrs. Kirkman." Instructions were given for the marriage settlement, by which the 1,000l. were to be settled on her as well as her own property, which amounted to between 60l. and 701. per annum. After the draftwas prepared and sent to the defendant's solicitors, they objected to the terms; but after a correspondence, the latter wrote to the plaintiff's attorney to get the document engrossed, examined, and executed. The deed was engrossed, but the defendant declined to execute it. Plaintiff afterwards consented to agree to the defendant's terms, but he still refused to marry her. The plaintiff's father wss called. In cross-examina- tion he said he saw the defendant for the first time in May, 186'i. Mr. Hawkins: He is seventy years of age, is he not? Mr. Coleridge said sixty-seven was the correct age. Mr. Hawkins: You cannot find the certificate of his birth. (Laughter.) Mr. Coleridge No we went to find the certificate of marriage. (Renewed laughter.) Mr. Hawkins (to witness): You knew him as the medical superintendent of a lunatic asylum. The Lord Chief Justice You are not going to set up a plea of lunacy, I hope. (Laughter.) Mr. Hawkins I am not quite so sure of that. Pro- bably before the case ends I shall have to ask your lordship to amend the pleadings. Witness said he believed the defendant's first wife acted as matron at the asylum. Evidence was given to show that the defendant was a man of affluence, who kept a carriage, and visited the best families of the county. In cross-examination it appeared that the carriage was an old brougham, which was purchased for the use of the late Mrs. Kirkham during her illness, prior to her death. Mr. Doughty, chairman of the visiting justices at the asylum, deposed that the defendant applied for a fortnight's leave of absence for his marriage, and he ad- vised him to take a month (laughter), and the doctor assented. (Laughter.) The defendant called no witnesses. Mr. Coleridge having addressed the jury, Mr. Hawkins, in a very amusing speech, addressed them in mitigation of damages. He urged them to consider that the lady had not suffered any very mate. rial loss by being deprived of the defendant's com- panionship. Referring to one of the defendant's let- ters, the learned counsel said he might very well say— Pity the sorrows of a poor old man. (Laughter.) The Lord Chief Justice said he should go on with the next line. Mr. Hawkins Yes, gentlemen, "whose trembling limbs have brought him to your door" (loud laughter), and he asked them, could any one help pitying him ? (Laughter.) The defendant answered her father's in. quiry truthfully as to his means. In the course of the trial the learned counsel had referred to a book written by the defendant, a copy of which he had given to the lady, "with the kindest love of the author" written on the title-page, which it would appear was the only good thing in the book. (Laughter.) The book was a lecture delivered by the defendant at the College of Physicians relative to the medical officers of lunatic asylums, and perhaps some of them would think it would have been better for this romantic old lover if he had never left the asylum. (Laughter.) His learned friend had introduced the book, but for what reason he was at a loss to understand; but, at all events, he would return it to him with the author's best love. (Laughter.) He thought the lady had not lost much. All she could have expected was a resi- dence in a lunatic asylum, with the chance of her husband being speedily superannuated, and the use of a brougham and a horse said to have been purchased 12 years ago—in fact, he might say, a lunatic lot alto- gether. (Laughter.) The Lord Chief Justice summed up, observing that there was here a breech of the promise, and it was for them to say what damages the lady was entitled to. This was not one of those romantic attachments they sometimes heard of, but perhaps the lady thought it was better to be an old man's darling than ayoung man's slave." The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages 4001.

RELICS OF A BATTLE-FIELD. Gaining the edge of the wood, after wading some dis tance through a deep marsh, I lighted my lantern, and its first ray fell upon the bloated face of a rebel lieutenant (writes an American correspondent). Either he had died systematically or some friend had placed him in the position in which we found him, for he was lying flat on his back with his arms folded closely across his breast, and his lips tightly compressed. But, nicely as he lay, he must be buried. At the edge of the wood we found a soft strip of land-elsewhere it was a rocky soil-and here we determined the rebel should have his last resting-place. The men found a piece of candle in the dead man's haversack, lighted it, and went to work upon the grave. Meanwhile I passed into the woods to discover other bodies. I found three of our men, but, as far as I went, could see no more of the enemy's dead. I came back; the men had finished the grave. We procured two rails, placed one under the shoulders and the other under the legs, just below the knees, and thus the body of the rebel was laid away in the ground to await the day of reckoning, in whose glare all of us must stand. I told the men to dig a grave a little further on for three. They went at it, while I proceeded to examine the bodies I had discovered. The first was that of a corporal belonging to the First Divi- sion of the Fifth Corps. His right hand was placed close to his mouth, and tightly clenched; a torn cart- ridge lay at his side, the end which he had bitten off so tightly held in his teeth that it was impossible to withdraw it. His pocket had been cut out, his shoes and stockings stripped off, and nothing whatever was to bo found on his person by which to identify him except the corps mark on his cap. About two feet from him lay a private, hatless, and stripped of shoes and stockings also. His pockets had not been removed. I examined them, and found in his pantaloons a golden locket, with the picture of a fair young woman therein, and in his breast coat-pocket a daguerreotype of the same person, with a card on which was a lady's address. I have since ascertained it was that of his wife. The third body was that of a first-lieutenant of ar- tillery and how he came there in the woods was a mystery we could not solve. No battery was placed within five hundred yards of that position, either right or left. But be that as it may, there the body was, stripped of everything in the shape of insignia except one shoulder-strap^ which hung by one end only. His little finger had evidently been cut off, as the print of a large seal-ring could yet be seen upon it; and it is oertain the wound was not caused either by Minie bui'. or a ii.:gmeut of bhelL As length the grave was ready, the three were buried, and again we passed on. As best we could we were making our way in the dim light of the lantern, when suddenly I tripped, and ex- tending my arms in self-protection, my left hand came I in contact with the cold forehead of a corpse. My feet rested on another body, and my lantern was out. I felt for a match, I had the men came up; the Ik glare revealed a sight whicL never look upon again. The L had fallen was that of a col^ blow completely off. That ovel was the body of a private with v. entirely off, at the shoulder. Twc four inches in diameter had been spW eight feet the other five feet from the fallen right where the bodies lay. Wi, twenty feet from these trees I counted sev" all, alas with blue jackets on. I had hop many to find some of the grey-backed ones. How we buried these seventeen bodies you care to know. The lantern gone out, the candle the men had procured lasted but a little time; bt. moon had risen and the pale rays it cast through „ trees aided us in our task, though they added much to the ghastliness of the terrible scene over which they fell. We found one body, that of a young, light-haired boy, not over nineteen at the furthest, whose forehead was pierced by a ball; in his left hand he firmly grasped his rammer his right hand or his forefinger was in the watch-pocket of his pantaloons. We examined this pocket and found in it a small silver shield with his name, company, and regiment engraved upon it. We took possession of this memento, and fortunately finding a fragment of a cracker-box, marked upon it in pencil, by moonlight, the inscription found on the shield. We buried him with two of his comrades, one of whom belonged to the Fifth Corps, and placed the rude board at the head of his grave, in the hope that it would some day enable some pilgrim friend to find the body. Since that day the shield has been sent to the soldier's father its inscription was "S. L. Caldwell, Company D, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers." It was half-an-hour after midnight when we came into camp, and half-an-hour after that, lying with our faces to the stars, dreams enfolded us, and we were as though no battle horrors had ever pained and no battle dangers had ever menaced us.

The EVENTFUL LIFE of Mr; EDWARD BATHURST! At the Middlesex sessions, held in London, on Monday, Edward Bathurst, 40, who described himself as a "gen- tleman," and who was convicted last session of fraudulently obtaining, by false pretences, from Paul Akers the sum of 10Z., the money of Mr. Oooper, chemist, of 26, Oxford-street London, by means of a false cheque upon Messrs. Robarts' Lubbock, and Co., bankers, of Lombard-street, was brought up for judgment It will be necessary to inform our readers who may not have read the history of the case, that the pri- soner opened a small account with Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock, and Co., the eminent bankers of London, under the representation that he had just returned from Australia, and was at no very distant period about to go back to that colony, and that he was a personal friend of a gentleman who was on inti- mate terms with Mr. Robarts. It was not long, however, before he overdrew the small account which he had invested, but as cheques were frequently being presented at the banking-house drawn by the prisoner, there being no funds to meet them, several letters were written to the prisoner by Mr. Robarts, In pointing out to him the inconvenience of cheques being presented for which payment must be refused. The prisoner made a number of shiftly excuses, promising to make all right, but some time afterwards the cheque of Mr. Cooper was paid in, and as he had obtained the sum of 101. on it from Mr. Cooper, on the repre- sentation that he had money in the bank, he was given into custody. Subsequently inquiries showed that he had obtained sums of money in a similar way from about a dozen other persons, the prisoner dividing his favours between Robarts and Co., Willis, Percival, and Co., and the London and Westminster Bank. After his conviction he was remanded to allow in- quiries to be made as to his antecedents, as reports had arrived that the prisoner had more than once been punished severely in Australia for robbery and embezzlement. On the prisoner being placed in the dock, Mr. Ribton said this case was adjourned from the last session to allow the attorney for the prosecution to make some inquiries as to the character of the prisoner, and those inquiries having been made, he was then prepared to state the result of them in detail. He would state the facts, which would afterwards be proved by evidence. The history of the prisoner was curious and diversified, for it appeared that in 1844 he was her Majesty's vice-consul at Copenhagen. In 1848 he became her Majesty's vice-consul at Hayti, but soon after he left, and he did not know what then became of him until 1851. In that year he became a bankrupt, and appeared before Mr. Commissioner Reynolds for a large amount, Messrs. Stultz, the eminent tailors, figuring among his creditors. Having got free of the Bankruptcy Court in England, he went to Australia, where it appeared he carried on a system of swindling. In 1855 he was clerk to the bench of magistrates at Heidelburg, near Melbourne, and in that capacity he embezzled a large sum of money belong- ing to the Government, for which offence he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. At the expiration of his sentence, he left for Adelaide, where he was convicted of obtaining goods under false pretences, and sentenced to three years' imprisonment. The prisoner appealed against this conviction on some technical grounds, and this being successful, the con- viction was quashed. Notwithstanding his character was well known in the colony, a most extraordinary circumstance occurred, the Governor of South Aus- tralia, Sir Richard Graves Macdonald, appointed him as a magistrate at Gawler Town, about 30 miles from Adelaide. He did not hold his office long, and returned to Melbourne, where he committed a fresh offence. He there represented himself as a solicitor, and undertook to provide a counsel for a man whe was to be tried for an offence. He took 10Z. from his wife, but on the trial coming on no counsel had been provided, he having appropriated the money to himself. For this offence he was again tried, and sentenced to two years' im- prisonment, and at the expiration of this sentence he returned to England. He (Mr. Ribton) held in his hand seven cheques which the prisoner had drawn upon Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., of Lombard-street, six of them being for 101. each, and one of them for 251., and one promissory note on the London and Westminster Bank for 35L All these cheques had been given without any funds whatever in hand to meet them. Mr. Metcalfe made an able defence for the prisoner, and amongst other things said that the prisoner's friends were now willing to pay every cheque due from either Willis and Percival or any other bank. He could not refrain from saying that if Mr. Robarts had not allowed accounts to be overdrawn, the prisoner would not then be standing in such a position. Mr. Moat was called, and he said he knew the pri- soner, and he also knew his career in Australia. He then corroborated Mr. Ribton in the above particulars of the prisoner's life in Australia, and said that on his appointment as a magistrate at Gawler Town, the Melbourne Argus issued a powerful article on the ap- pointment to such a position of a man whose character was so well known in the colony. Mr. Metcalfe asked the witness why he had taken so much interest in the matter. Mr. Moat said, because the prisoner was very nearly getting two 101. cheques out of him. Mr. Metcalfe said the prisoner had a wife and nine children in Australia. The Assistant-Judge said he had no doubt the prisoner had been defrauding the public, and thought to evade the law by obtaining money by means of false cheques. He had been guilty of a system of wholesale swindling, and therefore the smallest punish- ment the Court could think of giving him was, that he be kept in penal servitude for three years.

EPITOME OF NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. An effort is being made to remove from the City of London the scandal of having seven men hung in it at one time. At the Court of Aldermen, on Tuesday, Alderman Sidney asked the sheriffs if they were taking any steps to prevent the execution of the seven pirates in Newgate from taking place in front of the Old Bailey. Mr. Sheriff Nissen said they had that day communicated with Sir G. Grey on the subject, and urged that the execution should be trans- ferred to some place outside the City. The number of persons who crossed the Channel by the Calais and Dover line of steamers, in 18G3, was 125,025 showing an increase of 49,839 passengers over 1861, and almost equal to 1862, which year, in consequence of the London Exhibition, was an exceptional one. The Charivari (the French Punch) publishes a cari- cature representing a huge cauldron placed on a blazing Are and entitled "The Germanic Confederation." Austria and' Prussia are sitting on the lid and trying with all their force to keep it down, but it already has risen on one side, and a number of small personages are seen below heaving it gradually up. An inscription underneath declares that the boiling pot no longer respects the pressure on the cover. The Prussians, and most of the Austrians whom I have as yet seen, are very young soldiers. The Austrian officers have the advantage of having seen service, and that in no small skirmishes, but in great campaigns, in 1859 and (many of them) in 1848-9. The Prussian officers of course have not this advantage, to any extent worth naming.— Times' Correspondent. The Board of Trade have reported to the House of Commons that the Bills relating to railways in the United Kingdom ask authority for new companies to construct 2,264 miles, and existing companies 835 miles-in all 3,099 miles of new railroads. There are also 66 miles of deviation lines proposed. The ship Bayswater, 2,500 tons burden, sailed on the 5th inst. from Greenock for Queensland. The Bayswater is the thirty-seventh vessel that has sailed on the Land Order System of Emigration, under the immediate direction of the Queensland Government. She contains 434 souls, divided into paying, assisted, and free passengers, and con- sisting of 245 members of families, 124 single men, and 65 single females. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales has made such favourable progress in her restoration to health, that she is now able to dispense with the attendance of her physi- cian. Her Royal Highness has gone to St. Leonard's to enjoy the benefit of the sea air. The Royal infant continues in the enjoyment of good health. On Sunday morning a navigator named Ford, but better known by the nickname of nautboy, residing in a place called Munn's-entry, 1«> Cripplegate, Worcester, had a quarrel with his wife, nbef °gm ^drP ,took u? ? £ passion a small iron dust-pan from the fireplace and struck the hanless woman on the head. She died shortly after- wards. The husband surrendered himself to the police. There is now in Deptford dockyard a model, con- structed in the year 1558, of the yacht built for Queen Elizabeth. The model is in excellent preservation and re- cently came into the possession of Mr. Brown, of the dock- yard, at the sale of the effects of a deceased naval officer. At fifteen years' purchase, the dwelling-houses erected in ten years are worth 107,000,000?. and all the houses standing in 1862 are worth 870,000,000i.—Census Re- turn for 1861. On Monday, the judges of the Court of Exchequer decided, by a majority of one, that they had no rightto allow the appeal in the case of the Alexandra gunboat. The appeal was not within the jurisdiction of the court. The case will now be carried to the House of Lords. Mr. Farnall's report of the state of employment in the cotton districts is much more favourable for the 30th pit. than it had been during the last four or five weeks. There was a decrease during that week in the parochially re- Ueved of 2,918 persons. A shipping disaster of a very sudden and fatal cha- racter occurred In Belfast Lough on Saturday night. The steamer Magnetic ran into a schooner belonging to the Isle of Man, and with such fatal effect, as tosinkherimmedi- ately, and two men who were asleep below. The London Mansion House committee for the relief of the distress in the manufacturing districts have, up to the present time, received 622,8921,, of whioh 137,4431. have been expended. cnariv the kin married A you. siding at Na. a fencing scho" his lesson, he wa*. Lotti, when the button h- weapon passed through M. Garniti spot. It is an interesting piece of literary intelligence to all, and will be so especially to ladies, that Mrs. Somerville, the veteran lady astronomer, now in her 82nd year, has just finished a scientific work of great labour and importance. The Emperor recently observed to a friend:—" The expedition to Mexico is, in the opinion of the general public, my grand fault. I have, you know, plenty of faults, accord- ing to the same- authority. But, in truth, that expedition will be known in history as the one great glory of my reign." The Jockey Club of Paris has had it reported to its circle that a rich landholder made a bet to quit Ratisbonne in a sledge and to arrive atStraubing, on the Danube, before the railway-train could perform the journey. He won. The late Duke of Cleveland has left Mr. Morgan Vane (a young distant relative) residuary legatee. TMs is, in effect, a bequest to him of about half a million of money. The precise strength of the rebel force actually in the field is not easy to get at; but a recent statement of the chairman of the Military Committee of the Senate places it at 260,OOC, while our own present effective force is set down at 440,000.—New York paper. 26,096 criminals are in prisons 24,345 lunatics are in asylums; 10,414 patients are In hospitals; 125,722 of the poor and infirm are In workhouses. There are 23,598 in- mates in the principal charitable institutions and asylums. Census Return for 1861. Immediately after the recent railroad accident on the little Juniata river (says an American paper), some boxes, thought to contain gunpowder, were found very close to the engine fires. Several valiant Individuals made haste to tumble them all into the river to prevent an explosion. It afterwards turned out that the boxes contained not powder, but greenbacks, to the amount of 2,000,000 dollars, forwarded by the Government to pay Western troops. The Opinion Nationale attributes the dead lock of English policy to the family alliances of the Queen, and quotes from the International of London a paragraph att ri- buting to her Majesty the expression that she would rather abdicate than allow a single ship to sail against Germany. Captain Grant, the African explorer, has had an interview with the Pope. The destruction of property at Kagosima by the British bombardment is estimated at 1,000,0001. and 1,500 persons were killed. In 1861,11,915 persons were living in barges, 6,665 In Inland vessels in ports, and 55,765 persons in sea-going vessels in the ports of England and Wales. The children of the sons of any Sovereign of Great Britain and Ireland are to be styled Royal Highness," with the title of Prince or Princess prefixed to their respec- tive Christian names. Harkins, a captain in a Pennsylvania regiment, has been cashiered for picking the pocket of a comrade. The Peace Society have petitioned Earl Russell to abstain not only from all intervention in the Schleswig war by force of arms, but also by diplomacy. The ascertained houseless class amounted to 20,348 persons on the 7th of June, 1841; 15,764 on the 31st of March, 1851; and 11,444 on the 8th of April, 1861. A case of scandal is said to have occurred in Her Majesty's Household Brigade, and a young officer has been requested to leave his regiment, but has declined. The cir- cumstances of the case are not revealed. A young lady, 19 (a blonde, and considered beau- tiful), a brilliant pianist, linguist, thoroughly domesticated, <tec., is desirous of corresponding with a gentleman, with a view to matrimony. Address, Maude Vincent, General Post-office, Manchester.Advertiscmcnt in Manchester paper. It is said that all sorts of odds and ends of securities were offered by the subscribers to the new French loan, as the Government did not, it was understood, require ready money. One old lady brought a dozen pairs of worsted stockings to invest, which she valued at twenty francs The Court Journal says :—" We are told that a young lady of title, quite of the creme de la cremc in society, has determined to ally herself to an exceedingly wealthy manufacturer in the North, but whose undesirable obscurity of origin is quite a trifle compared with the utter want of the commonest refinement in his habits and manners. Every possible family remonstrance is brought to bear in the matter, but the young lady, it is said, is inexorable." A clever saying is attributed- we know not" ith how much truth-to Lord Stanley, wit tie egard to the Dano- German contest, that England is nodoubr. morally responsible to Denmark for a certain amount of physical as well as moral aid, but that what Europe wants is some system of war with limited liability. The Queen is still unequal to the performance of State ceremonies. The levees and drawing-rooms during the coming season will, therefore, be held by the Prince and Princess of Wales. The inhabited houses in England amounted in 1861 to 3,739,505, showing since the last census an increase of 461,466. The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges the receipt of the second halves of notes for 7002. from Fides" conscience money." The Federal Congress has declined to increase the salaries of its ministers in Europe, on the ground that it is an unfit time to enlarge expenditure. The appeals in behalf of charitable societies which have appeared during the last month in the London Times, have been followed by donations amounting to over 12,000Z. We regret to learn of the sudden death, on the last day of the old year, in the officers' hospital at Calcutta, of Lieutenant Walter Landor Dickens, of the 26th Native In- fantry Regiment, and doing duty with the 42nd Highlanders, second son of Charles Dickens. If people were really in earnest in their complaints about bad servants, they would learn the arts of service, or rather the art of teaching service. But passably educated women, and the husbands of educated women, count the cost, and deliberately prefer household discomforts to the personal drudgery of superintending lazy, or teaching in- competent, servants. Besides, service is a trade.-Saturday Review. The wife of a Brahmin, in Meywar, unwilling to go through the religious sacrifice of suttee on the death of her husband, was seized violently by her relations and tor- tured and burnt (says the Bombay Gazette). The parties were seized and sentenced by Mr. Eden, the political agent, to transportation for periods of two and three years. A new steam whistle (to arouse workmen), six feet high and fifteen inches in diameter, has been erected in Colt's revolver factory, in Hartford, Connecticut. It is said, on the best authority," that General Garibaldi and the King of Italy, who are in perfect accord, are so confident of the spread of war in the spring, that a descent on the coast of Dalmatia is already arranged, for which a celebrated English volunteer, who has before served under Garibaldi, has already received his commission.— Spectator. A curious action respecting the sale of a race-horse was decided in the Court of Queen's Bench on Saturday. The plaintiff (Giubelei) bought a horse from the defendant (Reeves) on the assurance that it was entered to run for the Derby of 1865, which turned out not to be the case. The witnesses that were called gave some curious evidence as to the regulations of the Jockey Club in these cases, but the point in dispute was settled by the defendant agreeing to pay back the plaintiff his money. There died recently, aged 20, the beautiful Marquise Doria, a grande dame, equally well known in Italy and France, in the full bloom of youth and loveliness, from a disease brought on by constantly having flowers in her room. The earthenware manufacturers of the Staffordshire Potteries have advanced the prices of earthenware 5 per cent. on the net value in the foreign trade, and from 5 to 7A per cent. in the home trade. This rise is occasioned by several recent advances in the price of coals, and by the in- creased value of borax and several other articles used in the manufacture. ":7.W

THE MARKETS. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE. MARK LANE, MONDAY. Fresh up to our market to-day the arrivals of home-grown wheat were very moderate. The condition of the produce was tolerably good. The trade, however, both for red and white qualities, was in a sluggish state; nevertheless, factors were firm, and they demanded in some instances rather more money than on Monday last; but millers restricted their purchases to immediate wants; and no quotable change took place in the currency. The supply of foreign wheat on the stands was but moderate. The amount of business transacted was by no means extensive, yet prices ruled firm. Floating cargoes of grain were in fair request, at full quota- tions. The market was moderately supplied with English and foreign barley. Good and fine malting qualities sold steadily, at full prices, otherwise the barley trade was quiet, on former terms. A fair average business was transacted in malt, at late rates. The supply of oats on sale was very moderate. For all qualities the trade ruled firm, and prices were in some instances 6d per qr higher than on Monday J ast. With beans the market was well supplied. Nearly all qua- lities were in fair average request, at last Monday's currency. The supply of peas was moderate, and moved off stead ly at late rates. The flour trade was rather quiet, yet previous quotations were supported. The supply of barrels on offer was small. PricesBRITISH. s. s. WHEAT ..Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, white, per qr. 42 to 49 BARLEY ..MaltiNg 27 to 30 OATS Essex and Suffolk is to 23 BEANSMazagan, new 29 to 31 Tick and Harrow 80 to 34 PEAS English, white. 36 to 38 Ditto, gray 30 to 31 FLOUR English, town (per sack). 36 to 40 Ditto, 2nd town 82 to 34 SEED Canary perqr 66 to 64 Carraway.per cwt to Rape per qr 62 to 65 Hempseed ..perqr. — to — METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, MONDAY. The arrivals of beasts fresh up from our own grazing districts, as well as from Scotland, were seasonably good, and in full average condition. From Ireland, however, the supply was limited. Prime small Scots, crosses, and Devons moved off steadily, but at 2d ptr 81b beneath the currencies realised on Monday last, the top figure being 5s per 81b. All other breeds were very dull, at a similar decline in value Although the supply of sheep was very moderate, the de- mand for most breeds was far from active. However, last week's quotations were well supported. The top figure for Downs was 6d per 81b. There were very few shorn sheep on offer. They sold at Is. per Sib beneath those in the wool. The supply of beasts was very small. The demand was in- active, at from 6s to 6s 8d per 81b. Calves were in moderate supply and heavy request, at a decline in the quotations of 6s per 81b Prices ranged from 4s 6d to 5s 6d per 81b. In pigs a moderate business was doing, at late rates. POTATOES. Full average supplies of potatoes continue on sale. The trade generally is in a sluggish state, and the quotations have a drooping tendency. The imports from the Continent are very small. Yorkshire Regents, 65s to 80s ditto Flukes, 85s to 95s; ditto Rocks, bOs to 65s; Scotch Regents, 60s to 75B ditto Rocks, 45s to 55 s; Kent and Essex Regents, 5 to 75s per ton. HOPS We have to report continued firmness in the hop trade, both English and foreign qualities being in fair average request, at fally previous quotations. The imports lastyeek amounted to 38 bales from Bremen, 115 from Boulogne, 10 nockets and 17 bales from Antwerp. Mid and East Kents, J20s to 190s Weald of Kents, 115s to 145s; Sussex, 105s to 180s; Bavarian, 105s to 168s; Belgian, 808 to 95s; American, 105s to 182s per cwt WOOL. The amount of business doing in English wool is very moderate, yet no quotable change has taken place In price, compared with our previous report. Colonial woo), by private contract, is in limited request, at late rates. The Import last week was 8,707 bales from Adelaide, 548 from Fort Philip, and 092 hales from the Cape ot Good Hope.