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Our fottton totsganknt. I
Our fottton totsganknt. [We deem it right to state that we do not at all times identify ourselves with our correspondent's opinions, j After her Majesty's long seclusion it is cheering to see several indications of her intention gradually to mingle once more with her people as was her wont. On two occasions recently the Queen has appeared in public, and although both ceremonies were intimately connected with the memory of the late Prince Consort, still the re-appearance of the Sovereign was on both occasions hailed with joy for the fact alone. The Sultan and the Viceroy, too, are both to be received by her Majesty; she would have been present at the Hyde Park review but for the death of her first cousin, the Emperor Maximilian, and will still be present at the postponed review; and it is scarcely likely that the London season will entirely pass away without some other occasion for the Queen's public re- appearance. It is announced, moreover, that she will next year hold drawing-rooms in person, and that she desires this fact to be publicly known. All this is encouraging, for, though no important State duty has ever been neglected by the Queen, still the public always regard her Majesty's frequent appearance in public as one of the duties of her exalted position. Fhe arrival of the Viceroy, and the expected arrival of the Sultan, have had the effect of making the Lon- aon season more gay than it would otherwise have been, while the probable continuance of the Parlia- mentary Session for the full term at least has also had its effect in the same direction. As far as my observation extends London tradesmen do not now grumble so much as they did at an earlier portion of the season, and I much doubt whether, on the whole, they have any occasion to grumble at all. The parks and the more fashionable streets, the innumerable parties, and the festivities present and to come do not bear out the assertion that London is having a dull season. But perhaps the trading classes who are not so immediately connected with the fashionable minority have some reason to complain of a continued dulness of trade. We have not yet, in fact, recovered from the effects of the late panic, but a gradual improve- ment in business operations seems to be setting in. We are looking forward with pleasure to the visit of the Belgian volunteers, who are coming over here some 2,.500 strong. All sorts of honours are to be paid them. They are to be invited to Windsor to a banquet, though, of course, not all at once; they are to be banquetized at Guildhall; Miss Burdett Coutts has promised to entertain them all at Highgate they are to have a grand ball and concert given to them at the Agricultural Hall, and numerous theatres and gardens are to be thrown open to them. Funds for their hearty and hospitable reception have been largely subscribed, and we shall be just in the humour to receive them well, in memory of the cordial welcome they gave to our volunteers last year. The intelligence of the sad death of the Emperor Maximilian has caused a profound impression here (resulting by the bye in great disappointment at the review being postponed), and the news from Paris shows that it has had the same effect there. The State dinner to the Sultan, the State performance at the opera, the grand ball at the Tuileries, and the civic fête at the Hotel de Ville— all postponed. The execution of the unfortunate Emperor is a common topic of conversation here. The prevailing opinions seem to be that France ought never to have undertaken the expedition that the English Government should have given their moral and material support to the new empire that the French troops ought not to have been withdrawn that France should have de- clined submission to the United States and that the Emperor Maximilian should have left the country with the French army. Mingled with these opinions there is a universal sorrow for the fate of an amiable, kind- hearted, brave, but perhaps too ambitious man, the victim of lawless fury and foreign intervention. Taken in conjunction with the extremely pacific speech of the Emperor of the French on distributing the prizes at the Palace of Industry, an official notifi- cation in the Moniteur is worth reference. An imperial decree orders the abandonment of twenty-nine fortified positions and works in France. This may not be much in itself, but as an indication of imperial policy it is encouraging. The Emperor of the French has now for some time maintained a peaceful attitude towards other nations, and almost every action and every utterance of his shows that he desires to live in peace with all men. The progress which the Reform Bill has made of late is rather remarkable, considering what immense changes have been effected in it. It is Paddy's old gun, with a new lock, stock, and barrel. The House of Commons is giving a finishing touch to it, and soon the question will be, how will the Lords receive it? It is positively rather difficult to believe that they will pass it in its present shape. Had Mr. Lowe's motion for the cumulative vote, for instance, been proposed in the House of Lords instead of the Commons, it would probably have met with a very different fate. But that, with more or less modification, their Lordships will pass the bill is generally believed. As the horrible revelations relative to trade outrages in Sheffield have recently been added to, and the public mind still further shocked, it is consoling to find that the trades' unionists generally continue to re- pudiate the slightest sympathy with the Sheffield outrages. Intimidation now and then is perpetrated, and now and then a sample of such cases comes before the police magistrate; but, happily, there is no warrant for saddling trades' unionism as a whole with the crimes of a few of its members. The tailors' strike, for instance, has passed over without any outrage beyond some petty cases of intimidation. The trades' unionists should bear in mind that after the Sheffield revelations, all such cases are likely to be ex- ggerated and misrepresented by the enemies of the working classes, and it would be well, there- fore, that trades' unions should do what they have not yet had the courage to do decide that every one guilty of intimidation shall ipso facto cea3e to be a member of any trade society. Trades Unionism has now much to combat against, and nothing would raise it in public estimation more than such a decisive step as this. Reverting to the tailors' strike it may be added, that as so many journey- men have now found themselves out of employment, emigration among the sartorial fraternity is becoming rather common. May they get good wages where they are going may no masters' combination annoy them may no Trade's Union afflict them! The Royal Dramatic College FStes at the Crystal Palace next Saturday and Monday will doubtless be as attractive as ever, and it ia equally undoubted that a considerable revenue will result from them. It is not pleasant, therefore, to hear that great complaints are made of the management of the institution. Very probably these complaints are exaggerated, but it seems to be the fate of nearly all artistic benevolent associations that a great deal of money should be spent in doing very little. I have just been reading that "London swarms with mad dogs." It is proverbially difficult to prove a negative, but if this assertion be a fact it is rather funny that I have not seen one out of the swarm. I read some time ago, too, that the whitebait dinners at Greenwich were marred by the bodies of dead dogs floating past the open windows. Both statements are about equally true, and both are auspiciously conflict- ing. The simple truth is that the dog-tax is working extremely well. At first it resulted in numbers of wretched animals being turned adrift, and probably in an extra demand on the tender cares lavished on the canine race at the home for lost and starving dogs; but these wretched outcasts have either gone the way of all flesh, or have found homes somewhere. True, we have still dogs enough and to spare, but it is very rare to find doggy distressed either in mind, body, or estate. A very pleasing characteristic of the lovely weather we are now having is the Sunday-school and ragged- school treats," and frequently the treat to poor, pale- faced, feeble children, who have not the advantage of going to any school at all. London parks are pretty oases in a desert of brick and stone, but there are thousands of poor, dirty, neglected children who never have been even in a London park, and tens of thou- sands who have never been in the country. Sad as this fact is it is nevertheless true. All honour then to those who take pleasure in giving pleasure to the Arabs of this arid desert London who act on the large-hearted aphorism of Dr. Dwight, that he who makes a little child happy for half an hour is a fellow- worker with God
PASSING EVENTS, RUMOURS, &c.
PASSING EVENTS, RUMOURS, &c. An extensive strike is going on amongst the colliers of the Oldham district. Out of 22 pits, only six are working, and about 900 men, besides a large number of lads, are now idle, protesting against a reduction of twopence per ton in their wages, at the same time S +-'1' ito accePt one penny. At three pits the re- duction has been accepted the remaining three are working on the old scale. The demand for coal in the district is being supplied from the Yorkshire coal- fields. The ('< >v einment are taking early precautions against was publish^ on Minda^3? conta'^°' luents which are to be made by p.rochial authorities where any outbreak oi cholera may take place. The orders are comprehensive, and appear to have been well considered. On the 20th of June the President of the United States proclaimed the treaty of the 13th of March for the cession of all the Russian American possessions, in consideration of which the United States engaged to pay 7,200,000 dols, in gold within ten months. The ratifications were exchanged at Washington oil the 20th of June. It is understood that the new territory is to be added to the military district which embraces Oregon and Washington, and to the command of which Geheral Rousseau has been assigned. Writing on the fate of Maximilian, a correspondent says :—" One loud moan of grief, which is almost a cry for vengeance, pervades all France. Since I have known Paris I have never seen sympathy so great, or indignation expressed so strongly. Had Maximilian died on the field, people would have regretted and for- gotten had he been shot at Once when taken, the French would have shrugged their shoulders and said, 'Fortune de la guerre,' and in a few hours have for- gotten the event; but the deliberate murder, the pretended trial, and the delayed execution of a pre- determined sentence, are cruelties worthy of savages alone, and the French are furious. The papers of every shade of opinion agree that it is a murder, that the perpetrators of the foul deed are scarcely human beings, and that Mexico can no longer be treated as a civilised country, or recognised among nations."
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The New York papers brought over this week con- tain a despatch professedly written by Maximilian to his Minister Lares in February last. The authenticity of the despatch appears, from internal evidence, to be very doubtful. If, however, it is authentic, it shows that the unfortunate Prince had in February fully realised the actual condition of affairs. He knew how hollow and how false were the pretences of those who advised him to stay in Mexico and to fiaht for his throne and he had come to recognise in Juarez and his followers a band of patriots who were fighting against foreign aggression. The Sheffield commissioners closed their sittings on Monday. Certificates were granted to a number of persons who had confessed their offences to the com- missioners, the first application being on behalf of Broadhead. In his case costs were refused. Certifi- cates were granted also to Crookes, Hallam, and a number of others; but in the case of Joseph Thompson, secretary to the Scissor Grinders' Union, it was re- fused, Mr. Overend saying the commissioners believed he had not made a full disclosure. The licensed victuallers of Halifax have been getting up petitions against the bill for the closing of public- houses on Sundays, and have thereby brought down upon themselves the censure of the House of Commons; the signatures to one of their petitions, presented by Mr. Akroyd, having been found to have been the work of at most two pens, and to consist of comic applications of common words such as "Cheeks, the Marine," Bottle-nosed Sandy," &c., &c. The secre- tary to the Licensed Victuallers' Association has since written to explain that two men who had been hired by him to obtain signatures had thought it easier to fabricate them themselves, and, being of a comic turn of mind, had not done the job right." The grand review which took place on Monday in Paris enabled the Sultan to judge of the appearance of the picked troops of France, drawn up in a series of lines some miles in extent, but there were no manoeuvres to display their efficiency in drill. The review was held in the Champs Elysees, the troops extending all the way from the Tuileries to the Arc de 1'Etoile in a direct line, and thence along the Avenue du Roi de Rome to the plateau of the Trocadero (facing the Pont d'lena and the palace of the Exhibition), the only open space where the troops could deploy, and on the other hand along the Quai de Billy, past the Ponts d'Alma, des Invalides, and d'lena. Altogether there were from 30,000 to 40,000 troops on the ground. The Emperor and the Sultan, both on horseback, surrounded by a gorgeous staff, left the Tuileries shortly before four o'clock, and the inspection of the troopa occupied them several hours. The Sultan was mounted on a gorgeously caparisoned Arab horse, which he rode with ease and dignity. Either by accident or design, a considerable number of the regiments which appeared before the Sultan took part in the Crimean war, and were reviewed in 1854 at Constantinople by his late brother, Abdul Medjid. His Highness the Viceroy of Egypt arrive^ in Lon- don on Saturday evening on a visit of at least a fort- night's duration to England. The event can scarcely be said to have created much excitement, but there were great crowds outside the Charing-cross station during the evening, and on the Viceroy's carriage issuing into the Strand the assembled crowds cheered his Highness heartily. To this welcome he bowed his acknowledg- ments very graciously, but beyond these simple ges- tures he seemed perfectly impassive, and showed not the slightest interest in anything around him. In no respect, as regarded uniform or decorations," was the great chief of the party distinguishable from any of his suite. He wore a plain dark blue single-breasted coat, with silk braid on the cuffs and collar with an ordinary fez, that seemed almost too large for him. The Viceroy reached Dudley house before eight o'clock. Later in the evening, accompanied by Nubar Pasha and General Seymour, he went to the Italian Opera at Covent-garden, to witness the performance of Fra Diavola. The party occupied the Royal box.—It ap- pears after all that the Viceroy will be entertained, and hospitably entertained too, at Buckingham Palace. It is said that her Majesty the Queen has been gra- ciously pleased to lend her banqueting hall and her service of gold plate to the East India board, at whose expense a banquet worthy of the locale and the guests to whom it is offered is now in course of preparation. The Prince of Wales could not receive the Viceroy on his arrival, because his Royal Highness had to dine at Greenwich with the officers of the Grenadier Guards.
THE SHEFFIELD TRADES' UNION'…
THE SHEFFIELD TRADES' UNION COMMISSION, The Sheffield Trades' Union Commission has con- cluded its efforts to ferret out the black secrets of the iniquitous proceedings of the unionists of that district. The latest revelations comprise the blowing-up of several obnoxious workshops—but we will give the evidence as taken down :— Frederick Jackson, secretary of the Nailmakers' Union at Belper, if, as he said, it deserved the name of a union at all —was examined by Mr. Overend as follows:—I believe George Worley was secretary in 18C1 I was a member of the union at that time. I am Secretary now, and I produce all the books I have. The witness was examined as to the mutilated condition of the books produced and the destruction of others. He said— They had not been destroyed because they contained entries that would not face the light. There was no entry of money paid for an improper purpose no entry of money paid to any person for blowing up this house at Thorpe Hesley. It was said at the time that the union was implicated in it, and had paid a sum of money for it. I do not know that such a sum, if it was paid, would appear in the book. Certainly it ought to. The union paid for the defence of the men at York—there were collec- tions for that purpose. The books have not been audited since I have been secretary. Rattening prevails in a number of trades, but not in ours. It has been reported that bellows have been cut and such-like things been done, but that is not to my knowledge. I do not doubt but what it has some truth in it. Bellows have been cut since I have been secre- tary, at least I have heard it said so. A few weeks ago for instance, it was reported that a man named Cornelius Southwell, hving at Belper, had his bellows cut. It is possible that bellows have been cut with the authority of the union. It has been so said out of doors, but I do not know that it has been talked of in the society. I believe that persons have been employed to cut bellows by the union, and that they have n Paid out of the union funds. That has been a system Hp! has been adopted by the union for many years past. I never heard of putting cans of gunpowder into a man's shop or chamber, or anything of that kind besides the Thorpe Hesley affair. I know Charles Webster he was the secretary at Belper. He was not the general secretary, but only a district secretary. The union is divided into several districts, and there is a secretary ap- pointed to each district. I am not aware that any of the district secretaries have paid money for putting powder in a chimney. I certainly have never paid arty for such a purpose myself. Although I have heard it stated that the blowing up at Thorpe Hesley was done with the authority of the union, I cannot say that I believe it to be true. It has been talked of out of doors. It is rather a delicate question to talk in the union. They are not very prudent who talk about such things before the men. Bellows cutting was a thing adopted by the union. Charles Butcher, living at Thorpe Hesley, described the blowing up of their shops because they had refused to join the union. Isaac Emanuel Watson, nailmaker, Rotherham, said In 18611 lived in Chesterfield, and was working in the same shop as Joseph Tomlinson. I was not in the union. I re- member going to Thorpe Hesley with Joseph Tomlinson and Samuel Morton. We went to the shop of Joseph Hattersley and put a can of powder down the chimney and lighted a fuse. The shop was blown up. On the same night we went to Charles Butcher's shop and served it the same. Our reason, in the first place, was that we did not think they were doing right in working for less than the Rotherham ,ari i' B6c°nd place we were engaged to do it. I T twi6 F! BEA*IN8 the Belper post-mark, but no name. n er8 because it was said, at the end of every S, f »°ona»read." The letters stated thatthe job wanted doIng, and tfwewoulddoitweøhOuld be paid 31. for it. I did not know the handwriting. As to the powder, I had a letter telling me to meet a certain train, when I should see a party who would give me a parcel. I wentto the train, and a person put his head out of a carriage and asked me to get him a ticket for Whittington. I took the money and then I bethought me I might miss the parcel, so I said I was look- ing for a party who was to give me a parcel. The man who had asked me to get him a ticket then handed me a parcel and I went away. I did not know the person. I never saw him before. I do not know him now. I simply got the parcel and said nothing. I bought the cans at Chesterfield. I carried one of the cans with the powder ill, and Tomlinson carried the other. We went by train to Masborough and then walked, arriving between ten and eleven at night. We came back from Thorpe by another road. I knew the shops of the men that were blown up perfectly well, because I was brought up in the neighbourhood of Thorpe. To get paid I met the train by which the person went from Belper to Rotherham to pay the men on strike. As I did not find him I went on to Rotherham, to the Cutlers Arms, where the men held their meetings. The Rotherham men showed me the man from Belper, and he motioned me to go out. He was a stranger to me, but I now believe it was Charles Webster. He paid me 11. He asked me if my name was Watson, and I said yes. At this stage of the proceedings Webster was called in, and witness was asked if that was the man who paid him. He replied, "1 believe it is, but I cannot swear it 31, was mentioned in the letters, and Proctor went to Belper and got the other pound. I was tried for the offence along with my brother James and Tomlinson. We attempted to prove an alibi, but were found guilty. After our conviction there was a strong representation made and we were let off It rnS jelievecl '"bat the alibi was true, and we were set at iiDerty. The man did not say anything about not pavine 8 me that was all he had; I should have the HoH^™i°ney when I went over. We blew up the shops of ohimn?v w!!d. Butcher, by putting powder down the dtrino- f,,of 118 the powder down the chimney by a to t0P, and we ll'ehted & one and we sus^mi aJV £ on hooP- The chimney was a low rnnf nf the qhon « Powder about six feet below the XL tolook what l^ed Butcher first and the people ran alter .to other. It w„ An elderly man, named Charles Wow i. mined, and deposed—In 1861 I was a memhmwff tL mittee of the Xailmakers" Union. I liV(v? it ufi ^rV town was divided into five districts, and I hart district, collecting the money, &c. The union had I ouarrel with Mr. Fa veil as to price, and there was a kind of out at Rotherham. The union thought Mr. Favell was rl v ing less wages than the men ought properly to receive arid the men at Thorpe Hesley worked at the reduced prices against the will of the union. We had to support the men the men at Thorpe Hesley worked at the reduced prices against the will of the union. We had to support the men on strike, and went over from Belper to Rotherham weekly to pay them. Four of us went in turns. I went on the Monday before Christmas-day, which was the Monday after Hattersley and Butcher were blown up. Watson, who has just been examined, came to me at Rotherham. I did not know him, but I asked if his name was Watson, and I paid him 21. as I had been ordered for "some work" "they" had done at Thorpe Hesley. I did not write the letters. I was not the secretary at all and had nothing to do with it.* I do not know who did unless they were written by George Wor- ley, the secretary. I had to give all my books up when I ceased to be on the committee in 1862. Mr, Overend: Of course, having paid such a large sum as 2l, to Watson you would enter that in your book ? Witness: No, I do not believe I did. I do not think it ever was entered. Where did you get the money from?—The same place as I got the money to pay the men on strike. Who gave you the money?—The chairman, James Beigh- ton. We collected the money, and took it altogether on Saturday night. I never paid anything to Tomlinson or Proctor. At the time I paid Watson at Rotherham h« said "Two pounds too little." I said "That is what I was ordered to pay." I knew about all these witnesses going I over to York at the trial of these men to prove an alibi. The cost to the union of defending these men was probably 401 or 501. There was a levy for the purpose. After some further evidence of no moment, Mr. Overend asked whether there was any person who could give information as to any case of intimidation out- rage, or wrong, connected with either masters or men. If so, let them come forward. To this there was no reply. Mr. Overend then said the commissioners had finished, all the matters brought before them, and had asked for further information of cases within the scope of the inquiry without receiving any reply. If now any person had any information they should be very glad to receive it. If no person came forward to give information, the course they would adopt would be this On Monday at two o'clock they would re- ceive applications for certificates from persons who had given evidence and had criminated themselves, and W £ i! ann0lmce. in open court to the applicants whether or not, in the opinion of the commissioners, they were intitled to receive them. The certificates would be obtained from Mr. Barker. If any person would rather not come himself, but preferred to be represented by an attorney, the Court would listen to such application just the same as if the application were made in person. After some further evidence had been taken on Monday, Mr. Overend stated that he would now answer applications for certificates. Mr. Sugg applied for a certificate on behalf of Mr. Broadhead. Mr. Overend said the Court considered that Mr. Broad- head was entitled to a certificate, but not to his costs. Where a witness had come forward in the first instance, and had told the whole truth, he would receive a certificate and his costs but where he had committed deliberate perjury, and had then made a full confession in order to save himself from the consequences of that perjury, he would not receive his costs. Mr. Overend further stated that each certificate would contain a list of the offences on which the holder had been examined. Mr. Sugg then applied for a certificate for Mr. Thomas Smith, secretary to the Sawmakers' Society, and an accessory after the fact to the Hereford-street outrage. The certificate was planted. Mr. Sugg applied for a certificate for Mr. George Peace, late a farmer at Dore, who had confessed to employing a man to shoot Elisha Parker. Mr. Overend said the certificate would be granted. Mr. Sugg applied for certificates for the secretaries of the file trade, on the ground of The Times having raised a ques- tion whether picketing was not an offence within the Act. -Certificates were granted. Mr. Sugg asked for a certificate for Renshawe, the man who blew up Wastridge's house in Acorn-street.—Granted. In the matter of certain secretaries who had destroyed books the Court held that a certificate was not required. The certificate of Joseph Thompson, secretary to the Scissor Forgers' Union, was withheld, on the ground that he had not made a full disclosure. Skidmore and Barker, the former president of the Saw Makers' Union, and the latter secretary to the Saw Handle Makers' Union, received certificates. Certificates were promised for Hallam and Crookes. George, alias" Putty" Shaw applied for a certificate for rattening, which was granted. Joseph Copley, William Fearnley, and Tucker Clarke re- ceived certificates for the various cffences to which they had confessed. The decision in the case of Samuel Cutler, concerned in the Acorn-street affair, was deferred till Tuesday. There being no more applications for certificates, Mr. Overend made a brief speech, in the course of which he thanked the mayor and town council of the borough for the assistance rendered, and also acknowleùged that the commission had received great support from both the leading papers of the town. ° At the conclusion of the learned Chief Commissioner's ob- servations, there was considerable applause from the specta- tors, which was not checked.
FIRE DAMP AT SEA.
FIRE DAMP AT SEA. A most deplorable accident, resulting from the explo- sion of fire-damp, occurred early on Sunday morning at sea, in the English Channel, on board a steam screw collier, Mary Nixon, on her voyage to Hamburg, with a cargo of steam coals, and, considering the extensive damage the vessel sustained, it is somewhat surprising she did not immediately founder. Unfortunately several of her crew are not expected to survive from the effects of the injuries they sustained. The Mary Nixon was a steamer of nearly 600 tons, commanded by Captain Brown, she had taken a cargo of coals at Cardiff, and the usual precautions appear to have been taken in keeping the hatches off, and permitting a current of air to pass over the cargo. Nevertheless, a large quantity of gas seems to have collected in the fore. hold near the forecastle and it was here the explosion occurred the steamer was then about twenty-five miles off Berry Head and about six o'clock in the morning the accident occurred blowing up the deck and scattering the wreck in all directions, besides breaking the beams and doing such extensive damage that it was fully expected the°vessel would go down head foremost. There were seven of the crew in that part of the vessel at the time—viz. Captain Brown, the master; Henry Fallsteed,'car- penter David Young, boatswain William Adding- ton, Matthew Broom, Edward O'Connell, William Smith, and Michael Ryan—all firemen. For some time the poor fellows were partially buried and jammed under the broken fragments, suffering shock- ingly from burns and fractured limbs. The remaining portion of the crew were for a time paralyzed, not knowing what to do. At length, however, discovering that the ship was not making much water, they bore up for Dartmouth, where they arrived at about eleven o'clock on Sunday morning. On the catastrophe becoming known to the officers of Her Majesty's ship Britannia the boats were sent with sailors and marines to the Mary Nixon, in order to convey the sufferers ashore. The surgeons and medical officers of the ship also attended on them. On reaching the shore they were placed in comfortable quarters, where every at- tention and kindness were shown, but it was appre- hended that some of the firemen could not survive their injuries many hours.
A GRAND SPECTACLE.
A GRAND SPECTACLE. The Rome correspondent of The Times gives the following interesting particulars of a grand ceremony which has just taken place there to celebrate the fete of the centenary of St. Peter :— Two hundred years have passed away since the Fete of the Centenary of St. Petsr was celebrated. In that interval thrones and dominions, principalities and Powers, have been swept into oblivion, while the Church of Rome exists, and, externally, never pre- sented a grander phase than it did on the present occasion. What Pius IX. felt and thought as he was borne into the centre of this gorgeous scene it would be impossible to conceive. Leaving his chair and ascending his throne, he stood for several minutes as if transfixed, cardinals and bishops, with their lighted tapers, surrounding him, and a sea of heads surging and stretching away to the extreme distance. I thought he looked pale, and no wonder if he did for if a heretic trembled with emotion, what must have been the sensations of one who regarded himself as the representative of the Great Apostle whose centenary they were celebrating, the very cen- tre and depositary of truth Yet there were no in- dications of weakness in his voice, which was as firm and clear as I ever heard it. The cardinals having paid their homage by kissing the knee of his Holiness, the great function of the day, the canonisation of the martyrs, began. To Romaa Catholics the ceremony which added so many advocates to those already before the Throne of Grace was most interesting, and every- thing that art could supply was borrowed to make it more effective. When all was ready the cardinal charged to conduct the canonisation advanced to the throne, accompanied by a master of ceremonies and an advocate of the consistory, who in the name of the Cardinal begged instanter that hia Holiness would permit the names of the twenty-five Beati to be en- rolled in the catalogue of saints. The Prelate Secretary of the Brefs ad Principes replied in Latin that the Holy Father was well acquainted with their virtues, but before deciding on so important an affair exhorted that intercession should be made to the Apostles and all the Court of Heaven for light to guide him. The Pope and all the mitred host then knelt, while two singing chaplains intoned the Litany of the saints, the ecclesiastics joining in, and the vast multitude in the church responding as with the voice of many waters. There is a plaintive monotony in the notes, which is very touching, and, familiar as they are to the members of the Roman Catholic Church, not a voice was silent, and a body of sound rose and swelled through the vast edifice that made one's nerves thrill with emotion. The same forms being observed as in the first in- stance, a second time the cardinal advanced, and the request was made instanter et instantius that the Beati should be canonized, when, in answer, prayers to the Holy Spirit, the source of light and holi- ness, were implored. Again the Pope and his pre- lates knelt and prayed, and, rising, his Holiness intoned the Veni Creator Spiritus with a voice so clear and loud, and with a precision so remarkable, that people looked upon one another with astonish- ment. A third time the postulants advanced, and intreated instanter instantius, et instantisseme that the canonization should take place, and an answer was returned that the Holy Father, convinced that the act was approved by God, would now pro- nounce his definitive decision, which he accord- ingly did, seated in his chair of State, with his mitre on his head. After some other forms the Lonjiciemus, or Uecerainms, was repeated, the silver trumpets sounded, the cannon roared from St. Angelo, and all the bells in the city were rung for joy at the consummation of the hopes of the Church The Pope now intoned the Te Deum, that fine old Ambrosian hymn. Oh, how grandly it rose and died away, as it was sung by the choir, and was then taken up by 40,000 voices, pealing forth with a power which lifted one above the world, and then dying away, as if the effort was too great for the human soul to sustain. That glorious hymn, chanted as it was by tens of thousands in union, will ring in my ears forever, and I found myself joining in the universal song of praise, not as a Roman Catholic with Roman Catholics, but as a Christian man with his fellow-man in ac- knowledgment of that Great Power whom we all worship. High mass was performed immediately after the conclusion of the ceremony of canonization. It presents no peculiarity until we come to the offertory, which on this occasion included the presentation of the offerings made to the Pope by the friends of the new saints, or the religious Orders to which they belonged. During the whole of the morning they lay on tables on the left of the high altar. They con- sisted first of five large wax candles, weighing two of them 60 Roman pounds and three 121b. each These were beautifully painted with flowers, intermingled with arabesque, in gold and silver. Secondly, two large loaves, on silver salvers, one of which was gilt, bearing the arms of the Pontiff. Thirdly, two barrels, one plated with gold, the other with silver, fille d, one with wine and the other with water. Fourthly, three cages of elegant construction, in one of which were two turtle doves, in another two pigeons and in the third various small birds of different kinds. Each saint presented the offerings above described, and the ceremony was conducted with great pomp. As many saints so many processions, each formed by two mace- bearers and a master of the ceremonies, two cardinals preceded by their gentlemen, and followed by two l members of the Order to which the saint belonged, or by two priests or laymen, the postulator of the cause and two other cardinals with their gentlemen bringing up the rear. The ceremony therefore continued for some time, and during this interval we were indulged with a Litany composed expressly for the occasion by the well- known soprano Mustafa, in which the names of the new saints were introduced for the first time. To give effect to the music three several choirs were formed, one of which was placed, under the direction of Mustafa, near the High Altar; another over the great window at the entrance of the church, directed by Melizzi; and a third, composed of 400 voices, in the cupola, under the direction of Copocci. Such delicious music surely was never heard, as the dulcet t ones floated in a series of echoes through the vast building—first rising from earth in a full body of sound, then gradually diminish- ing in power, though not in distinctness, and then softly breatliing forth as though they were angels' whispers. As the High Mass proceeded, and the incense began to spread its misty veil over every object, nothing could exceed the beautiful effect of colour. His Holiness took the sacrament in both kinds the benediction was given, and the long expected cere- monies of a day which will mark an important epoch in the history of the Church were over. The Times has a leading article on the above, from which we extract the following :— The eighteenth centenary of the martyrdom of St. Peter is an occasion to justify a solemn celebration, and an immense concourse of those who look to that Apostle as the first in their line of spiritual chiefs. Throughout the regions of civilization and authentic knowledge, there is no succession such as that which dates from the Galilean Fisherman who preached in the metropolis of the Roman Empire what he had seen and heard, and who sealed his testimony with his blood. Even they who demur to the indirectness of the evidence upon which faith eagerly believes that which it has not seen have to admit that for about eighteen hundred years there has been a community of Christians at Rome, under a Government of its own, and naturally sharing the importance of the greatest city in the world. In one way or the other, by right and by wrong, by fair means and by foul, Rome be- came the capital of Christendom. No power can claim so lofty a pretension, or so long a portion of earth's annals. The oldest dynasties are but children in the scale, the greatest Empires ephemeral. Nor is the pre- sent occasion the least in the long series of critical emergencies that make up her eventful history. The national sentiment, one of the strong things that Rome could once grind to powder, has now advanced to the very gates of Rome and insulated the Chair of St. Peter from all the Thrones of tho world. It has absorbed small States and divided Empires. The arts and sciences have their jubilees, and all the tribes of humanity gather at successive capitals to vie in works of useful- ness and achievements of skill and genius. The great Catholic, Greek, Lutheran, and even Mahommedan Powers come, like the Kings of the East to the cradle of science, and proclaim its increasing triumphs. Free trade and religious freedom assist to found a wide-world union, in which creeds are to be resigned to the conscience of the individual. At such a time, then, when peace and war, and that wisdom of the world which does more than either arts or arms, seem all to be banded together for one final effort against spiritual pretensions, the Church of "Rome once more takes its stand before the world, points to its Divine origin, and traces the golden chain which links it to all that is past and all that is to come. Another correspondent, writing on a later date, furnishes the following: Consistories and receptions have followed rapidly on each other. In one of the earliest of the former the Pope spoke for the first time in a public consistory and declared it to be his intention to summon a general council. His Holiness was so moved that his attendants were compelled to unrobe him hastily from fear of his fainting and take him to a. private apartment. He soon recovered, however, from his emotion. On the 25th of June there was a giant reception of the priests, at which 9,000 were present, and half that number again were outside unable to enter for want of room. An anecdote is told of Pius IX. on this occasion which is characteristic, and is, I am assured, true. A coloured priest, unacquainted with Italian, knelt before him and endeavoured to express him- self in Latin, though unsuccessfully. His noijness then gave him his benediction, adding sotto voce" Figlio mio, conte sei brutto My son, how ugly thou art! Pius IX., as you know, cannot refrain from his joke. On Sunday evening Prince fealviati had a monster reception, at which all the world, denial and lay, were present. Each day or the Octave of St. Peter has its serious occupations in the morning and its amusements in the evening, One dav the Pope visited the Church of St. Pudenziana, built, as it is said, on the site of the first residence of St. Peter, and in the evening the Prince Borghese gave a series of entertain- ments in the gardens or grounds of his villa to the Senatum Populumque llomanuni. There were races with bigee con- structed after the antique, and driven with two horses each, by men dressed in the ancient Greek costume. Horse racing followed, in which I shrewdly guess ten members of an equestrian troop-five men and five women—performed, and were greeted with shouts of applause. All were ac- coutred in scarlet. There was vocal and instrumental music too, and the whole terminated with the ascent of a balloon. Simple amusements enough, but it was pleasant to see some 50,000 people enjoying themselves so thoroughly in the open air amidst the trees of the Villa Borghese. The other morning the Pope visited the traditional Prison of St. Paul, under the Church of Santa Maria in Via Lata, and now the Corso is blazing with a spiral illumination of gas, and all the Piazzas are crowded with people listening to bands ot music. Thus, priests and laymen are provided with what is supposed to be best suited to the'r tastes, and if the laity do not partici- pate much in the occupations of the priests, the latter enter into all the enjoyments of the people. There were shoals of them in the Borghese Gardens one night, and It was pleasant to see them laying aside the manner "of the altar.
DREADFUL SUICIDE THROUGH LOVE…
DREADFUL SUICIDE THROUGH LOVE AT. DERBY. Late on Sunday evening a most shocking suicide was committed at Derby. A girl, sixteen years of age, named Maria Smith, residing with her parents, had been keeping company for sometime past with a young man in that town, and from some unexplained cause a slight disagreement had arisen between them. The re- sult was that the unfortunate creature had been in a low state of mind, and early on Sunday evening called upon a female companion to take a walk. She showed an anxiousness to walk by the river side, and it was accordingly agreed between them^that they should stroll up Darley-grove—an out.;kirt of the town—and enter the fields surrounding the Derwent There they remained till between nine and ten o'clock, when several boys came up, and noticing something very peculiar in the girl's conduct, kept eyes upon her, although she and her friend went into the next field. In a few minutes afterwards they noticed deceased take her hat and cape off, and on her rolling her dress sleeves up the boys ian to the spot and heard Smith requesting the other young girl to take them home, adding, she did not intend to go home that night." The youths then urged her to go home, but she refused, again remarking that if she did go home they would have to carry her." Becoming excited, the lads seized hold of her, and declared they would take her home, but just at this moment the unfortunate girl rescued herself from them, and jumped into one of the deepest parts of the river, scre&ming, "Youre and was drowned in their presence. Alarm was imme- diately raised, and two police-sergeants attended with the drags and soon recorered the body.
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Pisttllitiiwis HOME, FOHEIC-N, AND COLONIAL. THE VICEROY AT tHE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. —On Sunday last London society gave the Viceroy of Egypt a bitter taste of its quality (remarks the tall Mall Gazette.) Everybody knows that, although it is very wrong for the lowtr classes of London to go aJ'y" where but to church on Sundays, or to wish to drink anything but water, the upper classes of the metropolis may with perfect propiiety amuse and refresh them- selves innocently at Rfchmond, Greenwich, Maiden- head, or in the Regent's Park as much as they please. Consequently the approaches to the Zoological Gardens are crowded on Sunday afternoons with hundreds or private carriages, convening to the gardens the wealth, beauty, and fashion of jondon, fearfully and wonder- fully attired In a rasl moment the Viceroy of Egypt was tempted'by his ciceone to repair thither too and as soon as his Highness yas known to be in the gardens a commotion ensued much such as might have been expected had the lions esc&ped from their cages, or the cobra capellas got loose. The unhappy Egyptian was mobbed, hustled, and hunted up one walk and down another, until with difficulty he extricated himself by a somewhat undignified fligit, and regained his car- riage scared and breathless. ENGLISH HOSPITALIT: AT FAULT.—We (Pall Mall Gazette) cannot hlip thinking that the re- peated appeals which are now leing made by advertise- ment to the public to contribut' to the fund for the re- ception of the Belgian Volmteers are somewhat damaging to our national chancter for hospitality. The Queen has responded by offe-ing 2,200 a breakfast at Windsor. Miss Burdett Couts has responded by offering them a breakfast at Hoik Lodge the public have responded by contributing 5,(301. and neverthe- less, we learn from a letter which appared in Tuesday's Times from the Duke of Manchester aid Colonel Loyd- Lindsay, that as much more is still rquired. Surely, there must be ajnengst the many walthy noblemen and gentlemen connected with the volurteer movement some few who will do as much as the ^een and Miss Burdett Coutts have done, and spare England the humiliation of these public appeals. DESTRUCTION OF A VILLAGE BY 1IRE.-The village of Chatelard, Savoie, consisting ot about 100 houses, has just been almost entirely destroy d by fire. The buildings all being roofed with thatch te flames spread with remarkable rapidity. J-he oniyonstruc- tions spared were the church and cure s resideice, the police-station, and the mairie, all of whIch halDened to be isolated from the rest. More than 800 jxrsons are rendered homeless; the greater part of the families are completely ruined, the companies ha\ng refused to effect insurances in consequence ofthe grat risk. A horse and a cow were burnt to death, andl. gendarme, in saving a young girl, fell witn her from t height, breaking his leg. The prefect immediately proceeded to the spot, taking with him for distribution several waggons laden with provisions, blankets, and other articles of necessity. A detachment of troops of the line had also been sent from Chambery to assist in clearing the ruins and erecting temporary shelter for the inhabitants. <> THE ROMANCE OF WAR—ISABELLA Alder, aged 64, who has been for five years an unsuccessful candi- date for admission to the Cambridge Asylum for Soldiers' Widows at Kingston-on-Thames, tells the following story, which is not only sad, but true Her father served in the 9th Foot during the Peninsular war, and she was sent home from the seat of war in 1814, to be educated at the Duke of York's SehooL Two of her brothers were killed at Waterloo. She married a sergeant of the ISth (Royal Irish) Regiment, and all i°ur °f her sons have fallen in the service of their country, two in the oist Foot, one in the 7th Foot, and one in the 55th loot. One was killed at Rangoon, one sabred in the Crimea, and two aiea in India, leaving her in the deepest poverty. ANXIOUS TO CONCEAL HIS BIRTH One of the most extraordinary points set forth in the extraor- dinary bill filed in the Court of Chancery by the claimant to the Tichborne succession, is the statement connected with his marriage. The claimant says that he, a Roman Catholic, being at Wagga Wagga, in Austra- lia, and being desirous of marrying a Roman Catholic girl, elected to have the marriage ceremony performed in a Wesleyan Chapel in order that he might the better conceal his birth. Roman Catholics, it is well known, consider a marriage celebrated by a Wesleyan minister as no marriage at all; and at a time when nobody suspected that Roger Tichborne had survived the wreck of the Bella, and when no inquiries had been made or search instituted after him, the fact of a man calling himself De Castro being married in a Roman Catholic or in a Wesleyan chapel could in no way assist in maintaining or in endangering the incognito which the claimant avers he was anxious to preserve. A CONTRADICTION.—A Paris letter, in the Independance, says:— The absurd invention that General Pallavicino had mur- dered his wife is denied, and cannot be too strongly contradicted. The young marquise, born at Catanzaro, was educated at Naples; she is adored by her husband, and shares that affection to such it degree that she made a vow to retire from the world for two years if her husband escaped the perils which he incurred in his expedition against the brigand s of the Southern provinces. It is perhaps the too faithful execution of that vow which has permitted this ridiculous and calunmious rumour to be accredited. THE INTELLIGENT JURYMAN.—"VVe often hear" of the humours of the bench and the bar, but the jests of the jury box, if only collated, would be quite as amusing (remarks the New York Times.) The other day, in the Supreme Court here, a civil case was on trial. The suit was important, the lawyers laboured, and a full day was occupied. The jury were faithful and attentive, and one Prussian juryman, of Bis- marckian face, was observed to be specially sagacious and interested. At length, the case being argued, the jury ratired, but soon sent back the message that one of their number could not speak a word of English, much' less understand one. It was the intelligent juryman, who had sat with the rapt expression of fidelity and interest all through the day, who had been the special object to which the counsel on both sides addressed their pleas, and who only revealed his mis- fortune when, being asked for his opinion in the jury room, he confessed he didn't understand a word of what had been said LATEST PARIS FASHIONS IN HAIR.—A Paris correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette says :— Gold hair powder appears to be as much in favour with blonde beauties as eycr, and no doubt will continue 80 until they have converted themselves into brunettes in accordance with the prevailing fashion. Chignons which have slightly decreased in size. or at any rate project less than before, are almost invariably arranged in plai ts, and have ordinarily two long-plaited ends, or a couple of long curls of the form vul- garly styled "corkscrew" hanging from them and falling down the back or Over one or both shoulders. I noticed one chignon with amass of frizzly curls at the top and the ortho- dox pair of long curls hanging from them down to the waist, with some half-dozen short ringlety curls in between. A STEP IS THE RIGHT DIRECTION.—The Black Country will soon lose its unenviable title if a plan now carried out at Lord Granville's works near Hanley is generally adopted. The mouths of the short chimneys or cupolas of the blast furnaces are closed, and the smoke and gas are earned down and brought round by means of iron pipes to the fireplace of the engine which keeps up the blast. These pipes discharge just in front of a small bright coke fire, in passing over which their contents get kindled, and so feed the engine. Thus the saving in fuel is immense, the fire in the smelting furnace being made to do almost double duty, and the consumption of smoke is a gain to all concerned. Probably the plan admits of ex- tension, so that by-and-by Acts for forcing manufac- turers to consume their own smoke may not be quite such a dead letter as they have hitherto been. COURT MOURNING.—A Supplement to the London Gazette, published on Saturday, contains the following :— Lord Chamberlain's-office, July 3. Orders for the Court's going into mourning to-morrow, the 7th inst., for His late Majesty the Emperor of Mexico—viz., the ladies to wear black silk, fringed or plain linen, white gloves, necklaces, and earrings, black or white shoes, fans, and tippets. The gentlemen to wear black, full trimmed, fringed or plain linen, black sword.?, and buckles. The Court to change the mourning on Sunday, the 21st illst.-viz. the ladies to wear black siik or velvet, coloured ribands, fans, and tippets, or plain white or white and gold, or white and silver stuffs with black ribands. The gentlemen to wear black coats, and black or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuff waistcoats full trimmed, coloured swords and buckles. And on Sunday, the 28th innt., the Court to go out of mourning. A WOMAN INTERRED ALIVE.—The Journal de Pontarlier relates a case of premature interment. Dur- ing the funeral, a few days back, of a young woman at Mountflorin, who had apparently died in an epileptic fit, the gravedisrger, after having thrown a spadeful of earth on the coffin, thought he heard a moaning from the tomb. The body was consequently exhumed, and a vein having been opened, yielded blood almost warm and liquid. Hopes were for a moment entertained that the young woman would recover from her lethargy, but she never did so entirely, and the next day life was found to be extinct. DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA.—On Saturday an inquest was held at Li-verpool upon the body of Thomas Barton, aged 1G years. About two years and a half ago the deceased was bitten by a dog upon one of his wrists. As the animal was not mad, and the wound speedily healed, no serious results were appre- hended, and the matter was almost forgotten. On Thursday week, whilst at his work, the same wrist was injured by a plank falling upon it. A few days pre- viously the hand was hurt by a ball, whilst he was playing at cricket. On Sunday he was taken ill, and the terrible symptoms of hydrophobia were manifested soon afterwards. On Thursday morning the poor lad died in fearful a'-iony in the Southern Hospital. The verdict was- -Died from hydrophobia. DESERVES HANGING !—A letter has been re- ceived by Mr. Black more, the superinteIJdent of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, inti- mating that unless the return fares on the Preston and Wye line are dropped the directors will find some of their trains dropping off the embankments in a short time. The writer states that unions have been formed in the Garstang district and Leyland for the purpose of paying people to commit the outrages, and hints that it is much cheaper to reduce the fares than to pay a few thousand pounds damages to people who are injured. He asks a series of questions on the subject, and supplies the answers, and concludes by emphati- cally affirming, that whilst working men are willing to pay a reasonable fare, they will not be trampled under foot in the manner they have been. THE SULTAN AND HIS DIET.—Amongst the numerous questions which have been discussed in con- nection with the Sultan's visit to this country is how his Majesty will manage with regard to his meat, and what the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of London will provide for his Mahometan guest at the civic banquet. By the Mahometan law a "true believer "must not eat meat which has been slaughtered by Christians, since they do not invoke the Deity while slaying cattle for food and even if they did, the Mahometan require- ment is "to invoke the triune God." A "true believer" can only eat meat killed either by Moslems or Jews, who, while slaying any beast for consump- tion, never fail to offer up a prayer to God. It is certain that the Sultan will not partake of any meat unless killed under the above conditions; but it 18 possible that his Majesty may have brought amongst his retinue a slayer of his own, or will abstain from meat during his visit to the land of the giaours. SUICIDE OF A RUSSIAN PRINCE.—The Gazzetta del Popolo of Turin gives some details respecting a refugee who was found dead a few days back in that city his name was Nicholas Taboysky, a Russian prince, and 35 years of age. In a letter written in French, which was found on the body, he declared that ten years ago he intended to commit suicide on that same spot, but his courage failed him at the last mo- ment. Far from his native country, his life had be- come a burthen to him. He nominated as his heir the first person that should discover his corpse. The re- volver he had used had been purchased the day before at the shop of a gunsmith named Lupotti. On the body was found a gold watch with a valuable chain and a well filled purse, and on the hands a pair of new yellow kid gloves. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.—A special corres- pondent in Paris thus writes to the British Medical Journal— last week there has been a good deal of uneasi- f',icerri.il)g the relapse of the Emperor into the L„ which he was last year affected. L V r.en c?lic> which the Moniteur officially f "1th headache, has left behind further II ,ve ln<luced the Emperor's physicians to counsel as early a close as state reasons will allow of the Court festivities, In order that he may have the benefit of treatment by mineral waters. Meantime, he is forbiiden horse exercise and the pleasures of the table. The little Prince Imperial has recovered his strength wonderfully and seems to be very well, to the great delight of all here. A MYSTERY.—The dead body of n sunburnt man, with letters indicating that he had not long re- turned from India, was found in the Thanles, at Lon- don, on Saturday. His legs were tied together, as if he had committed suicide j but the Burgeon who examined him came to the conclusion that he had been murdered first, and thrown into the water afterwards. In the first place, there was the mark of a heavy blow, struck upon his face with some blunt instrument; secondly, his chest when tapped sounded hollow, which a man's who has been drowned does not; and, thirdly the cords with which his legs were bound had left no indentation, as they would have done (and as, indeed, his garters had done) had they been used before death. Finally, one of his pockets had been cut out, and he had not a farthing of money about him. THE TYRANNY OF FASHION.—The following is part of the contents of a letter received from Paris from a young lady, one of twelve, who are about to officiate as bridesmaids :— The French modistes here are very arbitrary. I suggested that a skirt with" olait or gather," might look poor in a white striped grenadine. The modiste laughed the idea to scorn, and thought fashion imperative. So I and my com- panion bridesmaids have dresses only as wide as a Turkish lady's drawers, and each a train as long as a respectable peacock's tail. PIANO PLAYING UNDER DIFFICULTIES.—The arrival of the Sultan in Paris has given rise to many anecdotes in the papers. Amongst them is one to this effect—M. Leopold de Meyer, the pianist, was called upon to play before Abdul Aziz. In order that no injury might be done to the beautiful mosaic floor the piano was placed on the backs of five Turks then When M. de Meyer desired to sit down, he was told that no one was permitted to be seated in the presence ¡f the Sultan. Finally this difficulty was got over, fid the professor was accommodated with a chair, lie Sultan expressed himself as highly delighted wih the performance, and U|en asked the pianist to dane. ANEW FORM OF LOTTERY. -I'ngular, and we believi novel, form of lottery has been i -orted to by a tobaco dealer in this city (says the New Vr¡rk Na- tion). He puts a hundred-dollar bill m one the many htndred tinfoil packages of chewing toDa^o which he sends out every day, so that every p chaser geti not only a package of tobacco, but a cnanc of one hundred dollars. The scheme has been so suc- cessful that rival dealers have been entirely driven out of the field. This plan of pushing sales is applicable to many other kinds of business. It might, for in- stance, be adopted by publishers of popular periodicals. Why not, insiteM of loading every half-dozen sub- scribers with a sewing-machine, or a tea service, slip a fifty-dollar bill into one of every thousand or ten thousand copies put up in wrappers? Think of the joy of the mother and children when on cutting the leaves to get at the poetry, or that repertory of wis- dom, "The Family Column," a new fresh greenback dropped out. 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EPITOME OF NEWS, BRITISH AND FOREIGN. The canonization which has just taken place at Rome is the 191st. There have been no less than 38 canoniza- tions in the present century. According to an official report just published the population of Sweden was 4,114,141 in 1865, and 4,160,668 in 1866. The total number of prizes awarded at the Paris Exhibition is as follows 64 grand prix, 883 gold medals, 3,635 silver medals, 6,565 bronze medals, and 5,801 honour- able mentions. It is said that the Atlantic Cable Company now propose to send messages by telegraph from New York to foreign countries in the language of those countries. The operators to be employed are to be good linguists. The Sultan, before deciding on his visit to Paris, was very anxious to know how the French Emperor dressed and rode, and ordered clothes cut on the models of those of Napoleon III. The Sultan, when he visited the Invalides, at Paris, a few days back, asked to see the oldest veteran in the institution; and with his own hand he decorated him with the Order of the Medidie. An inquest has been held at Manchester on the body of a boy named John Arnold, eight years of age. whose death took place in the Eye Hospital. On Friday the boy underwent an operation for squint, having chloroform administered previously, and about two hours afterwards he expired. Verdict—Died under the influence of chloroform. Prince Alfred is not the only prince just now on his travels. The Russian Grand DukeAtexis, the Czar's youngest son, after a stay at Constantinople, left on the 26th on board the Russian steamer Oleg to visit the monasteries of Mount Athos, from whence he proceeds ta Cadiz, where he is to em- bark on board the Alexander Nevski frigate, in which he will visit the West Indies and the United States. He will return to Russia by Constantinople. The most frightful tornado that has occurred for ten years past swept over Dallas county, Texas, on the night of June 2nd. Fences and growing crops were prostrated, and quite a number of houses blown down. Several persons were killed and others injured. It is estimated that New York city consumes 195,000 quarts of strawberries daily. At a grand army festival in Richmond, Indiana, Miss Jennie Prescott was voted to be the handsomest girl in America. Mr. Welch, late Registrar of the District Court of Bankruptcy at Leeds, died on Saturday morning, at Yaxley- hall, Eye. Susan King, a coloured actress, is very popular in Galveston. Dr. Raimbert, a French doctor, practices a new method of introducing medicines into the animal economy, viz., by the nostrils. He had done so with morphine, which, it seems, introduced in that way, will cure violent headache. It is worthy of note that we have at this moment at least five bankrupt railways crying for assistance and this is in itself a fact sufficient to demand a change in railway management so complete as only to be obtained from Par- liament. Grizzly bears are killed in California with strychnine, enclosed in a ball of tallow, and sewed into a piece of fresh muttoli. In New Orleans, a short time since, about ten thousand dollars In Confederate money, mixed with other waste paper, was sold at 4 cents a pound. The death is announced of Sir W. Lawrence, Bart., F. R. S., serjeant-surgeon to the Queen. He was disabled by a paralytic stroke about two months since, in consequence of which he resigned the office of examiner to the College of Surgeons. He recovered in some degree from the attack, but a few days since he had a relapse, and died on Friday at his residence in Whitehall-place, aged eighty-three. A strange statement is made by one of the French journals—namely, that the Emperor Maximilian, before fastening himself up at Qneretaro, placed his papers in order, sent them to London, and confided to M, Louis Blanc the task of publishing them The statement cannot possibly be true. Some months back it was said that he had sent to Queen Victoria the private letters addressed to him by the Emperor of the French, which are of great im- pOl tallèc. Among the sights now in Paris is the giant Woo Foo, exhibiting at the Salon Francais. This celestial mortal measures eight feet. lie and his wife—they were married about six months ago—are natives of the neighbourhood of Pekin. The street railroads of St. Louis last month carried 315,031 passengers. The attempt to build a tunnel under the Chicago river has failed. The entire work lately in progress, includ- ing masonry, timber, &c., on the morning of the 14th ult. fell in with a crash, involving heavy losses to the contractors. The sales of live stock in Chicago reached 30,888,124 dols. last year. Mr. Charles Wentworth Dilke, who is proposed as a candidate for the future borough of Chelsea and Kensing- ton, is a son of Sir Wentworth Dilke, and was Mr. Hep- worth Dixon's companion on his recent journey to the Salt LakeCity. Grub worms are doing much damage in some parts of Vermont. A recent visitor saw acres of grass entirely destroyed by them. They devour the roots, and the ground looks as if a fire had passed over it. Some years ago whole fields of grass on the upper part of the Connecticut River were thus destroyed. The total Indian population of the United States is stated at from 300,000 to 350,000 persons. A private letter from Mhow, dated the 31st May, states that Major Baigrie had just returned from a two months' shooting excursion. He had been in company with Colonel Chamberlain, Colonel Fraser, and Captain Martin. They killed thirty-six tigers, six bears, and four panthers. John Gray, probably the last survivor of the revo- lutionary army of 1776, is living in Noble county, Ohio. He is nearly 104 years old. The Sultan has accepted an invitation from the Emperor of Austria to visit Vienna. The Sultan has requested the authorities of the Foreign Office and the Admiralty to select a board of naval officers to proceed to Constantinople for the purptlse of taking charge of the naval administration of the Port0. The Dublin Punch of Saturday devotes its cartoon to a representation of Mrs. Britannia and the Sultan" inter- changing greetings, and congratulating each other on the success with which tliey have reduced their rebellious slaves, Erin and Candia, to submission." The Sultan holds a sword, dripping: with blood, and Britannia—a big. vulgar-looking woman—is armed with a cat-o-nine tails. In the background appear two islands in flames. The oriole, which has been seen in this country dur- ing the last week or two, is supposed to be the harbinger of hot summer weather. This bird owes its name, "the golden oriole," to the prevalence of yellow in its plumage esneciallv the male. It is to be found in Asia, Africa, the south and eafct of Europe, and in the Indian archipelago but its an pearanr.e in England is very occasional—of so rare occur rence, in fact, as to be considered indicative of a tropical season. It is semi-officially announced that the Queen, and the younger members of the Royal family, will leave Windsor for Osborne on Saturday—the day after the arrival of the Sultan. At St. Paulo, Brazil, recently, an old man, whose wife is still living at the age of 114, died at the age of 112. They had 17 children, 36 grandchildren, and 53 great grandchildren. At a meeting of Bristol Conservatives, held on Saturday, it was resolved that a member of the Miles family should be brought forward to contest the seat about to be vacated by Sir Morton Peto. The name of Mr. Sholto Vere Hare was also mentioned. On Monday, John Rowson, the pointsman on duty at Walton Junction, when the accident took place on Satur- day week, was charged with having, by wilful negligence or omission, caused the death of Mary Elizabeth Adcock, and ethers. The evidence given at the inquest having been re- peated, he was committed to take his trial for manslaughter at the Chester Assizes. The Queen was in London on Monday, and paid a visit to the Princess of Wales. In the evening her Majesty entertained the Viceroy of Egypt at dinner at Windsor, and his Highness stayed at the Castle during the night. The Queen of Prussia left Windsor for the Continent on Tuesday. The PallllfallGazette has news from the Abyssinian captivcs to May 2nd. King Theodoras had ordered the massacre of 200 of the chiefs, and our countrymen enter- tained the most gloomy foreboding that their turn would scon come to be numbered among the victims. Writing on Monday, a Paris correspondent says: "There was a heavy fall on the Bourse to-day because it was rumoured that the Patrie had received instructions to write a series of articles disagreeable to Prussia and in effect, when that semi-official sheet appeared, it was found to contain a sharp rebuke to Count Bismarck's organ for trying to excite public opinion m Germany against this country because France called on Prussia to keep the treaty of Prague." The Hertford Mercury reports that at the quarter sessions for that county last week, John Harding, aged six- teen, labourer, of Hertford, pleaded guilty to "an assault of a serious and criminal character," on a very young child, whom he had dccoyed into a wood at Heitingfordbury. The Deputy-Chairman Eaid the prisoner was liable to two years imprisonment. In the hope, however, that a mild sentence would have the effect of preventing him from committing such offences for the future, the court sentenced him to six weeks' imprisonment with hard labour. A young gentleman at Eton, named Ingram, who resided in the house of Mr. Wayte, one of the Eton masters, was found dead in his bed on Sunday night. He was excused from school on Wednesday, having complained of a pain 1Il his back, supposed to proceed from a cold caught by lying on the grass to witness a recent cricket match. He naa ueen attended by Dr. Soley, of Windsor, and Dr. Snnth, o^f ^ton, but no immediate danger was apprehended, althougn ne was considered of a weakly constitution. He was seventeen years of age, and the only son of a gentleman of large iorcune living at Lyme Regis, Dorset. A case similar to that of Earl Brownlow 18 expected shortly to occupy the attention of the courts. It seems that a few nights sinc& Earl Cowper, Jo „!ll °« sixty men, knocked down and removed f°° ° °* fencing lately erected by the MaF'lulf J1', at Hatfield Hyde, near Hertford. The fence had inclosed some waste land; and When displaced it was parted about a hundred yards, and then deposited on^each side of the road. The Mal quis of Salisbury is lord of the manor of the waste, and Earl Cowper owns the adjoining land on each side of the road. The men commenced the work of demolition at one o'clock in the morning, and had not concluded till five. A large proportion of the Irish Roman Catholic Bishops are at present in Rome taking part in the ceremonial going forward there. are> besides Cardinal Cullen, Bishops Nulty (Meath,, Dorrian (Down), Delany (Cork), ICeane (Cloyne), O Hea ;Ross), Butler (Limerick), Flannery (Killaloe), M b\illy (Galway), Donnelly Clobber Archbishop Leahy Cashei;, and Dr. Kieran, the lately appointed Roman Catholic primate, are also at Rome, along with a number of minor Irish dignitaries. The Irish pre- lates have had a special audience of the Pontiff, at which they thanked lum for raising one of their number to the cardinalate, and presented 13,000Z. of Peter's pence. A Paris paper saysAccording to information which has reached us, from twenty to thirty thousand peasants from the Pontincal provinces now annexed to Italy went to Rome on foot for St, Peter's Day. They walked day and night, and all the roads leading to the Eternal City were crowded with them. All this multitude has not ceased to besiege the Vatican, and every time the Pope appeared they saluted him with prolonged acclamations, which left no doubt as to their signification, and which were addressed as much to the regretted Sovereign as to the Pontiff. A young man attempted suicide in a cab in Paris on Friday last, by inflicting on himself about twenty wounds with a knife in the region of the stomach. lie had taken the vehicle by the hour, and had had himself driven to different parts of Paris. While passing the Rue Roy ale, the driver heard groans proceeding from the interior of the cab, and on descending found the young man weltering in his blood. lie was tnken to the Beaujou Hospital, but there arc but slight hopes of saving his life. From a letter found m his pocket ne appears to have come from Havre to Paris in the hope of obtaining employment, and not having succeeaea- and finding himself without resources, had resoiveu w destroy his life. ch^ot a little consternation was excited ip Ucv'iof St. John's, Windsor, on Sunday morning, hen the Rev II T, Thompson, the senior curate domg'auty^for the silicon who has been abroad for some months on account of lisoii, ^hohasbeen pu]pifc i? his surplice and gave out as hii* 't_ what ara these which are arrayed in white rob.e' .l^\6f(i stated his reason, for departing from the usual c^0^^ ^nrst, that the Hlwl0p of Oxford had recommended iyn W icit<.ral letter sccon^y, that h « the permission of tnethat it .wi»not p Catholic mnovatw* Mg gec0y> that ltwas les» He a<Wed tha g of marnjvovation, the the publication oi in^ eyenil]g the ]ie^.ra wiUnn the clV? "ofttfe parish, followed the same cours^e, former^ Ws sermon safd that it was intended to introduce a rarUMuwii; to wws$9 uattei*al, Another serious accident occurred on the London and North-Western Railway, near to Wolverton, on Friday night. The Globe gives prominence to an announcement that the visit of the Emperor and Empress of Austria to Paris is only postponed, and not abandoned, inconsequence of the lamentable death of the Archduke Maximilian. Two prisoners have escaped from Radnorshire gaol. The custom at the gaol is to allow the prisoners to break stones outside the prison walls, and the prisoners who have disappeared accepted the chance of regaining their liberty which was so freely offered to them. The sum of 7001, is to be expended on this gaol so as to bring it under the Prisons Act, 1865. One of the new mechanical toys in Paris is a boat with a rower. The rower exactly imitates the movements of a real man, and works a pair of sculls with great energy. The Parisians think this is the most amusing kind of ac- quatics, and cannot conceive that muscle and perspiration should be expended. A country paper in Wisconsin says that the Legis- lature of that State adjourned non compos." This is about as bad as the statement made by the chairman of a meeting held in Byron Hall, Chicago, about six years ago, declaring a certain resolution passed crim. con." The Paris Exhibition has exerted a very marked influence upon French railway traffic. During the past week 63 wrecks have been reported, making for the present year a total of 1,524. The lady who gave Mr. Spurgeon 20,000l. to erect an orphanage has since ordered her plate to be sold for thef same object; and Mr. Spurgeon asserts that the donor has thereby "set an example to all believers who have surplus and unused gold and silver which ought to be put to better use than lying wrapped up in a box." The new dog tax is to be enforced without further notice. It is now an excise duty and not an assessed tax, and, therefore, application is to be made for a licence, and there is no exemption, as hitherto, until a demand was made. The penalty is 51. Iodine, placed in a small box with a perforated lid, destroys organic poisons in rooms. In cases of small-pox this method, it is said, may be used with great benefit. At an exhibition of meat recently held at Nancy » butcher exposed a mare, twenty-seven months old, weighing 410 kilos.. and a horse, thirteen years old, weighing 520 kilos. these animals had been fattened for the table, and were covered with garlands. The members of the Acclimatisation Society awarded butcher Penneau a silver medal, and fifty francs in money. Before being taken to the shambles the victims were led through the town. A Belgian paper, the Gazette de Mons, relates that in the afternoon of June 24, during a storm which broke over Frameries, a shower of small pebbles fell from the sky. Several of them were collected, and found to be of the size of a small nut. The composition is a sort of enamelled silex. resembling jasper. "John H. U. '.—Come home at once, and I will make ita1l right with the governor and your wife.— JOE." Advertisement in London Times. The Swedish newspapers state that in the Kongs- berg silver mine a lump of silver has been found weighing 400 lb. The Bishop of Nantes has formally forbidden his clergy to go and see the Universal Exhibition at Paris. The display of material objects, he declares, can only be a blame- able action, in which honest men cannot take part. Sir S. Morton Peto, who has retired from the re- presentation of Bristol, was first returned to the House of Commons as member for Norwich at the general election In 1847. He retired from the representation of Norwich in December, 1854, but entered Parliament again in 1857, as member for Finsbury, which he afterwards deserted for Bristol. In the case of Macnamara v. Macnamara and Met- calf, tried on Saturday in the Divorce Court befor* Sir J. Wilde, a carpenter gave evidence in his cross-examination as to the kindness with which the plaintiff habitually treated his wife. The follow ing replies were given by the witness: Mr. Sergeant Tindal: He treated her very kindly, did he not ?—Atkinson: Oh, yes, very he kissed her several times. Mr. Sergeant Tindal: and how did she treat him ? Atkinson; Well, she retaliated. The new city directory of Hartford, Connecticut, contains 10,427 names, and the names of 177 streets and courts, 29 churches, 48 benevolent and social societies, 9 missionary Sabbath schools, and 74 corporations, besides the banks and insurance companies. In some New England cities the people still adhere to the old-time custom of personally labounng for the com- munity. It is stated that each of the citizens of Amherst, N. H., took his turn at spade and rake on the last town elec- tion day, and graced and adorned the public common, per- forming for the town in all 100 dols. worth of gratuitous labour. The Manchester Examiner says it is stated that an inquiry will shortly be commenced into the operations of the trades' unions in Manchester, Stockport, and the sur- roundmg districts, and principally into the doings of the bricklayers' societies in that neighbourhood. The Swabian Mercury states that the news of the Emperor Maximilian's death at the Munich railway station, produced a terrible effect on the Emperor Francis Joseph. His Majesty was seen to weep bitterly. A telegram from Marseilles reports that the brick- work bridge across the new Cours Lieutaud, in that city, fell on Saturday afternoon, and that twenty workmen were either killed or injured. It is said that the immense herds of cattle that now roam at will through the wilds of Florida and Georgia are proving a serious inconvenience to the railroad trains Scarcely a train runs at night without more or less destruc- tion of stock, and not unfrequently half a dozen at a time are hurled from the track and destroyed. ■ Several liberal-minded citizens of Chicago last year l firemen of that city against accidents. On the 4th of May last three of the firemen were killed, and several injured, at a large fire in Water-street. The families of the deceased received 7,500 dols., and the injured men received weekly compensation. The Globe's Paris correspondent says an impression is beginning to be entertained that France will be under the necessity of engaging in a new war with Mexico, to avenge outrages inflicted on the honour of France by the murder of French citizens but the operations will, in all probability, be confined to burning down Vera Cruz, or some other town on that coast. Fine coal has been discovered in Panola county, Mississippi One day last week, while the Royal household were at prayers in the Private Chapel of Windsor Castle, one of the pages, a young roan, suddenly rushed from his seat into the centre of the chapel, and exclaimed with great energy, It is all mystery!" He then ran from the chapel, but was secured, and it was found that the poorfellowhad gone mad. The Queen was not present. About one thousand families in the district of North Slcswick have had notice from the Prussian authorities to quit their homes within eight days, for refusing allegiance to the new order of affairs. Plaid trousers and waistcoats of a neat pattern— say two inches square—have been the fashion in the House of Lords this week by the leader of fashion in costume. A mysterious lady, "the Amazon," as she is called, has lately excited a good deal of attention in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. She rides there on horseback every day, and so closely veiled that no one can see her face. The other day she alighted at a cafi to take some refreshment, and there was such a crowd that no one could enter. Tha fuU gallop8 remounted her horse and dashed away at tairn nix™ tlle prorogation of Parliament will tal« place about the 7th of August. the Emneror Nanok.m6 Yienna Punch. has a cartoon of with frownimr face ant?^p'but not unc°nscious of dreams, i o hands tossing on the im- perial couch, beside which is BtauUirc the shada of a Him- burg in an Hungarian tumo wl, is Wm reproach- fuily, and I'itmg a poem the,bittthen of which is that Maximilian of Moxico will cling to him <cin revel high, in golden hour of gladness, aye, and in'exile when man feels the want of friendship, and sighs for death- such honourable death as thou canst never hope for." The trichinosis, which was thought to have died out in Germany, has again shown itself at Halberstadt (Lower Saxony). A considerable number of the inhabitants, and amongst them children only three years old, have been affected. Without the intervention of the police, the butcher who sold the diseased pork would probably have suffered severely from the anger of the population. The Irish Government have given his liberty to Patrick J. Condon, otherwise O'Deil, a military American, commonly spoken of as a General," who, having been tried and acquitted on a high-treason indictment at the Cork Com- mission, had nevertheless been detained on other charges. He has bound himself not to return to Ireland for five years on pain of instant imprisonment. Condon had the gratifica- tion, just as the ship was leaving, of detecting Corydon, the informer, who was on board the vessel at the time, identi- fying several fugitives, and of bestowing upon him an angry parting denunciation, which Corydon retorted by promising Condon hanging if he was seen again in Ireland. "Dearest C J. Good morning.' How I long to see you after this long and cruel separation.—(R'\)" Advertisement in London Times. Juarez appears to have very little confidence in the stability of his Government. He is secretly sending plate and jewels and money to the Umted States for safe keeping, and evidently fears that Ortega or some other of his rivals ^supreme authority anafChy 6XistIng in Mexico'to selz6 RevieiP. learns from reliable sources Wlth mstructions from the Home n?ld^eadinp«01?10? her Majesty's Indian forces are ? iS ? take part m any expedition that may be decided upon against Abyssinia. The Figaro, under the title "We. wish to be con- tradicted asserts that the Emperor of Austria made known to his brother that if he returned with the French, and with- PMnr; £ e Jhould not be recognised as one of the K. K. family till the five years inserted in the family compact of Miramar had elapsed. So Maximilian stayed and was murdered, and "the House of Austria is answerable for the tragic end. A jury empanelled at the Bucks Quarter Sessions held at Aylesbury have signalised themselves by the novel, out very equivocal mode (after being locked up for four hours and a-half) of arriving at a verdict by lottery. Twelve slips of paper were placed in a hat; on one of them was written the word" Guilty." and on another "Not Guilty," the remainder being blanks. The "Guilty" being first drawn, the jury went into court and gave their verdict to that effect. "While we deplore the fate which has befallen Maximilian, we must, however, in justice to the French Government, maintain the opinion that his determinatio ) remain at his post was creditable rather to his courage tha his judgment. We would desire to avoid anything like blame of a Prince who, we can see, felt himself pledged to his supporters, refused to abandon them, and with the spirit which is so often produced by the attainment of supreme power, chose rather to be crushed than to yield."— Times. A Connecticut genius has manufactured a. knitting machine that will knit fifty pair of stockings per day, and is so constructed that the stitch can be changed from a rib to a plain. stitch almost instantly. There are seventy-five needles in the machine, which will knit sixty turns of an or- dinary-sized stocking a minute, or 4,500 stitches a minute. This is at the rate of 270,000 stitches an hour. Its weight is but twenty pounds. It knits cotton, silk, worsted, or any light material equally as well as woollen. It knits, also, the whole stocking, including the heeL une of these machines, at a recent trial, knit 1,500 of stockinet without drop- ping a stitch or breaking » nee The Sultan, on W"/11,? Toul°n, was anxious to leave a durable memor s passage through that town in the shap» of » to the poor; and caused 'Djemil Pasha to wrIte the folloWing letter to the mayor "Sir,—His Majesty the bultan has been deeply touched by the sympathetic reception given him by the population of the Town of Toulo:n. He urges me to transmit to you the ex- pression of of satisfaction, and to place at your disp ,0°0f- This sum will be distributed, through y edium, amongst the charitable establish- "i^sure his M&Vand the P°°r thus share fiito i French t! experienced in making his entrance into a 1 reach town.-Accept, &c., DJEMIL." of Mrs' H? y night a young servant girl in the employ FOLLNWINRR Bristol, committed suicide under the ,nm. t distressing circumstances :—The deceased had for on th '^ys been in a very depressed state of mind, and i e eyening above-named, while the other domestics were emporarlJy absent, she went to the kitchen where was a well seventy-five feet deep, took off the lid, and threw her- self into it head foremost. •The body was recovered by means of drags, but life was extinct. There was a depth of water in the well of twenty-five feet. The prizes won at the Great All England Angling Match, which took place at Crowle Wharf, in Lincolnshire, on Monday, in last week, were announced on Friday. The prizes are 121 in number, of which there are eleven amount- ing to 100 guineas in money, together with four plated cups and a time-piece. There were 507 competitors from all parts of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire. The following are winners of the principal prizes-1st, 2M ,r. Naredge, Kewark, who caught 121b. 12oz.; 2nd, 20? Sheffield, 71b. 12ioz.; 3rd, 15^ J. Rhodes, » — "1). IO'OZ 4'h }ot" w. Cawthorme, ShslUsld,