The Aberystwith Observer

MOSHESH THE AFRICAN CHIEF period 'manifested the qnaUMes of a an(j ficent Sovereign. From the first, says the Cape Aram he perceived, as by a sort of lon> the importance of British civilization for b1f" pe If willing :abe: con- vinced of it that he was him?e," a subject of the Queen to secure lfc 'or Jp^Putes arose a quarter of a century ago throug ;°ers *n- fi'ingiug his territorial rights, and evep ua of his peaceful disposition, the Colonial G misled (it is said) by misinformed or desiani g n, came to consider him an enemy, and Sir Oa made war upon him. The battle of the •tJe nearly ended disastrously for the British arcQ The Governor's division was completely in the power of Moshesh for some time, and the Basutos sent mes- sage after message begging him to allow them to at- tack. But the chief stood wringing his hands in sionate grief, and could only Bay, My chief, my chief! you know not where you are goingand drove away those who asked for orders to attack. It was only when news was brought over that the women of Khoabane's village had been murdered (not by the British troops hut by the Fingoes associated with them), that the Basutos burst from his hands and rushed to the attack. The gallant Eyre had then come up and assisted to ex- tricate the Governor; but his party, while slowly re- treating, were hotly pursued by the Basutos, the disci- pline of the British troops finally prevailing. At mid- night Moshesh wrote to the Governor, praying for peace. He said, "You have shown your power; you have taken much cattle as a compensation for Boers; let it be enough, I pray you, and let me no longer be considered an enemy to the Queen. I will try all 1 can to keep my people in order for the future." The fiery Eyre, enraged at the loss of many a brave soldier, heard of the proposal with anger Mr. Owen fumed and protested; but Cathcart already had his misgivings as to the representations made to him of Moshesh, and saw plainly that he had owed his pre- servation to him. He wrote :— "Tour words are the words of a great chief, who has the interests of his people at heart; those who fought were not all of them thieves, and I am sorry that many were killed. I am not angry with your people for fighting in defence of their property." Moshesh appreciated this treatment, and told his people Cathcart was their saviour. What is left of Basutoland is now part of the British Empire; but he would have died happier if his territory intact had been annexed, and had not been split up by the diplo- matists. In the last Free State war he did not shine; he remained in his secure fortress. But he had taught his people a better art. They could drive the plough and till the land as well as their antagonists. He en- couraged the arts of agriculture to the utmost of his power, and welcomed every better influence that penetrated the interior of Africa.

THE SHOCKING ACCIDENT TO A PIC NIC PARTY IN INDIA. The Bombay Gazette of April SO gives the following par- ticulars of this deplorable occurrence, which has already been reported by telegraph:— With the deepest regret we report a fatal accident which formed the tragic climax to a pic-nic—probably the last of the season—which took place at Bandora- hilllast Saturday evening. The party, which was composed of about thirty ladies and gentlemen, left Bombay at five o'clock, in two omnibuses and several private carriages, and after passing two or three hours very pleasantly in the bungalow of the Hon. Byramjee Jejeebhoy, at Bandora-hill, which had been placed at their service, began the return jonrney about eleven. Two or three private carriages went on front, fol- lowed by the omnibuses, in each of which there were about ten persons, some on the top and some inside. The horses of the first omnibus soon became some- what unmanageable, and at a sharp turn at the foot of the hill the vehicle came in contact with the parapet of a well and upset. Madame Vinay, Miss Phillips, and Mr. P. A. R. Oldfield were thrown sheer into the well—a depth, to the sur- face of the water, of about thirty feet. Mr. Oldfield was rescued by the valiant exertions of Mr. Briscoe (of the P. and O. service), but the two ladies, who had no doubt been stunned by striking the wall of the well, were drowned. When Mr. Briscoe, after enabling Mr. Oldfield to get out, heard that two ladies were be- lieved to have fallen in, he dived down in the impure and stagnant water, and did not cease his exertions till utter exhaustion obliged him to yield to the entreaties of those above. The depth of water was Bome twelve feet. No native could be prevailed upon to dive in; but after the lapse of some time, when drags had been procured, Mr. Briscoe went down again, accompanied by several peons, and succeeded in recovering the bodies. As about three hours had passed since the terrible accident occurred, of course life was extinct. The others who were in, or on the omnibus, were more or less -bruised. Captain White, R.E., and Dr. Lumsdaine were severely but not seriously hurt. An inquest was promptly held before Mr. A. R. Macdonald and a jury, and the bodies of the two un- fortunate ladies were afterwards carried in doolies to Mr. Vinay's residence on Malabar-hill; Mr. Justice Warden and Captain Watts accompanying them. Mr. Vinay was one of the party, but being in the second omnibus was not a witness of the accident. The interment took place at Colaba Cemetery on Sunday evening, in the case of Madame Vinay accord- ing to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church, and in the ease of Miss Phillips with Presbyterian ceremonies. There was a large attendance. Miss Phillips was a near relative of Madame Vinay, and resided with her. Mr. Oldfield, whose escape was marvellous, was well enough to attend the funeral. The others who were bruised have been getting on well

THE DECLARATION OF THE PLEBISCITE. The ceremony of formally announcing to the Emperor Napoleon the results of the late Plebiscite was performed on Saturday in the Salle des Etata of the Louvre. The Emperor arrived at one o'clock precisely, ac- companied by the Empress and the Prince Imperial. His Majesty wore the uniform of a General of Division, and the Prince Imperial that of a Sous Lieutenant. The Empress wore a dress of buff- coloured lutestring, with a train. The members of the Conseil WEtai were seated upon benches adjoining those of the Senators—a departure from former arrangements, when they were placed behind the Imperial family- but upon this occasion the Emperor received all the great bodies of the State, and not the Senators and the Deputies alone. The appearance of the hall wliea the ceremony com- menced was perfectly dazzling. The Corps Diploma. tique, in full costume, occupied their tribune, on the right of the throne. In a gallery to the left were seated the Dames d'Honneur of the Empress and the wives of the great dignitaries. When the Emperor entered the hall he was loudly cheered. as were also the Empress and the Prince Imperial. The acclama- tions were prolonged until their Majesties had taken their places upon the dais. The President of the Corps Légiølatif; M. Schneider, fV.r, nvlvATicad to the Emperor,«iidd»liT«r»d • »p«ecn, • which he said that the eternal honoUr of N»poleon's rei £ n would be that he had determined to make France one of the foremost among free countries. The speech of M. Schneider was frequently ap- plauded during its delivery, and at its termination the Emperor replied :— Gentlemen,—In receiving from your hands the census.of the votes given on the 8th of May, my first thought Is to express my gratitude to the nation which, for the fourth time during twenty-two years, has given me a striking token of its confidence. Universal suffrage, the elements of which are incessantly renewed, nevertheless preserves in itl mo- bilitya persevering will It has for its guidance its tradition, the certainty of its instincts, and the fidelity of its sympa- thizers. The Plibisoite had for its sole object the ratification by the people of a constitutional reform, but amid the conflict of opinions, and in the excitement of the struggle the dis- cussion was carried beyond that point. Let us not regret this. The adversaries of our institution have raised the question between the revolution and the Empire. The country has solved it in favourof the system which guaran- tees order and liberty. The Empire now finds itself funda- mentally strengthened upon its base. It will show its force by its moderation. My Government will cause the laws to be executed without partiality, and also without weakness. It will not deviate from the liberal course which it Has marked out for itself. Respecting all rights, it will protect all interests, without bearing in mind dissentient votes and hostile manoeuvres. But it will also know how to cause to be respected the national will which has been so energetically manifested, and will uphold it in future above all contro- versy. Freed from the Constitutional questions which alviae the best minds, we mnst have but one object in dew-to rally round the Constitution, which has just been sanctioned by the country, the honest men of all parties, to insure pub- lic security, to calm party passions, to preserve the social interests from the contagion of false doctrines, to seek, by the aid of the highest intellects, the means of increasing the greatness and prosperity of France to diffuse education; to simplify the administrative machinery; to carry activity from the centre, where it superabounas, to the extremities where it is wanting; to introduce into our codes of laws, which are monuments, the improvements justified by expe- rience to multiply the general agencies of production atfd riches; to promote agriculture and the development of public works, and finally, to consecrate our labour to this problem, always being solved and continually recurring, to find the best distribution of the burdens which press upon the tax- payers. Suchi s our programme. In realising it, our nation, by the free expansion of its powers, will advance the progress of civilisation. I thank you, gentlemen, for your presence on this solemn occasion, and may the, affirmative votes which ratified those of 1848, 1851, and 1862 also strengthen your powers, and give to you, as they do to me, new strength to work for the good of the country. We must at the present time more than ever look fearlessly forward to the future. Who, indeed, could be opposed to the progressive march of a rdgime founded by a great people in the midst of polltioal disturbances, and which is fortified by liberty. The Emperor's speech was frequently applauded, and at its close general and prolonged cries of Ftfe VEmptreur 1" Vive I'lmpiratrice I" Vive le Prince ImpiruU t" resounded through the Chamber.

DISSENTERS' PLACES OF WORSHIP. Among the Parliamentary papers a return has just been issued of the total number of places of meeting for religious worship in England and Wales certified to the Registrar-General, up to the 1st of January last, and still on the register. The total number of places certified by each denomination was 808 follows:— Baptists, 1,818; Bible Christians, 437; Friends or Quakers, 872; Independents or Congregationalists, 2,252 Jews, SO • Latter Day Saints or Mormons, 86. MethodistsCalvinistic. and Welsh Calvinistic, 756; Countess of Huntingdon's Con- l ection, 86; New Connection, 267; Primitive, 3,126; Wesleyan Original Connection, 5,750; Wesleyan Methodist Association, and Wesleyan Reformers, generally form- ing the United Methodist Tree Church, 897; other Wesleyan Methodists, 66. Moravians or United Brethren, 27. New Church or New Jerusalem Church, 23. One Holy Catholic Apostolic Chut ch, 24. PresbyteriansChurch of Scotland, 9: Umted Preshytenans 58; Presbyterian Church In Eng- land 67; Roman Catholics, 638; Unitarians, 108. All others consisting principally ot "Christian Brethren," "Pro- testants, Protestant .Dissenters," and those who object to 17 689 difltinctiYe appellation, 761; total,

THE EDUCATION BILL AND THE DISSENTERS. The Leeds Mercury of Tuesday prints a petition which it says has been numerously and influentially signed, both by clergymen of the Church of England and ministers of Nonconformist bodies, as affording the basis of a compromise on this question. The petition shows that "the exclusion of religious teaching from primary schools would be highly inexpedient and at variance with the general sentiment of the country; but that it would be desirable, for the take of justice and harmony, that in rate-aided schools no distinctive formulary of any religious body shall be taught, that the school work shall in all cases be arranged accord- ing to a time-table, accessible to parents; that any parent shall be at liberty to claim exemption for his child from the religious instruction; and further, that her Majesty's inspectors shall be charged to see that the intention of these clauses is not indirectly violated." The petition has been accepted as a practical compromise by the Rev. T. Binney, the Rev. Dr. Reynolds, of Cheshunt College, the Rev. Dr. Stoughton, the Rev. Henry Allon, the Rev. Eustace Conder, of Leeds, the Rev. Dr. Morton Brown, of Cheltenham, and several other Noncon- formist ministers; also by the Head Master of Mill- hill School, and by the Principal of the Training College, Borough-road. It is also supported by several persons of widely different views, among others by Mr. George Moore, Lord Shaffer sbury, and the Bishop of Exeter.

THE MARKETS. MABK-LA2TE.—MOSDAT; Influenced by the more favourable reports from the agricultural districts, the grain trade has been in a depressed state. The supply of English wheat at Mark-lane this mom- ing was only moderate. The attendance of millers was! limited, and the demand ruled heavy for Doth red and white produce. Forced sales would have resulted in lower rates. With foreign wheat the market has been moderately sap- plied. Sales have progressed slowly, and the quotations have ruled In *aveur of buyers. The supply of barley was moderate. The trade was quiet, but prises were weM mainWned. -Malt was dull, on former terms. Oats,4116 M extensive, were in improved money. Beans were quiet; at the rates pM^o^y c^nt For peas there was a moderate demand, and full currencies were obtained. Flour changed roted toi iL^ S price"- JUn»e#d WM1^. ffltoaiSVaS eK^ ™ PW> éhaøed to a moderate ixtent. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MAEXET.—MOKDAY. monev?«1Lfrade,JhM™5M"im#d a flrmer tone. and more ^rn P&ld- The supply of beasts has been below ? vg8, but the has been good. The demand u 11 &ctlve> but steadiness has been engendered by the shortness of the supply. The best Scots and crosses nave been disposed of at 4i. lOd. to 5s. per 81b. From jrorfoUc, Suffolk, ESBCX, and Cambridgeshire we have received about 1,400 Scots and crosses from other parts of England, 4W various breeds; and from Scotland 160 Scots and crossea. With sheep the market has been less freely supplied, and the show of English has been poor as regards quality. The trade has been more active, at 21 per Slb. more money. The best downs and half-breds have sold at 6s. !d. to 6s. (d. per 81b. Lambs have told quietly, at 6s. 6d. to 7s. 4d. per 81b. Calves have been in fair request, at full prices, but pigs have changed hands slowly. FISH. Good supplies of herrings of inferior quality; other-ftah rather scarce, at the following prices: herrings, pickled, 321. to 89s. red ditto, 20s. to 28s. per biirrel; trawl haddocks, 10s. to 15s. per box; salmon, Is. 3d. to Is. 7d. trout, Is.' 3^' to Is. 7d.: mackerel, 3s. to 4s. per dozen; smoked haddocks. 18s. to 28s. per barrel; lobsters, 12a. to 20s.; crabs, 12s. to 20s. per dosen native oysters, £ 10; commons, 15s.' to 40a. per busheL HOPS. In the hop market no it,, iu. e ot any importance baa been noticed. The supplies have been snort, but the trade has continued heavy, at late rates. Mid and East Kents £ to £ 12 12s.; Weald of Kents, £ 6 to £ 8; Sussex, £ 512a. to £ 128, Bavarians, £6 6s. to jM French, £,5 10&. to £6 10s. Amerioens, U 6s. to £6; Yearlings, £110L to £8 lfis. pec owl. POTATOES. The supplies of potatoes have btu n moderate. The trade at about late rates. English Shaws, 120s. to 140s.; Begents, 110s. to 180s.; Scotch Regents, loOa. to ISOa.; and Bocks, 90s. to 110s. per ton; and Rocka, 908. to 1101. per ton; WOOL. v Tt amonnt of animation has bean noticed In the may set tor colonial wool, and the value of all qualities has Nmn well supported. English wool has been purchased to a fair extent, at late rates. TALLOW. The market has been quiet. Y. c. on the root. 4da? AU perewt Tew*tallow44s.9d.net*cash, j

DEATH OF A FAMOUS PARROT. The French papers announce the death of Jacko, the famous parrot of the War Office in Paris. Jacko was first brought into the office in 1830 by Marshal Soult, and he remaiaed for forty years at his post unaffected by revolutions or party conflicts. After a time he came to be looked upon as an indispensable appanage of the War Department, and when there was a Cabinet crisis people used to ask who was to get, not the War Office portfolio, but the War Office parrot. Though he served under eighteen different Ministers, he always remained consistent to the principles which were instilled into him when he first entered office. Both under the Republic and the Second Empire he remained a stanch Royalist, and there were few members of his party who spoke their minds with so much frankness. One day his repeated cries of "Vive Ie Roi I so annoyed Marshal St. Arnaud when he was War Minister that he ordered the indiscreet bird to be turned out. Jacko had a friend, however, in the porter, who took him into his lodge and taught him to add de St. Amand" to his usual cry. The bird was then put back into his room, and as the Marshal was passing, screamed out, Vive le roi de St. Arnaud "Alabonne heure," said the Minister, and Jacko was at once retaken into favour. Of late years the clerks tried to teach him Vive l'Empereur! but he never could bring out the entire sentence without "tendons efforts. He got on very well as far as v, Viva >" but at this point he seemed to choke, hig feathers stood on end, and his eyes rolled with an^anxiou,, expression as if he felt his conscience reproaching him. At last, after several minutes' in- tense mruggHn^ he would jerk out the last syllable— sepulchral tone. He died imme- dl of tL £ nchess of Berry> and OA the anni- the pkbtiKeath °f NaP°leon L'three dfty"

A MODERN MIRACLE WORKER IN LONDON. (From the Daily Ntut.) From ten o'clock on the Friday morning until noon, Cambridge-hall, Newman-street, Oxford-street, is worth visiting by aU students of the social phe- nomena of their time. There is no charge for ad- mission, and neither introduction nor invitation is neces- sary. So far as we saw on Friday there is not even a door-keeper attached to the place, for the vast crowd assembled in it were allowed to enter without check, and to act as their own ushers when they were once inside. The vehicles waiting in Newman-street told their own story. Pillows so arranged at the bottom of a trade-cart, that the rider could lie at full length and be partly relieved from the effects of jolting re- clining seats fastened on to the waggon-Bides by strong rope; vehicular arrangements for adults of the peram- bulator order • litters, four-wheel cabs, and rude Bath chairs, were all to be seen. The lame, the halt, the blind, the deaf, the paralyzed, the rheumatic, the mis- shapen those afflicted with sores those who could see imperfectly, and those who could not see at all those who could distinguish a whisper, but could not recog- nise ordinary talk and those upon whom a report from an Armstrong gun would make no impression- were all within. A k< Doctor" Newton professes to cure diseases by the imposition of hands, with the aid of "God's angels," and by means of love. Whatever the enlightened reader may be disposed to think of it, the fact is indisputable that from five to six hundred afflicted creatures presented themselves on Friday to be healed; that many hundreds more looked on from the galleries, and crowded the body of the spacious hall; that excellent order was preserved and that a considerable proportion of the spectators vaunted thtir belief lqudly in the Curer's powers. In front of the platform, and on the floor below it, an open space was kept clear, by seats being ranged so as to form a square, with the wall of the platform forming its fourth side. Friends of Dr. Newton and a few privileged people occupied these seats; while the people came in sick at an opening on one t-ide, Mid departed, as it was said, whole at an open- on the other., The professed worker of mira- ates stood in the centre of the square, and ance^w c^a^eDSe(i attention. That his appear- adapted*^ p^fpoSBe,B"1?» at>d his manners well pressionB. the work in hand, were the first im- face; a fresh benevolent, rather credulous eyes, which, thn» complexion, sparkling hazel yet a dreaiy l0U4h bn*ht and ^11 of energy, have whiskers, but shaveL vene,r.able wllite beard and head partially bald a tLv^ 'P wlute. ,aPd smile, hanging constantly 5 a km^iy wwk impulse* combined with neck; broad shoulders, and a s rong, muscular figure; ieet which are broad in proportion to their length; and hands of the shape and with the marks which some theorists connect with religious enthusiasm, com- bined with springiness of step and great general acti- vity, formed a different set of external attributes to what might have been looked for in a miracle-monger Dressed in a suit of blue cloth, with a coat or pea- jacket such as sailors wear and with his cravat and collar off, and his white shirt thrown open at the neck and chest for coolness he looked far more like some hearty ship's captain than a curer of either bodies or souls. H Be healed-Pass on 1" repeated almost M rapidly as he could speak, to the lang file of men and women presenting themselves, were the only sounds we heard for some minutes after our admission into the reserved space. There was nothing remarkable, or indeed per- ceptible, in the maladies of these sufferers. They whispered what they thought was the matter with them in the Curer's ear, who manipulated their eyes and temples with his forefinger and thumb, made faces at the ceiling, uttered the .remarkable words we have quoted, and called the next patient on. The habit of soliciting advice and medicine because it is gratuitous, and without reference to their being need for either, ia, as we stated recently, a common one with the poor. For anything to be seen to the contrary, the majority of this batch of patients had nothing whatever the matter with them. They looked well, they walked well, their sight seemed excellent, and their sense ol hearing acute. Sitting as we did so near the spot where the Curer conducted his operations that his patients brushed by UFl, and we could have touched any of their number by simply stretching out a band, we arrived at the conclusion that a large majority were as those who take up the doctors' time needlessly during the consulting-hours at St. Bartholomew's and the other great free hospitals. Any one in the body of the hall who really wished to see what ma.nner flf man this strange Curer was, and how he performed his work, had but a poor chance of penetrating the crowd or peering through it, unless he or she proclaimed themselves patients, and took their stand with the rest. We were at the pains to count the number healed in a single minute on the rapid principle described, and found them to be sixteen. Each time these people walked out into the crowd again—of course without having lost the perfect control over and free use of their limbs with which they entered the en- closure—the ardent believers of both sexes who were stationed to the right and left of us remarked, "Wonderful!" "Did you ever see the like now? Why he can walk as well as you can!" Don't she move her legs just;" and other expressions indi- cative of intelligent enthusiasm. But these cases were the mere makeweights ot the morning—a procession of supernumeraries who fell into insignificance when the chief people appeared. There was something very distressing in the appearance of many of these; and we can only glance at one or two of the leading cases. An old woman who had to be led up by men who supported her on each side, and who stood with difficulty on her crutches, was commanded to throw the latter away, and to "love me" the Curer) while he manipulated and made passes over her lamest knee. She was then told to take the operator's arm, to put her heels firmly on the ground, ana to march with him across the room, and never to doubt but that she could accomplish it. That this old woman did so march or hobble is undeniable. What was the extent of her physical powers before, and how much of her helpless- ness had been due to the feminine accomplishment known as ''giving way," we had no means#of testing; but that she came in double, and with difficulty, and went out half straightened, and with comparative ease is certain. The men and women in the galleries clapped their hands and stamped their feet at this, exactly as if a clever piece of legerdemain bad been performed for their amusement. Other paralytic peroonswere told to squat down with me," to put up their heels to the ground, and in the most sacred of names to run across the room as if nothing were the matter with you, and to be healed for ever- more. Amen." In one or two instances it really seemed as if temporary vitality had been instilled into the half moribund frames, and very many of the sick people pronounced themselves with touching faith to be "much better." There were a girl partly deaf who thought her hearing was improved, and who certainly answered a whisper addressed to her as she left the Curer's hands, though the seemed to lose the newly acquired power a few second later; a young gentleman who pinched his ear and had doubts; and scores of cripples who were pro- nounced healed, without acting accordingly. When the poor old woman brought her husband's Sunday waistcoat, that it might be converted into a charm against rheumatics, the Curer turned his eyes ceiling- wards, wrestled with the garment as if he were wring- ing it out when fresh from the washing-tub, and then told her to take it home, and be sure your husband will never ail anything all long as he wears that." So with the crone who brought her lame son's cotton drawers. There was more mouthing and gesticulation, more blinking at the ceiling as if in confidence, and an injunction to put a hot brick inside the blessed drawers and on the patient for three hours during two days, to love God and the doctor and he would be healed." Pouring hot water down the back, bandages steeped in alum-water, and an avoidance of sitting or sleeping with the hands behind the head—a habit certain to lead to heart disease—were reommendations thrown in, but that it was "all done by love, and that every dear person present had his or her good angel—sometimes three or four good angels—always with them and ready to do their bidding," were the terms in which the professed remedy and the agents by which it was worked were described. Although we saw, as will be anticipated, no really authentic case of recovery, or of certain amelioration, we are not disposed to condemn the proceedings as a farrago of imposture. We believe that" Dr." New- ton himself believes, and that this belief, his "passes," and his prayers have an influence which is not easy to estimate in nervous disorders, and upon impressionable natures. He insists that those who come to him shall have faith. He works, so far as we saw, without fee or reward and, as was exulting-ly stated by one of of his admirers, professes that he would lose his power if he took money. His physical energy and the preponderance it gives him over a patient whose nerves are shattered, and who, after a long and hopeless course of medical treatment, is brought to Cambridge-hall, to undergo she scarce knows what— are undeniable. On Friday the perspiration rolled from him exactly as if he had come up dripping from a bath and when at the end of the morning, and in com- pliance with repeated requests, he allowed some favoured bystanders to touch his hand in friendship, it was easy to see he was tired out. To those who are accustomed to experiments in mesmerism and electro-biology, the jargon of spiritual- ism will be the chief new thing. There are the passes, the subjugation of the will, and the assumption of P0W?r* Bnt t0 118 the strangest penencesof the morning was the immense number I! • xlresPectable people, who either •a 6 crowd or presented themselves t «Ptt 6 i j J m&jority of these took every cry ?ard5 ft paf8 on a* a proof of cure, and re- lh,fIperftor.rwith loving veneration. A Quaker pi»llv fm+lhi ^n(i'- e,> an<* two daughters, were espe- t^Utfcs 3 sv rof lir "? necea»arv ? £ the enclosure. It is scarcely ateolutefv wn^f' howe™, that what we saw wm as to th«^-nnrUf^ Sras evidence. There was no proof nounced cured, bef°rf werePr°- healed" to hnmg them afterwards. Some of the neither see no? hew a™ ft °°Ul1 more wer« j a?? better than before; several trhimr>hanH-t7 to answer—a circumstance that thev wm 1 by a believer as proof positive hpen blind *or "bow would a man who'd and several "thn utherhe sawor not, you know?" really did." WiS* a little better, they ■ l,. fait), Was really remarkable was of sick peonle 5perst*tion which made hundreds from varioas ^nks of so- in the belief tfft" before a fellow creature terious powers for the end°7edf For two hours on FridL «Uag-ement/#thelr we know to the contrarvy^0rmng'^nd'i°r **1^ hftve deseribed will on' Z passjudgment for thTcu^tl h £

FRAUDS ON AMERICAN RAILWAYS. Speculators in Atne cen%C £ nTM^ stocks have reo documents professing tVTEf han_fed to them spurious American lines. AtfWji. 8C,?P °,f principal of this paper was an accid™ £ lS,?OUg J thatt^e issue Liverpool Mercury states fhat t but the transpired it seems that « a has recently cuted scheme has beenVJ^S ? railway companies in out for defrauding the given to the American <. J,nf?rmatlon conspiracy existed, the nn ^.at an extensive New York, for floodh.tr bemgin Paris and spuriousscrip, purporting the American market with in that country, chiefly thto £ ePr £ 8el1^ 8barea in railways The matter was placed inu c Railway Company, one of the most exD^ehj^dsofMr PbilipFariey, York detective poHce M inspectors of the New country a short time asro Mley came to thia regard to the alleged fraU5 pT?8e.cate his inquiries in self in communication with immediately put him- the Liverpool detective Kehoe, the chief of stay in this country, duWr>!iCeVja? .^ter ? Rbort valuable information wrIng w- it "understood proceeded to Paris, and ia:, obtalDed, ^r. Farley ceeded in tracing the rJot th,at h,e^a8^c; capital. Itissaidthatth^B °JL ^aud m in that city from wa? P™ted land and America for circuLfl V5 EPg" succeeded in obtaining the plS,T £ ?^ley was printed, and has thus nn lch tb,e BCnP wSbld have been a tremendous fraud.prevented what

SUICIDE OF ANJJXFORD COLLEGIAN. Port Meadow, a common of 500 acrea kn^v, night. <:re e: dIed on Sunday mg Mr. Greg had been advised bv hi* j- i adviser Mr. Hitchmgs to abstain fr?m sturfor^ time; but was lately engaged in some examinations in which be not Buccessful, and this with over study had evidently p yed on his mind. Mr Gree was a gentleman of the highest attainments, havinf taken a first-class in the University examination besides competing successfully at Balliol ColWe The sad affair caused a painful feeling throughout the Uni- versity. ———————

An inquest has been held, and from the evidence of Mr. Colin Ritchie M Clymont, who was on intimate terms with him, it appeared that the deceased had been very much depressed in consequence of the con- finement of hi3 mother in a lunatic asylum, but witness observed in him nothing that would have suggested to him that he intended to destroy himself. He was of a weakly and restless disposition. Thomaa Rowland, of W oolvercot, found the body on Portmeadow, about half-past six on Friday evening, before life was quite extinct, and with assistance brought the body to the Kadcliffe Infirmary. De- ceased tried, but could not speak. A razor lay by his side, covered with blood. George Hitchings, surgeon, of Oxford, had known the deceased for two years past, and attended him since 1868. He suffered from excitement consequent upon close reading. He was very abstemious in his habits. His nights were very much disturbed, and he always appeared depressed. Upon re-examination of Mr. M'Clymont, it appeared that the deceased had been obliged to place his mother under restraint some time last year, that she had recovered until about three weeks since, when she was obliged again to be confined. This pressed very heavily upon him, and he frequently mentioned his trouble to the witness. He expressed some disappoint- ment in not getting the Jenkins exhibition. He took a first class in moderations in 1868. Mary Wotton, at whose house he lodged, observed him very much depressed. He left her house about half-past one. She had observed that he was very taciturn and not cheerful. He was expecting a letter. All the term he appeared very melanchely. The Rev. Dr. Scott, Master of Balliol, had received a letter from Mrs. Wotton, addressed by the deceased to his step-father, which announced what he meant to do, and expressed extreme agony of mind and inco- herence of thought. It was the letter of a man who had lost himself. The letter is now destroyed. After a careful summing up by the Coroner, the jury returned a verdict "That the deceased destroyed himself while in a state of temporary insanity.

GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. (From the Gardener's Magazine.) [.AD excellent weekly journal, containing much valuacse information for amateur and professional gardeners.] KITCHBN GARDBHT. Continue to plant out the crops of winter Greens in showery weather. Stake runner Beans, which are now starting away freely. Where sticks are scarce and expensive, it is much better to grow the dwarf kinds than to plant runners and then allow them to trail on the ground because sticks cannot be afforded. Sow a few more rows of the dwarf Beans, for they will come in especially useful if the weather happens to be too dry for the peas to yield well. They grow and bear abundantly on hot sandy soils, where peas will not live. Keep Celery plants lately planted out well supplied with water, and also stick a few branches of ever. greens by the side of the trench to form a shade until the roots begin to get at home in their new quarters. Finish earthing up Potatoes: it is best to do this before the tops spread too much. Where a few rows of Chickory were omitted to be sown when the beets were got in, it may still be done. The blanched leaves come in famously through the winter for the salad bowl. Follow up former directions. FRUIT GARDEN. Trees that were infested with American blight last year must be looked over at once, for these pests are now getting active and beginning to show themselves. Continue to thin and train the young growth of the wall-trees, as previously advised. More attention ought to be paid to thinning Pears; for in many gardens, where peaches and nectarines are attended to in this respect with the greatest care, the pear is allowed to carry great clusters of fruit without a single thought as to whether they will attain their full size and flavour. The early forced Strawberries which have bfen nicely hardened off in a cold frame can be now planted out. Either throw the plants away or plant them out, for they are only an eyesore standing about half-starved, and help to propagate a host of red- apider. TLOWIB GAEDEf. Support Carnations, Pinks, and Picotees with neat sticks as they come into flower. Thin the flower-buds to one to a stalk if good flowers are required. Bulbs which have done flowering, and are required to be removed to make way for the bedders, should be taken up carefully and replanted with the whole of the foliage and roots intact, in a moderately shady position. Put a tally to each kind, so that there may be no difficulty when the planting season comes round again. As the foliage dies down take up and store away. Follow up the planting of the ordinary bedders, for not a day must be lost now. Plant out Chrysanthemums intended for filling the beds after the summer bedders are gone. Stop every three weeks until the middle of July, and then leave them alone. The ground should be well manured, and a mulch spread over the surface in a month s time, to render watering unnecessary. This is a simple way of providing a fine display for the conser- vatory in November. The plants will not receive a very severe check if lifted with care in October. Plant out dwarf Hoses for beds, if the plants arenieely estab- lished m pots. Syringe or ply the engine vigorously upon plantations of roses, and mulch the surface with a good thickness of half-rotten dung. Clear water over the foliage and good feeding at the roots are the best insecticides for outdoor roses. rOBCING. Pinu-Shift a batch of the strongest sucoessional plants before they get pot-bound this will keep them growing Bteadily until the autumn, when & good rest will fit them for throwing up strongly early in the ensuing year. The smallest suckers, which were not rooted sufficiently for a shift at the general repotting, may now be potted. If the roots are matted, separate them carefully, for it is impossible for them to root kindly into the new soil when potted with the roots in a close compact mass. When crowns are used, the ends should get dry before they are potted, or they will possibly rot at the base; stripping eff too many leaves will produce the same result. Unlesa in special instances, the crowns are as well thrown away, as they take double and treble the time to grow to a fruiting size than large well-developed suckers. Vine8.-Keep up a brisk growing temperature where the Grapes are colouring, with plenty of air. The late Grapes just set must have an increase in the atmospheric humidity, and the thinning finished off at once. The covering may now be removed from out- side borders of the late houses; but it will not be prudent to uncover those in which vines that are now ripening off their crop are growing; [ew heavy rains would so chill the roots that half the crop would probAbly shank. Sprinkle the heatin* apparatus with sulphur, as an antidote to red-spider and mildew. Peaches and Nectasrines. Trees in pots from which the crop has been gathered should be gradually hardened off, and then removed to the open air 1n the full sun. The pots should be stood upon slates or bricks to keep the worms out, and then the space between the pots packed tightly with leaves or cocoa- nut-fibre refuse. This will keep the roots cool, and prevent them being subjected to such sudden changes as will be the case if the pots have nothing put about them. Permanent trees from which the croP has been gathered must have the engine plied vigorously upon them, and not left to be the prey of any ^emy that chooses to take up its abode amongst foliage. Keep the inside borders of all the houses well supplied with water. Assist pot trees which are swelling their fruit, by covering the surface of the soil With a good thickness of fat manure. PLANT-HOUSES. Conservatory.—The principal display here at this moment will consist of hard-wooded stuff. It 18 essen- tial to these plants that they should have exposure to the light and a free circulation of air when making their growth; therefore they must not remain here a day after the beauty of the flowers is past, but be re- turned to the greenhouse to make their growth. Climbers are now in full growth, and must receive attention. Instead of continually stopping back such things at Tacsonias, Cabseas, 4c., thin out all -super- fluous growths and lay in those left at full length, lhere will then be little difficuly in getting them to flower. Water Fuchsias trained to pillars with manure-water, to induce them to grow strong and vigorous. Ghreenhoute.—Herbaceous Calceolarias will remain in flower much longer in a house with a north aspect than in one exposed to the full sun, but they will not seed so freely. Plants intended to be put by for cuttings should have the flowers removed as soon as they ate past their best, for when allowed to seed they generally die. A cool moist bottom is the best for promoting a growth of young shoots far propagating. All the seedling cinerarias which were deficient In quality should be thrown away at once, and those saved planted out on a shady border which has had a liberal dressing of leaf-mould. To encourage the production of offsets, plant them an inch below the tevei. He. move all seed-vessels from Azaleas andPhododendrona as they go out of flower, and remove miscellaneous plants that require the open air for the completion and ripening of their growth out of doors, Take precau- tions to keep the worms from getting into the pods. Stove,—Climbing plants trained over the roof, or grown as specimens, require regular attention now, especially as many will shortly be in flower. A mode- rate freedom must be allowed, but shoots that interlace are sure to be weakened, so that generally an occa- sional thinning, regulating, and stopping are needful now. Achimenes, Gloxinias, *np a" other subjects intended for conservatory decoration towards the end of the summer must be kept near the glass, liberally ven- tilated, and not exposed to too great a heat, or they will be too tender to bear the change- Keep the paths and walls saturated with moisture, for the purpose of main- taining a thoroughly humid atmosphere. Shut up early, to render as little fire-heat as possible necessary. FRANCO. Auriculas will require frequent attention, for though they want but little water, they must have that little at the proper moment. Look after green-fly, and brush it away with a small brush or a drop of tobacco- water ;■ remove the old flower-stalks, uuiees left for seed, and all dead and decaying foliage, pot off seed- linga sufficiently strong to handle. Pansies require cutting back after they have done flowering, and to be in the open air. The young shoots will soon push and furnish a lot of splendid stuff for cuttings. bow seed in pans or out of doors for autumn flowering. Draw the lights entirely off the Auriculas, except in wet weather, and then give plenty of air. Sow Primulas and Cinerarias cover the pans with a piece of glass until the seed vegetates.

CHARITABLE BEQUESTS. The remains of Mr. John Abbott, a well-known and much-respected citizen of Halifax, were consigned to the tomb on Friday, the 20th instant. Mr. Abbott had attained the age of 74, and waø a native of Halifax. He was a bachelor. He had acquired a large fortune, and has bequeathed legacies amounting to more than £ 60,000 to various religious and charitable institutions. In early and middle life he was a woolstapler. He re- tired from business many years ago, but he never ceased to take an active intefest in various local insti- tutions—religious, literary, scientific, educational, and charitable. He was an active borough magistrate. He had a literary and scientific taste. His father and the father of the Crossley family were, early in the century, partners in, and founders of what is now a most important branch of industry in Halifax—the carpet trade. Mr. Ahbott was a teacher in the parish church Sunday school at Halifax for 65 years, and during that long period he is never known to have been absent from his class, twice every Sunday, except when absent from home and the town. With one exception, all his relations, it is said, axe comparatively poor persons, and his couBin, a working man, named John Abbott, residing at Deeds, is residuary legatee. The following is a summary of Mr. Abbott's legacies to various institutions:— £500 to the Halifax Literary and Philosophical Society; jjMOO to the Halifax Town Missions; £ 500 to the Halifax Ragged Schools; sums of £1,000 each to the Sunday schools of the Established Church held within the parish of Halifax, to the Sunday schools of the various Dissenters within the parish of Halifax, to the Halifax Tradesmen's Benevolent Society, the Cancer Hospital, London; the Religious Tract Society, the West Riding Reformatory, the Deaf and Dumb Institution at Doncaster, the York School for the Blind, the Bradford Infirmary, and the Bradford Eye and Ear Hospital £2,oooeacb to the Halifax Infirmary, the Manchester Royal Infirmary, the Leeds Infirmary, the Liverpool Schoel for the Blind, the Northern Counties Asylsm for Idiots (at Lancaster), the Earlswood Idiot Asylums, the National Lifeboat Associa- tioo, the founding of schools or other charitable institutions for the benefit of the inhabitants of Lazenby, and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; £3,000 to the British and Foreign Bible Society; £4,000 to the Church Missionary Society £5,000 to the Ashley Down Orphanage, near Bristol; £10,000 to the Crossley Orphanage, at Shircoat. Halifax; and £10,000 to be applied in founding three scholarships at the University of Oxford and two scholarships at the Uni- versity of Cambridge the sum of £2,000 being applicable to et(? scholarship, and the scholarships to be called the Abbott Scholarships." The total thus bequeathed ia £ 61,500, and, in addition, Mr. Abbott has left £100 for the benefit of Tom Swift, a regular attendant at the parish church boy's Sunday school, and a good suit of clothes for each member of the monitors' class and each one of the teachers in the same school.

LONG-LOOKED FOR! It seems now as if some step3 were seriously being taken to facilitate our means of communica- ion with France. Lal t week the Select Committee of the House of Ctiromoris t,) whom the "International Communica- tion Bill was referred declared its preamble proved, subject to certain conditions restricting the operation of the Act until the Emperor of the French had given his assent to the construction of the works of the new harbour of Andrucelles on the French side. A full description of this scheme has already been published. Passengers starting from London to Paris, or vice versa., wiii pass through from capital to capital without even a change of carriage. The whole train will be carried on board steamers of 6,000 tons, and of 1600 horte-power. These, it is calculated, will accom- plish the journey across at the rate of twentv miles an hour, while Mr. Fowler's plan for their construction will neutralize to a great extent the nasty chopping sea of the Channel, which is so trying to the present email vessels, and still more trying to their passengers. The miieries of the Calais bar and of the Admiralty pier at Dover seem now in a fair way of being removed, and all the sufferings cf the "middle passage" done away with. Mechanically speaking, there appears to be little difficulty in the question. An average express train only weigh 120 tons, which is nothing for a vessel of 6,000 tons to carry. Passengers can leave their carriages when on board the steamer, if they please, and breakfast, lunch, or dine in the saloons.

AMERICAN MOUNTAINS ON FIRE. The recent fires in the woods in Orange, Dutchess, Ulster, ana counties have, sayB the New York Herald of the 10th inst., been the moat extensive and serious ever known. The Fishkill hillsides were re- ported on bre nearly two weeks ago. The forests of the Sbawangunk range of mountains have been in flames during all of last week. At one time the entire back. bone of ridges for several miles seemed almost one con. tinuous pathway of fire. Pillars and clouds of pmoke hung over the district by day, and lurid seas of flame glared upon the darkness of the night, making the valleys below like some vast fiery furnace. On Thurs- day and Friday the scene was magnificent and appalling. From present calculations the loss will be over a million of dollars. This estimate includes immense quantities of cut wood, ties, ship joints, and several dwellings on the hill-sides. One family at Briggs- ville had a narrow escape from a horribte holocaust. The fire gained so rapidly that almost before they were aware of it their dwelling was surrounded, and but one narrow strip of open ground along the roadside left as an avenue of escape. Although the air was stifling with smoke and overpowering with heat, and at times the road itself obscured from view, they succeeded in saving themselves. One child, about four years old, was carried, and nearly died from suffocation. Their haur was singed, and their garments and shoes shrivelled. A large number of cattle are supposed to have been destroyed. The bones and charred remains of several have been found. A party of four gentlemen, consisting of Mr. A. R. M'Donald, H. V. Randolph, and Edward Rielly, of this city, and E. M. Spencer, of Hartford, Con. necticut, also had a narrow escape from perishing in the conflagration. They had been out beyond Ellen- ville, about the brooks and mountains, trout fishing andbuutmg, and camped for the ni^ht on Friday on the Di owned Lands Hills. After watching the glow of the flames, which appeared still to be some con- siderable distance away, they went to sleep, having no apprehension of danger. After midnight, Mr. Spencer was awakened by a strange, crawlinsr sensation under his person, and instantly discovered that the ground in the vicinity was perfectly alive with makes, which bad been driven there by the devouring fire. A moment's glance revealed the terrible fact that they were hemmed in by walls of fire, although at Bome distance, yet rapidly gaining on them. It was the work of but a moment to arouse his sleeping companions and run for life down the hillsides. The heat was scorching and the smoke blinding and stifling. Guns, fishing rods, and everything was abandoned in the flight. At on<* point they were obliged to dash through the blaz- ing underbush. Their clothes were on fire, and Mr. Reilly's long beard was cropped closely off by the scorching heat. Their feet, their faces, and hands j naore or less blistered, and their clothing nearly fo_>_ °yed. Mr. M'Donald was obliged to borrow a 40 r(,turn home in. The whole party dangerou8lyeBcorch^.UrdayeVenillg' 8CVerely bUt DOt The fires are still smouldering, and large parties of men are out endeavouring to prevent their further spreading.

GREEK BRIGANDS. The following seasonable story Is told under an article entitled "Greek Brigands," tn -AH the Tear Round:- A Frenchman, residing in Athens, has told how his servant one day timidly accosted him, twistiiig his cap between his fina-ers. You have something to ask me?" Yes, effendi, but I dare not." "Dare, never. theless." "Effendi. I want to spend a month on the mountain." On the mountain What for ? To stretch my limbs, saving your respect, effendi. I get fusty here. In Athens you are a heap of civilises, (I have no intention of offending you,) and I am afraid of catching your complaint." The master, touched by such valid reasons, allowed his valet to take a month's naan-shooting. He returned at the expiration of his leave of absence, and never touched so much as a pin of his master's property. There was a poor gendarme who, for long, long yean, aspired after the rank of corporal. He was a good soldier, brave enough, and the least refractory in his company; but his only Patron was himself. So he deserted, and turned brigand. Here he was able to display his talents. He WM Roon well known to all the heads of the gendarmerie. They tried to catch him, and missed catching him five °» six times. Giving up that game, they sent a friend to treat with him. You shall have your pardon, and, to make up for your trouble, you shall be made a corporal to-morrow, and a sergeant in the course of the year." His ambition was satisfied. He consented to be made corporal, awaiting patiently his sergeant's stripes. He had long to wait for them. One day his patience was worn out, and he returned to the moun- tains. He had not killed three men before they made haste to make him a sergeant. He afterwards rose to be an officer, with no other patrons than the persons he had put underground. There did exist one amazing commandant of the gendarmerie, who seriously en- deavoured to put down brigandage. In a few months he made all the brigands hide their diminished heads in their rocky dens. But the authorities lost no time in dismissing him. He was sapping the foundations of society.

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS. Virtuous Chicago has fined a barkeeper <26 for selling liquor to an aristocratic lady of sixteen. Thirty bachelors in Lansing, Iowa, have sworn a solemn oath they will marry none but widow*, a* premium at last, for the bachelors have all turned ■ J A young lady of Massachusetts was recently offered 500 dols for her hair, which lacks but half Mx feet long, but refused. Xhe offer was increased to 1,000 dols. and then rejected. A Massachusetts paper regrets t^tthe crowded state of its colntnns will not permit it to publish & furnished sketch of the life of a certain gentleman, but promlaes to preserve it all material for an obituary notice. A fat lady of Albany says .—"I am so fat that I pray for a disappointment to make me thin. No sooner does the disappointment come, than the mere expectation of growing thinner gives me such joy that I become fatter than ver." Ordinary means of killin 7 7~. Mexico, so earthquaking has not sufficient in A poor man who had been whether he had taken any remedy, re? ?n,. 5?in? 1_a8 e^ taken any remedy, but I've taken lots oP^ • ,,0' haven t A western reporter does not say t. suddenly, but that his "soul initantanecft fman r1? humanity.' y dropped iu A Maine Yankee has invented a five do s „ • machine, which is about as large as a four-bladef Sewing and is self-feeding, and knits a perfect elastic seanwi ,f' ike an apple-parer or a nutmeg-grinder. An editor out West says:—" Interviewing is faltiionable nst now. We ahall*,intervew' a number o' ry fi f"18 uex' week on the subject of finance. It is not certai that the result of these interviews will be worth recording." An incorporated society hired a. man to blast a rock. says Marx Twain, and he waa punching powder into a hole with a crowbar, when a premature explosion followed, send- ing the man and crowbar out of sight. Both came down all right, and the man went to work again, directly, but though he was gone only fifteen minutes, they docked him for lost time. A man having fallen into a slough, his friend called loudly to another for assistance. The latter who was bmily engaged in cutting a log, and wished to procrastinate, In- quired, "Bow deep is the gentleman in?" "Up to his ancles," waB the answer. "Theu there Ia plenty of time," said the other. Ao, there's not," rejoined the first "for he's in head first. A man has'been indicted for felony jn Cincinatti. His h'lioeence was piovtV, but notwithstanding this the joiy foU'.d him gui.ly. jud^re was shocked, and arose and said, •' bent k-men, the prisoner's innocence was clearly proven." Yes," eaw the foreman, "he is innocent of the crime now charged against him, but he stole my grey mare last Christmas." A sea captain trading regularly to the coast of Africa, was invited to meet a committee of a society for the evangelisation of Africa. Be was asked, among Lumerous questions touching the habits and religion of the African races, Do the subjects of King Dahomey keep Sunday ?" "Keep Sunday he replied, "yes, and everything they can lay their hands on." < a j A countryman, who had never paid more than 25c. to see an exhibition, went to a New York theatre one night to see The Forty Thieves." The ticket-seller charged him 75c. for a ticket. Giving the pasteboard back, he quietly remarked, "Keep it, muter, I don't want to see the other thirty-nine," and out he marched. As ladies who go out of their "sphere" expect to be criticised, and are not afraid to see themselves as others see them, there can be no barm in transferring the following pen-picture of a female reporter, who was recently in pro- fessional attendance at a Woman Suffrage Convention in Dayton, Ohio" Miss Sallie M. Joy represented the £ o$t»n Pott. She distinguished herself by her generally indepen- dent, don't-care-a-cent air, and by the number of books she carrisd under her arm and kept on her table. She walks with something of a masculine stride, and always carries a pencil in her hand. She has the Bostonic affection for eye- glasses, wears a saUor hat. and dresses neatly, but plainly. As she Is not pre-eminently 'a thing of beauty,' I should think her chances of remaining 'a Joy for ever' are good." [The photographer might have refrained from throwing "that last brick."]

EPITOME OF NEWS, BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Petroleum has been discovered in British Burmah. 10,000 copies of Mr. Disraeli's book have been sold already. It is said that a Liverpool tradesman, who died a few days ago, has left £10,000 to the Liverpool charities. Within two days last week there arrived at Greenock, in two vessels from Trinidad, 18,000 cocoa nuts. The Dutch House of Commons has passed a bill abolishing capital punishment, by 43 votes to SO. Tuesday, the 24th, was the anniversary of her Majesty's birthday. Her Majesty was born at Kensington Palace on the 24th of May, 1819. Bicycles are being introduced into the Post-office in India, and delivery sepoys are being practised in the use of them in Mofussil districts. Sir Arthur Guinness, of Dublin, has given £60,000 for the Exhibition Palace. He and his brother have sub- scribed £ 24,000 to the Church Sustentatlon Fund. Seven American ladies are engaged as sculptors in Rome at the present time—Misses Hosmer, Whitney, Lewis (coloured), Freeman, Stebbins, Foley, and Virginia Beam. According to intelligence received in Liverpool from the United States, the shipments of flour, wheat, etc., from Chicago, Milwaukee, and Toledo promise to be very large this season. At the Preston Sheriff's Court, on Monday, a breach of promise of marriage case was disposed of, in which Miss Ann Dent was awarded £250 from Mr. William Birtwhistle an innkeeper at Accrington. Mr. Motley, the American Minister, and the ladies of his family, were present during the debate on the Greek murders in the House of Lords, and manifested their sympathy with the victims by wearing mourning. A Berne telegram states that Russia has again demanded the extradition of M. Netchsjeff. A man has been arrested at Geneva under that name, but was afterwards re- leased, his identity not being proved. A contemporary says" During the past week the post-office telegraph messenger boy has been seen running hither and thither, with tht torrttpondenee of the wire dressed in the ofisial uniform,! A correspondent, in alluding to the arrival of the Right Hon. John Bright and Mrs. Bright at the hotel at Colwyn, North Wales, says, "The right hon. gentleman ia looking pretty well, and says he feels better." The drivers in the employment of the Birmingham Omnibus Company have struck work, in consequence of the company desiring to make a change in the mode of paying them. A disastrous storm passed over Council Bluffs, Iowa, recently. A new church just completed, at a cost of 15,000 dols., was entirely demolished. It is estimated that the loss will reach in the aggregate 30,000 dols. A San Francisco despatch of the 8th inst. reports that a grand Fenian pic-nie" had been held that day at Redwood City, and that there were between 20,000 and 30,000 persons present. Last Saturday, the Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges in The Times the receipt of jMO for the public account." The benevolent donor did not give even his in i tiala. On Monday, a fatal accident occurred to Mr. Streeton, an undergraduate ot Corpus Christi College, who was upset in a eanoe on the Cam, near the bathing sheds at Grantchester. The peculiar expression of George Washington's mouth' on the Dew postage stamps is only to be accounted for by the faet that the gum is placed on the back of his head. The Jewish congregations in Manchester met to- gether on Sunday, and adopted petitions to Parliament iif favour o the Government bill for the abolition of Teligious tests at the Universities. A correspondent of the Newcastle Chronicle, about the men in women's clothes, writes that Boulton is a son of a northern country squire; and that Park, his friend and accomplice, is the son of a gentleman holding a high position in one of our Common Law Courts. The American papers state that Captain Com- merell, of her Majesty's ship Monarch, has written a letter to the Secretary of the United States navy to express thanks and acknowledgements in behalf of the Queen and the British navy for the attention which the officers of his vessel received while in AmerIca. Early last month a German vessel named the Gazelle was attacked and robbed by pirates in Chinese waters, The piratical junk was afterwards captured by the North- German man-of-war Hertha, and the crew were tried and executed at sea. The business at the Liverpool police-court, on Mon- day, was unusually great. No fewer than 307 prisoners were booked; 258 for being drunk. The Liverpool Mercury states that only eighty-seven of these had money upon them. The mference Is that the remainder had spent their last penny in Saturday's South London Courier says :—"If the gen- T»?«0 took a black cloth overcoat from the editor's nlX. hwill kindly return the Sort for hii twubu." po'k#u ot the keeP The Times of India says that a belief is rapidly gain- ing ground among the lower classes in Northern India toe increMed inMma tax U to pay for the expenses of the Duke of Edinburgh s visit to India; and ignorant people are most devoutly praying that the Queen will keep the rest of her children at home. her children at home. A telegram states that the ship Anurias, of Boston, from Cardiff to Hong Kong, was blown up on Sunday morn- ing, fifteen miles distant from Lundy Island. The calamity was caused by an explosion of coal gas. Captain Sloane and the man at the wheel were blown to pieces the rest of the crew reached Penzance in a boat. According to a despatch in the American papers Just received, the Red River New Motion says that Colonel Rankin, was expelled from Winnepeg because of his Fenian proclivities that he effered Kiel the services of two or three hundred filibusters from the United States, and the offer was declined, without thanks. A capital hair dye may be made as followsSix pounds of treacle, eight pounds of black lead, one pound of soot, two ounces of glue, three raw onions, a bad oyster or two, and as much Yarra water (near the falls bridge) as re- wfl:. the whole twenty minutes and apply with a blacking brush."—Melbourne Punch. A young and rather expensive French lady oem- plained recently of the meanness of her husband, but not fond of saving at his own expense. Would you believe it!" she exclaimed; he said recently that for what I cost him he could keep eifcht racing-horses." "A complaint, my dear," reeponded her friend, to be of the value of eight race- horses is the highest estimation any Parisian gentleman in these sporting days, can place on a lady." The Spanish Order of Noble Ladies, which has just been conferred on Madame OUivitr, carries with it the title of "excellency," and confers a rank equivalent to that of Grandee. The cordon consists of a violet ribbon and white stripes, to which a medal is attached. There are at present in France ten other ladies who have the right to wear it— The Empress, the Duchess de Mouchy, the Princess d'Essling, the Duchess de Malakoff, the Countess Walewska, the Marquise de Turgot, Madame Thiers, Madame Drouyn de Xihuys, Madame Barrot, and Madame de Piesson. A Welsh elopement case was heard in the Liverpool Police-court on Monday, where a young man named William Jones, a farmer's son, waa charged with having committed perjury in making a false declaration before one of the registrars of marriages for LiverpooL It seemed that Jones had eloped with a rector's daughter, and it is alleged that the perjnry was committed in order to obtain the young lady in marriage. The defendant was remanded, but admitted to ball. At the half-yearly meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society in London it was stated that there are now 6,438 members on the list The balance-sheet for 1808 showed that the receipts had exceeded the expenditure by At the forthcoming Oxford meeting the prizes to be competed for amount to £8,110 for live stock, and £395 (in addition to the 10 silver medals) for implements. Lord Vernon was elected President for the ensuing year. Viscountess Dambray, widow of a late peer of France, son of the Chancellor of that name who signed the ordonnances of 1830, has j ,.?* chateau of Mon- tigni, near Dieppe. With this lady (the Westminster Gazette says) becomes exttactffelast remnantof the Anjou branch of the Plantagenets. Herfatner,[Count Deshaye, who was Daee to LoUii XVL, and who was personally known to man1 now linn" bore the arms of Bngland on his escutcheon. A? iDi3St^ Ttwhoell^ Monday, at Itchin's Well on the children of Mr. Jones, farmer. On Th^8rioor^or ab*ut thrl a't left the two »t the L minutes, while she took in a "hUdren between twn 'iflduring her absence one of the S^fn^ed tfft riT^d,three years of age. is supposed to into anond ahrmt^ U or containing the younger one C yaPds aw»y m the house, and to the cb ild run herself, for on the return of the servant their VmHi c°nld not be seen, and on search being made a verdirfc ^f Wer5 discovered in the pond. The Jury returned to blame acoidentally drowned, but thought the servant was Lord St. Leonards has caused to be placed in the window of one of the principal shops in the borough of which he is the High Steward (Kingaton-on-Thames)two of the forged letters which have been written in such numbers to his lord- ship's annoyance. One is the letter to Messrs. Hedges and Butler, of Regent-street, requesting samples and prices of best old port, sherries, and clarets," to be sent to Boyle Farm, together with the prices of port in pipes; and the other one addressed to Mr. Fowler ordering choice Alderneys of a dark colour. Attached to this last document Is a paper bearing, in his lordship's own handwriting, the following re- mark :—" A forged letter in the name of the Rev. Frank Sugden, Lord St. Leonards' son, to Mr. Fowler, Bu4hey, Herts. The writer probably meant to steal and sell the cattle.'—tt. L. N Some gold and silver have been recovered from one of the Spanish galleons sunk in Vigo Bay. The Duke of Newcastle has been Buffering from an attack of small-pox in Paris. A native, a weaver by trade, said to be 125 years old, has just died at Hyderabad, Scinde. Lord Muncaster was in the House of Commons, on Friday night, during the debate on brigandage in Greece. Mr. Spurgeon has recently announced his intention of delivering a lecture to rich men only; none will be ad- mitted to the Hall except he has £ 40,000."—Court Journal. Amongst the political squibs in Madrid is a caricature of the thirty different candidates who have, at one time or another, been proposed for the throne. The celebrated Schamyl has just arrived at Mecca, with the intention of reaidine there for the remainder of hia ife. .The king of Si&m is seventeen years old, and is simply ^n as Somdetch Phra Pora-mendz Maha-Chualon- Kora. '"H no other name. rinhthe past fifteen years the Surrey County gamc7^pent £ 30,000 fostering and developing the noble w™iri^»?a^'bat when Lady Muncaster found that she nff hA, taken by the brigands, she speedily took t>,o* iho w -i rings and put them iuto her mouth, iearing mi?ht cut off her fingers to attain the more speedy pospe^on of her jewels. The rapid growh of mercantile intercourse with Japan is aitractuig ni attention in tne United States, and an impression sterns, to ,e general that in a few roars the government of the island ttUI huve been placed on a locting nearly in harmony with tha of til commercial nations. The tide of emigration iv still sit'.inp strongly west- *f»d. About 6,000 per>ous 1st the Mersey last week for Canada and the Lmted Siate?., js expected that at least 7,000 more w)ll embaik befort-the close of this week. It is understood that upon the Queen's return hom Balmoral, the King and Queen of tht Belgians, tbe Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, and tbe "Muee and Princess Louis of Hesse, will visit her Majesty It. Windsor Castle, where a State breakfast is shortly to be givrn. Fines amounting to £105, with the option of im- prisonment for terms extending to nearly twelve months, have been imposed upon a picture-frame maker ef Birming- ham, for selling photographs of celebrated pictures, of which Messrs. Graves and Co., of Pall-mall, possess the copyright. Of the two penalties, the defendant chose imprisonment. The Westminster Gaiette informs its readers that the Pope has sent his "Apostolic benediction" to the writer whose letters from Bome have appeared in that paper. The Gazette adds that on two former occasions the Papal bene- dictien has been specially bestowed on the paper. An American has invented a musical instrument, a species of organ of colossal proportions, which imitates per- fectly the human voice from the shrillest treble to the most profound bass. The inventor purposes an invasion of Europe with his formidable discovery. A sad occurrence in the family of Baron Alquier, deputy for La Vendue, is reported from Paris. His daughter, ten years of age, was slightly unwell and had been ordered a prescription, which was sent to the chemist's to be made up, By some error the bottle was filled with a poisonous ingre- dient, and the child died in a few hours. The Petite Prass states that as some women were en. gaged the other morning at the Paris Central Markets in un- packing the panniers, in which pork was generally packed, they found in one of them two human heads freshly cut off information was at once given to the police, and an investi- gation commenced. In the course of the day a journeyman butcher was said to be Implicated. A young married couple in the city of Edinburgh, during the past fortnight, were blessed with their first child, inis child has two grandfathers and two grandmothers, four great-grandfathers and four great-grandmothers, all living, and most of whom have lived all their lives in Scotland. On Monday, Evan Jefferies made his 143rd appear- ance at the Salford Police Court for being drunk, adding to his offence a refusal to quit the police office on Saturday night. He had only come out of gaol that evening, where he had been imprisoned for a week for a like offence. He was fined 5s., in default, seven days more in gaol. The gossips of Lisbon and Madrid have it that the lady te whom the ex-Portuguese King is married is of an am- bitious turn, and has succeeded in doing what Prim and Olosaga were not able to do—namely, in persuading Don Fernando that the re-offer of a Crown, which is not made to every man, is a thing not to be lightly despised, and hence his willingness te say Yes if tempted again. The Rev. Mr. Symth, minister of Eleventh-street Church, New York, who was recently tried and let off with a rebuke by his congregation for having drunk gin and milk one Sunday morning, has since been tried again by a meeting ef sixty members of his congregation and declared out 01 the Church. A walking match is reported to have come off, for a thousand guineas, between a noble lord and a baronet The thing to do was to walk up a high mountain in Scotland, the nobleman walking backwards with heavy boots on. the baronet walking forward, but with an open umbrella, the match to come off on a windy day. The umbrella man was defeated. A most important announcement is made by BdTi Life—viz., that government are determined to abolish the whole of the list-betting at Epsom, and the clerk of the course and Messrs. Barnard and Langlands have already received notice not to let any part of the ground they hire from Mr. Briscow the lord of the manor, for list-betting. There will also be an attempt to put down the bag-men. A correspondent draws public attention to the fact that in Clause 12 of the Gas and Water Facilities Bill (which is now before Parliament) the Board of Trade will have abso- lute power to fix the gas rates and water rates hereafter to be authorised in any district in the United Kingdom, except in the metropolis. There are, he alleges, no adequate securities in the bill to guard the new system being properly worked. The Bishop of Manchester preached in St. Stephen's Church, Salford, on Sunday morning, and at St. Andrew's, Ancoats, in the evening, on behalf of educational objects. At Salford he took occasion to reter to the decay in the ob- servance of Church festivals, and expressed a fear that it was to be attributed to lukewarmness with respect *o religion itself. In the evening his Lordship passed over a beaten track. The death is announced at the advanced age of ninety, of Colonel George Macdonell, C.B., whose father was engaged in the rebellion of 1745, ana is said to have been on the staff of Prince Charles Edward Stuart at the battle of Culloden. Colonel Macdonell entered the army in 179, »ind saw active service in the war in North America with the 79th Foot. He wal, like his ancestors, a memher o* the Roman Catholic communion, and married in 1820 the Hon. Laara Arunaell, sister of the Lord Arundell of Wardour. This Istdy died in 1851 Madame B-, a Parisian lady, is said to pre- serve her rare and beautiful complexion by the application of fresh strawberries to the skin every night. A friend who called upon her last week too early in the morning and saw ber en cMthabille was 1;0 alarmed, 8upposiog that Madame B- had the smallpox, that a sudden attack of smallpox wall the result to the visitor. The narrator's im¡¡ginatioi.1 18 lively enough."—Couri Journal. Mr. Baxter, M.P., secretary of the Admiralty, in replying to a vote of thanks from the workmen of Arbroath for the administrative reforms in which he has taken part, says:—"The task undertaken by my colleagues and myself at the Admiralty was indeed no light one, and we had to face a determined, united, and bitter opposition. But already the fruits of an improved system begin to appear, and I feel confident that ere long the naval service itself will be sensible of the beneficial nature of recent changes.' In many French villages the first Friday in the month is looked forward to with great expectations. On that day the young girls who desire to be married offer the follow- ing prayer to St Nicholas, the patron saint of bachelors:— It is the first Friday of the month, and if I raise my leg and plant it against the foot of the bed, I hope the great St. Nicholas, who is the patron of bachelors, will show me as I sleep the husband I shall have when I awake!" Early on Sunday morning a thunderstorm of great violence passed over the Isle of Thanet, succeeded by torrents of rain. The storm culminated in a clap of terrifflc force. The electric current struck a substantially-built villa resi- dence in the upper part of the High-street of Bamsgate, knocking down a stack of chimneys and the head wall ot the house one storey in depth, and passed out of a window the glass of which it completely shattered. Fortunately no one was injured. A Londoner expresses (in The Times) the greviotu annoyance which the inhabitants of the metropolis suffer from their country cousins who repair in shoals to the metro- polis during the months of May and J une, and imagine tha8i fashion requires the habit of frequenting Hyde Park between the hours of five and seven o'clock. The result is Hyde Park is blocked up, and the police compel every one to follow his neighbour in a rank of carriages which moves at about a mile an hour. He asks that a clear space should be reserved for those simply passing through the Park to their own houses. The Lord Mayor of London presided on Monday over a public meeting at the Mansion House, to consider an invitation from Protestants in America to hold a Conference in New York, which should include Christians of all denomi- nations. The Earl of Chichester moved a resolution hailing with satisfaction the projected gathering, as likely to exert a beneficial influence upon Christians throughout the world. This was seconded by the Bishop of Ripon, supported by the Rev. T. Binney, and carried. Thanks were voted to the Americans for their invitation, and cordial hopes for the dis- seminatien of peace and charity were expressed. The North German Correspondent says that a literary forgery of imponance has lately been exposed by German scholars. During the last ten years numerous documents have been brought from Oristano on the Island of Sardinia, which are preserved in the library of Cagliari under the title of Manuscripts of Arborea. A commission was nominated by the Berlin Academy of Sciences to examine the matter. It was composed of Messrs. Mommsen, Haupt, Dove, the late Jaff6, and some others. These gentlemen, after a careful study of the MS3., have pronounced them to be the work of a band of modern forgers, who have made use of the latest works for their purpose.