The Aberystwith Observer

THE FRENCH PRESS.-The following circular has been addressed by the French Minister of War to the Generals commanding military divisions ''The Prc8S of Paris and the Departments frequently n„h Pr"Pagate, in respect of matters relating to politics 10n* false intelligence which it is important vation of h«?V^Cted' em> when the erroris not the aggra- wouM iustifv th i°^* 0f dani-,er *he -Duhlic P^ce, which The Minister o?th„ r"?S -,lealt w'lUi the ('oul't3 of Law. with his colleatniM thF?T has resoIve*J' a'ter consultation be prepared and^genf^r rectifications shall in guch cases will not be eomnui.r™Department. rheir insertion form an erroneous assertion wouldbe^1 V rectlf-^ in tha* Jia.l faith, sufficient to iustifv nr/^ Ji-c,aer ey £ ence of probacy result In condemnation Th^Z^f W2"ld is certainly preferable to polemics which,* °f Pi'oceedln« when they present no other inconvenient l,3el.e8B even is to co-operate in as effic^cic^ canying out the regulations which I have expUineTJ- as far as relates to the army or the adminSw 10 yon that m future you bTing to my knowledge »nv d the of your command, statements may be recite to contradict, taking caw when me with a copy of the journal to forward precise lmformation relative the object of thp rp,,„ ? tradiction,—The Minister of War, DK CISSY. CON"

THE RESPITE OF MR. WATSON. On Friday, in last wej)k, a long statement was drawji up by Mr. Fraser, the Rev. John Selby Watson's solicitor, which was sent to the Home-office, in reference to the case, praying, in the first instance for a commutation of the capital sentence, but not upon the usual terms in such a case that the prisoner should undergo the secondary punishment of penal servitude, but asking that the prisoner should not be dealt with as a criminal at all. Mr. Justice Byles, who tried the prisoner, was communicated with by the Home Secretary in reference to the case, and the whole of the papers in reference to it were sent to the learned judge, with a request for his opinion re- garding the verdict, and generally upon the case. In answer to the memorial, a respite has been forwarded to the Surrey County Prison for stay- ing the execution of the Rev. John Selby Watson, which would otherwise lipve taken place on the 30th instant, with a view t > a commutation of the capital sentence passed upon him to i enal servitude for life. This course has been taken on the recom- mendation of the learned Judge before whom the pri- soner was tried. The Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench concurred in the recommendation. Sinwe his eonviction, the unfortunate culprit has been closely watched night and day, and is never left alone, there being always one of the warders of the prison in the same cell with him. He passes his time principally in reading Latin and Greek works, and religious books regularly attends chapel, and generally has a long conversation every day with the Rev. Mr. Jessop, the chaplain of the gaol. Since his conviction he has not made the slightestrallusion to his crime.

FEIH.VPS.—Tt is stated that -I] i-. Watson, since his con- viction, has not been visited by a single person "—From Tuesday'* Timet.

In connection with the efforts which have rescued Mr: Watson from the ignominy of the scaffold, Mr. Edgar Sheppard, M. D" writing from Colney Hatch, the 23rd inst., sent the following letter to The Times;- It is gratifying to observe the efforts which are being made to rescue ifr. Watson from an ignominious death, under the belief that he was not responsible for the homi- cidal act which has so shocked the eommnnity and placed him in his present position. That those who think dif- ferently from his apologists should, preserve a silenwe, lest by tneir outspeaking they should prejudice the merciful consideration which may lead to his reprieve, is no more than might be expected. But the professional letter in The Times of the 19th inst. by one of the physicians employed for the defence, which gives prominence to certain well- known facts in connexion with "impulsive insanity," so completely ignores others of equal significance that I am constrained, as one who gave reluctant but honest evidence on the other side, to ask your permission to ailude to them. For it is of much importance that public opinion on a matter of this kind should be thoroughly and severely just. ft is beyond dispute that homicidal and suicidal im- pulses are consistent with an absence of delusions and hal- lucinations in advanced life, and are dependent upon a de- generation of nerve-element. This degeneration may, of course, be sensibly increased by over taxation of the supreme centre of life, and volitional abeyance is, in varying degrees, the result. But antecedent evidence of intellectual im- pairment and affective disturbance (if I may adopt the ex- pression without" getting into the ulouds is very marked in those cases, and impulsive acts of a lesser kind (such as breaking furniture, tearing clothes, &c.) are the accompani- ment. To the melancholic of this type life has no consola- tion in its prospect or retrospect self-feeling is exag- gerated and intensified, and various abnormalities of thought and action are apparent. An act of violence in- volving homicide, must be preceded by other acts indicating volitional impairment. All the recorded cases, as far as I am familiar with this literature, evidence this. And cer- tainly I have never heard of, and never seen in my large experience here and elsewhere, any homicidal or suicidal attempt without antecedent evidence of unmistakable in- sanity. In fact, it is the suspected and ascertained-to-be mad who do these deeds of impulsive violence—suspected because of previous conduct, ascertained to be mad by medical examinations and the imposition of legal restraints. But it is another thing to point to a man in whom in- sanity was never drfeamt of, and of whose insanity no one would have been rash enough to certify, and say that because he has committed a homicide lie is of unsouni mind. While admitting, then, that volitional impairment may exist, uncomplicated with delusions or hallucinations, it is of importance to note that such a state of things is very rare. The ordinary causes of homicidal and suicidal im- pulses are the last-mentioned symptoms—notably halluci- nations of hearing. Imperious voices overpower the auto- cracy of the will, prompting and compelling their victims to deeds of the most destructive violence. In the four interviews which I had with Mr. Watson I pressed him searchingly upon this point. He had no trace of those nor had he, he confessed to me, at the time of committing the fatal deed. "Ungovernable fury," summarized and com- pendiously expressed all that he could say about it-a fury generated by a verbal provocation on the p ut of his wife so abominable that he would never utter it to a living soul. There is another matter to which I desire, in the last place, to make allusion. The question was shrewdly and persistently put by Serjeant Perry (whose clever and tem- perate conduct of his case cannot be tooliiclily praised) to then^ediral witnesses. Is not absence of remorse common after deeds' o £ violence in the insane?" But no one asked with e'inal persistency whether there was absence of re- morse in the prisoner. To me he certainly expressed him- self otherwise; and I should be disposed to R"y that there was a measure of manifisted remorse (of conscious, lilt unexpressed remorse who can know the depths?) e< u-t< nt with his habitually caim, unemotional, and undemonstrative chnracter. Xo one can feel more than I do the responsibility which attaches to an opinion unfavourably to the unhappy subject of these remarks. All my anxiety was to find evidence of ids insanity; and 1 am sure that the Crown prosecutois would have been equally glarl could I honestly and consistently have 'Jcine so. sertioi'i'f"?""p<9tthis subject, both in its immediate re- OI which in yoiir r. V ^"hlic a"<l also in its bearing

Tr nTT~Vi j j''1""6*0" AT SANDHIXGIIAjr. M £ w'"r U,r T>1'incess of with the H Knnllv* V*ri\Kno»J-8' Colonel Teesdale, Mv Frauds K noil) s ,11. DoJamarm, and Dr. Gnli, attended T)ivi„P -eivice in the parish church of St. Mary He;- Kovd lli-h a'Tl' fromWUiel0c|kiin"hni"Ch irn,prove(1 in health, druve'to a.ia nom the church m a bmutrham. There wi* i numerous congregation, the beautiful little edifice luing tried with the Royal household, the tenantry and the villagers, aud ilu air of cheerfulness called fo'-th anfCOrdanCe, MWt of thanksgiving for the dav n,"PreS-Se 1,1 thC l"Vln "f Pra>'er provided lor the d^y. i he service was performed by tie- Rc" W TahL tlT* l the rfeiP°,,ses heinS ch. ml, according to «', r hymn selected being 29:) and 2-2-1 from trreont'ifn and .¥0lle™ The Payers of tiie eon- grc ation for the continued recovery of the Prince of Wales were asked in the Litany, and th; Archbishop ot Canterbury's Form, of Prayer for the day was impressively read and responded to. The sermon was preached by the rev. rector, from the text, Psalm 110 7th verse -.—" Return untu thy rest, O my con'l, for thg Lord hath dealt bouat,fully with thte." The preacher with deep emotion expatiated on the feelings of aratitude f J ueliverence from trouble and danger expressed by the Psalmist, and the lesson to be drawn both from the trials of this Lfe and from the mercies vouchsafeu by the bounty ot Providence. It is one thing he observed, to receiv.j that bounty, and another to diswern the hand that bestows every good and perfect gift, to be sensible of the absolute and constant dependence of every being upon God for life, and breath and all thim,? The Almighty frequently marks the bounty of Hk l! r g with the favoured souls in the means S h In the results which appear extrao, reach of human wiX„, thus lc'i^5 see the entire inability of cr--atures''t-r. n™ childien to in order that tli^ir L,.n u du,lesto piocure deliverance, more evidently nninf I 'iia^ more signal, and may to illustrate tlip^rL °Ui J ^er °' tfod. He proceeded demand ™, »?<, i:know,elilament which such Divine dealings fc 't?.1 '!la;!e a special allusion to the mercy for which thej. wfcietuat day returning thanks, "To-day" he said, we liuve liijd a form of thanksgiving sent to us; we have heard it rettd, and followed it T with our deep and earnest, feelings for our beloved and Royal master Wehava not been behind in sincere thought and aspiration, and we lyoii know tint God Almighty has answered those prayers and irtc-oe<wiona which we have offered up day and nirht a th T ,'r f Grace; and thus, by themercy of C^id. he is preserved to us, and we, ,f all is well, shall see him again am on "us in .US blight rejoicing manhood, and to the joy of all the hearts of this our nation. He stands, as it w«Tre a momi ment of Cods mercy to our country, ourselves our homes, and every social tie which binds man wUh PrTr«n ev«" in tho,e '"stant reigions where the Lritish flag flies, where tho teiegrar.Mc wire has communicated the fa.it, All is well,' we he™ w°rds sounding forth across land and ocean from thrilling and rejoicing voices, Ood bless the Prince of Wales, the Princess of Wales, and every member of Eng- iu.r»4 3 Royal F¡unily. The preacher concluded with the following lines which had been written and sent to him by an eminent pr.ej; of the day y For further answer be it known That a whole people's prayerful love Drew down on earth's iiicst glorious throne Kach bnghtergraoe from Heaven above And that the mother and the wife Sweet watchers by his couch of fear So lovely both in heart and life. Lived with him long to bless us here.

WI>'DaOIt. Thanksgiving for the recovery of th* frinee of Wales was ob*er;x-d at the Chapel Rovil, St. George, Windsor Cj«tl-> when a v-.i-y eloquent and appropriate sermon was preached n the morning by the Hon. and Rev. Canon Courtney the text being from the »th chapter of St Matthew, -lih verse And Jesut tenth unto him, See thou tell no man; bvt rm thy way,show thyxeljto the prie»i, and ogerthn aift that Mote* commanded, .for a testimony them," in"f:i3 afternoon there was a grand choral service, and the thanksgivin" anthem, //• <•■; m the day composed by Sir Geor<*e Elvey was beautifully sung by the ehoir. The chapel was crowded rdaveiTat tVo=> "? service^ and the National Anthem was P v IT T rir pamt) ehl,rch OF -St. John, the Ktv. u. j. Uhson, v^ar o* jlintlsor, unci chanlain *•> thp Preacjled an impressive ijermon. ihe National Anthem was also played at the close of the ;er; i'-e.

ST. X'AUL'S CATHED1I YL. tl.o»V?.?MDSr s.eryice.'lt 'st- rani's Cathedral on Sunday riltV"t'i^estcd with any si.ocial character. naUiralf; d. nved a Homewiat increased interest from the # S position of the heir appa;oiifc Jn the prayers offered bv tl'fi congregation; and, in spite of dainp/^ngental wiathef the gatheung under the splendid dome at h ilf-r-mt ten was such as would have filled an ordinary charcV e was such as would have filled an ordinary charcV was, as usual la the morning, a full chorVl service n the lessons were read bv iMinnr n>n«n 'r and the i«-aj'er which had for some weeks previously be'eii used for the !v.e.->vo«-y of the Prince of Wales was harn ik- exchanged for the Ko'rmsf 'J'liankssfivin" nnhii h^i |I|J day. Although this gubstituWo U^" it was with a sort of renewed se^ZuZ h"^b the tact of recovery had now become indubiky,- eiia'-ii,];^ tea, one heard strains of fervent gratitude instead'of familia, W.OJVIS of earnest supplication. The sermon preached by ^re:«»< ary Irons, from the 25th verse of the 1/th chapter of ac: John's Gospel:-««o riahte, 40 Father, the world hath not known Thee but hn,r known Thee, and thexe have Irnoun iha, TJion ha*t *r>,t mc and I hare declared unto them Thy nar.w t \j ).■ a^k-re. it," words which, the preacher remarked. w" I among ihv last utterance^ of Christ In His ministry on earth. Althoii^ii the discourse, which was an elaborate exposition of the teaching of Holy Scripture with regard to Christ's character, occupied j.b^ut an hour, there was nothing in it that amounted to an anticipation of tlie great national thanksgiving service which is shortly to fc*ke -?lace SLB!fa edifice, and the worshippers at which, it is ex- of sta*t' "nmi the Queen, many of the chief .Ministers of Parliament of members of the two Houses cefvp °n[y alUsi'-n, f'i fact, to what is to re- cathedr-U commenioration W .the Metropolitan uunedral was comprised in the following s-iifpn „ ^hich we «e Mm h* *° >' ™ .,tiing a-satesf way which had never been know,; before-a thankfulness of which we have m ourselves some slight reflection r when aa a nation on this sacred day we are givin thar ks to God for a great mercy wkich has come to us in- our atnicuon sisErf! £ SPe h"r o"he m,m ,rom '"oo™

WESTMINSTER ABB-EY, Morning service in Westminster Abbey was attended by an unusually large congregation, who listened with pro- found attention and responded with marked fervency to the special prayer giving thanks to God for the recovery of the Prince of Wales. The sermon was preached by the Ven. Archdeacon Jennings, who took his text from the 116th Psalm, verse 12, What shall I render unto the Lord for Hit benefits towards met." At the com- mencement the preacher pointed out that this was a psalm of thanksgiving penned by the inspired writer for some special mercy wrought for him, in which he expressed his gratitude to God for his deliverance out of trouble, resolved thenceforward to walk in the way of the Lord, and in the gratitude of his heart asked what return he should make for the mercies which had been shown to him and thence went on to show that the goodness of God was ex- tended to all of us as well as to the Psalmist, and to urge upon his hearers the duty of continued thanksgiving for His mercies and glorification of Ilis holy name. What abundant subjects for piaise and thanksgiving were fur- nished by the proofs of God's power and wisdom In our creation and preservation, and still more in the areat work of our redemption Witn what feelinsrs of gratitude and love ought we to bless Him for the many instances of peculiar favour which he had manifested towards us from tfie first moment of our existence to this hour How often had lie saved our lives from destruction and crowned us with loving kindness! He protected us even in our infancy, and we received innumerable blessings from His hands before we were even conscious øf their bestowal, lie guarded us in the helplessness of childhood, and watched over us in the rashness of manhood. He suided us through the tria's and temptations of the world, and by His beneficent interposition, good was often derived from apparent ill, and the very failure of our plans was turnedtoahle-sing. Were we not then all bound to ask ourselres, "What thall I render unto the Lord for all His benefits to me?" Having thus dealt ceneraily with Iiiii text, the venerable Archdeacon proceeded iu tire fol- lowing passage, which he delivered with great earnest- ness, and in a tone of deep emotion, to apply it to the special circumstances of the occasion:—And here I wish particularly to direct your attention to the special praper which we used this morning, and csll upon you to our out your hearts in fervant praise and thanksgiving to our Almighty protector for His good new on preserving the life of our beloved Prince and restoring him to comparative health and strength. But a few woeks iiave passed since we as individuals and as a nation prostrated, our- selves in prayer, and cried mightily unto God to preserve the life of one so dear to our gracjoiis Sovereign his mother, so dear to his wife and his children, and so dear and 110 valuable to the British nation. At (me time you well knew hope had neprly forsaken us, and his spirit seemed to liorer between this world and the next, when the unseen but healing hand of our merciful and inter- ceding High Priest was stretched forth to bless the energy and watchful care ot the physicians, and to give virtue to the curative means employed and in answer to the supplications of the nation united in prayer, the goodness of the Lord was ex- tended to exhausted nature, and his soul was delivered from death. And while we pray for length of days for our Queen, let us also pray that theltoyal Prince who has so long ex- perienced the loving l.iudness of the I.ord may hare grace given him to surrender himself to thp Lord for tho rest; of his life and as he is distinguished in rank and station may he also be distinguished by his piety, his love and praotice of religion, and the exercise of ail those princely virtues which should adorn the character of a Christian sovereign. -May he in the spirit and language of the Psalmist with heartfelt grati- tude and joy inquire What shall I render under unto my God for His special mercies to me in delivering my soul from death, and mine eyes from guilt." After the sermon the Holy Communion was administered.

DEAN STANLEY AT GLASGOW. On Sunday Dean Stanley preached to a crowded congrega- tion in St. Mary's Episcopal Church. His text was the [.2nd verse of the 11th chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke, and the subject the education of our Lord. In the course of his sermon the preacher referred to the fact that the special form of prayer and thanksgiving for the recovery of the Prince of Wales.had been used throughout the realm, adding :—We are called upon to give thanks for the completion of a stage in the education of the nation, and of a precious life within the nation. We were tried and tested by an unexpected appeal to our better feelings in the prospect of a great bereavement impending over a family dear to all of us, the prospect of a sudden rent in tile continuity of our historical existence. That trial, for ourselves, has been mercifully ordered, both to call out those better feelings, and to remind us ^h;it it is to belong to a strong, solid, generous, serious nation, under a throne which unites us as one vast family. We are also called'upon tn give thanks for the completion of a most important stage in the education of one whose life thus prolonged is fraught with incalculable interest for us all. He for whom we now return thanks has, we may humbly trust, been receiving from the hands of an all wise and all merciful Father an education such as might move a heart of stone, such surely as is specially calculated to draw forth whatever there is good, generous, and noble within him. What school of experience, what lessons of Dinne or human teaching, could be imagined more affecting, more ele- vating, more stimulating to all that is good in the human soul than that sick chamber where mother, and wife, and brothers and sisters were watching in agonising suspense than the prayers, and the hopes, and the serious warnings which, during those anxious days, went up from the churches and chapels, the hearths aud the altars of the whole people than the reflections which must have oeen awakened during those long weeks of ebbing and returning strength, both concemig tiie past and the future ? What education more splendid could have been given for tiie heir of these realms than this-t,) have learnt by suffering not only what is meant by sickness and pain, and weakness, and the shadow of death itself but to have learnt also what is expected of him by the mighty nation over which it, God's good time he may at lant lie called to rule than to have known how deeply it has been felt that his welfare is ours, and our welfare is his than to have had borne in upon him by thousands and tens of thousands of voices, that of him to whom if much is given much shall be required ?

THE BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S ON LOYALTY. The Bishop of St. David's, in his thank-giving sermon on Sunday, said that rhe recent expression of feeling in regard to the iltness of the Prince of Wales, was not mere sympathy with affliction, or homage to personal worth, bat a display cf Christian loyalty, and the outcome of a whole national history— a pledge of the deep-seated conviction in the public mind of the intimate connection existing between the Royal house and those highest natioiJal blessings whir-h preserve us from fluctuations between anarchy and despotism. All the ills of France were traceable, the- bishop said, to the loss of the Crown, that firm cement of social order, and to the wicked destruction of the people's loyalty. The lessons of French history, however, were^lost lioon some Euirlislmien hence it was a providential mercy elicits; lmrament danger of the heir to the tin one h;id p'roperir" f?!Jtional declaration of determination not to ex- augmented in value according to our 'abiiiti'es'as' good ==77

j. THE ASSASSINATION OF P.IIL. FIST The following details of theaa^sination of Mr Fi«k of t.: a^f^ir f-pMrnSi ri £ did~ s her the conHdaifti' °r °",y endcbe<1 her hut made sopciil i'tin,, 1, V.V' hl? remarkable schemes of gigantic conrseof thhUnfaf S:U(1' f>f political manipulation. The there in ,ii 'u,!xtfol>andpassion did not run smooth and eiTranc; t. ,f na tlyfl, ^agreement which resulted in a un,icr ho6tile influences, in somethin" that looked like vinc1ieth-encss IInd cl!mity. The calise- was" all thai I WH3 t?at -Mr" -sleM was discarded, "it Has said that jealousy brought, this biilinri-nn.l t U.II'-t (,4.) an lady-Kith"'1', a"d t,hat if i,r' Fisk harl notVavoured another \bmihvi e ,became equally enamoured, Mrs Wield would have been liis true love to this day She became acquainted with Mr. Stokes, and woman li £ spited her old love, by taking a new one. This iJTitated eventually the latter i&Ki SZ&S&SES"' parlour" a'nd" b'owco-s of^Iovlf in il, TwenT tto an assassin." most eflectually the r6le. of half-pal't'fou^y"sterdkV€0ach.<,IW "P at about Central Hotel, on Broadway^ Tt°" fr"L0f th.e XewYork'sgreatthoromdif iVo about tlie time that As Mr. *'iskTcS^ pleasantest sight, reaching the hotel cuided <wJ Pavemy"t before other conveyances a COUD6 a*- qU'6 the tide of was observed foTlowfng h a mVl, d,stance "A the v™v> of this 'coupe sat an upriglU and .'TT' °n tlle box held the r uns with n fivr,7i i 8turdy-looking man. He S £ ;■ ««»\"ii' hjy?sXvr?rih? 'r" SSce" 'K?" curious proceeding was conthmcd.A"few''bloc'f/ lacker street the door of the counS onp,Ve,i oi, i thro^h"[he'y "I' 'th'6'1 »nd ran swiftly directum in T\ 'i °f Pe'lestri*ns in the same l if l i the carriages had hitherto been gon.g time « r tat Stokes known to the world by this in advw" nf ttre- f -^he had been riding pub'ie ln I11,"1 'carriage and challenging iie r n^l Tt°f ''imseif Darting tlmuv-ii a crnwf, the Grf ul 1S,taniCrefU,'lt'1 reHchetl the entrance of Oenti ?il Hotel. He tmsspd rK J'"H a3 FHE Ca",ia»e of stopped ob,ervid L" ? We'1 UP the stai». and it was observed by tiiose who saw him that he was i a'e and much agitated. Xo one fancied however that tlirrc surpriseCat'Sld«n| nCr?C? tM* faCt' anrt 80 tho 'momentary th?mindJ nf fh "^r<:SS passe<1 only as a ripple over the tdifA'fr nef door. Stokes ascended nrfv'ate st\iVwiv lY floo\ then wei^t down the ladies' ji m ait stairway. He reached the first landinsr Fisk had 1 dinTo \'he hanbU1v!aUd 1WM «oi"? 'U» the stairs which 'he hall. hsn he reached the last stew Stoke* ONTHVRTU*^ JHE FESTED A. REVOLVEI' left arm another inirHc'ht--ly followed ^It'struck1 hhn'/n tlie abdomen, and Fisk cried out, For God's sake will anv tlie abdomen, and Fisk cried out, For Goers sake, will anv ^iil anvuoflv save inp ? T'h»<^ baKe, of Boston, and a surgeon lost ,fo el"f Wh;V-S a ^3i,!e,,t under the h.vnrl of t),' ° tll,,e.in P»ttmg hjs arm people in the hotel and those 'in ti o -( ne crowded around in intense e^citeVeAVcHZ^ a&nd Altered th"^ w-is^^unA" (v't'of at the fi/ht of Wood was if* J a"d e^i-ried n- th' i 8 g,c'"vn r n tl,e «oor. He was .( an.t Cdiried up the stairs ard 1 d 1 uimn -L bed T messenger was m.-ri. dly despatched for a .n^on The shot had parsed conipieteli' 'toro^h the f!h leaVml ? lar-e, ugly-looking hole, made like one by ;t V a navy revolver. l isk was asked if that was his onlv wound' stomach,Sai M°' h° ha<l anot'!Cr P»i»tod to his ap'd'fon, d1,itS-1'?,Vho rJd '^•Covered theVonnd, vi' ^ie the otl.'er. with very little blocfl T- IL F,ter khe ""otoi' 1>K-1 n;i|l),:d IPS exanii- AM.,11 UR Iskel for sf)-.Ile A ft(,I. it, the doctor probed the wounds, hat, found n. It he h- d no if it ill-t"" 'ell f sll,,ig eii,,iigli t,) the ])III io.iciie-i at all. While toe oper.tion n-a< i.ro eeeiiv nn.l large number of persons wa. around him Fide 4 h composure, the muscles of his f ,ce never wavering n ] w"V'h,n» "lovements of the surgeon with the oreiW coolness. The ge,,tien;ap. who had first found Mr Fisk af ho was shot, asked him who it \v:U; ^l o etta -ked 1- m i answered,Stokes.' Kt-;uevi i.im, He n';»in Burns in a few minutes entered the room and hi tit J n? a.f(rw v'01'tls to the doctor wentoiU V.-hen Fisk IooWp.i l that the niau who shot yon i' shot me to ni'lir v T said, 'Yes; that is the man who VVi 1 isk was soon surrounde'l by a bevv of the chandie • n'1" which °Pens int" the ante-room of tion °Arrl f!Ihv^'riV1 %ottPe occurrence of the assassina- migery, ra.J, dc-^n the staiis^that/h1'' ,jeun ,th.e ^use of this ¡¡aid this he seemed to have lost all control oveÍ hj¡;lscl], an;l StVntnh0aTCmaiin the alarm; he''shouted oiop mat man .Stokes was seized with thp a.. nffl8nCevf several persons, and Captain Burns and thi1>e^ fCT '5- arrive<1 and took the prisoner into their custody. lgilant search was then made through thp AND.Parlours for the revolver or pistol which Stokes had used, as it was not found in his possession. Mr. Crockett and all the servants looked anxiously in every imaginable place until, just after the identification of Stokes by Fisk. a young lady discovered it in the parlour near the head of the stairs lying under a chair, where Stokes had flung it in his haste and excitement. The prisoner was then taken by Captain Burns and the officer to the station-house. He walked calmly up to the desk and gave his name, residence, and occupa- tion he was then taken to a cell below, in which he was placed. Coroner Young hurried from the station-house back to the hotel. The excitement there was far greater than immediately after the tragedy, and the crowd in tht. lower corril-irs ha,1 much augmented. The friemis. of Mr. Fiak stayed at the hotel all night, and the halls and ante- rooms were scenes of long anxious waiting. Very late in the evening Mr. Stokes' 'eonpC stood in front of the New York Hotel. After a while a stout dark man entered it and drove away. This man is said by some person to have accompanied Stokes when he drove down Broadway but who, then, is the unknown? The following is the statement of the hotel doorkeeper "'About 4 p.m. Mr. Stokes arrived at the hotel, passing through the private entrance and ascending the stairs. Soon after Mr. Fisk arrived In a coach, and enquired if Mrs. Moss was at home. Answering him iu the negative, In inquired if her daughter was at home, and upon my assenting, we both passed up the stairs. Fisk in advance When about half wny up, a shot was fired, and Mr. Fisk fell on the stairs, crying Oh Looking up I saw Mr. Stokes standing at the head of the stairs with a revolver in his hand. Mr. Fisk regaining his feet he was shot again, and on Mr. Fisk f illing he slid to the bottom of the stairs..Rising to his feet again he ascended the stairs, and y iends assisted him to the reception room. A gentleman who was passing the Grand Central Hotel at the time of the assassination states that his attention was attracted by the sound of two shots, apparently pistol shots, 111'8(1 in almost immediate sncees- f-ion. Fisk had just alighted fro'n his.carriage, and entered the hotel, when he was met and shot by his dastardly assassin.

Surgeon John Beach, on examination of Mr. Fisk's wounds, reports that he found Mr. Fisk hsd received two wounds, one in the right arm by a ball, which, striking just above the elbow, passed inside the bone and out at the back of the arm the other by a ball which entered the abdomen about three inches above and two inches to the right of the nm- bilicus, and passing downwards and inwards beyond the reach of the longest probe. An" inquest" WSR held at Room 1,114 of the Grand Cen- tral Hotel, befere Coroner Kelson, W. Young, and jury. James Yisk, Jun., being sworn, testtnetl as follows:- "1 h13 afternoon, nhout half-past four o'clock, I rode up to the Grand Central Hotel. I entered by the private entrance, and when I entered the first door I met a boy, of whom I inquired if Mrs. Moss was in. He told me that Mrs. Mose and her youngest daughter llat gone out, but lie thought that the other daughter was in her grand- mother's room. I asked him to go up and tell the daughter that I was there. I came through the other door, and I wns going upstairs, 311,1 had got up about two steps, when, looking up, I saw Edwards. Stokes at the head of stairs. As soon I saw him I noticed he had something in his hand, and a second after I saw a flash, and heard the repprt. I felt the ball entering my abdomen on the right side. A second was fired immediately afterwards, which entered my left arm. When I received the first shot I staggered and ran towards the door, but noticing a crowd gathering in front I ran back on the stairs. I was then brought upstairs into the hotel. I knew nothing more of Stokes till he wns brought before me by an officer for tdentiiieation. I fully identify Edward S. Stokes as the person who shot me — James Fisk, jun." The inquest on Mr. Fisk lasted three days, and resulted in the following verdict;— "The jury find, upon the testimouy submitted at the inquest, that the deceased, James Fisk, jun.. came to his death at the Grand Central Hotel, in the city of New York, on the 7th of January, 1872, at the hour of ten minutes be- fore eleven o'clock, in consequence of a wound or wounds inflicted by a hall or balls from a pistol in the hands of Edward S. Stokes, discharged by him in a deliberate manner at the said James Fisk, jun., at the Grand Central Hotel, about four o'clock p.m on Saturday7, the Gth of January, 1872." The prisoner, who declined to say anything in answer to the charge, was then committed for trial by order of the Coroner. Never since the memorable night that A be Lincoln was shot was there such excitement throughout the city. In the streets, in the bars, in the hotels, everywhere in the entire city, nothing was talked of but the attempted assassination.

The NeM Yorlc Herald, commenting on the crime, says Those who have marked the career of Fisk will have re- garded it from different points of approval, or otherwise. There have not been wanting men who stigmatized him as a great public evil; others have denounced him as a dete- riorator of public morals in his theatrical and social con- nexions a still larger class have looked on him as a bad example to youth. We enumerate these things to point a moraL"

The Ncvs York Times of the 8th of January contains the following account of Colonel Fisk's last mo- ments "James Fisk, jun, died in the bedroom attached to parlour No 213 in the Grand Central Hotel, of the mortal wound indicted at 4 o'clock of the previous afternoon by Edward S. Stokes. The surgeons had but faint hopes of his recovery after their consultation on Saturday night. Still all the experience of the eminent surgeons sum- moned to his bedside could suggest was done to aid him Feeling himself that his C<li'e was almost liopeles. he bore the knowledge patiently, speaking to Dr Fisher who was bending over his bedside about 10 p.m He asked him, Doctor, is there an even chance of my getting well again?' The doctor responded with kindly assurances. The business-like phraseology of the query would indicate that he was characteristically regarding his living or dying from a spectulative point of view. M r. Fisk's will was drawn up by an amanuensis under the direction of his counsel, Mr. David Dudley Field. About four a m. Dr. Fisher a-.k°d him how he felt, and he replied that he was 'doing nicely,'asked for a drink of water, and seemed to recognise everybody in the room. The opiates which had been administered now began to have their fifcet, and the dying man sank into a profound slumber. He remained in a heavy death-like sleep from half-past four a.m. until nine Fisk received the telegram sent to her shortly after the shooting, and arrived at the hotel at seven a in. She remained at his bedside until his death, except for a few minutes when she went away to breakfast. Growing worse, at about nine o'clock his breathing be- came more heavy and laboured. A consultation of his medioal attendants had been held frota eieht o'clock till nine, and at its close a bulletin was posted on the «rand staircase of the Hotel reading, '0 a.m. Colonel Fisk is sink- in;.dL jftyvxri;1.Tl:il,,e1, v' r;re half imdieTSrov^^lip m"'610*' akdomen five anlf'a inch to the rir-ht of 'llclls, ami one and thr. e-quarter d^nlmUn! coiT-'e oU to^v'kft""r'hPh8 a found. Fi-k was sle'n n "r, i tK i could ''e pulse 130, resniration no° tl n ,1 «as not m pain; with and peritonitis was feared v*S nnfav"l!1'>We> sti'nul itions h*it -iii v J'i' coiKiii, can T'ecomnieudM)^ see'n that he 'was "bailing, -"1 it was to kfepiL ith hU a°dfa.'h U!at «*med strangely new character. Durin r tf'- V10? appeared in a scarcely a reminder of Wiffp TJ CL-°FE Waii him achieved unenviable notorietv "l^sociates who with him achieved unenviable notorietv "l^sociates who with him was seen of Wm. II Tweed 7% I i P and I,othi,1S of the Tammany or FHI' >0ul(1>r01' other member stricken wife of the sn'' r '"l" ,X" lfheir stead the and two brothejsdu-law of "tl'.L 'ifvir, IJu7°? been summoned bv Dr u J T takable signs of approach'^ !??5a T te" saw the unmi.s- per«on near the bed wim dissolution and there was no especially "^ontron^?,' Mr8" the greater from the fact tw li i i a"S"Ish was only after he had fallsur into GIP i rfe:lc t'(l h*cr husband ha(i not been able to reco^,il„l condition, and nnly by the sohs of the ?nrr ^er' silence being broken breathing of the dyi yl 8S°UP' VU\la,cd fainter ami more fUfuf tRrm ♦ T'7 ,'nStant became watch of Dr. Fisher, who s-Jt wit in; JEPe2 a"'ily'nitil the of the wounded man p i ltt: to ti ha.,ldf0I> the P"lse could see that the end w-a^ 'V1' Au terious change came-and rhen mys" convulsive grasps but-')leat'1,ll|o became only short consoi'ius man 'tEe^ no* eoVtTt0' fthe Un" twitehin<*of the muse]** r, contraction of the f<ice, no and peacefully this life (JM 'nt of the limbs. Calmly away and at five minutes tn 1 J' 80 t"rbulerit. ebbed dead Unconscious "o thVV, f,Te"' Ja,nes Fisk- J'111. was looking back upon his past or of ^n 11 Ul' V/ r>f The news passed quicklv ..A i e^nteinplating his future, far and wide. ly' and 111 a ^w minutes was known S' reSf^; l"'S- ,Fisk,™ to her room, tain Byrnes, entering took nn secluslou; Afterwards, t'ap- the arrival 'of Coron^ufn^for'whl the b°<Iy t0 await immediately sent. :BPfn. 1, i m a mts enger was bed, .Tames Fisk, junior 1"ly\vns removed from the wss'indced gone from th» ,ed ?nlJ' asleep. The colour of its ln 'ss • The evi maSi ve faoe- bllt U had lost none all marks of the^^10^' »;^en he died, and victim wei'e hidden i i ^va3 the the body was placed i„ ti e r r'^dT^ t aft?r the parlour attached to n i nd e;xPosed view m siirn nf death on n?„ the ''edroom, there was lmroly a viewed it as it v, snu)cj'h, placid tace. Hundreds they went and an,d from the eotlin, without showin- Z a- fciet emotion he must have f«it of thiiTa. M *st ,s'Kn of the Erie k'ine- which had I ""Men sundering of the H miule1Stlnou,-h &f 1 the eff,)rt,to breil!t closed Wm. M. Tweed fmtivHv +\\° co!fln upon the dO:1.d an] closed, and taken up by the me^"of Then the coffin W:1S borne from the room. Tweed follow^ ft, 'ia'\ was carried up a narrow mivatp atjL r,'hlc-i above; through the corridors of tht fli^y > to the stairs on the othTr AY:aS born° down these to the Southern Mercer c+v,f l r>'1, this point Tweed had followpil" r, f • entran«e lo stairs, and through *11 the wiridinJ ,a" .-M -T'1" head bowed and uncovered, but ai-vivii?. ?! paused, gazed a moment at the coffin wii?!h 3tP!" if that was mortal of his friend at the turnip steps then the body of .Tamei Fiafc bin '<r'C ,s the kitchen door, out of the house' in which J' tIl, (>"»h slain, placed in a hearse, and c-iriifrt i.<. ¥ en West Twenty-Third-street.' Hut meamime Ihl*0, ,"3' some show of official respect for the dead « ? e'J had been a colonel in the National Guard 'h' od Iwon "dHNERAIj OKPKR ft* Fisk, jun., Dth liegiment Infantry. His n° i"6 .S' felt, and his pWinthe National GuarTimf n cnC ,y 2. TheOth Kefiiment Infantry is herebfdet died t il!ed' funeral ^nard and will assemble at their ? as a 8, at twelve o'clock meridian, l,y order of vZ?/-y' J. N-Varian, com.nanding; Wit!iilm Sewara ™ Adjutant-G,iu.r.d and Chief of Staff •> Ul' l'K'> As8'stant

It woyjrl sppm that while Stokes is awaitIW tn'nl his comfort is being well cared for^ j His cell," says the jVVff York Herald, "ilas }>p.„ nished very handsomely at the expense of Stokes him iV aim had more the appearance of a *young hdv>3 n "n than the look of a cell of a prisoner who had be, mitted mr a capital offence." Stohos h;is got ,u0Ul" black walnut bedstead, and the bed-linen is of th^ very f.nwt quality the coverlet b-iiU th? with lace, and the pillowcases fringed ° same material. There a;e pictures hung up 0„ t' ,j a id a nosegay occupies a place on the shelf \rrs ofJ true, good, and beautiful lady, is on her way Is' a Furope and will be here in a few days. She I^s luc? no^nk' J 'e dreadful tidings which will greet her on land in- j-hc l.,st letter written to Stokes by his wife was a model nf forgiving conjugal affection. It is probable that wHI not be tiled until the February term of tiie cjimin U courts as his counsel have asked for time to prepare the ca»e ami to allow public feeling to subside. "■

DEATH OF THE RON. Q. C. YERNON. On Saturday afternoon Dr. Lankester, the coroner 0 tor the central division of the county of Mipldlesev held an inquest at 37, Montagu-square, London on the body of the Hon. Oowran Charles Vernon, t'lie He! corder of J^incoln and second son of Lord Lyveden The coroner, in opening the case, remarL-ed that in accordance with the wishes of the iV;iddlesex magis- trates he had determined not to hold a postmortem examination. In his opinion it was perfectly unneces sary, but if the jury, after Learfcs the evidjne.. we- still unsatisfied, then he would issue the Requisite order. The HOD. Greville Richard Vernon, of Kilmarnock, stated that he was the brother of the deceased, who was 47 years of age, and was Recorder of Lincoln. headS0I1he wiPast uh^' c°mplained of pains in his head he had consulted several medical gentlemen, and for some time had never left his home without beino- accompanied by Mrs. Vernon. He was in the habjt of using "neuraline," a patent medicine, to soothe the pains in the head. On Monday, the 15th inst., he went out for a walk with his wife and on his return he was seized with a fit. Drs. Watton, ComlterbRch, and Williams were sent for, and attended him in the draw- ing-room. They determined that he was suffer-in'' from neuralgia and epileptic fits. He had complained of severe pains in his head and had used neuraline," with which he painted his face with a camel's hair brush, purchased from Leath and Co., St. Paul's- churchyard. Mr. Williams deposed that he was called on Monday last, and found the deceased lying in bed. His features were perfectly placid. He- had been in the habit of using iieuriline," the application of which was harmless unless the skin was broken. Mr. Hurley, M.D., M.R.C.S., formerly physician to the University College Hospital, stated that he had made an analysis of the contents of the bottle marked "neuraline." it was an extract of monk's-hood called by botanists the active poison of which is aconitine "—mixed with rose water, and contained chloroform one drop and a half of Fleming's tincture being sufficient (in half a bottle) to destroy life. Dr. Watton stated that he declined to give a eertifi- cate of death owing to its suddenness. The coroner remarked that owing to communications he had re- ceived he had determined, notwithstanding the deceased was attended by four medical men, to hold the inquiry. He had read letters from Lord llokeby and others, and there was no doubt that the deoeascd bad expired from natural causes. In deference to the feelings of the friends, he held the inquiry at the residence of the deceased. There was no doubt he was seized with a fit of convulsions, from the effects of which he expired. The jury returned a verdit of "Death from Natural Causes."

THE WIDOW OF A MILLIONAIRE. In the First Division of the Court of Session, Edinburgh, on Friday, in last week, decision was given on a petition at the instance of Mrs. Baird, widow of the late Jlr, George Baird, of Strichen and Stichell, craving the Court to fix an allowance of £ 3,r>00 per annum for the maintenance and edu- cation of her son, Ceorge Alexander Baird, who was born iN 1861. At his death in August, 1870, Mr. George Baird was posses,*ed of landed property yielding a rental of about £ 15,000 per annum, and he left other property of the value of about £1,000,000, which at present yields an income of about £40,000 per annum. By trust-disposition and settlement Mr. Baird conveyed to trustees his whole estates, with directions to pay to his widow an annuity of £ 2;000 in addition to the sum of tl,500 per annum secured to her by their contract of marriage, and a further sum of £ 150 yearly towards the cost of keeping up the garden at Stitehell in the event of her occupying the mansion house. Besides these provisions Mrs. Baird enjoys the income of £ 10,000 settled upon her in trust by her father at the time of her marriage. Mr. Baird left no issue except his son, the said George Alexander Baird, who is at present being educated in England, prepara- tory to his going to Eton, and his personal expenses, which during the past year amounted to about j;500, will, it was said, considerably increase. The trustees opposed the application on the ground that it was their intention to pay such sums as, in their opinion, might be suitable when it became necessary to provide him with an establishment and they had already paid to Mrs. Baird, for her son's education and maintenance, .21,000 for the first year after his father's death, .E1.500 for the current year, and were prepaied to pay £2,000 yearly hereafter. The Court (Lord Deas dissenting) held that the petitioner was entitled to an allowance of £ 3,000 per annum in addition to her present income.

A KNOTTY POINT TO DECIDE. fn the Court of Queen's Bench, the cause of "Best v. Stap has been heard, which raised a novel and interesting question—whether it is actionable to take into lodgings persons who have just recovered from the smallpox, and so communicate the infection to the inmates of the house. The case as stated was thi.ol:- The plaintiff kept a lodging-house at Eastbourne, and alleged that the de- fendant, knowing, as was alleged, that his children had just suffered from the smallpox, and were in such a condition as that other persons-especially children -might catch the infection from them, brought them into the plaintiff's house, fraudulently, as the plaintiff alleged, concealing the fact that the children were in such a condition, whereby some of the plaintiff's children caught the infection, and died, and his wife became ill, and he was unable for a long time to let his lodgings. The cause of com- plaint was variously stated in different counts. The second put it thus that the defendant wilfully brought his infected children into contact with the plaintiff and another count put it, that he had done so negli- gently and carelessly but the facts were, in substance that he brought the children in, saying nothing about their illness. The defendant demurred to the de- claration, on the ground that it did not appear that he was under any legal obligation to disclose the condition of his children or to prevent them from being brought into contact with the plaintiff's wife and child- ren nor did it appear that, although he might be aware of the condition of his children, he knew or had reason to believe that it would cause danger to others nor that there was any legal obligation upon him to give notice of their condition. That it was to be assumed that the plaintiff was accustomed to let out his lodgings to or for convalescents without regard to the diseases from which they were recovering, and that his terms were adapted to tlie risk he ran. On the part of the plain- tiff, on tlie other hand, it was argued that it was ad- Cfi&f' !|J! £ 1'w "F the risk and con- a and flint fcT,« mi1IPV aPOSft fmm inWinn The coumel for the defendant was first heard in sup- port < f the demurrer, but after some time ♦lie'l^omw?4'? iJu<1?r'1aV-l':lr01^lyT,Ot bein? clear as to t al^W « i f/ 1 lability, whether it was necessary t. at theie should be a fraudulent concealment or not nd vised the parties to go to trial first and ascertain the actmd facts.

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO ST. PAUL'S *ketch> in reprinting it J glVen' and we have Pleasure It may be interesting at this timp Queen going in State to St. Paul's Cathie an.clPa ^lon of the for the restoration to health of th I toreturn thanks recount some of the more remark,^lnce °/ VVa.les- to national history on which Kin>»3 and Onpfn00/^ "i3 tlle made similar visits to the Cathedral for lfkepwnosM beGremembered3thaUIenry^V ^vent? to^ CpltUv7< may and offered prayers on his accession to the nfr ^r'l' also Homy VI. on his accession uemv Vir "V* .Ul victory over Lambert Simmel, went on tin „V 3 in solemn procession. On the first dav ei ,v,e da, £ s Denm was sung, and on the second there ul'?! a f Paul's Cross. On Sunday, Ala3,21, 1514, Ifelli-y Vfll. went thither in marvellous State to receive the swn,^ Yr ,i W maintenance sent by the Tope to him On tw CS)? the whole immediate neighbourhood' yvas m l,na81°!i spectators, estimated at 30,COO. Malcolm In 1^ 7, ?'/ Vedunvvm, says the defeat of the 8p'a^n' ^l' T* casioned many ceremonies in St. Paul's. On Sundav Sen tember 8, I5s8. a solemn thankseivina- woo P, nags taken from the enemy were displaved 'frnm tho lower battlements. The people had previously listed to several sermons preached from tlie old Cross i re ation On «nt de,"v-hThe 2ltjl/'f N"V;™Cr,Wils a grand occasion that day, he says, -Queen l-.lizabeth went in great snlen dour to tlie church, seated in a kind of triunmhaW-h-n lnt Mith four pillars supporting a canopy ai)(j ai JmT) j crown. I'wo others supported a lion and dragon in front of the carriage, with the arms of England. ThtVe J' e h add3, was drawn by two white horses. The Qnp*if ™ ceived at the church door by the Bishop of London th^n and 50 other clergymen, habited ill superb copes At th fn"' trance Her Majesty kneeled and pronounced a nriv-pJ „wi" then proceeded to her seat, under a canopy in tKp '1. when the Litany was chanted. After that the Queen went to a closet, prepared for the occasion, in tho north will nf the church, and—"shame to our effeminacy," says the' nov rator, parenthetically—there she remained "exposed tn win try blasts of November during the space of time which sermon » of Salisbury, occupied in delivering °a Peclal thanksgiving services were frequent in the rei<™ of Queen Anne. Year after year she went in solemn n™ cession to the Cathedral to commemorate glorious virtoi-io The 12th of November, 1702, when she proceeded in Stato to return thanks for Marlborough's successes in the low cession to the Cathedral to commemorate glorious virtoi-io Joe 12th of November, 1702, when she proceeded in Stato to return thanks for Marlborough's successes in the low Countries, and for the destruction of the Spanish fleet in the port of Yigo by the Duke of Ormond and Sir Geonre Kooke, was an august ceremony of the kind. The Council according to Dean Alilmaii in his y-nnals nf St. Paul's' declared that the Cathedral being for that day the Queen's Chapel Itoyal, the seats were to bo disposed of and all Tho<n,«,"STCnts made h>' tlie Lonl Chamberlain. r, 8 t,hr??'' *8 in the then House of Lords, was with « J thiln the floor of the ch(,il'. covered '•f.1 ™lan *»'i>et and surmounted by a canopy l J,S-tJ.h'KS: wSri^fft £ 0T^r £ ,rT' desk for the Queen's book, eovered wl k ? 1-iclily embroidered and fringed with gold, with a cusliioneof the sanie. Some distance behind were stools for tlie Countess of ilarlborough. Groom „f the Stole; tho Countess of tiini.eilano Lady (>f the Bedchamber in Waiting: and frnther behind stood tlie Vice-Clumberlain, with other office: s of State. J he two Houses of Parliament assisted at M ^ceremony, riio Lords sat in the area or body of the I;'10,1,1'' Speaker of the House of Commons in a seat next 18h,op of. Loii,i"m "i the middle of the south nifin- ♦ choir, with the Sergeant-at-Arms and other nin-wi 3 -lirn'anrt tlle lnembers in the stalls and fullerieg on each side The Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Saeiifls satm the furthermost lower galleries towards the a tar, and their ladies had seats assigned them. The foilign flm n a'V n.fr occupied the middle gallery on the north side, ihe IIishop 01 Loudon, Compton, sat on 1 is throne in the south-east end of the choir, and the Dean and Irebendaries 011 chairs within flip raii= „r tv, In the Procession to the Cathedral, says the Dean the House of Commons led the way. At eicrht nVlncl.- ti? ♦ tost, James's Palace, then .•u'mgilriPMaiiann "Tv''1 Cathedral where they took their places.' Tlie Lords met at te'i, and formed into procession, preceded by the officer, of the House, Masters 111 Chancery, Judges Peer* then Barons, Bishops, Viscounts, Eai Is,'Dukes tho ^-f-it officers of State, the Archbishops, and the Kee-ier nf M, J Seal. 1 hey, too, in that order, u-.mt to the ('tft» i" took then-seats. All the while till the arrival of the Qn'een tlie organ continual piayjng voluntaries. At ele.-«n \l? the (Eileen took coach at St. James's at Temple lm- «i receive,! by the Lord Mayor, Sheriff,, a,7 AWe'rm T horseback I'liere the Lord Mayor surrendered the swoiT prefacing the action with a short speech The On»m. turned it, and the Lord Mayor bore it before1 ^\f~ cnurcln On her arrival at the west door tlie Queen wis met by the Ptevs and principal ofheers of State, and condmded along the nave to her throne. She knelfcat hpr f,n i and after a short "ejaculation rose^"nd^ seated i S' The music ceased. Dr. Stanley, a resid"nl;1 n.. nrst service, after which the Te Drum was sunn- with v^ii and instrumental music. "The old VVhi" Mi=hnn nf r7° Sir Jonathan Trelawney," adds Dean t il,2T"ached an excellent sermon from Joshua, viii.)9 ,1'pf"Vou ,^n man hath been able to stand before you this dav It li't.d about half an hour, and was followed by The a 1 hem prayers, and benediction. The Queen led the way back* Park wpri V;°.sc T- tllC ,iver' ^1 those in ,Sc James's til k weie lired thiee times ouce ns thp rtimart ic.f+ James's, the second time when the 7V Deum was clianted" the last on the Queen's return to the Palace chanted, for rCn"eaU MUm,a"; v/as the model and precedent" Amu o 1" essw"s at St. Paul's, In the reign of (^ueeii ^conil v' i tv' f repeated with glorious frequency. Tiie .econd V as to celebrate the victory of Blenheim .September 7 1/04 i-arliameiit vas net Gittincr hut ihn Councillors, and great officers of State were in 'ittpnri^1^ There wns a full service with the pre-communion Tho sermon was preached by Dean Sherlo. k f.l.m ti! Doubtless there is a God that judge'th the Earth X ve^^SerrSS Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the | Princess Royal, the Princess Augusta, the Princess Eliza. both, the Duke of Gloucester, the Duke of Cumberland, anc his Highness Prince William, attended by both Houses ol Parliament, the Judges, and other public officers, to return thanks to God for his great mercies and blessings. The procession was begun at eight o'clock in the morning bj the House of Commons in their coaches, followed by the Speaker in his state coaeh. Next came the Masters in Chancery, the Judges, and after them the Peers in the ordei of precedency, the Lord Chancellor in his state coach closing this part of the procession. Afterwards came the P.yal j Family with their attendants, escorted by the Horse Guards. The King and Queen set out from St. James's Palace soon after ten o'clock in a coach drawn by eight cream-coloured horses, followed by their Royal Highnesses the Priticcase.-i, and proceeded through the gate at the stable y.u'd along Pall-mall and through the Strand, amid the loyal acclama- tions of a prodigious concourse of people." '1 he street: were lined as far as Temple-bar by the brigade of Foot Guards, the Grenadier companies of which were posted in the Cathedral, and patrolled by parties of Horse Guards. From Temple-bar to St. Paul's the streets were lined by the Artillery Company and Militia of the city. At Temple-bar the King was mot by the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, and a deputa- tion from the Aldermen and Common Council, all being on horseback, when the Lord Mayor surrendered the city sword to His Majesty, who, having returned it to him, lie carried it bareheaded before the King to St. Paul's. At the Cathedral His Majesty was met at the west door by the Peers, the Bishop of London, the Dean and Canons of St. Paul?, the band of Gentlemen Pensioners, and the Yeomen of the Guard attending. The King and Queen sat under a canopy of State near the west end of the choir, and opposite the oltar. After the special service the lloyal procession returned to St. James's, guns were fired in the Parks, and the day was wound up with illuminations in all parts of the metropolis of great splendour and magnificence. Again, on the 10th of December, 1 -!)7, the King (George In.) and the Queen, with the whole of the lioyal Family, the great officers of State, and the members of both Houses of Parlia- ment, went in grand procession to St. Paul's to take part in the gemral thanksgiving for the great naval victories obtained by His Majesty's lieet under the command of Lords Howe, St. Vincent, and Duncan. On that occa- sion a large number of men of the Royal Xavy and Marines joined in the pageant, bearing the captured French, Spanish and Dutch flags. At Temple-bar, their Majesties were re- ceived by the Lord Mayor mounted on horseback and carrying the sword of the city. The Sheriff's and the mem- bers af the Corporation were in attendance fit the Cathedral where the King and Queen were met on their arrival by the Bishop of London and the Dean and Chapter, who conducted them to their thrones. Detach- ments of Foot Guards formed a double line from the weet door to the dome. During the service the flags were placed with much ceremony upon the altar. The sermon on the occasion was preached by the Dean (Dr Pretyman). The Royal rarty returned to the Palace with the same State amid the enthusiasm of the populace It is stated, as an incident of the day, that Mr. Pitt was very grossly insulted on his way to the Cathedral, in consequence of which he did not return In his own carriage, but stopped to dine with the Speaker and some other gentlemen in Doctors'-commons. He was escorted home in the evening by a party of the London Light Horse.

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS. They knew how to advertise formerly better than they do now, for we are informed by an -authority that married ladies, thirty years ago, wore bows on the right side while ladies who were not married wore bows on the left Capital advertising. An Episcopal clergyman meeting Barnum, the show- man, the other day, alter inquiring for his health, physical and spiritual, said Barnum, I always liked you, you are a good fellow, and I trust we shall meet in heaven." "O! said the imperturbable showman, with a twinkle in his eye, I have no doubt we shall-if you are there." Bourbon county, Kentucky, is noted for its fine land, its rat cattle, its fast horses, and its beautiful women, but it is\ not noted for the intelligence of its inhabitants. A rich old larmer had a note payable at maturity. He said he had looked over the Goggerpni for three weeks, but could not find any such town or city as Maturity. A lover having lost all by the Chicago fire, was coldly received by his affianced. Just as he was about to eave, the lady was civil enough to say to him, Won't you take a chau- ?" Well I don't care if 1 do," was the reply, and he took the chair, thanking her kindly, and carried it home. He says it is a good chair, made of walnut, with hair stufling and green cover-julit what lie wanted. T-he Cincinnati Enquirer has a poet who does up all the little sensations that come along m liquid measures, but he tried it once too often. G. F. Train was his last subject, and the distinguished Sucking President conies back on him and his fraternity thusly "Tou miserable dogs What power has your scurrilous pen ? You talk to a city of bogs I to a world of men." A poet indited a sonnet to his mistress, entitled, I kiss her sub roea." The compositor knew better than that and set it up in printer's Latin, 1 kiss her suub nosa. Some one has been writing poetry about American independence, and says — But thou rejoice with liberal joy, Lift up thy rocky face, And shatter, when the storms are black, In many a streaming torrent back, The seas that shock thy base What a physiognomy a rocky face and what a base the individual must have had to rhyme with it Some more pretty "pomes" are worth quoting from the New r uric JI ercury :— Fare made, when i B hold ure fase, & gaize in two ure azhur ize, mi love is warmed in two a blaize thauts within mi bnzom rise, two big for mi week tung two utter, which leves mi hart awl in a flutter ADVERTISING IN AMERICA.—Advertising has be- come a science in America. The plain form of advertising which we usually see in this country is not attractive enough for the Kmericans. They must connect their business with the topmost incident of the day, no matter what it is For instance, a bootmaker in New Orleans has the following The Prince of Wales is very sick, Alexis has the measles, Wagner has fine boots and shoes, Pop goes the weasels. Go to the sign of the 'Red Boot," corner of Dauphine and Crsulme-streets." PLEADING IN AMERICAN COURTS.—The New York Evening Port comments on the extraordinary latitude which the advocates in the t'nited t-tates Court allow themselves in pleading, as exemplified in the Blackburn Lovel murder Ohio, which has resulted in a verdict of theuries as to the discovery of the ruins of Xineveh and Poliipeii expounded the Scriptures, taking fonr or fi ve dif- a severe castigation recapitulated the ,7, 3 ch;;n»cter Lord Nelson, and refreshed the Illilld uf Iiii he.lrers 011 several ccnturies of history, awl finally gave .0.1^5' SNUBBING AUTOGRAPH COLLECTORS..—AVE are told a good anecdote of the Ingellious expedient recently adopted b a (list ii), Ili SI, oti American wit fl,rthe piii-I)ose of a bore. Ali atito(,!riph collector of York ivell tivai-c tiiat Olivei- Wendell Holmes ha(l i lively tntipatily to cre;ttiire5 (,f his class, but most anxious to a specimen of his hand- writing, fell upon the device of addressing to Bohnes the dictionary — Webster's or Worcester's lo jy°u ^,nk the l' st autograph which he was so very anxioii* t^0"1 n g?t lhe collection. But Jlr. Holmes was too f of post he received a sheet of note paner mi°wh'n' re'«rn pasted the one word, clipped from thr>'™ it raS n y Webster'* Twi 1 the writer's own letter nature related of Mr. Frederick^pfrkhJ01^ °f Vki"dred' S^cSS.eilfler to which Mr. Perkins responded in a letter of graceful acoui- escence, subscribing it H. W. Beecher, per F B Perkins" bores. VankSe8 haVe evide"t,y a neat w:l7 of snubbing certain

Y. ill bred air co us Ifniellitfcirtc, HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. "My POOR correspondent, writing from 13reewarrina, says •il nf <-„ V -Vr'^ Sreatly surprised at seeing a large snake struck at it witi 8 Ci".1,ed 111,0,111,1 the leg of the table. I creased' bv Z\ in!"th -VP *n ,")y surprise was greatly in- cieasea i>y seeing that it was fastened by a small do"-chain from its neck, as I thought. But, being determ ned'to k it I proceeded in search of a more eSve weZ l nVet aitoctr« s have got there V He did not mil.1]1 1 P a*J'ou reached the door, when he cried out 'Oh ^ns^'er until he sum It then appeared that he hade'ft a lHt™ netT P°S" led up by a small chain, and that the^ snake h^t-J Wd' himin; PCt got caught b^ ACRUSHER!—Acoaversation in a London ball room is thus reported :— seif ^Teiw^ma" a(lvances to a lady who considers her- exactvaln" ■»"» ■«> tb5„ EXTKAOKDIXARY SUICIDE OF A LADY — Tn from the Swiss ( v.tf the F4lnchley-road, not fa?- Macartliy and Police^corf tpH7 v 91.1 Sergeant at her, and siK-akinr^ j^f1", *a?an ]™ anS' floaely in an insensible condition Wifh^J V ifc w,aH serireant nt Vvjth gteat jirudence the terraio «|„ summoned Dr. Evans! of Colle-e- terracc, who immediately attended, and ordered her Inhere it iVu i11 ?r Pu^c-^ouse, close by. in her n three laudanum b(^ttles t'ieel all imo <>nl °ne °f whlch wa3 empty. Dr. Evans but his +nS restore tlie patient to sensibility, cenlp/l 11 v-ailing. The name of the del TTiivtho -1 WllS ]ilschoff, and she resided with her 1 r 111 t'lu neighbourhood of VYestbourne-grove ana was of _m j nHt:: Jb r'!c.I,¡1U LU escaped from her mother while out for an airing nday of which iimnediate notice was given to the police. This, indeed, led to her beinr, so «oon nlentihed. It ia also stated that the unfortunate ladv devoted herself to charitable works, and th.^hfroS anxiety was to do as much good as lav within power. She was about thirty years of age. A BIG GuN.-An immense gnu has arrived in I ophanch (says a Constantinople paner) f, America, which, if tire makers do not J. ■ qualities, rival^the famous AV'oolwich LHIH iil CiltS a^ecul^r1^0^1.11^ ^oled by oV'ai-^irgVoftnovT'1 J°f ^Amounted on a carnage ot a novel construction, which enables it to be easily manipulated by one man, by the aid of 'sIwulins 'f ye'"° -01 -0 WAGES AND LABOUR IN AUSTRALIA.—Tho Melbourne Correspondent of The Times writes thesphpniign-°rallCe *nany thousands of operatives in t colonies requires that they shall be saved fL hn.,TSt^ -ef y Illegitimate means. When you find th^i are receiving from £ 20 to £ 30 a vr-i- V,, i th "1 *° £ 3r>, married couples fro,ni f0 ooks their board and lodging pIouKhmeu from F-I ?.SIE 8 year and their keep; stonemasons and plasterers f in3, to lis. a day, and cabinetmakers from £ •] to"^ ZT 0L3 other skilled labourers being paid at much tho^ you will See that any really industr m, j,, rates' must improvehis condition." The corivsn inW .V.f ,nan "Our paternal Government durinc thp lnat 5 "e3' vote of £ 10,000 for the purpose of got a ployed' in filling up hoi"" --nd mvT^ril^ e uuem" lands. The wages paid were 4s 6dL a day The fl?st°S Of thin w4sc proceeding were edifvino- f ne nrst irui^s. iug to the expenditure^ hndfn^hlt thl finfw^ befng' theUrCeneyo orieranHmberS ^awlers and 3ku^erT;went to ine scene of operation, and directed that a number of thn ceedlnV'hp8 shouli1 be dismissed. For this unpaternal pro- of course hooted off the ground and d<> jerved it—b\it not for the dismiss<vl." I ON LONGEYITY.-(FrOlll "The World of Wit E ) and Humolll')-" I have always noticed," remarked > 1 Mrs. Partington, dropping her voice to the key that people adopt when they are disposed to be pliilosophi- [ cal or moral. I have always noticed that every yi(:fr to a man's life has a tendency to make liini older, just as a man who goes a journey finds, as he jogs on, that every milestone biings him nearer to where he is going, and farther from where he started. I haven't got the exorbitance of feeling j that I had once, and I don't believe I shall ever have it again if 1 bve to the ag„ of ?,[f-thnsaleh, which, ltea.V(-n Knows, 1 dou t want to. Am!, speaking of long lite, 1 haven t any desire to live any longer than the breath remains in my body, if it isn't more than eighty years. I wouldn't wish to be a centurion, and the idea of surviving one's factories always gives me a disagreeable sensorlousness. But whatever is to be will be, and there is no knowing how a thinill take place till it turns out. DESTRUCTION OF ELEPHANTS IN INDIA.—Lord Napier has entered a protest against the wanton and indiscriminate destruction of elephants in India. In an official minute, he says that the enactment of a law for the preservation of an animal so useful for the purposes of labour and so indispensable to military operatums can be justified on grounds altogether different from those which may be urged in favour of a,7,w fo.r the preservation of Hying game or tlie beasts o he chase, and lie recommends such an enactment as a matter of public policy. The Local Government of Madras has, it appears, resolved to give effect to his lordship's suggestion. JUSTICE-TO-IRELANI) JACKSON. —One of the friends of J ustice-to-Irelanrl Jackson tells us f'PaU Mall GerMtt) how the famous gun-story really had its origin. He says jj in*ti^Hnn=rn,W m?ib' l,P°n working representative termini? t« in ^roughly national manner, were de- nnt nt t Lir freedom of election to 110 one 'who was nl °f "!i,lking- Colonel Jacks,ui, how- ever, so disposed his men that auv one reftohiTi»r tn<-ifTh'' bourhood of the court-house the polling-place could enter and lecord his vote without much molestation This exei'' cise of force irritated 0 ConneH. who marched up to the colonel and asked in a minatory sort of way, 'Whaf'sth« meaning of this, Colonel Jackson?' To which the colonel replied quietly, 'Justice to Ireland, Mr. OConnelI Therll' was no cannon, no patting of the breecli, no threat to the 1 i^'G1 w?.re u*ed simply in answer to a question,i Li humour lies 111 the completeness of the answer under tlie circumstances. It is to this dilferencs probably, the general was referring when he spoke of them is having passed 111 private conversation." k; # AUSTRALIAN PRESERVED MEAT.-As indict: ting the remarkable development of this trade during the past year, it is interesting to note that the toti, number of cases impoited into London from Australia and New Zealand during 1S71 amounted to no less tha* 24.$,344, in addition to a considerable nun'l^cr casks. The largest quantity oi this meat is shipped from Melbourne, the amount of last year's shipments hence alone being 95,183 cases. Port Philip ranM next to Melbourne, having shipped to London during 187157,289 cases. The largest supplies of the preserved meat have been received during the past few months* during which the trade in this article has bee" developed to a wonderful extent, in consequence of it-' sale having been so actively pushed by the metre politan and provincial grocers, cheesemongers oilmen and other shopkeepers. Numerous public institution* have also adopted the meat as an article of c'iet consumption, the result being the great activity iJ1 the trade above noted. COST OF LiviNG IN PARis.—"Within th' last three months," says a correspondent, the juice' living in Paris has augmented to an extent which t really alarming. Formerly this city was heavily tax^ as the seat of (government, .the residence of Court an1! Parliament, the abode of rank and fashion the Pal* dise of foreigners, and the other side of Jordan & good Americans; and now these advantages have di parted. Courts have been driven out of the country,$ Assembly hides its diminished head at Versai'll* people of wealth and rank prefer to go elsewhere :V." even shoddy finds Paris dim and joyless. Commercial speaking, Paris has suffered more than any other P^ ^JtbnC\; 'j1 vested for four months an, 1 a U and then had to endure a Commune. Still however,' is taxed as the most favoured spot, and,' what wit taxes on real and personal estate, has to pay 26 092 62^ to a Government which does not restore confidence." j MATRIMONIAL CHANCES.—(From tho Mat Chester F,.ramiiier) "A housekeeper, tall, wishes to correspond with a bacf lor, or widower from 35 tall, with view to matrimonii Address, etc. "Dec. 19, 1»71.—' M ]or, at the 111 inter* 1iSi»<lUe4ta 1 .t0re?'™ ililitaire's photo., to Tl .«ent « HP fv a t ss' c', J'oung gentleman, with me#f desii es to correspond with a lady, with a view to m.triinot As this is bona fide, only those enclosing carte with re§ ences aud full paiticulars, noticed.—Address tc "1| gentlemen, of good social and business positions des;re i acquaintance of two amiable, domesticated yo\ing ladj possessed of some means, with a view to matrimJnv 5Sa!y?mes;,?d cartes (which will be returned| lonf « widow (military officer), good faiflf hUrf 7 Uy'i 1lk' considered handsume, waq hearted, would like to correspond with a sentlemau of so«! position with a view to matrimony.—Address, ite j AMERICAN SUAE? PRACTICE.—The Unitj States' Case asks for compensation for the indirect lo^ due to the transfer of the commercial marine to neiijj flags, and for general prolongation of the war n (Spectator) affirm that this is, if not sharp pr-icti' wholly unworthy of a great countrv like the 1'ni1 States, and explicable only by some" oral commnflif tion of which we have heard nothing, and wM we can hardly believe to have taken S our own Government ought to inform u" J plicity whether any such explanation can be one, If it can, we fear our negotiators hai e been takeo ■ and do not deserye the credit they hud, as i beheved, fairly won. If it cannot, we fear the 1 J1 calh d lion ourableVand is cVrUmiy'.pVite iinworfhvl explanation from our own (Jovn-nL, f i ll J e'eJthms 'hoidd'b u t0 wil1 l»"Pularity at { utmS the le ihaVe,beel? ?niity "f ^rainiiur to Treaty we s t'i v^latl"S the spirit, of tft account instead nf pe Congress would cJ ceediug. ButwpmUf discreditol.lc J l'eve it, ftnd ve^^f 01lrst, Yes hai"ci'y able to] frovcrninent'has been 'adlfv^ f ti'1' l i'6 "1:r^ ing its own diplomatic blunder of pail very different from those whirh^thi™6"1? it"1 CoIJ and of adding another to the list of vnrrtf blunders That, too, we can hard? beL^ butl sSstP atl°n °f tllG matt6r W° unabll DRIVING TO NEXT DOOR !-An anni^ anecdote, juat now in eirculatinr. 1 J to the justness of that apho^at' • l 'S truth is stranger than fiction. rt f l as^rt3 j amusing sketch for Punrh Jje(-ch drew a at the absurdity, and the alr-mlv^ probability. An exouisit^ t y Was baKe'1 on] time faultless, stands on tlfp ,1 "P ln.costume at f a cabman. <' Does Lr in coll'iny j it very biiniorous, hut that it be true. Here is the anecdqtc now current had received that it was nle»M?Ae /a,S0 a cautioI1i in the day. She consultJj nf r ,no to visit it too? and got the porter "have"! cab ^d'fo^ h°W 1te ft 1 direction to the cabman Tb» 1' ,• r' shi'"r'ye! THE MEASURE OF CIRTPIR I- < the wife „f » Aberd«» and numerous family. The minister of the iV naturally called to administer some words of coifl* to him in his bereavement. Tin, h^ W sad blow to you, my friend he said- a 11 sore visitation It has li«er. 11 ti sudden te THE JEWS AND CHRISTIANITY —Tho J<^ Society which has been at Birmingham to been specially invited to he^w^' Asaph's Church on Sundw Preaclied at before the service began seventyS all<1 sh" into the Church, aLrSn? TthS?^'1^™ theWi' un"« "i» »«vic». Tho Hirm'i,whan they listened to the sermon with great attention •" dpn'" f thC preacher was challenged by the dent of the new society to a mibllo • Tt understood that the challenge W LS BONUS DISTRIBUTIONS —R!'L,O r- ,i tioms several payments of bonuses to f clerks 111 private and ioint > (,lt,c<'r3 of London. In Somi V k l!ankl»" ii'-tiuiW have had so reniarl-nbip !i aiK'fcM ^.hese establishing yearly gratuities of 1 n Care' Prosperitv that | come to be re'arde 1 hvH °n their of their income Tho it ff t'^r ',art »n'l i'j'S'™ Ba;k- ;I "is Th^of th^ vT- !»'•«« f' at lea^r l!i vo' ihat ot the National Provincial Bank of Fn-lnu'd receivei. a similar amount each vear with"onlv" nf two exceptions, during an equally Ion-, perio -'nd one occasion no less than lo p,.r 0™? ?*'v <! distributed. This ChrisHviJ l i gratuity J fortunate one for the virion' u-aS l1 '1 sPec4 banks. Some of the bonuses m l' t1lU ^4 1,7, t °,!erks w"° have thus benefifed th-'s !e t|»'^e of Messrs. Glvn, Hill^ ^ml U M^sis. Smith, Payne, and Co., Messrs f)rnn'ltni Messrs. Hemes, Farquhar, and Co., Mess-- l™R Bevan. and Co., Messrs. Uarnett if J and Messrs. Ransoms. 1 '»'e, any »[ STORY OF THE PGISOVTVV. WALES!-The tfa» F,F' Pri- pondent's letter, statin.' 'tb t n! PV ^^bes a cof1 formed that the Prinr^.f M' 1? .Yriter h:X(1 been of poison administered to r 1 'ness ^Yas the ret International Si,^ i,' ji e Bcatement of thephysieianti a -tJ ham that the illness of the iVip'. t' San^ typhoid fever was their invention' their ignorance af tbe symptoms nf 1^ v c to conceal the real truth of t}le ca l1,!? l'ase!j of the International had 'ipiiorfnniHca f i" the Prince at Londesboroi^h^ Ti" l,Pln? i the Prince at LonllL.boroii-li flor ])lit ",h as a guest or as an attendant-" ib ut informant declined to ten'hJm frvvnt,er J this emissary, while left tn hinvnU ? °. states which he covld accomplish his oh 1'| lneaDSj him the feasibility of tnn'm. t ^t, had suggestej ihe contents of the lv to mix the poison w of thePrince y fri fC<Sii0cket-flask- T^< a part of ilu- Tnt r r rP°n' he Rtated furtheff the reg^cv luf lIiatl°Tis, P™gramme, as du* yoathfuiness'of >,e Ile!:t«sitated by } execute their republican couid„Plore successf4 correspondent Thiib^ d.esi^ns:^1 he letter off toribl? fhtt- "}hcl" iei prayer for his (the Prince's) recovery L earae't! ofIemi by raother.