The Pembrokeshire Herald and General Advertiser

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. A Paris despatch of Thurrday evening says:—' Revolu- tionary movements took pi Ice this morning at Leghorn and Naples. In both places the attempts were put down Im- A telegraphic despatch from Turin, of Thursday, is as follows The insurrectionary attempt at Leghorn has been putdown. The steamer Cagliari, which had left Genoa for Tunis, fell into the hands of the insurgents, who attacked the Island of Ponza, belonging to the Neapolitan Govern- ment, and jet at liberty the persons imprisoned there. The insurgents with the released prisoners then landed at Spari, in the lower provtnce. Some Neapolitan frigates captured the steamer Cagliari, and the royal troops pursued the in- surgent band. The political prisoners who escaped Irolll the Island of Ponza were about 300 in number. In con- junction with the insurgents from on board the Cagliari they attacked the Neapolitan gendarmerie in the province of Salerno, but were dispersed and many of them taken. The remainder fle<V NAPLES, JULY 3.—The insurrection is now completely put down at all points. Two engagements have taken place, on Ihe frontiers of Calabria, be! wepn the insurgents all" theRoya) troops. In the first, it is said, the insurgents bad a hundred men killed, in theseeond thirty. The N enpolitan steam frigates Amalia, Roberto, Ruggiero, and Vesuvio, have received orders to continue cruising off the coast. A letter Irom Genoa at the 3rd inst., informs us that the movement at Leghorn was more serious than was at first believed. On the night 01 the 30th of Juneseverat armed men attacked the principal guard-house of the town, but were repulsed. Another party attacked asecond guard- house, but weretikewise unsuccessful. At the same time several isolated Carabineer were stabbed. The disturbance recommenced on the following morning, and continued during the day. When the steam-packet Giorgio sailed at four in the afternoon of the 1st of July thenrtngofmus- ketry wall still heard. The "atell were closed, the inha- bitants were in consternation, and the shops were shut. The insurgents who were taken prisoners were illsralltly shot in the streets. A detachment of troops of the line, who were stationed in the square, having received some shots from the window of 1\ house took possession 01 the house, in which they found ten individuals, three of whom were bayoneted, and the other seven shot. All artillery officer, who was attacked in .he streets, having captured one "t:his assailants, handed him over to the soldieis, and he was shot on the spot. The number of insurgents arrested at Genoa is 50. It appears from a letter, dated Turin 4th inst., that Fort Diamante, at Genoa, was in possession of the Republicans Irom ten o'clock on the night ol ths 30th of June until day- light on the 1st of July. Eleven soldiers who formed the garrison alter the murder of the sergeant were confined in a casemate. The insurgents had loaded the guns of tne fort, prepared shells and cannon balls, and had prepared to defend themselves but the conspiracy not having bUlceeded in the town, they abandoned the fort, leaving in it the arms they had brought there. On the subject of MHzzini, the Gazette del Popolo, of Turin, say: —'It is stated that Mazzini was comealid at Genoa, and thathewastoappearatthe head 0" the Prae •orian guard as soon as the attempt succeeded he was then to have established a Provisional Government in the Ducal Palace. He is said, however, to have been much astonished on being informed of the smai) nutnber of persons prepared lor the movement, while he had been rold that several thousands were ready. One of his tiiends advised him to play out the game, in hopes that the populace might join him; but Mazzini relused, countermanded the movement, and hastily left Genoa, in order not to be taken.

FRANCE.—THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. PARIS, MONDAY.—The following is the definitive result of -he elections lor Paris: — 3rd El -cto'al District.—General Cavnignac (Opposition), 10.910 M. Tlnbaut, (Government), 9,952. 4th Electoral District.—M. Olhvi,r (Opposition), 11,005; ;\r. Varin (Government), lU,OÜô. 7th Elector District.— M. Darimon (Opposition), 12,078; M. Lanq uetin (Government), 1I,03R In reference to the above the Times remarks:—'The elections for Paris h^ve r.-rmil1otted ill the returned of three Opposition Candidates., whose presence in the Chamber inu»t be m"st profoundly dint isteful to the Government. A comparison 01 the figures will show how strenuous and lie- termined the struggle Nas 011 either std.. This is rhe first considerable cheek which the authoriry uf the French Emperor has received, and yet its significance wtll be con- siderably exaggerated. As a demonstration it might oe of great importance if the real brunt of the battle were to be encnullterecl oil the floor of the Chamber; but the Emperor is well aware that his power is not besed upon that founda- tion. A Parli .mentary majority to him is the laurel wreath round the sword; it is not the sword itself. The army and the peasant proprietors are the real safeguards of his power and the guatdians of his throne.'

IMPERIAL VfSIT TO OSBORNE. The 3Ioniteur contains the following announcement of this rumollred event: — 'The Empeior ,nd Empress propose shortly to par a visit to Her Majesty the Qne n of Englai.d at her resi-l( i ce Osborne. Their Imperial Majesties do not contemplate visiting any other part of EngianH, and will maintain the vrict"«r ;ncognito during this excursion.' The Globe explains that the statement that their Majesties -vill not visit any other part ot Knland has been rendered lecessiiry by an erroneous report c rculaied by one of your morning contemporaries, to the effect that the Emperor anil Lm oress would like wise visit VI anchester. Thisrei.ort obtained credit amongst the authonues ut that town and of the neighbourhood, who, in their desire to pay honour to the Imperial pnir, applied to Paris for information as to the ex^ct period when their M-jesties might be awaited. The statement in the Moniteur will therefore render unnecessary the preparations contemplated in Manchester and elsewhere for the worthy reception of the Emperor.

CONSPIRACY IN PARIS. The Paris correspondent of the Times says: The con- spiracy of a certain number of Italians against the life of the Emperor, to which I aliuded some days ago, seems to be marked by a more serious character than was originally sup- posed, The persons taken into custody are also much more numerous: successive arrests, either in consequence of dis- closures made by accomplices or obtained from papers found at their lodging. have increased the number from three to twenty; I doubt whether it will rest here. Theybelongto the same school as Pianori, and their object is the same. They are also said to be connected with the conspirators ar- rested in Genoa, who proposed to proclaim the Republic in that city.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. OATHb BILL. Earl Granville moved the second reading of this bill. The Earl of Derby moved, as an amendment, that the bill should be read a second time that day six months. He dwelt upon the distinctive nationality of the Jews. Though they lived among other nations, they were not ot them, and through ages of dispersion had retained the belief that one day they should be reunited under one polity. They were aliens in blood, in religion, and in language. Touching tbe claims to citizenship, Lord Derby pointed out the difference between rights and privileges, contending that, although it might be presumption to deny the former, there was none in withholding the latter. The privilege of helping to make laws had always been conferred only upon special individuals, selected under a variety of qualifications which the Legis- lature was perfectly entitled to prescribe according to any principle that might be deemed expedient. riacir,g the course of legislation in England with relation to the Jews, the noble lord remarked that for two hundred and fifty years the race were who ly proscribed. Afterwards they ohtain°d from the Protector Cromwell permission to reside at d trade in this country, and at later periods were admitted to other rights and privileges. But, throughout the whole series of enacments exclusion from all legislative power had been preserved as a constitutional priuciple whIch was never to be department from. Adverting to the recent attempts at removing Jewish disabilities, he reminded their lordships that they had invflriahiy and consistently resisted every proposition to that effect. In the present bill two elements had been IlIcorporated-one admitting Jews to Parliament, the other reforming the parliamentary oaths. With the latter object he quite concurred, and would have accepted the measure if it had retained the formula gmng to the oath its Christian character. As it was. he called upon the House to susiain its former decision-. There had been occasions when the apprehensions of disturbance hid in- duced many of the peers to waive their obj ctiotis to certain bills. Such, however, was not the case, and lit urged the House to decide the question as before, upon the great principles it involved. Lord Lyndhurst, the Earl of Winchplsea, the Bishop of London, Lord Ktougham, the Earl 01 Shaftesbury, and the Duke of Argyll supported the bill, which was opposed hy Lord Dungatinun. the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Oxford, and the Earl of Galloway. Their lordships divided on the motion for the secon read- ing:- Contents—Present 91, Proxies 48 139 N ou-contents- Prebeut 109, Proxies tH 173 Majority against the Government. 31- Tt, 1.rlgh;pQ tl,u„ arl,r,r..„l .I..ICII U'I''UIIIII'j. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. The Ean ol Eilenborough, m reference- to the affairs of India, which he described as needing a trong remedy, said the lale General Anson was most efficient officer, and his loss was to tie lamented, but it was consolatnry to think thai the late Command, r-in-Chief w..s to be succeeded by so able and gallant a soldier as Sir Colin Campbell. (Cheers.) He highly approved of the temporary appointment ot air Patrick Grant. (Hear, hear.) But on the arrival 01 Sir Colin Camp- bell ibis officer would lo,p the command—(hear, heat)—but he hoped means would he takfn to secure the aid of Sir Patrick Giant to the commander-in-chief. A great many persons wei e disappointed at not having heard by the lact arrival of the capture of Delhi. but he did not expect that such lIeWII would be brought. He thought the present aspect of affairs was most serious. The defection of the native army was exceedingly alarming, besides, all the regiments in the Punjaub iind been disarmed. The troops that have been sent out would nrrive about the first of November, and assuming that Delhi would be by that time retaken he re- commend d that the most effective treasure snout.< t.e taken to crush out the rebellion. It such was done, Ihe Brilish poAer would be again firmly re-established throughout the empire ot loilia before the fi st of April next. The infor- mation hj desired was what measures the Government in- t.oideil L 1"1, to re-enforce tile army, and if they would give bcloi e the expi atiun of three days all the iniorination thev possess. Earl Gr i• ville said that with regard to occurrences in India Her Majesiy's Government bad no information beyond what had appeared m the public, journals. HOUSE OF LORDS. —TUESDAY. J The Lord Chancellor • 10K Ins Seat on the Woolsack at hve o'clock. The Duke of Montrosi- presented a petition from a place in Scotland against the Oaths Bill. Earl Granville said, in Ilccordance with the promise given last night, he now rose to communicate all the information the Government had received from IndU. The inielligenc. was contained in several telegraphic despatches, and con- tained no new facts beyond those published in the news- papers to-day The noble earl then read a number of des patches containing precisely the same intelligence as that which will be found in another put of the Herald. Lord Ravenswortli moved the second reading of the Ale Houses Licensing Bill, which was to alter the presentmode of granting licenses to houses for the sale of ale and beer. Lord YV ensleydale objected to the bill, and moved that it be read a second time that day six months. Hethoughtthe tribunal it proposed to establish, for the granting and super- vision of licenses, would not be as efficient as that already in existence. The bill was understood to he read a second time. Lord Redesdale mo"ed the second reading of the Irish Representative Peers Bill, which was to place Irish peers upon the same footing as Scotch peers. Thp bill was read a second time. The Crowded Dwellings Prevention Bill passed through committee. The Lord Chancellor moved the second reading of the Joint Sto. k Companies Bit which was to give the creditors of an insolvent joint-stock company power to take proper steps against those who were liable to pay, for the purpose 01 creating a common fund out 01 which thp creditors might he paid ill 11111, provided thpre was a sum taised sufficient to do so. If not,then the debts were to be paid off propor- i tionably, HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. Captain Vivian inquired whether thl" new regiments which hitd bePII plared under orders lor India, were to pro- ceed in steamers or sailing-vessels. Mr V. Smith stated that ten thousand men. for whose em- barkation prepai ations had b'en made, would be despatched according to the original intentions by sailing-vessels. Of. niP four thousand additional troops asked for by the Eas' India Company since the receipt of the last serious intel- ligence. two thousand were 10 he sent in steamers and the remainder in sailing-vessels. The men would he embarked between the 21st and 29th instant, and it was hoped that at this favourable period of the year the voyage would be com- pleted in the shortest possible time, viz.. seventy days. Sir C. Napier believed that the late Indian news had caught t'-e Government entirely unprepared. Mr Turner inquired whether any communications had taken place between the English and French Governments espectir g the exports of free negroes from the west coast 01 Africa 10 the French colonies in thp West Indies, Hnd whe- rher he was aware ill what manner thp npgroeo;: are tC) be ob- tained. Unierthe denomination of free immigrants hese mported negroes, he contended, would practically be re-/ dm ed to a state of slavery. Lord Palmerston said that many communications had pa-S"d 0'1 thp subject. Contracts hHd IlPell entered inl" hy tie French for the importation of 1.200 negroes into Mar- tinique. Her Majesty's Ministers, apprehending a renewal of the slave trade in this quarter, had made r- presentations to the French Administr-turn, and received from them the most positive ns-urances that every caie would be taken to prevent rile fulfilment ofrhe contract becoming in anyway conducive to a traffic in si ives. Here the matter now nested; but extreme vigilatic would he exercised, and the orogress of the transaction carefully watch I'd The Went inlo committee 011 Ihe prohates and L-ttersof Administration Bill, resumingat the 41)ih clause, which had bet n amended on the previolls debate bv remo- ving the limit assigned to the jurisdiction of the District Courtsof Probate over personal estate. The discussion 01 >ther clauses in the bill occupied a considprahle time, fol- lowed by renewed debates upon some additional clauses and t le schedule ot the measure. The bill was not finally dis- "osed of unlil a lalp hour, when the house resumed, and shortly afterwards adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY. A conversation arose re-pecting Indian affairs, but nothing of importance wageheited from Ministers, beyond the ob- serv.tion of Lord Palmerston, who said that there were 14,000 troops under orders for India; t arts of whom had already embirked, and Her Majesty's Government would leel ir to be their dUly. as early as possible, to emhark a con- siderable addition of troops for India; but. of course, means must be taken, by recruiting, to supply Ihe gap that would be thus occasioned in the home forces. (Hear, hear.) The Speaker announced that the petition against the return of the sitting member for Chatham had been with- drawn. Lord Palmersfon stated that the Divorce &c. Rill would come before the House for a second leading oil this day week. The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave notice that on Thursday in Committee of Supplv he should move the esll- mate relative to the Perscan and China wars. (Hear.) Sir James Graham asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he would lay on the table of tbe House the esti- males of the East India Company presented to the Govern- ment in Febru/lrv. containing a rough estimate of the entire coat of the expenditure with correspondence annexed. The Chancellor of the Exchequpr sHid two ..stimate8 had heen made, one before the war. and one on its termination. He had no objection to lay the latter on the tailjof the House on Thursday npxt. _0_

ELECTION PETITIONS AND A BALLOT'MAN'S PURITY. (From the St. James's Chronicle.) The present session of Parliament opened with alarlle supply of Election Petitions, from which there was augured, not orily an abundance ofemptoyment for the gentlemen of the long robe, but also very numerous changes in the com- position of the House of Commons. Boih anticipations, however, seem likely to be disappointed. Several of these investigations are already completed, and the verdict it, in most ca50ps not 41 Thus, 1. The Bodmin Petition is abandoned. 2. The Rochdale Committee reports, that Sir A. Ramsay was duly elected. 3 The Marlborough Committee reports, that Mr Baring was dilly elected. 4. The Warehatn Committee report, that J. H. Calcraft, Esq., was duly elected. 5. The Tewkesbury Committee reports, that John Mar- tin, Esq., was duly elected 6. On Saturday afternoon, the Petitioners against the borough of Cambridge return withdrew from the contest. Thus, in evety case yet decided, the petitioners have failed. But the most ludicrous termination of the whole series was that of the Pontefract election petition. The Committee made thp. following sppcisl rt>port:- That it his not been established to the satisfaction of the committee that any acts of brtbery, treating, o. undue in- fluence were committedat the last election for the burongh of Pontelract. The committee think it, however, right to report totheHouse that, by the evidence of the petitioner, Benjamin Oliviera, Esq.. and of Emma Oliviera, his wife, it appears that at the election for Pontefract in 1852 the said Benjamin Oliviera, Esq, paid at, or shody after, th" time of that election, a very large sum, amounting to £ 3,000, to Mr William Wood, solicitor, and Mr Clough, and that the said Benjamin Oliviera, Esq., was cognizant ot the fact that the same, or a considerable part thereof, was paid for pur- poses of bribery that after the said last election ol 185? a pptition was oresented against the relurn of the saId Ben- jamin Oliviera, Esq., and that the said Emma Oliviera procured the same to be withdrawn on payment into bands of Mr Routledge for that purpose of the sum otjE2,00<);that in addition to th" payment of the said £;3,000 and £ 2,000, a fllrther sum of £1,250 was afterwards st'nt down to Ponfe- fract by the said Benjamin Oliviera, Esq., for the paymen' 01 still outstanding claims arising out of the election of 1852, and that it was clearly made known to the Ben. Oliviera, Esq.. that the same employed in dischatging claims arising out of bribery and So that this Mr Oliviera. wlm, by the way, is an eminent Liberal, an advocate of the Ballot, and '1111 that sort of 'hing,' actually paid .66.250. in 1852, for the scurvy little b >rough of Pon'efract and, in 1857. is greatly scandalized, and petitions Parliament, for thai there has been bribery committed The Committee inquired into the matter, and reported, amidst shouts of laughter, that 'he chief briber in the whole affair had been Mr Oliviera himself! THE MAYO ELECTION —TYRANNY OF THR ROMrSH PRIESTS.—The proceeding before the various Election Com- mittees have been of inferior interest except in the case of Mayo. Here the witnesses summoned for the petitioner- persons of all ranks, magistrates, country gentlemen. frep- holders, peasants—have continued to depose day after day to acts of gross interference and intimidation perpetrated hy mobs beaded by priests. Three voters denosetl that they were seized and imprisoned by a mnb under Father Conway, and forced to vote for Moore in fear of their lives. They had intended to vote (or Higgiris, but thev voted for Moore and Higgins. Two swore that they feared to return to Bal- lindore; one that he was beaten when it was known that he had been summoned as a witness. Archbishop M'Hale was examined on Thursday, but his evidence was evasiv alld hIs memory bad, and he seemed to create an impression on the committee the reverse 01 what he might have sup- posed to intend. Mr Edwin James asked: 'Have you a right to suspend a priest who denounces a candidate from the altar?' — Dr M'Hale: 'Denounces? What do you mean by that ?'—Mr E. James Do you call it a denun- ciation when a priest says from the altar, 'The curse 01 God will come down upon any one who votes against his country and for Col Higgins?' — Dr M'Hale: 'I will give mv opinion on that case when it comes b..fore me in my judicial capacity. I beg leave to decline giving my opinion on it now. bet ause it may hereflftpr be brought before me lor my decision as Archbishop. It is nnt right for a priest to denounce any one from tbe altaron political grounds. It has not right for a priest lo denounce any one from the altar on pnhttca) grounds, It has not come to my knowledge in my official capacity that Col Higgins has been denounced from the altars of my diocese. No complaint has been made to me on the subject, and I have not therefore suspended any nriest on account of what he did at the election. I do not listen in such cases to mere rumours.'—The case lor the petitioner was brotighi to a close on Friday, but the case for the sittitng member is still proceeding. LIBEl, ON A BISHOP.—Among the proxies against the second reading of the Minister's Money Bill, in the House of Lords, we observe the name of Lord Plunkett, Bishop of Foam. 11 is morally impossible that this can he true. In fact, we have no hesitatinnin denouncing it as a libel upon that noblp lord and right rev. prelate. LordPiunkett, everybody knows, is the .-on of the late lord, better known to the public as Mr Plunket, the orator, the foremost Irish- man of his day as the champion of civil and religious liberty, the Whig, the Irish Chancellor of the Whigs, the mail whom' of all his countrymen the Whigs most delight to honour, on whom they show, red their favour and their patronage, not satisfied with advancing himself to the highest posts of the law, with the dignttyot the British peeragr, but lavishing places and preferments upon every member of his family with a profusion and partiality that excited the astonishment and often even the indignation of the public. To the success of Liberal piincinles, to the Literat party, and the Govern- meuts resulting from its triumphs, the present lord is indeb- ted for all that he possesses and enjoys for his mitre, for his coronet, for Ills wealth, his rank, his luxury, for every Shred of his purple and fine linen, for ev^ry glass that spar- kles and every dish that steams upon his table. But for the v\ higs and for Whig principles he would never have ex- changed an Ulster curacy tor a Connlluo/ht bishopric, and his hot punch for his c.d claret. He would never have been translate) to turboi, or preferred from the mutton chop to the haunch ofveniso. Ther fotenedonotscruptetoamtm it a trior d imp. ssihili y ihat he could have \oted, either in person or in proxy, in the manner attributed to him. ho- ever inserted his name in the minority that voted against the Government and the Ministers' Bill virtually branr ed him both with illiberalitv and ingratitude; degeneracy from his illustrious father, with forgetfulness of the unnumbered favours that have r:rjspd his family from poverlyand obscn- rity to riches and consequence. We owe it to truth and jus- tice, we owe it especially to the memory ot the most eminent Irishman since Mr Grattan, to vindicate the character of his sun from so cruel an aspersion.—JExumineri

THE LONDON MARKETS. FROM THE 'MARK LANK EXPRESS.' Monday, July 13. List week's arrivals were geneialiy moderate. The ex- ports were 2,001 qrs. wheat, 456 qrs. barley. 49 qrs. oats. The receipts of home-grown wheat were 3,600 qrs., the foreign, 8,008 qrs. From Kent and Essex the morning's supply was very small, but the continued prevalence of extremely fine weather disposed factors to make offers at 3s. per qr. less money; still millers generally preferred waiting, and the little business effected was at a decline of fully 3s. to 4s. per qr. since Monday last. To sell foreign a decline would also have been necessary, but holders were indispnsed to press sales. Of country flour there were 14,158 sacks; of foreign 978 sacks 493 brls. Norfolks we, e offered at 3s. per sack reduction, the day's price being 43s. Foreign samples were also Is. per brl. and sack lower, but not town-made. The quantity of English barley was 226 qrs., the foreign being 5.425 qrs. Business was on a veiy small scale, but prices of sweet parcels were unchanged. A sample of new from Kent was on the market of fine colour and heavy, held at a high price. The mall trade underwent no alteration. The total supply of oats WHS only 15,761 qrs., of which 233 were English, 3,65(1 qrs. I rish, and 11.878 qrs. foreign. The fineness of the weather did not theiefote reduce prices, sweet corn being firm. Of beans there were 4H5 qrs., exclusively English. Of peas there were only 17 qrs. English, and 440 qrs. boilers from Konigsberg. Both these descriptions of pulse were firm, especially fine small Beans, which in some instances commandfd higher prices The receipts of linseed were only 50 qrs. foreign per coas', and the exports 800 qts. Prices both of seed and cake were firmly maintained. In rhe sped trade very little was DHssing. The sarnplt's of new offering were trifolium incar- nat.um of fair quality, trefoil, carraway, and some fine- coloured rapeseed—ihe latter held at a high price. Canary was rather dearer. In cloverseed, trefoil, and coriander no change of value was noted.

BRITISH. Shillings per Qr. Shillings per Qr Wheat-Essex and Kent, Oats-Frglish feed. 21 27 white, new 52 71 Ditto potato 27 33 Ditto, red 51 65 j Scotchfeed 20 27 Norfolk, Lincoln, and i Ditto pota o 28 34 Yorkshire, red 52 65 Irish feed, white. 20 32 Barley—Malting 40 41 DiUo, black 20 29 Distilling 37 39 Beans—Mazagan 34 39 Chevalier 42 44 Ticks 36 39 Grinding 26 32 Harrow 36 40 ir u T- v t u i Pigeon 43 47 J/V^-L.ssex,W°lk,and Pms-White boilers 40 44 'Suf,('lk 67 '7 Maple 42 47 Chevalier Grtr 42 Kingstone,Ware,&town -Town," household 50 54 TJ""„ Household, 47 4S rown Country 41 46 Rye 30 36 Norfolk and Suffolk 42 43 IMPERIAL A V~E R A G E S. FOR THE LAST SIX WEEKS. Wheat 60S 3d I Rye 40s 7d Barley ;398 8d Beans 44s IOd Oats 26s 7d Peas 42s 9d

POTATO MARKETS. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIRLDS, LONDON, Monday, July No foreign potatoes came to hand last week. and the a> rivals of English are hut moderate. The demand, how- ever, is in a sluggish state, at from 3s. 6d. to 6s. per cwt. for the sorts usual I v disposed 01 here. Co INTHY POTATO MARKETS.—YORK, July 4-New popotatoes, 4¡.1 to 5d per quartern old ditto,8d per peck, *nd 2s 6d per hush. SKLHY, July 6—New po:Htoes, from Is to is 8d per 21 lbs. L»,EDS, Jo|y 7—A limited show of old potatoes, which sold at 9d to 10tl wholes-ale, and 10d to lid per 21 Ib3 retail new ditto, lid per lb. RICHMOND, July 4 Old potatoes, 5s 4d per bushel; new ditto, 9d per quartern. VI ANCHESTKK, July 7—Potatoes, 8s new ditto 12s to 17s per 2.52 lbs.

BRITISH WOOL MARKET. LONDON, July 13.— Although the public sllles of Colonial wool will commence on Thursday next, our market has become rather firmer, and a fair average hnsinpss is doing at full prices. Several orders have come in Irom Belgium and holders generally-arising from the firm accounts from the manufacturing districts, and the limited stocks held by the leading houses—appear confident of realising enhanced rac es. Certainly, the trade is healthy.

LITERARY EXTRACTS. SKYLARKS IS CAGES.— Ihe many heartless barbarities that are practised upon these helpless innocents (who are at the entire mercy of their masters and mistresses) are reat indeed! Every day reveals some sad evidence of ilpabie neglect. We see the poor suffering victims in our reetsand highways—some of them suspended in 8 sweep. g draught, or current of air; others exposed to thF orching beams ot a meridian sun. TheIr water, too, is requently putrid (or nearly so)-at all events, unfit to -ink whilst their cages are selered without the least sard to space or Song Birds, The A HERD OF ELEPHASTS.-lt was about øeven o'clock the nlOrning when we hild the good fortune to enjoy one the mosl interesting scenes which these rpKions can pos- bly afford. Far to our right WdS a whole herd of l'lephants ranged in regular array. like an army of rational beings, >wlv proceeding to the water. In front appeared the males, WHS evident from their size, in reguler order; at a little istance followed the young ones; in a third lille were the males; and the whole were brought up by five males of mmense siz- The latter (though we were at some distance, 'Md proceeding quietly along) look notice of os. and some vere seen throwing dust into the air but we did nnt dis- •rb them. There were altogether rnnPlv..six.- Travels ind Discoveries in North and Central America. (RRIIWIH üF THE BRITISH :\1 USEC:\I LIBRAB.y.-The growth of the British Museum Library has been rapid since oe days when the late Mr Disraeli 311d two or three others fere åll who availed themselves of the books and manu- cripts which were stored in Montague House, snd the anges since then have been great. The number ofreadprs vho now use the library annually HI upwards of 30,000. Iii 13;36, two years betore the opening of the oJd readln¡z- POol, the library of printed books consisted of 230,000. "¡umes. In 18.51 it consisted 470.001) volumes, or at the ate of 16,000 volumes a year on an average, It is pro- :ble that the increase ot bo)ks added to the British kluseum will, as education advances amongst the masses the people, both dt home and abroad, be moe h more than If),000 volumes annually but eVen êlt that. the IibrllrY in 1900 <13 years hence) will contain 1.270,000 volumes. In IS41 the library occupied 51,0511 feet. or very nearly ten mild of shelves at the end of this century the shelves will extend nearly thircy miles, or ten miles further than from London to St Alban's.— The Builder. THE EXTENT OF VKGETATIO"The world around us is clothed wiih a mantle ot living verdure. From the lowly daisy to th", majestic oak there are classes "nd sys- tems, divisions and sub-divisions of plants and vegetables, which almost defy enumeration. Their variety is endless, admirable, astonishing; yet they torm but a part of the whole, cumparatively unnoticed and unknown. There is a world of vegetable lite, as beautiful in arrangement 8nn wondrous ill details as that around us. To exalnJne it, the IJlicroscope is necessary, so minute are the objects to be viewed. By the aid of that instrumellt we find the mould whIch is formed on stale bread to be a collection of little j'lants, each bearwlot a pod filled with seed, and as complete .nd l'xquislte In 10rm;¡tlOn as any flower or shrub with which we are acquainted. The blue mould 011 the decaying apple or old cheese, the moss on the wall, anri the green deposit on exposed glass, are all formations of the same description. Even some di6eases of the skin may be traced tll the same cause. What an evidence ot God's unsearch- able wisdom does this subject afford MIND LITTLE THISGs.-Mr. Emerson, in his Jecturetl "pan New England, relates the following anecdote :-An opulent merchant in Boston was called on by a Iriend In }.ehalf of a charity. At that time he was admonishing lis clerk lor using whole wafers instead of halves his friend thought the circumstance was unpr 'pitious, but to his sur- prise, on listening to the appeal, the merchant subscribed •>00 dollars. The applicdnt expressed his astonishment that ",ny person who was so particular about half a wafer should present 500 dollars to a charity-but the merchant saiil, It j, by saving half wafers, and attending to such little thiogs, tà8t I have now something to give.' SMOKE.— \'1 r. W 81te drew a long whiff, and took 3 more "erene view of affairs. He who cloth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refused himself the softest con. f'olation, next to that which comes Irom heaven. • What, eofter than woman?' whispers the young reader. Young reader, woman teases alii well as consoles. Woman makes iialf the sorrows which she boasts the privilege 10 somhe. "Woman console8 us, it is true, while we are young and hand- some when we are old and ugly. woman snubs and scolds tiS. On the whole, then, woman itl this scale, the weed in that, J "piter, hang out thy balance, and weigh them both; ¡, nd if thou give the preference to woman, all I loan say IS, 1 he next time Jupo ruffles thee-O Jupiter, ICY the weed! — jBulwer Lytton's yew Novel. WHY Dots THB NIGHTINGALE NEVER VISIT DEVON- SHIRK?—There has been" pretty reason assigned lor the )i igbtin¡cale seceding from Devonshire. The fair lassies of that lavoured spot are, it is said. gifted with heavenly voices; and sing ao sweetly withal, that our bard of songs feel he can have no position there. His "lantry, therefore, and ex- cellent judgment, cause him to direct his Bight to olher less favoured parts. We secretly incline, however, to the belief thet he does viøit Devonshire not as a 4 performer" indeed, but 8S a listener lor the Devonshire sirensare.be it known, III000t lovely chorÎ8ters. Hommage aux dames! Do not let liS for one single instant deprive them, even in thought, of the happy conceit that exists in their Shil- ting Treatise on the Nightingale. WHY THK WEDDING RING IS PLACED OS THE FOURTH FI:>TGRR.- W e I'ravi! remarked on the vulgar error of a vein ^e»ing from the lourth finger of tbe left band to the heart. h is saId by Swinburne and others that therefore it became the wedding finger. The priesthood kert up the idea by still keeping it as the wedding finger; but it was got at through the use of the Trinity, for in the ancient ritual ot J'jnglish marriages the ring was placed by the husband on the top of the thumb of the left hand, wit h these word3, III the name of the Father; he then removed it to the fore finger, saying, In the name of the Son then to tbe middle finger, adding,' And of the Holy Ghostfinally be left II. a" now, on the fourth finger, with the closing word 'Amen.' -History and Poetry of Finger Rings. LIGHTNING. — WilY does lightning sometimes travel through a'zig-zag*course ? Because the electricity, heing psisted in its progrpss by the air, flies from side to side, to find the reariiest passal{e. Why does lightning snmetiml's appear forked ? Because, being resisted ill its progtess by the air. the electricity divides into two or more points, and t-eeks a PQssage in different directions. Why IS lightning F >metiraes hke a lurid sheet ? Because the flash is distant, find therefore spe only the reflection. When is the flash of lightning siraight? When tbe distance between the clouds whose electricities are meeting is small. What is the « ause of the aurora borealis? The mingling of the elec- tricities of the higher regions at the atmosphere. When does the flash of lightning appear blue? When the degree (If electrical excitement is intense, and general throughout the atmosphere. Why does lightning sometimes appear red, úthers yellow, and of others white? Because of the varying humidity, which affect the refracting powers of rhe atmosphere. Does the 1i¡.rhtntng ever piss upwards from the earth 10 the clouds? Yes; when the earth is charged with a different electricity to that which ili in the clouds. INSTINCT OF PWEoNS-I have been led to these remarks, crude and imperfect as they are. by the communications of two kind friends, Sir John Richardson & Alfred Newton, Esq., on the same tlubject and I give here by permission, t hat of Sir John Richardson in hlø own words With re- spect to Sir John Ross's pigeons, so tar as I .ran recollect, Jte^despatcbed It young pair on the 6th or 7th 01 October, J 850, from Assistance Bay, a little to the west of Welling- ton Sound, and on the 13th of October a pigeon made its appearance at the dovecote in Ayrshire, from whence Sir John had the two pairs of pigeons which he took out. The instance direct between the two plsces is about 2,000 miles. The dovecote was under repair at tius time, and the pigeons llelonglJ1g to it had been removed; but the servants 01 the liouse were struck at the appearance and motions ot this After a short stay it went into the pigeon house f)f a neighbouring proprietor, where it was caught & sent llack (0 the lady" ho originally owned it. She al once recognised it as one of those she had given to Sir J. Ross; hut to put the matter to the test it was carried to the pigeon house, when out Qf the many niches il directly went into the one it was hatched. No doubt remained on the mind of the lady of the identity of the bird.' By what extraordi- iiary power did this interesting bird find its wav, and by what route did it History of Birds. THE CITY 011' NINGPO J:-< CHINA—Leaving my servants t'l prepare my breakfast and to Rtt their own, I sauntered jllto the city. I found it was a veryancient place, and (a- laous as being the residence ot many of the wealthiest Ilersons ill this part of China. Its willis seemed to be about three miles in circumference, but they enclosed nu- merous fields and gardens, ItS well as house8. The dwellings () f the rich were mostly surrounded with high walls, and were not visible froUt tht streets. This is a common mode of building, and it secures the privacy of the female mem- bers of the family in a counrry like China, where it is the custom to keep them much secluded. I had entered the ciry by the north gate, and in a few minutes had a crowd of people at mv heels. Where had I come from ?* Where was I going ?' and What was I wanting 10 buy ?' were the questions "hich were put on a/l sides. The crowd appeared to be perfectly good-humoured, and treated me with the greatest deference ai d respect. Some ran on before me, and seemed to take a great deal of pleullre in spreading th" jnformiltion of my arrival. Th- consequence wall, Ihat 1 very door and window was full of people anxious to get a look at the foreigner, It wasperfecrly useless to remonstrate or to get a"gry, so I was all smiles and toufc everything in gool part.-Mr Fortune in China. As br 01.>1 J U NGI.E.-P 1SlIiII/( cl..ar of the belt of maM- grove, we soon floated amongst the luxuriant vegetation of an Indian jungle; the underwood here and there giving place to small patches of grass or weed. Large alligator*, which had been ashore on either bank, launched themselves slowly illto the creek. or turned round and kept a stea. y Wiltch with their cruel looking, yellow eyes. Bright-co- J >ured iguanas and strange-shaped lizards shuffled along 1'1.. lnnks. or lay in the branches of trees, puffing Ihemselves up (;I) as to look like nothinK earthly the "hrill call ot the tiea- lien, and th ■ erernal chattering ot the monkeys, gave life and animation to a scene WVich did not lack interest or heaut\ Pushing our canoe in amongst the overhanging willi vines and creepers, so alt to hide her, we s.1t quietly smoking our cigars to auvait the curiosity of the monkeys: It was flot long hefore they commenced their gambols 0. attempts to frighten liS. A string of black ones, whose glossy coats woulf have vied in beauty with that of a black belir, c-ime breaking through the trees with IrantÏc cries, and threw themselves aeross the creek, and back again, with amazing energy then a hoarse sound made us turn suddenly, wllh a flashing suspicion of Malay treachery, to meet the gaze of a f ice almost human, with a long grey beard, which was ear- nestly watching us through the foliage of a withered tree; bring a gun to the shoulder, alld the old man's head would Le seen to leap away upon the disproportionate body of some 3 pe. Bot nothing could I'qu.,1 in luàlcroll8 interest a family monkey-scene taking place 10 some clear spot at the ba8e of a tree. There a respectable papa might be seen seated against the root*, streiching out hili leKs, and enjoying the luxury of a scratch, alld overlooking with patriarchlil pride, ¡lilt! 110 small d gree 01 watchfulness, the gambol8 of hI., 1'0\1 or daughter while with fond solicitude his hetter hall, a fi.racelul female monkey, was employed turning aside the t dts of grass, as if seeking nil's or berrlps for the little one Hen she would clutch the little rascal and roll over with '>1m, in HII the joyousness of a young mother, and. he. the tiny scamp, shrieked, pouted, alld raressed her, like any ;h8t..r JOÍlnny or dear Billy would have done. The whole scene was It buriesque upon human nature; unable to con t 1111 ourselves any ionger, 11\ I' bu .st illln roars of laughter. The bther leapt at once 01, a 1 ei_:tl>'0'iriiig branch, and shaking it with rage, whoo-whoo'd ut us through a very s iteful set of teeth; the lady screamed, the baby .-quealeil rId jumped to her breast, cl ispe iH little arms round Iter n .ck, alld i t8 letis round her chest, and then with a bound .sue was off and away with hH tootsy papa todo" ing, and cohering her re'reut with venomous grins at us whom he evidently considered only a superior breed of apes' Uuedúlt, or Stray Leúves from a JQurn<J.1 in ¿Walag<J.1& tv aters.

THE PBESS AND THE ELECTIONS. The Assemblee Nationule is suspended tor I wo month. ill consequence 01 an article upon the elections. The Estafette has receivec1 a warning.

THE INDIAN MUTINIES. The following telegraphic message is from Trieste: TRIESTE, SUNDAY. The steamer Bombay arrived on the Uth ot July (sa- turday), at half-past 3 o'clock p.m., in 123 hours from Alexandria. The India mails leave this morning with intelligence from Bombay to June 15; Calcutta, June 7; Madras June 11 Ceylon, June 15; and Hong Kong, May 2.5. The mutiny had spread to several other regiments of the Bengal army in the North-Western Provinces, but the crisis was looked upon as past. Reinforcements of European troops were on their way towards Upper India from the Bombay and Madras presidencies, and from Ceylon. The Bombay and Madras armies continued firmly loval. General Anson had died of cholera at Kurnaul on Mav 27. Intelligence from Delhi to the 8th of June had been re- ceived at Madras and Bombay. The heights around the town were in possession of the Government troops. The rebels have been attacked and driven dispirited within the walls. They had lost 26 guns. News of the capture of Delhi was hourly expected. The native troops had been disarmed at most of the stations in the Punjab. The loss to the Bengal army through mutiny and other causes is estimated at 26,000 men. The disaffection is entirely confined to the army. Sir Patrick Grant had been appointed to succeed Gen- eral Anson, and universal confidence was felt in the efficacy of the vigorous measures adopted by the Gover- nor-General. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Erin has been lost near Galle. At Bombay the tightness in the money-market had in- creased, and the banks had raised their rate of interest. Exchange was 2s. 2d. to id. Both the Bombay and Calcutta import-markets were dull. All the most influential communities of Calcutta, in- cluding the Mahommedans, had presented addresses to the Government, containing assurances of their loyalty.

REGIMENTS FOR INDIA. As long ago as December last four infantry regiments— the 23rd, 82nd, 90th, and 93rd—were placed under orders to relieve two regiments, the 10th and2.lhh, whose term of service had been completed, and to fill liP the deficiency it the Indian establishment caused by the r, t irn to this country of two more regiments during the Cri nean war, which reduced the number of Queen's infantry corps in the Presi- dencies from 24 to 22. The events at Hon? Kong, how- ever, iendered it necessary to change the immediate desti- nation ot the four regiments we have named from India tc China, it being intended (hat as soon as their work in tin latter region had been completed they should return to In"i, for the tour of duty to which thev hud been original designated.— But as soon as theaccout tsf om China b cime of a graver character, it was determined not to leave the Indian army without reinforcements for the uncertain tinu during which the Chinese hosilities might continue and in consequence, tour more r.-giinents of infantry were ptaced under orders to takethedutyattottedtothose now on their way to China. Accordingly some weeks since the 7th Fusi liers, 60tli Rifles (ird Battalion), 88th Regiment, Rifle Brigade (3rd Battalion), were warned for service in India At the s me time the 2nd and 3rd Regiments of Dragoon Guards were detailed to relieve two other cavalry corps- the 14th L'ght Dragoons and 9th Lancers, who having been out since 1841 or 1842, ought to he relieved about this time. Atl these re.'iments have received their increased establish- iiients, and ships are ready tor their conveyance to the East. At this season large drafts are usually sent from the depot at Chatham to all the Indian regiments, for the purpose ot keeping up their strength to the full establishment. These drafts this year amount al ogether to about 3,000 men averaging from 70 or 80 to 250 for each regiment. The force, therefore, which will comm nce embar.dng imme- diately may he thus estimated :-2nd Dragoon Guards, 700 men; 3:d Dragoon Guards, 700 men: 7th Fusil,ers, 1,000 men fiOtli Rilfes (3nl Battalion), 1 ,00 men 88th R»gi- m"nt, 1,000 men dialts—about 3.000 men. Total about 8,400 men. If we add the filth and 78th Regiments, which have before this arrived at Calcutta, we shall have, already we may say on their way, a force of 10,000 men. On Tuesday evening, however, there Wfreaiaopiieed under orders the 1st Battalion of the 1st Royals, at Dublin the 19th Regi tnent, at^Portsmouth ihe 38th regiment, at the Gurragh and the 79th Highlanders, at Dublin, making altogether an additional force of 4,090 lIIen. or a total augmentation of European troops in India of 14,000 men. A portion of this force is, strictly speaking, destind to relieve regiments whose period of service has expired hut those regiments will be kept at hand until all occasion for their service has ceased, and thus every mav going out is an actual addition to the Indian army.— Globe. IMPORTANT FROM INDIA.—Intelligence has been re- ceived from India that the mutineers have been defeated with the loss of 26 guns outside the walls or Delhi, which was to be assaulted immediately. Large numbers of the native troops in Bengal, and the north-western provinces had deserted. General Anson died ot cholera on the 27th ultimo. Sir Colin Campbell has been appointed Commander- in-Chief of the Indian Army. He left England on Sun- day afternoon for Marseilles, from whence he was to be conveyed by the mail which was purposely delayed for him. The command to which he has been appointed is now temporarily held by Sir Patrick Grant, a popular Sepoy General. CHINA. From China we learn that the gunboats have gone up the Canton river to attack the mandarin junks. General Gar- ret and his staf fhad arrived. Tea was going down freely to Foo-chow-foo, where al was quiet. A batile had been fought between the rehels above Foo- chow-foo, and it was believed that the Imperialists had been victorious. Canton was suffering from famine. The price of rice at Hong Kong-is 4 dollars per picul. Sir John Bowring had intimated that compensation for loss sustained by British subjects will be demanded from the Chinese Government. Exchange at Hong Kong, 4s lljd. Shanghai, May 15.—Exchange, 7s 2d to 7s 3 £ d.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, Monday, July 13. The total imports ofloreign Srock into London IlIht week amounted to 5,818 h?ad. In the corresponding week in 1856 we received 7.629 in 1855, 4.710 in I85K 5,788 in 1853.9,306; in 1852,7,071 in 1851, 7,189 and in 1850 4,481 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEKK. from whence. B'ists. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Oporto 150 — — lia,nbro 51 597 — fi:! Harlingen 70 804 1 182 385 Rotterdam 222 919 529 272 — Dordt 75 65 244 Amsterdam 4 7'25 — 124 '28 Schiedam 13 11 2.1 — Olais — — — 5 Antwerp. 20 — — 88 Guernsey I — Total 606 3,121 975 671 475 YEARLY COMPARISON OK WEEKLY IMPORTS, 1 S.)!) 6.1ti 4407 521 1378 697 H,lD 775 2937 355 2"H 355 1W>4 HH3 3300 419 746 540 1H-53 I:!H4- 5756 824 903 529 1^52 840 4647 622 649 313 1851 1297 4303 858 541 190 We had a large show of foreign stock in to day's market, and the demand for it ruled heavy in the extreme at droop i"g prices. From our own grazing districts the arrivals ot Beasts fresh up to-day were seasonably large, and in full average condition and we understand that those from Nor- lolk during the next four weeks will be extensive. Owing to the prevailing hot weather, and the heavy receipts, the beef trade was in a very depressed state, and sales were -with difficulty effected at a decline in the quotations realized on Monday last of from 2d to 4d per 8lbs. Thegexera) top figure for Beef was 4s 4d per Bibs. The arrivals from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire amounted to 1,700 Scots and shorthorns; from Lincolnshire, &c, 450 shorthorns from other parts of England, 400 of various breeds; and from Scotland, 47 Scots. No supply reached uF from Ireltiiid. There was a lurtlier increase in the show of Sheep, and the quality ot most English breeds was toler- ably good. The Mutton trade ruled excessively heavy, and the quotations were 2d to 4rJ per Slbs lower than on this day se'iiniglv. The hijhest figure for Downs was 4s 10d per 8lbs. Lambs, the show of which was good were very dull, IIlId 4rl per BIbs lower than on Mondav last. The primest Down breeds went at 6s 4d per 81b. From Ireland about 700 Lamhs reached us. We were fairly supplied with Calves, and the Veal trade ruled heavy at 2d per 8 lbs. less money. There was very little business doing in Pigs, on lower terms. We have been requested to state that no stock is now allowed to be driven through the parish of Islington, consequently to this market, between midnight on Saturdays and midnight on Sundays, under a heavy penally. Per 8lbs. to sink the offals Coarse and inferior s. d. s. d. Prime coarse woolled s. d. s. d. beasts 2 10 3 0 sheep. 3 lo 4 4 Second quality ditto 3 2 3 6 Prime South Down Prime large oxen 3 8 4 0 Sheep. 4 6 4 10 Prime Scots, &c.4 2 4 4 Large coarse calves 3 10 4 4 Coarse and inferior Prime small ditto 4 6 4 10 sheep 2 10 3 2 Large hogs 3 8 4 0 Second quality ditto 3 4 3 8 Neat small porkers 4 2 4 8 Lambs as Od to 6s. 4d. Suckling Calves 23s to 29s; and Quarter old Store Pigs 21s to 27s. each.

BUTTER AND BACON MARKEI. LONDON, Monday, July 13.—There was a disposition to advance the price of butter last week, but this day the mar- ket seems to work the contrary way. Dorset, fine.per cwt. 106s. to 108s. Ditto, middling !)6! to 98s. Devon 100s. to 102s. Fresh .per doz. lbs. lis. to 13s.

HEALTH AND R R A U T Y." HOW TO SECURE THEM. The tenderest care, the utmost solicitude, which we can bestow upon woman in seasons of sickness, are but a light payment of the debt we owe her—a debt contracted in our crndles, and constantly fecumutating unti) we die. No man has more laithfully discharged that debt than the great English physician Professor Holloway. His remedies have probably done more to relieve the various diseases especially incident to the sex, than all the potions and external appli- cations with which medical practitioners have afflicted them since thecommemonentot the Christian era. Drastic ape- rienis, pernicious stimulants, and poisonous lotions and emulsions have blighted the loveliness of thousands of the gentler sex but we trust that the day when the lives ot those who are the dearest to us could thus be trifled with is past. At length wives and mothers begin to understand the tlanyer of being subjected to ,uch treatment. The mild, soothing, and restorative influence of holloway's great in- ternal and external remedies, in all the complaints to which women is subject, are now gener lly admitted. They have been admintstered with marked unvarying success 111 those disturbances of the system which occur in the various stages of adolescence, during the season of maternity, and at a latei period ot life. Every disorder, bodily and mental, incident to this sequence, seems to b relieved & modified by the gerstle and punlyiiig effect of Holloway's Pills. Weshou'd not venture, in a matter of such vast import- ance, to hazard an opinion on questionable grounds; but we cannot hesitate to believe the testimony which has been placed before U-. Ladies of the highest respectability, rightly thinking that squeamis^ness is out of place where health and life are concerned, hll\ I' certified to the efficacy of the remedies in nrarly all to which the sex is liable, and have recommended them in the strongest terms as preserva- tives of that exiernal beauty which depends upon health, as well as of health itself. If it be true—and who so insensate as to doubt it that The world was sad, the garden was a wild. And man, the hermit, sighed till woman fmiled. surely it behoves us to point out arid urge upon her atten- tion the means of relieving her sufferings and turning her sadness into joy.—New York Herald. THE DUBLIN M URDKR- M rs Spollen in her disclosures to the Police said that her husband threw the key of Mr 'C' Little's room over It wall into the small river Bradogue. c The police made great efforts to discover the key, dragging the river, throwing out the mud and examining it, and so on but, as usual, they tailed. A workhouse boy, however, found the key in aheap of mud taken from the river, which mud, it is sai had been raked ai d sifted by the policemen. This recovery of the key is an important corroboration ot Mrs Spollen's narrative. About a fortnight before she de- nounced her husband she had been seized with severe illness the symptoms, according to the medical m. n, were consistent with the administration of poison. Spollen is now suspected of having attempted to get rid of her. Last week Mrs Spollen s health was in a most precarious state, leridtiig to fenrs ot her lite. This fact, probahly, gave rise to the ruruout which startled Dublin on Sunday, that she had taken poison and expir. d. On inquiry this statement was found to be incorrec. She i-, however, much depressed in mind and feeble in bl', •. She has repeatedly denied any participation in her h'band's alleged guilt, and avers that she knew nothing of )1:, intentions either to rob or kill the poor cashier.— At the .journed examination yesterday (lhursday) evidence was given of the finding of a second rnzor in the canal basin ,th the-name of Spollen scratched on it. Also that a ke, found in the prisoner's drawer fitted a small padlock founrl in the red-le^d vessel which contained part of the stolen money. The examination was adjourned till Monday.

MISCELLANEOUS. THE DUCHESS OF BEDFoRn.-Thismuch respected lady expired somewhat suddenly on Friday, after only a brief illness. Hergracewasthe daughter of the third Earl of Harrington, and leaves an only son, the Marquis of Tavis- tock, born in 1808. Few ladies have adorned the British peerage by more exemplary virtues that. those which be- longed to the character 01 thieamtfbie and lamented liidy. Her loss will he deeply felt, and the more keenly where she was the best known-,imong the poorer dependents of her noble husband's lamily estates. The duchess had attained her 7ith year. A RAILWAY CONSTRUCTED AT PRIVATE CosT.-The opening on the 23rd ult., of the Sandy and Potion branch, some forty eight miles down the main line of the of thil Great Northern, although but three miles aud a half in ex- tent, marks an era in the hisiory of railways, it having been constructed at the sole cost of Captaia Peel, R.N. The country which this branch passes is of a light yet rich and prolific character, principally employed in the raising of gar- den produce, its vegetables being lammis in Covent Garden quotations. The liitle town of Potton was hung with ban- ners. Several speeches were made at the banquet on the occasion. DECEASE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM ASSOCIA- TION. I be Administrative Reform Association, which" was ushered into existence some two or three years axe. amidst a flourish of trumpets exceeding an\ tiling ot the kind ever belore heard, has paid the debt otttanue. For at leat-t twelve months past it has been in a sickly state it is now dead, literal'y dead, and, we may add. buried '.00. The de- ceased Administrative Reform Association not only put all connected with it into sorry plight, but it has thrown hack for many years the oust-which it was established to promote. It is sad to think that to this complexion matters should have come, after an expenditure of some- where about < £ 50.090, in the brief space of tbree years.— Morning Advertiser. PROHIBITION of THE USE OF ROCKETS AS PRIVATE SIGNALS.—When the Iv'arl of Yarborough t:ot on shore alter the wreck of his yacht Zne, a few weeks since, lie expressed his snprise that the rockets which had been sent up from the yacht as signals ot distress had not brought him anv help, an ) wts told by the inspector of the Coast Guard that hi, men hsd seen them, but from their frequent use as private signals by steamers passing each other in the night, 1 hey had paid no attention to them. Upon this being made known, Lloyd's appealed to the Board of Trade on the subject, and the Board has forwarded a circular to all the local iiiaritse boards, Board of Trade surveyors, and principal shipowners, calling their attention to the injudicioosnessot the practice of using rockets as signals. except in cases of distress. FIKK-PKOOF LAOIES1 DKKSSES. —Within a very short time two young ladies have been burnt to death, owing 10 their light nioslin drasses catching fire from a lucifer match —one in London, the other af CoMiesier. It ,ught i- bf' generally known that all ladies' light dresses may be made fireproof al a mere nominal cost, by steeping then-, or the linen or cotton used in making them, in a diluted solution of chiotide of zinc. We have seen the very finest cambtic eo prepared held in the flime ol a candle, and charred it to dust, without the least flame and we have been informed. that since Clara Webster, a dancer, was burnt to death, from her clothes catching fire on the stage, the muslin dres- ses of all the dancers at the best theatres are made fire proof. Our manufacturers should take the hint.-Midical Times. SALE AT ALTON TOWERS.—The sale at Alton Towers of the etffcts 01 the late Earl of Shrewsbury comtnenr ed on Monday l ist, beginning with the pictures. The iiii,tioneerp. Messrs. Christie and MansOu, before commencing the sale, mentioned that the collection was first formed by Charles, Earl of Shrewsbury, in the beginning of the present cen turv, under the superintendence ot Mr Bryan, the author 0'" The Dictionary of Painters,'and was further increased in 1829, by the purchase of the whole of the colleciion of her Royal Highness Madame Letitia Bonllparte and others, se- lected by Mr Rock. The works sold on the first day com- ptised 'Tii(- Adoration of the Nlagi,' by Garofalo several fine works by P.Veronese, Francia, Borialaccio, imurillet and Van Eyck, with the celebrated picture of 'BelisarioS hy David. The whole day's sale realised £ 1.100. On Tuesday there was a better attendance, and higher prices realised. A well-known' Morning,' hv Cuyp. fetched 565 guineas. The second day's sale amounted to £ 2,000. GnP-AT FrRF. IN GLASGOW-We regret to find by the North British Daily Mail that an extensive fire raged 10 Union street, Gla>gow, on Friday morning last for several hours, and resulted inthecomptete destruction of one at the handsomest business premises in that city, built about si* years ago at an expense of jgl2,000 by (lie Hon. the Lord Provost, and principally occupied hy {Messrs. Hutton and Baird, shawl merchants and manufacturers. The fire wad discovered at 10 minutes after two. in the morning, afid although considered to have been subdued at lour o'clock. burst out attain, and spread rapidly to the four extensive storeys. Most of the gala plardfil and tartans from the se- cond flat were rescued, but an immense amount of manufaC" tureg were destroyed. Messrs. Hutton & Baird are insured in £ 12,000 the other occupants of the building and the edifice itself in jEt2,600 more. The value of the property lost is not yet known. MURDEH BY A LUNATIC.—At an early hour on Satur- day morning much excitement was caused in the workhouse of the parish of St Manjn's-in-the Fields, in consequence of the wardsman having been killed by a lunatic named peen. On inquiry we were informed that Peen was admitted on Friday into the house by order of one of the silting mal[ll" tratesatdow-street Police Court. H,- wag placed it, the insane ward, under the care of a man named Hempson and on Saturday morning, having discovered a shovel, Pee"' without the slightest cause, struck the unfortunate man to the ground, and continued beating him until life was ex* tinct. He was secured as soon as possible, and surgical was setured lor Hempson, but he had ceased to eX's* Peen was conveyed to Mar thorough-street Police-court, an<* tully committed for trial.— Sun. — -f*

SOUTH WALES RAILWAY TIME TABLE, CORRECTED FROM COMPANY'S TABLES FOR JULY « WEEK PAYS. VP TRAINS. FAREP £ I WEEK DAYS,—DOWN TRAINS. SUNDAYS.—UP TRAINS. SUNDAYS.—DOWN TRAINS. I Stations Irish. 1,2,3, 1,2, 3,Exp. ,1,2,3,-l & 2 Mail. Express. Qraviary. Ss 1. 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2.3, Exp. 1 & £ Exp. 1 & 2 Z~7- 1, 2,3, 1, 273, lTS, S, 777 17173. 1.2,3 1.2.3, 1 & 2 1 & 2 class, class, jl & 2] class, class. 1,2,3, 1 2 I j 3 ^-2 Stations. class. j class, j class. 1 & ?j class.jl & 2 class. StaUons class, class, class. statton*\ class, class.'j class, class. | fT0™ a'™- a-m- [a.m. a.m. | a.m. p.m. p.m. 3. d. 8. d. s. d. ». s. d. Mil. Starting from a.m. I a.m ] a.m. a.m. a.m. I v-m. p. m. From a.m. a.m. p.m. From j a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. 0 Neyland (Pater 2 25 7 5 9 la Jl 30 4 7 o j Paddington 6 0 6 50 9 40 1 0 j 4 50 8 10 Neyland 9 15 4 7 Pad.J 8 0 i 0 45 Johns ton(Mllfrd) 7 20, 9 30 jll 50 « 4 22 1 3 0 10 1 0 0 9 | 0 4 £ 77 Swindon (dep.) 8 50 .12 30 11 42 4 15 i 6 50 10 52 Jolinstn 9 35 4 22 Swin. del 1 5 5 12 9i Haverfordwest 2 53 | 7 30 9 40 ,12 0 « 4 32 2 3 1 9 1 9 1 6 j 0 9 121 I Cheltenham (dep 6 45 9 30 2 25 ,12 30 1,2,3] 7 40 i Mail H.West 9 45 4 32 Chel. de i 8 10 Mail 142 Clarbeston Road j 7 42| jl2 12 « 4 47 2 9 2 0 1 114 Gloucester (dep.) 7 0 10 25 3 0 1 0 t> 5 » 0 2 i5 Clar. Rd 10 0 4 47 Glou. de 8 30 80 2 15 Narberth Road 7 55 10 0 12 40 « 5 2 4 9 3 3 3 9 2 9 1 9 liU Chepstow 7 56 11 45 4 20 1 47 | 7 20 i 8 52 3 12 Nar.Rd+ 10 20 5 7 Chep 9 48 4 15 3 12 26 £ Whitland | 8 10 12 53 <m* 5 17 4 9 3 6 2 2J 1584J Newport S 42 '12 35 5 12 2 10 i 8 0 | 9 17 j 3 40 Whit 10 35 5 22 New. 7 38 10 37 5 0 3 40 *2 St. Clears j 8 25 1 8 I 5 29 5 9 4 3 2 8 170} Cardiff 9 6 j 1 10 5 50 2 31 I 8 35 j 9 44 4 4 StClears 10 50 1 & 2 Cardiff. 8 3 11 2 5 29 4 4 1 4<U Carmarthen ? 33 5 « 8 55 30 1 40 5 52 9 0 6 6 7 3 5 6 3 4 208 I Neath (dep.) 10 43 j 2 53 7 32 3 30 jlO 0 jlO 40 j 5 25 Carmar 11 20 5 52 Neathde 9 50 9 15 7 10 5 25 60 Llanelly 4 8 7 28 9 45; 11 5 i 31 6 37 13 3 9 3 10 6 8 0 5 0 216 Swansea II 0 4 0 7 40 3 40 10 25 10 40 5 55 Llanelly; 12 11 6 37 Swan.rfc 10 20 9 40 7 45 5 55 In «WailS% A If? J? 5 } 30 i 7 12 15 9 11 1 12 9 9 6 6 0 225 j Llaneu, 11 38 4 45 8 34 4 13 ]ll 17 1.23 Swan, de, 8 30 1 10 7 12 Llanelly 10 55 8 22 1.2.3 p"^ i V 3 42 2 7 30 17 0 12 0 13 6 10 3 6 5 214|j Carmarthen 12 20 5 28 9 23 4 46 -11 52 7 16 Neath. 8 53 1 30 7 30 Carmar. 11 42 i 9 9 7 15 6 0 10 13 1 10 1 0 5 44 3 55 8 48 25 0 17 6 20 3 15 3 9 6^ 253 St. Clears 12 35 5 45 I I 7 28 Cardiff. 11 15 3 3 8 48 StClears 1 9 29 7 28 1261 Newport 6 29 110 40 1 44(1 21 6 20 4 22 9 15 28 0 19 6 22 3 16 9 10 6A 25811 Whitland 12 53 6 0 17 40 New. ill 49 3 28 9 15 Whit. 9 16 7 40 143? Chepstow 7 7 jll 12 2 23. 1 46 7 0 5 3 9 45 31 6 22 1 25 3 19 0 11 111 264 I Narberth Road. 1 5 6 15 5 2 7 55 Chep. 12 29 4 10 9 45 Nar.Rd+ 10 0 7 55 i 171 Gloucester (dep.) 8 15 |12 30 3 32 2 42 9 0 6 10 11 40 37 9 26 ,6 3u 2 22 10 14 31 270J Clarbeston Road 6 35 I 8 15 Glou.de 1 38 5 25 10 47 Clar. Rd 10 19 8 15 I VI Cheltenham(arr) 8 45 i 4 0j 3 0 6 30 39 1 27 7 31 5 23 9 14 10} 275J Haverfordwest. 1 30 6 50 5 47 |l2 42 | 8 30 Chel. or 1&2 H.West.. i 10 34 8 30 208 Swindon (dep.).1 9 25 5 30| 4 15 8 0 I 25 46 0 32 6 36 8 27 8 17 4 28o| Johnston(Milfrd) 1 50 7 10 5 55 8 45 Swin. de\ 7 10 Johnstn 10 50 8 45 i 285 Paddington 10 I 9 5 6 0 10 20 4 50 49 6 39 6 49 6 137 10 23 9| 285:1 Neyland (Pater) 2 0 1 7 25 1 I 6 0 I 1 10 8 55 Pad.j 10 0 Neyland j ,11 0 8 55 A The 6.0 a.m. Train froir Paddiiigton takes Third Class Passengers for tlie Soutli Wales Railway only Narbcrtli Road is the Station for Tenby and Cardigan. i The Mail Train tot" Thtrd Class Passengers between Milford Haven and Carmarthen.

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