The Pembrokeshire Herald and General Advertiser

The San Antonio (Texas) postmaster received a letter addressed "To My Mammy." It was not delivered till, some weeks after, a small, fierce looking old woman appeared at the post office window, saying, "Mister, have you got any letter from my Johnny?" when the postmaster hit the mark at once. A youn2 lady at Council Bluffs, U.S., being informed by her swain that he intended to cease nis attentions, cowhided him around the room, and, as he sprang through the open window, told him, with a parting stroke, that that would teach him for the future not to trifle with a gentle and loving heart. Beauty ha* been raIled the power and taSt f 8 WwmaTV" DioSenes calls 5t" woman's jnost forcible letter of recommendation." Carneades represents it a3 « a queeT1 without- soldiers, and Theocritus says it is a "serpent cohered with flowers," while a modera author humorously we find, recently defined it liat- aS oft6n catches the fisher as the fish. It is true, nearly all the old philosophers ridiculed beauty as evanescent, worthless and mischievous but philosophers are not themselves, as a rule, beautiful. though they may be the cause of it in others. An elopement which recently took place near 1 Carters,ille, Georgia, was thus announced bv alocal paper: And behold, as the grand luminary of the day rose in the east," and threw its rays of splendour over the works of Nature, and sparkled in its dazzling beauty as he glided upwards, the cherished pet of the household had vanished-whither, no one, knows. But mere conjecture was enough to solve the matter. Her flight was beyond the limits of the State; and, once beyond the State s jurisdiction, she became the bride of the one to whom she had plighted her vows with- out th<e knowledge of papa." An Englishman dining in a Chinese village was greatly enjoying a savoury dish, and would have expressed his pleasure to the Vaiter, who, however, understood nothing of English, nor could our friend utter a word of Chinese. The smacking oflips indicated satis- faction; and then came the question, ingeniously put. Pointing at the portion of meat in the dish, and which he supposed to be duck, the Englishman, with an inquiring look, said Quack, quack, quack 1" The waiter, gravely shaking his head, as much as to say "No" replied, Bow, wow, wow Ladies and Flowers.—" Red cheeks are only oxygen in another shape. Girls anxious to wear a pair will find them where the ros.s do-out of doors." "WiJI they indeed ?" re- marked Josephine Hoops, as she laid down the ?Av n" °V!'e paper Contailling the extract. V\ ell, if doing as the roses do will help a lady to colour, one might as well never get up at all, for I m certain sure that the flowen stay in their beds all the day. Now, if I'm ever metamorphosed into any horticultural. I kope it will be into a camelia they are the only vegetable that ever get a chance t. go to the Opera—gracious goodness A Blacksmith brought up his son—to whom he was very severe—to his trade. One day the old man was trying to harden a cold chisel which he had made of foreign steel, but he could not succeed. "Horsewhip it, father'" exclaimed the young one. If that won't Harden it, I don't know what will I" While a rather affected young lady was con- fiding to her admirer how ethereal her appetite was, and the sensitive delicateness of her organisation, the too matter of fact help bawled out, Say will ye have yer biled pork and beans now, or wait t'll yer feller's gone ?' The feller has been gone ever since. Figures won't lie." Won't they ? Does a fashionable woman's figure tell the truth. t When a wife reigns, it seems natural that she should storm, too. She does so some- times. Annual flowering plants -ire said to resemble whales, because they come up to blow. A celebrated clergyman recently said that he had found more good in bad people, and more bad in good people, than he ever ex- pected to. A gtntlerran, in search of a man to do some work. met on his way a highly respectable lady, not as young as she once was, and asked her, Can you*tell me where I can find a man?" No I cannot," she replied; "for I have been leoking these twenty years for one IP 'f IP 'f myself. A man stopping at a hotel in Richmond, Va., lately caused no little trouble by the repre- hensible habit of walking about all hours of the night. Having established the reputation of a first class somnambulist, he walked off to ail early train with his carpet ba^ as naturally as though lie had been awake and left his bill unpaid. Daniel Purcell, the famous punster, was desired one night ill company to make a pun extempore. "Upon what subject?" said Daniel "The king," answered the other. "0 sir/' said he, "the king is no subject." An honest Dutchman, being asked how often be shaved, said, "Dree dimes a wcek-efery Uy but Soontay-den I shafe efcr, lay. Mrs Partington wants to knew why some of *he Sowing Machine Advertisers do not call '(.4e the Ceres. Her nephew, who u 'viroinAhe Heathen Misogyny, tejls her that Ceres first t,«Sl>t sonrng.-ZW. XI,e reporters have reached thelnghest notch 1 „ Tmre imagination, as will he jn f followm? brilliant paragraph «A C?nre< tieutl>.y s* allowed three marbles W -urbullets recently, ami, being somewhat W -urbullets recently, ami, being somewhat fct'Uftiire, is now iiuaistd by the Cf v 1 bovrs, Vh0 borrow him as a rattle box to their babies and buckings. amuse » tj,e teacher of an infant "'•Boy; 'V class, "did you mi see an g -lay sc.j" Yes sir, I did, piped a V down at .he foot. 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A TOUR TO MILFORD HAVEN IN THE YEAR 1791, BY MRS MORGAN. LETTER IX. To Miss B Woodstock, July, 16th, five o'clook afternoon. Aa you have never seen Blenheim, and I have promised to givo you an account of anything I meet with that I think worthy observation, I believe I cannot exercieo my pen and your patience to more advantage than in an attempt to describe it. It has been celebrated already, both in prosc and verse, by the ablest writers. Yet, as I shall give yu my own ideas, and nn! other people's I am not discouraged by its being a place so known, and so often described. I shall, however, only remark those things that have made the greatest im- pression upon me, and with which at this moment my mind is so entirely occupied, that it would be difficult, oven if I wished it, to draw myself eff ftom them to any other snbject. We entered thro' a prodigious errand triumphal arch, erected by the first dutcheea of Marlborough to the memory of the great duke. Oynr it is tho lowing inscription This gate was built, the year after the death of the most illustrious John, Dulro of Marlborovgb, by order of Sarah, his most beloved Wife, to whom he left the soio direction of the many things that remained un- finished of this fabrick. The services of this grta* man to his country tho pillar will tell you, which the Dutchess has erected for a lasting monument of his glory and her affection to him. Is it possible, after such a testimony of fcer tender and respectful affection for him, that wo can give credit to the story, though it had been often repeated, and positively asserted as a fact, that she carried him about with her in the carriage, and made a public spectacle of him, at the time when he had entirely lost his intellectual faculties? Surely, if this was really done, the motive must have been far different from what is insinuated. She possibly thought that air and exercise might, by degrees, restore him; and that seeing objects which had before been familiar to him, would recall his scattered ideas.—Charity bids us hope all things, and believe all things. When we had passed the portal, I seemed to be transported into a new world; such a magnificent scene presented itself all at once to my ravbhd sight. The palace, the park, the canal, the bridge, and a hundred other objects, struck upon my Senses in a moment. I was perfectly lost in wonder, and should scarcely have wished to move from the spot, where I was almost traneaxt; but the guide soon hurried us into the house. Ihrough that house, which would take a week to survey, you are dragged in an hour, and, perhaps, as it was our fate, to be obliged to follow a partv whose numerous absurd questions to the person who conducts you prevents even the agreeable ideas you might have in that short stay. On entering it, after passing through a superb ar- cade, you come to a grand hall, which is the height of the bouse and at the top of the colonnado is a reser- voir, that supplies every part of this immense building wi water. Amongst a number of striking things in tniaroom, are two statues in bronze. The Venus de I01," and the Fawn. They are elegant forms; but e dark colour of the bronze ill suits with my idea of the Venus de Medicis, through whose veins, in the original statue, they say, one may almost see the blood j iT° ce'^n8 ifl painted Victory crowning the duke of Marlborough, and many other ornaments, too numerous to mention. Amongst a number of fine pictures in the adjoining room is a painting of monkies, habited like monks. I will make no comments upon this affront to the cleri- cal order; but I must allow they looked character- M droll in their assumed gravity. Many of the apartments are hung with tapestry, which represents the battles won by the duke. I say tbiB answered my expectation. I have T un<!A JN °ne of thero is the ukin« of S the rhJ l" f Ifc U 58 far inftrior t0 the sculP*ure TV. same fact. .J?'6 » very large Bacchanalian piece, by Reubens which is almost too shocking to be looked at, and yet it tho°^ could not take my eyes from it all the time I was in the room where it was. It consists of a numerous groupe of men and women, bigger than L' r'°Hlinf? but the human form & distin- nf r 6m 't?1 monsters that compose the court k I?08t disJ5Uating objects are the the <r e7 beauty, hut it is much obscured by i jsagreeable situations into ^hich their intoxication has thrown them. They exro3e their persons without tb £ .fvTf? or,.8I)amw > and 8ceni to have very little of fiiion' e(i! S rrl08t conspicuous figure is a woman a en on the ground in a state of insensibility, and to tally regardless of her parental charge f r a k-mtiful infant boy, who appears evidently to bo her o'n, by the resemblance he beura to her, and the instinct he shews, has crept towards, and is sucking the milk from her almost bursting_ brea3t. lie is looking in her bloated face with the innocence of a chetub. Aa the Lacedemonians ueed to obliga their shves to be in- toxicated, in order to show this vice in its utmost deformity to their children so I think every female who ie, uilty of it should be led to this picture; and surely it would be an effectual cure. I have dwelt too long on this disagreeable subject, and will pass on to something more pieating. which represents human nature in c. better point of view. There is a very fine portrait of Charles the First, by Vandyke. Though there are few collections that have not this unfortunate monarch in them, yet I always contemplate him with a degree of melancholy that borders upon affection. There is in hi, countenanco a dejection and seriousness that seem prophetic of his future state. His Queen, Henrietta Maria, has the most perfect sweetness in her face I ever beheld, and the strongest expression of a brilliant understanding Another very engaging picture is the dutohess of Buck- ingham and her children. There are also Lord Henry bpencer, and Lady Charlotte in the charactor of a gipsey telling his fortune, by Sir Joshua Reynolds: but how far short of other paintings is thii piece lerhaps, when mellowed by time, it may better accord with those of older matters. Reubens, his wife and child, beautifully done by himself, and a groat number of pieces, by the first painter, adorn the whole house. To (oxamine, much less to describe, these master- pieces of art, would take more time than I had for seeing them, or now have for writing. Holy families, and scripture pieces of all kinds abound. Many fine landscapes, representations of battles, and domestic scenes, arrest the attention. The latter, when well represented, come home to every one's feelings and bosoms. A mongst these are the first duke and family the next duke, and hia family, and a full length of the present duke, in bis parliamentary robes. If ho is as handsome as this picture represents him, wee be to those who look too long and if his Ion resembles him we must pity poor Miss Gunning, though we cannot beautiful Present d»Uohes« too ia drawn extremely Though there is an immense number of apartments yet they do not seem large. But perhaps the profusion this'S' V1' *•°h thly, are decorate«i may have IMS effect. As it is impossible to remember how everv ra°n0dmfinl Ur7, 1 Can,°nly tel1 ?ou are all rich and splendid to a great degree. Those which do not contain the tapestry that displays the duke's victories a hung with damask of different colours, but chiefly blue or crimson, and ornamented with superb looking- glasses and splendid gilding. It is must incontrovertibly an amazing slruotare. let I am informed, that some fastidious people obieot to the great quantity of military ornaments, the mix ture of architecture, and the disproportion and large- ness of some of the parts. Surely martial ornaments become the palace of a martial man, especially when it was erected for a monument of his martial achieve- ments, and bestowed upon him by his sovereign, for the purpose of rewarding his military deeds. the purpose of rewarding his military deeds. As for the mixture of Architecture, that certainly gives a variety, without which so large a building wouid bo tame and cumbrous. I thick Dr Moore in speaking of the Apclln uf Belvedere, saye, that some parts of it are ^proportionally large; but this, far from being a blemish, gives to the whole its principal grandeur ai.d dignity. This aocouhts for what Illany people often wondor at, that a very lar^e women, with irregular features, is always more admired in public, then one whose proportions and delicacy are universally allowed to ex- ceed in beauty. I have frenuently observed the faces of those who arc called hind-c-mc on account "of their style, and have found, that the admiration they r-ceivo arises in great part from their defects. A large nose, a prominent eye, or wide mcuth, servo to make the face ntt father more striking, and give a grandeur to the conluur, which features u gularaiid dE- licnteuftenwant. I have even seen very handsome faces, that resemble marks which are rendered usly, by the strength or prominency of some one fedture°ab'ove the rrst. These observations answer to buildings 89 well as to the human face and figure, and prove that perfect symmetry docs not constitute beauty that things may be handsome, which will not bear the test of exact rules and that even that degree of disproportion in an object of considerable magnitude, adds to the sub- limity of it. So a women on a large scale and Blenheim house are charming, even in spite of all defects. It stands, and ever will do, a magnificent memorial of the duke's talents, and of royal gratitude. Its ornaments are so splendid, varied and glittering, that it resembles a castle, raised by the hand of a fairy to reward a favourito knight, more than any thing devised by the invention of an earthly being. Having before desribed Sandleford to you I cannot help observing, that it is a striking contrast to Blen- heim. But it is such a ono, as when the eye, dazzled with gazing at the sun, falls on the soft green of a beautilul lawn, upon which it may rest fur over with- out satiety or weariness. At S — -the mind is gratified with every thing, that can lender life rational and happy. At ll- it is fatigued with contemplating jets, that tetm like a golden dream, too gay and oo gKU.y tu bo h:11. ) HYMN TUNES. While volume?, pamphlets, and articles innumerable have appeared in periodicals, on the aubji.-tt of 1,) mns cnd hymn writers, no notice has been taken r f hymn tunes. Tiiia ia the xn^re remaikr.Lle, because no one questions tinir popularity. I'ealni, or hymn tunes aro about the eailicat vocfl utterances <-f children, and may be said to be one of the primary fcundatiur.3 of education. To whatever dcnoc.inatirn 01 religious faith parents or guardians attich intra* Ives--and in many eases where they aie wholly unconnected with anycoitgtegatica cf prefixing Christians:—hymn, or as oiu fiidhioucu people i-till term them, psalm, i.■ r.d ,4, :>11' Cl1,¡';ILl,;C :j.: tila in in. it t)' us'-i-, and 1.1," YUl4tid: in1.int..rs h aiii htii'i or ;in" th'-m v-ry :p qif ntly th, y a. nu>r< f,i; ri''jiii:-ite l ¡;,r ro«>t<-i in? tin- -.vids. j¡"/lq I Ut psalm, tui! arr p .fn'. cnpiiwn of ••unca- tional power in the early days of childhood. As children grow—whether they be the offspring of rich or poor, it matters little—so do psalm or hymn tunes become familiar in their mouths as household words." Sung in school; hummed at playtime whistled on a dark night in the streets of crowded cities or in the quiet country lane on water ns well as laud poured forth in the workshop, the study, or the mine; joined in at public worship, and not unfrequently indulged in when a child is, from choico or necessity, loft ti itself to find its own amusements it is no wonder that psalms and hymns and spiritual songs," grow up with the growth of children, strengthen with the strergth, and become, in maturer years the outline of Ð rudimentary creed; a ready made theological epitonn- of religious and moral duties, which time may partially efface, but can nover wholly obliterate. In this view the psalm or hymn, tune has had—and still appears destined to have—immense educational facilities for, if it is joined to words conveying a definite and dog- matic sense, it is very difficult, in after life, to separate the associations of the one frcm the other, and thousands, who entirely negloct their religious promises and privileges, frequently find the old tuno haunting" them, and with it some scraps of half-forgotten faith come rushing to their minds, demonstrating the wisdom of tho old saying,— A verse will find him who a sormon flies. Ferule's Magazine. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE AGAINST A SOLDIER. At the adjourned Pembroke borough petty sessions held at the To wn hell on Saturday afternoon (boforo Alderman S.Jonkins (mayor) and J. Dawkin3 Rev. R. J. ll. Thomas; and Messrs W. Hulm and T. Lewis), William Ripby, a gunner of the Royal Artillery, was charged by Captain G. Montgomery, C.B., Royal Artillery, with uttering a forged marriage certificate. Mr W, 0. Hulm oonducted the prosecution. The ohargo was preferred under the Act of Vio. 2d, cap. 28, sec. 36. Captain Montgomery said he was adjutant of the Royal Artillery for the South Wales district. The prisoner had been a corporal, and had been reduced. On the 11th of March prisoner was placed under arrest at South Hook Fort, on the haven, and was brought from thence to Pembroke Dock to bo tried by court martial, charged with an offence prejudicial to good order and military discipline, in having falsely stated to his commanding officer that a woman living with him in barracks was his wife, the prisoner at the timo well knowing that this statement was false. Ho was tried by court martial, on April 2nd, and for his defence prisoner handed in a marriage certificate (the one now produced). Witness was the prosecutor on that occasion, and the csrtifica'e was sent to the Registrar-General, London, which is the general praotice by order of the commanding officer, He (Cnpt Montgomery) subsequently received another certificate, together with the false one, from the Registrar General. The proceedings of tho court martial were handed to the commandant of the district, Major General Sir Charle3 Stavelev, who gave orders for the prisoner to be handed over to the civil authorises. Prisoner declined asking Captain Montgomery any question. Harry Clegg said he was a solicitor residing at Oldham, and that he was deputy superintendent of births, deaths, and marriages at that place. The certificate produced was obtained from and signed by witness on March 21st, 1872, on which day it was issued to a person who said he wanted tho marriage certificate of Thomas Woolston Hulme, and it was given him. The certificate had been altered since bo issued it. (The registrar's book of marriages was hero produced.) The certificate was markod No 72, Oldham Union. The first alteration on the certificate was 1866 on the margin, to 1867, and the date altered from October 17th, 18G6, to August 29th, 1867. The names and surnames of the persons so married were altered from Thomas Woolston Hulme and Sarah Jane Iladfield to William Rigby (ihe prisoner) and Mary Ann Ball; the ages were altered respoctivelv from 25 and 22 to 29 and 31: the condition of the female altered from epinster to widow, but the word bachelor had been left intact; the rank or profession of the man b,d been altered from that of cotton spinner to gunner, 2nd Brigade, Royal Artillery; the place of rcsidenoo at the timo of marriage waa altered, aa respected the man, from Partington street, Oldham, to Primrose Dank, and in that of the female, from Primrose Rank, Oldham, to Primrose Bank only; the columns for the riaiae and occupation of the father. which when ho issued the certificate, was blank, had e;ncc been filled up "[John Rigby, coal miner," and the MLmca oi the persons mariied had been altered as already mentioned; the names of the attesting witnevaes had been altered from Ralph Clegg and Sarah Ann Sutcliffc to those of John Uadficld and Lhzabeth lligby.^ Witness produced the counterfoil ot the cerimoate in tho registrars book, and he had no doubt whatever that tho certificate produced had been detached from that book witness (holding up the certificate belweeen tho window and tho bench) said the names had evidently been scratched out with a knito, or other sharp instrument. By the Prisoner: Yes, that document was issued from our office before it was to altered, and it was issued on the 21st of March. I can't say to whom it was issued By the Benoh It was issued to a man who aeked u, x. maTmaSe certificate of Thomas Woolston Hulme but I cannot swear that the prisoner ia the man. By the Prisoner It was not issued to a woman a woman came on the previous day and asked for the certificate, and I cautioned her as to altering any certificate and I could swear to her if I saw her again. I can't say whethor yon arc the man or no. Captain Montgomery recalled, said the envelope produced he received at the court martial from the prisoner, who handed it in with the certincate the date thereon ia March 22nd, and it had also the Oldham post mark, which corresponded with the da!e of the forgiry. Witness afterwards gavo the envelope to the p* lice. lly the priaoner: I can't say the envelope is in yemr handwriting. 7ha prisons pleaded not guilty, and said that he bad been in confi: .ment eight weeks, and had had no opportunity of getting any assistance. The prisoner was then committed for trial at the nigh assizes at Haverfordwest. SHOCKS'0 MCROER.—On Sunday afternoon a bombsidier named Jordan, stationed at the fort at Littlehampton, committed a shocking murder. A little boy named Semple, son of another bomha- r, was playing outbide the fort with his brother and sister, when the little fellow in answer to a call toddled to Jordan, who fluug him across his knee and cut the child's throat from ear to ear with a razor. On being asked why he had done this dreadful deed he said he did not know, but supposed it was the devil. At the inquest a verdict of Wilful Murder was returned. SAILORS' STKIKB AT SOUTHAMPTON.—This strike is assuming more serious proportions, the move- ment having been joined by the dock labourers employed by the South Western Company and the crews of vessels arriving home on Saturday.- The labourers demand a rise from 4d to 6d per hour, which has been conceded in the case of one crew, but the advance is otherwise resisted. The company have brought some men from Guernsey, who are allowed no communication with the shore but others brought from London have been induced to join the strike. 'Ihe Royal Mail Company offer two thirds of the pound a month demanded, and the Peninsula and Oriental and the Union Steam Ship Companies are prepared to do the same, but the men refuse it. The Marsillia, with the Indian mails, and the Saxon, with the Cape mails, are hourly expected at Southampton, and will be intercepted in the COWCR Hoads; the mails and passengers will be taken out, the vessels being sent 011 to London to discharge cargoes. The authorities apprehended a d;.sturbaucc and the mayor communicated with the Homo Secretary. A detachment of Metro- politan Police arrived at midday, but no distur- bance occurred. THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. After two postponements, Lord Russell's motion, the tortus of which express the unani- mous opinion of the people of Kngland, including as we have understood, the members of A?r Gladstone's Government, has been again with- drawn. rJ his concession to the diplomatic necessities of the Ministry, although it had become inevitable by the action of the mover cannot but be regarded by the public as extremely unsatisfactory Lord Granville's reasons for requiring a littlo more forbearance from the the House will fail to commend themselves to any impartial judgment. They were reasons afiecting only the convenience of the sensibilities of the Ministry, and not the Public interest. > 7 h i ll0t question which Lord hussell had invited the Houso to discuss Nor ean wc consider the declaration that the motion would be regarded as one of confidence in the Ministry at all called for by Lord Russell's resolu- tion. It caii only serve to make the public more suspicious of what the Government are doimr I tU9tb f -Strengtheu their hands fn egatd to the point at issue we shall weaken their position. Ihe simple question which every man will ask IB, do tho ministry intend, or do they not to yield the indirect claims? Do they admit, oi do they not, ibat those claims arc a part of Arbit™t°'S have to <Mc! I.cr.l (.ranvillo allirras that the (Joveru- in-lit had no intention of departing from the statements ylnch they have repeatedly made in ol.-FZ v tfhe.maH™liability of tho indirect i 'L i' 'u ?A,on ;0W1I|g that those statements diVinrt f81"CC> fun0 ol year, clear and lhstlllct. that isouly a reason the more for the Bouse adopting Lord Russell's motion. If we t i°'ie thinking respecting these n.t nect chums, what can be the harm of saying £ 0 s it not obvious that we have suffered much injuiy aa-pady through tho reticence of these ,"1)° '"i" 't l*ri;: -It pvVt'r r.ph':iii ? Ilnro wo 'lo^.iecii e.'uvreod > y tin: > 11 <■> r i« *:t 11 s t heniR'-l ves iM iinyi! «far.c<>n<-oalf'{ '.nr nteanitiv a. t.. iit them ;«■ '.elicvc that Wc int'-ndi-d t«. r(. to J arbitration «.u th" indin-ct ••i«ini!. t .Ml 'that Lord Russell's motion would have done would have been to affirm, plainly and unmistakeably, at this stage of the negociations, what the national inteutions are and have been respecting the Treaty of Washington. Nobody can say that we have suffered hitherto from too much plain speaking, We have suffered only because we have trusted too much to our agents, and have not directed them to express our views as clearly and strongly as we desired. the eruption OF MOUNT VESUVIUS. Tho special correspondent of the Daily New writes:— Naples, April 28, II p.m.—I left off writing this morning because the weather looked so fine, and the sky was so clear and brilliant, that I thought the best thing I could do was to profit from the change, and advance as far as possible against our terrible enemy. Accordingly I pro- ceeded towards La Cercola. The country was covered thick with black cinders, and not a single Sower was left untouched to show forth the brilliancy of its colours. Everything was black, a most suddening spectacle and this morning strangely contrasting with the splendour of the sky and the silvery waters of this enchanted gulf. The effects of the sun on the gigantic black column of smoke above Vesuvius were most picturesque and fantastic. A long the street I continually met cabs and carts loaded with poor furniture and barrels of wine. The peasants and the inhabitants of the villages are now returning to their houses, and seem anxious about the fate of their property. The display of troops along the streets was irn- posing. You would think that the enemy was a few hours' march from Rome, and that the outposts had strict orders to see that no one crossed the line. These poor soldiers have been on the spot the last six days, working hard, and look somewhat exhausted, but' do their best to be cheerful, and certainly are very active in preventing people of doubtful appearance from penetrating towards the places where there are abandoned houses. Close to La Qercola <he loud detonations commence again. '1 he sky darkens, and the shower of cinders re Commences. This light fine dust comes down upon you sometimes in flakes, liko snow. You arc soon covered all over with it, and it penetrates into your eyes and your mouth. J wished to see something more than mere vineyards covered with this black rain and looked out for a man who could carry me up the hill across the field to the spots where the lava still came running dewn from Mount Vesuvius. I managed to advance, and passed an inn, where a stout jolly looking man was looking after the barrels of his wine, which he had already got out, in order to save them in time. Then I passed several military posts, and soon fouad myself before a wonderful eight. It is a torrent whioh I might describe as of burning coke. A torrent of enormous width, perhaps a mile, and five and twenty feet in height; but it has now stopped in its course. In spite of the filthy smell, 1 picked up a piece of the burning lava. Outside it is black, but peeping inside you see the fire burning away. What with the heat of the sun, and the heat of the lava, it was enough to melt one. 1 he torrent of fire has only stopped after advancing about ten miles. I am glad to state that the report current yesterday of the death of a party of forty indi- viduals is unfounded. All the persons, with the exception of one man, who perished, complied with the directions of the soldiers and were saved. "Half the town of San SebaBtiano is destroyed. The church and tower remain standing, but are surrounded by lava. It was with some difficulty that many persons could be induced to abandon the place. A large number of old women had shut themselves up in the church, and protested against quitting it. The police inspector accompanied by several of his men, entered the building and ordered the women to leave; thev ie used and began shrieking. The danger was imminent, and in order to save the poor creatures the police bad no other resource but that of taking therd out by force. The Kipg has again visited San Sebastiono and St. Giorgio. He proceeded to the spot in a simple pony chaise, accompanied by one of his aides-de- camp, His Majesty carried with him a large packet of tin.franc pieces, and distributed them to all who accosted him. To many of the poor people he spoke at length, asking them what im- pression was first produced upon them by the eruption, and many other questions. On returning to Naples I found the peonle hurrying home with their umbrellas up, the rain of ciuders being insupportable. The cariiages were hastening away in a most miserable state of dirt the black shower having caught them while driving along the Chiaia promenade. Even at Caserta the fall was heavy and irritating. I found nw room at the hotel in a horrible state. The cin- dera had penetrated into the place and thickly covered even the sheets of the bed. A most unpleasant rain that which enters even through the fastenings of your window f» ^PRIL 2D' 1 was awakened in the night by the cinders half suffocating me The carpet close by the window was covered half an inch with them ana on looking out of the window, I found that the darkness was so complete as to render altogether invisible the gat lamps. This morning, on eavmg the hotel, I could hardly tfnd my way aLg the Chiaia, on account of the cinders blinding my eye. It had been raining during a part of the night, and the streets were in a filthy etate. Every where the people were turning wherever the cries of tha Neapolitan boys anounced that some fresh edition of the journals had appeared Of course, the desire to have the latest accounts of what has occurred is universal. Rut the rain 0f cinders and the scoiiae forms the subject of everv conversation. I found several persons examining the statistics of the previous eruptions, and looking very blank on finding that this downpour has nearlv always preceded a fresh eruption. And this rain is really very troublesome. It has now assumed a very different character, and is no lonff.r hke a thin dust. Tiny grains are blown in Your face by the wind, and make a noise knocking against the windows just like a storm of hail Near Cercola the storm of scoriae was so Rt during the night that the soldiers there, in 0Xr to be protected against it, were obliged to K 11 huts of the branches of trees. ° l° build ci 'k,0 courier who arrived this mornin<r San Sebastiano said that while it was stifl a T he was attracted by cries proceeding from gft"Onioning airection he could distinguish several HP,. making signals with white handkerchiefs Th" authorities at once despatched some enRineers to the spot. It is supposed that those peon,e lt0 shut up between the lava, and have remained thpr6 ever since. The lava being now cooled if* be easy to form a bridge and save them' TRTVV^ THAT THT TT T0 GXI8T NO ^BT^S to t.is fate encountered by a party 0f several Persons who left Portici for Vesuvius on the 25tii ihey Were m carriage, and nothing has been heard them since that terrible night. Severil nf »i, wuuiided who l,y „ the hUta nf'W dead in consequence of the severe ininrio received. No precise date as to the total of deaths has been obtained as yet; but it appears that the number of the victims is above eighty." THE HIGH PRICE OF MEAT. n ?rSf"3 by liSh Price «f Butchers tell us meat is dearer than it ever w™ before. We have read over and over again that there is an insufficient supply of meat in the country, especially mutton, and that in everv town, village, or city meat is selling at famine prices. Every mistress of a household laments the extravagant cost of the leg of mutton and every householder, on inspecting the weekly account at the butcher's, grumbles roundly and attributes the scarcity to circumstances which are beyond human control, whilst at the same time he allots increased profits to the breeders graziers, or farmers, who grow the meat, and not to the butchers. But this way of regarding the question would appear to be wrong. We have before us the published quotations of the Metropolitan Meat Market for March 2 1869, and also for April 29, 1872. There is Un- doubtedly, a scarcity of mutton in the country at the present time, and, if beef and pork are plentiful, still it must be remembered that the consumption of meat of all kinds has vastly increased since 18(39. We will not enter into the various reasons which naturally cause this incieased consumption, but will just mention that the population is on the increase, wages are liighei, and trade has been steadily pursuing a course ol unparalleld prosperity during the past few years. It is a fact, however, beyond dispute that the householder pays more now for his butcher's meat than he did in 1809. By com- paring the quotations of the two years, however, we fjrlLl that the meat does not actually cost the butchers more than it did in 1802, but rather ie.)S. Hence wo cannot but arrive at the ron- ,niM"1! 11.:11 ic 11,,1 111>' fanii>T- vrliM !">kMing ti. mihanred IlIlt :11,' buffers: -lU" /M:(V ]11';(: do, not i.ii.kM, wholesale, h,yWl' Ih""gh 1'Hail -•hapje Li-her =- prices, a good safe understanding must have been arrived at mutually between such dealers for their advantage. In plain terms, that they have conspiied to charge retail a higher percentage on their wholesale purchases, i.e., that they have conspired virtually formed a trade union, by which means the price of meat throughout the country is raised. The public can strike, of course, but that means that' they must go without meat for an indefinite period—a state of things that is hardly likely nevertheless, if the butchers do not look out, the public will start co-operative stores for the sale of meat, which result would be found productive of the saving much money to the co-operatives, and of vast loss to the butchers.—Land and Water. THE EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF BIGAMY. Henry Seymour, 75 years of age, using the names of the Hon. Henry Seymour, the Hon Henry Cavendish, the Hon. H. Ponsonby, the Hon. E. Bentinck, Horace Belmore, and several others, was again brought before Mr Knox, at Marlborough street, on Saturday, charged with intermarrying with Ann Elizabeth Pugh, his wife Aletha being alive. Mr E. Straight, M.P., instructed by Messrs, Carritt and Son, Fenchurch street, prosecuted on the part of Miss Stride, of the Servants' Home, No 17, Hart street, where the second wife is now living. Mrg Alln Pugh stated that she was a widow, carrying on business at No. 155, Regent street, as a mourning warehouse. Miss Ann Pugh was her niece by marragc, and lived at her house in July, 1869. Her niece advertised fora situation. The prisoner called at her house and had a conversation fvith her niece, at which she was present. The prisoner said he was Lord Henry Seymour, that ho belonged to the Hertford family, and that ho was a widower, staying at present with his nieces at High-gate but that intending shortly to go to his villa at Floronce, he was in want of an English housekeeper. The prisoner remarked that he thought Miss Pugh too young, that she was younger than he expected she was from the advertisement; but would think over the matter, and write. Her niece was at the time twenty four years of age. The prisoner wrote on several occasions to her mece. She saw the letters, and believed she had some of them by her. Th e prisoner culled again in a few days, proposed to her niece, making her an oiler of marriage. The prisoner frequently spoke of the Duchess of Somerset, saying that perhaps she (witness) would have some annoying letters from the duchess, because of the probability of his fortune going from her i ieces, and also because her Grace and her nieces would be very much shocked at his marrying so much below his position. The prisoner also said he was being watched to her house by people belonging to th, Duchess of Somerset. Subsequently she received au anouymous letter. In July 18G9 the prisoner was called away, as he said, by suddeu business to Paris. She then caused inquiries to be made but before she got any information the prisoner returned and was married to her neice.. The Prisoner had previously expressed a wish to be rnairied at Dieppe, but she objected. In speak- ing o money, the prisoner said money was of very little consequence indeed, as he had thousands and he asked her to become trustee for the money he was going to settle on Miss Pugh. Believing his statement she went to the bank to make arrangements for the money to be paid in. She was in church when the wedding took place, and the bride and bridegroom went off for Dieppe, she accompanying them asr far a White- haven. The prisoner said his wi/v. was not well and asked her to go on to l)iep»e,\nd meet his servant with the trousseau, which had been ordered from Paris. She left them at New haven and went on to Dieppe, with her son. On her return to England she found that the prisoner and his wife had gone to Brighton, the prisoner having left her a bill at Newhaven, which she was obliged to pay. The prisoner some time afterwards applied to her by letter for a loan of 30/. but she refused to let him havo any money. Her neice called at her house about two months ago, but she had not seen her to speak to her until this day. On one occasion the prisoner left what lie said was title deeds behind, but on the packet, which was searched with consent, being opened, the contents were found to be some copies of the Daily Tele- graph. The prisoner: Did I ever mention the Duchess of Somerset to you ? Witness; Yes, you did. Prisoner Why did you go to Dieppe 1 Witness: At YOllr request—to receive 2,000/. or 3,000l. the sum you said you were going to settle on my nitce in trust. I never told you my affairs were in a dilapidated state, nor that Jay had offered me 1,SOOI for my business You said you would devote your l:fe to my family. Mrs Pugh, in reply to the prisoner, said that she had made inquiries about him before the marriage took place, but she had not got the answer in time, and she had been prevented rem making inquiries in other quarters, ns the prisoner begged her not to do so. The prisone r once told her lie had fifteen servants at his hotel. She did not sacrifice her neice in hopes of get- tinff 10.000l. The prisoner said the neica would say dif- ferent, and he thought he had a right to have the latter present. Mr Knox acceded to the application of the prisoner for a remand, to enable him to pro- cure legal assistance. THE AGE OF HUHRY.—The Saturday Re- view has already discovered a new title for an age which already boasts a good many dis- tinctive epithets. It is the "Age of Hurry,' and the post card is its emblem. Our socia intercourse has been transformed from the cere- monious bow, the well turned compliment, and the stately demeanour of the leisurely days of which Sir Charles Grandison was the type, into the crush of a modern drawing room, where civilities are reduced to a passing bow and con- versation to a friendly epigram. The artiste sends potboilers to the academy and wishes he had time for nobler work. The scholar for- sakes his dusty, folios and rushes through pam- phlets and octavos. The preacher discards the hour gkss from his pulpit, and cuts down,the sermon to twenty minutes. Our very holidays are a race against time, and the tourist returns triumphant at having done Syria & the Pyramids 1Il a month. The postcard is a fitting corres- pondent for the world which believes itself too busy to put a sheet of paper into an envelope. But though the age rejoices in the proud con- ciousness that like John Brown's soul, it is always marching on, the Saturday Reviewer thinks some losses should be set off against the gains. As It is the advent of the penny stamp has marked adetenorationofthe general style of composition. It has killed all future Horace Walpoles, but the postcard goes farther-grace, wit, and affec- witl "lsh .A telegraphic style is over without end or beginning, which jerks along over the wreck of grammar without the aid of pre- positions, discarding the last remains of courtesy and jjood English together. VALUE OF QUINIHE.—It is refreshing, the Lancet thinks, in sceptical times like these to have evidence of the value of medicines The value of quinine will be admitted by the most Wez/atre practihoner, though different illua- T r be glVen by dlfforent physicians, lose who have practised in malarious districts at me or abroad would tell the most eloquent facts. of pernor\Tu\ mterestinS cases wouUl ^ose unsusiippt nin" uncon*clously under some • or vague form of malarial poison shrew,H J011^" 'he WOI'ld lniserab,y u,lti! so'»e (litin J J 'lan guesses at the malarious con- ition of their malaise, and tests his diagonsis by therapeuUcs The rulief of th(} ,ari(Jn(m_ s s, including herpes zoster, would be adduced, I he power possessed by quinine of lowering emperature, illustrated very slowly in our cof- un^sby twocasesoftypi^d, woultl appeár to some nund« the most Peking coniii over 1 1 processes. # More matter-of-fact people still would be impressed by the changes of qunnne. Mr MacGormac tells us in hi; iuter- 7,5Ur' °f hi" r.xp„ri„11C(. ",nn-; ihr war. >>'• a r.dun.l, t|li: 'If ■i.lhM. :ls|<od Inn. il hr o.uUUiv hi. 'LUIUIK-, AS IK; 4WAS StlfteifuV from an African fever brought on by heavy rains after the collapse of Sedan. Mr MacGormac gave the quinine and the marquis begged him to ac- cept in return his beautiful Arab horse. We have been informed that iu the Mauritius the price of quinine at one time lately, during the prevalence of fever, reached £ 28 10s. per ounce. THE MARKETS. LONDON CORN MARKET-MONBAT. At the provincial markets held on Saturday there was a fair attendance of millers, and wheat was frequently Is per qr. dearer. Spring corn generally was steady. Continental advices report a firm trade, with prices tending upwards. In America tha tone is rather quieter. Extra state flour is selling in New york at 7 dols, 40c. to 7 dols 6Gc. Red spring wheat 1 dol. 69c. Corn—old mixed, 75c. The import of foreign and colonial product into London last week consisted of 17,497 qrs. of wheat, 58G3 barley, 61,134 01\1., 492 beans, 61 peas, 2833 maize, 1693 tares, 1227 linseed, 114 rappsecd, 8365 sundry and, 2427 sacks of floor. WHEAT.—The grain trade at Mark-lane to-day has continued firm, the supplies of produco being limited. English wheat has come sparingly to hand, and the quality has been hardly so good. Tbere has been a moderate supply of millers, and the inquiry has ruled firm. At the commence- ment of business an advance of Is per qr. was demanded, but this was not obtained. A moderate supply of foreign wheat has been on offer. The trade has been steady at full pr.ees. BARLRY.—The supply of barley has been mod. erate. The trade has been steady on former terms. MALT has been quiet on former terms. OATS, the supply of which has been moderate, have been in slow request, at barely lata rates. MAIZE.—For maize there has been a health) demand, and prices have been well maintained. BEANS have been disposed of at previous quotations. PEAS have been firm, at Jate rate?. Flour has been in moderate request, at about late rates. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET— J\I,)NJ>A r. The total imports of foreign stock into London last week amounted to 15,040 head. In the corresponding week in 1871 we received 19,5oo, in 1870 7570. in 18ü9 14,803, and in 1H68 18,716 nead. The cattle trade to-day has been firmer. The weather has been more unfavourable for killing, and supplies have been short whilst the presence of some country butchers has tended to promote animation. Foreign beast have been scarce, and the show of home breeds has not been expensive. The demand has been more active, and priecs have had an upward tendency. The best Scots and crosses have occasionally made 6s 8J., but 5s Id to 5s Gd per Sib. has been the general top figure. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridge- shire we have received about 1700 Scots Mud. crosses from other parts of England, 2.00 various breed* and from Scotland, 101 Scots and cross. The supply of sheep has been less extensive, but tho quality has been good. For all breeds the demand hns been more animated, and prices have had IIn upward tendency. The best Downs and half breeds have sold at 5s 6d to 511 8d., and occasionally 58 l()d per 8lb. Limbs have bien disposed of at from 7s to 8s Gd per Bib. Calves have sehlat previous quotations. Pigs have been quiet on former terms. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKKA —MONDAY. With fair supplies of meat on offer the trade has been firmer, at our quotations. The import into London last week consisted of 34 quarters and 415 packages from Hamburgh, 55 packages from Dunkirk, 123 from Rotterdam and 2 from Harlingen. ANNIVERSARY OF THB DEATH OF NAPOLEON FIRST. A solemn mass was celebrated on Sunday at the Invalids, in commemoration of the fifty first anni- versary of the Great Napoleon's death. This is a day of mourning, writes a Paris correspondent, for tho wounded, crippled, or aged pensioners who dwell in the military hospital. Early in the forenoon the adjoining Church of St. Louis is filled with all the inmates who are able to attend service, and ae they sit beneath some hundreds of unfurled trophies wrested from nearly every nation, the chaplain delivers an address on the historical anniversary. After leaving church it is usual for all the veterans who have served under the great General to don their old-fashioned uniforms, and to march in a body to the Place Vendome, where they deposit wreaths of immortelles on the railings, stones, and eagles, surrounding the memorial of Auxterlitz. This year like the last, the pilgrimage had to be omitted, for the ruthless Commune had destroyed the Imperial monument, of which there is only left the square shaped basement. On my way to the Invalides I passed by this funeral- looking socket, still guarded by a sentry as of old. Inside the railing wore lying seven bright fresh looking wreaths of yellow flowers, twisted round with black ribbon. I asked the seutryif he knew who had hrought them. Sept vieux de la Vielle," he replied, adding, by way of comment, they had only got nine legs and eight arms between them and you should have seen the tears roil down their cheeks when I offered to take charge of the iiiirnortellcs. 'Ah, if you have been com- manded by cclui-la they said to me, our poor France would not be in this mess. Further Oil I met a couple of Invalides, slowly wending their way across the Place de la C mcorde they also carried wreaths, and one of them, who was stamp- ing along oil a wooden leg, held an enfant de troupe by the hand. I slopped them to enquiie whether the church service was ended. "Yes," replied the youth in the miniature uniform, before his mentor could speak; "grandfather and I were there." And will there be now full dress pro cession to the Place Vendome ?" I asked. "No, said the old man gravely; "we had a meeting last night in the great dining hall, where we decided that as tnere were not only eighteen left of those who bad taken part in Napoleon's campaigns, it would ba more dignifiad not to show our glorious rags (nos gxtenillesglorieuse*)round the mutilated remains of the column. But you see, sir, we cannot all make up our minds to let the day go by without doing something to remind our countrymen that wc are alive." At the Hotel des Invalides under the central arcade of first floor stands a very old friend whom I had not seen since the war—the bronze statue of the Emperor, wearing the traditional rcdingote jrise and cocked hat. Till 18C3 he was the admired and familiar frieud of all Paris 3S he looked good humouredly down upon the city from the height of the Column Vendome. In that year, however, his Majesty Louis Napoleou happened to be writing ahistory of Csesir, intended to illustrate the glorious career of Ihe First Bonaparte, and in order to insure, at least, an indisputable physical likeness, the little man in frock coat was brought down to make room for a tall rival wearing the classical gown -laurels. The rejected statue was sent into exile on the Place de Courbevoie, where it remained almost forgotten until the German siege began. Then some patriotic souls built him a temporary casement to protect his person from the inclemency of bombsheUs. Finally, when the German troops were on the eve of entering the city, three common labouring men, fearing he might be carried back to the enemy's country ns a trophy, hauled him down, tied a rope round his neck, and dropped him into the Seine, which runs close by. It was only the other day that he was pulled out by the same men, and handed over to the Government. Withm a hundred yards of his ashes, Napoleon's statue could hardly be in a spot more suited to his fame and to his last wish. The Chapel of St Louis is gaily decorated with flags taken in action —Austrian, Russian, Prussiau, Spanish, and even British bunting hangs in a torn and tattered state from the roof, giving a lively martial air to the nave. Over six hundred young looking linesmen, devoutly kneel, repeating prayers for the repoM of the dead. Twelve gigantic tapers are burning on the altar, where a priest is intoning the prayers. There are a few women and civilians, but it is evidently more a rendezvous for military men than for the mass of the people. The great name of Napoleon has still a magic iufluenco in the army. Nothing makes the eye of a young French soldier sparkle like any fact connected with the history of the First Napoleon. To the sons and grandsons of the meu who fought under the great chief he can never be dead. The famous words inscribed here, "I wish my ashes to rastonthe janks of the Seine in the midst of that French people whom I have loved so well," awakes a sympathetic response in the breast of the humblest and youngest of that French people's" esceudants. On this day no stranger is allowed to. VlSlt tom b or granite sarcophagus placed over the Emperor s mortal .remains. None but !(WV,|TlnS French inilitaiT uniform are MIM. ifd to penetrate into the sanctum. UrCl,'rl h" 'Orfr.Mt.lv plied 'Mi'1 U.,ar1,.r i,» I II, WIII.Ti &, t.0) Horu, 1 RI.SK 11 I V V II.I.K IT I I, I'.KI.I TIIE ASSAULT ON THE LATE MR MURPHY.- It is stated that the Home Secretary has given a favourable answer to a memorial from gentle- men of Whitehaven district praying for the remission of the sentence on the three men con- victed of assaulting Mr Murphy, the anti-Papal lecturer, last spring. They were sentenced to twelve month's imprisonment. Epps's CHOCIL VTE.—La Situation, in an article en- titled France ct Angletorrc," tiays Nouns n'avons en Franco qu'uuc scule Ufine ou 111 preparation du Cacao emploie 11n materiel et un personal aussi c msiderables que ccux que nouns avons vus dans L'usine de Messieurs Epps. C'est une veritable curiosite dans son genre que cette immense fabrique." The wrapper of each cake of Chocolate prepared by this firm is labelled JAMES Epps & Co, Homoeopathic Chemists, London." Also makers of Epps's Milky Chocolate (Chocolate and Condensed Milk.) SHAKESPERE'S GARDEN.—The Theatrer Royal at Stratford-on-Avon has been closed, before being pulled down, in order to restore the great garden of Shakespere to its original form and size. The generosity and energy of Mr J. 0 Halliwell having secured the purchase of tho whole plot of ground once occupied by the poet, the garden of Shakespere will here- after form a public property. The house which Slukespere bovght, and in which he passed the last years of his life, was pulled down by Parson Gastrell about a century ago, and only the foundations remain. On this site, however overshadowed by the old Guild Chapel, Shakes- pere eat in safety under his own vine, what he planted." and here doubtlsss he often "slept within his own orchard his custom always in the afternoon," Five and forty years ago a theatre was built on the corner of the gardens and opened with As you like it" and with excellent taste i' faith" the little theatre was closed with the greatest work of Sbakespete'g genius, the tragedy of Hamlet," much of whieh probably was written on the very site where it was played. A SINCKKK Voicn OF WARNING againet Q iaok'0 or an unerring Guide lo the Nervous and Debitftsied hy J. L. Pulvermaciier. An infallible oiean« of do- tcctirig the Q'fack Doctor, and (bus preventing tbl) above clasg of patients from tailing into his clutobes, a danger into wb:ch they are likely to be entrapped through his sp -cioui and entii,,ing forms of advertise- merits and Treaties. Tt.e well known name end posi" tirn of the author is a suflloient guarantee of sineeriiy- To tie had through uny hooksellor, or direct of J. I* Pulvermaoher, Galvanic £ ^lablisbmeut, 168 Kegel*'1 Street, W., London. CROQUET LAWNS — LAWM 1\10WERS.-Thd selection of a Lawn Mower from among the manufac- tures of this couptry presents considerable difficulty* Each vaunts the superiority of his own over all others but with the lxoeptiun of certain points of detail and gearing they are all pretty much alike. The new American Machine called the Arcbimedian," buwl Mer, differi from them all, being constructed on quite a novel principle. Tho whole of the horticultural presti has pronounced it to be by far the beat in thf market, and after much opposition its suooess may no '\II' be considered as complete. PRICE OF PICTURES.—It seems that the RE!E{ brated mare Achievement' won in four shof years no less a sum than £23,412 in stakes alone, and so—if her owner backed her to any tane- must have brought him in nearly a quarter of < million. Against this we must of course set thf fact race horses are a highly speculative INVEST' merit, aud that few marcs are as aoand and FT* luckv as Achievement. Pictures, however, DTF not go lame or break their wind, and it is pretty clear that a man who, with erdinary )UNJGMENTF# can afford to buy good pictures to lay tfrem by and to insure them against fire can, if he EEFW when discount is low, calculate upon a steady (eN per cent. over his expenses. A Turner (2ft. 4111" by 3ft 6in.) sold on Saturday for 11,700, a Start' field (2ft. 3in by 3ft. 9in) for JE2,700, and Muller (2ft. by 2ft. Sin.) for no less than £ 3,950* The three pictures then represent a total of n° less than £ 7,350, a sum so far beyond theif original price that we cannot but wonder wketbef pictures, judiciously bought and sold, are not fully as good an investment as stocks or deben- tures. The fact is that while the supply of good pictures is nearly stationary the loose wealth 01 he community grows daily: and it is almost worth while considering whether an acute jobbed could not make a very effective "corner" 111 Turner's or Stanfields.. NEW MKTAL POCKET VESTA Box WITH PATEKT SPRIKG COVER.—Bryant and May have recently irtirol duced a very usefnt little Pocket Vesta Box with II most ingenious and simple spring cover; it is a noveHT in every way, and will soon come into very general UB- -being of metal instead of card, and retailed. filled with vestas at one penny. Any Tobacconiit, (grocer, Chemist, or Chandler, will supply it. If there are any Ladies who have not yet used: tbe I GLE N Fl ELD STARCH, thoy are respoidtfully solicited to give it a trial, ani carolully lollotv out the directum' printed on every paokage, and if this isdoue,tbey w«» say, like the Queen's Laubdress, it is the finest they ever used. When you ask lor (Jlen6eld staro» see that you get it, as Inferior kinds are often subst" tuted for the sake of extra profit. Beware theretor. of spnrious imitations. MARKETS. HAVEKFORDWEST, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 18/3 a. d. s. d, Geese 0 OtoO 0 each Turkeys 0 0 to 0 0 Ducks 0 0 to 0 0 „ Fowls 5 0 to 5 6 coupl* Butter (tre-h) 1 0 to 1 2 per IP- liuitcr ("salt). 1 0 to 1 04 ot Epgs, 10 for 6d. Boef 8 to 10d pet lb ,Mutton.9 to IOd to If Od „ Yeal to 8d Pork. 6 to 7(1 Cheese H to „ Wheat Os Od to Os. tKl per winotaeit** Hurley 4i 2d to Is 5d „ Potatoes 241ba. for Irf. MERCHANT'S PRICES, (this day). Wheat, 6Mbs 7s Od to 73. 3d. Barley, 5Hb Od to 4s. 3d. Oatil, new black 2s. 5»1. to Zs. Butter, (fresh) Is Id to Is 3d. per It* Butter, (salt,) (best quality) Is ld to Is 1 Jd periti Cheese 28,s. P" cwt. MRS WIKSLOW'S SOOTHING STRUT roH CI*IM>HIW 8houl<* always be used when Children are cutting teeth; it relieve* the little sufferers at once, it produces natural quiet sleep vj relieving the child from pain, and the little Cbernb awakcp as bright a* a button." It a perfectly harmless, and vel7 pleasant to taste. It soothes the child, it softens the itllays all pain, relieves -wind, regulates the bowels, and the best known remedy for dysentery and diarrhoea, whether arisinfcfrom teething or other causes. Mrs WinLIow's gootbivg Syrup is sold by thousands of Medicine dealers in all parto of the world ut is I id per bottle, and Millions of Mothers cart testily to its virtue.—Manufactory, 493 Oxford Street, London « BROWN'S )5:;OXCHIA. TROCHES, for the cure of Coughs, Colds* Hoarseness, Bronchatis, Asthma, Catarrh, or any irritation of soreness of throat, are now imported and sold in this country at Is ljd per box, j-ut up in the form of a "lozenge." It if the most convenient, pleasant, safe and sure remedy for clearing and strengtheniog the voice known in the world' The Rev lleury Ward Beecher says I have often rctoa*' mended them to friends who were publicspeakers, and in mdflT cases they have proved cxtnmely serviceable. The genuine have the words '• Brown's Bronchial Troches" on tha Govern' ment Stamp around each hot. Sold by all medtcint vendarf • -London Depot, 4!)¡ Oxford Street. 11 vl.L')W y. S PU.LS. Sick Headacbel. ThoulØØItt suffer from this worrying annoyances when the boof and brain are depressed in warm damp weather. Holloway's purifying Pills present a ready meant of euro for indigestion, biliousness and flatuloncy; i1* debilitated constitutions and nervous habits these PiH* are the best restoratives; they correot all the unpleasf^ conscquences of torpiditv of the liver, they remote distention, and never fail to secure regular Mtio"* For all abdominal ailments Holloway's Pills are tb<j safest possible medicine, they at onoe give ease ao^ comfort, and naturally strengthen the whole series oj organs concerned in the process of digestion, and be found useful in every household. r FLORILINE !—For the TEETH and BHB>T«.—A few drape ° the Fragrant Floriline on a wet tooth brush produces delightful foam, which cleanses the Teeth from all hnpttritW*| strengthens and hardens the gums, prevents tartar, arrests the progress of decay. It gives to the Teeth pcculi'ir and beautiful whiteness, and imparts a fragrancc to the breath. It removes all unpl-asant odd", arising from decayed teeth, a disordered stomach, or to smoke. The Yragrant Floriline is purely vegetable, cqualiy adapted to old and young. It is the greatest discovery ot the age. Sold at 2s 6d by all Chemists Perfumers. Prepared only by H. C. GALLOP, 493 OX'0^, Street, London. The word Floriline is a Trade Mafk- VALUABLE DISCOVERT FOR THE HAIR 11 -A very nicely Pe, fumed hair dressing called The Mexican Hi ir Renewed now being sold by mast Chemists and Perfumers at 3s fid p?.. bottle, is fast superseding all Hair Restorers "—for it positively restore in every erne Grey or White hair to original coloui, by a few application, without dyeing leaving the disagreeable smell of sioat Restorers." s makes the hair cr.armingly beautiful, the growth on bald spots, when the hair glands are not or. caved. Certificate from Dr Versmann on every bottle, fail particulars. Allk for" THE MEXICAN IlAnl RENEwSJI, prepared by II.C. GALLUP, 49J Oxf rd Street, London. j •THE Lion, TUB NET AND THR MOUSR."—TO PRE^C" Vim ten, and unprincipled Traders from deceiving the Pu *1. the proprietor of l'i WELL'S BAL«AM OF ANISEKO has been co"* polled to adopt the above Trade Mark (Lion, Net and Mou'y^ and this design will in future continue te appear upon tp. wrapper ol'c ich genuine Bottle, ;ind any one imitating render themselves liable to Fine or Imprisonment, A" following Ivtter will bear te timonv to the wonderful curat' properties of this Old Cough Medicine.—" Her M»je8t/.h Gun Boat, Netlcy,' Wick, North-Kast Coast of Scotland, September, 1H(>8.—Oear Sir,—Having had a most distreseiroj and severe (lough, which ca«<cd me many sleepless nights a' j restless days. I was recommended by His Lordship the t'1. of Caithness, to try your most invaluable Bals m of A)iis<'c and I can assure you -*ith tho first dose I fonnd lmnied;il relief, even without having to s-uspend my various ('u'i'vg and the first small bottle completely cured me,therrforeI ',an> tlv; greatest confidence in fully rccoinmeoding it to the mil lioll, Most respectfully yours, W. Liuziil, IX.M.G.B. Netle5b.g To Mr Powell." Prepared aud sold by Thomas I'owf V'-na lilaekfiiars Road, I-ondon and sold by Chemists and Medic' Fendor throughout thy world, in Bottles only, at li ljd a* 2:- 311 each. Ask ior Balsam of Aniseed." t'rintnd by the Proprietor THOMAS IJKWXS residing at Hill Street, in tlw Town and County 0 If ,V. :i-.Ur-.t, .lid -p,l.i;iiod l,y lv.m f a '11. Iii 1.1'101. street, iii tli# 1 >"• "J .lilt v 'rid:< V, \i y l'», 1 *7: