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EPITOME OF NEWS. ♦— THE FENIANS are assembling at St. Paul, for the purpose of invading the Red River Territory. LADY FRANCES SMART died this week in her -sixty-seventh, year. THE HEARING OF THE TIPPERARY ELECTION peti- tion will commence on the 26th inst. THE BARQUE Sr. DUJJSTAN has been wrecked. Four lives were lost. A RUMOUR prevailed at Yokohama last March that Sir Harry Parkes had been transferred to Pekin. THE KING OF THE BELGIANS is on a visit to this country. THE BISHOP OF MADRAS has left Bombay for England. THE EX-FATHER HYACINTHE is at present in Munich, and has hail an interview with M. Dollinger. POPE PIUS IX. has entered upon his seventy- Zlinth year. THE FRENCH CHAMBER has re-assembled, but at once adjourned. A COMPLETE and well-illustrated treatise on the mushrooms of Europe has been published by M. Boumeguere. THE Journal Officiel publishes a decree nominating two artists, the sculptor Preault and the painter Cambon, Knights of the Legion of Honour. THE NATIONALISTS speak of starting a" Re- pealer" candidate for Dublin as soon as the writ is issued. A BAND OF YOUNG MEN, organised for robbing churches, has been discovered in Mexico, and several of the number have been arrested. COUNT STACKELBERG, the Russian Ambassador at the Court of the Tuileries, who has for some little time been sinking, died in Paris the other morning. MR. G. BROWN, brother-in-law of the late Mr. George Henry Moore, has been elected, without opposition, for the county of Mayo. THE CELEBRATED SCHAMYL has just arrived at Mecca, with the intention of residing there for the remainder of his life. A MAN NAMED FRINEY has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to assasinate Mr. Shields. The crime is supposed not to have been agrarian. THE MAYOR OF SALFORD has refused to give the use of the Town-hall for a public meeting on the Contagious Diseases Act. TRIPLE BIRTH.—Mary O'Brien, an inmate of St. Luke's Workhouse, lately gave birth to three fine boys. Mother and children are doing well. IT IS STATED, on the authority of Mr. Lange, that the rumours of disaster to the Suez Canal are unfounded. THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES has passed the bill fixing the total strength of the army at 30,000 men. THE ANNUAL DINNER OF THE COBDEN CLUB has been fixed for Saturday, the 23rd July. Mr. Gladstone has consented to take the chair. THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE'S STATE CARRIAGE, built at a cost of 600 guineas, has become the pro- perty of a firm of carriage hirers in Glasgow. THE SOCIETY OF ARTS has adopted resolu- tions in favour of decimal weights and measures and of a corresponding system of international coinage. A DUEL HAS TAKEN PLACE between Baron Baude and M. Demetrius Soutzo, the Greek Minister of War, without any serious results. A BANKRUPT, irritated at a counsel recently pleadicg against him, exclaimed at last, Thee hold thy din; I owed thee nothing." THE HEALTH of his Royal Highness Prince Leopold appears to have improved since his return to Windsor Castle. A GENTLEMAN recently called at the office of the Aged Pilgrims' Friends Society, in the Poultry, and without giving his name presented 41,000 to the fends. WE ARE ABLE TO STATE that there is no truth itr the report that Yice-Admiral Sir Sydney C. Dacres, X.C.B., is about to resign his post at the Admiralty. IT IS ANNOUNCED that the Sunday trains vhioh have been for some time running between Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Paisley are to be discon- tinued. AN APPLICATION has been made in the Dublin Court of Queen's Bench to admit to bail Peter Barrett, who was twice tried, abortively, for an attempt to murder Captain Lambert, in July last. A RETURN of the entire voting on the Ple- biscite throughout France and Algeria has now been published. The total ayes were 7,336,434, and the noes 1,560,709. DR. MATTHEW DUNCAN will succeed to the professional chair in the University of Edinburgh, vacant by the death of the late lamented Sir James Sicapsoa. THE CULTIVATION OF THE TEA PLANT promises to become a source of weath to California. The tea plants, which already number 300,000, are doing weU. INI" A s raids, apparently on an extensive scale. I ;i<- commenced on the frontiers of Chili when the mail ir'r,. A rupture was also reported between Pern and Bolivia. THE Lord-Lieutenant and the Countess Sp<?z<cer are expected to leave Dublin on the 26th or 27th in-taut; for St. James's, with the intention of re- main ii-'tr u. Î eW weeks, Ms. -I. '.V. LEWIS has intimated that, on the second reasiiag of the Capital Sentences (Revision and Commutation) Bill, he will move that it be read a second time upon that day three months. THE REV. NEWMAN] HALL has returned from Palestine. The health of the rev. gentleman, which was in a declining state, appears to have been re- stored. IT IS RUMOURED that Mr. Gladstone has banded over the appointment to the rectory of Middleton to Mr. Brassy, lord of the manor, rather than risk another refusal of the offer of this living. THE PRINCE OF WALES will be solicited to patronise the Oval Cricket Ground, at Kennington, this year. His Royal Highness is proprietor of the ground. MICHAEL MARTIN, a countryman, aged 20, has ,been arre&ted on Board the City of Paris, outward bound Inman steamer, charged with firing at Mr. Radcliffe, the magistrate at Kells, Wostmeath. THE MOST NOTORIOUS BRIGANDS in Acunnenia and Lepauto have been killed, and the remaining bands are seeking to escape to Italy, Turkey, and Wallachia. Western Greece is freed from brigandage. THE ASTRONOMER, Mr. D. Low, writing to a contemporary, goes into the matter scientifically to enable him to predict that we shall have a very hot and dry summer. WE UNDERSTAND that Lord Skelmersdale has iccome associated with Lord Colville and Viscount Hawarden in conducting the business of the Con- servative party in the House of Lords. SERIOUS DISTURBANCES HAVE BROKEN OUT in the island of Madeira. Three persons are reported to have been killed, and many others wounded. The -Government has sent troops to the island. LORD AND LADY MUNCASTER, who, it will be recollected, were among the English prisoners captured by the Greek brigands, have been on a visit to the Queen. THE NUMBER OF TELEGRAPH MESSAGES sent for delivery in the City of London in the week ending May 14, was 17,588, showing an increase of 1,127 over the number sent out in the preceding week. THE HON. WILLIAM CLAPP, who, under Presi- dent Lincoln, was Controller of Vermont, and well known in the politics of that State, has died at St. Albana. M :t, CHARLES MATHEWS has arrived safely at Melbourne after a charming voyage. He had a great reception, and everything was couleur de rose. He was to appear on the 9th of April. A NEW OPERA is promised in Paris called Peace driving away the Horrors of War. The title seems to have been suggested by the famous picture of Rubens, now in the English National Gallery. THREE MEN have been charged before the Northwich magistrates with conspiring to accuse the Rev. Octavius Baldwin, curate of Great Budworth, of immoral conduct. Finally an apology was accepted. His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OE WALES has consented to review the Civil Service Volunteers in Hyde-park on some day after the 27th inst., to be fixed by his Royal Highness. THE OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT of the Broad- moor Criminal Lunatic Asylum has become vacant by the death of Dr. Meyer. The salary is £1,000, with residence. DR. J. OPPERT, of the Royal Library, Windsor, has in the press a second edition of his work on Prester John, the Graal, and other legends of the Middle Ages. A POLICY in the Law Life for £ 2,900, on the life of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, effected May, 1853, was sold recently for .£515, being £ 108 more than the office value. AN INSINUATION.—Tsvo boys in the employ of the Erie Railway Company having swindled that com- pany of 270 dols., the New York Herald heads the notice of the case The force of example." THERE IS REASON TO BELIEVE that the Natural- isation Treaty between this country and the United States, which has been the subject of negociation for some time past, has now been signed by Lord Clar- endon and Mr. Motley. THE fatal effect of a misplaced comma is shown in the following sentence, wherein a Buffalo paper, intending to say a good word for a young lady, says a decidedly bad one. "She is fast, and deservedly becoming a favourite with the public." SILVER MINING, which has much retrograded of late years in Pern from a want of a sufficient number of skilled miners, is profiting in the general progress of the country under the present Govern- ment. BY TELEGRAM from Madras, the death is an- nounced of General WilliamFen wick, C.B., commanding the Nagpoor, or KampteeDivision, which occurred wbile on his way to Mysore. The gallant officer was the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Fenwick, C.B. A MASSACHUSETTS PAPER regrets that the crowded state of its columns will not permit it to publish a furnished sketch of the life of a certain gentleman, but promises to preserve it as material for an obituary notice. THE PRUSSIAN GOVERNMENT are setting about the remodelling of the two or three million rifles in their possession, and by ingenious but inexpensive changes hope to make them equal to the best military rifles of the day. BENJAMIN HAMMOND, aged seventeen, a van boy in the service of the Midland Railway Company, was lately standing by a van in the goods station, at St Pancras, when the horse started, and the shaft struck him in the jaw, breaking it. THE Echo understands that, consequent upon the changes in the French Ministry, it is thought probable the Marquis do la Vallette will be recalled from his functions as French Ambassador at the Court of St. James's. A CIRCULAR has been privately distributed at Salt Lake, calling the Mormons to meet at the ward school-houses for drill. An Ogden despatch says drilling and arming are in progress throughout the territory. THE AMERICAN TELEGRAMS inform us of a terrible fire which has occurred in the mountain forests of Madison and Sullivan counties, in the state of New York. The loss is estimated at 5,000,000 dollars. THE Gazette announces the appointment of the Rev. J. Woodard to a canonry in Manchester Cathedral, and that of the Rev. G. H. Greville Anson to the archdeaconry of Manchester, vacant by the elevation of Dr. Durnford to the episcopate. NOTHING HAS YET BEEN DONE respecting the Aldershot command. Whoever gets it will find it a difficult task to succeed one who is so much beloved by officers and men as Sir James Soarlett, so as to fill the space the latter occupies. Mlt. J. E. DAVIS, who is now the stipendiary magistrate for the Staffordshire Potteries, has been selected by the Home Secretary for a similar position at Sheffield. His salary is now £ 800, that fixed at Sheffield is £ 1,000. MR. SPURGEON HAS CONSENTED to take the chair at a public demonstration of the working men of London, which will be held in about three weeks, to give an expression to their opinion on the Govern- ment Education Bill. THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA has commissioned his Grand Chamberlain, Count Czernin, to express to the father of the unfortunate Prince d'Arenberg, murdered at St. Petersburg, his sentiments-of deep affliction and sympathy. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN has expressed her intention to give a prize of 1,000 francs (£40) for the best fau painted or sculptured by a female artist under 25 years of age, and exhibited next year. The competition will be international. ADVICES FROM: NEW ZEALAND, via Bombay, state that the insurgent chief, Te Kooti, has been routed by the friendly natives, with a loss of 19 men and 300 prisoners, and that the war is supposed to be over. THE NAPLES PAPERS tell us that on the 13th of this month the direct line of railway between Naples and Foggia is to be opened. When this does take place it will still further facilitate the communica- tion between Italy and the East. A QUEBEC DESPATCH says the steamships Germany and City of Quebec came into collision off Green Island, and the latter sunk in half-an-hour, after they struck. An engineer and a passenger of the City of Quebec were lost. A MEMORIAL has been presented by the Cotton Supply Association to the Secretary for India, complaining that the agricultural resources of that country are not fully developed, especially as regards the cultivation of cotton. A MONUMENT to King Robert the Bruce is to be erected on the Field of Bannockburn. An in- fluential committee has been formed in London and in Scotland. The committee are obtaining a design fr:m the veteran artist Mr. Gaorge Cruikshank. INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM LLOYD'S AGENT at Yokohama, dated 26th March, says "The Blue Jacket, which arrived here to-day from Hong-Kong, reports that she discovered two now islands on the way." THE REV. A. CAMPBELL, rector of Liverpool, died the other day at a very advanoed age. He had been ailing for some time. Flags on the shipping in most of the docks and on the public buildings were hoisted half mast high. THE NEW HALL OF THE LONDON INNER TEMPLE has been opened by Prinoeaa Louise, who was accom- panied by Prince Christian. Their Royal Highnesses and a select company were afterwards entertained at luncheon in the hall. A MELANCHOLY AFFAIR, resulting in the loss of three lives, has occurred at the railway station at Nice. The station-master saw a woman and child on the rails as the train for Cannes was approaching, Ho rushed forward to save them, but was too late, and all three were killed. A FRACAS TOOK PLACE the other day, in the in- closure at the Mullacuiy Eaces, between Mr. Philip Callan, M.P. for Dundalk, a steward of the races, and Mr. Osborne, of Dardestown, County Meath, which ended in Mr. Osborne being knocked down by a blow. The origin of the altercation is not known. THE FACTORY ACT is being enforced in Irish newspaper offices. The proprietors of the Wat erf or d News, Waterford Chronicle, and Water ford Citizen, have been summoned before the magistrate, and fined in the mitigated penalty of £1 each for employing at illegal hours. COLONEL EDWARD TOMKINSON, Aide-de Camp to the Queen, has died at his residence, Lower Sey- mour-street, in his forty-fifth year. He entered the army in 1843, and served with the 8th Hussars in the Crimean War, being present at the battle of the Alma, Balaklava, and before Sebastopol. FRANCE is sending a very interesting contri- bution of fans to the London Exhibition. The Em- press contributes her marriage fan, and one painted by her Imperial Highness the Princess Mathilde, whose water colour drawings are of more than ordi- nary merit. AT THE SHEFFIELD TOWN HALL, a butcher, named Thomas Jackson, of Broad-lane, Sheffield, has been fined .£10 and costs for having in his possession the carcase of a sheep unfit for food. The Mayor remarked that the bench were determined to put a stop to this wholesale poisoning of poor people. THE REV. SAMUEL M. DILL, D.D., Professor of Theology in the Magee College, Derry, recently died. The deceased clergyman was one of the recognised leaders of that party in the General Assembly of the Irish Presbyterian Church, whieh opposed the disestablishment of the Irish Church. A JOURNEYMAN BRASS FINISHER has been charged at the Southwark police-court with being in possession of a quantity of artillery fuses for an un- lawful purpose. The prisoner, who pleaded that he had made the fuses as scientific models, was re- manded. THE OTHER AFTERNOON a woman, apparently about 40 years of age, threw herself over the parapet of Waterloo-bridge. Instead of falling into the river, however, she was precipitated on to the embankment, and was killed instantly. On the arrival of the police her body was conveyed to the dead-house. UNDER THE AUSPICES of the British and Colonial Emigration Society, a party of about 450 emigrants have left the Victoria Docks for Canada. Bofore'the season is over the society hopes to have assisted 6,000 emigrants to now homes in our Cana- dian possessions. THE APPOINTMENT of Prince Dittrichstein- Mensdorff in theCroom of Lieutenant Field-Marshal Baron Koller, as Governor of Bohemia, is hardly likely to give satisfaction in that country, or to foster a better, understanding between Vienna and Prague. PUBLIC MEETINGS have been held at New York and in other cities to express indignation against the Spanish authorities in Cuba for the summary execution of General Goicouria. Resolutions were adopted memorialising Congress to protest against further barbarity. IT IS PRETTY WELL DECIDED that the new posts at the War Office constituted under the War Office Bill, which has just passed through the House of Commons and been introduced to the House of Lords, will be conferred upon Captain Vivian and Sir Henry Storks. THE NEW FRENCH MINISTRY is complete. Due de Grammont is Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. Plichon, Deputy du Nord, replaces the Marquis Talhouet as Minister of Public Works. M. Laboulaye, author of Paris en Amerique, accepts the Portfolio of Minister of Public Instruction. THE CONVICT John Kelly, who at last Circuit Court, Glasgow, was sentenced to death for the murder of a deformed woman in a field near Duke- street, in that city, on the 12th March, has been respited until further signification of her Majesty's pleasure. THE STYLES AND OVARIES (the young fruit) of apples in the neighbourhood of London were de- stroyed by the frost on May 4, even in the unexpanded flower. The flower-buda of the wild crab, in the hedges, in low damp ground near Harrow, were simi- larly injured. A MAN NAMED EDWARD DAWSON, living at Bir- mingham, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. Deceased, who was fifty-six years of age, and who has left a wife and large family, had lost a large sum of money by betting on the Chester Cup, which it appears so preyed upon his mind that he destroyed himself. MR. DUNLOP, a tradesman of Liverpool, who suffered severely from seme internal complaint, in a fit of mental aberration, from acute pain, shot him- self in the face, and afterwards cut a vein in -his arm a few days ago. He never rallied, and at the inquest a verdict in accordance with the evidence was returned. AN ARRANGEMENT has been come to between the Government and the Delegates from New Zea. land, by which Parliament will be asked to guarantee a loan of d61,000,000, to be raised by the colony for the purpose of employing the friendly Maories in road- making and other public works, and for the promo- tion of emigration. A FIRE BROKE OUT between nine and ten o'clock the other night in the Metropolitan Steam Saw Mills at the rear of the houses in Earl-street, Borough-road. Nearly the whole of the mills were destroyed, and six houses in Earl-street were con- siderably damaged. A factory was nearly gutted, and a large quantity of timber was damaged by the fire. THE NUMBER OF CHATHAM DOCKYARD HANDS who will emigrate to Canada shortly-men who were formerly or are now employed in the yard-will be 38, and their wives and children will make up a total of about 150 persons. It is thought that they will leave in the Tamar, troop-ship, about the end of the present month. THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT has deter- mined to rebuild Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbour, in order to preserve this relic of the open- ing of the late civil war. Although belonging to an obsolete style of fortification, the fort is to be re- stored nearly to its original condition, so as thoroughly to recall the past. THE COMMISSIONERS on Primary Education in Ireland have just presented their report, in which it is stated that they recommend the maintenance of the national system, with the exception that in parishes where the population is all Roman Catholic, or where it is all Protestant, the denominational system shall be introduced. COUNT BERNSTORFF, son of the Prussian Am- bassador in London, and president of the Berlin Committee for the Propagation of Protestantism in Spain, delivered a discourse, a few evenings ago, before a numerous audience, on the religious condi- tion of Spain. The lecturer had just returned from a three months' tour in the Iberian peninsula. THE INTERNATIONAL YACHT RACE.-In conse- quence of a misunderstanding between the umpires, and the owner of the Cambria considering the course laid down for the second match to be in violation of the conditions, he objected to start, and the Cambria returned to Cowes Roads, but the Sappho proceeded over the course.—Reuter's Telegram. A BRIGANTINE named the Dublin Lass, from Guernsey for London, with a cargo of broken granite, has gone ashore on the Long Sand. All efforts failed to get her off, and as morning broke the crew, nine in number, abandoned the vessel. They were picked up by the fishing smack Laurel, and brought into Eamsgate Harbour. WE UNDERSTAND that the provisions relating to the form of the ballot, which Lord Hartington sketched in his speech on moving for leave to bring in the Parliamentary Elections Bill, will be found to have. undergone some modification when the bill is printed and put into the hands of members of Parliament. THE QUEEN'S BOUNTY.-The wife of Henry Eves, a gardener, living at Woolwich, has recently been delivered of two girls and a boy at one birth. The rector of the parish, the Rev. H. Brown, has undertaken to communicate the event to her Majesty, with a view of obtaining the X3 Queen's bounty," always granted on these interesting occasions. THE DISCUSSION on the primacy and infalli- bility of the Pope has commenced in the general congregation of the (Ecumenical Council, which will sit henceforward nearly every day. Great confidence and enthusiasm prevail among the ultra-montane party, and it is believed that the discussion will terminate within a month. THE 100th birthday of Beethoven is to be celebrated by a grand festival at Vienna, on the 23rd of October. The festival will last four days, during which there will be concerts and operatic perform- ances of Beethoven's works, in which the principal celebrities of Germany will take part. A committee has been appointed to make the necessary arrange- ments. A SHOCKING ACCIDENT has taken place on the North London Railway, near the Bow Station. A man named Lovatt was walking along the line, and seeing a train approaching he crossed over on to the Fenchurch-street-road, when the engine of a goods train for Haydon-square struck him down and killed him on the spot. His body was shockingly muti- lated. A SERIOUS ACCIDENT recently occurred to Stephen Wallace, aged five, by being run over by a cab at King's-cross. The unfortunate boy was running across the road at King's-oross before a four wheeler cab, when his foot slipped. Before the driver could pull up, the wheels passed over the boy's thigh and belly, and he was picked up insen- sible. A TERRIBLE DUEL.—A story comes from Monticello, Kansas, which recalls the most fearful features of the old days of blood in the South-West. Two influential citizens of that town, having quarrelled, fought the old traditional duel with knives and pistols in a dark room. When the door was broken open one of them was found with his throat out, and the other shot through the lungs. A SKIFF RACE on the Tyne for £200 between James Taylor, Newcastle, and Mark Addy, Man- chester, was to have been rowed the other evening. At the time appointed for the start, however, it was announced that Addy would not pull, having cut his hand. Taylor rowed over the course, and gets the stakes. Large crowds were assembled on the river and the banks, and were greatly disappointed. A CURIOUS DISCOVERY has just been made at Cork. A parcel addressed to the chief of the police arrived from Bristol, and on being opened it was found to contain the dead body of a child. The parcel was originally forwarded from Cork to a person in Bristol, and he, on discovering the contents, sent it back to the Cork police. The body is in a decom- posed state. THE ANNUAL DINNER of the Newspaper Press Fund has taken place at Willis's Rooms, Mr. W. H. Smith, M.P., in the chair. Amongst the speakers were Dr. W. H. Eussell, Sir W. Codrington, Lord Houghton, the Nawab Nazim of Bengal, Mr. George Godwin, Mr. Anthony Trollope, Mr. Newdegate, M.P., and Senor Arturo de Marcoarti, a member of the Spanish press. THE ANNUAL MEETING of the subscribers to the Palestine Exploration Fund have been held, the Archbishop of York in the chair. According to the report, the subscriptions for the year had amounted to £1,000, the donations to £2,OQO, and the collec- tions after services to £500. Upwards of 200 lectures had been delivered and many local agencies established. THE PUDDLERS in the Coatbridge district have held several meetings with reference to the proposed lock-out, but no very decided line of action was resolved on. The leaders urged the men to stand out, but it is said the more intelligent men are averse from the contest, and the suggestion was ma-de that the masters should be requested to meet to arbitrate on the question. A SOLDIER of the second battalion Scots Fusilier Guards, at Windsor, caught the smallpox in the town a few days ago, and was removed to the regimental hospital. The disease is at present so prevalent in that borough, several deaths having occurred from it within the last week, that the authorities are taking precautionary steps to prevent its spread among the troops. AT THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY, EDIN- BURGH, James Thomas Hardie, a commission agent of Leith, has been charged with the forgery of bills of exchange and promissory notes to the value of < £ 43,692, Is. 6d., and, further, with uttering them in the Bank of Scotland, Leith. The prisoner pleaded guilty to forging and uttering bills, amounting in all to £36,596 11s. 10d., and he was sentenced to twenty-five years' penal servitude. AT A MEETING of the Manchester shareholders of the Albert Insurance Society, the scheme of recon. struction proposed by the committee was adopted. Mr. Morris, solicitor, made a long statement, show- ing that the plan was the only one which could save the shareholders from ruinous loss. A resolution was also passed, that premiums due should be paid into the Agra Bank, and returned if the company should not be resuscitated. IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT MR. SEELY, the terror of the Admiralty, who has been singularly quiet this Session, has been occupied in preparing a thunderbolt which he will shortly launch at the devoted head of the First Lord. Of the nature of the charges to be brought against the department nothing specific is known, but the member for Lincoln is said to have prepared his case with great care, and to be tolerably certain of proving it. YISCOUNTESS DAMBRAY, widow of the late peer of France, son of the chancellor of that name who signed the ordonnances of 1830, has just died at her chateau of Montigny, near Dieppe. With this lady becomes extinct the last remnant of the Anjou branch of the Plantagenets. Her father, Count Deshaye, who was page to Louis XVI., and who was personally known to many now living, bore the arms of England on his escutcheon. SEVERAL YOUNG MEN AND BOYS have been charged at the Clerkenwell Police-court with having played at pitch and toss on Sunday, in a public thoroughfare. The magistrate ordered them to be kept in prison until the rising of the court. At Worship-street similar charges were brought against 19 defendants, two of whom were sent to gaol for seven days, and in the other cases fines were in- flicted. CONCILIATION.—At the opening of the Man- chester City Sessions, Mr. West, Q.C. and M.P., as chairman, referred to the recent supposed outrage I by brickmakers, and said he could not help thinking that the duty rested upon the employers to take the first steps, and to persevere in those steps towards increasing, by constant habitual intercourse with the employed, that sympathy which ought to exist between the different classes of society. THE AMERICANS have stopped the steamer Chicora, conveying stores and boats for the Red River expedition, from passing through the St. Marie Canal. The Chicora landed her freight on Canadian shores. It will be conveyed over the portage to the steamer Algoma, already lying in the Lake Superior. Troops will follow the same route, a road being already constructed, over the portage. The distance is trifling. AT THE DEPARTURE of the last New York mail matters were assuming a more business-like air" at Fenian head-quarters in West Fourth-street. Enlistments were being rapidly made, upwards of forty men having joined and sworn to aid as soldiers of the I. R. A. in the coming war now said to be near at hand. A number of United States military officers had visited General O'Neill for the purpose of offering their services to the brotherhood. WHEN IN A HEAVY GALE OF WIND during the latter part of last week, the Mary Ann, fishing vessel of Lynn, after being much tossed about, had been driven aground below the Bulldogs on the Daisley Sand, in the Wash, and was momentarily expected to be knocked to pieces, Commander Calver, of her Ma- jesty's ship Porcupine, at once ordered a cutter to be manned, and rescued two lads who were nearly dead from exhaustion. IT WAS STATED at the late quarterly meeting of the Lynn Town Council that the Corn Exchange was sliding away from its front, that the different bridges were being undermined, and that all the property adjacent to the river indicates symptoms of settlement. This is accounted for by the supposed subsidence of the soil, owing to the Norfolk Estuary Works and other improvements in the main drainage of this district. THE AUSTIRAN AMBASSADOR at Rome, Count de Trauttmansdorff, received orders from Vienna, as soon as Cardinal Antonelli's answer to the represen- tations relative to the council was known there, to declare that the Austrian Cabinet regretted to find that the Curia paid no attention to the well-intended remarks of the political authorities, and that it could only disclaim all responsibility for the consequences which might follow such fatal obstinacy. A NEW PUBLIC PARK at the north-east end o f Liverpool, and called the Stanley-park, has been in- augurated by the mayor and corporation of the town. The mayor and corporation, and a number of the principal residents of the town, drove to the park in carriages. A large number of persons had as- sembled to witness the ceremony. The park itself is finely situated, and comprises about 100 acres of land. A PUDDLER NAMED EDWARD JONES was killed by a boiler explosion which occurred at the works of Messrs. David Hipkins and Co., Victoria Ironworks, Swan Village, near Birmingham, the other evening. Just before the explosion occurred the works were in full swing, and the engineer, observing symptoms of a leak, shouted out to the men, Run for your lives." Most of them had ample time to get to the gates before the explosion occurred, but Jones was killed by the red-hot bricks falling upon him. ON THE 31sT OF MARCH an extraordinary storm burst over Buenos Ay res, which was the most destructive ever experienced. The bonded stores known as the Aduana Chica, were again inundated, and.about 6,000 packages of valuable merchandise have been seriously damaged, the loss from which falls chiefly on English houses, and is estimated at over £ 100,000. Great blame was imputed to the authorities for using these stores after the previous disaster of the 9th of March. IN MODERN FRENCH PARLANCE, a civil inter- ment (enterrement civil) means an interment divested of any religious ceremony whatsoever. Civil inter- ments are becoming every day more frequent, especially in Paris, but hitherto they have been con- fined entirely to the lay classes of society. The recent burial of the Cure d* Ecardenville in Normandy is, we believe, the first instance of a French parish priest being carried to his grave without the offices of the church. ON THE ABOLITION of the impressed stamp the Government will supply stamped wrappers for the conveyance of newspapers. This p!an will do away with the inconvenience that would otherwise re- sult from the oompulsory use of the adhesive stamp. The new stamp to be employed will be similar to the present postage stamp, but one-third smaller, and in- stead of the words Postage One Penny," will have the words Postage Halfpenny." The colour, as at present arranged, will be dark purple. CHANGE OF FORTUNE.—A man named Alex- ander Munro was recently fined a few shillings in the Melbourne City Police-court for drunkenness, and was unable to pay the money. Many years ago this man, who has lost one of his legs, discovered a gold-field, which was called Pegleg Gully," in memory of the finder's wooden limb, and out of a hole which he sunk he obtained XI 1,000 worth of gold. Every penny of this handsome sum he has long since squandered. M. LEDRU ROLLIN is at Ostend. He was fortunate enough to be warned that there was an intention to compromise him in the "plot," and he precipitately left Fontenay aux Roses, not pro- bably to return to France for a very long time. M. Lissagaray, who only lately came out of prison, finding two years more imprisonment and fines amounting to several thousand francs scored up against him, has thought it expedient to retire to Brussels. A CHEMIST'S ASSISTANT IN MELBOURNE, named George Thompson, has destroyed himself by taking prussic acid. The only reason his friends could give for his desire to put an end to his life was that his mind had become affected in consequence of his having joined the ranks of the "Spiritualists." The coroner's jury adopted the same view, declaring in their verdict their opinion that the deceased was of unsound mind, brought on through reading books on spiritualism." Two OR THREE WEEKS SINCE the body of a gentleman was found drowned in the gravel pits at Stanwell, near Staines. The body was after some time identified as that of Mr. Francis William Butcher, of Hackney. The deceased was a solicitor in practice, and left his home about the middle of March to go to America. He had not since been heard of by his friends till the inquiries were made by the police. The deceased leaves a wife and child. THE MAN calling himself "Rory of the Hills," who, with a blackened face, accosted a gentleman named Hall, near Killeagh, in Cork, and threatened his life because his uncle was the cause of O'Brien having been hung at Manchester, has been convicted by the magistrates sitting at Castle- magnar, and sentenced to two months' imprison- ment. It transpired in evidence that the prisoner had been drinking on the day of the attack, and his blackened face was attributable to the fact of his being a sweep. Mr. Hall did not press for any punishment. THE INSTALLATION OF EARL DE GREY AND RIPON as Grand Master of the Freemasons of England has taken place in the presence of a numerous and distinguished assembly, which included the Prince of Wales and the Earl of Zetland. Amid an elaborate and splendid ceremonial, Lord Zetland, the retiring grand master, inducted his successor into the chair of office, and the assembled masons, about 1,200 in number, saluted Lord de Grey as Master Mason. Lord Zetland was afterwards presented with an address, expressing the regret of the craft at his retirement.