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8" EPITOME or NEWS. AMONGST THE 1440 CANTONALISTSl Wilo f i cfjceio.-Algeria Jf111; Qf Carthagena, 500 were .lately returned to the Spanish Government, having been proved to be ordinary coiivicts. THE DUXE- AND DUCHESS OF- EDINBURGH have left London for Jngenheim, travelling to Calais by SmIth. Eastern Railway. The route of theillus- trious travellers w Ie through Belgium, and they are expected to visit Paris on their return journey. MR, JASIES SHAW, a member of the Farriers' Company, and Mr. Alderman Ellis, who stood on the rota next to Mr. George White, who had withdrawn from, candidature, have been elected Sheriffs of London for the ensuing year. GENERAL GARIBALDI is so unwell as not to be able to hold the pen in his hand or move his arm. He cannot by himself bring food to his mouth- indeed he cannot move at all. He now receives no one except his most intimate friends. THE DEMAND for household and steam coal in Scotland is so limited that it is feared prices cannot be maintained much longer. Consumers are there- fore, holding back. At one colliery a stock of 150,000 tons has accumulated. GREAT DEPRESSION, bordering on starvation, prevails in the weaving districts of Silesia; The populations of several villages are now dependent on Government and charitable contributions for their scanty daily bread. A YOUNG GENTLEMAN of our acquaintance backed" Tichborne to win the Royal Hunt Cup at Ascot, on Wednesday, and wondered why he did not run. We can tell him. Because he was beaten in his trial, of course.-Judy. MR. GRIFFITHS, a contractor, of Kingsland- road, London, has been summoned by a number of his men for non-payment of wages. The defence was that they had left his service without notice. They claimed the right to do so, in virtue of trade custom practised both by masters and men. THE ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB'S CHAN- NEL RACE for the Queen's Cup, the course being from the Nore to Dover, was won by Count Batth/any's cutter Kriemhilda. Mr. Taylor's schooner Sea Belle took the second prize, and Mr. Jessop's Florinda the third. AT SOUTHWARK POLICE-COURT, LONDON, furious driving is no longer regarded as a venial offence, punishable by fine. William Ward, a master carman, charged with driving a cart through the Borough to the danger of the lieges, was surprised at receiving a sentence of a month's hard labour. THOUGH MOST OF THE JEWISH AND ROMAN CATHOLIC collections are still outstanding," the amount received on account of the Hospital Sunday Fund in London, is now upwards of £ 24,000. This amount represents the collections of nearly 1000 churches, and it is believed that about 200 more have yet to come. AT LIVERPOOL, before Mr. Raffles, a groom named Lioness was charged with cruelty to a duck. It was stated that he seized the fowl by the neck, swung it over his head, knocked its head on a coun- ter, beat it about with a stick, and finally killed it by pulling its neck out. The magistrate sent him to prison for a month, with hard labour. 'IT is STATED in an Italian paper that the at- tempts made last year in Italy, without success, to grow the tea plant, are being renewed in the southern districts of Sicily. Last year's failure is attributed to the fact that the entire stock of seeds and plants had been injured by immersion in sea-water through -the shipwreck of the cargo. VIENNA IS ABOUT TO ENTERTAIN other distin- guished visitors. Prince Milan of Servia and the Prince and Princess of Roumania, It is alleged that usual formality of asking leave of the Porte as his suzerain. Prince Charles's final destination is the Isle of Wight. AT A SPECIAL MEETING of the Liverpool To TO Council to consider the question of tramways, it was decided to give the Tramway Company three months' notice to remove their tramways, but that if the company had any suggestion to offer with the object of putting the lines into better condition, with an assurance that they would be so maintained, their proposal would be carefully considered. A SOMEWHAT ALARMING OCCURRENCE hap- pened to Lady Butler, who is in attendance on her Royal Highness the Duchess of Edinburgh, on Tues- day. Lady Butler had left Buckingham Palace in one of the Duke's carriages for an airing, when the horse, a young and spirited animal, ran away, fell down, and overturned the carriage, Lady Butler, fortunately, escaping uninjured. MR. DISRAELI, LORD DERBY, AND THE MAR- QUIS OF SALISBURY have received the freedom of the Merchant Taylor's Company in London, and were entertained at a banquet in their hall, at which each of the right hon. gentlemen spoke, the general bur- den of their observations:—especially that of the Prime Minister—being the harmony of Conservative principles with the progress and well-being of the nation. OUR FEMALE COUSINS acros3 the Atlantic have just supplied their latest "requirement." They have started an "Escort Corps." Its object is simple the male members pledge themselves to act as walking-sticks" to the female members-to take them to and from places of amusement, &c. The committee is composed of a number of respon- sible ladies of mature years, who reject every young man whose character will not bear the proverbial strictest investigation." THOSE WONDERFUL CHATHAM GUNS.— The Broad Arrow of June 6th informs its readers that, at twelve o'clock on the Queen's birthday, the guns of Fort Amherst commenced firing a Royal salute, and afterwards gave three hearty cheers!" One has heard of these brazen mouths" speak- ing," metaphorically, but to hear of them cheering literally is quite new. This was canon-aiding Chatham to honour the Queen's birthday with a vengeance.—Punch. THE FUNERAL OF SIR STEPHEN GLYNNE took place at Hawarden, the procession starting •from the castle at 1 o'clock. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone and Lord Lyttelton were chief mourners, and among others present were Messrs. W. H. Gladstone, Herbert and Henry Gladstone, Lord F. ■Cavendish, and a large number of the local magis- trates. Mrs. and the Misses Gladstone were present in the church, where the funeral services were per- formed by the Rev. S. Gladstone. A COLLISION that occurred on the Potomac (the New York Tribune says) was a good illustration of the vanity of human precautions. The delicate and valuable instruments intended for the expe- dition to observe the approaching transit of Venus were sent from Washington to New York by steamer, as it was thought that the jar of a railroad car would injure them. On the way down the Potomac the steamer was crashed into by a "United States war vessel, the officers of which had failed to put her about. IN THE SECOND PQLICE-COURT, Liverpool, a boy named Richard Garrity has been sum- moned for allowing a cart of which he was in charge to remain longer than was necessary for loading or unloading." The police-officer said the defendant had been summoned no less than one hundred times during the last twelve months. Mr. Beloe enquired if the boy paid the fines imposed. The reply was, "No, he goes to prison regularly. The Bench said the youth must obey the law, and fined him 5s. and costs. v ——————" i SOME PERSONS in the' crowd at the recent execution of a negro in Virginia cut the rope into pieces to be kept as souvenirs, and others optained the wretch's shoe strings. CONGRATULATORY TELEGRAMS have passed between her Majesty the Queen of England and the Emperdr of Brazil cn the- completion-of the. new telegraphic cable between the two countries. MR BELL-EW's REMAINS have been interred at St Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery, near Kensal- green, London, a service and mass having been prer vOclsly celebrated in the Church of Onr Lady, St. John's Wood. A SEAMAN named Patrick Dower, who was employed on board the American ship Pocahontas, lying in the Mersey, has been drowned. The vessel was being towed out of the river by the tug Royal Saxon, when deceased fell off the jibboom. The body was recovered and removed to the deadhouso. THE PETITION filed by Sir Ivor Guost" BarL, against the return of the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, sitting member for Poole, has been withdrawn. It seems Sir Ivor had decided to be governed by the judge's decision in the Petersfield case; but that being against him he will not proceed. MR. HAMPDEN, who lost a wager of £500 on the question of whether the earth is round or flat, has sued Mr. Walsh, the stakeholder, in the Court of Queen's Bench, London, to recover the money. A nominal verdict was taken for the plaintiff, subject to a special case. Two VERY SAD CASES OF SUICIDE are the talk of the day in Paris. A rehired judge has destroyed himself at St. Germain and as he left a Paris club in which he had lost at cards more than he could ever pay, the aide-de-camp of a general high in office blew his b jains cat. A MAN AND A HORSE have been run over by a fast train in the act of passing-over a level crossing on the Midland Railway, near Chesterfield. The man's legs were found about 30 yards distant by the side of the disembowelled horse on the opposite side of the line. Fortunately the train kept the rails, and none of the passengers were injured. A SHOCKING ACCIDENT has occurred to a little boy named John Hageron, aged 5 years, the son of a tailor living in Soho, London. He was in the act of feeding a bird, when he fell out of a third. floor window on to the pavement below. He sus- tained a fiacture of the skull, and died in a few minutes. A SERIOUS ACCIDENT has liappsned at a fine art gallery in Liverpool. A workman was on aladder making some alterations in front of the shop, when the ladder slipped and fell through one of the plate- glass windows. He was thrown to the ground, but sustained but little injury. The value of the window was £ 30. PROFESSOR PORTER, who has been travelling for four months in the Land of Moab, east of the Jordan, where he is said to have explored a district hitherto untrodden by any European foot, has returned to England. The Professor was recently missionary to the Jews at Damascus, and is now connected with the Presbyterian College at Belfast. SENTENCE IN THE CASE OF FERRAND and others who obtained war contracts from the Govern- ment of the National Defence, has been confirmed by the Paris Court of Appeal, which has, moreover, condemned the defendants to make restitution to the French Treasury of 173,5S2f., in addition to the sum already fixed. Lemoine and Delaville are sentenced to imprisonment as well as restitution. WHILE THE BAND was playing as usual in the public promenade of Rome, some excitement was caused which required the services of the troops to allay. The crowd had called for the Royal March, and, on its being played, some person hissed. He was threatened with violence, and -the assembly live the King of Italy --0 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM has passed over Perthshire. The Free Church of Braco or Ardoch was struck by lightning and rendered a mass of ruins, the greater part of the steeple falling through the roof. Had the catastrophe" occurred an hour later the consequences would have been fearful, as the congregation would have been present, it being the sacramental fast-day of the parish. A PUBLIC-HOUSE MANAGER, named Robert Meads Court, 35 years of age, has been found lying dead on the floor of his bedroom, at his house in Liverpool. For some years the deceased has suffered from chronic rheumatism. An inquest has been held when the medical evidence showed that death had resulted from natural causes, and a verdict to that effect was returned. A MARRIED WOMAN named Lee has been suffocated in Birmingham. Being an invalid she slept on the ground floor, and when her husband entered the room he found it in flames, and his wife on the floor dead. The opening of the door gave a passage to the flames, and the house was soon enve- loped. Lee rushed upstairs, his hair being singed from his head, and succeeded in bringing down his daughter unhurt. 0 0 BENJAMIN GERARD, a labourer, living at Liverpool, has been charged with assaulting his wife by kicking her. The wife stated that her husband had deserted her, and that for some time his treat- ment had been very bad. He had left her, and was living with another female, and, upon his wife asking him for some money to buy bread for her children, he set upon her and kicked her. Mr. Preston sent him to prison for two months. CHEQUES FOR THE PURCHASE-MONEY of Northumberland House, Cfiaring-cross, London, and the legal expenses connected with tho transfer, have been passed at the weekly meeting of the Metro- politan Board of Works. The Duke of Northumber- land and Earl Percy receive < £ 497,000 for the matsion itself a further < £ 2000 is payable to his Grace for Nos. 2 and 3, Northumberland-court; the stamps amount to = £ 2500, and the solicitors accept > £ 1000 in full satisfaction of their costs. .1tIR. ARNOLD, the police magistrate at West- minster, London, observes, with disapproval, that constables are now very chary of attributing drunkenness to their prisoners. In the case of a mechanic charged with being drunk and incapable the constable said nothing about the man's condition until questioned. Mr. Arnold, having abruptly dis- charged the prisoner, intimated to an inspector that he would follow the same course in all similar cases. ROBBERY AT THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.— A robbery has been committed in the Palace of Westminster, London. After the adjournment of the House, two or three nights s.go, and between the hourly "rounds" oil the police "some person or person, unknown," to use the phraseology of the force, made his or their way to the members cloak- room, and there forced open a box, containing a large sum of money, which he or they appropria e an then adjourned. They have not since been heard of notwithstanding, and the sergeant-at-arms is willing to pay .£10 for their apprehension. THE LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAIL- WAT COMPANY have for some time past suffered a good deal of annoyance and injury by having many of the cushions of their first-class carriages cut, and in spite of the watchfulness of detectives, who have been set to watch, the perpretrators have as yet escaped detection. The practice is chiefly carried on between Crosby and Liverpool. One of the cushions in a carriage, which had been running between those places, was found to be cut in no less than eight places, and it has been exhibited for some time in the station. The company offer a reward of j .£20 for the discovery of any offender, THE Patrie ANNOUNCES that henceforward foreign papers will not be distributed in France until they have been read and their sale l uthorised by the Government. ROBERT MERRY, of Crewe, fireman of the engine taking the 4 a m. goods train from Birming- ham to Crewe, fell off the front of the engine when near Basford Wood,.a.nd.the. tra.in,pajssing over his body, completely decapitated him. A YOUNG mAN, who has been working as a house-painter in Anstruther, Fifoshire, for the past twelvemonth, has, by the death of a distant relative, come into possession of property to the value of nearly £ 100,000. A SERIOUS ACCIDENT has occurred on the Grand Central Belgian line. of railway between Villers la Villa and St. Etienne. The boiler of the engine exploded, and the debris blown to a great dis- tance, destroyed several of the telegraphic pwts, and killed the engineer. SENTENCE OF OUTLAWRY has been pro- nounced in the High Court of Justiciary against an Edinburgh detective named Clyre. He was charged with having received R50 hush money from a woman he had arrested for stealing X250 from an Irish farmer. Clyre has absconded. ALL THE LOCKED-OUT AGRICULTURAL LABOXIEESS in the eastern counties have been offered a free passage to Canada by the executive committee of the Labourers' Union. A sum of money has been voted for carrying out the plan, and Mr. Arch has been requested to accompany such of the agricultu- ralists as accept the offer. THE BODY OF A NEWLY-BORN CHILD has been found in a travelling bag in one of the waiting rooms at the Addison-road Station, Kensington, London. Dr. Diplock, the coroner, held an inquest, and the jury, on the medical evidence, found a verdict of Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown. THOMAS HAWORTH, aged 59 years, a lunatic confined in the Marsden Hall, Nelson-in-Marsden, a licensed house for the reception of lunatics, has committed suicide by hanging himself with a rope fastened to the window of his sitting-room. The deceased was confined to his room in consequence of having been noisy, but he had given no previous indication that he meditated self-destruction. A CONSTABLE in the Wilts constabulary, named Isaac Woodman, stationed at Ogbourne, has lately absconded, and is now wanted on a charge of felony. He had been some years in the service of the county, and bore a high character. He was formerly a turnkey in the Salisbury gaol, and was possessed of some little means. Every effort is being made to ensure his apprehension. A LABOURER NAMED THOMAS HAINES, of Northtown, Maidenhead, Berkshire, is in custody on a charge of killing his wife. They had a quarrel, and the police on going to the house found the woman fearfully injured. A doctor was called in, :but she died in two or three hours. Haines made no attempt to escape, and was arrested. He admitted having struck her on the head and thrown water over her. AT THE WOLVERHAMPTON POLICE-COURT, a butcher, named Joseph Powell, has been summoned for exposing for sale diseased meat. The market inspector found eight pieces of meat on defendant's stall unfit for food. He seized the meat, and it was afterwards destroyed by order of the magistrates. The defendant was cutting the meat and meant to sell it for human food. The Bench inflicted a fine of < £ 5 and costs, or two months' imprisonment. THE Wilts and Gloucester Standard mentions that the other day as Miss Millar, the daughter of the Vicar of Cirencester, was playing the organ at Holy Trinity Church, Gloucester, she obseived a large number of bees issTLvog- from, one of tKe pipes. CTHOOU'JUUUUJ, the OI-gan was taken to pieces, and a swarm of bees was found inside. The bees have since been hived," and are now comfortably settled in their proper home. A YOUNG WOMAN NAMED HALL, cook in the service of a surgeon of Pershore, has been arrested on a charge of having drowned her newly-born infant in the river Avon. The medical evidence not dis- tinctly affirming that death arose from drowning, the prisoner was committed for trial for concealment of birth. When taken into custody she enquired whether she would be hanged or imprisoned for life. or whether she could be let off by paying. ILL FEELING HAS PREVAILED for some time between the English and Irish residents in the vicinity of the Bordesley-street, Barn-street, and Milk- street, Birmingham. The men and women hanging lazily about commenced quarrelling, from quarrelling they fell to blows, and eventually to rioting and throwing stones. Nine policemen had to be sent to quell the disturbance, which is described as a good illustration of Donnybrook Fair. A YOUTH, whose parents reside in Kidder- minster, has had a narrow escape from drowning. He fell int,) the canal near the new basin, and was sinking for the third time, when the cries of a woman who was passing by, attracted the attention of a Mr. Pearson, coal merchant. That gentleman immediately jumped into the canal, caught the youth by his hair, and brought him to the surface. He was restored with medical assistance. DURING THE HEARING OF A CASE at the Bristol Police-court, Peter Rival, a coloured youth, about 20 years of age, following the occupation of a shoe-black in the city of Bristol, stated while he was being examined on oath that he had been deaf and dumb for several years. He had come here from the East India Islands, about seven months ago, and he had now quite recovered his hearing and speech. The recovery seemed to have come suddenly, without any recognisable reason. THE Levant Times says One day last week a Turk murdered four Persians with whom he had had a quarrel at Ismidt. He managed to escape by the Constantinople boat. The governor telegraphed to the capital, and on the arrival of the assassin at Galata the police were waiting for him. When they tried to arrest him he showed fight, and it was only after a severe struggle, in which he was badly wounded, that the zaptiehs succeeded in effecting his capture. He was taken to the Grand Zaptieh covered with blood. CURIOUS DELUSION.—At the Marlborough- street Police-court, London, Edward Cox, a young man, was charged before Mr. Knox with being an insane person at large, and not under proper con- trol. Police-constable Cox said the prisoner walked into the Vine-street Station, and said that some one had given him some "hydraulic" acid. After standing on his head and behaving in a most extra- ordinary manner, he expressed a wish to be cut open and examined. He again stood on his head, and, as it was supposed that he was wrong in his mind, he was detained. Mr. Knox remanded him, 'that his friends might be communicated with. NEW JUDGE FOR NATAL. — The London Gazette states that the Queen has appointed Henry Connor, Esq., LL.B., to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the colony of Natal. Mr. Connor was educated at the University of Dublin, where he graduated LL.B., and was called to the Bar in Ireland in Michaelmas Term, 1839. In 1854 he was appointed Chief Justice and Judicial Assessor at the Gold Coast, and acted for a short period as governor of that settlement. He was appointed a Pusine Judge of Natal in 1858, and acted as Chief Justice for a. brief term in 1864. By his elevation to the Chief Justiceship of Natal a pusine judgeship of the Supreme Court of that colony, which is worth XSOQ per annum, becomes vacant. 1