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CRUELTY TO A CHILD. At the Wands worth Police-court, Augusta Gam. mage, a needlewoman, living at Putney, charged with having caused the death of John Henry Tidy, a. child about two years of age has again been brought up for examination. Mr. W. Sheard, surgeon, said he had made a post-mortem examination of the body of thE: child. The deceased had died from con- cussion of the b:-a,iii bnd extravasation of blood. He found an o'tn r; al bruise at the place, two inches behind the ear. In reply to the magis- trate the witness said he thought it was done with a blow, harder than one given by a fist, or a fall against something. He also said the stomach was inflamed, and he found a large bruise on the outside corresponding, but it had nothing to do with death. Annie Custance, the wife of a tailor, living in Putney, said she was standing at her door, when she saw something on the pavement. She thought it was a bundle of clothes. A woman picked it up, and she then saw it was a child. The woman seemed to be in a violent passion, and threw the child over her shoulder. It was about 10 minates past 10 o'clock. She had a little girl with her, and she told her to go on and she would over- take her. She went back, apparently for something, and witness watched for her return. She returned past her house, shaking the child. She said, Set np, you little wretch, do." Witness followed her, and saw her lay the child down to pick up some thing? which the girl had dropped. A person picked up the child, and said, My God, the child is dtad I" The woman said, No, it is only asleep. Give it to me." Wit'nc ss heard the child moan while the woman was shaking it opposite her shop. She took the child from the person, and went into Mr. Tidy's house with both children. Witness tried to see her face, but she could not; she could not identify the woman. Mrs. Warner told her who the woman was. The child died in twenty minutes after it was taken into Mr. Tidy's house. The prisoner, in reply to .the charge, said Mrs. Tjler ought to be present, as the engagement for keeping the children was made in her house. When the children were ill, she went to her, and she told her to take them home on Saturday night to the father. She had not any wit- nesses to call. Mr, Ingham committed her for trial.

,9¡' LEVEL CROSSINGS. An important case has been decided in the Suffolk County Couit, sitting at Stowmarket. The case in question was Roberts v. the Great Eastern Railway 10 Company;" and the action was brought to recover .£50 compensation for unlawful detention at a level crossing near Stowmarket. The case of the plaintiff, who is a solicitor, was that he was detained 6t minutes at the crossing on Thursday, July 30, and that he lost the post and a client in consequence, although he strained his horse to such an extent that he was unable to use it for six weeks, with one ex- ception. Altogether the plaintiff claimed £ c0. The judge said he was of opinion that there was no remedy against the company to make them discon- tinue the practice of blocking up level crossings by action, but there was by criminal indictment; but in order that there might be no difficulty as to what course should be pursued, he should ask the opinion of the jury on three points-whether the loss of the client as Mr. Roberts had sworn to was the natural consequence which might be expected to result from the stoppage; whether Mr. Roberts would have arrived in time without the stoppage; and whether the overdriving of the horse was the natural conse- quence of the stoppage at the gate at the station. The jury returned a verdict on all points in favour of the plaintiff, awarding .£15 for the loss sustained in respect of the horse and = £ 10 for the loss sustained in respect of the client. The judge then said he should direct a nonsuit, subject to the plaintiff's right of appeal. Notice of appeal was given.

CHARGE OF HORSE STEALING. At the Middlesex Sessions held in London, Henry White, 24, described as a gardener, has been charged with stealing a mare, value 70 guineas, the property of James Green. Charles Ciisp, a detective of the M division, said on the morning of Sunday, the 27th of September, he saw the prisoner in a stable at Hackney-wick, where there was a bay mare, and he asked him whose horse it was, and he said he brought it fiom Cambridge. Afterwards he said a man named Taylor, a gentleman in black, whom he met in the street, had paid him two shillings to put it into a stable for him. Witness had told the prisoner that he was a detective officer. Robert Gardner, of 8, James-place, Homerton, an oilman, said on the 26th of September, the prisoner came to his master and asked him to let him have a stall for the night for his horse, which had come from Cambridge. He could not let him have a stall, but he got him one. The horse was put into it, and the prisoner said he would come between ten and eleven the next day and fetch it away.—Mr. James Green said he lived at Pem- broke-gardens, Kensington, and was a surveyor. He had seen the mare in question, which was his pro- perty, and was worth 70 guineas. About eight weeks ago he sent her out to grass, and she was afterwards missed from the field in which she had been placed at Shepherd's-bush. He did not know the day the mare was stolen. The jury found the prisoner guilty.-A detective of the L division proved that the prisoner was previously convicted at Chelmsford Assises, for stealing eleven heifers, when he was sentenced to twelve months' imprison- ment. Mr. Serjeant Cox sentenced him to be kept in penal servitude for seven years, and afterwards to be under police supervision for five years.

WORCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL. Great excitement has been occasioned in Wor- cester by the announcement that .the dean and chapter of Worcester had refused the use of the cathedral for the next Festival of the Three Choirs. For a century and a-half these festivals .have been held each autumn alternately at Worcester, llefre- ford, and Gloucester, the sacred music, consisting of oratorios and anthems, requiems and masses, being given in the cathedrals of the three cities, while the secular music was performed in some other public building. Objections have been raised from time to time against the v. of the cathedral for such pur- poses, but unti .ho present year no active steps have been taken y -he Church authorities in oppo- sition to the perpetuation of the old arrangement. On the retirement of Dr. Peel, Dean of Worcester, on the completion of the restoration of Worcester Cathedral a few months ago, it was understood that the new dean, the Hon. Grantham Yorke, would oppose the future use of the Worcester Cathedral for the festival. Memorials were presented to the dean and chapter from various public bodies, in support of the formal request made a month ago to the chapter by the Festival Committee, to grant the use o he cathedral for next year's festival. A spe~ia mee nig cf the chapter was held to consider f- Tir'hri \he May°r of Worcester, as chairma of the Festival Committee, has received a give up the use of the h The exact terms of the reply wiU not be madeknoTn until the Festival Committee meet towards the end of the week, but the above is its substance. The greatest excitement prevails in the city and county on the subject. A special meeting of the Festival Committee has" been called, and a requisition to the Mayor, calling an indignation meeting, is in course of signa- ture ° The bishop had already signified his accept. ance of the offer of the post of president of the festival, and among those who rtad sent in their names as stewards are the Marquis of Hertford, Earls Beauchamp, Calfhorpe, Coventry and Somers, fIla. Lords Leigh, Hampton, and Northwiok,

PROSECUTION OF BRIGHAM YOUNG. (From the Daily Telegraph.") A telegram from New York conveys the satis- factory intelligence that Mr. Brigham Young, Mormon Prophet and Ruler of Utah, is to be indicted for polygamy. Not a day too soon for the credit of United States justice, the system which has long disgraced the great Western Republic seems at length to be on its last legs; indeed, those who wish the Government of Washington well will regret that the step was not sooner taken. An admirable organiser and commander, as shown by the excellent manner in which he conducted the great emigration of the Saints from Nauvoo to Utah, Brigham Young's very ability and intelligence stand out foremost as his own accusers. That such a man should have persistently upheld a system which was as degrading to its votaries as it was repulsive to the rest of humanity, must, indeed, be the gravamen of the charge against him. Bis intellectual powers have been used for no higher purpose than the coun- tenancing of persistent idleness and misleading the unwary, and at his door will be laid all the evil which results from Mormonism. It is now to be hoped that no political reasons will step in between Mr. Young and a fair trill. His case should be judged on its own merits, irrespective of what may follow, and, when once decided, justice should be meted out with no faltering hand. It is high time that the Union should purge itself from the scandal which has till now attached to its escutcheon.

I OHARGE OF FORGERY. At the Mansion House, London, Frank Bayne, 17, has been charged with stealing money to the amount of about^< £ 350. Mr. Mullens, solicitor to the London Bankers' Protection Association, said he appeared on behalf of Messrs. Dixon and Co., bankers, Chester, to prosecute the prisoner, who had been a clerk in their service, and who early in August last absconded with upwards of R300 of their money in bank notes, and came to London. Shortly afterwards he went to the Bank of England, where, without his knowledge, the notes had been stopped, and presented one of them for payment. He gave an account, in reply to questions asked him, of the way in which he became possessed of the note, and was allowed to go for the time, but with an intima- tion that inquiries would be made as to the truth or otherwise of the statement he had made. He never returned; the bank authorities had still the note, and it had since transpired that the prisoner had been going about the country spending the money of which he had so possessed himself. Detective Green, whom Mr. Mullens called as a witness, de. posed that about the 10th of August last informa- tion was received from Chester of the robbery of Messrs. Dixon's bank, and he had since been in search of the prisoner. He, in company with another police-officer, met him in Tichborne-street, Hay- market. On asking him if his name was Frank Bayne, the prisoner replied in the affirmative. On being told they were police offioers, and that he would be charged with stealing .£350 from his employers, Messrs. Dixon and Company, bankers, Chester, the prisoner replied that was quite correct, adding that he was very hungry, and he hoped they would let him have something to eat before they took him. Being asked what he had done with the money, he said he had almost thrown it away on champagne, to the extent of seven or eight bottles a night some- times, at the Argyll Rooms that he was very sorry, and now saw the error he had committed. At the request of Mr. Mullens, pending the arrival of a witness from Chester, the prisoner was remanded.

COLCHESTER OYSTER FEAST. The corporation of Colchester recently celebrated their peculiar civic annual festival, termed "The Oyster Feast." The town council owns the cele- brated Colne fishery in which is cultivated the Col- chester oyster, and the tenants, once a year, make an offering of bivalves sufficient to provide the members of the corporation with a repast, in which the oyster, with brown and white bread, are the principal provisions placed before hosts and guests. Sir Edwin Greathed, K.C.B., Major-General, com- manding the eastern district, in responding for The Army," said that the soldiers which were quartered in that garrison were of a sort who did not deserve the disparaging remarks which certain gentlemea made for purposes of their own, as being the refuse of the population. He had recently had the oppor- tunity of visiting Germany, and of seeing the Prussian soldiery, and capital men they were too. Let not Englishmen deceive themselves; better soldiers than those of Germany could not be found. They were very hardy, and were intensely anxious to do the will of their commanding officers, and they had but one wish, to follow the commands of their Emperor. The soldiers were stout, tall, fine young fellows, but, singularly enough, they had not the back-arm of the English soldier, the sign of health and strength, and he did not think they had quite the devilment in them of the English soldier. With regard to the militia, he believed they had suffered nothing by the recent change of masters, and he considered the volunteers were pursuing their duties with immense devotion and zeal, so that in case of danger some two-thirds of them would be able to take the field in defence of their country. THE DUKE OF ABERGORN, IJ or d- Lieut en ant of Ireland, has accepted the office of Grand Master of the Freemasons of Ireland, rendered vacant by the death of the Duke of Leinster. The ceremony of installation will probably take place in Dublin in December. DURING THE PERFORMANCE OF Cafarina at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, a portion of the scenery took fire. The audience were greatly alarmed, ani some of them rose to leave, but the workmen suc- ceeded in extinguishing the flames, and the per- formance was proceeded with. GORED TO DEATH BY A BULL.—The Reeorder for Huntingdon has held an inquest on the body of William Sansome, aged 58, a herdsman in the service of Mr. Daintree, of Fenton, who had been gored to death by the prize bull Sunshine. Notwithstanding repeated warnings as to the danger of going into the bull's stall, the deceased a few days ago ventured close to the animal to pick up some clover that was upon the floor, when the bull was seen by Charles Brand, another herdsman, to pin him with his horns to the side of the stall. Assistance was immediately at hand, and Sansome was extricated, but was found to be dead. It was stated that Sunshine appeared to have an antipathy to the deceased. THE AUSTRIAN BUDGET.—In the sitting of +he Lower House of the Reichsrath at Vienna, the Minister of Finance brought in the Budget for 1875. He at the same time made a long statement in which he drew special attention to the earnest endeavours made by the Government to reduce the requirements of all the departments of the State to the lowest possible point. The entire requirements of the Budget for 1875 are 381,782,551 florins, being 1,482,762 less than last year, or 2,802,762 florins less, taking into consideration the supplementary credits which were voted. The estimated revenue amounts to 369,429,694 florins, showing therefore a deficit of 12,352,857 florins which will be covered by the reserve of Rentes at the disposal of the Go- vernment, in accordance with the law of the 24th of December, 1873. The Minister of Finance said he considered that the best way of establishing a balance of the Budget revenue and expenditure was to carry out the reforms in the system of taxation already determined upon, and he requested the House to accelerate the discussion of the bills sub- mitted to it on this subject, and its decisions thereon. The Budget was referred to the Budget Committee. FEES AT ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.—A pre- liminary meeting of working men and others has been held at Hackney, in support of a proposal for the abolItIOn of the fees at present charged to view St. Paul s Cathedral. The chairman said the admis- sion fees cnarged for St. Paul's Cathedral were ex- cessive, visitors to the metropolis and others being deterred >rom going again owing to the exorbitant charges made. Last Bank Holiday, thin king to give his wife and family a treat, he visited the church, prepared to pay a moderate sum, but he was asto- nished to find that a demand of something like 3s. per head wa.s made upon him, which he could not afford. He had visited Westminster Abbey free, and he did not see why a toll should be demanded at St. Paul's. The main object of the meeting was to elicit an expression of public opinion on the subject. Mr. Williams said the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's had received a very large sum—something like £ 15,000—from the City authorities for pulling down the railings at the top of Ludgate, an3. throw- ing a piece of the churchyard into the public way. He thought a portion of that sum might be applied to the remission of the fees. Mr. Dawson said an influential committee had been formed for openmg the Tower of London, and he suggested that this committee should be solicited to undertake the work of abolishing the fees in St. Paul's Cathedral. After addresses from several persons, a committee -j was appointed to ventilate the subject, and a deputation was appointed to wait on the Tower 1 Committee, j .— ••

THE SOOIAL CONDITION OF INDIA. A crowded menting was held in the Temperance Hall, Birmingham, under the auspices of the United Kingdom Alliance Mr. G. Dixon, M.P, presiding, to hear a lecture by Babu Protab Mozoombur, of Cal- cutta, on The social aspects of India." In intro- ducing the lecturer, Mr. Dixon said with the acqui- sition of our great Indian possessions, England had taken grave responsibilities, and, although we had given to India peace, and security to life and property, still if we looked upon that dominion as for the solo benefit of England, it was a very selfish view of our possessions, as it was our duty to promote the moral and intellectual as well as the physical well-being of the people there. The lecturer, speaking of the traditional customs of India, and the evils of the caste system, said the Englishman was the beau ideal of the Hindoo, who imitated our countrymen in the most scrupulous and minute manner imagin- able. His hearers could not, therefore, doubt the influence which European usages had upon the native mind. They wanted .to be as free as we are to eat and drink as we do. So far as eating went there was no great harm, but so far as drinking went, it led to disastrous consequences. It was said that alcohol was the secret of nine-tenths of the crime and disease of this country; and if alcohol had so much effect upon Europeans, who were accustomed to it, they could fancy what the result would be in a population physicallv different. After the introduction of distilleries to supply the English soldiety, the liquortraflic was undertaken by the Government, as it offered, next to opium, a most promising prospect of revenue. Under this system every magistrate who could show a palpable increase of the revenue returns in his district was honourably mentioned for speedy promotion, so, therefore, energetic Englishmen, who really meant to return home rich, vied with each other to show the best returns of revenue made up from the liquor shops which were being established. Consequently drunkenness was rapidly on the increase in India. He said let England derive her revenue from India if she would, but not through th-e demoralisation of the 250 millions of people there.

PROCLAMATION OF PRINOE NAPO- LEON. A remarkable proclamation of Prince Napoleon to the inhabitants-of Ajacciohas been published: Under the Empire, the Prince says, he counselled a policy which achieved the enfranchisement of Italy, the an- nexation of Nice and Savoy, and free trade. The projected municipal freedom was opposed to the fatal policy culminating in Mexico and Mentana. He opposed the war of 1870. He was even against official candidatures. The present Imperialist leaders dream of nothing but reaction and proscription. They are guided by the clerical spirit as fatal at home as abroad, and the Neo- Legitimists would govern like the Bourbons. The Prince demands a democratic and reforming Govern- ment. He accepts frankly without sterile recrimi- nations the forced peace, and would seek no rash quarrel on secondary considerations. Free religion, no privileges to any priests, obligatory instruction^ the emancipation of the communes, free trade, a free press, and free public meetings. These con- stitute his programme. To those who reproach him with personal ambition, he says he has stood too near to power not to see the vanity of it, and his only ambition is to serve his country and carry out his political ideas.

SEWAGE GAS. The sewage controversy still rages-, and the im. portant and difficult branch of the question, which relates to the disposal of sewage gas, is now under discussion with the usually resulting variety of sug- gestions. Mr. Moule has been supporting the dis- agreeable theory that the odour and taste of a dense London fog, and much of its effects on the vital powers of man and beast is due to the free emission of sulphuretted hydrogen from the existing street ventilators, area sinks, and ventilators attached to chimneys," and has suggested that sewers should be so connected with the furnaces of gasworks and other factories, and with limekilns, that a draught would be greatest towards the furnaces, and the combustible gas contained in the sewers burned. Dr. Corfield, on the other hand, disposes both of the fact and the suggestion in a letter which has been published. It has been shown long ago, he says, by Drs. Mil]er and Letheby that there is hardly a trace of sulphuretted hydrogen in the air of the London sewers, and Dr. Russell, who examined sewer air for the British Association Sewage Committee during the hot weather of August, 1870, was never able to find any sulphuretted hydrogen in it at all. As to the suggestion, that has been anticipated as long ago as 1844 and acted upon. Furnace chimneys were constructed for the combus- tion of the sewage gas, and the draught was found to be so great as to open all the traps connected with the house drains in the neigh- bourhoad," while in the borough of Southwark, where pipes had been laid down to connect the sewers with the furnaces of the soapworks, an explosion took place one fine day which blew all the furnace down. Clearly this plan. hi inadmissible, and, in Dr. CorAeld's opinion, the only way to get rid of sewer air is, in the first place, to prevent its formation, as may be done to a very great extent by having impervious sewers, well constructed, and with a proper fall; and in the next place to prevent any stagnation of air in the sewers or possible accumula- tion of foul gases by the most thorough ventilation possible.—Pall-mall Gazette.. -0 JF. ASSAULTING THE "WRONG MAN.—Edward Eaton, a respectable-looking young fellow, was brought up In, custody on a charge of having as- saulted John Cbarnock. Mr. Hannen prosecuted, and Mr. Anderson defended. On Saturday night, the 10th October, the prisoner and his wife were pas- sing a Wfeerhouse at the corner of Exmou Mi-street, when a man who had just come out of the beerhouse insulted Mrs. Eaton. The prisoner, supposing Chasncck to have been the man who insulted his wife, immediately knocked him down with his fist, Charnock's head coming in contact with the pave- ment. A serious wound was inflicted by the fall, and for some days the prosecutor was unable to follow his employment. Mr. Preston suggested that «,s there had been a mistake the case might be settled by the prisoner giving Charnock some compensation. The prisoner then offered to give Charnock £ £ and to pay the costs, which was ac- cepted. i SINGULAR PROSECUTION.—Unusual excite- ment has beep caused at the Salford Police-court by the appearance in the dock of three men dressed in female attire. It appeared that ar- rangements had been made to hold at a coffee- house in Greengate on the previous night some sort of masquerade ball, and the prisoners had undertaken to represent ladies, being got up in muslin dresses, chignons, &c. The police came to hear of the gathering, and felt justified in arresting the prisoners as they drove up to the place of meeting. The Town Clerk conducted the prosecu. tion, which was laid under the fourth section of the Vagrant Act, which set forth that every person wandering abroad, without having any visible means of subsistence, and not giving a good account of hims-elf or herself, shall be deemed a rogue and vagabond." After hearing' the police evidence, the Bench held that there was no ground for a con- viction under the Act in Question, as the prisoners were in cabs at the time of arrest, and not wan- dering abroad." The prisoners werQ therefore discharged,

I ECONOMY IN AMERICA. (From the Pall-mall GazeiU.") The Government of the United States would need a full share of the national quality of smartness to deal successfully with the patriotic who regard the public Treasury as an inexhaustible source of emolument, Not many weeks ago the Navy Department at Washington determined to sell off by auction a number of old and useless ironclads which were lying in dock. The sale took place, and the entire lot was knocked down to a purchaser for the sum of 10,000 dollars. But before the vessels had been handed over to their new owner the intelligence of the outbreak of the White League at New Orleans threw the Administration into a state of confused alarm, and in the weak state of the navy it was thought that they might be well to bring into use even these old ironclads which still re- mained in the possession of the Government. They were accordingly used by the Navy Depart. ment, and no preparations were made to transfer them to their real owner until the restoration of order in Louisiana had calmed the fears of the President's advisers. Then, however, it was found that the purchaser at the auction had filed a claim upon the Government for the unautborised use of his ships at the rate of 5000 dols. a day. If, therefore, the ironclads were retained by the Government for only 20 days the amount of the claim for their use would be just ten times the sum paid by the pur. chaser at the auction, and the latter would retain his property besides. There is a fine margin in this claim for taxation, and at the best the Washington Government will be very lucky if they do not incur a heavy loss by the transaction.

A FLIGHTY COSTUME. (From the Globe.") A terrible fashion has been introduced this autumn in Paris to swell bills and excite an honourable emu- lation in extravagance. Some one has discovered that trimming a dress with birds' feathers has an ex- ceedingly charming appearance, and that envy is excited in proportion to the rarity of the fowl that is plucked. The lady who has introduced this novelty madeharnrstappearance in a costume which evidently left nothing to be desired though it is impossible to understand the milinery jargon in which it is described. The tunic was trimmed with the feathers of the jay, but only the blue ones that form part of the wing. As the jay is not a very common bird—for he is a deadly enemy to gamekeepers, and even the Legislature has put a price on his head-those feathers must have cost a pretty sum. But what will old ladies and children exclaim when they hear that another mer- veilleuse, not to be outdone, has ordered a black silk dress to be trimmed with canary feathers ? It is not easy to calculate how many hundreds of these little creatures would have to be butchered before the quantity requisite to produce the effect would be obtained. To ladies of inventive genius, the Zcological Gardens offer opportunities the thought of which ought to strike terror into the breast of Dr. Sclater. A pelican's beak as a hair-pin would set off the largest chignon. How many cockatoos' graceful top knots would be required to furnish forth a costume die cow could only be a matter of speculation, and the judicious expendi- ture of a few sixpenny visits. A flamingo's leg would make an elegant parasol handle, and a tiger's tail a comfortable, as well as an unusual, boa. The mask of the Polar bear, neatly trimmed with vulture's feathers, would make a very striking as well as a warm covering for the head during the coming winter.^ But these are rather speculations for the man milliners. If we only live long enough we shall no doubt see the elephant and rhinoceros contribute something else besides their "ivories" to the exigencies of fashion, and when the earth and the air are exhausted there will remain the great deep and its inhabitants to help to gratify feminine vanity.

CAPTURE OF NANA SAHIB. Nana Sahib, the pprpetrator of the horrors at Cawnpore, has at length been safely captured, and is lodged in prison at Gwalior. Full particulars are not yet to hand, but the intelligence is authenticated by a telegram sent by the Viceroy of India to the India Office, in which he states the facts. The Marajah Scinidia effected the capture personally, and Nana confessed to him his identity, and gave a de. tailed account of his wanderings for the last seven. teen years. General Daly telegraphs from Indore that Colonel Osborne, the Pclitical Agent, has seen him, and no doubt is expressed as to his identity. The Pall-mall Gazette remarks Some exultation at the capture, long deferred, of a great criminal may, perhaps; be pardoned, but it should be of a. sober sort, and it is neither necessary nor seemly to lash ourselves into fury by sensational recapitula- tions of his crimes. We, have heard something too much within the last two days of the -"well" at Cawnpore, and of the terrible memories con- nected with it. Anger has its useful func- tions in hardening the heart for the infliction of just punishment and no one can deny that it had its full swing in 1857 and 1858. We do not 'see the least occasion for attempting to revive passions which had their use and object then, but have none whatever now. Nana Sahib has, it is said, been captured. Good: he will be hanged. Of that there is, we assume, no possible room for doubt. If there was it might be worth while to stir the blood of Englishmen by graphic description of his crimes. But as there is not, and as we can do no more than hang him if the blood of Englishmen is heated to. boiling point, it seems both needless and indecent to perform this process. Anger is only morally respectable when it is hot for the first time. Hashed rage is a most unedifying object of con- templation. Besides, it gives very much too great importance to its object. If Nana Sahib has been really caught, we trust he will be hanged with as little fuss and parade as possible like the co-raiaou murderer he is. 01- WHAT is the difference between pugilists and hatters P—The former make themselves fo fi and the latter make felt themselves.—Judy, ^.3¥0TAL just issued Belgium is divided into two military circumscriptions one com- prising Antwerp and Flanders, and the second Bra- bant, Hainault, Lemburg, Luxemburg, and Vamur. FORGERY AT DUNDEE. A man named William Hollis has been apprehended in Glasgow on a charge of torging and uttering a bank cheque on the Clydesdale Bank at Dundee for £ 73 Is., in name ot Stewart and Creber, contractors, Dundea. Hollis was taken to Dundee, and after being examined before Sheriff Cheyne was committed to prison for further examination. On the 19th August a young lad called at the bank and presented for payment a cheque bearing the signature of Stewart and Creber. On the cheque being examined a doubt was entertained as to the genuineness of the signature, and in answer to a question Hollis stated that Mr. Creber, who usually. aigned the cheque, was from home, and that the signature was that of Mr. Creber's brother. The bank au. thorities were not satisfied, and requested Hollis to bring Mr. Stewart to the bank. Hollis accordingly left, and shortly afterwards returned and stated that Mr. Creber was not at the works, but that Mr. Creber's son, whose name was also adhibi^ec;. had given him the cheque. As the bank officials knew Hollis to be in Messrs. Stewart and Creber's on;, IQ-T, ment, they then paid him the money, and it was net until two days afterwards that it wa3 aiscov.jre. Ihe signatures on the cheque were forgeries. A search was ma.le for Hollia, who had absconded trace of him cqijldbg fqi'.rid until he prmrpliAn at Glasgow, wehej:J-!