The Illustrated Usk Observer and Raglan Herald

TREATMENT OF THE GAPJBALDIAN PRISONERS. The following letter has been addressed to M. Rattazzi by some of the Garibaldian prisoners :— Fort of Monte-Ratti, near Genoa, Sept 11, J 862. Sir,-The Official Gazette recently contained a note by which it appears that the Government has declared that it gave the kindest orders with respect to the prisoners of AspromGnte. The undersigned declare that they consider as arbitrary and illegal the term prisoners of war," which the Government has applied to them, and which would withdraw them from the jurisdiction legally competent to try them. Upon this point, however, they reserve their protest for an opportune time, when they, will invoke the laws and principles of public right sanctioned by the statute. Meanwhile, in order that public opinion may not be led into error, and that there may exist a document to prove that tbe kind measures boasted of by the Official Gazette, if they were ever really- ordered, were not executed; the undersigned wish to inform the minster that so far from they and :heir com- panions being treated with distinction and respect, on the contrary, from the very arrangement of the fort in which they are inclosed, four hundred and fifty prisoners are crowded together without sufficient air or motion, pre- vented from walking outside the dormitories, and there- fore compelled, from want of space, to remain always stretched, which is contrary to the very first principles of health. The undersigned, although, specially watched, out of the personal deference of the r J i- £ A.1 4- r,C COmmanuaiiL V1 me iuri, me ¡jIlUL up, lu LU., uuiuuci VI 13, in a small room, three metres square, without ever being able to go out. They have not yet been able to I receive a letter from their families, and they are not r certain that any of the letters written by them have arrived at their address. They lie upon the ground; t they are in want of everything necessary for personal ] cleanliness and the preservation of health. They ar3 rigorously refused all external communication, and it < becomes every day more and more difficult for them to write or to procure any necessaries from without. This is how we are permitted to procure the conveniences ( to which we have been accustomed, as the Official Gazttte alleges. The undersigned do not ask for any special favour for themselves from the minister, but 1 in their own name, and in the name of their com- panions, they protest against this unworthy treatment, ] and this strange rigour, which have been suggested by J an unreasonable fear. The Government which treats us 1 -us who have taken arms for the national unity to the cry of Italy and Victor Emmanuel "—worse than it would dare to treat the vilest criminals, is endeavouring to excuse itself to public opinion by official lies. We demand light, air, room, motion; permission to obtain necessaries at our own expense, and to make known to our relations and friends where we are and how we are. Grant us this; cease to tell lies and to deceive our families and country. (Signed) G. Civinini, Rocco Ricci Granitto, Baron Turiilo Malato, Enrico Cairoli, Nicolas Cortese Ferruggia, Leopold Sanza, G Anzaldi, Marquis de Spadaro, Chevalier Bisignani, Achille di Viilamena, Mar- oiSi qUjs Maurigi, Stefano Paraino, Prince Conrad Niscemi, Gabriel ;.j: i Colonna, De Fiumendisi Cesaro.

RIOTS IN BELFAST. The proceedings of last night (Friday), says the Northern Whig, are a striking commentary upon the real or affected confidence in the inoffensive character of an orange, and the long-suffering meekness of a catholic mob. Divided into two mobs, the orangemen attacked the houses of those against whom, on political and re- ligious grounds, their enmity had been kindled. One mob applied itself to breaking the windows of Mr. Coyle's house in the Ormeau-road. Mr. Coyle is a Roman catholic-that is the head and front of his offending. Another mob, estimated at about a thousand strong-, attacked the Royal Hotel, in Donegall-place. The cry was raised To the Whig office^ and the rioters set out thither, through Donegall-place, at- tacking Mr. Hughes's bakery en route.. The police, meeting them here, prevented the destruction of the buildings and machinery of this office. The mob, disappointed, took its way round Donegall-squares North and West to the house of Mr. Fiolay, the proprietor of the Whig, in Donegall-square South, on which they opened a systematic attack. The glass in front of the house within reach of their missiles was speedily demo- lished. The hall, the parlour, the drawing-room, and one of the bedrooms are now strewed with large stones, which cannot have been picked up on the spot. They must have been brought from a distance. Their appearance makes it (probable that they were taken from Peter's Hill or from the limestone quarries on the Antrim-road. Mr. Finlay is absent on the Continent; and, at the time of the attack, the only persons in the house were two female servants. Had this not been the case, loss of life, or serious personal injury, must almost una- voidably have occurred. The number of the stones thrown makes it next to certain that oneor other of them would have struck any person in the front of the house. Their size and weight insure that a blow from them would have inflicted serious, if not fatal, injury. The amount of damage done to and in Mr. Finlay's house cannot now be estimated. There has, it is clear, been considerable destruction of property but everything is as the rioters have left it. The stones lie where they fell. All will remain as it is until the magistrates shall have had the opportunity of examination. We have spoken hitherto of the outrages of the orange party. We regret to say that the Catholics, contrary to the excellent and Christian counsels of the Right Rev. Dr. Dorrian, the coadjutor Bishop of Belfast, have suffered themselves to be provoked into measures of retaliation of a very undiscriminating character. Pro- testant meeting-houses have been attacked-among them that of the Rev. John Scott Porter (unitarian), whose influence was used (unsuccessfully, we regret to say) to induce the committee of the Botanic Garden to rescind eir grant of the garden for the purposes of the demon- stration. Mr. Porter must look back with satisfaction 1 on. the-part he has taken in this matter. If his advice 1 had been acted upon the peace of Belfast would be still undisturbed. In Ballymacarrett a great number of houses occupied by very respectable people were attacked indiscriminately, and whether the residents were Protestant or Roman Catholic made no difference to the mob. Where the mob I Catholic made no difference to the mob. Where the mob came from we know not, but they totally demolished the windows that came in their way. In other quarters of Belfast similar disgraceful proceedings took place. In Church-street and North-street we are informed that upwards o f twenty houses were damaged by stone- throwers, a mob of whom, we understand, was principally composed of mere boys and girls. Not a single local constable or policeman was near at the time to prevent them destroying the houses'of respectable and inoffensive citizens, as was done by them. The meeting-house of the Rev. Hugh Hanna was attacked by the Roman Catholic mob, and a great deal of injury done. In Millfield, Brown-street, Carrick-hill, and other places in that neighbourhood, many dwelling- houses were completely gutted; and on the previous evening the houses of Mr. Savage, in Boundary-street, and Mr. Savage, in Townsend-street, were left, especially the former, with scarcely a pane of glass in the windows. During the eveaing the Riot Act was read several times by Mr. Dunville, Dr. M'Gee, Mr. Lyons, and others of the magistracy; but their desire, it was evident, was not to resort to extreme measures. A-great number. of injuries were inflicted on constables and civilians by the mobs cf rioters, but the wounds received were not of a dangerous character. The Dvhiin Evening Mail says that, owing to a tele- graphic message received by the authorities, two hun- dred and two constables and sub-constables and four officers of the constabulary left by a special train on Friday night for Belfast.

THE GREAT ST. LEGER DAY. Racing carnivals are the only great festivals of the English public, and what the Derby Day is to the metropolis, the St. Leger Day is to the millions of the vast manufacturing districts of Yorkshire. The striking distinction in the character of the holiday-makers at Epsom and Doncaster ia, that the masses who crowd the Surrey hills think and know nothing of the actual sport, while the crowds of spectators who flock to the Doncaster Town Moor are enthusiastically absorbed in the grand encounter, and are almost to a man practically informed upon the shief incident of the day, and learned in the lore of the Legers from the memorable encounter of Filho da Puta and Charles XII. down to the exciting struggle of Caller Ou and Kettledrum. At Doncaster there is none of that wild, exuberant, and uproarious fun which bursts out at Epsom, but the sense of enjoyment assumes a hearty and exhilarating appreciation of the national pastime in all its exciting phases. The St. Leger week has for many years been regarded as the last grand turf reunion of the year, and during the interval the most ardent devotee of double-barrels, or "breach-loaders" forgets "the birds" and the stubble, and makes his way to the clean and pretty little South Yorkshire town. In this respect the present meeting has fully sustained its ancient prestige, for a larger concourse of noble sportsmen were certainly never present to wit- ness the last important three year-old contest of the sea- son and probably a more interesting St. Leger never occupied their thoughts. The race is invariably regarded with especial-interest, from its confirming or contradict- ing the truth of the Derby running. It is seldom that the great Epsom event passes oter without some question and controversies being raised as to the genuineness of the issue, and there was no departure from the rule on the present anniversary. Caractacus's victory over The Marquis was, by the friends of the latter, declared to be nothing more than a fluke," and it had been stoutly maintained that his jockey not having sufficient command over the horse had worn himself out before coming to the finish. Under this impression the Marquis has, with little deviation from the period of the "Derby Day," held the position of first favourite. Caractacus, however, bore closely upon his heels, until some few weeks since, when, as the turf phrase is, he became fishy in the market, and finally was driven to 100 to 1, and ultimately scratched, owing to his having injured the ligaments of his forelegs. With Caractacus out of the question there still existed a fresh source of disputation among the followers of racing as to the truth of the Marquis and Buckstone running second and third at Epsom, as the partisans of the latter have always inoistcd tkat hio chance -waa impaired by sundry can- nonings and misadventures in the contest on the 4th oiiiune. The grand event was appointed for 2.45, and Mr. Manning, the active clerk of the scales, pushed the busi- ness on so industriously that the Leger jockeys were scaled" in capital time. Much interest was manifested to ascertain the runners, and the telegraph apparatus ] was surrounded by a large number of people, who were busily engaged inticking of* upon their cards the actual starters, Twenty-six. vere "coloured," the absentees being (No. 7) colt by Barbatus, dam by Pyrr- hns the First; (No. 9) c by Y. Melbourne; (14) Veteran; (15) The Knave; (17) Victrix; (18) Biondella; (21) Lacydes; (22) Keane; (23) Staple Oak; and (26) Bertha. Thus fifteen came out to do battle, the number ol runners being below that of last year. After two minor races were decided, the first of which was won by Lord Glasgow's Clarion, and the second by Lord Stamford's Barchettina, the great event of the day followed, the details of which are under The Sr. LEGER STAKES of 25 sovs each, for three-yr-olds; colts, 8st 101b; fillies, 8st 51b; second to receive 100 sovs. St. Leger Course. 181 subs. Hon. Mr. Stanhope Hawke's The Marquis, by Stockwell- Cinizelli, 8st 101b. ••• ••• (Cballoner) 1 Mr. Merry's Buckstone, by Voltigeur—Burlesque (bred in France), 8st 101b (G. Fordham) 2 Lord Glasgow's ch c by Barbatus-Clarissa, Sst 101b (J. Osborne) 3 Sir J. Hawley's Argonaut, y Stockwell-Aphrodite, 8st 101b (Wells) 4 Sir R. Bulkeley's Old Calabar, Sst 101b (W. Boyce) 0 Mr. Capel's Warminster, 8st 101b (H. Grimshaw) 0 Lord Coventry's Exchequer, 8st 101b (J. Adams)' 0 Mr. Eastwood's Lady Alice Hawthorn, 8st 51b (E. Forster) 0 Lord Glasgow's b c by Stockwell, dam by Orlando, 8st 101b (Aldcroft) 0 Mr. Gordon's Johnny Armstrong, 8st lOlb. (Doyle) 0 Mr. I'Anson's Bonny Breast Knot, 8st bIb (Withmgton) 0 Lord Newport's Canwell, 8st 101b (Custance) 0 Mr. T. Valentine's Hurricane, 8st 51b (J. Goater) 0 Colonel Towneley's Imperatrice, 8st 51b (Bullock) 0 Mr. C. Perry's Carisbrook, 8st 101b (S. Rogers) 0 Betting at the Start-3 to 1 agst Buckstone, 100 to 30 agst The Marquis, 6 to 1 agst Carisbrook, 100 to 7 each agst Old Calabar and Hurricane, 15 to 1 agst Stockwell colt, 100 to 6 agst Argo- naut, 20 to 1 each agst Johnny Armstrong and Exchequer, 25 to 1 agst Imperatrice, 30 to 1 agst Warminster, and 1000 to 12 each agst Canwell and Bonny Breast Knot. The Bacc. Amidst breathless expectation, and after one slight break away, the competitors were dispatched simultaneously at the precise time appointed (2.45). Carisbrook, after proceeding 300 yards, went to the front, followed hy Bonny Breast Knot, Lady Alice Hawthorne, the Clarissa colt, Buckstone, Warminster, and The Marquis. The rear devision consisted of Imperatrice, the Stockwell colt, and Canwell. Up the hill the pace was severe; but on reappearing, after a moment's absence from sight, the pace" settled" somewhat, and here Old Calabar, Lady Alice Hawthorn, and the Stockwell colt were beaten. Ap- proaching the woodside Carisbrook increased his lead to a couple of lengths, his immediate attendants being Imperatrice, Exche- quer, Buckstone, the Clarissa colt, Marquis, and War- minster, following in the order named. Passing along the woodside the rear division presented a remarkable tailing appearance. When they gained the Red House, the competitors, with the exception of Old Calabar, Lady Alice Hawthorn, and the Stockwell colt, whose rider had ceased to persevere, drew into closer order. Nearing the distance Carisbrook retired, and Warminster at the same time hung out signals of distress. The moment Mr. Perry's horse was beaten, Buckstone went to the front, and, being instantly joined by the Marquis, the struggle, which proved one of the most exciting since the time of Voltigeur and Russborough. commenced. Head and head lay the two favourites, neither rider daring scarcely to move lest his steed should suffer, until they arrived at the half distance, when a slight movement on the part of Fordham enabled Buckstone to get his head in front. This advantage he appeared to maintain opposite the Stand, but so difficult was it to discern that we could not posi- tively decide which had the advantage a dozen strides from home; Challoner, however, when within an ace of home, called upon The Marquis, who, answering gamely, placed to the credit of the Whitewall stable the eighty-sixth St. Leger by a head; three lengths separated the second and third, and Argonaut was only defeated a head by the Clarissa colt. Johnny Armstrong was a bad fifth, and the rest passed the post, pulling up in the fol- lowing order:-The Stockwell colt, sixth, Exchequer, seventh, Hurricane, eighth, Imperatrice, ninth, and Carisbrook, Warmin- ster, and Canwell next, in the order named; Old Calabar, Bonny Breast Knot, and Lady Alice Hawthorn passed theinclosure, but did not pass the post.

The last West India papers published a docu- ment, authorised by Lord Stan'ey of Alderley, recom- mending that the present plan of compulsory prepayment of postage on colonial letters should cease, and optional prepayment be substituted; also, that instead of the imperial and colonial offices claiming their share of the postage on each individual letter, letters for a certain period should be weighed in bulk, and so much per pound be credited on either side, and that a quarterly payment should be afterwards substituted for this credit in detail.

A MURDEROUS ATTACK UPON A WOMAN. At the Lambeth Police-court, on Friday, Henry King, a carpenter, was charged with cutting and wounding Sarah Ann Day, with intent to do her some grievous bodily harm. The woman was stated to be so seriously injured as to be wholly unable to attend to give evidence. Charles Cook, 168 L, deposed that on the preced- ing afternoon he was visiting a friend at No. 75, Tower-street, Westminster-road, when the prisoner came in and stood on the threshold of the parlour in which the prosecutrix, Sarah Ann Day, was sitting. The prisoner at that time had a hammer, a chisel, and a screwdriver in his right hand. but he subse- quently passed the hammer into his left hand. He remained in conversation with the prosecutrix for two or three minutes, when he suddenly stepped forward and struck her very violently on the lower part of the abdomen with the chisel and screwdriver. The prosecutrix gave a fearful shriek, and the wit- ness sprung upon the prisoner to prevent him re- peating the blow. The prisoner struggled with him and freed himself, and witness, not then knowing the woman had been stabbed, allowed him to leave the house, which he did in a very hurried manner. Directly he had gone, the prosecutrix told witness that she had been stabbed, and, in consequence, he went in pursuit of the prisoner, and found him at a neighbouring beer-shop, when he charged him with stabbing the woman, and took him into custody. The prisoner danied that he bad even struck the woman, much less stabbed her. George Pike, 95 L, proved that his attention having been called to the occurrence, he proceeded to the house and found the wounded woman lying on the floor in a fainting fit. He raised her up, and on coming to herself she told him that she had been stabbed, and he then observed blood coming through her clothes towards the lower portion of the stomach. On searching the room he found under the bed- clothes the chisel produced (a most formidable wea- pon), and he afterwards discovered the hammer and screwdriver under the counter in the front shop. He had compared the chisel with the cuts in the clothes the proscutrix was wearing, and had found L them to correspond. Mr. Elliott, after hearing some further evidence, remanded the prisoner for a week. Just as the Court was about to rise Cooke, the constable in charge of the case, announced to the magistrate that the poor woman was dead. In an- swer to questions put by Mr. Elliott, the officer stated that the deceased, who was about thirty years of age, had been married to the prisoner, who, how- ever, had prosecuted her for bigamy, but had sub- sequently induced her to live with him, but in conse- quence of his habitual ill-usage and brutality towards her she had left him. The prisoner had several times essayed to induce her to return to him, and had renewed his efforts in that respect, when on her continuing her refusal he made the attack upon her which has proved fatal. Mr. Elliott inquired of the officer why he had not stated these facts when he was examined in the earlier part of the day ? Cooke replied that he did not mention them be- cause he had not been asked. Mr. Elliott directed him to take care that these circumstances, which were highly important, should be added to his depositions when next the prisoner was brought up for further examination.

WRITING THREATENING LETTERS TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE. George Winter, of 16, Newcastle-court, currier, an elderly man, of shabby and dirty appearance, was brought up at the Bow-street Police-court in the custody of Inspector Mackenzie, of the F division, on a warrant charging him with H unlawfully writing and sending to the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, aletter threaten- ing to shoot him with a pistol." Mr. Pollard, from the office of the Solicitor to the Treasury, conducted the prosecution. The following letter was put in. in evidence, and was read to the court hy Mr occoua clerK "To Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department. Oct. 13, 1862.-1 t ave repeatedly sent letter after letter, and received no answer. Provided the asylum business of Colney Hatch is not attended to by twelve o'clock this day I shall discharge my double-barrelled pistol the first opportunity that offers.-I am your hum- ble servant, George Winter, 16, Newcastle-court." On the fly led was written as follows:—To J. H. Cole, Esq.-I demanded my rights openly at St. Paul's before the congregation. They said that I aimed at the arch- bishop, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The bell was tolling for the corpse. The moment I reached the botcom step my rights in the asylum I demanded, or the keys and organ, allowed by. the authority of the Queen. Some gentlemen pulled me down on the chair. I shall indict them for an assault and battery. Be careful that I do not mistake you for the Secretary of State. I am in no ways particular." There were in the hands of the officer numerous other letters, one of which bore the portentous heading. Blood for Supper," and commenced with the words, Bucking- ham Palace is not yet taken." They were all inclosed in the official envelopes of the Paymaster General's De- partment, and addressed to Mr. Cole. Mr. James Henry Cole: I am clerk to the Treasury. I received the letter produced yesterday. The envelope is addressed to me. The letter is dated Oct. 13, 1862, but the post mark on the envelope is Sept. 17tb. Mrs. Elizabeth Brown: I am the wife of William Brown, deputy of a lodging-house in Newcastle-court. The prisoner lodges at our house. I know his hand- writing. I saw him write this letter. I did not read it, but I saw it in his hand, and I can swear to it. Dr. Richard Budd Painter, F.R.C.S.E.: I have seen the piisoner this morning, and have had conversation with him. He tells me that Sir George Grey is shot, and that he (the prisoner) is accused of having done it, but that it was a soldier that did the act. I have no doubt that he is of unsound mind. Mr. Henry: Insane ? Dr. P,.inter: Clearly so. Tne Prisoner: Dr. Miiman has forgiven me. Dr. Painter: He asked me who had the greatest power -Sir George Grey or Dr. Milman. I said one bad great power in the Church and the other in the Government. He then said, that in that case he thought he should not be hanged, as Dr. Mi]man had forgiven him. The Prisoner: And I have been in the cathedral every day since. Mr. Henrv: What cathedral ? The Prisoner: St. Paul's Cathedral; and Dr. Milman has forgiven me. Mr. Henry And therefore you think you will not be hanged ? The Prisoner: I should think there was no occasion for anything of that sort, as he has forgiven me. Mr. Henry I think this had better be treated as a matter of insanity at once. The prisoner was then taken to the workhouse to be examined by the parish surgeon, and after a short interval, Mr. Hughes, relieving officer of the Strand Union, attended and formally applied for the magistrates' order for the prisoner's removal to Han well, which Mr. Henry immediately rranted,

EXTRAORDINARY VERDICT. On Friday an inquiry was leld at the Baldfaced Stag Tavern, by Mr. John Humphry s, one of the Middlesex coroners, respecting the deatl, by drowning, of an ille- gitimate child, named Edwin ttephen Spencer, aged six months, under very suspicious ircumstances. It appeared from the evideno, that the deceased was the last of five illegitimate cbihren who all died under six months of age. and that on ast Sunday night it was placed in bed well, with the oard that was usually placed at the side to keep it froIt falling out not put up. There was, however, a large washing trough, filled with water, placed at the side of the ed, and in the morning the unfortunate deceased was fou:'d floating in the water quite dead. Catherine Spencr. the mother, and Stephens, the father, of the decked, said they knew nothing about its falling in the witer until they saw it dead. The evidence showed deatl to have been suffoca- tion from drowning. The Coroner severely reprehendd the conduct of the parents in the affair, and the jurj returned a verdict, "That the deceased was found downed in a certain trough, and that how it came into he said trough there was no evidence to prove."

CHARGE OF.INHUMANITY AGAINSXA MIDWIFE. Qn Saturday Mr.'H. Raffles Walthew, the deputy- soroner for East Middlesex, held an inquest at the Town of Ramsgate Tavern, High-street, Wapping, respecting the death of a male child, newly born, whose parents reside at)3, Red Lion-placer Wapping, who, it was alleged had died from the neglect of a midwife connected with the Tower Hamlets Dis- pensary. James Grady, the father of the child, said he was a blacksmith. On Friday night, the 12th inst., his wife was taken in labour, and he went and called in a female neighbour. He afterwards went to call a midwife, named Mary Ann Ayres, and took with him an order for her attendance from the re- lieving officer of the district. When he knocked,at the door she called out from an upper window, and upon hearing what was wanted she told him to put the paper under the door, and she would follow him in ten minutes. The woman never came to his wife, and in consequence she suffered considerably from hemorrhage, and one of the two children that were born had died. Dr. Ross said he had received an order to attend the mother of the child, and reached the house at half-past seven o'clock, when he found the mother suffering from exhaustion. One child was dead, but the other was alive. He thought that if the midwife had attended the deceased would have been saved.-Mary Ann Ayres, of No. 16, Mount-street, New-road, White- chapel, said that when she went downstairs to take the paper which was placed under her door by the father of the deceased child, she found there was only one paper, and the order for at- tendance was missing that was the reason she did not attend. The jury, having heard the evidence, consulted, and returned the following special verdict That the deceased was found dead, but it is the unanimous opinion of the jury, from the evidence of the wit- nesses, and more especially the testimony of Dr. Ross, that the child's death was caused by the neglect of Mary Ann Ayres, a midwife, in not hav- ing attended the mother of the deceased during her confinement, she having received an order from the Tower Hamlets Dispensary to attend, and we (the jury) cannot separate without expressing an opinion that the conduct of the midwife was inhuman and highly culpable." The inquiry created much excitement.

EXTRACTS FROM "PUNCH" & FUIST." -+-- Seasonable Amusements. (Dedicated to the Quidnunc" and iC Zingari" Cricket ClubsJ It is a fact worth knowing that the manly game of cricket can be admirably and effectively combined with the noble sport of boating; this mixture is termed aquatic cricketing, and may thus be played :-First choose your side, which should be the sea-side; pitch and tar your stumns; any merchant ship will provide balos; select from the nearest meadow a water-crease for your bowler; this gentleman should be called Tom Bowlin', the darling of his crew. Make some one your long stop-gallant mast. This being arranged procure a jury-mast for your umpire. The compass will act as "point." and each player must run for the downs. A Loch 'Leven should be matched against any 'leven. Send in a "cutter" to do the batting, and the best play will be to batten down the hatches. The last ball in an over should be, the bal-last in a boat. If any one is mizen, you must supply his place. When ladies play cricket against a gentlemen, it will of course be a shee- leven versus a he-leven. A SCHOOL FOR TYRANTS.—The Czar's second son is about to visit America, in order. to see how the Federals manageJheir Government. There is no doubt but that he will bring home many valuable hints for his respected parent. Any despot might take I a leaf out of the Yankee book, and learn from it how to crush the liberty of the subject and silence the press. NEWS FROM THE NURSERY. — The child who cried for an hour, one day last week, didn't get it! THE BEST TUNE FOR GERMAN ITINERANT MUSICIANS. —" We're a Band of Bothers." CARBYINOZT A LITTLD TOO FAK. Wc Know a goniloman -who, n. few years ago, when the Frcnoh authorities were monstrously particular on the question of smuggling, actually had his teeth stopped at Bou- logne Too TRUE.—Poor Garibaldi is reported tc have two wound3; he has three, the last, though not the least, being in his magnanimous heart. ON how many banks does the Thame3 keep a running account? TWICE CROWNED.—The readers of Parisian journals say that the beautiful and devout Lady at the head of French politic1? happily combines an inherited with an elective title. She is not only the Empress of the French," but also of La France. THE AMERICAN AppEAL.—The weather is warm and cool things are welcome. But perhaps there is an excess of coolness in the latest proposition from the Federals. They ask that England, France, and Russia shall mediate upon the bagia of the submission of the South, and its return to the Union." That is they, unable to whip the South, want the European powers to obtain for the North what it cannot get by fighting. Yes, this is Refrigeration in excelsis-nay, Mr. Glaisher, six miles aloft was not so cool as the American petition GOING. GREAT LENGTHS.—The Star is dissatisfied with Mr, Lincoln. It says, The President is all very well so far as he goes, but there is not enough of him." Yet he- is nearly seven feet high. However, we agree with our contemporary, that what America wants is a great man.

LOST PROPERTY AT THE EXHIBITION. The Lost Property-office at the Exhibition now con- tains a sufficient number and variety of articles to make up a very respectable display, and indeed there are very few of the 36 industrial classes of the Exhibition which could not be represented. There are walking-canes by the score, which would come under the head of animal and vegetable substances; and a very large variety of specimens of bread and meat, and cold chicken, and ale, and gin, and sherry, and some curious compounds of rum and shrub, and gin and peppermint, which would make a tolerable show among the" substances used as food." There are several infant's shoes, bonnets, hats, and hoods. There are children's cloaks and caps-in fact, there is not an article of infantine wearing apparel or "requisite" which may not be found in the safe custody of the police. As visitors advance in years they do not appear to grow more mindful of their clothing. Shoes may be lost in a crowd; but by what strange influence could a lady have lost that stocking which one of the constables of this fortanate X division found near the philanthropic singing bullfinch in the Swiss Court? The records of the establishment show that on a day in July, when the thermometer stood at its highest reading, a female called at the office and requested to leave a small parcel in charge of the police, apologising for the trouble thus given on the ground of the excessive heat rendering it unpleasant to carry its content3. The lady, probably too much oppressed with the fatigue of Bight-seeing in a heated and crowded building, omitted to call for the small parcel. It was opened a short time since, the con- tents-a flannel petticoat-being added to the miscella- neous wardrobe now forming under the gallery stairs by the police. No person would be surprised at a quantity of gloves, parasols, or umbrellas being lost or mislaid, nor of numerous articles of jewellery, such as brooches and pins, becoming unfastened and lost on the crowded days; but who could imagine a visitor under any cir- cumstances of pressure of crowd or sweltering atmosphere losing a set of false teeth out of his mouth ? It is a fact, however, that some person, lost in astonishment at the wonders on which he was gazing, did have the misfortune to lose his teeth. One gentleman has lost his wig, and, shade of Brummell 1 more than one has dropped his moustache, and an exquisite has parted with the flowing whisker from one side of his face.

The contractors at present carrying the Australian mails from England to the Cape of Good Hope, offer to put on suitable steamers from Southampton to Australia, calling at the Cape. The estimated passage is under fifty days. The subsidy required is X78,000, and the contractors are open to do an extra service, so that Australia may receive her mails fortnightly." On Sunday, at the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel's Chapel, John-street, Bedford-row, nearly X140 were con- tributed—although thera was no previous notice of an intended collection — as the result of two sermons preached on behalf of the poor sufferers in Lancashire. The sermon in the morning was preached by Mr. Reginald Ratcliffe, and that in the evening by Mr. Noel.

SWINDLING. —CAUTION TO TRADES MEN.. I r; At the Marlborough Police-court on Wednesday Edward Francis Carew, alias Ca-ptain Stuart, Mortimer Stuart, &c., a gentlemanly-looking man, who gave the address Clifton-lodge, Worthing, was charged before Mr.. Tyrwhitt.with endeavouring to obtain several bonnets and hats of the value of.£10 by fraudulent means from Mr. Robert Hill, milliner," of 106, Tottenham-court-road. The court was densely crowded with tradesmen, and it was stated that a large number have been victimised. On being placed in the dock the prisoner said his name was Charles Buchan Crighton Harper. Mr. Robert Hill, milliner, of 103, Tottenham- court- road, said the prisoner came into the shop the day before yesterday, and ordered goods to the value of £ 10" 2s. 6d., and ordered them to be sent to the Pimlico station. Emily Foster, assistant to Mr. Hill, said: Prisoner called on Monday, and asked the price of a bonnet, and I told him one guinea. It was about two o'clock. He then asked the price of a lace bonnet, and Mrs. Hill told him from 16s. to X3 3s. He then selected four bonnets from the window. He then left, saying he would call again, and decide upon having them. He then called again in about two hours, and ordered four bonnets to be sent to the Pimlico station. He told Mrs. Hill to make out a bill, and he wrote the name of "Mr. Edward Carew, Ivy Lodge, Worthing," and requested them to be sent to the Pimlico station at seven o'clock, when he would pay for them. I went to the Pimlico station at seven, and saw the prisoner there. He called me to him from one side of the waiting-room to the other, and gave me a cheque on my saying I had got his goods. I told him the amount of the goods was £10 2s. 6d. He bad the cheque already made out. -(The cheque. was on Messrs. Hoare, bankers, Fleet-street, and purported to be drawn by a person named Carew.) I took the cheque and gave the prisoner a receipt, aad left the goods with the prisoner. I spoke to a person, and the person was going to see whether the cheque was good, when the prisoner came up and asked the person,, who was employed at the railway station, what business it was of his. The prisoner then said he would come on with me to Mrs. Hill's, and wanted to go in a cab, but the man told me not to go in a cab. I then proposed a 'bus, and we went on as far as Westminster Abbey, and then got out, because prisoner said he did not like riding, in a 'bus. He afterwards stopped, and said he could not spare time to go to Mrs. Hill's, but would go. to his. solicitor about the cheque. He then stopped at the corner of Tottenham-court-road, saying he would call at Mrs. Hill's in the evening with his solicitor. I kept the box,in, my possession. Mr. Tyrwhitt: That was very right. v Witness: I then went on. Afterwards heard some en& call me, and it was a prisoner and a constable. Mr. Walter Holman, of Oxford-street (firm of Preist and Co.) stated: The prisoner called on me, and ordered, on the 30th of September, two dozen knives and forks and two pairs of carvers, and ordered them to be sent at 6 o'clock to the Victoria station. He gave the name of Henry Mortimer Stuart. The goods, which were of thfi value of X5 5s., were delivered by the porter, and pri- soner gave a cheque. Walter John Benetto, porter to Messrs. Preist and Co., proved delivering the parcel to the prisoner on the plat- form at the Victoria station, and said the prisoner gave him a piece of paper, which, he said, was a draft for the money. He told the prisoner that he did not like the piece of paper; and prisoner replied, "Oh, that is the way I generally pay my creditors "-(laughter)-and that he had no other paper with him, but would buy a stamp, and they went to a stationer's shop: and bought one, and then prisoner filled it up in his presence. (The cheque purported to be on Messrs. Percival, Hills, and Co., of Lombard-street, and was signed Henry Mortimer Stuart, and was marked, "no effects.") The witness said he then left the goods with the prisoner. Mr. L. Warlomont, of 289, Regent-street, moderator lamp manufacturer, said: The prisoner called and asked for a lamp, and ordered it to be taken to the first-class waiting-room at the King's-cross Railway Station. He ordered it to be addressed to Mr. Edward Francis Carew, and said he lived at Clifton-lodge, Cambridge, where a second one was to be sent. Prisoner said he would give my man the money when he saw him at the waiting- room. Enoch Hebbs, porter to. the last witness, said: I took a lamp and case to the Great Northern Railway Station. It was addressed with Mr. Carew's name on it. Prisoner was in the first-class waiting-room, and produced a cheque (on Messrs. Coutts. for £ 16) T took the cheque^, feeling aaiisneu as 1 saw prisoner write Mis name, and lefc with it, leaving the goods with prisoner. Prisoner, who made no answer to the above charges,. wasremandect. All the cheques uttered by the prisoner were returned to the persons presenting them marked no effects." It appears, but was not given in evidence, that Inspector Holmes, of ..the railway police, at the Victoria-station, having read in the Sussex Gazette the description of a man. who gave the address of Worthing, and who had Swindled several tradesmen, observing the prisoner speaking to the first witness at the station, and thinking: he answered the description in the Gazette, the inspector followed the prisoner and the witness in a cab, amLat last being satisfied that he was the man wanted, took him into custody. At the conclusion of the case Mr. Tyrwhitt, being informed of the mode of capture, said he hoped publicity would be given to it, as the inspector deserved great credit.

BANK OF ENGLAND. The Stolen Note-Paper. On Thursday a half-yearly court of the governor and- directors of the Bank of England was held in the Bank parlour, Threadneedle-street. Mr. Alfred Latham, the governor, presided; and the attendance of proprietors was larger than on any previous occasion for many years past, owing to the late robbery of Bank paper. Mr. Bentley, the secretary, having read the minutes of the last meeting, The Chairman said that he had to acquaint the court that this was a quarterly court under the bye-laws, and also a half-yearly court for the consideration of a divi- dend. The net profit of the half-year ending the 31st August last was £604,041, making the amount of rest" on that day £ 3,619,372. After providing for a dividend of X4 5s. per cent., the "rest" would be £ 3,000,872- The directors proposed that there should be declared a dividend on interest and profits of X4 5s., without deduc- tion on account of income tax (cheers). The Deputy Governor seconded the motion. Alderman Salomons, M.P., said that before the motion was put he should like to put a question of great public interest, one on which the court would feel great pleasure in receiving an authoritative and official reply from the Governor. It was a question on which the public mind had been agitated-perhaps not very largely agitated— and had reference to a report which had been circulated of a large robbery of bank note paper, on which many forgeries had been based. He wished the Governor to give the court some official information as to the amount of paper which had been stolen, and the steps which had been taken by the directors in consequence. The pro. prietors would also like to know whether much detriment would arise to that establishment or te the public in con- sequence of the robbery. The Governor hoped the proprietors would excuse him if he did not go very far into the consideration of the question. The directors had well considered thematter, and had come to the conclusion that it was one in which the ends of justice might be interrupted if they were publicly to state many particulars. He might, however, tell them that in some of the newspapers they had seen the amount of paper which had been lost had been enormously ex- aggerated. The directors could tell pretty well what amount of notes was out by the amount of those coming in, the return of notes being enormously rapid. For in- stance, one-half at least of the notes which were out when the transaction alluded to took place had been returned to the Bank. Every story he had seen in the papeis relative to the transaction had been enormously overdrawn and exaggerated. Mr. Clarke: What is the probable amount of loss ac- cording to your judgment ? The Governor; It is very small, indeed. The number of forged notes based upon this robbery which have come in is very small indeed. From the largest bank in Lon- don with which the Bank of England had transactions, not a single forged note had come in. Alderman Salomons: Your answer, then, is that the amount of loss incurred is very inconsiderable ? The Governor: Yes, very inconsiderable. 1 1 Mr. Reeves: And likely to be inconsiderable. The Governor: Yes. The motion for the declaration of the dividend was then put, and unanimously adopted. The Governor announced that the dividend would be made payable on Saturday, the 11th of October. On the motion of Mr. Clarke, seconded by Mr. E. Bur- mester, a vote of thanks was awarded to the directors; for whom the Governor returned thanks, and the meeting separated.