The Illustrated Usk Observer and Raglan Herald

DREADFUL TRAGEDY NEAR COVENTRY. Much excitement has been created in the village of Fillongley, near Coventry, by a very stocking tragedy which has just occurred there. During last week rumours were in circulation respecting the death of a young woman named Jane Dalby, the wife of a labourer residing in the village; and certain information having reached the ears of the rural police officer, an inquest was opened on the body by Mr. Alfred Carter, coroner, on Wednesday week, at the Weaver's Arms, Fillongley. The husband of the deceased then gave evidence to the effect that on the previous Saturday, on going home from work, at about half-past seven in the evening, he found his wife seriously ill. She re- quested him to go for Mr. La Fargue, a surgeon, who had been attending her during the previous fortnight. She complained of great pain in her left side and in her back. Before going to the medical man he locked the door after him, leaving his wife in bed. When he came back, having called upon his wife's mother on the way, he found the doctor had already arrived, and was waiting to z, be admitted. He tried to unlock the door but could not do so, the button which fastened the latch from within having slipped down, or been placed down, so as to prevent the door being opened. The door was burst open, and they went upstairs and found the deceased lying dead by the side of the bed. Police-constable Pittaway produced two bottles-one containing a small quantity of lauda- num, which the husband said he took for his com- plaint, and the other a lotion, which he said he rubbed his side with. After this evidence had been taken the inquest was adjourned till Thursday. On the following Sunday the husband went to church, and after the service to the house of his mother-in-law, where he swallowed a quantity of prussic acid, which caused almost instant death. A letter written by the deceased man was subsequently found, in which he stated that his wife had died from the effects of poison, which he had induced her to take, and that he-had promised to "join her at the Throne of Grace on that day week."

BARNET CATTLE AND HORSE FAIR. This fair for horses and horned cattle commenced on Friday morning at an early hour, and although the rain had fallen heavily throughout the previous night and during the morning, nevertheless by seven o'clock the trains continued to arrive at the station completely filled with passengers interested in this important agricultural exhibition of live stock. The cattle, con- sidering the long-continued drought which has pre- vailed, came to hand in a better condition than might have been expected, although inferior in flesh to last year. All the pure breeds appeared to be in good request, but it was very evident at the opening of business that the Devon and Scotch beasts took the c preference of all other kinds. The prices ruled as follow :—For Devon storelings, < £ 12 to < £ 14 per head; Hereford ditto, £ 10 to £12; short-horns, £ 10 to £ 14: ditto Sussex, tl2 to .£14; Lincoln, £ 12 to £ 14; ditto Scotch polled, £ 12 to £ 14; ditto long-horned "Khilos," < £ 8 to £ 10; and mixed breeds, £ 6 to £ 10 ditto. There was a fair supply of dairy stock, varying from 16 to 20 guineas per lot of cow and small calf, whilst prime Durham milch cows made with their calves as much as 22 guineas each. The sheep fair was upon a limited scale, consisting of a few pens of Leicester tegs, Lin- coln ditto, Welsh, and a good collection of South Down ewes. Business idle. The show of horses was upon an extensive scale, and the animals collected together upon this occasion appeared suitable to the accommodation of all classes of purchasers. There were three large droves of unbroken Welsh-hill ponies, which were of a very interesting character, and were bought up rapidly at from £ 4 to £10 each.

0 A robbery of 8,200f. took place a few nights ago on board one of the steamers which run between Dover and Calais. The sufferer was an egg merchant, of Gravelines, who had placed the sum in his trousers' pocket, from which an adroit pickpocket abstracted it while the owner was asleep, and unfortunately the loss was not discovered until the majority of the pas- sengers had left by railway.

GONE TO THE DOGS. We met Phil in the Strand, looking very poor and miserable; and being equally averse either to avoid his company or to be seen in it, we steppGu aside with him into a chop-house. We were not a little moved by comparing what he was with what he had been, and drops of compassion trembled in our eyelids" as we bid him tell his pitiful story :—" You little thought ever to see me in my present sorry plight," he said, looking down upon his threadbare, clothes, "but the last twelve months have wrought quite a revolution in my thoughts and feelings, and ideas of things in general, Often as I had heard the common saying about one day coming to my senses,' I never knew what it meant while I had any one to keep me; but now my eyes are opened. I have awaked as from a dream, and feel like the creature of another sphere, for the world has changed with me altogether. Even the very streets are quite different: for, ever since my clothes became seedy, and clean linen so scarce-you see I am forced to button up in the dog daýs-I have found myself instinctively keeping to all the lanes and alleys. I always cut Regent-street and go through Golden-square—not that anybody is very likely to come up to me—no, I walk the town as much alone as if I were dropped from a balloon in some town in Kamschatka. Various things strike me as queer and anomalous in the winter of my fortunes. It was easier far, while I could hold my head up, to be invited to all the luxuries of the season than it would be now to beg a loaf of bread. The same men who will spend pounds to be genteel,' won't spare a penny to be generous. Very strange, isn't it? There is nothing between turtle-soup and starvation Time hangs very heavy when a fellow's poor. You see I have no home-only a small bed-room—a poor garret -and a man is not expected to be there in the day- time except once in a way. There are penny reading- rooms-one in Leicester-square—but you cannot stay there all the morning they soon find out what you are after; and one of the waiters said he should have thought I had taken a lease of the premises In fine summer weather I can do pretty well, but the winter is awful. I dread next winter. Last Christmay Day all the recollections that flooded upon my mind almost broke my heart. As to the idle man's usual resource, lounging into shops and looking about me, all that has now passed away. The shopman comes up to me and asks what I want ? Even the parks now can only be said to be half open to me. I only dare go there in the mornings; and as to loitering about Rotten- row, I should dread the very thought of such a thing-there are glances I might encounter which would pierce me to the soul. And as to the Serpentine, I have not been near it for weeks. The last time one of the Humane Society men dodged me and eyed me so suspiciously I really believe he thought I wanted to drown myself. So all I can do is to mope about under the trees, passing gaunt and wretched-looking creatures like myself—men whose coats speak of West-end tailors and of better days. Some of these men look at you sympathetically, as if poverty itself were an introduction, and we all be- longed to the same sorry and stranded fraternity. One man above fifty years of age said he had been a gentleman commoner of Christchurch College, Oxford; another, only seven years before, had lived in Carlton- terrace, a dashing man in the Guards. You wonder to hear such things, but, save from an occasional begging- letter, you are never likely to hear of men like these, or what has become of them. If you were in such a condition you would feel a natural shrinking from all your former acquaintance and, as to your relations, they would take very good care no one should hear it from them." After finishing his mutton chops and warming into a yet more communicative humour over a pint of stout, he said he was much obliged by my kindness, and even the shilling it had saved him (of .course, I could not leave him without a more substan- tial assistance) was something to dwell on and to feel happy about all that day; for a little happiness goes a long way in these times.Cornhill Magazine.

ALARMING ACCIDENT AT PAISLEY. An accident, by which two men have lost their lives, aid another, it is feared, has been fatally injured, occurred on Friday morning at the High Church. That building is at present being re-slated, and the men, as usual, were working upon a scaffold, composed 3f three planks, supported upon needles projecting throngTa the roof immediately above the top of the wall. About eight o'clock in the morning there were three men and a quantity of slates upon the scaffold or series of planks at the west end of the back of the church, when, it issaid, another man went upon the same scaffold with a skip, on which one of the needles broke, the scaffolding slid down, and three of the men were precipitated head foremost to the ground, from a height of about thirty-two feet. The fourth man, who was farthest from the place at which the needle gave way, caught hold of the remaining needle, and fortu- nately escaped without injury. It was sadly different with the others, all of whom were found to be very severely injured. They were removed as carefully and expeditiously as possible to the Infirmary, where one of them died about ten and another about two o'clock; and it is still quite uncertain whether the third may recover. The unfortunate men were slaters in the em- ployment of Bailie Gillespie, and all belonged to the Paisley Fire Brigade. Their names and places of residence were as follows:—Henry Hamilton, 15, Moss- street, who died at ten o'clock, leaving a widow and six children; John Gillespie, Bladda, who died at two o'clock, leaving a widow and three children; and Peter Lyle, who still survives in a very precarious state, and who has a wife and five children. The person who escaped by clinging to one of the projecting needles is Mr. James Gillespie, superintendent of the Fire Brigade, and brother to John Gillespie, who was fatally injured, and who has since died. Inquiry is being made as to the cause of the accident, but it does not appear that it was anything else than a casualty, to prevent which every ordinary precaution was taken.

A COURAGEOUS ACT AND ITS REWARD. The neighbourhood of Bayswater was the other day thrown into a state of considerable excitement result- ing from the following circumstances, and which nearly terminated in a frightful accident, owing to a horse and cart, the property of Mr. Clegg, butterman, Archer-street, Bayswater, bolting in consequence of being left unattended at the door of a gentleman's house near St. John's Church, Notting-hill, the driver being a mere lad between thirteen and fourteen years of age. The particulars of the case are as follows:—As Mr. T. Hallen, junior, a resident' in the neighbourhood, was walking with a friend up Denbigh-road, a. steep incline, a horse and cart was seen galloping furiously down the pavement towards them. Mr. Hallen, seeing a number of little children playing about the street, and direct in the horse's course, sprang forward to arrest, if possible, the pro- gress of the affrighted animal. He succeeded in turn- it into Denbigh-terrace, and being a swift runner was soon level with the horse's head, when, making a grasp at the head-stall, he unfortunately failed in his object, but succeeded in seizing the bridle-rein at about fif- teen inches from the bit. Steadying himself with one hand on the shaft, he with the other endeavoured to check the speed of the maddened beast, when his foot slipped and he fell forward under the horse's belly, still clinging with determined tenacity to the bridle- rein. He was in this condition dragged more than fifty yards, at the rate of twenty miles an hour, and was considerably cut and bruised, his coat being literally torn from his back in shreds, by the horse treading on and kicking him as it galloped. Owing to the weight hanging on to the horse's mouth it was fortunately unable to turn at the end of the street, but still continued its mad career across Portobello- road on to the pavement, and headlong into a green- grocer's shop, carrying Mr. Hallen with it, who imme- diately sprang to his. jfeet, and with considerable difficulty steadied the creature, not however till it had plunged to such a degree as to soon free itself from the shafts of the cart. Much indignation was caused amongst the spectators who witnessed this daring act when it became known to them that the owner of the cart and horse had in the most off-hand and discour- teous manner positively declined to reimburse the gentleman who at the risk of his own life had thus saved his property, and probably the lives of more than one person. The damage done to the coat was the only remuneration asked for.

0 The annual meeting of the British Archseo- logical Society is to be held in Leeds during October. It will be under very influential patronage, the presi- dent being the newly-created Lord Houghton. The Wesleyan Methodists at present number 329.704 members, and have been increasing at a uniform rate of about 4,400 a year for the last eleven years. n ••

DEATH OF A CHILD FROM VIOLENCE. On Tuesday evening Mr. Cartar concluded an in- quiry, which had been five times adjourned, at the Ohequers Inn, Eltham, on the body of Augusta Con- stantia Engleheart, aged four years and nine months, who, it was alleged, had died from ill-treatment. The evidence taken was of a very conflicting character. It appeared that on the evening of Friday, the 31st July, Dr. King, of Eltham, was called to the house of the parents of the deceased, who was suffering from in- juries to the head, and in a dying condition. Death ensued on the following morning. Inquiries were made as to the cause of death, which was alleged to have re- sulted from injuries sustained in the head by the child falling over the bannisters of a flight of stairs, owing to the dress of the mother catcjiing in a bolt of a gate at the top of the stairs, she being in the act of carrying the deceased down to put her in a warm bath. One of the witnesses examined, Jane Maynard, servant to Mrs. Engleheart, stated'that the child had been put into a cold bath on the day preceding its death because of its dirty habits, and that when taken out of the bath some cod liver oil was administered, some of which fell over the shoulder of the child. This was washed off by the mother holding the deceased under a pump in the kitchen and pumping upon it. The servant also stated that the mother had, about a fortnight previously, com- pelled the deceased to swallow four chillies, and that two or three days before her death the child had stated that a tooth had been knocked down her throat by her mother, who, it was said, was in the constant habit of beating her with a thick cane, used as a walking-stick, and lthat this tooth she (the servant) subsequently found the deceased had passed. Mrs. Engleheart, on being sworn, said that the deceased was natur- ally very weak, of a peevish disposition, and of dirty habits. A former medical attendant had advised that a cold bath, with salt, should be used, and on the child being taken from the bath, and some of the cod- liver oil falling on her shoulder, she held it under the pump whilst the servant pumped the water to wash the oil away, not more than a tumbler full of water being used; that she then carried the child upstairs, but seeing it shiver she was about taking it downstairs, when, as above stated, her dress caught in the bolt of the gate at the top of the stairs, and caused her to let the deceased fall over the bannisters on to the stairs, when she rolled nearly to the bottom. She denied that she had ever beaten the deceased with a cane, and explained the accusation of causing the child to swallow chillies by saying that whilst emptying some pickles the deceased took one and swallowed it, and put a second chilly in its mouth, but after holding it in its mouth she spat it out. She also said that on picking the child up after the fall she immediately sent to a neighbour's for assistance and for a medical man. The medical evidence was to the effect that death had resulted from concussion to the brain, caused either by a blow or a fall. On the conclusion of the evidence the jury, after an absence of three-quarters of an hour, returned an unanimous verdict of "Manslaughter" against Helen Hannah Margaret Engleheart, the mother, who was thereupon committed on the coroner's warrant to take her trial at the next Old Bailey ses- sions. Substantial bail was tendered and accepted for her appearance.

EARL RUSSELL AND THE STEAM-RAMS IN THE MERSEY. The following answer' to the memorial on the sub- ject of the steam-rams in the Mersey, addressed by the Emancipation Society to Earl Russell has been received:- Foreign-office, August 31,1863. Gentlemen,-I have received your letter calling my attention to a subject of very grave and pressing im- portance-namely, the fitting, out and equipping of two powerful iron-plated steam-rams, which you are informed are intended to commit hostilities against 'a the Government and the people of the United States of America. My attention has long been directed to this subject. Both the Treasury and the Home Department have, at my request, made the most anxious inquiries upon the subject of these steam-rams. You are aware that by the Foreign Enlistment Act a ship is liable to be detained, and its owners are sub- ject to penalties when the ship is armed or equipped for the purposes of war, and its owners intend to use it against some State or community in friendship with her Majesty. It is necessary to prove both the equip- ment and the mtentipn. But in order to prove the equipment and the intention it is necessary for convic- tion in a British court of justice to have the evidence of credible witnesses. I was in hopes, when I began to read your memorial, that you would propose to furnish me with evidence to prove that the steam- rams in question were intended to carry on hos- tilities against the Government and people of the United States of America. But you make no proposal of the sort; and only tell me that you are informed so and so, and it is believed" so and so. You must be aware, however, that according to British law prosecutions cannot be set on foot, upon the ground of the violation of the Foreign Enlistment Act, without affidavits of credible witnesses, as in other cases of important misdemeanours and crimes. Such, likewise, is the law in the United States of America.-I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your most obedient humble servant, RUSSELL. Messrs. Evans, Taylor, Malleson, and Chesson. A correspondent of a morning contemporary, refer- ring to the above subject, says:—" One suggestion has struck me as being so obvious that I have some hesi- 10 tation in stating it. Yet as the obviousness may possibly deter others from mentioning it, I have con- cluded to run the risk of ridicule by mentioning it. The vessels I have alluded to carry the French flag, and are stated by some of the papers to have been ordered by a French consul. Now, if there be no legal difficulty in the way, our Government might insist on guarding these vessels by one or two men-of-war to their destination. They might, I think, under the circumstances, insist on seeing the Messrs. Laird deliver the vessels into the hands of those who ordered them. If this should end in their being delivered to a French consul on foreign soil, or in a foreign port, it will devolve on the Federals to see that they do not leave such place to enter the service of the Confede- rates. By a course like this we should effectually pre- vent them going from our shores into the service of the Confederates."

SERIOUS CONFLAGRATION IN LEICESTER. At about half-past nine o'clock on Wednesday even- ing a very serious fire was discovered in the factory of Messrs. A. Turner and Co., elastic fabric manufac- turers, Bow-bridge Works, Leicester, which has re- sulted in the total destruction of that building. The factory in question, which, together with the ware- house and other buildings, covers an immense area of ground, is situated close to the bank of the old river Soar, with which stream it runs due north and south. The building in question is 175 feet long, 28 feet wide, and four storeys high. It consisted of carpenters' and machinists' shops,, and the factory, containing winding machines for the employment of sixty girls, 60 looms, and over 1,000 braid machines. On its western side is, the engine-house, store-room, another factory 190 feet long and three storeys high, and a very extensive warehouse, all of which are in close proximity to the house of Mr. A. Turner, a beautiful domain, situated in the midst of magnificent gardens, The fire was discovered about half-past nine o'clock by the wife of one of the workmen, who lives in a cottage at the north end of the building. By eleven o'clock, so rapiil was the spread of the fire that it reached above half the length of the buildings, and the whole of that portion presented an entire mass of flames, which darted up into the heavens, scattering forth millions of sparks, jeopardising other properties in the vicinity, and casting forth a lurid glare all over the town, which was lighted up as though it were day. About this time a number of men arrived with some reels of hose from the factory of Messrs. Brewin and Whetstone, worsted spinners; this was attached to a hydrant, and lengthened by a portion of the hose belonging to the Sun Fire Brigade, which did not arrive until shortly after eleven o'clock. An engine belonging to the latter office was also placed on the banks of the river, and the water directed into the burning pile facing that stream, but the effect was only of trifling importance, the inflammable material in the looms and other ma- chinery only causing the fire to spread with increasing rapidity, until the entire length of the building from north to south was completely enveloped in flames, and fears began to be entertained as to the fate of the ware- house and other buildings adjoining. The bystanders and others, however, lent their assistance in securing some of the warehouse stock, &c., and succeeded in recovering from the store-room in the yard between four and five tons of india-rubber ,(in skeins^ and about £ 10,000 worth of manufactured elastic fabrics from the i arehouse, all of which were deposited in the dining and drawing rooms and kitchens of Mr. Turner's house, and on the lawn in front. By four o'clock the men gained so much power over the fire that further fears as to the fate of the other buildings were set aside, and the flames became gradually subdued. The men, however, continued unflagging in their exertions until about six o'clock, when nothing remained of the beautiful building-a v model. factory-but the, bare walls and the charred mass of timber which formed the roof and floors. The damage is roughly estimated at between £ 5,000 and £6,000, which is amply covered by insurances in theW est of England, the Manchester, and Globe Fire Insurance-offices. About one hundred and-fifty hands will for the present be thrown out of employment.

A TICKET-OF-LEAVE MAN DESPISING 1' "7" LIBERTY. A man between thirty and forty years of age stepped into the witness-box at the Marylebone Police-station, and holding up to Mr. Yardley a parchment document, said, I apply to your worship to revoke this license." Mr. Yardley: What license? Applicant: I am a ticket-of-leave man, and this is my license. What do you want it revoked for ?—I find I cannot get a living under a ticket of leave. Not get a living! What were you before you were sent away ?-l was a gentleman's servant. I have no power to revoke it. Consider well, and do not have it revoked. How have you got your living since you have been home ?-l have had two or three places, and got turned away from each one. Why have you been turned away P—That I cannot tell, but it is true. Did your employers know what you were when they engaged you?—No, sir. I suppose they found out what you were after they employed you ?-They did, but I can't tell how. And then they turned you away ?—They did, and now I cannot get any work. You are not decrepid and weak, why not go and work in the fields ?—I came from Maidstone yesterday (Tuesday), and could not get any field work there. You cannot expect to lie in clover and stand upon velvet. You must commence your career again, and make up your mind to work hard. You must start from the lowest round of the ladder and strive dili- gently to reach the top to regain your position and character.—I have worked hard whilst under my sen- tence, and I am willing to work hard now. Why not go hopping ?—At this present moment I cannot get work at that, as there is not much of it going on. Why, I have been giving people money to go hopping at Maidstone and other places.-I have lost my posi- tion and my friends. Naturally so. That is the effect of crime. You lose your friends, and as a matter of course you must begin again. You could get work if you thought proper, but you have come here to make a parade of your case and get the sympathy of the public.—I lately was working in Wimpole-street, and there I got turned out. What wages were you getting ?—18s. per week. Handsome wages too. So much cannot always be got by good workmen in this country ?-I was satisfied. Now, you do not want to have your license revoked; you came here to parade your case after having had an opportunity to get on.—i have had the opportunity but got turned out. I was. satisfied. You heard what I said. Stand down. Applicant then left the court.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of the Hon. Miss Sophia Wheatley, of Charles-street, Berkeley-square, and St. Leonard's-on- Sea, was proved in London by her sisters, the Misses Georgina Louisa Wheatley and Mary Wheatley, the joint executrices, and the principal legatees under the will. The personal property is sworn under £ 16,000. There are several pecuniary and specific bequests.; amongst the latter are sundry articles, of jewellery given to the testatrix at various times by the late Queen Dowager; also a gold inkstand sent to the testatrix after her late Majesty's death. These relics she has separately bequeathed to her relatives and friends. All legacies are to be paid free of legacy duty. The residue of her property, real and personal, is to be equally divided between her said two sisters, who resided with the testatrix. The will of George Rainy, Esq., formerly of Raasay, Inverness, N.B., and late of Porchester-square, Mid- dlesex, was proved in London under £ 160,000 person- alty-the executors nominated being the testator's brother, Henry Rainy, Esq., M.D., of Glasgow; Chas. Stuart Parker, Esq. (the nephew), of Liverpool, mer- chants Chas. S. Parker, jun., Esq. (the great nephew), of University College, Oxford; and George Haygarth Rainy, Esq., the testator's son. The will bears date April 16, 1863, and the dispositions are confined to the members of his family. He bequeaths to his wife, beyond her settlement on marriage and all other pro- visions in her favour, a further sum of £ 11,500 and, after making liberal bequests to a brother, sister, nephews, and a niece, leaves the whole of the real and the residue of the personal estate to his son, George Haygarth Rainy, Esq. The will of Edward Field, Esq., formerly of Oxford, afterwards of Ipswich, and late of Oaks, Framlingham, Doctor of Physic, was proved in London by his two sons, the Rev. Edward Burch Field and 2Esculapius Field, Esq., the joint executors and .trustees. The personal property was sworn under £ 30,000. The will was executed in 1850. The testator has devised his Bedfordshire estates to his son Edward, and has left all other his real estates to his son iEsculapius, dividing his personal estates between his two sons and his daughter.- IllustmtecI News. The will of Mrs. Margaret Stancomb, of Trowbridge, Wilts, was proved m the London Court by her son, William Stancomb, Esq., the surviving executor. The personal estate was sworn under £ 120,000. The tes- tatrix died in April last, and was the relict of the late William Stancomb, Esq. The will bears date 1845, and a codicil 1852, and another 1860. Her property she directs to be divided. into six equal parts, leaving to her son and five daughters a share each. A legacy is left to the Sunday school connected with the Bap- tist chapel at Trowbridge, at which the testatrix attended, and a sum is to be expended in clothing and other gifts for poor members of the congregation. Legacies and annuities are also left to her servants. The will of Major-General Sir Joshua Jebb, K.C.B., of the Elms, Fulham, was proved in London by the executors, Samuel Henry Jebb, Esq., the testator's brother, and the Rev. Charles Campbell, the testator's brother-in-law. The personal property was sworn under £ 30,000. Sir Joshua entered the Royal Engi- neers in 1812, became colonel in 1855, major-general in 1860, had served in America in 1812-13, and retired on full pay. Sir Joshua held the offices of Surveyor- General of Prisons, Inspector-General of Military Prisons, and chairman of the Directors of Convict Prisons. Sir Joshua, who was in his seventieth year, died in June last. His will bears date 1854, and there are two codicils, dated 1858 and 1860. To his wife, Lady Amelia (who is the daughter of the second Earl of Chichester), he leaves a liberal annuity and a por- tion of the furniture, wine, &c. To his son, Joshua Gladwyn Jebb, Esq., he has devised the real estate, and, after leaving a pecuniary legacy to each of his three daughters, directs the residue of the personal estate to be divided between them and his son. The will of John Harvey, Esq., of Blurton Trent- ham, Staffordshire, was proved in the London Court, by William Kenwright Harvey, Esq., the nephew, and John Cotterij.1 Harvey. Esq., the great-nephew of the testator, the joint acting executors and trustees. The personal property was sworn under £ 60,000. The testator has bequeathed to his daughter, Mrs. Ford, an annuity of =81,000 a year, and his residence, with the furniture, &c., for her life; and has made a liberal provision for her children while under age, devising his real estates to her eldest son, to whom he also leaves .£8,000 from the personalty, bequeathing the residue of his property among the rest of her children. There are a few legacies to personal friends, and legacies and annuities to servants— Illustrated Netvs.

— — We have to record the death of Mr. Edward Stanley, of Ponsonby-hall, at the age of seventy-three. He represented West Cumberland m Parliament for twenty years. The "Czas" of Cracow announces the estab- lishment of the torture in the citadel of Warsaw; an iron ring, which can be reduced in size by a screw, is placed on the prisoner's head, and tightened until the victim confesses. Bigorous measures are being taken in case a revolt should bre&k out in the capital of the kingdom. An order has beeij. given to massacre the prisoners, in case an attempt by made to deliyer them,

EPITOPE OF NEWS. Three bags of letters were, it is said, flung overboard, in consequence of the fire which occurred to the steamer bringing the Brazilian mail. This will account to many for the absence of their expected correspondence. The farmers in the south of England are talking about feeding their cattle on wheat; because it is cheaper than anything else. Oilcake is £ 11 per ton, while wheat is only X9 per ton. The Archbishop of York has accepted office as one of the Vice-Presidents of the National Shakespeare Committee. The Rev. Arthur P. Stanley, Regius Pro- fessor of Ecclesiastical History, Oxford, has also added his name to the list of members. Three model lodging-houses, recently erected on speculation near Norland-square, Notting-hill, at a cost of about £1,500, are making a steady return of £ 5 a week. Mr. Frederick Dyer, of Walton-on-Thames, killed three fish in the Mole, with a small artificial fly, in half an hour, one evening last week, weighing re-" spectively lib. 2oz., lib. 10oz., and 31b. 12oz.—total, 6 £ lb. He was alone, and had no landing-net. A committee of influential noblemen and gentle- men has been formed for the purpose of erecting a monument to the late Field-Marshal Lord Clyde, but it is not considered desirable to convene a general meeting in the present deserted state of the metropolis. A matrimonial union is contemplated between the Princess Anna of Hessen, born in 1843, and Arch- duke Ludwig-Victor of Austria, born in 1838, younger brother of his Majesty the Emperor Francis Joseph. A Paris manager has declined to continue the services of a dancer, Mdlle. Salicq, because her calves were too large. He, of course, lost the trial, which was the result of the cancelling of the engagement. The Pope has ordered special prayers to be offered for "unhappy Poland." "Poland," says the decree ordering the prayers, "always Catholic, and a bulwark against the invasion of error," deserves now to be remembered and prayed for, in order that she may maintain the Catholic banner thoroughly intact." The Manchester City Council have resolved to borrow £68,000 under the provisions of the Public Works Act. This sum will be spent in the following proportions:—Ardwick, for roads and sewerage, £ 30,000; formation of a new cemetery, £ 25,000; waterworks, £ 13,000. The protocols of the Frankfort Congress have been presented to the King of Prussia, who, in reply to the Austrian officer presenting them, said he had nothing further to say upon the subject than what he had previously communicated to the Emperor. The third section of the congress of German jurisconsults, at Mentz, has rejected, by a majority of one vote only, a proposition made by M. Fries, a barrister at Weimar, in favour of abolishing the- penalty of death, forty members having voted for the motion, and forty-one against it. A new steam-packet company, to plough the muddy Thames between London and Sheerness, calling. at intermediate places, has just been founded. The last generous act of Mr. George Peabody,, the famous banker, is reported to be the endowment. of Yale College with a new geological cabinet, at a cost of £ 25,000. So much anxiety has been shown to possess a portion of Herne's Oak as it lay in the Home-park, that it has been necessary to place a keeper to watch, oyer it night and day, previous to the removal of this interesting relic to a place of security. Some alterations ara ordered in the sights of the pattern Armstrong guns. The frail traject-sight. is abolished, and the system of double sighting on the trunnions of all field guns is to be adopted. It appears that the JLOrCt mayor is a f reemason, and in consequence has been frequently passed the sign by prisoners brought before him. His lordship- latterly made an indignant remonstrance to a. prisoner -and a brother. Last week the first All England ploughing, matches came off at the Sparkenhoe meeting. Ploughs of the rival makers Ransome's, Howard's, and Hornsby's, competed. Both prizes were won by the Howard's. The annual banquet of the Sheffield Cutlers' Company took place last week, under the presidency of the master cutler, there being present the Right Hon. Lord. Wharncliffe, Sir Charles M.P., Sir W. Ramsden, M.P., Mr. Roebuck, M.P., the Mayor of Sheffield, and other gentlemen. Nothing of importance transpired. The Berlin Faculty of Medicine has com- menced an onslaught on the drinking of Bavarian beer, which they declare to be the cause of innumerable cases of apoplexy. Bavarian beer, which was not known in Prussia twenty years ago, is now largely consumed in that country. In the case of the omnibus conductor who. was run over recently on Holborn-hill, the sympathy of the men in a similar employ has been shown at once and to an extent that shows their benevolence, their wealth as a body, or, at least, what a strong pull all together will effect, X700 having been at once subscribed for the widow. Anarchy is said to prevail largely in Mada- gascar, and the Nile continues to rise. The latter fact is perhaps of more consequence than the former. We understand that upon the advice of an eminent Q.C., it has been determined to enter pro- ceedings against the Rev. H. Walmsley, for the re- marriage of a couple at St. Briavel's who had been previously married at a Dissenting meeting-house. A loan of two millions sterling for Mexico- is talked of in Paris, to be guaranteed by France, and to be applied partly to the purposes of the new Government, and partly to the discharge of the foreign claims. The security mentioned is that of the mines. Since the 1st of January last, up to June 1st, no less than 10,110,801 gallons of petroleum have been exported from New York to foreign ports, against 2,920,089 in 1862. In addition to the above 5,180,762 were exported from Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, and Portland, making a grand total of 15,221,572 gallons. The coal in the Wellington pit at Whitehaven has been burning for a week, and as all efforts to put out the fire have been ineffectual, the engineers have resolved to drown the pit. The fire came on gradually, and no lives were lost, but about 700 men have been thrown out of work.. Although some complaints are made in Nor- folk as to injury sustained by the partridges in that county from the drought, the prospects of the game season, generally speaking, appear encouraging. In Suffolk one gentleman bagged twenty-four brace of partridges before mid-day on "the first." A very extraordinary accident occurred at Carlisle the other day. During the progress of altera- tions in Devonshire-street, a three storied building fell, crushing the furniture in the house and scarcely leaving one brick on the other. Fortunately there was time to rescue the people, but they only escaped five minutes before the fall. l The officers of the line-of-battle ship Duise of Wellington, lying at Portsmouth-harbour, gave a luncheon and ball on board that noble vessel last week. The hospitable offer of the gallant entertainers was well responded to, and they had the pleasure to welcome upwards of two hundred visitors to their ship, comprising members of the principal families in the county. The Australian papers mention a strong desire on the part of the inhabitants ot New South Wales to alter that name to Nova Cambria, Britannia Nova, Alfredia, Alexandria, or, in fact, to any name which will get rid of the recol- lection of Botany Bay, the name given to the locality by Capt. Cook, but which has also become associated with no very pleasant recollections.. His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin is suffering with an ulcer on the leg, causing much incon- venience and pain. His grace is not, however, confined to his room, but gets out in a wheeled chair daily, and is able to receive his friends; and, though debarred from taking his usual part in ecclesiastical affairs by this tedious malady, we are happy to state that his vigorous mind is as clear as ever. J The greater portion of the troops at Aldershott, who were driven from the camp by the scarcity of water, and were encamped about Cove Common, have now returned to their quarters, having experienced a rather close and trying acquaintance with the watery element in the rain that has fallen recently. The Archbishop of Dublin. — His grace has experienced no relief from his sufferings, and his nights are passed in much pain and uneasiness. The disease under which his grace is. suffering has mani- fested very serioua and unfavourable symptons. The ace of the distinguished prelate, though advanced, is aSt extreme, he be»g only in his 77th year. y )