The Illustrated Usk Observer and Raglan Herald

Dictionary of Ladies' Dress. Compiled by an Old Bachelor of Forty Years' experience. GIMP. A sort of nail used in their high-heeled boots, or something to do with the ring of a parasol; can't make out which. TICKEN. Shawls are usually made of this, and those -fancy scarfs for evening dress.-N.B. It is called dear" when they like it best, though only sixpence GUSSETS. Same as "LiiiseyWolsey," I think, a fine calf-skin leather for ornamenting riding habits.- Note. It has very sharp prickles, as I found once when I sat down on a bonnet made of it, mistaking the thing for a bunch of flowers. „ ,1 TULLE. Not yet sure of this, but suspect it is the needle they use in backstitch.—Mem. "Curtain of a bonnet" seems to have something to do with it. TUCK. This is either a species of Scotch brooch, or a light blue ball-sash, though I have also heard it spoken of in relation to a reticule for a pic-nic with a aandwich inside. BOMBAZINE. Much mystery about this. Four years ago, however, I satisfied myself it has something to do •with a baby's bottle. Sometimes it is called a love of A BOBBINNET. Only a little bobbin. Their work-boxes; are full of them. I once upset one. FLOUNCE. Every one knows what this is. It is put on gowns, and a new one is put on each year as the wearer grows too tall for the former length. DIMITY. A regular poser this. Used to think it was •a « finger stall," but have found out now it is a sort of troll nut inside the baok hair to fill it out. However, my mece, Miss Mary, aged thirty —never mind—, says positively, No!" CRINOLINE. Man's horror-woman's sphere.

The Michaelmas Goose. A SON,G OF THE SEASON(lNG). Am-" The Ivy Green." Oh! a dainty bird is the Michaelmas goose, With onions and sage stuffed well, ('Tis true, indigestion he may produce, And pills and black draught compel). How grandly he lies on the steaming dish, The sauce of the apple beside, And the toothsomest morsel man could wish Will the Michaelmas goose provide. Steeped in gravy--delightful juice !— A dainty bird is the Michaelmas goose. Steeped in gravy—delightful juice!— A dainty bird is the Michaelmas goose. But an ill-omened bird is the Michaelmas goose, That reminds one of quarter-day, When the landlord won't hear of the least excuse If your rent's unprepared to pay. When for tradesmen's bills in the county cowrt You are cruelly brought to book, When they seize your goods-sew you up, in short, When your Michaelmas goose they cook. Duns and bailiffs will play the deuce, And utterly cook your Michaelmas goose. Duns and bailiffs will play the deuce, And utterly cook your Michaelmas goose. CON. BY AN INSURANCE OFFICE CLERK—Why is Professor Pepper's life a remarkably good one ?-Be- cause there is no prospect of his giving up the ghost. MUCH MORE LIKE IT.—Some people say that the female heart is an enigma, which no fellow can under- stand. For our own parts, we fancy it may be under- stood, but that it can't be over estimated. SCIENTIFIC.—A magnetic mountain has been dis- covered in Swedish. Lapland. It is creating a great sensation, and, as may be expected, is drawing im- ^XIIECOND NATIONAL DEBT—A debt of gratitude most justly due to those brave fellows who Man the Lifeboat." DIPLOMATIC ADVICE TO RUSSIA ABOUT POLAND. —Bear, forbear! SLOW AND SEWER.-The Metropolitan Railway. MR. GLADSTONE'S FAVOURITE TRIAD.— £ s. d. ♦ —

Serious Accident to a College Cadet.—At Cheltenham, the other evening, while the College Cadet Corps were engaged in practice with blank cartridge in the college ground, Private Allsopp, a son of the -eminent Burton brewer, sustained a serious injury to his face, through his rifle discharging while at the order." He had incautiously let the hammer^ down on the cap when it should only have been at half- oock," and the sudden jerk on the ground caused the cap to explode. Every attention was paid to the young gentleman, and although his right eyebrow has been shattered, it is hoped no more serious result will arise from the untoward disaster. His right-hand man also had his uniform considerably damaged. John Murphy was charged at the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday, with embezzling small sums of money, the property of the trustees of the "Royal Liver Friendly Society." There was nothing of interest in the case so far as the charge was con- cerned but it transpired that the society, which pro- fesses to insure poor people, who pay small sums of money weekly, allows its agents and collectors 25 per cent. on the premiums they gather in. The prisoner was acquitted, and the Recorder very properly com- mented in terms of strong reprobation on the manner in which the society did business. A curious incident occurred at Potsdam, at the time of the visit of the members of the Statistical ;Congress. Among the persons who were walking in the gardens of the Palace of Sans-Souci was a Prussian officer, who entered into conversation with an English savant. The latter, after a time, could not avoid ex- pressing his surprise at finding a Prussian officer speak English so well. The officer replied that there was nothing astonishing in that fact, as his wife and his mother-in-law were both English. "Mights I venture to inquire the name of your mother-in-law ? said the English savant. Queen Victoria! replied the officer, who was no other than the Prince Royal of Prussia,

EXTRACTS FROM MANHATTAN. The following extracts are taken from a letter dated Sept. 14:— Desertions from the Southern Army. News reached here yesterday that General Lee was falling back upon Richmond. It is also posi- tively asserted that his retreat is not so much caused by being scared at our folks, as by the fact that when near us his troops desert at the rate of 4,000 or 5,000 a day, and join our forces, where the bread is not so sour, and the whisky much better. Discount in the Draft. Out of 18,450 men drafted only 6,000 have been passed on. Of this 6,000 only 1,500 have been held for service. Consequently out of the 12,000 re- maining, only 3,000 will be held, making a total of 4,500. At this rate we shall be obliged to have about three more drafts in this city. Proposal to Burn Charleston. It was known in town last night that orders had been sent to Charleston to burn it, if the forts in the harbour were not surrendered. I dare say it will be burned. It will be bad policy on the part of the rebel leaders to permit it. Better a thou- sand times to surrender. However, as they think differently, Charleston will' be burned unless the citizens rise and prevent it. Fitting out Privateers in English Ports. These things—the fitting out of pirates or pri- vateers in English ports—are talked over in all sections. Of course, different explanations are given. The general one is, that the English Ministry do not like to take the responsibility of an open declaration of war against the United States, and is not sure that the English people would adopt it if presented in the direct form of war or peace. Ministers hope to involve the two countries in a war by permitting the vessels to be built in and to sail from English ports. A New Disease. From the following-it seems that we have a new disease in this country, although an old one in Europe:— "A wealthy gentleman of this city, brother of our most celebrated physician, who has been afflicted with leprosy for some years, and had tried the highest medical skill of this country and Europe without avail, has been perfectly restored to health by Dr. Scott, of Union-square." This has been introduced since the civil war com- menced, and is confined principally to the shoddy contractors, or to those who have made money out of this cruel war. Doings in New York. The theatres in this city are all doing a mag- nificent business-coining money. Edwin Forrest, f the greatest American actor, plays Lucius J. Brutus t every night at Niblo's Gardens to scores of up- t turned faces." That last sentence has ever been credited to the late Daniel Webster. He stole it from Walter Scott, for he used it in the novel £ styled the "Heart of Midlothian," where I read it yesterday morning. This is a world of progression. Solomon was right when he wrote that there was "nothing new." Writing of Solomon reminds me ] that yesterday I noticed about 100 shops and stores on the Eighth-avenue, kept by his de- i scendants, closed. I went and read a notice on one of the doors, and instead of finding H closed, in consequence of a death in the family," it was in consequence of Rose Hosannah, or the New Year's Day, which commences on the 14th of September with the Jewish people. General Grant's Expedition to Rio Grande. When the news reached here that the brave Grant, with 80,000 of the best troops, had departed for the Rio Grande, it had but one effect. Every one was glad. We all understood it. We all know that the French in large force are at Matamoras, a Mexican town, the other side of the river, near Brownsville, Texas. It is well understood that the i French army now occupies that part, with a view to hostilities with the United States. They will be promptly met. With the large force on our side, and under such a commander as Grant, we shall soon drive out the French troops from that section. You may remember that the last war with Mexico commenced in this same manner, and in precisely the same quarter. General Taylor was forced to do battle with the Mexicans before war .was declared by the United States-in fact, war was declared to exist after several battles had been fought and won. Strength of the Union. 1 Maine has had an election. It has gone for the Administration by an overwhelming majority. It makes good my oft-repeated assertion—viz., that ] [line out of every ten persons in the Union are for crushing out this rebellion, or would sacrifice their lives to obtain that object. If I am right, how can England andfrance, if they do interfere, do so for the South? By the way, South, applied to the rebels, is not exactly true, for three-fourths of the Southern territory and slave States are now Union, and come under what is designated as the North. Awak- ing up of commerce between Europe and the U mted States for five years would as much injure the people of Great Britain as us, and we certainly should not go to Europe to make war. To contend with us, or to do us an injury,England would have to send over 500,000 troops, if she wished to con- quer us. However, it is a bad business to all parties, or will be. I do hope there will be no war between us and the English people. Let us alone, and let us fight out the war with France. We will not disgrace our English blood, or our English language, but we will give her enough to do, so that she will postpone the wiping out of the dis- grace of Waterloo until 1963. A New Mode of Advertising. I think you owe it to Stewart to copy the follow- ing. It has been paid for in about three thousand American journals. Pray disseminate it in the English papers:— Henry Diffenderffer, Esq., nephew of the famous Baron Grimm, Prussian ambassador at Paris, is now one of Mr. A. T. Stewart's managers at his Upper Palace. Mr. Diffenderffer formerly resided at Balti- more, known as The Merchant Poet,' indulging his muse occasionally, and producing some beautiful poems. We feel inclined hereafter to call him a Bachelor of Arts,' as we have been observing him for some time past using his courtly manners and polite address in making the immense concourse of people feel perfectly at home and comfortable at Stewart's." I called to-day to buy a pocket-comb (knowing that Stewart did not sell them), in order to see the celebrated Squire Diffenderffer, the nephew of the grim Prussian baron at Paris. Squire D. was visible, doing the agreeable to all. Such is life, fame, and "merchant poet." That notice cost thirteen York shillings, and it will be worth to Stewart 50,000 dollars. It is not everybody who can afford to keep a nephew of an ambassador of one of the great Powers. It will now be fashion- able. Jaffe, the great cigar dealer in Broadway, will probably hire as a clerk the nephew of the French ambassador at St. Petersburg. I don't say that he will really do so, but that Jaffe will advertise it, and thus we shall have a new system of advertising, called the "ambassadorial style." A Desire for Foreign War. You know that while I have at all times written fully and freely of the absurdity of a war with Great Britain, yet I have never hesitated to de- clare that a foreign war was of all things the one thing needed to restore us to our senses and to make us a united people. May God grant that it has come in the shape of a war with France; and I hope to hear before this month is over that Grant has given battle to the French troops at Mata- moras. There can be but one result in a battle between our veterans and the wretched French troops, who have been so fearfully enervated by their residence in Mexico. Unless the odds are five to one the game is ours, but as we have the majority of troops the matter will soon be settled for the present, and the war will not fairly com- mence until France sends over 250,000 French troops—fresh, and who have not been injured by a residence in a warmer climate. As soon as we get news of Grant's having attacked the French, 300,000 men will be sent at once to Vera Cruz, and then Mexico will be occupied for two purposes :— First, to drive out the French scoundrels who have dared to try and break up the Monroe doc- trine and next, to allow the Mexican States to unite with the United States. There is only one drawback. It is that Louis Napoleon could not come out with his troops. He would find that he would have no time on his hands to play monkey general and smoke cigars, as he did when opposed feo the Austrians. You will probably get important news before this month closes, as France and the United States will be brought into immediate contact by the first battle fought on the Rio Grande. We devoutly thank- God, too, that we are prepared for a contest at sea with France. Under the disguise that we were making preparations to conquer the rebels, we have an armament now ready that will cope with France in any manner. One hundred thou- sand workmen in our navy yards, night and day, for nine months past, have made us pretty well able to combat with France in any ocean as well as upon land. There is a fleet now ready to sail that will go into the Mediterranean. Enmity to France. We are fully posted as to the designs of France, and there is but one feeling. It pervades every rank. Let war come, and it will be received as the greatest blessing God can confer on us this year. It will bind us to each other with bands of steel, and the rebel leader will be no longer permitted to control affairs. There is, of course, strong ground for believing that a war with France will involve us in a war with England. There is not a man in the broad States who has not been instructed for years to believe that Louis Napoleon governed England as effectually as he does France, though in a different manner—that Lord Palmerston is merely the executor of his wishes; that the permit- ting of English steamers to be built in English ports for piratical purposes, to which the Alabama was applied, is a design concocted by Lord Palmer- ston and Louis Napoleon to exasperate this country to such a' pitch that war would be in- evitable. We know as well as does the Ruler of the World, that an agent of Louis Napoleon furnished the capital to build the El Toussoun and the El Monassir as that Earl Russell owned the ink used to write his note of August 13, permitting those vessels to go out on their piratical career. It is painful tet think of all the consequences of such proceedings. All is underhand. The same deep game is being played at Washington. Heaven alone knows for what purpose. There is not a child who can read but is perfectly well aware that if the American Govern- ment had wished it that it could have captured the Alabama and the Florida a hundred times over. There has never been a day nor an hour when fifty vessels could not have left our Atlantic ports, and with certainty of suc- cess. It paid to let the American ships be captured by those steamers. It has kept all the great sources of our wealth in a constant fever, and ready to make war upon England at any moment. It was deep policy, and I am really anxious to know what master-mind is at work at Washington, for there have been evidences of it for over two years. I pray that England may not be led into the trap set for her. A bloody war of several years' duration would follow, and England would be the greatest sufferer. Napoleon has nothing to lose. Before five years are over he will have died, or will be in exile, and a dynasty friendly to the United States will be in power. The rebel cause will be ended long before next year ends.

EARL RUSSELL AT BLAIRGOWRIE. Earl Russell, who has been residing with his family at Meikleour-house, Perthshire, for some weeks back, was entertained by the tenantry on the estate to a public dinner, which was held in the public hall of Blairgowrie on Saturday afternoon. Earl Russell was met at the outskirts of Blairgowrie by a procession consisting of the different trades and headed by the magistrates. On reaching the town the noble earl was presented with an address by the magistrates, in which allusion was made to his many and successful efforts in the cause of civil and religious liberty. Earl Russell, having replied to the address, proceeded to the hall, where the chair was taken by the Earl of Airlie. The Rev. Mr. Marshall presented an address e* to the noble earl on behalf of the tenantry of Meikleour, which referred at considerable length to various important measures in the carrying of which his lordship had taken a part, and to his present diffi- cult and delicate duties as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Earl Russell was received with loud cheering; in his reply he said: Sir, when I receive an address of this kind I hardly know whether I ought to be most grati- fied or ashamocl-gratified at such high commenda- tions on my conduct, but ashamed that to me are addressed praises which more properly belong to many others with whom I have acted and co-operated in public life. Several of these have passed away, and even in the present year I have to lament the loss of those by whose wisdom, by whose sagacity and acti- vity, I was aided in the measures I brought forward. Perhaps no country has seen such a series of changes as this country during the period of the last forty years to which you have alluded, without violence, without revolution; I may say, not only without danger to the throne, whicn It was predicted tne rceiorm iiin would produce, but with increased veneration for the throne and love to the person who occupies it (cheers). You have alluded to other measures which in days gone by caused great alarm to the agricultural in- terests. We all remember when we were told that it would be impossible to carry on farming if the corn laws were repealed. But with respect to that subject, as well as many others, it has been a constant obser- vation that has occurred to my mind as years passed on, that many of our laws were made not to prevent men doing evil, which ought to be the object of all laws, but prevent them 'doing what was legitimate, and even sometimes exceedingly useful (cheers). With respect to other matters, and particularly foreign affairs, I will not say anything just now, as I may have to address you at a later period of the afternoon. After some further observations on local matters, dinner was partaken of, after which the Earl of Airlie gave the usual Royal toast. He next gave the health of the guest of the day, alluding to the political career of Earl Russell from the time he carried the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts in 1828 down to the time of his lordship acting as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the present administration. Earl Russell, on rising to respond, was received with continued cheering. After some introductory remarks on our foreign relations, he observed: The appre- hension of war causes burdens to be placed on the people of this country, and might bring on a struggle in which every mother would have to feel for the danger of her son in the army or the navy when he may have to encounter the enemies of the country. There have been important events during the short period I have held the seals of Secretary of Foreign Affairs. There was, when Lord Palmerston came into office, the war in Italy still pending, though soon closed. Then' came the question whether the Italians would be allowed, without interference, to throw off their Govern- nients-most of them corrupt andeffete-(cheers)-and to attempt freedom andunity for themselves; or whether Austria, or France, or any other Power, should in- terfere and turn aside the destiny to which Italy was aspiring. The Government of Lord Palmerston did not hesitate for: VJ, moment to say that the people of Italy ought to choose for themselves their form: of Government, and from the capacity they had shown, and the courage they had exhibited, it was our belief that they were fit to take their place among the great nations of the world (loud cheers). His lordship then referred to Polish affairs, expressing his sympathy with that country, and reprobation of the course which Russia had pursued,, but recommending on our part a policy of non-intervention. He then observed, there is another question concerning our foreign relations on which a good deal of misapprehension has very likely prevailed; I mean the question of Mexico. It is said that there has been interven- tion in Mexico, and that we took part in that intervention. Now, that word intervention is not unfrequently applied with a great degree of loose- ness and confusion to very different kinds of proceed- ings. There is an intervention certainly when the subjects of a Power are wronged, and that Power seeks redress for these subjects when their property has been unjustly taken, or when the persons of these subjects have been injured; but that intervention is quite justifiable and indispensably necessary (cheers). But there is another kind of intervention against which I have often protested, and which I think is very rarely indeed to be justified, and which generally finds its condemnation in the consequences which flow from it-I mean intervention in the internal affairs of another nation to dictate what form of government it shall adopt and who shall be its rulers. In the former kind of intervention, we have taken part; but imme- diately the latter kind was adopted by one of the three Powers concerned in these hostilities in Mexico we at once parted company with our allies,- and have since taken no part in the affairs of Mexico (hear, hear) Such is our condition at the present moment. Well gentlemen, I come now to another question—I am speaking of what has occurred in the American States. A few years ago we were exulting in the prosperity of that country. We were happy to see the people, derived from the same ancestors as ourselves, enjoying free institutions, enjoying apparent harmony with one another, and with whom we had—at least just before the civil war broke out-hardly a difference. There was a difference about a small island called St. Juan, and which we proposed to refer to the arbitration of the Swiss Republic. Such was the state of affairs when that in which we certainly had no part broke out. Nine of the Southern States of America declared that they would form an independent republic. Our course on that subject has been attacked and blamed, some- times in the bitterest terms. Blamed sometimes by the Federals; sometimes by the Confederates. The first offence was felt by the Federals. They state that we had no right to grant—as far as we were concerned -to the Confederate States the rights of belligerents. Well, gentlemen, that question of the rights of belli-' gerents is a question of facts, and I put it to you whether, with five millions of freemen declaring them- selves, in States and collectively, an independent State, we could pass it over as a petty rebellion. Oar admirals asked whether the ships they met bearing the Confede- rate flag should be treated as pirates or not. If we had treated them as pirates we would have been taking part in that contest (cheers). It was impossible, look- ing at it as a community of five million people, to treat it as a mere petty insurrection—(hear, hear)-or as as not having rights which at all times have been given to those who by numbers and importance and the extent of territory they possessed were entitled to those rights. Well, it was said that we ought not to have done it because it was a community of slave- holders. I trust our abhorrence of slavery is not in the least abated or diminished (cheers). For my own part, I consider that it is one of the most horrible crimes that yet disgrace humanity. But when we are treating of the relation which we bear to the com- munities of men I doubt whether it would be expedient or useful for humanity to introduce that new element, declaring that we will have no relation with a people that permits slavery to exist among them. Then comes another complaint, and it comes from the so-called Confederate States. It is said we have, contrary to the declarations of Paris, contrary to international law, permitted the blockade of 3,000 miles of American coast. It is quite true we did so, and the presumeable cause of complaint is quite true, that, although the blockade is kept up by a sufficient number of ships, yet these ships were sent into the United States navy in a hurry, and are ill-fitted for the purpose, and did not keep up so completely and effectively as was required an effective blockade (hear, hear). Still, looking at the law of nations, it was a blockade we, as- a great belligerent Power, in former times should have acknowledged. Our people were suffering severely for the want of that material which was the main staff of their industry, and it was a question of self-interest whether we should not breakthat blockade. But in my opinion the men of England would have been for ever infamous if for the sake of their own interest they had violated the law of nations, and made war in conjunction with these slave-holding States of America against the Federal States (cheers). Well, gentlemen, we come to new complaints on the part of the Federals, that we allowed ships to leave the port of Liverpool which afterwards committed depredations on their commerce. It would lead too far if I were to go into all the particulars, but you must know that in order to prove a matter you require evidence-such evidence as might be sifted in a court of justice, and it was not until the day the vessel left that we had an opinion of lawyers sufficient to stop that vessel; and I doubt if even then we had brought it before a court of law whether there would have been evidence sufficient to condemn her, because by an evasion of the law the ship was fitted up without arms or equipment, and that equipment was conveyed to her in the waters of a foreign country, very far from the jurisdiction of this country. There are other matters with regard to ships that have lately been prepared within this country, because these ships are not like ships that receive the usual equipment. They are not like vessels you sent in former times of far, but are in themselves without any further arma- ent formed for acts of offence and war. They are steam-rams, which might be used for purposes of war without ever touching the shore of a Confederate, port. Well, gentlemen, to permit ships of this kind knowingly to depart from this country, not to enter into a Con- federate port, not to enter the ports of a belligerent, would, as you see, expose our good faith to great sus- picion and I feel certain that if during our war with France the Americans had sent out line-of-battle ships to break our blockade at Brest, whatever reasons they might have urged in support, we would have con- sidered it a violation of neutrality. Such is the spirit in which I am prepared to act. Everything that the law of nations requires, everything that the present Foreign Enlistment Act requires, I am prepared to do, even if it should be proved to be necessary for the preservation of our neutrality that the sanction of Parliament should be asked to further measures that her Majesty's Ministers may still add. In short, to sum up all, we are prepared to do everything that the duties of neutrality require, everything that is just to a friendly nation, taking as a principle that we should do to others as we should wish to be done unto our- selves (applause). The noble earl then proceeded at considerable length to criticise the tone and temper of Mr. Sumner's recent oration at New York, which he characterised as a heaping up of accusation on accusa- tion, all tending to war between the two countries, and observed I say, at all events, I shall have a conscien- tiousness that I have done my best to preserve peace between these mighty nations. We have as strong a feeling for the good of mankind as any people can have, but we must maintain our own position; and my belief is that the people of what were the United States, whether they are called Federals or Confede- rates, will finally do us the justice that they will observe-that in this free country, where there is so much discussion, and so much difference of opinion there are parties very considerable in number who sym- pathise with the Confederates, and there are other large masses, I believe superior in numbers, who sym- pathise with the Federals; but whether sympathising with the one or the other, that we have all impressed in our hearts the sentiments of justice, and that we will 'do to others the justice we expect for ourselves —(cheers)—and I hope I interpret the feelings of your minds when I say that justice ought to prevail. The Chairman then proposed her Majesty's Ministers. Earl Russell in returning thanks said: With regard to domestic policy, I think we are all pretty much agreed, because the feeling of the country and of those who have conducted great reforms is very much like that of the men who, having made a road in your own Highlands, put a stone on the top of the moun- tain with an inscription, "Rest, and be thankful" (laughter). That seems to be very much like our feeling. Not that there are not other roads to make and other mountains to climb, but it seems to be thE feeling of the country, in which I cannot help'joining, that our policy is rather to "rest and be thankful'' than make new roads (cheers).

DREADFUL END OF A WEALTHY GENTLEMAN'S LIFE. On Wednesday an inquiry, which lasted some hours, took place before Mr. Langham, the West- minster deputy-coroner, in the vestry-room of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, respecting the death of Mr. George Blamire, aged seventy-five years, a gentle- man possessed of considerable property, and formerly a barrister-at-law, which occurred under circumstances most extraordinary and revolting. The whole of the evidence adduced was of con- siderable length, but the facts of the case may be well understood from the subjoined:—The de- ceased, it appears, for the past twenty years has resided at No. 1, Adam-street, Adelphi, but in almost total seclusion, no person under any pretence whatever being allowed to enter his rooms — the three rooms in his occupation on the first floor. His meals were prepared by his housekeeper, and were left on a tray, at the door of the ante-room, and then taken in by the deceased; and although many times being in a state of ill health, he refused to have medical aid, but used to have sent in from a chemist's a large quantity of different descriptions of medicine. All communications to him were received in the same way as his meals, and for more than twelve months he never left the house. He was stated by Mr. James, solicitor, of Ely-place, to have been a gentleman of considerable ability, and although very eccentric in his habits, of perfectly sound mind, and. capable of managing his property, which consisted amongst others of large estates in Cumberland and Cardiff. His time was chiefly spent, it is believed, in reading and writing, the society of men being entirely dispensed with. The housekeeper, Mrs. Palmer, deposed to many of the above facts, and further added that she on Wednesday week went up as usual with his dinner, but received no reply to her knock at the door, and although she frequently called him she did not again see him alive. On Saturday, be- coming alarmed, she made a communication to the police, and the door was broken open, when a scene was presented which almost defies descrip- tion. On entering the ante-room the place was found to be strewn with hundreds of newspapers, writings, &c., chairs, tables, and other articles of furniture. The left-hand room (which is some forty feet in length, and overlooking the river) presented even a more extraordinary appearance. At one end was a handsome chimney-glass, some twelve feet in height, massed in dirt and cobwebs. The furniture, of a very handsome description, was in an equally filthy state -the dust, in fact, lying on everything to nearly an inch in thickness. The floor was strewn with a mass of articles, consisting of trunks, papers, books 11 p of science and law, of much value. There was also three large bags filled with new boots, and several silver spoons lay upon the sideboards, and packages of candles, clothing, &c., were heaped up in all parts in the utmost confusion. Near the doorway, and leaning against the wall, was a painting of the Crucifixion, about twelve feet by four, said to be of great value, but which was also covered in dust and dirt. The right-hand room displayed a similar scene of dirt and confusion- furniture, books, paintings, &c., being piled up in different parts of the room. The shutters, which were closed, having been opened, a dreadful sight was presented. The deceased was found lying back in an arm-chair quite dead, and in a rapid state of decomposition, having no doubt been dead several days. He was quite dressed, but in a very dirty state, and by his side the remains of some food. There was not the slightest vestage of bed or bedding, and the deceased must have for twenty years slept in the same chair in which he was found. In other parts of the room were scraps of bread, bottles of wine, and medicine—this, as well as the other rooms, being almost impassable, while the light of day had evidently been shut out for years. Upon a further search being made by the police, .£17 17s. in a bag, a gold and silver watch, silver articles, and other valuables were found, while upon the floor was scattered thirty keys. Dr. Alfred Harvey afterwards examined the body, and made a post-mortem examination, from which it was shown that death had resulted from exhaustion from low fever, accelerated by his own neglect. Other evi- dence showed that deceased was a single man, and had no near relative; but a will was made by him, which is in the hands of his legal adviser, Mr. Newson, of Carlisle. He was further said to have been very charitable and honourable. The Coroner, in summing up, alluded to the case as one of the most extraordinary in his ex- perience; and the jury, after a consultation, re- turned a verdict that death was caused by exhaus- tion from low fever, accelerated by the deceased's I neglect. The inquiry then terminated. «

The ex-King of Portugal, who ha.s for some bime been living at the Grand Hotel on the Boulevards at Paris, frequently exchanges visits with the Prince Napoleon, and the Princess Clothilde at Meudon. It has been arranged that the Princess Clothilde, to- gether with the Prince her, husband, should visit Lisbon, to be present at the accouchement of her sister, the Queen of Portugal. An unusual sensation was created in Paris on Tuesday by the publication in the Moniteur of an im- portant State paper addressed by the National Government of Poland to Prince Czartoryski. This manifesto is the official and complete vindication by the Polish National Government of their cause and their resolves. It is an answer to every point -of Prince Gortschakoff's dispatches and an announce- ment of the policy of unflinching resistance which Poland means to pursue. But it must be remembered that it is not technically the circular of a Government. It is the manifesto of men who are not even recog- nised as belligerents. Therefore it could not but create surprise-wild hope to some, wild alarm to others-when the official organ of the Emperor pub- lished such a document. The letter occupies -eight columns of the Moniteur. The Bourse was sensibly affected at once, and the Paris papers eagerly discussed the meaning of the fact. No one doubts that it has a meaning; and the friends of Poland are filled with the hope that it is deliberately designed as the first reply of the French Government to the contemptuous and arrogant dispatches of Prince Gortschakoff. Descent into a Mine by Ladies.-A large party of ladies and gentlemen, at present the guests of Sir William Call, Bart., at Whiteford-park, near Cal- lington, visited, in company with Sir William and Lady Call. the new Wheal Maria mine the other day, and so vivid an interest did they manifest in the undertaking that, equipping themselves in garments provided for the occasion, the most enterprising of them descended into the earth, consisting of Lady Call and Mrs. Jones, of Pantglas; Messrs. Boscawen, Somerset, Collins, Uniacke, and Haslers. They were lustily cheered on making their reappearance "on terra- forma, and the courage and intrepidity displayed by those ladies will long be the theme of enthusiastic admiration among the miners of Wheal Maria. Shocking Carriage Accident.—Mr. Coroner Favell held an inquest of a peculiarly painful cha- racter in Gateshead the other day. The subject of the inquiry was Mrs. Jane Pottenger, wife of the Rev. T. Pottenger, formerly of Newcastle, and now of the Baptist College, Rawdon, Bradford. She had been on a vjs'4- i-Q Mrst T. C. Angus, of Gateshead, in company with whom, two other ladies, and a little boy, she called on Mrs. E. Culley, in Bentinck-terrace^ New- castle, on Thursday last, their means of conveyance being a waggonette, belonging to Mrs. Angus. They had retired from the house and re-entered the carriage, when the horse, from whose mouth the driver had in- cautiously withdrawn the bit for the purpose of giving the animal some water, suddenly ran off, upsetting the vehicle and the party it contained. Of the occupants, Mrs. Pottenger sustained the greatest injuries, and on the Sunday following the unfortunate lady Sànk under her sufferings. The jury returned a verdict of Acci- dental death," but the driver of the phaeton- was severely censured for his carelessness by the coroner.