The Illustrated Usk Observer and Raglan Herald

THE NEWS BUDGET. Neapolitan Brigandage—Caruso's band last week entered the farmhouse of one Picciuti, and after exacting a quantity of fodder and five lambs, the chief seized the man's hand, and told him that if by the following day he did not find at least 500 fr. to give him he would be murdered and to prove that he was in earnest he drew his cutlass, forcibly laid the man's hand on the table, and cut it off at one stroke!— Cfalignani. A collision occurred on the Peebles Railway on Thursday evening-. Three ballast wagons got detached from the train on the Leadburn and Linton branch, now making; they rolled on to the main line, and met the 4.20 train from Edinburgh. A terrible shock took place. One boy of seven, son of Mr. Tennant, of the Glen, was killed, and seven or eight passengers were injured; two or more seriously. Great damage was done to the plant. The line, which is single, is blocked. The engineman and stoker are injured. Paris a Seaport.-The long projected plan of making Paris a seaport by cutting a ship canal to Dieppe has not been abandoned. The definitive plan has been deposited with fee Minister of Public Works. The line to be followed is nearly the same as that laid down in a plan prepared in the year 1823, with this difference in the execution, that the canal is to be sufficiently deep and wide to permit the largest ships to come up to Paris; The strike at the collieries of Messrs. Strakers and Love, in the district of Bishop Auckland, has assumed serious dimensions. The desired facilities for the weighing of the coals, on being brought to bank, have been conceded, but the rate of remuneration still remains m dispute; -and, dissatisnsd with the existing terms, upwards of L200 miners have abandoned their work. The men fcavo established a powerful or- ganisation. -Death of General .Johnson. Lio,d.-General W. A. Johnson, aged eighty-six, died last week at his residence at Wytham-on-the-hiM., near Stamford. The .gallant officer's commission as lieutenant-general was dated November 23, 1841, and his military services dated from the first few years of the century. Since the conclusion of the peace of 1815 General Johnson had devoted himself to civil affairs. He sat in Parlia- ment for Boston in the Liberal interest from 1820 to 1826, and for Oldham from 1837 to 1847, when he re- tired from public life. Sarah Emily Mitchell.—Mr. Baron Martin ps?e- sided at the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday:, over the trial er Sarah Emily Mitchell for the murder of her child. It may be remembered that she was livktg as the mistress of a Mr. Ciiappell in apartments ia Marylebone. She was jealous of Mr.Ohappell^and oa the 31st of J-uly, being left alone with her child, she stabbed it—so severely that it afterwards died—and cut her own turoat. The defence was insanity, and,the jury, believing it, returned a verdiotof "Not ginity." Killed in Coal Pits,-An inquest has been recently held at Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, on fee body of Thomas Clifford, aged thirty, a collier, >wiio met with his death in one of the pits belonging to Messrs. Barber and Walker, at Eastwood. A few days previously the deceased was engaged in his usual work in the when a portion of the roof fell. J«ipon him and crushed him so dreadfully that he died on Monday last. It transpired at 'teie inquest tfcari the deceased we a the fifth, out of a family of -seven brothers, that had been killed in coal pits. Singular Recovery. -.Twelve years &go a shepherd in search of a fas, in one of the many dens near the summit of Ben Lavish, at the sourcesef the River Tay, in the west of Killin parish, had me mis- fortune to dose his watch. Diligent search was made for it at the time, but it was.net recovered usuiil last week, when one of the E-oycl -Engineers at present employed in the examination of the plans of that dis- trict, stumbled upon it, very little the worse for being exposed to the storms of such an altitude fcr the period ofdozen years. Mie person who lest it is ince dearI,Nent it has beem restored to his son. ife English Shipping and tike American War. —A communication upon this subject, founded upon statements .made and statistics;given by the American press, has-been brought before the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce by Mr. H. W. M. King. He said that the direct result of the international law which autharised-thc capture of private property at sea had been to cause a great pass of the shipping- <v£ this country either to lie idle, or -to be transferred to foreign owners, to force a large proportion ef our seamen into foreign service, ..Mid to increase to a serious degree the difficulty of getting sailors to man the national navy. Awfully Sudden Death in a Place of Worship.—As Mr. James Wells, the minister of the Borough-road Baptist Chapel, Southwark, was, on Sunday .night, proceeding with his sermon, Mr. John Bunker, of 18, George-street, Newington, whose daughter was present at his side, suddenly fell from his seat to the floor. It was at first supposed that the unfortunate gentleman was merely suffering from an epileptic fit, and lie was removed "to the vestry wi&i,.out interruption te the sermon; but .en the arrival of Drs. Hart and Carpenter—the latter being in the chapel at the time of the cad occurrence—<tkey found that life was quite extizist. A Mayor in Difficulties,— The London Court of Bankruptcy .has been occupied with the case of Mr. Z. C. Pearson, shipowner, who ari the time of his bankruptcy was Mayor of Hull. His deficit is oner £ 212,000, his totid liabilities being = £ 645,000 Part of his so-called assets are claims on tee Federal Govern- ment for vessels which they have seized while attempt- to run the blockade. The assignees did not oppose the bankrupt passing his last examination; but Mr. Barley, on behaLf of some creditors, did, and asked. -that further accounts might be rendered. The Com. imissioner sent the !lî a.nkrupt. back for farther accounts. A Vessel Struck by a Whale.—Captain Kirk- ham, of the barque Edwin and Lizzie, which has just arrived in the Mersey, gives particulars of one of those ,-are instances of a wiiale striking a vessel direct on the stem, and which in the case of Lis ship nearly caused her to founder., so tremendous was the shock she received. TheEdwin and Lizzie left Prince Edward Island with a cargo of timber, and on,the r..2th October, in lat. 45.1 N, Ion. 22:8 W, at half-past one in the afternoon, was struck toy a large whale. Part of her cutwater was carried away, and the mam stem cut right through to the wooden ends. This tee-rible blow, as might be expected, caused great alarm on board the vessel, and so rapidly <M she leak that fee pumps were instantly manned, and kept going nigat and day without intermission. Forit-uaiately they wees equal to £ he emergency, and though the Edwin and feliza (a new vessel) had seven feet 01: water in her hGld, she was brought safely to the Mersey and docked. Murder of a Nobleman. Caunt Giovanni Willeken, a native of Posen, but who has for some years past resided at Naples, has just been murdered by his servant. This last, after having accomplished the crime, quietly walked out, telling the house porter that his master was dead, and that he was going to give notice to the authorities. As lie did not refcursi within half an hour, the porter went up to the counts apartment, and found him lying on the ground, dead, and with several wounds in, the threat, apparently inflicted with a knife. 'The servant hag not yet been arrested. As no property had been taken from the room it is supposed that the motive for the crime was political. The count was upwards of seventy years of age, and was correspondent to the AttgBbqtrg7b Gazette. Killed by a Bear.—The Cologne Gazette states that one of the keepers of the wild beasts in the Zoological Gardens of that city lost his life a few days since through an act of foolhardy temerity com- mitted in violation of the regulations of the establish- n I ment. Fancying that he had obtained complete mastery over the bears, he invited a number of his acquaintances to see him enter the bear-pit and take his breakfast along with its occupants. He began his performance by advancing towards a bear, com- manding it to come and take a piece of bread which he held between his teeth. The bread happened to fall on the ground, and when the keeper attempted to prevent the bear from picking it up the animal sprang forward, seized him by the neck, and strangled him in a moment. Before the body could be withdrawn from the pit it was found necessary to fire several shots at the bear. Shocking Suicide, caused by a Husband's Intemperance.—Early on Wednesday morning the wife of Mr. George Barlow, a gentleman farmer, re- siding at Cotgravo, near Nottingham, committed suicide. For some time past she had been harassed by the drinking habits of her husband, who on the above rooming got up to go to Nottingham, cattle market. It sweared that the deceased got up after him, and, ta.1m¡:g one of her husband's entered an adjoining room, where she cut her throat, the wound being very deep and extensive. Medical assistance was sent for, but it was useless. The deceased was a member of a respectable Northamptonshire family, and was much respected in the locality where she re- sided. Death of a V eteran.- William Fry, an old Tyne seaman, died last week at the age of 87, in the village of Tynemouth. Fry was well known to all who visited that seaside watering-place. He was among the few old Tyne men spared who fought under Nelson. He was aboard the British fleet at Ostend and Copen- hagen, and fought under Lord Nelson and Admiral Duncan, He was wounded in the left hand, and for many years after he retired from sea he kept bathing machines at Tynemouth. Anti-Union Feeling in the South.-Some of the people of Lownde's county, Mississippi, recently held a meeting, at which the following and other resolutions were passed unanimously Resolved- That a bottomless gulf of unfathomed blood and hate now separate us from the people of the United States, and that we will maintain that separation either to the recognition of our independent nationality, or our extermination as a free people. Resolved-That any expression of a sentiment hinting in the remotest degree to recognise the probability of the reconstruc- sion of the old Union is cowardly a-ad treasonable; that it should be scorned and crushed wherever it dare reveal itself by all true patriots, as well as by the strong arm of the Government," Seed corn in large quantities is now being ex- ported to France from Southampton, for the purpose of improving the quality of French grain. It is curious that French corn, if sown in England, will not improve the quality of English grain.. Cereals when grown in a cold climate do not deteriorat-e when transplanted to a milder one as they do wkea the opposite practice is adopted. The same rule is also observed with respect to potatoes. This root may be transplanted with ad- vantage from Scotland to the South of England, but mot vice versa. An Iron-clad ill a Storm.—Tike iron-clad frigate Prince Consort, Captain Yessey, is lying off Eingstown, greatly disabled, having encountered a fearful gale in the Channel. All her beats, guns, &c., are in confusion, and several of the ecew have been seriously injured. She put in on Friday morning, and soon after anchoring parted her oables, and was obliged to drop a second anchor, by which she now rides, about a mile and a half froisa the East Pier. There was seven feet of water in iter. The pumps have only gained an inch. The officsrs and men were so exhausted that assistance had in be obtained frfmi her Majesty's ship Ajax to prevent the vessel frsm sinking. An Exquisite Model.—After years of patten, industry, in the intervals of business, Mr. Robert Ht Sling, Thomas-street, Armagh, Itas almost completed a perfect model of the Roman 'Catholic Cathedral, after the original design of the late Mr. Duff, architect. This miniature work is five feet one inch lomg, two feet eight and a half inches broad, and three feet eleven inches high. The columns, aretes, and all have been made from wood beautifully carved. In the centre tower, which is a beautiful pieos of work, he &as in- geniously hung four small bells, which are tolled by a simple but .effectual contrivances. There are seventy- six windows filled with stained glass, and earved in elegant traeeey. But the most wonderful pars of the constructiosE. is the imitation oit the masonry, -showing 3,213,543 apparent stones. The work is intended for the Paris Exhibition next year. The "Vintages.—The vintage reports- from Spain and Portugal, especially the iatter, are ftae most favourable that have been received for many years— the best probably since that m-ysterious disease, the oidium, attacked the grape, about the same time as the potato torop gave way. Tot in the face of this the price of wine is steadily rising. One who ie familiar with these matters informs us that within the last eighteen aaonths there has beer.a. rise in thegcrice paid in Spain for high class sherry, equivalent 'GO about 7s. Hd. a .<Sozen in bottle in this country; and the lead- ing houses in Cadiz have intMR £ .ted a further- advance. The explanation is, that fcsir. the long smeoession of bad vintages old wines have -been excessively scarce, and fetch almost any price. Money to invest would not be badly sunk in old sherry—a far more .profitable speculation than land or debentures, and jurist as safe. This year's port is like the vintages that uset- to be in days of eleL—rich and abundaat; but it will be long before it oan affect the pri- f what we set upon our table. The German vintage is.s. failure in better than 1860. A Galkint Rescue.—"ia. eye witness. writing from Portsmouth, says :—" Or Wednesday afternoon the usuaii calm of the dinner hour on L-aircl her Majesty's ship Warrior was startled into unwonted activity by the cry of "Man.-overboard which ori- ginated from a dockyard artificer having fallen over- board from a stage over the side. An ordinary seaman, hearing the alarm, ran down the side, and, in his eagerness to save the fast-sinking man slipped over also, and beth were in imminent danger, as neither could swim, when Mr. J. H. E. Parker, midshipman, leaped gallantly from the. gangway, a height of up- wards of twenty feet, and succeeded, thougk nearly drowned himself by their frantic embraces, Sn sup- porting both ,men until succour arrived. Luckily, there was not a very strong tide, or we could shardly have hoped far-so happy an endvto our gallant feriend's exertions." A New Monster Balloon—It is said feat M. Eugene Godard has obtained penmission to estaMish a workshop in the Palace of Industry for the construc- tion of a Monftgolfier balloon, to be called the Colossus," wthidii will greatly surpass the dimensions of M. Nadar's balloon. The iatt/ had a capacity of 6,000 cubic metres. The new air vessel will have a capacity of metres. In a balloon of each a size it will be accessary to renounce the uss of hydrogen gas. The "Giant" abssrbed so much gas that it could only :}¡;e inflated in twe cities of Europe- London and Paris—:ssnd the cost gTl the conduit pipes for conveying the gas from Passy to the Champ-de- Stars, where it was inflated, was £44£. The Colossus" constructed on the Montgolfier priiaaiple, will be afci-e to visit all the cities iaf Europe, evaa those which are ltghted by oil lamps. An extraordinary boar hunt took place bW4 days since at Villenon, near Louvres, in the park of Baron Roger, about five leagues from Paris. Several gentlemen were preparing; for a day's partridge shoot- ing on the adjacent plains, when M. Bafford, who rente the park, came to inform them tizat no less than elovea wild boars had just left the wood, and were at that moment in the outbuildings of Ms farmhouse. The .sportsmen immediately loaded their guns with ball, and surrounded the premises, while labourers were employed to drive out the game. The boars soon made tfeeir appearance, and aine of them were killed, but the largest of all got clear off. The annals of sporting contain but few instances of such slaughter, even in countries where wild boars are most abundant. —Galigtumi. Frightful Accident in the Strand.—At a late hour on Saturday night the numerous persons passing along the Strand were painfully excited owing to the following shocking occurrence. It appears that two men, named respectively Jacob Strong, of Charlwood- street, Pimlico, and Edward Brookwall, of Chaiies- place, City-road, had been out together indulging rather freely, and the result was that they became inebriated. In the Strand they hailed, a cab, but the driver, seeing the state they were in, refused to take them, and a crowd soon collected together. The police desired the men to move ox, but one appeared to be obstinate, and on his companion putting out his hand to lay hold of his arm by some means or other the unfortunate man Strong stumbled into the road just as one of Chaplin and Home's heavy two-horse vans was passing. He struck against the collar of the near horse, and then fell to the ground, and before the driver could pull up the horses trampled upon him, and the fore and hind wheels passed over him. The police at once picked him up, and he was taken to King's College Hospital, when it was ascertained that life was quite extinct. The driver stopped as soon as he could, and it is the opinion of those who witnessed the occurrence that not the least blame could be at- tached to him, and he was therefore not detained by the police. The Dumollard Murders.-There is in France no probate-office for wills or facility at Doctors'-com- mons for their inspection, yet a strange light has been fortuitously thrown by a glimpse at such a document accidentally seen at Lyons in a notary's office, on the famous case of Dumollard, the murderer of so many servant maids, two years ago guillotined in Burgundy. The miscreant, it will be remembered, pleaded that he was but the agent of a sort of club of Lyonese fast men, whom he called les lunmnes barbus, an extenuat- ing circumstance scouted by the court. In the testa- mentary paper seen at Lyons, the testator, a young person of twenty-six, bequeaths 150,000 francs to the setting up of an asylum for servant girls out of place, "in the hope that others who must feel the same re- morse at crimes for which a wretched underling was alone punished may do as I have hereby done." As the two years' mayoralty of Mr. Brown, chief magistrate of Sheffield, will shortly terminate, that gentleman has been entertained at a compli- mentary dinner, and presented with his full-length portrait, which is to be hung in the Council-hall. The Cutlers'-hall, in which the dinner took place, was crowded, and men of all classes attended to do honour to the guest. Accident to Lord Abinger.-On the 15th of October, says the Montreal Witness, as Lord Abinger was driving his four-in-hand—containing, besides him- self, Mrs. Magruder and his two servants—down the mountain road from Coteau St. Luc, the horses became uncontrollable, and started down the road at a danger- ous pace, the carriage, after swaying to and fro for some time, finally upsetting at a little below the entrance to Monklands. The party was thrown out, and all of them more or less injured, Mrs. Magruder and Lord Abinger more particularly so. The carriage was broken to pieces, being dragged some distance on its side by the horses, which were themselves con- siderably injured. Mr. J. C. M'Laren, saddler, Great St. James-street, happened to be driving by at the moment, and assisted the sufferers to town,, in his carriage. A Baptist Minister Changing his Religion. -The Rev. E. Bailey, a Baptist minister of consider- able repute at Hull, has abandoned nonconformist principles, and allied himself to the Established Church. In a paper addressed to his congregation giving the reasons for the course he has adopted he says;—"At a very early age my mind had imbibed the most noxious prejudices against the Establishment, which year by year became more deeply rooted, until, on the occasion of the Nonconformist Bicentenary, I was called upon carefully to examine the subject, and I became convinced that the Anglican Church, instead of being the unscriptiiral thing I had fancied it to be, bears upon it God's own signature. The growing con- viction of my mind is tha/G Dissenters have never im- partially examined both sides of the question." Mr. Bailey, it is said, intends seeking holy orders in con- nection with the Established Church. A Man Buried in a "Wel.1.—A very shocking and fatal accident has just occurred at the village of Old Basford, near Nottingham, About half-past two o'clock a man named William Marriott, sixty-one years of age, was .engaged in removing bricks from an old well, to be used for making a new one. He had got nearly to the bottom, and was standing upon a ladder when he was warned by a person named Towlson, who was drawing the bricks out, that the sides of the well were not safe, and he had better ascend, Marriott, however, refused to come out, but in a few minutes the sides gave way, fell in upon Mm, and he was completely buried. An rularlll was made and several men were speedily engaged in endeavour- ing to rescue Mm but upwards of ;an hour elapsed before his body could be fcund. He was then staB-iiug erect upon the ladder and quite dead. Canine Sagacity.—Perhaps these is not on record a mora astonishing fact of the instinct and sagacity of a deg than eno which occurred at Tolethorpe-hall, near Stamford, a short time since. Lieutenant Henry Hanrisson, of the 24th Regiment, now at Aldershott, who had been staying at Tolethorpe a few weeks, took back with him a black and tan terrisr. Soon aiSter his arrival at AMershott 'fee dog shewed symptoms of dissatisfaction at his new quarters, and refused to re- thero. As soon as it was missed rewards were offered for ii'ts restoration; but no tidings could be heard of the animal, which waÐ considered by its master as lest. The ysung officer wrote to his mother, lamenting fee departure of the dog, but She imme- diately returned an answer to the^effect that'the saga- cious animal had just etrrived at Tolethorpe, apparently in good health, though exceedingly thin from the fatigue of so long a journey. The instinct by which it was guided in finding its way back 180 miles (having trowelled afif the waytfeo Aldershott in a railway train) is Illiostfmrprising. (Thirty guix.eas has been offered i by the officers at Aldershott for the dog since the per- fomiance ef this extmordinarv feat. A Wcjtfsrspout.—Mr .Walter Sheepshanks, writing frsm Kirkham, gives an account of the sterm which occurred ithere on æÚursday. The wind," he says, "had been blowing strongly 'fer several Ifeours, and after the-darkness which followed the gale increased to a hurricane, and a peculiar whirling motisn was per- ceived j-n the air for several minutes, during which heavy di-qps of rain were falling. This was succeeded by .a. deluge of rain, which can only be compared to a waterspout. The Willow Catholic Chapel and the UEion workhouse were wrapped in a complete sheet of water,, and most of the houses .were partially unroofed by the violence of the wind. The peculiar whirling or cireulsir motion in the air increased with ten-fold force, and seamed to carryall before Jt. A great portion of the summit of the sgire of the chapel was ttorn away, the windows -were smashed, a.s.d large •toees in the vicinity were uprooted. Several ladies who had just been. viewiing ithe interior of the edifice were carried with great violence into the adjoining fence, and one of them was severely injured by having her head en- tangled between two trees. The water streamed in a torrent ailsng Moor-street, and the valley in front of the hotel was in some places sis; feet deep. Air. Miles Myres, corouer for the district, was violently blown from his caCTiage:against a high wall in the valley." Deaths through Suffoe-,a,tion.-Two persons have been suffocated at the Ebfoo Vale Works, Mon- mouthshire, under rather singular circumstances. A few evenings since a young grid who was working about the furnaces went home and had her tea, and then stated that she had left Sker necktie 'behind, at the furnaoll, and must go back and get it. Nothing more was heard .of her until she and the under furnace manager werie found dead by the side of the furnace. At the spot where they were found there is an open- ing from the furnace for the gas ímd steam to escape, and when there is an exhalation of the sulphureous air it is highly dangerous for anyone to be near. They appear to have gene to this plaae together, and a sudden escape of the sulphur takyag place., they were suffocated. The under furnaceman was a married man, and leaves a wife and a large family. An inquest has been held on the bodies, and a verdict of Death by suffocation returned. Robbery by a Messenger.—Eobert Wallace, messenger to Miss Taylor, the keeper of a periodical office at 18, Davies-street, Berkeley-square, was charged .atMarlborough-street Police-court with stealing .£113s. in money, a post-office order for £2, and five shillings worth of postage stamps.-Miss Taylor said that she loft the office on Friday morning at half-past eleven o'clock, the prisoner being there, and on her return at half-past one she found all the doors locked, and was therefore obliged to send fm- a locksmith to force the locks.. The money in the drawers, a post-ofdee order, and some postage stamps were taken away, and the prisoner did not return.—Binstead Webb, a plain clothes officer of the C division, said that on Friday afternoon he went to 32, James-street, Oxford-street, and saw the prisoner and his wife both intoxicated. Prisoner said that all the money he had was G}d.; but on being searched three shillings and sixpence more was found upon him. On attempting to take the prisoner into custody he became very violent, and he (Webb) was obliged to get the assistance of three constables before he could get the prisoner out of the house.—Mr. Knox, on being asked for a remand by Inspector Draper, remanded the prisoner.-Sarah Wallace, the wife of the prisoner, was charged with assaulting a constable who assisted Webb, but Mr. Knox, making some allowance for the woman, her husband having been taken into custody, and the assault not being a serious one, fined her 5s. Religious Intolerance.—" M. Massard, a landed proprietor," says the Steele, died last week at Noce (Orne) at the age of sixty-five. The day before his death, the cure requested him to confess, but the dying man replied that he fully believed in the exist- ence of a Supreme Being, but that as he did not admit the duty of confession, he should not compromise his opinions on that subject. On the day of the funeral the cure having signified his refusal to attend, the mayor, attended by a number of the relatives and friends of the deceased, followed the body to the grave, and the prayers, refused by the cure, were said by those present. The deceased was an upright and con- scientious man, had never spoken in contempt of reli- gion, was liberal towards the church, and brought up g his children as Christians, and the people of the town consequently felt great indignation at the intolerant conduct of the priest." The Journal de Liege reports a somewhat similar case as occurring in the town of Brabant. A poor woman having died without the usual religious ceremony, the clergy refused to bury the body in the cemetery, and urged that it should be deposited elsewhere. The burgomaster would not sanction the refusal of the clergy, and had the body interred in the burial-ground. The clergy, it is said, mean to bring the matter before the chambers. Licenses for Fireworks.-The justices in petty sessions in the metropolis have during the present month granted licenses to the shopkeepers to sell fire- works and have made them stipulate only to keep a small quantity in their shops and the remainder in other places for safe custody. The licenses have been granted under the Act of 1860, amended by the Act of 1862. Persons letting off fireworks in the streets and thoroughfares are liable under the Act to penalties. Suicide of a French Shipbroker.—Mr. C. F. Carttar, coroner for West Kent, held an inquest on Tuesday afternoon at the Ashburnbam Arms public- house, Greenwich, on the body of Jean Baptiste Bous- sion, aged 57, who committed suicide by swallowing a quantity of prussic acid (Scheele's strength). The deceased was a native of Marseilles, and occupied an office at 13, Crutchedfriars, City, as a shipbroker. The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict "That the deceased committed suicide whilst labour- ing under temporary derangement." Essays and Reviews.-It is expected that the last stage of this long litigated case will be speedily arrived at, and that the Lord Chancellor, on behalf of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, will deliver judgment immediately after Michaelmas Term -probably about the 30th of November. As the case now stands, Dr. Rowland Williams and Mr. H. B. Wilson are under sentence, by the Court of Arches, of suspension from their respective benefices for twelve months. It was from this sentence that the appeal, which has been fully heard, was entered. St. Paul's Cathedral.-The following are the preachers appointed by the Bishop of London to preach in the Cathedral on Sunday mornings in the month of November:—November 1, Rev. Herbert Kynaston, D.D., High Master of St. Paul's School; 8th, Rev. James Lupton, M.A., Rector of Queenhithe and Lord Mayor's Chaplain; 15th, Rev. John Henry Coward, M.A., Rector of St. Benet's and St. Peter 22nd, Rev. Richard Burgess, D.D., Rector of Upper Chelsea. The Very Rev. the Dean of St. Paul's will preach on the 29th, being Advent Sunday. The Bishopric of Tasmania.—The Hobart- town papers state that the Duke of Newcastle, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, has of Ie red the Bishopric of Tasmania, rendered vacant by the resig- nation of the Rev. Dr. Russel Nixon, to the Rev. Mr. Allwood, canon of the Cathedral Church of Sydney, New South Wales; and that, in the event of his de- clining it, the Tasmanians will send a memorial to the Home Government, praying to be allowed to recom- mend one of their own clergy to be appointed to the vacant see. The Bishopric of Tasmania consists of Van Diemen's Land and Norfolk Island, containing 27,000 square miles, with a population of 80,000, and abeut seventy clergy. The income is J>1,000 a year from colonial funds and XI-00 a year from the Colonial Bishopries Fund. The War in New Zealand.—In the dispatches received by the Secretary of State for War from Gen. Cameron, C.B., commanding the troops in New Zea- land, and published in the London Gazette, favourable mention is made of Captain Sullivan, for important service in co-operai ion. The small colonial steamer Aven was brought into the Waikato from the Msnukau by Commander Mayne, of iter Majesty's ship Eclipse. This officer speaks very highly of the assist- ance he received from Captain Greaves, Acting Deputy. Assistant Quarter-Master General, who had previously made a most admirable survey of the shoals in the lower part of its course. As the Avon will be able to render considerable aid, General 'Cameron commends the conduct of the two officers.

Agricultural Cottages. The sa,tisfactory manner in which the cottage quas- tion is spreading throughout the United Kingdom, newspapers and agricultural meetings taking up the subject in a kindly spirit, promises well for the future comfort of the labenrer. During the discussion various opinions have been expressed, the great majority in | favour of providing a better and more commodious 1 description of dwelling. Some erroneous notions have, however, crept into the public prints, which may tend to mislead persons who have not thought much about the real state of the domestic economy of the working ,olasses.First, ithss beelihir-tetl that the erowdecl con- dition of the poor man's dwelling does not injure the health or morality of the family. It appears almost unnecessary to say a word upon the bad effects, physically and morally, of condemning human beings to sleep in small, badly ventilated rooms, breathing foetid air, which debilitates the constitutions of men and women at a period when natural rest is required to revive tfche system, exhausted fey daily labour. This is a severe trial to the parents themselves; what becomes of the grown-up boys and girds under sueh circum- stances ? They are too often compelled, not only to occupy the same apartments at night, but the same ] bed.! Has this nothing demoralising in it ? No plan | could possibly *be devised more destructive to common •] decency and so entirely opposed to all social obligations, i The second statement put forth, that cottage property ] does not remunerate the landowner, is also a mistake. By paying attention to the comforts of the labourer, he is contented in his situation, attaches himself to his employer, his health and strength are preserved, and lie becomes a more efficient servant in every respect. Having his home near his work, he would be saved the hardship of walking, morning and evening, two or three miles to a wretched hovel. It is a trial to a man's temper and constitution, living to plod a con- siderable distance on a wet winter's night, after many hours' labour, to a cheerless over-crowded cottage. Masters are aware of the advantage of warm clean stables, cow-sheds, and pig-styes-how they increase the value of all stock and economise food-yet they allow their men to be unnecessarily exposed to all weather. and worse lodged than the brutes on their farms and premises, and this after severe manual exertion. Looking upon men and women, for argument sake, as animals, on a selfish principle, it is the interest of those who use, not to abuse them. But when labourers are placed in their true position—equal in the sight of God to the greatest men in the land, though appointed to an inferior class—humanely speaking-it is the imperative duty of those who are better educated and richer, and who require the strength of their poorer neighbours to carry out schemes.to enrich themselves, to take care that justice is done to the most ignorant workman, no matter in what capacity he may be employed. Advice is of small value, indeed, becomes a dead letter when it cannot be followed, and those who give it must know the insuperable difficulty of even preserving a semblance of morality when the sexes cannot be separated at night. It is a mockery to talk to men and women of the impropriety of allowing young people to sleep together when there is but one room in the house for them, and one mattress.—Falcon, in the Agricultural Gazette.

Garden Drainage. About three-fourths of the complaints that reach us of the misbehaviour of fruit trees, and the failure of vegetable crops, and the unsatisfactory blooming of roses and many other things, have one common origin —the want of drainage. We see people labouring away at the surface, raising the level by additions of soil, manuring liberally, removing plants that have not prospered, and planting others in hope of better luck; and we can tell them, when all is done, that until they secure the first essential of suceoss- a rapid removal of surplus water-there can be no success to their efforts, manure and plant as they may. At this time of the year you have but to open a hole one spade deep, and in less then ten minutes that hole will be filled with water, which proves that the whole surface soil is satu- rated, and that any cavity, tunnel, or opening would immediately draw off the surplus water according to the capacity of the opening, and that there- fore very simple and inexpensive means would suffice to enable the soil to get rid of the water which is in excess of its power of absorption. A two or three-inch pipe laid at a regular fall of about two feet beneath the surface will effectually drain a breadth of from twenty to one hundred feet in width, according to the nature of the soil and its relative level. Generally speaking, the drains should be three feet deep and twenty-four feet apart: bnt in a wet clay they will not be too close at twelve feet apart. In districts where there is any apprehension of the disturbance of the drains by moles, one-inch pipe should be used. On very flat land a fall of 1 in 50 will suffice to keep the water moving but a rapid fall is preferable if the outlet is low enough to admit of it, as in times of sudden heavy rainfall a quick removal is very desirable. Of course we cannot here enter ) into the details of the subject; but as this is as good a time as any to drain land that requires it, we again remind our readers that good drainage promotes the warmth and fertility of the soil; and, on the other hand, a water-logged soil is almost poisonous to every kind of plants that come under the care cf gardeners. —Go.rdoners' Weekly Magazine.

AN INDIAN'S REVENGE. By the arrival of the Bombay mail we learn that at Elliehpoor a murderous attack had been made on Mrs. Macquoid, the wife of Captain Macquoid, of the 5th Regiment, H.C. The following are the details which have come to hand — The boy (for he was only abcut eighteen o- twenty years of age) who committed it had been taken on trial as a servant, and had been in Captain Macquoid's service about three weeks or a month, but was discharged two or three days before Trie occur- rence happened; he took his pay on the 1st and left without any apparent reluctance. The next morning the ruffian walked into the house about six o'clock, and taking Captain Macquoid's sword proceeded upstairs to the bed-room, where he attacked Mrs. Macquoid when asleep, and before she managed to escape inflicted .several severe blows and cuts with the back of the sword. One of the cuts divided the bone of the left arm com- pletely, and another severed the small bone of the riulit leg. jnst below the knee joint. Every time she attempted to rise he knocked her down with a cut. The ayah happened to come in at the time, and gave the alarm; the ruffian immediately fled out, but was pursued by Captain Macquoid's horselteepers, who were armed with spears. He was kept at bay in a muddy ditch., near the compound, and there, after a little resist nice, he was so severely pierced that be died almost instantly. His body was burnt by the authority of some one of the station officers. The principal cause which is ascribed to the man for committing this fiendish act is that he was some days previously ordered to be slippered for having smoked ganja in the vicinity of the lady'c bungalow, and he took advantage of the gentleman's absence tc have his revenge.

Money Market. CITY, NOVEMBER 3.-The stock markets at the resumption- of business this morning, after yesterday's holiday, were a gocC deal prejudiced by the rise in the Bank rate of discount, aiid by the generally uncertain prospects of the money market. Prices opened at a general and rather severe fall. From this there has since been a partial recovery, and the markets are now steadier than they were at the opening, but priccs generally are quoted worse than on Saturday. The fait m the funds, however, scarcely exceeds 1. per cent. Consols are now quoted 92f to i both for money and the 5th inst., and 93 to 5 for the new account (December 3). The offici[t1 business report is as follows: -Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 4: d tto, for account, 92-; Three per Cents. Reduced, 91J, k New Three per Cents., 9U, J Bank Stock, 234; India Stock, .226,^224; ditto, Five per Cent. Stock. 109 j, J; ditto, Four per Cent, 100 j, j ditto, Bonds, 18s prem.; and Exchequer Bills, 2s dis. Is prem.— The railway market is flat to-day, iu sympathy with the other departments of the Stock Exchange, and prices generally are lower. London and North Western stock is now quoted 103! to 104 £ Great Western, 65f to 66; Midland, 12-Sf to 129^; Lanca- shire and Yorkshire, 111J to f: Caledonian, 119J to 120; South Eastern, 95f to Great Eastern, 50 to J; Great Northern, 128j to 129J; London and South Western, 101J to 102; anct Metropolitan, 129& to 130-J.

The Corn Trade. MARK-LAXE.Nov. 2.—There was firmness in the English Wheat market to-day, with a good demand, and not a large supply. The prices obtained were for new white, 41s to 4Ss, and red at 39s to 44s per quarter, a clearance being made of better sorts. No improvement in the value of foreign, supply being plentiful, but purchases more readily made at 3ös to 53s. A fair trade in American at 36s to 45s.—The market fer Flour pre- sented a steady appearance, town-made, selling at ?&s to 43s; seconds and country, 2-s to 35s per sack; and American, 19s to 24s per barrel.-I:;usiness to a fair extent was transacted in Oats, at prices ranging for English and Irish, 17s to 33s Scotch, 20s to 26s and foreign, 17s to 24s.-0nly a moderate trade in Barley, and many parcels on offer. The terms accepted being for malting, 32s to 3Ss, and 26s to 31s for grinding and distilling.—The Malt trade was without briskness, and the; currency for pale, 60s to 66s, brown, fiOs to 56s.—Peas it fair demand white, 35s to 38s; maple, 34s to 37s; find grey. Sis to 33s.-—Of Beans many parcels sold, English at 27s to 40s. —There is more rloing in Maize at 28s to 29s.-For East Ind;a Linseed rates rule at 62s to 69s, and Odessa at 59s Gd to 60s per quarter. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 3.—Corn market fairly attended. Wheat, rite business doing without change in value. Flour. good business in French for forward delivery; barrels steady. Indian corn steady at 2Ss 6d, buyers. Oats and oatmeal unchanged. EgYfotiall beans steady, at former prices. HOPS, BOROUGH MARKET, OCTOBER 30.—Messrs. Pattenden and Smith report the demand good for both English foreign hops; stocks of the former are very reduced, and choice samples scarce. Prices rule very firm. TALLOW, Nov, 3.—The market is quiet, at the following prices:—Town lalJow, 43s 3d Petersburg- Y.C. on the spot, 44s; November to December. 43s Od December. 44s to 44s 3d January to March, 44s 9d March, 45s 3d to 45s 6d. COTTON, LIVERPOOL, NOV. 3. — Market at a decline of JA Sales, 4,000 or 5,'i00 bales. IlA Y, SMITHFIELD MARKET, XOY. 3.—Messrs. Harvey aid Easton report trade slow at the f()llowjng prices :Prime meadow hay, 75s to 85s; inferior ditto, 60s to 70s; rowen. 5'i to 70s; clover, old, 90s to HOs: ditto, second cut, 87s 6d to 100s; straw, 27s to 33s. WOOL.—The public sales of colonial wool commenced on Thursday. The amount of business passing in the market is very moderate. Prices, however, rule firm in the extreme, with "a tendency to improve. At the present auctions about 65,COO bales will be offered, of which 25,000 bales from the Cape cf Good Hope. FRUIT AND VEGETABLES COVESIVGAKDBIH.—Produce o all kinds is for the most part abundant. Late plums mav still be Of grapes and pineapples the supply is also sufficient for the demand. Hamburgh grapes from Holland fetch from 3d to Is per lb. Of foreign melons there is a good stock. There is also a good supply of Brown Beurre, Crassane, Duebesp d'Angouleme, and Beurre Diel pears. Some good examples of Ribston pippin, and Cox's orange pippin apples may now be ob- tained. Kent cobs are good and plentiful New St. Michael oranges have arrived, and realise from ts to 10s per 100. For potatoes the market is still heavy. Cat flowers chiefs con- sist of orchids, pelargoniums, asters, marigolds, calceolaria^ mignonette, and roses. Pineapples, per lb, 5s to Ss granes per lb, 2s to 6s; apples, per i sieve, Is Cd to 2s 6d; pears, per sieve' 26 6d: plums, per" Sleye, 5s to 8s; melons, each, 25 to 4s' lemons, p 100, 12s to 16s; nuts, small, p bush, 1-is to 18s Kent cobs, 75s to SOs per 100 lbs; almonds, do, 18s; walnuts, do, lis to 20s. Cabbages, per doz. Is to 2s; cauliflowers, each, Sato 6d; potatoes, York Regents, per ton, 60s to SOs; Shaw's, ditto'. 50s to 60s; turnips, per bunch, 4d to Gd: carrots, do. 6d to 8d spinach, per sieve, Is 6d to 2s; cucumbers, each, 9.1 to la beet" per doz, Is 6d; tomatoes, each. 2d to 3d; celery, per bundle Is fid to 2s; shallots, per lb, 8d; garlic, per Ib, lOd Jettuces. each, 1d to 4d; endive, per score, la to 2s; horseradish, per bunch, Is 6d to 4s; mushrooms, per ] ott. Is to Is Sd; rarshr- per 12 bunches, 3s to 4s; herbs, per bunch. 3d.

Hide Market. LEADENHALL.—Hides.—Prices: 5fnb8 to 641hs, 2-d to 3d: 64ibs to 721bs, 3d to 3|d; 72!bs to SOlbs, 3d to 4i; Sf'lbs tc SSlbs, 4d to 4id; 8Slbs to 96ibs, 4d to 5d; 961bs to 1041b». 4|d to 5-J-d; lollbs to 1121bs, 4^d to 5|d. Horse hides, 10s tol2f\ Calf skins, light. 3s to 4s; fuil, 7s. BERMONDSEY.—Sheep skins, polled, 95 to lis; half bredf, Gs 6d to 7s 6d: downs. 5s to 6s. 5

Medals.—The first charge under art Act passed last session in respect to fraudulent representation's as to medals given bv-tlie commissioners1 of the Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862 has just come before Alderman Law- rence, at the Guildhall. The charge was preferred against Messrs. Brown and Bischoft", of the Langham Works Gas Meter Company (Limited). It was asserted that they had represented that they had obtained medals for dry gas meters from the commissioners of 1851 and 1862. After hearing the case, the Alderman came to the conclusion that, although the defendants had been guilty of a suppression of the truth, their conduct did not amount to a fraudulent representation. They were therefore discharged. Extraordinary Christian STame,-The Vicar of Boxwell, Essex, in writing to a contemporary, says;—" In the notice of Miss Yonge's book in ycir' impression of the 22nd of October" your reviewer ex- presses his belief that a Meshach and Abedne^-o mi^-Iit somewhere be found to supplement his SiMdrach' Give me leave to inform him that in the registers of this parish I find one Henry Brocas and Sa-ah his wife, whose eldest son Shadrach (1743) was followed in due course by Meshach (1745) and Abednego (1747). Haying completed the triumvirate the wife seems to have 'left bearing1/ I can trace no record of any furtiier issue. Abednego' Brocas grew up to man- licoa, and married in spite of his name, which, how- ever, he did not perpetuate."