The Illustrated Usk Observer and Raglan Herald

EPITOME OF NEWS. Mr. W. F. Windham is once more getting his living driving the couch from Norwich to Cromie and back. A premium of £1,500 has been paid for a three years' contract for providing refreshments at the Agricul- tural Hall, Islington. Princess Czartoryski, widow of the well-known venerable patriot and statesman, Prince Adam Czartoryski, <!Md at Montpellier on Christmas Eve. On Wednesday the common law offices .-were reopened after the Christmas recess. The courts will not resume business until the 11th of January, the first day of Hilary Term. A wolf, which would walk "on the line" of one of the French railways, in spite of notices, and of his having been pelted by the porters, was run over and killed by an up train the other day. The Kendal market tolls have been finally abolished by public ceremony, under the auspices of the farmers' Club, which has recently purchased them from the lords of the manor-Lord Lonsdale and Lady Howard. A local journal states that the bill for the amal- gamation or disposal of the Bridgewater canals to the rail- way companies has been withdrawn. It met with a good -deal of opposition from the merchants of Liverpool. About sixty tons of copper ore are now brought monthly to Southampton from the Cape of Good Hope by the Cape mail packet. This ore a few years ago was worth nearly jE20 a ton. It is now doubled in value. The London and North-Western Railway Company have determined to modify their rates for the car- riage of grain from Liverpool to inland towns, charging 6s. Sd. per ton instead of, as at present, 8s. 4d. Letters from the United States represent that Captain Semmes has reached Richmond, but in such a state of health as to render it extremely unlikely that he will attempt any active duty for many months to come. The Cork "Daily Herald" says on reliable authority that the negotiations for the purchase of the <2ork, Queenstown, and Yougtjal Railway by the Great Southern and Western Company are all but completed. The Duke of Cleveland has arrived at Battle Abbey, his Sussex residence, from Rugby Castle. During the five days' battue shooting upwards of 1,600 head of game were killed, there being six guns during the time. The Reading-room visitors of the British Museum being now provided with a means of getting dinner in the museum, it is proposed to have a light refreshment department for the general visitors. A company has recently been formed in New York, styled The American and British West India Cotton Company," which has leased for a term of years 2,000 acres of land on Long Island, one of the group of Bahamas. It is stated that the Emperor Napoleon is about to deprive the Imperial Guard of the monopoly they have hitherto enjoyed of garrisoning the capital. They are henceforth to take their turn with the line, and become 5nured to the dreariness of country quarters. Nadar states that about the middle of this month M. de Grooff will be prepared to attempt his aerial flight, with the aid neither of a Montgolfier nor a balloon, but by means of an apparatus heavier than the atmospheric air, and impelled by human effort. The churchwardens of All Saints, Wands- worth (W. J. Mackrell and John Jones, Esqs.), have dis- tributed among the poor of their parish this Christmas- 100 ,■women's gowns, 40 men's great coats, 150 pairs of blankets, 1,000 yards of flannel, and 100 tons of coal, at the rate of two cw-t. to each of 1,000 poor people. Large numbers of the old fogies who dwell in -the Invalides, at Paris, have of late been appointed switch- keepers and signalmen on railways. The result has been found satisfactory to the veterans themselves, and a clear "gain to the budget. Henceforward, rrinted prices current and printed commercial lists received in this country from the colonies 'and foreign countries will be classed in all respects with newspapers, and will not be charged on delivery with any ..postage above that usually charged upon newspapers from the. same colonies and foreign countries. TVio ■inTinViitnnta n-F T\«-»vn-»ao+c.Yt 1-.n"l"J'L'\ JL-ue xnuaoitanis 01 JJoncaster have forwarded ..a memorial to the Postmaster-General complaining of the recent postal decision to have the night mail from that town conveyed to Rotherham by mail cart, and requesting that the services of the Midland Railway Company may be -accepted. 1. Sir Edward C. Kerrison, M.P. for Eye, who now rents the deer forest on the Novar estate, lately "possessed by the Earl of Selkirk, generously ordered a -number of stags to be killed and distributed among the most destitute in the parish of Alness. The hon. baronet's instructions were carried out, to the great comfort and delight of the recipients of the bounty. An inquest was recently held at Greenwich on the body of Mary Williams, a fine young woman, 27 years of age, who committed suicide by swallowing- a quantity of oxalic acid, in consequence of some disagreement with the man she lived with. The jury returned a verdict in accor- -xfeaiee with the medical testimony. As a miner,named John Starkey, was standing at the mouth of one of the pits, at Gascote Colliery, waiting for the skip to take him down, he accidentally fell head- foremost down the shaft, a distance of fifty yards, and was killed on the spot. Lady Charles Wellesley's eldest son, who is heir to the Duke of Wellington, is shortly to be gazetted to the Grenadier Guards. He is in his eighteenth year. His -lamented father served in the 5th Fusiliers, and was a most distinguished officer. Gainsborough parish church has just been reopened, after undergoing various important alterations and improvements at a cost The service in the morning was chanted by the Rev. W. H. Sutton, priest-vicar .of Lincoln Cathedral. Inaugural sermons were preached by ,.the Bishop of Lincoln and the Rev. C. J. Vaughan, D.D., vicar of Doncaster. At the annual county sessions held at Pres- ton, the magistrates sanctioned a resolution instructing the constabulary committee to consider the expediency of sel- ling some part of their government stock, and advancing the proceeds to the Salford Hundred, to enable the justices of that district to build a new gaol. It seems that the con- stabulary committee have a sum of iB12,500 invested in the public funds. At a ball at Konigsberg, in Prussia, a few even- ings since, a young lady suddenly fainted, and it was after- wards proved by the doctor who was called upon to render aid that her indisposition arose from the presence of arsenic in some green ornaments in her hair, and in the trimmigs of her dress, which were of the same colour. At the Wakefield Court-house, the other day, the woman Mary Ann Atkinson, who had her throat cut by her husband at Wakefield a few weeks ago, and who nar. rowly escaped death, was committed for trial at the sessions for unlawfully wounding a man named John Child. As Charles Monetta, aged forty, a painter, re- siding at Queen-street, King's-road, Chelsea, was at work lat a house in Woburn-place, Tavistock- street, he missed his footing, and fell with great force on to the stones. He was immediately picked up, and conveyed to the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's-inn-road. Mrs. Moss, wife of Mr. Moss, coach painter, Vauxhall-bridge-road, had a violent quarrel on Monday with her husband, on account of jealousy. She left the house in a state of excitement, and proceeded at once to Thames Bank, and precipitated herself into the river. Before assist- ance could reach her she sank and was drowned. Her body has pot been recovered. The following gentlemen passed their exami. nation in the science and practice of medicine at Apothe- -caries-hall, and received certificates to practise, at the last examination meeting:—Frederick Chabot, 245, Camber. well-road; Tregenna Biddulph Goss, 24. Newington-place; Henry Mortimer Hawkins, St. jVIary's-road, Peckham; Henry Harris, Finchley. The following gentleman also passed his first examination :-John Loane, London Hos- pital. lJUrlng tne Christmas week viscount Com. bermere ordered a large amount of beef, supplied by four fat. oxen, to be distributed amongst the labourers on his estate in Cheshire; also a large supply of blankets and coals were liberally dispensed amongst a number of poor people. I-, A sensation wedding in London was reported a few months since between a very heroic Confederate lady, Miss Boyd, and Mr. Hardinge, an ex-Lieutenant of the American navy. Mr. Hardinge went over to America a short time since to bring back his wife's sister to Europe, and has been captured by the Federals and flung into the same prison that his wife was an inmate of. An' inquest was recently held in London on the body of Mr. Samuel Ewbank, aged fifty years, who ex- pired in a cheap lodging-house in Holborn, where he had stated that he was a captain in the army, and did not wish his friends to know his distress. The jury returned a ver- dict that deceased died from extravasation of blood into th.e chest from the aorta. A few evenings since Lord Sondes entertained a. number of the principal residents of Norfolk at Elmham Hall, and arrangements had been made for a box of plate, of the value of from £ 150 to £200, to be sent from London to Elmham. The box duly arrived, but, on being opened, it was discovered that all the plate had been abstracted therefrom. An interesting ceremony took place on the close of the year at the Crystal Palace, in connection with Edmonds's (late Wombwell's) Windsor Castle Menagerie. A massive silver claret jug, manufactured by Mason, of Canterbury, was presented by Mr. ]-1. Brown, the manager of the menagerie, in the name of the employes, to Mr. and Mrs. Edmonds, the proprietors. There was a very heavy fall qf 'Snow on Dart- moor on Saturday night. The roads are blocked up. A young man, a schoolmaster, belonging to the convict prison, lost his life in attempting to walk from Tavistock to the prison at Princetown, a distance of seven miles. His body was found in a snow drift on Sunday night by the prison officers. Another man had a narrow escape; he was found insensible. The Rev. Dr. Hills, Bishop of British Columbia, is to be married this month to Miss King, of Madingley, aear Cambridgfe. The right rev. prelate will leave England shortly afterwards for British Goisambia, which he quitted in June, 1863. During his stay in England Dr. Hills has been collecting funds with which to carry on his diocesan operations with increased vigour. During the past week the visitors to the South Kensington Museum were as follows:—Christmas week, free, open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., 35,984. From the opening of the museum, 5,036,543. Patent Office Museum, South Kensington.—Number of visitors for the week ending December 31, '8,020. Total utimbeelsince the opening of the museum free daily (May 12,1858), 884,248. The farming interests of the province of Buenos Ayres (says the Brazilian Standard) were never in a more prosperous condition than at present. The sheep farmers are in town selling their wool, which is fully 25 per cent. superior in quality to that of last year. The pas- ture lands are covered with the best grass. The rain which was so much wallted,has at last come, and we think we do not exaggerate when we say that in wool alone the country is some 25 per cent, richer than last year. At a recent meeting of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians, a communication was received from Lord Palmerston, forwarding to the college twelve pots of pomade, which had no doubt been recommended to his lordship as possessed of some remarkable properties. What these properties were believed to be did not quite appear, but the prevailing impression seemed to be that the oint- ment was intended to cure the many bald heads amongst the Fellows.

BRUTAL OUTRAGE ON A LADY. At the Glasgow winter assizes, before Lord Ardmil- lan, Mike M'Glinchy was charged with rape, in so far as, on the 16th July last, on the Broomloan or Sandy Holes-road, parish of Govan, he attacked Mar- garet Addie, and did strike her on the head and face, and kno3k her down, and pull her along the ground into a field, and did there kick her on the head and face, and compress her throat and ravish her." He was also charged with intent to ravish. The prisoner, who pleaded guilty as libelled, is about 25 or 30 years of age, and did not exhibit any signs of brutality. The Advocate-Depute stated that, after deliberate consideration of the case, he had decided to restrict the pains of law to an arbitrary punishment. Mr. M'Kie, who appeared for the prisoner, called several witnesses, who gave him an excellent character up to the time of the outrage in question. They de- scribed him as being very inoffensive, and as having conducted himself in a regular manner. The prisoner's counsel addressed the Court in miti- gation of punishment. It appeared, he said, that the crime was committed under the influence of drink, and although in general drink is an aggravationof an offence, yet in a peculiar case of this nature-a case caused by excitement of passion-it might have been in a moment of almost what one might call temporary insanity, that he was led to commit this most brutal and unjustifiable assault. Lord Ardmillan, in passing sentence, said to the prisoner: According to the law of Scotland, as still unaltered, rape, committed under circumstances such as the present, is a eapital charge. You may con. sider yourself most extremely fortunate that the prosecutor has felt it to be his duty not to demand a capital sentence. Had he demanded that, I should liave had no alternative but to have pronounced it. t\s it stands, however, this is a confession of rape— iompleted rape-upon the person of a woman, and eom- nitted under circumstances of the gravest &r»d saost » aggravated character- an outrage -such as has rarely happened in Scotland. In the midst of summer, ere daylight had altogether departed, a. respectable woman walking -alene-having retired to no lonely spot, but walking where she was entitled to expect to be free from such violence-is seized, attacked, and assaulted in the most furious manner, grievously injured, and ravished contrary to her will, and not- withstanding her resistance. The law of this country protects the honour of a woman as much as the life of a human being; and there is no graver offence than wilful, violent forcing of the honour of a woman. But the commission of this act, under the circum- stances here set forth, was accompanied by violence of such a character as to make this one of the most fearful outrages that this country has ever seen and therefore the sentence of the court in your case must be one which protects the public in all time coming from your violence; and it must further be one which will duly warn all others in whom violent passions, inflamed by drink, might produce such fearful consequences. Having said this, I have not another word to add to pain your heart under these circumstances. But if you have a heart at all, I would, in one word, pray you to remember that whatever may be your guilt, and although now human law can do no more for you than close you up in penal servitude for the remainder of your life, there is a law which you have broken in regard to which mercy may be obtained; and I pray you to remember that your crime, bad as it is, is not beyond the reach of God's mercy. I earnestly beseech you to pray that you may be forgiven one of the gravest crimes which I have ever known to be committed. Pray that you may get a new heart, and that the evil passions which led you to this crime may, by the grace of God, be overthrown in your heart; and if that be the result, even penal servitude for life will be a blessing to your soul. The sentence of the Court is that you suffer penal servitude during the whole period of your natural life. The prisoner was then removed from the bar.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of the Right Hon. Lady Arabella Alvanley, of Bruton-street, was proved in London by the execu- tors, Mr. Richard William Peirse, of Northallerton, and Mr. Charles Reynolds Williams, of Lincoln's-inn- fields. The personalty was sworn under = £ 70,000. Lady Alvanley was the fifth daughter of the first Duke of Cleveland, K.G., and married, in 1821, Richard, third Lord Alvanley, who died in 1857 (title now ex- tinct). The will is dated April, 1864; and her lady- ship died on the 26th of November. Her ladyship has left legacies to her nephews, nieces, and others. To Mr. R. W. Peirse £1,000, in addition to X200 left to each of her executors; and appointed her niece, Meyrick, the daughter of Colonel and Lady Meyrick, her residuary legatee, leaving to her also 18e principal part of the property over which her ladyship had the power of disposition under a deed of the late Lady Amelia Powlett. The will of the Rev. Sir William Marriott Smith- Marriott, Bart., M.A., of Horsmonden, Kent, was proved under .£35,000 personalty, the executors being the Rev. Hugh Forbes Smith-Marriott, the son, the Rev. Lewis C. Davies, and Mr. George Hinds. The testator was appointed to the rectory of Horsmonden in 1825, of which living he was also patron. He died, in October last, at the age of 63, having executed his will in 1862. He leaves the advowson of the rectory of Horsmonden to his son Hugh Forbes; devises his farm, land, and estate called Pattenden to his son John Bosworth; and to his eldest son, now Sir William Henry Smith-Marriott, Bart., he devises the rest of his freehold property. He bequeaths to his relict an immediate legacy of < £ 500, and a portion of the furniture. To his sons John and Hugh pecuniary legacies are left; and, after providing for his three daughters, he has appointed his three sons residuary legatees. There are the following charitable bequests: To the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, Curates' Aid Society, Church Building Society, and the Kent Ophthalmic Hospital, each < £ 50 free of legacy duty. The will of Mr. John Dakin Gaskell, of Highgate, was proved under < £ 5Q,000 personalty. The executors appointed are Mr. William Beaumont, of Warrington; Mr. Samuel Gaskell. one of the Commissioners of Lunacy; and Mr. Warburton Pike, of the Temple. The testator died in August last, having executed his will in 1859, and a codicil in July, 1864. He has be- queathed to each of his executors a legacy of £100, and to Mrs. Pike, wifø of the Rev. Mr. W. Pike, whom he appoints guardian to such of his children as are in their minority, he leaves a legacy of < £ 500, and divides his estate equally amongst all his children. The will of the late Mr. Edward Yates, of 30, Comp- ton-terrace, Islington, has been proved. His personal property has been sworn under £ 60,000. The execu- tors are Mrs. Yates, of the same residence, mother of bhe testator, and Dr. C. J. Hare, of Brook-street. After some legacies to Mrs. Yates and other relatives, so much of the property as may legally be applied to jharitable purposes is left to University College, London, in trust, to apply one moiety of the annual ncome thereof to the general purposes of the North London Hospital, connected with that college, and the )ther moiety to the Samaritan fund for the relief of joor patients. The residue of personal property is eft to Dr. Hare.—Illustrated London Neivs.

ANTI-ENGLISH FEELING IN NEW YORK. A correspondent of the Daily News, writing from New York, says:—The exasperation caused here by the discharge from custody of the St. Albans raiders is so intense that, great as is the difficulty of getting Eng- lishmen to look at any political question from any point of view not peculiarly English, it will be almost impossible to account for it satisfactorily to any one who cannot make an effort to put himself in the place of an American while examining the occur- rences which have just taken place in Canada. There is hardly any question of foreign politics, or any phase of foreign feeling or opinion, which can be thoroughly understood by any man who can- not put himself in the foreigner's position, be it for ever so short a time, and the all but complete inability of the great mass of Englishmen to do this—an inability which the best English thinkers are constantly deploring-is what makes the greater part of English criticism of foreign politics so often such a deplorable mixture of blundering misrepresentation. It must not be overlooked, in reading the invectives against England which are now pouring from the press here, that the public does not look on the dis- charge of the raiders as an isolated event. It is in the eyes of nearly everybody one of a series of demon- strations on the part of the English authorities, and of a large portion of the English public-of bitter hosti- lity to the United States, and of eager desire for the over- throw of the Union. Even those who confess-- and most people do so now—that the recognition of the confederacy as a belligerent was but the legitimate exercise of an un- doubted right, still hold that it was made in such a way and at such a time as to convert it into an indica- tion of hostility. It was made at the earliest possible moment, before the Confederates had a ship of war, before a single life had been lost in armed conflict, before anything was known in England of the opinions or intentions of the American Government, before even the arrival of the American minister in London, and without one word of notice. Then came the building, and fitting out, and departure of the Alabama. Her escape from port, it is admitted, might have happened no matter what the feeling or wishes of the English Government might have been about it. But then it was reasonable to ex- pect that their evasion of the law would have called down on the perpetrators some amount of public reprehension, that it would have caused her exclusion from other English ports, and that when she proceeded to destroy American commerce, in a manner which, though perhaps legal, was unusually barbarous, such as burning ships at night, that the fire might attract others, all the while sedulously avoiding a fight, her commander would have been visited with public in- dignation or contempt, and that when, the first time he risked an action with a vessel of equal force, he fell into the water, he would have been allowed to sink into obscurity. But nothing of the kind ever happened. Semmes was a welcome guest at every English port he chose to visit, was made a great naval hero of bj the press, put on a level with Paul Jones, fished out of the water by an English yacht, coddled by "good society" when he got to town, and found himsel: probably the only sailor who sver rose in public estimation by being ignominiously beaten tb6 first time ever fought. Then came the ifi'air of Laird's rams, which revealed the fact that bhe municipal lav/ was insufficient to protect En- glish neutrality; anc so far from this having ilicited any signs of regret, Lord Palmerston refused ;o have the law amended, on the express gmund that the United States desired that it sfould be amended, and in the teeth of the fact that in similar circumstances the United States had done what they now asked Great Britain to do. The complete de- struction of the commerce of one of the leading com- mercial nations in the world is hard to bear; but it is still harder when the perpetrators of it are not only furnished with the necessary means, bat greeted with the hearty plaudits of a nominally friendly power, and because nominally friendly beyond the reach of punishment or retaliation.

MURDER OF TWO WIVES BY AN ARAB. A singular trial recently took place before a council of war, at Constantine in Algeria, a man having to answer to the charge of murdering his two wives. The evidence revealed many curious traits of Arab life, and showed how the natives understand and apply their rights as husbands, and how they punish adulterous wives. Ali Ben Tabar, of the Mzeloux tribe, had two con- sorts, Fatma-ben-el-Ady Belkassen and Couika-ben- Lakden-ben-Kipuf. Both were remarkably beautiful, and on this account their husband had paid a consider- able sum of money for them. Ali -ben-Tabar was sleep- ing under his tent, and on awaking and casting a glance around he was astonished at not seeing his wives re- posing on their mats at his side. He left the tent and carefully inspected the vicinity of his dwelling. At a short distance, under a clump of trees, he fancied he heard a sound of voices. He advanced slowly, like a leopard about to seize his prey, but at this moment some clouds which had obscured the moon passed away; and as the flood of pale light suddenly shed upon the earth revealed his form, two men instantly n ran from under the trees and took to flight. The dis- tance was too great to allow Tabar to overtake them, and besides this his immediate object was to know if his two wives, or one of them, had been false to him. He soon reached the trees, whence two women flew towards his tent. These fugitives were Belkassen and Kipuf. The Arab quickly appeared before them, and instantly they were ordered to fall on their knees. The mandate was immediately obeyed, but their prayers and supplications met with but one response-" Their names Tears and sobs were redoubled, but Tabar reiterated in a stern voice his demand to know who were the men who had taken to flight on his approach. Eeceivingno reply, he seized a stout stick, and ceased not to shower blows upon the faithless women till he knew that they were dead. Two other women, rela- tives of Tabar, attracted by the shrieks for mercy, quitted their tents, and became spectators of the tragic scene; but whether it was they considered the husband to be taking lawful vengeance, or whether they feared his rage would cause him to turn upon them, they remained silent and motionless. At daybreak Tabar left his tent and presented him- self before the officer in charge of the Arab bureau, to whom he said, I have killed my two wives; I have avenged my outraged honour!" And this avowal he repeated when examined in the preliminary stages of the judicial inquiry. At the trial eight witnesses proved the facts, and two of them, called at the request of the father of one of the women, stated that the cause of the quarrel which had arisen between the accused and his victims was idleness on their part. The interpreter to the council observed that this assertion might very properly be doubted, as the father would have a double motive in inducing the Court to believe in the truth of his witnesses' state- ments, for if relied on, the stain of dishonour would not attach to the memory of his daughter, and, in addition, he would be entitled to recover damages against the husband. Tabar, in his examination, said: I purchased these two women for 600 douros, and by killing them I have lost that amount. If I had considered my money before my honour I should have let them live." The Judge of the Tribunal urged that the penal law should be carried out—admitting, however, that the council might take into consideration the excuse of the accused founded on the flagrant crime of adultery; but the council, taking into consideration the faets and circumstances, and the outrage done to the husband, pronounced a. sentence of aGcmittaL -a.

SINGULAR COLLOQUY IN A 1 JOLICE- CELL. Two young men. belonging to the gipgy class, who gave the names of Sirrender Smith and Joim Lewis were finally examined at the Wandsworth Police- court, on a charge of being concerned in stealing ■ £ 5s. 18s. in gold and silver, the property of another gipsy, named Rito Smith. The prosecutor said he lived in a tent, on a piece of ground, in the York-road, Battersea. The prisoner Smith was no relation to him. He Jsnew the prisoners well, and they had lately occupied a tent a short dis- tanoe from his. Lewis had worked for him about two years, and knew well that it was his practice to keep his gold sewn up in the fob pocket of his trou- sers, and to make a pillow of his trousers. On Sunday night, the 11th ult., he laid down in his tent, and as usual placed his trousers under his head. In the morning when he awoke he found his trousers had been., disturbed, the waist part having been drawn under the canvas of the tent from the outside, and that he was only lying on the legs. He missed X5 in gold from his fob pocket, and a half-sovereign and 5s. in silver from another pocket. The prisoners were about the place on the Sunday, when he noticed that they appeared badly off and shabby in their dress. On the Monday, when he discovered his loss, the prisoners were missing, and he saw nothing of Smith for a week, when he returned much better dressed. Police-constable Hughes, 25G V, said on the night of the 20th inst. he was in charge of the cells at the Wandsworth police-station. The prisoner Smith was put into a cell with a man named Henry Brown, who was charged with stealing a coat. He overheard them asking each other the nature of their charges. He listened, and heard Smith say, I am charged on suspicion of stealing, with another man not in custody Y,5 18s." Brown said, Mine is a clear case; the coat was nailed on my back." He then asked, "Is your mate caught?" To which Smith replied, No, they can't get my mate; he has gone clean away." Then Brown said, "Why are you suspected?" Smith replied, "Because I've got these new togs on, and that's why the old woman suspected me of stealing the money." Brown said, "You had; the stuff then right enough, 1 suppose?" Smith said, "Don't you split against me," and the other answered, I wouldn't say a word against you. If I'd your new boots and new togs I wouldn't care a pin. They'll be taken from you." Smith said, "No, they won't; I bought them, and paid for them with the stuff. Witness could not hear every word, as there were interruptions, but he heard Smith inquire of Brown what could be done with him. Brown replied, "Remand you' Smith then said, "If they don't get my mate, can they remand me again ? Can they commit me for trial?" Brown answered, "You'll commit yourself for trial if you don't plead I It guilty." Smith said "It will cost my old woman a pound if I have a solicitor. Would you have one?" Brown replied, "No, I should'nt have one." Smith then said, at the same time using an epithet to the word solicitor, I sha'nt have one." Police-constable Meeklejohn, 262 V, said he appre- hended Lewis on a warrant at Kingsthorpe, North- ampton. He admitted taking the money, and said Smith was standing by his side at the time. They then went to Petticoat-lane and bought some new clothes. Police-constable Newman, 305 V, proved a former jonviction against Smith. He was present at the Surrey Sessions on the 21st of April. 1862, when the prisoner was convicted in the name of Henry Hopwood for stealing a horse, and he was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour. The prisoners reserved their defence, and were fully iommitted for trial.

A Left-handed Compliment.—A very good joke is current regarding Br.tler. The other day a court-martial was held in that portion of the army over which he has command to try several offenders against military law. Two of these were found guilty of the offences charged, and sentenced to two years' hard labour on the Dutch Gap Canal. The beauty of this left-handed compliment to the hero of Big Bethel will be appreciated when it is remembered that he has been engaged during the whole summer in digging the contemptible ditch alluded to, which has become an object for the ridicule of both Federals and Con- federates^ and which, after fifty announcements of its opening, ig not yet completed. Butler's wrath was very great when he learned the decision of the court martial, and he instantly dissolved the court and rep- rimanded the officers composing it. What disposition was made of the men upon whom this suggestive sentence was pronounced is not stated. ° I

CAUTION TO TRADESMEN. A young man, dressed in clerical style, who said his name was William Thomas, and that he was a clerk, but refused to give his address, was charged before the magistrate at Bow-street with uttering forged Post-office orders. Mr. Peacock appeared for the Post-office. Recently a number of Post-office orders have been presented at various money-order offices in London by respectable tradesmen-mostly tailors-to whom they had been passed off in lieu of money by a customer, answering in all the cases the same description, but which were found to be forgeries as regarded the first figure-the pounds (X). They had been issued for 3d. and 6d. respectively, and had been altered to £7 Os. 3d. or to X7 Os. 6d., and the like. In some instances the goods had been actually supplied, so that the fraud had been effected, and the unfortunate tradesman had lost his goods. In others the sur- render of the goods had been postponed till the cash should have been obtained, in which case the tradesman's caution had saved him from loss, and, of course, the purchaser never reappeared to claim his purchase or reclaim the Post-office orders. Information was given to the Post- office authorities, and Rumbold, one of the police- officers attached to the Post Office, was instructed to investigate the case. On Thursday afternoon, meeting the prisoner by accident in Lincoln's-inn-fields, Rum- bold, with that singular appreciation of a personal description which seems to be peculiar to the London detective, suspected that the clerical-looking young gentleman who chanced to pass him was the very personIfof whom he was in search. He accordingly watched the prisoner to the shop of Mr. Walsford, tailor, Essex-street, Strand, where he was being measured for a suit of clothes, when Rumbold entered the shop. The prisoner seemed to suspect an officer as instinctively as the officer spotted" the criminal, and showed such anxiety to get away as confirmed Rumbold's doubt to a certainty, and determined him upon apprehending him. He was identified by several of the defrauded tradesmen. He was wearing a coat which he had obtained (with other goods) from Mr. Parker, of Maida-hill, upon an order drawn for 6d., and altered to X9 Os. 6d. He was remanded.

ACCUSED OF BIGAMY. Mrs. Handley, wife of W. H. Handley, formerly a celebrated cornopean player, and bandmaster of three of her Majesty's regiments, made the following com- plaint against the Royal Society of Musicians, before the magistrates at Marlborough-street. She said she had been married to Mr. Handley twenty-seven years, and for twenty-five years her husband had been a member of the Royal Society, and paid his subscrip- tion. For the last eighteen months, in consequence of a false accusation by one of the members of the Royal Society that she had been guilty of bigamy, the society had taken away her husband's allowance of seven guineas per month, and put himonbacholor's pay of four guineas per month, the effect being that she and her family had sustained great privation, and all her furni- ture had been seized by the broker. In order to refute the unfounded charge against her, and prove she was a widow when she married Mr. Handley, she had pro- cured three certificates of her first husband's death from abroad, but the society continued to treat her as if the charge were proved, and she was without the means of seeking justice in a court of law. The mental anxiety she had undergone had seriously affected her health, and unless the society repudiated the false charge, she feared in the event of the death of her husband she and her family would be deprived of all advantage. She could not bring an action against her slanderer, as she was destitute..—Mr. Knox said ap- plicant appeared to be very harshly treated, but he could not assist her, and her remedy was at equity.- Applicant said that would cost .£200, and she had not a farthing. After some conversation she thanked the magistrates and retired.

2Jursery Rhymes, For Statesmen in their Second Childhood. FOB A PREMIER. Twaddle, twaddle, little Pam, ij' While you utter "Here I am, Up among the Whigs so high, What a pretty boy am I!" FOR A FOREIGN SECRETARY. Write letters cross, And threatening force, You silly old party upon the high horse; With threats at his fingers' End, fearful of blows, He's sure to make you sick whatever he does. FOR AN INDIAN SECRETARY. There was an old woman lived on as a Wood, And if she's not dead, why she's almost as good. FOR A HOME SECRETARY. There was a stubborn man, And he had a certain plan For improving of the felon as he said, said, said; But the public would not brook The notion that he took Into what he pleased to fancy was his head, head, head. So they cried out to the Home Secretary, "Hullo! come, You'd best be rectifying your mistake, take, take; Your leavers, if you'll look, Their crimes have ne'er forsook, And are making honest people frightened, shake* shake, shake.

The Come Out" Ball. tj A was an Angel of sweet seventeen, B was the Ball at which she was seen. C was the Chaperon cheating at cards, D was the Dancing with Frank of the Guards. E was the Eye that the long lashes cover, F was the Fan it glanced roguishly over. 'u G was the Glove of the superfine kid, H the sweet Hand it so spitefully hid. I was the Ice tired nature demanded, J was the Juvenile hastening to hand it. K was the Kerchief embroidered with ant, L was the Lace which formed the chief part. M the old Maid looking on at the dance, N was the nose she turned up at each glance. ■ 0 was the Olga, just then in its prime, P was the Partner who wouldn't keep time. Q the Quadrille put in place of the Lancers, ,E the Eemonstrances raised by the dancers..7' S was the Supper they went to in pairs, T was the Twaddle they talked on the stairs. U was the Uncle who said, Let's be going," V was the Voice his fair niece answered No!" in. nl W was the Waiter, attempting to wait, X was his Exit, which wasn't quite straight. Y was the Yawning after the ball, Z stands for Zero, that's nothing at all. The Aclvertising-:Boardman's Christmas Carol, (Dedicated to the Police generally.) In this jolly Christmas weather v Must I try the work'us fare P Keep body and soul together- But I'm not yet going there. '1 From one doorstep to another The police I keep on dodging; For when they my board have taken, They have also ta'en my lodging. Queries for the Haval Schools. When a boat puts off for fresh meat, does it go on a leg of mutton sail P" How should you proceed if you were ordered to rig -the market P Has the "christening" of a ship anything to do with its conversion ?" "P AND THE SOONER THE BETTER."—T\is is the answer made by the family doctor to the lady, who, having two of her six children ill with the measles' said she supposed that they woulJ "go through the house." POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—A magistrate lately fined a prisoner £ 5. His worship has our fell permission to find us a similar sum, or a larger one if he chooses. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.-A new and enlarged edition of Men of the Times is announced. We pre- sume the enlargement is rendered necessary by the in- troduction of Banting the Great. A CHRISTMAS PRESENT.—The Tip of the Year.

Industry and Perseverance—A spendthrift said, "Five years ago I was not worth a farthing in the world; now see where I am by my own exertions." "Well, where are you?" inquired a neighbour. Why, I now owe more than a. thousand pounds!"