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EPITOME OF NEWS. -+-- Another duel among Wurzburg students has bad a fatal termination. A candidate of medicine, who had Just passed his anal examination, was shot dead by a young' Jurist. The employers of labour in the iron and coal ^stricts of South Wales are alarmed at the dimensions ^aieh have been reached by the emigration of labourers to f-i&erica, and of which a scarcity of labour is almost certain .0 be the result. Information has been received by the police •hat some miscreant had made an attempt to upset the wains on the Great "Western Railway by breaking one of the Pitches on the junction line crossing Old Oak-common, Shepherd's-bush, and placing' obstructions across the A reward of £ 50 is offered for the discovery of the Perpetrators. The valley of Brohl, one of the most charming Realities on the Bhine, was last week ravaged by a terrible storm. A waterspout burst over Niederbreisig, at one of extremities, and instantly converted all the water-courses torrents, which swept everything before them, crops, lTeea, cattle, and houses. The inhabitants having been left ^e3titute by this visitation, a public subscription has been °Pened for them, until Government can adopt measures of -elief. The death of Sir "William Johnston ia an- jounced. He was the eighth baronet, and a worthy rspre- 9eUtative of a very ancient family. v A grand temperance gala, organised by the Macaater and Slorecambe total abstinence societies, was at Morecambe, the othor day. Special trains raa from jj* Parts of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cumberland, and West- Ireland, bringing upwards of 10,000 visitors. In an action for breach of contract at Leeds, in Jhich a verdict was given for the plaintiff, it was found that »oe agreement between the parties was unstamped. T-Iie Penalty of £10 Is. was demanded by the court, and was of ?°orse paid before the document could be received' in evi- nce. As his lordship remarked, to save a penny stamp, 'ae plaintiff had to pay a fine of £ 10 Is. Sunday wag the twenty-first anniversary of the Jjhrthday of his Royal Highness Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, "Windsor, the bells of St. George's Chapel and St, Jehu's j-'fturch rang merrily in the morning in honour of the Prince attaining his majority, though the usual Royal salutes were deferred, as is customary on the occasion of a Royal birthday on a Sunday, till Monday. In London the usual de- monstrations of flags from the Admiralty, St. Martin's ^tturch, &c.. were made, as is customary on a Royal birth- day. K During the past week the -visitors to the South ^eusington Museum have been as followsOn Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, free days, open from ten a.m. to p.ml, 10,572; on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, days (admission to the public, 6d.), open from ten r-Oi- till six p.m., 1,676. Total, 12,248: from the opening of 'ae Museum, 5,454,835. A party of excursionists visited the Scotch «-Ul of Morven, on Tuesday, the 1st instant, and during ijteir stay on the top—about half an hour—snow fell heavily, weather at the time being bitterly cold, with a strong Northerly wind The usual tabular statement, showing the Position of the Wesleyan Methodist body, was read on at the annual conference, at Birmingham. The l°tal number of members is 330,827, of whom nineteen are °? probation. There is a decrease of 2,832 at the mission stations. An inquest was recently held at East Co was. Isle ?! Wight, on the body of a boy, aged twelve years, named Urry, who had, contrary to the strict injunctions of his Merits, gone to amuse himself with others in a dangerous Jfcrfc'of the river Medina. He got out of his depth, and **8 in the water half an hour before the body was -re- vered. Dr. Jeans was called in, but could not restore ^huution. The jury returned a verdict of Accidentally downed." The population of the United Kingdom is esti- ^ated at the General Register Office at 29,773,234 in the ^ddle of the year 1865. Seven years have now elapsed since the capture Lucknow. The second distribution of prize money is bounced to take place on the 21st of this month. T We are happy to hear that the daughter of ■^dy Wiltshire, who met with so serious an. accident a since, is progressing towards recovery. The report of a serious illness of M. Lamar- says La Presse, has been circulated by some of the ^mais. We are requested to declare the rumour to be Without foundation. jJThe visit of ITubar Pasha, the Egyptian roister, to Paris, is understood to be for the purpose of a loan of £ 3,000,000 on the private property of Viceroy. (.^he British duty last year on servants was T~U.487 3S. 4d., and on carriages £ 358,976 10s. 7d. The duty State carriages last year amounted to £ 129,236 14s. 5Jd. The temperance fete held at Broadlands, the of Lord Palmerston, on the Queen's coronation day, ^aJised a net profit of £ 53. This money is to be spent in Wrocating temperance principles in the neighbourhood of %)adlands. A gentleman of Lincoln's-inn, Mr. Fraser-Mac- Itteea, Q.C., is about to visit the Continent, to inquire into report upon the practice as bu m»macBS in France, ^°igium, and Germany. The Manchester volunteers were reviewed on the racecourse on Saturday, but the weather was most un- |ayourable, and sadly marred-what was expected to be a "rilliant spectacle. Lady Walter Scott gave birth to a daughter on Saturday, at the Duke of Buccleuch's residence in Belgrave- Square. Her ladyship and infant are going on favourably. By a recent Act of Parliament the office of Reorder of Falmouth is abolished, and the Borough Court ls to be discontinued. All the prisoners are to be removed to Cornwall County Prison. The recorder is to receive his Salary for life, or until the receipt of another appointment, "he Act is to take effect on the 1st of Janu&ry. The Empress Charlotte of Mexico is ex- pected in Europe, the reason assigned for her visit being serious state of health of her father, King Leopold. From a recently issued public document, it ap- pears that the declared value of beer and ale exported in the Srst'six,months of the present year,was £ 1,210,156, being a great increase on the corresponding period of the preceding Year, when the value was £ 940,247. The trial of the Russian who attempted to assassi- nate M de Balsch at the Russian Embassy will come before "ke assize court during the third week of this month, A telegram received at the Foreign-office in Lon- don, gives us the welcome information that the export duty On Belgian rags will cease on the 1st of January, 1868, Wist Russia has reduced the duty on rags from the Polish frontier to thirty copecks. The sweeping of the streets of Paris has under- gone an entirely new arrangement. The whole cost will be ?bout £180000 a year. We hope the public will gain. Much -s wanted in the sweetening process in Paris. The Anglo-French Working Men's Exhi- bition at the Crystal Palace was formally opened last week by Mr. Herbert Maudslay. The proceedings were of a very Unpretentious character. A party of upwards of 300 school-children of both Saxes from Kensington were conducted through the State Apartments of Windsor Castle at one time. These juveniles were afterwards regaled with a substantial dinner under a COtnmodious tent in the Bachelor's Acre. A Mexican Bishop has arrived in Paris to con- sult an eminent oculist. He gives a very gloomy account 9* Maximilian's prospects; but we must expect that a Mexican Bishop, and above all, a sore-eyed on, would look On the dark side of everything that he has seen in the Emperor. Thechildren of St. Philip's Schools, above 8 years Of age, including those Sunday-school children who were aole to attend, spent Friday at Chiselhurst-common, going and returning in vans. The number of children was about 1,000. The districts of St. Philip's being very poor, the Schawls are mainly supported by benevolent persons who are IlncOSlected with them locally. A midnight meeting was recently held at knight abridge, when the unfortunate women of the neigh- bourhood were invited to meet some of the friends of this Movement. A good number responded to the appeax, of >?h.om five were taken to a place of refuge tne same night. Others have applied since at the office and have been placed tn homes. Mr. J. E. Redmond, late M.P. for Wexford, ^Ud^the unsuccessful candidate at the late election, died Suddenly last week. At the Sheriffs' Court, Red Lion-square, in a railway compensation case, only "four" out of twenty- four special jurors attended, and a talcs was prayed. The answer was that the special jurymen were out of town. From a recently issued Parliamentary Volume, it appears that the expenditure of the public money 1n interest and management of the public debt, was in the year ending the 31st March last, £ 23,619,524 Is. lid; The funeral of the Dowager Countess of Shaftes- bury took place on Saturday at St. Giles's, Dorset. The Earl of Shaftesbury and other sons of the deceased countess attended the funeral, which was of a stiictly private character. The emigration from the port of Cork alone of sons whose destination is the United States has been scertained to be at present fully 1,000 per week. The veragt! number of transatlantic steamers calling at Queens- '•Owii for passengers is eight in a fortnight.. Viscountess Amberley has been safely delivered of a son and heir at Alderley-park. Both her ladyship and the infant are reported to be doing well. It appears from an official document that the excise duties on licences, including licences to kill and deal in game, amounted, in the year ending the 31st March last, to £ 2,150,809 18s. 8ld. The directors of Reuter's Telegram Company give notice of an issue of £ 35,000 in debentures for two and four years, at the following rates of nterest-two years at 5| per cent. per annum, and four years at 6 per cent. per annum. They are to range in sum3 of £20, £ 50, and £100, with interest coupons attached, payable in September and March. We have to record the death of Mr. John Donaldson, advocate, professor of the theory of music n j the University of Edinburgh. Accounts from every part of the country show that the alarm which the cattle plague is creating amongst the farmers, is spreading on all sides. The meetings which are taking place are too numerous even for recapitulation. Sir Benjamin Heywood, Bart., of Claremont, near Manchester, whose death has just been recorded, was in his seventy-third year. He belonged to an old Lanca- shire family, and was the well-known banker of Manchester. The marriage of Lady Louisa Cavendish, daughter of the Duke of Devonshire, with Captain the Hon. Francis Egerton, son of the first Earl of Ellesmere, will take place about the middle of next month. Telegrams from Dundee state that a severe gale was experienced along that coast on Saturday night, in which the schooner Novar, 93 tons, of Dundee, Sharpe master, foundered off Elbow End, near the mouth of the Tay. The crew, consisting of five men, are believed to be lost. Instead of the rebellion of the Taepings hav- ing been crushed, it appears to be growing more formidable than ever. In North China the rebels have become so threatening that the Imperial authorities of Pekin have ap- plied for the assistance of British military officers. William Fradeley, aged four years, son of John Fradeley, a boatman, residing at Stone, near Birmingham, and who was in charge of a boat located at Camp-hill Wharf, was playing with some other boys on the canal side, when he accidentally fell into the water. The father got him out as soon as possible, but he was quite dead. The late Mr. Thornton, the London millionaire, would not put any of his millions in joint-stock undertakings. He had made it all by running blockades in the old wars, and it is said that the only gambling he ever indulged in was to bet every new-married couple he could catch hold of £10,000 to, £10 that they woulol not be parents of twins the first year. He had thousands of bets, it is said, of this kind, and made money of his venture. The death of the Dowager Countess of Shaftesbury has thrown several noble families into mourning. Her Lady- ship was famed for her beauty, which descended to her two daughters, Lady Harriet Corry, and Lady Charlotte Lyster. For many years no ball-room was complete without the above ladies, who were the "observed of all observers." For many years Lady Shaftesbury lived in seclusion at Thomson's Villa, Richmond, the spot in which that poet wrote the Seasons," and was in her 91st year when she died. The trial of Mr. Robert Waters, Lord Shaftesbury's late steward, has been postponed till the October session of the Central Criminal Court. The applicatien for postponement was made by defendant's counsel. The people of Barcelona appear to be wild with affright at the approach of cho1p.r!1., and are leaving their town in large numbers. In Constantinople the disease is reported to be on the increase.
LOSS OF A- BARQUE AND OF THIRTEEN…
LOSS OF A- BARQUE AND OF THIRTEEN HANDS. LIVERPOOL, AUGUST 14. Intelligence reached this port to-day of the foun- iering" of the barque, A 1, and the loss of thirteen lives. ng ot The following is an extract from a letter from Captain Potter, who was saved from the ill-fated ship:- "Batavia, May, 29, 1865.-We left Akyab on the 30th March, bound for Falmouth, England, for orders, and were favoured with fair weather until April 29, when in lat. 10 S., Ion. 88 E., it changed and became boisterous and threatening. The ship was put under snug sail, the barometer falling very fast. At 9.30 a.m., on the 30th, a cyclone struck the ship, throwing her on her beam ends, blowing away a.ll the sails and some of those even that were furled, tsgether with the jibboom, &c. Every effort was made to get the ship before the wind but without success, she being entirely unmanageable. She remained in this situation till about noon, when she went down carrying with her 13 of the crew and officers. On coming to the surface I was fortunate enough to secure a place on the side of the forward house, together with two seamen, George Wilson and Charles Brown. We remained in this condition until May 6, when we were taken away by the barque Silvercraig of Liverpool, which landed us at Batavia an the 17th._ We had no covering but what we stood in, and nothing to eat all this time.
PRINCE ALFRED'S MAJORITY.
PRINCE ALFRED'S MAJORITY. By order of the Dake of Saxe-Coburg the solemn declaration of his Royal Highness Prince Alfred of England having attained his majority took place in Ehrenburg Castle on the 6th inst. Accompanied by the Prince fee Duke repaired to the Hall of Audience, when State Minister Von Seebach was introduced, a-ooompanied by a deputation of the Ducal Ministers. Turning to his Royal Highness, the Minister read the following address:- Most Illustrious Prince,—By the wish and according to bhe order of his Highness the Duke I have first to commu- nicate to yeur Royal Highness the text of the house law md constitutional ordinance which renders this day of high and serious importance to the Ducal House, and espe- oially to your Royal Highness's own person. Art. 86 of the house law ordains—"The Princes and Princesses of the Ducal House shall attain their majority apon completing their twenty-first year." See. 11 of the constitution coincides therewith, stating,—" The period of majority and capability to reign of the Duke, as well as of every Prince belonging to the Ducal House, commences with the completion of the 21st year." This present day therefore confers majority upon your Royal Highness, accompanying it with greater independence and full legal responsibility of action, and I am desired by his Highness the Duke formally and solemnly to declare this fact. Among the rights and duties which now attained majority grants to and imposes upon your Royal Highness is especially to be mentioned the independent representation of agnatic interests in the administration of the Crown lands, and of the remaining entailed family property within the limits laid down by the house law. Your Royal Highness will undoubtedly find cause to acquaint yourself with the state of the law bearing upon this subject, as well as with the actual facts relating thereto. While I, therefore, venture most respectfully to tender to your Royal Highness a copy of the most important laws re- ferring to the matter, I may at the same time add the assurance that it will be a pleasing duty to both depart- ments of the State Ministry to afford your Royal Highness every explanation that may appear desirable with the most perfect frankness and candour. May your Royal Highness deign graciously to receive the sincere congratulations upon the present joyful occasion I venture to tender in the name of the members of the State Ministry here present. The Dake of Saxe-Coburg, his Royal Highness Prince Alfred, and the Ministers then entered the throne- room, where a grand gala court was held.
A NARROW ESCAPE AMONGST ICE…
A NARROW ESCAPE AMONGST ICE AND SNOW. A correspondent of the Manchester Examiner gives the following instance of a remarkable escape which he once had on the Faulhorn Some years ago I spent a very pleasant evening with a German student and two Manchester men, and slept at thp small inn on the top of the Faulhorn. Next morning my guide proposed that we should vary our route in the descent. We kept considerably to the right of the track by which we had come up, and arrived soon at the edge of a little glen filled with snow, lying on a consider- able slope. The surface of the snow was rotten and very rough, and we proceeded to cross it apparently with safety. About half -way across there was a smoother piece, a few yards wide, like a channel over which in hot days water had trickled and melted the surface of the snow. My guide, with shoes tipped and heeled, crossed easily, but when I ventured to do so, assisted by his stick, I lost my footing and fell with a thud on the hard ioe. Losing my hold of the stick I proceeded at once to slip downwards. In a few seconds I felt that I had no power to stop myself, and that the speed at which I was slipping became augmented at every yard of descent. In this manner I descended perhaps twenty or thirty yards. The guide, who was running parallel with me down the rough snow, had called out to me to turn myself on my side, and on this producing no retarding effect he directed me to throw myself on my face, and to press the points of my shoes into the ice, and lastly, as I was passing him rapidly, he told me to roll myself to the side. This I proceeded to do with the utmost vigour, and soon came to a landing in the rough snow, having descended, perhaps, another ten or twenty yards. My hands, knees, and clothes were brought to considerable grief, but otherwise I was not much the worse of my rude experience. On gaining my feet and shaking myself into order, I proceeded down the rough snow to see where would have been my destination if my progress had not been thus arrested. The smooth channel referred to continued downwards for about two hundred and fifty yards, at the bottom of which was a mass of snow and stones, into which at express speed I should have rushed headlong. The time occupied in the descent may have been ten seconds, during which time I retained perfect self-possession, heard every word the guide said, and had apparently plenty of time to think on many subjects. Among others I originated and ma- tured the following invention, and offered on the spot a reward of X100 to any one who would effect its im- mediate application. The invention consisted in pro- viding one's-self withastrongleatherbelt,tobestrapped round the waist, the back of which made of double Ben, should be provided with a sufficient number of strong, sharp spikes about three or four inches long, made of the best tempered steel and firmly riveted. The initial velocity of the body at the moment of falling is nearly^nothing, and I can say from experience that if one retains his faculties—and no one should put himself in such positions unless he can calculate upon that-he has plenty of time to turn upon his back, and when in that position the weight of the body would force the spikes into the snow, and at once arrest the descent.
THE WOKING CONVICT ESTABLISHMENT.
THE WOKING CONVICT ESTABLISH- MENT. One who has suffered," a merchant of the City, who seems to have got into trouble some years ago, writes to a contemporary in support of the statements of the convict Jarvis as to the state of things at the convict prison at Woking. He says, "I never expected a prison to be other than a place of punishment. But whilst I would express my deep sense of the true Christian good feeling of all the principal officials of Pentonville, I must express my conviction that the villany practised at Woking, and which the authori- ties take no trouble to prevent, calls loudly for in- quiry. Some of the officials could, if they would, cor- roborate what I say, but they dare not speak. I re- member the man Jarvis well. No doubt he was a rascal, but he was undergoing punishment for the in- juries he had committed against society, and I know for a fact he was harshly treated in the prison. At Woking a well-behaved man is treated worse than any slave, while the thorough scoundrels are petted and made much of. The whole system is a curse to this country, and loudly calls for inquiry. I do not be- lieve there ever was a man who was reformed by the English system; and they never can be whilst from the highest in authority to the lowest deceit and cun- ning are the predominant characteristics." This communication being anonymous, should by no means be received as undiluted truth, until something more is known of the merchant of the City" and his trouble." His "deep sense of true Christian good feeling" would surely not have made him a patient in that establishment.
Letter from the Lord President…
Council. Council-office, Whitehall, Aug. 5. Sir,—I am directed by the Lord President of the Council to request that you will have the goodness to move Earl Russell to take into his lordship's con- sideration whether some arrangements cannot at once be made with the Governments of those countries in the north of Europe where the cattle plague exists, to ensure a careful inspection at their outports of all cattle shipped for any port of Great Britain. "Without prejudging the question whether the cattle plague has been imported into this country or not, the Lord President thinks that there are very strong reasons that should induce the exporting coun. tries to take every possible precaution to prevent the export of diseased cattle. There is no doubt that the disease in question "0 exists here, but it is at present confined, compara- tively speaking, to a few places, and it is most desir- able that no new focus of it should be created by the introduction of the disease from abroad. To prohibit importation altogether while so large a portion of the animal food of the people of this country depends upon foreign supply would be highly inexpedient; but such restrictions might have to be placed upon the importation as would tend greatly to cripple the trade. "It is, therefore, the Lord President considers, as much for the interest of foreign Governments as of our own to adopt such measures of inspection, and possibly of detention of cattle at their ports as may give confidence to the buyers here, and to the public in general, by a well-grounded assurance being afforded that every effort is being made by foreign countries to prevent the export of diseased cattle. Moreover, the adoption of such a course by foreign Governments may render it needless to take any ex- treme measures of restriction at our own ports, which though deemed necessary to prevent the introduction and spreading of the 'disease, might, as stated above, prove exceedingly injurious to the foreign cattle trade.—I am, &o., "Abthur HELPS. The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.'
Earl Russell's Dispatch.
Earl Russell's Dispatch. In consequence of this letter the following commu- nication has been addressed to the Governments of the cattle-exporting countries in the north of Europe:— Foreign-office, August 5. My Lord,—I transmit to you herewith a copy of a letter which has been received from the Council-office, urging the expediency of arrangements being made by the Governments of those countries in the north of Europe in which the cattle plague exists, to ensure a careful inspection at their outports of all cattle shipped for any port of Great Britain. I have to instruct you, in accordance with the terms of this letter, to make a representation to the Government, with a view to inducing them to adopt such measures as may be best fitted to prevent the export of diseased cattle from their country to Great Britain.-I am, &c., Hussell,
Government Instructions.
Government Instructions. In a supplement to the London Gazette, two orders are published in reference to the prevailing disease among cattle in the metropolis, and throughout the country. The first of these documents, after reciting the previous Acts passed to prevent the spreading of contagious or infectious diseases among cattle, and stating that it is expedient to make further regula- tions on the subject, proceeds as follows:- "Now, therefore, the Lords of her Majesty's Privy Council do hereby, in virtue and in exercise of the power given by the said recited Act, and by the several Acts continuing the same, as aforesaid, order as follows:— "1. That in this order the word 'animal' shall be interpreted to mean any cow, heifer, bull, bullock, ox, or calf. "2. Every inspector appointed or to be appointed under the provisions of the Order in Council of the 24th of July, 1865, shall have the power of entering upon and inspecting any premises in or upon which he has reason to believe that there is any animal labour- ing under such disease, from time to time, as often as he may think necessary. I.. 3. Every person within any district for which an inspector shall have been appointed as aforesaid, upon whose premises there shall be any animal labouring under any such disorder, shall, as far as practicable, keep such animal separate and apart from all other animals, and no person shall, without the licence of such inspector, send to market, or remove from his premises, any such animal, or any animal which has been in the same shed or stable, or has been herded, or been in contact, with any animal labouring under such disorder. 4. Every "animal within any such district as afore- said dying of such disorder, or slaughtered on account thereof, shall be buried, if practicable, on the premises where it has died or been slaughtered, or (if this be not practicable) as near thereto as may be convenient; and if such animal be not buried with its skin, its skin shall be disinfected in such manner as the inspector of the district may direct. "5. Every person within any sucn district, on whose premises there shall be any animal so labouring as aforesaid, shall cleanse and disinfect such premises in such manner as the inspector of such district shall direct. 6. Every person offending against this order, shall for every such offence forfeit any sum not exceeding twenty pounds, which the justices before whom he or she shall be convicted of such offence may think fit to impose." The second order extends the powers exercised by the Privy Council, under the Acts previously cited, to all parts of England and Wales not comprised in the order dated July 24, applicable to the City of London and the Metropolitan district, stating that 3. If at the date of the publication of this order in the London Gazette there shall be any animal labouring under any such disorder in the possession or custody of any cowkeeper, dairyman, or dairy- woman, or of any milkman or milkwoman, or vendor or purveyor of milk, or of any dealer in cattle, or farmer, or person in possession of cattle, whatso- ever, within those parts of the United Kingdom to which this order refers, or if at any time here- after, while this present order shall continue in force and unrevoked, any animal, being in the posses- sion or custody of any such person as aforesaid within the last-mentioned parts of the United Kingdom, shall be seized or attacked with, or be found labouring or suffering under any such disorder, notice of the existence of such disorder, or of the first appearance of such disorder, in or among the animals belonging to, or in the custody of, any sueh person as aforesaid, shall immediately thereupon be given by the person in whose possession or custody such diseased animals or animal shall be, if such person shall reside within any corporate town, to the mayor or other principal officer of the corporation, or, if elsewhere, to the clerk of the justices acting in and for the petty sessional division of the county, or district in the nature of a county in which he resides; and, upon receipt of such notice, er upon any other information which satisfies him or them that such disease has appeared within his or their jurisdiction respectively, it shall be lawful for such mayor or other principal officer, and for the said justices, if he or they shall think fit, from time to time to appoint some veterinary surgeon, or other person duly qualified to be an inspector, for the purpose of carrying into effect the rules and regulationg within the corporate town or petty sessional division for which he shall have been ap- pointed, and the same authority may, from time to time, revoke such appointment." The remaining provisions of the order are the same as those embodied in the document given above.
The Cattle Plague in Scotland.
The Cattle Plague in Scotland. In consequence of rumours that the Russian cattle plague had broken out in some of the dairies in Edinburgh, Professor Dick and his assistant have visited many of the most important establishments in Edinburgh, and in particular those where it was stated that the disease had occurred. They report that the accounts as to the numbers of deaths taking place had been greatly exaggerated; and that in dairies where fatality has ensued among the cows the symptoms resembled those of pleuro pneumonia, rather than those of the dreaded Rinderpest. A meeting of farmers was held in the Corn Exchange on Wednesday after- noon, when Professor Dick stated the result of his inspection, and he was requested to examine the stock in town, and report once in every two -days to the newspapers as to whether they have plague or not. It was suggested that a meeting of the Chamber of Agriculture should be held next week to consider the whole question, and advise upon the proper measures to be adopted under the circumstances—a suggestion which will probably be carried out. So far as can yet be ascertained, no infected cattle have reached Scot- land direct; neither have any been received at the great shipping ports of Hull or Hartlepool. From London alone has the disease been communicated. The infected cattle brought into the neighbourhood of Kelso have (or, at least, such of them as remained alive) been returned to London, with instructions to Professor Simonds that he should, if necessary, slaughter them, and report upon the facts which a post-mortem examination afforded.
THE ROYAL VISIT TO GERMANY,…
THE ROYAL VISIT TO GERMANY, f At half-past two on Tuesday afternoon the Queen, accompanied by the junior members of the Royal Family, and attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, crossed over from Osborne and landed at the Royal Clarence Victualling-yard, where they were received by the naval and military authorities "of the port and garrison. The Royal party immediately afterwards left by special train for Woolwich, where they arrived at five minutes past six, and were greeted with Royal salutes from the guns of the Fisgard flag- ship and a battery of artillery at the garrison. Her Majesty and suite were received by Commodore Dunlop, ffag officer of the port, Major-General Ward, commandant, and a staff of field officers. The pier and its approaches presented a brilliant appearance from the number of elegantly attired ladies of military and naval officers who were stationed on either side in double file, whilst every available spot commanding a view of the Royal party, and even the roofs of the sheds and workshops, were crowded by the workmen employed at the establishments, and others, who testified their loyalty by repeated cheers. The bands of the Royal Artillery and Royal Marines were stationed at the pier-head, and the pier itself was fitted up and decorated in a very handsome manner. Her Majesty, who was attired in deep mourning, appeared in good health and spirits. She was received on board the steamer Alberta by his Serene Highness Prince Leiningen, commander of the Royal steam yacht, with whom her Majesty shook hands in a cordial manner. During the embarkation the military bands performed the National Anthem, and the loyalty of the assembled multitude found vent in repeated cheering. Her Majesty having taken leave of Prince Arthur—who, accompanied by Major Elphinstone, returned to Greenwich — the Alberta steamed down the river to Greenhithe; her Majesty then went on board the Royal yacht, and proceeded to the Nore, where the Royal squadron remained during the night, proceeding to Antwerp next morn- ing. Her Majesty, upon disembarking at Antwerp on Wednesday evening, was received with cheers by the English residents and a considerable number of the inhabitants of Antwerp, who had assembled on the quay. Her Majesty proceeded to the railway terminus, and left by train for Lacken.
THE NEWS BUDGET. .
THE NEWS BUDGET. A subscription for a patriotic testimonial" to Mazzini has been set on foot throughout all Italy. The following is the text of a letter from Garibaldi in favour of this project I join with all my heart in a testimonial of gratitude from the Italians to the illustrious citizen whose whole life does not include an hour which has not been devoted to Italy, a pure aspiration for the national cause, an example to us all in the path of. liberty, and a glory for the e-reat Italian family." Five Years Dead, and Still Unburied.-A most extraordinary case has just been brought to light at Colyton,, Somersetshire. An eccentric char- acter has actually in his possession at this moment the unburied corpse of his mother, who died five years ago. When she died he bad a leaden coffin made, with a glass plate let in, so as to show her face. This coffin he deposited in a shed, and from time to time goes there to look upon the face of his mother. The case affords the nearest parallel to the man in London who kept the remains of his two wives in a similar way for many years ia a bedroom in his house at Portland-place. Shocking Accident from Gunpowder. George Emmerson, aged fifteen, of Brabant-lodge, Bayswater, was on Friday playing with a flask of powder belonging to his father, when the flask ex- ploded, and his hand was frightfully shattered. Amputation had to be performed. His face also is terribly disfigured, and his sight destroyed. Little hopes are given of saving his life. A respectably-clad man, apparently about forty-five years of age, precipitated himself into the Thames from Westminster-bridge, and after floating a short distance, sank and was drowned. The body was got out near Whitehall. The deceased had a small sum of money OR his person. His linen is marked "R. Hall." Mr. Gale's Nbn-explosivs Gunpowder — The invention of Mr. Gale for rendering gunpowder non- explosive has been practically tried in Manchester, under the superintendence of the inventor, and his co- adjutor, Mr. Saunders. The experiments were regarded with great interest by the gentlemen who had been in- vited to be present, and conclusively proved the efficacy of the invention. Collision off Holy head.—On Friday morning, between four and five o'clock, a collision occurred near the Skerries and Holyhead, between the schooner Arte- mus, from Sierra Leone, and the schooner Kerr, from Liverpool to Dublin. The crew of the Kerr took to their boats, and were carried to the port of Cemmaes by a steam tug. The Artemus reached the mouth of the Mersey in safety, when she capsized; but the accident being observed from the shore, the crew were saved in small boats from Liverpool and New Brighton. The Factory Act.—Mr. Francis Rawlinson, rope manufacturer, of Lodge-lane, Toxteth-park, was charged before the Liverpool magistrates with having employed women in his factory after six in the evening, contrary to the Factories Regulation Act, A, 4. c^arae was not_ disputed, and ib was explained iihat the factory having been on short employment, the women had asked to be allowed to work late at the time in question, and that the manager had allowed them to do so, in ignorance of the provisions of the Act. In five cases the defendant was fined 20a. and costs, and in one case, which was not prosecuted he was ordered to pay the costs. A Butcher in Female Clothes.—The public has often heard of the adroitness of ladies of the demi- montte in drawing money from the male frequenters of the gaming-tables at German watering-places, but few would have ever imagined that the son of a Ba- varian butcher, by assuming the crinoline and other accessories of female toilet, could succeed in passing himself off as a Polish beauty of ancient family and thus trick the admiring dupes out of their money. This has, however, just been achieved at Wiesbaden, by a butcher's son, who managed to get in a good pe- cuniary harvest, and when his deception was at last accidentally discovered got clear off with his booty. A Proposed New Railway.-A survey has been made by authorised persons for an intended railway between Bradford and Colne, by way of Girlington, in. the Thornton-valley, Allerton, Wilsden, Cullingworth- and Howorth, and thence via Stanbury, Lancashire Moor, Trawden, Lanshaw-bridge, to Colne, where a junction will be made with the East Lancashire line. The scheme is said to be taken by the Great Northern Company, who will apply in the next session of Par- liament for the necessary authority to carry out the scheme. Charge against a Blackburn Lstter Car- rier.-A young man, named John Wade, who has been a letter-carrier for about eight years, was charged at the Blackburn Town-hall with stealing or delaying the delivery of a large number of letters. On Thurs- day the postmaster had reason to suspect that the man was detaining some letters, and a police-officer was sent to Wade's house, and, on telling him his errand, Wade pulled fifty-three letters out of his pocket. The whole of these letters bore the post- mark of the previous day. Wade, who said that he had delayed, but intended to deliver the letters, was remanded to await the result of a communication, from the Pest-office authorities. Strike of Miners.-In consequence of a proposed reduction of wages, a strike has taken place among the miners employed at the Govan collieries. It is alleged that the men in these pits have for some time back been working for lower wages than were paid in ether districts; and they now object to a reduction of 6d., which they say would bring them down to 3s. 6cL per day. At a meeting held on Tuesday at the Lyceum- rooms, Glasgow, it was stated that nearly the whole of the miners connected with the collieries in question, said to be from 700 to 800 in number, had removed their graith." Serious Attack by a Ball at a Railway Station.-A bull was on Friday conveyed by Great Western Railway to Reading Station, and as it was evidently in a wild state great cara was taken in re- moving it from the truck. Notwithstanding this, how- ever, it got away and ran furiously along the line and about the company's premises, knocking down Mr. Wix, the foreman of the goods yard, and unfortu- nately breaking his leg. He was immediately taken to the Berkshire Infirmary, where he is now lying. Wix, who is a steady industrious man, has been in the com- pany's service many years, and this accident will in- capacitate him from work for a very considerable time Singular Cab Accident.—As a fisherman of Alfort was rowing down the Marne a few days ago, he was astonished at seeing, near the spot where that river falls into the Seine, the roof of a hackney-coaeh in the middle of the stream. With the help of some boatmen he managed to draw it to the shore, and found it was the carriage number 1704, belonging to the Imperial Cab Company, with two horses attached* both dead. After a long search the body of the driver, named Brault, was also found. There is reason to suppose that the driver was asleep on his box, and that the horses, taking a wrong turn, fell into the river and were carried away by the carrent, which ia very strong in that part. The man is believed to have made an attempt to save himself, as his coat and waistcoat were off. Pirates in China Waters.-The ship Formby, of Liverpool, on her late passage from Hongkong to Singapore, was furiously attacked by fourteen piratioal iunks, heavily armed, and each manned with about fifty men, fifteen miles south of Cape Linhose, coast of Hainan, on the 31st of May. Some fifty shots were fired at the ship, some cutting through the platiag at the water-line, fortunately on the weather side. With great difficulty the crew succeeded in stopping the holes, the ship being of steel. Their guns were leaded with all kinds of conceivable missiles, cutting and damaging the sails and rigging badly. Fortunately the breeze springing up, the English ship managed, by outsailing the pirates, to escape without any of the officers or crew being wounded. More Diseased Meat. — Charles Austin, sen., and Charles Austin, jun., cowkeepers of Peckham Rye, were summoned before the magistrate at .the London Guildhall by the Commissioners of Sewers for sending a quantity of beef to Newgate Market, it being at the time diseased and unfit for the food of man. William Clarke, a sanitary inspector, gave evidence as to the meat being exposed for sale, and Mr. Newman, in- spector of meat, deposed to it being unfit for human food. The beast was a milch cow, and Austin said he had given = £ 18 for it, and that it had dropped off milk lately, therefore he wanted it killed and taken to market.—Thomas Langford, the butcher who killed the cow, said he refused to take it to market and sell it in his own name, but he did so in the defendants' name. He did not, however, know that the meat was diseased. The lungs were grown to the side. Mr. Alderman Gibbons lined each of the defendants £ 10 and costs, or three months' imprisonment. The fines were paid. A Delightful Sensation.Le Nord states that on the evening of Saturday last a lioness at the Antwerp Zoological Gardefs broke out of its cage through a part which gave way and bounded into the gardens with a loud roar. The visitors were seized with a sort of stupor, and remained fixed to the ground where they stood-a circumstance which per- haps saved them, for the lioness, which would pro- bably have been excited by exclamations, began to promenade the gardens peacefully with a dignified air, trusting, doubtless, to its cubs folio wing; but they did not stir. The terror of the crowd continued. The keepers brought pieces of fresh meat and threw them before the lioness, which devoured them eagerly. But the question was how to make it re- enter the cage, and at length one of the keepers conceived the happy idea of going to the cage and irritating the young lions, whose cries would bring the mother to their side. The ruse succeeded, and the lioness, returning to its cage, was securely shut up. Thus terminated the disagreeable scene, which had continued tbout a quarter of an hour. Presentation Memorial of the American Rebellion.-The American war began with a shot fired on Fort Samter, where the "old flag" -the iden- tical one which gave place to the Palmetto flag was again raised on the 14th of April of the present year when the Rev. H. Ward Beecher delivered an oration. This, and a sermon on the death of Abraham Lincoln, also by Mr. Beecher, have just been published by American friends resident in Manchester as a pre- sentation memorial to working men, dedicated, as a simple token of high esteem, to those working men who, through evil and good report, and in times of temporal want of no ordinary kind, espoused the cause and supported the principles of emancipated labour everywhere, The oration is preceded by prefatory notes by Mr. J. H. Estcourt, and followed'by the "In Memoriam verses of Mr. W. C. Bryant. A sketch of Abraham Lincoln also by Mr. Estcourt, precedes the sermon, which is followed by funeral epigraphs and President Lincoln's address at Gettysburg, on the 19th November, 1863, on the dedication of a cemetery. Confession of the Leicestershire Mur- deress—At a special meeting of the board of guar- dians of the Loughborough Union, held on Wednes- day morning, for the purpose of taking into considera- tion the statements contained in the confession of the prisoner Atkins, as to the ill-treatment Eaid to have been received by her whilst an inmate of the Lough- borough Union Workhou-e, the following resolution was unanimously adopted Tha^ after a most care- ful investigation of all the circumstances cf the case, it is the opinion of this meeting that. there is not the slightest truth in, or foundation for, the statements made by the woman Atkins; but that on the con- trary, during her stay in the workhouse, both she and her child appear to have been treated with great kind. ness, both by the officers and the inmates."