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VARIETIES. WISE PRODIGALITY.—A man does not become rich by laying up abundance, but by laying OUT abundance; that is, by laying it out for God.—Chrysostom. THE THREE SIEVES.—Before we allow ourselves to End fault with any person behind his back, we should ask ourselves three questions:—1. Is it true? 2. Is it kind ? 3. Is it necessary ? VERY CONVENIENT.—"Jury," said a western judge, "you kin go out at,d find a verdict. If you can't find one of your own, get the one the last jury used." "Cuss" 'EM ALL!-A member of the United States Congress made a speech, in which he quoted Latin, Amicus Socrates, amicus Plato est, sed major Veritas. The newspaper reporter translated it into- I may cuss Socrates, I may cuss Plato, said Major Veritas!" VERY PROBABLE.—Jean, jester to Charles IX. once tried his master's nerve by rushing into his room one morning with the exclamation-" Oh, sire, such news!— forty thousand men have risen in the city !"—" What! vried the startled king with what intention have they risen ?" Well," said Jean, placing his finger upon his nose, probably with the intention of lying down again at bedtime." POISONOUS SNAKES, THE VIPER.—Poisonous snakes may be readily known by the shape of their head and neck, the head being very wide at the back, and the neck comparatively small. Some persons compare the head of a poisonous snake to the ace of spades, which com- parison, although rather exaggerated, gives a good idea of the poison-bearing head. It has a cruel and wicked look about it also, and one recoils almost instinctively. Should a person be bitten by the viper, the effects of the poison may be much diminished by the liberal use of olive oil; and the effect of the oil is said to be much increased by heat. Strong ammonia, or hartshorn (as it is popularly called), is also useful, as is the case with the stings of bees and wasps, and for the same reason. The evil consequences of the viper's bite vary much in different persons, and at different times, according to the tempera- ment of the individual or his state of health. I may as well put in one word of favour for the viper before it is dismissed. It is not a malignant creature, nor does it seek after victims but it is as timid an any creature in existence, slipping away at the sound of a footstep, and only using its fangs if trodden on accidentally, or in- tentionally assaulted.—" Common Objects of the Country," by the Rev. J. G. Wood. AFRRICAN WOMEN.—LOVE OF ORNAMENT.—I had an opportunity of admiring the pitch to which the passion of the sex for ornament may be carried it put all the agonies of a coronation toilette to shame. Two of the sheikh's slaves, whose only dress was a piece of cotton Tound the middle, had their dark bodies entirely covered with a most elaborate pattern in relief, produced by slashes, into which some extraneous matter had been Tubbed, to form a raised cicatrice. Pride suffers no pain, so that I suppose the operation must have been as agree- able as it certainly must have been protracted. The effect -was pleasing something like embossed black leather. -Sinai,tAe Hedjaz, and Soudan, by J. Hamilton. RELIC OF ANTIQUITY.—WILTSHIRE DOWNS. These downs constantly afford traces of their having been occupied by the aboriginal inhabitants of this Clcuntry; indeed, seldom does a month pass away with- out some interesting remains being discovered. An instance of this has occurred very lately, when some flint-diggers employed near Oldbury Castle, on Cherhill Down, brought to light a cinerary urn of noble dimen- sions, which fortunately, did not suffer much in being lemoved from the ground. Few urns of this size have ever been found, and it vies with the celebrated Stone- henge urn. It is 16 inches high, 141 inches wide at the broadest part, narrowed to 121 inches at the mouth. Its capacity is equal to rather more than five imperial gallons. The symmetry and proportions of this urn are admirable and really it is a matter of surprise that such a large vessel could have been moulded by hand into so correct a form, without the aid of the potter's wheel, which certainly had not been used. Its strength and firmness are very remarkable. When found, it was inverted over calcined bones and ashes of the dead-a mode of interment connected with the remotest times. A broad border of rude zigzag marking runs round the upper part of the urn. From the style of this ornament, and other features that cannot be mistaken, a well- known connoisseur classes it with those remains which carry us back to the Celtic period of our history, several centuries before the Christian era. M. DE LAMARTINE.—Among all the surviving lite- rary and political notabilities of the reign of Louis Phi- lippe and of the brief republic interregnum that followed there is probably no name that will be regarded by pos- terity with more respect and admiration than that of La- martine. In a 1 centious period he was able to make for himself a literary fame second to none, without writing a single line at which he or his readers have cause to blush. An elegant poet, a striking and graphic historian, a traveller whose descriptions have brought the Holy Land to the eyes and hearts of thousands, he proved, even when the taste of his country was most de- graded, that it was possible to win their applause by writings which, though entirely untinctured by cant, were conceived in a spirit of purity and respect for virtue and religion The time for action came, the mo- narchy was overthrown, and Lamartine became a mem- ber of the Provisional Government. To his courage and eloquence we owe it that the ominous red flag was not adopted as the emblem of the revolution to his mo- deration and good sense as Minister for Foreign Affairs it is due that we are not now engaged in a bloody struggle with a Republican propaganda. Who would not wish that the evening of a life so active and so illus- trious, so intellectually pure and sopractically beneficent, might be attended not only with, as it must be, the con- sciousness of high desert, but also with that material prosperity, or, at any rate, that decent competence, which is the proper accompaniment to the dignified re- tirement of a statesman and a poet ? This, however, it seems, is not to be. He is, we sincerely regret to hear, at this time suffering the evils of poverty, almost of des- titution, and France, who could not find words strong enough to express her admiration of his poetic genius, or shouts loud enough to do justice to his burning elo- quence—France, that owes him so much and has paid him so little, looks on and makes no sign. We trust that England is animated by another spirit. The "Writings of Lamartine do not enrich our literature, do not adorn our language. It was not for us that he bravely confronted the armed mob of Paris in the very height of its democratic fury it was not for us that he strove, and strove not in vain, to moderate the frenzy which sought to add to intestine revolutions a war of opinion waged against all Europe. Yet we trust we are not ungrateful. We have derived a pure and innocent pleasure from the chaste and noble effusions of his genius, we have received advantages, the amount of which we scarcely know how to estimate, from his courage and moderation as a statesman. A committee of noblemen and gentlemen has been formed for the purpose of col- lecting subscriptions for this man, tried by so many changes of fortune, endowed with so many of the choicest gifts of nature, yet never guilty of employing any of his vast opportunities otherwise than for the good of others. -Times. THE VELOCITY AND COLOURS OF LIGHTNING.-The lightning ot the two first classes does not last for more than one thousandth part of a second but a less dura- tion in passing than one millionth part of a second is attributed to the light of electricity of high tension. In comparison "ith this velocity, the most rapid artificial motion that can be produced appears repose.. This has been exemplified by Professor Wheatstone in a very beautiful experiment. A wheel made to revolve with such celerity as to render its spokes invisible, is seen for an instant, with all its spokes distinct, as if at rest, when illuminated by a flash of lightning, because the flash bad come and gone before the wheel had time to make a per- ceptible advance. The colour of lightning is variously orange, white, and blue, verging on violet. Its hue appears to depend on the intensity of electricity and beight in the atmosphere. The more electricity tl).er8 is passing through the air in a given time, the whiter and more dazzling is the light. Violet and-btue coloured 1ightningaare observed to be discharged from the storm clouds high in the at mosphere, where the «h> is rarefied and analogous. The electric spark made fo pass' through the rteemr -of hn air-pump exhibit# a bLa £ br viofet light in proportion as the vacuum is'ctivi$\4\$,+ £ peter- man't Physical Geography."

THE LAW COURTS. BREACH OF RAILWAY CONTRACT.—On Tuesday an action was tried in the Court of Common Pleas, Gorton v. the Great Western Railway Company-The plaintiff, who lived at Bristol, and sent goods to London by the Great Western Railway, sued the company to recover damages for breach of contract in respect to some goods sent by the railway to London. The action was origi- nally brought in the County Court at Bristol, and re- moved by the defendants. The question now was, on a rule to enter a nonsuit, whether there had been a proper service of the notice of action. The notice had been served upon the superintendent of the goods department at Bristol, but the company contended that it ought to have been served upon their secretary or clerk, at the principal office of the company in London. Mr. Knowles, Q C., and Mr. Griffiths, for the plaintiff, con- tended that the notice was well served upon the superin- tendent at Bristol, and relied on the 138th section of the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act (8th and 9th of Victoria, cap. 20). It was not disputed that the notice had in due course reached the secretary or clerk to the company. Mr. M. Smith, Q.C., and Mr. Raymond con- tended that by the 28th section of the 2nd of Victoria, cap. 27, the notice must be left with the secretary, or at his abode, and that the statute, the 8th and 9th of Vic- toria, cap 20, did not apply to this company, which was established before that Act passed. Lord Campbell said the Court would take time to consider. THE TAFF VALE RAILWAY.—The cause of Yaughan, v. the Taff Vale Railway Company, has been tried in the Court of Common Pleas. The plaintiff sought to recover damages for injury done to a wood, which the plaintiff alleged had been set on fire by the negligence of the defendants. At the trial before Mr. Baron Bram- well, at the last Glamorganshire assizes, it appeared that the wood in question adjoined the line of railway, and being used as a game preserve, was thickly clothed in the fall of the year with a quantity of long dry grass, of a highly combustible quality, and had been set on fire several times before that in respect of which this action was brought, the declaration alleging in the first count generally that the wood had been fired through the negligence of the defendants, and in the second, that they had so negligently kept their own banks, that the same caught fire, and eventually the flames spread to the wood. On the part of the defendants evidence was given to show that they had taken every possible pre- caution, consistent with the working of the railway, to prevent the escape of igneous particles from their engines, but it was admitted that they were not always successful. Under these circumstances, the learned Baron laid it down as law, that no care or skill on the part of the defendants towards preventing the escape of fire was an answer to the charge of negligence if the means adopted were unsuccessful, and that the com- bustible character of the wood was immaterial. He left the questiou of negligence to the jury, who found a verdict for the plaintiff for £27. Subsequently a rule nisi was granted for a new trial, on the ground of mis- direction, and that the verdict was against evidence.- Mr. Grove and Mr. Giffard now showed cause against the rule.—Mr. Evans and Mr. Lloyd appeared in sup- port of the rule, contending that the ruling of the learned Baron was erroneous on both points, and that the finding of the jury was not warranted by the evidence.-The court intimated its intention to consider the case.—Judgment deferred.

COURT OF ADMIRALTY, IRELAND. DERELICT.—SALVAGE.—THE FOREST QUEEN, OF NEWPORT.—(Before Dr. Kelly, May 26.)-The Court delivered the following judgment this morning in this cause, which had been at hearing for two days :-The facts of this case which have been brought before the Court are as follows. The brig Louisa, of Liverpool, 203 tons register, Owens Master, with her mate, eight hands, and a passenger, named Frederick Bristow, sailed from Liverpool, on the 21st of March last, with a cargo of coals, for Bahia. Standing down Channel she expe- rienced, as her log shows, much severe weather, when, on the morning of the 12th of April, she discovered from the foretop a vessel about six or seven miles to the eastward, disabled, apparently in distress, and drifting before the wind and sea. She was the brigantine the Forest Queen, of Newport, 139 tons register, had been launched only on the 17th of March previous, and was proceeding on her voyage from that port to Rio de Janeiro, with a cargo of railway iron, when, coming into collision with the barque Anna, Captain Bullen, from Sierra Leone for England, she suffered apparently so severely that her master and crew took to their boat, and left her to her fate. Her state when boarded by the Salvors is described as one of great confusion. Under such circumstances it was that Capt. Owei s de- termined to bring this wreck and cargo, for the benefit of all concerned, into the nearest port. Dividing his ship's company into two equal parties, he sent the mate in command uf one on board the wIeck; he mtainrd the other under his own command on board his own brig. By the skill and enterprise of this captain, aided by the manhood, endurance, and toil of the crew, a valuable vessel and cargo have been saved from total loss. They now require the salvage remuneration, and it is the bounden duty of this Court, for the protection of the mercantile world, to entertain their requisition en- couragingly. The owners of the brig are claimants also and when it is borne in mind that it is their ship, their property, which was the great and important means employed, and that it rests with them to permit or to forbid their captains to engage in any act of salvage whatever, this Court considers that an equal duty at the least is imposed with regard to them, and for the protec- tion of the very same interests, to uphold and encourage their claims. It is due to the impugnants in this case, who are now the decl: red owners of the Forest Queen, and her cargo of railway iron, to say that they admit the services and claims of the Salvors, contending only that they are not services of the highest class of merit, for human life was not lost or risked, and that, there- fore, they should not obtain the highest class of reward. It is creditable to those who have put forward the Salvors' case that they also, whilst they demand what is just, do not require what would be immoderate. In examining the present value as estimated by them ( £ 1,200), I find that it is calculated at the rate of £9 per ton, or on a de- preciation of X5 per ton, taken on the full value of £ 14 per ton when built. But the witness said that that full value was P.14 or £ 15, and in forming the estimate he did so on the lower figure of £ 14. The Couit adopting, from the general leaning of the evidence, will rate the present value of the ship at £10 per ton, and thus make it £1,390 instead of £ 1,200. Now as to the cargo. What is its present value ? It has been exposed for v. eeks to submersion in salt water, and if sold here would, from that reason, and also from having been made for a foreign market, certainly not sell for so much; the Court, therefore, considers that it is quite borne out in reducing the price to f6 per ton. This make the cargo of the value of £ 1,500, which, added to that of the ship, makes the joint and present value of both £ 2,890. Influenced by the consi- derations already stated, the Court decrees one-third of that joint and present value, or a sum of £9G3 to the Salvors. Of this sum it gives jEoOO to Messrs. Simpson and Appleby, of Liverpool, the owners of the Louisa, including therein and in order to cover all demurrage, repairs, risks, and expenses to which they may have been liable the Court having had in evidence certain details on these heads, and in this way, as has been done in like cases, giving adequate compensation for them. To the Captain, William Charles Owens, the Court gives the sum of £ 200, he being the person on all these occasions (to use the language of a learned judge) "to be greatly encouraged, as upon him rests the entire responsibility of employing the ship, as he has no right to deviate except in case of urgent necessity, and if he do so he is liable, most justly, to severe censure." To the mate, John Bute, to whose sole charge the derelict ship and cargo were entrusted for 11 days, and in consideration of that well performed trust, the sum of jElOO is given and to Annesley, Thomas Williams, and George Williams, the seamen on board under his command, S,24 each, and to Frederick Bristow, the passenger on board, J617. the Court considering that this part of the crew were exposed to the greater peril. To the party retained on board the Louisa it gives X17 to each of the two seamen, the cook, and carpenter, and £6 to the apprentice, the Court con- sidering that this part of the crew was exposed to less peril than the party on board the wreck.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-On Saturday evening, a man named Henry Golloway, employed as inspector of carriage wheels, at the Crewe station, was selected to act as an extra guard to a London and North-Western pas- senger train from Crewe to Stockport, which arrived there about nine o'clock. It is supposed that he missed his footing as he passed from his van to some other car* riages between Stockport and Heaton-Norris, for the unfortunate man's body was afterwards found, completely decapitated, and with several fractures on the limbs. The greater part of his own train and the whole of a suc- ceeding one, which followed a few minutes later, passed over him, and death must have been instantaneous. He was 32 years of age, and has left a widow. The exhilirating and sustaining properties of tea depend on the quantity of "theine" it contains. The young early pickings, called by the Chinese "first crop tea," abound most in this essential quality, as an ounce of this fine strong sort contains 10 grains the last or autumn crop," contains but little, and is consequently very deli. cient inavour. The English public desire always to ob- tain really, choice tea, but are often disappointed through a deceptive practice the Chinese have of "facing" or I colouring, for foreign supply, the withered autumn crop, this makes all appear alike. and enables the Chinese to pass off the low priced brown leaves in lieu of the best; the great profit derived renders the practice almost uni- versal, but the celestials themselves never use coloured tea HOKNIMAN and Co., London, knowing that sterling quality ja preferred before mera appearance, import truly k choice sorts without powdered colour on the surface; this tea is to be had only of Homiman's AGENTS for Local list He advertisement in this day's paper.

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. UNKIND, BUT JUST.— The following pun of the Bishop of Oxford is going the rounds:—The Bishop was lately preaching in St. Margaret's church in aid of the Westminster Hospital, when he thus questioned the motives of some people's charity:—" For instance, con- trast the amount you give when the plate is held at the door, and you can slip in your contribution quietly and unseen in passing out, with the sum you would give in the same church and for the same object, were the plate handed into each pew, and your respectability put upon its mettle. STAMPS ON CHEQUEs.-The bill imposing a penny stamp on cheques has came into operation. In cases where money is paid across the counter to the drawer of a cheque himself, such cheque being to self, and not to order, no stamp will be requisite the cases contemplated in the various Stamp Acts being those only in which a third party is concerned, and which are held to arise out of transactions of profit. Transfer tickets for customs and other payment issued by bankers against stamped cheques, for the sake of security, will also be exempt. SIR WILLIAM DON, THE COMEDIAN. Enquiries have beeu made as to whether this eccentric baronet and clever actor is of Scotch or Irish descent: the following extract from Dodd's Peerage may therefore prove of interest; Don, seventh Bart., Scotland, created IGG7. Sir W. Henry Don, son of the sixth baronet by his second wife, eldest daughter of John Stein, Esq., several years M P. for Bietchingly. Born 1025 succeeded on the death of his father. Seat, Newtondon, Kelso, Berwickshire. A fatal prize fight has occurred near Gravesend. Two well-known pugilists, "Johnny YValkei" and Bob Travers," were announced to fight, and a large crowd assembled. The men, however, did not appear, and several amateur fights were got up to satisfy the wishes of the crowd. Ultimately two men named Morris and Redwood commenced a nght, which lasted nearly an hour, and terminated in Redwood falling to the ground insensible. His friends were unable to restore anima- tion, and he was removed to the Gravesend Infirmary, where he died soon after admission from the effects of a rupture of a blood-vessel on the brain. At the inquest on Saturday, a verdict of manslaughter was return3d against Morris, who has absconded. AN OAK FIRED BY LIGHTNING. On Tuesday afternoon the neighbourhood of Ampthill, Bedfordshire, was startled by an unexpected and very brief storm, the principal feature of which was a solitary, but very vivid fldsh of lightning accompanied by unusually prolonged thunder. Some hours after the brief storm, it was dis- covered that one of the gigantic oaks, for which Arnpt- hill-park is justly celebrated, had been smitten and thoroughly ignited. The fire fastened upon the de- caying vitals of the grand old forester, and from the first it was evident that only a picturesque ruin would survive the ravages of the devouring element. In the course ot Wednesday the first of three huge branches which sprung from the trunk broke away and fell with a terrific crash. In the course of the following night a seeond branch equally large fell amidst a shower of sparks, and now little is left but the monster trunk, which, however, will be carefully preserved in its rude magnificence as a memorial of the storm which laid its glory in the dust. Ampthill-park is the property of the Duke of Bedford, but at present and for many years past has been the residence of Lord Wensleydale. THE "NATIVE" REIGN AT LUCKNOW.—The Hur- karu describes the state of affairs during the short native reign in Lucknow. A son of Wajid Alee, a boy of 10, was nominally king, but his mother acted as regent, and she was again directed by her paramour, Mummoo Khan. The chief civil appointments were bought by their holders, who amassed lakhs, but declined tb re- ceive salaries till the English were expelled. The eunuchs of the Palace were the principal military leaders, and universal pillage appears to have been the order of the day. One Mussumut Abbassee farmed the brothels of the city, for which he paid 60,000 rupees, and the civil and criminal courts, for which he paid 18,000 rupees COLOGNE CATHEDRAL.—" Three years," writes a correspondent familiar with the building, "have made an enormous change in the Cathedral at Cologne; in two more it is said 1 hat the edifice will be completed, all but the towers. The transepts are already at their full height—the walls of the nave also-the flying buttresses are in progress—the central portal and arch are outlined. What is then left is to finish these and the vaults, and to put on the roof. Some work, moreover, has been done at both towers. The more I see the more I am confirmed in my idea, that when the inner space is com- pletely thrown open the distance from portal to the choir, and thence to the high altar, may seem, owing to the vast height of the building, shorter than the eye will relish. Yet there is absolutely a plan on foot to cut the length in halves, after that old fashion in our English ca hedrals, which was made necessary, it was long thought, by the forms of Protestant worship—and to raise the new organ in the centre on a bridge of iron This must be surely a suggestion of that Evil One, who as every child in Germany knows, has taken express and constant pains to spoil Cologne Cathedral."— Athinaum. THE PRINCESS ROYAL.—A correspondent writes to us from Berlin (on the 22nd):—" Our charming little Princess Frederick William (often called here I Madame la Prineesso llojralu') has been confined to her sofa these last three weeks, in consequence of having sprained her ankle whilst descending the Palace staircase. She is, however, recovered sufficiently to be removed to Babels- burg, a beautiful chateau near Potsdam, where she enjoys the fresh air and the beauties of the country, and is wheeled about in a very pretty Merlin-chair, sent over from London by the Queen of Eng'and. Rumours are afloat here, that an event of much interest to the Royal Family will take place before the end of the year. How- ever this may be, the Princess looks delicate. The at- tention of her Royal Consort has been unremitting, and he often carries her in his arms to or from her sofa. The journey of the royal pair to Dantzic and Konigsburg is fixed for the 12th of June, and loyal demonstrations are preparing to receive them. The Princess, with charac- teristic courage, refused to allow this journey to be postponed. The inquiries of the court circle, as well as of the citizens, as to the health of their much-loved Crown Princess, have been numerous and unremitting, but no official bulletins have been or will be published. — Court Journal. THE HOUSE OF LORDS LAUGHING.—The sight of such a phenomenon is due to Mr. Roundell Palmer. During the sitting of their Lordships on Friday week, on a Committee of Priveliges in the Shrewsbury peer- c age case, the learned counsel was reading the will of a certain Humphrey Talbot. In this will were certain bequests of a gold chain, a tawny velvet," &o. Then followed the gift ot two Maries," which was inter- preted by the advocate to mean two much-prized figures of the Virgin Alary. This was succeeded by two foles." This was far beyond the power of the silk gown, who could only understand it as meaning two fools," and thought it appeared strange that the testator should bequeath such a commodity; whereupon Lord St. Leonards exclaimed, Two mares and foals are no doubt the true meaning." This interpretation though obviously the correct one, was so opposed to the Dryas- dust theory, that their Lordships burst into an uncon- trollable fit of laughter, in which they were joined by the entire auditory. The Queen, a short time since, caused a monument to be erected to the Princess Elizabeth daughter of Charles I., in St. Thomas's Church, Newport, Isle of Wight. The monument, designed by Baron Morochetti, chiefly consistod of an exquisite and reclining figure of the un- happy and youthful Princess. Her Majesty has now had two coloured windows placed in the church, and the softened light from these windows falls on the peaceful and gentle face of the Princess and brings out the gentle repose so characteristic of her features. On the window nearest the monument are the words "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord," and "Sorrow not as those which have no hope." Her Ma- jesty drove over to Newport on Saturday. LORD MACAULAY.—The noble author of the His- tory of England Lord Maeaulay, has become a per- fect Beau Brummel of late. It may be that he medi- tates matrimony, or some other voyage upon what novelists call the Sea of Pleasure," and plunge into a vortex of fashion. The noble lord used to wear a very seedy snuff coloured frock coat, a large greasy hat at the back of his head, and a faded black neckcloth, a world too high for his short neck. He also made it a practice to carry, or rather to trail along the ground, a huge brown cotton umbrella, of a very gampish appearance. The noble lord is now got up" regardless of expense. He sports a smart frock coat of light olive colour, a blue cassimere waistcoat, with a gold chain peeping over the collar sbiny boots and fancy cane in Oeu of the old cotton umbrella. Macaulay in shiny boots is almost incredible, but to see him strutting along Parlia- ment-street, swinging his Malacca right and left, and looking as jolly as a two-year old in a clover field, is something to talk of for a month. If to those substan tial and ornamental improvements be added the unusual attraction of clean face and hands, you will be able to realise the appearance of the great historian on his way to the House of Lords. DEATH OF A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER.—The People has ceased to exist. The editor thus accounts for its fall:—" The refusal to publish a Sunday edition operated against us to an extent which almost of itself would have been fatal. The religious world shook their heads at a Radical journal appealing to them for support. Para- graphs which could not be excluded from any paper professing to give the news of the day were carped at. VV iiile one party clamoured for information to help them to make up a betting book, another turned aside at finding a notice of the theatre. Between them we hare fallen." SUDDEN DEATH OP THE SHROPSHIRE GIANT."—On Monday, says the Liverpool Mercury, Mr. H. Churton, coroner, held an inquest at the Tranmere Hotel, on the body of Thomas Pearce, the famed Shropshire giant, who died suddenly on Saturday night. The deceased, who was one of the tallest and strongest men in this country, has for upwards of thirty years at wakes and fairs. exhibited himself as a giant, and shown his powers as a first class pugilist. On Saturday last, accompanied by a number of travelling showmen, he arrived in a caravan at Tranmere, and took his stand on the vacant ground near the ferry, intending to exhibit himself at the Tranmere wakes. Latterly he had suffered from dropsy, and had not been long on the ground before this complaint took a fatal turn, and he died about midnight, without being visited by a medical man. The jury found a verdict of Died from natural causes." The body, which was ordered by the coroner to be imme- diately interred, was laid out in the ciratan, whilst the members ef the company, -including the wife of the deceased, were performing in an adjoining tent; The giant was 43 years of age. THE MINISTRY.-The Ministerial appointments con- sequent on the resignation of Lord Ellenborough have now been announced. Lord Stanley goes to the India Board, and Sir E. Bulwer Lytton will undertake the ad- ministration of our colonial dependencies. Sir Edward has issued an address to the electors of the county of Hertford, in which he says They who know me best are aware how little at any time of my life the desire of office has actuated me in the part I have taken in public affairs. I accept office now with a profound sense of its responsibilities, and that sincere diffidence which impels men to supply by assiduity and labour their defects in ability and experience. I ask from you what the Govern- ment to which I have the honour to belong asks from the country—a fair trial. The old landmarks of party are in much effaced the old battle cries of party few thoughtful men will care to revive. Intelligent men on all sides find that the settlement of questions on which they formerly differed has cleared from obscurity many points on which they can agree abroad, liberty befriended without sacri- fice of peace alliances secured without loss of honour where war is inevitable, English vigour where victory is achieved, English mercy. In domestic policy, judicious economy, industrial development, and those practical reforms by which the elastic nature of free institutions accommodates itself to the progressive intelligence of a loyal people. For myself, I hold with one of the ablest statesmen of the last century, that there is no worthier attribute of a British Minister than a fearless confidence in the generous temper and goodness of his country- men." It is not always at its formation that the strength or weakness of a Government is clearly ascertained. Governments become strong in proportion to their suc- cess in establishing sympathy with public opinion and if I ask you to ratify by your suffrages the distinction which our Sovereign has been graciously pleased to confer upon me, it is with the conscientious belief that I join an Administration of which it is the earnest desire to prove that a Conservative policy is never more com- pletely realised than when employed in promoting, throughout all the dominions and among all the subjects of her Majesty, the contentment and prosperity which are the surest guarantees for the maintenance of law and the stability of order." The Liberals are said to be a majority in the county, and Sir Edward is to be opposed by Mr. Grosvenor, son of Lord Ebury, in the Liberal interest. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. — A special general meeting of the Great Western Railway Company is called for the 10th of June, to oonsider various bills pending in Parliament, one of which is A Bill for making a railway from the Kew station of the North and South Western Junction Railway to Richmond-bridge, with a branch from the said intended tilway to join the Great Western and Brentford Railway, in the parish of Isleworth." CARDINAL WISEMAN.—As some newspapers have given pr minent insertion to a report that his Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop is seriously indisposed, we are happy to be able to assure our readers that such a state- ment is a very great exaggeration. It could, indeed, be wished that his Eminence would consent for some time to forego much of the labour he encounters with too great readiness for his health, for the present state of it, we fear, requires not only the medical treatment which his Eminence submits to, but more repose than he allows himself. Those who were present at his Eminence's reception on Tuesday last will not require this contradiction of an exaggerated report; but such of his Eminence's friends as have any influence with him, would do well in entreating his Eminence to allow him- self a season of salutary abstention from labour in the interests of the English church.—Tablet. ATROCIOUS MURDER AND VIOLATION BY SEPOYS. The Madras Athen<eutn publishes, with great reluctance, the following case, which," it says, for atrocity and cruelty vies with the outrages recently perpetrated in the North-West—" Some time last year, in the month of February, a Sepoy of the 3oth Regiment Native In- fantry, at Hurryhur, was offended about some trivial matter with a young woman of loose character, named Jamahlee, who resided in the same cantonment, and re- solved on revenging himself. He found no difficulty in getting six of his comrades and a bheesty of his corps to join him in the contemplated outrage. Measures having been preconcerted, the above-named Sepoy and or.e of his comrades dogged the footsteps of Jamahlee one evening, when seeing their intended victim seated in a bazaar, they went up to her, and after greeting her cour- teously asked her in a casual way to come and partake of a glass of arrack with them. She unsuspectingly con- sented to their proposals, and accompanied them. They wended their way, talking quite cheerfully, out of the bazaar lines to the ball-firing plain, in doing which they happened to meet, as if accidentally, the remaining five Sepoys and the bheesty.' When they had got here, a bottle of arrack was brought, and while all seemed to partake of the intoxicating stuff, care was taken to make Jamahlee drunk. No sooner was this effect produced, than every one of these monsters ravished their poor victim, after which they carried her to a river close by, stripped her of all her clothes and jewels, lit a fire, and roasted her stomach downwards, pointed a bamboo stick and pierced her ear and other parts of her body with it, beat her with a rattan, and tortured her to death. Not satisfied with all this, they brought the corpse back, and threw it on the ball-firing plain in cantonment, in order, it appears, that 'all who passed by might spit upon it.' Two of those eight wretches have been sentenced to death, and the remaining six to transportation for life." THE JUDICIAL CHANGES.—Mr. Hugh Hill, Q.C., who succeeds to the judicial bench on the retirement of Sir J. T. Coleridge, was called to the bar in 1841, before which time he had practised with great success as a pleader for a considerable number of years. Mr. Hill's pleading connection early introduced him to business, and from the date of his call his practice was considera- ble, especially in mercantile cases. On the Northern Circuit he soon stepped into the first junior business, and was extensively retained in the City of London. In the year 1851, he was called within the bar, and latterly, in consequence of a failure in health, arising from over- pressure of business, he had given up answering cases, confining himself to practide in open court. Mr. Hill's age is sixty, or thereabouts. He has never taken an active part in politics, but is understood to be a strong Conservative. Sir J. T. Coleridge, the retiring judge, has been for more than 23 years on the bench, having succeeded Sir W. Taunton, one of the judges of the Court of Queen's Bench, on the 28th of January (Hilary Term), 1835. Mr. Justice Coleridge was educated at Oxford, and took his degree in Easter Term, 1812, when he was the only man of his year in the first class in classics in 1810 he obtained the prize for Latin verse, and in 1813 the two prizes for the Latin and English essays. Mr. Justice Coleridge, while at the bar, went the Western Circuit, and became a sergeant in 1832 three years before he was raised to ths bench. AN UNIVERSAL LINGUIST.—It appears that, in ad- dition to a large number of (more than thirty) minor dialects, Mezzofanti was acquainted in various degrees with seventy-two languages, popularly, if not scientifi- cally, regarded as distinct, almost the exact number which F. Bresciani ascribes to him; that of these he spoke with freedom, and with a purity of accent, of voca- bulary, and of idiom, rarely attained by foreigners, no fewer than thirty; that he was intimately acquainted with all the leading dialects of these and he spoke less frequently (or, rather, is not shown to have possessed the same mastery of) nine others, in all of which, however, his pronunciation, at least, is described as quite perfect; that he could (and occasionally did) converse in eleven other languages, but with what degree of accuracy it is difficult to say that he could at least initiate a conversa- tion, and exchange certain conversational forms in eight others; and that he bad studied the structure and the elementary vocabularies of fourteen others. As regards the languages included in the latter categories, it is quite possible that he may also have spoken in a certain way some at least among them. So far as I have learned there is no evidence that he actually did speak any of them; but with him there was little perceptible interval between knowledge of the elementary structure and vocabulary of a language, and the power of conversing in it.—Russell's Life of Cardinal Mezzofanti." DEATH OF CAPTAIN SIR W. PEEL, K.C.D.-Intelli- gence has been received of the death of Captain Sir Wil- liam Peel, of the Shannon, and Commander of the Naval Brigade serving in the Bengal Presidency. Captain Sir William Peel was third son of the late Sir Robert Peel, and was born on the 2nd of November, 1824. He en- tered the navy as midshipman on board the Princess Charlotte, Captain A. Fanshaw, flag of Admiral Sir Robt. Stopford, in April, 1838, and took part in the bombard- ment of St. Jean d'Acre from the Princess Charlotte he was removed to the Monarch, and afterwards to the Cambrian, Captain Chads, in which ship ho served in the China seas. In 1844 he passed his examination in such a brilliant manner, that he called forth the warm eulogiums of Sir Thomas Hastings and Sir Charles Na- pier, and was forthwith promoted to the rank of lieu- tenant. Sir William was promoted to the rank of com- mander June 27, 1846, and was appointed to the com- mand of the Daring, on the North American and West India stations. He held several minor commands the outbreak of the late war with Russia. Captain Peel was compelled, from wounds and over-exertion, to return to his native country before the fall of Sebaslopol, ua the commencement of the differences with China> in he was appointed to the command of the Shannon, 61, screw frigate, ordered on the China sta 10 P Peel had scarcely reached the Chinese waters before he was ordered by the Ambassador, the Earl of Elgin, with spare troops to Calcutta to afford assistance in the sup. predion of the mutiny of the Bengal army Smce the Shannon anchored in the Hooghly Sir William Peel's exertions with hi, brave crew, have been unremitting in carrying out the views of the Governor-General. He made, with his men, a most rapid progress to Allahabad and Cawnpore, and, as most of our readers are aware, was severely wounded at the capture of Lucknow, under Sir Colin Campbell. He is said to have died of smallpox. ARRIVAL OF GENERAL INGLIS.—On Saturdav, Major* General Sir John Eardley Wilmot Inglis, K.C.B. the gallant defender of Lucknow, accompanied by Colonel Lyddel. arrived at Dover by the Royal mail steam-packet Ondine, Captain Clark, and landed once more upon his native shore. The brave general stayed a short time at Birmingham's Lord Warden's Hotel, and then left by the eight o'clock train of the South Eastern Railway for Tonbridge Wells. Major-General Inglis, although bearing traces of the hardships he has been called upon to undergo, is looking well. From Tonbridge Wells Major-General Inglis proceeded to join Lady Inglis, who is in London. SUMMER CIRCUITS OF THE JUDGES.—On Thursday the judges of the Courts of Queen's Bi'nch, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, assembled in the Exchequer Chamber for the purpose of choosing and arranging the several circuits upon which they will respectively pro- ceed to hold the ensuing assize for England and Wales. The following are the arrangnments made:—Home Circuit—Jndges, Mr. Justice Wilkes and Mr. Baron Bramwell. Norfolk Circuit—Judges, Lord Chief Justice Campbell and Mr. Justice Wightman. Midland Circuit -Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and Mr. Justice Wil- liams. Northern Circuit-J udiros Lord Chief Baron Pollock and Mr. Baron Martin. 0 Western Circuit—Mr. Baron Watson and Mr. Baron Channell. Oxford Cir- cuit—Mr. Justice Coleridge and Mr. Justice Byles. North Wales Judge, Mr. Justice Crowder. South W ales-J udge, Mr. Justice Crompton. Mr. Justice Erie remains in town as vacation jud,e. MR. GLADSTONE IN THE CAMKET.—The Press, of Saturday, intimates that negotiations have been going on for some days as to the accession of Mr. Gladstone to the cabinet of Lord Derby, and adds—" Nor is there we believe, any solid difficulty in the way of a junction on the part of Mr. Gladstone with the present Government. Hence, during the present week, that gentleman has se- riously entertained the proposal. And if it were possible for him to isolate himself, and to have regard solely to his own views and feelings, we bilieve his accession to the cabinet of Lord Derby would not be delayed another day. But there are few men who have passed twenty years in public life without having found friendship and connections which cannot be left out of view when cir- cumstances like the present happen to occur. These con- nections, we believe, form the main obstacle to that acceptance of high office by Mr. Gladstone which has been hoped for during several days past. We fear that the hope iFs at least for the present, at an end. Other arrangements will therefore have to be made but the termination of the communications with Mr. Gladstone having only taken place within the last few hours, there has not been time for the completion of any other ar. rangement." The Press also says that Lord Lucan's motion for the settlement of the Jew question will not have the support of the Government. A GOLD COAST NEWSPAPER.—The Athenaeum says Englishmen sow the dragon teeth of type in every land to which they carry their energy and their genius, and in due season they Spl ing up armed giants. Here is a newspaper from the Gold Coast—a small paper, some- thing like the Mercuries of the Commonwealth, and called the West African Herald. It is < ot yet a giant, rather a mannikin, hut the infant Jove is already in rebellion, and he may in due time wield the thunderbolts -a Cape Coast Times curbing Accra and civilizing Ashantees with printers' ink. Success to our African brother!"

In calling the attention of our readers to the excellence of Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills, we cannnot forbear the plea- sure of stating that we fully agree with our contemporaries when they ask the cause of our public street being si clear of persons suffering from various diseases. We fully agree with them, it must be from the extraordinary virtues of Dr. Scott's Bilhus and Liver Pills. Indeed, if you wish to recover or preserve health of body, and an easy flow of cheerful spirits, evide icing agood digestion and quiet mind, you may accomplish that de- sirable object by taking an occasional dose of that celebrat ;d me- dicine they possess such cleansing and renovating properties that the action of the liver is speedily corrected, the stomach strengthened, the spirits revived, and the patient restored to perfect health.—" Morning Chronicle." Sold by all druggists and booksellers in boxes 131d. and 2s. 3d. Be particular and ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are in a square green package, with the name and arldre's W. Lambert, 20, Jermyn street, engraved on the government stamp. Coughs colds, asthma, shortness of breath, spitting of blood and all affections of the chest and lungs, effectually cured by Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. Persons who are subject to or suf- fering from bronchitis r any of the above complaints, should im- mediately take a few dos. s of this extraordinary medicine, which s a certain and efficacious remedy. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronornce incurable, and there is nooiher medicine known that is so certain and effectual. Extract of I letter from Mr. Stephen Dennett, High s re t Kensington:—"To Mr Lambert, 2 1, Jermyn-street, Havmarket, London.—Sir,—a have been afflicted nearly six years with asthma, and_ spitting of blood, and great difficulty of breathing; after expending- upwards of fifty pounds in medicine, without obtaining any relief, I was induced to try I.ambert's Asthmatic Balsam, and by its use, and attention to the prescribed regimen, aLl; totally abstaining from spirits and malt liquor, I am effectually cured. Feeling grateful for the same, I publish this statement in hopes that ot. e s so af- flicted may have recourse to your invaluable medicine,and thereby derive great benefit." Sold in bottl -sat 13jd., 2s. 3d. and 4s. 6d. and by all druggists and booksellers. DEAFNESS.—We hear, upon most credible authority, that Mr. James Rackham Operative Chemist, Norwich,— the Inventor of the celebrated Lint for the Cure of Plles- has discovered an unfailing remedy for all cases of Deaf- ness, except from actual malformation. This is truly a most important event. Socountontis the Proprietor of its efficacy, that he guarantees to send fresh supplies", if required, free of postage or any other extra charge what- ever. The price is ten shillings and sixpence, and under such conditions we should not hesitate applying imme- diately to bim.-Cd,p's Monthly Magazine.—Sent free for P.O. Order payable as above. [2201 KNOW THYSELF: The Original Graphiologist, Kate Russell, continues with immense success to give her interesting and useful delineations of character from an ex- amination of the handwriting, in a style of description peculiarly her own, and which cannot be imitated by the ignorant pretenders who profess to have a knowledge of the science. Persons desirous of knowing their true character, or that of any friend in whom they may be interested, must send a specimen of their writing, stating sex and age. or supposed age, with the fee of 14 penny postage stamps, to Miss Russell, C :stle House, Southampton- street, Mornington Crescent, London, and they will receive, in a day or two, a full and minute detail of the gifts, defects, talents, tastes, affections, &c., of the writer, with many other things hitherto unsuspected, calculated to guide them through l"e- letters are considered strictly confidential, and to pr mistakes, applicants are requested to enclose an envelope pro perly directed to themselves. The many thousands who h .ve thankfully acknowledged the value of advice given, and the ac- curacy of ^Iiss K.'s pourtraya.ls of ciiiiiactei, establish tli-3 truth and value of the science beyond a doubt. Extracts from Testi- monials From S. P. Many thanks for your truthful portrait if?,a-Irhis ?hara,cter is to° tl"'1-v as you so freely describe it. W. B. Your long letter, though very flattering, mv friends say is amazingly correct.' A. D. "Mamma says ihe character you gave me is very just, and not too good. Rev. H F, '-My taith in graphiology is confirmed; your success is extraordinary B. W. I am glad your opinion of her character coincides with my own." From the Press "By these means men about to engage in partnership, or to have important transactions any one, may know beforehand the character of the person wIth whom they will have to do; in like manner lovers may be made wise beforehand and those who have secret enemies may be warned, and enabled to prepare for the worst."—-Household Words. We see no more difficulty in graphiology than phre- nology, and we have little doubt that in innumerable instances the character is read with equal precisioii.Fanily Hcraul. [2267 T> UPTURES CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS. JLL) All sufferers from this complaint (especially those who have been deceived by the pretensions of empirics who have ad vertised their "so-called" r..rnedfes) are earnestly invited to communicate with Dr. Thomson, as he can confidently guarantee them relief in every case. His remedy has been extensively used for many years past with perfect success, and is now made known as a public duty, through the medium of the press. In every case of single or double Rupture in either sex, however bad or long standing, it is perfectly applicable, effecting a radical cure in a short time, without confinement or inconvenience, and it cannot fail to be appreciated as a blessing to thos.^ who have been for years, perhaps, obliged to wear galling trusses,or (.ther modes of support. Patients in any part of the Kiugdom can have the remedy sent to them, post free (packed so that no one can know the contents), with full and simple instructions for use, on receipt of 10s. in p istage stamps, or by post office order, payable at the General Post Office, to Dr. Ralph Thomson, I A Arlington street, Hampstead-road, London. Sufferers are informed that this remedy can be procured lit NO OTHER. WAY than by sending direct to Dr. T. for it: thus they are effectually protected against the possibility of imposition. The following Testimonials are selected from upwards of 2,700 in the possession of the Doctor, and are used with the full consent of their writers If anything is worth knowing, it is worthy of being extensively known, and I consider there can be no degrada- tion in your advertising your remedy, as you aim at the mitiga- tion of suffering, and the preservation of life, and your name and position ought to protect you from the shafts of envy and malice." J. Pereira, M.D., Professor of Medicine. "Your remedy quite cared the case I told you of." J.M., Esq., Surgeon, Edgeware- road. I find myself completely cured, and have means to prove the cure by lifting and running, whic happy to say, I can do without pain, or using any -wav' Many thanks for your reme»ljL; I have thrown ™our relne(iy glad enough to get rid of the torture orit G.H e ,on sjnce has cured my rupture, and I have usea »»»« tt A tjme jias without any sign of its reappearance.»,8S|ave been examined •lapsed since I used your remedy, mor.J ured/, p by our surgeon, who declares 1 am 1 d 80 f can play about without pa' n 5 remedy six week. ago.an^U ?« P' "8,inform been so comfortable for many vears. thanks to your treatment." Mis" E « n,,yr wri.te t0ute .,yr°fU ray aa«*ht,ir is perfectly cured bv vour remedy." Mrs. H. 'It is with the most pleasureable fee inga imaginable that I write to inform you 1 am quite cured of my rupture. >V. Jl. 1 have received a perfect cure from the reiuedyyou sent me; mine was an old rupture, and very bad indeed." H. X. Persons residing abroad must send a remittance sufficient to C0Vert^ZT„ J rar9e, l° lhem °f a Packaje weighL, rather more than two ounces. Unless this be done, no Foreign Orders can be executed. Patients in Ireland or Scotland will not have to send more than the cost of the remedy. [2267 UACKERY DEFEATED.—A Hospital Physi- cian, of 3) years* standing, who has had vast experience anu been successful in the treatment of thousands of eases of Nervous and General Debility, Loss of Memory, Failing Sight, bpilepsy, Consumption, Indigestion, Giddiness, Headache, and a long train of.similar diseases, will send gratuitously, post free, to anysuflerer, a copy of his Work, by the aid of which they may recover permanent health in an incredib'y short time, at a trifling expense, and without recourse to any of the so-called remedies of the day, which are entirely superseded by hi. discoveries. Ad- dress, enclosing two penny stamps (to prepay postage), to Dr. Thomson, I k Arlington-street Hampstead road, Londop. A few Extracts from bona-fide reviews :—"The dpctor desert?es all prail. for issuing IIUak a book, the utility of which is undeniable. -Christi. Timet. 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