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Multum IN PARVO. Tennyson, poet laureate, is oil a tout Da)>i ^°rthDevon. ^e past week 30 wrecks have been reported, 011 the present year a total of 1,852. of ^er »to have a testimonial "in ackrowledg- rp^icoi 18 8ervices to literature and religion." I Garibaldi is at present the guest of Mr. J ^otter, M.P. at Pitnacree, Perthshire. i^J&nf^ershas been appointed first chapel-master to Wurtemburg, in place of Earl Eckert, who 0|]{|^ned his post. ih ''»September the amende 1 Inland Revenue •» *erif • reduces the cotton tax from 3c. to 2 '4c. per Jj.. lQto effect throughout the United States. b]'Sha1?P0rt:ed that the Rev. Dr. Dawson, of Carrick- ^hon Jp°»n' bas been appointed the Roman Catholic -A-rdagh, iu the room of the late Dr. Kilduff. k°°^s ^?ve been serious injuries to property from brlrige t lar:iey- The Torc Bridge, the Dinis rustic 4*ay J a.n a p irt of the old weir bridge were swept or two ago. r^'bni^ LUcellor of the Exchequer has telegraphed to 0|)e JP^h> consenting to attend the banquet, proposed 'n his honour, and in celebration of the 'fthe Reform Bill. '°n has lVei"Poo} Albion hears that Mrs. Forbes Yelver- h livijln.re<?e^ltly inherited aconsi lerable fortune, a id taoCe~' w'h her husband on an estate in the south of Ijj vtllch she has purchased. Alexander, D.D., late Dean 'Slioriri'n t° ^as been nominated by (he Crown to the ar d Raphoe, will be CJIl-ecrate I Th ° lr,t^e course of the second week in October. Irelau.innnil)er of parliamentary titles registered in C,JUrt) i"n !er the Record of Title (Lan led Estates v-i i« nP to the 1st of August, 1867, w is 200. an ?8.4^ °f the estates held thereunder is £ o64,049 Th Of theatrical journals state that the Marquis tbea.t -rrford, on whose property stan 1s the little 'loivn mtaisies Parisiennes, is about to pull it ^Oni an^ build a larger house with a facade on the ^vards. ail 'arne Celeste, at the antipodes.has accomplished ion* benefits (pecuniary) she undertook her long l6 "C/for. She will leave Australia by mail steamer 46 t November aud arrive in Paris to join her family Itthe 14,h January, lSGS. 4sf ^^rseilles steamer Brazil, while leaving Ro 1- (i ej on Sunday, was run into and sunk by the English J/^e-master Dolphin. The steamer an 1 cargo will }» °l>abl y be lost. Twenty-five men were saved, but 6 fate of the others is unknown. \T^rom January 1 to August 21,1867, there arrived at "Nv York 103,050 immigrants from various European "Ports as compared with 103,051 to the same date last ^ar, s bowing a difference of but eight in the two years, *ttenuality that is quite remarkable. the Milwaukee iriscoiisin. says There is a gentle- j^ti going through bankrnptcy in this district, under j gi veering of Jude Prentiss, whose liabilities are jOOO do";Is., most of which are in judgments, his assets are reported at 200 dolls, in personal thing. can paper says that house flies may be ef- <J%^lly destroye by taking half n spoonful of pow- 6u3!a kp°pperonateaspoonfuli f brown svgir,and W^^noonfiil of cream, mix them well tog( ttier and "iem in a room where the flies are troublesome, j "ley will soon disappear. Co^es D cker, of Cussewago township, Crawford Ofi^y, Pa., is now in the one hundred and fifth year den.ls age. For nearly sixty years he has bee a resi- frW °f Cussewago. He is still quite hearty and able to 0j«tf aronn ? his farm, and occasionally ho walks two Iree miles to a neighbouring store. thA learned Parsi gentleman from Bombay, Mr. Jams- a(. 'j°e Pallonjee, has been engage 1 for some time on JT,ai s'atiou into the Guzerati language of the history J., ersia by the late Sir John Malcolm. The work J1'! be largely annotated, illustrate 1 by 20enrrav- an t a portrait of the leading European Zen 1 cholars. The speculators in the Agricultural Hall concerts balls, Islington, it is said, will have realised *•20,000 i-ofit at the end of this month. Jnllien came Jo grief after years of toil and anxiety an Mellon, ^the same nn h, to amuse the million with popular wpsic, dn-Migthe last sea-ou of his concerts lost uo- is of £ 4 u00.—Orchestra. °i)e* ^as,las' week state 1 that a student or assistant at (I corn°11 London hospitals had actually line I off a Vejtf, ,a.n the extraordinary case wa uu ler in- Vno Tbytheme lical a,1'boritiei. J he inquiry 0n f )jeW c °'e 1, atid the cannibal dis.nisse 1 in disgrace, affairnrf^"10 -Authority we learn that the disgusting "B' tr,1're Thomas's Hospital. the'r.k °f passage," says the Nord, "havebeorun migration southwards through Belgium a if g. /lierthis year than usual; alrea ly long lines itl tj,Jr ^ave taken flight; bustar Is have been kille 1 I' I-ei-,hl)oiirhooci of Parirs, and wil I ducks have su(,h numbers that theeyecaimot follow the L] 1 this, as is k'lown, presages a hard winter." Eiri auTtox. — Accor liug to the Registrar- tfij ral abstra'ts, 54,150 persons have lel't Ireland 20jO Jear up to the 31st. July, being a decrease of 9f)(; 0ri the number to the same date last year. The 'he ,enum';ier of emigrants sin ;e the perio at which 3lstef'n>eratio" cnnin0nce'—1-fMay, 1851—to the of July last, amounted to 1,784, 3-'S9 persons. | °ew group in bronze by Baron Marochefc! i, which e°n tilac'd in the garden of the Unite 1 Service ^'Kaerloo Place, is intendel to ooinmmnorai e jn -t he work is not approved by art crit ic?, to i'i<»Q "J r'»e writer in the Athena-iun, who, afternoint- defects, says The whole offends the i?l 'ts uasty, and thoroughly Brumma- 1 '^ok." P i- of vol. IT. of the ballads and romances of e1tk°n Percy's folio ma mscriot has be m issue 1 to the this week, wiih part II. of the loose all 1 ijj songs. The brilla Is in this seef ion are tlr rty ai1,|t,"1her, an the romances two, "The GreneKni'-rh '^ir i'riamore," the former being an alt e; e and 0|,e 1 copy of the ol !er romance, edited by Sir F. den an I Mr. Richard Mo ris. A ft ,on cireularstat.es that during the yearending tea » 1807, there were exportel 30,930,7001!). of' Sia, °in • 11 he ports of'China ail .T.inan to he (J ife 1 Diiri-ior 'he yearending May 3lst, 1W>6, the hjiy. pfs wero 31.547,4!)/d>. The exports of Japan teas H ecrease overamillion ponnls, while I hi* tea Sean" ^tothelj uited States haveincreas id three and a half million nounds. f3ri ,Tn/° l's "Ro-eo and Juliet," has been sriven fi0. v'' h success it is sai i) at Louvairi. Ttisri^ i- 'IUNVev'er' "'at the "la^t. representations" of s o^era at the Theatre Lyrique are annou.ced. olini, a French singer who has Italianise I tf.Vlam", has been engaged (the journals teli us) ror h.'p(? years at La Sea I a, Milan. There wer-i such ^hans singers as a David, a Donzelli, aRubini TheLabot/r Union, an orfjanof the eight; hour labour 'vOveinent of the working classes i the United States, P'aces the following ticket at the liea 1 of its co]..rnns: ijis published at the town of Grand Rapids, Mi. hi an: riP4igh' hour ticket, for 1868. (Subje r -o the le sio i thp „e0.de.) For President of lie IJ ,i ed -Sfit -<« of ^!11.erif.a, Nathaniel P. Hanks. For Presi lent.,f t he p "ted States of England, Ireland, aud Scotland, John n!5]It. A ktter from (3onstantine (Algeria) reports a sad oc- Lieut. Not homb, of the 3rd African Chas- ri'iin^on! when the horse fook fright and to8he j oiFat. «rre.it.snoe ). The rider ewrto hinself abiaV01 tlie Prls"'0,|rr,s 011 the promenade, but was mi- mi' nl,,10"Kh a capital horseman, to pull in the ani- a! ■ leng'h the horse Hi umbled forwnrd, a id the l0f>r was t h own lieavily on his hea 1. He never re- evere con'-cioiisness, and, iu spite of every attention, le the following morning. AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES.—The Melbourne Argus .7 tates that the marriage of two aborigines was cele- rato 1 on the 10th July with consi lerable ceremony at Je misson station, Ramahyuck, Gipps Land, in the Pfesenee of a large number of spectators. In Tasmania aborigines have eome to their last man, William ^aniiey, "a bluffyoung gentdeman of 26 or 27 but here are three aboriginal women living, none of hem Young. L mney ombarke 1 for England in the Ethel, nud h". e t,) be received by the Queen. The British Medical Journal says The Pri"cess of ''ales has ha 1 no fresh illness whatever no relapse of 41, kind; nothing to give cause to even the slightest 'deling of anxiety. In a.1 iitiontothe exercise which Rhe is able to take in a on rriage and Bath chair, over ground, however rough,she is able to walk in her room, tj with the help of a crutch, to bear slightly upon the affected joint, which is moveable. Thus even tho fiinor misfortune of a fixe joint, which seeme 1 almost Inevitable, is likely to be averted, aud an almost un- hoped-forsuccess will be attained." The only MS. of our early Romance of William and the \V envolf is tin for tn na; ely i neon inlet e in wo places but in t lie Arsenal ol "ris tho French Original is preserved, and M. II. iclielant, of the -Manuscript Department of the Imperial Library has kindly furni«he 1 to tho Early English Ten Society a copy of the parts of f lie French MS. romanco corres- Ponditig to the missing portions of the English transla- tion, Boaatooontpletotbeatory for the society's new edition in their extra series this year, which is now in *^toacataaB.fortesmes^toJ^'SkaajU.- The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, in describing an execution, says that, after the singing and praying, the hatchet of Sam Alexamder wafted the soul of the unfortunate man to eternity." Trouting appears to be particularly good on the Perthshire streams and lochs this season. A local paper states that at Lochearnhead, theother day, Mr. Plumb, an American gentleman, and three companions killed 900 trout in ten hours. Fowls CruiSED.—A method of malcing use of fowls, recently devised in France, is said to be of great agri- cultural value. An old omnibus is fitted up with nest- boxes and perches, and it is proposed that such a ma- chiue should be kept on every farm well filleri with fowls, and should be transferred every day to the spot where the most active farming operations are being carried on. The fowls would then follow the plough and harrow, clear the land thoroughly of fly and worm, pick up all the stray grain after harvest, keep them- selves highinhealth, and feed themselveslwi thout cost. A SINGULAR OFFENCE.—The .1 lonitewr publishes se- veral sentences pronounced against young sol liers of the class of 1866 for attempting to ren ler themselves unfit for service. After undergoing a term of imprison- ment the culprits will, according to the regulations in force, be sent to the second company of disciplinary pioneers. In one case, the father of the young man, an agriculturist atSeyrie, in the Lot, and in another the father and brother, lucifermatch makers at Chauf- four (Correve), werefound guilty of complicity in the offence, and sentenced, tbeformertoanneofoOfr., and the two latter, to six and two months imprisonment, anl the wholethree, jointly and severally, to the costs. A MURDER BEFORE A MAGISTRATE.-The New York papers have the following, dated Memphis, Tennessee, Sept. 2 A terrible affair occurred at Marion, Arkansas, onFri 'ay. A man named Bradley, an overseeron Mr. Keyes's plantation, ordered a negro to do some work, and the negro peremptorily refused, when Bradley at- temntel to chastise him. The negro resisted, and others inteifered, and Bradley drew a pistol an 1 fired, killing a negress. The negroes became infuriated, an 1 Bra Uey fled, not knowing he had killed the woman. At his instance, two of the negroes concerned in the attack on him were arrested, and on Satur lay were brought before the Magistrate Marcena. During the trial, one negro called Bradley a liar several times, when he struck the negro. A party of negroes then set u ion him, and Bradley drew a pistol and fired on them, kil- ling two personi. He then turned and fled, and has not been heard of since. SHOCKING MURDER AT MILAN.-An atrocious crime has been perpetrated at Milan. Count Tullo d'Arra- gona, formerly vice-consul of Spain at Turin, hi) e- eilerl on sending away his coachman, one Mazelli, 30 years of age, and he appointed a time when the latter should give up the keys of ihestables and the property under his care to his successor. Count Tullo was pre- sent at this proceeding, which took place in a proper and an orderly manner. At the end, Mazelli, turning towards his formermaster, presented the keys, sayinc, Here is one, here another, and here the last," and at the same moment stabbed the Count in the ab lomen with such force that the entrails of the unfortunate gentleman protruded, and the very moment after the wounded man fell dead. The act was so sudden that those present did not at first perceive what had ha"- pene I, and the murderer was able to leave the court- yard, and made an attempt to cut his own throat, i he Eorter of the house, thinking him insane, laid forcible old of him, put him in a cab, and had him conveyed home. Mazelli was shortly after arrested, and it was found that he had inflicted only a slight wound on his throat. Count i ullo, who was only twenty-seven, and but a few months married, was much beloved by all who knew him. VALUABLE CATTLE FROM AMERICA.—An enterprising American has imported into this country two thorough hied bulls and eight thoroughbred heifers, yearlings. They were conveyed across the Atlant icfrom New York t.o Liverpool, but, on account of the law respectingtho rinderpest, the animals were transhipped on board a sterner and conveyed to Soul hainpton, which is the or.ly cattle quarantine port in EnglaiH. The beasts were lauded at Southampton docks last week, and are phice t in a shod on the south quay of the closed dock the key of the she! being in the exclusive custody of the custom house authorities. A farming man has bre i 9 ipan engaged from Essextoattend on aud feed the animals. 700 uuineas have been offered for one of the bulls, but the lowest selling price is 1,000 guineas; 800 guineas is the reserved price for one of the heifers. Twelve years ago. the paternal a ncestor of these animals was shippe 1 at Southampton for America, having been purchased f it'l,000giiiueas by an Americauforbree lingpurposes. The beasts in the Southampton Docks belong to the sigh'h generation from the patriarch above alluded to. They are very beautiful looking creatures They came from a "JOllstpr farm in the United States. They are of the Durham breed, and are descendants from Lord Ducie's stock. A SINGULAR MARRIAGE MISADVENTURE.—About a month ago, a young Ge -raan, wishful to lea to the lit ar a fair one of his choice at Middlesborc ugh, went to a well known literary institution, un ler the impres- sion that the clerk of one of the churches lived there, with a view of making the preliminary arrangements in connection with the marriage ceremony. The good lal > who answered the door received the commands of the suitor, which were given with a ratlie puzzling Teutonic accjnt. The youngGerman, doubl es nervous on the near approach of the happy event, hesitatingly sai 1 he wished to "put two name, in." Thinking that he wishe ) to propose two persons as members of the in- stitute, the person he addressel innocently tolrI him lie woni have ls61 each to pay, and that they would be proposed at the next committee meeting." The con piexry of the case was not lessened by the German i eu.ry, if it (i.e., the announcement of marriage) w uld bo (n the Sunday." Said the lady interrogated, with a sort of deprecation of his imniety. "Oh no! theinstitution is i.otopenon a Sunday." The inquirer: after marriage was then a-ke to write his name for prop, sal, an I he did so, a 1 ling of course, the lIame of his fair inamorata. For one month the names were up in the proposal board of the institute. One morning last « eek the Germ m and his affianced, thinkiug all was right, duly presented themselves to theparsoli to bemaieouefl sh. Of course the priest was greatly astonished at receiving so su nmary a summons to per- form the ceremony, and had to inquire into the cir- cumstances before the event could bo celebrated. Guess the horror of the young couple on heal ing what a me3S they had been let into. Of coursethere was nothing for it but to postpone the marriage. The mistake arosethrough the German's bad English, and in con. sequence of a clerk of the church having formerly live at he institute.—yo)- Herald. AN AMERICAN CLAIM TO THE TOWN OF HULL.—The New 1 Olk Evening Post says :—There are three differ- ent sets of American claimants to property in England. First, the Ingraham family claim the ownershi of the town of Leeds. Second, the Jenningsfamity want 1 property situated in eleven counties in England, an I money deposited by an 011 miser in all the ol I banks in London. Ihird, the Newtons are anxious to prove their right to the town of Hull, On the Hull question a correspondent writes us as follows: Among the many American claimants to property in England, there seems to be none more decidedly on the roa ) to success and good fortune than the heirs of William Newton, born in the town of Hull, England, but who emigrated to America and settle; 1 iu Stafford County, in the State of Virginia. Iu his last will and testa- ment, dated June 16th, J784, he devises uuto my eld- est son, John Newton, all my right and title to ati ej- tate that I have in Yorkshire, in Great Britain, at the town of Hull, on the Humber river, and my farm at a county village, Campbell's Forth, to him aud his heirs and assigns lor ever,' The most important question that might involve a doubt of the validity of the claims of the Newton heirs, namely, that of identity, can be most unquestionably settled, and the title being also incontestible, there appears more than a pr.jba- bility that the claim will be adj ndieated to their bene- fit, and without involving a complication of contin- gencies, as in the famous Jennings estate, or of tech. a, in the Ingraham claim upon property in the town of Leeds. That portion of Hull (hat must fall under litigation was at one time called I -Newton's Old Fie.ds.' i he eldest Newton emigrating to America, .set- tle in Stafford county, Virginia, devote himself there to the rearing of his family and fortune, and consider- ing his title to his English estates unquestionable, gave them comparatively trifling attention. The Cor. poration of the city of Hull extending its limits, 'Newton's Old Fields' were included and built upon. They are now covered with from half to two-thirds of the city, and that being the portion devoted to busi- uess pur| oses. It is at this time a large and wealthy manufacturing town, and the immense interest in. volved in this claim can be easily perceived. Moans have already bl en employed to substantiate it, and, if successful—of which, from the jiteie evidence, there appears little cause for doubt-the heirs of Wru. Newton will be among the wealthiest, if not the weat- ln America. 1 he direct descendants of William Newton are most generally residents of Vii ■ ginia, but some of the collateral branches of the family are lesidents of this city; at any rate, there is suffi- cient in this claim upon Hull, if successful, for many generations to keep the wolf from the door. Wheu we consider the many failures to establish rights topro- perty inherent from our ancestors in old England, Ï1: this case the sympathies and well wishes of all Ameri. cans must flow out to the Newton family. The late Commodore John Newton, of the United States navy, Orlando Newton, of Delaware, and their sister, Mrs. Jane E. Woolsey, of this city, and Mrs. Mary Adams, of Norwich Conn.; also, Mr. W. W. Harper, connec- ted with the house of Messrs. E. S. J atfray and Co of this city, are the graudchildren of the sai John New- ton, and are the only heire north of Virginia to this property,' Lord Monck will continue in his post of Viceroy of Canada for another year at least. A singular charge of attempt to murder was tnves" tigated at the Hammersmith Police Court, on Friday. The goods of a woman named Wager were distrained for rent. On the bailiff asking what were the contents of a tin canister, she exclaimed, "I will soon show you," and striking alucifer, applied the flame to the lid. The canister contained gunpowder, but no ex- plosion took place, although it was shown that the lid fitted badly.—Mrs. Wager was committed for trial, and bail was refused. THE PAN-ANGLICAN SYNOD.—The following English bishops decline, for various reasons, to attend the con- ference at Lambeth which the Archbishop of Canter- bury has summoned The Archbishop of York, the Bishops of Durham, Bath and Wells, Carlisle, Exeter, Hereford, Maiiehestpr, Peterborough, Ripon, and Sodor and Man. Of the Irish bishops the following are ab- sent from the list: Ossory, Killaloe, Cork, and Derry (designate). Only one bishop of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, Dr. Terrot, Bishop of Edinburgh (on ac- count of great age), is absent from the list. ATTEMPT TO MURDER A SEAMAN.—On Saturday night, a case of attempt to murder took place at NorthShields. A young American seaman, named Daniel Raredou, was standing near the New Quay, when an Irish sea- man, named John Kelley, cameup, and began to apply opprobrious terms to him. Baredon made an attempt to get away, when Kelley drew a large sheath knife, and plunged it into the side of Raredon, thrusting it up to the haft, and actunllyturniugit round. Hethen drew it ont,and attempted to cut the throat of Raredon, but he failed in this. He, however, succeeded in inflict- ing a severe gash from the ear to the end of the chin. Kelley was taken into custody. We (Solicitor's Journal) believe that immediately on the commencement of term an application will be made to one of the common law courts for a prohibi- tion to restrain Drs. Twiss and Robertson from acting as the delegates of Sir Robert Phillimore, as Dean of the Arches, in the case promoted by Martin y. the Rev. A. H. Mackonochie, relating to the ritualistic practices at St. Alban's. We understand that no case can be found in which the judge of the Arches Court has delegated his jurisdiction to hear and determine causes to a surrogate, and the ground of the applica- tion to the Court of Common Law will no doubt be that it is not competent for the Dean of the Arches to trans- for his judicial functions to others. A tragical death occurred on the Llanberris side of Snowdon the other day. Dr. Jones, of Carnarvon, aged 32, hired a car at Carnavon, and drove towards Llan- beris. Having turned to an inn and partaken of some refreshment, he declined the assistance of a friend,and started, it being then very dark,towards Shop-y-Char- we], where a young lady to whom he was shortly to be married resides. The night was very stormy, thun- der and lightning, succede I by heavy rain, prevailed. In reaching Shori-y-Charwell he had to pass above the Charwell quarry) itself, and in all probability he fell in. His body was not found for six days. Last Mon- day as some workmen were passing they found a corpse which was at once recognised as that of Dr. Jones, who was missing. It was greatly bruised an:1 distorted,aud < here is no doubt that he had fallen over the cliffs and r ille 1 into the quarry. An inquest has been held on the body, and the Jury returned a verdict of acciden- tal death. DEATH FROM CHLOROFORM.—On Saturday, an inquest was held at Liverpool, on the body of Edward Eves, a boy 15 years of age, whose parents reside in Leslie- street, Toxteth Park, Liverpool. About two years ago the deceased fell into the hoi 1 of a ship, by which his skull and right knee joint were fractured. After re- Tii-iinitig in the Southern Hospital about five months, be was discharged, the fracture of the skull having closed an 1 healed up, whilst he had so far recovered from the fracture of the knee joint as to be able to walk wit'i a woo lerHeg. He had been told by an eminent me li(-al man of the town that the leg cou 11 be straight- ene 1 if he would undergo a certain operation. For this purpose ho entered the Southern Hospital a second time, having been told that unless he freely consented the operation would not be performed. It took place on Wednesday,in the presence of several medical gen- t'e vien, Mr. Nottingham being the operator, and the chloroform being administered by Mr. Trubshaw, the juniorh 'use surgeon. Everything went on favourably for a time, but when the operation was completed t he rnls" of the patient suddenly ceased to beat. Artifi- cial res irat ion was maintained for about an hour, and every effort was made to restore the poor boy,but with- out avail. The me licalevi lence went to show that all possible care was taken in the administration of the chloroform, an 1 the jury returue 1 a verli 't to the ef- fect that the lad died from. misadventure from the ad- ministration of chloroform during an operation. SHIPPING DISASTERS IN THE CHANNEL. — From re- TO..ts t,o hart 1, the weather during the past week has been fearful in the Channel, causing numerons disas- ters. The steamer Isis, which sailed from Liverpool on Wednesday for Alexandria, was force 1 to seek re- fuge in Holyhead harbour, having, when off the Smalls, encounterel a terrific gale, which she was unable to face, and was compelled to nut about and make for Holyhead. One of the seas fell with great force on the deck. One man, named Jameisott, was washed over- board, an 1 five others were severely injured. The ship Thnn 'erbo1!, which left the Mersey on Sunday for flair burg, h is been compelled to put into Queenstown, I aving sustained damage in the same gale, breaking her rudder chains. The Enoch Bremner, an American ship, hence for n..sfon, is believe 1 to havefoun lered, as a quantity of w"e ,kage and a case of machinery, with the papers of the ship, have been picked up off Cape Clear. Shesailel on the 22nd of August. The fine iron c'ipper ship Belpore, of Liverpool, bound hence to Calcutta, a I alsotopat abou' in consequence of thr se .-eie weat her she encou ntered in the Channel, andreturnettoport. After altering her stowage she will procee] t.) sea. The ship Champion, for Quebec, I utback to the Clyde on Friday morning, after losing her miz< nmast, aud the ship Rouachan, belonging to Messrs.R mkin, Gilmour, and Co., of Liverpool, which left the Clyde on the 7th of August last, was driven back to the Channel, and had to put into Ramsey Bay on Friday, with Plain an 1 mizen mast carried away.- Li v e?'pof)! Mercury. THE WRECK OF A YACHT NEAR DONAOHA WEE.—A pain- ful yacht accident occurre ) otTBallywalter, nearDon- aghadee, on the 12t.h. The yacht of Cantain William Laurence Knowle?, M' d Regiment, the Java, contain- ing, with the crew, his wife, her child, and her maid, struck on Skull Martin, and sank immediately. The crew ma iged to reach the shore, but Cap. Knowles, wife, chil l, and servant perished. The yacht was on its way from G reenock to Kingstown when the catastrophe occurred. The body of Mrs. Knowles alone has been f >nnd. It is expected an investigation into the circum- stancps connectel with the sad accident will beheld, as it is felt to be a matter of wonder how the crew could be saved i,,Iiile all fl,e rest perished. A Dublin paper says "The crew took to the rigging, and tried toinduce Captain Knowles to get up with them, but he could not be persuaded to le ive his wife. A life belt was put on her, and heremai ed beside her, arid near tho mast lash- ed to the halyarda, for two hours. At the end of that time he disappeared, but Mrs. Knowles kept up until near dayIi"lit, when she, too, sank. Theservant, dropped from one of the masts about the same time, but how or who- the child was lost no one can tell. About five o' ock a.m. on Thursday the wreck was observed from Rodding station, immediately opposite, by the coast- guards, who, in the most praiseworthy and prompt manner, at once set out in an open boat, an 1 rescue t the crew, who were in a very exhausted state, but soon recovered un ler thekin ) treatment, of the inhabitants, who were aided in the most generous manner b; Mrs, Mulholland and family, of Soriugvale. The coxswain and crew of the Admiral Meynell lifeboat, greatly re- gret that no sign of distress was given, otherwise all might have been saved. MELANCHOLY RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Friday night an accident of a melancholy and somewhat mysterious character ooenrre 1 on t he Lancaster an ) Carlisle Rail- way, near South vaite Station. Mr. Joseph Lancaster, a drar er at Carlisle, had been out partridge shooting on Broad field, about ten miles from Carlisle, accom^ panied by two setter dogs. The last time he was seen alive he was approaching Southwaite Station, across some fields, at about half-past seven o'clock. Ateight minutes past eight the driver of the train from Penrith to Carlisle told the porter at Southwaite, on his arrival at that station, that he though' he ha run over a log a few yar !s to the south of the station, au ) that a man was lying upon the side of the rails, lhe porter repair- e to the spot, and there he found Mr. Lancaster lying "I I dead, his skul I fractured. One of the doss was lying between the rails, kiltc ) and mutilated, at a short dis- tance fromtlre.'eeeas<(l; the other dog was keeping watch over the spot, and could only with great diffi- culty be rfmoved. [t appears that at about half-nast seven o'clock an engine and tender returning from Car- lisle to Penrith passe the place where the deceased was found, travelling ten ler first; and an examination of the tender wheels showed traces of dog's hair. Seve- ral theories have "pell snggeste I as to the manner in which the accident occurred. One was that Mr. Lan- caster had stnmble I over the wire of the signal and fallen in front of the train. A not her was that, ill en- deavouring to get his dog off t he line, he had advanced tu the rails, br-ing deceive as to the actual proximity of the engine and tender by the circumstance of the engine running behin the tender.—At the inquest, held at Sonthw.iite on Saturday afternoon,Mr. Carrick, the coroner, toll the Jury that the evidence was so scanty that the actual circumstance of the case must remain for ever shroudelin mystery.—The Jury re- turned a verdict of acci leutal do ith, but couple with it a recommendation to the Railway Company not to allow engines and tenders to travel in the order follow- edoa this ogoasiou. The great Thwaytes will case (according to the Law Times) is going to the House of Lords. It is rumoured, says the Pall Mall Gazette, that the Queen will confer the honour of knighthood on some of the leading colonists, in connection with the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh to Australia. The Dublin Express reports an example of intoler- ance which illustrates one of the phases of the Irish difficulty. A Roman Catholic priest near Moate, in the county of Westmeath, having accidentally ascertained that a servant who formerly belonged to his commu- nion had been led too change her religious belief from reading a tract, given to her by Mrs. Wakefield, her mistress, wrote an indignant letter, which called forth a reply from Mr. Wakefield. In consequence of this, the rev. gentleman assembled the congregations of three neighbouring parishes last Sunday, and after enlarging on the dangers of proselytism, advised that none of his hearers should work for Mr. Wakefield. The result was that that gentleman was left without hands to do his harvest work next morning. Several other speakers at the meeting gave similar advice. THE FRUITS OF AN UNSUITABLE MATCH.—An oyster- man, named Thomas Linnane, aged 84 years, and who, about three months ago, caused a sensation in the lo- cality of Limerick, where he resided, by getting mar- ried, a short time after the death of his first wife, to a mere girl, named M'Donnell, aged only 17 years, has put an end to his existence by drowning himself in the river near Wellesley Bridge. It appears that the fe- male married him by the advice of her relatives, under the impression that he had money, as he was exceed- ingly miserable and had been a strict teetotaller for 25 years. Before a week elapsed after the celebration of the nuptials, the youthfnl bride, finding there was no gold in store," became fidgety, and quarrelling ensue 1. fn order to obtain peaceand ease the old man betook I himself to the workhouse, where he remained until the 1st instant, when the oyster season opened, and he came to town again to carry on his vocation. He lived with his wife, but on very bad terms, and one day he said he would put an end to his existence by some means or other—that he would cut his throat, hang, or drown himself. He remaiued out ofbed one night, and j at two o'clock next morning went out without his coat. At six his body was found in the river. A letter in the Pall Mall, from "A Lady of a Certain Age," describes a new dodge for getting timid women to buy "specifics." The lady went, according to her' own account, to a fashionable hairdresser'sat a fashion- able watering place. While her hair was being combed or cut, the young man in attendance started, asked her if .she was aware her hair would be quite grey in three months, applied a magnifying glass and assured her again that such would be inevitably the result; but, he added kindly, that an immediate application of one of his specifics—specific No. 2—would arrest and prevent this disaster, specific No. 2 costing from 7s. 61. i to a guinea a bottle. While she was still there a very younglady came in. A still taller and more digni- fie 1 person" was appointed to operate upon her hair, and she was threatened with sneedy baldness if she old not apply specific No. 1, pricea guinea. In another fashionable hairdresser's shop of the same town to which, after this experience, our heroine went from; curiosity, she and a friend were threatened with pre-' cisely similar results; magnifying glasses being as be- i foreanpliedtotheirhair. The lady adds that these hair Iressers' attendants get a fourth of the priceof. whatever cosmetics of the kind they sell. PROBABLE RETIREMENT OF EARL DERBY.—The Lon- don correspondent of the Scotsman says The f re- j quent recurrence of the premier's attacks of gout strengthens his determination to withdraw from official life. Itwas said to be Lord Derby's intention to place his resignation in the hands of the Queen as soon as the English Reform Bill became law. His colleagues bave, however, pressed upon him the importance of giving his present cabinet and his party the prestige of his name aud the benefit of his counsel until the! bills for Scotland and Ireland are passed; and it is un- derstuod that the noble earl has given a reluctant con- sent. When, however, the reform question has been setttedforthe three kingdoms, Lor I Derby will cou-1 suit alike his tastes and his health, which is very pre- j carious, by retiring from the premiership. His ner- vous system is, I hear, very much shatterel, and his digestion is greatly impaired. The probabilities are, therefore, somewhat against Lor 1 Derby meeting par- liament, again as first Lord of the Treasury, an 1 remain- ing,ill office until the Scotch and Irish bills are passed. Whenever the moment comes for Lord Derby's with- drawal from the premiership, there are but two names which can be snbmitte 1 to Her Majesty—those of L)r,l Stanley and Mr. Disraeli. If the Queen's choice fell upon Lord Stanley, he would be called to the Upper House during his father's life-time, and would beat the head of the government in the Lords, Mr. Disraeli continuing to lea I the party in the Lower House. Lord Stanley is an eminently safe and judicious minister, and he would be a more acceptable premier than any other member of the present cabinet. But the ques- tion remains, whether Mr. Disraeli would consent to serve under a politician so much hisjunior, and give up the grandest prize of an Englishman's ambitiou. I donbt, indeed, whether the offer would ever be made to Lord Stanley to succeed his father in the premier- ship, or to Mr. Disraeli to fill a subordinate position in his Cahinet. So far as I can now learn, Mr. Disraeli's claims to be the next Conservative premier are pretty generally, although somewhat grudgingly, acknow- lodged by his party. If I am not misinformed, Lord D -rby himself regards Mr. Disraeii as his lawful suc- cessor to the premiership, and is probably at this very moment continuing to hold office solely at the eu- treaty of his Chancellor of the Exchequer, who knows how much better he fights the battle of reform under the aogis of such a leader. OURSERVICK GENERALS.—The recent death of Lieut- enant-Geueral Young reminds us of the extraordinary stagnation of promotion which has existed in the tinner ranks of the army for the last fifteen months. From the 1st of July to the 31st of December, 1866, but one death on the fixe 1 establishment of cavalry, guards, and line took place—that of Sir C. Warren, and of course there was only one promotion from among the colonels of the army. In January and February of this year there werefour steps, an 1 in March one. Since then no death has taken place, and there would have been no move upwards but for the retirement of Major-General Arthur Shirley, which made Colonel Armstrong a General. It would almost seem as if the fixe 1 establishments has become permanently fixed; and it is clear that if the flow of promotion is to be kept at the point which is desirable, something must be done eit her oy increasing the number of general officers or by instituting somesystom of retirement which will make room for the young men. The calculation of the Royal Commissioners of 1858was that 23 deaths took place annually on an establishment of 260 general officers. Wennd that for the last five years the vacan- cies on an establishment of 272 wereinlS62 (exclusive of four steps given in consequence of the Prince of Wales attaining his majority) 15; in 186314; in 18C4 19; in 1865 12; aud in 1866, 13; giving an average of not quite la annually. It is clear that there was some- thing wrong in the calculations and t hat the error must be remedied if we areto have a fair sprinkling of general otlicet's physically fit for the requirements of a service like ours. W e haveheard the Duke of Cambridge blamed for his selection for commands, and to appearance not without reason. But the censure must be fairly quali- fied if we reflect upon the state of the General's List, and see really how restricted is the area of choice. We may take it as a general rule that few men are fit for active work over the age of 65; and if the Duke fol lowed that idea, and confined himself to the collection for commands an other high posts to men under 60 years of age, or say 42 years' service, he would Dot have a large number to pick and choose from. As far as we can make out, the general officers (cavalry, guards and line) who are under 42 years' service, or we may say, under 60 years of age, arc 82 in number, of whom 44 are or very lately have been in employment. Ifitwereuot unbecoming to go into private matters, it would not be difficult to re !uce even this small area of choice still more. There are some whose state of health forbids their employment; some who do not desire being on the Stail; one, at least, who, after a career of home ser- vice of the most agreeable kind, having been offered a command, refused it becauseof theclimate, and is cou- sequeutly most, properly struck of fthe list. Solongas we act upon our present plan the shifting about of offi- cers and the employment of men not of the first class as regards qualifications is not so easily avoidable as it al- ways seems upon paper. There is one way of getting out of the difficulty. There is an abundance of unemployed colonels, men mainly in the prime of life; and with re- cent. experience of all kinds of soldiering. The warrant of 1854 allowe 1 of their employment in any rank, and there is no official or formal reason why acolonel should not be a commander-in-chief in Iniia. There is the obstacle, not more fatal generally, of prejudice, which it reqnires a bold and determined will to overcome, but before we can overcome it something must be done for the old generals. The country must give them rewards in lieu of the employment which is now more in the light of a reward conferred for long past services than an arrangement for the public interest. Men are ap- pointed because they have to be provided for, not be- cause they are fit for work. If the puidic would allow them to be provided for in another way — = ay by giving colonelcies to the new battalions at a ro iuoed rate of £800 a year-it would bo really economical in the end, for then the authorities would be armed with a good practical answer to men unfitted for active work. We have not grudged expenditure lately to fill the ranks of the army. Some £ 10,000 a year or so judiciously lai 1 out at the top would reproduce itself in a very little time, always provided that the theory were acted upon by the Horse Guards that when an officer gets a regi- ment the State and he are quits as regards rewards, and that employment is to be given for fitness, and not for even brilliaucy of aervioQ. Artnli. ana mwyGaxtiU i-woyarmg gins were oatnmg in the UaKe orTjeneva near Lausanne, a few days since, when one of them suddenly lost her footing and began screaming. On hearing her cries two female servants in atteu lanoe one a Russian, aged 45, and the other an Irish girl of 23 -rushed into the water to save her, but unfortuna- tely both perished. Half a minute after a man who had heard the screams arrived, and, seeing the girl's head, plunged into the water, dived, and had the good fortune to rescue her. The bodies of the two women were recovered shortly after, but all attempts to res- tore animation proved fruitless. DEATH OF AN AMERICAN SCHOLAR.—Jeremiah Day, D.D., LL.D., ex-President of Yale College, die I at his home in New Haven last week, in the ninety-fourth his age.^ For morethan half a century he was, with but slight intervals, connected with Yale, a3 stu- dent, tutor, mathematical professor, and president, in which latter capacity he di I the college distinguishe 1 service, as Dr. Dwight's successor, from 1817tolS46, when ill-health forced him to abandon active duty. Until within a very few years his face in the college chapel was a familiar one to the students, who, despite theirsiucereabhorrenceof his mathematicaltext-books, regarded the venerable scholar with unaffected rever- ence and.esteem.-New York Round Table. THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN AND THE OITLEANIST PRIN- CES.—The Memorial Diplomatique has the following:— The announcement of the publication of documents sent by the Emperor Maximilian to the Duke d'Aumale is persisted in by certain portions of the press. The Gazette de France even pretends that the object of the visit which the King of the Belgians recently made to England was to obtain the intervention of Queen Vic- toria to dissuade the Duke from publishing the papers concerning Mexico, said to be in his hands. We aro authorised to declare, in the most peremptory manner, that the Emperor Maximilian has not confided to any mem er of the Orleans family papers relating to his acce sion to the throne, aud, consequently, that he hai not charged any of those Princes to make them pub- lic. The correspondence of the Emperor Maximilian with the Orleans Princes was confined to offering his condolences and those of Empress Charlotte, on the oc- casion of the death of QueenMarie Amelie, their august mother. anisrau.dcaQther aLtks Emcress of Mexico." MR. EDWIN JAMES.—It has been recently rumourei that Mr. Edwin James, who some years since quitte 1 England, and was admitted a member of the New York bar, had become a waiter in a coffee-house. We have no special authorityto contradict this rumour,but we think that for the honour of the bar throughout the world we should state that there is every reason to suppose that Mr. James has continued a member, and by no means an idle member, of the New York bar from the time of his election. We found our belief upon an advertisement which regularly appears in the New York papers,bearingthe conspicuous heading, "Edwin James on the Bankrupt Law." The advertisement before us refers to a new e lition of this work, and Mr. James is mentioned as "Edwin James, of the New York bar, and one of the framers of the recent English Bank- ruptcy Amendment Act." There are many, both in the profession and among the public who will be glad to hear that the brilliant but frail advocate, whose star suddenly set in dishonour and disgrace, is not so mis- erably degraded as rumour represented.-Law Times. OUTRAGES BY FRENCH CABMEN.—Two gross outrages by cabmen were committed inParis the other evening. A gilder, residing in the Rue Godot-de-Mauroy, hailed a driver, about half-past nine o'clock, on the Place de la Ma leleine,an 1 the man approached with his vehicle as if about"to takeup thepassenge: but when within reach struck him a violent blow across the face with his whip, and then galloped off in tho direction of the RueRoyale. In the Fauborg St. Honore he knocked down and ranovera man, aud further, in the Avenue Gabrielle, came violently in collision with a private carriage, damaging both vehicles considerably. The police, who had been following in pursuit, were now able to come up and detain the man, but while they were examining his license he started off, abandoning his papers and cab, and suceeded in escaping. The second case occurred about an hour later. Two men residing at Vaunes had taken a cab to return home but, on arriving iu the Rue de Sevres the driver (Ie- clared that he would go no further, and asked to be paid his fare. One of the men alighted to fetch a police- man, when the cabman drove off with the other into the Rue de la Chaise, aretirei street, and then drag- ging the remaining occupant out of the vehicle,beat him severely, passed the wheols of the vehicles over his legs, and then jumping on his box, flogged his horse and disappeared. In each instance the persons injured had to be removed to the hospital.—(Jaliynani. UTAH.—The correspondent of the New York Times, writing from Salt Lake City, August 16, says: "Another gold excitement has sprung un here during the past week. Somebody picked up a piece of rock in Parley's Park, about t wenty-five miles east of this city, having the 'real colour,' and another stampede was the result. It was a reliable thing this time. The discoverers were parties who could be dependel on. They were not sensationists, but steady-going men. The discovery, however, was quite valueless, as the rock proved to be quartz mixed with granite and innocent of either gold orsilver. So the city and the prospectors subsided into comparative aoathy once more. "Of theSouth pass, Jor Sweet Water Mines, howev er, this much is said by experience 1 miners, that the real gol bt aringlquartz is there in great quantities not in ie iges, but as float rock, and as the float rocx is close to the rid ge of the continent, the Ie Ige3 cannot be far off, for rock sell om floats or is washed up hill. Two or three weeks ago these new mines were abandon- ed in consequence of the Indians killing two of the miners and being very hostile. A few a !venturous spirits, however, are now there, and they invite others to go, as plenty of company is very desirable in an Indian country. All accounts agree that those mines are undoubtedly good. Little, however, will be done with them this summer, as snowstorms come on early iu that region, and it is a bitterly cold place in the winter. Though on a level, the snow there is seldom more than four feet deep, yet it frequently drifts to a far greater depth, and the wind an i frost are freezing to think of .Nothing but the prospect of possessing gold could induce people to live there one would think. Twenty or thirty miles from the mines are the Wind River mountains and valley. The valley is very well spoken of by persons who have visite I it. Its soil is rich and well watered, and the winters are compara- tively mild, there being only a few inches of snow in the valley. There is abundance of game in all that region. The Wind River Valley is a favourite resort aud watering-place of the Indians. It will probably soon be the head and centre of a new Territory an j State, the valley supporting the gold mines and the mines supporting the agriculturists of the valley. "There are now at these mines a small number of ad- venturers, who will soon be reinforced by others, some from this city, and some from Idaho and elsewhere for several little parties have started for the new El Dorado within a few days past. So that the pros ect is that something toward development and further dis- covery will be done this fall." GAMBLING IN A BRITISH COLONY.- A reoenc mail from China brought us the intelligence that the Go- vernment of Hong Kong proposed to license gambling- houses there. Later advices now state that the revenue from this source is estimated at from 250,000 dols. to 390,000 dols. perannum. A memorial has been presen- ted to the Governor protesting against the proposed system altogether, on the ground that to license gam- bling is to legalise immorality. In the official reply to this memorial we read:— "The Governor simply wishes to free gambling from its present illegality so far as to break up the gangs of illegal gamblers, whose cliques are now the schools aud nurseries of crime, the continuance of which you advocate. He would do so if he saw his way to such a result, without adding a cent to the public treasury. He cannot, however, make the Chinese aid in putting down illegal gambling otherwise than by reuderiug it their essential interest to do so uor cau this be effected unless they have a lar^e in' ierest at stake with which illegal operatiuns would interfere. The larger that iuterest, the greater and more effective must be their co-o eratio.i with tue Grovernuient, and the more stringent the power of the tatter to enforce obedience to its regulations, because that co-operation and obe liencemust be proportioned to the sums inyeste 1, and risked by want of co opera- tion and also by disobedience. Nevertheless, when the amount paid is sufficient for the above purpose a point that can be settle i by experience,- it is not desirable to increase it for mere purposes of revenue, and for that reason His Excellency has refuse I offers excee ling the amount accepted by more than 100,000 dollars. He will even be glad to find hereafter tuat a less sum than that now tendered will enable the Government to at- tain the principal legitimate objects sought, as above stated. One system has been tried and failed. There- fore auotheris now about to be tried. Should It also fail, the Governor has reserved complete powers to terminate the experiment at a moment's notice. Fi- ually, His Excellency desires me to add that he does not believe there is any in livi lual amongst you so reluctant personally, as he is himself, to intro luce a system the object of which it is so easy for irrespon- sible declaimers to misrepresent in general appeals to morality, for which there will ever be a t-ea 1y au li- ence, too indulgent to suspect that the morality a Ivo- cated is but a lazy acquiescence in the same vice un ler more revolting and dangerous conditions. Argu.nout would be useless with those who can see no difference between the special and exceptional circumstances of Hong Kong and Heligoland. What might be an un- justifiable policy in England, or in a cciony inhabited by a European race with au ei«cient police, may be, in the cause of order and general security, an absolute necessity in a small community of 2,000 foreigners amongst 130,000 Chinese, whose co-operatiou in the suppression of illegal gambling, the source of so much crime, can onty be expecte.1 by giving tnem an luterest Hi limiting its practice to a few fixed place? Bader QQ. warume,ut surveillance,"