South Wales Daily News

srlr-TT OF THE IDAILY PELRBS, CORONATION DAY. The coronation of Queen Victoria, pays the TTour was gi popular pageant; her reIgn was destined completely to open up the era of popular sovereignty. It is not for u* now to dwell upon those of its oW.wVeristics which will chiefly command the admiration of posterity or < to specialty enlarge upon the reign of Queen Vidoria as thè epoch during which the mof-t. astounding triumphs ever won by the science and intellect of man were gairie(I over the tremendous forces of nature. as the epoch which has Witnessed the perfection of the steam Jocompttve and the electric telegraph; tolucti has seen the valleys and .rivers e-pannSih an-f the 6olid Granite of mountains compelled, to give way before the mighty engine impelled by .vapour, which has witnessed the re- searches ot Faraday and Owen, of Murchison and Lvell, which has been illuminated by the genius of Carlyle, .Macaulay, Tennyson, Thackeray and Dickens, Bulwer, and Browning, which has coincided with the dif- fu!Sion 1 of an amount of culture and knowledge the like of which humanity has never experi- enced. On this day it is enough that We should confine our thoughts to the coronation of Queen Victoria thirty-eight years ago as an event which commenced the process-a. process continuously conducted ever since—of identifying the existence of the English throne with the actual operation of a principle of vigilant regard for the welfare of the English people, and of strengthening the hold of the British sovereignty unon all its subjects by bringing cut into a new relief the popularity, as well all the inviolability of which that popularity rightly inter- preted is the guarantee, of the Crown. ENGLAND'S ATTITUDE IN EASTERN AFPArnS. Mr. Canning, says the Daily Telegraph, said, in 1826, His Majesty disclaims the wish and abjures the intention of interfering in the internal concerns of any foreign State; but his Majesty will not endure that foreign force: or foreign intrigue shall produce confusion and civil war in a country with which his Majesty has long been connee- ted by ties of the strictest amity and alliance, and whose Government, as at present constituted, has not given just cause of offence." In the spirit of this upright j maxim England observes what is developing, and has no occasion to depart from an attitude of! observation so long as her own interests and the fundamental protective treaty to which: the Great Powers are common signataries are not affected. At present neither onr Imperial interests ner the stipula-j tions of 1856 are overtly impeached, and Servia must ao-, cordiiigly be left to the issue which she may elect. But one way or the other the truth will come forth ftbojtt this rebellion,which wears the mask of Christianity one njonth, and tht next appears in the cloak of Sclavic intrigue for new frontiers and ports. Was the Herzegovinian move- ment an honest uprising against oppression, or is it mainly an artificial turmoil concocted to plunder Turkey, and hoodwink Europe ? Events can alone reveal the real explanation amid so thick a cleud! of false assurances and manufactured facts;! but in the meantime it is to be wished, and gravely, that the behaviour of Russian representatives and subordi-j nates accorded better with the honourable expressions of their master the Emperdr. From the Government of St. Petersburg we hear the language of justice and patience towards the new Sultan but none the less do its agents at Constantinople, Belgrade, and elsewhere, continue to stir the fire with a sword." Nor is the tone permitted to such Muscovite organs as we have cited decent orj judicious, considering what authority the Imperial Court! exercises over its Press. The truth is that over the entire situation lies a veil of dissimulation and insincerity which England has already rent asunder once, and which may need to be sternly torn aside again. MONTENEGRO AND SERVIA. One feature of the Eastern complication less unsatisfac- tory than the other, says the Morning Post, is that Monte- negro does not seem to be intending or anxious to join Selvia in attacking Turkey. The Prince Nikita is ex- hibiting the cleverness and sense with which he has been credited. He no doubt sees that Servia would be most unlikely to achieve success in an encounter with Turkey and he must know that the weakening of Servia would be the aggrandising of Monter.egro. While, therefore, Prince Milan, unable to control his subjects or rule effectively in his own dominions, is being pushed along the path of war against his judgment, his rival for Sclavio supremacy may be supposed to be looking on with secret satisfaction, and resolved to let Servia stand alone in opposing Turkey. It is possible that the Porte may have entered into negotiations with Montenegro as to the cession of a port and of some of the lowlands which are almost essential to the existence of .Montenegro but at all events, be the cause what it may, Prince Nikita ap- pears to be holding aloof from Servia at this juncture, and that possibly is an additional reason for concluding that there will be no fresh outbreak of war in the Balkan Peninsula. Still, the fear of the peace (if Europe being compromised must remain while Servia is permitted to threaten her suzerain with war and, seeing that Servia may be regarded as acting under external influence, the question of the moment is, What should England and the Great Powers generally do in regard to Servia ? RUMOURS OF WAR AND DIVIDED INTERESTS. Indeed, in Servia, says the Morning Advertiser, and also at Constantinople, the last vestige of hope of preserving peace between the Porta and that principality seems ;to have vanished. One despatch informs us that Prince Milan has sent an ultimatum to Constantinople, and has left for the army,war being considered imminent; and from another source we arv informed that the Turkish flotilla on the Danube and the Imperial troops on the frontier of Servia have received instructions to .be ready at the first signal for the commencement oi liostilities. The Turkish pro- vinces iM Turkey in Europe are also in an advanced state of incipient belligerency. Greece has long desired to ex- tend her territories northwards at the expense of Turkey. Egypt is only awaiting a favourable opportunity for secession and a declaration of independence. Hence the necessity for the reserve in language and the caution and moderation in action which Lord Derby so judiciously recommends, and of which the Government of England has set so good an cxaiarie. Lord Granville, in the course of his speech, took occasion to enforce the views which we, have ere now had occasion to express with respect to Eng- land's sympathy and duty towards the Turkish Christians. England ought- to be, and indeed always has been, the beat friend of the Christian subjects of the Porte. But we are opposed, in the interest of the Turkish Christians them- selves, to a change of mfesters which would substitute the Czar for tV Sultan. RELIGION AND BLOOD AND POLITICAL FORCE. Even if this generation had not been taught, says the Daily News, by the events of the last five-and-twenty years in Italy and Germany that the sense of oneness, based upon community of language, religion, and blood, is, whether for disintegration or construction, the greatest political force of modern times, there would be no excuse for misunderstanding the determination of the Sclavio po- pulatioijsof Scuth-eastern Europe torn axe good their worth against all comers, bat especially against the Turks, their hereditary oppressors. Of course, if any one prefers to be miskd there are certain facilities of which he may avail bixOT^lf. There is what is known as official information, which in Turkey is less trustworthy than in any other country of Europe. Much of the official news sent to our Embassy at Constantinople,and from thence home,about the interior of the empire is derived from the Consuls, who are a race apart, perierailv bora and bred in Turkey, and penetrated with the idea that our policy is to support the Ottoman Government in nil circumstances against the Christians. The great extensipn of the means of unofficial and independent information has, however, placed the public in a position to judge for itself on a mul- titude of questions as to which it was formerly in dark- ness. Respecting Servia there is no excuse for ignorance. Servia cannot help being the example and the hope of large sections of the Christian population of Turkey, and there is good reason for supposing that it is willing to be both. The position is created for the country by history, and Governments and dynasties which are unfaithful to it expose thatoiselves to be overthrown. 6 OUR DIFFICULTIES WITH CHINA. In referring to the discussion in the House of Common* on our intercourse with China, the Standard says :-Ou. real difficulties in this matter are threefold. Our mer- chants at home are eager to push their trade, and use the infliipiice they possess to force the Government into enter- prises that too often involve ns |n complications. Mr, Richard therefore, ought to diroct his exhortations, m tha first place, neither to Ministers nor to Parliament, but to our manufacturers. The sccond cause of our difficulties ia the impossibility, in the present condition of Indian finance, to dispense with the revenue from opium. And our third source of difficulty is the backward state of Chinese civilisation. We too frequently judge the Chinese by European standards, and expect ihew to act as Em iueaua wuuld: and. 0i fiauree» we am disappointed. On the other nand, the Chinese are in- capable of Understanding our principles or the motives of our conduct. They see guile Where there is none, mistake truth for falsehood, and think that we shall scheme and cheat instead of lighting. Thus we are perpetually n £ sunder$fanding one another, and getting into quarrels cp fiimply because of the differences of our respective civilisa- tions. But these points, after all, are entirely beside the question. What the country would like to know now is how far the mission of Mr. Grosvenor has been successful, and how far Ministers are satisfied with the terms ob- tained by Sir Thomas Wade from the Chiaese Government and the King of Burmah. THE IRISH DOMESDAY RETURNS. Many will presume, says the Times, there is some object in this return beyond that curiosity which is content with knowing something it did not know before. They will suppose the object is possibly political. The greatest problem of the age is the representation of the agricultural classes. In this direction the adjustment of our represen- tative system concurs with the improvement of tne rural population. The rates as well as the taxes, and the proper expenditure of the rates as well as of the taxes, demand that rural comitaunities shall be better constituted and organised than they' now are. It has always been the theory Of this country that local self-government is the proper education for national government, and that the vestry or the municipality prepares for the polling booth and for the Senate. But of late years, while the larger towns have gained in deliberative and exe-j cutive power, the smaller towns and villages have lost. Almost every matter has been taken out of their hands, till they have little to do, and small power to do even that. No wonder that the, Minister of Education is found to be talking rather hope- i lessly than hopefully of rural committees to put in force the compulsory powers of his bill. But the task looms in the nea# future, and is already the prize of the first man who solved the enigma. That great desideratum is the proper constitution of rural society, whether for Parlia. montary er for local purposes. How far, then, will the re- turns before us contriDute to the solving of that long impossible task? We seem always to be nearer the end when at least we see the sta^e of things. But wej must confess that we do not see how the freehold is to be; made the basis of representation, or to have a larger share; iu that basis than it has by ancient usage. Small free- holders are not better m,on than tenants paying, may be, a trifle more rent r and. whatever philosophers may advo- cate, such freeholds offer a muci) ire obstinate resistance to ail kinds of impxOveHwni tnu.* land in the possession; of a better class.

"nvT OF A COUNTY COURT JUDGMENT. C. R. H." writes to the Times Permit me to direct your attention to a gross abuse connected with county court judgments. It was my intention to defend an action for the balance of an account rendered, for work done,owing to excessive charge and serious injury to the house by th? Workmen. The new law connected with summonses shorten* the time of notice for defence, and judgment was signed, by default; and a man immediately put in possession. I wrote a cheque and sent it to my bank to get cashed, and the broker was out of the house an hour after taking posses- sion. Now, thus far I have nothing to complain of. The fault was entirely mv own, as I omiited to give notice of my intention to defend the action. You can imagine my annoyance on being told that my name and address had been published in a trade circular as having an execution in my house, and this without any qualification, sd that I have to bear the stigma in its worst form. Had this oc- curred to a tradesman, it might have ruined him in his business. Owing to this announcement in a public print, I have been honoured by having two polite circulars .ad- dressed to me. solicitincc the pleasure of winding up my affaii s in the Court of Bankruptcy.

CHURCH DEFENCE ASSOCIATION. A meeting of the Central Council of the Church' De- fence Institution has been held at the National Society's Rooms, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, the Archbishop of Canterbury in the chair. A statement on the present position' of Charch Defence ;was tread by the Rev. Dr. Alfred T.Lee,Secretary,after which the Archbishop of Can- terbury addressed the meeting. The first resolution,proposed by the Hon.W.Egerton, M.P., and seconded by the Bishop of Winchester, was as follows That the increased activity of the Liberation Society throughout the country, and the organised dissemination of their opinions by means of lectures, publications, and other agencies, require that corresponding exertions should be made by Churchmen, 60 that wherever the Liberation Society spreads misstatements, they should at once be met by counter-statements, to be made by lec- tures, publications, and such other means as may from time to time be deemed advisable." The se- cond resolution, proposed by Lord Harrowby, K.G., seconded by the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, declared the necessity of raising additional funds, and pledged the meeting to use every effort to do so.—The resolution was supported by Lord Henry Scojt, M.P., Archdeacon Emery, and Mr. Charles Hoare.-A vote of thanks to the Archbishop for presiding was moved by the Marquis of Hertford, and seconded by Lord Colchester, after which his grace pronounced the benediction, and the meeting separated.

IRENICUM WESLEYANUM. Under the above title the Bishop of Lincoln has issued some proposals for union which he had made to some leading Wesleyan Methodists at an amicable interview arranged by a former president of the Wesleyan conference. His lordship said that he was not authorised to speak for the Church of England; but that,having considered the principles and his- tory of Methodism, he cherished a hope and entertained a persuasion that it might be possible to heal the breach and unite Methodism with the Church. He expressed his con- viction that the Rev. John Wesley intended that Methodism should be a religious society within the Church of England, ar-I that, he had endeavoured to organise a society in such a manner, particularly by the deed poll of Peb, 28, 1784, that it might stimulate and invigorate the Church. For example, it was enacted (Art. 11) that no one should be appointed to any Wesleyan chapel for more than three years successively, except ordained ministers of the Church of England, and in that clause alone the word ministers occurs. After shewing how both John and Charles Wesley desired the preachers of the society to seek ordina- tion, and that many clergy co-operated with the preachers in the lifetime of the founder, his lordship says :—a The question now arises whether, under existing circumstances, and on what terms, such intercommunion can be restored, extended, and strengthened." The right reverend prelate says:—" Ministrations in the Church of England are of two kinds—(1), public reading of the Holy Scriptures, public prayer and praise, catechising, preaching (2), ministra- tion of the Holy Sacrament of Baptism, and of the Lord's Supper." As unordained persons are allowed, under certain conditions, to read the Holy Scriptures, and in some churches (as in Lincoln Cathedral) to say the Litany, to lead the chanting of the psalms, and the sinking of hymns, the Bishop thinks that that similar permission under the bishop's licence might be extended farther, so that laymen might cateehise, read homilies, and deliver lectures and sermons in the church. The canons of 1603, the Act of Uni- formity Amendment Act (1872),and the practice of the an- cient Church as stated by Bingham, seem to point in this direction. John Wesley always wished his followers to attend the parish churches for Communion, and the right reverend prelate therefore urges that as learned Presby- terians (like Robert Leighton and Simon Patrick) sought episcopal ordination, so Wesleyan ministers should do the same, a declaration being added to their letters of orders that such ordination was not intended to imply the ex- pression of any judgment on such orders that might be supposed by some to have been previously conferred. His lordship asked (1), Whether any WeBleyan ministers so ordained need be prevented remaining members of the conference? (2), Would the Wesleyan Conference, if the bishops, recognising the vested rights of the chapels, licensed their ministers, allow the ministers and congre gations of such chapels to remain in connection with the Wesleyan body ? (3), Would the Wesleyan Conference re- cognise such chapels as places of public assembly for preaching according to the deed of declaration of 1784, and allow the congregations to resort to their respective parish churches for Holy Communion ? If these questions were answered in the affirmative the Bishop believes that the Church of England would be willing to encourage friendly relations between herself and the members of the Wes- leyan Conference, while Wesleyan preachers might co- operate in the formation of an order ot preachers in the Church, Wesleyan chapels becoming either district churches or chapels of ease.

As a consequence of the recent stoppage of werk at Messrs. Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co.'s, the miners em, ployed by that firm in the neighbourhood of Gitisfborough expect to be put on short time. It is said that too much stone is being stocked, in the absence of average consump- tion. Messrs. Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co.'s Chaloner pit mines and those of North Skelton have bsen idle tem- porarily. It i. computed that upwards of iron workers in and about Middlesborougn are idie. The Northumbria, belonging to Sunderland, has arrivedf at Falmouth from Smyrna. The captain says he hearll a noise in the steward's cabin, and called the mate, who pro- ceeded thereto, and found the steward lying dead on the bed with his head half cut off, and the mate's razor lying in a pool of blood on the deck. The deceased was ar Austrian named Marcscovich, having a wife and three children residing at Sunderland. An inquest has been held, &nd a verdict of suiciue during temporary insanity returned. At the Scarborough Qnarhar Sessions, John Selby and Nora Kingston, domestic servant, have been charged with stealing plated goods and linen$rom the Talbot Hotel. Selby was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude, with three years' police supervision; and Kingston to four months' imprisonment. Mr. J. P. Thoma^son, of Alderley Edge, near Man- chester, has offered to the Bolton School Board to establish 100 exhibitions, of the value of £ 25 a-vear each, to he ten- able for three years, for such cf the advanced pupils of the public elementary schools as purpose to devote themselves to the profession of teaching. The offer was ace<uated at a meetip- of Ilae school boart' on Monday.

I MEMORIAL TO ALBERIGO GENTILI. A Roman correspondent of the Scotsman writes :-Mr. T. :=: Holland, Professor of International Law in the University of Oxford, is winning golden opinions in Itsly for his successful conduct of the memorial to Alberigo iGentili. Professor Holland, it will be remembered, re- awakened public interest in Gentili, his predecessor in the Oxford chair, by a discourse on the life (and works of the illustrious Italian, for whom he claimed priority in establishing the principle of inter- national arbitration. That discourse, is about to appear in an Italian drees under the auspices of Aurelio Saffi, the well-known Italian patriot; while the Professor's edition of Gentili's great treatise, "De Jure Belli," now printing at the Clarendon Press, will be made a text-book on its subject in the juridical classes of tha Italian univer- sities. The monument shortly to be unveiled in St. Helen's Church, St. Pancras, where Gentili was buried, will have its counterpart in the monument to be erected to him in the University of Macerata, where he at one time lectured. The Italians are exerting themselves to have, if possible, the two monuments inaugurated simultaneously, so as to make the event all the more effec- tive as a tribute not only to the founder, but to the princi- ple of international arbitration.

ENGLISH GARDENS. We would gladly exchange all the distressing glare, savs the Sporting Gazette, which is the triumph of '• bedding out," for the rich scent which exhales from one of those old-fashioned gardens which still exist in secluded spots, which are gardens all the year ronnd, where one can see the snowdrop, the crocus, the primrose, the auricula, the violet, the cowslip, the lily of the valley, the anemone, the bluebell, the tulip, the stock, the wallflower, the hollyhock, the bee larkspur, the China aster, the chrysanthemum, each and all adorning the J season they love best. It is no wilderness that we advocate. We would have order without for- mality, and elegance without artificiality. The natural and the artificial will always have each its defenders. No theory and no experience has yet established which of them produces the highest, tie most- permanent, and the m6st extensive pleasure. We would have them both combined we would strike a compromise between the two. We would avail ourselves of, art to illustrate nature. We would not de- spise all the rich exotics which horticultural science lays at our feef;, but we would also cherish the good old homely, hardy English flowers which in beauty and scent yield to none. Above all, we would have done with the barbai ism of "bedding out." We would have our gardens perennial—full of fragrance and bloom from January to December—not as they now are bare, brown, uninteresting deserts from November to May.

ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS. The Empress Eugenie and Prince Louis Napoleon have visited the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough House. A petition for liquidation oy arrangement has been filed by Signer Campobello in the Liverpool County Court. His liabilities amount to £ G,000, and his assets are not as- certained. At the Hampshire Quarter Sessions, the chairman has congratulated the grand jury that half of the comparatively small number of prisoners for trial were offenders who had been in the hands of the police before-a fact which he attributed to an exhaustion of the criminal classes of the county. William Leonard has been charged at the Bow-street Police-court with committing a highway robbery with violence. It was proved that lie had already been con- victed of a similar offence and sentenced to seven years' penal servitude, and to receive 25 lashes. He was com- mitted for trial. Mr. Philip Sayle, FTS.A., of the City Liberal Club, has acceded to the request of some tenant-farmers in the con- stituency to become a candidate for the vacant spat in the county Leitrim. Mr. Sayle is a member of the Home Rule League, and advocates fixity of tenure and Catholic Uni- versity education. At Edinburgh, the Dupplin divorce case has been brought before Lord Shand, in the Court of Session. The pursuer, Lord Dupplin, eldest son of tne Earl of Kinnoull, who fcues his wife, Lady Agnes Duff, daughter of the Earl of Fife, on the ground of infidelity, appeared, and proof was ordered to be led on July 11. It is believed, that the stay at Liverpool of his Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught will extend to the 19th proximo, when he will accompany his regiment on a march to Edinburgh. Mr. Alderman Livingston, acting on be- half of the Mayor, has invited his Royal Highness to a banquet at the Town Hall on July 17. Owing to the instructions received from the English Government, says the Gibraltar Guardian, Gibraltar is being placed in a state of complete defence. Artillery- men are everywhere mounting guns. Two vessfels laden with powder are daily expected from England, and the officers absent on leave have been recllled. Prince Hassan, eldest son of the Khedive, has arrived at Windsor by Great Western train on a visit to her Majesty the Queen. Colonel M'Neill, equerry, was in attendance at the station, and drova with the Prince to the Castle. The Prince dined with hei Majesty, and after the visit drove back to the station and left for London. A young man named Minton has been drowned while bathing in the Thames near Kingston Bridge. He was swimming from the Middlesex shore, and when in mid- stream, where the current is strong and the water deep, cramp seized him, and he went down in the presence of several persons. The body was speedily recovered, but animation could not be restored. At the ..nnual meeting of the Hastings, St. Leonards, and District Licensed Victuallers' Trade Protection Society, the vote of Mr. T. Brassey, M.P., in support of the Permissive Bill, was denounced, and a resolution unani- mously passed declaring that the hon. member had been guilty of breach of faith towards them, and had for- feited the confidence of the licensed victuallers of the borough. Before the Widnes Bench, a boy nine years of age h\s been charged with stealing a bottle of brandy and £ 2 10s. from a public-house. It appeared from the evidenthat the boy went home drunk and was put to bed by hi. mother. When he became sober he escaped by the bed- room window, and was next caught with his hand in the till of the public-house from which he had stolen the brandy. The bench cent him to a reformatory for five years. Alfred Rylands, one of the Hanley rate-collectors, and who was also secretary to the Hanley Dog and Poultry Show, and a receivor in bankruptcy, has absconded, and serious deficiencies in his accounts have been discovered. The Assistant Town Clerk. named Dewsbury, left with Rylands, and he is charged with stealing the bond secur- ing the corporation in the event of defalcations by Rylands. Warrants are out for the apprehension of both. At the quarterly meeting of the Cambridge Circuit of Wesleyan Methodists a resolution has been passed, con- demning the Head Master of the Perse Sohool for his treatment of Mr. Maxwell, and expressing sympathy with the latter under hid persecution. This was passed unani- mously at a local preachers' meeting as well. The Charity Commissioners or Endowed Schools Commission are being appealed to. Meantime, Mr. Maxwell goes to the Wesleyan College at Cambridge. 'The 70th Anniversary Dinner in aid of the funds of the Licensed Victuallers' School has taken place at the Alexandra Palace. Mr. Frederick Seager Hunt, principal partner of the firm of Seager, Evans, and Co., presided, and under his auspices the event proved successful, re- sulting in the largest subscription list the institution has ever obtained on these occasions, amounting to £ t),500, of which the chairman, his firm, and friends contributed the munificent sum of £3,134. At a sitting of the Judicial Committee, and just before the rising of the court, a Hindu, who had come from Calcutta, presented some documents, and asked that a iase in which he was interested, and which had reduced him to poverty, might be reheard. It had been decided eight years ago. Their lordships read some of the papers, and promised to further look into the matter and see if they could tender any assistance. They, however, feared that after eight years they could not rehear the case. Mr. George Ashley, a London solicitor, ftas commenced 1m action against two directors of the East Llamgynog Lead Minjng Company,and a dealer from whom he bought shares in the concern, to recover 500 damages for alleged conspiracy and false representations. The defendants demurred on the ground that the charges were general and vague, but Vice-Chancellor Malins thought this was an undesirable course on tl e part of respectable defendants, who should, he said, put in answers denying the charges. He therefore disallowed the demurrer. An action has been tried in the Chancery Division, in which the plaintiff, the proprietor of the Prince of Wales Theatre, Liverpool, sought to recover :£250 from Mr. Alexander Henderson under an agreement to divide with him the price paid by Mr. Addison for a lease of the theatre. The defendant's case was that the amount paid had been reduced from £ 500 to £350, and Vice-Chancellor Sir J. Bacon decided that the plaintiff had entirely failed to establish his claim to the difference between those sums he therefore dismissed the case with costs. A matinee given at Willis's Rooms by M. Leon Valdee, says the Manchester Guardian, was rendered especially interesting by the fact that the celebrated artiste, Madame Eugenie Doche, lent her aid upon the occasion, and recited in the most perfect manner two pathetic pieces, Le Premier Sourire and La Bouquet de Violettes." This distinguished actress, so long a reigning favourite upon the French stage, and also well remembered here, has spent several weeks in Loudon this season, and has ap- peared at the soiree given to the King of the Belgians and on other occasions at Dudley House. Madame Doche has met with so cordial a reception during her brief stay that she contemplates paying a longer visit to London next year, when it ia not improbable that she m*y be prevailed upon to take uart in some dramatic DM- WmAncelo SEBASTOPOL AS IT IS. I A private letter from Sebastopol, just published in the De6a<s,contains the following :—u Sebastopol now numbers no mere than 9,000 inhabitants, who eke out a jniserable existence amid their ruined city. The harbour, however, shews some signs of reviving animation. New £ tiips 8 have been laid down, aud few frigates and corvettes have been launched frem thence. x Oe Russian flag once more waves above the Euxine. Sebastopol now communicates with the interior of Russia by means ¡I of a railway which may be described as a short cut to the Bosphorus. if the attitude of England at the entrance of the Dardanelles became too aggressive, who knows that the Russians would not insist on Sebastopol being raised to its former importance? For the present, however, the town consists of a few hundred modest dwellings, built with the materials of the dismantled ramparts. Forts Constantine and Catherine still retain numerous shot marks, but are still standing. The quarantine fort and forts Nicholas and Alexander are in an utterly tumble-down condition. The naval casino, the theatre, barracks, hospitals, and cathedral, are all destroyed. However, a new church has been constructed the cupolas are richly gilt. Admirals Bornilow. Istonine, Nachimow, and Lasarew are buried there. The Malakoff and ther Redan are in the condition in which the allies left them. The ground is so honeycombed by the effects of shot and mines as to offer great. difficulties to the pedestrian. A number of guns are lying in the ditch, half imbedded in the mud. The French trenches and approaches are still m such perfect condition that one might fancy the siege was a thing of yesterday. There are three cemeteries at Sebas- topol. The Russian burial ground stretches to the north of the large bay it bears a sinister name-the cemetery of the Hundred Thousand. Two captured guns stand on each Bide of the entrance. The tombs are all sheltered by ever- greens, and well kept they are simple, but there is some- thing ennobling and refined in their architecture. The soldiers' graves are covered with slabs of granite. On each are engraved the words Tombe Fraternelle.' The monu- ment of Prince Gortschakoff bears the following inscrip- I tion He wished to rest surrounded by his fellow- soldiers, whose gallantry defended against the enemy the soil where resttheir bones.' The French cemetery forms a park, planted with lilac and juniper trees. In the centre is a large structure with the following inscription To the memory Qf the eoldiers of the French army who fell before Sebastøpol. Marble tablets indicate that in the graves beneath this edifice lie the remains of Generals Bizot, Brunet, Mayzan, Breton, Lenormand, de Marolles, de Pecqueult, da Pont^vds, de St. Poli, and Perrin; at spaces along the walls there is a chapel for eacn division of the French army the names of the officers buried here are inscribed in these chapels there are upwards of 1,000 names. As to the English cemetery, it is in such a state of neglect that I shall say nothing about it."

THE COMIC PAPERS, (From Punch.) DRIVING A BARG AIN.—Economic?.! Drover A teeck't tae Fa.a'kirk.Polite Railway Clerk lifive-and- ninepence, pleafee."—Drover Ah'll gie ye five shillings!" —Clerk (astonished) Eh -Drover: Weel, ah'll gie ye five-an'-tlirippence, an' dcil a bawbee xnair! Is't a bargain ? A FORLORN Hop.-Tho Dowager: Now you've got all the girls off your hands so successfully, except poor Maria, you ought to give her a chance."—My Lord: Yes —a—give a ball—a—or a garden pirtv-a "-My Lady: Oh, poor Maria's not worth a ball—nor even a garden party. We might give an afternoon tea." BY SPECIAL LICEXCE.—Paterfamilias (impressively, to his coachman) ''Jarvisl You will have to drive us first to the church, then back here to the wedding-break- fast, and then you will take my daughter and her newly- i married husband to the station at London-bridge; so I particularly wish you to keep thoroughly 6ober all day — Jarvis "All right, sir! But I should like to take a drop too much this evening, sir SAYINGS FOR THE MARINES. Once a lieutenant, always (at least for fifteen years) a lieutenant, Patronage is the mother of Merit. Take care of the subalterns, and the field officers will take care of themselves. Promotion has no law. 'Tis a long military career (generally over twenty years' service) which has no majority at the end of it. A step in time often saves nine (husband wife and seven children). A friend at Whitehall is worth two in Somerset House. (From Fun.) A THING WHEN FOUND TO MAKE A NOTE OF.—A sheet of Bank of England paper. Novelists and dramatists should have peaceful deaths. It is the aim of their lives to make a good ending. Lord H. Lennox has promised to open the City Plant Show, to be held shortly in Leicester-square, in the un- avoidable absence of the Baron. PARLIAMENTARY.—Mr. C. E. Lewis spied a stranger in his tea last night, and has given notice to the Premier tljat he will mention the matter in the House and move a resolution. ASSIZE COURTSHIP.—Two convicted felons in Paris have been allowed to marry their female accomplices prior to their transportation. Disbelievers in the transports of Hymen, please make a note Gi. A TEST OF MERIT.—Tourist: Are there any inns in this village, my little man ? "—Small Native Ees, sir, there be the Fox and Lion in Middle-street, and the, Cobblers' Arms down the Mill-end."—Tourist: Which is the best one ? "—S. M. "I duuno', sir, but feayther alius gits drunk at the Cobblers' (From Judy.) The Wrong Tip—Tip-cat. A Big Twister-The sea-serpent! The End of the Anti-tobacco Society-Smoke. SONG. When Woman's used up every folly, And finds life quite too awfully slow, What new device can make her jolly ? What game shall she pronounce the go "? The very latest, best time-killer, Is surely Plimpton's roller-skate; Though often that turns out a Spiller, And breaks her ankles, or her pate.

Sir William Fergusson has for the last ten days been mak*ng steady progress towards recovery. He is gaining strength, and is now able to leave his bedroom. ° An inquest has been held on the remains of a man named Green, found in a dreadfully mutilated state on the Bed- ford line of railway near Fenny Stratford. It is supposed he was run over by a passenger train whilst under the in- .fluence of drink. He leaves a wife and four young children.

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