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EXTRACTS FROM" PUNCH" &" PU1\.'
EXTRACTS FROM" PUNCH" &" PU1\ Lord Palmerston at Romsey. Oh. a wonderful man is the Premier, He can talk with the tongue of a sage, He can understand pothooks and hangers, Up, politics, downstrokes, and trade. Romsey mothers he told of the duty They owed to their children around; And he gave to their fathers the prizes, Which were, perhaps, more acceptable fotaid. On the matter of youths' education, He thought they should cipher and write Of reading, of course they'd have plenty In Fun on a Wednesday night. The diligent ploughmen and shepherds "J Came in for their share of reward; Nor were seedsmen and drillsmen omitted, So who could do else than applaud ? Oh, a wonderful man is the Premier, He can talk with the tongue of a sage, He can understand pothooks and hangers, Up, politics, downstrokes, and trade. Who's Who for 1865. 1. Who are you ? 2. Who's Griffiths ? 3. Who's your hatter ? 4. Whoston and Wright? Publishers? l' 15. Who s a fool ? 6. Who isn't? 7. Who thinks himself a swell? 8. Who doesn't? 9. Who six dozent? 10. Who's the Anti-tobacco Society ? 11. Who's the Anti Sabbath Rational Enjovxaefci Society ? 12. Who's Hale? 13. Whose ale ? 14. Who's old ? 15. Who's sold ? 16. Who's soldier ? 17. Who doesn't think himself somebody ? 18. Who doesn't think himself everybody? 19. Who's an Eaily Russell bird P. 20. Who isn't a novelist? 21. Who wouldn't be if he (or she) could ? 22. Who etesetera. 23. Who ate setter, eh ? The Great Mistletoe Question. I can't say on the oak if the mistletoe shoot, As on apple, pear, ash, its green clusters we see; But I know it thrives longest and bears sweetest fruit (Witness Punch's own lips), on the Home Christ mas tree.
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c: — m„ EPITOME OF NEWS. A church rate of 3d. in the pounabas been car- Tied in the parish 01 All Saints, Newmarket. At the recent rent audit of Lady Molesworth, recently held at Tetcot, a sacrifice of some t2,500 was made I in a Christmas present to the tenants. I Nearly 3,000 persons attended the first ball of the season at the Tuilleries. Mr. Welford, of the Chancery bar, is to be the llewoounty court judge at Birmingham. A widow, named Montigaud, has just died in the Koute d'Orleans, 14th arrondissement of Paris, aged 100. An enormous sturgeon, weighing upwards of eigfet stone, was taken off Yarmouth, on Wednesday, and ymylmnad by Messrs. Weavers and -Soiis, of Norwich. A few days ago a lively minnow was found in some milk at Worcester. The attention of the milkman was sailed to the strange fact, but he "couldn't account for xt." The inhabitants of Bristol are entertaining a project for a subaqueous railway under the Severn, to con- itoot their city with South Wales. The ice which had covered the Rhine between Mannheim, and Ludwig Shafen broke up a few days back, said the steam-boats have now resumed their service. About a hundred rods from the navigable •^jitters of the Kennebec River, in Maine, two extensive iron mines have just been opened, which promise immense re- tarns. The French are beginning to smile at Sir H. Btilwer's journeys in search of health, and think that his trip is always for the benefit of the health of his country. In Paris they have been keeping the anniversary of the birth of Joan d'Arc—which occurred 454 years ago— in grand style, and tellmg all the old stories about the wicked English and the good French. At Morgan-House, Ham, the Duchesse de lEh&rtres has -been safely delivered of a daughter. Dr. Priestley, the eminent physician, of Hertford-street, May- fair, was in attendance. A Vienna letter mentions that the Princess Richard de Mettemich has sent for a magnificent porgg1^ service from the manufactory of M. Fischer, of IJ/ugenie. in Austria, as a new year's present to the ail Wa y The accident on the GreatE^erminated fatally. at the Norwich (Thorpe) Station ihe buffers of two car- Barker, the man orusbell bet-a the first his case was hope- riages, died on Saturday. less. I -as-box of the London and West- The CJirio its clerks is 15 per cent. on their salary. minster ^'cocks are all of them doing so well that they can ThAxifO follow their leader. A letter from a traveller in the oil regions of Pennsylvania says We were paddled across the creek by an oil prince, aged fifteen, heir to a million, coat-less and hatless, and with but one suspender to keep his courage and his trousers up." There are 134: applications for admission for attorneys during the next term, besides 70 renewed applica- tions am4 for re-admission. The number of attorneys on the i oil is about 10,000. We ("'Birmingham Gazette") are informed that the journeyiren builders of Dudley have declined to accept or recognise the discharge-note issued by the Builders' Association. Lord Lyons' brandy sold at an average of seven dollars and a-half a bottle, on his leaving America. It is perhaps thought that the esprit of the diplomatist might be found in the invigoration of a tumblerful with water. Notice is given in the London Gazette that pre. parations are now being made for the intended distribution of tho-amount awarded for salvage services rendered to the Atahualpa, between the 11th and 14th of July, 1863, by her Majesty's ship Shearwater. A. T. Stewart, the New York dry goods man, is reputed to be about the richest man in America—he paid an income-tax of 250,000 dols. upon a net income of 5,000,000 dols. He does a business of 30,000,000 dols. a year, and has. 14,000,600 dols. invested in reai estate. Indeed, it is doubtful if anybody is richer than he. Banting biscuits, to aid in the diminution of the body, is the latest advertised novelty. Introduced by any designing farceur where angular beauty is in the house, of advanced years, who thinks still of her chances and charms, but wishes them both more ample, the effect might be serious. An extraordinary escape from prison has just been made at Toulon, by a seaman in the French navy, named Cornieto. He made a hole through a waJl more than 4ft. thick, broke open two doors, plundered the clothes' store of the establishment, and then scaling a wall 20ft. high, got clear away. An outrageous robbery has just taken place In London. As Miss Sly, of 13, Lamb's Conduit-street, was closing her shop one evening, two men entered the place, threw her down, and, after gagging their victim, stabbed her in tbe temple. This done, the ruffians carried off a con- aiderabietamount of property. Meetings of operatives in the building trade continue to be held in the provinces to express disapproba- tion of the discharge note," introduced by the masters, and both at Sheffield and Stourport resolutions strongly condemnatory of that document have been adopted the men pledging themselves to resist to the utmost of their I power. The tower of the church of St. Lawrence, at Nuremburg (Bavaria), which is 300 feet high, and one of the tinest monuments of Gothic Art in Germany, was struck and set on fire by lightning a few days back, when the whole of the upper part was totally destroyed. The i, evv National Schools in connection with St. Clement's Church, Stanhope-street, Liverpool, were opened a few days ago by the Lord Bishop of Chester. These schools have been enlarged at a cost of zC3,000, L750 of which was given by the Privy Council, and the land by a nobleman whose name has not transpi'ed. The remaining £ 1,5(X^ has been subscribed by the congregation. ° The death of the Grand Duchess Dowager of Tuscany has adjourned the marriage of the Princess Sophia of Saxony with Prince Theodore of Bavaria, and that of Prince Philip of Wurtemburg with the Archduchess Maria Theresa, as well as the arrival of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia in Vienna. An interesting gathering took place at Brighton on the oce-ion of the opening of a new Working Men's Union. Speeches were delivered by Mr. White, M.P., and Professor Fawcett. the latter of whom dwelt -upon the usefulness of such institutions as that in prevent- ing the spread of -,Trikes-tbe ,t-Limt,liiig block to a good understanding between employers and employed. The accident which befell Captain Dod while shooting a mnllth ago has led to his death he died last week at Nant Issa. Hall, near Oswestry. He was an officer of the 54th Shropshire Segiment of Militia, and the son of the projector and editor of Dod's Parliamentary Com- panion." A- correspondent of all Inverness! contemporarv says that the fishermen Portmahomack are under the impression that Admiral Fitzroy is the cause of all the violent storms that occur. '■ C*mfoond that man Fats-rory he's just worse nor Stine Bheag of Tarbat, for he has only to hoistthatpigtrum o' his to raise the wind An exceedingly heavy tall of snow took place in the south-western suburbs of the metropolio. on Friday. The storm extended over the country arouiuj Windsor, Brentford, Staines, ai d Richmond, the fields, trees, and 1 ops of the houses being covered with snow an inch or two in thickness, on Saturday the metropolis was visited by a fearful storm of wind and rain. At the Middlesex Hospital, in the presence of a numerous staff of surgeons, au opening was made in the throat of a milkman, named Fairbrother, by Mr. Hulke, the house surgeon, for the purpose of extricating a sixpence which had lodged in the throat. Just as the operator's fingers were on the coin, Fairbrother made a sudden gulp, which caused it to slip into the stomach. The man is now doing well, and out of danger. "A melancholy affliction," says the Gazette des Strangers, "has just tallen on M. Louis Boyer, a dramatic author, who was for a time director of the Vaudeville. He was in bed, when his son entered his room, and said, 'Are you not going to get up to-day, father ?' « What for ?' was the reply, 'it is not yet daylight.' It was then ten in the morning. During the night M Boyer had become blind." We understand that Mr. Edmund Denison has resigned the chairmanship of the Great Northern Bail way Company, the important duties of which he has so long and faithfully discharged. It is said that Mr. Denison will be succeeded by Colonel Pa eke, M.P., the present deputy- chairman. The colonel's successor is not yet named so far BS twe can learn. A respectable feature of the Confederates is their determination to pay their debts as long as they can. They duly sent over the dividends on the 2nd; and people thought so well of the act that the price of the loan rose even despite the Ieverses. There is nothing so creditable, '» certainly, in a man or a people as paying their debts-ex- cept not having any to ptiy. The Spar,ish journals state that two young 1 icen, sentenced to death foe-murder, underwent the punish- ment of the garotte during the late severe weather at Bone- tillodela Sierra, in the province of Madrid. The Queen had spared the life of one of them, but the quantity of snow which had fallen having interrupted the communications, even by electric teh grtlph, tbe order for suspending the execution did not arrive until two hours after the man was Aiead. A man and woman sought admission to the Derby Union Workhouse, the otaer day, but, we presume, for want of an order, the request was refused.. They imme- diately turned back towards Derby, but in the Osmaston- road tbe woman was seized with the pains of labour, and in the open street was delivered. She was then taken to the workhouse, and received every attention. The excesses in the i*dand of Zante must not have reached many ears. There they are enacting horrors have reached many ears. There ttcyare enacting horrors such as were committed in the French Revolution of '89.' :—— :—— — "T rheycut off people's hands and cany them in procession through the streets of the city! There is civil war, and assassins hr.ve multiplied most alarmingly. The inauest in the case of the five men who were killed a few days ago in a pit shaft at Wigan, by a portion of the sides of the shaft falling in upon them as they were descending, was concluded on Friday. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the occurrence was accidental, and they completely exonerated all the parties from blame. The manufacture of the great Atlantic telegraph cable is progressing vew satisfactorily. The length made now averages eighty miles per week As it « necessity that the cable should be kept constantly immersed in water, eight larsre tanks have been constructed to contain it, from which it will be coiled into the Great Eastern. The entire cable will be ready by June next. Donato, says a. Paris paper, has cancelled his engagement with the proprietors of the Alcazar, because he would have been obliged to appear in plam evening dress, the authorities in Paris not allowing a performer to figure in costume in a Cafe Chantant. Dancing in public on one leg in the evening dress of private life would certainly be a difficult undertaking; and we axe not surprised that Donato should shrink from such an ordeal before a Parisian audience Specimens have been brought to Sydney of the poisonous bush that has proved so destructive to sheep nassina through the desert to the north. Ilessrs. uevJm Simpson lost no less than 2,200 sheepeating:this bush. Mr. Devlin describes it as a pretty sh5^' high, with a bright scarlet pea DIOSS name is Gastrolobium Grandiflorurn, « was 111811 dis- covered by Stuart in Arnheim's Lar^- mhp -Roval Society Sc««tific Relief Fund r,^lP Hmn of -320- No surprise need be has reached t .ctempt to relieve necessitous sdentifie men; for the -*>ciety ostentatious „nd /evotes every farthing of its income parade of c a y. There are no expenses to waste ti> fund. every one gi^g his labour to the 051,180 witho'at: f e or reward. Canadian journals have ,j,mes for the proposed British American fUJP^v Yankees have taken the matter in han'j and elegant specimens are volunteered:—7" .P?" T)esertersania, Sneaks' Paradise, RaidaniaT Little gSfkanuckia, Bullcalfia, John Bull's Calf Pen.^Aerni- cumeraposia, Feniania, Orangelia, Li 0n-an d-;I1-corni a. Jumorjohnbullishyblidcalapsima.
AN ELOQUENT THIEF
AN ELOQUENT THIEF A man, named Crawleigh, aged trenty-tw?, a printer, was tried last week, along witta-n. associate, for a shop robbery at North Shields. Evidence was adduced on the part of Crawleigh trprove an alibi, and that the case, as far as he wi concerned, was one of mistaken identity. These vu-tnesses, however, contradicted each other in many in^ortant particulars. The jury, after a short consultatixfj found Crawleigh guilty, but acquitted Watson. Several previous con- victions were proved against Crawleigh, and amongst others it was shown that he had undergone six years' penal servitude for robbery wii violence. Crawleigh said he wished to speak to jhe courb ere they pro- nounced sentence. Addreising the chairman as "learned sir," he said thai although he (Crawleigh) had been found guilty acording. to the evidence of the jury, yet his consaence acquitted him, for he was sure that he was not the first by hundreds who had been convicted on false evidence. As an instance of this he quoted the case of Mr. Bewick, who, he said, had bee7 falsely condemned, and then afterwards was able to clear himself through the power of money. Tbn, if they turned their attention to the Bible, that bed of books, they found that many false witnesses rose ip against our Blessed Lord him- self, and if false ev-ence prevailed against that spot- less Lamb, how ntfch more might it do so with him ? He had already mdergone all the horrors of penal servitude—horror calculated to appal the soul of man, and he had not yet had sufficient time since then of producing fruit for either good or evil. Therefore, he asked to lefhis punishment go with the smallness of the present offence; for, to his inevitable grief, he found thtt English dispensers of justice passed sentence, no; according to the enormity or the con- trary of thei" offence, but to the number of past offences. Wloatever past offences he might have com- mitted-anl which were now exhibited before them —he hoped would not affect their judgment in passing 11 1 11 1 I I I sentence upon mm, BUT; tnat tney would oe looiiea upon moje as the eccentricities and follies of youth, and not cause him to again pay the penalty for offences committed some time ago. He asked them, then, oi that account to pity rather than condemn; and though the morning of his life had been stormy, yet ha hoped the afternoon might be more tranquil, and that he might have the opportunity of showing that he had many germs of virtue and usefulness which he trusted might be spared to him for many yeitfS to come. In conclusion, he would remind them of the words of the poet Burns :— Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Tho' they may gang a kennin wrong, To Step aside is human. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us; He knows each chord-its various tone, Each spring-its various bias." The chairman, addressing the prisoner, said the jury had found him guilty of the offence with which he was charged. There were other charges brought against him, which induced the beuch to think that his career had been one of continued crime. There was nothing in his case that could at all cause them to take a lenient view of it, and they thought they should scarcely be doing their duty to society were they not to pass upon him a sentence commensurate with the long list of offences they had before them and that sentence was that he should be kept in penal servitude for ten years. Crawleigh (in a tone of in- jured innocence);—"Well, sir, an evil which cannot be cured must surely be endured. I will endeavour with fortitude- The prisoner was prevented from giving further vent to his proposed heroic inten- tions, being gently removed from the dock. Watson wa3 discharged with a suitable admonition, and was immediately afterwards taken into custody by the Newcastle police on another charge.
A BATTLE-FIELD IN TENNESSEE.
A BATTLE-FIELD IN TENNESSEE. A battle-field is a sad and sickening sight. The dread contest of the day is now robbed of all its glory and chivalry. The marching hosts in hostile array, the wild tumult of battle, the din and roar of mus- ketry and artillery have died away. Its pomp and strange attractions have now departed and fail to gild the painted sepulchre, leaving nothing behind but its ghastly harvest of dead and maimed fellow-creatures. It was just night, the rain was pouring down, and the din and roar of battle had ceased. Still rose in the distance the cheer and shout of our men as they dashed after the retreating foe, mingled "with the deep boom of our guns which were still sending a Pj-rfcing shot after the enemy. I was standing on theMll upon which was enacted the bloodiest drama of thx fight. It was the hill of slaughter. The dead am djing lay thickly strewn round in all con- ceivablesi^pes> jn 01ie place were piled together the bodies of tw\ white soldiers and three coloured. They must have c]u together for shelter, and were mowed down together. -Ollack and white lay side by side just under the rebel Wt-ks; there was no distinction now —brothers in the hw gtorm of battle, they slept together in death. The,.ill presented a ghastly picture of the wreck and debns if battle. Bent and broken muskets piled beside the de»<j bodies of those who had used them—fragments of sh.n and round sbot scat- tered in every direction, with broken artillery and exploded caissons—the ground m.r ,we(3 and ploughed and scattered over with lopped ranches of trees were some of the realities that maiq up the ghastly picture; add to this the piercing troans of the wounded, whose mangled bodies wrllied in tor- turing. agony, and you have some i&.a of the horrors of a battle-field when stripped If all its pomp and tinsel. Behind the entrenchments lav the rebel dead and wounded, some crushed and torn-;n the most unsightly manner by our shot and shells. So accurate was our artillery practice tha,t our shot I-re off the laeads of some with the top of the parapet. T was attending one poor fellow whose arm had been dreadfully shattered, giving him a drink of whisky and of moiphine, when surgeon E. A. Jeinser, 5th Ohio, came over to dress his wounds. Ah, gentle- men," exclaimed the poor fellow, I have a wife and five children in Georgia, whom I had to leave helpless when, I was conscripted. Save my arm for their sake. Dr. Jeinser could hold out no hopes for him, but thought hq could save his life. I remarked the kind doctor's Christian attention to the un. fortun&te rebel wounded. But, then, our doctors, make ro distinction between friend and foe when once tiey are stricken down. Near him lay an officer vith his leg shattered and his arm torn I off from the shoulder. Though we made a bed with blancets for him he was rather sullen, and would J not allow ts to move him out of the trench where he I lay doublet up. It mattered little, for a few hours ter- I minated his earthly pain. As I rode away from this hill, over which the charnel housoi smell of death was already breathing, I saw a huge /Xentuc'kian weeping bitterly over a dead rebel. Sir." I exclaimed, look at your dead comrades lying ill around." True," he said, as he wiped his eyes /and pointed to a dead Union officer, "there is my brother, shot by this maru I shot him in return. He is my cousin and boy- hood companion. I weep for my brother and bosom friend." This is but one of the many affecting scenes I have witnessed on 1he battle-field. New iork Herald. ■■
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ASSAUJT ON A GAOLER. George Phillipswas indicted at the Central Criminal Court, Old BaiUy, on Wednesday, for felsniously wounding George Kempt, with intent to murder him. Mr. Poland prosecuted (instructed by the clerk to the justices o-'the peace for Middlesex); prisoner was undefended. The proSJOutor is a sub-warder at the House of Cor- rection, aid on the 20th of last month he went to the prisoner'^ cell and spoke to him about his book being out of ce. He said, "You are always finding fault." Witnetj left the cell without saying anything to him. Upon the following day he went to the cell again, and as h(was stooping down for a stool that was there, he recced one or two blows in the face, and then found thst he had been stabbed, and fell on the ground. y ken he got up to leave, he saw the prisoner stand- iig before him flourishing a knife which he had in his ha,nd; he then gave the alarm, and a pri- soner named Miller, who was in the passage, and had heard the prosecutor cry out, turned round and saw him come out from the cell with his hands up to his face, and blood streaming down. He said he was stabbed, and called upon Miller to shut the cell door. Miller did so, but before he shut the door said to the prisoner, "What have you done?" The prisoner said, "If he comes here again I'll show him what I have done; let him come here again." He had a knife in his right hand and a shoe in the other. He was a shoemaker. Some other evidence was given to show that after committing the act, and after being looked in his cell, he still had the knife in his hand, which he afterwards gave up to one of the warders by putting it out at the flap of the cell door. Mr. Smiles, the surgeon, said that he was called and saw the prosecutor and examined him, and found a large wound, two and a half inches long, on the right side of the chin, There was also another wound, and had it not been for the bone intervening the pro- secutor's throat must have been cut. The Jury found him Guilty; and it was proved that he had been before twice summarily convicted and twice sentenced to terms of panal servitude. Mr. Baron Bramwell now sentenced him to ten years' penal servitude.
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EXTRAORDINARY TENACITY OF LIFE The following appeared in the Gipps Land Guardian of Friday, the 23rd September Sir,—Perhaps you may consider the particulars of the following worthy of insertion. On the night of the 4th August last, a milking cow of mine, with a rope about ten yards long attached to her horns, sud- denly disappeared from her young calf, and not re- turning within a day or two it became quite evident that she must have got tied up by the rope to a cer- tain teatree scrub, where she calved. Search was in- stituted, and, after some short time, I offered zCl reward for her recovery. Suffice it to say that a diligent search for the cow was then made by many persons. In about fourteen days after that of the cow's first disappearance the search was abandoned, people believing that, if then found, she would be dead. On Monday last, the 10th inst., I saw the cows with whom the missing one usually ran looking rather remarkably into one particular part of the scrub—the supposed prison of the missing cow. I at once penetrated the scrub, and to my sudden sur- prise discovered the long-lost cow tied up by the rope, as it was supposed; she was still living and standing, but a perfect skeleton. Thus she survived for thirty- nine days without a drop of water, as the spot where she stood did not even hold surface water, and with. out food, except the teatree—about four yards in diameter-which it appears she devoured, yes, even the roots of the same as far as she could pursue them. To many persons it may seem incredulous that the cow could live thirty-nine days in such a state; but I state it as a positive fact that this cow so lived, and lived to be restored to her little offspring, which was j reared on another cow after her mother's disappear- ance. The poor thing is, as may be expected, a miser- able spectacle at present, but, I am glad to state, gradually recovering.—I beg to remain, sir, your obedient servant, "RICHARD CARDEN. "Taraville, September 14."
UNCARTING THE STAG.
UNCARTING THE STAG. The fever of excitement was then at its height. The gaping rustics stared wider than ever, the big boys stepped back a pace or two, and the little ones trem- bled, many of them wishing themselves at home again But when the fat boy squeaked the order to "Let 'im out!" there was a feeling of disappointment through- out the throng, for there were neither horses nor hounds, and those who expected to see the stag start off directly, thought he would be over Rainford-hill before they could ever get him out. On this point, however, they were presently undeceived/for though the door was opened by the old gentleman in charge, creeping cautiously along the top of the van and shoot- ing the bolt, yet no deer appeared, and those who durst take a peep in from either side, saw a rather donkeyfied-looking animal backing its hind. quarters against the far end of the vehicle, as though it wanted to be out that way. But the old gentleman in green, who had a long wbip. much at the service of the ani- mal, proceeded to administer the butt end through the ventilator; and after sundry downward thumps, pro- ducing a series of indignant snorts and stamps, it at length operated beneficially, causing him to jump out. and, head in air, to trot leisurely down the avenue of spectators, amid the derisive shouts and yells of the mob. In truth the Benicia Boy was not a very wild or imposing looking animal, his coat being dull and worn in parts, while one of its sides was powde ed with whitening aaused by a restive rubbing against the wall of its town-house in Pickering Nook. Still the Boy could go when inclined, and had given our fat friend some severe leads out, indeed on one or two occasions had been lost altogether, pr Jack Rogers having got rid of his master had pretended to lose him in order that he might indulge in a drink, and resume the sport on the following day. But the Boy was not to be depended upon- sometimes he would go, and sometimes he wouldn't, in the latter case, of course, there was nothing for it but the donkeyman's alternative that we mentioned before, of larruping him, an unbecoming proceeding with a beast of venery. All anxiety about his now immediate escape was speedily dispelled by the leisurely trot he now took about the lawn-looking this way and that, as though he hardly knew whether he would go on or come back to his box. He seemed quite easy about the matter, very unlike an animal put on trial for his life. At one time, indeed, he looked as if he would make for the garden, but there he was frustrated by the intervention of the kitchen- maid going down from the house for the vegetables. He then looked in at the dairy, and finally trotted off down the carriage drive, past the gaudy-gated lodges, and so on to the turnpike.—Mr. Romford's Hoitnds. — 4
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M. Louis Reveil, a young but already renowned French author, lately visited England. During his sojourn in London, he experienced one of the most disagreeable surprises that may be imagined for a literary man. Having read an English romance just published, and finding the work to be highly interesting, he resolved to translate it. Being struck, however, by the usual remark at the bottom of the title-page, "The right of translation is reserved," ho at once put b^nself into communication with the publisher, from wh»m he obtained, without any difficulty, the per- mission required. He went to work arduously, and having successfully terminated the rather voluminous translate left for Paris without delay. There he presentea the result of his London labour to the well- known publisher Dentu. This gentleman, agreeably surprised by M. Reveil's offer, looked over the manu- script. But scarcely had he read a few lines of the first page, when be exclaimed-" By jove, sir, you have retranslated Paid Feval's 'Fils du Diable' into French! And so it was. The London (publisher having without permission caused the cele- brated French write.s book to be translated into English, had giv-en permission to M. Reveil for its reiiranslation mte French.
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MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. The London Uamtte has the following:— BT THE QUEEN—A PROCLAMATION. VICTORIA R.-Whereas our Parliament stands pro- rogued to Friday, the 13th day of January instant, we, with the advice of our Privy Council, do hereby pub- lish and declare that the said Parliament shall be -,uec further prorogued, on the said 13th day of January instant, to Tuesday, the 7th day of February next; and we have given order to our Chancellor of that part of our United Kingdom called Great Britain to prepare a commission for proroguing the same accord- ingly and we do hereby further, with the advice aforesaid, declare our Royal will and pleasure, that the said Parliament shall, on the said Tueuday, the 7th day of February next, assemble and be holden for the dispatch of divers urgent and important affairs: and the lords spiritual and temporal, and the knights, citizens, and burgesses, and the commissioners for shires and burghs of the House of Commons, are hereby required and commanded to give their atten- dance accordingly, at Westminster, on the said Tues- day, the 7th day of February next. Given at our Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, this 7th day of January, in the year of our Lord, 1865, and in-the 28th year of our reign. 'God Save the Queen. At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 7th day of January, 1865. Present-The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. It is this day ordered by her Majesty in Council that the Parliament which now stands prorogued to Friday, the 13th day of January inst., be further prorogued to Tuesday, the 7th day of February, and that the right Hon. the Lord High Chancellor of that part of the United Kingdom called Great Britain do cause a commission to be prepared and issued in the usual manner for pro- roguing the Parliament accordingly.
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AQRICULTUEE. THE MALT DUTY.-A great aggregate meeting of agriculturists, from all parts of the country, is to be held at the Freemasons'-hall, on Wednesday, the 8th of February, for the purpose of adoptiug measures for promoting the repeal of the malt duty. Many mem- bers of the House of Commons have promised to attend and to take part in the proceedings. DURING the Prinoe of Wales' visit to Lord Walsing- ham, at Merton-hall, his Royal Highness inspected the flock of Southdowns which have conferred such celebrity on Merton of late years. In the develop- ment of this flock Lord Walsingham has spared neither labour nor expense, and his lordship has been ably seconded by Mr. Wocds, his steward. A pamphlet on the breeding of sheep, from the pen of Mr. Woods, attracted a good deal of attention in the agricultural world last spring, and the Merton flock may now be said to occupy something of the position formerly enjoyed by the Southdowns of the late Mr. Jonas Webb If the Prince of Wales, then, wishes to secure a good breed of sheep for Sandringham, it is obvious that he could not secure the stock from a better source. His Royal Highness has recently purchased also fifty Southdowns from Lord Sondes, of Elmham-in fact, his Royal Highness appears to show an increasing interest in country pursuits. A NEW SYSTEM OF FARMING.—A French savemt, M. Ville, Professor of Vegetable Physiology at the Museum of Natural History, Paris, has discovered a new system of agriculture. "High Farming without Manure is the English title given to six lectures delivered by him; but the without manure must be a mistake, because the system is to supply each plant with that which chemical analysis shows to be its chief constituent, instead of pitchforking the same manure for every crop. According to this principle wheat must be supplied with nitrogen, turnips with phosphate, and pulse with potassa. The proper com- bination of ingredients is called by M. Ville the perfect manure;" and the principle seems to be a very reasonable one that you must feed plants according to their different requirements, and for that purpose must study their organisation. The Professor claims to have gone beyond theory. By permission of the Emperor he has tested it practically on the Imperial farm at Vincennes, where marvellous results have been produced even in pure sand. The system is so all-important that no time should be lost in bringing it to the proof in England; and if the discovery really effect half what is claimed for it in these lectures, M. Ville's name will go down to posterity as one of the greatest inventors and benefactors of his age. Importation of Guano into France. A French newspaper contains the annexed state- ment respecting the reduction of duty on guano imported into France, as announced by telegraph:— Animated with the natural desire of encouraging by the stimulus of cheapness the employment of, a manure highly appreciated in rural economy, the Go- vernment of the Emperor had submitted to the Go- vernment of Peru a proposition which, without diminishing the financial resources of this Republic, would render guano from the Chincha, Island's more and more accessible to French agriculture,
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"An arrangement agreed to at Paris on Jan. 15, 1864, consented to the adoption of this proposition on the part of Peru, provided it should be adopted by the Legislature. The Peruvian Congress having recently passed a favourable vote, nothing is want- ing but the speedy arrival of the ratification of his Excellency President Pezet to fulfil the for- malities which should precede the adoption of this in- ternational act in France. But in order that our ag- riculturists may from the present time profit by the reduction of the price agreed upon between the two Governments, his Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Peru have ex- changed declarations, by virtue of which the arrange- ment of January 15, 1864, will come into operation from to-morrow, January 15, 1865. "By these arrangements a ton of guano, which now costs 325 fr. in France, will for the future only cost 310 fr. The Government of the Emperor has not hesi- tated to submit to a pecuniary sacrifice in order that French agriculturists may enjoy a reduction of price, which, without being as advantageous to them as it could have desired, possesses, however, a real import- ance, and from the present time will be received by them with gratitude."
DEATH OF JUDGE BALL.
DEATH OF JUDGE BALL. Within little more than a week after the announce- ment of his retirement from the bench, Judge Ball's death has to be recorded. He died at four o'clock on Sunday morning, at his residence, in Stephen's-green, Dublin. He was seventy-three years of age, having been born in the year 1791. The deceased-Right Hon. Nicholas Ball—was the son of a citizen of Dublin, the late Mr. John Ball, of Eccles-street. He was called to tlle bar in 1814, and soon distinguished himself as a sound and able lawyer. Heat one time enjoyed the largest share of the equity business. In 1836 he was elected member for Clon- mel, which borough he represented until 1839, when he was promoted to the bench, having in the previous year held the office of Attorney-General, and been made a member of the Irish Privy Council. He was the second Roman Catholic barrister on whom the judicial dignity was conferred after the passing of the Emancipation Act, the first having been the late Sir Michael O'Loghlen, who, after sitting for a short time in the Common Pleas, afterwards became Master of the Rolls. Judge Ball discharged the judicial duties for a longer period than any other judge in the king- dom, having been on the bench for fully a quarter of a century. The Daily Express has the following remarks upon the character of the late judge:—" The late judge exhibited, during his career at the bar, qualities which entitled him to the distinction bestowed upon him by his party. He was a sound and able lawyer, and pre- sided at some celebrated trials, in which his talents were tested and displayed. Amongst them may be mentioned the State prosecution of Mr. Gavan Duffy, and the great Mountgarrett case, in which his charge to the jury elicited the warm admiration of the eminent counsel engaged. As a practising barrister he was remarkable for great acuteness and quickness in dis- cerning the points upon which the question at issue really hanged, and in taking advantage of any circum- stances which could be dexterously turned to account. Of late years he exhibited a certain restiveness of temper and eccentricity of manner, especially on circuit, which his friends viewed with regret as indi- cative of the failure of his health, and which afforded some dissatisfaction to those who had business in his court. He possessed, however, a kindly disposition, which obtained a ready forgiveness of those recent peculiadties; and throughout his judicial life he was generally esteemed for his urbanity and as well by the bar as in private qirolee."
- A FAREWELL TO THE DAVENPORTS-
A FAREWELL TO THE DAVENPORTS- They tell me 'tis decided—yon depart! 'Tis wise, 'tis well, and not at all a pain; We had enough of your expensive art, We were the victims, and won't be again! Farewell, my Ferguson; and if for ever, Why, then, so much the better—fare thee well! Good-by, Arcadian pair of brothers—never Shall we forget the structure and the heD! Pack up your household ghosts, no longer stay; Palmer, good-bye; and thou, sweet Fay—away True, you brought in the newest thing in ptosis, The latest phantom fashions from the West; Home is not worth a rap; and Foster's boasts, Compared with yours, are shabby, second b6'45 All very fine, 0 Ferguson no doubt, But one grows tired of squeezing goblin ¡:.a.ws The spectral nigger melody's played out, And even the rope, I think, no longer draws. Dear friends—you know that you were rather cle&i-- There is a world elsewhere—then stay not here! Even at half-price your goblins charged too high Giles Scroggins never made a rap by his; Dead Caesar met his foe at Philippi, Nor asked a sixpence when he showed his pliz.. Banquo's red spectre made a splendid show; And Hamlet's dismal father, though a bore, And Mrs. Veal, as told of by Defoe, And sweet Miss Baily, famed in song of yore- All these were phantoms of the rarest merits, But, unlike yours, they came aa untaxed gnirits. Come back no more till you can utilise The unknown force,, you sell FO very high; Perhaps some day you yet may win a prize For well-trained ghosts with warrant not to shy; Nay, and the period may perchance be near When smart New England boasts some new machine, Worked all by forces from the phantom sphere: lr Shirts sown by armless fingers shall be seen, And engines fifty-ghosfl power shall be sold, And goblin ploughs turn up the toughest mould. Farewell! # Good fortune follow, though yon leave Our cherished childhood's ghosts not wort'h a but- ton; May you find idiots easy to deceive May you pursue your trade unvexed by Sutton; May no tormenting Tolmaque dog your track, No scoffer, and no Scoffern, spoil your meetings, No Oxford gownsmen hurl your structure back, No FJaneur's laugh profane your spirit greetings. Ira and William, Ferguson and bell, Palmer, Fay, structure, banjo-all farewell.
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BUONAPA 'TE'S G-ULL,-An ornithologist writes to the Times announcing-that a specimen of Buonaparte's gull has been shot at Falmouth. He says this is the first known case of the bird being found in England. Two have been shot, it seems, in Ireland, and one is Scotland. We are delighted to hear Buonaparte's gulls are such a rarity in these islands. The two Irish specimens were, no doubt, Fenian or Ultra.. montane. Their rarity is the more remarkable here, considering that in France Buonaparte's gulls may be counted by millions, and have occasionally been shot there in great numbers, particularly on the 2nd of December, 1851. JOURNALISM.—A new evening paper, entitled the Piccadilly Gazette, is announced. It will contain all to-morrow's news, probable next three days' intelli- gence (on the plan of Admiral Fitzroy's weather divi- nations), musical criticisms on all forthcoming operas not as yet composed, and theatrical criticisms on future possible performances. The last ban mot and fashionable on dit of a. fortnight hence will be in a conspicuous position, and the editor will be perpetu- ally getting himself forcibly propelled into the middle of next week, in order to arrive at the very first in- telligence on every subject of much or little import- ance. METEOROLOGICAL.—The clerk of the weather pre. sents his compliments to Mr. Punch, and begs leave to submit to him a joke which he, the clerk, has occu- pied some momeints of his leisure in concocting:— Q. Why is Admiral Fitzroy like a careful riddle' maker? A. Because a good deal of his time is taken np about a cone-and-drum (conundrum). NEW TITLE.—In consequence of recent disclosures, the Probate and Divorce Court will, we understand, be called in future the Probate and Re-probate Court. CYNIC'S MOTTO FOR KELLY'S DIRECTORY (By the permission of the author of Dead Men whom I have Knotm"),-Livillg men whom I don't want to know. NOTE BY A GENTLEMAN WITH A VERY BAD COLD. Who rwas may read."—If your eyes-run they can't read.
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• Stabbing in a Public-house.—The use of the knife is, unhappily, becoming very frequent among the Irish peasantry, who some years ago scorned it as a coward's resource. At the Duleek (county Meath) sessions, a fellow named Dorian was charged with having stabbed no less than four persons. Having entered a public-house where a scuffle was going on he received an accidental blow, and instantly drawing his knife, like a Malay running a muck, he struck indiscriminately all around him, until he was over- powered. One of his victims was wounded in startling proximity to the femeral artery; the others in the arms and backs, so seriously as to unfit them for labour for some time. The magistrates thought justice fully satisfied by imposing on Dorian a fine of 2s. 6d., and 7s. 6d. costs. An Athens letter says: Some brigands attacked near Corinth a detachment of gendarmery who were escorting a convoy of specie—containing, it is said, 50,009 drachmas. The robbers succeeded in getting possession of the whole of the money after having killed and wounded several of the soldiers. In the district of Attica the noted Kilsos has carried off a rich proprietor, on whom he has imposed a ran- som of 30,000 drachmas. As may be seen, the brigands are not much alarmed by the ordinances putting a price on their heads."