The Brecon Reporter and South Wales General Advertiser

r-ho:'('¡'3'('¡' THE NEWS BUDGET. Melancholy Occurrence at Sea.-Mr. Vaughan, the head steward of tlie royal mail steamer Atrica, ■which arrived at Liverpool on Monday, was drowned at sea on the morning of the 7th inst. The deceased was on the forecastle about 10.30 a.m., when a heavy sea struck the vessel on the port bow, and, causing her to lurch heavily, Mr. Vaughan was knocked over- board, and, though a boat was lowered immediately, the unfortunate man could not be reached in time to save his life. Death of Sir Joseph Sawle.-We have to an- nounce the death of Sir Joseph Sawle Graves-Sawle, Bart., in the seventy-second year of his age. The deceased was twice married-first, to a daughter of the Rev. Charles Prideaux Brune, MA., of Padstow, Cornwall; and second, to a daughter of Mr. James Kempthorne. of Bodmin, in the same county. He is succeeded by his son, Charles Brune Graves, who was born in 1816. The new baronet was educated at Eton, from which school he proceeded to Clare College, Cam- bridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1841. From 1852 until 1857 he represented the borough of Bodmin in the House of Commons — Coal Exports.—The following return shows the quantity of coal exported from the port of Great Grimsby during the month of December, 1864:—To France, 5,199 tons; Hanseatic Towns, 1,644 tons.; Italy, 1,373 tons; Spain, 1,158 tons; Denmark, 905 tons; Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 845 tons; Prussia, 833 tons; Cuba, 419 tons; Algeria, 345 tons; Norway, 242 tons; Sweden, 169 tons; total to-foreign ports for December, 1864, 13,132 tons corresponding month, 1863, 7,858 tons. Coastwise, December, 1864, 1,905 tons; corresponding month, 1883, 2,001 tons. Total for December, 1864, 15,037 tons; corresponding month, 1863, 9,859 tons. Increase, 1864, 5,178'tons. The Fisheries.—At the commencement of the month several hundred hogsheads of herrings; mostly -large and of excellent quality, and about m hogs- heads of mackerel, were taken on the Devon and 'Cornish coasts, and ready sales were effected at good -prices. Nearly all the boats are now laid up. This year, taken altogether, has been the mostprofitahle for the Cornish fishermen that is remembered, and fortune has by no means been absent from the Devon coast. The Cornish cellars are now Cleared and closed, the last two cargoes'of pilchards having been des- patched to Mediterranean ports last week. Death by a Blow with a Whip-halldle.-Am. investigation took place at Douglas, Isle of Man, last week, into the charge against Patrick Gallagher, a publican, of that town, of having caused the death of one Edwin Willmott, by striking him on the head with the butt-end of a whip on the 10th of December. The coroner's jury brought in a veidiot of "WÙftlt Murder" against Gallagher; but the present jury, after occupying three days in the investigation, com- mitted him to take his trial for the offence of man- slaughter only. A Girl Killed by MafiMoei^.—Mary Jane Roberts, aged 14 years, an operative, employedfttt the manufactory of Messrs. George Crosland and Sons, Lockwood, near Hudderafield, has been killed in a most shocking manner. The-deceased and three other girls went to the back of the mill to watch something which had attracted their attention, but instead, of proceeding, the deceased stayed bya, shaft which runs with considerafiie velocity in journals placed about five inches from the outside wall- of the mill, and began to amuse herself by placing her hands upon it. By some means her dress became entangled, and she was dragged between the wall and the shaft and instantly killed. The engine was stopped and her remains removed. Iron Leaf.—'The iron letter sent from Pennsyl- vania (says the Birmingham P&sty as the thinn^ sheet of iron yet rolled in the world," has edited numerous competitors inthis oo&^try, and hp^ been signally beaten. The sheet in quest'^ ^3J^e 1,000th part an inch in thickness. Messrs. James, of Bilston, have rolled some consider-oiy thinner, and some rolled by Mes^. It. Wilhwa and C<x,o*Swan Villncro Wfiatbrr^aiwich, .is IjOl'Sth part of an inch thick and ™ verJ tough. But that which at present bears a-Y the palm is some rolled by Messrs. Nevill, Kritt, and Co., of the Marshfield Iron Works, Llanelly, and is the 1,40fth part of an inehin thick- ness. ,¡ j_ j. Gunshot ID jury to the Eye. -A short time since a person of the name of John Packham was ac- cidentally shot in the right eye at a pigeos shooting match, at Upper Raynham, Kent. The right of, the eye was immediately lost, and violent inflammation fellowing upon the accident, it was found necessary to removethe-eye-ball altogether from the socket, when the shot was found buried at the back of the globe. The operation was performed by Mr. Woolcott, founder and late surgeon of the -Eent Connty Opthal- mic Hospital, and we are glad to, hoax that the patient Mooing on well. Bat alld Sparrow Club.—She meieSsbars of thi) Maiden Bradley Rat and Sparrow Societyield their Sth annual meeting the other day. From tbe repsrt of the honorary secretary it appears that <4,462 rats 1SE?" ^^SCI^SE first-class honours," having killed 1.557 rata and 244 sparrows, and consequently wo both .premiums. Since the formation of the society, fiveyears ag<vit has accounted for no fewer than 17,689 rats. Th9 members dined together. The entertainment was»a good one, and a pleasant eveningwaa spent. Shocking Boat Aeeldent.-An inquest was recently held in Cardiff on the body of Richard Dye^ first mate of the barque George of London, lying is the Penarth :Eoads. It appeared.that on the previous dav the deceased and four seamen were ^turning froin Cardiff to their vessel m a small boat, when they attaehed it by means of a rope toatravtf. which was beinj? tugged^along by a steamer. From some cause orotLrthe boat upset, .and the,five men were pre- cipitated into the water. Dyer floated upon an oar until picked up, but it was found impossible to restore animation. Another man, named',Lehure, sank to the bottom at once, and was not seen again. In the case of Dyer a verdict of Accidental Death was returned. Tasmanian Gold Fielde.—Mr. C. Triptreo, writing to the Sobart Town Mercury from Mangana, says" I am fully convinced that a remunerative gold field will yet be found here. Sere is one. fact. Three men now working in the gully I am working in obtained in six dayo2|oz. of gold,'which was purchased by Mr. Robert Carter, at Fin gal. I myself have been engaged at other work this week three days, but have managed to get enough of the coveted metal to find rations for the week. It only wants patience and P TJeath^of Lady Brougham.—LaJy Brougham it, • ,=f jjAfi n,t Brighton. Her ladys&ip had been staying at that place since August, and up to a few staying ai. w- death was m her usual health, so she intended to leave Brighton for her r^^ rilden^ However, her JadyeMp was at- taéked with and dled very-sudelenly. Lady Brougham was the daughter of -Mr. Eden (uu-v-lle of the late Earl of A-110kl&ucl and L'or'cl' I-le4i,ey). The''lameuted,lady was twice,mairied fi,,L to John Spalding, of!,I-Ioliiis, N.B.' alad-se6o'naly y in fca 1,1819, to Brougham. Her ladyship, wlio waa g seventh year, had issue by Lorcl .pro D and •daughters, one born in 1820, and who died in 1821, and the Bon Eleanor Louisa Brougham, who died bloom of youth in 1839. The iutem^nce of her lady- ahin's deasth was immediately transmitted to the, nob and learned lord, who is staying at his. residence at ,ca.nnes.. DubKn cor- respond^ of the Morning Post has the foliowmg, FSe time ago sent yoir-a renort of a case m which aeirl namedOifherinaCaferfry, was prosecuted by her master (a farmer m the Qounty of Mayo) for leaVing his aft woe without and before the is -gV exniration of the time for which Ehe was hired. The prieltof the parish st^todin tWitness box that he desired herto leave in order to preserve her virtue -She waa then fined £ 5, and an appeal was lodged o~a,-T,0f tlie decision, which was heard at Balina ISr S«s £ B WP»r»d, h„r™r »™ tte S £ *ee"be^oS™»Vrf her »a«ter, S hS M h«'"T ramaisine- Her master was severely examined to STSral conduct for the .past 13 years, and the Bev., Mr. Malono was enable to substantiate any of the itn-Dronrieties attributed to him by public report, on the faith of which he had ordered the girlto leave her situSon. The magiekates csnQrmea the de^mon witli costs. "1:w(;o=; The Work of the Liverpool Coroner.-From the return just issued by direction of the Home Secre- tary, it appears that during the past year 960 inquests had been held by the Liverpool borough coroner In 325 cases the subjects were children, and 56 of these were illegitimate 93 were persons above 60 years or age. In 13 cases verdicts of wilful murder were re- turned; in 18, manslaughter; 40, suicide; 143 were children suffocated. Six persons were sent for trial for murder on the coroner's warrant; the remaining murder cases being those in which the culprits were unknown. The beadle claims to have saved the borough Xl,384 by preventing unnecessary inquests in 658 cases. 1,618 cases of death were reported to the coroner, a large increase on atiy previous year. The Civil Tribunal of the Seine has been lately occupied during several sittings in hearing an action for a judicial separation brought by Mdme. Tandou against her husband, the well-known publisher of school-books. An inquiry into the circumstances of the case had been demanded by M. Tandou, but the Tribunal refused to grant it, and on Friday pronounced the separation. On learning the decision of the_ In- bunal M. Tandou the same evening committed suicide by hanging himself after writing letters to several of his friends stating his reasons for committing the desperate act. Another Accident in the Hunting Field. Mr. E. M. Grace, the well-known cricketer, met with a, serious accident, by which he dislocated his etbow and sustained other injuries, while out with the Dake, of Beaufort's hounds the other day. The meet took place at Gate Rocks, and the hounds having soon found a fox the running was towards Horton, Bashes, at which place Mr. Grace, in taking au awkward stile out of a road, fell from his horse, dislocating and fracturing his left elbow. His father, Mr, surgeon, of Downend, was fortunately close at hand, and at once reduced the dislocation and set the limb. An accident- happened during the same hunt to one of the duke's horses, wliich broke its back, while another horse was with soms difficulty rescued from a brook. Inundations in the Cucttsus.The Russian journals speak of terrible inundations in the Caucasus. One account says" The Laba, the Kouban, and its tributary streams have overflowed, carry mg away all; the bridges, rooting up enormous teees, and even ois- "placing rocks. The Laba had become such an lm ■petuous torrent that its current carried away to a .great distance everything before at. The anpearanc- of the country has entirely changed. The livers have left their old Ms, and made themsérves new ones; ialandscovered with trees have disappeared to the bottoms of valleys, which are filled with stones, the trunks of trees, &c. The disaster is great, and wll give a sensible blow to the industry and newly- awakenedoommerce of that unfortunate country. ew Cathedral in Ireland.—The Lord Bishop of Cork, says the Irish Times, laid the first stoce of the new cathedral of St. Finn Barr recently. The old cathedral has no pretension to architectural style, and has long since been condemned as wholly unworthy of the city of Cork, of the age, and of the sacred pur- pose to which it was dedicated. The new cathedral will be grand and spacious,-andate architecture will be in strict conformity with ecclesiastical rule, .j"0 erection of the building will cost i £ 40,000, a consider- able portion of which sum has "been coJtected. ln« Bishop of Cork placed on the stone w^ich he had well and truly laid," a donation of £ 1<M> te forwara the woiksQ well a»d happily begun.• The "STelverton Case &gain.—The -aation of libel brought by Miss Longworth againso -the pro. prietors of the mturMy Bemcw came before the Outer Ssueo of the Court of Sessions on Wans day for deb-60 on the question whether, by the,ariestment of ^rtein funds in the handa of publishers in Edin- ^ar,gh the defenders had been made aEfienable to tà0 jurisdiction of the Court of Session. The Solicitor General, for the defenders, proposed that "the record should be made up and closed before the question of jurisdiction was discussed.; and the Lord Ordinary aeeordingly appointed.parties te revieetheir pleadings. ALunatic at Windsor Castle.-For the last tw-o three days a man of eoraewba+, --foreign ap- pearance, wearing a long daft: coat almost reaching to his heels, and a sort of billy-cock hat, has been occasionally wandering about1 the precincts @ £ Windsor Castle. On Tuesday :tiie stranger made his way, it is said, to one of the castle entrances, but, as be did not speak English, could,not make himself understood to the attendants. A gentleman, hovever,tas the story goes. ,who spoke the language of the inquirer (which is said to have been German), managed to ascertain that ths poor fellow was labouring under -a delusion. The man, it seems, had asked to see the Queen, and on being informed that her Majesty was now residing at'Osborne, declared t'hat he was the husband of the Queen, who had gone away from him. He was gently ebmducted. from the castle. On Wednesday, it is stated, the stranger-visited lit. George's Chapel, arid on Friday he contrived to eni-e" thebackdóor of King Henry the Third's Tower, the residence of Colonel Sir C. A. Phipps, when he was immediately ejected. Deathoftbe OPsineess Cariboo?'—Such -c £ par readers as are interested in the history-af impos- tors will remeHiber that many years sinoea person who atyled herself the "PlJinCHsS Caraboo" -created a sensation iR the litesaafy and fashionable-circles at IBath, and -other places, which lasted till, it was dis- covered that the whole affair-was a romance cleverly sustained and acted out by a., young Mid prepessessmg girL On; being deposed from the henoars which had been accorded to her, the "-Princess" accepted the situagon -retired into oomparatively hamible lite, and, marred. There was a 'kind, .of grim ha-mour in the occupation which she -subsoonently followed-that of an importer of leeches.; but she conducted hor opera- tions with^much jsdgment and ability, aiadoarried on her trade with credit to herself and satfefaction to her customers. The quondam "Princess" ,died re- cently at Bristol,, Leaving a daughter, wiho,'like her mother, is -ssid to be ;possessed of considerable per- att-raotions. Labourers' Wages.—The. Government report on 4his subject ^ives a detail more than five hundred -cases taken from every county in England, and from the best samples that could be found of the peasantry. In the soatlMvestern eounties the rate of wages was 9s. a week; in the midland, ^romilfs. to 14s.; ÏIfYørk. shire it was 15s.; and in the northern counties it was as high as 17s.. aad 18s. But it is well known that the greatest diffearesee prevailed in the different localities as <fe> the amount and kind of food t' .alren,, and also as to the amouai-t of wages too. The labourers had fre- quejitly large families, and eychild over ten years was contributing: to the family means. On the ques- tion ,as to the best drink for 4/he labourers, whether, strong tea, at weak tea, or efirohg drink, Pm&ssor i Rolleeton was of .opinion that for real hard physical work 43trang tea was about the best thing that eould; be taken. Redpath in Fault Agaia.—The' Perth (Aus traha) qurer recports that the notorious Eedpath' who for a length of-ikne has enjojed a tieket of leave, has- been returned to the convict estaMishment for twelve months, in -consequence of insolence to the Kfev. Mr.Rostock; and he richly deserves the punish- ment. This fellow, mho is (instantly referred to in ment. This fellow, who is (instantly referred to in = all discussions relative to the convict system in, Western Australia, as shaving been treated with undue lenienoy, seams never to have fully appreciated his proper position, but has behaved in all respects as if he were a free man of unblemished character, without a,Past to deplore or a future to achieve. The case -which resulted in his punishment was a very flagrant one. Mr. Bostoek had interested himself in the formation of a Working Man's Association at Free- mantle, of which society he was president, and it was in emnectioll with, its. afiairs that the circumstances arose which eventually led to the receipt, by the rev. gentleman, of, a highly insulting message from Red- pathi who waa one of the members. The resident magistrate at Freemantle recommended that some notice should be taken of the matter, and his recom- mendation was backed by the comptroller general, the result being that the governor ordered Redpath's re- turn to the Peiial establishment for a year/as a hard labour prisoner._ ( The .Shocking Fatality a Railway.—An inquest was recently held at the Swan Ihn, Wilmslow, on the remains of Mr. J. Y. Hibbert, cloth agent, who was tun over by a railway train. Dr.Clarke, of Wilmslow, gave evidence of the complaint under which' he laboured, and for which he had prescribed an opium pill, for the purpose of inducing rest; but .the patient having been roused, in consequence of a disturbance, about one o'clock in the morning, close to his house, the opium would have the effect of increas- ing instead of subduing the nervous complaint under which he laboured, and would exert such confusion in his mind as thoroughly to account for his wandering abaiit at such a time. The driver of a luggage train- which passed about five o'clock in the morning gave e^idew tha-fc the wheels of .tsader of biq engine were in a state that left no doubt nfeoxit if, being the train ha had been driving that had passed over »«.d killed the deceased. Other evidence was given, and a letter which bad been written by the deceased the day before the fatality was put in and read, which showed that he was in a perfectly rational state at that time. The jury immediately retarned a verdict of Found killed by a Railway Train. Sale of "Wines—A sale of wines of an unusually high class, from the cellar of a nobleman, was re- cently made by Mr. T. Chapman, within his great room, No. 11, Hanover-street, Edinburgh. The sale at- tracted a large attendance of connoisseurs. Such a quantity of fine clarets has not perhaps hitherto been seen at a sale in Edinburgh. They formed the principal feature in the sale, and gave rise to com- petition, and obtained large prices. Upwards of 100 dozens realised from 98a. to 106s. per dozen. The magnums of claret, of which there were about thirty dozen, sold .from 162s. to 210s. per dozen. The "ta,ppit hens" brought 84s. and 87s. 6d. each. The port and sherry produced from 60s. to 84s. A large quantity of old whisky sold for 52a. per dozen, and the magnums of the same at. 120s. per dozen. In ail, the sale produced close on X- 1,500. Teetotallers and Brewers.-The, Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., has circulated an appeal, signed by Mr. R. Hanbury, M.P., and Mr. S. Cibve, M.P., as honorary secretaries, on behalf of the Reformatory and Refuge Union, enclosing a list of patrons, including the names of Sir T. F. Buxton, Bart., Mr. R. Han- bury, M.P., and Mr. George Hanbury. One of these circulars was sent to Sir Walter Trevelyan, Bart., the chairman of the Teetotal Alliance, who replied as fol- lows When those brewers whose names appear on the list you have sent me of the office-bearers of the Reformatory ana Refuge Union withdraw from that trade which, as one of themselves (Mr. Cha-rles Bux- ton, M.P.) has, in most forcible language, shown is on-e.of the principal causes for there being so many outcast, destitute, and homeless children for whose relief they professedly plead, I will then believe in their sincerity, and join them in their work of mercy." A Volett-no Exl-iected.The Itolie. of Turin publishes a letter from San Nicandro, near Lake 'Lesina, in the province of Capitanata, on the Adriatic, •stating that, for the last seven months, Bhocks of: earthquake have been daily felt there, that; all the houses are in a ruinous condition, that several have fallen in, and that the people are gradually emigrating from the town. To these phenomena are now added subterranean noises, and there is a general conviiYtion in the place that a volcano is about to burst into existence there, as these phenomena bear a strong re- semblance to those which precede an eruption of Mount Tesnvius. Out Shopping.—'One Mr. Wilson, a ahoeraaker at Mahurangi, New'Zealand (the north island), sends to the Southern CTvss a, letter stating that on the 5th of November two natives came into his shop and asked toisee some boots.. One of themfittedillimself j with .a pair, and said he would take them. He added that he did not intend, to pay for them; and, says the shoemaker, "as one had a-double-barrelled gun and the other a tomahawk, and I and the boys were unh- armed, I could only threaten him with the law. He laughed, and said ho did not care for-that. I believe they are two of the .prisoners that lately escaped." Death of Sir A. D. Croft.-We have to record the death of Sir Archer Desman Croft, Bart., one of the masters of the Court. of- Queen's Bench. T-,hodecemsed was the second son of the sixth baronet bythe daughter of the late Dr. Thomas Denman, and was born in Old Burlin gton. street in:1801. He was called to the bar in 1839, and was appointed to his mastership by Lord Ben man. He is succeeded in his baroaetcy by his son, Herbert George Desman, who was born in 1838. The mastership in the Court of Queen's ',Beneb, which becomes vacant by his death, is in the hands of Sir Alexander Cockbu-rn, Bart., the Lord Chief-Justice. Settlement of North Australia.—The South -.Australian Government have dispatched a second sp&rty of men, forty in number, to assist Mr. Finniss in the work of surveying the new country. It has loon determined also to ask the Heme Government for the services of a small force of infantry, who could be sent to North Australia from India, the term's o .payment being arranged in accordance with the regu- lations lately enforced by the War Office. This would •fee a great protection to the young sottlement, and' would probably do much towards its establishment by causing strangers to go there from the adjacent islands. In connection with this subject, suggestions have been started to the effect that a Creole emigration from the Isle of Bourbon to North Australia should be brought about by those who are interested in the new colony. lIt is said that there is a useful population quite ready /to move from the one country to the other. The Pattern and Sample Post.—Among the ^patterns and samples sent from the country to London by the post in one month of the year 1864-the first complete year ef the inland pattern post system- were 136 packages of tea, 178 of sugar, 907 of alpaca and stuffs, 52S of cloth, 320 of silks, 189 of corn, and smaller numbers of samples of buttons, .pipeclay, oil- cake, ladiee dresses, hair, drugs, glue, stays, ■ belts, caps, boots and shoes, beans, candles, shawls, flour, china, bricks, slippers, pincers, a cribbage-board, potatoes, feathers, lozenges, hay, tallow, gasfitt-ings-, eardrops, and ahosir of other carious and useful i articles, too many to be told. Robbing the Post-oiffce. -Robert Goodwill Tryon,a.n auxiliary letter-carrier and sorter in theE.C. district office, was charged at Bow-street with stealing several parcels which had passed through the post. The prisoner had been Suspected, and was consequently watched while preparing letters for stamping. He was seen to secrete a parcel in his sleeve, and was taken to the comptroller's room, and accused of the theft. He then produced the parcel, which contained three gold rings, and was addressed to a watchmaker. He was afterwards searched, and a number of letters containing valuable articles were found upon him and in his uniform coat. The prisoner, it seems, was very well connected, but dissipation had lost him the coun- tenance of his friends. He then served-in the army of the United States, and returned wounded. Ha had sinee been employed as an auxiliary letter-carrier. His only defence was .poverty. He was eemmitted for trial. Compensation for a Railway A,ccident.- In the Court of Common Pleas the case of Foy v. the London and Brighton Railway Company has been heard. This was an action brought under these cir- cust£,ncl! s :-Mrs. Foy was a passenger from Croydon tg London, and when the train arrived in London the station was full of traffic, and the carriages could not get to the platform. A porter told her to alight, when the carriage stopped, and a gentleman having I volunteered assistance, she took hold of his hand and umped to the line. Damages were asked upon the .ground tsbat Mrs. Foy had suffered special injury' through the jump. At the court at Guildford the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—damages, JB500. Mr. :Bovill now moved for a rule to enter a verdict for the defendant, on the ground that the injury sustained by Mrs. Foy resulted from her own conduct-as there was no necessity for her to jump from the carriage on to the line. The Court, however, held that it was a question for-the jury, and refused the rale. The Fall of a Warehouse.—An alarming ac- cident,. involving great loss of property, occurred j a few days ago at Butler's-wharf, belonging to Messrs. | Brandon Brothers, wharfingers, at the Waterside, Horsleydowji, by the falling of a newly erected bonded warehouse, fiveatoreys high. The building has just; been completed by Mr. Dickers, builder, and bore, every appearance of great solidity and strength, the floors being supported by iron pillars and girders. Owing to the influx of, business, the firm were com- pelled to warehouse cargoes of vessels before the h^ldipg was actually completed. Indeed, there were masons and bricklayers engaged in the place at the time of the accident. Fortunately there was sufficient warning. to enable the people to escape. A loud cracking was heard in the river frontage wall, and on the men looking upwards they witnessed the floors bulging downwards, and they succeeded in gettiBg into the street, when the whole fabric fronting the river fell into the water, bringing with it several thousand bags of rice. The land side of the structure remains intact., There were several extraordinary escapes. The prevailing opinion as to the cause of the accident is that it was occasioned by the excessive weight ware- housed on the floors. An Abduction Case.—Some nights since, at a place near Crossmaglen, in the county Armagh, an orphan girl, named Morgan, about eighteen years of age, and entitled to some acres of land, was carried away by an armed mob of between twenty and thirty fellows, who brought her to the house of a small farmer in the neighbourhood, an old fellow upwards of fifty years of age, who, to possess himself of the small patch of land in quesiion, devised the plan of -N- Beeu-ring tu, and by V-.o-r^g her in his house, thereby thought to bo able to liis own terms; The poor girl struggled violently against lor abduc- tors, and even bit the hand of one ruffian so s^ereiy that she was able to identify him by the mark trie next day. The active sub-inspector of the district heard next day of the matter, and rescued the unfor- tunate girl from her disagreeable position. Upon her information some six or eight fellows were arrested and brought before Mr. Johnson, J.P., who committed them. Hoarding Money.—A few days ago a working man of Lewes (one of whose aged parents died a short time before) presented himself at the bank of Messrs. Whitfield and Co., and inquired the rate of .interest for deposits. Having been satisfied upon this point, he emptied upon the counter a basket of gold, which was found to be of no less than X-1,150 in valae, the coins consisting of sovereigns and half-sovereigns. The bankers were very naturally somewhat surprised to receive such a deposit from so unexpected a quarter. The explanation, however, was soon tendered. The depositor's parents, industrious, steady people, it seemed, had been accumulating this sum during the whole of their lifetime (having lived considerably beyond the span of threescore years and ten), and had carefully kept it secreted at the bottom of a large clothes-box in their cottage. The death of the wife rendering an alteration in the domestic arrangements necessary, brought to the knowledge of the surprised family the fact of their accumulated wealth, and led to its being deposited in a place of greater security, and under more profitable circumstances. An inquest was recently held in Upper East Smithfield on the body of Mary Ann Cochran, a,gcd forty-three years. From the medical evidence ii, ap- peared that the deceased died, from exhaustioil. and wan't of proper nourishment shortly after giving birth to her twenty-first child. The jury returned a verdict of Natural death, accelerated by the want of stimu. la-uts and nourishment at the time of childbirth." A painful yet somewhat romantic incident has marred the happiness of a wedding couple. Mr. Croft, only son of Sir Archer Denman Croft, was married on Tuesday week at Wevhill, Hants, to the eldest daughter of Mr. Marsh, the liberal M.P. for Salisbury. The same evening Sir Archer died very suddenly, from an affection of the heart, at his house in London. Thus the bride on her wedding day under- went three changes of designation. In the morning she was Miss Marsh, in the afternoon Mrs. Croft, and at night Lady Croft. The deceased baronet'?, mother was the sister of the late Lord Denman. About six years ago a Mr. Towner lost a, black mourning ring, while bathing in the sea at Newhaven, and after instituting a careful search for it gave up all hopes of recovering it. On Sunday morning last, as a. bricklayer named Baker was walking along the beach, he picked up the ring, and it having Mr. Towner's name on it, he took it to him, and received 10s. as'his reward. It is a curious circumstance that the ring should again be found, after being lost for so long a. time, and after hundreds of tons of beach had been drawn away for the concrete work of the new battery. Colonel Broe'km&ri, who, in conjunction with some other gentlemen, have taken up the cause of Mrs. M'Dermott, attended before Mr. Selfe on Tues- day, and gave in writing his version of the character of the mother and her family and the conduct of the priests. As the matter is to come before some public tribunal, we need not enter into this correspondence further than to note that the writer says that Mrs. M'Dermott is in a dying state from excitement and grief at the loss of her daughter. Gale at Portam- oath. On Saturday morning there was a strong gale blowing at Portsmouth. The danger flag was hoisted, all boats being prohibited from leaving ships. Old sailors state that, during the past twenty-five years, the harbour has never been so rsugh and disturbed. A rumour reached the above ,port that no less than three vessels were stranded on eke Woolmers, near Langston Harbour. One vessel, a brigantine, was seen in great distress, and we are informed that she foundered with all hands on board. Several men were seen clinging to her masts just before she sank. The Comet, steam-tug, with a party of dockyard riggers, went out to assist the vessel in -.question, but nothing could be seen of her. Particu- larb as to this wreck are not as yet known. During [ the week the gale has existed, and much anxiety has | been felt for the fate of ships. The part of the coast I where this ship foundered is, perhaps, the most dan- | gerous e,longthe-extre-me southern shore. Horse "Warranty.—An action was brought in the | Superior Court, by Mr. Percival against Mr; Oldacre, | for an alleged breach of warranty of a horse. It ap- ( peared that the plaintiff and the defendant are horse [ dealers at tie west end of the town, and in the early part of the year 1863 the plaintiff purchased a grey [ horse, the property of the defendant, for JJ65, ihe ( defendant describing tke horse as "a good harness horse," and that it was sold because it could not be matched to suit Baron Rothschild. It turned out, however, that when the horse was put into harness, although he was a good stepper and looked well, he kicked violently, and that he broke a buggy to pieces, and committed other acts of YÎolencewneJilever he was placed in harness, thereupon the plaintiff wrote -co the defendant, calling upon him to take the horse 'back, as the representation respacting it was incor- rect. The defendant made no reply to this letter, whereupon the Pla-intiff Sent the horse to Aldridge's Expository, where it was eold for .£40, and then the present action was brought. There was no intention charge the defendant with having made a fraudulent .Bepresenta.tion of the horse; but the plaintiff's ground or action was., that as the defendant's representation that the horse was a good horse in harness" was net correct, he was bound to return the plaintiff the nsoney which w«.s paid for the animal. The evidence given in support of the plaintiff's case»-fulty bore out the facts stated, and the jury found a. verdiot for the -plaintiff—damages, s62S. STew South Wales B-ush, angers.-On tle 16th of Movember the -Gunda«:ai mail was stuck up," says the Sidney Herald, by Hall, Gilbert, and Dunn. The mail coach was under the escort of Sub-Inspector ■OWeill and Sergeant Parry, who saw the bushrangers on the top of a kill near Black Springs, between Jugiong and Gundagai. The police approached the fedshrangers, who retreated, than suddenly turned round and firooonthe police. Shots were exchanged until Parry had discharged his revel vets, when Gilbert called upon him to surrender. Parry said he would die first, and was taking off his rifle to fire when Gilbert shot him dead, the ball entering his right and passing out of his left side. Sab-Inspector O'Neill, after firing all his ammunition, struck Hali with his empty, weapon. A constable, who was armed and in a coach, bolted, it is said, in a most cowardly manaer. The bushrangers had a number of teamsters and others bailed up, and those who had the opportunity of witnessing the affray say that O'Neill and Parry acted most courageously, and the bushrangers, who were literally belted with' revolvers, fought desperately, and eventually took- erery valuable enclosure from the mail bags. Locusts.-Adviees'whieli are anything but satis- factory have .been received from Senegal to the 18th December:—In addition to the scarcity which during a part of'the year depopulated Cayor ahd Saloum, other scourges have fallen on the colony. A. disease I t th prevails throughout the country among the cattle and horses, and what is still more terrible the locusts have invaded Lower Senegal in greater numbers than1 was ,ever before remembered. The crops of millet and other productions on which the natives ■nririrtfnn.lltr I depend for food have been almost entirely destroyed. The cotton, crops have also suffered severely, the loss being estimated at about three-fifths. In order to give an idea of the innumerable quantity of these in- sects, one fast is mentioned. The steamer Archimede, having General Faidherbe, the governor, on board, was lyin III the river, when a cloud of locusts pro- ceeding inland made their appearance, and were so thick that they prevented the shore from being seen from the vessel. From the morning until near sun- set they kept passing, and the column must have been at least fifteen leagues in length. The black-farmers are in despair at this visitation, but the Moors, who attend little to agricultural occupations, pay less at- tention to the destruction done by the locusts, as they kill an immense quantity of them and prepare them as a food, of which they are fond. y Indecent Assault in a Railway Carriage.— At the Hull Police-court, a farmer, named George Burnham, residing at Burst wick, was fined 40s. and costs, by Mr. T. H. Travis, stipendiary magistrate,-for interfering with the comfort of Mrs. Taylor, a passenger, on the 3rd inst., in one of the North Eastern Railway Company's trains between Hull and Ottrinprhaan, Holderness. Although he was only charged in this manner, the magistrate said he regretted that he had not been accused of au indecent assault, as he would then have been erabled to inflict a penalty of £ 5 or £ 10. It appears that Mrs. Taylor travelled third-class, and the defendant sat next to LU her in the sa,me compartment. Scarcely had the train started before he commenced annoying her, and, desrpito her entreaties and threats, he continued his disgracbi-al conduct until she exchanged places with one of the passengers. Defendant put bis arm under her shawl, pinclied her arm, and finally raised her dress and laid his hand on her leg. He smiled, and seemed to think that outraging a married woman's feelings was fine sport. He coolly infcrirod the magis- trate that railway travelling was getting so dan- gerous that he must in future travel to and from Hull another way. Singular Bigamy Case.—At the Preston Police- court a bigamy case was heard last week presenting some most extra.ordinary features. The offender was a man named Henry Greenwood, an engine tenter. Eighteen years ago he was married at Penwortham, hear Preston, to a woman named 5a1"ah Nowsham, who had four children to him five years sirco he left her, but had her more or less every week since, somewhere in the town; and on the 4th instant he married another woman named Grace Coward, who had had one chili to him during a previous cohabita- tion. He is also the father of fifteen other children —all illegitimate. When apprehended he said he was tired of living with a second wife. The charge was I preferred by the first wife, and it was stated that, when he married his second wife she knew quite well that there was another rival in the field. Ho was committed to Lancaster Assizes for trial.

itontat ani) CmxritrD gtaheis. Money Market CITY, 7AS IS.-The stock markets are again dull to-day. It would appear that the introductIOn of new securities is still causing sales of the old. In the other markets the ten- dency of prices is likewise slightly unfavourable, but there is no general change of importance. The discount market is rather quieter to-day, yet there is no disposition, to take the best bills below 5§- per cent. The supply of money is largo. The charge for loans on English Government Se- curities from day to day in the Stock Exchange is 4 to H per cent., with a moderate inquiry.—Consols are now quoted 89 to t, for money, and 89 to 90, for the account (Februarys). The official business report is as follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 8Ð, 1, f, f; ditto foi-account, 90; Three per Cents. Reduced, S8i,89, SSf; New Three per Cents., 88i, 89, 88; Bank Stock, 242; India Five 'per Cent. Stock, 103i-, 104,103J; ditto Four per Cent., 98§, J; Five-and-a-Half per Cent, "enfaced" rupee paper, 109 £ j and Exchequer Bills, par., 4s premium.— The railway market is inactive to-day. London and North- Western stock is now quoted 121-J to Great Western, SOl to 81-j; Midland, 138g to 139 £ Lancashire and Yorkshire, 116 to 4; South Eastern, 87 to Great Eastern, 47| to -J; Great Northern, 134 to 135; Caledonian, 13g to 132; London and South Western, 98i to t; and Metropolitan, 127 to i.

HOPS, BOROUGH, JAN. 18.—Messrs. Pattanden and Smith report the market continues in the same quidt, but firm, state which has characterised it for the last fortnight. Good samples are very scarce. COTTON, LJVEBPOOL, JAIT. IS.—The market quiet and unchanged. Sales probably 5,000 bales. TALLOW, JAN. 18.—The market is firm. Town tallow is quoted 41s 3d net cash; Petersburg Y.Cl on the spot 41s 6d; January, 41s 6d; March, 42s 3d to 4ge 6d; April to June 42s 6d; October to December, 43s 6d. c, HAY, SMITHFIELD, JAN. 17.—Messrs. Harvey and Easton report trade fiftn at the following prices Prime hay from 95s to 110s. Prime clover, old, 110s to-130s. Straw, 27s to 34s. FRUIT AND VEGETABLES, COVEHT-SABDEN.—English and foreign fruit and vegetables supplied in quantities suffi- cient for the demand., Pears, consisting of Knbt's Monarch Passe Colmar, Burre d'Aremberg, Winter Nelis, Glou iuor. ceau, Easter Beurre, and others, may now be had in ex- cellent condition. Apples may also be obtained abundantly. Grapes are sufficient for the demand. Of pine anr.lw ^;e is "J Plentiful supply. Kent cobs fetch from' 70s to 80s per lOClbs. Walnuts are very plentiful, and oranies are abundant and cheap. Some seaiale, asparagus, and forced kidney beans may now be had. Materials for sakda a supply is oMamed daily from Paris. Lemons 1^1,? tc Ss per 100.. New potatoes, reahse 2s 6d pe lb Flowed chiefly consist of orchids, heaths, Chinese' n!iS tulips, azaleas, camellias, mignonette, and roses PhS apples, per Tc. 5s to 8s j Grapes, per lb', & to lO^ Metos Is to 4s; Pears, per dozen, Is 6d to 6s OranaSf per 100, 4s to 8s; Lemons, pr 100, 5a to 8s; Nuts 70s to 80s per lOOlba.j Brazil, 14s per bush,; Almonds' 18s to 203 per bush.; Apples per sieve. Is to2s; Cabbasresner doz.. Is to 2s; French Beans per 100, 2s to3s; Potatoe? lorK Kogonta, per ton, 80s to 100j.; Hooks, do .60s ffl Flukes, 90s to 120s; Carrots, per bunch, 4d to 9d; TWITM per bunch, 4d to 6aCucumbers, each, la to 2a • doz., Is 6d to 2s j Shaiots, per lb., 8d j Garlic ner lh £ ? Lettuces, each, Id to 2d; Endive, per score, is to 2« Id Horseradish, per bunch, Is to 4s; Mushrooms nar «««■' Is to Is 9d; Parsley, per 12 b,mehes» 3s to 4S; HerbsfpoV bunch. 6d. -Herbs, per

Cattle Market. METBOPOLITAN, JAN. 16.-The supply of beasts is not quite so large as on Manday last; however, the dem-nl^a smaller, and that day's quotations are not; reaH«n? ™ number of sheep is larger, and tde dead mark-+a if,l h<? sequently we have a reduction in prices wi th o °?n" Good calves are still scarce and dear. From fL e; Holland there are 1,071 beasts, 950 sheen Scotland, 440 beasts; Ireland, 400 • calves; 1,790; Western counties, 150 • and 560 f^ tv'11 and Midland counties. 560 from the Northern Per stone of 81bs, a. d. B. d. Best Soots, Rfds. 5 2 5 6 Best Short-horns 4 10 5 2 2nd. qual. beasts 3 0 4 6 Calves. 4 0 5 10 Pigs 3 4 5 0 BestDns&i-bdss. 5 8 6 0 Per stone of Slbo. a. d. s. d Best Long-wools 5 4 5 6 Do. do. shora 0 0 0 8 Ewes k 2d. qual, 4 2 4 8 Do. do. shorn. 0 0 0 0 L ambs o q q q ■85j Pi^^S4^EPAADL^15'930J Cai?9# The Produce Market. ab^^rarti^J-4^- 16. — Sugar/ although obtain- T Pre^10«s reduced terms, is cautiously Sas€fi'an<i offerefl for Salc; Mauritius, of brown t uahty, sells at 24s 6<3 to 30s; yellow and refining, 30s 6d to ■j4s grainy, 33s to 40s; Clayed Manilla, 28s to 29s • Tfo, vannah brown, 28s to 30s 6d; yellow, 31s to 37s; Florets I? 4,°3; whlfce» 41s to 43s; date Bengal, 23s to 34s • white, 353 to 38s, an<J grainy, 35s to 42s per cwt. Refiw Sugar cheaper and cautiously purchased; brown lmntfe 43s 6d; common to fine grocery, 44a to 46s tattlers, 44s to 47s. There are sellers nP 'w Molasses at 13s 6d to 15s 6d; and Df made Treacle at 15s to 18s.—Demand for Coffpo loo nished, and prices have rather given wav XdlMi" favourable deliveries, and stock not in „r'°?g3i year. The closing currency to-day last to superior Native Ceylon, {.-6s to 72s • ^o^nnoE ordinary to nucl. 7»s to Kls; better oni-f qk V /i"t Neilgherj-y and Tellicherry, 72a to 'p t-.° 9"s; dull of sale and lowering in value rea ^9°°^ still 57s to 90s,- grey, 52s to 56s and ftraml S f s„eAlhnfe' at though extensive public sales of Chim To, 60s.—Al- still rates sustained with a fair announced, Congou being most in demand ■ of^ lffef6™ superior reduced.-The Spice marketIs s«PPlyis greatly Friday's report, and mariv et a,* the terms qnoted in Eice continues to be exten^ivol'v -S are, anilouncecl.— prove, low to fine white 111 ,af, Prices to im- Madras, 9s 9d to lis 6i • to 14s 6d; Market strong for Provisi™* « ^la?n' 83 6d to 9s 9d.— 126s to 128s, and Irish fecon 5feB?tter brini?s cheaper, and oiv in to G3s.-Saltpetre is rather cutta, 31s to 32s 6d. demand; common to fine Cal- ♦——— —.

Ea?ton day the late Dr. KlrnTUlr' ,m makin& his annual visitation^ came across a boy, about four years of age, who a ftp 4 .™«™*»»diljr enough maDyrf Wimple'qS tions put by the doctor concerningr Scripture cliarar- ters, seemed fairly puzzled with My little man. do you know who ate the forbidden frizi'. P Thg boy seemed perplexed, evidently thinking that there were two ways of answering the question, and dubious which lie should adopt. At last the doctor said VVaa it not Eve?" "Aye," said the boy, it waa Eve but ye ken Adam took a bite! i-7e, dm