The Brecon Reporter and South Wales General Advertiser

CIRCUIT OF THE JUDGES. The following days and places have been appointed for holding the Spring Assizes in 1865:— NORFOLK. The Right Hon. the Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Williams. RUTLANDSHIRE.—Tuesday, February 28, at Oakham. LEICESTERSHIRE.—Wednesday, March 1, at the Castle of Leicester. BOROUGH OF LEICESTER.—The same day, at the borough of Leicester. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.—Monday, March 6, at Northampton. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.—Thursday, March 9, at Aylesbury. BEDFORDSHIRE.Monday, March 13, at Bedford. HUNTINGDONSHIRE.—Thursday, March 16, at Huntingdon. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. Saturday, March 18, at the County Courts. SUFFOLK.—Wednesday, March 22, at Bury St. Edmunds. NORFOLK.—Monday, March 27, at the Castle of Norwich. CITY OF NORWICH AND COUNTY OF THE SAME CITY.-The same day, at the Guildhall of the said city. HOME. The Right Hon. the Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Baron Bramwell. HERTFORDSHIRE.—Monday, March 1, at Hertford. ESSEX.—Monday, March 6, at Chelmsford. KENT.—Monday, March 13, at Maidstone. SussEx.-Monday, March 20, at Lewes. SURREY.—Monday, March, 27 at Kingston-upon-Thames. MIDLAND. Mr. Baron Martin and Mr. Justice Willes. WARWICKSHIRE.—Tuesday, February 28, at Warwick. DERBYSHIRE.—Saturday, March 4, at Derby. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.—Thursday, March 9, at Nottingham. TOWN OF NOTTINGHAM.—The same day at the town of Nottingham. LINCOLNSHIRE.—Tuesday, March 14, at the Castle of Lincoln. CITY OF LINCOLN.—The same day, at the city of Lincoln. NORTH AND EAST RIDING DIVISION OF YORKSHIRE.— Saturday, March 18, at the Castle of York. CITY OF YORK.—The same day, at the Guildhall of the said city. WEST RIDING DIVISION OF YORKSHIRE.—Saturday, March 25, at Leeds. WESTERN. Mr. Justice Crompton and Mr. Baron Channell. WILTSHIRE.—Monday, February 27, at Devizes. SOUTHAMPTON.—Thursday, March 2, at the Castle of Win- chester. DORSETSHIRE.-Thursclay, March 9, at Dorchester. DEVONSHIRE. Monday, March 13, at the Castle of Exeter. CITY OF EXETER.—The same day, at the Guildhall of the same city, CORNWALL.—Nonday, March 20, at Bodmin. SOMERSETSHIRE.—Saturday, March 25, at Taunton. COUNTY OF THE CITY OF BRISTOL.—Friday, March 31, at the Guildhall of the said city.

CIRCUIT OF THE PRINCIPALITY OF WALES AND COUNTY PALATINE OF CHESTER. NORTH WALES. Mr. Justice Byles and Mr. Justice Blackburn. MONTGOMERYSHIRE.—Wednesday, March 8, at Welchpool. MERIONETHSHIRE.—Monday, March 13, at Bala. DENBIGHSHIRE.—Friday, March 17, at Ruthin. ANGLESEY.—Wednesday, March 22, at Beaumaris. CARNARVONSHIRE.—Saturday, March 25, at Carnarvon. FLINTSHIRE.-Wednesday, March 29, at Mold. CHESHIRE.—Saturday, April 1, at Chester. SOUTH WALES. PEMBROKESHIRE.—Friday, March 3, at Haverfordwest. TOWN AND COUNTY OF HAVERFORDWEST.—The same day, at the town of Haverfordwest. CARDIGANSHIRE.—Tuesday, March 7, at Cardigan. CARMARTHENSHIRE.—Friday, March 10, at Carmarthen. COUNTY OF THE BOROUGH OF CARMARTHEN. The same day, at the borough of Carmarthen. GLAMORGANSHIRE.—Wednesday, March 15, at Swansea BRECNOCKSHIRE.—Monday, March 27, at Brecon. RADNORSHIRE.—Wednesday, March 29, at Presteign. OXFORD. Mr. Justice Keating and Mr. Baron Pigott. BERKSHIRE.—Saturday, February 25, at Reading. OXFORDSHIRE.—Wednesday, March 1, at Oxford. WORCESTERSHIRE.—Saturday, March 4, at Worcester. CITY OF WORCESTER.—The same day, at the city of Wor- cester. STAFFORDSHIRE.—Thursday, March 9, at Stafford. SALOP.—Monday, March 20, at Shrewsbury. HEREFORDSHIRE.—Saturday, March 25, at Hereford. MONMOUTHSHIRE.—Wednesday, March 29, at Monmouth. GLOUCESTERSHIRE.—Saturday, April 1, at Gloucester. CITY OF GLOUCESTER.—The same day, at the. city of Gloucester. NORTHERN. Mr. Justice Mellor and Mr. Justice Shee. WESTMORELAND.—Monday, February 20, at Appleby. CUMBERLAND.—Tuesday, February 21, at Carlisle. NORTHUMBERLAND.—Saturday, February 25, at the Castle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. TOWN OF NEWCASTLE-upow-TYNE.-The same day, at the Guildhall of the said town. DURHAM.—Wednesday, March 1, at Durham. LANCASHIRE.-Monday, March 6, at Lancaster. LANCASHIRE.-Friday, March 10, at Manchester. LANCASHIRE.—Thursday, March 23, at Liverpool.

MOVEMENTS OF THE BRITISH ARMY. The period has now arrived when the movements of regiments during the year 1865 may be anticipated with something approaching to accuracy. With re- spect to the foreign reliefs we indicated a plan last August by which the seven infantry regiments stand- ing first for foreign service might be sent out strictly in their turn, without obliging those that last re- turned from India to proceed again to the same station. This plan will be found to be substantially followed by the authorities in their arrangements for the year. The 32nd, 84th, 78th, and 29th, which head the roster, will proceed to the Mediterranean, the 32nd and 78th in all likelihood to Gibraltar, and the 84th and 29th to Malta. The four regiments that they will replace at these stations will be sent-two to Canada, to relieve the 1st battalion 17th and the 63rd, whose period of foreign service has more then ex- pired, one to the Cape to replace a corps to be sent to India, and one to the Mauritius to replace a batta- lion also going to India. It is likely that the 4th battalion of the Rifle Brigade will go from Gibraltar to the Cape, taking the place of the 96th; the 2nd battalion 7th Fusileers from Malta to Canada, reliev- ing the 1st battalion 17th; the 2nd battalion 15th from Gibraltar to Canada, relieving the 63rd and the 2nd battalion 8th from Malta to the Mauritius, re- placing the 2nd battalion 24th, going to India. The foreign moves ma y be thus summed up :-32nd, Ire- land, to Gibraltar, vice 4th battalion Rifle Brigade to the Cape, vice 96th to India, vice 44th home 84th, Ireland, to Malta, vice 2nd battalion 7th Fusileers to Canada, vice 1st battalion 17th to England; 78th High- landers, Ireland, to Gibraltar, vice 2nd battalion 15th to Canada, vice 63rd to England 29th, Ireland, to Malta, vice 2nd battalion 8th to the Mauritius, vice 2nd battalion 24th to India, vice 72nd Highlanders bom6; 26th to India, vice 54th home; 41st to India, vice 56th home; 49th to India, vice 2nd battalion 18th Royal Irish home. The embarkations for the Mediterranean will commence about June, the two arrivals from Canada may be expected in July 6r August, and those from India in the spring of 1866. Before these last, seven battalions will return from India, of which five are now on their passage, and their reliefs sent out; and two more, the 89th and 66th, will not be relieved, in consequence of the diminution of the European forces in Bengal by two battalions. The regiments now on passage from India will be quartered as follows on their arrival, which will probably be in the following order :-The 28th at Devonport, the 52nd at Dover, the 48th at Shorncliff, the 71st at Edinburgh, and the 81st at Portsmouth. Of the seven battalions next to embark for foreign service, six are withdrawn from Ireland, and the following are likely to be sent to supply their place:—The 1st battalion, 2nd Queen's, from Devon- port the 1st battalion, 3rd Buffs, from Sheffield; the 1st battalion, 8th, from Manchester; the 2nd battalion, 1st Royals, from the Channel Islands; the 37th, from Dover; and the 1st battalion, 24tli. The 73rd will probably go to the Channel Islands, in place of the 1st Royals. The following battalions are likely to be moved up to Aldershott in the course of the spring and early summer:—The 92nd, from Glasgow; 1st battalion, 13th, from Dover; 69th, from Ports- mouth and the 1st battalion, 21st, from Portsmouth. The early departures from the camp will include the 2nd battalion, 60th Rifles, 59th, and 73rd; and later in the season, the 1st battalion, 14th, 62nd, and 39th, which were sent up to the camp immediately upon their arrival from abroad, may also expect a turn of service in a garrison town.-Ai-)iby and Navy Gazette. ♦

Plain Enough.—A gentleman, praising the per- sonal charms of a very plain woiuan in the presence of Foote, the latter said, And why on't you lay claim to such an accomplished beauty ?" "What right ha-ve I to her?" exclaimed the gentleman. "Every right, by the law of nations," replied Footq every right, as tbe first discoverer.

-=- THE CASE OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK The case of the Queen v. Rumble, involving the question of illegal foreign enlistment, occupied the Court of Queen's Bench the greater part of last week. Mr. Bovill, Q.C., at the close of Friday's proceedings, opened the case for the defence. He proceeded to show that Mr. Rumble had nothing to do with the Confederate or Federal service. The evidence did not prove that he knew the ship was in the Confederate service as a man-of-war. He did not know it until he arrived at Calais-the time when every one else knew it; and the reason of his going to Calais was, beeause several tradesmen in Sheerness, on whose behalf he (Mr. Rumble) was to some extent responsible, had not been paid. With respect to the arrangements with the men, Mr. Rumble, being well known to the men, was applied to, and he recommended them to Captain Ramsey. The learned gentleman, in conclusion, said they were not to be led away by such witnesses as had been before them-treated with drink, as they had been, for a twelvemonth since-but to reject such evidence, and not to stamp Mr. Rumble, who had served her Majesty for the last twenty years, and was entitled to a pension, with having been engaged in any way with the enlistment for the American service, but show the American Government and the world that they would return a verdict which would do honour to an English jury. The learned counsel having con- cluded his address, the Court adjourned, and on Saturday morning the case was resumed, and evidence for the defence was heard; and the Solicitor-General having replied on the part of the Crown, the Chief Justice summed up. The jury, after a short consul- tation, found a verdict for the defendant. After the case was concluded the jury applied for an additional remuneration, as they had been engaged four days on the trial. The Solicitor-General agreed to allow them four guineas each.

A BANKRUPT'S EFFECTS STOPPED BY A CREDITOR. In the Court of Exchequer a plaintiff, named Miller, brought an action nominally against Messrs. Baxen- dale and Co., the well-known carriers, but really against the assignees in bankruptcy of a person of the name of Jones, they having given Messrs. Baxendale an indemnity against costs and damages for the defence set up by them to the action. The trial of the case, which was part heard on Friday, was resumed at the sitting of the court on Saturday morning. It appeared from the evidence that the plaintiff, after his return from Australia, some seven or eight years ago, for a short time assisted his father in his business, and subsequently he married and went to re- side at Forest-gate. He afterwards removed to Buck- hurst-hill, where he commenced business with his own money and with moneys which he alleged he received withhis wife. The house at that place bting a small one, part of plaintiff's goods and furniture were, as alleged, taken by his father's carman to the above-named Jones's residence in the New-road, Cannon-street, Commercial-road, and were, as alleged, used by Jones as his own furniture. Jones is an uncle by marriage of the plaintiff. There being a desire, as alleged, on the part of the plaintiff and his wife to reside at a sea- side town, negotiations were entered into for the purchase of the boot and shoe business at Folkestone of a Mr. Le Back, and they ended by the plaintiff, as we understood, being installed in his new occupation, he having previously carried on business at Buck- hurst-hill as a glass and crockeryware dealer. In October last Jones (a boot and shoe dealer), gave a bill of sale of his goods and furniture to the plaintiff, and the whole of his property in ninety- six packages was removed from his residence in the New-road, and delivered to the agents of the defendants for conveyance to Folkestone. The packages bore the direction cards of Jones, but it was alleged that the property belonged to the plaintiff, in consideration of the assignment and the money ad- vanced by him to Jones. The execution of the bill of sale by Jones was an act of bankruptcy, and proceed- ings were taken against him to recover the property, which he had assigned to the plaintiff, for the benefit of his creditors, and the assignees in bankruptcy gave notice to the defendant not to deliver the packages which were in their custody to the plaintiff. The assignees subsequently gave directions for the sale of the property, as being that of Jones, the bankrupt, and it was accordingly sold. The plaintiff then brought an action to recover damages for the deten- tion of his furniture, and some wearing apparel, which was in the possession of Jones, and which it was understood was valued at the sum of < £ 200. The defence was that at the time of the bankruptcy the bankrupt, a trader, had in his possession, by the per- mission of the true owner, the goods in ques- tion, and that he had been allowed by the true owner to deal with them as his own, and that, therefore, they belonged to the assignees in bankruptcy; and the second ground of defence was that as to these goods there had been between the plaintiff and Jones a fraudulent deed of conveyance concocted. Mr. Edward James, Q.C., and Mr. Morgan Lloyd were for the plaintiff; and Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. Prentice were for the defendants. The plaintiff underwent a long and severe cross- examination, and as to many of the questions put by Mr. Chambers his memory entirely failed him. The evidence of Jones given at the Bankruptcy Court and that given in this action was in many respects incon- sistent, and he admitted that he had told untruths when examined in bankruptcy. During the address of Mr. Chambers to the jury a pause took place, and it was announced by that learned gentleman that they had agreed to withdraw a juror. Mr. Baroa Bramwell said that, in his opinion, some- thing more ought to be done in this case, and he would call the attention of the jury to a clause in an old Act of Parliament, to which it would be well if certain persons would direct their attention. The act to which he referred was the Fraudulent Alienation Act, of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and was passed in 1670, nearly 300 years ago. That act provided that persons guilty of fraudulent alienations should be prosecuted, and, if lawfully convicted, should suffer imprisonment for the space of half a year. His ob- servations upon this act weere that some persons in this case ought to be punished, for a more dishonest and abominable case in point of fact had never oc- curred, and it was quite certain that those who had got it up ought to be punished. He could not under- stand how those persons could suppose that a court and jury would be taken in by their conduct. It was the vilest case he had ever known, and he thought the defendants ought to have gone on to the end of it. The court then rose.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of the Right Hon. John Thomas Manners Sutton, Baron Sutton, of Portman-square, was proved in her Majesty's Court of Probate on the 17th ult. The personalty was sworn under X100,000, the execu- tors and trustees appointed being his lordship's cousin, Mr. John Henry Manners Sutton, of Kelham Hall; Mr. Charles Spencer March Phillips, of Tiverton;, and Mr. James Edward Dashwood, of the Foreign-office. Downing-street. The will is dated August 10, 1864, and a codicil October 13; and his lordship died on No- vember 14, at Hastings, at the age of 46. He succeeded to the title in 1842. His lordship was the only son of the first baron, who was a grandson of the third Duke of Rutland, and was for many years Lord Chancellor of Ireland. The testator has bequeathed to his eldest son the two pieces of plate which were presented to his late father. Thomas Lord Manners, one by the members of the Irish bar, and the other by the officers of the court of Chancery in Ireland. To each of his younger sons and children he has left the sum of £ 10,000. To Lady Manners, who is provided for under settlement, he has bequeathed an immediate legacy of £ 1,000, together with his carriages, horses, the house in Portman-square, with the furniture, pic- tures, books, &c., and such plate as her ladyship may require. I The will of Major-General William Nepean, in her Majesty's service, formerly residing in South-street, Grosvenor-square, but late of the Marine-parade, Dover was proved, in London, by his brother-in-law, Sir Charles Yorke, G.C.B.; his son, the Rev. Evan Yorke Nepean; and his sister, Miss Anna Maria Nepean. The personalty was sworn under < £ 14,000. This gallant military officer was at the ^memorable battle of Waterloo. His will bears date June, 1862; and he died on the 8th of December last. To his son he leaves all his plate having family arms and crest and a silver embossed drinking cup all the rest of his plate., together with a silver vessel for holding rose- water, he leaves to his daughter, and he also leaves to her all the linen. The rest of his property he directs to be divided equally between his said son and daughter, whom he appoints residuary legatees. The will was attested by Mr. F. F. Dyke and Mr. H. Hollis. The will of Mr. John Arnold, of Great Barford, Bedfordshire, and of Aldersgate-street, druggist, was proved in the London Court by his only daughter, Miss Anne Fanny Arnold, the sole executrix. The personalty was sworn under < £ 60,000. The will bears date February, 1863, and he died on the 29th of August last. The trustees are his nephew, Alfred Benjamin Arnold, and his cousin, Charles Edwin Ogden. The testator has left many legacies, in which he has remembered his brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces, cousins, and other relatives and friends; also his clerk, warehousemen, and servants. All legacies to be paid free of legacy duty. His freehold estate at Peterborough he devises to his nephew, Edward Arnold; all the rest of his freeholds, together with his personal property, he leaves to his said daughter, whom he has appointed residuary legatee. There are the following charitable bequests: To the Domestic Mission, £ 1,000; the Ra,gged School Society, Spital- fields, < £ 100; Bedford Infirmary, .£100; to the vicar and churchwardens of Great Barford; Xl,000, the interest to be expended annually in coals and clothing for the poor of that parish.-IZlustrated London News.

AGRICULTURE. High Farming. The Field newspaper has the following article upon this subject What is high farming? The term is now often used and applied in agriculture, and seems to imply a something beyond the ordinary term of farming. Under any system it is reasonable to suppose that a farmer tries to make as much as possible out of the soil, and, if so, we certainly do not require any prefix to point out what farming ought to be. But the phrase exists, and has become established; we must, there- fore, conclude that it has a latent meaning peculiar to itself. In days of yore, the process of cultivating the land was carried out without any reference to any special plan: the plough, the scythe, and the sickle did their work; the upturned soil, enriched from the farm- yard, was strewn with seed, and the harvest returned its yield to fill the garners, and eventually the pockets of the farmers. This was simply farming; but some. thing more is now required: the old-fashioned style will no longer answer the conditions. New phases have appeared; science has crept in; new appliances have been added; and so it has happened that the term farming only does not come up to the modern idea of cultivating the soil. But we need not now remain in ignorance of what is meant by high farming, for a full explanation has lately been given by Mr. Sussex Milbank, at a late meeting of the Staindrop farmers' club, who stated that the words meant "good and successful cultivation of crops, assisted by increased knowledge and the appliances of the age." The defini- tion is so far good, but it is simply the same thing formerly coming under the common term of farm- ing;" for of course all farming means, or ought to mean, good and successful cultivation of crops. Why, then, the word high ? Mr. Milbank still helps us. By high farming we are to understand that a farmer is able to produce a much larger poundage of beef and mutton, on a given number of acres, than a low or bad cultivator. So, then, high farming is good culti- vation, and low farming bad cultivation; but after all that ma.y be gained by a definition, it is not quite clear why the term farming simply is not sufficient for the occasion. We will not, however, quarrel with words. If high farming is intended to convey the idea of improved farming, by all means let it be used; if it means that a farmer should produce double the yield of crops on the same acreage, as he did in days not far remote," then be is indeed not only a great public benefactor, but most materially also is he a benefactor to himself, for practically he doubles the extent of his farm, while he pays only the same rent, same tithes, same rates." Mr. Milbank, after thus explaining what high farming is, continues his illustration. The principal results of high farming are an increase of crops, cereal grass and roots, better drainage, and amelioration of soil, more shelter, and better stock, a satisfactory balance-sheet, and a happier and more contented class, from the feeling of having success- fully carried out and applied thesame sound commercial principles in farming as in any other industrial pursuit." Thisisindeeda high encomium, and after having uttered it Mr. Milbank then descends to the practical part, and gives much good avice. He complains that the pastures generally are not sufficiently drained. He is in favour of the autumnal cultivation of roots, and that land should be ploughed twelve or fourteen inches deep, and with twenty loads of farmyard- manure to the acre, and, as a refresher in the spring, ten loads per acre in the rows, with an addition of two cwt. of bones or superphosphate as a top dressing: and by this plan, Mr. Milbank, last autumn, obtained a yield of twenty-eight tons of turnips per acre. Mr. Milbank then says emphatically, "Fill your pastures with fattening heifers, and tie them up at night under sheds give, in the morning before they go out, and evening when they come in, feeds of bean-meal and cake." He advocates cooked food, especially for milking cows; and, with regard to fattening stock greatly prefers cake and meal to roots; and whilst many farmers give as much as 150 lbs. of turnips a day to each three-year-old bullock, he only gives 50 lbs. to 80 lbs. of roots pulped, and mixed with cut chaff, adding to this 12 lbs. of oilcake and 4 lbs. of bean-meal. He is a great advocate of oilcake, having last year consumed forty-three tons of oilcake on 120 acres of land, besides giving to his stock all the corn produce of the farm, as the best way of getting the land into good order. Mr. Milbank is entirely opposed to making hay of meadow land. He considers that a great loss is thus incurred the grass ought to be cut and given to the stock, by which a greater number can be maintained. This is true eco- nomy. With regard to manures, Mr. Milbank prefers bones and phosphates to nitrogenous manures, and that guano and the nitrates ought to be used very sparingly, and only as top dressings. Such are a few of the good things belonging to high farming, and as the results are evidently satisfactory, it ought certainly to be the endeavour of every farmer, for his own sake, especially to follow the example thus set before him.

A REAL ROMANCE OF THE HAREM. A Constantinople letter says: Rare as are con- versions from Mussulmanism to Christianity, or from the latter to Islam, yet fewer still are the instances in which the proselytes to either' faith are women. One of these very exceptional cases has, however, just occurred, in which the neophyte is a young Belgian girl named Cordelier-the niece of the proprietess of a well-known English shop in Pera-who, despite all the popular errors as to the status of women in the Pro- phet's paradise, has risked everything, and gone boldly over to the faith of Mecca, for love of a seduc- tive young bey. For some months past she has been in the habit of going frequently to harems in Stamboul to take millinery orders, and in the course of these visits appears to have made the acquaintance of the voung effendi in question. The acquaintanceship was entirely unknown to her aunt, who, on her sudden disappearance on Sunday week, remained for several hours in anxious ignorance of her whereabouts. Late in the evening, however, a note from the fair run- away put an end to her relative s suspense by an. nouncing the step she had taken, and firmly stating her determination to embrace her lover's faith in spite of every opposition. A personal interview on the following day at the Turkish house near the Atbazar, where she had taken sanctuary—failed to shake this resolution, and accordingly on Tuesday she went before the cadi, anct made the first of the necessary declara- tions which precede formal admission into the pale of Islam. The Belgian Legation then interfered, and later in the week the young convert—who is about nineteen years of age, and possesses the buxom per- sonal attractions which are fair to the eyes of Eastern connoisseurs—was brought' before the Minister of Foreign Affairs, in company with her national drago- man. Here again she declared her resolute purpose to abjure Christianity, in spite of all that either A'ali Pasha or the dragoman could do to urge reflection before finally committing herself to so grave a step. In view of this obstinacy, the Belgian authorities now deny her right to make the change, on the ground of non-age and, as the Porte temporarily accedes to the objection, her final reception into Mussulmanism is suspended until the receipt from Brussels of specific proof of her ags. The affair has been the nine days' talk of Pera." — ♦ —

Cuffy Correcting His Massa Cllffee, is that the second bell ? No, massa; dat's de second ringing ob de fuss bell. We habn't got no second bell in -dis hotel."

■ —■-« ■ EXTRACTS FROM "PUNCH" & FUN." The Bumpkin and the Butcher. If you be a hunger'd, to comfort your grief I bring you glad tidings of cheap and good beef Zo fill up your glasses and pass the jug round: Here's prime beef a zellun at threepence a pound. This here beef from Chili comes over to we, Likewise from La Plata; they calls it charkee, Whereof we makes "jerked," like as usual we doos,, r Wi they forrun words of Signors and Moossoos. Sitch beef, beun properly zalted and dried, Must needs be prepared for to line the inzide, And if you proposes upon it to dine, You must zoak it and steep it to get out the brine. Then beat it wi mallet, or roll it wi pin, Zo not for to let no zalt liquor bide in; Then cut it in bits which you biles ur you stews, Or chops 'em up fine for a mince if you choose. Says I to Phil Steers, in his surplus of blue, We shan't need much longer depend upon you. Fresh beef must soon come down from tenpence theet 'zee, Now when we can purchus good zalt beef for three. The lab'rers partakes it their stummacks to fill In Cuba, and ates it likewise in Brazil. There's judges has tried it, knows what they're about, And all on 'em found it a proper blow-out. Zet people agin it you butchers 'ood fain, For fear it should lessen your proffut and gain; But zay what you will, you wun't vrighten poor men From buyun at threepence what you zells at ten. Chawbacons fine gentlefolks often calls we; Well, now then let's chaw zum o' that there charkee, I zay live and let live, and plenty abound, Success to the beef only threepence a pound."

Notes and Queries. LEX wants to know the legal Latin for a "Hawker's licence." What does he think of Packs vobiscum F" MARTHA. As you suspect, "which them as is didn't orter be," is not classical English. It does not occur in Pope; but we have met with the expression somewhere-we are inclined to think in the collected works of St. Giles. QU*LL*N.-We return your lines, as we don't wash at 4ome, and don't know of any other use to put them to, except to hang clothes on. HIBERNICUS.-Of course the captain of the Cork packet ought to have his (s) crew on board, or he will never reach the port. K. B.—If you always ask double your fare, and, as a rule, get it, all we can say is, that you must drive" very good bargains, and can have never taken us in "-your cab.

Perfidious English. b The French journal, Le Monde Artiste, is good enough to take the following notice of us:— "Queen Victoria has resolved to confer the title Qf bar- ronet on the Poet Lanwent, Alfred Temysson." We were so grateful and pleased at reading this in a contemporary, that we instantly sent over for Le Monde Artiste, and we have had much pleasure in translating, and have still more in publishing' the rest of the paragraph:— "These distinctions are scarcely worthy a nation that boasts a Shakspire, a Benjonsong, a Sheeley, and a Marting Twopair, and we infer, not without a certain lively regret, that the democratic lessons of M. Brigth and M. Whit of Brigton, have not taught our fat neighbours better things. Is it an honour to carry as the supporters of your heraldic arms the two gory hands of TTlstar, the Irish robber? Would they hold Feraday's telescope firmer. or make steadier the cru- cible of M. Airy ? Would they guide better the pencil of Stansfeld, M.P., or of Handel, the celebrated animal painter, of the royal Firth, of the chivalrous Vard, of the powerful Meelay ? Would they lend what the English call ivigour to the eloquent Glaldstoces, or new subtlety to the epigrams of M. Disralite ? Would they make the admirable Sim Reef a more admirable tenor, or baritonalize more eminently the bold St. Lay, now in Spain ? Would they really adorn the shield of Dickons, or the lozenge of Madame Adam, the Vener- able Bede. Ah, no! Let us rather say with the wild exciseman of the Highlands, Hanw/n's Haman, for all that, and twixth as much as the stomp on the ginney. WHY has the noble animal that carries the Queen r, of Siam's palanquins nothing whatever to do with the subject ?—Because its her elephant (irrelevant). A CORRESPONDENT from South Shields wishes to know the derivation of the name.—A South Shield is used by persons when attacked by a North Pole. THE EXTRADITION OF CRIMINALS.—"A Hungry Pauper" inquires whether they have the extra dish because they are criminals. THE GENTILITY OF SPEECH.—At the Music Hall's visitors now call for "another acrobat" when they want a second tumbler. A 1

THE POLES AND POLAND. The correspondent of the Morning Post, writing from Cracow, says :— A fact which has come to my knowledge should act as a warning to Polish exiles who think of throwing themselves on the tender mercies of the Czar. M. C. Abramowicz, a refugee, wishing to return to his own country, applied at the Russian Legation at Dresden for a pass, which he obtained in due form. On arriv- ing at the frontier, however, he was arrested and taken to the citadel of Kieff; where he was condemned by court-martial to twelve years' hard labour. Another flagrant case of injustice is that of M. Joseph Gluzin- ski, a quiet literary man, who has earned a respectable reputation by several treatises on political economy and agriculture, and has always kept aloof from poli- tics. Recently the Government discovered that a distant relation of his had taken an active part in the insurrection, and M. Gluzinski was immediately ar- rested and transported to Siberia. The appointment of the Grand Duke Constantine as President of the Council of the Empire at St. Peters- burg has caused a great deal of surprise in Russia, and not a little alarm among the advooiltes. of a policy of extermination in Poland. The nomination of M. Milutin as member of the Council, and of M. Ouronsoff, a well-known partisan of Mouravieff, as secretary, has done much to allay these fears; but the disappointment of the old Russian party clearly ap- peared from several alarmist articles in'the Moscow Gazette, m one of which Russia is represented as being in extreme danger from the machinations of the Poles and the party of action, and every Russian is exhorted, in the words of Nelson, to do his duty"—the duty of a Russian, as the Moscow Gazette understands it, being to use all his efforts to eradicate the Polish element from the soil of Russia. This work is still continued with as much perseverance as ever in the kingdom of Poland. By a recent decree the teaching of Russian is made obligatory in the higher schools and the military commandants are extending this order to the schools in the villages. Russian colonisation is proceeding in Lithuania on a large scale. In order to attract Russian officials to the country, Mouravieff has offered them an increase of 50 per cent. on their salaries; and the Government at St. Petersburg having objected to this measure on account of the crippled state of Russian finance, he answered that the extra expense would be provided for by new contributions on the Lithuanian pro- prietors. An imperial decree has just been published at War- saw which affords a fresh, illustration of the unscrupu- lousness with which the Russian Government attacks the property of the Poles. Since 1794 a sort of volun- tary impost (termed "offering") has been paid by the sach contributing according to his means to- wards the expenses of Government in the country- This impost has now been not only transformed by the Czar into a regular tax, levied in the sarao manner as all other taxes, but increased 50 pef cent., and the produce of this increase is to be applied to the payment of the indemnity due to the landlords for the loss of the property, and which baS been conferred on the peasants. As the additional 50 per cent. is to be paid only by the old landlords, the indemnity will, in fact, come out of their own pockets, besides what they will have to pay for the cost of col- lection, so that many of them would really be better off if they were paid no idemnity at all. +

An Appropriate Present.—We are inforroe"! that Mr. W. Dam pier, the working compositor whose illustrated MS. quarto volume, entitled, "Autmun cc Rambles in the County of Kent," was recently alluded to by us in our account of the North London Indus- trial Exhibition, has received, in addition to the first- class certificate awarded to him by the adjudicators of the exhibition, a handsomely-bound copy of "The Pilgrim's Progress," given by Messrs. Cassell, Fetter, and Galpin, as an extra prize.- Guardian.