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THE COURT. THE ^tteen lias been living ia partial retirement at Osborne ever since Christmas. Few persons, except CaWnet Ministers or the immediate relatives of the Boyal Family, have been admitted to her presence. Zt is expected that her Majesty will leave Osborne and proceed to Windsor Castle on Monday, the 5th of -February, previous to opening Parliament on the fol- lowing day, after which, according to the present arrangements, the Queen will return to Windsor from town and sleep at the castle. On the following day her Majesty will leave for Osborne. Her Majesty will spend her wedding day (10th of February) at Osborne, surrounded only by her children. „ THE Gouri Journal says:—No day has ben fixed for the marriage of the Princess Helena. it will, how. ever, be in the month of June. All other speculations a premature. JhOGMORE LQpGE is undergoing a complete trans. form<4:,ion, and will not be in a. state of. readmess for the region 0f the princess Helena and her affianced, Prnwe <%iatian of HolsteiP. betore November next. It is confiu^tly stated that the title ot Eoyal High- ness will s*ortly be conferred on this prince, TiE House,ola of her Majesty intend to subscribe to present the i^ncess Helena with some handsome jifts on her Roya Highness's wedding-day. HE Majesty VLTR3AEEN has most graciouslysignified her intention ^onsor for the infant daughter of Sk Egbert and Laay imily PeeL Hbj Serene iganea^G priIi<3ef!S 0f Leiningen was on Thursday tternoon dc;TGre(j 0f a gon ancj heir, at Oiboene, Isle of Wight. The gratifying news was r,f ^ar T./e-eeiVe, the Prince of Leiningen (CaptamfOf her Majesty s who was tten in oTfn'Jl T?°n heann= the; nev5r^ proceeded at once to f V 8,a?° mlormed that U,Q Princess and in- tact are both doing favourably. THEIE Eoyal Highnesses the Princv and Prinoess of wales^ have, daring tha last week, be^ receiving a lew friends at their country residence, ^.ndringham- HER Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, Who had been staying at Sandringham for son.e days terminated her visit on the 22nd inst. The Prine and Princess of We-les then proceeded to Trentham, Staf- fordshire, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of gatherland. On living Trentham they returned to kandrmgham for a <Jay or two, when their Eoyal Highnesses will leave S^dringham for the season, and leside at Marlborough-houqe.
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POLITICAL, GOSSIP. THE Birmingham Post states that a £ 8 rental franchise would raise the constituency of Birmingham from 15,497 to 40,000. Two peerages became extinct during the year 1865 'the Viacouutcies Maynard and Pahuerston. The Barony of Prudhoe (one of the titles a, the Duke of Northumberland) also beeame extinct, a}-d the Baro- Jiies of Percy have fallen into abeyance. A NEW political party is in process of formation. Is will be called the Constitutional party," TMH conl siat of Conservative-Liberals and ''LiberatCon- servatives," and will undertake the preservation Qf Constitutional Government from the threatened douj. nation of democracy." A DSCREE of the penal section of the criminal tri- "tttial of Venice, published in the official Gazette of that province, has forbidden the sale of lithographic Prints, coloured or not coloured, representing in various fiizea Victor Emmanuel, Garibaldi, and the defenders of Italy, as well as the battles of Solferino, Magenta, Montebello, and the geographical map of the kingdom of Italy in which are comprised, as part of same, Venetia, Istria, Trieste, the Tyrol, and Dalmatia." IT is announced that a great public meeting of the farmers of Esgland and others who are in favour of the redaction and eventual repeal of the malt duty Will be held on the 5th of February, at jFreemaaons'- oall. The object of the meeting will he to adopt reaolutions on the subject, and to arrange for the pre- sentation of a memorial to the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, urging on him the great importance of the question to the agricultural classes and the country at large. WE understand, says the Sunday Gazette, that, within the last few days, Lord Russell, on behalf of the Queen, has offered to Viscountess Palmerston a Peerage in her own right, with remainder to her son, the Eight Hon. William Cowper. It has, however, been declined with many grateful expressions of the entertained by Lady Palmerston of the kind in- the ns ^er Ma30sty> an<5 °f the honour intended -Web y to be paid to the memory of the late Premier. r^?y Palmerston desireH no change in hor position, is content with the distinction of being Lord Pal- tneraton's widow. THE Ministerial dinners preparatory to the opening of Parliament, the Sunday Gazette states,'will take place on Monday, the 5th of February, the day before "he delivery of the Queen's Speech, and not on Wed- nesday, the 31st inst., the day before the meeting of both Houses. Earl Russell will entertain the peers of party at his official residence in Downing-street, whisk is being renovated with a view to the Ministe- 11al hospitalities. The house has not been used for purposes for, we believe, some twelve or four- years. Lord Palmerston, we need not -say, saw his friends at Cambridge-house; and it wants a great «0a,l of freshening up to make it fit for the reception otfashionable company. TBS post of Military ^Assistant at the War-office, relinquished by Major-General Crofton, remains the Army and Navy Gazette says. It is under- stood to b^ve been offered to and declined by Colonel r^ythorne, and it ia now said that Colonel Shadwell 18 to have the refusal. It is essential that a clever ftnd intelligent officer should be placed &s assistant to lr Edward Lugard, but we doubt very much if the ^ithorities can secure one for the salMY-ZGOO a Year. The place is more important than those of and Deputy. Quartermaster- Gensral, Ot"bven Assistant Military Secretary at head. quarters, n«! the pay should not be less, than the .21,000 a year 1fh lh each,of these places is worth. 1 JIEEE were numerous reports early in the week of changes in the higher ranks of the Ministry, ? based on the idea that Sir Charles Wood was about «o resign office. We are glad to say that, although Sir Oh <JQ^e shaken off the effects of his accident, flr(Tj 03 is well enough to resume hia duties, and *Ti, Prospect of his leaving the Ministry at rtwv„=,iafA ft„9 °nly place now remaining to be filled to of the Bomrdx'"onstraction is that of Vice-President i*; msrahn?E Trade, to which it is not unlikely a *mor member Cf the 40veriim9nt will be promot^, ^h^subject atrangement has been made upon £ ?ossip, which, it says, is ^:entatth > at x,ora gtanley is to lead the Coasepatares. If th^be tt the To^ rt would 1 e « TATIS with oonfideiioe to atatesmen afl ^ord Oa™|rvonj Sir Stafford North- Mr. Walpole, Mr- Hardy, and many trusted Coiise who'has never brook the leadership of a Bobleman Jas 86parated from hig cn Church questions, an tf^°ae sympathies are %h% or wrongly fnpposea be w h e whQ Would «ap the foundations ot toe ftath^ \>y denying ?lit £ e the authority of the Bible an hutcj1< ^ere no use being squeamish or reticent snob a case, •ket as hope that the mere mention oi repolt Prevent the plan being further cont0™P ated and Jihat a happy solution of the difficulty—1' it ke—may be found in the Earl of Derby c?? to Ba0rifioeJ if necessary, his personal predilections f0r the good of the cause he has no nobly served. MB. GATHORJ-TE HABDT, having been eleotea tne general election last July for Leominster as well as Oxford University, and having chosen the latter .» a new election will necessarily take place for this borough immediately after the meeting of Parliament. In aaticipation of this event Mr. Rich. Arkwrighfc, of Hampton Court, some time since offered himself to the electors, and has issued two addresses, in which he avows his principles to be Conservative, by which, he says, it I do not mean that I am opposed to every change, but that while I am willing to give full con- sideration to, arid adopt if necessary, all suggestions for the practical remedy of deficiencies which must become apparent during the development of every civilised institution, J do not admit the necessity of any great organic changes in our existing constitution in matters connected with Church or State." The Arkwright family are highly popular in the borough, and there is little doubt-, that Mr. Arkwright will be elected. ON the meeting of Parliament a new writ will be issued for the borough of Brecknock, in consequence of the death of Colonel Lloyd Watkins since his elec- tion. Three candidates have put forth their claims to f the vacant seat, viz., the Earl of Brecknock, eldest 1)n of the Marquis Camden (Liberal); Dr. Price, of Aberdare (Liberal); and Mr. Howell Gwyn (Conserva- tive). The contest, however, will be between the Earl of Brecknock and Mr. Gwyn. A NUMEROUSLY-ATTENDED meeting of the electors and non-electors of Nottingham was held in the large room of the Durham Ox Inn, Pelham-street, last week, in accordance with a requisition issued by the Not. tingham Independent Society, "for the purpose of taking steps to maintain the independence of the borough, by defending Sir Robert J. Clifton, Bart., M.P., from the efforts now being made by the domi- nant party to deprive him of his seat in Parliament; and also to petition against the return of Mr. Samuel Morley, M.P., for bribery, corruption, intimidation, and other unconstitutional means." The chair was taken by Mr. Frederick Webster. Resolutions in accordance with the object of the meeting were unani- mously adopted, and a subscription list was opened for the formation of a defence fund.
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f= THE ARTS, IJITSSATUKE, &E. IT has been decided to place a statue of the Prince Consort in front of St. George's-hall, Liverpool. THE Earl of Dudley has promised the loan of his splendid collection of paintings for the Fine Arts and Industrial Exhibition to be held in Dudley in July next. AFTER seven years' appeals, only X12,000 out of the J850,000 required to decorate St. Paul's Cathedral has been subscribed. THE house in which Byron and his mother resided in Aberdeen, during a portion of his boyhood, is now used as a printing office, and a Columbian press occu- pies what was once the poet's bedroom. THE rumour gains strength in well-informed circles that Sir Francis R. Sandford, of the Privy Council Office, will be nominated as the new head of the British Museum, subject, of course, to the approval of Parliament. Sir Francis, who, it will be remembered, was Secretary to the last Great Exhibition, is a son of the late Sir D. K. Sandford, Professor of Greek in the University of Glasgow. AT a competition recently entered upon by various architects invited to design the new terminus for the Midland Railway in the Euston-road, Mr. G. G. Scott has been pronounced successful, and instructed to erect the building, the cost of which will be about £ 280,000. Premiums were awarded to the architects whose names follow -Mr. G. S. Clarke X200, Mr. E. M. Barry XIOO, and Mr. T. C. Sorby ifi50. THE amateur concerts at Solihull, in Warwickshire, comes in for praise by the Athenaeum. We extract the following from their last week's paper:—The society consists of some thirty active members, and practices once a week. Many of the singers belong to the humble and artisan class; but I assure you," writes our correspondent (and he is one who knows), so good was the execution, that if I had heard such a concert in a, German village, I should have said, 'This is to be in the land of music. The pro- grammes are of a high order—the first act sacred, in- cluding a selection from Mendelssohn's "Elijah," and his anthem, Hear my prayer,"—the second made up principally of glees, part-songs, and solos; these, we may expressly add (with reference to late remarks), as a whole, were of a higher order and more sterling merit than we sometimes find at metropolitan concerts 01 greater pretension. i-Ho, the ex-King of Greece, is employing his leisure at Munich in translating the works of Homer. THH articles on the Night in the Workhouse," which appeared first in the Pall-mall Gazette, have been reputed in a shilling pamphlet. TIETJENB KAG discovered a new planet between Mars and Japiter. It is of a very pale colour. The astronomer is fiket assistant of the Berlin Obser- vatory. IN the current number of "JTot™ »A QA«RIW," Mr. Walter Thorn bury has an article on Shak;. peare's Silence concerning Smoking," and he promises others on Shakspeare's Silence about Scotchmen and Silver Forks." A contemporary asks, What can he mean by the connection of the two-the use of silver, or the abuse of trust by confiding the article to them ? M. Du CHAILLU, of gorilla fame, has returned to England, and made his appearance at a meeting of the Geographical Society. He confirms all that he said on his former visit as to the habits of the gorilla, and the kindness with which he was generally treated by the Africans. The "sensation "ha has brought back is an account of a race of pigmies, the average height of whom is 4 feet 4 inches. THERE is scarcely a novel PUBLIA^0^ in EUG'ianci which is not reprinted in t.he U nlte States directly after it arrives. The quarterly reviews and two of the monthly magazines—"Blackwood" and" Fraser" —are reproduced from beginning to end, and sold at the rate Gf four dollars for a complete year's issue. The consequence of this plan of trusting wholly to English literature is, that no encouragement is given to native writers. THE new periodical, called the "Working Man," brought out by Messrs. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, has been a great success. The publishers had to print second and third editions of the first issues. As well as being issued in monthly numbers, it will be pub- lished in monthly parts. The first monthly part is announced to be ready with the February magazines. With Number 4 of this valuable publication is com- menced a series of "Letters from Lancashire, by a Lancashire Lad."
WILLS AND BEQUESTS. '
WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of George Richards Elkington, late of Pool- park, near Rathin, Denbighshire, formerly of Birming- ham, electro-plater, was proved in the London Court on the 6th inst. The personalty was sworn under £ 350,000. The executors are his sons Frederick, James, Alfred, and Howard Elkington. Thewillbears 1 date 1861, and there are three codicils—1862, and March and June, 1865. The testator died on the 22nd of September, aged sixty-five. He has bequeathed to his wife an annuity of XI,200, and an immediate legacy of Xl,000, with the furniture at his residence, Pool-park, and a horse and carriage, and any portion of his plate she may require. The pictures, at her decease, are to be divided among his ro-no. His busi- ness of electro-plater, carried on in Newhall-street, Birmingham, by his sons, in co-partnership, he leaves to them, and appoints his five sons residuary legatees. To his daughter Emma, the wife of Apsley Smith, he leaves the sum of >840,000 for herself, husband, and children. There are liberallegaoies to hisservants. The following are the charitable bequests, principally to institutions in the town of Birmingham:—To the General Hospital and the Bluecoat Sehool, each < £ 500; to the Queen s Hospital, the General Dispensary, and to the Blind Asylum and the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, both at Edgbaston, < £ 300 each. —Illustrated London N&ws. The will of Mr. Edward Harvey, late .of Giltspur- street, wholesale druggist, was proved in the principal registry, on the 18th ult., by his relict, Mrs. Susanna Harvey, and his son, Charles Harvey, the executors andtrustees. The pergonal property was sworn under £ 100,000. The will bears date the 18th of April, 18421, to which are appended two codicils, respectively dated January 25th, 1853, and September 20bh, 1855; and the testator died on the 11th of October last, at his reaidence, Raleigh-house, Brixton. He has be. queathed to his wife an annuity of XI,500, and leaves the rest of his property to his son and daughters, whom he appoints residuary legatees.-City Press.
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» ■■ On Saturday a boy named Poynder, living in Vauxhall-walk, fell from a barge while witnessing a rowing match on the Thames and was drowned. Yankee Diablerie.-It is said that a Yankee tin pedlar, who had frequently cheated most of the people the vicinity of a New England village through he was passing, was induced by some of the beea °NISS ^°J°*N them in a drinking bout. He finally stone drunk; and in that condition these wags -.HIM to a dark rocky cave near the village, vT O'A STVFS*NG themselves in raw-head-and-bloody- awaited his return to consciousness. As H9 ° FUSING himself, they lighted some huge torches, ALSO SET fire to some bandies of straw, AND THREE ROLLS of brimstone, which they had placed IN 8"T parts of the cavern. The pedlar rubbed W1- j > AND seeing and smelling all these evidences P* concluded he had died, and was BOW P. J^ING of his final doom. But he took it very Phioally, for he complacently re- marked to ^hiESselihell—jast as I expected!" A story is told ot A COO^OLDXSEA captain, with a virago of a wife, who ON these artificial devils in a lonely place. As OBSTRUCTED his path, the old fellow remarked: 1* you are not the devil, get out! If you are, come aloJlg with me and get supper. JI married jojit .• ■"Wnitm's JfAsiory of j j Humbug. I >
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. -+-- Remarks on the Reform Bill. So far from there being any design to defeat the Ministerial Reform Bill, it appeal's to be generally hoped that the measure may be susceptible of adapta- tion to requirements which, if they be factitious, are nevertheless of a nature to impede the politieal and social progress that has, during the last ten years, been steadily maintained to the great advantage of the country. Bat most assuredly it will be examined and debated in all its details, and with regard to objects that may not be avowed. This, it must also be re- marked, is the first time in our modern Parliamentary history that the opinion of the representatives of the people has been anticipated by the Government of the day. The House of Conmons is therefore under no obligation to entertain Reform Bill. But, inas- much as Ministers will hardly expect the House to pass any vote that expresses or implies confidence until they have made a full statement of their policy, this difficulty may be got over, and if the Legislature is consulted constitutionally, as we make no doubt it will be, Lord Russell cannot fail to receive the fair trial he has cla.imed.-Morning Past. It must never be forgotten ttat of the new Liberals whom last year's elections added to the House, almost all, if not literally all, are pledged to what are termed the more advanced opinions of Radicalism. The speech made at the Lambeth Reform meeting on Friday by a member so little givan to extreme views as Mr. Thomas Hughes, is of itself sufficient to show what poor chance there is that a scheme of Reform which would not have satisfied the Liberals of the old Parliament could find any favour among the Liberals of the new. We have no reason whatever", to suppose that the Government could be induced by my pressure of fear or persuasion to trifle just now with the question of Reform. But no one can doubt tliat every influence that could be pressed into the service is being brought to bear upon the Ministers to tint end. There are timid counsellors in every combination of men, and no one can pretend to say that he believes every member of the Government is as anxious and earnest on the subject of Reform as Lord Russell and Mr. Gladstone, as Mr. Gibson and Mi. Villiers. It is of great importance, therefore, to point out that the one serious danger threatening the Government in re- lation to this subject would arise from the adoption of any policy that failed to win the support of all sincere Liberals. There is at present a remarkable readiness among the politicians of the latter class to put, as Mr. Hughes phrased it, their own hobbies in the stable, and go forward unanimously in support of the Government. But there is no possibility of having that support and at the same time conciliating the Opposition, for we have already shown that the Oppo- sition are to be conciliated by nothing short of the utter surrender of principle. If ever there was a moment in the history of political party when courage and wisdom were synonymes, that moment is close at hand for Earl Russell and his Cabinet.-Morning Star. There is nothing new under the sun. In 1830, the First Minister of the Crown declared that our repre- sentative system, just as it stood, was a masterpiece of wisdom. Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, had at that moment no more voice in the British Parliament than Tyre or Sidon; while, simultaneously, Gatton and Old S4rum had almost as many members as inha- bitants. In the memorable discussions of 1831 and 1832, Sir Robert Inglis and Sir Charles Wetherell challenged advocates of Reform to show that the British Constitution was capable of any amendment, and, with the frenzied energy of Cassandras, pro- claimed that pure democracy" within ten years was the necessary offspring of Reform. Mr. Lowe's ap. plication of Aristotle's maxim was new, but how is it justified? The British Constitution, as typified by. for, aofcfr,t^ t^o"7n^r"one is virtually unrepresented. To call the addition of 250,000 voters to the franchise, as is proposed by Mr. Baines, a stride towards pure democracy," is worthy of Sir Robert Inglis. Mr. Lowe is fond of quoting Lord Macaulay; what does he say to the following propbecy? "I cannot but anticipate from this Reform Bill a long series of happy years-of years during which a parental Government will be firmly supported by a grateful nation; of years during which war, if it come, will find us a united people; of years pre-eminently distinguished by the progress of arts, by the improvement of laws, by the augmentation of the public woouices, by the diminution of the public buiaens; by all those victories of peace in which, far more than in military success, consist the true felicity of States and the true glory of statesmen." Look upon this picture and on that-upon the prophecy of the Tory baronets and upon the prophecy of Lord Macaulay. If Mr. Lowe and a majority of the House of Commons refuse to establish harmony between an advancing people and a stationary Legislutura, they will gain but a short and uneasy respite. In bringing forward a genuine Reform Bill the Government may fail. The battle is lost," said Dessaix at Marengo, but there is time enough to win another." Let the Government appeal from the House of Commons to the people of England, and the answer will be the same as South Lancashire returned when appealed to from the ingratitude of Oxford University.-Telegraph. The Cattle Plague. In a crisis like this, the country has a right to de- mand activity from the Government. Parliament should be immediately called together for consultation. Facilities should be immediately given for opening insurance offices under the sanction of the Govern- ment in every market-town in the country. A tax of sufficient magnitude should be levied en every beast in the kingdom to guarantee Government from the expenses they must in the first instance incur; and from this last-named source a definite sum should be appropriated as the nucleus of a great compensation fund, to be raised from the voluntary beneficence of the country, by which the dreadful loss experienced before insurance become possible may be in some degree made up to these who have already been sufferers. Government, and Government alone, has sufficient means at its disposal to effect these ends with the necessary celerity. The Post-office, the Boards of Guardians, the Inland Revenue Department, might either be set in motion at a week's notice. If the present national calamity is to be mitigated to any appreciable extent, the Government must move, and move at once. Let them remember the adage, Bis datqui cito dat:" not a moment longer ought to be lost. Yet if we may judge from the letters of Mr. Gladstone and the conduct of Sir George Grey, both these statesmen are merely toying with the subject. We have not the remotest desire to make political capital out of so grievous asiational calamity; and we do hope that the Government on their part will not eoadescend to exhibit any apathy or indifference because the more immediate sufferers at present are the despised agriculturists.John Bull. The Loss of the London. A sad but ennobling incident has marked the gale. The London, a magnificent screw steamer belonging to Messrs. Wigram and Sons, and used as an Austra- lian packet boat, was struck on the 9th inst. in the Bay of Biscay by the gale, while on her outward voyage, and on the 10th was put about for Plymouth. At 10.30 p.m., however, a tremendous sea. tore away the hatchway over the engine-room and put out the fires, and the ship, lying to under a bit of sail, became water-logged. Early on the 11th Captain Martin in. formed the passengers that hope was over, and boats were lowered, but with one exception all were stove in or otherwise destroyed. The ship was fall of passen- gers, aU of whom met their inevitable fate with cool courage, listening quietly to the exhortations of Mr. Draper, a clergyman on board, working strenuously &t the pumps, and talking calmly. At last the port pinnace was lowered. Captain Martin ordered the chief engineer to take the command, as, the fires being out, he could have no further duties to perform, and the' engineer's men and three second-class passengers got into her. There was still a vacant place, and a Mr. Hickman was asked to take it, but he" had promised his wife to die with her," and refused. Then the captain was implored to go, but in his own words, he thought it his duty to go down with his passen- gers," and the same tone prevailed throughout the ship. Several of the passengers loaded revolvers to shoot themselves as the ship went down, and so avoid the painful straggle with the waves, but there is no proof that they used them, though the men in the boat saw the final catastrophe. They put off a little after one o'clock, and almost before they could get away saw the poop swept of its passengers, and the ship immediately settle down stern foremost, carrying the remainder of the 220 lives on board,. The pinnace was picked up next day by an Italian vessel, and the story of the loss of the London, which will live in naval history as long as that of She Birkenhead, is told by the survivors. It is the first great loss sus- tained by Messrs. Wigram in a century of ship- owning.—Spectator.
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OUR MISCELLANY. -+- Twelfth Night.An opinion at one time pre I vailed that the comedy of Twelfth Night was written by Shakespeare late in life; but in 1828 there was discovered in the British Museum a small manuscript diary of a student of the Middle Temple, extending from the year 1601 to 1603, by which we learn that the play was publicly performed at the Candlemas feast of the Middle Temple so early as 1602. It was probably written, therefore, in the first year of the seventeenth or the last of the sixteenth century; for it is not included in that earliest printed list of Shakespeare's pla- which Francis Meres published .ys w le in his Wit's Treasury," 1598. Next to this Candle- mas production in Middle Temple-hall, the earliest record that has COEbe down to us of the performance of Twelfth Night is contained in the Accounts of the Revels at Court in th" Reigns of Elizabeth and James," which Mr. Pete* Cunningham brought to light, edited, and printed in 1842. On the 20th of April and the 15th of May, IQlg, a sum of X20 was paid for the representation before the king of Twelfth Night and The Winter's Tale, and .£10 for The Merry Devil of Edmonton. The two first had been performed on the Easter Monday and Tuesday preceding the date of payment, and the last on the 3d of May.— Once a Week. The Omnibus:- August Four-wheeler! Rolling Paradise Thou Juggernaut to dawdling men and mice Thou blissful Refuge to the foot-sore cit! Thou boast of science and inventive wit! To thee, in pride careering o'er the stones, The homeward labourer drags his weary bones; The burdened porter, staggering on the road, Climbs up thy hulk and there forgets his load. For thee the merchant his dull desk forsakes, And leaves Cornhill to-night, and thieves, and rakes. The lover finds thee pensioner of bliss,— C By thee he speeds to reap the promised kiss. On thy Outside," no muff can plead his qualms, And us forbid to colour our Meerschaums; Thy ramparts hold we by an ancient lease, And there, unchallenged, smoke the Pipe of Peace. All hail! thou kindest gift of Human Sense! Thou envy of the wretch-who lacks three-pence All hail! thou huge, earth-born Leviathan Thou rattling, rumbling, two-horse Caravan! Thou dry land Ship, breasting in scorn the waves Of Traffic's whirlpool that round Cheapaide raves. Behind thee, Competition baffled lies, And Jealousy but breathes a curse and dies. Poor Francis Train just hissed at thee his spite, Then, with his Tramways," sank in endless night; And jobbing Railways, near thy presence found, Smitten with shame, hide, fuming, Under-Ground." Though trampled curs may curse thee with a bark, And godless cabmen call thee-" Noah's Ark; Majestic Vehicle! much slandered friend To lowest Tophet we their libels send, And chaunt thy praises to the City's end. An eighth world wonder thine arrival bodes, Thou greatest, best, Colossus of our Roads! The Omnibus:" A Satire. A Plucky Affghan.-In one of our sorties from Jehalabad an Affghan, who had somehow lingered behind his fellows, was overtaken by two troopers of our 5th Light Cavalry, not far from the old walls of the town, on which seme of us were standing looking at parties of our horse in pursuit ef the enemy. When the Affghan found ha could not escape from themeji he dodged, threw down his jazza.il, eafttohed olr ma cummerfrund (waist-eloth), wrapped it together, and Hiofcod it in the face of the foremost horse, which threw up its head and shied off. The second trooper came up just as the first was discomfited, and he was turned in the same way. This was repeated five or six times, to our great amusement, the horses refusing to go near the Affghan, who, all the while, was slowly drawing off. As we laughed and cheered the Affghan, the troopers got angry and began to draw their pistols, but we would not suffer this. Thinking that the man, for his gallant defence, deserved to get off, we ran up, called off the soldiers, and let him go with his life, but minus his juzzail.-Fi-oi-a Cadet to Colonel, by Major-General Sir Thomas Seaton, K.O.B. The South-Australian Bight.—The main part of the South-Australian coast called the Australian Bight is a hideous anomaly, a blot on the face of Nature, the sort of place one gets into in bad dreams. For seven hundred miles there is no harbour fit to shelter a mere boat from the furious south wind, which rushes up from the Antarctic ice to supply the I vacuum caused by the burning, heated, waterless con- tinent. But there is worse than this. For eleven hundred miles no rill of water, no, not the thickness of a baby's little finger, trickles over the cruel cliffs into the sailless, deserted sea. I cast my eye over the map of the world, and see that it is without parallel anywhere. A land which seems to have been formed not by the 'prentice hand of Nature, but by Nature in her dotage. A work badly conceived at first, and left crude and unfinished by the death of the artist. Old thoughts, old conceptions, which produced good work and made the earth glad cycles agone, attempted again with a failing hand. Conceive digging through a three-foot crust of pleiocene formation, filled with crude, almost imbecile, forms of the lowest animal life, millions of ages later than Eozoon Uanadense, yet hardly higher; and then finding shifting sea-sand below! Horrible, most horrible I-Henry Kingsley, n Macmillan's Magazine. A Word of Reflnement.-Refinement of all kinds is a thing both of nature and of growth. Thank. ful ought those to be who have not been permitted to run to weeds in childhood; and let parents rest well assured that the trouble of having children under their own eye will be amply repaid in having them, in later days, after their own mind. And of one thing I am sure-refinement need never be the prerogative only of a few, or the appanage only of the rich. It becomes a peasant quite as well as it does a peer; and under many an humble roof, in hamlet and in village, you will find manners as gentle and tastes as pure as in the circle of nobility, or at the table of wealth. Unpleasant indeed it is, if only for a moment, to turn to the other side of the subject; but how often, when walking with a lady, some rough-mannered man has taken the wrong side and kept it. You have had your attention, for a moment or two afterwards, perhaps, turned to the stars, and, amidst other exclamations familiar to your ears, you have heard one which, only in name, recalled the character you had just passed in the street—"Look, my dear! there's the Great Bear." -The Quiver. The Chapter-house of Westminster.-An interval of 600 years (A.D. 1250 and 1865); a venerable age for any building! We may expect traces of time upon its front, prints of winter storms and summer suns, a loss of early beauty perhaps more than re- deemed by the picturesque weather tints and the soft grey hues gathered in long years upon mouldings from which has departed their original sharpness, and stones which no longer dazzle with their pure white- ness. But in the midst of the grandest collection of buildings which the world can exhibit, modern and ancient, standing side by side, under the shadow of the Abbey of Westminster, the St. Denis and Santo Croce of England, lies a precious structure so hideously disfigured, such a perfect wreck of former magnificence, that few persons even dream of its existenoe, and only the archaeologist can believe that it is all that remains of the once "incomparable Chapter-house, built by Henry III., and thus lovingly described by Mathew Paris, who saw it in its prime. Here is a building which should command our affection, regard, and reverence, in which for centuries moved the stately march of our national history, as exhibited by the meeting of Parliament, one which ig an heirloom of the best era of English art, to be sacredly preserved and religiously transmitted to our children after us.- The Gentleman's Ma>gaztne' Influence of the Beautiful.— Every man, no matter how poor he may be, can do something towards making this world more beautiful. He can leave be- hind him monuments through which the grateful zephyrs shall warble his praises long after he shall be sleeping in the dust. Are you a poor man, toiling hard for frH £ ? You will be more than repaid for the labour that is required to keep the plat before your door clean and green and you will love your home the better for the rose bush which blooms in the yard, looking up into your eye, as it were with gratitude, through its green leaves and blushing flowers. It was but the work of half an hour to plant it there, and many a- year will it reward you and your wife and chil- 3r(?n Trith ft? smile#, A man cannot love a rose with- out being a batter man for that exercise o* child cannot prune it and water it, arc. with affection its swelling buds, without bescic- ing more gectle in character, more refia&fl as. feeling, more decile in spirit. Walter Scott., 3S«, one of his graphic descriptions, represents a feksotei lord, riding by the humble hut of a :ia planting a tree before his door. He commends sub his taste, exclaiming. When you have notfcisgbs&ess. ;0 do, Jock, be aye sticking out a tree, Jock, 'L xrow when you're asleep, Jock." There is true pMic- Sfcihy in. this declaration. You plant a tree, give it tha^entle nurturing which it may for & shore taKi?/ need,nd it will ever after reward you with its foliage and its-.bade. You sleep, and it steadily advances m ■ its growl, to the perfection of beauty. You go sway ■ for month.. perhaps for years, and it forgets not tc H grow, and OLyour return your heart is gladdened by its fair proportaug. And a tree is property. ■ give a few dollar more for a farmhouse, beneath the shade of whose on^mentaJ trees his children can plfcjV H or his cattle sinmbena the noontide heat ? Anfibow can the occupant of a Ullage house make a better vestment of a. few dollar than in attaohing to bis- house those ornaments wAch every man of taste Be H eagerly covets ? A few greei sods will change see. sightly sand bank into beauty,vhere the eye may H with pleasure, and where the fef, may love to linger. ■ A few hours' work in a spring muniug may give to, your home the richest ornaments a liome can JaaTe3, tempering the fierce blaze of the sumner's sun, aDd breaking up the fury of the waiter's storm.—JlM-emTi Gardener's Magazine. H French Bankers—"What, in England, se H banker think of his clerk if he beheld him sittiiig is. H the street, outside a tavern, at eleven o'clock i:¡h6 H forenoon, smoking Ii. cigar as big as a black pucvdiEg H drinking raw brandy, and taking a hand at piquetH That banker would at once ogine that his clerk *8| H going to the dogs. Change the soene to France, sx-c ■ the banker will be regaling himself with absinthe at H onb table, while the subordinate finishes up "Wi.tli' H y.erta°uth at another.—A Trip to Barbary, by Q. It H Sala. ■
EXTRACTe. FROM "PUNCH" & "PUH.3I
EXTRACTe. FROM "PUNCH" & "PUH.3I The Pleasant*^ or the I An Old Woman's Experience. [" He kad gone among the men, an3 they said that they I were perfectly comfortable, as Ui.1 alio tiio -women in fact,: H one wo)m-,tn, who had been the round of all the workhouses,, ■ said she liked to visit Lambeth because it was the IBCT ■ pleasant of them ali."—Mr. Rhodes, in Lambeth Veat-y, c" H A Night in a. Workhouse."] H From Union to Union oft over all London, I I've wandered, and workus with workus oompESSC, ■ And which I have always found things well at ■ c-'one, I At others nor that owsomedever I fared. I From Poplar to Fuiham I've all the way trudged-E, ■ For wot I sez is by experence you learns. H Each one in its turn avin' tried it and judged it- I I arter all fondly to Lambeth returns. I 'Tis there they allows yer the stiffest of skiliev, I The warmest and thinnest appearance of broth,. v ■ The water is there for your bath willy-nilly, I Your rug is the thickest and laist fousty cloai. ■ Your toke there's a little raore 'azy to swaller ■ Than anywheres else are a hunk o' dry breao ■ And they gi's yer most ay for to lie in and walier ■ At Lambeth, when you got to sleep in the sheet ■ The winter winds elsewhere owls summtu ■ wilder, I And causes wuss draughts to come in tnrcugc w-ci.■ chinks I The coughs and colds likewise at Lambeth is xauosT. ■ A 11 art is f-Tasin and swearin, I thinks. ■ So when the last drop in ou^w oat 6' the. bat.tJe, ■ And I harn't a copper to buy no more gin, I And got nuffin left for to misen my throttle, I I goes back to Lambeth and there gets took I The Lambeth Catch (Scarcely altered from SHAKSPEABE.) Under the Greenwood -shed Who loves to go to bed, And tune his husky note To paupers' coughing throat ? Come hither, come hither, come hither. Here shall he see Such thin Skillee Keep body and soul together. Going to Bath with a Vengeance. The Morning Star had, the other day, an articie, apropos of the interpretations put on Mr. speech, headed, "Attempt to Stifle Reform." What does the Star say to an attempt to drown it—or, &It the very least, to damp it ? Such an attempt has beer. made, according to a report in the Times of the 33th, entitled, Parliamentary Reform in Lambeth." Hew is the passage:— A meeting of the electors and non-electors of the bcrcu{ t. of Lambeth, convened under the auspices of the Natioxg"; Reform League, was held last night to consider the sutjefft of Parliamentary Reform. The meeting was held in the Lambeth Baths, Westminster-bridge-road. At eight o'clock, when the chairman, Mr. Thomas Hughes, M.P., took his swii the large area used as the plunging-bath during fcht summer months was about one-thitdfilled, And yet the Conservatives say that Reform wem -t- wash. SYMPATHY.—The King of Greece is expected sfcoitiy at Copenhagen. Of course he comes to sympathise with the King of Denmark, who, after the thumping he got in Schleswig-Holstein, is the King of W31ac",icq, THE LATEST PARIS FASHION.—Miss Menken is m Paris, it is stated, having bid adieu to the English stage without taking a farewell o'dreas. The reason 1F, obvious-she bade good-bye to it on her first appeal- ance in Mazeppa. A PosER.-Mr. Browii: That wine, sir, hag beei. in my cellar four-and-twenty years come last ChrifiV mas! Four—and—twenty—years—sir! Mr. Qrce>u (desperately anxious to please) "Has it really, air What must it have been when it was new ? A THOUGHT IN THE DARK.-The haunted oh&mbe? is often hung with tapestry, (xob(e)lins of course.
THE MURDER NEAR PARIS.
THE MURDER NEAR PARIS. Poncet, the mo-n accused of having murdered M. Lavergne, formerly a colonial employe in the Macii- tius, haa been sentenced to death by the VerbaMeF Court of Assizes. M. Lavergne's servant, Beecary, stated that, on the 4th of October, just as, with hiE master, he had taken his place in the train at LoEdos; en route for Paris, an individual, who said he wasted to find some French fellow-traveuerg, entered 4Jbs compartment which they occupied. This man, whose sordid attire, whose face, appearance, and general de- meanour had excited the distrust of Beccary and twe other passengers, nevertheless contrived to faster. himself in a kind of way on M. Lavergne. He acacia. panied the deceasea throughout the journey, and em arriving in Paris at one o'clock in the morning waslr with him to the hotel and partook of supper thee with him. Barrat, the hotel-keeper, who disliked tig look, manners, and language, refused to let him have a bed, ana ne bad to sleep out of the house. At twe, r o'clock in the afternoon of the following day be T-B~ turned to ttie hotel and inquired for M. Lavergne. The. hotel-keeper's wife refused to let him in> but he- insisted and Lavergne, hearing his voice, ordered mm to be admitted. After a short time they left the note! together. The unknown, who gave the name of. Gabriel, had, before the people at the hotel, invited M. Lavergne to come and dine with his mothert, From that time M. Lavergne had never been seem. alive. Next morning his body was found in a wood. near Paris. On the fore part of the neck the person who discovered the body noticed a deep gash, stretch- ing to the vertebral column. Ia the right hand 1j¡ walking stick was firmly clutched; the inner part .¡:¡1 the left hand was gashed by several wounds, snowing that the victim had firmly grasped the murderous blade to try and turn it aside; the upper joint of the little finger was completely cut through. His poeaeiE had been turned inside out, and torn, for the purpose*- of robbery—obviously the incentive to the crime, it was ascertained by an examination of the body that this double crime must have been committed on thi previous evening. The very time, however, has beer. pretty accurately fixed by the declarations of M, Gaerin and several members of his family, who, whiie taking a walk between five and six p.m. in the wood of Orgemont, heard sounds coming from one of the- clumps of trees that alarrac-d them. On leaving the- wood they subsequent,y saw, at the very place wherf the body was found rest morning, a man lying dcwir, whom they supposed to be asleep, and who proved ii., be the victim. Ponced, who was a returned convict, was subsequently found 'in possession of some of ttii deoeased's property; his clothes were- found to rs=- stained with blood—in point of fact, the murdfe* *??, most clearly bron grt t home to him.- a