The Pontypridd Chronicle and Workman's News

A fine fossil has been found at the Holmes shalo mines Broxburn— h "I II) all fish about four incites long, and altuost perfect, in every detail. It was within it solid block of shale 100 fathoms below the sin lace. Another of the Eord Chancellor's livings, that of DimsfoM, near Codalming, Surrey, of the value of A'.V.K) a year, is ptaceJ at his di,-I)osal by the ilwath of the Rev. Erskine W. Holland, at the age of vilzilty-four yeni-S. »

tAl. I, KIGJi'fS KKSKKVKDJ. > y 1. THE L-a "L BANK OF CALIF ORN I BY PRENTIGE MULFOR r-n -iiainrn""•t4*1- t f (Continued from our last issue.) i Put hesh salt on a bird's tail, an' you'll catch a "weasel asleep," was his reply. Then his mind seemed to leap into the old channel. It's rich- mi" hty rich-and they can'frhold it all." The thing to be done was to get Pratt to his cabin. Evidently his brain was affected by the wound. 1 left him and hurried to Hillyear. Their cu.bin was built as thousands were in those days—an envelope of cotton drilling about a light wooden frame. There was no wooden door to knock against, or any other method to rouse the inmatjis save by calling. Call I did, but Hillyear seemeTl sleeping the sleep of tHe just. At last, out of patience. I pitched a rock into the frail struc- ture. It tore through the cloth. Hillyear's reply was a shot, which was not to be wondered at. For heaven's sake, Hillyear, don't fire It's me. I've found Pratt. He's hurt badly," I cried. "Who's me' asked Hillyear, after one of his periods of silence. I heard him cocking his pistol. It's I—Holder. Come and help me to get Pratt down off the moun- tain. He's lying there with a gash in his head." Mr. Hillyear r.ow relapsed.in toBilence. I knew not whether lie was trying to frame an idea into a I sentence or pecring out to get an aim at me. Ain't you coming I cried at last. "Are you going to help me get Pratt down. He'll die before we get to him." How—did—you—come—to—find—him?"came at length from Mr. Hillyear's lips, with a sort of clownish judicial gravity. rrr Good heaVens I said, Will stay there all night and ask questions, while your partner is bleeding to deat h ? Do you suppose I'd get out of my bed to stand and call here like a fool for nothing ?" What's the muss?" cried a voice in the dark- ness. It was Bill Sefter, who lived about an eighth of a mile distant. He had come, roused by the shots and the sound of voices. "Ive found Pratt badlv llUrt on Scrub moun- tain, and am trying to get Hillyear to help me down with him. Hillyear won't believe me, and- tint's what's the matter." Hillyear. get up! Don't be a fool," said Sefter. Hillyear finally replied "All—right I'm— comin with an expression as if he had had no doubts as to the genuineness of the news, had but momentarily heard of it.. j Our party reached Pratt, where I had left him. [ With great difficulty we managed to carry him down the mountain. His utterances on the way down nil bore vaguely on quartz hunting and the last scene of which he h.-nl been conscious while in his l ight mind. To Sefter they were a puzzle. To Hillyear, I knew not how much or how little meaning they conveyed. To myself they were a source of great uneasiness. They bore first On the secret of our claim. Next, they might confirm a suspicion, which, if not already developed, I knew was likely to be, through the singular circum- stances attending mV "finding Pratt so far up Scrub mountain in<the dead of night. It needed but a word of Iris delir ious utterance to make known that we liiul quarreled. Wo left Eratt in his cabin. Sefter, whose curiosity was evidently much aroused, said to me, just what I eNpeeted he would How did ycu come to find Pratt away up there I told Sefter that I heard Pratt's voice in the night up the mountain, which was true, but not in the sense I left Sefter to infer. I held that evasion was justifiable wider the circumstances. .It's not so much what we tell tha,t may damage us as to the construction placed on it by those it may be told to. The only way I know of when certain questions r.:» -bed that many people will ask, to avoid evador, or untruthfulness, is "to( pay "it's none of your business.v That, as society- is now constitute' and complicated, would be quite Ïnl- possible.. pas".) l¡,I:. I wonder who shot him continued Sefter. j if, I replied. "Queer business, anyway," was Sefter's finaf remark, as he trudged oft home. I saw by his manner that he was full of curiosity, and being full of curiosity would be soon full of theories as to the cause of Pratt's 'hurt, and that as curiosity and theories are contagious, he' would in. a short time inoculate all Bull Bar with them. Next day I visited Pratt. His head had been hurt both by the ball and the falL The bullet had gashed the temple—not very deeply. The con- mission from the fall seemed to have most affected him. That one or other of these wounds had affected his -brain was very evident without the pompous declaration of the physician, who had been summoned, to that effect. Setter was present when I entered. Pratt was lying, on his bed sileht, but the sight of me seemed to excite his brain to acfion, and set in motion the thought's, scene.- and emotions common to the oc- currence at the claim. They ran dangerously near, but did not actually reveal-me as a participator. ) No tools no notices he cried. Pretty way to hold a claim." What claim, Pratt ?" said Sefter. The sick man's eye fell on Sefter with a gleam of cunning. No claim," he said. We're after rattlesnake oil. Hunting snakes in the chapparal. There's one now—on the lead. If ver not off while I count ten, I'll put a ball through ye. One-two —three—oh and he shrieked as if with pain. Hillyear spoke "He—must—be kept-quiet. It-is the—doc- tor's — orders. The — doctor — says—his—sary—. brullum—is—something—or—other. Queer business—queer busir e5-? was Sefter's [ remark, as we left the house together. i think he's had a shootin' scrape with somebody. Broener returned. I felt that, 1 could nnw shift a part, of the business to other shovddexs. i- lie heard my story. At its conclusion he settled back and laughed. [ Regularduuc. novel, isn't it ? sa?d he. Writ# -4 it, print it, sell it. Well, young man, you're im- proving rapidly. I congratulate you. I couldn't have wished you anything better than the experi- ence you've gone through. You needed it. You're: the kind that must be put in very hot water to draw anything out. of you." But won't this put all Bull Par on the scent of the Bank' ?" 1 asked. "First, let's compound gome whisky with sugar, lemons and nutmeg. Before we talk business let's fix things so as to make business pleasure, not by pouring the stufl'down raw as the fools do at the store yonder* But dress up the; ItHidxicccfttly and tastefully before wo put it down. There Woujd be far less drunkards if every man was compelled by law to dress up and trim up his drinks in this way before he swallowed them." He continued as he sipped his punch Make yourself ea -Holder, about the claim. You have li\td that. gbt, or the Fates have for you. Pratt won't < there for a while, now that his wits are knoc ( out Of hia head, Which for our purjMse is K it ■: .ar than knocking them out of his body. 'eea.. -• Im foot enough to believe that if his wits were of his body they'd be in row h better nhapc to back and reveal our secret than a- tlr y now iained to a cracked skull, ttll t i lo tefore in h: rking order. Hillyear, from vch.t! you say, i udge, only an appendage of I • <. i and not to do anything without him. At events, d out soon. AH for the' Ha"¡, '■ i.mk I've g( eream out of it already. it's only a feede some bigger vein in the mo.if tain. That c. y for awhile. I've got four c: ave caches of z ul1 there that I haven't shown you. We'll it all down this week and hu things fort, ;>sent. There's, I think, YOUl ',Ii!' iiharo of div\ far as wove gone." and he l't, in tnyha-ndsa ':ù cor tificato of deposit for 14,000 dols. If the rock that's mined out gives down as I think it will, you'll have as much more coming to you. Are you Satisfied ? Satislie<L! Less than, a year from home and the fiossessor pi what in Eastj>ort was deemed a small ortune. In the w ell-worn phrase, I wanted tc ''pour forth my thanks." I'said h I wish J c6uld fitly express my feeling and gratitude to ydn." I'm "lad you can't," said Broener, interrupting me. It's a good thing for you that you can't. I hate effusiveness. You may in part thank your reticence and undemonstrativeness for what you call your luck. I don't want any gushers about me. Besides you've earned what you got— every cent of it. Fate put you and me together, and with that put it in your way. There's no thanks nor gratitude in the matter. I hate people always overwhelmed with gratitude. They're the sort who, if ever they do you what's called <our, never forget it, and, in effect, want to be pirri for it for ever afterward. Let's change the subject. There's a traveling theatre company at Chinese Camp to-night. Let's go and see the show. You need a change from the ghastly buzzard spying and body hunting business. "Get Rankin's horse, I'll" take mine, and we'll gallop over there." On applying, Mr. Rankin said he would gladly hire me his horso. The animal, be added, was vicious, shied at his own shadow, bucked fre- quently and had been the death of two men. As we were leaving he called out to Broener The coroner lives at one end of the camp and is lightenin' on an inquest when sober. The under- taker lives at the other. You'd better take the cloth for the young man's shroud along with. you. They know that horse up there and always put an extra ten cents a yard on white linen when they see him comin' > It seemed another world in that land when rid- ing by night. The sun's hot glare was gone. The air after nightfall was always cool and refreshing, for it came off the snow-banks on the Sierra sum- mits. Our horses were full of life and apparently .is glad to make the trip as ourselves. The life of the. horse se £ &s t..atldlife to the rider; providing tie is a horseman." Distance at night seems un- noticed. It is more like a dream. One travels forward without so much of that mental straining to reach one point after another as do so often our unhappily constituted hurrying minds in the day time. So galloped Broener and -It- regarding those myriad shining wonders of all ages^-the stars. M Lot's of 'em, aren't there ? said h'e. The stars ? Yes." "Small potatoes we are under them. Smaller than ants in comparison, and moving about on this planet for these shining atoms we call gqid. I wonder, now, of what importance poor Pratt, if he had his senses, would consider that biggest star alongside of a pan full of dust. Pratt would trade Yeuus.for a quartz claim. "Stars, speculation, immortality, &c. said Broener, as we rode on. The three seem go, together or, at all events,- statV-gtartl dnie, on those topics. I wonder what we are, anyway- who we are, where we came from, and all the rest, I am a certain amount of life and inteMigence in a bpdy. body's only a garmen(S, a •v^rtip, /a ^chine. flit a part ot the body hard enough, just one Mow, ;ind"in one second life's all gone, and with it the gumption I've been storing up for years. Hit it not quite as hard, like the crack, poor Pratt.gaye himself, and the intelligence stays but goes to liillders-all hurly-burly. Problem when you bore :t hole with a bullet through a man's head, does all his intellect go out through t/hat hole, and, if so, where does it go to? and might there not be,some way of putting a bucket <5r basin under such a man's he.vl when he's dying, and collecting ^his intelligence, his quien sabe for one's own use, just as they. top trees for maple sugar? Well, one thing's certain "We're here, anyway, and I put it up that- the best pltHi is to get all the fun we can out of it—body, soul, mind, spirit, and any other little addition the theologians, philosophers and- meiaphysicianscantaak on us." We rode int'o the "camp." In the language of the time, it was "bilin' The theatre company had brought in miners from far and near. It was' a single straight street. From every, door and Window on either side poured a flood of light, for 'every house on the street, of wood or cloth, was either store, saloon,gambling tent or some place of public resort. Sidewalk, street and houses were alike full of men. The "fandango" was already in full blast. Here, alone, were seen women-dark- skinned senoritas in white dresses, some having their waists encircled by broad bands of pure gold. l!iders were momentarily coming in, some urging .i lioir horses at a breakneck pace through the street. The fiir was filled with a medley of sounds—music, shouts,atught')];, the hum of several hundred voices gathered in so small an. area, the clink of glasses and an occasional yell from some miner giving vent in this way to the emotions within him developed by whisky.. < "Come," said Brodner. "Let's take a look at the fandango. Everybody goes there either to dance or look on. Ifc's'-flot the low dance house of all old city. You''will find there the leading mer- chants of the place,- the U-Lnker, the lawyer, the judge, and^H tlie-otlier present pillars of society, i in this new world of adventurd-rs. Society here,. you see, is in a state of effervescence, and every- body's at the top. Hence there's now no bottom.' Npi tut? these Mexican and Chileanean girls like tlio abandoned of our American or English cities, They don't get drunk, won't pick your pocket, and 1 hough mobility sits lighfely on them, still they have'a certain respect for themselves which keepS t; I'IIl out of gutters." We went in. Broener was soon whirling one of these tawny beauties about in a waltz. I followed his example. The dance over, we "treated" our partners «tt thebar, astustomaiy, to harmless soda, i the' onlv they took, made a pretence of drinking ourselves Rnd left for the theatre. As we were entering the theatre Broener said You must go home alone to-night. I shall not return till some time to-morrow." > « CHAPTER XIII. STTU'RISE. The play was Othello." It was a farce relative to'■jn operlies and mounting. Two icings of the siirnboard style of art had to serve all the scenic dilmandfs of the piece. The dreadful bell" was • tfhe t'oesin of the Placer hotel, borrowed for the oc- casion. ami its tones being recognised by some of tjie -bpanjev*- drew from them-, the cry, Time for Bang's hash." The jealous Moor was. commented 01: a the "nigger," and during the entire perform- aiic' was made-a target from the demonstrative i running fire of com- j.'n'sd eritici.yi and admonition, not friendly in its <.jha'jt.sr, und evidently based on the sectional preiudf' cs of'those who, coming from the .south, looked with no favour on a nigger" for daring to asj lire to the hand of a white maiden. Their ethno- logical, research had never discriminated between .t,ur and Ethiopian. Iago was the favourite of the iiouse, more and more as the drama advanced, and as lie, playing on the Moor's emotions, made him more and more miserable, one enthusiastic <• mnientfttor bawled out' as encouragement: •• 'J hat's right sock it tq him 0 1 occupied with Broener one of the two dingy recesses on either side of the stage, dignified by the name of boxes," and held at 20 dols. each for the night. His keen appreciation of the part con- tinuallv played by the audience, his hearty relish of (he iotahfailure to impress them with aught of the seriousness of the play, and his instant detec- tion of every ludicrous point brought about by the mislii of the drama relative to the time, temper and character of nine-tenths of the lookers on, made his -ocietv to ine equivalent to a fine comedy played simultaneously with the piece set before us. In reality "many of these rough fellows were critics, in their way, of no mean order, though themselves entirely unaware of it. 1 think that their years of isolation from the conventional life of the older fettled localities from which they originally cAme, and the lack of sham and pretence in the life they now led, had quickened their minds to discriminate between what was natural and what .was nrtiticinl-whnt was acted with real emotion and what was merely stilted declamation, as much of the piece before us was on the part of the princi- pal character. So, when lago's wife, w ho, it will be remembered, is but little prominent in the first action of this drama, stigmatized her scheming husband and wished for a whip to scourge such scoundrels through the world, the house rose to her —

SKKIOUS. Ca^RaE AGAINST A "GAFFER." AT CLYDACd VALK. At Ystrad police court, on Monday, (before the Stipendiary and Mr T. P. Jenkins,) John Jones was charged with assaulting James Morris. Complainant said defendant asked him why he did not bring a tram to the parting. Told him he could not. Defendant said "You shall bring it," and began to beat the horse, and then beat him "shameful;" ahd with a staff caused a gash two inch&, in length en his Henri. Defendant Was goffer tliepS, åîlcI had; since dismissed bin;1 { Defendant said he requested complaibant to use a shaft, which he refused to do. After some words had been exclaouged. complainant sprang forward. and was aboiit-tostoike him with a lamp, when he put up "liis hand to ward off the blow. The push causqd the complainant to fall, and he knocked his head against a tram. „<4 -it '7. Thi6 complainant denied, and said he sbowed hihttelf:80on sitter coyetfftd^ith blood to Sergt Eloyle, A doctor attended him for a week. His ribs were^ injured by the blows he received.bu Case adjourned for> week{ •'> I.

STEALING A WATGH AT V At Pontypridd police court, on Wednesday, (before the Stipendiary), Charles Roberts was charged with stealing ft watch, of the value of £4, Frederick Gibbon, Rhydfelen, labourer, said he was iu the Clarence Hotel, Pontypridd, on Tuesday, and saw defendant there. He was a stranger to him. After a, conversation he missed his watch. Defendant was then going to the door to leave. He cattgbt hold of him, and said "You have got my watch." He replied "Np, I have not seen it." Whilst he was holding hinf Mr Trenchard came to his assistance, and said "give up the man's watch." Defendant said "Do yon think ydh are the men to hold me." Mr Trenchard replied "Yes, and I will hold yon. The watch was taken off the spring of the ;i^lbert chain. The watch produced was the one lost;" i John Trenchard, landlord, corroborated, and added that he caught hold of his arm, and the watch was in his hand. Detained him until P.S. Menhenniok came, to whom he gave the, watch. He had difficulty in holding defendant until the police came. P.S. Menhennick said he arrested prison^, who denied the charge, and said it was tslkeft- by'iln old man named Joseph. Defendant resisted very much on the way to the police station. Later he said he saw the watch on the floor, and picked it up, and gave It W the landlord. Remanded for a week in order that the police might make inquiries respecting the prisoner.

RUFFIANLY CONDUCr:AraPINAS. SAY AGE ASSAULT BY A "IIHfÄIÑ SMASHER." STRONG REMARKS BYtTMEtSTlpENDlAKY At Pontypridd police-oou,t. on Wednesday (be- fore the Stipendiary), John Long was charged with assaulting Llewellyn Roberts. v Complainant said that on Siturday night, the 26th May, he and defendant were in the Collifer's Arms Inn, Dinas, where they had a dispute. De- fendant said be would knock bis brairs out Some time after he came on, and threw half a brick at him. which struck his forehead. He avoided the full blow by bobbing his head down. lIe again gfiid he would knock his brains out before he went home; He got over the table and scuffled with de- fendant. The dispute was about cards. John Davies, a aollier, said he was present when the dispute began. Long got up to beat Roberts, and Roberts got over the table and. laid hold of defendant. They did not fight, but,had a acutBe. lioberts might have struck Long without his seeing him. The landlord separated them. Hoard Long threaten to knock Robarts' brains out. He brought a brick, and when about fouu feet from Roberts he threw it at him and said, I'll take hanging for you. I'll knock your brains out." John Thomas, landlord of the inn, corroborated Prisoner was sent to prison for two months with bard labour. The Stipendiary expresseed regret that he couM not!give him more, as a two months' sentence was not half enough.

STEALIHG ICLOTHESlATflPABDY. "13 f "At Pontypridd police-court on Wednesday (be- fore the Stipendiary), Daniel Jones was cha ged with stealing clothes. No. Thomas Evans, Mardy, said defendant lodged with him, and left on the 14th May. He rose be- tween nine and ten. and missed a blue cloth coat, black cloth waistcoat, a pair of trousers and a shirt. He bad lent defendant the clothes, but had not given them to him. The Clothes were worth about thirty shillings. Jemims Evans said she went to Dowlais, and saw defendant in a public house. Asked him why he took the olothes. He said, 11 If yon will for- give me, I will bring the olothes back on Monday night." He did not bring them baok, 80 she gave information to the police. P.C. Llewellyn said he arrested the defendant at the Barracks at Brecon. He had joined the militia and was in training. On being charged, he said, « Yes, I took the things." t Fined 40/ 01 go to prison for one month's hard labour.

01" JIEAJ>YTWIT.-7-THC i.'Uivo oi(\\ ci Migt >n 011C3 mj? »y* Accident siA oll'.cvr jn A 8 ;lt|i iiK-briety. w h^re,% »ir,said i'W Iron Iluke, ;*• wWlwoUal, you do"if you*inot'one yur nieii iu thtrCoixlition 111 which 1 find JOu!" 1 lie colonel divw^ hin»dl 1 up, gave tile IlIditary salute, a:i«l replied with great gruviiy: "I would UOL <-oii'iesce:id to say a word" to the brule." liis wit s:ived li in his coiiinnssiorti- 111 KI:II:I» \Yw.J.*V-R^-onlt ^viote liis will at his club on art%0|, ofi H°I¥-1IaplJr. lines, ami it W; 1 JS <iu'y jimvetl; and there is a story of ;ni osller, who, being at h s gasp, cia wJed to the corn clu-si, raiseii the lid, scrawled his part~ 1 ,witlt;a-4>iS4», of eha:}^ lllfiii'lcij!' aijJnl >talitenKtil tOfw«i»«S(»a1"i* s'gna- ture, rstortti off; its binges, and satisfactorily pioved in Doctors' (Jom- mons/ r J\i AI!O.ANV.—This wood was' bn/nght! into Eng: lainl from Ameriea in the year lo'J.j, by Capta-i' (iiblons, limtlar of Dr. (..iblons, a celebrated J,on don plys cum. At Jirst it was used for ballasi onlv, he. oil account of its hardness^ rejected by "the carpeliters as injiiri us to their tools. Mrs. iiibbons, dibweverf preluded ,t>ii one W'ooUnston, au njiholsterer, to infike "for hei* a c:imile-box «f this Wnod, which, when finished, exhibited the grain tc such adv.-intage ;is to lead to all order for a bureau oHrhe mwne nn*t«ri«il «-and thia^^KU so greatly a l- >»ni*eii as to hccotne the Subjiict ol gjineritl cenversai- iTufr. "-niu Dufrtfes* of" Kuckingharo-liaving procar4 some of tlie wo id from Giobons, had several artich-E of furniiuio made with it, and thus introduced it. into tlai houses of the nobility and gentry. CiiiMM.vs ami Firki'i.a0:8.—Chimneys were unknown in Knghind until the twelfth centnrv, anc even then they were made Jhe subject of legislation,, as windows were at a later day. Only one chining was allowed in a manor house, one in a religious bouse, and one 111 ti e great hall of a castle. Whet .-«;es ;bvca4ne. the luxuries of the rich, the flues jpjttepded hjjly a few feet into'the thickness of tiif rwj ilmMi tin neil out through tiie waft fry. the ack Ot the liieplace, the openings being sinnil oblong holes. I,, the days of Henry VIII. no fire- place was allowed at the University of Oxford. In. deed, it was not. until the beginning of the ltitfc ccmury.CUnt the old stiite of tllings-a fire in tltf centre ol tbe hall, the smoke escaping through the roof^was altered. An examination of the chim- neys in tise great halls of the manor houses will prove been'inserted.«.bout this period? Wii> ifiwjiyears sgo the old King ol "fvixony was ntit limning HI company with the Kmperor Francis Josepli. Night was coming on, and the- two hunters were tired. Upon this they caught sight of an old peasant driving along in a cart. "Shall we take a lift in this cart? queried -the Kmperor. '-Yes," said the King, "any porI in a storm." The peasant welcomed them heartily, a ltd when the-royal conple reaylied their destination trie Kirigdianded the honest fatiaer a few florins in reward,, and said with a smile-" Do you know whom you have conveyed in your vehicle? In. deed, no." Yon Jiave just transported the Kmperor of Austriaand the King of Saxony." The peasant, convinced that he had to do with two w^r#WpoYm«! Tft an p i i«»i? *Kot rtiore you did fiv' ^Ayefl. I^u^the Shah of l'eteia! And with ne craclceu Ins whip and was 'soon^fffit of*Sigtit THE OLDKsr BANK NOTES.—The oldest bank- notes are the '-Hying liipuey," or "convenient money," first issued in <Jhin.% Cfriginally' these notes were issued Dy the;,IVea'snry, but experi- ence dictated a change to the system of banks under government inspection and control. A writer in a provincial paper says that the; early Chinese "greenbacks" were in all essentials similar to the jnoih;rn bank-notes,, bearing the name of the bank, vije £ l:tte\)f issue, tjjpe nuniljer of th$note, the^signl- ldre*of\lfc official fssuiitg it, indications"of its valtle in figures, in words, and in the pictorial representa- tion of coins or heaps of coins equal in amount to its face value, and a notice of the pains and penalties for counterfeiting. Over and above all was a ■husoHic exhortation to industry.ajuL thrift"Pro- BiM al iWi'i' ipe.^iffi fekdm43A.fi The were printed in blue ink on paper made from the fibre of the mulberry-tree. One issued in lo'.tt) li.jz/tor "$vtiijsffve0riy the 'iWiaiJc JSiIi|iepn\ at l'etersburg. TIIE BESTOWAL .OF liosorES.—lionr.urs were, in ^Qne^);Klefah^ill's tilue, s bestowed, that the Order of the Garter was considered by' the Queen a stifficietit recompense to Sir Philip Sidney for his rjefpstog tiie bro-wif of Poland; and tite Walsingham* received no liigher honour. Sir Francis Drake, for his voyage round the world, and astonishing exploits against the Spaniards,< was simply knighted by the queen, and nn additional bearing to his C!)at-.of-a,r<n$ v.ts granted him. By conferring such favours Elizabeth esteemed herself bounteous, and was applauded for extraordinary munificence. Lastly, Sir T. Greshara, for procuring- the protestations of the Spanish bills at (lenoa, and thereby retarding the expedition of the Invincible iUihafln^ for a whole year ;• for building the Ex. change at his own expense, and founding and en- ilowiug seven professorships; was thought to have been highly rewarded by the heralds proclaiming the edifice "RnyaL" in the presence of the sovereign and by the founder having had the honour to kiss the hand of the queen. These honours being ex- tremely rare, and bestowed upon scarcely any but great spirits, became valuable in proportion, and far outweighed the light and lavish coin of her suc- cessors, who ennobled every flatterer. I,- -A Kot*s ■CorKiCE.—'During a terrible Tlnval. battle between the English and Dutch, the English tligship, eonmianded by Admiral Narborpugh, was drawn into the thickest of the fight. Two masts were soon shot away, and the mainmast fell with a fearful crash upon the deck. Admiral Narlmrougb saw that all was lost u'nWfes he cctafd bring up his ships from the right. „ Hastily scrawlipg an order, he called for volunteers to swim across the lloll- ing water, under the hail of shot and shell. A dozen sailors at once offered their services, and among them a cabin boy. "Wily," said tht admiral, "what can yoa do, my fearless Tad? "I can swim, sir," the boy replied; "if I be shot, I can he easier spared than any one else." Narboroiigi) lj.esit.atBd; his men were few, and his position was (fcsptft afc, The boy plunged into the sea amid the djieeris of the sailors, aHd was, soon Iosf t j sight. The battle raged fiercer, and as time went on de- feat Seemed inevitable. But just as hope was fading a tliliiitlei-ilig cannonade was heard from the right, and the reserve were seen bearing down upon the entity. T»y sunset the Dutch lfeet were scat'ered far and wide, and the cabin boy, the fiero of the hour, was called to receive the honour (lue Jiim. liis modesty and bearing so won the heart of the old admiral'that he exclaimed-" I shall live to see you have a flagship of your own." The prediction • whs fulfilled when the boy, haying become Admiral Gl n.dsley Shovel. was knighted by the king. HS.'AI'E FUOM ToKn KL—During the American w .r several of Montgomery's Highbinders, strag. giers from the traversing parties, fellinto the bauds of the Indians, being taken in-ambush..Atuonnf others was Allan Macpherson, who, witnessing the litileTable fate of several of ..ilis 'fello*-priso iers, tortured to death by these .cruel conquerors, an seeing ihoin preparing to commence the same opera- tions upon himself, made signs that he had some- thing to communicate. An interpreter was brought, and Macpherson told them that, provided his life was spared for a few minutes, he would communi- cate the secret of an extraordinary medicine, which, if-itppiied tothe skin, would cause it to resist the strongest blow of sword or tomahawk and that, if thev would allow him to go to the wools wit': a guard, to c9yeetthapr<>(>jr«|ierbs, i«e would prepare it, and aliotf tlie jex^w-frAeiitte lie .-first-tried <>u his own neck by the strongest and most expert warrior among them. This story easily ga.>II"} credence with the superstitious te.lskjns; and the llighiAhde'r'd'request was instantly c nnpliel with. lieTii" taken into the woods, he soon" returned with such~plants as he chose to pick up. Having boile i these herbs, he rubbed his ileck With their "iiice t log of strongest "UUl among them tir strike, at bis iwck with his tomahawk. Accordingly, an Indian, aim- ing ablow whk aU his strength, cut with ?uch fore? that the head He.w off to the distance of several yards. The Indians were tost in .anuueaioiit, both at their own credulity and at the adjiess by which the prisoaer JiuKUesfapad the lingering ,'leath pre- pared for him but instead of being enrage J at this escape of their victim, they were so pleased vnt his ingenuity that they refrained .from, iMfliciimj further injuries and cruelties on the remaining pr soner8t Whole cloves are now used to exterminate the merciless and indiutrious moth. It is said thev are more elTeet«nl as a destroying .a-.re.it than e L..el tobagco, yanip'ror, or cftar sbavi*i^s. 1,

_A IIKJH CONSTABLE FIRED AT. As Mr. John Burke, of Woodliuld, near Broad- for l,-big4i 4Wiis6ehle of the ijarony, in. w hich he lives, driyS'ijr to the fa«5 at Scarif his hoi>ti wa- shot-d8a<t frt»A hchntdtt tULctt. The crime is a<cribed to the circlI m",t allCe8 (hat. Burke's brother- iu;law ha j out bid the tenant* 011 the Dawson pro- perty at Banralhy iti t lie Court, anI ..IJP ..I the tenants named Kennedy was evicted. Mi. IJurke was present at the eviction and had since stocked the farm. Mr. Burke was accom- panied by a neighbour and a herdsman. No atresia have been made. V.JL J-

TFA ADULTERATION IN RUSSIA. It has i11 discovered that onb of 44 teasample9 submitic I !•<) certain official analysis in St. Peters- bi igr, four consisted of Kaporny gi-ass and tea nii\~y?,.four of Kaporny grass alone, and five of tea that haT] been" previously 'fetal. As has- been :Ji i.ady announced, matters are quite as bRd in Mo-cvW, where there will soon be some further prosecutions for this offence. Tht;. il lias reached such ii pitch thai it is tolerably certain something will be done to put a stop to it. A froii-x .Mubao, states Uiat the police h ive di-covere V severaf barrels of rubbish for mixio-jr with tea. Ill i-, however, bardlv surprising that ndnIteration oil, tea is alxnit -S. |»er pouiul.

TirE ALL.EG'lSD" CHILD AT DARKlXiT. • At a <:o. ei ireing-cr. of Tys ,011 .Si r- jt, Bel hnal; f M CC:Id ioa I. \1'" on remand 1I:)fI sus; licion :»f cansiutr the death o! a cl.iiid, naioj unknown, by drowning il in the Back River, a! Barking, on May 2o. inspector Scott Sai 1 thai he had no to and lie at Ided that tha cfU)e H&ek-Ttiver hrtd been drawn or* Sumlav', atiT i! wa< Thorongliiy searched. Mr. H. I'Oi 1 Harclav, ilie cliairiuan (to Mr. Willis* The '(/olicedo not oiler any further evidence, and there- fore, of conrse-r your client will be discharged..Mr, Willis; jfUU-r said he would dike to say a word or :0) as'to the evidence on I was fl.r. :-ested, but Mr. Barclay said the Bench could n"t¡ treat- anythirig". The man was discharged, an j the matter was at an end. Mr. Willis: Very wvllsi t,ir. TUe accused Mieii left t.be dock.

TOPICS OF THE WEEK. THE grouse-shooting season in Scotland pro raises to be one of the best on record. Part- ffidges and pheasants will prove as plentiful as grouse" is the gratifying news from the northern moors. It is seldom that keepers can manage to obtain more than eighty pheasants ,per 100 eggs; but this year parcels of eggs have yielded in most cases 90 per cent. As for the grouse, many well-filled nests have been heen on the beats, as well as chicks in sheltered .situations on the moors. The deer seem to have wintered badly, and have been exceptionally latein casting their antlersi There will, there- fore, be few clean heads before the end 01 August. If hares are few in the north, rabbits are abundant. Farmers in Scotland have given tip the cry of the rabbit nuisance," as they believe the sale of the destroyers trapped during the winter months moreihan compensates for their ravages a couple jof pairs are the value ,.of a bushel of corn.

A BLUE-BOOK of great interest, especially to \hose who care to study the nomenclature 01 families, has just been issued. In obedience tc orders of the House of Commons, dating some eleven years back; a return was prepared of the names of Members of Parliament from 1213 to 1702. Now ')ve have in this volume an .Appendix, Corrigenda, and, most important of all, an Index to the return, of which, how- ever, a future volume wiU give further the 'names of Membersvsummoned to Westminster between the year 1705 and the dissolution of -the Parliament of 1874, and of the Members of the separate Parliaments of Scotland and Ireland. In the Ind<%x we note, among other things, that the sufhame of the ill-fated searcher for El Dorado, whom James I. so basely slew, is spelled in eleven different ways. The arrangement, adop^l by the compilers of •be volume seems cleat and simple, so that it •is an affair of but a few foments to find put in what Parliament and in what reign the Dearer of any given name served,Ms Sovereign and his .country. Altogether it is great advantage to the historical inquirer to have this easy key to the results of theisearchings made in recent vears among the old worn documents of the tower and of the Rolls Chapel.

IN an old country, any Organic reform, is -bound to interfere with and; disturb arrange- ments which, bear the .impress of antiquity. • This was demonstrated afresh at the meeting which was hetd under Lord Granville's presi- dency, for the purpose of considering the prob- able operation of the Local Government Bill Upon the ancient Tights and 'liberties of the Cinque Ports, together with their limbs and neighbourhoods. According teethe Bill, "the -Cinque Ports and two ancient towns and their members shall for all, purposes of the county -council and of the powers and duties of quarter sessions and justices out of sessions under this Act form part of the county in which they are respectively situate, without prejudice never- theless to the position of any such port, town, or member as a quarter sessions borough under the Muhicipal Corporations A.ct, 1882, as amended by this Act." But this does not satisfy the inhabitants of the Cinque Ports. • They contend that they have little in common with those, whom the Bill associates with them for purposes of county government, and they want to be foraied into a separate county as is to be done in the case of a number of large -towns. It is to be hoped that the President of the Local Government Board will pee his way to compliance with the wishes of the people. It was aptly pointed out by Lord Granville that the traditions of the Cinque; Ports, which are not only of aa historic but alhiost romantic character, are very dear to the Inhabitants of the district, and it is not only natural but praiseworthy for the people to object to inter-. ferencB with those traditions. The LordWarden -said that in Hunters of government sentiment cannot he altogether excluded. We go farther, and unhesitatingly assert that sentimententers very largely into the government of the world and, as the Cinque Ports nre (Strongly opposed to the idea of losing their individualitYi we hope that practical respect will be paid to thatsenti- p •ment in the Act which will soon be passed. Tlje more sentiment is conciliated, the greater will be the chance of success for Mr. Ritchie's Bit! and when the deputation which Lord Granville proposes to introduce to the Presi- dent of the Local Government Board makes its representations, we hope the response will be at once conciliatory and satisfactory.

ALTHOUGH it has long beea the practice of prison officials to take many precautions on receiving at new inmate of the gaol in order to ensure his identity in after years, it. does not appear "th^. tbe system adopted, is really as. effective as it should be. Ther.e. cannot be any great diSeutty in ascertaining, and recording such physical peculiarities as wctuld render his identification, if again incarcerated, an absolute certainty. The features of a man change con- siderably with the lapse of years, particularly those of the criminal classes, and the height of course of an individual is ever varying; but th& measurements of a man's head, hands, and feet taken in connection with, his ascertained stature, should always be a trustworthy guide where the'ordinary prison photograph cannot of itself be relied upon in all. cases. But the latest accounts of the search for the Strange- ways convict, Jackson, contain the remarkable information that instead of this culprit having but,one conviction against him—that for which he was undergoing imprisonment when he made his murderous attack on a prison warder-he is realty a'"notorious offender, whose real name is I Charles Wood Firth. In this case it is probable that he was not recognised as .a confirmed criminal when he was brought to Strangeways Prison, simply because £ h$ officials there had no opportunity of comparing his appearance with photograph ef. hiui which was in the hards of the prison officials of Yorkshire. If th- re is no fresh misapprehension in connection with this lamentable affair, Jackson has really had a long career of crime, and has several times been convicted for burglaries and other robberies. We learn that a photograph and a careful description of the fugitive have now been aept to every police office in the country, in the expectation-that by this means the alleged murderer will be identified and cap- tured. But it is only pertinent to ask why this course was not taken long ago. If his true history had been known no warder in his senses would have daily trusted himself alone with such a man, provided as he was, too, with a weapon capable, as has been proved, of killing a person at a single blow. Evidently the system of circulating descriptions and photo- graphs of criminals of his class is capable of great improvement. A man's life has clearly been sacrificed owing to the complete uncon- sciousness of the officials at Strangeways Prison that they had a hardened criminal in their charge. It may be remarked, too, that the gaol itself does not appear to present, so far as its outer walls are concerned, any serious diffi- culties to a convict determined to escape.

SCETCE AT A GLOVK Flflirr. t !I,e :ç"tlo; C0l111ty Pet ty Sessions, a !"•: i -•» •j-iine.l MeChue wax lined £ }() for allowing ,«i. i -IK net on bis. piemiser?, the 8evcu CitaiV nil, liii.-kii.-til Torkard. There was a ^lovc h^bt. be- ■ v ceii two men in a large room at. t lie S< '-o fttars^ liere being a ch-irge for "admisbioo..viter they 7*0 (ought forait>oujb4in bom; ap l a iutlf one of the loen <11 ( i| i|><5cl dowii I;ctt evidence iiucd that death had resulted from heart dis- 1.:a"e..

THREATENING TO irORSEWTIIP A CAPTAIN At the tjiicemvich Police Court, Mr. O .ley, a? yonn_r ^csi'lenian living at i orest-hill, w;| summoned tor t hreat.ening Huddle bui Powell, aj ^captain ii^(r>'tfWf ^i^-riw^:Fo^lw|wU. Complain'u»fc^|al^ih4.biit Hie defendant wenc to Ilia house, an^ jisaed hii n to fifiht a duel.' Witness ha J' %cen him WRSfSeflfrerlh rnwn in eonnectic^witht iii t!ie Hi,,h C,)ui-t. A% tlie defendant left, the house, lie said, "I will lay^ flfy Nvlaliucrovs baok."—In cross-examinations by the detenda*)#, complainant said he had nevor snlVered fiom sunstroke. Defendant had served hitn.with a writ. —Defendant said he served th^ •wh'f./ucting kr a solicitor, and these proceedings were taken U\ try to frighten him. Ho told him be deserved !loi's^whiupiug.—Mr.. ^larsham toh{ defendant"he liad' 110 Vight to us*s words about 'horsewhipping, and suggested that he AMid bound ovcrio kcepthe peace.—Defendant: assonbed, and was bound over.

OUTBREAK OF SMALL-POX. 5YeRegret to-ltorii that an outbreak small. pox has occurred at Atherstone, but bhanlts to thq pro;ju and elfectual measures an hich have been taken hy |^he«ehi^ry anl'hoiifies, .the cases have "all been removed'to the Worlchousff" Hospital an(| isolated, and it is hoped that by this means th$ spread oflhe wfeotlon Will bflT pr*>yo<ibe<Lrf' Seven cases are reportod to exist, at (h'e preseno time. The disease was introduced by a tramp, who recently camfeto a in t lie town wit!\ two of his children, and all three have since died,* The lodging-house has been closed. Theauthoritie^ are constructing a temporary hospital in all isolated part of the Union for the reception of small-pox cases, and the eil()t-ts they are making. to prevell ti the spread of the disease are mo-t! commendable. Up lo the present the existing cases are conHned t'l the \V<u-khou-e, and there i-t reason to bel.ieve that the exert!- its which 111"\ being made,toj>revent the intectS extending (TI Dther parts of the town will be stH -ussfuk.. Shoul.fc it unfortunately do so the cases will be promptly lealt with, isolation will be resulted to, and th^ services of additional nurses secured. Largq numbers of the inhabitants of the town of both sexeg are being re-viccmutedr.

SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE Si'IKE-NAIL TRADE.-■ .1 •. Old Hill, Rowley, Grn-Uey H«at>Uv-i4«tasowen% Sedgley and adjoining dist ricts the employers hav^ advanced sptke' nailmahwrs' \vag<?-' _5 per cent.' For about two years the opc-i'nti\e.«"have submitted- to a series of reductions, and the wages eventua ny. became so !pw. that they were unable to maintain •themsetyes on,thf remnlleration received from t lieitk, labOuii". :l A fewf Aweks ago a conference of employers and operatives was held, ab which several of the. leading employers stated tliafe the opetfctlfts hail to work hard aJld ought to be paid well, biitt they .were in a great measure responsible for theic miserable position by offering to do work under that recognised list of prices. It was also point.ed ctik tjl ere w ,ft,s always a srreat demand for spike iitils., "i t merchants were willing to pay a reasonable' price. It was unanimously agreed to pay an ad«^ vance of Da per cent, in wages. Several of the employers urged the operatives to be united and not undersell their labour, as repealled femwtious upeeb trade and made'many miserable hemM. '¡.

ALLEGED^BURGLARS TIJ APJ'Eli.. At th6 Thames Police Court, JiVi*l^u) fainter •IS), and John- Kelly U^). have been chhrgt-lpvttli burglariously breaking and enterrh'g pVtemises of Mrs. Emily Louisa Nol-t, draper, of 2"I, Mile- and-road, and I' 1 ianley-atrett^. and r stealing ftquant i y of wearing apptuel, tiie pfcoperty of Mrs. Nott. — T •-ecurrix stated ihnt on the night ,,f N,,L in .-juestio". 1:\e t.r lier assistants locked up t he place, About fcv n-t y m^.utes past,ten witness's son spoka tit) hef^ (♦n.le-'slw'-irtcrtt to the door of Frindey- street, which wa;: at the back of the Mile-end-road pr0in--es, and which W.'IS Utell iSl<^«ft^placcv ;or i.i tant, wdien she found 'Lho. ilwe open. Wii ie->s ..dH:I. the door, and held on to i'tv^WlBn sha the Stairs, and I hey tried to open the'doqr. Witness was too strong for them, nndMicpti tlhe <loor closed Unt il two con- r'iibinr wl.mi t he y went in and arreste I the t.wo prisoners. After, I he, accused were charge d witnf st? let iiincd to ".I;1\e hou^o, iuid found that all tlie (b-awers had been pulled cut. The content 9 were ;c\vn aln -.it, the tloor^ an 1 a heap uf d^'essc% Knd skirts wfci-e on the bed »<jad? f<jr r«novaV !Sho knew Kelly, w^u> had been a ssrfm-ti of great ■•rouble !.>"»„J.ior for some lime p-i.-f. were marks o:i the door, and wifne-- .1 • i-e\ ed I bat the lock waa jacked.—.Mi.is ]\tc E.oy-ton, om-.V.f the prose, n- lii\ s assi.-tai ■d -posed i.ba! a'ooiih nine o'clock at iiui'tit alio e house :'im l.-y-etreet, and l b—Cotista1 94J, ,IÏ.\ he. WU.S califc- e house, and on^g-'ilig ilisidd i0mul tlie.1.W- .V«i(5ts vpideriUe^Klncase trying e:ceal I ;OV Kelly VvaS n .-i shelf. With -lit H ■■■.j. Jtvrest ed tl^ au^M-d, when Tidiler said. 4-v- iH I'ight ,.g"\crw. r.. -eietly." 01 v ay- lo the station'dli.1 ^W-ii, r along the Court, w' co half a, it rtm tithpr/ me int»f «ho d«n»r»A r.v. which was open.. '• fnrg the accus.-d |11, i-.?». i" ii.'si el ur 1 lie house, and found ■> i n, ..stjcut i i\ h -bed. I he door had n.» • u ¡:, "d -.J 'on- ayne, !1- H, ,I:d h«; a, i -si. Kelly, who -u> t. All Oil 1 aiiit. 1M ■ ;,r. bed a kn i'1 a b, iit nnil, which ir*« ap- p;,rcn! 1 y n-ed c locks, \0'1'1' found .m hi n. Mr. Lus!d:e;t, ii(ed tin- Ii-cns.'d for trial.

t Hit i' p*vrH say ,• hat, plums m ill ib's c it hiany [ilantatioii!' there is a;i vn ie absence