The Brecon County Times Neath Gazette and General Advertiser for the Counties of Brecon Carmarthen Radnor Monmouth Glamorgan Cardigan Montgomery Hereford

THE NEW LAW COURTS.-It is proposed to erect a temporary building for the exhibition of the designs sent in competition for the new law Courts. It has been agreed that it is desirable to have a carriage thoroughfare through Great Turnstile into Lincoln's Inn-fields; the site is to be surveyed. Mr. Gibson, one of the architects appointed to compete for the Law Courts, has resigned his chance. His place will not be filled up. DIRECT COMMISSIONS.—We (Times) are requested to state that from the 1st of January, 1867, until further notice, the age of candidates examined for direct ap- pointments will be from 17 to 20 years for the infantry, from 17 to 2 for the cavalry, and from 17 to 26 for colonial corps.

AMERICA. ¡ UNITED STATES. President Johnson has visited New York, and met with an enthusiastic reception. President Johnson has issued a proclamation declaring Texas restored to The Union, and that peace, order, tranquillity, and civil authority now exist throughout the whole United States. A committee have visited the President to present to him a copy of the proceedings of the Philadelphia Con- vention. The President made a speech, reiterating his determination to maintain his policy. t General Grant stood at the President's side during the delivery of the speech. A convention of soldiers and sailors has been called to assemble at Cleveland on the 17th of September, to endorse Johnson's policy. The political pressure to bring about Mr. Stanton's retirement increases, and his resignation is daily ex- pected. The Federal Attorney-General has ordered a nolle prosequi to be entered in the cases of the Fenian officers concerned in the Fenian raids. It is rumoured that the Fenians are demonstrating at Malone, and it was apprehended that an attempt would be made to release the Fenian prisoners at Cornwall. The Canadian authorities were, however, amply pre- pared for any emergency. Considerable activity prevails at the Roberts head quarters, but the public are in ignorance of what is going on there, the utmost secrecy being observed. Roberts is understood to be in constant communication with prominent Radical members of Congress. The great Fenian picnic took place at Clinton Forest, near Buffalo. Great enthusiasm prevailed; but the expected hostile demonstration against Canada did not occur. Some fifteen thousand persons were present. The commanders of the Canadian Volunteers ip the Brookville division have been instructed to issue sixty rounds of ball cartridge to each man. General Sweeney has issued an address, warning the Fenians against using the organization of the Brother- hood for the purposes of American politicians. Two Federal war vessels have been ordered to Rio Grande, in accordance with President Johnson's procla- mation ignoring the blockade of Matamoras. The Commander of the American Pacific squadron has been ordered to detach a force to take care of Ame- rican interests off Mazatlan Guaymas. The Herald states that Mr. Davis will shortly be released on bail. Sheridan has revoked the order establishing martial law in New Orleans. He reports that the immediate cause of the Orleans riots was the assembling of the Free State Convention, headed by revolutionary agitators; but denounces the manner in which the mayor and police suppressed the riots as unnecessary, atrocious, and amounting to murder; and recommends the removal of the mayor and governor. (NEWS PER THE SAXONIA.) Great preparations are being made for the reception of President Johnson at various points along tlee route from Washington to Chicago, whither the President goes to preside at the inauguration of the Douglass monument. Mr. Johnson, who will be accompanied by most of the members of his Cabinet, is expected to arrive in New York on Wednesday, and his reception is to be very enthusiastic. Five brigades of military have been de- tailed as an escort for his excellency, and numerous civic societies will parade in regaiia, and there will be partial suspension of business. The approaching Soldiers and Sailors' Convention at Cleveland, Ohio, will, it is believed, be a very important affair. The direct object of the convention is to en- dorse the proceedings of the late National Coveyition at Philadelphia, and to rally the military and naval men throughout the country to the support of Andrew Johnson. A grand mass meeting to ratify the proceedings of the National Convention is to be held in New York within a week or two. The President is continually besieged with demands for the removal of Mr. Stanton from the Cabinet, and it is believed that he must soon yield to the wishes or his friends in that regard. Joseph Holt, Judge Advo- cate General, is also to be removed. His course in relation to the charges of complicity in the assassina- tion of Mr. Lincoln brought against Mr. Dayis has ren- dered Holt very unpopular. It is even asserted that Holt's conduct has rendered him liable to criminal prosecution. The Herald's Washington correspondent states posi- tively that Mr. Davis will very scon be "released on parole. The attempt to involve Mr. Davis's name in 1 the assassination plot has created a general feeling of sympathy on his behalf. The President recently summoned before him Major General Howard, chief of the Freemen's Bureau, and laid before him numerous documents condemning his administration of the affairs of the Bureau. It is said I that Mr. Johnson intimated to General Howard that his resignation would be accepted, and that the general declared he could not conscientiously resign. It is believed that he will be dismissed. General Howard has issued an order that no more rations are to be distributed by the Bureau after the 1st' of October next except in regular hospitals and asylums. General Fullerton is spoken of as the probable suc- cessor of Joseph Holt as judge advocate. The excitement in Canada caused by the Fenian gathering at Clinton Forest, near Buffalo, subsided with the departure of the Fenians, but preparations for defence against any possible raid in the future still con- tinue. The Canadian authorities are so organising the frontier defence that such surprises as the Fort Erie and Pigeon Hill raids cannot again occur. An Ottawa correspondent of the Herald states that the Fenian purpose the invasion of Canada on the shores of Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, within six weeks, and that, simultaneously with the landing of the Fenians, insurrections are to take place at Toronto, Hamilton, and other points. General Sweeney is reported to have become dis- affected towards Roberts, and to be seeking an alliance with Stephens. Queen Emma was at Niagara Falls yesterday. Cholera continues abating in New York, but increases at the west. On Wednesday there were 131 deaths at St. Louis. (PER THE CUBA.) President Johnson and his suite are continuing their tour to Chicago, receiving enthusiastic demonstrations along their route. President Johnson has been enter- tained at a banquet at Mr. Seward's home at Auburn, when the latter introduced the Mexican Minister, Signor Romero, and said that he hoped by November next the Mexican Republic would be delivered from the last vestige of foreign invasion. General Grant proposed Signor Romero's health and the success of the cause he represented. Wendell Philips, in the Anti-Slavery Standard, violently attacks President Johnson, urging Congress to depose the perjured usurping traitor. General Butler has made a speech denouncing the President, and advocating the exclusion of the South from representation indefinitely. Delegates to the Radical Convention at Philadelphia have commenced to arrive in that city, and at a meeting last night President Johnson was denounced. A strong body of Federal soldiers have been stationed as a guard at the residence of Governor Wells in New Orleans, at his own urgent request. South American advices received here to the 1st of August state that the allied Republics have determined to continue a retaliatory war upon Spanish commerce. (PER THE CITY OF PARIS.) President Johnson, accompanied by Mr. Seward, General Grant, Admiral Farragut, and suite, left Washington this morning en route for Chicago. Great preparations are being made at New York to receive the President, and the municipality will present him with an address approving his policy. The Phila- delphia municipality refused to take part in Johnson's reception in that city. General Granger officially states that during his tour through the Southern States he found no symptoms of organised disloyalty to the Government. NEW YORK, Aug. 30. President Johnson and his suite received an enthu- siastic popular reception at New York yesterday, and were entertained by the prominent citizens at a banquet at Delmonico's. The President made a speech, ex- pressing his determination, to carry out his policy and restore the Union. Mr. Seward also made a speech, in which he said that the press cried for war with Mexico, Spain, and England. He himself favoured all wars which the nation required; but, referring to the refusal of Congress to admit the Southern representatives, he did not want to go into the field with one leg, and was a little impatient to have the lame leg made right. The New York States' Senate has passed a motion of welcome to the President. Several Republican Senators have violently attacked Johnson, accusing him of officially sanctioning the assassinations and massacres in New Orleans, and declaring that his policy would cause another civil war. The Royal mail steamship Cuba, from Halifax and Boston, arrived at Queenstown at five a.m. yesterday, with 84 passengers and 16,642 dols. in specie. She landed all the mails except those for Liverpool, and two passengers, and proceeded at 5.30 a.m. All well.

ORDINATION OF FATHER IGNATIDs.-We believe that the rumour which has been current for the last few weeks, to the effect that the Rev. Leicester Lyne, known as Father Ignatius, would ere long be ordained as a priest of the Church of England, is about to be veri- fied, the Primate and the Bishop of London having, it is reported, agreed to such a step, under certain con- ditions, on the reverend Father's part. Mr. Lyne will, in all likelihood, commence his priestly labours in the poorer neighbourhoods of Shorcditch. j

AMERICAN BEEF. A recent report to the Foreign-office by Mr. F. C. Ford, dated Buenos Ayres, June 26, gave a description of four different processes pursued by various persons for the purpose of preserving the meat available in enormous quantities from the slaughter of cattle in the River Plate fortransportatipn to Europe, and consump- tion in our markets. During the last two years attention has been specially directed to this subject, and with results which seem at all events to indicate that the problem will ultimately be solved. The first process described by Mr. Ford is the old one for the manufac- ture of the salted beef known as charqui, and which, although its appearance to European is absolutely offensive, is a staple article of food among the negroes of Brazil and Cuba, whither 70,000,0001b. weight is annually exported. Some experienced persons in the trade are still disposed to believe it might, if shipped with care, come into use as an acceptable food here for the poorer classes, but few who are conversant with English habits will be likely to share that view. At the same time, the extraordinary prospect that would be opened up if methods could be found to present the River Plate meat, after a transit of 6,000 miles across the Atlantic, in a palatable and healthy form, has stimulated persons of scientific reputation to make experiments. Mr. Morgan, Professor of Anatomy in the Dublin College of Surgeons, has introduced a system of forced infiltration of brine into all the tissues of the animal immediately after death, and this is said to be simple and to demand little labour and no expensive machinery. Within the past sixteen months about 500,000lbs. of beef and mutton prepared in that manner have been shipped from Montevideo to Liverpool, and met a ready sale at 4d. per pound, and although that price would be barely remunerative under present circumstances, it is be- lieved that it will leave a fair profit when once the working is established." The beef is said to bear a close resemblance to English corned beef. A company at Liverpool, called the Morgan Patent Meat Preserving Company, have bought the patent, and works have been established near Paysandu, on the Uruguay, in the Oriental Republic. The next process described is that of Baron Liebig, and consists in reducing the meat to an essence, at the rate of lib. of essence to 331b. of meat, so that eight small tins will hold the con- centrated alimentary matter of an entire ox, and 81b. of the essence is sufficient to make broth for 128 men. But this preparatioE is suitable only for soup or stock, and the cost of lib of it is 12s. 6d. The small- ness of its bulk, and its purity and entire freedom from grease, particularly adapt it to the use of hospitals and invalids, and in Germany, whither the principal con- signments have been hitherto made, the consumption has been very great. In London, also, there is an increasing demand. The establishment for the manufacture is at a place called Fray-Bentos, also on Uruguay. The last process mentioned by Mr. Ford is one called Sloper's process. This patent professes to enable meat to be preserved in its fresh and raw state for transporta- tion to England, to arrive in the exact condition of butcher's meat just killed, and to be sold at 4d. to 5d. per pound. The meat is packed in tins, and preserved by the introduction of "a cer- tain gas, the composition of which is kept a profound secret." In April last a trial of some samples was made at Buenos Ayres, in the presence of the Vice- President of the Argentine Republic and other public functionaries, and the result was declared to be per- fectly satisfactory. A consignment of 10,000 or 12,000 {tounds of beef was to be despatched in July to Eng- and, and some specimens are understood to have just reached London. Meanwhile, another very ingenious invention has also been patented. This is by Dr. I Redwood, Professor of Chemistry to the Pharmaceuti- cal Society of London, and consists in the immersion of fresh meat in melted paraffin at a temperature of 240 deg. Fahr. This preparation preserves all the nutritive qualities of the meat, and has likewise the advantage of rendering tin cases or any other expensive mode of pack- ing unnecessary. The paraffin forms a coating which is entirely free from any unpleasant appearance, and which is removed by the immersion of the meat in hot water. One greaf objection, however, seems likely to prevail. The meat thus preserved, although agreeable to the taste, will not bear fresh cooking. It is fully cooked by the process itself, and can therefore, it is apprehended, be used only in its existing cold state, in which, for army, navy, er other stores or travelling purposes, it may probably prove of much value. BEEP GOING TO WASTE.—Stock-raising is becoming an important feature in Texas. Some sections are said to be overrun with cattle, nearly wild, belonging to any one who has the facilities for catching and branding them. This laxity of ownership, however, is fast being superseded by the arrivals of large numbers of emigrants, who are settling in those sections. The favour with which the prepared South American beef has been re- ceived in Europe has suggested the practicability of similar enterprises in Texas.Yew York Times.

THE FRENCH HARVEST. The probable results of the harvest are remarked on by the Avenir National. The winter, it may be re- membered, was exceedingly mild, and the summer has been marked by continual rain. A few weeks of late cold were felt in March, but the April sun came out so brilliantly as to walT ant. the most sanguine hopes. But since the month of May white frosts, cold nights, and constant rain have compromised the harvest, so full so promise in the spring. To that period succeeded a warmth of short duration, and since then the rain has scarcely left us. Our contemporary, after alluding to the variations of the weather, goes on to say The first bay cut was got in under sunshine; it is of ex- cellent quality, but not in great quantity. About two-thirds of the general yield suffered from rain, and are much inferior to the first. The crop of almonds has failed, and several kinds of fruit have been damaged, but Paris never perceives that scarcity it pays dear for fine fruit, and never runs short. Rye and barley have on the whole yielded an average crop, but less satisfactory than the produce of certain regions had at first led persons to hope for. Oats are nearly in the same condition however the quantity will be ordinary, if the quality is not everywhere irreproachable; and as the harvest of 1865 was much below the average, this result is considered relatively fortunate. As to the wheat, the cereal par excellence, there is neither the ordinary quantity nor quality, and if France had not the free importation of grain a quasi-scarcity would have succeeded the extreme abundance of the last three years. We have under our eyes about 150 notices which have reached us from all parts of the country, and almost all report a deficiency of from a quarter to a third, some even go so far as one-half. We are aware that there is always a little ex- aggeration in these interested or precipitate calcu- lations but 'since the month of July the tone has not altered, and the weather experienced at Paris throughout the month of August permits us to consider these complaints as tolerably well founded. On the other hand, the bad quality cannot be doubted. .The grain is moist (it could not be otherwise). It wants weight and often colour. The difference is such that on a great number of markets a considerable difference of price exists between the old and new wheat it is as much as from 2f. to 3f. a quintal (22Hlb.) at 2. Paris and London, and at some places is even as high as 5f. or 6f. The millers prefer buying the old wheat at the price, demanded by the holder to the new at the market quotation. England, which until lately had counted on a ,-ood average year, is also beginning to complain, as the quality leaves much to be desired. Northern Germany appears to be divided. The southern provinces of Hungary have suffered much. Russia has had an excellent wheat harvest, as well as Spain. Italy does not seem to be much more fortunate than France. As is already known, the locusts have ravaged Algeria. As to the United States, the deficit is still greater than in France. The vine has suffered much ,this year, especially in the south the dryness first, then the oidium, and finally, the rains have singu- larly endangered the results of the approaching vintage. The probable quantity is not yet known, but the quality will be mediocre. Hops also will leave a deficit; but the complaints are not so loud as last month. We do not know yet what will be the fate of beetroot; the white worm and the rain have certainly injured it, but still an average crop is hoped for. The colzas alone have afforded exceptional quality and quantity, for the flax and hemp give but a poor result. Olives premise an abundant yield."

REUTER'S TELEGRAPH CABLE.-LOWESTOFT, SUN- DAY, SEPT. 9.—The shore end of the Norderney cable was landed here at four p.m. to-day, and the laying of the cable was commenced immediately. Weather fine. Sea calm. Tests perfect. Dr. Pusey has been labouring, during the last few days, among the cholera sufferers in the east of London. CANADIAN DEFENCE.—The latest advices from Canada are the reverse of discouraging. The Government is in constant communication with the local authorities, and every measure will be taken which prudence may dictate. We believe that with the amount of aid now contemplated, the colonists feel quite confident in their power to protect their land frontier, extensive as it is. The only doubt has turned upon the facilities afforded to invaders by the lakes, and for that service the steps already taken will, in all likelihood, prove sufficient. The object of the Government, however, is not simply to avoid responsibility by a literal compliance with urgent demands, but to meet the admirable spirit of the colonists with a corresponding promptitude and energy, and to render the defence of the whole frontier, ashore and afloat, thoroughly effective.

í COMMERCE OF HANOVER. t The August issue of reports from Secretaries of Le- gation comprises one just received from Mr. Doria on the commerce of the kingdom of Hanover, if kingdom it may still be called. He has no means of distinguish- ing in the returns of exports and imports the merchandise produced in that country or imported for its consumption. From the position of Hanover, it is a country of transit for merchandise passing to and from many of the Zollverein States, and the returns do but show the quantities which have passed over the Hano- verian frontier. The import dues levied on articles entering the Zollverein States in 1864 amounted to X3,665,670 the export dues to £ 24,513. Hanover generally exports a considerable amount of grain; in 1864 the wheat and other seed used for food exported ever the Hanoverian frontier amounted to X608,501 centners (11011b. avoir, each). The import was 401,252 centners. The export of vermicelli, arrowroot, flour of various kinds, rice reached 177,280 centners; butter, 21,058 centners. The marshes on the Elbe, Weser, and Ems are famous for the pasturage they af- ford. Of coal, 1,401,057 centners, or 68,950 English tons, were exported, sent chiefly to Bremen, in the first instance at least; and 1,919,023centners were imported. The coal from the mines in Hanover is not exported be- yond the Zollverein; the coal exported over the Hano- verian frontier comes from Westphalia. This coal has monopolized the market on the Weser, and will eventually obtain the same advantage on the Niedcr Elbe by means of the railway from the Rhine to Hamburg via Osnabruck. The importation of English coal is almost entirely confined to the Nieder Elbe. The export of tobacco and cigars in 1864 amounted to 152,364 centners the import was 554,316 centners. Iron and iron goods were exported to the extent of 205,926 centners; the import was 291,521 centners, 4,389 centners being rails. The importation of linens amounted to 24,984 centners, but the export reached 44,992 centners, besides 2,706 of linen yarn and thread. So, also, with wool and woollen manufactures the imports were 39,380 centners, but the exports reached 79,000 centners, besides an excess of exports over imports of carpets to the extent of 121 centners. Of horses and cattle 41,421 head were exported, and only 15,409 imported; of sheep, pigs, and goats 46,680 were exported, 6,736 imported. There were in Hanover in 1864 4,420 workmen and workwomen employed in tobacco and snuff manufactories and establishments, 1,100 in paper-mills, 6,183 in brick-kilns, 1,480 in iron-foundries, 996 in engine works, 1,448 in other iron-works, 1,265 -.in weaving cloth, 1,834 in weaving cotton, and 1,435 persons are re- turned as employed upon 1,543 cotton looms, and 6,699 upon 5,493 linen looms. The population of Harover was 1,923,492. In the year ending July, 1865, the rail- ways of Hanover carried 46,036,326 centners of mer- chandise, rather more than half of it passing across the frontier, the rest being forwarded from one place to another within the kingdom. The estimate of the revenue for the year 1865-66 was zC3,111,630, showing a small surplus. Mr. Doria says :—" From the public revenue the King receives nominally the sum of 600,000 thalers, besides tke interest of £ 600,000 belonging to the Crown of Hanover, which is invested in the public funds in England. The King has made use of the right granted him by the Cojtstitution to take land belonging to Government, the administration of which is in the hands or persons appointed by himself, and the rent of which is valued at 444,000 tbalers the residue is paid from the revenue of public or Government domains. The Crown Prince receives from the same source 30,000 thalers, or Z4,500 annually, which is voted by the Chambers."

THE KING OF HANOVER. The personal loyalty of the inhabitants of the small States of Germany is such that, the language of the Hanoverian deputation to the King of Prussia need not surprise us. But the answer of the King does surprise us a little. We are not sorry, indeed, to find that he has abandoned the theory of divine right, for of course if that theory is worth anything it must tell for Hanover as well as Prussia. But there is more hope for the future of Germany when the King of Prussia can afford to neglect the remonstrances of Hanoverian loyalists, and venture to dethrone one of the chief of the minor princes, although it cannot be agreeable to His Majesty to do so," although that princo had offered to resign in favour of his heir, and although the line taken by Hanover during the war was the result of an unfortunate concatenation of circumstances." It has long been seen that the sole chance of German unity lay in the removal of the minor princes, and if German unity was to be effected it could not be by patching up the Federal bond, but by sweeping away the permanent cause of discord. And unless these small Sovereigns were removed by force it was plain that there would always be a great feeling in their favour. Many of those who longed for unity made a kind of mental reservation in favour of their own Royal house. The age of a family, which might be a good reason for its preservation at the head of an aristocracy, seemed an argument for giving it executive functions. The direct influence of a King and Queen in their small capital, and at their shooting lodges or country seats, was useful to trade and promoted kindly feeling in the peasantry. But when the point at issue was whether Germany was to be a nation or a knot of little States, these consider- ations had to yield to something more serious. What the Hanoverian deputation asked the King of Prussia was to spare the existence of their State, and to prefer two millions of faithful allies to the same number of un- willing servants. But even if they could promise him fidelity in the one case and unwillingness in the other, the whole result of the war would be lost by his ac- cepting their offer. The gain to the King of Hanover would be merely nominal, while the effect on the State of Hanover would be as disastrous as the example would be to Germany. They ask the King of Prussia to take the control of the army, which in the small States is the only profession open to the whole aristo- cracy, and to leave them their King, their Court, atd the name of their independence. We were prepared for such a request, and for the King of Prussia's reluctance to refuse it. Had he granted it, the crisis of the small States would have been postponed but the interregnum would soon have proved intolerable. The helplessness of Germany, with its many rulers and their conflicting interests, would be nothing to that caused by the in- cessant variance between Prince by name and Prince by fact, between the stranger who had the command of the army and the native who had the affection of the people. It is well that the King of Prussia's new view of Providence has steeled his heart, and that the fates who spun the thread for the needle-gun have proved inexorable to the Hanoverian dynasty.-Pall Mall Gazette.

THE AUSTRIANS IN THE TYROL.—The Governor of the Tyrol has addressed the subjoined proclamation to his a Tiny: Botzeii, August 1, 1866.—Commanders, Officers, and Officers of the Landsturm,—The enemy which had dared to menace the Tyrol has completely evacuated your country to escape the destruction which awaited it. On three occasions I called you under arms, loyal and faithful men, and -each time you came for- ward to the number of 35,000, to take up the positions assigned to you, joyfully leaving your homes and your families, and your fields which were requiring your labour. You hastened from the mountains and valleys to show to the rash enemy that time has not impared your courage, fidelity, and attachment to the reigning family. The sons have proved themselves worthy of their fathers. The enemy has been so presumptuous as to provoke you, but has not bad the courage to attack you. Loyal and faithful soldiers of the landsturm, I thank you in the name of your Emperor. As I consider the greatest distinction to be the proprietor of the regi- ment which, recruited among your countrymen, has acquired afresh in all the battles and encounters an eternal glory, so I am also proud to be your commander. —COUNT DE CASTIGLIONE." TiiE METROPOLITAN VOTING REGISTER^—The revi- sion of voters for the city of London, Mr. Spencer Perceval will commence on the 3rd of October. The published lists of the respective parishes within the City boundary and those of the different livery companies show that the names of 1,304 householders and of 193 liverymen are omitted from the lists of the present year which appeared upon the lists of last year. The number of new names placed upon the lists of this year which did not appear upon those for the previous year are 1,538 householders and 341 liverymen. The Liberal agents (Mr. S. Smith and Mr. G. Ledger) have taken 565 objections to persons whose names appear on the published lists as having no claim to remain there, while they have made 131 claims to be registered on the part of those who consider that their names have been improperly omitted from the lists. The Con- servatives have taken 128 objections, and have made no claims. LARGE MELON.—A gigantic melon was sold the other day at the Halles Centrales, Paris, the largest that has been heard of in the memory of man. It weighed no less than 74lbs., and was grown in a garden at St. Denis. A DARWINIAN THEORY.—Mr. Darwin states that a field manured with marl has been covered, in the course of eight years, with a bed of earth averaging thirteen inches in thickness, by means of earthworms." THE POTATO DISEASE.—We regret to learn that the potato disease, which first made its appearance in Eng- land twenty-one years ago, has again shown itself in a virulent form. A wholesale dealer brought a large quantity of potatoes, grown near Tuxford, Notts, to the Sheffield market, for which 12s. per load was refused. On opening the sacks all the contents were discovered to be so affected by the disease that the entire lot was disposed of at 4s. per load, being just one-third the price that was refused the previous week.

FOREIGN NOTES. The Queen of Prussia is to pay a visit to the Grand Duke and Duchess of Baden. The King of Prussia has presented the Crown Prince with the Order Pour In Merite." The Emperor of Austria will shortly pay a visit to Trieste to inspect the fleet there. The Austrian troops were to have been withdrawn from the Italian frontier on the 29th ult. Queen Emma was recently visited at Washington by a delegation of Indians in full costume, with their wives and papooses. The Italie says that the Venetian debt, which is to be taken over from Austria by the Italian Government, amounts to 250,000,000 of francs. The late American Congress passed an Act granting 10,000 dollars to Miss Vinnie Ream for a statue of Mr. Lincoln, which will be placed in the Capitol. Mr. A. T. Stewart has contracted for the window-glass for his new house in New York at 50,000 dollars. Much suffering continues in the famine-stricken dis- tricts of Bengal, and the people are flocking to Calcutta for relief. A telegram received from Lisbon announces that a royal decree has been promulgated, calling out the reserve of the army. An association is being organised for setting up in the various arrondissements of Paris 20 establishments for soup made from horse-flesh. The official Northern Post states that certainjournals have greatly exaggerated the number of Polish in- surgents in Siberia, and denies that the revolt has spread. While the cholera was raging in Holland, fires were burnt in the squares of the towns, with the object of purifying the atmosphere, and it is said that this had the desired effect. The Pope has just sent several medals in gold and silver, bearing his effigy to the Sisters of Charity who have been in attendance on the cholera patients at Amiens. The Empress of Mexico is now on a visit to her former home at Miramar, from whence she will go to. Rome, afterwards return to Paris, and re-embark from, a French port on board a French frigate. The Independance Belge states that the Emperor- Napoleon is at this moment collecting materials for the. history of Charlemagne, which will be published after the "Vie de Cesar." A proof of the hazardous nature of newspaper ad- venture is to be found in the fact that 500 daily papers have been started in New York in the last quarter of a, century, of which only five survive. A new cable company has been projected in New York, with a capital of 10,000,000 dols., which proposes, to lay a trsiisatlantic cable from New York, via Ber- muda and the Azores, to Lisbon, Portugal, &c. The deposed Queen of Hanover bears up bravely. In the last two months her hair has grown quite grey— I might say white. Four months since, one could, scarcely discern a grey hair-now I can hardly see a. dark one. Professor Agassiz has returned to Boston from his expedition in the Valley of the Amazon, and is busily- engaged in writing an elaborate account of the evidencet", he has discovered of very extensive glacial action in. South America. Christian Rama-Aycn died at Hamburg the other- day, aged fifty-two. He was originally a Brahmin, but was converted to Christianity in 1840 at Tranquebar. He was well known at Hamburg for the excellent liqueurs he manufactured. Just before M. Drouyn de Lhuys' withdrawal from the French Foreign Office he had issued invitations for a grand fete at his country house near Melun. The invitations have now been recalled, on account of the uncertainty of the weather." In Central Georgia and Alabama thousands ofnegroes are agitating the question of immediate emigration to Liberia. A committee has been sent to Washington to confer with the authorities concerning free transporta- tion. An international competition of ale, beer, hops, and all articles used in the preparation of malt liquors, is announced for the 10th to the 15th October, at Dijon, in the rooms of the Town Hall. Exhibitors are to send in the various articles before the 8th of that month. It is said that a professor of Dresden, during the late war, protected his laboratory treasures from the plun- dering hands of the soldiery by keeping up a constant supply of hydrosulphuric gas. Sixteen times was the y I entree attempted, and sixteen times were the soldiers driven back from their booty by the sulphurous fumes, which none of them could overcome, even in his greediest movements. A correspondent of L'Europe says:—" The nobility, the army, and the people of Hanover generally have forwarded to the Queen an address of sympathy and devotion, bearing nearly 100,000 signatures, obtained in the course of a single day. Vast crowds assembled in the streets to affix their signatures, but towards the evening the Prussian military authorities interposed and compelled the assemblage to disperse." The following address of a clergyman is taken from the clerical list of the Bangor diocese Lllanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerpwlltysiliogogo, Anglesey." The meaning of which is Llanfair, pwll, gwnygyll, St. Mary's Church, of the pool, of the white hazels. goger, pwll, tysiliogogo. I over against, or rather near, tne pool, or ot. lysm Gogo."Notes and Queries. A number of old coins was found some little time ago at Villencuve-au-Roi (Haute-Mame), and the pre- fect of that department, in visiting the commune, recog- nised them at Gallic. The Muncipal Council, being informed of their value, came to a unanimous vote that they should be offered to the Emperor, as nobody had so much right to the relics as the historian of Cassar and of the Gauls. His Majesty was pleased to accept with thanks, in an autograph letter addressed to the prefect, the offer which had so been made. The Emperor of Mexico is very prodigal of his order of Guadaloupe. It is so freely distributed, that the people will say of it what Heine asserted of the order of the Red Eagle: That and death are the two things from which no German can escape." Strangely enough, h, whoever is honoured by being made a member of the order does not get the decoration itself sent him, but only its representative on pasteboard. At his own ex- pense, therefore, he is obliged to have the decoration- if he care to wear it-made at the jewellers. In the Paris Exhibition of 1867 there will be two extensive chapels, and it will be lighted by forty apertures, the whole forming a splendid exhibition of painted glass of various styles. Indeed, it will com- prise specimens of every ornament and adjunct con- nected with Roman Catholic worship. Altars, pulpits, statues, confessionals, sacerdotal clothing, organs, mural paintings, stained glass, each of these components re- quisite to a religious edifice, and many more, will be here exhibited in a building calculated to excite admira- tion and increase religious veneration. A considerable disturbance has taken place at Wies- baden (Nassau). Some of the inhabitants, and especially the women, attacked the Prussian soldiers, and the police were some time before they could re-establish order. The Nassau soldiers did not interfere, otherwise the affair would have been more serious; they contented them- selves with being spectators of the melee in which some unfortunate Prussians were corrected as the represen- tatives of M. de Bismarck by several local viragoes, the soldiers of Nassau observing in a calm, sad tone, "What have we to say to it, since we are now Prussians, ar/1 since there are no means of preventing our being so "I A desperate attack is reported from Nismcs. A pri- soner named Vumoer, a Bavarian, surreptitiously ob- tained in the infirmary a kitchen knife, and going to the room of one of the warders, named Vivier, he reproached him with having reported him (the prisoner), and made a cut at the man's neck, dividing the jugular vein, and causing almost instantaneous death. The murderer then attacked another prisoner, named Colin, and stabbed him in the abdomen. He next attempted to commit suicide, wounding himself with the knife in several places. Neither Colin nor his assailant is expected to recover. On the part of the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen Prussia finds a resistance which doubtless she did not expect. The Duke refuses both the annexation of the county of Camburg to the Prussian monarchy and the conditions drawn up at Berlin with a view to the entry of the Duchies into the Army of the North. The Prussian Government appears disposed to renounce the annexa- tion of the county of Camburg; but, in abandoning its pretensions on that point, it demands that the Duke should abdicate in favour of the hereditary Prince, who is considered to be in favour of the Prussian policy. The Berlin correspondent of the same journal says it is affirmed that the negotiations between Prussia and Saxony have taken a more favourable turn, that King John has consented to yield to the Prussian demands, and that he has resolved to abdicate. Mr. Emanuel Weiss, of Pennsylvania, has proposed to the American Government a plan for producing opium in the South. The poppy, from which opium is obtained, is a native of Northern Mexico, and is found in great quantities in the valley of the Santa Cruz River. In the theatre at Padua a piece is being performed which the Pope's authorities and the more efficacious power of the Austrian police had, up to the last month or so, banished from Venetian theatres. The piece is called the Jew Family," and is founded upon the fact of stealing and baptising of the Jew child Mortara by the priests at Bologna before the revolution of 1859. The drama is full of political allusions, and at the end of it Victor Emmanuel's name is proclaimed as that of the sovereign who has succeeded to the fallen govern- ment of the Popes. The cheers at this particular point are tremendous.