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

THE MURDER IN ALGARKIRK FEN. A great deal of excitement prevails in the neighbour- hood of Boston, respecting the foul murder of Hugh Kelly, an Irish labourer, which took place on the 12th of August, on the farmstead of Mr. Pocklington, of Algarkirk Fen.. On Friday Lawrence Garland, Patrick Garland. Bnrney Garland, James Garland, and Thomas M'Guinnis, v/ere brought up at the Sessions House Boston, before Mr. Thomas Garfit. Mr. F. Atter prosecuted, and Mr. York appeared for the prisoners. The depositions of Kelly, taken on the day of his death, were read as follows: "I left Ireland on the 6th of August, and began to reap for Mr. Joseph Pockliiigton, of Algarkirk Fen, on the 9th. I lodged in the barn, and about eight o'clock on Sunday night the 12th of August, I was there, and six others with me. The five prisoners, and some more men that I did not know, came in. James Garland and Patrick Garland asked me for a light, and said if I did not give them one they would pull me out of the barn. I lighted a candle and placed it in a lantern, which Barney Gar- land immediately knocked out of my hand. The four Garlands then dragged me out of the barn and kicked and knocked me about as long as they could stand over me. I told them they would kill me, and shouted for help. I felt as if my head was in two pieces; they kicked me on the temples. This lasted for twenty minutes, when M'Guinnis stood by and picked me up, and then the Garlands ceased kicking me. I have known them for fifteen years, and am certain it was they who kicked me, but there were others, I think, who kicked me. James Garland had once before struck me." Mr. R. Pocklington: I am a farmer, living with my father in Algarkirk Fen. I remember Sunday, the 12th of August. The deceased was in the employ of my father. He was accustomed to sleep in the barn on the farm. There was a great noise in the yard between nine and ten o'clock on the Sunday night. I went out to see what it was about, and saw several Irishmen stripped. Kelly was not there. I searched for him, and found him in the carthouse shed, about fifteen yards from the barn. He was on his knees, with his head resting on his arms. I saw a great gash on his head. I assisted him into the barn, and dressed the wound as well as I could. On the following morning I sent for the doctor, and the deceased was removed to Boston Union. Evidence having been given of the prisoners being seen on the night of the murder drinking at a public- house in the neighbourhood, and afterwards near Mr. Pocklington's barn, the prisoner M'Guinnis was dis- charged from custody, there being no evidence against him; but he was ordered to remain to give evidence. Mr. Coupland deposed that he was surgeon to the Boston Union-house, to which the deceased Kelly was brought on Monday, August 13th. On examining his head he found an extensive wound on the right side, reaching down to the bone. Having separated the lips of the wound, he examined it more minutely, and dis- covered a severe wound on the right side of the skull, confined to the parietal bone, and about five inches long. The deceased was not sensible when admitted, but afterwards became sane and collected. He died on the 26th ult. After his death a post-mortem examina- tion disclosed a further extent of injury. There was a large abcess formed on the brain immediately beneath the fracture, and the brain was greatly con- gested with blood. Thomas M'Guinnig having been examined, the pri- soners were remanded. The prisoners will be brought up again on Friday, Sept. 14th, when fresh and important witnesses are ex- pected from Ireland.

THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A VOLUNTEER. On Monday morning Mr. Richards, deputy coroner, resumed, at the Green-gate. City-road, the adjourned investigation into the circumstances under which Mr. Thomson Bradbcrry, aged 47, came to his death. Mr. Edward Bradberry, solicitor, appeared on beha'f of the relatives of the deceased gentleman. Since the last in- quest the deceased, who was a member of Lord Truro's Corps, 3d Middlesex Artillery, was buried with military honours in Abney Park. The evidence taken on the last occasion failed to show how he received the injuries which caused his death. When found by the police in the street he was said to smell very strongly of drink. William Jarrold, assistant lunatic keeper at St. Luke's Workhonse, was recalled and again cross-examined by Mr. Bradberry. The deceased was in the padded room on the Wednesday night. None of the lunatics got at him. Dr. Hetman Charles Harris, medical officer to St. Luke's Workhouse, depesed that he saw the deceased on Wednesday week. He received a note from the head nurse that deceased had been brought in by two police- men, and that as they said it was a case of approach- ing delirium tremens, he was placed in a padded room. The witness examined him and found a crepitating tumour on his head, and that his arm had bruises on it. Jarrold told witness that deceased's leg was in- jured, but witness said that had nothing to do with his symptoms. The witness got a second pillow and placed it under his head, and directed that the door should be kept open for the sake of coolness. He saw him again at eight o'clock, and next day at twelve. He had nothing to do with placing deceased in the padded room, but approved it when it was done, because he could not roll off his bed, which was on the floor. There was not sufficient light to injure the eyes. On making a post-mortem examination, the witness found that deceased had suffered from softening of the brain. In witness's judgment the cause of the fracture of the skull was a fall on a flat surface. The cause of death was intense apoplexy or effusion of blood on the brain consequent on the injury to the jugular foramen. The deceased had a severe injury on the right arm, and also on the right knee. After the medical evidence had been taken, Mr. Bradberry said that he was so convinced that the deceased had not come by his death through accidental causes that he hoped the jury would, at all events, return an open verdict. He had got a clue which he thought would, if an open verdict were returned, result 0 in the prosecution of some persons hereafter. The coroner then summed up the evidence at length. He said it was difficult to believe that the two policemen who led the deceased from the station to the workhouse at 10 o'clock in the morning would have dared to illuse their prisoner in view of all the passers-by. The people at the workhouse seemed to have taken as much care of him there as was possible for persons not trained to the business, and no accident appeared to have befallen him there. Dr. Harris he always found to be very attentive and humane to his patients. It appeared, then, as if the deceased must have come by his injuries before he got into the hands of the police in some way which could not be ascertained at present. The court was then cleared, and after a long deliberation the jury returned a verdict" That deceased died from sanguineous apoplexy, consequent upon a rupture of the jugular foramen and fracture of the skull, but how the said rupture and the fracture were caused there was no evidence to show." And the jury added that they considered that no blame was due to the police, to the workhouse people, or the medical man concerned in the case.

HEAVY STAKES.—A grand match at baccarat, says the Sport, took place a few evenings ago at Baden be- tween an English duke and a Russian prince, both magnificent players, and enormously rich. The former is said to have left off a loser of 880,000fr. INDIAN TEXTILE FABRICS.—The Secretary for India has presented to the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce a set of 18 volumes, containing a complete and most valuable collection of the textiles and their fabrics of India. There are over 1,000 specimens in all stages of manufacture, and of all qualities. DEATH OF COLONEL M. G. WHITE.—Intelligence has reached London of the death of Col. Matthew George White, who was seized with cholera on Sunday week at Boulogne-sur-Mer, and died on the following day, not- withstanding the combined exertions of the French and English doctors. 0 SHOCKING ACCIDENT NEAR DUBLIN.-On Saturday five men lost their lives in a liquid manure tank on the farm of Mr. Cobbe, Newbridge, county of Dublin. They were engaged in emptying the tank and carrying the liquid manure to a distance, and when they came to the Zd lving at the bottom one man went down into the Snk with a ladder to fill the buckets The moment he J mass he fell dead, and four others m suc- stmed th t0 save their comrades, died missioners of Woods and-bor licengegt0persong ShSrtTawkf S-S 0« the New Fore.. «.d the Forest of Dean. WHITENED WHEAT.—It is stated that a on of the whiting manufactured at the cha q. the banks of the Thames is exported to America returned mixed with flour.-The Grocer.. EpPING FOItEST.-Under a late Act of PARLIAMENT on the 30th of December next the management of PP » Forest as to forestal rights will be transferred from the Commissioners of Woods to the Commissioners of Public Works and Buildings. THE LATE PRINCE DE CONDE.-The mortal remains of the Prince de Conde, only son of the Duke d Aumale, have been brought from Sydney, New South Wales, in the Sea Star, which arrived in the Thames on Monday morning. The body was removed on Wednesday to the Roman Catholic Chapel at Weybridge in which edifice are deposited the remains of the late King Louis Phillipe, the Queen Marie Amelie, and other members of the ex-Royal family of 'France,

THE APPALLING FAMINE IN INDIA. M. dating from Calcutta, sends a letter to the Times communicating awful details of the famine by which the districts to the south-west of that city are being depopulated. He says that, starting on the 26th of June from Midnapore, a civil station seventy miles south-west from Calcutta, before he had gone seven miles the painful sights commenced which, varying only in intensity, met his eyes throughout a journey of 300 miles. He first came upon the bodies of two men, lying under a tree, one already feasted on by jackals and birds pf prey, the other still alive, and bearing the appearance of a skeleton tightly encased in india-rubber' cloth. The dying man had just strength enough, ^'ter being revived by a draught of beer, to falter out his tale of wretchedness, and then he expired. "M." continued his journey, passing at intervals numerous dead bodies lying un- buried by the roadside. At one point he counted twenty-two corpses within half a mile; at another six lay grouped together, all more or less mangled and torn by jackals, dogs, and vultures. On reaching the house of a Mr. Falls, the manager of Messrs. Watson and Co.'s indigo business, he heard that the body of a woman had just been picked up by the roadside, tightly embracing a living child, which, however, died before it could be ex- tricated from its mother's stiffened arms. M." re- cords the following instances of maternal and filial af- fection A woman, with her three young children, crawls up to a planter's house just as luncheon was being carried from the table she begs for the remains of the curry and rice, which are at once taken out into the verandah and i placed before her. Without attempting to eat, she quietly seats the three children round the dish, who in a few minutes demolish its contents, and although the mother is- wasted to a skeleton, yet, mumbling her thanks, she turns away grateful that her offspring have been fed, even while she herself still hungereth. In another village we met a little girl and her mother, lying under a mango tree. Both were faint from hunger; they had been trying to keep life together by feeding on snails picked out of ponds, berries, and lizards, where they could obtain them, but, daily feeling weaker, they had sunk down under a tree, awaiting a lingering death. We get some boiled rice, and put it before them. The younger is the stronger the mother is too weak to raise herself. Although the child's big eyes flashed with a hungry gleam, yet her little hands, well filled, first seek the mother's mouth, and not until half the rice is thus gone does she herself eat." As no returns are kept, M." says that it is impossible to estimate the numbers that have died from actual want, but he thinks that in the three districts of Balasore, Cuttack, and Midnapore the mortality must have been quite 1,200 a day. The Times holds Sir Cecil Beadon, the present Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, mainly re- sponsible for this state of things.

THE INSURRECTION IN SIBERIA. The St. Petersburg correspondent ofthe Daily News gives some interesting particulars on the subject of the recent insurrection in Siberia, which may or may not have been suppressed, but of which very little is known in Russia Proper. The Invalid, the organ of the Ministry of-War, maintains that it is quelled; but the Moscow Gazette "persists, on the strength of letters from Irkutsk, in representing it as a very serious matter, and far from settled." On the person of the Chief of the Staff," Dombrowski. captured by the Russian troops, was found a receipt for Government money, signed Ryk, Chief of the Siberian Legion, besides proclamations, and correspondence of a revolutionary character from various parts of Siberia and even from Russia. Ac- cording to the Irkutsk correspondence of the Moscow Gazette, the Poles have (probably the past tense might here be used) a very regular organization. They have already five regiments, each with a waggon train; they have arms and powder, and even scythemen, as they had in Poland." In its endeavour to denationalize Poland, by deporting thousands of Polish families and all in- dividual Poles suspected of extreme patriotism, the Russian Government has gone a good way towards Polonizing Siberia. The well-informed Daily News' correspondent informs us that the Siberian woods and mountains give shelter to thousands of escaped convicts, who obtain the necessaries of life without diffieulty in the villages and settlements, where the houses arc ac- tually left open at night to enable the hungry and thirsty convict, whether Pole or malefactor, to obtain the bread and milk which peasant always keeps ready on a well-known shelf for the accommodation of such travellers." As a mere matter of convenience, it would probably have been better for the Russian Government to have confined the area of Polish insurrections to Poland itself.

THE DISQUIETUDE OF EUROPE. The free Russian journals continue to sound some very equivocal notes. The Moscow Gazette, for in- stance, informs us that Count Bismarck has conceived the plan of once more establishing the alliance of Aus- tria, Prussia, and Russia, in order to be able to ward off the storm which may break forth on the side of France. In furtherance of this policy Count Bismarck would influence the Prince of Hohenzollern to give up to Russia the southern portion of Bessarabia, of which she was deprived by the Treaty of Paris." Here, then, is a settlement of the difficulty, and will Russia be con- tent? By no mean?! says the same journal. "The cession of a piece of territory which has no political or strategical importance would be a poor compensation for the blow struck at Russia, in the Baltic Sea by the events of 1854-60. And as for the alliance of Prussia in conjunction with Austria-never I" Then there is the Goloss expressing apprehension that the war, which is scarcely over in the centre of Europe, will break out with fuiy in the south-east, to the great dis- appointmeiit of those who believe in the durability of peace amongst civilised nations." All this is very con- fusing, and somewhat inharmonious with the generous hope of the Emperor Napoleon that there is a proba- bility that a new era of tranquillity is going to open in Europe."

DEATH FROM THE INCAUTIOUS USE OF FIREARMS.— Mr. William Payne, the Southwark coroner, held an inquest at Guy's Hospital, on the body of John Par- ridge, aged 21, a farm servant in the employ Qf Mr. r, 11 tJohn Adams, farmer, of Holloway Farm, Lewisham. On Sunday, the 19th August, the deceased was sent out to shoot rooks, which do great damage to the standing corn, and in getting through a hedge, incautiously dragged the loaded gun after him, and it exploded, the shot so severely shattering the fore arm that amputation was necessary. He went on favourably till about ten days since, when pyaemia set in and death ensued on Friday. The juiy returned a verdict That the de- ceased was accidentally killed by a gun-shot wound." KINGS AND PRINCES ON THE RETIRED LIST."—A German journal gives a list of dethroned Princes who now live in different parts of Europe. First there is Don Miguel, dethroned in 1830, who resides in Ger- many, having married a German Princess next the Count de Chambord, in exile since 1830, residing gener- ally in Austria. With him may be joined the Orleanist Princes, who reside mostly in England, Leopold and Ferdinand of Tuscany, Francis V. of Modena, and Robert of Parma were driven from their States in 1859. The three first reside in Austria, the last in Switzer- land. The following year Francis H. was sent to in- crease the list of retired Kings. In 1862 King Otho of Greece was driven from his throne. King George of Hanover, the Elector Frederick William of Hesse, the Duke Adolph of Nassau have been just added to the list, which may further be augmented by the addi- tiou of Prince Couza, who now resides in Paris, and the Prince of Augustenburg, who lives in Bavaria.— Eixpress. I HEAVY COMPENSATION CASE.—Mr. Clifton, the ar- bitrator between the Corporation of London and Mr. Chas. Meeking, of Holborn-hill, has made his award, under which the Corporation have to pay Mr. Meeking a little over X26,300, in addition to the property they are to convey to him. The sum claimed by Mr. Meeking was zCl 10,000, or thereabouts; and on the part of the Corporation it was contended that, having regard to the value of the new site Mr. Meeking is to have, they ought not to pay him anything, but rather to re- ceive from him upon balance of account. It appeared in the course of the inquiry before the arbitrator that Mr. Meekings profits exceeded zC20,000 a-year, and the loss from the interruption of this very lucrative business during the rebuilding of his new premises has, no doubt, largely entered into the arbitrator's decision. The settlement of this case will put the Corporation in pos- session of all the property required for the viaduct down to the bottom of the hill except one house, the tobac- conist's at the comer of Shoe-lane. THE NORTHERN VOLUNTEERS. The proposed Scottish national volunteer review acd sham fight, at Stirling, has been finally abandoned for the present year, a resolution to that effect having been agreed to at a meeting of volunteer officers held at Stirling on Friday last. ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH LONDON RAILWAY.-On Saturday night, between ten and eleven o'clock, an ac- cident occurred at the London-bridge Terminus of the South London Railway. Two trains were standing ready to shunt into the station, when the engine drivers both accepted the hand-signal white light to be intended for them, the consequence was a terrible collision, and several carriages were literally smashed up. Happily they were empties. Both the engine drivers have been suspended, and a searching investigation ordered but it is understood that the men admit their mutual mis- take, which has caused great destruction of property.

THE LAW AND SUICIDE. The latest novelty in police-court justice is due to Mr. Tyrwhitt, and it is not likely that as a masterpiece of the grotesque it will soon be surpassed. A poor miserable woman, one Elizabeth Sqarp, has made, it seems, three separate attempts to kill herself, each time unsuccessfully, and Mr. Tyrwhitt is determined that the full severity of the anti-suicidal laws of England shall be put in force to prevent a fourth attempt at the crime of murder. Let the reader guess how this result is to be secured. It is to be remembered that the poor creature is destitute, and that she stated that she had no home to go to. Accordingly, a bright idea struck the magistrate. He would bind her over to keep the peace against herself for six months, on one bail for £ 10. Really this is unique and unapproachable. A forlorn outcast, without a roof to cover her head, is to get a responsible householder to come forward and guarantee her peaceful conduct towards herself for the next half-year; and if she continues so miserable as to throw herself into the river once more, this responsible householder is to forfeit the sum of £ 10 to the offended majesty of British justice. Does Mr. Tyrwhitt seriously believe that the wretched homeless woman can by any possibility procure even this paltry bail, or that if she did procure it, the responsible householder who pledged his £ 10 for her behaviour would exercise the smallest influence on her conduct ? We can only wonder that the worthy magistrate did not go a step further, and bind her over to keep the peace on her own recognizances to the amount of one hundred pounds.

SABBATARIANISM AND DRUNKENNESS. Sabbatarianism is still brilliantly successful in Scot- land. With a population considerably less than that of Ireland—not half, indeed—Scotland consumes quite as much whisky. In the first half of this present year she has got through 2,364,203 gallons; while Ireland has consoled herself with only 2,260,599 gallons. In each country more has been drunk than during the first six months of 1865. It would be interesting to know, also, whereabouts in Ireland they drink the hardest, whether in the miserable West or in the thriving North. At any rate, it is certain that with a diminishing population and an increase in prosperity, the Irish devotion to whisky thrives quite as vigorously as the devotion of the West to the priest, or of the North to the preacher. Whether to allay the fears of Fenianism, or to comfort themselves under Cardinal Cullen's pastorals, or more Hibernico to keep out the cattle plague, Irishmen have imbibed about 17 per cent. more whisky this year than they did the year before at the same season. In England we' appear to drink rather more than twice as much gin as the Scotch drink of whisky; besides which we import more than two million gallons of brandy and rum. Still this leaves us far behind the Scotch in the way of spirit- drinking. Our country population, it is true, gets freely drunk on beer, but, with all this, it is impossible not to award the palm for promoting intemperance to the land where puritanism still thrives as the tyrant of the mind and the tormentor of the body.

DASTARDLY ATTEMPT AT EXTORTION. A peculiar case came before the Marylebone police- court on Saturday. Two young men, Horatio Crack- nell, seventeen, and Robert Walker, nineteen, both well dressed, were charged with attempting to extort S-40 from Mr. Henry Cordell Juler, a physician in large practice, and a governor of St. Mary's Hospital. The two prisoners called on Mr. Juler one evening, and after accusing him of an infamous crime, said they would not prosecute if he would give them hush-money. Mr. Juler was perfectly dumbfounded at the charge made w against him, and uncertain how to act, but ultimately he arranged to meet the prisoners at his house on another evening. He then informed his sou of every- thing which had happened. The result of this was that young Mr. Juler hid himself behind the curtains in the drawing-room during the time the complainant had a second interview with the prisoners. They asked X40 as a bribe for remaining silent, and, after some conver- sation, Cracknell wrote a document, and signed it, and Walker also signed it, which was to the effect that for the sum of E40 they would keep the matter a profound secret. Mr. Juler, after obtaining possession of the document, sent for a police-constable and gave the prisoners into custody. Mr. Mansfield remanded the ,case.

FAST AND LOOSE. Truly Mr. Gifford Palgrave's lines are cast m strange places. One week's newspapers gazette him as consul to a town of which no mortal man has ever heard ex- cept those whose fate it has been to live in countries adjoining the Black Sea. The next week we hoar of the town having been burnt down, after falling into the hands of wild insurgent mountaineers. Then the Russians retake it, or-what is left of it; then 7,000 fresh Circassians come down and overpower the Russians, who come back with reinforcements and at last succeed in crushing the insurgents. But what has become of the British consulate all this while P We should be very sorry, of course, if anything happened to the consular body at Soukoum Kale, but if any European Consul has to suffer at the hands of wild Circassians, retributive justice would seem to require as its victim the consul of that particular nation which is responsible morally, and perhaps officially too, if we could get at the truth of the matter, for distinct under- hand encouragement of the Circassians, only to aban- don them in the hour of need, when the time for under- hand game had passed. The story of the Vixen" and of the systematic coquetry with which we dallied with the Circassian question in the later days of William the Fourth's reign, playing fast and loose with agents half owned, half disowned, and always mismanaged, forms one of the least creditable chapters of modern English annals. Two could play at the game of fast and loose, and two did play at it. Nicholas's trium- phant reply to Bell and Longworth and Uiquhart on the Circassian coast was Simonich at Herat and Vicovich at Cabul. That came of letting I dare not wait upon I would in 1836.

The"G. V. Rrooke" lifeboat was on view on the Adelphi-terrace, Strand, previous to her departure for the station, Poolbeg, near Dublin. CLAREMONT HouSE.-By a recent act of parliament her Majesty is empowered to retain for her life or pleasure Claremont-house and the grounds attached, FROGMORE HOUSE. Extensive preparations are being made at Frogmore House, Windsor Park, in order to prepare that residence for' the reception of their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. The apartments more especially designed for the private use of their Royal Highnesses are being elaborately furnished by Mr. H. Goertz, of High-street, Windsor, and Messrs. Banting, of London; the former providing the Yipholstery and the latter firm the cabinet work. ,NAPOLEON AT ELBA.—San Martino, in the island of Elba, at one time the residence in exile of Napoleon 1. during the years 1814-15, is to be sold by auction on the 2nd of October. It consists of the imperial villa, preserved in its original condition, and containing many works of art and objects of great historical interest connected with the imperial era, including the grand statue of Napoleon by Claudet, and paintings by Gerard, Horace Verifet, A. Scheffer, Bellange, Raffet, and other eminent artists. MEDICAL MISSIONs.-The Edinburgh Medical Mis- sionary Society have succeeded in establishing a training institution in Madras for native medical missionaries. It was opened by the Bishop, the Rev. Clifford Bell, and many missionaries of other churches. It contains four- teen students, and has made afavotirable beginning. These students are from many different parts of India, and are instructed in English, chemistry, and materio medica. Of course to these is added a thoroughly Christian training I THE SAYERS MONUMENT.—This monument is now completed, and may be seen by the curious in Highgate Cemetary, near the upper gates. It is the work of Mr. Morton Edwards, and reflects great credit on the taste and skill of that sculptor. The monument itself is 7 feet long by 4 feet wide, ond about 4 feet high, and rests on a solid base 9 feet long by 5 feet wide and 2 feet 6 inches high. In front of the monument is represented poor Tom's dog, apparently guarding the entrance, and on the front of the tomb is a medallion of the late champion, the likeness being so good that no one who ever saw him can fail to recognise it. The whole monu- ment, whic is very massive, and weighs some eight tons, is admirably executed in Sicilian marble, and is a worthy momento of one against whose honesty there never was the shade of a suspicion. We believe it is the intention of Mr. Edwards to issue a few copies of the medallion for any of Tom's friends, who may wish to possess them, but of this the public will have due notice.-Bell's Life. The Earl of Devon, as Chancellor of the Duchy of Leicester, has appointed thirty-six new magistrates for the county. LONDON HOSPITAL.-Dr. Morell Mackenzie, of the University of London, has been appointed assistant physician of the London Hospital. ACCIDENT ON THE THIRD MANCHESTER RIFLE RANGE.—An accident occurred on this rifle range on Saturday last to Private Holt, of No. 9 company, Third Manchester Rifle Volunteers. Holt, with others, was engaged in class firing, and whilst on his knee in the act of taking aim, the rifle of another volunteer who stood in rear of him was accidently discharged, the bullet passing through Holt's body. The regimental surgeon was in attendance, and had the sufferer removed with all speed to the Manchester Infirmary, where, on inquiry on Sunday night, he still lingers in a precarious condition.-Manchester Examiner. I

r WORKMEN'S IISUUSTRIAL EXHIBITION AT ISLINGTON-. A Workmen's Industrial Exhibition was opened at the Agricultural Halh Islington, last week. In quan- tity as well as quality, and particularly in the display of real workmanship, this exhibition is said to be much in advance of the recent collection at the Guildhall. The great area of the hafl enables visitors to examine the different objects of interest without crowding or inconvenience; and we are glad to hear that not only the working classes themselves in the evenings flock to the exhibition, but there are many morning visitors. About 1,500 different objects are displayed. Of the contributors 93 are clerks, 44 printers, 41 engineers, 37 carvers, 57 carpenters, 35 engravers, 12 watchmakers, and 12 labourers., Space has also been allotted to 223 females. A butcher exhibits a decimal calculator, consisting of new rules in the science of numbers, and a decimal key, applicable to every kind of calculation a shorthand writer displays his inventive powers in a mill to grind crusts into flour a clerk produces a novel machine for cutting pie meat; and a printer has improved on tea- pots and silk hats. In Class B, Skilled Work," there are admirable specimens of cabinet work and upholstery, and several of the hardware articles also are excellent. The display of wood-carving and modelling in this!class affords satisfactory evidence of an advance of our work- men in the knowledge of design. Among the exhibitors is a lad named Teape, aged 14:, who shows two carved heads of great promise. The manufacture of musical instruments is well represented, as is likewise that of horological and philosophical instruments. In one of the galleries are some excellent specimens of marbling and graining. Among the preserved natural objects are a case of stuffed birds, the work of a labourer in Hampstead, and four cases, all remarkably good, the achievement of a servant of the Duke of Manchester. The natural history of the silkworm is illustrated in an excellent glass-case model by a porter living in St. Luke's. More than one domestic servant exhibits in Class F, "Ladies' Needlework." A pretty basket of flowers, copied from nature, is the work of a housemaid a hearthrug, with figures of animals in wool, by a general servant; and two bedquilts by another domestic. Mr. Henbury, M.P., delivered an address at the open- ing, the Rev. Dr. Miller offered up a prayer, Dr. Sparks presided at the organ, the choir of the Tonic Sol-fa Association sung the Old Hundredth Psalm, and an Ode to Labour," written by John Plummer, of Kettering, was performed.

SAMUEL MAYNARD. The above well-known mathematical bookseller re- cently died in the Booksellers' Retreat, at Abbott's Langley, in his seventy-seventh year. He was self- taught. At twenty years of age he came from Taunton to London and opened a school in Clarendon-square, Somers-town, in which he was successful for some years. He then opened a small shop, in Crown-court, Fleet- street, for the sale of mathematical books from whence he removed te Earl's-court, Leicester-square, where he carried on business for thirty years. In his old age he was glad to accept an asylum as above, in 1862, where he remained until his death. All who had anything to do with mathematics knew the little booth in Earl's-court, crowded with old and dusty books, and the man who seemed to know all the English part of his stock. Mr. Maynard was a competent mathematician, and edited, for booksellers, various works on the lower branches. His particular study was the almanack and its construction on this point he has left a very elaborate manuscript, which is at present at the apartments of the Astronomical Society. Mr. May- nard carried on his business on the plan of high prices and slow returns this is not the way to thrive in our day. But it was not altogether on commercial principles that he acted. He was, by his knowledge of the intel- lectual value of his store, a little bit of a bibliotaph we have reason to think he had this feeling to an extent he knew nothing of himself. When his books came to be sold by auction at his retirement—1,200 lots, most of them packages, for so the auctioneers sell miscellaneous shop-stock—many books turned up which, to our knowledge, he had been asked for, and did not produce. Some of them, we have no doubt, were reserved, not for private use, but to enjoy the feeling of possession. Maynard published fourteen catalogues they are well known by the title-pages, which have, between the bi- nomial theorem above and Taylor's theorem below, Euclid I. 47, with his name, address, and business worked into the diagram, supported on one side by the cone, sphere, and cylinder of Archimedes, and on the other by the Copernican system shining through clouds. He was an upright and simple-minded man. The ma- thematicians make no more pilgrimages to 8, Earl's- court. They miss the shop to which all their rare books came at last: and they miss their old friend, whom they used to interrupt when deep in the construc- tion of a catalogue, and the consultation about the ab- breviation of a word, or the meaning of a title. We may add to the above a record of the passing away of two other persons known to book purchasers or authors I viz., Mr. Sotheran, advanced in years and honours; and Mr. George Vertue, in the midst of a promising career,

WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of the late Lieut.-Colonel Charles Clement Deacon, 61st Foot, who died at Ragpore, in the East Indies has only recently been proved in London. The executors appointed were Colonel H. G. Rainey and the testator's brother, Major W. E. D. Deacon, both for- merly of the 61st Regiment. The will is dated Sept. 7, 1857, then before the city of Delhi. The gallant col uiel has bequeated the whole of his property, real and per- sonal, to his wife, for her own absolute use and benefit. The will of John Vanner, Esq., silk-manufacturer, of Coleman-street, City, and of Stamford-hill, was proved in London, on the 14th ult., under X45,000 personalty, the executors appointed being his sons, John and James E. Vanner, ani Charles Earlv. The will is dated April 21, 1859, and he died in June last, at the Bedford Hotel, Brighton, aged 66. To his wife he leaves a life interest in a considerable portion of his property, which at her decease is to be divided equally between his six children, whom he he appoints his residuary legatees. He bequeaths to each of his grandchildren a legacy of X200, to be paid on their respectively attaining the age of 21 years. To the Wesleyan Preachers' Sons' School, £200; and to the Wesleyan Preachers' Fund, £ 200. The will of Henry Littledale, Esq., late of Craig's-court, Charing-cross, and of Kempston Grange, Bedford, formerly of Harlev- street, was proved in London, on the 7th ult., by his nephews, Charles R. Littledale, Arthur Littledale, and Harry Thornton, Esq., the executors. The personalty was sworn under £ 60,000. The will is dated June, 1866, and he died on the same day on which it was executed, at his residence, Craig's-court, at the age of 81. He leaves to each of his executors for their trouble a legacy of zC300, and to each a further bequest as follows :—To Charles Littledale, £ 2,000 to Arthur Littledale and Harry Thornton, each Z3,500, and ap- points the two last-named nephews residuary legatees. He leaves to Julia Thornton, widow of his late nephew, Thornton, all his furniture, books, and pictures, both at his residence at Kempston Grange and at Craig's- court, together with a legacy of £1,000, and the occu- pation of his freehold mansion, Kempston Grange. He has left liberal legacies to his nephews, nieces, and others; and to his bailiff, William Ross, £1,000, free of legacy duty.-Illustrated London News. °

DEATH OF LORD NORTHBROOK. — We have to an- nounce the death of Francis Thornhill Baring, first Baron Northbrook, which took place at his residence, Stratton-park, Hants, on Thursday evening, shortly afterly 8 o'clock. The noble lord was seized with an apoplectic fit on Wednesday morning, and did not rally afterwards. His lordship was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he obtained a double first-class in 1817, graduated,M.A. in 1821, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's-inn in 1823. He held the appointment of Lord of the Treasury from 1830 until 1834, and from 1835 until 1839 he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, which post he held until 1841; was First Lord of the Admiralty from January, 1849, to Febru- ary, 1852; and, as Sir Francis Baring, represented the borough of Portsmouth in the House of Commons from the year 1826 until the dissolution of Parliament in 1865, when he retired, and was shortly afterwards raised to the peerage. He is succeeded by his son, Mr. Thomas George Baring, who filled with rapid suc- cession the offices of Under-Secretary for War, Under- Secretary for India, Under-Secretary for the Home Department, and Secretary to the Admiralty, in the administrations of Lord Palmerston and Lord Russell. WORKMEN'S FESTIVAL AND INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. —The official return of the number of visitors at the Agricultural Hall for the week ending Sept 8 o-ives a total ef 52,018. BRIGHAM YOUNG AND HIS WIVEg. Amelia," Brigham Young's latest wife, says the Chicago Tribune, is a model woman for the Saints." She is notion able, imperious, and coquettish, and Young pets her like a child. One evening a friend took tea with her and the Mormon prophet. After tea they remained at the table eating nuts, and Amelia threw her shells through an open window on the opposite side. Her husband said, Amelia, don't do that; put your shells by your plate." I shan't do it," replied the fair one; I'll throw them where I please, and I'll do as I please, and you may help yourself." And pulling her guest bv the dress, she said, Come, let's go upstairs and let him grunt it out."

LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART. Earl Beauchamp has accepted the office of president of the Birmingham Musical Festival of 1867. A Berlin publisher has begun issuing a translation of the war correspondence in the Times, both from the Prussian and Austrian camps. A new Liberal Catholic newspaper, has appeared under the title of the Universal Express. The Bromley Timns is the name of a new London suburban paper to be issued on the 15th inst. A paper bearing the name of The Staff of Life m Ir "}terest of the '• quartern loaf" is announced for publication on the 29th inst. Napoleon III. and the Rhine is the title of a poli- tical brochure by Mr. Pope Hennessy. which is an- nounced for publication by Mr. Hardwicke. The Emperor Napoleon has very graciously accepted a copy of the French translation of the Rev. William Arthur's The Tongue of Fire." The Independence Belge states that the Emperor Nac poleon is at this moment collecting materials for the history of Charlemagne, which will be published after the Vie de Cesar." Mr. A. Trollope is to open a discussion on the ques- tion of international copyright at the approaching Social Science Congress in Manchester. James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald, is taxed for an income of 158,648 dols. Forty-six years ago Mr. Bennett arrived in America, a Scotch youth of 20, with less than £ 5 in his pocket. The Race for Wealth," now nearly completed in Once a Week, will be published in a few days in a separate form; and it will bear on its title-page, not "F. G. Trafford," but the author's real name, Charlotte Riddell. We understand that X6,000 out of 110,000, the total outlay of the Irish National Picture Gallery at Dublin, has been raised by local subscriptions. This is credit- able to Irish taste and Irish enterprise too. Dr. John Brown, whose name will ever be associated with Rab and his Friends," is, we regret to say, in the worst condition of health in which his friends could fear to see him. Our readers will be glad to learn that the Benedictine Monastery of Monte Casino is to be preserved in its present state as a national monument, and that the archives, library, and monuments will remain intact. It may be fittingly noted, by the way, that two men rw*etters' holding superior appointments in the Post Office, are, so to speak, running novels at the same time: Mr. Anthony Trollope, The Claverings," in the Comhill; and Mr. Edmund Yates, Black Sheep," in All the Year Round. We are glad to be able to announce that the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury have abolished all charges for viewing the interior of their catl^dral, -visitors, how- ever, being at liberty to make voluntary offerings to the exhibitors. This is as it should be.-M-usical Standard. Workmen are now engaged in the restoration of the east end of the interior of this chapel by substituting Gothic stonework for the wainscoting placed there by Warden Nicholas about ISO years ago. The work is being carried out at the expense of an old Wykehamist, Lord Chief Justice Erie. Lord Lyttelton and Mr. C. S. Calverley have pro- mised (among others), says the Athenctum, to contribute Latin verse translations of several EnglisIt. hymns to Mr. Bigg's forthcoming annotated edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern." It is stated that some Dissenters have become so con- vinced of the necessity of improving the ordinary chapel music,that they are about to follow the ex- ample of the Church and establish choral unions. The Patriot states thus much, and the Church Review an- nounces that a surpliced choir has been introduced into some chapels. Ecce Homo has reached its twelfth thousand, and still the author's name is a profound and tantalising secret. The public have already paid £ 6,000 for the book, and if the publishers continue to have their way in the matter, it is highly probable that at least an equal amount will yet be received before the mystery is solved. Mr. Dickens's arrangements with Mr. Arthur Chappell are now complete. A series of readings will be given, which will include at least six at St. James's Hall! where the first (probably The Christmas Carol ") will be given on Boxing night. It is said that Shakespeare's play of Coriolanus is being translated by M. Carlhaut, to whom the French are already indebted for a translation of Julius Ctesar." Mr. W. J. Thorns, the editor of Notes and Queries, has published, in a separate form, what he calls Three Notelets on Shakespeare." The first is a paper on Shakespeare in Germany, read by him before the Society of Antiquaries several years ago the second is a paper on the Folklore of Shakespeare," which ap- peared in the Athenceum, and the third, a paper reprinted from Notes and Queries, as a solution of the question, Was Shakespeare ever a soldier ?" The first year's publications of the Early English Text Society are now out of print. Five hundred copies only of the texts of the first two years, 1864 1865, and part of the third, 1866. have been printed, and of these each editor has had fifty of his own work! Of the texts now printing 750 copies have been ordered, and if readers of our old literature know what they are about, this number ought soon to be exhausted too. Eleven or twelve texts a year for a guinea should tempt even a stockbroker to buy them as an investment, as Professor Morley says. Mr. Tarbutt has recently discovered some very interesting facts relative to the immortal author of The Pilgrim's Progress." A copy of Christian Behaviour has been found by Mr. Tarbutt, eleven years older than any other copy known and lately he has fallen in with "Some Gospel Truths Opened," by the same author, which was first published in the town of Newport Pag- nell, Bucks. This, and the little volume previously mentioned are, Mr. Tarbutt thinks, the only original editions of Bunyan's works published out of London. The late Mr. George Offor did not possess either of the books mentioned. The following has reference to the visit of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to the Holy Land: Christ Church, Jerusalem, August 3. 1866. After reading Mr. Mill's letter of the 7th of July, I saw Priest Amram, and noted down from him the fol- lowing statements:—1. That H.R.H. the Prince of Wales did see the most ancient roll of the Samaritans. 2. That the portion of it photographed by Mr. Bedford was written, and added to fill a decayed place, about sixteen centuries ago. 3. That he (Amram) would only undertake to affirm positively that the book Deuteronomy (excepting a gap, now patched with paper, before the re- cord of the Law) ii) in the handwriting of Abishua. 4. That the Tarikh (Deuteronomy vi. in &c.) ^n „fP,!l0WS: Abishua-son of Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, the priests, to thera be honour from Jehovah and His Will-wrote this Holy Book in the door of the Tabernacle, on Mount Germim, in the year thirteen in the reign of the Children of Israel in the land of Canaan, with its boun- daries. Praise Jehovah.' 5. This roll is exhibited at the seven feasts each year. 6. In conducting sendee reading from a roll, reading from a quarto, and repeat- ing from memory, are considered modes equally sacred. /•A^lelut- Ander son was not permitted to photograph the* Abishua MSS. One of the three rolls usually shown to visitors was opened to him for that purpose. 8. The Samaritans assert that when Ezra changed the letters, he also partially altered the matter of the Pentateuch. 9. In their chronology stands the entry, that in the year 4281 from Adam, and in the nineteenth year of the priesthood of Jehoiakim, Jesus, the son of Mary, was crucified in Cursed Salem' (Arusalem). 10. The rela- tionship between Jews and Samaritans remains pretty much as of old.—Yours, &c., JOSEPH BARCLAY." The grave of Lord Palmerston in Westminster Abbey has recently been marked by placing over it a large slab of reddish-grey granite, the surface of which is hi-hlv polished and incised with a floriated cross, inclosed by I border of double lines; between the last is an inscription in Gothic characters, giving the title and name of the deceased, and the date of his death: this writing fills one side only of the slab. The grave is exactly in front of the monument of the three sea-captains, Lord Robert Manners, W. Bayne, and W. Blair, by Nollekens, erected in 1793. This stands under the second arch from the north end of the western aisle, in the north transept. In Henry the Seventh's Chapel, south aisle the pavement has, under the direction of Mr Poole the Abbey mason, been repaired, and inscriptions placed to indicate the interments of King William the Third, Queen Mary the Second, Charles the Second, Anne, and !|Cn0A ?e 0f Denmark- The grave-slab of Loid Clyde has been placed on the south side of the nave of the Abbey, it is of polished granite, with an in- cised inscription of the simplest character, not a work of art. Senor de la Barrera, the Spanish bibliographical writer, is about to publish a new life of Lope de Vega, founded on documents hitherto unknown and com- pi-isiii- a series of the poet's apograph letters, lately brought to light from the Archives of the Conde de Altamira. It is said, however, that the publication of these letters will be opposed, because they reveal that, even after he became a priest, Lope was somewhat given to the vanities of the world. Messrs. Hurd and Houghton, of New York, announce Spanish Papers, and other Miscellanies, hitherto un- published or uncollected," by Washington Irving. The book will be in two volumes, and most of the matter is now first printed from the original MSS. The first volume contains 11 The Legend of Don Roderick The Legend of Count Julian and his Family," The Legend of Pelayo," and other Spanish subjects, The second consists of sketches and reviews.