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it, THE whole truth with regard to Ireland was put with great force and conciseness by Mr. Roebuck. There is misery in Ireland which bad legislation has not caused, and the best legislation could not cure. What miseries do not arise from economical conditions not to be alleviated by any legislation under which the Irishman suffers are of his own creating. He has all the liberties which Englishmen enjoy. If he cannot or will not use these liberties-if he is constantly crying for Govern- ment to do everything for him, and yet constantly de- nouncing Government when it does anything-that is a fault of his own which time may cure, but further legis- lation cannot. Ireland listens too credulously to the stories of Radical politicians, who tell her that all her misfortunes are of England's making, and who, to pro- mote their own political ends, are ready to drag their country through an always renewing series of disap- pointments and disasters. Any Irishman who knows what has been effected during the last forty years c an- not forget that if something remains to be done in the Way of legislation for his country, as it is nothing to what has been achieved by this generation. In a single session the questions of the Irish Church and of the tenure of land might be settled to the satisfaction of all reasonable men, and there is Ro reason that the task should not be attempted as soon as the passing of the Reform Bill clears the way for the long arrears of practical legislation. When this is done we shall be the better able to despise the plots of traitors at home or the threats of enemies abroad. But as the swell lasts for days after the tempest, so the tumult of the popular mind remains long after its causes have passed away. The discontent of Ireland at present is very much of a tradition, and we English of 1867 are expiating the tyranny of the Hanoverian reigns, if not of William and of CroTTr.v So it may be that even this century may close k o the last enemy of the Saxon ceases to rail at an ali, Government; but as soon as all reasonable causes of complaint have been removed, even hereditary discontent will be harmless. The sympathy naturally extended to a brave man Struggling with misfortune is reviving in some quar- ters a line of comment jonly explicable by the forget- fulness of its authors. The Emperor Maximilian having failed, as all who were capable of taking a calm view of the facts three years ago foresaw and predicted he would fail, an attempt is made to make some one responsible for that result. Sometimes the American Government and sometimes the French peopled are blamed. It is quite forgotten that the Empire was broken down by its own weight. The published despatches of M. Drouyn de Lhuys prove this. The French army did all that an army could do. It conquered and held its conquests. But Maximilian could not establish his government. He plunged enormously into debt, exhausted his credit, and was at last obliged to call the general of the French army to advance money to him out of the military chest. 1 c French people bore with marvellous pa'ieucc the Mexican drain upon their resources but at last the Emperor was compelled to acknowledge that it would be wrong to call upon them to make further sacrifices for the sake of the Mexican Empire. The American Government, which had from the first warned that of France that it could not establish a European Prince on the throne of Mexico, at the same time interfered, but merely to secure that result to which the public opinion of France was pointing. Maximilian was only adding the horrors of foreign war to those of intestine anarchy, and he had introduced the barbarous practice of shooting in cold blood prisoners taken in regular war No responsibility is incurred by putting an end to his interference in the affairs of a country which he migut afflict with new curses, but which he was powerless to benefit. As far as the prospect of a re-establishment of peace and good government are concerned. Mexico remains pretty nearly where it was before the French expedition. The causes of its disorders lie too deep to be removed by the sword of conquest, and will pro- bably last until the time has come for the introduction of a new population of a nobler race than that which now engrosses a country it is unable to develop, and which seems incapable of founding any stable order of society. The Duke of Cambridge, in forwarding to the Minister of War the report of Major-General M'Cleverty of the volunteer review at Dover, says he is most happy to express his fullest concurrence in the favourable remarks which that officer has made. I was much struck," says his Royal Highness, by the great improvement which I observed during tne marching past of the force, in many of the minor details of organization, and the admirable regularity with which every corps passed the saluting point was worthy of the highest approbation. The regularity with which the different corps were brought down by the railroad companies reflects the greatest credit on the staff of those companies, and the general arrange- ments made by Colonel Erskine and his assistant in- spectors for collecting so large a body of volunteers from such long distances, and ensuring their arrival at the appointed time and place, deserves my warmest commendation. The co-operation of her Majesty's navy, under Captain Commerel, added greatly to the effect of the day's proceedings, and I heartily join with the Major-General in his request that the Lords Com- missioners of the Admiralty may be informed of the gratification experienced, both by the army and by the body of volunteers on the ground, at the presence of a portion of the fleet." Whilst speaking on the Irish Habeas Corpus Sus- pension Act, Mr. Bernal Osborne described a few of the trite formulae by which successive governments prescribe for the condition of Ireland. He said that the Irish Chief Secretary always brings in a bill for the preservation of salmon, of which twenty have been brought in a Peace Preservation Act, of which twenty- six have been brought in; followed by a Landlord and Tenant Bill, of which thirty-four have been brought in. And then the chief law officer of the Crown for Ireland distinguishes himself by defending the Irish Church, and gets made Lord Chief Justice, benefiting nobody but himself in his efforts to benefit his country. These remedial measures, according to Mr. Osborne, always produce the same effect-a suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act.
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AWFUL FEVER AT MAURITIUS.—Letters have been received in the City from the Mauritius, dated Feb. 6, announcing that the yellow fever had broken out on the island, and had been raging dreadfully, carrying off its victims by thousands. The official returns from the 10th of February to the 28th, gave the deaths at 2,061 in March, 6,433; and from the 1st of April to the dis- patch of this notice, viz., the 17th of April, 50,70 making a total number of 13,564. The mortality in the various towns during the latter period, viz., 1st April to the 17th, was as follows :—Port Louis, 2,879; Pamle- mousess, 931; Rio du Rempart, 316; Flacq, 97; Grand Port, 73; Savane, 49; Black River, 407; Plaines Wilhcms, 146; and Mora, 172. Happily, a change in the temperature took place on the 14th April, after heavy rains and strong breezes varying from the south to east, and since then there has been a decrease in the number of sick, which there is every reason to hope will continue. Such a frightful mortality is with- out precedent in any country, and it will be for the government and the public to unite in order to improve the sanitary condition of the island. Quinine has ad- vanced to the enormous sum of 12Z. per ounce. The next mail from England is expected to bring a supply. THE DIOCESS OF ROCHESTER.—The consecration of the Bis hop-elect of Rochester (the Rev. Dr. Claughton) will be celebrated on Tuesday, June 11, in Rochester Cathedral. In connexion with the Rochester Church Endowment Fund, raised through the energy of the late bishop (Dr. Wigram), it may be observed that the donations and subscriptions paid and promised, with the interest received from investments, bring up the sum to be distribute(I to the £ 15.000 proposed. Out of this amount £ 2,000 has been set apart for grants to parson- age houses, and has been voted to fourteen parishes, that sum drawing out local contributions and other grants and benefactions to the amount or £ 16,000. Grants have been made for district endowments-i.e., for the increase of the annual value of livings to sixteen other parishes, and to the amount of £ 2,400; and it is hoped that this sum will bring out from local sources and the Ecclesiastical Commissioner ;J)"" than £ 1-3,000.
CONFEDERATION OF THE BRITISH…
CONFEDERATION OF THE BRITISH ) NORTH AMERICAN PROVINCES. (From the London Gazette.) BY THE QUEEN. A PROCLAMATION for Uniting the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, into one dominion, under the name of Canada. Whereas by an Act ot Parliament, passed on the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of our reign, intituled "An act for the union of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, and the Government thereof, and for purposes connected therewith," after divers re itals it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the advice of Her Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, to declare, by procla- mation, that and after a day therein appointed, not being more than six months after the passing of this act, the provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New jBmnswiek shall form and be one dominion under the name of Canada, and on and after that day those three provinces shall form and be one dominion under that name accordinglyand it is thereby further enacted, that Such persons shall be first summoned to the Senate as the Queen by warrant, under her Majesty's Royal Sign Manual, thinks fit to approve, and their names shall be inserted in the Queen's Proclamation of Union." We, therefore, by and with the advice of our Privy Council have thought fit to issue this our Royal Proclamation, and we do ordain, declare, and command that on and after the first day of July, one thousand j eight hundred and sixty-seven, the provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, shall form aud be one dominion under the name of Canada. And we do further ordain and declare that the persons whose names are herein inserted and set forth are the persons of whom we have by warrant under our Royal Sign Manual thought fit to approve as the persons wno shall be first summoned to the Senate of Canada. For the Province of Ontario.—John Hamilton, Roderick Matheson. John Ross. Samuel Mills, Benjamin Seymour. Walter Hamilton Dickson, James Shaw, Adam Johnston Ferguson Blair, Alexander Campbell, David Christie, James Cox Aikins, David Rcesor, Elijah Leonard, William MMaster, Asa Allworth Burnham, John Simpson, James Skead, David Lewis Macpherson, George Crawford, Donald Macdonad, Oliver Blale, Billa Flint, Walter M-Crea, George William Allan. For the Province of Quebec.—James Leslie, Asa Belknap Foster, Joseph Noel Bosse, Louis A. Ulivier, Jacque Olivier Bureau, Charles Malhiot, Louis Re- rand, Luc Lctellier de St. Just, Ulric Joseph Tessier, John Hamilton, Charles Cormier, Antoine Juchereau Duchcsnav. David Edward Price, Elzear H. J. Duches- nav, Lcandre Dumouchcl, Louis Lacoste, Jos-epla F. Arm a nd, Charles Wilson, William Henry Chaffers, Jean Bnptisle Guevremont, James Ferrier, Sir Narcisse For'uiiat Bellcau. Knight, Thomas Ryan, John Sewell, •Sanborn. For the Province of Nova Scotia.—Edward Kenny. Jonathan M Cully, Thomas D. Archibald, Robert B. Dickey, John H. Anderson, John Holmes, John W. Ritchie, Benjamin Wicr, John Locke, Caleb R. Bill, John Bourinot, William Miller. For the Province of New Brunswick.—Amos Edwin Botsford, Edward Bai-ron Chandler, John Robertson, Robes t Leonard Hazen. William Hunter Odell, David Wark, William Henry Steeves, William Todd, John Ferguson, Robert Duncan Wilmot, Abner Reid M'Clelan, Peter Mitchell. Given at our Court at Windsor Castle this 22nd day of Mav, in the year of our Lord, 1867, and in the 30th year of our reign. God save the Queen
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CHAnGE OF ASSAULTING AN ACTRESS. Albert Booth, aged 26. of No. 3, Chepstow Villas, Bayswatcr. teacher of music, was charged with assault- ing Miss Nellie Stanley. an actress in an omnibus. Miss Stanley said she resided at 81, Cirencester- street, Harrow-road. Her last engagement was at the Princess's Theatre. On the previous evening, in com- pany with her sister, she had been to the Marylebone Music-hall. After leaving they got into an omnibus in the Marylebone-roail. On arriving nt the end of Chapel-street they were requested to alight and get into a vellow omnibus by the conductor to take them to the finish of their journey. They got in, and she sat by the side 6f the prisoner. She had no sooner seated herself than he took hold of her arm and asked her how she felt. She took no notice of him, and then he took hold of her knee. She got up and spoke to the con- ductor. and prisoner was going to strike her, when her sister placed her umbrella before him and said he iw ist not. Prisoner took hold of the umbrella and broke it. There were three other passengers in the omnibus. In reply to Mr. D'Eyncourt, she said the prisoner pressed hard upon her knee. She never spoke to him. The conductor said he did not know the prisoner. The Prisoner said prosecutrix got up to speak to the conductor, but he could not tell what she spoke about. She had a long string hanging down from behind her hat. and he pulled it. The other lady told her what he had done, and she said she would give him in charge. Prosecutrix said that was not so. Before she sa:d she would give him in charge, he had broken her sister's umbrella. Prisoner said he begged her pardon. Prosecutrix told him if he had done so at the ti-rn4 there would have been an end to it. He grossly insulted her by calling her a ————— well known on that road. This he repeated at the station-house. Prisoner said the prosecutrix flew at him in a way that no lady would have done. Caroline* Stanley, the sister, said she got her living by her needle. Her evidence was confirmatory of what her sister said, and added, that although he spoke to the other passengers in the omnibus, they said he was no friend of theirs. Prisoner said he had a gentleman's card, and be promised to attend on his behalf. This party said it was an unfair charge. In reply to Mr. D'Eyncourt. Prosecutrix said she did not hear anything of the kind said. William Gould, 42 X, said he was at the Royal Oak, Paddington, when the omnibus came up, and prosecutrix charged the prisoner with assaulting her and breaking her sister's umbrelia. Prisoner called them liars and well known on the road. He was under the influence of liquor. In answer to Mr. D'Eyncourt, the officer said the prosecutrix made the same statement as she had now. The conductor followed to the station-house, and then said he saw the umbrella broken. He did not hear any one say it was an unfair charge. Prisoner said he should like to have it adjourned to get the gentleman in attendance who gave him the card. Mr. D'Eyncourt adjourned the case for a week, and said he would accept bail, the prisoner in the sum of £ 100, and a surety in X30. Bail was tendered and accepted.
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TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF A CHURCH AT NOTTING HILL. A few minutes after one o'clock oil the morning of Monday last, a destructive fire burst forth from the iron church belonging to the Rev. H. Marchmont, situate in Kensington-park-road, Notting-hill, and in less than half-an-hour from that time, the magnificent organ, bu It by Robson, and everything combustible in the interior of the church, were consumed, and the structure itself collapsed and fell to pieces. The flames which at one time burst from the windows Were of such intense heat and volume that they set on fire eighteen houses in Wellington and All Saints, terraces, and but for the timely arrival of several fire eno-ines, there can be no doubt but these and other terraces of houses would have been destroyed. The damage done to the church is estimated at £ 5,200, of which the Royal Insurance will pay zC4,000, and the owner will be the loser of the remainder. The damage done to other property is about XI,000, one half of which is insured in various fire offices. The cause of the fire remains a profound mystery. This is the third iron church in this district which has been destroyed by fire within the last three months.
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MURDER BY A Boy.-It is painful to have to report that the crime of murder was committed on Sunday last by a boy of 13 years, in a field adjoining a farm situated between Casal Musta and Rabato. It appears that the boy's sister had had a quarrel with another girl, named Vittoria Vella, aged 16, and on her reporting the fact to her brother, Guiseppe Sammut, aged about 13 years the latter took a gun and shot the poor girl. who died soon afterwards from the effects of the wounds. A the offender is so very young, we believe that, according to the local laws, he is only subject, if found guilty, to two years' imprisonment .Ualta Observer, May 16. WHISKERS IN THE NAVY.—The following circular. under date "Admiralty May 15, 1867." has just been posted at the several Royal dockyards in the kingdom Sir,-Iam commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, to acquaint you that they desire to draw the attention of commanders in chief and senior officers, to a custom which appears to be somewhat pre valent in the fleet, of officers wearing whiskers of such inordinate size and length as to resemble beards, which latter are prohibited by the printed instructions. Tin regulations of the naval service require that any such irregular habit should be prevented, and that officer, should be permitted only to wear the same length oi whiskers as the seamen narines under their divi- sional superintendence.- u, Sir, &c., HENRY G. LENNOX."
THE LATE SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON.1
THE LATE SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON. 1 The late Sir Archibald Alison was the son of the Rev. Archibald Alison, author of Essays on Taste," and incumbent from 1800 to 1831 of the Episcopal Congregation of the Cowgate, which, during his in- cumbency, built St. Paul's Church, York-place, Edin- burgh. He was a brother of the eminent Dr. William Pulteney Alison, Professor of the Practice of Physic in the University of Edinburgh, who died a few years ago esteemed and honoured, not only for his high medical skill, but for his rare and disinterested pbilan- throphy. The late baronet was a cadet of the family of Alison, of Mcwhall, Forfarshire, and his grandfather was a magistrate of Edinburgh. His father, in the earlier years of his ministry, filled different incumben- cies in Shropshire and the subject of 0118 notice was born at Kenley, Shropshire, all the 29th of December, 1792, and was thus by the accident of birth an English- man, although in all his traditions and feelings and tastes a thorough Scot. His mother, Dorothea Gregory, was the granddaughter of the 17th Lord Forbes. Sir Archibald was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he enjoyed the advantage of studying under such men as Dugald Stewart, Playfair, and Leslie, and where he carried off the highest honours in the mathematical and Greek classes, in one of which departments of study (mathematics), it may be remarked, several of his maternal ancestors had acquired distinction. In 1814 he passed at the bar of Scotland, but he devoted the first few years after obtaining professional status to a continental sojourn, in the course of which he made himself well acquainted with the condition and history of the principal countries in Europe. In 1822 he was appointed one of the advocates depute under Sir William Rav, then Lord Advocate, and held that office till the dissolution of the Wellington lVlinistryin 1830. Shortly afterwards, while out of office, he published his well-known treatise on the criminal law, which soon obtained the character of a standard authority on that branch of jurisprudence. In 1834 he was appointed sheriff' of Lanarkshire by Sir Robert Peel, which office he held up to the period of his death. In 1S33 ap- peared the first volume of his celebrated History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revo- lution in 1782 to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815 "-a remarkable work, which has been translated into nearly every European language, and even into Arabic and Hindustani. It may be mentioned that of the library edition of the history 108,000 volumes have been sold, and of the people's edition 439,000 volumes. In 1852 Sir Archibald published the first volume of a continuation of his History," of which a good many volumes have been published, bringing down the work to the accession of Louis Napoleon. The continuation, however, is generally admitted to want the fire and animation of his original work, while it treats of sub- jects that are really too new to be received in the domain of history. As annals of the later period, how- ever, they are full of interest and copious in detail. Sir Archibald was also the author of a Life of Marl- borough," in two volumes; "Essays—Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous," originally published in Blackwood's Magazine," in three volumes; and The Principles of Population," in two volumes. Sir Archi- bald Alison was created a baronet by the Government of Lord Derby in 1152. In 1855 he was appointed Lord Rector of Marischal College, Aberdeen; and six years later the University of Glasgow conferred oi him the same honour. In 1853 he received the degree of D.C.L. from the University of Oxford. The deceased gentleman married in 1825 a daughter of Lieutenant- Colonel Patrick Tytler (some time Assistant-Quarter- master-General for Scotland), and grand-daughter of Lord Alva (Hon. James Erskine), Judge in the Ccurt of Session. Th deceased is succeeded in his title by his son, Archibald, born in Edinburgh in 1826, who married in 1858, a daughter of Mr. James Connell Black. With the present Sir Archibald's military career many of our readers arc familiar. He served for a good many years with the 72nd Highlanders, and was through the principal part of the Crimean war. After- wards he was appointed to the staff of Lord Clyde, and served under that gallant soldier in the arduous campaign which followed the Indian mutiny. He was present at the capture of Lucknow. His distinguishec services gained for him in 1861 the honour of C.B., and he now holds the office of Assistant Adjutant- General with the rank of colonel.-Edinburgh C our ant.
RECLAMATION OF LAND FROM THE…
RECLAMATION OF LAND FROM THE SEA. The Norfolk Estuary Company have just com- pleted another embankment of two miles in length at North Wooton, adjoining the lands of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the Hon Mrs. Mary Grcville Howard. It was commenced in February last, and has added about 700 acres to that already reclaimed by this company in the Wash. This now makes a total of about 4,000 neves of the 32,000 to he recovered from the sea for which the necessary funds were raised by the authority of an amended Act of Parliament in 1849. The undertakings of the company arc becoming of great importance to this part of the country, for if the same rate of enclosure be continued yearly there is no doubt that the once-talkert-of Victoria county will become a reality. The great difficulty was in the com- mencement of the works, with a bank off Wolferton, called the North Shelter bank, which is faced with the Sncttisbam car stone, wirch, although soft when cut from the pit, hardens when exposed to the atmosphere. From this bank, which as a slope of 6 to 1 and in some places 5 to 1, the others, extending about five miles in length, seem to spring; these are merely facel with grass flags, with front slopes of 3 to 1, 5 to 1, and 6 to I so as to form a concave surface, to resist the action of the waves better; the back slope being at If and 2 to 1. The cost of enclosure is about lot. per acre, and the estimated value of the lands enclosed was, at a late arbitration between the owners of the adjoining land and the company, considered to be worth 501, per acre; when it was also stated "that the land would make bricks there was a good site for buildings, good water, gravel to make roads, and houses might be built on the high land, and corn would grow there." This is al- ready a fact, for on the land enclosed the year before last, now belonging to Mr. George Pierrepont Bcntinck, a fine crop of wheat is in a promising condition for the next harvest. The last enclosure has been carried out by Mr. William Walker, the contractor, being the second bank he has made for the company, and extends from the south end of the last enclosure to Gay's Creek, which will be diverted from its present channel. The bank has been made continuously, without leaving openings for the tides to pass through, as has hitherto been adopted..
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HELIGOLAND,—A storm is raging in one of England's colonial puddles. Public attention was called, a year or two hack, to the fact that while we are censuring the small German potentates for sanctioning public play at Homburg and Baden, a small mote of the same kind existed in one of our own eyes, in Heligoland, where the entire revenue of the island was derived from a tax levied on the gamblers, to whom the right of pillaging the public was farmed out. The Colonial Minister has most properly determined to put a stop to this discreditable source of income, and the Heligoland gamblers received notice to quit. But as it is necessary td impose some other tax to supply the void thus created in the island revenue, the Heligolanders are furious, their impatience of taxation being excessive. So they are holding indignation meetings and forwarding peti- tions to Downing-street, and have elected a Parliament pledged to resist the imposition of all taxes whatever, in the hope that the ejected gamblers may be reinstated, as the only means of averting bankruptcy from the island treasury. But Govenor Maxse is unmoved, and there is to be no more public play in Heligolan d come what may.-Pall Llfall Gazette. EMANCIPATION IN BRAZIL.—The telegraph brings us news to-day that the last formidable stronghold of slavery remaining in Christendom has virtually fallen before the irresistible advance of the great movement for universal freedom and equal rights. Brazil has given the death-blow to the wicked system which has been so long both her grievous burden and her foul dis- grace. Henceforth every child born into the empire is free, and in twenty years the chains will fall from the limbs of her last surviving slave. By this decree nearly 3,000,000 blacks are raised up from the dust; and though but few of this generation can hope to see the day of general emancipation, it is much for them to know that the curse which rested on the parents will no longer be transmitted to the children it is some- thing that the younger of them have a bright although distant future to look toward and to wait for. Very likely, too, the dying institution will not be suffered to linger out the whole of the existence which the new law accords to it; as the benefits of free labour to the whole country become appreciated, fresh legislation may hasten the advent of national liberty and justice. New York Tribune, May 6. The building of a lunatic asylum in connection with the Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley, has commenced. MIDNIGHT ASCENT OF SNOWDON.- Visitors are said to be already finding their way into Carnarvonshire, although the summit of Snowdon is yet covered with snow. We have this week heard of a determined tourist who actually made the ascent of Snowdon at ten o'clock at night, alone, and who found himself at the summit, mid snow and ice," just before sunrise. The adven- turous tourist we refer to lqjt Llanbens on Wednesday night, and to his dismay discovered when he arrived at the top that the huts were so firmly closed that an entrance could not be effected. The driving snow and biting wind was hard to bear, but the adventurer deter- mined to make a stand against it, and was rewarded with a spleu'H sunrise. He describes the moonlight walk on tt;s raotvO as something glorious, in spite of he
OCCURRENCES OF THE DAY.
OCCURRENCES OF THE DAY. Mazurka has been turned out of training and left Newmarket for Mr. Alexander's breeding establishment near Guildford, The State dinners in honour of Her Majesty's birth- I' day were given on Saturday night. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the Earl of Derby, Downing-street. Mr. Chaplin, the fortunate owner of Hermit, the winner of the Derby, has given 250 guineas to the almshouses of Epsom, which give shelter to twelve poor widows. The cattle plague has reappeared in Shropshire. On Saturday, a heifer on the farm of WhItchurch was attacked and instantly slaughtered by order of the Government Inspector. The Prince of Wales, attended by Colonel Kings- cote, Major Tees dale, and the Honourable Oliver Montagu, was present on Saturday morning, at the annuil crand mounting parade at the Horse Guards in honour of Her Majesty's birthday. In the evening, the Prince presided at the annual dinner of the 10th Hussars at Willis's Rooms. Vice Admiral James John Stopford has retired, owing to his impaired health from the active list of flag officers, consequently Captain Codd, now super- intendent of the Victualling Yard and Hospital at Ply- mr uh, will lave to his re ijn appointment and toac- cept the rank of retired rear admiral, owing to his being above 60 years of age. Commodore C. F. Hill- yar will be promoted to the active list of rear admirals, and will be succeeded by Captain Heath, C.B. At Westminster Police Court, on Saturday, Mr. Ser- jeant Ballantine made an application for a warrant to bring up Mr. Robert Southwell Greville-Nugent, son of the M.P. for Longford, that he might be for- mally criminally charged with threatening to shoot his father. The young man wrote a letter to his father, in which were used the words, If you do not send me some money at once I will shoot you, so help me God and a second to a friend, repeating the threat. He had been ordered to find bail in 91"00, and at pre- sent lies in prison for default--iNIr. Selfe declined to grant the application in the present state of the mat- ter. DEPUTATION ON BEHALF OF THE CONDEMNED FENIANS. —A deputation of members of the House of Commons, including Mr. Hadfield, M.P. for Sheffield, waited up- on Lord Derby on Saturday, to request that the Gov- ernment would advise the Queen to spare the life of the Fenian convict Burke. Lord Derby, in replying at some length to the representations of the deputa- tion, said "the Government had decided, after very careful consideration, that there was nothing in the circumstances of Burke's easetojnstify then in advis- ing her Majesty to spare his life." His Lordship pro- mised to lay before the Government a memorial pre- sented by the deputation, and held out no hope that it would change the views of the Government. FRIGHTFUL SUICIDE AT THE CHARING CROSS RAILWAY STATION.—A shocking suicide took place on Friday afternoon, at the Charing-cross Railway Station, the suicide being a young gentleman, who was found in a state of insensibility in a water closet on the station premises of the above company. The appearance of the unfortunate young man at once indicated that poison had been taken, whereupon the stomach pump was used, and an extraordinary quantity of laudanum was brought away. The usual restoratives were then used, and the patient rubbed and kept in action by being walked about, the effect being slightly to rally him, but not returning him to consciousness. The assistants took turn and turn, and the stationmaster kindly sent over two of the porters as a relief, but in spite of all efforts, death ensued at two o'clock on Saturday morning. The deceased was described as Frederick Price, of King's-road, Chelsea. How VEAL IS PREPARED IN LIVERPOOL.—At the Liv- erpool Police court, on Friday, before Mr. Raffles, the Secrehtryof the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals appeared to prefer a charge against two butchers named Jones and Turner, for cruelty to a calf. They had bled it and used a disgusting method of purging the poor animal, both proceedings having for their object the whitening of the flesh, defendants pleaded''that it was the custom of the trade. Mr. Hall a butcher having a large business in Liverpool, was called as a witness. He said it was certainly the custom to bleed calves a few hours before Lilling them in order to whiten the flesh, but it was a useless and cruel practice, and he would be glad to see it put an end to. That could soon be done if the public would accept veal with a little more colour4n it. The flesh, would really be more nutritious. lir. Raffles said that if any more such cases were proved before him, he would sentence the defendants to absolute imprison- ment, without the option of paying a fine..Tones, who was Turner's employer, was then fined £5, and Turner 403. SERIOUS FIRE AT POLTO.V.-At an early hour on Saturday morning, a fire occurred in a house in An- drew-street, Bolton, occupied by a brick-setter, named Owen. Owen's wife' and several children were asleep in beds on the house floor, there being no other fur- niture in the place, and from some unexplained cause one of these beds got on fire. Terror stricken for the safety of her children, the mother snatched them all up but the infant, which seems to have been forgot- ten in the excitement, and feeling herself so agitated as to be unable to open the door leading to the street, she broke the window and cried frantically to the neighbours. Some of them were soon aroused by her screams, and when they gained access to the house they found fire in two places. Seizing a bed upon which the inmates had been sleeping, they folded it up and stamped upon it, not having noticed the in- fant that was still lying in it, and upon which they were stamping in order to extinguish the fire. When the infant was afterwards discovered, it was found to be seriously burned. It was conveyed to the Infir- mary, and subsequently the mother and four of the children were taken to the workhouse. SHOCKING MURDER IN SCOTLAND.—A murder of a horrid nature has been perpetrated at Kilsyth. The suspected murderer is James Cook, an Irishman, and the victim, Helen Vanilll11 or Cook, his wife, were "on the spree" during the day, and towards evening a quarrel ensued about some articles which he accused her of pawning and of which she refused to give an account. About ten o'clock, a boy who was in the house had to leave in consequence of their noisy be- haviour, and went into tho house of a neighbour for the night. Between that time and early next morn- ing, when some neighbours went in, they found her dead, and the body fearfully mangled, covered with blood and bruises. The alarm was soon given that Cook had killed his wife, which attracted many to the spot. Word was sent to the police office, and Sergeant Murray proceeded immediately and apprehended the prisoner, who was kept in the police cell till twelve at noon, when he was removed-to Stirling gaol in a close machine, escorted by Sergeant Murray and Con- stable M'Bean. The body of the deceased was ex- aminel on Wednesday by Drs. Frnser and M'Kenzie and was found to be terribly mutilated, with the ribs 'so much crushed that some of them had penetrated the heart. The weapons uoe'l were a large piece of wood resembling a paling stob and a pair of tongs both of which are in custody of the police. The un- happy man, on being questioned regarding the com- mission of the deed, acknowledged to having had a quarrel, and that when he awoke she was lying dead beside him. Deceased was a person of loose habits, anri had been before the sheriff in Stirling on Monday and fined for assault.—Falkirk Herald. ATTEMPTED MURDER. — On Friday morning', about two o'clock, a most desperate attempt was made to murder Police-constable Thomas Tilbury, of the Ports- mouth boroughforce, by an American seaman, named John Cross, belonging to theFleetwing, lying offCowes. It appears that the police-constable found Cross lyino- in a passage in Wingfield-street, Landport, and re quested him to go away. The man muttered an oath, but got up and walked in the direction of his lodgings, the officer, whose beat was the same way, being a few yards behind him. On arriving opposite his lodgings, Tilbury saw the fellow deliberately put his hand °in his trowsers pocket and open a large clasp knife, where- upon he remarked, "You have a knife there, and had better-put it up." 'The man replied, "Yes, I have a knife, and you--I'll show you I know how to use it." He immediately made a stab at the officer, the knife entering his left side. The rascal was about to renew the attack, when the policeman (who had previously drawn his staff) perceiving his intention, gave him a blow over the head with such force as to break the staff into pieces. Assistance having arrived,the wound- ed policeman was conveyed to the Royal Portsmouth, Portsea, and Gosport Hospital, when it was found' that the injuries the poor fellow had received were of a most serious character, and for some time his life was despaired of. His under clothing was completely saturated with blood, of which he lost upwards of two quarts. Cross was subsequently apprehended at his lodgings ;^he was lying on the bed with his clothes on, and on being told the charge he coolly said, "I suppose you want this," producing a knife marked'with blood. On being locked up, he stated that drink had caused him to commit the act; but his stated by the police that he was perfectly cool and collected when he was apprehended, and he was remarkably cool and must have known full well what he was doing. He was taken before the magistrates on Friday morning, but in the absence of the wounded man he was re- mantle4- He is about 80 years of no.
EDUCATION IN SCOTLAND. ;
EDUCATION IN SCOTLAND. The Royal Commissioners appointed to inquire into the schools in Scotland report to Her Majesty that they find in that country a national institution consisting of the parochial, side, andParliamentary schools established by law, maintained by local assessment, and designed to be commensurate with the educational wants of the country, but, in fact, falling immeasurably short of the object for which it was designed. They find also a sup- plementary system, forced into existence partly by de- nominational rivalry, but mainly by the deficiencies of the national system, which furnishes more than two- thirds of the education of the rural districts, and on which that of the towns mainly depends. Both the national and the voluntary schools are to a certain ex- tent aided by grants from the Committee of Council. Assuming that one-sixth of the population ought to be on the school rolls, the 418,367 children on the roll of some school in Scotland are 92,000 fewer than the proper number. But of far more importance is the information obtained as to the quality of the teaching, the state of the buildings, and the appliances of the ex- isting schools. In all these respects the schools are iu a large measure defective. For details the Com- missioners refer to the reports of the Assistant-Com- missioners, and proceed to consider the best means for supplying the actual defects. The conclusion at which thev arrive is that by a judicious improvement of the parochial or national schools, and by taking advantage of the existing schools outside that system, combined with a reasonable modification of the rules on which the Privy Council grants are administered, and the ex- tension of Government inspection, the existing schools may be rendered thoroughly efficient; and provision may be made under which these schools may all, in time, assume a national character. It will even then, however, be necessary, especially in large towns, to pro- vide for the institution of new schools. In regard to the parochial or national schools, the Commissioners are of opinion that schoolmasters ought to be selected without regard to their being members of the Estab- lished Church; that there should be facilities given for getting rid of inefficient schoolmasters now in office; and that provision should be made for repairing and ex- tending school buildings as may be necessary. The schools supported by voluntary efforts, it is proposed, should be adopted into the national system, and subjected to inspection and supervision in order to secure efficiency. For this purpose the Commissioners are of opinion that central authority is indispensable and they recommend the appointment of a Board of Education, consisting of a paid chairman and secretary, appointed by the Crown, three permanent members to be named in the Act of Parliament, the chief magistrates of Edinburgh. Glas- gow, Dundee, and Aberdeen, and seven representative members to be chosen by the Universities and the Com- missioners of Supply of Inverness, Perth, and Ayr. The duties of the Board will be to incorporate into the national system as many of the existing schools as may be deemed requisite and efficient; to see that every dis- trict is supplied with an adequate number of schools that the schools 'are efficiently maintained, and that the teacher does his duty. The Committee of Council will continue to administer the Parliamentary grant and to conduct the business of inspection; but the inspector should not examine in religious know- ledge unless requested to do so by a majority of the managers. Every national school would be open to scholars of all denominations, with liberty for any scholar to be withdrawn from any instruction to which his parents may, on religious grounds, object. None except national schools, it is proposed, shallshlirc in the Parliamentary grant; all national schools to be subject to the Revised Code, omitting as inapplicable to Scotland Article IV., which limits the Parliamentary grant to the classes which support themselves by manual labour. The parish schools of Scotland have always been frequented by persons of every order, and the system has been a national system, supported by the taxation of the proprietors in the parish and there has been sufficient tolerance to prevent any material difficulty arising from the" eonscicncc" clement. Under the scheme now proposed by the Commissioners the paro- chial and adopted schools would continue to be managed as at present, but under the control of the Board. The managers, therefore, of an adopted school will continue to elect the master and superintend the instruction, but the Board will have power to see that the master is efficient and the buildings kept in repair. These schools I will not be entitled to share in any local rate, the managers and subscribers paying this price for retaining the superintendence in their own hands. But as the denominational system is unnecessary in Scotland, it is proposed that no new denominational school be erected by the aid of the Treasury, and that the privilege of adoption into the national system be confined to de- nominational schools in existence within two years after the passing of an Act for carrying this report into effect. When the Board propose to establish a new school, a school committee is to be elected by the town council or (in a rural parish) the ratepayers two- thirds of the school committee may reject the proposal, but after twelve months the Board may, of its own power, direct the school to be established. For the erection and support of such new schools there is to be an assessment on the ratepayers, proprietors, and occn- piers, and any parochial or adopted school may be brought under this class cf school by vote of two-thirds at two successive meetings of heritors. With the ex- ception of parochial teaqhers now in office, the Board will require all teachers in schools connected with them to hold certificates of competency from the Committee of Council or from Scotch University examiners. The Board will have power, for good cause, to suspend or withdraw a certificate of competency. In the opinion of the Commissioners, the required number of efficient schools and efficient teachers in Scotland may be sup- plied by a maximum rate of 2d. in the pound on the annual valuation in the rural districts and in most of the towns, and by a maximum rate of 2Jd. in the Hebrides, in Glasgow, and in a few of the largest towns in the country. The Commissioners consider it desirable that the Factory Acts be extended to branches of industry not at present under them, and that means be adopted for securing the more effectual observance of them. The present report is confined to elementary schools, making no recommendations specially adapted to infant schools, evening schools, or female schools. Burgh schools and middle-class schools are still under consideration; and the final report will deal with normal, industrial, and reformatory schools. Three of the Commissioners—Lord Belhavcn, Lord Polworth, and Mr. A. S. Cook —though they sign the report, object to some of the proposals made Lord Belhaven objects decidedly to the constitution of the proposed Board." A parliamentary return has just been published which gives some interesting information respecting the grants which have been made to Church of England schools. It appears that between the 1st of January, 1861. and the 31st of March, 1867, the number of ap- plications for grants to build National or Church of England schools in which no conscience clause has been insisted on is 829. In 68 cases the refusal of a grant has been met by the agreement of the promoters to insert the conscience clause in the deed. In 38 of these cases annual grants have been applied for, and have been received or promised. In 37 cases the refusal of a grant has been maintained because the insertion of the conscience clause in the deed has not been accepted by the promoters. Twelve of these, however, have re- ceived annual grants. Out of 954 schools, which during the time specified have applied for grants, 651 national schools and 69 others have applied for annual grants, and have received or been promised them. The Old Carthusians' Prize," for the winner of the greatest number, of honouis in the athletic sports, has been awarded this year to Clarke and Vcnables. The prize consists of a silver cup (value £ 21) and also a silver medal.
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THE MURDER OF THE BOAT'S CREW OF THE ASSAM VAIXEY.—The naval authorities of Rangoon have received intelligence of the reported murder of the captain and seven of the crew of the British ship Assam Valley, 1,102 tons register, belonging to Liver- pool, by the natives of the island of North Andaman, and have dispatched a steamer to the locality in order to rescue any of the men, should they be alive and in captivity. The particulars, as far as can be learnt, are as follows :—The ship Assam Valley called at the Ran- goon Light Ship for orders. She was despatched by her agents, Messrs. Bullock Brothers, to Akyab, to take a cargo. On the 5th of April a telegram was received by Bullock Brothers from Akyab containing the few items of the voyage. After leaving the Rangoon Light Ship, the Assam Valley proceeded to the southward, and whether from light winds, currents, or other causes, sighted the Andaman Island. It is supposed that when off the North Andaman the captain defermined to anchor. He afterwards proceeded ashore in the s'hip s boat, with a crew of seven hands, for the purpose of cutting a spar. Not long after {landing they were observed from the ship to be surrounded by a body of natives, apparently armed, suid a great noise ensued, which continued a great part of the night; a great commotion was visible among the natives, who were assembled round a huge fire. Neither the boat nor crew were ever seen after- wards, and it is confidently asserted by the remainder of the crew that they distinctly saw some of the missing men thrown upon the fire, and they have every reason to believe that the natives into whose hands the unfor- tunate seamen fell were cannibals. The Assam Valley remained off the island for three days, cruising close in shore, but without discovering any tidings of the missing nen. These particulars having been communicated to the Government the commissioners telegraphed to Ran .;oon, from where the steamer Arracan was sent, with he object of visiting the island where this tragedy is cported to have been committed, if possible to render assistance to the survivors of the crew, should any be alive.
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ATHENE A. DECISION.—Few things are more necessary to one- cess in our life than decision of character. With it a man can rarely fail-without it he can very rarely succeed. No EXCESS IN CHARITY.—The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of know. ledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess, neither can angel or man come in danger by it. COMPANIONSHIP OF CHILDREN.—The man who has never tried the companionship of a little child, has carelessly passed one of the greatest pleasures of life, as one passes a rare flower without plucking it or knowing its value. Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be of age, then to be a man of busi- ness, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at hon. ours. then to retire. MISERY OF MONEY HUNTING.—I know no more un- comfortable walking than that which falls to the lot of men who go into the City to look for money, and who find none. Of all the lost steps trodden by men, surely the steps lost after that fashion are the most melancholy. It is not only that they are so vain, but that they are accompanied by so killing a sense of shame! To wait about in dingy rooms, which look on to bare walls, and are approached through Hook- court; or to keep appjintments at a low coflËn-house to which trystings the money-lender will not trouble himself to come unless it pleases him, to be civil, almost supplicant, to a cunning knave whom the bor- rower loathes; to be refused thrice, and then cheated with his eyes open on the fourth attempt; to submit himself to vulgarity of the foulest kind, and to have to seem to like it; to be badgered, reviled, and at last accused of want of honesty by the most fraurlulent of mankind and at the same time to be clearly con. scious of the ruin that is coming, this is the fate to him who goes into the City to find money, not know. ing where it is to be found !The Last Chronicle of Barset. NATIVE INDIAN DRESSES.—It may not be uninter. esting to give a slight sketch of the nature of the gar. ments-male and female-that have been for ages, now are, and probably will be for ages to come, used as the costume of the native population. The simplest and the commonest article is the dhotee, or waist. cloth. It is almost universally a white cotton scarf wound round the loins, and then brought up between the legs. In some cases the dhotee is so small as barely to fulfil the purposes of decency. It is scarce- ly necessary to say that this scanty costume is worn only by the working-classes and the poorest people. Nevertheless, such is the population of India, that even to supply these insignificant garments the looms of Lancashire would have to be doubled. The longee is a scarf worn over the shoulder and upper part of the body. This article of dress is made of silk as well as cotton, and it is ornamented in both materials with gold. The dhotee, on the contrary, is invariably made of the softest cotton, and as it requires to be constantly washed, it is rarely ornamented. This, with the turban, comprises the sum of the dress of the working population. The saree of the women is still more comprehensive, as it serves for body gar- ment and head-dress at the same time. The native women array themselves very gracefully in the saree. Its ample folds can be turned to the purposes of coquetry with great skill, and the agile fingers of a dark beauty can arrange the dress with such quick- ness and art, that we are told by a gentleman who had been in India, they often change the garment in public places after bathing without the slightest im- propriety-slipping off the wet saree and replacing it with a dry one without exposing the skin in the slightest clegree.-Orice a Week. A JUDGE'S GHOST STORY.—A mirth-loving Judge, Justice Powell, could be as thoroughly, humourous in private life as he was fearless and just upon the bench. Swift describes him as a surpassingly merry old gentleman, laughing heartily at all comic things, and at his own droll stories more than aught else. In court he could not always refrain from jocularity. For instance, when he tried Jane Wenham for witch- craft, and she assure 1 him that she could fly, his eye twinldcd as he answered, "Well, then, you may, there is no law against flying." When Fowler, Bishop of Gloucester-a thorough believer in what is now-a-days called spiritualism—was persecuting his acquaint- ance with silly stories about ghosts, Powell gave him a. telling proof for his credulity by describing a horrible apparition which was represented as having disturbed the narrator's rest on the previous night. At the hour of midnight, as the clocks were striking 12, the judge was roused from his first slnmber by a hideous sound. Starting up he saw at the foot of his bed a figure—dark, gloomy, terrible, holding before its grim and repulsive visage a lamp that shed an un. certain light. "May Heaven have mercy upon us 1* tremulously ejaculated the bishop at this part of the story. The judge continued his story: "Be calm my lord bishop; be calm. The awful part of this myster- ious interview has still to be told. Nerving myself to fashion the words of inquiry, I addressed the noctur- nal visiter thus—' Strange being, why hast thou come at this still hour to perturb a sinful mortal!' You understand, my lord, I said this in hollow tones-in what I may almost term a sepulchral voice." "Ay, ay," said the Bishop, "I implore you. to go on. What did it answer "It answered in a voice not greatly different from the voice of a human creature—' Please sir, I am the watchman on beat, and your street door is open.—Book about Lawyers. THE ISHOGOS.—The Ishogos are a peaceful tribe, and more industrious than tribes who live near the sea-shore. Very few of them bear scars or signs of hostile encounters. Offensive weapons are not com- mon at least they are not carried about on ordinary occasions, I saw but very few spears and bows and arrows carried in that way, but swords are more gene- ral, and they carry these along with them in their friendly visits from one village to another. In theae respects they differ much from their neighbours the Aponos, who are very warlike. Their villages are surrounded with palm trees, and they are not sparing of the favourite intoxicating beverage obtained from them; but they do not become like the Aponos, bois- terous and quarrelsome over their cups. They are altogether milder in character. On the other hand, it must be said to their discredit that they are far more given than the Aponos to sell their kindred into slavery. There can be no doubt about this, judging from the much larger proportion of Ishogos than Aponos met with in slavery amongst the coast- tribes. This might be due to the fact that all the Ishogos who are sold into slavery go down the Rembo Ngouyan, and reach the country between Cape Lopez and Fernand Vaz while most of the Aponos sold reach the coast by way of Mayomba. In'fact the goods the Aponos get, especially the salt, come from that direction, as far as I could judge by the direc- tion indicated to me by them. The borders of Ishogo- land, near the Apono country had been visited by The small-pox before my arrival, and indeed was not yet quite free from it. The Ishogos speak the same lan- guage as the Apingi, which, as I have already re- marked, is quite free from the Ashira idiom. The Ishogo people are noted throughout the neighbour- j ing tribes for the superior quality and fineness of the bongos, or pieces of grass-cloth, which they manufac- ture. They are industrious and skilful weavers. In walking down the main street of Mokenga a number ofoundjos, or houses without walls, are seen, each, containing four or five looms, with the weavers seat- ed before them weaving the cloth. In the middle of the floor of the oundja a wood fire is seen burning, and the weavers, as you pass by, are sure to be seea smoking their pipes and also chatting to one another whilst going on with their work. The weavers ara all men, and it is men also who stitch the bongos to. gether to make denguis or robes of them; the stitches are not very close together, nor is the thread very fine, but the work is very neat and regular, and the needles ^"e of their own manufacture. The bongos are very of*n striped, and sometimes even made in check patterns; this is done by their dyeing some of the threads of the Warf, or of both warp and woof, with various simple colours; the dyes are all made of decoctions of different kinds of wood, except for black, when a kind of iron ore is used. The bongos are em- ployed as money in this part of Africa. Although called grass cloth by me, the material is not made of grass, but of the delicate and firm cuticle of palm leaf- lets stripped offin a dexterous manner with the fingers. Mokenga is a beautiful village, containing about 160 houses they were the largest dwellings I had yet seen on the journey. The village was surrounded by a dense grove of plantain-trees, many of which were supported by poles, on account of the weight of the enormous bunches of plantains they bore. Little groves of lime-trees were scattered everywhere, and the limes, like so much golden fruit, looked beauti- ful amidst the dark foliage that surrounded them. Tall, iowAring palm-trees were scattered here and there. Above and behind the village was the dark green forest. The street was one of the broadest I eve-g. saw in Africa one part of it was about 100 yards broad, and not a blade of grass could be seen in it; The Sycobii were building their nests everywhere, and made a deafening noise, for there were thousands and thousands of these little sociable birds,—A Jowc% tiey to Ashango Land,
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V- In Texas General Griffin has admitted the blacks to the jury box. The navigation is now open to Cronstadt. three Hull steamers having arrived there.