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=- EPITOME OF NEWS. « MR. PIERCE BUTLER. The New York Herald announces the death of this gentleman, who, it will be remembered, was formerly the husband of Miss Fanny Kemble, who obtained a divorce. In his poli- tical sentiments the deceased was intensely pro-Southern. He is described as a man of large erudition, and an agree- o able and fluent conversationalist. THE SENTENCE OF DEATH passed upon Mrs. Emma Usher, widow, at the last Maidstone Assizes, for the murder, by drowning, of her infant child at Ashford, has been commuted to penal servitude for life. The order was received on Saturday by Major Bannister, governor of the gaol. PROFESSOR WHITNER reports fifteen localities in California where diamonds have been found in the course of washings for gold, but in this view it would not pay to wash the gravel beds of those places solely for the precious stones, for diamond washings are not profitable in any country except with slave or convict labour." LAUNCH OF THE CAMBRIA.—On Thursday there was launched from the shipbuilding-yard of Messrs. Bowdler and Chaffer, at Seacombe, near Liverpool, a splendid iron ship of 700 tons register, for the West Coast trade. She is named the Cambria, and is con- structed on the most improved principles both as regards carrying capacity and speed. THE LUTON MURDER.—On Friday afternoon Mr. Piper, the deputy-coroner for Bedfordshire, resumed the investigation respecting the murder of William Bradbury. A quantity of evidence was given, some of it showing that the prisoners since their apprehension had criminated themselves. The jury, after deliberating for 10 minutes, returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against William Worsley and Levi Welch. THE DEER OF THE REGIMENT.— A deer, which has long been a pet in the 63rd Regiment, died in Dublin a few days since from injuries it had re- ceived during the transit of that corps from Glasgow. The animal, which was known by the name of Suffolk, belonged to the sergeants of the 63rd Regiment, who brought it with them from Canada on their return to this "country, and it has been one of the regiment ever since. BOAT ACCIDENT.-An inquest has just been held at the Rose and Crown Tavern, Blackfriars-road, on George Honer Watts, aged 20, and Henry White, 21, compositors, who were drowned while sailing in a small boat near Hungerford-bridge, on Saturday, the 24th ult. The boat was swamped by the swell from a steamer, and both young men jumped into the water. There were two others in the boat, who also jumped out, but saved themselves. Verdict-" Accidentally drowned." TYPHOID FEVEP.The inhabitants of Chiid's- hill, Hampstead, have held a meeting relating to a statement made by an eminent medicaj. gentleman on the prevalence of typhoid fever in their district. At that meeting they passed a resolution denying the accu- racy of the statement, and produced a copy of the registrar's certificate of the number of deaths and their causes for the year 1867 in support of their case. This return showed that there had been three fatal cases of typhoid fever. The meeting did not consider that this justified the opinion entertained that the fever had obtained a strong hold in the district. VOLUNTEER REVIEW AT LIVERPOOL.—His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has consented to take command at a review of Volunteers to be held in Sefton-park, Liverpool, on the 5th of October. The park, which is in course of formation, is over 400 acres in extent, is two miles from Liverpool, and is approached by several lines of railway which run close to the ground. It is anticipated that 20,000 or 30,000 Volun- teers will be present from Lancashire and other counties. The park is composed of hill and dale, and commands a view of the Mersey. A CHURCH DESTROYED BY LIGHTNING.—The church at Saint-Pd-Saint-Simon, France, has been de- vastated by lightning. The electric fluid struck the dock tower, and, although leaving the bell hanging, rent the foundation descending into the church, it tore up the flooring, destroyed the windows and several paintings, flattened a tin vessel on the high altar, and drove in the door of the tabernacle thence it went to a side altar and mutilated a figure of the Virgin. The edifice has been so much injured as to be no longer fit for Divine worship. FACTORY HANDS ON OTRIKE.—At the City Police-court, Carlisle, on Saturday, five girls, employed at Messrs. Thomlinson and Buck's cotton factory, at Mains, near that city, were charged with having their work without giving notice. It appeared that a newly- appointed overlooker had dismissed one of the hands for some reason or other, and the others thereupon struck work. The defendants, through their solicitor, pleaded guilty, expressed themselves sorry that they had acted so foolishly, and offered to return to their work. The bench fined each of them 20s., or a week's imprison- ment tn default. THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY.—The sensa- tional paragraphs and articles which have been published in most of the metropolitan journals as to the dangerous character of the atmosphere of the Underground Rail- way appear to have rendered some scientific examina- tion requisite. Mr. Myles Fenton, the manager, accord- ingly writes to say that the directors have appointed three medical gentlemen of high standing a commission for that purpose. In the meantime, Mr. Fenton states that at the present moment none of the men are on the sick list, and that the average rate of sickness amongst the servants employed on the Underground Railway is less than that on the Great Western. DISASTERS AT SEA.—A notice was posted at the Liverpool Underwriters' Rooms on Saturday, to the effect that the Travancore, arrived in the Clyde, had passed at sea, on the 10th of August, in lat. 44 N., long. 40 a vessel of about 600 tons, bottom upwards, and ap- parently broken up. Letters from Capetown, received in Liverpool on Saturday, reported the foundering at Cape Danger, on the South African coast, on the 28th of July, of the Liverpool ship Knight of Snowdon, 1,447 tons, Jones, master, on the homeward voyage from Ran- goon. The crew took the boat, and managed to reach the shore in safety. The underwriters' agent at Key West re- ports, by the American mail, the wreck on a coral reef near the American coast of the Jersey ship Oracle, bound with a cargo of mahogany from Chiltepec, Mexico, to Liverpool. The crew escaped in safety, and subse- qently saved 140 sticks of mahogany. A STURDY HIGHLANDER. At the Perth Highland games, on Saturday, Donald Dinnie, Aboyne, gained the champion medal for putting the stone (dis- tance thrown, 37 feet 4 inches-6 feet 4 inches farther than any other competitor), and the medal for throwing the hammer (161bs.). Dinnie threw the hammer 88 feet 7 inches-being 16 feet 3 inches further than any of the others. He was also first at tossing the caber, and at high leap was only one inch below the first prizeman, who leaped a height of 5 feet 5 inches. At the Glenisla Highland Gathering, Donald Dinnie was almost equally successful—putting the heavy stone of 281bs. a distance of 29 feet 3 inches-4 feet beyond any other, and throwing the 161b. hammer 96 feet 3 inches. He was also first at tossing the caber, high leap, and long leap. AN EXCURSION STEAMBOAT AsnopE.-On Saturday afternoon the steamtug Vigilant, Captain Reed, of Sunderland, left Hartlepool, with the West Hartle- pool operatic brass band aboard and a company of pas- sengers, for a trip to Sunderland. On returning in the evening a dense fog arose, and the voyage was attended with danger, as the coast could not be distinguished. On nearing Hartlepool the lights of the rolling mills are said to have misled the captain, and thinking they were those of the lighthouses, steered his vessel direct ashore, on the north sands, opposite to the old lime kilns. The steamer fortunately cleared a ridge of rocks which extends seawards from the shore, it Wag nearly half- past ten when the boat ran ashore, and the passengers were in great alarm. Messengers were dispatched to the town for the lifeboat and cobles to rescue the passengers The females were landed first, and it was nearly two o'clock before the rest of the passengers were placed on shore. BURSTING OF A CAISSON AT CHATHAM.- Shortly after two o'clock on Saturday morning, during an unusually high tide, the caisson at the entrance to No. 4 dock, in which the double screw steamer Beacon was fitting, suddenly gave way without any previous indications. The water rushed into the dock with the roar of thunder, carrying the Beacon to the brow of the dock and afterwards throwing her on her beam ends, and causing considerable damage to her. The occur- rence taking place in the night, there were no workmen in the dockyard, and messengers had to be despatched In various directions for assistance. The Beacon was ultimately secured and shored up. Her starboard screw ahaft and propeller were found to be broken off, and her port propeller also injured, while the vessel was filled. with water. Several hundred men were employed during the whole of Saturday in repairing the damage done. The cause of the bursting of the caisson is un known. VERY THOUGHTFUL.—It is stated that Mr. Walker, the watchmaker, of Cornhill, whose premises were recently ransacked by the Casely gang, has received a letter from the convict Casely, dated from his locus penitentiie in Fremantle, Western Australia, in which that worthy announces that he has completed the draught'for a model of a safe which he considers to be thoroughly thief-proof, and which, with touching candour, he begs to place at the disposal of Mr. Walker, as some compensation for the injury he had formerly suffered at his (Casely's) hands. AN ABUSIVE VISCOUNTESS.-The Viscountess Frankfort de Montmorency has been summoned at the Hastings Police-court for committing an assault on her servant, Eliza Bennett. It appeared that the complainant had been in the service of Lady Frankfort about three weeks only. On Wednesday, the 21st ult., her mistress called her many foul names, and afterwards ordered her to take the teakettle downstairs. Just as complainant began to descend the stairs, Lady Frankfort called out to her to take down a pillow which had been vomited upon by a dog. Before the girl had time to pick up the pillow the lady threw it at her, the vomit flying in her face. The magistrates considered the assault proved, and fined the Viscountess Frankfort de Montmorency 40s. and costs, or two months' imprisonment in default of payment. The fine was paid. IMPATIENT TO BE MARRIED.—An application was made the other day to Mr. Edwards, the chief clerk attached to the court of Vice-Chancellor Malins, on a summons for him to entertain certain proposals as to a marriage settlement of a young lady who was not 19 years of age. The chief clerk said it was not vacation business, and he must decline to. hear it. Surely the young lady would wait three months ? It was stated that the matter had been some time pending, and Lord Justice Cairns had given the young lady permission to marry on the settlement being agreed upon. The chief clerk adhered to his opinion that it was not vacation business. It was then asked that the matter might go before the Vice-Chancellor at his country seat on Thurs- day. The chief clerk said they might make any appli- cation they thought proper. All he could say was that it was not in his opinion vacation business, and he again observed that the lady, who was under 19 years of age, might wait three months, when the question could be properly heard. A COAL PIT ON FIRE.-A fire was discovered on Monday to have broken out in the underground work- ings of the Sheddens Coal Pit, situated between West- muir and Shettleston. It should be stated that there is an underground communication between the Sheddens Pit and the Caroline Pit, and a pit at Shettleston Church. Between the two first-named pits there is an air tube, which by some means was ignited, and con- tinued to burn the whole day, notwithstanding the efforts that were made to extinguish the fire.' Water was being put down one of the shafts, and pipes were being laid for the purpose of conveying an additional supply down to the fire. A large volume of smoke was emitted from the burning pit during the day. Relays of men went down, however, though they could only re- main a short time, in order to prevent the spread of the fire.-North British Mail. AERIAL NAVIGATION.—The practicability of controlling the movements of balloons has long been the subject of anxious thought and numerous experi- ments, but, notwithstanding the many ingenious contri- vances which have been attempted, the problem still remains unsolved. During recent wars we have seen balloons employed for reconnoitering purposes, and with great advantage, but, as in all those cases free move- ment at the mercy of the wind would have been hazardous, the aerial machine retained a hold upon solid earth by means of rope and grapnel. It is, however, now stated that the object long sought in vain has at last been attained by a French mechanician, M. Daniel Dulaux, of Bordeaux, who, after ten years of patient study, asserts that he has discovered a method of guiding a balloon by means of a very simple apparatus. As ballooning is now a part of military strategy as well as of popular amusement, it is to be hoped that some opportunity will be afforded of testing the merits of M. Dulaux's discovery. FENIAN GEOGRAPHY.—The itinerary pursued by the Fenian bark Plato, 500 tons register, Captain James MGroom, after she had made Tory Island, on the coast of Donegal, is, to say the least of it, unusual. Leaving Tory Island, she cruised about the coast of Donegal, and effected a landing at the head of Kinsale, which, as thecrowflies, is 250 miles due north of Donegal. Leaving Kinsale, to avoid an English frigate in the neighbourhood, the Plato made the coast of Wexford, and under cover of the night put 'into Bantry Bay, which, as the crow flies, is 100 miles west of the nearest point of Wexford. Standing out again to sea from Bantry Bay, in the extreme south-west of Ireland, the Plato hovered off the coast of Antrim, in the extreme north of the island, and ultimately put into Antrim Bay-a locality unknown to hydrographers. Shaping a north-east course from Antrim Bay, the Plato soon made Belfast Lough, which lies due south of Antrim but finding the people there unprepared for insurrection, she steered boldly due west slap through the very centre of Ireland, and came out at the Cove of Cork, whence she returned to the United States. The letters which contain these ludicrous blunders have been triumphantly cited as authentic by the whole of the Fenian press.— Pall-mall Gazette. FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT. —Mrs. Zambra, wife of Mr. Zambra, of the firm of Negretti and Zambra, scientific instrument makers, of London, was killed by being thrown out of a carriage on the road between Newport and Ventnor, Isle of Wight ) on Thursday evening. The accident took place at the village of Arreton, situated about midway between the two towns. The deceased, accompanied by her husband and some friends, had taken a drive to Newport, and on their return alighted at Arreton, where ey viewed the church. Mrs. Zambra re-entered the carriage, and was about being followed by one of her friends, when the horses suddenly started off without the driver, and the deceased was thrown out violently. She was found lying on the road, a short distance off, by a foot passenger, an Italian, life being almost extinct, and death soon put an end to her sufferings. The driver was severely injured in endeavouring to stop the vehicle. At the inquest, held on Friday afternoon, a verdict of accidental death was returned. A WOMAN KILLED ON THE RAILWAY.—ON Saturday evening a special train, conveying about 600 cotton operatives from Bradford to Clithero, due at Whalley at half-past nine, passed through the station at a very rapid speed. After the train had got clear of the station two men noticed on the line on the Blackburn side of the station something that appeared to them like a bundle of old clothes, but it proved to be part of the body of a woman. There were a number of people on the platform, and on a further search being made the rest of the body was found frightfully mangled. The deceased was with some difficulty identified as Ellen Clough, the daughter of a platelayer. She was about 21 years of age, and resided at Billington, not far from the long viaduct, and at the opposite end to the station. She left home about nine o'clock for the purpose of meeting a friend who was to arrive at Whalley by the ordinary train, due a short time after the special, and it is supposed she was walking along the line when she was knocked down and killed as described. SHOCKING ACCIDENT IN THE HARVEST FIELD. -On Saturday morning, at half-past ten o'clock, a shocking and extraordinary accident occurred on the farm of Havering-atte-Bower, near Runford." While 14 men, engaged in harvesting, were sitting or lying down in a circle or two lines in a field where they had been at work, near the hedge, and partaking of their lunch, the horses of a wagon, laden with sheaves of wheat, and which was standing close by and in a line with the men, took fright, either from being bitten by the flies or from some other cause, and dashed through the men; seven were run over. Charles Smith, an engine-driver, had both his thighs broken, one his thigh broken and otherwise much hurt while the other five had their legs broken, &c. As soon as the calamity became known, express was sent to Rivaford for surgical aid, and Mr. Mackintosh had the poor fellows removed to their respective homes in his carriage. APOTHECARIES'-HALL.—At the recent meeting of the Court of Examiners, the following gentlemen, having passed the necessary examinations, were admitted licentiates of the Society of Apothecaries, viz. :-Messrs. Charles John Sells, of Guildford, Surrey (Guy's Hos- Pital) Reginald Èacrer of Guildford, Surrey (Guy's Hospital); Burford Norman, of Guy's Hospital; Roger rma rortmgton Goodworth, 0f Hatfield, Doncaster (London ?n^Chr.istopher Jordison, of South Ockendon, wmfa^UMSii Sp !)- and at same Court, Messrs. Willxam Milligan and John Thomas Darby, both of University College Hospital, passed the first examina- J t *\C°mP- -6 e*atnination, held on the 14th lfstant, for the prizes in botany given annually by the Society of Apothecaries, the successful candklates were First, Henry Newell Martin, of University College, London, gold medal, second, William Ashley Cox of It' George's Hospital and the University of Edinburgh* ■liver medal and a book. B A POPULAR MINISTER.—The Itev. lnewman Hall, minister of Surrey Chapel (formerly Rowland Hill's), sailed on Saturday for America. He intends to make a long tour in Canada and the States. The rev. gentleman is a strong partisan on American politics, and in the Northern cities he will no doubt be heartily received. He has always shown much interest in Transatlantic affairs, and such a liking for the Great Republic, that it would not be surprising if he were to receive a call while there, as he has clearly done to go thither. His present appointment is worth about £ 1,000 a year. THE FATE OF DR. LIV INGSTONL E. -Letters received from on board her Majesty's ship Highflyer, now stationed near Zanzibar, state that the Sheik of Kielwa had informed the officers that Dr. Livingstone was still alive, although many of his followers had been killed in a fight with the natives. Since this time twelvemonth the Highflyer has been very successful in intercepting the dhows employed in the slave trade on the Mozambique and Zanzibar coast. It has captured in all sixteen of these vessels, containing 574 slaves. AT THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT on Tues- day, Alfred Neal, 18, and John Thoroughgood, alias Griffin, were indicted for stealing 7,1 yards of cloth, value XI 9s., the property of Roger Henry Abbott. The prosecutor is a draper, and the cloth in question was exposed at the shop-door for sale. The prisoners stole it and ran away with it. They were captured by a ser- geant of the City police. The jury found the prisoners Guilty. Several convictions having been proved against Thoroughgpod, the Judge said the prisoner was quite in- corrigible, and the sentence upon him was seven years' penal servitude. The other prisoner would be sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment, to be accompanied with hard labour. THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN BEDFORD- SHIRE.—William Worsley, 42, Levi Welsh, 40, and James Day, 22, were brought up at the Luton police- court, on Monday, charged with the wilful murder of William Bradbury, at Luton, on the 3rd August. Superintendent Samuel Pope was sworn, and said that he had now to charge the prisoners with stealing from the dying man one pair of trousers, two shirts, a hat and some money. A formal statement having been made, the prisoners were remanded. The court was crowded. The police have been very active in getting up evidence that will enable them to bring the mur- derers to justice. REGULATION DRESS. —The Sunday Gazette publishes some remarkable regulations as to dress which have been decreed by Lieutenant-General Sir Patrick Grant, Governor of Malta. Sir Patrick com- mands that, in a temperature which has lately reached to 90° in the shade, officers' shall not appear in public dressed otherwise than they would were they going to their club in Pall-mall." Should," it is added, his Excellency find that some officers persist in wearing fancy hats, or caps, or coats, made out of the same material and cut after the manner of those worn by cattle- drovers and stable boys, he will have no alternative but to enforce her Majesty's regulations on the subject of dress." COTSWOLD RAMS.—The sales of rams in the Cotswold district have just concluded. The average prices present no material difference as compared with those of last year. Mr. W. Lane, of Broadfield, North- leach, stands as usual at the head of the list, one of his rams fetching 120 guineas, and the average price of 54 animals being F,31 17s. The averages of other leading flockmasters were as follows :—Mr. R. Game, Aids- worth, X24 14s. 8d. Mr. W. Hewer, Northleach, £ 20 Is. lid. (the highest ram 67 guineas); Mr. C. Barton, Fifield, X14 17s. 6d. (highest 40 guineas) Mr. Fletcher, Shipton, X14 15s. 9d. (highest 51 guineas); Mr. C. Gillett, Cote, X14 8s. 6d.; Mr. J. Walker, Northleach, .£12 17s. lid. Mr. J. Gillett, Minster Lovell, 912 16s. 2d. Mr. J. Roberts, Caswell, X12 4s. 6d. Mr. E. Handy, Sierford, XII 15s. Mr. W. Cother, Middle Aston, zClO 10s. 4d.; Mr. R. Lord, Stanton Harcourt, X9 18s. 6d. THE TRAGEDY IN LIMEHOUSE.—On Thurs- day John Wiggins, aged 35 years, a lighterman, charged with the wilful murder of Agnes Oakes, and with cut- ting his own throat, on the morning of Wednesday, the 24th of July last, was again brought before Mr. Paget, at the Thames Police-court, on remand. Mr. Poland, for the prosecution, said the court would no doubt recol- lect that the solicitor to the Treasury appeared for the first time last week, and requested another remand for the purpose of making fuller inquiry into all the cir- cumstances of this remarkable case. Those inquiries had not been completed, and, in asking the magistrate for another remand, the prisoner would not be at all injured, for the next sessions would not be held in the Old Bailey until Monday, the 23rd of September. After a long discussion, and on Mr. Charles Young declaring his inability to attend any day next week, it was finally arranged that the prisoner should be re- manded till next Thursday, and then again remanded till Tuesday, the 10th of September, when the case would be finally disposed of. THE REPORTED ASSASSINATION OF LOPEZ.— The Washington correspondent of the Boston Journal writing on the 12th, says :-A letter gives the following details of the assassination of Lopez, the betrayer of Maximilian I arrived to-day, and learned the startling news of the assassination of the traitor Lopez. The particulars of the assassination are as follows Lopez was stopping at an hotel in Puebla, where his wife spurned him from her presence. Early one morning a Mexican arrived, and familiarised with an ostler in a livery stable adjoining the hotel. General Miguel Lopez was inquired for, but not being in, the stranger I was told that the general would be at dinner. Before the dinner hour Lopez returned, and was pointed out to the stranger, who made special note of his man. When dinner was called, Lopez and his assassin occupied opposite seats at the table. After some minutes, during which time the stranger called for and drank a glass of wine, he deliberately rose, drew a concealed knife, and sprang upon Lopez, stabbing him nine times. The stranger then took his hat, and as lie started to leave, said, This is the way all traitors should be paid.' No one interfered, or prevented the assassin from leaving. Thus was the blood of Maximilian, A, iranioi), Mejia, yes, and thousands of others avenged The report is re- regarded here as authentic."

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