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HEAVY COMPENSATION. The case of Ginders v. the London and North Western Railway" came before Mr. Justice Hannen in the Nisi Prius Court, Liverpool, for the assessment of damages, the company having admitted their liability. The plaintiff, a young man 30 years of age, was in an excur- sion train from Birkenhead to London, on the 2nd of September last, when at Crewe it came into collision with a goods train. The plaintiff was thrown violently forward and then backward in the carriage, and received severe contusion of the head. Having been prescribed for by a surgeon at Crewe, at the request of the defendants he was sent back in a first-class carriage to Birkenhead. Here no preparation was made to receive and convey him home, but on the contrary the ticket collector demanded the first-class fare from Crswe (which plaintiff paid), and he had to get home as well as he ceuld. He was attended by his own doctor, who was a homoeopath, the company's surgeons (who were allopathic) holding aloof from the case except in the way of calling to ascertain his progress. His condition after some time improved, but he afterwards suffered a relapse, and his symptoms were now as bad as ever. One of these was excessive vomiting when an attempt was made to lead him into conversation and in consideration of this tendency he was not called as a witness. Plaintiff was a draper and silk mercer at Birkenhead. After the case for the plaintiff had closed, a verdict by consent was taken for £ 2,500. V v. >; L

DESPERATE ENCOUNTER WITH HIGH- WAYMEN. At the Shire Hall, Nottingham, three men, named William Maclear, William Beattie, and Denis Knight, were charged with assaulting and robbing John Gregory, at Hucknall Torkard, near Nottingham. Prosecutor stated that shortly after ten o'clock on Sunday evening he and two friends set out to walk from the village of Bulwell to Hucknall. When they had gone some distance he lost his friends, owing to the darkness of the night, and after he had walked about half a mile farther he passed the prisoners, who were going the same way as himself. They then went on for about 300 yards, when Maclear stepped up to him and commanded him to stand and deliver," to which prosecutor replied, "he should deliver to no man." Upon this Maclear struck him a violent blow on the right side of the head and Beattie commenced to kick and strike him with great force. Owing to the kicks and blows he received prosecutor fell into the hedge bottom, and all three pri- soners then attacked him. Maclear drew a knife and said, "Let's cut the -'s throat;" Knight then held hisjarms, whilst Maclear thrust the knife into his mouth saying, Am I to cut your throat 1" Prosecutor resisted to the utmost in his power, but Maclear "jobbed" his mouth several times with the knife, and inflicted serious injuries, while Beattie attempted to rob him. The struggle continued fiercely for some time, but ultimately prosecutor succeeded in making a cry of Murder," upon which his cowardly assailants made off. He afterwards met his two friends and gave information to the police, and the prisoners were apprehended during the night. His coat, waistcoat, and trousers were saturated with blood. The bench committed the prisoners for trial. Prosecutor had a considerable sum upon him, but he only lost half-a-crown.

OH I BASE INGRATITUDE I If we want an instance of gross ingratitude, we cannot find a stronger one than the conduct of some of the theatrical managers towards the proprietors of music halls. A regular league was formed at one time, for the purpose of persecuting with prosecutions the unfortunate owners of music halls for infringing the privilege of theatres. Now, mark what has happened since. Many of these theatres have made their most successful hits with burlesques, the whole merit of which consists in the fidelity with which the dancing and comic songs of the music halls are copied. Really, we think the music hall proprietors ought to revenge themselves on the managers. They have indeed much to complain of. At a great personal loss in many cases, they have acted as pioneers to the theatres they have gauged the depth of degradation and vulgarity to which the taste of the British public has sunk. When they had ascertained this, the managers of theatres instantly availed themselves of the experience thus gained, and produced all the vulgar sensations of the music halls, only with more complete and splendid appointments. And, cruellest cut of all, Dion Boucicault the great, the classical, the original—the pure Dion, who has reviled the music halls with his eloquent tongue, now puts on the stage, in his last original drama, the whole business of a music hall, with niggers and a comic song complete, so that the economical pleasure-seeker can have his theatre and music hall complete in one, for he can do the smoking and drinking at the nearest public-house during the intervals between the acts the only thing wanting is the peculiarly refined society of a music hall, and doubtless they will be attracted to theatres when they see the superior advantages possessed by these places of intellectual recreation.—Tomahawk.

MAN'S ANTIQUITY IN AMERICA. At the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, recently held in the city of Chicago, Colonel Charles Whittlesey, in a paper on the Geological Evidences of Man's Antiquity in the United States," maintained that four American races preceded the red man first, the mound-builders second, a race in the territory now called Wisconsin; third, a warlike race in the region south of Lakes Ontario and Erie; and fourth, a religious people in Mexico. Pottery, arrow- heads, &c., have been found in conjunction with and beneath the mastodon and megatherium. A jaw and tooth were pronounced by Agassiz 10,000 years old. Mr. J. W. Foster, in a paper on the same subject, gave an account of the discovery in a deep gold drift of California of a skeleton covered by five deposits of lava. He exhibited an arrow-head found in the valley of San Joaquin 30 feet below the surface. The island of Petite Anse is a solid mass of salt at the mouth of the Mississippi, covered with 14 feet of earth; embedded in the salt has been found a piece of petrified matting by the side of a fossil elephant. Human remains have also been found during excavations at New Orleans at a depth of 16 feet. Mr. Forster exhibited a copper knife found in New Orleans, which he believed was a relic of the mound-builders. A water-jug surmounted by a human head and a statuette of a captive with his hands bound behind him, both from Peru, and evidently of extreme antiquity, attracted much attention. It may also be mentioned that the recent explorations of Mr. E. G.-Squiers, in Peru, and the curious photographs of ancient temples, dolmens, &c., which he has brought back, have renewed some old theories as to a connection in origin between the earliest inhabitants of America and those of the Oriental countries.

INTERNATIONAL AMENITIES. The House of Lerds has sent to the French Senate another collection of public documents, en suite to those previously forwarded. An exchange of these Parliamen- tary publications has been going on between the two libraries for 30 years past. The Senate now pessesses the Lords' Journals up to 1867; also Hansard's "Reports" to the present time, as well as the Statutes at Large from the period of Magna Charta to the 31st year of the reign of Queen Victoria. In the library of the Luxem- bourg are likewise to be found the journals of the House of Commons-110 volumes in folio-up to 1848, the whole collection of State Trials, and an enormous quan- tity of sessional papers. On the other hand, the House of Lords is able to consult at any moment the principal collections of the French legislative documents and the minutes of the French Assemblies since 1789— those of the Senate forming 100 volumes also, a selec- tion of the great historical publications of France, and many administrative papers deemed worthy of presen- tation.

BEAUTIFUL AND UNKNOWN. At an inquest held the other day, at the Chelsea Workhouse, the jury had to pass through the workhouse yards to the Dead-house," and were much shocked to find the female inmates caged up in large stalls wired round more closely than any prison yard, and the wretched inmates peering at them as they passed. Having reached the charnel house, the next sad sight was a young and beautiful girl with long golden locks, lying on a deal board supported by trestles, the delicate frame thinly covered with a coarse white cloth. A young fellow, named Abel, who obtains a livelihood by picking up bones, coals, and wood on the shores of the river Thames, said that while searching for flotsam he saw in the mouth of a sewer, running from Chelsea Hospital into the Thames, what he at first thought to be a prize of rags, but upon turning it up he found the deceased, and he dragged her out, and went and told the police. No marks of violence were found by the snrgeon, who, in answer to a question from one of the jury, stated that the body was not in an emaciated or pregnant condition. Verdict, Found drowned," name unknown. The clothes of the de. ceased can be seen at the workhouse, but it was stated that according to custom the body would go to an anatomical school for dissection. IIt.-

FINLliJN AGAIN. I Being of opinion that there is a conspiracy on foot to destroy him as a public man," Mr. James Finlen has put forth a pamphlet to vindicate his reputation from "the rich ruffians of the land," "the foul maflignity of literary bipeds," and the myrmidons of Mayne." Mr. Finlen, instead of vindicating the mode in which he discharges his obligations as a parent towards his three motherless children, wearies his readers with a tedious autobiography, recounting how he has been associated for years past with the Chartists and other pests of society, how he glories in being a Fenian, and how he is not ashamed to have been, until turned off, a paid actor in the obscenities of the Judge and JIvr Society. MADAME DE GALIFFET'S JEWELLERY BILL. A suit brought by the jeweller Harry Emmanuel against Colonel the Marquis de Galiffet, to obtain pay- ment for articles supplied, has been heard at the Civil Tribunal of the Seine. The tradesman appears to have had two accounts open with the Marquis: one amounting to 2,381f., the sum claimed in the present action for goods furnished to Madame de Galiffet: and the other for 50,000f. for articles net supplied to the defendant's wife, and which, as the plaintiff's advocate remarked, the jeweller had included in a second bill in conformity with the practice of his trade, which require great tact and much discretion on certain delicate points. The larger account had been settled, but the Marquis had refused payment of the 2,381f., the bill for which had been subsequently presented, believing that the items had been comprised in the sum of 50,000f. given for a discharge in full of the other claim. The articles were, however, shown to be not the same as those set down in the account paid, and a verdict was consequently given for the plaintiff, with costs.

NATIONAL PORTRAIT EXHIBITION IN PARIS. The first portrait is that of Marie Antoinette-a quiet, calm, somewhat proud face, such as she might have had in her retirement at Trianon before the Revolution broke out. Next come Robespierre in profile, with a cold, penetrating look; St. Just, a handsome, smiling, gaily-dressed youth of 20, painted shortly before his death by his friend David Couthon, Danton, and Camile Desmoulins, all looking calm and careless, as if the guillotine had no terrors for them. There is a por- trait of Andre Chenier, the classical poet, and of Rouget de Lisle, author of the "Marseillaise"—the latter pic- ture pierced in several places with bayonet thrusts. Mdme. Roland, with irregular but attractive features, and Herbert, editor of the infamous" Père Duchesne," come next. There are also portraits of Charlotte Cor- day, the Princess de Lamballe, Teroigne de Mericourt, the original "Goddess of Reason," who ended her days in a madhouse; Mdme. Tallien, dressed en] Amazone Tal- leyrand, and Louis Buonaparte, father of the present Emperor.—Pall-mall Gazette.

ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY. On Saturday night, a commercial traveller in the employment of Messer. Schwabe, jewellers, of London, went to the Victoria Station in a cab, having with him a considerable quantity of luggage, including three large tin boxes, each weighing upwards of a hundredweight, and containing watches and jewellery. The three boxes were paid fer as excess luggage, but no statement was made as to their contents, beyond the cabman desiring a porter named Greatorex to be careful with them, as they contained watches. The porter carried the three boxes to the luggage van attached to the train for Liverpool, which was announced to leave at 8.20, and saw them carefully deposited in the van. The traveller took his seat in one of the carriages. The train from Yorkshire, which joins the Liverpool train at Victoria Station, was from five to ten minutes behind its time, and, in conse- quence of this, the Liverpool train did not start until 8.43. On the arrival of the train at Liverpool, one of the boxes, containing, it is alleged, jewellery and watches worth X2,000 was found to be missing; and, as the guard who had charge of the train states that no luggage was removed from the van after the train started from the Victoria Station until it arrived at Liverpool, the supposition is that the property must have been removed while the van was waiting the arrival of the Yorkshire train at the Victoria Station.

A SENSATIONAL WEDDING. St. Louis has had a sensation in the marriage of Mr Michael M'Coole, an eminent pugilist, with Miss Mary Norton, daughter of a wealthy contractor. The parents of the girl consented to the match. It appears that the young woman first saw M'Coole from the windows of a convent, straightway falling in love with the gigantic boxer. The marriage ceremony was performed by a Catholic priest. The street before the house of the bride was filled with a mob a large crowd assembled before the house of the groom. The church was crowded with the unwashed of St. Louis, who followed the happy couple to the hotel to which they retired. The interested sans-culottes made the evening hideous with cries of "M'Coole, M'Coole;" but ultimately a few well-directed buckets of water induced them to retire. A gushing reporter informs the public that the bride wore an elegant set of pearls, purchased at Mon- sieur Jacquard's," for the fabulous sum of 500 dols. Her watch was" worth 800 dols. and we are con- fidentially told that her feet were encased "in white satin gaiter-boots," and that her dress sustained "a trail two feet long."

SHORTHAND WRITERS' FEES. Two actions were tried at the Lord Mayor's Court, before Mr. Serjeant Tindal Atkinson and a common jury, in which the plaintiffs, shorthand writers and reporters, sued public companies for transcripts of short- hand notes and fees for attendances. In the first case, Duckett v. the General Iron Screw Collier Company (Limited)," the plaintiff sought to recover J67 2s.— £ 5 for 100 folios, at Is. per folio, and Y,2 2s. for attend- ance. Mr. Anderson, for the plaintiff, called his client and other shorthand writers to show that it was not at all unusual for reporters who went to meet- ings of mercantile companies to charge large sums for taking notes of difficult or stormy meetings. One of the plaintiff's witnesses said he had been paid without any demur as much as 210 10s. for taking the notes at a meeting which only lasted one hour but in that case the notes were required in a great hurry. It was deposed generally that X2 2s. was the usual charge for attendance, and Is. per folio the recognised price for the transcript. On the part of the defendants Mr. Straight called evidence to shsw that ;Cl la. for at- tendance and 8d. per folio was universally charged, but no professional witnesses attended in support of this view of thejease. The jury, after hearing defendant's counsel in reply, stopped the case, and found a verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount claimed, the de- fendants having paid £ 3 16s. 8d. into court.—In the second case, "Scott v. The British and Continental Flax and Jute Works Company," the plaintiff sought to recover XS for 80 folios and attendance. Mr. Ander- son, for the plaintiff, a shorthand writer and reporter, called professional witnesses to show that as the meeting lasted an hour and a half, R5 for 80 folios was an ex- ceedingly reasonable charge. Mr. Kemp, for the defen- dants, called witnesses to show that no contract had been made and his lordship, in summing up, said it was "for the jury (not the same who tried the first case) to say whether the order to take the notes had been given with the sanction of the defendants, and whether the charge was a fair and reasonable one. The jury, after a short deliberation, found a verdict for the plain- tiff for the full amount claimed. The cases created con- siderable interest among the members of. the profession.

A FAITHFUL SERVANT. The Post-office authorities will doubtless see the expediency of testifying, in some substantial fashion, their sense of the faithfulness manifested by the olerk who was in charge of the mails on the occasion of the Abergele calamity. Shattered by the shock, the mail van was in such danger of being burned by the blazing petroleum that measures had to be taken for the security of the bags; and, though seriously injured, the clerk stuck manfully to his pest. Some five hours after the accident, a gentleman who had come to inspect the carriages found him stretched at full length on the mails, unable to move, and determined not to be taken away from his post. Urged to seek the shelter of the hotel, where he might be attended by the doctor, he refused, and did not leave his charge until the mails had been placed under the care of a responsible person. Of course, the clerk did no more than his duty, but, unfortunately, very few people do their duty in such a fashion and that fact cannot fail to be recognised by the clerk's superiors.—Daily Telegraph.

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"SAINT CHASSEPOT." Thirty officers were selected at the Lyons Camp to give their opinion on the result of the Chassepot gun. A target was erected at the distance of 1,000 metres 28 balls out of 30 hit at this distance. After these ex- periments as to the distance attainable, and the steadi- ness of the aim to be acquired, the exact size of the flesh wound which could be inflicted was next ascertained. A wretched horse was put up as a target, and fired at, and it was remarked, as in the case of the dead bodies erected at Strasbourg against a wall for the same pur- pose as the wounded horse, that the Chassepot ball in- flicts a small round wound on entering the body, but on the opposite side it tears away the flesh to the size of a man's h&t.

MADAME RACHEL AND HER WARES. There is nothing new in the business of making and vending cosmetics. Mrs. Turner, in King James's time, did a profitable business in the very same line. The Vicar of Wakefield had occasion to interfere with his wife and daughters when engaged in cencocting some mess of a face-wash. The curious in such matters might trace an unbroken succession of the vendors and concoctors of perennial beauty from the days of Poppaja to the time of the Empress Eugenie. Nor is it likely, nor would it perhaps be desirable, to attempt to prohibit the trade carried on by the Arabian Perfumer to the Queen, especially as the law or public policy is unable to put a stop to far more nefarious traders in a worse quackery than this. And, to do Levison justice, she is open enough in her dealings. Everybody may procure a tariff and a price-current of the curious Bond-street wares. The price is announced, as they say, in plain figures—the wholesale price and the retail price. Each separate box, pot, or packet of trash is to be had at the price of one sovereign each, or X9 the dozen except the choicer salves and powders, which are just double the price. If there are people who can be made to believe in the virtues of the water which distils sparingly in the form of dew from a magnetic rock in the interior of the Sahara, which is brought to Morocco on swift dromedaries, and the sole right of importing which, at an enormous outlay, has been purchased by Madame Rachel," why-caveant emptores-it is a matter for them or their husbands, parents, or guardians. Or, again, if women can be found base and idiotic enough to purchase "the Royal Arabian Toilet of Beauty, as arranged by Madame Rachel for the Sultana of Turkey, from 100 to 1,000 guineas," "Arabian Fumigated Oils for Bridal Chamber Lamps," "Jordan water, at 20 guineas per bottle," Souvenirs de Manage, at 100 guineas," and" Bridal Toilet Cabinets, arrandeg at 200 guineas," and "RoyalBridal Bath Soap, at £18 per dozen cakes "—the goods are bought and sold in open market. We do not even go to the extent of saying that all this sort of thing does the pur- chasers much harm except in pocket. Paint and enamel do not enter largely into the Levison catalogue and its eight pages of nastiness. We can quite believe that five pounds expended in barley-meal, lard, and a shilling's worth of colouring matter, together with a plen- tiful use of the parish pump, comprise the materials of the woman's stock-in-trade. There is something—there is very much—in the plea that if women, old or young, want to be beautified, "repaired," and "finished," they must pay the price demanded by the painter, varnisher, and decorator, or leave it alone. Venus was always a mercenary dame, and Corinth was proverbial for high figures in venal charms.-Saturday Review.

THE BREAD BAKING COMPANY. On Saturday the Secretary of the Bread Baking Com- pany (Limited) appeared at Bow-street on behalf of the directors to answer three charges of infringing the Com- panies' Act, 25th and 26th Vict. One of these consisted in the company having neglected to have its name painted up or affixed to its place of business or office. Another summons was for using a seal on which the name of the company was not engraved, that bearing the name of an antecedent company being used. The third summons was for the omission from the articles of association a certain special resolution which altered them. The defendants were convicted on the first summons, and fined 10s. a day, or X6 10s. for seven days' omission of the name at the outside of the offices and -61 on the third summons., With respect to the seal, the magistrate held that that was an individual act, and proceedings must be taken against the particular person who had used the seal.

EXCITING CAPTURE OF WHALES OFF REDCAR. A few days ago the beach at this well-known York- shire watering-place was the scene of unwonted excite- ment, the cause being the appearance of a shoal of whales a short distance from the shore. Two cobles went off in pursuit, and succeeded in capturing two fine bottle- nosed whales. One measuring 13 ft. 6 in. from snout to tail, and weighing about two tons, was easily caught and landed after a shot had been fired into its head; the other 27 ft. 3 in. long, and supposed to weigh about six or seven tons, was not landed without considerable difficulty. Three cartridges and a handful of loose shot were fired into its head and shoulders, causing it to bleed profusely. After floun- dering about for a considerable time it seemed gradually to lose its strength, and lay on the surface to all appearance dead. The fishermen therefore rowed up to it, and one of them got on its back and made a deep incision in its shoulders with a knife. Ropes were fastened round its tail, and preparations made for towing it ashore, when the animal suddenly roused itself, and made frantic efforts to escape. It lashed the. sea with terrific force, dashing the spray in all directions to a great height. The sea for some distance was covered with blood-coloured foam, and the spray, together with large pieces of seaweed torn from the rocks, were flying on every side. After struggling for a quarter of an hour the huge monster was stranded on West Scar. It was got off at flood tide, but it was necessary to divide it into three portions before it could be landed again, owing to its immense weight.

STORMING A PENNY GAFF. William Collins, William Thomas Collins, Louisa Collins, Talley Louis, George Dennis, Mary Watson, Anna Watson, Robert King, and Isaac Abrahams, were brought before Mr. Paget, at the Thames Police-court, on Friday, charged with being inside a house or room called the Eastern Alhambra, in St. Ann's-place, Lime- house, opposite the parish church, without I-awful ex- cuse, the said house or room being used for stage plays or theatrical entertainments, not being a licensed theatre, and to which admission was obtained by payment, con- trary to the 2nd and 3rd Victoria, cap. 47, section 46. On Thursday night Mr. Worels, superintendent of the K division, made a rush on the notorious penny gaff, and cap- tured the proprietor, Collins the younger, and the whole corps dramatique. The admission was by payment of Id. each, and 2d. was paid by a police-constable, in plain clothes, for himself and his son. The audience, about 100 in number, was principally boys. The pieces advertised for performance were The grand, romantic drama of Herne the Hunter, and the amusing and screaming farce of The Policeman in Difflculties," the hero being dressed in a policeman s uniform, and depicted as the lover of a. cook and her cupboard. Complaints had been made against the place by the parochial authorities and many of the inhabitants. Abrahams was selling refreshments in the place. Louisa Collins watf in a box taking money. The Elder Collins said he had been 20 years performing in Lime- house, and was not aware he was doing anything wrong. He only played on the harp last night. The younger Collins said he had been stage manager for three months. He had the place as a weekly tenant, and paid the rent to a Mr. Flight. He pleaded ignorance of the law. Mr. Paget said the Act of Parlia- ment prohibited dramatic performances in an unlicensed place. The Eastern Alhambra, as it was termed, was a nuisance, and frequent complaints had been made of it. It contaminated the and led them on to crime. He called upon all the prisoners (except Collins the younger) to enter into their own recognisances in the sum of X20 to appear and receive judgment when called Upon. The younger Collins must find bail, himself in .9100, and two sureties of £ 50 each to keep the peace, and if he were found breaking the law again, and maintaining dramatic performances, his recognisances would be estreated, and then if the money were not paid he would have to remain in prison. he would have to remain in prison.

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FOIIEIGN TELEGRAMS. OUTRAGE ON A BRITISH CONSUL. THE THREATENED BOMBARDMENT OF PORT-AU. PRINCE BY A BRITISH MAN-OF-WAR. NEW YORK, August 18. According to intelligence from Hayti, Salnave had imprisoned the Prussian Consul, and also threatened the life of the British Consul, whereupon her Majesty's ship Favourite made preparations to bombard Port-au- Prince. August 19. News from Port-au-Prince of the 10th inst. indicates that the revolution is likely to succeed. Salnave was preparing for flight. His family had been captured by the Cacos rebels.

ITALY. FLORENCE, August 29. General Garibaldi has resigned his seat as deputy in the Italian Parliament. The Official Gazette publishes a Royal decree sanctioning the Tobacco Convention.

INDIA. CALCUTTA, August 1. The Government inspection of 24 pergunnahs shows that the crops over a large extent of country have been totally destroyed by floods. The Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal has urgently recommended the extension of the Eastern Bengal Railway to Darjeeling. Accounts from the indigo districts represent the prospects of the crop as better, although a moderate crop only ia expected. BOMBAY, August 4. It is stated that Sir Alexander Grant leaves India in October. The sittings in the Bombay Bank Commis- sion continue. Mr. Premchund Moyochund is to be examined to-morrow. It is stated that the Shah of Persia has resolved to occupy Mero. (?) Intelligence from Affghanistan to July 23, announces that Jellalabad is in a state of anarchy and insurrection. Azim Kham had fallen back upon Cabool. Ghuzni is being be- sieged by Yakoole Khan.

WOMAN THE SUPERIOR ANIMAL. Certain strong-minded women assembled in Chicago, Aug. 5, and after half an hour's deliberation decided that men have shown their inability to rule, and that the reins of government must be transferred to women. A woman's league was instituted; every member must take the subjoined oath We, the people, inhabitants of America, are prepared to rally around and support a new and divine Government of Church and State-a combined theocratic and democratic Government-men representing the State and women the Church- the Church controlling the State." Miss Buffon addressed the convention. She said Society shakes and trembles under the reconstructive hands of woman. The new Government had assumed such gigantic proportions as was unsuspected by tlie opposing powers. 'Have we a Government ?' was a question often asked by statesmen. She was happy to announce that the women had a Government, instituted and officered by women-a de facto Government, acknow- ledged by thousands of men and women-a combined Government of Church and State (applause). It was running all right, and drawing into it philosophers and scientific men. The great central idea was, who should rule this earth-man or woman. A new era had been reached, or such a question could not be found. The blood of women clamoured for the right to rule the earth and to so construct the State and Church as to prevent abominations from entering. Man had gone just as far as he dared, and was now waiting to take the oath of allegiance to the new Government, and become loyal subjects thereof, of which a woman is the head and the prime mover. They needed the protection of men, but if it was denied them they would go alone. Woman would never yield her position. Man might pout and rave and storm, but there she would stand immovable, with a ray of light enshrining her. The seed was with woman, and it would bruise the serpent's head. All things were possible with women. The same could not be said of men. The Bible says woman alone has pro- duced a human being-a perfect man, as in the case of Jesus of Naza.reth."

SHEEP STEALING. A young man named Winder was tried at the Middle- sex Sessions on Friday, and found guilty of stealing 39 sheep. The case exhibited singular impudence and in- genuity. A flock of 197 sheep were locked up in a field for the night by a salesman. In the darkness the lock of the gate was broken and 39 animals taken away by several men. They were traced some distance to a turnpike-road, when their tracks were lost. It transpired that they were taken to a stable hired by the prisoner under the pretext of keeping a horse in it. and were there slaughtered, and the carcases carried to Newgate- market for sale. The principal evidence was that of an accomplice, now a convict undergoing a sentence of penal servitude. A man named Bell had previously been convicted of the robbery, and sentenced to penal servitude, but circumstances transpired to prove his innocence, and to lead to the apprehension of the present prisoner. Bell had received a free pardon, and Winder, on conviotion, was sentenced to fourteen years' penal servitude- —====35——

A DANGEROUS ALLUSION. A curious theatrical incident has just come to light. A few weeks agu the director of the Theatre Lyrique, desiring to produce Wagner's opera of Rienzi, which, it appears, is very popular in Germany, sent a translation to the Public Censor, or, as we should say, to the Lord Chamberlain. The opera, as the reader may be aware, is taken up with the rivalry of the two illustrious families, Colonna and Orsini, and in one scene there is an enthusiastic chorus of Vive Orsini! This struck the intelligent censor as being dangerous, and likely to create a manifestation in favour of the man who at- tempted to assassinate the Emperor. The director of the Lyrique was therefore ordered to suppress the chorus, or replace it by another. One writer suggests that Vive Orsini! should be replaced by Vive Napoleon It is true, he adds, that history would suffer a little, but then the public peace would nm no risk.

CAN AN INFANT BE MADE BANKRUPT? Last week, in the Court of Bankruptcy, Commissioner Winslow pronounced judgment on an application in re Purser, on an application by a creditor to dismiss the bankrupt's petition on the ground that he was a minor. His Honour said Before the Act of 1861, a non-trader if unable to pay his debts could only be relieved under the Insolvent Debtors' Acts, ef which Acts an infant could not take the benefit, as the Acts required peti- tioners to execute warrants of attorney to enter judg- ment, and an infant could not give such warrants of attorney. The law of bankruptcy now applied to all persons whether traders or not, and no warrant of attorney is required. There appears now nothing to prevent an infant from availing himself of the law of bankruptcy if he considers such a course to his advan- tage. The words of the 86th section are sufficiently general, any debtor may petition for adjndication against himself." The application. miut-be refused.

COLONEL GEORGE CRTJIKSHANK has resigned his Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the 48th Middlesex Volun- teers, in consequence, it is said, of the re-instatement in the servioe of certain officers of his corps who some time since had a difference with their Lieutenant-Colonel, and were cashiered. SEWING MACHINES.—The best and cheapest Lock-stitch & Double-lock, by hand or treadle. Lists free. Whight and Mann, 143, Holborn-hill, London. ijaoi JJl> ."t u ••••• .ml* ■. u'i'-y 'i&l

PASSING EVENTS. WE are requested to contradict, on authority, the report which has appeared in the public press of a man having been arrested at Lucerne on suspicion of being Fenian with designs against the life of the Queen. Her Majesty has been subjected to no annoyance of any kind during her stay in Switzerland, and nothing has occurred to interfere with the excellent arrangements made for her comfort by the Federal and local authorities. QUEEN VICTORIA has returned to Lucerne from the Furka, and has since made an excursion with the three Royal children to the mountain Righi-culm. His Highness Ismail Pacha, Viceroy of Egypt, G.C.B., has been appointed an Honorary Knight Grand Com- mander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India. HUMAITA, the Paraguayan fortress which has offered so protracted and stubborn a resistance to the Brazilian and Argentine forces, has at length fallen into the hands of the allies. It had previously, however, been evacuated. The garrison, consisting of 4,000 men, retired to Chaco and the "rumour" prevailed at Rio that they had surrendered. Is is also stated that there had been an attempt to effect a revolution in Paraguay, and that the Minister for Foreign Affairs was one of the persons concerned in the plot. The movement failing, its chiefs were seized and shot. MEXICAN advices report that the expedition sent out by Juarez for the suppression of the insurrection at Alvavada has been unsuccessful. An outbreak against Juarez is apprehended at Vera Cruz. THE House of Representatives of South Carolina has passed a bill prohibiting any distinction on account of colour in hotels or public conveyances being made for the future. The treasury of that State is empty. ACCORDING to intelligence from Hayti, Salnave had imprisoned the Prussian Consul, and also threatened the life of the British Consul, whereupon her Majesty's ship Favourite made preparations to bombard Port-au- Prince. Later news indicates that the revolution is likely to succeed. Salnave was preparing for flight. His family had been captured by the Cacos rebels. AN assembly of Fenians at Ardensbury is spoken of. The Canadian authorities have called upon the volun- teer corps to hold themselves in readiness for any emergency. THE Austrian Government is taking effectual means for carrying out the new marriage law, the Minister of Justice having given notice to the civil tribunals that in the event of the clerical courts refusing to furnish the documents requisite for contracting ciril marriages they shall be compelled to do so by the employment of legal execution. AT a breakfast given by Admiral Farragut to the diplomatic body at Constantinople, the crew shouted Hurrah for America and Russia!" VICE-ADMIRAL SIR SYDNEY C. DACRES will be Lord Clarence Paget's successor as commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean fleet. LETTERS from Cabool say the Russians have with- drawn from Samarcand, and that there is strict alliance between them and the Ameer of Bokhara. A TREATY of friendship and commerce between Bel- gium and Siam was signed on the 29th ultimo at the Belgian Legation by the respective ministers plenipo- tentiary, Baron du Jardin and Sir John Bowring. TH); internal state of the Empire of Japan is still very much disturbed; but the troops of the Mikado have, according to the latest news, obtained.an advantage over the rebels, whom they were driving to the north. The state of things was such at Yokohama, that a foreign force had to be again called in for the protection of the town and its inhabitants. MADAME VICTOR HUGO died at Brussels on Thursday morning. THE commissionership in bankruptcy for the London district, vacant by the death of Mr. Serjeant Goulburn, has been offered to and accepted by Mr. Bacon, Q.C. THERE has been an earthquake at Gibraltar, the first which has occurred at the rock for many years. It took place on the 18th. Two distinct shocks were felt, bu it does not appear that any serious damage resulted. THE latest bulletin with regard to the health of the Due de Brabant is not so reassuring as the previous one. It states that his Royal Highness passed a bad night on Sunday, and that his condition on Monday morning was less satisfactory. SPAIN continues in an unsettled state. Insurgent bands have appeared in the mountains near Toledo, and a secret depot of arms and powder has been dis- covered in the province of Toledo. ADVICES from Paraguay state that the Brazilians suffered great losses on the 16th and 18th of July. The Paraguayans had evacuated Humaita without the enemy knowing it. They took away the arms and spiked the cannon. There was no truth in the news relative to the discovery of a conspiracy at Assumption. A TRIPLE alliance is spoken of between Russia, Prussia, and the United States with a view to the Eastern question, especially as regards the affairs of Crete. Russian diplomacy having obtained the adhe- sion of the American Government to its views, is now engaged in persuading the Cabinet of Berlin to insist on the independence of Candia being forthwith proclaimed. WE can state on authority that the Queen of the Netherlands has not been in Switzerland this year. Her Majesty has resided during the whole summer at the well-known palace called the House in the Wood at the Hague. THE Prince and Princess of Wales are expected to pay a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at Dun- robin Castle before they leave Scotland. MURPHY, the No Popery lecturer, has been appre- hended in Manchester on a warrants-charging him with issuing placards calculated to produce a breach of the peace. THE Standard is enabled to state that the present Parliament will be dissolved on the 9th November; that the borough elections will take place on the fourth, and the county elections on the seventh day after that date. Son: further promotions for services rendered in Abyssinia have been gazetted. General Lachmero Russell, of the Bombay army, and political resident at Aden, is to be a Knight Commander of the Star of India Colonel Merewether, ef the Bombay Staff Corps, an extra Knight; and Major Grant, of the Bengal Staff Corps, a Companion of the same Order. THE Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland visited Londonderry on Wednesday, when he was presented with the freedom of the city, and also with an address from the corpora- tion. His Excellency expressed his gratification at the ardent loyalty which he found expressed in the address, and went on to speak of the future prospects of the country in very hopeful terms. THE session of the Councils-General commenced on Tuesday in all the departments of France. IN reply to an appeal from the friends of the con- demned convict Mackay, the Home Secretary has in- timated that he sees no reason for interfering with the due course of law. Mackay will be the first convict executed within the walls of Newgate. LORD MAYO has announced to his supporters at Cockermouth that he had accepted, after due considera- tion, the Governor-Generalship of India. A GREAT cab meeting was held on Friday night, to pro- test against the railway privilege system, at which two resolutions were adopted, one of a general and the other of a specific character. The latter declared that the non-privileged proprietors and drivers would not enter a railway station or put on any cab-stand near a station until the railway companies make- the concession de- manded of them. They further pledge themselves not to allow their cabs to ply for hire before eleven o'clock in the morning, and to withdraw the night cabs at two o'clock a.m. If the companies still hold out, they will, six days hence, withdraw their cabs from the streets. ..Jl •> uliu kl-1: v ,i. ;■ ■ IT is said to be arranged that the new Parliament shall meet on Thursday, the 10th of December. The swearing-in of members will occupy that and the two following days. The Queen's Speech will be delivered on Monday, the 14th, and, in all probability, the divi- sion on the amendment to the Address will take place on the night of Friday, the 18th of December. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, with the junior members of the Royal family, and their attendant suites, will arrive in England on the 11th of September. The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain his Serene Highness the Prince Leiningen, will proceed to Cherbourg and be ready to embark the Royal party on the morning of that day. The yacht will then cross to Portsmouth Harbour, and the Queen and Royal family will disembark at the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard, where they will enter a special train. Travelling as far as Basingstoke on the Sou-th-Western Railway, the Royal party will then enter carriages and proceed on the Great Western Railway to Windsor, arriving at the Castle a little after seven o'clock. Of the trip to Scotland nothing is yet definitely known; it is believed, however, that the Queen will leave Windsor about Friday, the 25th of September, for her Highland home at Balmoral.

THE RACE OF THE TEA CLIPPERS FROM CHINA. According to advices received in Liverpool from China, the clipper tea race promises to be as exciting as ever. All the vessels had sailed at their appointed dates. The Ariel, Sir Launcelot, and Taeping left Foochow together on the 28th May, the Spindrift on the 29th, the Lahloe on the 30th, and the Black Prince on the 31st; the Serica sailed on the 1st June, the Fiery Cross on the 2nd, the Tiba on the 3rd, the Chinaman on the 4th, the Yantze and the Devana on the 7th, Deer- foot on the 10th, the Wemyss Castle on the 13th, the Everest (for Liverpool) on the 14th, the Gresham on the 17th, the Achilles (s.s.), from Hong Kong, on the 18th, the Golden Spur, from Canton, on the same day, the Dilkoosh on the 22nd, Albert Victor on the 25th, and the Chusan on the 3rd July. All the above vessels, with the exception of the Everest, which is destined for the Mersey, are bound to the Thames. It is quite possible that some of the first-named clippers may reach the Thames before the Achilles. Intelligence has been received in Liverpool that the Ariel, Taeping, and Sir Launcelot had passed the Gaspar Straits under full canvass on the 21st June.