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(BJSCTBK'8 TBLBTLHAMK.) I THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. I ST. CLOUD, SEPT. 13. I The Emperor is going on well, and has not «ix-p<-riciH*il any fatigue from his yesterday's drive. H is Majesty slept well, and took breakfast this mornbs. It is expected that within three days the Emperor will resume his ordinary occupations. A report that the Prince Imperial would shortly make an excursion to the departments of the Nievre and of the ALiier is unfounded, as is also the statement that the Court intended to proceed to Biarritz.

iOLOHADO AS A FIELD I'Oli IJillGHATIOX. TO 'IF EDITOR OF THE "WESTERN MAIL." SIR.—If- answer to "An Inquirer," I to make a few »tat( went-. Nodoubt the Inquirer." having experienced ■seoioui;il rough life," amongst other things has picked up & little of farming. If he intends emigrating to Colorado, he must be prepared for a rough life for a few years, such ai Ii H'ttlC1" s life always i in aU new eouutrics. Land is exceedingly cheap, it being the object of the United States (iovernmeut to people the state as soon as possible. It ean now be reached by the Pacitic Railroad. Mr. l)ilke, in his "Greater Britain," speaks of it in the following terms The most astounding feature of these plains is their capacity to receive millions, and, swallowing 1hm up, to wait open-mouthed for more. ast and silent, fertile yet waste, field-like yet unfilled, they have room for the Huns, the Goths, the Vandals, for all the teeming multitudes that have poured and can pour from the plums of Asia and of Central Europe. Twice as large as Hin- ilostan niviio tfinperate, more hahilable, nature has placed them lure hv>h>elc^. sateless, frcetoall—a green field for the support of' half the human race, unclaimed, awaiting, smiling, liuuds and plough." He goes on to say:- But there are two curses upon this land, want of water and locusts or crickets. Here, as in India, the rivers depend on the melting of distant snows for their ■upplies, and in hot weather are represented by beds of parched white land. So hot and dry is a great portion of the land, that crops require irrigation. Water for drinking purposes is scarce. This, perhaps, may be in part accounted Jorby the Western mo lc of prospecting after water, under which it is agreed that if none be found at ten feet, a trial -ball be at i fresh spot. The thriftles, Kanehman bad sooner find bad water at nine feet than good at eleven." Irrigation by means of darns an,1 reservoirs such as tho,e we ore building in Victoria, is but a question of cost and time. The never-failing breezes of the plains may be utilized for water raising, and with water all is possible. Cultivation itself bringing rain and steam, will soon be avail- able fur pumping water out of wells." Mr. Uilke, speaking of the locusts, says For the locusts thi-re is no cure. The plovers may eat a few billions, but, as a rille, Cotoradans must learn to expect that the locusts will increase with the iDcreaeof the crops on which they feed. If corn is impossible cattle arc not. Already thousands are pastured round Denver on the natural grasses. For horses, for merino sheep, these rolling table Jjuids are peculiarly adapted. Dutch cioveran(I French lueerll tould replace tJ«, In,Ji!lu grasses, and four sheep to the acre ■would teeui no i xtravagaiit estimate of the carrying capa- bilities of the land. Ihe world must come here for its tallow, it, wool, its hides, it, food." I hone this will enlighten the inquirer—Yours truly, It, JOHN M. EVANS. DJcrihyr Tydfil. Sept. I t, TWO. JVH M. EVANS.

MR. "ATKIX WILLIAMS, M.P., ON THE WELSH CHURCH. On MOl lay evening Mr. Watkin Williams, the member for the 11 nbighshire boroughs, u.dl1resc(l a meeting of his constituents in the Town Hall, Wrexham. The hon. member said that one of the most important topics for future con-ideration was the position of tho Established Church in Wales. At a late period of the session which bad just clo-ed. he gave notice that he should, on the re. assembling of Parliament, call attention to the existing utate of religious inequality in the Principality, and move the following resolutions :—" First, that the time had arrived when the measure of religious eljulllity whieh had been gm'tANI to I "dam! eould no longer, ",msistently with justice, bewIthh?tromW.?s:an.)°s'econ?y.th?t it (?.- pediut that the surplu funds to bc derived from the pro. pertyof the disestablished and disendowed Church should fee applied towards the advancement of a national and purely undenominational system of education." That notice he did not hesitate to say was warmly received by the 110use. Mr. Gladstone WII. present, and heard it, and if "his countenance expressed anything, he was gratified and pleased with it.

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SYSTEMATIC EDUCATION FOR THE HUM AN l'l TKEATMKNT OF ANIMALS. Mi,, Burdett Couth h!'c,l the following lettcrto I the'l'i¡,¡" I Sir,—The publication of several letters in your column8 will. I hope, lead to an improvement in the detestable t-,t.e.t ,f live Htoek, which di^raees all concerne d in it, :i:: The site'))epofthu?.<u,t,;(. in the tr?)e is too sipni/imnt 1\ fact to he overlooked. All. Forster has honourably distinguished himself by his recent legislation repccting ihe transit of tWililab by railway, Hwl the Presi- dent of the Hoard of Trade belongs to a society so widely known for Christian advocacy of the claims of God's dumb creatures that he will doubtless give his early uttention to the revolting state of a trade connected, I presume, with his official position in tho Government. It is tlwrcforetobe confidently expected that the subject willncxt session engage the earnest attention of Parliament. The hideous revelations of your correspondents a. to the extent and depravity practised in the foreigu cattle trade require something more than superficial remedies. I therefore feel it a duty to entreat a public attention to u systematic tmiuing amcng all classes both in principles of humanity towards animals, and in n knowledge of the proper treatment of creatures that we are dependent upon for sustenance and other com- forts of life. It is but a short time sincc we were startled by the ravages of the cattle plague. Had it continued, the extinction of only onc of the limited range of our domesticated animal would have deprived us of milk, butter, cheese, beef, and veal. Although we are now IIparl',1 frow thi. disea-e, another serious JUaladyafflict. our flocks and herds—one which, during its continuance, renders milk unfit for consumption. No care or precau- tion prevents its attacks. I apeak from experience. The most cleanly and tenderly cured-for homesteads are not ex- empt from it and, as none of God's laws, whether of jus- tice, or or ti-titti. are violated with impunity, 1 can- not see why the consequences of disease among our well nurtured cuttle may not spread to ourselves and cuter our own blood—the recoil of Buffering inflicted upon hundreds and thou>ands of animals that may be the very •elected typo* of all that is helpless, feeble, amI inelllJlLblo of resistance even when goaded to desperation, but whose tainted breath and fevered blood carry with the tread of their lacerated feet and the various humours of their bodies the germs of retributive disease (conveyed, it has been sug- gested, by the agency of insect life) iuto wholesome farms and pastures. Such considerations suggest whether a systematic tûach. ing of the absolute duty of wan towards the lower animals should net enter into the practical education of all classes. An American gentleman, 31r. Anell, who has done much v in this direction in his own country, earnestly pressed upon me to try to form a society somewhat fciuiilar to one established in Massachusetts undr the name of the "Ladies' Humane Society." I promised to do all I could to promote so gooll an oh. ject through the only public channel I could hope to influence- that of national school education. But us the present exposure of a serious evil has arisen in your pages, 1 think J 11""1 re¡I('em my promise to Mr. Angell by sug. geetin through you tt) all per:o'Ol1 f'ng-HJ,(H.1 in teaching in whatever milk of life, to the I'rc>i,leutof the Committee of Council for iducatioii, and to the National Society's Board of Education, that some plan should be adopted for incul- cating, in a definite manner, principles of humanity towards animals and a knowledge of their structure, treatment, and value to wan. I cannot conclude this, I fear, feebly expressed advocacy of an important object without expressing my surprise that the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals docs not prosecute the offenders OIL the evidence of the shocking state which foreign cattle present on landing. These must on touching our soil be under the protection of English law, and thoso -1.0 maltreat them fully IIUinnbJe to the penal- ties.

NATIONAL KUTVATION IÆAü(,E--Thi. Association, tvhich has tor it, object to secure the education of every child in Kngland and Wales, Wit. projected in January last by a few gentlemen in Birmingham, and has already made inch rapid progress that it consists of 1,400 members in different parts of tie country aud this number increases <!ailv. A provisional committee has been formed, of which lIit. Geonr Dixon, M.P. for Birmingham, is the chairman. In the circular iisued by the League, the means by which the object is to be attained are stated as follows :-1. Local authorities shall bp compelled by law to see that sufficient school accommodation i, provided forevery child in their dis- I t net. 2. The eo: of founding p-nd maintaining such schools as L.ay oe required sindl he provided out of locù rates, supple- mentd ".I" Uonrtlmcnt graut Jl. All schools aided by local rat, s -ball be under the management of local authori- ties, and subject to Government insi)- tion. 4. All schools aided by local rates shall be unseotarian. 5. To all schools aideol by local rates admission 5-hall be free. G. School ac- commodation being provi-<« d. the State or the local autho- rities vhail have power to compel the attendance of children at suitable age not otherwise receiving education." Com- mittees have been formed in London and Birminghom nnd the eX:1111ple is about to be followed in Manchester, Liver- pool. Leeds. Bradford. Sheffield, and other large townsk Te first I'neral .?,ti?g of the member" is to be b?l,l at Birmingham i.ri?g the sccoud ek in October, at hi,,h the moat distinguished we?Wrti of the I*aguo are expwwd to attend.

THE RECENT SEVERE STORKS. The equinoctial gales which hurst forth on Saturday have made themselves felt throughout the country, and more especially on the seaboard. The gale was especi. uly severe in the Channel, and the captains of Continental boa ts state that the force of the wind was so great that headwa. v could not be made against it. Reports transmitted from all parts of the coast bear mournful testimony to the de- structive vehemence of the storm. The disasters occasioned ¡ by it to Bhipping have been very serious, and in many in- stances they have ..happily b,??. attended with loss of life. Happily the loss of life is not so great as might have been expected, considering the violence of the wind, which has at times more nearly resembled a tornado than an ordinary storm. The meteorological report of yesterday says The westerly gale blew with great force along our southern and south-western coasts yesterday, but subsided last evening. This morning moderate to fresh south-westerly winds are prevalent in the south of our island, light southerly in the extreme north of England, and light easterly breezes have appeared in the north of Scotland. Rain has again been general, and continues in several places, with misty or over. cast sky at all stations. The weather is very unsettled. The sea is calm in the north-east, but runs moderately high elsewhere. All coasts were warned yesterday." THE LOSS OF A CARDIFF SHIP AND SEVEN OF THE CREW. The most serious disaster which has yet been reported is the I*. of theAvonmorc and .seven of her crew. T!¡j.fine vessel belonged to Mes,?r,?. Charlco Hill and Sons, of è:å¡tIehcastofl sr:hi;horl:15n:gi' fIl was commanded by Captain Corfield. On Mondav, the 6th instant, she left the Penarth Dock, where she had been taking in a cargo of coals for Monte Video, and on the following Thursday she was towed down Channel and left off JJfracombe the same evening, with a fine breeze blowing from the S.E. Circumstances, it would appear, were then in her favour, and when the storm broke forth on Saturday it WIIS hoped that she had got beyontlthe reachofitsinflueneè. Unhappily this was not so, for yesterday a telegram was received by the owi?r? communicating the melancholy fact that she was a total wreck on the coast of Cornwall, and that seven of her crew were lost. Her crew numbered 22 hands all told. The captain and 14 hands were saved. The particulars of the sad catastrophe have not yet been received. This was only the second voyage of the ill-fated Avnnmoro. WALTON BAY. Probably within the recollection of the oldest person living in the district the terrific violence of the gale has never been exceeded in its disastrous effects on the Somer- setshire coast between Portishead and Walton Bay and Clevedon. For miles the coast was strewed with wreckage, masts, spars, &c. Sailors' baggage and kits were to be seen lying in heaps in the fields and amongst the rocks, and at the Nore the visitor instead of making his way over the rocks, had to struggle through a mass of rigging, spars, canvas, and other wreckage which bad been washed in by tho tide during the height of the gale, I.deed, it was only with difficulty that one could get II from one point to another in the route along the rocks from the Nore towards Walton Bay, owing to the heaps of rope rigging and rpar?i which strewed the coast, and excursionists were seen cf'Üir away pieces of the wrecks as mementoes of tl?,!?r visit to such an unusual scene in a place hitherto lookcd, upon its one of the greatest security and shelter. Early in the morning of Monday the storm of Sunday bad increased to a gale, which raged with the utmost fury from ten till ;hibtehit:'in¿'.t o:i t: q I that had broken away from their anchors in Penarth Roads, were seen driven before the gale with their sa i ls torn into shreds, the foam and spray being lifted up from the sea level in dense showers, which now and then almost buried the vessels so that they could not be seen from the shore. They were all driven on to the mud, between Portishead and the mouth of the river, where their crews only suc- ceeded in steering them sufficiently clear of one another to land a safe distance apart on the mud. Fears wcre enter- tained for the safety of the training ship Formidable; but though b(?r permanent moorings are far from being com- pleted, she seemed to ride comfortably in her berth; agroiti- fy, .g fact, considering the limited crew at present board of her, the men she shipped at Sheerness having left her. Beyond a large portion of the ,neckage me have noticed on j the coast were two fine barques high up on the rocks, where they had been driven by the fury of the gale after breaking awa y from their anchors in the bay. The first, the Prussian barque Arthur, 410 tons burthen, from Dant- zic for Gloucester (Captain Chafer) came ashore about fivo o'clock. She was loaded with timber, and had been tlii- chore,lut the Nore soveral days, waiting her turn to go to Gloucester. She had 120 fathoms of cable out when she broke away from her anchors at half-past two o'clock in the morning, and after buffeting with the waves for some time she at length got forced on to the rocks, at the same time having a large quantity of water 111 her hold. She belongs to Alexander Gepson, of Dantzic, was built about five years ago, and had only recently come out of dock at Dantzic. Her hull had not been very much injured, and it was thought that with the aid of a steamer there might be a possibility of getting her off on a high tide; but it looked a doubtful chance. The crew had got all their bedding and kit out upon the shore, and were preparing to take it into the village when we left her. Some few hundred yards off, on the other point of the bay, at the Nore, was another fine Prussian barque, the Argo, Capt. Kruger, or Kreger," from a port in North America, bound for Gloucester with a cargo of timber. She was lying still farther up on the rocks, and her position looked far more perilous than that of the Arthur; and we were told that her hull was already considerably damaged. Around her the rocks for a considerable distance were strewed with wrockagc. The vessel had been anchored in Walton Bay about four days, waiting to go up to Glouces- ter, and she broke away from her moorings about nine o'clock in the morning. Her sails were set, in the hope of keeping her off the rocky shore, but after beating about for some timc? they werc? torn to shreds, and s h e was driven high on to the rocks, and the canvas was still hanging in tatters around her mast when we saw her last night. Amongst tho wreckage on the shore were the sailors' ham- mocks, and chests of clothing, and they were busily en- gllged in bringing ashore things of value and anything portable that it was desirable to place in security. It was a pitiable sight to see the fine vessel in a position where her recovery was apparently almost hopeless, and right in the bay at Walton. TOTAL LOSS OF THE BARQUE CARAVAN. Further on ulong the coast the debris that had been washed ashore during the gale led to the spot opposite which the splendid barque Caravan, 000 tons burthen, 1.11,1 been driven on to the rocks in Walton Bay, and become a total wreck, her crew with difficulty escaping, and ono poor fellow of their number losing his life in the attempt to reach the shore. The Caravan, which we believe belonged to Mr. Alexander Smith, of West Sunnyside, Sun(fer. land, was commanded by Captain Humphries, and had on board a valuable cargo of phosphate, the whole of which, valued, it is Haid, at nearly X3,000, together with the vessel, has been entirely lost. The Caravan had sought the well. known 81wlter of Walton Bay while waiting to take her cargo to Gloucester, but breaking away from her anchors she was driven on the rocks in a very dangerous spot, and rapidly broke up. The gale was more furious thitu it has ever been known in Walton Bay, and old sailors nd. mitted that they had seen nothing equal to it in violence in that comparatively sheltered spot. Seeing tho fate of their vessel, the crew set about taking measures for reach- ing the shore, and by means of a cask carried in by the waves a mallline was conveyed to the rocks on the beach. Here it was willingly secured by the spectators who had I\" sembled, an d a stout warp having then been hauled ashore, the crew by means of this left tLe vessel and pulled them- sclves through tho .myes, C.pt?,i. Humphries being the last to leave his hii,. 1. this ,.y the crew and officers, i;e i¿el'rII !J¡,j" ¡L tle c:ilt ono poor fellow, who in pulling himself along the rope was suddenly forced away by the sea, and although he was washed on to the rocks near the shore within a compara. tively short distance of his comrades, another wave carried him out to Bea, and after struggling a few moments he dis- appeared. The men were in a pitiable plight when they reached the shore, and together with the other seamen who had landed from their vessels, they received tke utmost kindness from the gentry and others in the neighbourhood. Amongst those who were conspicuous in this respect the names of Mr. H. A. Salmon, of Holyrood House; Mr. Stoate, of Belle Vue; tlip Itev. Mr. Hautenville; and Mr. Nicholls, of the Nore. Tho sailors, in a half-clad state, were receivod at the houses of some of these entlemen, and after being made as comfortable its good food, rest, and clothing could make them, they left for Bristol in the evening. Mr. Ashford, at the Nore, and Mr, Newton and other farmers, also rendered kind assistance. The captain felt his loss intensely, and he was heard to say that everything of value on board was lost. CARDIFF, TUESDAY. The terrific storm which blew over the town on Monday morning, we are happy to say, did very little damage to the shipping in the docks or roads, in consequence of the wind blowing from the west. A few vessels parted their moor- ings and grazed each other, but the damage was very slight. No casualties are reported from the roads, except slight damages to the bows and bowsprits of vessels. Both on Monday and yesterday various rumours wero afloat that other vcssels had been lo,t off Cardiff, but nothing has been received to verify theui. The wind ceased almost entirely on Monday night, but yesterday afternoon the rain commenced to pour down in torrents, which continued all nighl, making the streets and roads in a miserable state of mud and water. Some places are completely flooded. The quantity of rain which has fallen of late is no doubt partly the cause of the recent very high tides. NEWPORT, TUESDAY. There ??re many reports of ves,el, in the Channel which have come to grief during the gale of Monday night. The :hermpcrIre;all;it;l:. eIh:1oJi winds, and many received warning on Saturnay and Sunday to keep within port. This had, doubtless, the effect of preventing many casualties. The Onward (late Fanny Fern), of Liverpool, a splendid n,sel, laden with iron, bound for Savannah, which left the dock on the morn- ing of the 8th, was driven on the sands off the Spit, and would, doubtless have become a complete wreck h. i it not been for the timely assistance of the Me. Pring's steamer, Sea King. Her ensign was do?n and the crew were about to abandon b er"'??i 'tn wa,? (Iowa and the crew t:b to :doh:r:n\ h:qrOev(înJDde:: damage to her bottom, had lost a portion of h-er keel, and was making five inches of water per hour. On the rise of the tide the Sea King pulled her off and brought her into port, where the cargo will have to be disev arged and the vessel undergo repairs. The storm abated at 6 o'clock on Monday evening. PADS'fOW, SUNDAY. Yesterday/and to-day a fearful gale ^as been and is still raging from the south-west. Sev raI barques, which u arrow lj tscaped foundering, werv^>bliged to run aaboro. About ten o'clock last night the wind gradually veered to the west, having moderated considerably; but soo&' after midnight blew with terrific violence from the north-west, exceeding in force the terrible gale of March last. The smack Cbmmodore, of Ljnmouth, with culm, for Ply- mouth, inrunning for the harbour, caught cn the inaer part of the Doom-bur. On the flowing of the tide sho beat over the bar, but unshipped her rudder and knocked away her rudder case. She began to fill, and ran up to Gun Point, scraping the rocks, her rudder being unman- "geable. As she was beginning to settle down, the crew, nsisting of two men, were taken off in a pilot gig. Ai iout five o'clock a message was brought to the chief offiv -er of coast guard that a vessel was brought up belo w Trevose Head. The coast guards were mustered, and proct eded to the spot with the rocket apparatus, and found the sn ip about two miles from the shore, with her masts gone, & nd drifting ashore. During the forenoon she came ashore I n Pox Cove, near Trevarnon Hou.e, and the crew, seven in number, were taken off by the rocket apparatus. She is the. Victoria, of Plymouth, Samuel Wilton, master, from Card iff to Cadiz, with coals. The schooner Commo. dore, of Jei *sey, from Saundersfoot, for St. Afalo, with coals, &c., hi is put in with loss of sails, bulwarks, and galley, having shipp sd a heavy sea, completely filling her. The Annie Laurie.'i of Bideford, has put in with fails split. To-day, at noo n. a French lugger went ashore on the Doom. bar the crew were taken off by the Albert Edward life- bout. Bi-OEFORD, SUNTUY. During tho height of the gale here this morning the R. liance, a schooner belonging to Appledore, aud returning thither from Looe, went ashore on Bideford Bar. The seas were canning so tremendously high that no effectual efforts could be made to succour the crew, four of whom were drowned in attempting to reach the shore. The direction of the wind at this time was north. west. Considerable damage was done in the town and neighbourhood to hou. s and trees. The same morning, during the prevalence of the gale, the Italian barque Odone. from Cardiff, laden with coals, went ashore near Clovelly. The vessel became a total wreck, but the crew managed to save themselves by their boat and on rafts. RAMSGATE, MONDAY. The severe gale which we reported swept the south- eastern coast on Sunday morning, continued all day yester- day, and is scarcely moderated yet. It has been very disastrous to the shipping in the neighbourhood, and has been atten<1e<1 nt least by one fatal en. unity in the vicinity. A vessel, the Edith Marie, of Hull, Scholefield, bound to Brussels with clav, sought shelter in the royal harbour this morning with the loss of two anchors and chains, her sails split, and one man killed. He was named Wellbourn, a native of Hull, and it appears that he was employed in furling the sails from a yardarm, near the North Foreland, on Sunday morning, when the vessel lurched and he fell on to the deck. He was picked up dead, his neck, it is supposed, having been broken. The body was brought in this morning, and an inquest held upon it this afternoon. Besides the wreck of the Neapolitan brig Sirena, off Margate, already reported, a number of other casualties have occurre t, though net of so serious a character, one vessel having been just towed in with the loss of mainmast ahd the whole of her rigging. SOUTHEND, SUNDAY. The cutter yacht, Bamba, 25 tons, came on shore near the end of the pier, on Friday night. There were three men on board, beside the owner, Mr. Roberts, and his wife. They all had a very narrow escape. Their shouts for help were heard by the watch on board the training ship Wor- cester, who gave the alarm to Cptain Smith, and he im- in( lately had a boat manned, which succeeded in saving M.. and Mrs. Roberts and the yacht's sailing master, who were conveyed on board the Worcester. The other two men bad put off in their boat to go to a barge, which waj lying close by, but the wind was too strong for them to reach the yacht again. The little vessel has bccome a total wreck. Captain Smith, however, succerued in saving the yacht's stores. CHATHAM, MONDAY. Throughout the day a gale from the south-west has been raging over this part, accompanied by frequent squalls of heavy rain, the wind at times having the force of a hut ti. cane. There have been numerous casualties amongst the shipping, many of the outward-bound vessels coming to an anchor with loss of spars, bowsprits, &c., from having been in collision during the night. A numerous fleet of colliers and outward bound vessels came to an anchorage during the night inside the Graiu-spit, to await the gale moderat- ing. On board the Great Eastern, which is now shipping the Indian tolegraph cable, every precaution had been taken to enable the huge ship to ride out the gale in safety, the situation in which she is moored exposing her to the full fuiy of the gale. During the day all communication be. tween the vessels in the river and the shore has been sus- pended. Various accidents have been caused by the gale. This afternoon it was announced that a barge had foundered in Saltpan-reach, and that two lives had been lost. At Frindsbury the fronts of two new houses under construction have been blowli in, and others unroofed. The gale was also severely felt at New Brompton, where it occasioned much damage. This evening the wind has moderated, but the weather is still threatening. WESTON-SUPER-MARE, MONDAY. A gale of unequalled fury for this part of the coast has been raging from the westward for the past two days, which has not only done considerable damage to house property, but has caused the loss of several vessels in the bay. Last evening, the Fanny Kemble, from Bristol to Bridgwater, ran into the bay for shelter, when a heavy sea swamped her, and she immediately settled down, the crew having a narrow escape. The Abundance, laden with coal, from the Welsh coast, met with a similar fate at Knightstone, and is fast going to pieces. A rumour was current in the town last evening to the effect that a large vessel had gone down off the Holmes. It appears that on the previous evening a steam ship had been noticed to leave Penarth Roads during the hurricane andl proceed westwards on the following morning the decks and funnel of a steamer were percepible some little distance down the channel, which led persons naturally to infer that they belonged to the steamer they had seen leave the roads on the previous evening. The bay is full of wreck, and by the quality of some of the planks and fastenings, it is evident they once formed part of a vessel of first-class build. The yacht Minnicoy was swamped and sunk in the bay this afternoon. CORK, MONDAY. Both here and at Queenstown a terrific storm raged last night. At Cork several vessels dragged their anchors, and came into collision. Two yachts, the Avalanche and the Charm, broke their fastenings, and struck another yacht, severely damaging her. The schooner Lilla drove ashore, but fortunately no lives were lost. SWINDON. At Swindon,'on Sunday night, a heavy gale set in, causing much damage. In the course of Monday morning a report was circulated that the Infants' school-room, situate in the Devizes-road, had been blown in upon the scholars. In. stantly dozens of anxious fathers and mothers were seen running^in the direction of the school, on arriving at which it was found that the west side of a substantially- built brick building had succumbed to the violence of the gale. The police were soon on the spot, and suc- ceeded in releasing the whole of the scholars from their uncomfortable position, though some dozen or two were suffering from severe wounds. The little sufferers were instantly attended to by Dr. Griffith, who resides close by, and afterwards handed over to their parents. Con. sidering that there were no less than ninety-five children in the building when the unforeseen circum- stance happened, their escape with no broken bones was most miraculous. BOULOGNE. SUR-MER, SUNDAT. This town has just been visited by a gale of unexampled severity. Commencing about midnight on Saturday, it con. tinued to rage until long after daylight, with the fury of a hurricane. Sleep was out of the question, as, in addition to the roaring of the wind and rattling of casements, Ithe fall of chimney-pots and tiles, and the crush of broken glass was almost incessant. This morning the town pre- sented an aspect of wide-spread dilapidation and ruin, there being scarcely a house that had not suffered to some extent. Between seven and eight o'clock it was almost impossible in exposed situations, to make head against the force of the wind. The pavement was everywhere littered with slates, tiles, bricks, and dchris of every description. At one shop alone injury to the extent of 600 francs has been sustained. A large stack of chimneys fell on the handsome Gothic porch of the new church in the Rue Sible. quin, sadly defacing it. A still more serious disaster has befallen the church in the fishermen's quarter of St. Pieire, its roof having been driven in by the fall of the building. The aspect of the sea is terrific; as far as the eye can reach are monstrous billows bursting into cataracts of foam. No steamer left this port to-day, nor, I believe, has any arrived from England. Since morning the gale has moderated con- siderably.

CHILD MURDER.—A shocking case of child murder oc- curred at Newbury on Sunday afternoon. A cook in the family of a gentleman of that place, named Lucy Cully, 27, complained of being ill, and retired to her room; but re- mained so long that her fellow-servants went to see after her, and thought from her appearance that she must have had a miscarriage. A medical man was sent for, and he soon found that the cook had given birth to a full-grown child. Search was made, and the body of a male child was found in a carpet bag, with its throat cut. By direction of the coroner, a post mortem examination was made, and the medical examiner gave it as his opinion that the child had fully breathed. As soon as her condition permits, Cully will be removed to the borough gaol, charged with wilful murder. CURIOUS R AILWAY ACCIDENT.—An extraordinarily sad but quite inexplicable accident occurrcd to train aD the Preston and Longridge Railway, the property of the London and North Western Company, on Saturday last. Fifteen waggons laden with stone, in charge of a breaksman, who occupied a van in front of the train, were running down the steep gradient from Longridge to Preston, without an engine as usual, when, immediately after pat ing the Grim- sllrErh Station, about a third of the journey from Longridge, the sixth waggon from the break-van leaped up from the line, snapped the coupling-chains, and ran into the four- foot, where it remained stationary. At this point there is a siding, and the extraordinary features in the accident are, first, that the succeeding nine waggons all left the line, passed over and crushed to atoms the waggon lying in the four-foot, and then took their places in a line on the siding with as much order as if they had been properly shunted thereon; and next, that one of them took with it tb'e wheels and axles of the waggon destroyc, and it appeared on the sidiufc. to have double the usual number properly attached. Three other wagejons were greatly dam aged; one belonging to the Lancashire and Yorkanire and "another to the London and North Weat^Ti Company wfVe broken up beyond repair. Neaily 100 yards of the petals were ] torn up, and the content* of the waggons V. ere partially ^€tr«wn over tho.tine tbaitiistance.

CHELTENHAM AND SWANSEA RAILWAY f CARRIAGE WORKS (LIMITED). An ordinary meeting of this company will be held at ChÛeC:.d:ei::d oft ilú:x:dnlro:11eb:a: of the report and balance'8heet received by the ?.hareb0ld re yesterday morning, that the proceedings will be of a stormy character. These we give in extenso, and it will be at once seen that the prospects of the company are very gloomy, so much so that Mr. Handel Cossham has con- 8L lered it prudent to leave his brother directors in the lur eh. The report states:- "In convening the third ordinary general meeting of the company, and laying before the shareholders the accoui* ts, made up to 30th June, 1869, the directors regret that th a amount of business obtainable during the con- tinued oppression in the carriage and waggon building trade bein quite inadequate to meet the expenses of two large estab Hshmeuts, there has been a loss on the working for the yeai and that, in consequence, they will at the meeting have to recommend the shareholders to forthwith close either tht I Cheltenham or Swansea works, with a view to the disposal thereof. The directors think it due to the shareholders to offer a brief explanation as regards the loss. During the first & ix months the company, in common with other companies ct. rrying on a similar business, was almost entirely without i *rders for new work; during the second six months ti iere has only been sufficient business to partialJy occupy one 01 tne worts, ana even tiiis has, unfortunately, h.1.d to be executed in the face of severnI difficulties, pn ,minent amongst which was the petition of Mr. Johnson for winding up the company, pre- sented without any notict1 whatever to the directors, and at a time when it was of ti >e greatest importance that the credit of the company shorn 'd not be attacked. That petition, after continuing nearly thre e months, was dismissed with costs; but notwithstanding, it explains the necessity for the reserve for law expenses char, ;00 in the accounts, and more- over, was at the time most damaging in its effect, and the cause of considerable loss. Tlh bad and doubtful debts, for which a further reserve is ne pessary, have principally re- sulted from contracts made prio r to the 30th June, 1867. One favourable feature in the Wt Irking is that the stock-in- trade, which on 30th June, 1807, amounted to £ 31,980 9s. 7d., has been reduced by sales, oi" converted, to the extent of CI5,078 17s. 2d., thereby assis ting the directors to con- siderably reduce the liabilities of the company. Since the last meeting Mr. Handel Cossham .and Mr. Edward Jones have retired from the directorate, a. -id one of the seats at the board rendered vacant thereby h as been fillrd by Mr. Samuel Bowly. The retiring directors are Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Jenks, but they are eligible and offer themselves for re.election. SAMPSON LLOYD, Chairman, pro tem. Cheltenham, August 28th. 1869. TRADING ACCOUNT "FROM JUNE 30rH, 1868, TO JUNE 30rH, 1869. Dr.-To expenses Cheltenham works, viz., repairs, &c., of buildings, machinery, and tools and appliances, .£753 2s. 5d. office salaries, .£751 ISEI. rent, £ 50; rates and taxes, « £ 49; insurance, .£77 2s. lid,; travelling expenses, .£HJ5 6s. 9d. printing, advertising, and stationery, £ 54; postages, .£59 10s. 7d.; sundry disbursements for commis- sion, agreement, and bill stamps, telegrams, parcels, &c., X194 Is. 9d.; general charges for yard superintendence, time and store keeping, watching, lighting, &c., .£<J88 7s.1d.; To expenses Swansea works, viz:—Repairs, &c., of build- ings, cottages, machinery, tools, and appliances, .£296 19s. lid.; office salaries, R248 12s. 7d.; rent, .£988 10s.; rates and :axes, .£14148. 9d.; insurance, .£74 5s. 6d. i tra- velling expenses, .£G8 18s. 5d.; postage and stationery, £ 33 10s. 9ù.; sundry disbursements for parcels, telegrams, &c., t27 14s. 9d.; #General charges for yard superinten- dence, time and store keeping, watching, lighting, &c., .2654 19. 10d. To directors' remuneration, X-116 4s.; travelling ex- penses, .£179 16s.; auditors' remuneration and expenses, X66 12s. 7d. law expenses, .£125 18s. 7d. reserve for bad and doubtful debts, .£300; total, £ 0,795 17s. 2d. To balance.-To interest charges on agreement account, with Gloucestershire Banking Company and others, charged ? 6 per cent, per Annum, but sub j ect to an arra' ement with them that a rebate of 1 per cent. per annum t.ll be made when the total amount of principal and interest due to them is paid off, £ 2,828 9s. 4d. TRADING ACCOUNT FROM JUNE 30TH, 1868, to JUNE 30TH, I 1869. Cr.—By rents of rolling stock, less repairs, XI,703 8s.10d repairs of rolling stock, XI,040 3s. lOd.; manufacturing account, X911 2s.; profit on sales of sundry materials, X199 Is. 8d.; rents of cottages, X160 14s. 9d.; transfer fees, 10s.; interest and discount account, Xi 5s. 9d.; balance, .£,77910s..1d.; total, tG,795 17s. 2d. CAPITAL ACCOUNT AND BALANCE SHEET, JUNE 30TH, 1869. Capital and Liabilities.-To amount of deposits and calls, being ZJ per share on 10,293 shares, £ 92,637; less calls in arrear, £ 4,43119s.; payments in anticipation of call, .£1,675; loan, .£600; bills payable, .£1,106lOs.3d.; sundry creditors, .£9,41113s. 4d. amount due to Gloucestershire Banking Company, including interest to date, as per agreement, £ 30,796 lis. 5d. ditto on general account, t5,479 3s. 7d.; total, £ 143,273 19s. 7d. PROPERTY AND ASSETS.—Reserved for Depreciation, &c. Buildings at Cheltenham, XS,180 9s. lOd. engines and machinery, .£5,.599 14s. lOd. tools and appliances, £ 2,206 6s. 6d. office furniture, X= la. lOd.; buildings at Swansea, k9,446 13s. 6d.; engines and machinery, £ 8,011 5s. Id. tools and appliances, k2,380 3s. 7d.; office furniture, X242 19s. 3d. cottages at Swansea, X5,695 0s. 5d.; rojling stock, 17,335 3s. 6d.; ditto, amount paid towards purchase on redemption terms, X9,487 6s. 3d.: rolling etock held by lessees on redemption terms, X505 Os. Od less payments received on account of same .£86 Is. Id.; Debts due from sundry persons, X15,027 2s. !d.; less reserve for bad and doubtful debts, X2,194 18s. lid.; cash in hand and at banker's, X206 Is. 5d.; stock- in-trade Cheltenham, £ 11,318 18s. Id.; stock-in- trade-Swansm, X8,277 5.9. 9d. unfinished work consist- ing of wagons, &c., in course of construction, .£5,82U 10s. 9d. Reserves, losses, &c., £ 85,148 3s. 4d; Balance as per audited account, June 30, 1868, t57,017 16s. 6d balance of trading account, year ending June 30,1869, £ 2,77910s. 4d; interest to Gloucestershire Banking Company and others X2,828 9a. 4d.; reserved for bad and doubtful debts and law expenses .£1,100; less amourt paid on shares surren- dered and cancelled, .£5,600; total, X143,273 19s. 7d. In the accOllllts to June 30, 1868, these expenses did not ap- pear, having been charged to the items entered on a credit side. The alteration is now made in order to show the total workiug expenses.

SHOCKING ATTEMPT AT MURDER AND I SUICIDE. A shocking and determined attempt at mnrder and suicide took place on Sunday morning in St. George's-in- the-East. For some time past a man named Jam-as Gobey, aged about one and twenty, of 12, Schoolhouse-lane, Stepney, has been cohabiting with a young woman named Mary Ann Chambers, whom he seduced when she was about 17 years of age, the result of their intercourse being a child. He seems, however, of late tJ have got tired of her, or the expense of maintaining ner and the child; and besides being guilty of frequent brutality towards her, has often threatened to her and others that he would murder her. His violence, coupled with these t hreats, at length caused her to hiave him, and she and the child went to live with her n other, at 44, Upper Cornwall-street, St. George's-in-the-Eaat. On Thursday last Gobey called there to see her, but she was denied to him by her sister, a married woman, who was alarmed by the 8trange manner and the questions he put to her as to the habits of the family, and the rooms in which they u"'PIly slept. On the follov?:ng night Gobey, while f? b:, sJh!bit?t a :Sjf:.gWhi;:t:ilh:: bought to kill his old woman with, as he was determined that if she did not live with him, she should not do so with anybody else." He was allowed to leave the beershop, and nothing more was heard of him until Sunday morning, at a little after ten o'clock. when he called at No. -14, Upper Cornwall-street, where he saw Mrs. Chambers the mother. He said to her, Will you allow your daughter to come home with me?" and she replied, Never witb mv con- sent." Gobey ilen stood opposite her, an ?gre er a ferocious look, and he kept making a noise with the clasp- knife, which he struck against a door-key. He then walked over to where Mrs. Chambers was standing, and pulled the knife out of his pocket. At that moment the married daughter of Mrs. Chambers entered the room, which wag on the ground floor, carrving in her arms Gebey's child, a girl :tha¡;¡g: went up to the child, who was playing with a domino, and said, "You will never play with another domino," and he took the child out of the woman's arms." He knelt down, placed the child on its back on the floor, with his left hand caught hold of its wrists, and with his right attempted to draw the clasp knife over the latter s throat, bt was prevented doing so by the youig woman rushing upon him and giving him a b ow on the shoulder. Before he had time to recover himself she stooped down and dragged the child from him. The young woman Mary Ann, the mother of the child, then made her ap- p,,gn,?, at the door, when Gober rushed at her, and struck cbetohh!rihtW::as with ili:hk1if :bihh still held in his hand. The whole front part of her bosom and dress was instantly covered with blood. A struggle took place, and she fell to the gronnd. He then rushed out of the room into a back kitchen, and, staudinbefore a iooking-fjass, he cut his own throat in several p f, aces, the room being speedily covered with blood. A policeman had by this time entered the house. He caught hold of Gobey, and, after some st.ugglin», wrenched the knife from his grasp. Dr. Tacona, of CaWe-street, was at once sent for, and he attende i to the wounds of both the man and woman. He gave it as hia opinion that the latter was in no imme- diate danger of deftth, as the wound which she had received was fortunately in a fleshy part, immediately above the breast and underneath the right collar-bone. He ordered the instant removal of Gobey to the London Hospital, as he was in a very iJangcrous state. The police who had arrested the man on t'ne charge of attempted murder carried him on a stretcher to the hospital. The young woman is progres- sing favourably.

WRECKS.—During the past week 29 wrecks have been reported, making for the present year 1,549. Lcrd Chief Justice Cockburn is at present on a visit to Mv. John Pendez, at Minard Castle, Argylesbire. He is )laic1 to be in excellent health. At a Berkshire farm, near Wokingham, last wefck, the foot and mouth disease appeared; since they, ninety cases of the plnue have been reported in th^ neighbour- hood. INOENROUS DEVICB.—A widow, occupying a large house in a fashionable quarter in London, lately y^nt for a wealthy solicitor fb make ber wiD, by which «faa imposed of between fifty and sixty thousand pounds. H ,,?ropowl soon aftv, fifty and sixty thoufonmna d r, W,If the bappy busbana at a was wmp%d,4md bappy hMband 01 a penWe",Avmtum.

DONCASTER MEETING-TUNSDAY. The town filled rapidly yesterday, and though there is the prospe t of a wet week before us, the meeting will be a very ?.te.89"e one. Nearly 150 horses are already here to assist," and the Town Moor is in splendid going order. We do not, however, anticipate more than a dozen or thir- teen runners for the St. Leger, as all Count De Lagrange's horses, as well as Arlington, Ladas, iasman, Thorwaldsen, &c., in addition to others enumerated in a previous number, have been struck out; and, though Acaster, Vanichka, Derventio, and Bosworth are here, they will be required for some of the handicaps, so that up to the present we have only Conrad, Crocus, De Vere, The Drummer, Duke of Beaufort, George Osbaldeston, Good Hope, Lord Hawthorn, Martyrdom, Pero Gomez, Pretender, and Typhon, upon the spot at all likely to take part in the great conflict of to-mor- row. Royal Oak is expected from John Scott's every hour; but we hear that he has been" worsted" in his trial, and we are not surprised. Pero Gomez did not ar- rive here until late yesterday, his trainer preferring to keep him on the soft turf at Kingsclere as long as he could, being doubtful as to the state of the going on the northern moor, and really until Friday last there was no rain fell in York. shire worth speaking of since the drought set in. The Drummer was the first of the Leger candidates that put in an appearance, which he did on Saturday; and on Sunday he only cantered with Formosa and Conrad to tie vast dis- appointment of hundreds of people who assembled on the race-coursc in anticipation of his being sent a rasping gallop. On Monday, too, they had the chagrin to find that henever went out of a half-speed gallop, and his only com- panion upon that occasion was the roaring Conrad. This morning, however, The Drummer did a bit better, for he went the whole length of the Leger distance; but he cer- tainly moved with anything but that freedom and. resolu- tion so conspicuous in him when he is and well. The horse has evidently been much shaken by the late hardness of the going; and it was too much to ask him twice over within a fortnight or so to beat Formosa at 51b. more than he did prior to the Derby. Pretender runs untried. He had a two mile spin with Lord Hawthorn and Argyll on Sunday afternoon, arrived here about three o'clock on Monday, and had II very nice three. parts speed gallop of a trifle over a mile and a-half this mcruing. He is not a taking animal to the eye, and though he is looking lighter than he did at Epsom, he is thoroughly trained and in the pink of condition. Pero Gomez also did a similar amount of work here, at about the same time, bounding along as easily as a cricket ball, not the slightest fault being found in him. In fact, no two animals can be more fit than Pretender and Pero Gomez; and it will be a tremendous fight for the Leger wreath between these worthy champions of the north and south. JohnnJ- Osborne knows he shall have all his work to do to prevent the prize going into Kent; and Wells seems sanguine he shall turn the tables upon his great northern rival. Crocus is much improved, but is evidently not class enough, and she showed a bit of temper this morning. The very good-looking George Osbaldeston went over a mile and a quarter steadily; but Typhon went an increased gallop. Cock o' the Walk took the Duke of Beaufort merrily along for nearly a mile and three-quarters, and the latter is quite a different animal to what he was at Ascot. Indeed, he looks uncommonly waspish now. A lot of walking and cantering exercise was done by most of the Leger horses; and we wero quite pleased with the manner in which the majority of them acquitted themselves. Yesterday an even bet of t250 was laid on Pretender and Pero Gomez being first and second; and it is evidently a certainty that one or the other will win. It will be a repetition of the Derby form; and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred public running is the only true guide. The entry for the Doncaster Cup is as follows:—Argyle, 3 yrs; Acaster, 3 yrs; Blueskin, 4 yrs; Cock o' the Walk, 4 yrs; The Drummer, 3 yrs; Duke of Beaufort, 3 yrs; Der- ventio, 3 yrs; Duchess of Athol, 3 yrs; Dodoua, 3 yr"; Formosa, 4 yrs; Fortunio, 5 yrs; George Osbaldeston, 3 ym; Good Hope, 3 yri?; Lord Hawtbom, 3 ym; Myosotis, 3 yrs; Paul Jones, 4 yrs; Pretender, 3 yrs; The Starter, 3 yrs; and Vanichka, 3 yrs. ORM&NBY will walk over for the Municipal Stakes. PERFUME should win the Bradgate Park Stakes; and FORTUNIO or COCK of the WALK the Queen's Plate. Forty-eight are in the Corporation Stakes, and we like NORMANBY and MOUNT PLEASANT as well as anything for that race. It is just likely that VAGABOND will take the Badminton Handicap, that is if he is in a proper tempera- ment at the post, and Lady Zetland, Plaudit, and Bosworth will have to look out in the Portland Plate, or THE PRIOR will bowl them over. The Doncaster Stakes result will be foreshadowed by the Leger issue; and it will be a great race tt::oČ:cstrIi:e; Dôit ful e a r;kt íiiû Stakes. The Don Stakes is a gift to MORNA. THE LYNX. (BY I Although the weather was dull and gloomy no rain ieu d g the 0. i T be course, ""h iT! bd bee.. hard as a turnpike M,?d !? in excellent going order, owing to the rain which had fallen since last Friday. The appear- ance of the town presented last night upon the arrival of the late trains, held owt prospects of a most successful meeting, and at the Subscription Rooms about midnight some spirited betting took place on the great event of to- morrow, some good business being likewise done on the Great Yorkshire Handicap and the Cesarewitch. Pero Gomez was not in quite so good odour as overnight. Those who had been present at the morning gallops, although ad- mitting that no horse could look better, did not generally like his style of going; while Pretender, on the other hand, maintained his position with the greatest firmness. The attendance on the Town Moor was of a fair avorage character, most of the leading supporters of the turf being present. Since the last meeting several improvements have been made in the stand, which has been considerably enlarged, and affords accommodation for a large number of people, besides a new weighing and jockeys' room. At the :dPf' ts::I:s aWh:a:i:h'ofkeie:; i: has been added. Only Castle Hill had the temerity to meet White Slave in the Fitzwilliam Stakes, and of course was easily beaten, although the verdict was only given a "length." The favourite was equally successful in the Filly Stakes and again, in the Clumber Plate, the layers of the odds brought off the good thing which Hester booked, notwithstanding her solitary opponent Wing Old Honesty, who from the quantit; .f w.,k E. h. done must be somewhat stale. Twelvo were coloured on the card for the Great Yorkshire, of whom eleven put in an appearance, the betting at the last moment undergoing a change, the Tupgill representative passing Formosa in the quotations, Paul Jones, being a ?,ede better favourite than Buccaneer f, while Geant des Batailles had 100 to 8 taken about his chance by the followers of the "spots." The race is so fully entered into below that it is only necessary to say thatfrom the straight the winner bad the race in hand, and won easily from the favourite. For the Champagne Stakes Sunshine easily defeated Man- tilla and the Madame Eglantine f, and the Don Plate was won by Sir J. Hawley's cast-off Xi. Details :— THE FITZWILLIAM STAKES. Mr. W. Corren's White Slave, 2 yrs, 5at Ulb Hunt 1 Mr. W, Pay's Castle Hill, 3 yrs, 8st 31bs Cannon 2 Betting 10 to 1 on Whito Slave, Caatlo Hill made theruaning to the tum, whcre the favorito joined bone, aud drawing away from tho distance won by a length nud bait. THB FILLY STAKES. Mr. Lyndon's Frivolity. French 1 Mr. Launde'f) Agility 0?borue 2 ldr: G?h- C?.t F.rdh- i B.tti.g-9 to 4 on Frivolity; 5 to 1 g?t any other. Agility how?l the way, with C?tus in attendance, to the tom, where the favourite drew up, had the best 01 it at the distance, and won by half a long th; bad third. THB CLUMBER PLATE. Mr. J. Dawson's Ifester, 2 yn, 7st 31bs Hunt 1 Mr. Mastermau's Honesty, 9st 131bs (including "lbs extra) Grimshaw 2 Betting-2 to 1 on Hester, who made alt tho running, and won in a cahter by two lengths. Tins GREAT YORKSHIRE IlA!fDICAP. Lord Zetland's Geant de Batailles, 4 yrs, 7st lOlbs Hudson 1 2 Mr. Hodgman'H Paul Jones, 4 yrs, 7st 121bs Fordham 3 Formosa, Cap-a-Pie, Lady Zetland,War, Myosotis, Lir(],Wildbd and Dodoua y- ? Betting—3 to 1 agst Argvle. 4 to 1 agst Paul Jones, 9 to 2 agst Formosa, 8 to 1 agst Myo otis, 100 to 8 each agst Dodona and Geant des Btill, 100 to 6 each g?t Wildb?d .d Laird, 30 to 1 each ast Laly Zetl?d and War. One failure pn>oedcd the start, and when sent on their journey PTan, J""e8and Dodona got IwM ? f!'ont° *?'xt° !o whom came Forme* Cap a-Pie, and Vdalb2. After getting about 200 yards, Dodona took mp ?he running, Wildbd, Paul J s, and Argyle Ie together fying next, and th.n came Myosotia, Formosa, Geant, des Batail, Cap- ?Pie*Md iSr? the remr btinj; brought up with War ad LPdy Zetland. Asccndig the hill Paul Jone.again took the command, D.d. Wil,lbd, .ad IrKylo Nde by sMt, next to which lot Me. ceeded MyosetM and C'P-M As they went out of sight For- ?i,ht, &.P.?l11 -d b,(? h., l?'.  e R d H = l ut d t last, Md before reMhinn &e R d HMMt, Gmnt dm B?MHea. irradually improved hi. po..m.on, and f(Qt on better terms with the rront?i??'.?*Com??mto'!h'o atmight, Paul Jones was still a £ the head of affairs, with Dodoua kill in attendance upon hi*, ut?t to whom e<Hn'e Ge?t des Batadlea, of which lot Dodons ? tfce first in trouble; and b^ow the distance Geant des Batailles ?ded Paul JmM, the latter b ing p??ed by Argyle. From this I noint the issue was reduced to match between Geant d t^ ;'I" !?il at the 1- ??w, l- t?? 'tvb able to get up, and was d,?t,' by a ??h. Paul J.? wa' a had third. Formo.a finished fourth. I?ird 6fth, Codona sixtt. War tb 'C Pie eighth, Myo.otio ninth, Ldy Zetland next, and 7fldb.Ld 12t. THE CHAHPAGNE S?-FS. I Mr. Merry's Sunshine, 8st 81b Fordham 1 Mr. Pryor's Mantilla, 8st 81b Frtnch 2 Sir J. Hawley's Madame Eglantine, 8st 81b, car. 8st 91b J. Adams 3 Zeno, Thinskin, aad Fusee al80 ran. Snnshine took up the running, attended by the Madame Eglan- tine filly to the turn, where the latter gave wayto Mantilla, but could never reach Sunshine, who won without being headed easily by a length and a half; bad third; Fusee furth, Zeno f?ttl?. ni- akin L..t. THE STAND STAKES. 1 Ib 1 Lord Westmorland's Hoxana, 2 yr., 6st (45o) Grad«*ell 2 Mr. J08eph Barnes' lnon, 3 yrs, 7st b,. Osborne 3 Venice, Sportsman, and Candour also ran. Betting- 5 to 4 agst Ismael, 7 to 2 agst Venice, and 4 to 1 agst Boxana. Venice made play to the bend, wherf, Ismael, fol- lowed from the distance by Boxana, challenged the f.-uit- opposite the stand, and w. defeated by neck, four lengths between second and third; Venice was f. ",tb, Sportsman fifth, domdowla.t. ThewimawmboughILinfor' guineas. THB Dow PUTE HANBIRJAP. Mr. F. Johndon. Xi, 6 yr?, 8.t 41b C-o. 1 sJ C. Lm?d's Vespasian, 6 yre, lOafc 4lb Custance 2 lir I ABUey'e Choinl, tyrs, 6st Nt WiiMn 3 Pe?(3r=cp?, Avolo, R?ivA BW, Meetricity, moms, r-m"- burgh, Miss Gladiateur, h by ?oMpholite-Stro?ords dim) also ran.. to ? Betting—2 to 1 <?'t Vespa%W 5 to 2 ??t Mc""?. to .ij. jgijt Xi,M?leach?tmeetneit-y md Choral, 16 W   bn'gh, and 100 to 3 agst Rw?M Br. After ww, t,mt? indbten a'Di {DD1 th: disU:: where the three pbwed Vme aw?, Xi wl=IuFr, ?f ter*& tine r?, by a njckjsame betw-- --nd and thi.rd Morn% wa? y;mM;ieelÎtth7'n.tv o;;¡¡': w,vmth; Fdmtn la eighth; RUEW" Bear Edibgh "d I GLASGOW STAKES. Sir C. Legard s Swift Custance 1 Mr. C. Kennington's J. Challoncr 2 Betting: 3 to 1 on Swift, who made ?ll the tunning, -d  in a ?w, by two I.,?gth

BETTING ON THE COURSE. I S?. L. 1ST. {.E<u;a. 5 to 2 1, ,r. G. t and 0 10 to 1 Drummer, t and o 10 t?)1Martyrdom, t 15 to 1 — Typhon, t U() = ?!uto,¡ Beaufort, t Si to 1 Geo. Osbaldeston, t f 50 to 1 Lord Ha chorna .50 to 1 Starter, t CESAREWITCH. 40 U > 1 agst Vallation rr, t 40 to 1 Our Mar, Ann, t 40 to 1 Storm King, t 40 to A1 Lady Evelyn colt, t lOOO to 15 Tim Bobbin, t I C") to 10 — Toby, t THE DERBT. 9 to 1 aga. Sunshine, t to £400 50 to 1 — Coutts, t 100<) to 40 .Ma,laDlc Eglantine filly, t six times before the Champagne Stakes was run for^2 PROBABLE STABt^aS FOR THE ST. LKGER. Pero Gomez Wells. The Drummer. Custnce. Typhon Morris. Duke of Beaufort Fruucli. Lord Hawthorn ChaHollcr. Georg« Osbaldeston Doyle. Martyrdom A Fordham. R<?t<)?.?  ?.??..???..?<J.<'riN;afKtw. G.l H.p. Cameron. Conrad ••• Page. LATEST SCRATClIINtiS,-CrocUJ was struck. out of the 1St. Leger and Portland Plate this afternoon. ENTRY I.. THE DON CCP, FrÍtlay.-Forf1mio Duchess of Athol, Myosotis, Starter, Aeastcr, George OsbnJdes ton, Paul Jonas, Blue Skiu, Vanickka, Dodona, Formosa, Drum, "lH:r, Cock of the Walk, Duke of Beaufort, Pretender, Good Ho pc, Argyle, Der- went. No London betting.

ACCEPTANCES FOR THE CESAHEWITCH AND CAMBRIDGESHIRE. I THE CESAREWrrCH STAKED yrs st JI) Palmer » t 3 ;3 Sa", 8 13 C 2ii 8 9 R..i?ruci;?n 4 8 9 Kidd miiist??r s' 9 9 Cock of tho Walk 4 8 8 Taraban 5 8 7 Paul Jones 4 8 4 4 84 Goodwood 5 8 4 Duke of 3 8 0 r.i,wind. 5 711 Gondolier 4 7 11 Syceo 5 7 9 Itobespierro 3 7 I Starter 3 7 8 Morna 3 7 8 N..?y 6 7 8 Laird 4 7 8 Siderolite 3 7 7 Clemen a 4 7 7 Legislator 4 7 7 M)?ui?;C?ra.b?..? 7 6 SpceM. 76 Etoilo Filantc (; 7? Bnthday !7 0 Myosotis 3 6 12 John Daws a 612 Adrastia 3 6 12 Robin llover 3 6 10 Tasina 3 6 10 L Phantom 4 ,I- 1,A"ipp.,I? to I Tramp) .? ? ? t jConradu r ¡ Prouessc 4 9 Our Mary Ann 4 7 Vanicbka 6 7 L!MiM.?.?.??'?. 6 7 Lopes ii 6 4* Stork 6 5- Dodona J 6 5, Redcap ..a 6 4 y 3 Provider 3 6 2 Hardener  6 2 Atonement 3 6 0 va"tion g ?.i 4 5 13 Red Rice 3 5 12 Royal Head 5.2 Vladimir 3 5 12 Crown Princess j 511 Storm King J 5 12 Asineboino 5 5 10 Miss Poddie colt 3 5 2 Lady Evelyn Inly ;S 5 9 V on I. 358 King Alfred s dnm fillv. 5 7 Chere i 5 7 Lamlash 3 5 7 To   ?.  3 5 7 ¡:è: CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES. yrs st lb Knight of the Garter. 5 10 7 Vespasian .1 510 6 ïO: l 1 Frippouier 5 9 9 See ^aw 4 9 7 Palmer 5 9 6 Lamtret 6 9 5 Posic. acian 4 9 2 Silenus 5 9 0 K?ntf?'tred..?.???.90 Sain iin a 8 12 Plaudit 5 8 12 C,?it 11) C ).???? 8M Ommwood??'??.?? S T) phoens 4 8 8 Nelusko 4 8 (> Duke of Beaufort 3 8 5 Goodwood 5 8 4 Cornet 4 8 4 George Oabaldestou 3 8 4 Van Amburgh 5 8 3 Moma 3 8 3 Taraban 5 8 3 Viaenunt"???.? 80 Bel Giomo 4 8 0 ,tJ ] I P.,?.Yd.W 3 7 13 I,Wly Z?t?na 4712 C..rdinaJ York 3 7 U Starter 3 7 11 Clemeneo 4 7 11 Robespierre I 7 10 i 7 10 W. ?* ?? ?,, ?, ?:: 379 IsUi m 7 9 Dunbar 7 9 Epworth 4 7 9 H??crBeii????? 3 7 8 C,,d.p 378 John Leeoh 4 7 8 Stork 3 7 7 Fairw.ni 5 7 7 Nancy 6 7 6 Bol? 376 Virtrute. 6 Border Knight 3 7 6 Bramhridgo 3 7 4 Skip Ja*'k 5 7 4 Etoilo Filante 6 7 4 Miehuel do Basco 4 7 2 Mdlle. De Fligny 3 7 1 Adrastia 3 7 0 Nurna Pompihus 5 6 13 yrs ft lb Prior ="' & l Phantom 3 6 12 "andard Bearer <! 6 12 Robin Rover '3 6 12 T.Lion d'Or 3 6 12 Chauoinessc 3 6 10 i !iy< Bosworth 3 6 9' Lopez 3 6 9 P?Mii???????:!6? ':rJ:: 4 Autee 4 6 8 ?) f7I .? er 38 T .:39 Curieuse .1 6 8 Cocoa Nut 67 Far Away 3 6 7 Anla-je 3 6 7 Royal Rake ;i 6 7 Neucfiatel f 6 6 Chatclberault 3 6 • Atonement I 6 5 Bertha J 6 5 I =i.> Teeswater 3 6 5 Dodona 3 6 4 jov<???..????)e Provider J 6 4 Herennianus 4 6 4 Vestminster i 6 4 6 S Royal Head 3 6 a Vacuum I 6 1 Rod Rice 3 6 0 Vladimar 3 6 Wanderer 3 6 Allb-k 36 Hobart 3 5 IS Vallation gelding 4 5 IS The Returned 4 5 12 Kaupai a 5 10 Juauita .¡ ,10 LadyEve)ynti)iy??3:] Turret 4 5 10 Assinbrtine 5 5 10 King" Alfred's dam filly 3 5 9 Antietam 3 5 8 Lamlash 3 5 7 Di Spanker 3 5 7 Cbu?."?.???.'?.?9 Toby 3 5 7 A?)h?<)'?.?'"?..??' Grasshopper filly 3 5 7

MONUMENT TO BKUCE.—On Saturday, at a meeting held in the Golden Lion Hotel, Stirling, it was resolved to take steps to erect a monument to King Robert the Bruce, a. Bannockburn. A provisional committee was appointed. Dr. Muschett, of Birkhill, presided. THE KING OP THE RISING SUN.—The following is. vouched for as the correct titles of the King of Burmah, as they form the commencement of a letter addressed by him to Sir John Lawrence in 1866:- His Great, Glorious, and Most Excellent Majesty, who reigns over the Kingdom of Tbams, Paranta, .? tho gre?t Umbrella- bearing chiefs of the Eastern country, tho King of the Rising Sun, Lord of the Celestial Elephant, and Master oU many White Elephants, and Great Chief of Righteousness," to the English Ruler who governs India and all the great ountries to the Eastward."—Homeward Mail. ERRORS IN ADMIRALTY CHARTS— lathe House of Repr»- sentatives, on June 24, Mr. Creighton asked the Postmaster- General whether .y serious mistakes in the Admiralty charts of the Hauraki Gulf and other parts of the m?t? Ilif t:f?Âckl/e Pb:: recently di,- covered and reported to the Government; and, if ro" whether, baying regard to the increasing trade in that pM\ of the colony, the Government proposes to have the ca.t-- line in question re-Ftu?eyed and the charts corrected with- I jI;sthe rC:¡:;¡:fS:;t:hartb:Õ; ment recoised the propriety of the survty being made, a? errors in the charts had been discovered, and they itteaded. to propose a vote for the survey.-Daily Southern Cross,. July 5. DESPERATE END OF A DESPERATE C„ HARACTER.—A,i. revolting instance of Lynch law is reewded as having oc- curred at Pond City, Kansas, on the 28th nIt. :-A maAI named John Langford was seized by a ance committee of that city and taken out of the town to be hanged. Wham he was informed that he conld hope for no mercy he c- feased that ho had already killed six men, and if his !iUa could be postponed for a few days is would kill as nttoy more. After making this eonfemion, and givinpxitternme to some horrid blasphemy, he pullfed off his b-t., ad, placing the rope around his own nsek, swung-himscjt off the tree, and thns was his own executioner. Langfoni wall half Indian, about twenty-two jsara old, aad had. lid a dewerate life all over the border. sEwAGE DISPOSED OF AT LAST.—A discovery hasoeen iaade in India which renders it not impossibb that art only -y Sir John Thwaites and his boon companions be able to m.m? th.?e b-,I-ts which poverty hai for 9. tie so =hfes1 ent :ht that the Metrop?Ktan as::¡ of Works n?y actuaUy auccecA in at It. It seems that Mwag9 maybe tili?ed by being converted into gw. Exyerimuits have been s aecmfay tried at Darjeeling and Calcutta, and it ?o now proposed to apply the pro"ws to some of the l&rgw citic ?. The gas must be much better than that supplied by o«r gas com- I i:ø th:e,7:;¡t h:d Ü: to bur* bn?ht)y"—a l pliment which cannot be paid to the Mpens?ve commodity which helps only to make darkness visible with us. In stead, therefore, of gazing through tears on a polluted- river. and a bankrupt Board of Works, w II may look for- ward to a pellucid stream, a wealthy corporation, and a. brilliantly lighted city with a dimuushec\ gas-rate. TCMUV will also be one inestimable advantage to be derived fioo the adoption of the scheme. By Mending our kl\¡q, with our diains it will only be nece?zwy to dig up IN  thoroughfares once instead of twice a. month—? ft -M" Gasette. Two MEN BURNT TO DEATH AT AN  On Monday an inquest was held at Wotv.rhamptonh. in- vestigate the circumstances attending th -f two men, who had b'n kiH? by an accident ? ? ,rks. The evidence .?o?<) that the deceaed, who were aF e(i 35 and 21 years respectively, nd '^Henrr Boulter, and the other Henry Parkes,  the kc.. ,? fh* ra^wr^ the trst ?urn(icos be]onglD to the Patent Sh."t and Axletrce Company, of Wd ace?bury. Whil?t the'j were .d in the I'roc"' of b'PPhg one Of tbe bug4 turnace. of wl?i?h the)' hacl the charg&. a portion o?f Mtha tu?rDMe ? M'? ?' "?? shockingly burnt with the many tons of molten metal nnd ?.t,? ??&tw??' they wfire ?Ted to the South Staffordshire Hospital, where th,? ?on Lnircd The inference of the experts examined un ?onday ? that Boulter had allowed the furnace to >e- mafn too long untapped, and that the metal. rising to the ?yereethrcugh which the air is blown into the furiam bMntahotointho casing, and the water wtth?e'eapm? upon the metal, generated tea., which led to .n e' ,Pl..i- I. The manager of the works, in mponse to the iW? of the iory promised that he woum turn his Attau0?n to soma method by which it miqlxt be learnt bv thf keeper of < furnace what at any given stage W tho height of the seething metaL