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vrobincial Intelligence, I The Great Eastern is now in charge of Mr. Kett, the second officer-Mr. Prowse, the chief officer, having left the ship since she was laid up at Southampton. A crown presentation has arisen from the death of the Rev. John Swire, Vicar of Mansfield, in the North Riding. The vicarage, which is in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, is returned as of the annual value of 4661. SCARCITY OF W OBKPBOPLE.-In consequence of the scarcity of hands for the factories in Rossendale, spe- cial efforts have been made to import labourers into the district from the southern counties, but so far the effort has proved a failure. It is said that the scarcity is chiefly in consequence of the rapid increase of co-opera- tive manufactories.-Manchoster Examiner. WILDFOWL SHOOTING.—Sir LydstonNewman, Bart., has been entertaining a large party of fashionables at his seats, Stokely and Mambead Park, Devonshire. At the former place a wildfowl battue was got up, and the result of this novel species of wildfowl shooting was, that upwards of 500 wild duck were bagged; and in the preserves of Mamhead 202 pheasants (nearly all cocks), 30 hares, and 70 febbits, and several woodcock were kilIed.-The Field. FALL or A NOBLB OLD TREE.—During the Me heavy ale of wind the magnificent and unrivalled lime tree in Moor-park, the seat of Lord Ebury, was blown down. This fine old tree will be remembered by many on ac. count of its having been the seat of numbers of visitors, who have encamped under its spreading and pending branches, which extended themselves to the diameter of 140 feet, and 95 feet in height. THB LATB DEAN or ty.-The subscription for restoring the octagon and lantern of Ely Cathedral as a memorial of the late lamented Dean Peacock is slowly increasing. Up to Saturday the total collected was about 4,1201., while the plans prepared by Mr. G. G. Scott will involve an outlay of 5,0001. Lord Overstone has forwarded to the committee the handsome donation of 501. THE CAMBRIDGE COMMHNCBMENT."—Mr. Stirling, the senior wrangler of the year, was educated at the University of Aberdeen, under Professor Thompson, who was himself second wrangler in 1845. The total number of gentlemen who have obtained honours this year is 121 as compared with 181 in 1859. The number of wranglers is the same aslin 1859 the list of senior optimes exhibits a small imcrease, but there is a falling off in the junior optimes. TESTIMONIAL TO A liON-COMMMIONED OFFICER.— Quartermaster Serjeant Robert Moore, 35th, who has returned from his regiment in India, has been presented with a handsome chased goblet, made by A. Lyons, at Chatham. The moneyjfor the testimonial was subscribed by the serjeants ef the 25th Regiment in India, who forwarded it to the depot at Chatham, as a mark of their esteem and respect. The quartermaster serjeant went out with the regiment in 1854 to Bengal, and he was in all the engagements during the rebellion in that presidency. A BIlEs' NEST IN A HotrsB.—A beee nest has been discovered under the flooring and between the joists of the topmost room in the house occupied by Dr. Mack- inder, Caskgate street. The bees numbered some thou- sands, and the quantity of honey and honeycomb accu. mulatisd was prodigious, so much so that itis conjectured the hive must have existed, quite unknown to anyone, for about fourteen years. 'I&e bees are said to have had an outlet into the open air just under the heavy cornice of the building. The nest was taking place in the premises.—Stanford Mercury. PBEL PARK MUSEUM, SALPORD, AND DR. LIVING- STONE.—Though the kindness of Jae. A. Turner, Esq., M.P., a donation has been forwarded to the museum of a number of insects, which are very Ï11terestÏng, as hav- ing been collected by Dr. Livingstone, on tile osnks of the river Zambesi, on the east coast of Afriea. The insects are not new species to the entomologist versed in foreign coleoptera, but coming from this locality, and being collected by the hand of a man so universally known, they will be equally regarded with interest by i the scientific and the unlearned in such matters. The insects are plaeed in a oase by themselves, in the foreign room, and are conspicuously labelled .Salford Weekly Ntws. AN ENEMY TO THE BRITISH OAK.—For some years past a silent unsuspected enemy has been invading the oak forests of England. In all the south-western coun- ties galls, like those which we get from the Levant for the purpose of dyeing black, have been making their ap- pearance, and annually increasing in quite a geometrical ratio. On several occasions the subject has been ad- vertised to in our columns, especially in the year 1855, when Mr. Westwood published a figure ofjthe gall, and a few months later by a correspondent at Worcester. Since that time the mischief thus caused has increased so alarmingly that, unless some effectual stop can be put to the evil, the landowners of Devon, Cornwall, Dorset, Somerset, and even Gloucestershire, will have to abandon all hope of raising oak timber. The trees have ceased to grow, acorns no longer appear, but in their stead the branches are loaded with hard dry balls. —Gardener's Chronicle. DESTRUCTION OF DB. Hicxxs's MANUSCRIPTS.—A painful rumour has been the topic of conversation in literary circles during the past week. It appears that three large chests full of manuscripts, left by the cele. brated Dr, George Hickes, the deprived Dean of Wor- cester, were consigned to the custody of his bankers after his decease. Owing to the dissolution of the firm, the premises have been lately cleared out, and the whole of these valuable documents committed to the flames in one of the furnaces at the New River Head! Here is a loss, not only to the ecclesiastical student who wishes to form an imtlartialjudgment on the history of the English church at the eventful period of the revolution; but of papers illustrative of the biographical and literary history of the close of the seventeenth century. For it is well known that Dr. H;ckes was a person of such po- litical, ecclesiastical, and literary eminence in his time, that he was in daily- correspondence with the most learned men at home and abroad. It is melancholy to contemplate the loss literature has sustained when we consider that Dugdale, Gibson, Nicolson, Elstob, Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, Wanley, Pepvs, Kettlewell, Jeremy Collier, LodweU, and his bosom mend the pious Robert Nelson, were among his correspondents. Dr, Hickes died on December 15, 1715. Mr. Thomas Bowdler was his executor, and Mr. Annesley the over- seer of his wffl.-Notei and Queries, A LITTLE BIT FOR THE TEETOTALLERS.—Sir George Strickland in a Letter to the Ratepayers," is the au- thority for the followingBy the Report for the year 1859, it appears that the Yorkshire Count3 Asylum contains 445 patients, viz., 235 males, and 210 females. The consumption of beer by the inmates during the year amounted to the surprising quantity of 13,424 gallons, besides a charge for SO ons of ale, and further items for malt and hops, which would make about 417 gallons more, making nearly 14,000 gallons of malt liquor. Be- sides this, there is a charge for porter ofXI16 18s. 9d., or about 1,520 gallons, making, in all, more than 15,000 gallons of malt liquor, consisting of ale, porter, and beer. Then there is a charge ofX81 for wine. That is, a pipe of port wine every year. A pipe contains 116 gallons, or about 690 bottles. And then, what is worst of all, in the year 1858, there is a charge of f 14 for ardent spirits—that most destructive poison. This, taking gin at 2s. a bottle, is a supply of 140 bottles. Moroover, there is a charge of £61 5s. for 3501bs. of tobacco, and 2,016 tobacco-pipes. Now, I at once ask, is this the approved means for curing mental derangement ?" A KITTEN IN THE CRINOLINE.—A few mornings since a young lady, in considerable alarm, stepped into the shop of Mr. Coleman, greengrocer, Queen's road, Brighton, and begged of Mrs. Coleman to be allowed to »o into the parlour to search herself over, as there was Something crawling about her which made her very un- comfortable. Mrs. C. kindly tendered her. assistance to discover the mysterious stranger, and on investigation I soon found a kitten hung up in the trelliswork of her crinoline. A few moments' reflection afforded a solution of how it obtained its whereabouts. The young lady was one of the district visitors, and she had just been to pay a visit to a poor person whose cat was a mamma, and Miss Titt, in her kittenish frolics, had availed her- self of the crinoline to have a game of hoop and hide. It is to be hoped that the attachment of the youthful feline miscreant is no omen that the young lady may hereafter be one of those antiquated spinsters who by tradition are said to have a strong affinity to cats. BIRTH IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGB.-On Wednesday last, a married woman, named. (joedet, left the Guild- ford railway station, by a third-class train, with the m. tention of proceeding to Kingston, where she was to meet her husband, who went by the road, on foot, and was going to convey her to the Kingston Union, to awaitthèr accouchement. During the journey, the woman was seized with those premonitary symptoms which plainly indicated to her fellow passengers (these, fortu- nately, consisted of only four females, who were in the same compartment of the carriage) that the advent of another item to our population was at hand. Before arriving at Kingston, the woman gave birth to a daugh- ter. Every attention was paid to the mother and child, who were carefully removed to the apartments of Mr. Mawdsley, the station master, where they were promptly attended by Mr. Coleman. The child born under such peculiar circumstances is, we understand, to be chris- tened Fanny Surbiton." Lr,ery aid that could be afforded, under the peculiar circumstances, was cheer- fijlly rendered, and theladiesofthe neighbourhood were most assiduous in their attentions. The poor woman was, fortunately, so far recovered on Thursday that she Was able to submit to a removal to the Kingston Union, where every care will be taken to ensure her recovery, I a JOINBD IN DEATH.—An old couple, John Kemp and wife, of the respective ages of 74 and 72, were buried together last week at Middlesbro*. They had enjoyed good health for many years. The old man met with an accident a week er two ago, which terminated in death. After one day's illness, his wife, the day after her hus- band's death; joined him in the spirit land. The rule obtained by Lord Brougham for a criminal information against the printer of the Westmoreland Gazette, in respect of a letter in that paper charging his lordship with having an eye to his own private interest in effecting an exchange of land with the trustees of a local charity, has been discharged by consent, the de- fendant apologising and paying costs. It was clearly shown that Lord Brougham had taken no part whatever in the proceedings except in the representative of his brother, who was abroad, and had requested him to act for him in certain formal matters. THE COVENTRY RIBBON MANUFACTURERS AND THB COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH FRANCB. -A numerous and influential meeting of ribbon manufacturers was held at St. Mary's Hall, Coventry, on Monday, when it was resolved unanimously to appoint a deputation to pro- ceed to London, to remonstrate against the proposed commercial treaty with France. The Chamber of Com- merce has also deprecated the proposed treaty, and has appointed a committee on the subject. Colonel Wood, who formerly represented Brecknock- shire for forty years, died on Thursday, at the age of eighty-four. He was educated at Harrow and Oxford, and shortly aftar leaving the University he joined the East Middlesex Militia as Lieut.-Colonel, and succeeded to the full colonelcy in 1803. This command he con- tinued to fill up to the time of his decease, serving with the regiment at Aldershot when last embodied. The Countess of Newburgh is now the oldest member of the peerage. Next month she will have completed the ninety-eighth year of her age. Until very recently she could read and work without spectacles, and even now her sight and memory are but very slightly im- paired. Her ladyship is one of the Webbs, of Oldstock, Wilts, and her marriage took place in 1789. She was well acquainted with, artd-well remembers, many of the personal friends of CharlfesJBtutat, and of the adherents of the Stuart cause at Culloden(d rtill takes pleasure in recalling the memory of those .bygone days ot chivalry. THB SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY.—The works for the narrow gauge line to Exeter are in so forward a state as to induce the hope of its being opened for traffic some time during the ensuing summer. It is reported that it will be opened early in July. It is understood to be the intention of the South Devon Company to lay down a narrow gauge line from Plymouth to Exeter, so as to work in connection with the London and South Western line, as well as the Bristol and Exeter. This will be a great public convenience, as it will enable persons passing between Plymouth and Southampton and Portsmouth, as well as those who prefer going to London by the narrow gauge line, to do so without the inconvenience and annoyance of changing carriages at Exeter. SUDDEN DBATH OP Loan NoRTx.-This nobleman, eldest son of Earl Guilford, ofWaldershare, near Dover, died suddenly at the residence of his mother-in-law, Lady Grey de Ruthyn, at Wateringbury, on Saturday morning at two o'clock. His lordship was thirty years of age, and has left three children, the eldest a boy, and now heir apparent to the earldom of Guilford. His lordship was in his usual health until a few hours previous to the fatal attack, and on Thursday was, during all the day, shooting on the lands of his brother- in-law, Mr. Lancaster Lucas. Mr. Gould, of Watering- burv, was in immediate attendance; and eventually Dr.'WoodfaU. of Maidstone, was summoned, but with- out avail. The information of his lordship's death was received on Saturday by Earl Guilford, his father, who is eighty-eight years of age, with deep emotion. A Fox at A Fix.-A few days since, the South Berks hounds had a smart run, by starting a fine fox close to Pinge Wood. Reynard made away for the Burghfield Meads, and dashed across the Kennet, the hounds also taking water. A. few horsemen, who kept up to the fast pace, crossed the drrwbridge at the Wire Mills. Poor Reynard made his way over the rail, through Coley Park, and up the avenue, and on to Mr. Elisha's brick-kiln, where he was lost, after the hounds had "tried" all the comers without success. It appears that in the course of the night, the occupants of a resi- dence at the brickworks heard a very extraordinary noise in the cellar, so strange that they were not anxious for an immediate 11 interview." In the morning some coals arrived from Mr. Hill's, and on the man descend. ing to place them in the cellar, he encountered poor Pug, whom he seized by the ears! A desperate scratching and struggling ensued, but ultimately he was secured in a sack, and transmitted to H u. Simon?., Esq., who handsomely rewarded the captor, and forwarded Reynard on to "head-quarters for a second day's run. BURIAL OF CAPTAIN HAItRISoif.-The funeral of Captain Harrison took place on Friday at the St. James's Cemetery, Liverpool. The coffin, which was conveyed from the Lime-street station of the London and North Western Railway at about half-past 10, was placed in an unassuming hearse, drawn by two horses, and followed by five mouraing coaches, containing the relatives of the deceased and chief mourners. The cortege was completed by about 200 gentlemen on foot (belonging to the mercantile marine of the port), and 40 or 50 private carriages. The directors of the Great Eastern Company took part in the ceremonial. All along the line of procession the number of spectators was immense, and not less than 30,000 or 35,000 people followed the cortege to the cemetery. The flags of the different public institutions and numerous private establishments were hung half mast high, and the church bells rang muffled peals during the day. At the cemetery, the officers of her Majesty's ship Has- tings and seamen, together with those of the training ship Conway, joined the procession. The grave of the deceased is close to the Huskisson Mausoleum, and around it lie the remains of many men of celebrity. The union jack, which covered the coffin, was, we be- lieve, the subject of some dispute between the naval officers and the undertaker. The naval gentlemen ob- jected to the union jack being thrown over the coffin, on the ground that the deceased was not a member of the British navy. This interpretation of the use of the union jack was, however, very shortly decided, and the coffin passed from the hearse to the chapel, and thence to the grave, covered with that emblem which is the signal of England's power and glory. THB STRAYED SHEEP.—A few days ago a boy about 15 years of age, an apprentice in the neighbourhood of Todmorden, from some little family difference, left his parents' house at the usual time for going to work, but instead of taking that course, armed himself with a pot of preservea and a loaf of bread, and wended his way into Lancashire. He travelled on until night overtook him, and his store of provisions had become exhausted, when, weary and forlorn, he found himself on a barren common, near Bolton, not knowing where next to move. At that critical moment succour came to hand in the person of a worthy divine, who questioned the lad, as- certained the particulars of his case, and acted the part of a good Samaritan. He led him off the common, took him to a respectable house, and procured him a good night's lodging, supper, and breakfast. Early on the following morning, his kind benefactor visited him, and after some conversation he set the wanderer in the right direction for his home, and presented him with a neat gilt-edged pocket Bible, with the following passages in- scribed on the fly leaf:—" AU we like sheep have gone astray, but God hath laid upon him the iniquity of us astray,, I This is the Lord's doings, and it is marvellous in our eyes." He also wrote immediately to the boy's master, and the kind letter and the boy arrived almost simultaneously. The lad was gladly received by his parents and his master, and a suitable reply was des- patched to the rev. gentleman, acknowledging his kind oonduct.-Leeds Mercury.

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