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CHEERFUL WORDS. (1) We fWe Mr By-lop an apology for not having Ootlce be second volumue of » Cheerful Words" it has been lying on our table for ? tisit bas been tying on our table for s? time- Llke the volnme it wil1 be '°aU to fu y merit its tit?, aod we feel sure that ?'? ?o ?useit,and those who adopt it ID j t4, various i?.?i'ntions for which it is primarily I ?.d, will be of opinion that the authors I ?"?war a.ued in issuing another volum W ??-.i??o d ?. from the preface, that Mr Hys op ba; rr eceivtd comm.ndauons from all quarts as Lt ?uor?nce of the loving work he tù LLJC ?' 1° nud^r'akeu. T?reare tweny-8ix sermons tbe .o'nme, a?d throughout each and all we C ?".t?g pr?h.d but Cbist. As in the -I volume, ?ryt'?g doctrinal, everytbin? nr. b ¡ h f ever5thilig on which we anfortuna?ly d:1 ff is cardul1y omitted, and we have notLiu? ? h t can be acceptable to everyone who ac- ceptS the first and gre«t principles of Chnsllulllty Ufb comfort the reading of these several ?"-?g will give to those deprived of some of ^c-est r,inas of hfe, perhaps no one can ti)f Ct ex'eut of, bus this we feel assure d that it te]l tbt' t'x't'ot of, )Ot t IS w eel assured, tuat it is "° \?'h?< de?t  pMtitade we owe to Mt- "f °*ifor ?j? ??y 'n wLich he lifts the minds klfc \!ir'iu.d raises their thoughts, from ?""?t? pcjporai, which are, as we know, such a ,d il,ri,ien to them, to that bright here?er icbere l"l" -re ? ?? sorrow nor pain.
GOKOSWY OWEN (2).
GOKOSWY OWEN (2). j .j,standing the host of eminent literan b" (/ "fr; that Wa)?s has produced, few merit a preaI r fiRi|J t'?" sh?nid be assigned to Goronwy ¡rrea!c  and as our knowledge of him is very I\I. I ?"' we hut with pleasure the publication, by IIIJJ¡t' T ,Y ?u eminent Welshman as the Rev. Robert ?? [)? hfe and work s of the once famou »V I The pre?ut uodcn is prospective, for the ? k is uow b"? ? press. It will be '0 J h 'f I"1U' wheil ;c fonr qanrteriy hni f -volawes, in stiff Par c0V, rs, P"?? seven shillings and sixpence pap b d f *C to .u?crib?M, to be paid for on delivery, TnoD 'ub^ribers the price of the half-volume will j.r half a guinea. The first will be ready o? 0r8l'ont the first of August next. Inasmuch as or h Ed' rc.ri ^not so mnch the Editor's object as to r irf bi" ftilow-coui t,rymen and the lovers ot literatnre a carefully prepared edition of the Works and Correspondence of one of the mosttileuted of foe Cymric poets, in a form wority of bis DHme and genius, we trust his fcfbrf will meet with a response such as will enable him to prosecute the work with confidence to a^ slice, .fai l^sae. Should the success of the nreseut «o>k warrant a future effort in the same direction, Mr Jones will publish in a similar form ilie works of Lewis Morris (Llewelyn Ddu), the Re*. Evan Evaus (It-run Brydydd Hir, Eli". I WpJU, alIa their contemporaries, so as to form a j uniform edition of the Cymric writers of the tighteeutb century. Ij
MR. mULEY RICHARDS (3).I
MR. mULEY RICHARDS (3). I rh nppro<.icluug Vl:>it to n l"t::xu!un O. r I The i? p ro.icin? visit to Wrexham of Mr  Briui ?' R'coards, on the occaio of the Eistedd- Md Gura dd on Wait Monday, wiU give to Wrex- a general interest in a littie I bouK just published at Bangor, in which is told the story of Mr Richards's career. Born in 1819, at Carmarthen, and the son of a musician, be I tarlv gavti iixiicatiors of musical genius, and I thoujii at first intended for the medical profes- sion, be was soon permitted to engage in pursuits j more appropriate to his nature and talents, in the Roral Academy of Music, where he gained a K'nj; s Scholarship. Since then be has been actively eL,e,,ed iu the musical world, and msv claim to have been one of the originators of a nauoiitil scuiiol of pianoforte music. He is ttioMU^hly ma-ter of that instrument, and by his brilliant compositions be has done more for it than any ef his contemporary s. Of course he will so down to posterity as the &utbor of God B'.eff the P'i!;cf of Wales," but in the memory of Wc.bliuieii If will likewise live as one of the chief snpi rt,,TS of the great national institutions of es. Mr Richards's latest success is Let the Hills iltiouLu," wnich we had the good fortune to D'an-mi;! at Marlborough House by the South Wslcf Chora Union. Iu other than a profes- e i. ai m4,.Ler, Nir Richards has also done good fierriet f the Principality, and in adding to his aquHviijeijts the role of lecturer on National ifasit- he adds another item to the debt which tie P;iucipality owes him. The little book is illasM.d by a really good photograph of Mr Hiciiarils.
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II'T) i EEKEDIIY AND HYBRIDISM (4). i lIr rgeant Cox htditles the scientifie world I coir a;id agaiu with his strange theories on ) piijfiology and psychology, and we venture to Eorjiist tuat the present essay will be read With lie greatest interest. It is a sort of sequel to iiir !ittl» work "What am I?" and is in answer to tbr questions of "Whence came the germ of toe ID A L ? —How was its structure '?-Hc),* did it jroif ry -How was its shape moulded ?—What life it'—How the man lived and why he died ?" In coiiiideiing these questions, Mr Cox fiuis-Ist, thai tico parents are required for the construc- tion of organised beings and 2ad, that organised beings are of duplex form, that is to say, not ¡ siinptrd as one whole, but of two distinct halves pined together, and those two halves always diti ring from each other more or less. The present work is the discussion of how far these iicts bear upon the phenomena of Heredity and Hybridism." Summed up, the arguments ire as follows :— ho parents are requisite for the production of '■uic being -wlieref(ire! The accepted theory for- ( was, that the mother produced the germ, and ILe, tlte father contributed to it merely a vivifying <(1 But the existence of such an aura, or how it "derated, was not wholly unproved, but no proof of ??s ever attempted. Better acquaintance with ?..? .).?y dissipated that delusion, and the later and "utr.dly accepted theory has been, that the germ of i: IlILllre offspring is contributed by the father, and ftj" mother merely produces for it a cradie and in other terms, taat the ovum is only a 'Wiling in which the germ is received and fed until it I' Su tar developed as to escape from the shell Wlthill which it is confined. All organised living W^-nun, animal, bird, tish, plant-are produced In J ln The only difference between them is in ttiis: tint m tb- higher order of beings the germ quits the common phrase, is hatched—in a very early Mwe its expansion, within the body of the filler, ami there is nursed until the structure is so lar ti.UuiY.1 that it can maintain an independent wi-iena*; in bird*, and in most fishes and insects, 1 in all plants, the germ is matured in the egg "? its extrusion from the body of the mother. ?"? Mmn produce eggs without an union with ¡rH'h l N h ?:ber ).ird, hut those eggs are barren. Neverthe- tli,*y contain a germ, and all the materials for the -jructure of t}? chicken. But the germ supplied by „ '?'?-' i< wanting, and without that the mother ? the ovum is infertile. What part. then, does ??' !lt'"a' Kerm p!?y that when it is present the  ''?"'c was barren is made capable of pro- UtHI" ¿¡ h' k ;J th iWi a JC 'en! One germ disappears and the u gerin i* eul?rged and presents two layers. The hiV';1K lits to the conclusion that the two germs ? ?'?? ?gfther and united, for the new form now ]., ^'1 oe ,erm. Is there any fact that supports 'r' ity Yes. All orgamsed beings will be tIJUl |j t J be constructed not as one whole but as two hi, 'lU' 'aether, the nerve systems interchanging ani j' aV"? ('"uble organs, not of the body only, but of ,'nj ,1 ir'lill also. This duplex structure of organised '?"?? supports the presumption raised by the pru? ? 01 ?-gr"wth "d impregnation, that or- SMu?j ?"Mre is produced by the junction of two '?n? ? .S supplied by each parent. This will f' un i ? ? u to '?? many of the hitherto insoluble Prolj..n ° P^ysioloKy, and to explain the mys- kri'iu- ~Ptit lK'n"mena of heredity and hybridism. More- ena of riieredity and hybri(lism. More- et}Ver all the facts. II -Sermons s])f'cially adapted Jùr d '.ivi 'e' 0 (lunatic asylum*, M???', «.,r;i"?" .??"?. a?d o?er pMMc <?'<t<Mf!?A.s-. t' ii "y WiMmm Hyslop, proprietor of Church Si.ret, and j Vate Asylum. London: B&Uere, (" fUlIl,,}. and Co. 0) TI" P t. 1.. C nd f Tiini /}' etlc Works, Life and Correspondence of t?t i 'L'v- (zoronwy OtO?, ?G?rOM?- D?M 0 Fon). };v "J\7- H°bert Jones, B.A., vicar of Al ? '?"?? ''o?, B.A vica.r of Al ? ? ?? p Rotherhithe. 1 ?'.rf'.?"'?"?' A Biograph"l Sketch, with (') II) t faIt, ?gor-Doug??s. 1 ,rpd't ^Uar.f  /?!?'«?. ? Suggestion. Bv Co. ?. Cox, S.L. London: Longman anJ
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Home News. A GENTLEMAN, aged about 60, well dressed, I was found dead in a carriage at Ludgate-hill Station, London, on Wednesday morning. ON WEDNESDAY morning therp was an alarm- ing explosion of firedamp at the Prince of Wales Colliery, near Dudley. Eleven men were seriously burnt, and two are not expected to survive. WHILE A LAMPLIGHTER was, on Sunday, light- ing a street lamp at Leith, an explosion of gas occurred. The lamp was blown out of the ground, and, falling on a boy named Allen, killed him on the spot. Several other children were also in- jured. AMONG THE congregation at Messrs. Moody and Sankey's service in her Majesty's Opera Honse, on Tuesday afternoon were the Duchess of Sutherland, Duke and Duchess of St. Alban's, and several of the ladies in waiting of the Princess of Wales. THE ADJOURNED summons against Dr. Kenealy, M. P., for an alleged libel on Mr. Wright, sub- editor of the Morning Advertiser, came on for hearing at the Guildhall on Tuesday. After several witnesses had been examined, the sum- mons was dismissed. MR PARNELL has been elected for Meath, in the room of the late Mr John Martin. Mr Hinds, the ether Home Role candidate, only polled 138 votes, against 1,771 recorded for Mr Parnell; whilst the supporters of Mr Napier, the Conser- vative, numbered 912. ANOTHER OF HER Majesty's ships has come to 10 -1 ¡ griet A telegram states mat ine joeagle is j t-tranded on a reef at F ji, but when the news of i the casualty was despatched the hope was enter- I tained that the vessel might be got off without sustaining serious damage. WILLIAM FREDERICK HEXDERSON was charged at the Glasgow Circuit Court, on Wednesday, with the wilful murder of his wife in December last. The jury returned a verdict of calpable homicide, and Lord Denas sentenced the prisoner to 20 years penal servitude. ALFRED THOMAS HEAP, a quack doctor, who was convicted at the last Liverpool Assizes of the murder of Margaret McKivett, at Manchester, by procuring abortion, was executed on Monday morning, in Kirkdale Gaol, Liverpool. William Tobin was executed at Cork for the murder of Jo- hannah Cotton. THE REV. ARTHUR HOLMES, fellow and tutor Clare College, Cambridge, and a distinguished classical scholar, committed suicide on Saturday by cutting his throat with a razor. Mr Holmes was seen at nine o'clock in good health and in his usual spirits, and an hour and a half afterwards be was found dead in his room. SIP. GEORGE CAMPBELL has been returned for the Kirkcaldy Bnrghs, by a majority of 1,811 votes against 1,170 polled by Mr Harker his op- ponent. The new member will form an impor- tant addition to the Opposition ranks, and his knowledge of Indian affairs renders his election matter for congratulation on other than mere party grounds. ANOTHER ARISTOCRATIC Protestant has been received into the Roman Catholic Church. The new convert is Lord Francis George Godolphin Osborne, son of the late and brother of the pre- sent Dake of L eds. Lord Francis has till now been vicar of Stoke Pogis, with an income from this living oi £ 500 a year. He is a nephew of the well-known S.G.O." ef the Tsmes. A CONFERENCE of clergy and ministers of all denominations was held in London, at the Man- s ion House, on Wednesday, on the question of iutempprance. In the unavoidable absence of the Lord Mayor. Mr Hugh Owen, treasurer of the National Temperance Leagne, presided. Various papers were read en the subject under considera- tion. In the evening a public meeting was held in the Guildhall; Major-General Sir J. Eardley Wilmot in the chair. MUCH ALARM exists at Crewe and in the neigh- bourhood in consequence of the numerous deaths from puerperal fever which have lately taken place. A list of eleven fatal cases was submitted j at a Gafirdians' meeting at Nantwich, on Satur- day but some of the members said that the num- bers stated in the list did not nearly represent the mortality which had. taken place. The ag- I gregate was really fearful," Mr Tollemache I said, and should be inquired into at once. ON MONDAY afternoon, at Broughty Ferry, Forfarshire, Mrs Killer, 55 years of age, was engaged tramping blankets in a washing tub in the open air. She stepped from the tub on to the cold flagstones, when she complained of an intense pain in her head. She expired in great agony in about an hour. Up to the time of seizure she was in gcod health. The day was uncomfortably hot, and one medical gentleman ascribes the cause of death to sunstroke, while others attribute it to apoplexy, superinduced by the heat. SIR JOSEPH HAWLEY died on Tuesday after- noon at his residence in Eaton-place, almost at the moment wheB the spring handicap was being ruu at Epsom. He was the most successful, as well as the most thorough-going sportsmau of a past generation, and had the rare fortune during his long career to carry off all the greatest honours of the turf. The Derby he won no fewer than fonr times—twice in consecutive years, and on two other occasions. The Oaks, the St. Leger, the Two Thousand, and the One Thousand each fell to his lot, but only once. DR. KENEALY, was presented with a testimo- nial, et Kilburn, on Saturday, as a mark of the respect of the working classes" for the ex Q.C.> determined attempts to get the Tichborne claim- ant released. The presentation consisted of a silver inkstand and a gold pen and paper-knife. In the course of his remarks, he announced that notwithstanding what tne newspapers said, they mkht understand that his journey to Scotland had been a grand success. He pointed with pride to the Glasgow stick," and expressed his ardent satisfaction with his treatment by the Scottish people. He alluded to the House of Commons as be-ng composed of shoddy men and representa tives of the snobocracy. The other parts of his speech were characteristic without being novel. A MAX who has undertaken for a wagerto walk round the world at the rate of thirty miles a day arrived at Liverpool on Monday, having started from the City-hall, LNew l,irk, on the 3rd of this month, and being hound to return to the same phce on November 23, 187C, after having walked 19,S20 miles. Of c urse be did not walli on the water from New York to Liverpool, only in the sense of waking up and down the deck of the vessel until be had walked thirty-two miles each day. The name of this rash young man is Mark Grayson. He is 28 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches high, and weighs only 9 stones 4 lhs. He is to walk 15.712 miles by land, and 12.935 miles bv water. His route is from New York to Liverpool by water, thence to Havre, passing through Ches- ter, Sheffield, and London. From Hivre he will walk through France to Lyons then passing through Genoa, Fbrence, Rome, and Naples, be will get to Constantinople ( from there crossing the Bosphorus he will walk through the inter- vening countries to Iniia then to Canton and Hong-Kong. At Hong-Kong he will take ship to the Philippine Island", thence to New Guinea, Australia, the Sandwich Islands, and San Fran. cisco. The walk across the continent will finish the undertaking, if it is ever finished, which is doubtfol. M. CHEVALIER, the great French Freetrader, arrived in Liverpool on raesday, as the gnest of the Chamber of Commerce. On Wednesday morning be was waited upon by a deputation of sugar refiners with reference to the bounties granted by French refiners, to the disadvantage of the trade in England. M. Chevalier, whilst deprecating Government interference with indus- try advised the deputation that the best thing for them to do under the circumstances would be to inquire into the superior methods by which sugar refining is conducted in France compared with the amount of skill and ability brought to bear in the trade of England. At the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce in the afternoon, the distinguised Frenchman delivered a speech on the subject of international commercial treaties; and, afterwards on the notice of the chairman (Mr L. R. Baily), he was elected as an honorary member of the Chamber. Subsequently, M. Chevalier was presented with an address from the Financial Reform Association and in the evening he was entertained by the Chamber of Commerce, at a banqnet in St. George's Hall. His speech at the latter was devoted to a vindication of free trade, and a statement of the danger which exists of Governments being misled by protectionist fallacies in renewing expiring treaties of commerce. With reference to America, the speaker said that, although it may be for a time be deluded by the cbarm of protection, it will after due consideration follow with the tide of free trade. M. Chevalier, before concluding his epeecb, alluded to tbe proposed Channel tunnel, and expressed his belief that the natural impedi- ments to the work would be overcome by the united efforts of the English and French engineers, to wjioaf rtm the enterprise will be j entrusted.
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Imperial Parliament. I HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. The Lcrd Chancellor moved the second read. ing of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act Amendment Bill. A discussion followed, in the course of which Earl Granville censured the Government for the anomalous position in which it had placed the Legislature with regard to this subject. The bill was then read a second time, as was also the Building Societies Act Amend- ment Bill. The House adjourned shortly after nine o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY. Another Kenealy episode, culminating in a scene," occurred at the commencement of the sitting. Colonel Loyd-Lindsay, who inflicted a severe castigation on the member for Stoke on Thursday, asked the hon. gentleman to name a day for his motion on the trial of the convict Orton. Mr. Kenealy's reply was to the tffect that he would not deign to answer any question put by the gallant colonel, after the language used by him on the previous day. Mr. Mac- donald hereupon, appropriately as a working man member, came to the rescue, and on being in- formed that he would be perfectly in order in adopting and at once putting Colonel Loyd-Lind- say's question, he interrogated Dr. Kenealy accordingly. That honourable gentleman, how- ever, still declined to give a decided answer. Amid loud cries of Oh, oh," and great laughter, he declared that he would bring forward the motion at the time which appeared to him most likely to advance the liberation ef Sir Roger Tichborne." Colonel Lindsay then gave notice that on Monday he would propose that the motion be expunged from the notice paper; and the loud cheers which greeted this announce- ment may be taken as an indication of what the result of the proposal will be. The breach of privilege case arising out of the publication ia the Times and Daily News of M. Herran's letter next engaged the attention of the House. Mr. C. E. Lewis moved that the printers of the news- papers mentioned should be called in, and in doing so vindicated the course which he had adopted in reference to the case. Mr. Disraeli proposed as an amendment that it be referred to the Foreign Loans Committee to report to the House ander what circumstances the alleged libellous letter was communicated to the offend- ing journals. Sir W. Harcourt characterised the amendment as an attempt to extricate the House from the undignified mess which had been the result of the combined action of the member for Londonderry and the Prime Minister. He de- declared that the attack which had been made was not directed at the printers of the two news- papers, but at the Foreign Loans Committee, and especially at iti chairman, Mr. Lowe. Mr. Gathorne Hardy admitted that the House bad got into an awkward difficulty, but this, he said, would have been avoided had the chairman of the Committee vouchsafed the information which Mr. Lewis's motion was intended to elicit. A long debate followed; and Mr. Lewis's motion having been negatived, Sir W. Harcourt proposed as an amendment to Mr. Disraeli's resolution that it was inexpedient to proceed further with the matter, and that the order made for the attendance of Mr. Goodlake and Mr. Hales, the implicated printers, be discharged. Ou a divi- sion this amendment was negatived by 231 to 166. Mr. Disraeli then proposed a motion also discharging Mr. Goodlake and Mr. Hales from the bar, and this having been ultimately agreed to, the subject dropped. Again the irrepressible Claimant question came before the House in the shape of an appeal by Mr. Whalley, in support of a petition by a certain Anthony Biddulph and others, praying for an inquiry into the Orton trial. Mr. Cross deprecated, in by no means strong terms, the conduct of those persons who made serious charges against the fairness of judges who had the confidence of the country. Dr. Kenealy claimed the attention of the House to the subject, on the remarkable ground that there are millions of people in these islands who believe that there has been a miscarriage of justice. After remarks by Mr. Bright, Mr. Waddy, and Mr. Macdonald, the discussion ter- minated. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. Lord Siratheden moved for papers-some of tbem dating as far back as 1815—relative to the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, and bearing on the recent assertion by Roumania ef the right of forming independent commercial treaties. The Earl of Derby promised the papers asked for, and denied that there was any reason for apprehen- s ion that what had recently happened between Austria and Roumania would give rise to asy serious complication. The subject of the rela- tione between Gernany and Belgium having been introduced by Eari Russell, the Earl of Derby said it would be impolitic on bis part to express any opinion on the merits of the question at isGue but he did not doubt that the import- ance of the incident had been considerably exaggerated. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Monday. Mr. Whalley gave notice that he would move on the following day for certain returns con- nected with the Tichborne trial. Dr. Kenealy subsequently asked if the Government would give him a night for his motion on the same sub- ject. Mr. Disraeli replied that he could not answer the question until he knew what the motion was like—whether, for example, it re- sembled the exaggerated statements which the hon. gentleman has been making in the country and through the paper with which he is supposed to be connected. Dr. Kenealy thought it suffi- cient to reply that his notice was perfectly Parliamentary but Mr. Disraeli's demand for <lt-fiuite information on the point having been backed-up by the Speaker, the doctor explained that he proposed to move for a Select Committee or a Royal Commission to inquire into the waole f4CtS connected with the trial of Sir Roger." After some discussion, in which Dr. Ksnealy urged for delay cn the ground that he has tem- porarily lost his voice, and that it is essential that be should have the paper3 moved for by Mr. Whalley, it was agreed that the motion should come on on Friday next. The other preliminary matters that engaged the attention of the House of Commons included a question by Mr. O'Reilly, as to whether the British Government had at any time been appealed to by Germany to sup- port the remonstrance addressed on behalf of that country to Belgium. Mr. Disraeli replied that verbal communications had passed on the subject in the beginning of last year, but no application of the kind referred to by Mr. O'Reilly had been made to the present Government. The Pahlic Health Bill was read a second time, after a discussion, in which Dr. Plavfair, Mr. Rath- hone, and other members took part. Tich- bornism asserted itself a third, a fourth, and even a fifth time in the further proceedings of the evening. Mr. Baillie Cochrane confessed, on heing tackled by Mr. Whalley, that, acting on the advice of the Speaker, he had not presented an Orton-Castro-Tichborne petition, which had been entrusted to him. Next Colonel Loyd- Lindsay withdrew his notice in reference to the expunging of Dr. Kenealy's motion from the paper and Mr. Balwer followed with remarks in reference to certain expressions ascribed on I Friday night by Mr. Whalley to the judges who tried Arthur Orton. The hon. member for Ipswich had writbn to Lord Chief Justice Cock- burn on the subject, and had received a letter in reply, giving the authority of the Lord Chief Justice and his brother judges to meet with the most positive denial every word of Mr. Whaliey's statement, which was not only untrue, but abso- lutely devoid of the slightest shadow of founda- tion. Mr. Whalley, in reply, was sure that he had read somewhere something like what he said bad been uttered by the judges and Dr. Kenealy had, moreover, confirmed this impression. He would, however, make further inquiry with the view of fortifying the confirmation supplied by the member for Stoke. Mr. Lowe presented a report from the Select Committee on Foreign Loans with respect to the publication of M. Herran's letter. The Honse then went into com- mittee on the Artisans' Dwelling Bill. A short discussion essned, when the remaining clauses were agreed to, and the bill passed through com- mittee. » HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY. I The Glebe Lands (Ireland) Bill was read a second time, and the Building Societias Act Amendment Bill was read a third time and passed. The Earl of Malmesbury stated, in reply to a question, that by cancelling the appointment of two paymasters, room would be made for a chaplain on board each of the Arctic expedition ships. Their lordships only sat thirty-five minutes. I HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY. I Dr. Kenealy and the Claimant were again to the front. On being interrogated as to the cases I in which, as he had formerly alleged, members had refused to present petitions referring to the I trial of the convict Ortos, the member for Stoke produced a list contaiaiug the names of Dine members who had not presented petitions sent to them. Mr Forster, one of the incnlpated nine, said that he had explained to the petitioners who wished to approach the House through him, that he was ready to present any petition they might forward to him that was in accordance with Par- liamentary rales. Mr Disraeli, in reply to Mr C. Lewis, said he did not intend taking any ac- tion on the subject of the Select Committee on Foreign Loans in reference to the famous breach of privilege case. The right hon. gentleman affected to regard "the undignified mess" in which by his help the House found itself as some- thing like a Providential eccurrence, since when a similar emergency arises in the future, ex- peiience will point out a creditable way of escape. —Lord Elcho subsequently brought on his reso- lution with respect to the state of the Army, re- garding which he said the recent statement of the Secretary at War was most unsatisfactory. The resolution was to the effect that the prospects of the present military organisation of the country as regards a continuous supply of recruits is cal- culated to cause well-founded apprehension, and demands an immediate remedy. Mr A. Brown deprecated compulsory service, and argued that the brigade depot system had not yet had a sufficient trial. The discussion was continued by Sir C. Russell, Major Beaumont, Sir H. Pelly, Sir George Balfour, Mr Butler-Johnstone, Mr Campbell-Bannerman, and Col. Barttelot, and other hon. members. Mr Hardy followed in a speech of considerable length, in which he ex- pressed his regret that steps had not been taken under the scheme of the late Government to pro- vide a more efficient reserve until the short-ser- vice system came into full operation. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. THE BURIALS BILL. Mr Osborne Morgan on rising to move the second reading of this bill, was received with cheers. He said-Mr Speaker, I rise to invite the attention of the House to a measure which passed its second reading during the last par- liament on four different occasions by very de- cisive majorities, but which I fear is not likely to fare so well in the House I am now addressing. However that may be, however foregone may be the conclusion against which I have to struggle, it will nevertheless be my duty to state as briefly as I can, the grounds on which I ask the House to give favourable consideration to this bill, and whilst I ask at the same time that indulgence which is rarely refused to the advocate of a losing cause—(hear, hear) I cannot help making these statements because I cannot help feeling, notwithstanding the discussion and de- bates on this question, considerable misappre- hension exists in the public mind as to the nature and scope of the bill. Only the other day I heard it described as a bill to confer on Noncon- formists the light of burial in parish churchyards, yet it will be obvious to everyone who reads the bill that it confers no right at all to bury in the parish churchyard, and that for the best of reasons, namely, that the public possess that right to the fullest extent already. As I have more than once stated ia this House, the right of interment in the parish churchyard is a civil and not an ecclesiastical right. In ether words it is the right of the parishioner and not the right of the churchman. Although the fee simple of the parish churchyard is vested in the incumbent, that incumbent can no more exclude the Noncon- formist parishioner from being interred in the churchyard than he can prevent the parishioner on the same grounds from taking part in any question in the parish vestry, or from receiving parochial relief. That right is laid tlown, and has been confirmed in the courts of law. It is laid down in all the text-books, and is recognised in all Acts of Parliament, and so well known is it as a point of law that I do Bot know that it has ever been disputed. In fact, all the books have assumed rather than considered the proposition. Some time ago the hon. mem- ber for North Northamptonshire argued with some force against the bill. He admitted it was quite true that the parish churchyard belonged to the parish, but then the churchyard belonged to the parish in the same sense as the church, and in that case he considered everyone using it must conform to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England. He put it in this way. The parishioner has the right of using the church for the purpose of getting married; but if he uses it for marriage, it must be according to the rites of the Church of England; and, therefore, if he uses it for burials, it must be according to the rites of the same church. He said, if this year you throw open the parish churchyard to burials according to the rites of Dissenters, you must next year throw open the church to marriages accord- ing to the rites of the same persons. Before yon press that argument further, let me call attention to the two cases. The use of the church is optional; the use of the churchyard is not optional. Take the case pat by the hon. gentle- man. If a Nonconformist desires to get married he has merely to step into the next chapel, and there can be married with any ceremony he pleases. Or if he objects to any reliqioos ceremony, he can step into the Registrar's Office, and there caa be married as easily as in Westminster Abbey. There are 531 parishes in England in which the parishioners have provided public cemeteries, in which the legislature has laid down that a certain part shall be set apart for Nonconformists. Of course, Nonconformists dying in these parishes can be buried with any ceremony they please, and to that extent the cases are analogous. To those parishes this bill has no application whatever. Bat I think, from a return of the hon. member for West Surrey, there are now in England and Wales between 12,000 and 13,000 parishes, containing among them 1,000,000 inhabitants, in which parishes the churchyard is the only place of interment. Any Dissenter dying in one of these parishes unless he happens to be possessed of a private burying ground of his own must almost as a matter of necessity be buried with the ceremonies of the Church, which however beautiful they ma) seem to us, however beautiful they may be in the abstract, may be, to say the least of it, distasteful to the surviving friends who are assembled around his grave. If, on the other hand, the deceased person happens never to have been baptised, whether from ne- glect or conscientious scruples on the part of pa- rents,—if that rite of baptism has never been ad- ministered, the case is different. I have pre- viously called attention to the fact that baptism administered by any person, even byawoman,has been held as efficacious as baptism by a clergy- man of the Church of England. But if a man dies without being baptised, then his body may be committed to the earth without any ceremony whatever, or to use a phrase more forcible than elegant, it shall be buried like a dog. The hon. member for West Kent has actually suggested in a bill not now before the House this mode of in- terment as a solution of the whole difficulty. Of course, I cannot deal with the hon. member's bill, as it is not before us, but I may perhaps in pas- sing be allowed to express my amazement that any three members of this House should exhibit so little knowledge of the feelings of Dissenters, but so little knowledge of human nature as to sup- pose this canine mode of interment can be ac- cepted as a solution of the difficulty. (Hear, hear.) The case is embarrassed further by the refusal of the clergyman to accept what is called Dissenting baptisms. A case of the kind oecarred lately, and I was glad to hear the Home Secre- tary say the other night, not so much that the cas6 was contrary to law, but contrary also to all our ideas of humanity and Christianity. (Hear, bear.) But why the interment of an unbaptised ttdult in that contumelious way should be more contrary to our notions of humanity than the burial of an unbaptised child, is what I cannot understand. Does that state of the law constitute a grievance or does it not ? I cannot help thinking that if we could get rid of the unfortunate atmosphere of prejudice throngh which many are in the habit of looking at this question, we should see the desire that exists everywhere, that a relative or friend should be committed to the earth with some religious cere- mony, and that that ceremony should be not only in accordance with the ideas formally enter. tained by the dead man himself, but in accord- ance with those held by the surviving relatives and friends. We should see that this is so natural, so legitimate, so human, that I cannot conceive anyone endowed with the ordinary feal- ings of humanity and Christianity who would not desire to give effect to it. I remember a time when the burial laws of continental countries were as illiberal as the laws of England now. Ire- member well the feeling of auger among the friends of any unfortunate man who died unbaptised and was required to be buried as our law reqaires the unbaptised to be buried, and as the bill of the hon. member for West Kent would require all Dissenters to be: buried. We all know how severely sentimental grievances press upon many, especially if the influences are felt at a time when even the most callous of natures are the most impressionable by the influence of senti- ment. If this be a grievance—and I think every person in or out of the House will admit it is in the nature of a grievance—then I ask what do you gain by perpetuating it ? (Hear, hear). That is a question rather difficult to answer. I hope I shall get an answer in the course of this debate. Let me put a case I know has happened. Take the case of a man who through life has lived in open hostility to the Church of England. a man who may never have darkened the door of any church. You cannot compel him to come there, but the moment the man is dead, the mo. ment the breath is out of his body the law enables you to take hold of that man and impose on his remains ministrations which the man if alive would have abhorred. It is almost odious to have to refer to the ill-feeling and bad blood which the constant and persistent recurrence of this question must generate. Because-and do not let any hon. member deceive himself-it is impossible that this question can be settled in any way but one. It is easy for gentlemen in this house and writers of newspaper articles to pooh- pooh this question, and say that nobody requires alteration of the law. I know it is otherwise. I know the feeling in favour of this bill is so deep and so widely spread, that the country will never rest until the law is altered. Therefore, I ask you again, is this question to be permitted to raise that ill-feeling and bad blood which is year after year extending ? (Hear, hear.) I do not wonder that hon. gentlemen opposite should shrink from answering that question. I do not wonder that they should rather protect the abuses which the change of the law is likely to remedy. Reverting to that question, I do not think I ought to delay any longer a statement of the changes I have made in the bill since it was first introduced in 1870. It will be in the recollection il m ef those hon. gentlemen who had seats in the last Parliament that five years ago-in the year 1870-1 introduced a bill to amend the burial law, which was almost, with one or two formal clauses, identical with the one I now hold in my hand. Strange as it may now seem, the opposi- tion to that bill was very light and very feeble. It was opposed among others by my hon. friend, the Home Secretary, in a speech marked by fair- ness and moderation. My hon. friend the Secretary for War, than whom no more fearless or honest man is in this house, said he could not uphold the vote he should be called upon to give against the second reading, but he should say "no" in a very faint voice indeed. In fact, his objections were objections to detail rather I than objections to principle, and it was to meet objections in detail rather than principle that Lord Aberdare carried the motion for the bill to be referrred to a select committee. The bill was referred to a select committee for the introduc-ioo of every safeguard against abuse, and I think almost every safeguard that human ingennitv could suggest was introduced into that bill. I miscalculated the effect of these amendments. I soon found that not one of these amendments con- ciliated a single vote in this House. OH the coin trary, the amendments introduced into the bill in committee of the House far from smoothing our path rather threw difficulties in our way, be- cause the so-called safeguards served as a sort of peg on which hon. members continued to hang other safeguards, and the trouble and the difficulty, in fact I may say the impossibility of forcing the bill through committee became ap- parent. Amendments which one side of the House thought were necessary, the other side thought were useless. The House will agree that every word in an Act of Parliament which is not necessary, and has no meaning, is mischievoss, and I have therefore taken it upon myself to strike out all those safeguards, and to bring the bill back again to the !ines cf the bill of 1870. If the House of Commons desires precautious and safeguards, I say I prefer trusting to the honesty, good sense, and good feeling of the people of England. We are not without the light of some experience to guide us, because in the year 1868, now nearly seven years ago, a bill was introduced and carried by Mr Monsell, aff cting Ireland only, and which applied to Ireland alm,.st exactly the same state of the law which t y this bill I seek to apply to England, the only difference being that in Mr Monsell's bill religious service was required to be performed by a priest of som" denomination. Well, now I called upon you before, and I call upon you now, to point out if you can a single instance in which that privilege uas been abased in Ireland, and surely it is a poor compliment to your own country that Englishmen are not fit to be tl usted with the same kind of privileges which Irishmen have for seven years exercised without a word of complaint from any- body. If you think otherwise it is of course opeu to you to reject the bill. Yon have the com- mand of this question in your hands. My hon. and learned friend has a most docile majority. Let him, or let the Government pass this bill, and then let them introduce into the bill in committee every precaution or safegnard they may consider necessary. I am sure they will not meet with any opposition from this side of the House. On these amendments do let us be honest. (Heilr, hear, from the Ministerial side of the House.) Oppose this bill if you like on the ground of principle, object if you please to that principle of the bill, but do not let us hear any more of this bombast about Shakers, Jumpers, and Socialists, which nobody believes, and which will not affect any single one inside or outside of this House. If you talk about scandals and abuses, let me ask, are there no scandals and abuses arising out of the present law ? I believe hon. members had have sent to them this morning fourteen illustrations of eases which occurred within last year showtng the necessity for amend- ment of the Burial Law. I am not going to refer to these, and I will tell you the reason why. In the first place, it is an ungrateful and un- gracious task to attack in this House people who are not present. In the next place, it is almost impossible to teti the accuracy of casual reports of these cases. (Hear, hear.) I recollect an in- stance of this kind in 1873 in the case of the vicar of Lea, in which I was guilty, of course not intentionally, of exaggeration. At the same time it is impossible to believe that, where there is so much smoke there is no fire. None of these cases, so far as I am aware, have been con- tradicted, and only one or two of those which I used in former speeches have been contradicted, so that, if it were necessary to rest this bill on the abuses of the present law, such abuses woul l not be wanting but the House will understand that I prefer to rest the case on equity and justice rather than on sensation. I wish to call attention to two objections raised against this bill which I cannot help feeling some sympathy with. It is said in this bill you are placing the Dissenting minister in a better position than toe clergymm. You allow the Dissenting minister to perform any service he pleases over any per- son, whereas you require the clergyman to read the service of the Church over the most aban- doned person whom he consigns to the earth, and who may be the most profligate of bis con- gregation. It is impossible not to feel some sympathy with objections of that kind. But I ask this question-who is it-what is it that imposed this violence on the clergyman in his own church, but his own rubric ? When this bill was originally drawn I introduced a clause a pressly allowing clergymen to refuse to perform the burial service over a man if they thought it necessary to do so. But when I propose < to do I that I was met witn tnis objeation—" X in mre trying to change the rubric. You are invading the province of Convocation, and you will have all the bishops down upon yon." That is a task which even the Recorder of London shirked but should my hon. friend seek to alter the law in this respect, he shall have my entire sym- pathy and support. There is another great ob- jection, in which also I admit I have some sym- pathy. It is this -It is said that by this bill you are throwing open churchyards to ministers of all denominations, and at the same time having abolished Church rates, you do not pro- vide a fund outside tha Church to keep the churchyard in repair and it is not fair to the incumbent, who may, under this bill, be excluded from his own churchyard, to throw upon him the whole expense of keeping the churchyird in repair. I may say this bill does not touch the fees which the incumbent is entitled to receive. Those fees are not paid for the performing of the service, but for the breaking open of the gronnd. The incumbent will continue to receive bis fees for the breaking of the ground; therefore it is hardly fair to say that the incumbent in such a case would receive nothing for keeping the churchyard in repair. At the same time, it may be said that if you make the churchyard the pro- perty of the parish, it is only fair that you should throw on the parish the burden of maintaining it. I have in the "bill of 1870 in- troduced a clause which, I hope, the house will allow me to read. It is as follows In order to maintain in decent condition any churchyard or graveyard which shall be for the time being used under this Act, and also for the necessary repair of the walls and other fences therof, the churchwardens shall once in every year, at its usual Easter meeting, lay before the vestry an account of the monies expended for the aforesaid purposes daring the year then last past; and unless there be some other fund legally charge- able with such costs and expenses, the overseers shall, upon the resolution of the vestry to that effect, out of the rate made for the relief of the poor for the parish or place in which such church- yard or graveyard is situate, repay to the church- wardens the monies so expended by them." This clause would have been introduced into the bill, but I had hardly stated it when my friend the member for Cambridge University (Mr Beresford Hope) rose and objected to it, and it found so little favour in the house or out of it that I was obliged to drop it. When I introduced that clause I was blamed, and now I am blamed for omitting it. I do not think any gentleman can object to this bill for want of elasticity. I have gone through several objections urged against it, and I cannot spe one of them which is, in ay opinion, snfficieut to justify the uncompro- mising and relentless opposition which is year after year taken against this measure. I shall of course be informed, in the progress of this debate, what is the origin of that opposition— what it is that has given sach an impetus to the opposition, that it has become impossible for me to force it through committee. What was it that last year called together the largest house that ..ver divided on any private member's bill ? What was it that induced the Prime Minister himself to come to this house and enter the lists with so humble aa individual as myself ? Sir, I am loth to believe that the uncompromising opposition to this bill arises from that spirit of ex- clusiveness which indaced an English bishop to refuse the title of reverend to a Methodist minis ter, that spirit of exclusiveness which induced a vicar to raise a wall between the burial places of Churchmen and Dissenters, a feeling quite as reasonable as that mentioned by Oliver Gold- smith, when a widow objected to the corpse of her husband being buried next to that of a person who had died of small-pox, because her husband had not been vaccinated. (Laughter.) Far rather would I believe that honourable gentlemen who oppose this bill a outrance, do so from higher motives and upon broader grounds—that they honestly think that in thus guarding the thres- hold of the Establishment, they are only doing their duty to the Church, and that in fighting the battle of the church-yard, they are really figtiting the battle of the Church. Well, sir, if that he so, all I can say is that the champions of the Es- tablishment have been most unfortunate in their choice of a battle ground. The Church of Eng- land must be io a very bad way indeed if she is driven to do battle for such a privilege as this- if she is driven to excigim with the baffled divinity of Greece 111 Flectere si neqmeo superos, Acheronta movebo. Now, sir, I wish to be perfectly frank and open with the House on this as on eveiy other ques- tion. I believe—rightly or wrongly—hat there are influences now at work, not only without but wiihin the Church, which are slowly it m;;y be, hut very surely preparing the way for the sever- ance of Church and State in England. In that belief I may be right or I may be wrong, but whether I am right or whether I am wrong, of this I am perfectly certain, that the passing or rejection of this little measure will not hasten or retard the advance of disestabl'shment by a single day or a single hour. Your voices tbongh joining in overwhelming preponderance ia favour of the rejection of this bill, will no more avert the disestablishment of the Church of Englai d than the voice of the Danish king could check the rising of the tide. But though the rejection of the bill cannot avert disestablishment, I will tell you what that rejection can and will do. I will help to embitter still further a struggle which, God knows, is bitter enough already. It, wiii indicate to the couiitry that death, which heal- nil other differences, is powerless to heal the differences between Christian and Christian, and, what perhaps is worst of all, it will fasteu upon the Church of England the odious imputa- tion—an imputation under which no Christian Church should be permitted to lie,—of refusing to bind up the wounds of the broken-hearted and to listen-to the prayer of the mourner. (lucb cheering.) Mr Wykeham Martin seconded the motion, Colonel Egerton Leigh moved that the bill be read a secoud time that day six months. He urged that there was no real grievance to be re- medied, and he objected to a measure the only effect of which was to raise the odium theologicum, and to encourage feelings that ought to be kept in abeyance. Further, he contended that, although the bill might be termed a sort of cheval de bataille, or pale horse, to be ridden by the honourable member who had introduced ir, it did not receive anything like a general support in the country. Again, he thought that the more dissent increased, the more reason was there why the bill should not pass, as it was very undesirable to have the churchyards filled and damggd by the irruption of the large crowds who would be attracted by sensational funerals. He hoped, therefore, the house would bury the Burials Bill. Mr Gladstone, in supporting the bill referred to the omission of certain provisions it had con- tained when it was last discussed. There was no doubt a real grievance that the clergy should be under an obligation to perform the service of the Church of England in cases where they and the parties concerned concurred in the desire that it shoul4 not be read but the bill did not deal with this question. Again, he agreed with those who held that there was a real grievance in debarring those who desired to have the rites distinguishing their own forms of religion per. formed in the burial of their dead; but in case it was thooght right that this grievance should be remedied, provision ought to be made by which, in case of damage by reason of the attendance of large crowds of people, the clergy, who were at present the custodians of the churchyards, and upon whom there was an obligation to make good whatever injury might be occasioned, should be relieved from that responsibility. This. how- ever, was a matter that could be dealt with in committee and, believing there was reason in Lhe present condition of the country, especially in those portions where the dissenters formed the bulk of the population, that this measure should pass, he should give his cordial support to the motion for its being read a second time. The Solicitor-General, in opposing the bill, said the reason he did so was not that there WitS no grievance, but that, if carried, the measare would create a still larger grievance. Mr Roebuck condemned the jocular mapner in which the honourable and gallant member who moved the rejection of the bill had dealt with this subject, and argued that there was nothing out of the way or outrageous in the demand made by the dissenters for the liberty to inter the dead with their own funeral rites in graves wherein the bones of their ancestors were interred. Mr Richard, Mr David Davies, and Mr W. E. Forster supported the bill. Mr Cross contended that the position taken by the dissenters in procuring the abolition of church rates had deprived them of the main argument they would otherwise have had in asking for the passage of this measure, inasmuch as they were no longer called upon to contribute to the main- tenance of the churchyards, and therefore they had not the right they had formerly had to make a claim upon that ground. He did not deny that there was a grievance in the minds of many persons who urged forward this measure but be submitted that the grievance would be more readily met by the formation of more cemeteries than by passing the bill before the house. Mr Bright said it was admitted that every one bad a right to interment in the parish churchvard, and he 0 contended that as the dissenters con- tributed largely towards the fnnds required for maintaining church fabrics all over England they had consequently a pecuniary interest in the parochial burial grounds. In Scotland and Ire- land the same exclnsiveness did not exist that predominated in England and he added that in the first-mentioned country it was not uncommon to see the Church of England service performed in a Presbyterian churchyard. It bad been admitted that there was a real grievance, and the admission had been made 0 by the right honourable gentleman the Home Secretary. This being so, let the right honourable gentleman propose a remedy, and he might be sure of the nearty concurrence of the honourable gentleman who had proposed this measure and who woald lb? e willing at once to drop his bill ill favour of a Government proposal. A good deal had been predicted at the time of the church-rate discussion as to what would happen to the church if the bill then proposed were carried, and not only had those prophecies been unfai filled, but the church was never in a better position than at the present moment, although it had had in the interim to trnst entirely to the voluntary principle. He asked the house in con- clusion whether it would not be wiser and better to cultivate a wide spirit of Christian charity, and to bring about eloper and more cordial -relations between dissenters and churchmen, than by the refusing the passage of this bill to perpetuate a feeling that ought not to exist. I The house then divided, and the nnmbeis f were- For the second reading 2:M Against it 248 Majority 14 The bill was consequently thrown oaf, bnt the announcement of the numbers was received with loud cheers from the opposition. HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. The royal assent was given to a number of bil-s, including the one tor tho iimendn ent of the Buildidg Societies Act of last year The bouse then went into committee on the Agrieultural Holdings Bill. Various amendments were pro- posed, but the bi'l pls,el1 through commiiteo with- out material alteration. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY. Mr Sullivan Il<'k.,d the Premier whether it was int nded to propose any retorms wh ch h'.old place the relatious of the hou,e and the press on a mure satisfactory foe1 inx. Mr Disraeli said it was r.ot intended to propose any reforms of the kinti referred to. Mr Sullivan then said that, in order to prevent breaGre-l of i,rivileleaiid to br ng the matter to an issue, he would on the morrow call attention to the fact ih «t s rranpers w. re present, and wouli continue to do so every e-vey,ir,g throughout the session. MI' M c 1una.ld drew the Home Secretary's attention to the recen,. cock- fighting at Aintree ami el-ewhi,r Mr Cross said that the county police were taking active steps to discover the delinquents, and in great measure bad succeeded. Th i teen of the offrfndcrs as Aintree had been idf tinMi, and evt-ry precau- tion was being taken to ins ire heir conviction. Mr. Macdonali gave notice that he would move that the names of tàlNP. persons he printed and laid on the !abb. The house tlirn w -t>t into com- mittee on the Peace Pre-frvntinn (Irelan O R ll.
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Fun for the Family. WHAT KIND of sweetmeats were in the Ark? Preserved pairs. HINDOO DIGEST.—Cnrry and Malligatawny- Institutes of M.,nu.-Punch. PARLIAMENTARY NUISANCE—The disorder of the day-Dr Kenealj's notice of motion.— Punch. WHY is a drunkard like a bad politician ? Be- cause be is always poking his nose into measarefl that spoil the constitu ion. If Forsyth opes to soingtars The House of the Nation, What else can we have But Mis-representation ?-Punch. THE WAY THE WIND BJLOWS It OJiht he sop- posed that even nature had become a c infiruned Ritualist, judging from the persis ent way with which the wind maintains the eastward position. -Punch. REVIVALISTS INDEED sa;d Mrs Partington. I ain't Hot no p,tieni s with such folks. I made my poor dear P. promise faithful that if I pro- ceeded him to my grave he never would take another." THE IRISH PATRIOTS who elected poor John Mitchel twice for Tipper->ry decline to subscribe a single penny towards the expense". The Home Rulers' m'ltto is evidently, P,ttriotiom dot-sn't pay.Fitn. LAMB was asked by a stnge cart bore What sort of a crop of turnips do yoa think we shall have this year?" T wit replied, with imper- turbable gravity, It depends, I belive, upoa boih d legs of mutton." ATHLETIC SPORTS F R LADIES.—Jami ing at conclusions walking round a sti, j et; rnnuing through a novel; skipping dull descriptions j throwing the hatchet; and, during the holidays, boxing the ears of troublesome yoonger brothers. -Punch. A SOUTH CAROLINA verdict on the death of a negro boy who had been killed by a whipping is as follows Boykin Wuite, by mi-fortune and cont-ary to his will, by. whipping or brenkiog the neck cf, did caa-e the de-th of Thomas B-rry, on the night of Monday, the 15 h of January. "MEN'S CONSCIA."—Inspector (who uotices a backwardness in histor): Who signed Magna Cuarta?" (No auwPI) Inspector (more urgently): Who sigred Magna Ch-.»rta P" (No answer). Inspector (angrily); "Who signed Magna Charta Scipt-crace (thinking matters are beginning to look serious) Please, sir, 'twasn't me Sir. -Puncli. A JOLLY Davenpoit doctor called on a lady on his way home from a dinner party, so eb ted that he c mid not count her ontwe heats. Conscioas of the cause of his d fficulty, he, in a moment of irritation, blurted out, Tlp-y, by Jove ?" and rushed oub of the house. The next day the lady sent for him and sai-i that she lamented he bad discovered her condition, and begged he would keep it a secret. DURING the progress of a duke's funeral through a small town in Scotland, the following coll.iguy between two women was overh ard. Oae, absorbed in contemplation of the signs of woe, exclaimed, Poor woman she will be sair lamented." Woma>i!" said the other. Gae awa' wi' ye-its a man "Gae awa' wi' ye yoursel' ?" rejoined the other. with an impression of the utmost contempt. Wha disnaken that a duke's the she o' a drake." A LITTLE SIX YEAR OLD GIRL went into a Store where her father was lounging, and, slyly approaching him, said, P i pa woot you buy aie a new dress ? What buy yoo a new dress, Susy ? Yes, palliA, won't you ? Well, I'll see. I'll speak to yonr mother about it." Elongation to an alarming extent rapidly dis- tinguished that little countenance, but a thought suddenly struck her, and with a smile she looked up into her father's faes, and said, Well, papa, if you do speak to mamma about it, touch her easy, or she may waiit rhe new dress herself I" A JOKE GOES a great way in the county. I hive knawn one last pr. t y well for seven years. I remember making a joke after a meeting of the clergy in Yorkshire, where there was a Rev Mr Buckle, who never spoke when I proposed his health. I said he was a buckle without a tongue. Most persons on hearing laughed, but my next neighbour sat onmovell and sunk in thought. At last, a quarter of an hour after we bad all done, he suddenly nudged tne, exclaimiug, I see now what you meant, Mr Sioith Y x] mpant a j-ke Yes, sir," I said, I believe I did." Upon which he began laughing so heartily that I honght he would choke, and was obliged to pat aim on the back. C3 THE RECRUITING QUESTlo.Seene, a barrack. yard with reCf ui M exercising. Piysergeant fftding from pay-sheet to Private John Ligbtfoot cailk,d out :attention. Pay-sergeant StoppI ge-i-Biiieking ld. t.-a f 1, pipeclay fli. sugar Jd vegetables 2d, nmrking articles wf kit 31d, barrack charges 211, total stoppages, 10,i 1., pay o receive l§d. Here yoa a«-e, L;"htfoot." (Offers money.) Private L.g> tf .ot: Well, but danty it Mesther S irgent wi ribbons tonld me t' Qqeen guv chaps a shilling a day clear. Whoy my ]ad a penny farden weant buy mn bacca; there's some mistake." Pay-sergeant There's no mistake my, lad." Private Liglitfot Then it's a reg'lar doo." (The tra shtion," A Rell.") This is the real recruiting difficulty.—Hornet. SPIRITUALISM at San Francisco has received a curious ctieck. It was announced that one night the spirit of a young L'diia warrior" would ap- pear to a select circle. When the lights were turned down, and the medium bad retired to his cabinet, there came a sudden tremendous crash from the ceiling to the floor, and the timid spiritualists skedaddled downstairs, tumbling over each other in their p mic. Some of the bolder remained. Presently, the lights were turned up, a large hole was visible in the ceiling, while If a yonng Indian warrior," admirably dressed for the part, lay groaning on the floor with his head broken. The tableau was complete when the medinm emerged from his cabinet, and exclaimed, angrily, "What made yon step between the j'ists ? That just bust the whole business 1" ON A CERTAIN DAY, on a Pennsylvania railroad, a belle of a thriving Pennsylvania town, the daughter of a wealthy lumber merchant, was travelling in the same car with a shrewd old citi- zen of her native town and an agreeable gentle- man from the West, who tells the story. The latter had been talking to the belie, but, as the night grew on and the young lady grew drowsy, I he gue up his seat to her, and placed himself be. side the somewhat cynical Penusylvanian. The latter began conversation by pointing to a high mountain, past which they were whirling, said, You see that mountain ? Six or eight months ago it was covered with as fine a forest as ever grew, and worth ten thousand dollars and upwards. Now, without a tree, covered with stamps, the land is scarcely worth a cent. The net prodnoe of that mountain lies over there in that seat," and he pointed to the recumbent bell?' It ha?aat absorbed aU of that wlr her father owned to raise and .dac?J ajf pay for her clothes and jeweHery, brin?" ?"?1 in society, and maintain her ther?? S?mT? ? young men, if you were given vo! ur  ??- tween the mountain yonder' a??t ''???? 1 as it 1 10?Ir stan4le and the net produce on  net produce; bat as for ?e, give me the ,«*