lalmmiflj k Snmjn IMIij Warns, AND GENERAL ADVERTISER. PUBLISHED, EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, BY FRED. H. EARLE, OFFICES ON THE QUAY, FALMOUTH. NUMBER 667. FALMOUTH: SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1872. PRICE ONE PENNY. Jfcta hg guijttmt. N O T I/ c E . J^ AILY Expected, aI large and valuable largo of W/ MKI Goods, Direct from Christiana, ex PhcBnix, which will hi sold on arrival by V MR. C0/ RFIELD by PUBLIC AUCTION, at Peniyn. C COPY OP SPECIFICATION : 5296 feet Best White Deals 9 by 3 13- 133 feet lied tuj White Battens 7 by 25 17471 feet 31249 feet 3336 feet PBEBUTE] 143 SquareS" f ditto 6J by 2) ' ditto 6 by 2 ditto 5 by 2 ED FLOORING, GROOYED AND jDngued, viz.: Prepared Flooring, by 1} ditto 6^ by 1 ditto 6J by J ditto 6 by | ? ir Staves 18 by i pars. and Poles Several Cases it Mouldings, ic., ic., ic. Dated Falufcjlth, Aprilitll, 1872. To Persons lucking a comfortabU Country Residence, t'ilh early possession. > e, witliiu one mile of yn Railway station. TO BE/ LET, for such term as may be agreeH upon ( with or without a few acres of rich meadow land), all that oomfortablo and beautifully situate countrr residence known as ANTKON, with a stable and carnage- house attached, late and for marup years in the occupa- pationtof William llogefs, Esq. On jnew by applying on the premises. To treat And for terms apply to Mr. CORFIELD, Land Agent, Falmouth Dated March 27th 1872. Hofflsopithie Msdieinos, ' PREP.' PREPARED BY Jalts Ijij Itrrfurn. PORT OF FiLMOUTH, Wrecked Tiluber, Anchors, Chains, & je„ for Sale, BOARD OF TRADE. BT ORDER OF THI AT POBTLOE ( Monday next, o'clock in the forcnooi 58 BALKS FIR TL in length and fron t: e ' IM B it Guard Station ), on 15th instant, at Eleven IKtt, from 21 to 24feci 14 to 22 inches square. At Gt) BEANS BAT Coast Guard Station ), on Mo- iday next, loth inst., at Three p. m., 28 BALKS FIB TIMBEE, A FEW DEALS, and MISCELLiNI O0S ARTICLES. The Timbta varies in 1 mgth from 20 to ' 10 fe and frbin L4 to 2 inches square. et, At S ' [ onday next, the 15th 5.30 p. m., TIMBER, UCAN ASH, IS, istant, I5 ® < IA: S FI£ 1-- BM. K AME 2 BC^ ATS A FEW DEAiS AND BATTENS, And other Artie < The Timber is from 25 from 15 to 20 inch !! to 46 feet in length, and is square. At FALMOUTH ( Cu torn House ), on Tues- day next, the 16th inst., at 11 a. m., 14 BALKS FI11 TIMBER A FEW DEALS 2 BOATS, 6 ANCHORS About 70 Fathoms CHAIN, and Some other Articles. The Timber is from 27 to 18 feet in lougth, and from 16 to 21 inches square. The Anchors are from 13 cwt. to 24 cflrt., and the Chain from 11) 16 to iifch. At POBTHILLICK ( on Thursday, the 18 8 BALKS FIR 41 feet in length, and 1' And a Few D~ oast Guard Station), , h instant, at 3 p. m., TIMBEB, from 25 to to 20 inches square. At COVERACK ( Coa Friday, the 19th in! 52 BALKS FIE 1 BALK OAK, t Guard Station), on .! 1., at 11 a. m„ TIMBER nd a few DEALS. The Timber is from 25 to 45 feet in length, and 12 to 22 inches sqr At CADGWITH, on FHday, the 19th inst., at 3 p. ml, 96 BALKS FIR) TIMBER 2 LOGS OAK, several DEALS, and a BOAT. : The Timber is from20 The Property can be eulars given on applvir of Coast Suwd at the - icen, and further parti- [ n ; to tho Chief Officers i evoral Stations, and to tho Receiver of W, eek, . Custom House, Falmouth. All Lots to be paid t^> r immediately on the close of each Sale. I ROBERT G. CHEESMAN, " JtrceoKro/ Wreck. Custom House, 9th Ahril, 1873. J. M. KENDALL, M. P. S, phemist by appointment to the Exeter, the • Torquay, and tho Plymouth Homoeopathic t Dispensaries, can be obtained in FALSJOUTH of his Agent, ( Mr. W. H. SOLOMON, Dispensing Chemist, - 10, Market St. \: Also, RendaU's THEOBROMINE COCOA - * the purest add most delicious extant, in Tins, ls|, 2s., and 3s. 9d. each. pBoRwicb's CuSTAttD POWDER. Makes delicious Custards and Blanc Mange. Custards made with it are a great improvement to all Fruit Puddings and Pies. Vast numbers use it and no family should be without it. SOLD by all Grocers and Corn Dealers, in Id. and 2d. packets, and 6d. and Is. tins. IpOB GOOD PRINTING, in the best style ! ol workmanship; with the greatest expedi- tion, at tlio most moderate charges, apply at the pffice of this Paper. 14 to 24 inches sqiiare. 1 o 40 feet in length, and BENSON'S Watches, Clocks, Gold Jewellery, SILVER AND ELECTRO- PLATE. To Lhc Quern and Royal Family, Prince of Walet. PRIZK MH. AW— LONDON, DUBLIN A PARIS. WATCHES Of all kind*, at i to 200 . . gitimae. . LEVER, VERTICAL, gORIZONTAL, ITPLEX. CHRONOMETER, CHRONOGRAPH, KEYLESS, CENTRE SECONDS, REPEATERS, INDIAN, 4c. Sold JEWELLEEY The late^ ftuhioiu. BRACELETS, BROOCHES, RINGS, • EARRINGS, STUDS, NECKLACES, PIN'S, LOCKETS. CHAINS, CROSSES, 4c. CLOCKS Of all kinds, at 2 to 1000 guinea4. CHURCH. TURRET, CARRIAGE. CHIME. DININGA DRAWING ROOM, HALL. LIBRARY, SHOP, BRACKET, 4c. Silver and Electro PLATE All the new duiffiu. DINNER SERVICES TEA & BREAKFAST SERVICES CRUETS, BASKETS. INKSTANDS, FORKS CLARET JUGS, SPOONS, & c. Illustrated Catalogue of Watches, ClockB, Jewellery, & c., post free for 2 stamps. Watches, Clocks, Jewellery and Plate sent to all I « art8 of the world. Silver and Electro Plate Catalogue port free 2d. Watches repaired by skilled workmen. Old Silver, Jewellery, Watches, & c., exchanged. Merchants, Shippers, and Clubs supplied. Steam Factory ami City Show Rooms— LUDGATE HILL & OLD BOND STREET, LONDON. gmnnew gating. tt ciotaiM mALlSjf FALMOUTH. CLARKE A/ ND CO., ARB NOW SHOWING AN IMMENSE Fancy Silk ana Elastic Stockings Silk kiid Washing Vesting- s Fancy, Scotch, and Angola Trouserings, SUITABLE FOE THE APPROACHING SEASON. % g- THEY IJAVE ALSO A LARGE VARIETY OP wmm9 CY COATS, Braided and Velvet Collar, 12/ 6 to 35/- VESTS, Doable and Single Breasted, 4/ 6 to 10/- bABK TROUSERS, Blocked Bottoms, 6/ 11 to 15/- SUIXS, Elaborately Braided, 5/ 11 to 21/- HATS, 3/ U to 12/ 6 , T AND STRAW DO / 6 to 5/ 6 OP EVERY KIND m to 2/ 6 SCARES, COLLARS, GLOVES, SHIRTS, BRACES, BELTS, PORTMANTEAUS, RUGS, ETC. J. F. TRULL, AHTIST PHQT OfiRAPHEH, PALMOtTTH. Opposite the Polytechnic Hall, Church 8t. Priee and Quality not to ba MARTIN'S Beautiful Breakfast Te » , 1( 101 per lb The People's Grocer. Ac., Penryn MARTIN'S Pine Flavoured Tea, 2 MARTIN'S Choice Mixed Teas, 2/ i surpassed in ihe County, per lb per lb The People's Grocer, < fec., Penryn. The People's Grocer, & c . Penryn. MARTIN'S Genuine Family Tea, 2 6 per lb, 61bs for 14/- Carriage paid to any railway station in the county. The People's Grocer, & o., Penryn. MARTIN'S • Sparkling' Lump Sugarl( beautifully white), 5d. per lb Moist Sugars all Prices. The People's Grocer, & c., Penryn. MARTIN'S Fresh- roasted Coffees, l/ l to 1/ 8 per lb 1 Tne People's Grocer, Ac.. Penryn. ] y[ ARTTN'S Choice New Fruits, aU jtices The People's Grocer, & c., Penryn. MARTIN'S Prime New Mild- cured Bkcon, 4/ 6 per dozan lbs 1 The People's Grocer, Ac., Penryn. MARTIN'S Good Boiliug Peas, lOfcd Aer gallon 1 The People's Grocer, & c., Penryn. MARTIN'S— Pure New Lard, 6d par lb MARTIN'S Beit Treacle, 61bs for llld Martin's—- Oeunine Millbay Soap, 3il^ s for^ l/- The People's Grocer, & c., Penryn. The People's Grocer, & c., Penryn. )' s Grocer, Ac., Penryn. " JITARTIN'S Prime Smoked Bacon, 7£ d fter lb \ The People's Grocer, Ac., Penryn. ATARTIN'S New Season Jam, 4id per 11* or 6d per pot . The People's Grocer, & c., Penryn. ARTIN' 3 New Season Jilarmalade, 7id per pot The People's Grocer. Ac.. Penryn Samples free on application at either of J. ilA. ETIN"' S Establishments, Lower Market Street, or West Street, Penryn. t... „„.> _ u J. i . " AU Good* delivered Carriage Paid. Orders by post promptly attended to. isr o t i o e . Cheap and Good Priuting at the Offices of tins Paper. Part of a House to Let. rro BE LET, with ii mediate possession, • PABT OF A HOUSE ( consisting of A Floor of Three Rooms), in Lansdowne Boad ( lately called Obelisk R< ad), Falmouth. The House is pleasant y and healthily situa- ted in close proximity tojthe Quay, Dook, and Railway. Apply at the Offices of this Paper, To be ) Sol^ Cheap. TO BE SOLD fcHHip, s olincli- bailt « nd copper • fastened: PLEASTOE BOAT, with copper M^ aClylpa and Howloeks, quite new, Sprit- SaUftn^/ io, Oars and Paddles, & o„ complete, tlieVV'^ er v of a Gentleman who has no fiirther lisenor ner. Apply to SY1 Falmouth, 12th / DNS 4 SON, Bar Yard. Ml, 1872. To Farmers and 0th - i / THE Falmouth United District Sewerage Board are desirous < ST receiving TlHDHa for about 25 Tons ( more or 1pea) of the Sewj^ ke Matter wenack Outfall. The either by land or In the Tank I contents can ] water. Tenders will b^ received by the undersigned on or before Modday, the 22nd instant, ana all information can be obtained of Mr. COLLINS, the Board's Surveyor. By order; WM, WARN. Clerk. Dated Falmouth, 10th, 1872. Post- Ollice Buildings. TO BE LET, Two Offi& s on the First Floor, late in tfifc occupation of W. R. T. Pender, Esq., solicitcb. / The Large Bofon oatjfe Second Floor, now occupied by tie Yalnwuth Harbour Commis- sioners. v / Two new Cottages at the back, adjoloing Porhan Lane. Apply to / ^ ft. J. P. BENNETTS, Wodehouse Place, Falmouth. Dated 12th April, 1872. Wanted Immediately. ONE HUNDRED/ NAVVIES AND LABOURER^ Tor the construction of Government Railways in New Zealand. Ship to sail 9th Apri]/\ For particulars apply to R. F. THOMAS, & DEN & SONS, Falmouth. FOR SA FOR SALE, b^ Trivate extract, on account of the ownrf's deceasjrfa large, first- olass Mackerel ai^ PilchanpDRIVING BOAT, named " Cock of tyfi Walk," now ready for sea, with a string oPnew Nets just barked. For further/ particulars apply to MM. Elizabeth S.^ IPurnor, Church Street, or to Mr. Wm. D. 3> rfner, 52, High St., Falmouth. First- class Bookbinding. PERSON8 wishing to avail themselves of the opportunity of sending in the parcel now making up for transmission to a flrst- clast Bookbinding Establishment, should forward books and numbers which they wish to have bound, to the Printing Offices on the Quay, as early as possible. Charges, moderate— quality of work, the best styles, modern and elegant. FRED. H. EARLE. CA. TJTIOJST Tichborne Bonds. 8PURIOUS Copies of the above, being now in circulation, all partiea issuing sucn will be proceeded against. Genuine Copies are registered at Stationers' Hall, No. 273, March 11th, 1872, and enn be had wholesale, at 8s. per dozen; single copies on receipt of 13 stamps. These Bonds are at the present moment causing great commotion in the Metropolis, and are - idling by thousand". Eacii one is a great cn - iosity, b# ing guaranteed as a genuine copy of real bond. AppU. ants will oblige by addressing the Envulopo:—" Application fur Bonds, ilessrs. FOLKABD AND SONS, 57, Bread St., Cheapside, London, E. C." ' May be had at the Offices of the F. aad V. Weddy Times, at Is. each. Are you troubled with a Cough ? THEN lose no ti; ae in applying for 8 0], OMON'S Pectoral Cough Mixture, " Which is one of the best Preparations sold for the cure of Coiglis, Colds, Hoarseness, Influenza, & c.,, and the relief of Asthma and Bronchitis. \ < It is adapted for peisons of all ages, and is sold in Bottles, at 7Jd , Is. ljd., and2s. 9d. each. . Prepared by W. H. SOLOMON, Dispensing Chemist, ( . r- 40, Mark I Street, Falmouth. vV-'. N. B.— The middle size Bottle ia generally suffi- T • cient to euro an oi tlinary Cough, or give abund - ant satisfaction in un re extreme cases. ' r'mHE HOUSEK SEPERS of Falmouth and • JL Neighborhood are respectfully invited to , try SOLOMON'S Celebrated English Baking1 Powder, ' : ( For making Brea I, Tea Cakes, & c., without Yeast), and judge for themselves whether the * " professional COOKS an 1 others who have declared " it to be the best t] at is mod, are correct in so r saying. <• Sold by most re > pcctable Grocers, also by the Manufacturer, at L0, Market Street, Falmouth, in Packet", Id. an I 2d., and in Tin Canisters, at 6d., Is., and 2s, each. • i- k Ask for Soloiuoa's Pj^ dei*. ? HE FALMOUTH & PE5RTff WEEKLY TIMES. SATURDAY, APRIL 13,1872 MURDER IN LONDON. . SALE OF- A MENAGERIE. It ia not often we have to announce the 0f a large menagerie ( reriiarks the Field). We are o1^ enough to remember in the hazy outlines of the pa-^ the collec- tion exhibited on the very spot where the Field office now standB; it waa Cross's celebrated menagerie at Exeter Change, where the large elephant, Chuny, waa executed when he went mad with the toothache. This collection was afterwards exhibited at the King's- mews, Charing- cross, on the site, of tho National Gallery, at which time Trafalgar- square had 110 lions, but contained a huge wooden shed i 150ft. long, whioh enclosed Kue skeleton of a gigantic whale. Onthe^ uilding^ of jthe National Gallery, Mr . Gardens, and eventually the collection was dispersed by the hammer of Mr. J. C. Stevens, tho well- known natural- history Auctioneer. On Tuesday, Wombwell's Menagerie, now at Edinburgh, will be sold " by auction by Mr. R. Buist. as this collection was one of tho best known of the kingdom, a few particulars regarding it may not be wf. thout interest The staff employed mimbere3^ up" wo . rda of forty men, and there was an equal number c, f horses to move the heavy caravans from p% e to f jlace. The menagerie wa « alw.* Bi piloted by an agent, ^ ho went stone weeks in advaitorto make the necessary arrangements as to stabling, ground, advertising, bill- posting, & c. There were also fifteen bor^ ecpei'a. vfhose duties were to , look after the horses, atrdf to act as drivers, assisted " by the " inside"" menu TUe '.' inside'' men were 12 in n timber, their duties being to look after the interior of the menagerie ' andtefcttendtttt the animals. Two he* d keMJeTa had the ohaige of the animals, feeding( them, and,, seeing that they were properly attended to! They also des- cribed the animals, and made them go through their performances. An inspector of waggons, a doorkeeper, and . the band of ten members completed the staff. The quantity of provender necessary for the nnimala and horses daily was very- large.'" The carnivorous innmalg required about 4cwt of meat daily; this consisted chiefly of bullocks' ' shins, hearts, and heads. A lion required about 121b. of solid' flesh dafly; a tiger about the same; a leopard 51b. The bears were fed almost exclusivejy on bread and sop ; in yery cold weather they got a piece of flesh. The , monkeys were fed on rice, bread, sop, and fruits. The1! ruminants were fed much the same as the horses, with the addition , of a good deal of bread, the amount of food given being according to the temperature of the season. The number of k- niyrinla to be sold is considerably ovfer 100. The collection includes the, large lion Hannibal, which is supposed to be the finest in the country. This lion wid the performing elephant, and the camels, and dromedaries, are the most distinguishing features of the collection. The male tusked elephant— which is about 7tL Gin. high, nearly - eight years old, and gro" ing fast— is stated to, be the most docile, and mc clever performing elephant ever exhibited. He gc In harness, has been accustomed to draw the ba: carriage; he will either draw or push, a waggon • . a hilL or will wefrk in traces in front of the horses, and has pWed all the waggons of the menagerie in position for the past 18 months, with the assistance of only two . men to guide the wheels. , So OTeat has been the attraction of the menagerie m the remote dis- tricts of Scotland that Mr. Fairgrieve, the present pro- prietor, told us that when he waa at Ballater ( where the Royal Family visited the menagerie) the people • walked 20 mifea td Bee the beasts; and, with a truly justifiable dimity, he state*} that he considers the menagerie to have done a great educational work. We ehallbe interested in the result of the sale, and the comparison of the value realized by the animals with that produced at the sale of Cross's collection at the Surrey Gardens. , On Tuesday, as previously announced, Wombwell's Menagerie was put up for sale by auction in Edin- burgh, where it has been located for some time past There waa a large attendance, and among the. buydrs from a distance were Professor Edwards, on behalf tof - the Jardins des Plantes, Paris ; Mr. Jamrach, animal dealer, London; Mr. Rice, London; Mr. Ferguson, representing Van Amburgh ; Mr. Edmunds, and Mr. Jamieson, of the Zoological- gardens, Manchester ; Mr. Jackson, secretary of the Bristol Zoological Society; Mr. Cross, animal dealer, Liverpool; and others. j The saJe excited much interest, and there was a good deal of competition for soma or tfie specimens. For instance, the male tusked elephant was bought for tpe Zoological Gardens, Manchester, for £ 680 the libn " Hannibal" for the Bristol Zoological Society, nor £$ 70. The lions " duke Of Edinburgh " and " Nero" • were sold for £ 140 each to Mr. Rice, who also brf& ght the Uon " Wallace " for £ 85. A Royal Bengal . tigress - was purchased by Mr. Jamrach for £ 155, The Polar bear waa sold to Profe « Or Edwards for £ 4 ® , a racobn was purchased on behalf of the Earl of - Roeeberry for £ L The fyllowiqg is a list of the prices rea- lised:— Eacoon, £ 1; Agouti1 ( 2), 10s. each : da^ nrie, 7s.; Gennet cat £ 1 5s.; Tasmaman devil, £ 3 5A : Liana monkey, £ 7 ; Capucin monkey4> £ 110a. ; man- drill, £ 30 ; ditto, £ 3; a Nubian baboon, £ 10 10^ ; ditto. £ 8 103. ; Hamadryad baboon, £ 3 lte. ; Chacma baboon, £ 2} Drill monkey, £ 5 5s. ; dog- faced baboon ( 3), £ 3 each; black cat, § » .- black vnJtm-^ 1 DA • condor, £ 15; emeu, £ 7; pelican ( 2), £ 6 IDS. - scarlet macaw, £ 3 10s. ; ditto, kSr Vm.-.' TMe- 1*^ , yellow macaw, £ 4 ; slenderbeak Cockatoos ( 2), £ 1 each ; pain « ya » bling grass panoqueta, £ 2 2s.; one King's parrot, £ 117a < kL ; oneTPexmant'spafrot, £ 110s.; rosfc- breasted cockatoo, £ 2 » 10^; £ l 10s.: one pair lemon- crestedcockatops, £ 14a. eaSjh; o^ e ditto, £ 1 7s. each; white- crested cockatoo, £ 113s,; lemon- crested ditte, £ 8; one green parrot, £ 2 2s.; one rose- breasted cockatoo, £ 110a. ; a nylghan, £ 2 « ; ditto, £ 10 10s.; llama, £ 15 ; boomer kangaroo, £ 12; wolv<&, £ 1 2s. each ; ocelot, £ 6 10s. ; African porcupine (: l), £ 5 10s. each; wombat, £ 7; leopard ( faulty), £ 3; brown coatimondi, 30s.: common jackal, £ 1 6s.; saddleback jackal. £ 3; Thibetan sun bear, £ 5 5Uj; Polar bear, £ 40; brown bear, £ 7: performing leopard, £ 20; performing leopardesses ( 2), £ 20 each ; peHonning hyena, £ 3 5s. ; two wolves, each $ 03.; Hon, " Wallace," 7- fc years old, £ 85; royal 3engal tigress, " Tippoo," in cub, three years old, £ 155; lion " Duke of Edinburgh,", three years old; lion, " Boss," three years oy Uaujty), £ 20; lionesses " Princess" and " Alexandra, about 3J years old, £ 80 each;' lioness, " Victoria," four years old, Jn • cub to lion " Hanfbal," £ 105; black- tnaned lion " Hannibal," 6i years old, £ 270; lion,, " Nero," 7\ yearn old, very fine, £ 140; leopardess, aged, £ 65s.; lion, " Prince Arthur," 18 months old. son of Han- nibal, £ 90; lion, " Prince Alfred," 18 months old, £ 90-; spotted hyena, £ 15; Birch ell zebra, £ 50; gnu, £ 85; male tusked elephant, abont 7f. 6in. in height, nearly eight years old, £ 680; female elephant about 5ft. Cm. high, £ 145 ; two boa constrictors, £ 6 each; Malabar squirrel, £ 5 ' male Bacfrian camel, 7ft. high, 12 years old,£ 19 5 female ditto ( in calf) 6Jft high, 10 ye^ rs old. £ 30r, ditto, ditto in calf, 6£ ft. high, 5 years old, £ 23; male ditto, 5ft. high, 2£ years old, £ 14 ; female ditto, in- calf. 5ft high, 1J year old, £ 14 ; male dromedary, 7 « t. high, 5 years old, £ 30 ; female ditto, • 61ft. high, ii years old, £ 21; male camel calf, born " February 6, 1872, £ 910s.; spotted carriage dog, £ 1: Indian goat £ 1 7s.; dog mastiff, £ 12;, two- year- old —. stiff, £ 5 : . English fox terrier, £ 2 2s. The total ount realized on Tuesday, was about £ 2,832. THE PIG AND THE. RING. i ( FroA Punch.) i I Tflsli for a tSfeg. Who will give me a IUng ? " What Rood ancel. or genie, or fairy. On my finger to *< ar. And be pinched with it there, YThensoe'er in good Jiving unwary T f The utmhst to pit, • 1 And to drink tWht wo meet Bor irfy health ibe l'dliave it to suffer; T But when I did exceed To adllonLh tSs erring old buffer. How well, then, I'd dlno ! And go on drinking wine " Without end, till my PJng pinched me warning, t J should then feast without ; GeUlng- in toMhogont By- and- by, and a headache next morning. THE PUBLIC HEALTH BILL. ' iOa Monday aJargejand important deputittcn waited upon. Lir. Surisfdd; at- Gwydyr- House, WhltelmU, ( London, to call his attention, on behalf of three asso- | ciations, to various points in connexion with Phttlllu Health Bill now before Parliament, and to suggest amendments. — Mr. Corrance, MP., introduced the deputation, an^ among those present were Mr. A C. Barclay, LLP., Mr. Mitch el Henry, MP., Mr. Rathbone, MP., Dr. giiOtunSsey, « Dr.: A P<- Stewart;- JIr. - ErnL= t Ilnrfc, r. Hecks tall Smith, Mr. Chadwick, C. B., Dr. Websfei^ Dqlwich), Dr. Jpnes, Dr. Tyack. Dr. Thomas, Dr. Mauni- ell, Mr. Benson Jiaker, and Dr. Le\ vis. Thedephtation represented tbe British Medical Ai^ d-' ciation, the Poor Law Medieal Officers' Association, and the Social Sciende' Assodntibn. ' Dr. A. P. Stewart, on behalf of the Joint Committer on State Medicine of the British Medical Association and the Sccial Science Apoci^ taon^ read a memorial drawing attention to tne evidence given before the Royal Sanitary Commission.; which, how^ yer injuriously restricted as to the area and scope of its investigations, made some valuable suggestion^, especially • with re- gard to the necessity of having all sanitary matters, • intjiutW. te l t^' '^ P^ r^ Woo of one responsible Mmister, clothed with full powers to enforce the exe- cution of the laws, which, being revised and cbnBoli-' dated, should be made compulsory throughout the king1- -. dom^- The memorial enteredfnlly into the BTlbject, and" j 1 " urgedlKi the Tresideiitof the Local Government Board L j should introduce such amendments into the Public Health Bill as would provide that in lieu of the divisiop of local authorities into urban and rural, there shall be one local authority, under one law, in each sanitary district ; that there shall be a high- clas3 sanitary authority in each district ; subject to the central authority : that there shall be ono or more chief officers of health for each district giving their whole time to their duties, and that medical officers appointed by the local authorities shall be the deputies to the chief officert, and be responsible directly to them ; that the sickne& s returns be passed through tho hands oP, the chief J medical officer ; and that a moiety of the expense of medical and scientific officers under Bill be borne 1 by the national Exchequer.- — 1 - ... ' • Dr. Rumsey ( of Cheltenham), ' on behalf ' of the"" British Medical Association, then stated that neither that body nor the other associations there represented" attended in any hostile spirit, but thev, on the other hand, regarded the measure as a valuable one, and they desired to assist the President by suggesting improve- ments. The speaker, on behalf of the association, declared their object was only that pursued by the profession hitherto in promoting public health. They had seen in this Bill that there was no suffi- cient change or modification of the machinery adopted by the Public Health Act of 1S18, a machinery which was found utterly inadequate for its purpose, and the radical defect was the absence of a national Council of Public Health, composed, as in some Continental States, of specially qualified ! persons. Then it was held that tho local machinery proposed by. the bill was complex and inadequate, and| he urged, there wAs a want1 of a sufficiently ex- I tensive unit. of area,', to fpcufo go6d: government, and' ' to prevent a duplication of Suthority. On this duplf-' cation of authority as at present existing, and 03 per- petuated by the bill, he spoke at some length, and urged I that the isolation of urban and rural authorities fofc i sanitary purposes would be found to work most disad- • vantageonsly, as they were constituted irrespective of | drainage area. He also pointed out that there was ji different class of authorities in urban districts to diq- ' charge duties from those that were to discharge them ; in rural districts, and he urged that this should be remedied. , | Mr. Michael, Dr. A P. Stewart, Mr. Chadwick, C. B^, Dr. Rogers, and Mr. Enies^ Hart also addressed i the President on various points. 1 Mr. Stansfeld, in reply, entered into a discussion with some present, nna said that Bomo of tho pointp 1 put before nlm he should consider, and would com- 1 municate respecting them withthe gentlemen who had. spoken- Ho 6aid there was more in the bill than appeared on the face of it, for he had taken powers that districts should bo united, and ho waa not in favour of multiplying petty authorities, as the deputation seemed to think tho byi proposed. He ! differed from the deputation with- regard to there being a central authority in each district, for he thought by an intervening power such as this there would be entailed much cost. He Allowed that he did not look to make the law perfect by this Bill, and he thought that much which the deputation sought would j be covered by the powers which the central authority | would gain by tho passing of this measure, for by ; means of thoao powers measures which had not been j enforced could be pressed by judicious inspectors to a ; satisfactory conclusion. He said it was his intention . to make some alterations in tho Bill to explain its pur- poses more distinctly, and he w6uld consider the sug- Lgestioaa put before him. | Tho deputation then thanked Mr. Stansfeld and I withdrew. On Monday a most atrocious murder Vaa discovered to have been perpetrated in Park- lanf^ PicadUly, Lon- don, the victim being a'French lajiy, and" the perpe- trator of the crime, there is littlq room fdrdolibt, her own domestic and fellow- countxyv. oman. Tho murder waa discovered under circumstances which gave an additional horror to the crime itself. Mademoiselle Riel, wh< j. ia ft member of tljke French company now performing under M. Felii^ at the St James's Theatre, returned from Paris by Monday^ mail, and arrive j at her mother's residence, 13, Park- lane, at about Cdght o'clock in the morning. She was in- formed that Madame RieL who was a widow waa not at home, abd at first it was thought that she had gone to meet her daughter. But subsequently it was found that certain doors • were locked, ftild that the cook and tho keys were also misaing. This led- to an examina- tion of the dressing- room, and Madame's outer gar- ments being there ready for her to put on showed that she had not left the house. One of the places locked up was the pantry, and it was opened with duplicate keys in possession of the young lady. On the floor lay . the d « ad body of Madame RieL Her death appeared to { jajje b? en caused by strangulation, for the tightened rope was abdpt her neck, and marks of violence upon her body left no doubt aa to her having been murdered. The murder was evidently committed in some other place than the pantry. It is probable that the bod^ was first placed in the coal cellar, and thence dragged or carried to the pantry, for Elizabeth Watts, thp housemaid, on being interrogated about a conversa- tion she had with the cook, mentioned that she had spoken about fetching up coals after ber mistreda waa thought to have gone out & nd that the cook desired that she should not do si The danger of th^ body being seen while it was in thireoal cellar must bavp struck the murderess, and she took an opportunity of removing it to the pantry, as a place over which she had direct control. In the coal- cellar were found little articles, such as a hair- pin and a key the deceased lady always kept and/ there were mfclks. on the body aa'if it had been lying on the coals. The hair was full of cindarfl, and tho appearances showed that dbath had not been caused without a struggle, for thsre were many jviqlent marks. besides the deep indentation caused t> y the tightness witir which the rope, which waa in aslip kn « ' t, had been pulled, and this indenta- tion was particularly deep beneath the ear where the knot itself came. , ^ Sufpicioi^ at onco rested upon Marguerite Dixblanc, to-^ e occasioned by the crime, especially when taken in connexion with her disappearance. It seems that on Sunday' morning Madame Riel was seen in her dressing- room by the housemaid dressing as if to go out, as was her custom, and the gijl then went to the top of the h'onse. On returain to", the basement she met the cook, who told her that her mistress had gone oht, , Tha girl said that it was strange her mistress had not taken her favourite dog with her, as she usually did; and to this the cook rejoined that Madame had gone out for the day, and that there was no necessity for Watts to stay. Tho girl subsequently went out, the cook having sent her with orders to take the dog for. an airing, ^ nd when she returned she was kept waitipg at- the door. At. high, t abopt eight o'clock^ the cook went out, and," apparently, did not roturn, for her bed had not been slept in, and the keys of , tha safe where the deceased lady kept her valuables and of the area were also not to be found. An inspection of the safe showed the inducement for the murder. AU. the, valuables except jewelry, which it was perhaps thought might lead to detection, were taken. Bank- notee, vFr « nch bonds, atad railway shares are believed to have been stolen ; the jewelry left be- hind was not lfeft'by any oversight the articles being plaoed on one § ide aa of no account It is believed, too, that other valuables have been taken, and with whatever she took the woman has for the time got clear Dixblanc is said to have been in Paris during the siege, and to have been associated with the Com- munists in their struggle after the German occupation. She is described as being a very powerful woman. The . police describe her as twenty- eight years of agi oft; Sim in height. and stout, with a fresh" complenoi red face, dark hair, and brown eyes. She is believed to have had on at the time she left Park- lane a green dress, waterproof cloak, and brown bonnet She is also supposed to be in possession of Bank of England notes and French bonds. The police have been actively engaged trying to find the accused. On Monday night a description of her appearance was circulated throughout the metropolis, and sent por telegraph to every town in the provinces. The following is the last description issued:— Wanted, on a charge of murder, Marguerite Dixblanc, aged about 24 < y 25 years; stout built, red complexion^ dark e¥ ea. When she left 13, Park- lane, was dressed in a brown gown, and wore a_ green waterproof cloak." htonOhe inspect! oh SI tKS hjuse since made by the police, there beems some reason to suppose that the unfortunate lady suspected that the servant waa robbing hert Bank of England notes and French bonds had been removed, and the suspected murderess, it is considered probable, was in tho act of concealing them in the coal- cellar of the house, when Madame Rid went downstairs, and tried to regain her property. The appcaranoe in front of the coal cellar leaves unmis- takable evidence that a desperate struggle must hav^ ensued, and that the accused woman succeeded' ia overpowering her unfortunate mistress, and while she was helpless placed the rope round her neck, and having strangled her, then dragged her lifeless body ino the place, where it was subsequently found. . \ ij where the prisoner was nurse in the ward. When Martha Biggin was admitted into the ward, which occurred on the 4th of November last, she was far advanced in pregnancy ; there were no marks or bruises on her face, but one or two on her legs, and her arm was slightly swollen. According tothe evidence of two pauper women, who assisted the prisoner in taking care of Martha Biggin, the prisoner got very excited in the course of the night of the 4th of November, first swearing at the lunatio, then beating her over the face and head, pouring vinegar and water by canfuls over her, and at last tying her by her hair to the bedstead. In the morning the lunatic's face was covered with bruises ; she had two black eyes, and there were other marks both on her face and neck which seemed to be produced by a finger and thumb. Tho medical to en who examined these marks said it was im- possible that they could be caused by the lunatic her- self in the manner suggested by the prisoner, which was that sho had knocked herself about, had got out orbed, and fallen against the fireplace. It waa further stated by the women who assisted the prisoner that she was drunk during the night and one of the medical men said that she was drunk whenhe saw her the following afternoon. v ' The defence suggested was that the appearance of intoxication in the prisoner came from opium, taken to r^ lieve pafn from whioh she was suffering: that the injuries were caused by the lunatio herself, Mid that tho two women who gave tho fullest account of the matter had been asleep, and invented the story to cover their own neglect The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, with a re- commendation to mercy on the ground of her previous good character and length of service. Mr. Justice Quain sentenced her to be imprisoned for three months, without hard labour. THE TICHBORNE CASE. April, 1851, travelled from place to plaoe i_ parts of South America, and that at- the port of Rio ha took his passage in the Bella for New York. So much as respects the charge of perjury assigned on tha prisoner's affidavits. Perjury is also averred on portions of tbe evidenco he trave on the trial— namely, that in which he deposed that he was Ro? er Charles Tichbome, the eldest son of James Francis Tichborne/ Esq., after- wards baronet; that he had resided in Paris from his birth until 1845; that a person named ChatiUon ( meaning Adrian Cbatillon) had been bis tutor ; that in 1845 he came over from France to England to attend the funeral of Sir Henry Tichbome; that he had been a student at the Jesuits' College at Stonyhurst; that ho had' been an officer in Her Majesty's Army ; that in July or August 1852, he had seen Lady Doughty and her daughter in the drawing- room at Tichborne- house ; that in July or August 1852, he had seduced Katberine Mary Elizabeth Doughty; that after the 22nd of June, 1852, and before March, 1- 353, he had seen Katherine Mary Elizabeth Doughty ; that he had seen Miss Hales in the presence of her mother or her aunt at Canterbury ; that he had been at the house of Captain and Mrs. Washington Hibbert; that he had never been to Lloyd's; that he wa3 not Arthur Orton, son o£ Geoige Orton, of Wapping; that he had never been at Wapping before 1866; that he had never gone by the namo of Arthur Orton ; that he did not leave England in a versel called the Ocean in April, 1848, and did not arrive at Valparaiso in tihe Ocean in November of that year ; thathe badnot been atany time, between 1848and 1851, at Melipilla and Chili ftthat he did not in 1851 come back from Chili to England in a vessel called the Jessie Miller ; that he had not seen Mary Ann Loader before 1S67, and had not kept company with her in 1851: that he had never written letters to her ; that he did not go out to Hobart Town in a vessel called the Middlelon, of which a person named Storey was the captain ; that he had not seen Elizabeth Jewry, or Mary Tredgett, and Margaret Ann Jewry on more than one occasion before the trial on which he gave evidence; and that he had not in 1859 at Castelmaine, in the colony of Victoria, been charged in the name of Thomas Castro, jointly with Arthur Orton, with horse- stealing. The indictment against the prisoner for forgery will turn upon the nnw famous bonds in circulation bear- ing his signature. Wednesday. The police have ascertained, almost beyond doubt that Dixblanc had been driven, on the evening of the day on which the murtjer vyas coremitted, to Victoria Station, in time to t » k° . the ppitinenfcal mail train. It now apptears that though the woman was known as a Frenchwoman, she is by birth and family a Belgian. She lived formerly in Verdun. She waa in Parip during the reign of the Commune, and she came to England as a distressed foreigner after the sup-, pression of that party. She was takenin, out of charity, to assist at a house where French cooked food is sold in Princes- street, Leicester- square, and she gave the namo of an abbe as recommending her, but of himno in- quiry was made, for it was - not intended to keep tho woman more than a few days. She gave the name of " Dixblanc," saying in French that she was " ten white " and not ' ten black," her name having been entered as " Diblanc." She was in this situatiop about six months, and so got recommended to other service.- She could speak but a few words of English, and, as her victim spoke English only indifferently, the English eervant, Elizaboth Watts, did not clearly understand what waa said to her by either her mistress or her fellow- s « rvant. This accounts for her not having taken much notice of her mis tress's absence for the day after being told that Madamo Riel intended only to go for a short walk, and also for her having readily accepted any statement which Dixblanc There is little doubt that the murder was perpetrated by only ono person, and that it was committed at a time when Madamo Riel went down to the kitchen tp give instructions about dinner. It iB considered cer- tain, now that the police have had time to go over the circumstances^ thoroughly, that the murderess first stunned Jier victim by giving her a heavy blow upon tho skull with a mallet of wood, and then laced her neck in a alip- knotted rope, which sho kept drawn tightly until death ensued. The body was then thrust into the coal- cellar. Dixblanc must have locked the door leading from the kitchen to the area on the inside, and then got out of tho kitchen window to finish her crime, so as tp make sure that it was completed, and also to avoid being overlooked. She was seen in the area, and the door was thus locked without the key in it. She gave Elizabeth Watts tounderstand that her mistress had pushed her out into the area'owing to a quarrel, and had locked her out From this position she gave into the kitchen, through tho winnow, all the fuel which was needed, and so prevented Watts from going to tho coal- cellar", while she herself returned into the house through the window. All the facts imply that the crimo was premeditated, an/ 1 by all qccounW the woman wns one who had a taste for tho horrible. She ij stated to have boasted about the doeds sho took a part in during the reign of the- Gommune. _________ INNS OF JC^ J^ T HEAD QUARTERS.- - Opinions diffw about the- style of Architecture which would bo the most appropriate for tho Now Law Courts In their proposed combination ironically called by some people the Palace of Justice^ There are some hints of the best design for that RiiHdiila i" bo found in Parodist Lost jwhero Milton dtvC$> ep Pandemonium.— Punch. At the'Central driminal Court, in London, on Mon- day, the Deputy Recorder, in his charge to- the Grand Jury, in alluding to the Tichborne case, proceeded to say that he found from the calendar that a gentleman named Thomas Castro, otherwise Roger Charles Doughty Tichborne, baronet— names familiar to them all— was to be charged with wilful and corrupt, perjury. jHe had not,, been examined before a magistrate, and no depositions had been returned' to the Court; nor did the Deputy Recorded know what the particular charge of perjury might be that waa to De preferred against the prisoner. Speaking quite generally, he would say that suppos- ing, for instance, the prisoner should be charged with perjury in swearing that he was Sir Roger Tichborne, the Grand Jury would have to be satisfied of that by sufficient evidence before they could find a bill, and in that case a minute investigation of the charge would afterwards be instituted before a petty jury. So again, if he should be charged upon any other assign- ment with having sworn to some individual cir- i euinstance which was untrue, all they would have to trouble themselves witb would be to see that they had primd facie evidence that tne circumstance was untrue before they found a bill, leaving the matter to be fought out by another jury, and probably in another court Further than that he could not assist tho Grand Jury, because he did not know what the parti- cular form of the indictment might be. He under- stood, though he had no positive information on the subject that an indictment for forgery was to bo pre- ferred against the prisoner in relation to the bonds that were issued. He might, however, say that if a man issued a bond in a name which was not his own, and if in this case it was in the name of a person who did not exist, that would be sufficient The al- leged perjury was that a name had been assumed — the name of a man who was supposed to have been drowned many years ago ; and the Deputy Recorder need hardly say, if a person issued a bond in the name of another who did not exist and assumed that name to - be his own, that would be forgery. It was the making a false instrument and it did not at all matter that any credit Was giVen to him under the bohef that he himself was the particular in- dividual. It waa just as much forgery as if a name was assumed, because the whole value of the bond der pended on his being the person ho professed to be* Therefore, supposing an indictment should be preferred, there would be no difficulty at all in point of law. It wag undoubtedly a forgery if he was believed to be the per- son he represented himself to be. Later in the day, Mr. Montagu Williams, addressing the Bench, said - he had been retained to conduct the defence, and had to complain that although the defend- ant had been confined in Newgate nearly fire weeks, and- was still there, no intimation had been conveyed to him by the law officers of the Crown as to thd charges he would have to answer, nor had ho received any, copy of the indictment He had to ask the Court to prder that a popy of tho indictment should be furnished to the prisoner in common fairness, so that i he might know, without further delay, the charges he; would have to meet Up to that day he was entirely ignorant whether or no an indictment was to be pre- ferred against him at the, present Sessions. It might i be the defendant was not ready to take his trial, and should an application be made to reduce the amount of bail it would probably be resisted on that ground; but it was impossible for him to prepare for his trial until he was apprised of the charges to be preferred against him. The Crown had now had nearly five weeks to prepare an indictment, and the prisoner had not eveil had a copy of' the depositions. He asked that the Crown should be called on to furnish him, In common justice, with, the charges he had to meet and with a copy of the indictment The Deputy. Recorder> aid na bill had been preferred yet Mr. Montagu Williams replied that might be ; but he still urged that the prisoner ought to have notice from tho Crown as to tj » e charges he had to answer, for, without that, he mightobo detained in custody on the assumption that he wasT^ t prepared to take his trial. 1 He had thought the Deputy Recorder would have had something definite before him upon which to enable him to charge theGrand Jury; but, instead of that, he could only r^ fer- to the case as it appeared in the Calendar. The Deputy Recorder- said tho prisoner had been committed after along trial before the Chief Justioei of tho Common Pleas, and there was a common rumour that the Law Officers^ tho Crown were about to prcW secute. He might assume they would go before the Grand Jurv at these present Sessions, and he had been told that they would, do so on Tuesday. He had so far only been able to tell the Grand Jury that " the Claimant," aa he waa called, had been committed for perjury, but what the specific oharges were he had been,' unable to say, Mr. Williams said all that was known by him as counsel for the defence was that the prisoner was in Newgate, and that he had boon furnished with no! particulars as to the charges. He would renew the application on tho following day. ' ' The subject was then slllowed to drop. The defendant is described in the calendar in the following terms:— Thomas Castro, alias Roger Charles Doughty Tichborne, Baronet, aged 42, of no occupa- tion, and of imperfect education, committed by Lord Chief Justice Bovill for wilful and porrupt perjury. On " Wednesday morning; shortly after the learned Judges had taken their seats on the ibenob, the pri- soner, Thomas Castro, alias Arthur Orton, alias Sir Roger Chiirles Doughty ' Tichborne, was placed at the bar. He walked confidently to the frent of the dock, and slightly bowed to the Court Mr. Archibald represented the Crown; Mr. Montagu. Williams appeared for the defendant Mr. Avory then read the indictments that had been found by the grand jury. The first charged the defendant that he had, in a certain suit in Chancery, falsely and corruptly sworn on an affidavit that he was the eldest son of Sir James Doughty Tichborne, the tenth baronet of that name ; that he had been educated in Paris, and had been placed in a Jesuit's College ; that he was afterwards brought to England and that he was appointed a cornet in her Majesty's regiment the 6th Dragoon Guards, ' and' that he remained in that regiment until the year 1853; That he afterwards sailed from England to Valparaiso, and that he sub- sequently traveled in different parts of South America, ana at length took a passage on board a vessel called the Bella ; that this vessel was wrecked, and that he 3as saved and was taken to Melbourne, and that he terwards travelled about to various parts of Aus- tralia. The prisoner, in reply to the question whether he pleaded guilty or not guilty to this charge, replied in a firm, distinct tone, " I am not guilty." Mr. Avory then read the second indictment, which alleged that upon a certain trial at Nisi Priue, before Lord Chief Justice Bovill, he falsely swore that he was not one, Arthur Orton. The same question was put to him whether he was guilty or not guilty of this charge? : . . The prisoner again replied, " I am not guilty." The third indictment charged the prisoner with having forged the signature of Roger Charles Doughty Tichborne to a certain deed in indemnity for the pay- ment of money. The deed was described in another count of the indictment aa a mortgage debenture. The prisoner again replied* in a tone of calmness aid apparent indifference, " lam not guilty." Mr. Montacu Williams said he was instructed in this case to_ defend the prisoner, and he had to remind the Court in the first instance that the indictments agaifast the prisoner had only been returned by the Grand Jury on the previous day, and that so far aa the charge of forgery was concerned, the prisoner had no idea that such a charge would have been preferred against . him. The question of bail would now pro- bably arise, as the Crown had not given any intima- tion whatever as to the period when the trial was likely to take place._ psjg Mr. Archibald said that no application, as he under- stood, hod been made to the Solicitor to the Treasury upon the subject.' ' ' , : Mr. Ayory said that a writ of certiorari had just been placed in his hand reinoving the whole of the in- dictments into the Court of Queen's Bench. Baron Cleasby said that under these circmftstanctes this Court had now no jurisdiction, in the matter. Mr. Montagu Williams said that was no doubt the case, and the result would be that thp trial could not, under any circumstances, take place until the siitinga- af ter term, which would be in June. Under thesecn-- cumstances, he was anxious on the part of the de- fendant to know what course was intended to be taken by the Crownjin the matter. Mr. Archibald said that it was impossible at present to give any information upon the subject Baron Cleasby said he could do nothing in the matter, and the case would take the usual coursp. Mr. Avory suggested that all that could be done at present wa3 for the Court to make an order that the prisoner should be detained in custody until he was discharged by due course of law. An order to that effect was accordingly made, and the prisoner was removed from the bar. The proceedings appeared to excite very great in- terest, and the Court was crowded while the prisoner was standing in the doek. At theCentral Criminal Court on Tuesday afternoon, the Grand Jury presented p true bill which they ha< l found against Thomas Castro, Otherwise R<? ger Cliarlea DoHghty Tichborne, baronet, otherwise Author Orton, for perjury. They also presented a true bill ogainst tho same person for forgery. 1 • Tho averments of perjury contained in the indict- ment, oa was afterwards ascertained, turn, first npon the affidavits mad ® by the prisoner in the Chanoeiy Buit s and, secondly, upon portions of his evidence on the trial In tho Court of Comm6n Pleas. Under the first categoryperjuryis assighedon his affidavits to the effect that he was the eldest son of the lato Sir James Francis Doughty Tichborne, tenth baronet, of Tichborno, de- ceased ;" that he had resided in Paris from his birth until 1815 and was then brought over to England and placed at the Tcsuits' College at Stonyhnrst; that he waa appointed comet or lieutenant in tho 6th Dragoon Guards, Carbiaeeis, and joined tho regiment in TWENTY- FOUR YEARS AGO! On this day four- and- twenty years ago ( April 10,> the monster petition of the Chartists, who had as- sembled on Kennington- common to carry their griev- ances to Parliament, was finally and ignominiously consigned to three cabs ( remarks the Daily JSTeics.) We should think that the same number of these useful vehicles, of the ordinary four- wheel pattern, would hold all the peoplo in these islands who retain any sort of'possible interest in that circumstance ; and we sin- cerely hope that an end has come to the silly demon- strations which have on the anniversary of this event testified to our rescue from revolution, logive hypocri- tical thanks for our deliverance from a danger that never really threatened the safety of the Empire is about on a par with the perpetuation of the fable which is inscribed on the Monument near London- bridge, and has not even got the historical warrant which justifies a number of idle youths in begging for halfpence on the 5th of November. If anything can be served by the recollection of the 10th ot Apnl, it is the question of the enclosure of the public Parks. Kennington- common was turned into Kennington- park chiefly to destroy the habit of holding public meetings there. But public meetings must be held somewhere, unless we wish to bottle up au element whioh has considerable explosive force; and it is to be hoped- that the com- promise now offered by the Government will secure for the public tho right of being beard, and do away with any necessity of consulting the Commander- in- Chief. _ A newsnnuer correspondent points out as a coinci- deL wWcEXnoVl^ n noted, the fact that Mr. Maurice dtedVtWme month aa both hU father and mother. The Inscription on the tombstone at Highgate Cemetery bears testimony to Oils factSacred to Ihe dear memory oi Priarlila wife of tlioRev. Michael Maurice. Born Dcccmber ll 1774' Xd April 21, 1S5L Also of the Kev. Michael Maurice.' Born February 3, 1707 : died April e, 1So5 " The remalnlnc portion of the Inscription commemorates Pritcilla Hurry their fifth daughter; Mary Atkinson, their second dauciiter: Jane Esther, their sixth daughter, the widow ot AF- chdeac m Hi. re, who died in $ 1S34; aud William Powell, their soE- in- 1' W. U'AXrS ON KNOWLEDGE. ( From Punch,) Knowing an amateur performer on the ophicleide, or " bagpipes, wfco- feds himself insulted, if, whwn he Is » skedto dine with you, he ia not begged to bring h( s music i Being asked to execute your country friend's oom- rnisaions, from a cradh> to a crinoline, or a banjo to a baby- jumper, because yon, who live m town, of conrte know best where to buy things. Knowing a funny feuoa' who mimics all your little eccentricities of manner, not behind your back merely, but before your very wife. Being perpetually pestered by your friends to gat them boxes at tbe theatres, because you happen tolcnofr the managers, or possibly the authors. Knowing a clever fellow of aa artist, who takes ad- vantage of your hospitality by owiking you a study for Jbis wildest caricatures. Knowing a fine lady, of the family, of Snobs, who, because you happened to have mentioned that you have onco met a lord, persists in pratthng Peerage " to you every time you meet. . ., , Being ordered to get up and make » circuit of yout premises at two o'clock a. m., because yaar wife says that she I. mics that thieves are in tho littles. In Dnnkeld Cathedral a moumcut has be^ n « - ecte< l to tho memory ot the officers and V^ vat" soldiers of ao A- nd Regiment who foil In u- ar from the treatlotl - he IP^ IZCU* to the cIcjo cf tlw lu^ Uan mutiny. THE CHARGE OF - INTIMIDATING THE QUEEN. Atttho Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday morning, the ( jWand J ury came ihto court with a true bill for misdemeanour ogajhst Arthur O'Connor, who stands charged with presenting a pistol at tho Queen on tho 29th. of February last, with intent to alarm Her Majesty. Early in thefedoV h! s £ toyal HighCness, Prince Leo- pold, and Mp. John £ P, qown, tw<} of the witnesses of the outrage naa gon* d before" the Grand Jury and de- posed to the ciixuKistances. No other witnesses wer? called. , The Prince, with the members of his suite, was previously escorted by tho Under Sheriffs into the Old • t'cnnt, wrerc'they" took seats on the Bench, and re- mained a short time listening to the proceedings. Later in tho day the prisoner Arthur O'Connor was . - put- to- the bar to plead. - He was told by- Mr. Avory, , tire Clerk of Arraigns, that he was indicted for | having on the 29th of February unlawfully and wil- j fully presented a pistol at tho person of our. Lady tho . Queen, with intent to alarm her. In another count it was alleged that tho intent waa to break the public peace. Other counts varied the charge. Being asked if he was Guilty or Not Guilty, the prisoner replied; [ after a brief pause, " Guilty." He was theh told to stand down. ,' • > The prisoner1'^ a'alender, pale- faced lad, 18 years of j age, and appealed a little ashamed at first on being I placed at the bar. His pleading ". Guilty " appeared : to $ aKe all present by surprise. , " I I Judgment waa deferred. MOBDEOAI.— At tho Pomona Gardens' do- monstration Bacup enjoyed the proud distinction of exhibiting, the most attractive banner. The portrait of Mr. Disraeli which adorned it was made more memorable by this inscription " The man whom we delight to honour "— an appropriate motto, but ono which might have been improved i by the alteration of one word, causing the legend to read, " The man whom we deKght to Backup."— Punch. . A PLEASANT CATALOGUE.— A Madrid journal gives the following list of ingredient* which compose the recipe communis, ted by certain governors of pro- vinces, with a view to influencing the elections in Spain:— Domiciliary vUlts, violation of correspondence, prohibi- tion of the right of meeting, offering inonoy, pronuso of pro- ferment, leave to wear crossea and decorations, stoppage of various schemes, precipitation of others, exposure in the newspapers, falsification of telegrams, monopoly of tho lelc- praph, discovery of supposed conspiracies, instructions to Judges, Ingenious manipulation of the electoral fO'AltS pupwi, and tsmoyal and roLhciy o » tho urna. SATURDAY, APRIL 13. 1872 fHE FALMOUTH & PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. Xn tbe ifcasa at Coamv. m, April 8, Sir J. C. Trelawney run BoOM that be would to- morrow more that the House be •• called' on the tiaA April lor the second reading ot the Owtagloa* Diseases BUL Mr. Monk stated that cm the sccond reading of the Vacci- nation Act* Amendment Bill he would more that the bill be read • second time that day Hz months. Mr Cubitt miked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether. In hie financial statement, he mentioned that the reduction ot the national debt between April, loGO, and April, 1872. m X12.740.0e0 ; whether In thU> cm be included the Stocks Of the Bankruptcy and Chancery Fundi which were can- celled and converted into book debts within that period; what was the amount of stocks so cm celled ; and what Would be the amount of the debt actually paid off without taking Into account the stocks so cancelled ; and whether, by reason of this transaction, certain contingent liabilities do not rest on the Exchequer. Mr. Lowe replied that be did say In his financial state- ment that tha reduction of National Debt for the last three years was £ 12,740,000. He did Include In that sum the stocks of the Bankraptey an* Chancery funds, which were cancelled and converted fa to book debts within that period. The amount of the stock so cancelled was £ 5,879,882 ; deducting that amount the redaction of debt would be £ 6.650,000. There wore certain ecmUngontllabllitles Incurred In the Exchequer under this transaction— Tlx, that they were bound. If the receipts fell tfMtt- Of th* expend it urn, to make up the deaden cy. but aa tha receipts ware rather oa \ he increase, there was a bal- ance! and their expenditure could only be on the balance, and nut on the capital sum, and they did not anticipate an material difference. Mr. NevlUe- GrenvlIle asked the Attorney- General whether It la a fact that six learned counsel are retained to prosecute • prisoner now In Newgate charged with perjury ; if so, whether it U necessary or usual to employ so many lawyers In a criminal case. And, further, whether It Is the Intention of the Govtrment to maintain the system of disallowing the expenses of prosecutions In the provinces. The Attorney- General said it was true that six counsel had been retained and would bo employed In the prosecution of Ihs various casea which would arise out of the several Indict- ments preferred against the person who lately claimed the estates ofthe Ttehborne family if the bills oontainli^ those Indictments should be found to be true bills by the grand Jury atthoOldBaUey, this week. Aa regarded the question whether It Was necessary to employ so many lawyers In a criminal case, tha proper answer would be that it was dependent apon the nature ofj the case, and that a course which was extremely proper to pursue In ono case migl. t be extremely improper la another. Ho could no', say vh.- tber such a course was usual In criminal cases, because he did not know of any caae resembling this, or one which could • n any way be drawn Into a precedent for It It was not the difficulty of the caae, because he thought it was an extremely simple one, and that the claim was an assault upon the common sense of .• mankind ; It was the enormous mass of evidenoe and the ametait of detail involved, of which no one who had net been engaged In the case oauld hare the slightest notion. OHe thought that In this ease jt " as necessary that these counae) should bo retained and employed. They had been detained on his responsibility and under his direction. . He had accepted the duty of undertaking the prosecution, and he should discharge it to the best of his ability, and take whatever steps he thought It right to take for discharging that dnty, because he believed that In its rroper discharge sodoty at largo was deeply Interested. * VKh regard to the last part of the question, the matter was binder the consideration of the Government, and It had nothing whatever to do with this particular matter. The House then went Into Committee on the Ballot Bill. • Clause 2, which proscribes the manner in which tho poll shall T> e taken, was commenced, and on the first line of It more than • two hours was occupied In discussing a variety of suggestions Jor extending the hours of polling. Sir C. Dilke moved thel u- aertlon of words fixing tho hours from 8 am. to 8 p. m., and [ Mr. Forster, on the part of the Government, declined ( to accept the amendment, on tho ground that to carry • on the polling after dark would favour personation - and disturbance. Mr. Torrens retorted that it was Incon- sistent tn the Government to apprehend darkness, because • the Ballot itself waa secret, and the proposal wa^ meported fcy Mr. Bath bone, Mr. Dixon, Mr. Goldsmid, Mr. CBentinck, ^ nd Mr. T. Hughes, and opposed by Mr. Hardy, Mr. Powell, • Mr. Hope, Mr. Kay- Shuttleworth, and others. Sir J. TOphlnstone was of opinion that to open the poll at • six am. would be mora convenient for the working . men, and moved an amendment to that effect Mr. fWhltbread suggested that sunset should be the limit of I fthe polling hours, and Mr. Forster, after some con- sideration, accepted this, and promised on the re- iPort to bring up words carrying out the ides that the poll • haltdoss as nearly, as possible at sunset, but never before 4 • or later than 8 p. m. Sir James Eiphinstone and Lord Elcfco bointed out the discrepancies which would follow from the ioiffqrent geographical portion of different constltueades, and strong objections to the " slidingscale" were urged by other members. After along conversation, in which very dls- oonUntoptnlonswere expressed, three Divisions we retaken. In he ftnrt place Sir John ElpMnstone's motion to beglnatOam. Was negaUved by 242 to 66. Mr. Collins then proposed that the poll shall close at 6 p. m., and on a Division the hour of 8 p a proposed by Sir C. Dilko was struck out of his amendment by 20C to 03, but the Committee refused by 157 to 93 to fill up the blank with 6 p. m. Mr. Monk then proposed 0 p. m., but ultimately Sir Charles Dilko relinquished altogether his attempt to extend the hours, and left the question In the hands of the Government to move a sliding scale on the Repoft. Mr. Horaman wound np the conversation by expressing a hope that when Mr. Venter had made up his mind to another proposal he would Stand by It. After this Mr. J. Lowther ajaln submitted to the Com- mittee an elaborate scheme for taking the pell by voting Papers, which Mr. Forster again met by the objection that It would defeat the intention of the bill, and that the House, having passed the Second Beading, would stultify Itself by . accepting this scheme. , On a division tho amandment was negatived by 61 to 88. Mr. C. Bentlnck then moved the first of a series of amend- moots designed totalter the form of the Ballot, so as to make It a more open Iftdlot, which, after a short discussion, was rejected by 143 to 99; and a second amendment of tha stmt series was negatived by 199 to 104. Lord Mahon than renewed the proposal to provide for a scrutiny fcy requiring that each Ballot f pa per shall bear ia num- ber com spending to the n amber on the counterfoil Iran which It la torn. He gove way, howevor, In favour Cf Mr. Gregory, who proposed to obtain the same end by requiring tbe Returning Officer to Inscribe on the Ballot paper the voter's number on the register. This was debated xor some time, the arguments in favour of a scrutiny, and the impossibility of preventing personation without It, heing urged by Colonel Barttelot, Mr. Hunt, Mr. Cross, and Mr- Collins. Mr. M'Cullagh Torrens also spoko on the same side from the Liberal benches, pro- testing agaiust the notion that Parliament should legislate lor the craven minority, and appealing to tho anthorlty ol Mr. Bright. On the other hand, the SoUoltor- General and Mr. Forster argued that the absolute secrecy which la the casenoe of the biB waa Inconsistent with a scrutiny, and that ample securities were taken in other wayi for tho prevention of personation. On a division Mr. Gregory's amendment was negatived by 166 to 126. The further progress of the felll was then adjonrnod until Thursday. Tbe Select Committee on the Game Laws was nominated. The Marine Mutiny Bill was read a second time, and tbo Mutiny BUI a third- tlmo and passed. The other business waa dispotod of, and the House ad- journed at one o'clock. trol of the Government, saM there were only two in which mat- making was practised, and explained that the general m. e la Urge prisons was to teach aa many trades as possible. £ « e doubt there was a ran on mat- making, and neces- aanly, becansrfltwas easily taught to prisoners corniced on the separate sys^ m. and for short periods : but he • tnled that there was any tfeeire to undersell, or that there ^ as any reality In the grievance. Tho limited inquiry, there- fore. asked by Colonel Beresford was unnecessary : and he otjected also to the larger inquiry ol Mr. Kennaway, eon- tetiiins. with copious extracts from the criminal statistics, that crime has diminished, and that there is no need for apprehending the failure of our system ot prlaon disdpllne. The motion and amendment were then withdrawn. Mr. W. Fowler next moved a resolution condemning the present state of the law of entail and strict settlement of land a* a discouragement to the investment of capital in tho development of agriculture. In support of it he drew first a fordble picture of the position of the limited owner or tenant for life, and this led him lato a lengthy digression on the wretched provision of agricultural cottages and tho general uondition of the agricultural labourer. All the hardships and miseries endured by this clan he traced to tho land laws, which. ; bj- checking the flow of capital on to the land, prevented high agricul- ture and kept down wages. land, ne complained, was too much regarded In this country ss a luxury or as an Instru- ment of sxlal and political power, and he desired to see It mora sought for by those who would make money out of it. Deprecating all idea of breaking up large estates or of Intro- ducing tbo French system, he was in favour of having a a much larger number of persons Interested in the land, and this he thought would be brought about by remov- ing all trammels sn the devolution ol land, allowing it per- fect freedom, and by leaving each generation to take care of itself. Mr. Fowler also touched on other evils of the present system, such as the temptations to extravagance on the part of the young heir, the drawbacks to granting leases, and also on tht cumbrous processes of transferring land. Mr. Brand, in seconding the motion. Insisted that but fo life tenandes the land might be mode to yield considerably mpre than at present, and pleaded strongly for a reform In our Land Laws, which would give landlords full liberty to deal with their estates. The discussion was continued by other hon. members, after which, Mr. Disraeli, referring to a case cited by Mr. Fowler In illustration of his argument about labourers' cottages, in- formed him fhat tho row of cottages in question— tho con- i ditlon of which It was Impossible to condemn too strongly— belonged to no landlord and'to no estate. They wero built same years ago on the waste by a trades- man from a neighbouring town — a leading Liberal, by tho way,— and they had nothing to do, therefore, with the Law of EntalL On the general question, Mr. Disraeli was of opinion that it would requlro consider- ation as a whole, though the time was not ripe for passing any such Resolution as that before the House; and he repeated his opinion that the condition ol tho agricultural labourer Is slowly but surely improving. > lr. Gladstone agreed with Mr. Disraeli that the question had not- been sufficiently discussed for an opinion* to be pro- 1 nounced upon It. and while tho Government was under pledges to. deal with the Transfer of Land and tho Succession to In- 3tate Estates they would not be wise to take on tbem- ves this further question of Entails. The abolition ot the present system, in Mr. Gladstone's opinion, wbuld not effect the distribution of oitatea in this country, which depended moro on social and economical causes, taken In connection with the limited area of the soil. But when- ever tho Government came to deal with the question It would bo better that they should not be fettered by an abstract ; Resolution, and he asked Mr. Fowler, therefore, not to press his motion. Mr. Fowler declined, and suggested to Mr. Gladstone that If he was not prepared to give an opinion It was very easy tor him to walk out without voting. On a division, the Resolution was negatived by 103 to 81, and the result was greeted with loud cheers from below the gtngway. Mr. Stapleton moved for a committee to Inquire Into the subject of Statutory Declarations, but not finding a seconder, his motion feU to the ground. Mr. Charley obtained leave to bring In a BIB to amend tho Bastardy Laws; and the House adjourned at ten minutes to one o'clock. ANCIENT JEWELRY. The Lords of the Committee of Council on Education having determined that an exhibition of ancient and modern jewelry and personal ornaments should be made at South Kensington Museum for purposes - of public instruction in June, 1872, have appointed a com- mittee of management, consisting of her Royal High- ness Princess Louise, her Royal Highness Princess Mary of ^ Xeck. the Duchess of Manchester, tho Marchioness of Westminster, the Marchioness of Ripon, the Countess of Tankerville, the Countess of Warwick, Countess Spencer, the Countess of Carnarvon, the Countess of Cork, Countess Somers, Countess Gran- ville, Lady Mildred Hope. Lady Dorothy Nevffl, Lady Londes bo rough, Lady Wyatt, Mrs. Fortnum, Mrs. Gladstone, Mrs. Holford, Sits. Alfred Morrison, Mra. M Galium, and Mrs. Gambier Parry, with MacLeod of MacLeod as secretary. This committee has made the following announcement :— 1. The committee request the possessors of specimens of ancient and modern Jewellry and personal ornaments, re- markable either for the artistic design, or the fineness of the stones, or the skill displayed In their setting, to lend specimens to the South Konsington Museum with the view of promoting the general Improvement of the taste of the designer, the producer, and the public generally. t The specimens may consist of Jewelry and the fine art In gold and silver of all kinds . used for personal wear. AB kinds of orders, badges, 4c., would thus bo admissible. 5. It is known that there la much ancient family Jewelry In the country, and the commltteo desire to borrow it fur this exhibition. 4. Arrangements will be made to enablo lenders of Jewelry to have the use of their loans wheneverHhcy desire it. 6. It is proposed that the exhibition shall open early In June, and the objects returned, if it be wished, at the end of C. Possessors of Jewelry, < tc., willing to lend objects are requested to fiB up a form and return it by post, unpaid, on or before the aoth of April, 1872. This form taay be had of the Secretary, South Ken- sington Museum, on application by letter. SANG BY SAWN IE. There's ae question I wad speer. Ere I loupit in til marriago ; Hech, noo, lassie, luve an' dear, Cou'd ye live on aitmeal parritch ? Cou'd ye wear a cotton gown f For the Sawbbath keep one plaidle t Bo content wi" Nature's crown, Nae fause chignon coat your lad die I Wad ye, Doo', your gizzard fret J Wad ye nae 1th" sullena linger For a' trinkets gin" y" ed get Bit o' gowd on woe fourth finger I— Punch. THE SUNDAY TRADING BILL. . On Monday evening a crowded public meeting was held In tne Music- hiQl, Great Portland- street, London, in opposition to the Sunday Trading BUI ol Sir T. Chambers, M. P. ; Mr. Hep worth Dixon presided. The chairman said if this Bill was passed this Ses- sion the Puritanical party would make an attempt to pass a measure next year to stop the excursion trains on the Sunday, the sending of telegrams, and, in fact, to interefere with the liberities of free- born ' Englishmen so as to make the only day which they could call their own as wretched, as gloomy, and as miserable as possible. He felt very strongly against this measure, as he believed it waa directed against the poor. Taverns at the Weet- end, called clfibs, would not come within the scope of this Act, but the taverns used by^ the working classes would come within its scope." The bill was un- necessary and tyrannical,' and interfered with the liberty of the subject, and he hoped it would be strongly opposed. Professor Sheldon Amos asked if Sir T. Chambers was prepared to compensate the poor people who would » Offer loss if this bill should pass. He moved " That this meeting of electors of Marylebone protests against the Sunday Trading Bill introduced by Sir T Cham- b « s as unjust, unnecessary and tyrannicaL" Professor Beeely, in seconding the motion said this was an attempt to bring political influence'to bear to force certain religious views upon the people. He warned the meeting that if the bill passed, more oppres- sive measures would soon be proposed. Mr. Baxter Langley protested against miserable bills like this whioh attempted to foroe religion down the throats of the people and interfered with their personal liberties. The resolution was unanimously earned. After addresses from Dr. P. Perfitt, Mr. A. H. HilL Major Pratt, Mr. E. D. Jerrold, Mr. Du iley Fleck, and many others, resolutions were passed adopting a petition to parliament praying lot the rejection of the , bill and the repeal of the Act of Charles II. and | pledging the meeting to suppbrt the Liberal Associa- tions of Marylebone in securing tW return to Parlia- ment of representatives who will support truely Liberal measures. The proceedings olosod with > vote of | tViRTilra to the A MEDICAL VIEW OF THE STRIKE. ( From the Medical Timet and Qautte). The Warwickshire strike is a movement which is of sobie medical interest. The English agricultural labourer is entirely a different man in habits and mode of life frem the English town labourer, whether mechanic or manufacturing hand. He is taller, bigger, and stronger, but not so acute and restless ; slower, and less energetic. He does not consume one- tenth of the animal food that the town operative devours, but he does not drink one- twentieth of the quantity of alcohoL He may occasionally get a little muddled on muddy ale or sour cider, but he is never incapable for three days in the week. He lives in the open air, and is exposed to aU weathers ; his clothing is, as a rule, not insufficient, but his food is chiefly bread, potatoes, suet dumpling, and vegetables, with a little poi* k or cheese, but very rarely fresh butcher's meat. He Bleeps probably over a duncheap or near a cess- pool, with his wife and half a dozen children in the sama room, and ia very fortunate if he escape an attack of continued fever once in his life. But his great enemy when he is over fifty is rheumatism, and this consigns him to the care of the pariah during the last decade. Still his existenoe has its bright Bide. Ho rarely knows what a headache is. His labour ia of the slow, enduring kind which does not ex- haust; and, if he escape death fr « m continued fever or accident, he lives beyond three score years and ten. His children are healthy, they are not syphilitic or strumous, and his wife does not suffer from " nerves." The town operative, who earns twice as much money, and who could earn three times as much if he worked all the working days of the week, dies at 50, and rarely passes a year without being an out- patient at a hospital or getting some medicine from his chib- doctor. One of his children has hip- joint disease, and another is blind with oneeye from keratitis. Hia wife spends nine hours a week waiting for the doctor in the out- patient room of a hospitaL He was a clever, intelligent lad, with a smattering of education, but a^ ter 30 he got heavier and more stupid, and has long given up aU idea of climbing to a higher round in the social ladder. Now, supposing that the Warwickshire strike spreads, and that it results in giving the agricultural labourer higher wages, what will be its result? Will the agricultural labourer become a higher, better- developed, more intellectual, and not less physically healthy man than he is ? Or will he, with increased means, adopt any of the causes of de- terioration which are at work among our town popula- tion ? We perfectly agree with the defenders of the present combination, that the agricultural labourer's condition might be and ought to be bettered. He ought to have a better dwelling, and he ought to have a somewhat more annualized diet; but, except in these two particulars, we believe his lot in life is infinitely preferable to that of the town operative, who works on from day to day among the noise, , the comparative darkness, and smells of a fac- tory. ana retires from the publichouse ( the only bright place that he knows of) to his room with his 1 ailing wife and skk children in a town alley. If the ^ farm labourer can be tanghtto make some provision for j old age, and to give his children a better education, i and to spend part of his increased pay on a somewhat j nwre nutritious diet, a higher rate of wages will make • him a happier and a more energetic man. But if the greater amount of money current among a rural population, and the shorter hours of work, convert the village alehouse into a gin- palace and bring into the country the vioes of the town, it will only necessitate an increase ef cottage hospitals and country infir- maries. Hereditary peerages are to be abolished In PortugaL The Turkish Government coCtemplates establishin railway communication between Jatl> and Jerusalem. The German Parliament was ope^ ied on Monday by Prince BUmsrck In the name ot the EmjK- ror William. ofTpriL6 Bismarck c^ pleted his 6StIt yedr on tho 1st There was a distribution of twigs of palnJ ( so- called, . to the congregation attending St. Alban's, Holbotn, London Oi.' Palm Sunday. L' is said that Government are likely to make Lady Mayo a peeress in her own right, and to eettlo on her an Etfgllsi,' as weU as an Indian pension. JBy a larje majority the Swedish Parliament has atfolished the system ot exemption from military service by money payment. The Earl of Dude has raised the wagea of his work- man upon the Tortworth estate 2s. a week, and allows them to lcavo work an hour earlier on Saturdays. An angler whose indolence is quite pronounced, tics his fish lino to his lep. and when thero Is a bite, the only exertion he is required to make Is to kick his dog. Gradually, year by year. Good Friday is becoming better observed in Scotland. This year the number of public offices and shops that were closed Indicated that In Edinburgh and other large dtlcs that day is commanding greatly- in- creased respect. Leicester has resolved to oppose Mr. Cardwell's scheme for making that cUy a mUitary centro. giving as tho reason, the demoralising effects a barrack would probably In- troduce In the locaUty. ' ' At a recent meeting of the Commissioners of Sewers It was reported that within tho past fortnight 4,0Sllbs. of meat has been seized In tho markets and slaughter- houses of the City of London as unfit for human food. The latest phase of the " Labour Movement" has been oa the part ot tbe cigar- makers of LI6ge, who have just struck, demanding not only an advance In wages but to be allowed to do their work whenever they please, at any hour of the day or night. A collection of personal jewellery belonging to the Empress of the French, consisting of somo beautiful brooches, bracelet, necklaces, and tans, Is at present offered tor sale in Amsterdam. A Liverpool policeman asked a sailor, an inmate of a cell, whom he could scarcely see In the dim light, " Aro Sua coloured man r *' Coloured, no ; I was bom so," was e Innocent reply. , We have no statistics to show the extent to which ldlotcy exists In this country; •• but," says the Qlobe, " the records of its prevalcnco across the Atlantic are fearfully suggestive. It is estimated that thero are upwards of eight thousand Idiots In the State of New York alone." A numerous deputation on Monday presented a memorial to Mr. Stansfeld, praying for ah alteration In some of the details of the Public Hellth Bill, and suggesting the appointment of one central authority, which should j£ ™ » nh0 eon, iroi . of (^ nit? r7 matter,. The right hon. gen- tleman promised to consider tho points bronght before him. The eruptive period of Vesuvius, sny3 the Official ,, Sf• ln fl^ t days of the y^ T t lff. K< 11wlthvmon5 ^ nslty. Thenolsesare more trequent, and tho lava bursts out with greater force. nft^ » Je5^ in8cof late Mr. N. M'Kenna, editor of. the Northern Star, were Interred on Saturday In a ceme- tary near Belfast. The funeral corUge was one of thol^ t ever witnessed In the town, and all creeds, classes, and pro- fessions were represented In it. The sentence of death passed on Rachael Busby, who was convicted at tho Oxfordshire Assizes ol the murder of f ot , wddeSS. al7'_, has heea committed to poijal servltudo for Bfe. Tho prisoner has during her incarcera- tion given birth to a stniborn chUd. w^ J^ iT fcjjtt^ seventeen years of age, was burned to death, at Dublin, on her return from a ball it one oqlook on Saturday morning. Her dress was Ignited by a ^ 10 drc* tUuU'baraed I' " Cpdegraff, in a speech recently delivered J? Ahe Senate, uttered the following epigram s_" The ETv- wE ^' , SohoUr cvn flod Plan English In which to fclotho pWn gesso, but I never knew a quadTwho wasn't well up In Latin names tot Catnip tea or mustard plaster" J**- Thomas Walker, one of the principal mission- V° n,? on. Ci. ly ¥ lulon- dIed ™ < lden) y on Sunday attending Divine service at church, where he had been taken P££, eefB of Wales haa left Rome for Florence. wherethey will remain for ten days, and then pro- H'Kbnessesw. reboth in excellent PD .', he k ® , ore ^^ departure they witnessed the Uluminatlon ofthe Colosseum, an enormous crowd being In the United States House of Representatives, a bin has been passed allotting a sum of 190 000 doUars to the officers and crew of the Keanage for the destruction of the Alabama. The eagagem? nt between the two vessels took pltco, It will be recollected. In the Bngliah Channel near Cherbourg as tar back as tho 10th June, 1861. An action has been tried at the Bristol Assizes, in which tho Mayor of Exeter claimed damages from the pub- lisher ol The Timet tor UbeL It consisted of a letter, in which " a West Countryman," referring to a riot at a Per- misrivo BUI meeting at Exeter, charged the plaintiff with con- duct unbecoming the position of chief magistrate of the city. It was contended for the defence that the statements com- plained of were true, and that no imputation upon the < fayor was Intended. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff — damages, ten guineas. Natal papers state that, on the 24th of December, the Bishop ot MariUburg ordained threo deacons, two of whom were naUves carefully trained under' the Rev. Dr. Callaway. They are described as the first native ministers ordained in the Church of South Africa, with the exception of one, who was ordained by the late Bishop of Grahams- town, but who died about six months after his ordlnaUon. In Edinburgh, says the Covrant, the demand for halfpenny post- sards was so great on Saturday last that many would- be purchasers had to leave the post- office without pro- curing the quantities they required, the answer being, " Sold out" The cause of this; unusual crowd of purchasers was the announcement that on and after April 1 ( Monday) the charge lor these cards would be Increased tone halfpenny per dozen. The following lines, by an eminent modern poet, we j^ wfll that tho House on Monday next, do resolve itself Into a Com- mittee to consider of an address to her Majesty, praying hor Majesty that she wUl be gradouriy pleased to bestow somo further marks ot favour upon the widow aad children of the late Earl ol Mayo. — ^ The Society of Biblical Archrcologyhas lately received a rich present for Its Ubrary, In the shape of an andent Sepher- Torah, dating from the tenth century. This MSS. Is tha only copy of the Pentateuch as usod by tbo Aden Jews, descendants of tho pre- Mahometan inhabitants, which has yet reached this country, and the society is Indebted to tho liberality of Captain F. Prldeaux, Assistant Political Resi- dent at Aden, for the valuable donation. The councU ot tho sodety hope soon to exhibit the roll to tbopublle, with ade- tsj^ edexamlnation of its philological andorducologlcal pc- On Monday night a crowded audience at the Albert Hall, Plymouth, wore alarmed by an aeddent to a boy about eight years of age, one of the Sllbonee Acrobatic Troupe, who are nightly giving a series of daring trapeze and high ropo performances. Tho littlo fellow twice misled tho trapeze and feU on the paddod floor. At tho third attempt he sprang just tar enough to catch one loop of the trapeco with one hand only, and twisting rapidly round, becamo glddv, and feU with great violence head downwards from » considerable height, on to an unpadded portion of tho floor bedoath. Tt was afterwards discovered that the boy's collar- bone was broken, but fortunately his Injuries are not of a dangerous description. The Journal de Liige relates that the inhabitants of that town wero startled on Saturday by a load detonation proceeding from the Iron- foundry of MM. Jowa and Delhetd In the Hue G re try. A terrible explosion had been caused By the imprudence of a workman, who. perceiving In the midst of tome old Iron utensils a shell which seemed to hare somo powder In It, applied a red hot Iron to ascertain the fact, when It burst and scattered Its fragments In all directions. One workman was kUlod en tho spot, and three others severely woundod. THE MARKETS. MARK- LANE. - MOHDAT. Bather more firmness was apparent In the provincial markets hold on Saturday. The supplies of wheat wero moderate. Tho trade was steadier, and prices had a harden- ing tendency. Spring corn was unaltered. The Import Into London last week consisted of 24.142 qrs. of wheat, 22,221 barloy, 14,673 oats, 2,717 rye, 3,020 beans, 4,928 maize. 4,972 tares, 18.614 linseed, 17,532 rapeseed, 787 sundry, and 1,06* sacks of flour. At Mark- lane, to- day, the supply ot Eng- lish wheat has been short. There has been a thin attendance ot millers, and the demand for both red and white produce has been very moderate, transactions being oonnned to the supplying ol actual wants- In prices no change has taken place. Fall- avorage supplies of foreign whtat have been on offer. Not much business has been doing either In American or Russian descriptions, at the rates pre- viously current.' With barley the market has boon moder- ately supplied. Malting produce has sold slowly, and grind- ing parcels have been In limited request. For malt the Inquiry has been flmlted at previous quotations. Fair BuppUes of oats have been on offer. The demand has been Inactive at about late rates. Malzo has not experienced muah inquiry, notwithstanding the falling off In the Imports. Beans havo beep purchssed quietly. There has not been much demand for poas. Flour has been noglected, at last week's prices. MARK- LANE— WEDMSDAT. ^ de to- day waa quiet. The supplies of English E^ 1 waet? Int those from abroad wero rather ^• • h- tl6? 111 ^ descriptions were effected slowly at nfVtiM P ™ * 0"' 1* current. There was a fair supply 1k ® ln1? 1p, for which was Inactive, at prices ruling Sf^ nJlTO 1rour-. Wal'was dull, but inalteredB J* " 0: 0atf- tte ahow of which was good, changed hands ffi^ Xa^ r- quiet and m^ sornelT fj METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.— MOSEAT. The totals Imports of foreign stock Into London last week amounted to 15,774 head. In the corresponding week In 1871 we received 12,736, In 1870 0421, and In 1869 10,460 head. There has been a want of animation in the cattle trade today. The supplies of stock have been more extensive, and tho quality generally has been good. Tho show of beasts from our own grazing districts has been tolepblygood, but from Scotland the arrivals have not boot heavy. The condition, however, has been satisfactory. Tbo trade has been quiet at about late rates. The best Scots and crosses havo made 5s. to 5s. 2tL per 81b. From Norfolk, Suf- folk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire wo received about 1.750 Scots and crosses ; from other parts of England, 250, various kinds : from Scotland, 155 Scots and crossses ; and from Ireland, about 100 oxen. More Uberal supplies of sheep have been on sale. In aU breeds sales have progressed slowly, and there has been a decided tendency to lower rates. The best Downs and half- broeds tn the wool havo sold at 7a to 7a 9< L, and ditto shorn, 5s. lOd. to 6s. per 81b. lambs have been disposed ot at from 8s. to 9s. per 81b. Calves have met a slow sale on former terms. Pigs have been dull at last week's prices. Tn the House of Lords, April 9, Earl Stanhope gave notice that on Friday next he would move tor copies of any com- munications there had been between her Majesty's Govern- ment and the Government ot France on the subject ot tho Xelmposition of passports on that country, i The Earl ot Malmesbury asked the Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether ho would lay on the table thoSo papers which tils ooneaguo had already promised to tho House of Com- mons. He wished to point out that nothing had tended more to the good feeling between this country and France than the passport system having been abolished by the [ Imperial Government, and he bellevod that In tho last year of the Empire not fewer than 600,000 perions passed from this country to Fruncc. They spent a largo sum - of money, not in the way of trade but In pleasure, and [ ho was surprised that when tho French Government twos in want of money they should adopt a system which tmust prevent foreigners going to tho country and spending money In Paris. The passport system, too, had already been Bhown to be useless for Its Intended object, and he hoped to hear that tho present vexatious regulation would be aban- doned. He also wished to ask the noble Sari whether there Biad been any correspondence relative to Communist pri- soners being sent to this country, and It so, whether It would few produced f I Eari GranvUle saldthere was somo correspondence relative to tho Communists, and there could be no objection to pro- duce it. He hoped it would bo found satisfactory to the noble earl. That relative to tho passports would be laid on the tabic. Earl Stanhopo thereupon withdrew his notice of motion, and related his experiences last autumn when on the Con- Bono other business was disposed of, and their lordships adjourned. 2n tho House of Commons, Sir J. Hay gave notice that on ftbo 17U> May he would move for a select committee to In- quire Into the subject of collisions at sea. Mr. A. Herbert stated that on that day month ho would Call attention to the powers possessed by the University of Oxford to alter their own statutes, and would move a resolu- tion. ' The Solldtor- Gencral gave notloe that on Friday he would move tor leave to bring In a bUl to amend the law relating to Juries. 9 Colonel Beresfnrd cajled attention to the unfair and ruinous Competition with which the mat trade has to contend in con- aoquenee of the ML tensive employment ot convict labour k> tho manufacture He complained also ot the application of steam power in Wakefield Prison to the trade, nnd of tho priws at which tho product of convict labour Is sold, and he moved for aSeloct Committee to inquire Into the subject. 1 Mr. Keorawmy proposed to give a wider scope to the ln- ggyby^ nafeiTipg to the Committee tho whole question of After remarks from several other hon. members, Mr. Bruce, speaking of the convict prisons under the con- SPUTTERINGS FROM " J. BDYS" PEN. Tin Inspiration of some poets is only— y- lnsplratlon alter all THE Footman's Motto.— plus ( knee- pluth) ultra. " WHT, my little boy, did that hulking big fellow hit you on purpose! " No, sir, he hit me on the head." ATOCKO country friend ot Judxft says that she never walks across her father's fields, because they're too stylo- lah tor her. IT IS impossible to say how many dog- days there are In tho year, because every dog has his day. JOSES, on being pitied by his friends because Mrs. Jones had left him. Immediately exclaimed, " Pity me not, until Ihe retumt f" FT BLACK as your Hat— Darkness that may be/ til. A FCNKT friend ot Judy'i says, that he only backed one horse In his lite, and that was Into a shop- window. WOKKMEH generally on the Strike.— Blacksmiths. CA& PHBTBRS frequently become not ' only bores, but also sometimes annoy people with their old saws CHAP. as of tho Light Brigade.— The gas bUL LOVE'S YOCBO DREASI — A little sighing, a little crying, a little dying, and a very great deal of- lylng. Mns. JOKES has such an aversion to tobacco { especially to Joses'sX that there is no end ot tabacoo Jars in the house. Sha fumes, and he puffs; so it all ends in smoke. WHAT . somo Husbands resort to after Marriage.— Ihe Club. A SHOCKn » o Affair— A magnetic battery. MOCK Turtle— Connubial affection before company— some- times. MiUTAEV QCERT.— If a sub. gains a step by his senior officer's fall when out hunting; can it be called promotion per chase J A TOUNO married couple, who havo recently been furnish- ing, say, they dont find dumb- waiters answer. A GREAT LARK — On board ship It does not matter how tipsy you get; peoplo think It's only sea- sickness. TTIB Abolition of Capital Punishment Society— Pshaw! Bah ! It won't bang sir. — Judy. " Immense progress of humanity I It will he with profound gratification and much heart- flu taring thai many ot our Radical contemporaries will read t » _ » t a sKoo- blacklng manufactory, the Qrst in Turkey, baa b » < yu es> Mi.< heJ at Con- stantinople."— C « urt Journal. EPITOME OF NEWS, BBITISH AND FOREIGN. An association has been formed in Spain for th< purpose of obtaining tho restitution of Gibraltar to tha< country. „ M^ 8.^'^) authorised to. state that the report published in some English and French Journals, thafthi Emperor Napoleon has borrowed In London 15,000, OOOL U entirely destitute of foundation. 9n Saturday a man named Wallace, a surface- man, employed on the Caledonian Railway, was accidentally ran over by a train near Dundee, and killed on the spot. I never saw such a cold woman as Lady is ' said an envlous beauty of another, the other evening. •'] feel quite confident that she must give her huihand Lord a con In tho head whenever she kisses him " It is reported that a certain explanation index Jf^ S1^? \ he Am? il? n " case," fixing tho exact valne ol S^ 4 fJS1 ® * by '^ d States at something ike fifty millions sterling. 6 « .'\? ont? 5po, ra? y 8a7B the eiact expression used by tha King of Spain In reference to tho rumour that he w ould On Monday, at Bridgnorth Steeplechase, a wooden grand stand, which had been erected, as It proved, in a very faulty manner, gavo way while a largo number of person* were upon It, and several persons were bruised and cut Tho aeddent caused great exdtement. At Fairyhouse Races, near Dublin, a curious acci- dent occurred Two gentlemen were galloping In opposite directions, when the heads of their horses sfruck fSll tlH together, and both horses were killed, the riders being thrown Into the air One ot the gentlemen had aU his front teeth knocked out." At, 4 ™ . I£ eda Afieize8. on Saturday, a young lady named GIB, 23 years at age, sought to recover compensation for breach ot promise of mariW the defendant bdng a farmer six years older than herself. The peculiarity of too ^ ™ 3' 1iat, t* 0 proi? Jf? s 40 marry had boon made, neither of Which had been fulfilled. Tho jury gave the plaintiff £ 500 damages. Iron shipbuilding appears to be rapidly becoming in fnportant branch of Industry In Denmark Although for tho last fifteen years smaU Iron vessels, designed for training be- tween toe various Baltic porta, have been baiit at Copen- hagen, It is only recently that the construction of lireo f* ® " 1161" bten„? ttemPt<! d- At present several of 1.000 tons are being buUt, and one of these. It is stated, will bo employed In laying down the telegraph cable between China Md Xapan. Two steamers, each ol nearly 003 tons— toe Rol/ e and the Thorwaldten— havo just made the passage to New York, and these are said to bo the first toTv^ sela built In Denmark whlah have ever entered that port. _ The Oronstadt Messenger states that the fleet in the Black Sea wUl bo composed this year of 18 men- ol- war and » floating beacons, with 146 officers and 1,478 soUors. The flotilla of the Caspian Sea will comprise 24 vessels, with 85 officers and L036 sailors. The floot of the Pacific will havo 29 vessels, with 131 officers and - 1,39ft aaUora. The total number of vessels taking part In fhe evolutions In the hon • waters and cruising abroad will bo IS ironclads and 164 steamers, with 1,316 officers andl7,7U4 sailors. At Metz a feeble attempt ia being made to brine about a reconciliation between French and Germans by moons of a Freemasons' lodge, called tho Temple ol Peace, to which a large number of Genum officials already belonz As during the war the French lodges pronounced an anathema on all German lodges, tbfc masonic eirterwtaj U not very likely to be anendrt- ffii6. » ac « sj. * quote aa descriptive of tho recent atmospherical changes :— " First tt rained, and then It blew. And then It friz, and then It snew, And then It haUed, and then It thew, And then It friz again anew." For distinguishing benzole, which is made of coal tar, from beiizino, which Is made from petroleum, Brandberg recommends us to place a small piece ot pitch in a test tube, and pour over ft some " ol the substanoe to be examined. Benzole will immediately dissolve the pitch to a tar like mass, while benzine wUl scarcely be coloured. The " Republican Club" of Sheffield has issued a manifesto appealing to thdr townsmen to Join their cause, and to substitute tbe " virtues of the Bepublic" for the " rices, fopperies, and corruptions of Monarchy." This, it Is thought by many, should « be read tho reverse way— namely, the vices, fopperies, and corruptions ot the RepubUc, for the virtues of Monarchy. At a crowded meeting held in Manchester on Monday, and presided over by the Mayor, resolutions wore passed in favour of the speedy lntrpductlon by Government of a com- Erehensive measure ol licensing reform, making pennanent le Licensing Suspension Act re'dudng the number of Bcensed houses further restricting the hours, especially to the whole ot 8unday, forbidding tho sale of drink to chUdren, withholding licences forllquor to music and dancing saloons, and providing generally more lenient police regulations. Un- successful attempts were made to obtain an adjournment of the meeting. Viscount de M bought at Tattersall's the other day, a splendid horse, which originally cost 25.000 francs, and belonged to an Englishman. Tho horse had repaid the choice by dlsclooatlng the collar- bone of the r. Mjj- li'Vn*^ who declared ho had had enough ot his company The Viscount, nothing tearing, bought, mounted, and rode off. Everything went weU for a brief space, when, aU at once, the horse showed his rider the quickest way to mother earth, left him there with two broken ribs, and lied into tho country. It is now ten days since the wild horse bid farewell to the capital: he has not been heard of slnco. Perhaps he has. gone to Tartary whence he came. The Bishop of Manchester presided on Saturday at the, annual meeting of the Manchester Diocesan Church Building Sodety. His Lordship endorsed the statement of Mr. Disraeli that it tbe Church of England ia to be saved it must bo by resting upon the affections of tho masses of tho people— upon the twenty millions of poor and not upon the ten thousand rich. The Bishop pointed out that It the Church appealed to the masses it must be prepared to receive them when they answered the appeal, and he urged that better accomodation should bo atonoo j* uvided for the poor. He declared that pow rents wero an " abomination," and hs only accepted them as a necessity. Harper's Weekly states that Uriah. F. Boy den, of Boston, U. S., has deposit* d with the Franklin Institute ot Philadelphia, one thousand dollars, to bo awarded" as a premium to any resident of North, America who shall determine by experiment whether all rays ot ll^ ht and other 1116 ft'.,* ™ tran'- AUtUd with the same velodty. Tho conditions of the pr emlrm limit tho apnU- cants to those north of tbe south tTD boundary of Mexico and including the Wwt India U'antfs. AppllcJkons must , be made before thelstof Janurj- y 187i atwhlcitime the 1 Judges appointed by toe IW iS'Institute shS eTanine thomemoirs and dedde whet ntr any one Is entitled tothe . - Tualice Mellor ( w'fi0 ; fl 0ne of the presiding ta( teesatthe LIveriKx. 1 asdzes) stated on Monday that he L plaining of tho " lenient sen- -^ adpassed upon two persons for what the ^ v^ lon^ vf* heUbSi atrotity.- This was a fair aaldlof tho kind of communication with " T* blDn< iat « d. It happened, however, that ErErx^ yt* ? tte,, he had clven tho very utmost sen- bJ the law. Thus people, before making fh^ Hr^ " klnd' a^' d acquaint themselve* wltfi « wT^ m\ Un< i8a: and If they had any serious represonta- to P lttdKs! make ttem ta the LesWatorc, and not New Orleans has an ! k"" dent sportsman. He fa some- what different from tho other sportsmen, however. They neglect their basin ess to go to the race ; he neglcsts the race to go to his business. William Chester Minor, American surgeon, haa teen trlod at the Kingston Assises for the innrder ol George Merritts Stoker February last, at Lambeth, and acquitted on tbe ground of Insanity. . A. Pj^&^ m^ kweet ordered 40,000 booonets of vMets from Nice to distribute among its customers. A trrace^ fulattention, which the English OperativeSo^ wSto some time crc they imltato. Sunday last beingthe nineteenth anniversary of tho birthday of his Eoyal Highness rrlnoe Leopold, the bells of St. George's Chapel aad tbe parish church of- St. John Windsor, wore rung In honour of the occasion. The flstng of tho usual Eoyal salute was, however, deferred until Monday. A Parma* who by his last will and testament be- queathed his sins to Prussia, Inclosed himself In a wardrobe, after flsst llghtfig a stove with charcoal, and conveying tho chimney- pipe Into tho wardrobe, when comfortably seated therein, ho took apparently the stopper out of tho pipe, and to laid on tho carbonic acid. A labourer named William Kettle and his second wife, to whom he has lately bosn married, have boon arrested at Great Bromley, ID Essex, on a chnrgt of murder- ing by poison the male prisoner's tint wife, The woman's death took place In October, and tho body has been exbymod by torder of tho Homo Secretary. On Saturday tho prisoners were brought before a county magistrate, and remanded tor The exodus from the south of Ireland 13 proceeding' at an alarmingly rapid rate. Upwards of 1,400 strangers wore In queenstown on Thursday and Friday In last week- stalwart youths and buxom lasses from the southern, mid- land. and evon tho northern countlc*— all tound to1 tho Far West. Many of them had to sleep In tho streets, through want of accommodation ! n » ho lodging- houses. More than one- halt the passages of these people had bean prepaid by friends in America. Mr. Bernal Osborne has placod s Hotfceon the paper nf th « IInn » Aof Commons to tli,< flt.'.- t that ho will mnra THE FALMOUTH AND PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. SATI.' nPAT, APRIL 13.1872. • • otnmiL Wanted .'( nirchase Old Indian Shi.'. a b Curiosities JOHN bURTON, MARKET ST. FaLmOUTH, IS OPEN TO PUrchase eVEry DESCRIPTION Of Old Indian China and other Curiosities, For which the highest market value will be given READ HERE, AND BENEFITS DERIVED FROM ARTICLE. THE GREAT Is. IJD. Allcock's Porous Plaster- have relieved sufferers when in the greatest pain and all other remedies had ailed. Physicians and surgeons of all schools recommend llipm" A doctor said the other day :—" I do not know whither AJlcock'B Plasters contain all the virtues you ascribe to them, but this I do ' know: no plaster or locatapplication has over liven my patients such great comfort." We publish a few cases of cures, showing their wonderful virtues. Further evidence of their value to suffering humanity ill be demonstrated to any one calling at the principal agency. , KFLAilMAIION OF THE LUNGS. " Henry D. Brandreth, j 57, Great Charlotte- 6lre€ t, Liverpool. 11 Dear Sir,— We be? to| endose another testi- monial as to the etfieacn of Ancock's Porous Plaster;. James BaJcfiffe, StamforJ- streei, Merely, says be bad be- on confined to his bed five weeks suffering from inflammation of. the lungs He coughed continually, with groat expectoration and difficulty of breathing, > which brought him so low that Le was unable tq rise in bed without support. lie applied oue oi your plasters, and foncd relief in tilioen minutes, after which he says the cough stopped And the expectoration ceased, lie is now quite tjecovered. The above is exactly his own statemeut to me.— Youra respectfully, " JOHfc BICKLE. . "( Pro W. BOSTOCK, " 24, Stamford: street,' Ashton- under- Lyne " November 24,1871." sc Heywood, Ootober 9,1871. Henry D. Brandreth, 577 Great Charlotte- street, Liverpool. Dear Sir,— Please to send mo mother six dozen of Allcock's Plasters and two dozen Brand- rcih's PilL's, Is. lid. The Plasters seem to produco wonderful results. There is scarcely a dai passes but some one is tolling me of the cures they are mating. Kheo. iJitism in various parts of the '">, vly disappeirs as if by m. igio. Only on Sunday l& oi ~'. r. Jacob Hey wood, Albert- terrace, Starkey- suci' Heywood, informed me that he had been trouble- with eciatica for three years: so bad was it the last twelve months of ilmt - me that 1 • wa- unable to follow his em- ployment. yip had' ed many doctors, be° n to ilatlock, and spent £ 2 on a largely advertised electric- chaiD t - it, bet all to no purpose. Some one at last persuade- 1 him to try your Plasters, r < e aid he ha- l no i. iith i" hem, but he would try them, for he w stu-'. fast; they could not make bis pain much wor- e, and it would only be a little more mon** sen' after the rest. So he bought two ; on* i pi >•• - I on is thigb. and the othc- ron his bac- I , , ind • r liter he wurea iy for his work, > i now - ix ' nnutlis atf" and ue baa had no return of bis ^ uns.— Yoa. W. BECKETT- k HEUMATISM OF THE WRIST Henry D. Brandre-' , Esq., 57, Great Char- lotte- street, Liverpool. 36, Crowu- street, Liverpool, Nov. 21st, 1871. Dear Sir,— Three months since I could not use my rifrbt hand, owiug co rheumatism in ij and in my wrist, and over ten weeks I was in great pain— unable to find any relief. After trying many remedies, I was at last persuade! to try Allcock's Porous Plasters. I bound one muni my wrist; tu three days I had great relief, and in a week'* time was perfectly cured Your plasters are a blossin? to the atficted. have poaitive information of their being of greu benefit in bronchitis and isthtna. It will give me pleasure to answer any communication con- cerning them.— Yours truly, THOMAS DAVIES. B RON C H IT IS. Henry D. Brandreth, Esq., Liverpool. 105, llarapton- street, Birmingham, Nov. 27, 1871- Deaf Sir,— I have for some months past been n the nabit of using Allcock's Porous Plasters ( procured from the establishment " of Meaers. Snaps and Hon, 13, Great Hampton- street, of this town ) when suffering from bronchitis and severepains in the side, and have on every occasion found immediate relief, whereas I had pifeviously consulted two medical men without deriving the least benefit. I can with confidence recommend them to any one suffering from the same complaint.— Yours respectfully, GEORGE STYLE8. LLC'JCK'S POROUS PLASTERS L are gold by all Druggists, at Is ljd each, witdi full directions for use, or in any size to suit. The y ird Plaster is specially recommended lor timilies and physicians. One yard equals 18 plusters. Prioo 14s per yard, 7s fid • per half yard, oj 4s per quarter. Yf ixp'ZAb AONIKCR yon GBKAT BBITIAN ( Wholesale and Retail ) : 57, GREAT CHARLOTTE ST., LIVERPOOL. . B.—- A Plaster sent to any part of the country for 16 stamps. '' A Visit to Eppa's Cocoa Manufactory. — Through the kindness of Messrs. Epps, I recently had an op- portunity of seeing the many complicated and varied processes the Oocoa bean passes through crc it is sold for public use, and, being both interested and highly pleased with what I saw during my visit to the man- ufactory, I thought a brief account of the Cacao, and the way it is manufactured by Messrs. . Epps, to fit it for a wholefcome and nutritious beverage, might be of interest to the readers of Land and Water."— See article mL- ncl and Water, October 14. JSrcakfai' - Epps't Cocoa.— Grateful and comforting. " By : i thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutri- tion ami by a careful application of the fine pro- - ties of well- Belected cocoa, Mr. Epps has TJrovi... our breakfast tables wi'. h a delicately flavoured beverage which mavsave us many heavy doctors'bills." Civil Strvict Gazette. Made simply with boiling water, or w< Ik. Each packet is labelled-" Tames Epps and Co,, 11 nmoeopathic Chemists, London. — Also makers of Kpps'a Cacaoine, a very thin beverage for lyJ- n, auk ANY LADIES who have not yet used the GLK:; FIKM> STABUH, they are respectfully solicited to give it a trial, and carefully follow out the directions printed on every | Kickafe, and if this is done, they will say like the Queen's Liaandruss. it is- the finest Starch they . ever used. Wh.- n you nsk for GLENPIBLD STARCH, • that you get it. A inferior kinds are often substituted for the sake of extra profit. Beware therefore of spurious imitations. The Housa for Tea. Teas of rare fratrance & strength Economical Tea for Families Black Green or Mixed the Finest Spring Crop. J. H. HEAD, Tea Dealer & Grocer, High Street, Falmouth. 3ATJRDAY, APRIL 13, 1872. THE GENERAL MUTUAL LAND, BUILDING, AND INVESTMENT SOCIETY. The annual meeting of this society has been recently held in London. We havo often taken oc- casion to recommend this thriving society to our readers; and feel much gratified in finding that our confidence in it has been thoroughly sustained by the reports presented at this meeting and the proceedings that took place thereat. As we have stated on former occasions, we regard this society as having quite a claim on us locally, seeing that we are so fully represented in the management— the names of our respected townsman, John Freeman, Esq. ( whose son, Mr. G. D. Freeman, is the solicitor to the society), and R. N. Fowler, Esq., the ener- getic representative of the borough, being included with the principal officers. Mr. Fowler had con- sented to preside at the annual meeting but, having unexpectedly to leave for Paris, his place was taken by Capt. Fell Woods. The report showed a steady increase in every department of the Societys business; the sum advanced to enable parties to become their own house and land owners being double that of the preceding year. The profit was such that, after retaining 25 per cent, of the amount to the credit of a suspense account, a bonus of 2£ per cent, was declared, making, with the usual interest, 7} per cent, profit on the amount paid by investing shareholders. The funds had been advanced principally to persons for the purchase of premises which they intended to occupy themselves - a class of business of the most desirable character. We may consider this society as being now thoroughly and firmly established ; all its affairs showing from year to year a steady progression. The present secretary, Mr. Binyon, who was highly eulogised at the meeting for his business tact and zeal, appears to have applied a well- informed mind to the affairs of the society, and principally to hia exertions the meeting ascribed its excellent position. We hope many persons in. this locality will avail themselves of the facilities offered by this society for the purchase of property; and we can assure intending borrowers the most courteous attention to their enquiries both by the local agents and the secretary. FaLmoUTH. EABLE'S ReTreAT CHAPEL. — The Rev. Jenkin Jones will preach here to- morrow afternoon, at 3 ; and Mr. P. H. Gutheridge, Jun., on Tues- day evening next, at 7. ELECTION OF GUARDIANS. — The retiring guardians have been re- elcctod, with the exception of Mr. G. Charlton, who is succeeded by Mr. Samuel Jacob. THE MARKeT STRAND LANDING PLACE is be proceeded with at once, the differences be- tween the Borough Local Board and tho contractor, Mr. Robins, having been amicably settled. WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.— The anniversary services in this town will commence to- morrow at Wesley Chapel, when sermons will be preached by the Rev. S. Romilly Hall, ox- president of the Conference. The public meeting will be held on Thursday evening next, preceded by a sermon in the afternoon; tne Revds. J. Baker, M. A., and J. Pearson, are the deputation. ANNUAL FESTIVAL or CHURCH CHOIRS.— The Order of Service to be used at the ninth annual festival of the West Cornwall Association of Church Choirs, to be held in the Parish Church of Charles- the- Martyr, Falmouth, on Wednesday, June 12th, 1872, edited by the Rev. Saltren Rogers, precentor, and Mr. C. W. Robinson, choir- master," is just out, the publisher being W. R. Bowden, Oxford. This festival was to have taken place at Falmouth lxist year, but, after the publication of the " Order of Service," another locality was chosen for it. POST- OFFICE.— A return of tho principal work done in 1871, at the Post- office, has just been fur- nished to the Chamber of Commerce. It contains some very respectable figures, and gives a good idea of the importance of the port. We find that dur- ing the y • T. l, jJJ, tXK) letters were received and despatch i, averaging 35,000 weekly, or 5,000 daily. Tho number of registered letters was 3,590. Postage stamps were Bold to the amount of £ 5,110 18s. 4d. Of money orders, 19,029 were issued and paid, covering sums amounting to £ 35,612 14s. 2d. In the telegraph department, 50,880 messages ( includ- ing 312 at the Flashing sub- office) were received and transmitted, producing £ 2626 4s. The average number of callers at the office was 000 daily. SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT THE DOCKS.— On Tuesday afternoon a locomotive engine belonging _ the Docks Company was steaming towards lihe eastern breakwater, and was just opposite the dock- master's when one of the workmen, a points- i, named John Williams, in stepping from the engine, fell, and his right leg, going under a wheel, was nearly cut in two. He was immediately con- voyed to his residence, at Smithick Hill, Falmouth, where Dr. W. K. Bullmore, assisted by Dr. Guppy and Dr. Vigurs, amputated the leg below the knee. Williams is about twenty- nine years of age. He has a wife and five children dependent upon him and is likely to be a considerable time before he can again go to work. We understand the dock- master, Mr. W. Hi Dymond, is raising a subscription so as to afford Williams some assistance during this period of inactivity, his case requiring a large amount of nourishing articles. FALMOUTH UNION OUT- RELIEF. — The Guardians recently adopted a code of regulations for tbc better administration, and supervision of ont- relief. In future such reliof is to be granted for a fixed poriod only, not in any case exceeding three months, and tho relieving officer will have to visit the homes of the applicants in every case prior to relief being granted. Tho provisions respecting the compulsory maintenance of paupers by relatives legally liable to contribute to their support, are to be more generally acted upon. A systematic visi- tation of persons in receipt of out- relief is imposed on the relieving officers, who arc to keep a diary with tho dates and results of such visits, to lay beforo the guardians. Tho relieving officers are themselves to take the relief to such out- door poor as cannot attend at the pay places. Lists of all persons in receipt of out- relief are to be printed every six months and posted up at the usual post- ing places in each parish. successful COMPETITION AT THE DOg TRIALS.— Two setters belonging to Mr. T. Webber, J. P., of Market Strand, won two of tho three stakes . competed for at the " Devon and Cornwall Setter, Pointer, and Spaniel Field Trials," which took place near Meuheniot, on Wednesday last. The Redgato stakes were for a silver cup, value £ 10, and were competed for by Mr. Bulteel's Irish set- ters, " Don " and " Bob,' and Mr. Webber's " Dan" and " Claret," and won by the lattor. The Deven and Cornwall stakes, for a Bilver cup value £ 10, were won by Mr. Llewellin's " Countess " and " Nelly," having virtually no competitors. The Countess" also having no competitor in the county stakes for £ 5, walked over to save tho the stakes. For tho Treworgey stakes, a silver cup, value £ 5, there were six entries, and they were won by Mr. Webber's " Dan."--" Dan" and " Claret " were highly spoken of on the field. ATTENDANCE OF GUARDIANS.— The following is a list of tho number of attendances of the Fal- mouth board of guardians during the past year :— Chairman, Mr. W. H. Williams, 19 times. Vice- chairmen, Mr. J. Olver, 22 ; Rev. W. Rogers, 22. Ex- officio— Capt. Norway, 12 ; Mr. F. G. Enys, 6; Major Bull, 2 ; Mr. J. K. Kinsman, 1. Budock— Messrs. Elias Geach, 24 ; M. Saunders, 23. Con- stantino— Mr. W. R. T. Pender, 20; Rev. N. B. Rickard, 14. Falmouth Town— Messrs. E. T. Turner, 16; Thos. Webber, 15 ; W. T. Scott, 21 ; A. Chard, 24. Falmouth Parish— Messrs. P. H. Gutheridge, 1 ; Charlton, 11. Mabe— Joshua Bath, 14. Mylor— Messrs. J. R. Rowe, 11; M. A. Doble, 22; . Carvosso, 11. Penryn— Messrs. R. Hosken, 21 ; Joel Blarney, 17 ; W. Manser, 18 ; J. Mead, 10. perran.— Mr. J. Richards, 20; Rev. E. Hawken, 14. Gluvias— Messrs. Edwin Martin, 17 ; Martin Lawry, 22. BOARD OF GUARDIANS. — The fortnightly meeting of the Board was held on Thursday last, Mr. M. H. Williams in the chair. A letter was read from the Falmouth Town Overseers and Churchwardens respecting the high rate of expendi- ture in the maintenance, clothing, & c., per head per week of the workhouse paupers, as compared with other Unions in the county, when it was re solved that a reply should be sent, stating that previous to the receipt of the letter the attention of the Guardians had been called to the increase of indoor relief, and arrangements would be made for thoroughly investigating the matter. The clerk was requested to obtain, if possible, the dietaries of tbe different Unions in the county to f acilitate such arrangement.— This being the last meeting of the old Board, Mr. Jacob Olver moved, and the Rev. W. Rogers seconded, a cordial vote of thanks to the chairman ( Mr. M. H. Williams) for the courteous, able, and impartial manner in which he had discharged his duties during the year. The chairman acknowledged the compliment, and re- ferred to the letters which appeared in the news- papers respecting the expenditure on the indoor paupers, which commanded their especial attention, and he felt assured on the assembling of the new board, the guardians would join him in devoting their particular attention to this object, and he would propose their meeting on special dayfl for that purpose. WEBBER STREET CHAPEL.— The anniversary of the Baptist church of this town took place on Wednesday last. The ladies of the congregation, assisted by other friends, had been for some time busily preparing for the usual bazaar, the result being an elegant assortment of useful and orna- mental articles, which met with a ready sale during the afternoon. At the tea meeting, which took plaoe in the school- room, High Street, over a hun- dred persons partook of a very pleasant repast. The proceeds of the bazaar and the tea were appro- priated to payment of the rent of the school- room, and to other branches of finance connected with the chapeL The public meeting was held in the chapel, under the presidency of the Rev. R. G. Moses, B. A., tho pastor, and suitable addresses were given by the Revds. J. E. Coulson ( Wesleyan) H. Cole man, of Penryn ( Independent), Jenkin Jones ( In- dependent), and J. D. Freeman, Esq. The course of an otherwise very agreeable evening was tinged with sadness by an announcement from the chair- man that he had thought it his duty to retire from the pastorate of the churoh, and would shortly leave the neighborhood for some other locality, where he trusted his ministry might be more ex- tensively blest; he was full of hope in the Divine guidance. A resolution, expressing tho cordial esteem andjjaffection of the congregation towards Mr. Moses,| was unanimously adopted on tho motion of Mr. J.- D. Freeman, and supported by Mr. W. H. Bond and Mn J. P. Dunning, who expressed their confidence that Mr. Moses would retire from his post with the respect and attachment of every member of the church and congregation, as well as with the best feelings of the inhabitants of the. town, in which he he had made himself very useful and won many friends. Mr. Moses having suitably acknowledged the resolution, the meeting was con- 1 eluded with votes of thanks to all tho friends who had kindly assisted in tho engagements of tho day. — We understand that the Rev. R. G. Moses will conclude his ministry at Webber Street Chapel , to- morrow. Wo have no doubt that many others besides the usu; d congregation will be anxious to shew their respect for mr. Moses by attending his " farewell" services. THE FIRE BRIGADE.— The Volunteer Fire Brigade had a smart night's drill on Monday, tbe object being to keep the brigade up to their work, as well as to test the arrangements of the police in carrying out the rules laid down by tho brigade for calling together its members in case of a fire, Captain Olver sent word at four o'clock in the morning to the police stations to summon the brigade to assemble immediately at the engine- house. The result testified to tho completeness of the arrangements, for in lesB than ten minutes all the officers and thirteen of the brigade assembled, and the engine was run out and taken to tho fire- plug at the Cross Row, at the head of the Moor. Hoses were run out from cach side of the engine with nozzles complete and in full play in less than twenty minutes from the first call, by which time ( with ono exception only) every member of the brigade was present in uniform. Other drills were given at the Town Hall, Royal Hotel, and Custom House, and the engine taken back to the engine- house in about an hour. Night drills are very desirable and instructive, as the brigade are thus accustomed to work by their lamps, the chance of collecting a crowd is nlso avoided, so that the fire- men are not impeded, whioh is a matter of great importance. At each of these drills, as soon ns the engine was in position, the hoses were run out from e^ ich side of the engine and in full play in 2J min. Afterwards, at the word of command, the hoses were uncoupled, rolled up, and brought back to the engine in li minutes. The brigade arrangements for horsing the engine when required are equally complete. A fortnight since, when the alarm was ? ven that a fire had occurred at No. 2, Florence place, word was sent to the station, and in fifteen minutes 15 of tho brigade had assembled at tho engine- house with the horses and driver, and were about to put to, when word was sent that tho fire had been put out by tho pioneers of the brigade- the three members residing nearest the place on lire, whose instructions are to proceed to the spot on the first alarm, all other members going to the engine- house. PARISH LOCAL BOARD.— At the annual meet- ing of the Parish Local Board, Mr. Hallamore was unanimously elected chairman for the ensuing year, on tbe motion; of Mr. R. R. Broad, seconded by Mr. J. J. Skinnor. Mr. Broad, in referring to the interest the chairman had always taken in matters relating to the welfare of the town and neighbour- hood, said he considered that they should, in jus- tice to themselves, re- elect Mr. Hallamore, who had filled the office from the first establishment of the Board, and who had always conducted its busi- ness in the most efficient and satisfactory manner. Other members of the Board spoke to tho same effect. Mr. Hallamore said he felt thankful for the very kind remarks which had been made, and his re- eleotiou was a proof that he had given satisfac- tion to the Board, but he had been almost led to question whether in justice to themselves, as Mr. Broad had put it, they should have re- elected him. If there were any truth in the remarks of a corres- pondent, which appeared in the West Briton a few days ago, stating that notwithstanding he had been chairman, and Mr. Warn, clerk, from the com- mencement of the Board, the accounts had not been published— why then, certainly, he ought not to have been re- elected. However, they ( the members) all knew that the charge was incorrect, and that the accounts had been published | in the local papers, after having been audited by Mr. Lawrence, the authorised auditor. He ( tho chair- man ) doubted whether the correspondent of the West Briton was a ratepayer; at all events it was clear that he was very ignorant of what was taking place around him, or otherwise he must have been actuated by motives of a very question- able character, which he dia not believe the editor of that paper would sanction. Messrs. John Tresidder, Jacob Hamblen, Stephen Edmonds, and J. G. Cox subscribed to the usual declaration on being re- elected members of the Board, and Mr. E. W. Chard on his being elected in the place of Mr. Cuttance, resigned, there having been no contest this year. Mr. R. R. Broad was unanimously elocted a member of the United Dis- trict Sewerage Board, in the place of Mr. Cuttance. A new general district rate, at 6d. in the £, was made, which amounted to £ 357, the gross value of property being £ 19,618, and the rateable value, £ 15,598. When the Board was established in 1S64 a sixpenny rate yielded £ 287, the gross value being then £ 16,000, and the rateable value, £ 12,693. PENRYN. THE GUARDIANS for Penryn for the ensuing • ear are Messrs. Joel Blarney, flour merchant, william Manser, merchant; John Mead, paper manufacturer; and Joel Blarney Mitchell, mer- chant, in the place of Mr. P. Hosken, resigned. Tho first three are re- elected. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.— On Tuesday a widow named Kessell, working at Messrs. Gray & Son's tanyard, Penryn, was attending to the mill for grinding bark, when she was caught by the machin- ery and one of her arms wrenched off just below the shoulder, and she was otherwise dreadfully lacerated. Mr. Trenery, surgeon, was quickly in attendance, and she was convoyed to the Truro Infirmary, where her arm was amputated at the shoulder joint. A MYSTErIOUS AFFAir .- On Wednesday morn- ing Margaret Stevens, of Falmouth, was found near the railway archt at College, close to Penryn, in an insensible condition, with her skull severely frac- tured, besides being the possessor of two black eyes. She was immediatly conveyed to the union- house ( a short distance), and her injuries attended to by Drs. Greenwood and Bullmore, but she is in a very precarious state, and not likely to recover. The woman was seen tho night previously in a public- house, in High Street, Falmouth, which she left about 12 o'clock in company with a sailor, and they both went towards Penryn. The sailor in whose company she was last seen has been appre- hended ; his name is David Baker, and he hails from Slough. COUNTY NEWS. CORNWALL EASTER SESSIONS. The business of the Cornwall Easter Sessions commenced on Tuesday, at the Shirehall, Bodmin, Sir Colman Rashleigh, Bart., presiding. The Chairman, in charging the grand jury, mentioned that, as all the prisoners committed up to that time were tried at the assizes, there were only eight prisoners for triaL According to the report of the governor of the gaol ( Capt. Colvill) the state of crime in the county is satisfactory ; in fact, it ap- peared that crime was gradually on the decrease in Cornwall. While the total number of priso committed in the quarter ending Easter, 1871, was 213, during the past quarter only 182 had been committed. He had come to the conclusion that they could lay down no very certain rule as to the cause of the increase and decrease of crime. Un- doubtedly the one great source and cause of crime in England was the love of intoxicating liquor. Perhaps it would not be exaggerating to say that fully one- third of the offences coming before that court were more or less connected with the love of liquor. Tho grand jury of Cornwall at the last assizes suggested that it should be made legal to examine defendants in cases of drunkenness as to where, when, and from whom they obtained the liquor that made them intoxicated. It was also suggested that the punishment for supplying drink to persona already intoxicated should be much severer than at present. The presentation was for- warded to the Homo Secretary, and he hold in his hand a letter from Mr. Bruce acknowledging its receipt. Mr. Bruce's attention had been called to this state of things from other counties besides Cornwall, and he ( the chairman) really hoped that another session of Parliament would not pass with- out some measure being enacted which would have the effect of decreasing the drunkenness of the country. cOUNTY BATE. A rate of 18- 32nds <? f a penny in the £, amount ing to £ 2,641, for goneral purposes, and a police rate at 16- 32nds of a penny in tho £, amounting to £ 2,172 were granted. PREVENTION AND rePrESsION OF CRIME. Sir Charles Sawle, Mr. Claude Daubuz, and the Rev. C. M. E. Collins were appointed dclogates at the meeting of the English section of tho Inter- national Congress on the prevention and repression of crimo, to open in London on the 3rcl of July next, and to continue for a fortnight. TRIALS OF PRISONERS, STEALING AND RECEIVING AT PENRYN. PETER MASON, 53, bookbinder, was indicted for stealing six hundred yards of lace, of the value of £ 2 10s., tho property of Michael Lavin, at Penryn, op the 23rd of March ; JosiAH Hcoo, carpenter, was indicted for receiving the same, well knowing it to have been stolen.— Mr. Commins prosecuted ; the prisoners were undefended.— The jury for some time were unable to agree and were locked up, but they eventually returned a verdict of guilty against Mason, and acquitted Hugo. Mason was sentenced to two months imprisonment with hard labour. OFFENce AT FALMOUTH. PHILIP PINgA, 44, seaman, was indicted for attempting to commit an offence on board a vessel at Falmouth. Mr. Borlase Childs prosecuted. During the evidence it transpired that tho offence was actuidly committed, and as the quarter sessions had no jurisdic- tion the jury were discharged, and the prisoner com- mitted to the assizes for trial. Boy killed in a Mine Shaft. — A boy named John Waters, aged 10, was playing near an unprotected shaft on South Condurrow sett, on Friday, when he fell down the shaft a depth of ten fathoms, and was killed instan- taneously. The shaft is within ten feet of a pubh'c pathway. At the inquest on Monday, the coroners jury censured the managers of the mine for permitting the shaft to remain unsecured. The Conla< jioua Diseases Acts.— In reply to an allegation that has been often made that the opinion of the medical profession in this country has been pro- nounced in favor of these abominable acts, it is shewn by the National Association for the Repeal that a series of Pr) tests, signed by 783 physicians, surgeons, and general practitioners in medicine have been pre- sented to the Government and to Parliament, against their continuance.. Important Sale of Timber.— Mr. Corfield, of Falmouth, held an auction on Tuesday, at Newquay, for disposal of a valuable cargo of timber, ex " Zwallaw." from Christiana. There was a large attendance, and keen competition. Red battens realised ljd. 2£ d. per foot; prepared flooring, 19s per square; spars, 3s. to 4s. apiece ; and poles, 6s. to 14s. apiece. Business at Newquay appears to be largely increasing, and the pretty little watering place give3 evidence of speedily ^• rnpying a very thriving position. It is stated that lk is about to be opened and a literary institution established in suitable buddings. Fresh faces are seen every day, and the inhabitants generally are to be con- gratulated on the growing importance of the neighbour- Votes of Cornish Members.— In the House of Commons on Thursday night Mr. R. N. Fowler voted with the majority against Mr. Vernon Har- court's motion in favour of reducing the national expenditure. No local member voted with tho minority. With the majority supporting the second reading of the Court of Chancery ( Funds) Bill were Mr. Magniac and A. W. Young. Sir. R. N. Fowler and Col. Hogg voted with the minority. On the com- mittee on the Ballot Bill, Mr. Eastwick, Mr. Young, and Sir J. Trelawny supported Sir J. Elphinstone's proposal to commence polling at six o'clock in the morning. Mr. R. N. Fowler was the only Cornish member who supported Mr. James Lowther* s propos- al that electors might vote by papers instead of personally. On Mr. W. Fowler's motion on Tuesday, to the effect that the law of entail and strict settlement of land discourages the investment of capital in tho development of agriculture, to the great injury of all classes of the people, and increases the complication of titles, and the expense and delay incident to the trans- fer ot real estates, the motion was negitived by 103 votes to 8L Mr. Leveson Grower, Mr. Pendarves Vivian, and Mr. A. W. Young voted in favour of the motion; Mr. R. N. Fowler and CoL Hogg jainst it. Manufacture of Cocoa, Cacaoine, < L Chocolate.— We will now give an account of the process adopted by Messrs. James Epps and Co., manufacturers of dietetic articles, at their works in the Euston Road, London."- See Artiole in Part 19 of CatuTt Houtchold Guide. New metal pocket Vesta Box, with patent spring Cover.— Bryant and May have recently introduced a very useful little Pocket " Vesta Box, with a most in- genious and simple spring cover; it is a novelty in every way, and will soon come into very general use— being of metal instead of card, and retailed, filled with vestas, at one penny. Any Tobacconist, Grocer, Chemist or Chandler will supply it. The Early Potato Crop.— On Monday 14 hampers of now potatoes and six of asparagus left Scilly for London and Manchester. It is feared that the crop this year will be very light Great portions of the ground planted to potatoes will have to be ploughed up for other crops. The plants do not seem to recover from the late frost. jffarriaflcs, an & jcat^ s. At Market Street, Falmouth, on Thursday last, tho wife of Mr. W. H. Solomon, dispensing chemist, of a daughter. At 73, Killigrew Road, Falmouth, on the 4th mat., the wife of tho Rev. E. J. Hardy, of a son. At St. Mawes Castle, on the 5th inst., the wife of Mr. M. McCabe, gunner Royal Artillery, of a son. At the Shipwrights' Arms, St. Mawes. on the 4th inst., the wife of Mr. Joseph Hancock, innkeeper, of a son. At Constantino, on Tuesday last, tho wife of Goorga B. Rogers, Esq., of a daughter. JVL ARRIAGES. At St. Paul's Church, Chacewator, on the 3rd inst. by the Rev. G. L. Church, father of tho bridegroom J'; Mr. Charles Simmons Church, engineer, to Nannie,, only daughter of Mr. James Petors, of Chacewater. ClfiATHS. At Tehidy Terrace, Falmouth, yesterday, suddenly, of apoplexy, Samuel Lean, Esq., of the mining firm of Lean and Jose. ; . At Killigrew Street, Falmouth, on tho 28th nit, Clara Willmot daughter of Mr. R. T. P. Tre- gaskis, shipbuilder, aged 7 months. At Beacon Street, Falmouth, on Monday last, Mr. John Harman Thomas, carpenter, aged 94 years. At Ferris Town, Truro, on Thursday last, Mr. George Wilkinson Kneebono, for nearly fifty years connect- . f{ ed with the Royal Cornwall Gazette, Truro, and for a ^ lengthened period the overseer of that establish- ftment, aged 63 years. At Mount Pleasant, Llanelly, South Wales, Marion, wife of Mr. Richard C. Gilbert, of Falmouth, aged At Y& thvcombe House, near Exmouth, on the 2nd inst, Frances Ann, wife of Otho Cooke, Esa., formerly of Halwyn House, Mylor, and Sea- side ^ Villa, Perranporth. Mrs. Cooke was a sister of John Samuel Enys, Esq., of Eny3, in this county. getters to tfre ( fc& itflr. This department is freely open to all wholesome dis- cussion, and fair criticism, of matters afectinff the public, and of local interest. The insertion of a letter is no guarantee of the Editor's approval of its contents. FALMOUTH UNION EXPENDITURE. SIR,— In tbe notice in your columns of the proceed- ings at the Town Vestry, the Chairman ( Mr. Jacob . Olver) attempts to account for the excess of tho in- door relief over other Unions by stating that the Faltuouth Union has to pay dearer for its provisions, - and this he attributed to the little competition for the supplies that always takes place— on some occasions • nly one or two tenders being sent in. This seems to me to be a very likely reason, and_ no doubt arises from the insufficient notice always given that such Tenders are desired, the said insufficient notice being particularly conspicuous on the occasion of the last Tendering for supplies, the bills requesting tradesmen to so Tender being on the walls lets than one iccek only before the expiration of the time allowed. In addition to this extremely short notice ( which in years gone by was nevor less than 2 or 3 weeks ) no advertisements were inserted in the local papers, the consequence being that myself and other tradesmen who would have been willing and anxious to Tender, were not even aware that such Tenders were desired. Boards of Guardians connected with other Unions in tho West of England are much more strenuous in their exertions to reap all the benefits to be derived from a large Tendering for supplies. In all cases long notices are given} ana where local papers are publish- ed the list of articles to bo Tendered tor is inserted in them for not less than 3 times, and where there are no local, the county or daily papers are used for tho pur- pose. There is another plan ( which I anj not quite sure is not adopted in some others Unions) viz., that of sending blank lists of articles required to the different trades- men, which they could fill up ( if disposed to Tender ) with tho prices at which they could render the articlej, I would respectfully recommend to the notice of the Falmouth Guardians the giving of longer noticcs. both by bill and advertisement, and in case either of these failing to catch the eye of tradesmen— I am sure tho adoption of the plan I have suggested would prove very successful— Yours very truly A TRADESMAN. Dated Falmouth, April 12th, 1872. TIME OF HIGH WATER AT FALMOUTH AND PENRYN QUAYS. MORNING. EVENING. SATUHDAY ... April 13 8 10 8 27 SUNDAY 14 8 41 6 3 MONDAY 15 0 27 9 55 TUESDAY 16 10 24 11 6 WEDNESDAY 17 11 55 RZ — THURSDAY 18 0 43 1 20 FBIDAY 10 1 57 2 55 L THE FALMOUTH AND PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. - 5" — ~ SATURDAY. APRIL. 13. 1872 General 3miamicemejik SLADB OXiATE^, Famishing and General Ironmonger, Plumber, G- is Fitter and ^ Manufacturer, STRA. ND, FALMOUTH. Is Selling off SURPLUS STOCK at great redaction in prices. Balance ivory- handle Knives, 10i., 12a., 16s., 20s. per dozen. Black handle Knives and Forks, 6a., 9a., 10b., 12a. doz. Carving Knives and Forks, 2a. Gd., 3s. Gd., 4a. 6d., 5a. 6d., 7s. 6d. pair. Eloctro- Silrer Tabic Spoons an. l Forks, 20a., 24s. dor. J) o. Dessert Spoons and Forks, lGs., 18s., 20a., 24s. doz, Do. Tea Spoons, 8s., 10a-, 12s. doz. Do. Sugar Boxes, Salvers, Cake Baskets, Toast Racks, Tea Pots. Crneta, & c., 4c., & c. Bronzed Tea Urns and Kettles on Stands, 20s., 25s., 303. upwards. Tea Trays from 5a. per act of 3, single Trays from Is. 6d. Fenders, parlour, Is. 6d., 2s., 3s., 4s., 5s. Fenders, dining room, 6s. Fenders, drawing room, 12s. Fire Irons, 2s. 6d. to 30s. per set. Rumford Stoves FWWR, LM ,,,.^-.- 1. » « « :• » « • STN » M O- J- <?.— J--- _ T> - -- ' FROM i, 45s. Half from 3 « . upwards. Register Stoves from 8a. upwards. CookingRanges from 10s. ' Apparatuses froi 20s. upwards. Patent Mangles, 30s., 4ns Washing Machines, 12s. 6d., GOs., 90s. ChalfCuttcre, 45, 50s. Iron Cots, 7s. 6d. to 30s. Iron Folding Beds. Gs. Gd. Iron French from in, to 3ft- R* Beds, Beds, from 10s. 30s. • Lamps, Gas Chandeliers ~ — all plumber's Fittings. Estimates given and Contracts entered int > eiher for work or supply . m PiTDSlAPIilC GALLERY, 42. High Street ( formerly the Liberal Association Booms ), V A. LMOUT II . ME. J. 8. SIDDOXS, for many years Operator and Manager at Mr. J. P. Trull's, respect- fully informs his numerous friends and the public generally of the town and neighborhood that he has, in conjunction with Mr. J. C. STEPHENCJ, entered upon the above- mentioned Premises, and trusts, by the exercise of his well- known skill and careful manipulation ' in the production of Photographs guaranteed not to be surpassed in this or any other town, that they will obtain a fair share of publio patronage. Portraits from Carte de Visite to Life- siza, plain or finished in crayon, water or oil Color. Views of all kinds and ont- door Groups taken, and Works of Art copied. Prices of Cartes de Visite— 1Twelve for 6B. ; Six for 4s.; Three for 2s. 6d. DR. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S CHLORODYNE. THE ORIGINAL AND ONLY GENUINE. CHLORODYNE is admitted by the Profession to be tho most wonderful and valuable remedy evsrdtooovsrsd. CHLORODYNE r, the best remedy known for doughs, Consumption, Bronchitis, Asthma. CHLORODYNE effectually checks and arrests those too often fatal diseases— Diptheria, Fervor, Croup, AfiUfl. CHLORODYNE acts lDce a charm to Diarrhcsa, and is the only specific to Cholera and Dysentery. 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Surrey Fee and registration, single payments or For lull particulars apply to THOMAS COBFIELD, CHAELES PHILLIPS, Or to the Secretary! posits received bearing interest at the rate of £ 5 per notice. SHARES, value £ 10. £ 25 and £ 60, bearing tlClDatini/ in nrnfila U.. . I „„„ i.„ i- , b interest at the rate of £ 5 per cent.,> nd""^ E^ g7n * p" oau Teclarad,' m7y" be T.' SiSb? monthly subscriptions e: tending over a term of years. the County Surveyor, Arweuack Street, Falmouth, the Agent. Killigrew Street, Falmouth CHARLES BIN YON, 44, Bedford Bow, Loudon. BY ROYAL JAMBS Gt- I JlETTEES PATENT. PBS AISTD OO., iufacturer8 of the - A- lMIIMIOlNriA. - i- IXBD C3- TJ A. 3ST O and best Manure in use. The Cheapest are warned that none is genuine u, a leaden Seal. Also Manufacturers of " Patent THE BEST INVESTMENT OF THE DAY FOB A SMALL OUTLAY, Aid where , Beer a there Una pre- 0t~ l BodaWv business re- quired, is a I< emonadeL Ginger Tafr^ The book, of 60 pages of illustrations and forwarded for three stamps. S. BAENETT, Engineer, 28 FORSTON STREET, HOXTON, LONDON, T'HE VILLAGE BROUGHAM, the VICTOR] Brougham 4 the PorkBrougham, RBGISTBRBD. 1st, fol perfect open or closed carriage; 2nd, Brougham & Victoria; I Brougham. Victoria A Driving Phaeton all in the most per] manner. Made anv size. PonyPhaetonsinevoryvariety. Dr lags Mat. i . BQ) J) L£ COM££, 67 Gt. Queen St- Loog Aero/ Jess the bags bear the Trrde Mark and are secured with Barley and Oats; and of Bono, Blood and Spoolal Mannroa of fiiatrate'anSfhr" Particulars of JAMES GIBBS AND CO& P 1XY, Wort. : VictoriaOffi„. ir « . t London, E. O.. or their aatho- i. edAg. ats, the fost of Eagl,„, l B « e and ^ anre ® Tnpany; MPPS' 8 OOOQA. 0nIfV!' ( HV ih,' ud 1, b Octets—- tin- lined & lal elled. Sold by the Trade in all Parts. Prepaicd by JAB. Epe- an 1 Co., Homaopalhic Cheinisi. ijo .. fj- i. • ECONOMY IN CRAPE MOURNING. I ONE FOLD of KAT 4 RICHARDSON'S NEW PATENT ALBERT ORAPE IS AS THICK as TWO FOLDS of the old make. I THE BLOODI THE BLOOD II THE BLOOD IJI CLARKE'S World Famed Blood Mixture 70R CLEANSING and CLEARING the BLOOp . from ALL IMPURITIES, whether arUing from yi 1 Indiscretion or any other cause, oannot be too r' oommended. It Cores Old Sores Cores Ulcerated Sores in the Neok Cures Ulcerated Sore Legs Cores Blackheads, or Pimples on Jfeoe Cures Scurvy Sores Cores Canoerous Ulcers Cores Blood and Skin Diseases Cores Glandular Swellings Clears the Blood from all Impure Matter, from whatever cause arising. Aathla mixture Is pleasant to the t& Bte, and warranted frw from mercury— which all ptiU and most medicines sold fbr * bow dkeaaes contain— the Proprietor Mlldta suffteen to give U « trial to test its Tahw. Thousand ® of Testimonials from all parts. Bcdd to Bottle* tojd each, and to Caeee, oontatoing S Bottles, 11* each, sufficient to effcet a permanent cure to long- etirattng cmM, by all Chemists and Patent Medicine Tendocm, or NU to any addrws on receipt of W or IA stampe, by t. I. CLARKE, Ohemirt, High Street, LINCOLN. WHOLESALE AGENTS :— muui « MW8, LONDON, AND All THE WHOLESALE H0U8E8. MBB. WRWBLOW'S SOOTHING SYBCP JOB CHILDBENI Should- alwayB be nsed when Children are cutting teeth; it relieves the little sufferers at onoe. it pro- duoes natural quiet sleep by relieving the child from pain, and the little oherufc awakes " as bright as a button." It is perfectly harmless, and very pleasant IIoiTumpathic Medicines and Handbook. 300 pages', bound, Is. ; by post for 14 stamps. rHE EIOMCEOPATHIC FAMILY INSTRUCT- OR ( an Epitome of). By RICHARD EPPS, M. R. C. S.— A hundred diseases are fully described; and prescribed for. London : James Epps and Co:, Hom eopathic Chemists, 48, Threadneedle Street; 170. Piccadilly; and 112, Great Russell Stre et. ' Falmouth, E. Michel!, chemist. Helston, H. Benrfetta, chemist. Penzance. A. H. Bnckett, 7, Chapel street. Truro, T. B. Percy ; Serpell; J. E_ Kickard. Agents" for Epps's Glycerine . Jujubes, for Cough, Throat- Irritation, Voice. Sold only in labellod boxes, fid. and Is. CAUT; ON-— Each bottle or tube of medicine is secured by a band over the cork bearing the signa, ture, " James Epps and Co., Homceopathic Chemists, London," without whioh in no case can they be genuine. p. p. ISO, cloth, Is. ; post free for 13 stamps. DOGDISEASES TREATED BY HOMtEOPA- HIY. By JAMES MOOKK, M. R. C. V S London : - James Epps and Co., Homoeopathic Chemists, 48 Threadneedle Street; 170, Piccadilly ; and 112, Great Russell Street. WANTED. VffANTED IMMEDIATELY, a steady, ' respectable Youth, to the Painting and Glazing Business. Apply to Mr. E. J. Earle. near the Church, Falmouth. ialn, 1 " Iti « i It soothes child, it softens the gums, diarrhcBa, wh causes. Mrs. 1 perfectly h oothes the 1 , „ , res wind, regulates the bowels, TO remedy for dysentery and thousands of Medicine dealer* in all parta of. t] world at 1m W per bottle, and Millions of Mothera ci te^ fy to Mi mtm Mmhnti ij, tf8 Oitod Stm fcN. WBSTCOTT, Cargo Clerk ;& n< l ( ien? ia! Mercantile Accountant, 1, " WATERLOO ED., FALMOPTH. Ship's Average, Victualling and Wages' Accounts calculated, and Surveys N eatly Copied. Vessels' Half- yearly Returns to Shipping Master made out. Tradesmen's Books kept by tl> o Year. I Deeds Engrossed and Made Up, in tho newest London style at the shortest notice. rmVELVE CARTES de VISITE, 2s 8d{ X Six. a 8d. C « rtc tnlArsed to 10 tnohce, U-. Cabinet, a. Bend mi-- o wlih « tPerleot oopUa and original rettut- oO frw. l^ rAnr. ptoto- CopTtng Company, 304 Bar^ nl- at.. jppotM Uw Poty- toobsir " A « > High Holbam. LODOOD. 8. D. Psnxm. MaoiflW. JUDSON'S DYES.— 18 Colors, 6d. eaoh. RIBBONS, WOOL, SILK, FEATHERS, Completely Dyod In 10 minntea intutsf. tlenteel Houses to be Let or Sold in Obelisk Road. TO BE LET OR possession, two commodious DWELL! Obelisk Road, commani Falmouth. Each Hoi 2 Kitchens, 5 Be. Cellar; with a Garden Courtlage at the back. Apply to Mr. JAM > LD, with immediate atly- desimed and ..— ( newly- built), in Jing tho finest views in 4e comprises 2 Parlors, is, W. C., and a small i front and convenient MITCHELL, Builder, Falmouth. THOUSANDS are at the beautiful heads v by using NEWMANS' POMADE, - ^ which was dncing hair. Price Is. " REY HAIR & Greyness prevented Hair promoted by u LOTION. This is at HAIK RKSTORKR out, as pronounced superior to Preparations, FREE ONS, and certain in Bottle and be convinoei and 2s. 6d. each. j SCURF or DANDRUFi NEW MANE'S Ilju Cheapest Hair Cleaner and Is. Sold in Falmouth b]| Market Street. moment rejoicing over fit" Hair restored to thora ~ HAIR GROWING njever known to fail in pre> and 2s. • RED to its original oolor; and the growth of tho tig NEWMANE- S HAIR [ ice the CHHAPKST and BEST it has stood the teat and ia tho higher- priced London from DANGEROUS POI- action. Try one Shilling of its efficacy. Bottles Is. F instantly removed by II WASH. Tho Best and extant. In Bottles at 6< L W. F. Nowman, chemist, GLEiSlFIELD a HP A D rf- I T is the only kind used in DL^- I^ VJ- -'-' Her Majesty's laundry If there ire any ladies who have not yet used tl 3 GLENFIELD STARCH they are r( spectfully solicited to givo it a trial, a id carefully follow out the directions irinted on every package, and if this is done, They will say, lil e tho Queen's Laundress, It is the fines Starch they ever used. When you ask for Glenfield Starch see that ] ou get it, As inferior kinds a - e often substituted for the sake of extra profits. Beware therefo e of spurious imitations. ACHINESE CADlJ Black Tea, sent market town in EngMui, PHILLIPS 4 CO. TEA} THE CHEAPEST PKCKAGEOF TEA IN ENGLAND. OY, containing 18 lbs. of really good damage free to any railway b. ation or " hd, on receipt of 10 » , by MERCHANTS, 8 KING WILLIAM 8T. CITY. — "" « EAPEE THAN EVER. Int station STRONG to Fine Black Tea, Is kl. Is 6d, 2a and 2a fld J lb.; 40s worth sdnt carriage free to any railway stat r market town in England or Wales, on receipt of 40b by PHILLIPS & CO. TEA MERCHANTS, 8 KING WILLIAM 8T. E. O. ..... Prime CofTeo Is td. Is W, Is Od. A Prioo List Free. PHILLIPS A CO. navo no ngonta, and no connection witk any House id Worcester, Swansoa or Witney. REECH - LDADE AS. SECOND HAXBh EECH - LOADERS. TEOM LOa. EOH- LOADERS. BOUGHT FOR QUI, CATALOGUE AND PRIOR LIST, 8 STAMPS. WHISTLES, 11 RTRAND. LONDOS. BORWICK'S BORWICK'S BAKING POWDER Gold Memd, Havre, 1868; Gold Medal, Paria Society of Arts, 1869 ; FOB ITS SUPERIORITY OTn BAKING BORWIQK'S BAKING POWDER makes delicious Bread without Yeaat. BORWIOK'S BAKING POWDER makes Puddings, Pastry, and Pio- crusts with leaa Butter and Egpa. POWDER BORWI6K; S BAKING POWDER sold everywhere, In Id. and 2d. Packets, and fld., Is., 2a. 6df and 5a. Patent Boxes only, and not loose by weight, Be sure to ask for and see that vou get BORWICK'S GOLD MEDAL BAKING POWDER. ^ FRAGRANT I" r( o RJLINE. — For the TKETU and BHEATH. A few drops of tljis liqiiid ou a wet tooth brunh prp- jluces a delightful foam, which cleanmy the Teeth from all impurities, strengthens and hardens the gonls, prevents tartar, , iud arresU the pnvrruM of decay. It yiveg to the fpefh a peculiar and beautiful whiteness, find imparts a delightful fragrance to the Breath. It removes all uniHea^ nt " dour arising from decayed teethta disordered stomach, or tobacco smoke. The ftagrant Flonli^ e is purely vegetable, and equally adapted to old aiyj young. It is tu « great-^ t Mm discovery of tho age. Sold in Urge liottlea and elegant casea at2s. Gd., I. y all Chemjsts » u. l Perfumers. H O GALLOP, Proprietor,' L'J3, Oxford Struct, Loudon. VALUABLE DISCOVZRY FOR THE HAIRII— A verv nicely perfumed hair droasing, called " The Mexican - ir Kcnewer, now beuif; sold by moet Chemists 6d per bottle, is fast superseding — for it will• poritiv'ehi restore in make& the hair charminj Restorers." It . J5' y beautiful, as well as nro- moting the growth on bald spot*, where the manno- 1-—— 1 Certificate from Dr. Vers- j— - — ~ ficato from Dr. Vers- Uu' fuU Particulars. Ask lor « ^ MKXICA:. ILua Kesiswini," prepared br R. O. G^ 4UJ Oxford Street, London. BROWN'S BRONCHIAI, TROCHES, for tho cure of Conzha. Colds, Hoarseness, Bronchitis. Asthma, Catarrh, or any irritation or soreness of the throat, aro now imported and sold in this country at la lid per box, pnt up in the form of a " lozenge." It Is the most oonveui- nt. pleasant, safe and sure remedy for clearing and strengthening the voice known in the world. The Rev. Honry Ward Beecher says: " I have often recom- mended them to friends who were publio speake . and in many cases they have proved oxtromely service- able." The genuino have the wordB " Brown's Bronchial Troches" on the Government Stamp around oach bo:.. Sold by all medicin* vendors.— London Depot, 433 Oxford Street. ! '! hr Fa'ntfi'U' . id Vcuryn H'- ikly Times / . frinUd and Puhlit'/* ' . FaEDEa. ca llou . nr K/. au, raiding at So. ' J, " i • ! a>: e, « ., . raritk of Falmo- t'. h . at Kt . mi i Jr t- c> ug ' tfiietson- O. t In i % d f > AHhX> A % APRIL Lb? 2. * HE & PENRYN WEEKLY TI& Kfi SATTODAT, APKIL 13,137? trf % gitjr. " - t Occasional llonclon Correspondent. " The tatote relative to the health of the Prince of Wales is of the mo3t satisfactory character, and we indulge in' the hope that he will, ere long, be able to f& omethe active performance of those high duties in bonnection . with public affairs, the performance of which was always a pleasure to him while his health • was adequate to it. The lamented absence of the PrinCfe ' hjCS brought the I> uke of Edinburgh more ' prominently forward than otherwise would have been the case; and it will have been noticed with pleasure how ready he has been to preside at meetings of a . j[} wnevolent character. The Duke, by the way, is a capital speaker, and puts his ideas into terse and telling language. We are shortly to lose Prince Arthur, it seems, who is to be made a major in ' the Rifle Brigado, - and who " is" going otifc to Indid fcr a couple of years. No Princes in Europe have travelled so, much as the ' Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edingburgh* i and the others, it would apptar, are also to enjoy the advantages of travel. The thorough popularity of all the Princes is beyond all dispute. , It is to be hoped that a bill now passing through the House of Commons may in due time receive the royal assent, I refer- to the PubHo ] Health BilL The main principle of this measure is that of local self- govern mentin conjunction with a central authority, and its leading object is the enforcement of existing sanitary laws and the establishment of such additional regula- tions as the improving tone of society demands. There is no doubt that if this measure becomes law and be rigidly acted upon— and there is ample provision for thfa^- it, will tend very materially to promote the health of the people, and especially that of the Wk- Tng classes. Our citizen soldiei$— th^ zealous, self- denying Volun- teers— are soon to lose, it seems, their distinctive name, t According to a War Office circular, the Volunteers, Militia, and Yeomanry, are to be called the Auxiliary Forces, and all the troops belonging to either of these divisions of the reserve will be under the orders- of a general commanding the regular army in the district Opinions amongst the Volunteers themselves doubtless differ as to the advantages of, this change, and probably it will on the one hand cause a good many resignations and on the other will bring many accessions. On the whole it may be hoped that the Volunteer service will thus be improved, and that greater efficiency will be attained, without the Volunteers losing anything of their purely voluntary character. Certain it is that since the " battle of Brighton " they stand higher than ever in the estimation of their countrymen. One by one our great foundation schools appear to disappear from ^ London and to be transplanted into the - country. Christ's Hospital, commonly called the Blue- coat School, is the last instance of reform, if reform it be— and I suppose it is. The price paid for the free- hold by the Mid- London Railway Company is so enor- mous that the way in which this money is expended will be matter of great interest to the whola nation, for I need not inform the reader that Blue- coat boys are by no means exclusively Londoners. The sum Of £ 600,000 is to be paid for the site of the school and igrounds. It is said that £ 100,000 is to be expended in building and supporting a school in the country, and that the remaining half- million will be devoted to< the establishment of schools in London. The public may well watch with anxiety how this enormous amount of money— left for the education of the poor, be it re- membered— ie appropriated. A very pleasant bit of news— too good, I fear, to be - true— comes to us from France. It is said that " htodreds of Trillions "— that is an indefinitely large jinmbej!— of oysters are to be brought from the Tagus and laid down in the French oyster- bods, like too many of our own, sadly impoverished. But whether the oysters will take kindly to their new quarters remains to be seen— alwayB supposing that the attempt to transfer them is made. We have heard a great deal in our own country about oyster cultiva- tion, and oompaniee have been formed to' carry out rarious projects of this kind; but the delicious bivalve, She toothsome moTlu/ Sc— I believe , lha( iB the lofljj'way of writing " oyster,"— is as dearaa ever. But a sagacious thought occurs to me. If there are '" irandrafe. of millions " of oyeters at the mouth of the Tfgus, why not send some to England ? We love them so that we could eat them, and should be happy to pay for them. ••.-..- •. , • , a . . The agitation among farm labourers oontinnea and is being developed. Perhaps it js as well that th| e'agri- cultural labourer is not much of a newspaper reader, or it may be that the numerous newspaper articles telling him how badly he is treated would produce quite an exciting effect. As it is, they are creating no little interest among landlords, farmers and labourers Undoubtedly there is much to be said On the aide of the fanners as well as that - of the labourers, but I think that most outsiders, who read tho special correspondence and the subsidiary letters on the subject must_ be » £ opinion at all events that there is great room for improvement in the condition of the agricultural labourer. The community generally, I think, cannot but rejoice that his condition is already being ameliorated. " We are told that " a time there was, ere England's grief began, when every rood of ground maintained its man but then the charming poet who told us that knew little about political economy and less about domestic economy, if we may judge by the many anec dotes related of him. The plain truth is that Eng land never had such a time as this; but there is another plain truth— that the condition of the agricul- tural labourer has not improved, of late years, as that of most other classes living by labour has improved. University degrees were never made for ladles, that' certain, but many ladies consider they were made for " University degrees. The two, however, scarccly. har- monise. The time seems to be coming when we shall have, a3Tennyson says, " Prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans, and sweet girl graduates in their golden hair ;" but if so we ought to have some alteration in the titles. I see that a young lady at Marseilles has Just parsed her examination and obtained the diploma of laehelier la Uttres. What a droll title for a young ady! Change- ringing— I do not mean ringing the changes — has not hitherto, I believe, been practised by the ( lite of society, and the society of college youths, who devote themselves to the triple- bob- majors, Is not a very aristocratic association. But bell- ringing scicntific prineiples is now to be studied and practised by Oxford undergraduates, with the sanction of Uni- versity authorities. A good deal may be said for* and against bell- ringing; to some people it Is quite charm, ing; to others it is very disagreeable; but certainly inuch depends on how it is done. To most personB the sound of the church- bells, as it floats over tho fields on a summer'sjnorning, Is pleasant to the car, but then they must not be ". sweet bolls jangled out of time." Now tliat Oxford undergraduates have taken the bell- rope3 iu baud we shall doubtless have nn im- provenient in change- ringing, An old and well- remembered ptweib gays that meat and cooks come from different curcee, and we know— or if we do not, it is not for want'of being told— that good cooks are scarce, and that consequently they demand high wages. A " gent "— it is his own word— takes a curious method to make known his wants. Ho ad- vertises poetically in tho Times, but the inexorable printers of your great contemporary put his poetry in prose fashion thus: " Required by a gent, near to Bromley, in Kent, a cook on plain cooking plainly intent Enough if she's able to serve up a dinner that won't make her master a dyspeptic grinner. If asked to bake bread, no excuse she must utter; must be able to churn and to make melted butter "— and a good deal more of the same sort I hope this advertising pent will secure a servant who is more clever as a cook than he is as a poet; for he is> by no means illiberal in his viewB as to salary, as ho thus winds up his poetical an- nouncement: " She must bo content, whatever her age is, with sugar and tea, and £ 20 wages." £ 1,100 DAMAGES. At the Bristol Assizes, tho cause of " Rogers v. the JQdland Railway Company " has been tried, and was an action to recover damages for an injury sustained by tho plaintiff The accident happened on the 15th of October, 1870 not far from the Glocester Station, where a train ran into a truck that had been loft on the line. Several passengers were injured, and among others the plaintiff was thrown forward and receivedserious injuries. She, however, returned to Bristol that day to the house of her brother, who is a coach builder, and where she was staying. At the end of a few, dayB she was so ill that she had to call in a medical man, and since then her state had been very serious and her recovery for 6ome years doubtfuL She was brought into the court l a couch, and by way of contrast a photograph taken _ year before the accident was produced, which repre- sented her as a healthy, good- looking girl, and which was declared, to be an excellent hkenes3. She had been formerly an assistant In a draper's shop, and was at the time of the accident engaged to be married. The case turned on the probability of her recovery, the serious nature of her injuries not being questioned. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for £ 1,100. MIGRATION OF LABOPfi. The following letter, which has been seat to The Times for publication, will possess more than ordinary interest just now:— an article headed " Land. Labour, and CapVal,'' which appeared in The Timts of the 29th of Mareh. sonroIdeas are suggested likely to doter many of the working classes from emigrating from a land in which, unaided by somo charitable Institution, nothing but a homeless future presents itself to the mind of the labouring man when he asks himself,— " Where and how shall I spend my old days f" In referring to an article which appeared In The Timet about \ mo years ago, tho writer aays:— It was a mistake to supposo that by a mere transfer of unemployed labour on to uncultivated land capital could De created and a prosperous colony be the result, but that capital itself was as much a necessity to successful settlement as either land or labour." If your correspondent would allow a qualifying word to be Introduced, than 1 would sanction the whole sentence as applicable,^ the timber lands of British Ameriea as well as to the woaiern prairies of the United States,— if wo say " rapidly " successful settlement But thousands of the agricultural labourers of the United Kingdom would be perfectly satisfied If they could only look forward with certainty to a homo with a comfortable living hi their old age, even if procured very slowly, with ~. ucfitoQ and many privations: and with your permission, will- try- and point out how this single man, or the man * h a Urge family, may land InVHalifax, Nova Scotia ; 8t _ r. hn's, > ew Brnnswick; or at Quebec, without one shilling, and yet, if willing to work, not given to drunken- ness, and possessing a good sounjl constitution, be In a f jw years lifted above tije dread of homeless poverty when old age renders him unfit for labour. t us, then, follow the man with a largo family, and __,, ose that every farthing has been spent ip* paying his passage, or that even, that has been prodded try somo bene- volent organization, . On landing at either of the above- named ports the Dominion immigration agent takes ehargo of the family, ' and all their immediate wants, as regards food and lodging, are provided for. After consultation with the agent they ara forwarded, by railway, steamboat, or etherwlse, to the point selected, or direct to parties need- ing labour, where the family can soon be provided with a small log or frame house; or, in many cases, the farmer, having moved hi to a new building, leaves his old house " in a comfortable condition for a labouring man's family. Here every member of the family old . enough vrill get abundance of work and fair wages; while the children lit to go to school will find good free schools, where they will be taught in the same class and with as much care as tho children of the most Wealthy farmer » r merchant. After spending a year or two under the direction of thoso who from long experience are perfectly acquainted with the agri- •" aral requirement} of tho country, the man will be ared either to rent er take a farm or shares for a few yean, or, more likely,' wrQI have selected a spot of Govern- ment land for himself. But. having found this sultablo • pot, how ahaH a man who landed a year or two ago without a shilling pay for 100 aores of land! When wanted for settlement in Nova Scotia he has only to get from the Crown Land- oWoe an order of survey, which he hands to tho county or local surveyor, and he " runs out the lot," the oo « t of which Is about £ 2 sterMng; and on the payment of that sum he Is furnished with a grant which makes it his for ever. In New Brunswick he pays for his land by about two pounds" worth of labour p « r year upon the road near or In front of his own farm for three years. The Government of hew Brunswick proposes to provide at the next Session of the Legislatare that every head of a family containing ohildren under 13 years of ago can obtain, on condition of settlement, a free grant of 200 acres ; and any male person over Id years of age, on condlUou of settlement, can obtain a free grunt of 100 acres of the best farming land In the province. In Quebec and Ontario the terms are Just as liberal Iloving secured his land, he is now ready to work for him- self when not engaged for others. If he has boys to help him, they will either In March or April, or between seed time and harvest, cut down from four to ten acres ; if alone, from one to four, which will lay until a suitable time In the summer for burning, which, If successfully performed, will a few hands to " give him a day's piling," the heaviest, of a backwoodman's work U dono. Up to this thnc tho only tool he has required has beon his '' narrow axe " which would cost him fit. stoillng, and If be could not mako a sutt- MS _ •, If near a saw- mill, he may find It better to build a small frame house. If a log cabin, ho again takes a spare day and cuts logs enough for tho building, and with a little gratuitous help from tho neighbours ( a thing always freely given to a now beginner In these lower provinces), the logs are put up. If no mill Is near the roof will be covered with bark and spruce boughs; If near a mill, with boards, and slabs for battens; a door, two small windows, a rough board floor, and a rough fireplace, and he has a comfortable homo, In which ho will nover reallso that the outside " gale of wind is at a temperaturo of 20 deg. below zero." And happy will tho poor man be that day wnon for the first time he bows beneath his own roof with gratitude and thankfulness to worship the living God, the God of his father*, whllo tho fiag of his native land floats above his head. And now every moment of spare time will bo devoted to Improvements aronnd the log cabin and preparing his first field by fencing and burning oH the remaining wood— a work in which both wife and children can be of great help, while the husband Is working away from home. As soon as Spring opens, and the ground U dry, a few bushels of early potatoes and a little early barley will bo put In : and now comes tho next demand for tools, which will be hoes enough for tho family, at a cost of from 3s. to 4s. sterling each, and a rough harrow, which Is made by taking a tree where two branches dlvldo at equal angles from the centre of tho tree, the arms being cut about 4ft. long; it is flattened, and the tooth set slauting backwards, so as to pass over the reots, tho whole cost being aboufcVs. or 8s. Tho potatoes are planted with tho hoe. Wheat, oats, buckwheat, are all harrowed in by tho aid of some neighbouring farmer's horse or oxen, which is again paid for by work at eomo other season ; nnd this, his first season, will bo started with a cow and a pig, both ol which have been prooured at a low figure, instead of money, for wages. Through tho summer preparations will be made for another building of the same class, to bo used as oow- houso and born. And In Hio fall, ahould his crops do oven moderately well, ho would havo say, from four acres, one acre of potatoes, from 100 to 200 bushels; from two acres of wheat, from SO to 40 bushels, according to tho quality of the soil mid the number of stumps on an aero; ono aero of buckwheat, from 20 to 80 bushols. Thus, from tho four acres they will have enoughto feed n oouplo of good pigs, aomu poultry, nnd a year's supply of food for thoso of tho family unublo tp go from homo to work. A pair of two- yoar old steers, procured the second or third year, with a few, sheep. In payment for labour, as tlio rest of his stock has been, with a email wooden cart, at a cost of, say, from £ 0 fur tho pair of steers, and £ 2 for tho work on his cart, will onablo him to do all the carting, & o., which a now farm In tho fetumps requires. And by tho time Ha land is fit for stumping his oxon will be strong enough to break it up, and his means will then enable Mm to provide himself with a good plough, at from £ 2 to 1M> ; with a good strong ox- cart, at phout £ 6' fterllng; aii't thin step by stop the new settler gntheAi. around him eul& oleiit pr.. pjity to make him a com.' oi :. iUIo" hoiuo. His succos3 will, howovor, depond no » only upon Jds own temporance and industry, but upon the prudent caro and Industry of his wife. Let thousands of sobor, IiuV-' rlous men, each with a prudent, skilful housekeeper us a wlfo, land in British America without a pound, and the Government of tho country will give them a title to a portion of tho soil, from whieh their labour will produce Aapltal. Through Prince Edward Island, in tho Gulf of St. Lawrence, whero the writer's boyhood was spont, and from Cape Breton In Nova Scotia, to Samia, in Ontario, thousands can bo pointed out who started in tho manner described above, who are now Independent, with an abundance of everything necessary for their own and their families' comfort. Wo must, however, acknowledge that the position of the man possessing from £ 200 to £ 1,000 will be very different at flrst from that of the man whoso only capital is in the trength of his own right hand and willing heart. Yet the former often becomes banker for tho latter, lending him money to help him out of troubles he has fallen Into by going too fast. Although my letter Is already too long, allow mo to call tho attention of your readers to one fact more In favour of British America as a home either for tho rich or the poor, and that Is that fovers are not " always rife " on the wdd or prairie lands of Manitoba, or tho Saskatchewan, and lung diseases are almost unknown In that vast territory, which will soon bo the great wheat- raising garden of the world.'— I am, Ac., EDWIH CLAY, M. D., Emigration Commla- olonor from Canada. Tavistock Hotel, Govent- garden, April 3. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH ON LIFE- BOAT SERVICES. The annual meeting of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was held at the Mansion- house, London, cm Monday. Captain H. R. H. the Duke of Edinburgh, as Chair- man, in opening the proceedings, said— I have, in the first instance, to assure you h* w sensible I am of the honour which has been conferred upon me in being km ted to take tho chair at the annual meeting of this great Lifeboat Institution. As a sailor I must naturally take a great interest in a society which is as national in its character as it is beneficient in its object. Indeed, the services of an institution of this description cannot be overrated in a great shipping and commercial country like this. Since it3 commencement this society has saved nearly 21,000 British and foreign sailors, and I may, therefore, well 6ay it_ is hardly possible to overrate this society in a maritime country like this ; nor can we estimate rightly the value of its merciful wort for who can place a value upon human life? Its benign operations art known throughout the civilised world, and the dis- tressed sailor on our shores, whether British or foreign, participates alike in the succour which its lifeboats are ever ready to offer. The institution has now close upon 240 lifeboats under its management, every ono of which, l am assured, is in the most perfect order. It is impossible to praise too highly the courage of thosb men who are always foremost to man the lifeboate which rescue every year hundreds of lives which would otherwise perish upon the rocks. One of these serricep was rendered a few days ago at Pods tow, on the , coast of Cornwall, by a lifeboat there named the Albert Edward, after my brother, the Prince of Wales'. ( Cheers.) This boat rescued seven shipwrecked per- sons under the most perilous circumstanc es. I think I cannot do better than cite this, which is one of the most recent of lifeboat services, as an example of the charactor of their noble efforts. It appears that the barque Viking had been driven ashore near Pndstow during a gale, and the Albert Edward lifeboat, having been promptly got upon her carriage, was launched, through a tremendous Bea, and after a great struggle commenced to take the people from tho bowsprit, which was then the onlv accessible part of the vessel. First of all the master s infant child was lowered into the arms of one of tho sailors, and safely taken by the lifeboat men, but unfortunately tho sailor was washed overboard and drowned. Then the rope connecting the boat with the ship parted from the great strain caused by the heavy seas. This happened twice, and on one occasion thtJ boat was driven ashore by a succession of heavy seas. Still, though she sustained some damage, the noble boat and her gallant crew returned to the charge, and eventually they were able to save the master's wife' and five of the crew, who wore all landed in safety. ( Cheers.) These are subjects which are calculated to' arouse eur beet sympathy on behalf of the Lifeboat Institution. It is a society * which Seems to grow every1 year in the affections of the British people, on whom it depends for its support, and it will never, I trust, seek Government help or control ( Choers.) I know that my lamented father was an early partron of the Life- boat Society, and that it continues to receive the support of the Queen and the Prince and Princess of Wales. Here, in thb heart of the City of London, this philanthropic institution was first established. Its citizens have in all ages been distinguished for their loyalty to the throne, and for their munificence, ever displayed on behalf of the cause of religion, charity, ana philanthropy. I feel sure that this noble institu- tion will never appeal in vain either to them or to' the British publio generally, for it ia one deserving in an eminent degree of their liberal support and sympathy. ( Cheers.) Mr. Riohard Lewis, secretary to the Institution, read the annual report, which commenced by saying that the Committee of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, in presenting their annual statement to its supporters ana to the public, on that, its forty- eight anniversary, desired to express their grateful thanks to all those who had afforded it their generous aid. . During the past year eighteen new lifeboats had been placed on tho coast ; some of them at new stations, ana others replaced worn- boats. The Institution had 233 lifeboats on the coasts of the United Kingdom, and in > tho Channel Islands. During the past year those boats saved tho lives of 658 persons ; nearly the whole of them having been rescued under circum- stances of peril that would have precluded anv ordinary boats, from, proceeding to their aid. • In ad- dition to those services, no fewer than 31 ships were saved by the lifeboats. The storms of the past year in the seas of the British Isles had fortunately not been characterised by any fearful shipwrecks attended with great loss of life. Towards the latter end of tho year, however, tpo gales M < jpr, coasts became unusually frequent and violent Botween tho 6th and the 22nd December tho crewB of tho lifeboats of the Insti- tation distinguished themselves ipuch in saving 146 livei froni various shipwrecks. Tho efforta of the Board of Trade continued unceasing in the maintenance and extension of tho rocket life;. ^ TW. AWWSataJ the, roasts rf^ efffdUorftl^ pe dom. The total number of shipwrecks on the ooast of the United Ktaectyp iu 1871 w/ vs 1,57.4. accompanied by thelossof605liVes. In the samqpq& oqthe Institution contributed altogether to the res one of 8Pa * these 658 owedtheir lives' ikmcd^" 1-"'"" 1 afld'fot1 feavihg thb remainder tho D--~ v rewards to tho crews of shore- boata andothtrf ' pdrioiu, in acknowledgment of their laudablb exertions; Thui daring tho past year the' nobiety httd ' grdnted'. sw.' rewards nineteen silver medals and votes'of ' thii^ ka inscribed on vellum, besides £ 2,^ 302'- ill -" nfoiMtV. Since the- formation pf , tfae society ' lt Jiadr, ex- pended* on lifeboat e3UbUahmente, jTknd: - OfBer silver m^^^^ sa^^^ e^ besides pecuniary rewards to the amouht'of' £ 3C,' 6? 3. The number of lives Saved during thefrtrty- eight- Ve4r8, from tho establishment of thd'lbatftut'ibtt' ii"- l82£ io the end of tho year 1871,' tithe* by its ' EfWfoat& W, by special exertions for which it has g^ titea'tfewaWfc^ 20/ 746..'- Thereceipts pf the Institutiondnriiig tlMyear 1871 had been £ 23,140 4s. 3d., and the expenditure, inr. « eluding liabilities, £ 59,421 la. 8d. ( Cheers.-)' - The- reporfcj on the motion of Admiral filr Gf. 16art# rtfr;- eeconded by Admiral Sir JoHn' HaJ. Waff unanimously adopted ; after- wMcb resolutions fexpreaaihg' perfect1 confidence In tho Institution, and thanking the Board of Trade, the Admiralty, and the Coast- guard'Service* 1 for their assistatoe : Mr. T. • Bkring.' MiP.; cfcfcJrmta of - the • sooret^' hnd Mr. T.' ChapWiaU, " dMity- Hlilir- T man, for their services j' thfcLord Mayor lor the use of Hhe ligyptian- ball, ' aild tho'RAyAl Chatmfin for" presiding, were carried. Amongst the gentlemen who supported the Wotittns'wdre the Lord MaWtf^ wr'SoHn Bennett, Sir James Elphinstono, Lord Gnrhes, SirT. MOBS, tho Rev. Mr. Prescott, Mr. T. Chapman, & o. REWARD , OIF BJIAVKRY.— Tho Jmunal, Offioiel mentions the nomination! as offioer in theiiLogionoof Honour, of M. Marc do la Gndronnifcre, eldost son of the viscount of that namo. While with the Army of tho Loire the young man went, under a storm of shells, and at tho risk of . being killed a Hundred times, to inferm General Chanzy that his left was turned by tho Prussians. Owing to that act of courage the com- mandcr was able to rally in time all the threatened regiments, and seme tliousainUof. soldiers flmsttiaipwi death or captivity. . The decoration; now evuu lis inteuded aa a reconipeiue of lmWalmiH' ' -' f OUR FOOD SUPPLY. The Eev. Ilonry Moulo, writing from Fordlngton Vicarage on th? inadequacy of the food supply of thi « country, comes to tho fcMowing conclusions :— Let farmers, whatever be the extent of their hold ings, make a more provident use of straw, and of stalks of almost every kind, for food for cattle and sheep. Let them make a more provident use of their pastures. Full two- thirds of the pasture of most enclosed fields in the ordinary mode of grazing are wasted. Let far the larger proportion of cattle be fed in stalls, and in that proportion would this waste be prevented, and economy of straw, & c. f bo promoted. With the abundance of food thus provided there would Boon be an end put to the wasteful slaughter of calves and lambs; and by this means alone the stock of a farm would soon be increased. But beyond this, if the manure of the stalls be carefully preserved, and treated in the way in which I DTODOse to treat the refuse of towns, and of which I gave a general idea in The Times of December 3,1871, then the corn produce and the live stock of our 47,000,000 acres might soon be doubled. For, with a due pipply of dry earth to the stall and the proper admixture of other substances with this earth, a single coir will prod u c « 13 to no of manure per annum, one or, at the most, two of which shall very largely in- crease the produce of an acre of pasture. On an ordinary farm two or oven three acres are deemed re- quisite for one cow. If this stall feeding be practised and the cows be properly tended, and the pasture duly manured, one acre will keep two cows ; and, if the land be good, even three cows. The remaining 10 tons of manure from one cow might be applied with great advantage to 10 acres of land, drilled m with corn or the Beed of roots. If so, then, together with a saving of 19- 20th6 on the ordinary carriage of manure ( whioh would of itself admit of a larger amount of human labour throughout the year), 10 cows, besides keeping up their own supply of food from throe or four acres, would afford an annual supply of manure for 100 acres of corn or roots, the almost inevitable result of which would soon be the doubling of the live stock and a very large increase of the corniprdduce of the country. Much more than this, however, might be effected by calling in the aid of the working classes themselves. A LETTER from CANON GIRDLEST0NE. Canon Girdlestono writes to The Times:— I send you. a letter which I this morning received from a labourer, whom with his wife and family I sent last Monday week as a carter to Bolton- le- Moors, in Lancashire, for 18s. a week, instead of 8s. a week and two ouarts of cider in this neighbourhood. Since I first began this movement I have sent from this district nearlv ^ 00 men, many of them with families, to places with good wages chiefly in the North of Eng- land. Almost all of them are comfortably settled, do not wish to return, write me letters like the one en- closed, and many of them have sent and got good places for their relations and friends who havo joined them. I have more demands than I can sup- ply, and am every week sending men away. Still, though this work has been going onf or more than three vears, and though without doubt it has immensely benefited thoBe who haw migrated* the oonditibn of those who remain is not bv- any means improredtatha- extent which might have been expected. And I am entirely confirmed in a view which, in 1868, I stated at a moetingof the British. Association atNorvk h— that, at least in thei. wegt qfi England, w* J sbnU> never have , a peasantry independent of ' poor- rate and private charity, self- relUnty nnd with habits of self- respect and forethought, for th< y iutnre. until in rural districts there fs„ established competent sanitary authority such as sh^ l ' insure healthy labourers' dwellings, until payment m kind, specially in liquor, has been made illegal, and until well- con- stituted and well- managed Labourers' Unions have been organized. Umon^. do not, assomepeopleimagine, neeessainly lead to strikes. Quite the reverse; nor, un- less employers set their faces against them and dismiss men who belong to them, which is an act of violence whioh has no parallel in the conduct of the Unionists, need thev create iM- feeling between master and man. The men have as much right to unite in Chambers of Labour as the masters in Chambers of Agriculture. Be this, however, as it may, any one with his eves open must sea that before long. Agricultural Labourers' Unions will be formed in every paxtef the country. Instead, then, of offering a whole- sale and vain opposition to the formation of these Unions, how much more wisely would the gentry, clergy, and farmers act, and how much better they would consult the good of the country and their own advantage, which depend so much upon having a strong, healthy, and independent peasantry, if they would in a friendly spirit assist in forming these Unions on sound principles, and so do what in them Ilea to m^ k* them, as they are quite capable of being made, instruments of good to all parties concerned !— Yours, &. C., EDWABD GIUDLE- STONE, Canon of Bristol, Vicar of. Halberton. Halberton Vicarage, Tivorton, April 6. " Bolton- Ie- Moors, April 4. " Honoured Sir,— We now tako tho liberty of sending to thank your honour for your ( treat kindness to us, and to tell your honour that we got to Bolton at 11 o'clock quite right, and we have got a comfortable house close to foundry, and wa hope out of gratitude to your honour to prove ourselves worthy to fill the situation your honour have been so kind to obtain for us, thinking that the boit way to thank your honour. Wo beg leave to say. from what we havo seen of Bolton already, wo never wish to BOO Devonshire more. With many thanks, we have the honour to be, honoured Sir, your humble servants, ———." BREACH OF PROMISE- DAMAGES £ 400. At the Leeds AasUos, tho cause of " Issot v. Smith " has bean heard, and was an action for breach of promlso of marriage. Tho plaintiff was employed at Messrs. Robinson's, in Regent- street, London. The defendant is a farmer. In July, 1870, tho plaintiff came to visit her sister, who was Ml, and tho defendnnt used constantly to visit her, and proposed marriage to her. In consequonce of his desire to be married soon, she terminated her engage- ment with Messrs. Robinson. Subsequently his house- keeper wrote a letter to the plaintiff'H sister, in which she warned them against the character of the de- fendant. The defendant denied what the housekeeper said, and the courtship continued. He was Bent for unexpectedly to Scotland, and on the 22nd of March, 1871, no wrote hor a letter commencing - Miss- Issot," and concluding " Your well- wisher." T— e letter was to the effect that it would bo better for h parties to break off tho engagement. All other 1 era between the parties had been destroyed by mutu agreement, in consequence of both of thom suspecL'ng that tho defendant's housokoeper got hold of the lotters; The plaintiff, who was not quite 40 yeara old, said that when tho defendant asked hor to marry him, she said, " Yes" without any hesitation. Three most respectable men in the village had represented him to her as a most honourable and amiable man, and very rich. ; She told him the had. no money, but he told her he was very well off, and said a great deal about money matters. Sho said :—" Mind you, I thought tho man really loved me, but I thought ho thought theao things would be a consideration to mnp. Ho said I had better go and give up my situation. But he was only a base deceiver. He came in one day, and said he was in great distress, and was ruined, and was engaged In a law suit. I asked him if he wished to give up the en- gagement. Ho said, ' Oh ! no : anything rather than that.' I said, ' I'll never forsake you for poverty.'" The plaintiff's sister corrobrated her statement, Other witnesses spoke to the good position of tho plaintiff. Ho farmed 100 acres, and had purchased property in the north of Yorkshire and Leeds. ITie case turned upon a question of damages. Mr. Digby Seymour, Q. C., made an eloquent and amusing speech for the plaintiff, which was greeted with applause nnd laughter. Mr. Waddy addressed tho jury for tho de ndant. His lordship having summed UD, Thojuryreturncdaverdictforthcpla ti — Damages £ 100. , ARCHDEACON DENlSON ON THE ' CRISIS OF THE CHURCH. On Monilav, tjie | Ven. Archdeacon Donison held a visitattorfat faunton, and . delivered a change, to the clergy of tho dean^ y of Taunton. In the course of his address, tho Arflh'doacon said A tlrao of transition is cni Those who have passing i away < d< , , it is passing away; and shut their oyrs to the ovi- donco of an noouniulatpd and accumulating oxpiirience. It ia ' thus that men cling to tho belief that tho old relations of " StrttO to Church hero in Kugland oro not passing auay/ iK'twlthqUuirilu^ tlpt thoy are passing' away Is not n1 matter'of1 oplhinb, but ot fact. All 1 will say hero la that Uisru la out Uftug wotto than imrnouly a tlmu of ^ elusion, away do * nt> t rcaijiiy nicllno disestablishment and diaendowment, and that is esUbligh- ment and endowment which shall be of no particular torm and fnith. There are a great many of us inside Uie Church as well as out of It who are labouring to keep thi Church established and endowed on this condition only— on the condition, that Is to say, that It be no longer Ca- tholic, but a compound of " all denominations,'' and there- fore creedless and on sacramental, so that it may becoma " national," not In the true sense of the word, tut In tho sense of Including all religions and no religion. I am not speaking thus of the Church ot England as sho is herself, but as she Is by law established. These two things are very different things. The Church of England as re- formed, that is, formed again upon the primitive model, Is a part of the Church Catholic, and has existed in this country from very early times of Christianity. What Is called tho Establishment is three hundred years old. It Is an accident of the Chnrch only, not the essence of It. II any man care to know when I Anally ceased to think the Establishment worth keeping— and, more than this, when I same to the conclusion that it was bad for true religion that it should be kept, and why I came to think so— I will tell him. The " when" was in 1870: the " why" was the adoption by bishops, clergy, and peoplo in the name of the Chnrch of the ( so- called) " Elementary Education Act." When I saw these things done, " favente et adjuvante Eplacopatu, Clero, populo," I ceased to think the Establish- ment worth preserving. Whatever may be the material advantages of the nineteenth century, I doubt its possessing the advantages, intellectual or moral, which ore commonly claimed for it. Certainly standing fast and holding the truth at whatever cost is not a conspicuous feature ol ltt history. Compromise has laid hold of all politics, and Is eating Its hateful way Into religious truth. HONOUR TO THE BRAVE! The Royal Humane Society has Just transmitted Its bronza medallion, together with suitable testimonials, to Lieutenant Nixon, adjutant of the Meywar Bheel Corps, for saving tho liffe of a Sepoy under the following gallant circumstances :— A party of men, with Colonel Mackeson, command- ing the Meywar Bheel Corps, and Lieutenant Nixon, went to Banda Talao, a lake about seven miles from Kherwarra, to drag it for fish. The scene of opera- tions was a creek about 90 yards across. Seven or eight Sepoys proceeded to swim over it with the net, the two officers remaining en the bank to superintend the drag. When the party got about 70 yards, the lead- ing man, PrivatePema, was evidently in difficulty ; his companions proceeded to his assistance, but instead of tryiiT" to land him on the nearest bank begun to take him back to the starting point. Their efforts were unsuccessful. The position of the man had be- come extremely critical, and Lieutenant Nixon plunged into the water and went to the rescue, disregarding the fact that the lake was aa well stocked with alligators as with fish. After swimming about 70 yards he reached the drowning man in safety. He got hold ot him under the shoulders, but though a strong swimmer found that he could not move him— indeed, that he was hardly able to keep him above the surface. Further aid arriving, a rope was conveyed to Mr. Nixon, who passed it round the man's arms. He, himself, however, was so exhausted that he could only hold on to tho end and turn on his back. The men were then dragged to land, the Sepoy quite insensible, and his preserver nearly so. It was then discovered that Private Pema had foolishly tied round his waist the rojie attached to the net, which fully explained the difficulty Mr. Nixon had experienced in supporting him, as ho had had to sustain the additional weight of a heavily laden ? fhe" society has^ ofep transmitted a valuable testi monial, together with a pecuniary reward, to a poor woman, the wife a la) x> urer„ residing at Chilton Cantelo, I Bminster, Soniereetshire, for'saving a little girl named . Lncy - Marsh. TBe child fell into a brook at Chilton Cantelo, which had - bSen very much swollen from the recept rains, ahd which at the time was running very ; swiftly. The depth of water at the place wasat least . five feet, with a lnuddy bottom. The child was carried away by the current to a small bridge, a distance of 80 or 100 yards. Her companions, all of them little children, were panic- stnckeii, and several mintuoa elapsed before they gave an alarm. Jane Philips, who lived in a cottage close by, then ran to the spot, and, hearing of what had occurred, unhesitatingly jumped into the shallow part of the stream and waded up to the bridge, the soft, yielding mud at the bottom . rendering it a matte- of difficulty to get along. Ihe child, apparently dead, was taken to a neighbouring cottage, and having been wrapped in warm ^ blankete and well rubbed, wis restored to animation. ' Sho had" been in the water from ten to fifteen minutes, and but for the promptitude and perseverance shown, by the woman Phillips ihuat have lost her life. CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS. Old maids are more poJitely called " beiaffeisistera * In Virginia. A Peorbtpaper states that there is a dry goods clcrk in that cf*/ who can tow'so low as to wipe his nose on his boots. A DI The first line reads, " I am sitting alone good for Button. In Massachusetts it fa said the passage of a law i3 contemplated prohibiting poople from snoozing without taking out a licence. The bill is a satire on the penehant of the Massachusetts Legislature for regulating everything. A highly- coloured report from Colorado, as to the ability of the wind in that quarter, say that tho wind blows with such forco, that whon a man loses his hat ho has to telegraph to the next station to have it stopped. The hair on a camel, we see it stated, weighs about ten pounds, and sells for more than £ 20, which sltows that it was not only in the days of Mohammed that tho animal bore a great prophet. A gentlemanly engineer, who drives a locomotivo in the Wert, in reply to Mr. Sumner-* remark thatrthe engi- neer's little boy looked dark enough to be nn ( Indian, said, " Well, my friend, it's half Injun and half lnjun^ er ! " The San Antonio tT^ xas) postmaster received a letter lately " To my Mammy." It was not delivered till some weeks after : a small, fierce- looking obi woman ap- peared at the post- office window, ssying, " Mister, havfyou got any letter from my Johnny 1 when the poatinaster hit the mark at onco. " I celebrated my wooden marriage last week," said Ann to JaDe. " How did you celebrate It, ami what is a wooden marriage t* said Jane to Ann. " A wooden marriage," said Ann to Jane, " is wh. it you would do— what gin wouldn't?" " I see," said Jane to Ann, " what a wouldn't marriage is now." Indians . have come to something now, no more prolrie- huntlng, sentimentality. A Kansas correspondent says, " I saw the lonely Indian at the railroad depot this morning. lie was grumbling because the train was a few minutes behind time, and curscd the dopot agent in good missionary English becauso ho did not hurry up and check his carpet bag." The Poet Laureate must take darej already America Is ahead of him In tho way ol odes about ttio Prlnco ol Wales. This comes from Chicago— " At Sandringham, tho Prinoo And yot they say that America has no native school ol poetry ! Through an accident at the water- works, Boston Massachusetts, was recently deprived of water for twenty- four hours, and in th^ morning numorqus complaints were made to tho milkmen of the unusual thickness of the milk. Promises, which have been faithfully kept, wore glvon, that this should not occur a^ in. When Chicag >* s flro deprived it of its water supply for twelve days, no' straiiRo effect was noticed in the milk— one advantage of being situated on a fresh water lake. An elopement which recently took place near Car- teraville, Georgia, was thus announced by a local paper:— " And behold, as tho grand luminary of the day rose in tho east, and threw Its rays of splendour over the works of Nature, and sparkled in its dazzling beauty as ho glided upwards, the cherished pet ot tho household had vanished — whither, no one knows. But more conjecture was enough to solve the matter. Her flight was beyond the limits of tho State; and. once beyond the State's Jurisdiction, sho bccamo tho briao of tho one to whom sho had plighted her vows without tho knowledge of papa." A VIOLTK BABY.— Theodore Tilton has been on his travels, and relates tho following experience :—" Ole Ball's baby was the prettiest child that wo saw during our recent trip to the West, Its eyes sparkled like tho diamonds In its father's violin. Tho proud man was absent from homo giving a series of ooncorta. and we did not seo him, but the young mother's faco exhibited enough MiUiuMasm and satis- faction to mako sunshine for haif- a- dozsn families. Wo hope tke Young Bull will grow up like O o Bull, his brilliant father, so justly esteemed by all who knbw him. The French A* 3 - nibly has just passed a decree which will doubtless suffice for tho Kuther paytuenj^ of tho war y. Not conte: 3 Contort li ovdry portfBrt fiancs overv year to the Government for each head at the feline race In her possession. Tho land strike In the nut nnd bolt trade In Birmlng. ham, whioh has kept 1,203 or 1,500 men out of employment for some month3 past, was virtually otded on Monday niqht by tlio resolution of tho workmen at two of tho principal works to co in on tho masters' ameni'ed terms, IncluiUtg the masters' llatTof prie s with an addition of 7i per cent , the . withdrawal of Xho document or dc: larotlon-. the- ab^ Mttan of .• he fine of 3d - per fcohr, and the ro opening ot tho do via from G 23 a. m. to G 3.' am. L SAUTED AY, APRIL 13, 1872 THE FALMOUTH & PESRYN WEEKLY TIMES. THE LATE PROFESSOR MAURICE. ( Tram the Saturday P. eziew ) Thi » Eauter- veek we have lost a man about whom minions and feelings were much divided, who was by many of the be* t and most thoughtful among us looked on M the noblest and greatest of recent English teachers, and who certainly had that rare gift of in- enthusiaem and trust among honest and M._ _ ul minds in search of guidance, which beV- j js to none but to men of a very high order. Profe- » or Maurice baa ended a life of the severest and moat un- ceasing toll, still working to the otrnoat that faffing bodily strength allowed - still to the last in harness. The _ them, probably -.•• « - « . , affection with which be waa regarded by the circle of his friends and by those whose thoughts and pur- poses he had moulded; or the feeling which his loss causes in them of a blank, ereat and net to be filled tip, not only personally tor themselves, but in the agencies which are working most hopefully in English society. But even those who knew him least, and only from the outside, and whose points of view least coincided with his, must feel that there has been, now public, though his name is > Iy little measure the deep and passionate on his course, something singularly and even pathetic in the combination shown it he did, ef high courage and spirit, aid of unwearied faith and vigour, with the deepest humility touching ai in all that nnwearied i — , and with the sincereat disinterestedness and abnega- tion. which never allowed him to seek anything great for himself, and, in fact, distinguished and honoured is he was, never found it. For the sake of his genera- tion we may regret that he did not receive the public recognition and honour which were assuredly his due; but in truth his was one of those careers which, for • orrow in England, but called forth a ryu^, . thetic or indignant cry from that travaflmg souL And yet, m all senses of the word, he was the most peaceful and pacific of men. Amid the strife of own heart and conscience that « i » > - -—~ there and believed in. Having dwelt at some length and with much eloquence on Che decoded s nobleness of mmH and integrity of character, the Dean urged his hearers to imitate his example. MR. HUNT, M. P., ON LOCAL TAXATION. Mr. Hunt, MP, presided at a meeting of the North- amptonshire Chamber of Agriculture at Kettering on Friday, and after alluding to the question of sanitary legislation he referred to the subject of local taxation. With regard to local taxation he said it had been urged that personal property should be assessed for poor'a- rate and other purposes, but he did not think it was possible. He had discussed this matter with many of his late colleagues to see whether any means could be devised for assessing personal property to local rates, but they were unsuccessful in the endeavour. The reason was that they could not localize personal property. If a man had two or three residences and a large enjoyment of personal pro- perty, they could not say where it should be localized or assessed. Now that was a very practical difficulty, but he felt that the present avstom was an unjjist one. It had been the practice of late years for the Govern- ment not to increase the estimates, but throw expense on the local rates. He considered it was an unfair and their own completeness and consistency, gain rather than lose by escaping the distractions and false lights of what is called preferment. The two features which strike us at the moment as characteristic of Mr. Maurice as a writer and teacher, besides the vast range both of his reading and thought, and the singularly personal' tone and language of all that he wrote, ore— first, the combination in him of the most profound and intense religiousness with the most claim and exorcise of Intellectual liberty ; , the value which he set, exemplifying his in his own long and laborious course, on pro- cesses and efforts, ss compared with conclusions and definite results, in that pursuit of truth which waa to bini the most sacred of duties. There is no want of earnest and fervent religion among us— intelligent, well informed, deliberate, as well as of religion to which these terms ca i hardly be applied. And there is also no want of the boldest and most daring freedom of investigation and judgment. But what Mr. Maurice seemed to see himself, and what he en- deavoured to impress on others, was that religion and liberty are no natural enemies, but that the deepest and most absorbing forms of historical and traditional re- ligion draw strength and seriousness of meaning and binding obligation from an . alliance, frank and uncon- ditional, with what seems to many the risks, the peril- ous risks and chances of freedom. It was a position open to obvious and formidable criticism : but against this criticism is to be set the fact that, in along and energetio life, in which amidst great trials and changes there was a singular uniformity and consistency cf character maintained, he did unite the two— the mOs? devout Christianity with the most fearless and un- shrinking boldness in facing the latest announcements and possibilities of modern thought. That he, always satisfactorily explained his point of view to others is more than can be said ; but he certainly satisfied numbers of keen and anxious thinkers, who were dis- contented and disheartened both b^ religion as it is presented by our great schools and parties, and by science as its principles and consequences are expounded by the leading philosophical authorities of the day The other point to which we have adverted partly explains the influence which he had with such minds. He had no system to formulate or to teach. He was singularly ready to accept, as adequate expressions of those truths in whose existence he BO persistently believed, the old conse- crated forms in which simpler times had attempted to express them. He believed that these truths are wider and vaster than the human mind which is to be made • wiser and better by them. And his aim was to reach up to an ever more exact, and real, and harmonious bold of these truths, which in their essential greatness hd felt to be above hirr - to reach to it in life as much as in thought. And so to the end he was ever- striving. Dot so much to find new truths as to find the heart and core of aid ones, the truth of the truth, the inner life • and significance of the letter, of which he was always 1 loth to refuse the traditional form. ( From the Spectator.} The great religious tcacher, who will Ions be chiefly remembered as chaplain of Lincoln's Inn— thongh as Professor in King's Coljege, London, as the centre of the Christian Socialist movement which ended in so great an impulse to co- operative work, as Principal of the Working Men's College, Great Onnond- street, to which he contributed so largely both time and money, in the G8th year of his age, after two or three weeks' illness, and was buried at High gate Cemetery by the Rev. J. Llewelyn Davies on Friday, amid signs Of general mourning not often seen on tne faces of the rich and poor alike, a choir of bis own working men having sung the hymn over his grave. A memo- rial had been hastily got up asking for a place for Mr. Maurice in Westminster Abbey, to which the Dean , of Westminster had acceded; but the famijy, no doubt influenced by sympathy with his own intense humility, preferred a private funeral at Highgate ; and so it waft. If Westminster Abbey is reserved for those whose names will still be famous centuries hence, we dohot know that Mr. Maurioe'a friends could have claimed a place for him there, for his favourito subjects were too little popular for his books to be widely known after the CTeat charm of his personal influence is for- gotten . But certainly few of those of our own genera- tion whose names will live in English history or literature have exerted so profound and so permanent an influence as Mr. Maurice. His learning as a theo- logian and philosopher was patient, deep, and accurate. His didactic works were numerous, and full to over- flowing of living conviction. But powerful as they were, the power of his personal simplicity and humility could never be fully transferred to them. The A thcnitum says:— " Most of the nowspaj late Professor ^ laurice was in early life the aul a novel called Euttace Conway; or, the Brother and Sitter. We believe we are not going too far in telling the following story about it. Mr. Maurice sold tho the following story about it. Air. Maurice sold novel to tho late Mr. Bentley Bomewhere about year 1830; but tho excitement caused by the Reform Bill being unfavourable to light literature, Mr. Bentley did not issue it till 1834, when he had quite lost eight of its author, then a curate in Warwickshire. The - villain of tho novel was called Captain Marty at; and Mr. Maurico, who first learnt of the publication of his book from a review in our columns [ Athcnccum, No. 835, p. 239), had soon the pleasure of receiving a chal- lenge from the celebrated Captain Marryat Great was the latter's astonishment on learning that the anonymous author of Eustace Conway had never heird of the biographer of Peter Simple, and, being in Holy Orders, was obliged to decline to indulge in a duel." ,--,— „„ stopped. way to this end, except by requiring contributions from the national exchequer for purposes which were for the national benefit, although the expense fell — 1 ' complain, but a great deal of extra expenditure had been thrust upon them. There was, for instance, the cost of the police, for which they got the miserable contribution of 2o per cent, from the Imperial Ex- chequer. He confessed he should like to see the whole of it paid from the Imperial Exchequer. No doubt, there were some considerations adverse to that view. It woold be said that the Government would thus get possession of the whole of the patronago of the police and thus would have at its disposal an army which could be wielded from one centre. He was not afraid of that, for the public opinion of the country w as such that it would be impossible for Government to abuse the power placed in its hands. The police force was to protect personal property rather than local pro- perty, and it should be paid for from tho Imperial Ex- chequer, and it would lie managed more economically. Northamptonshire, for instance, borderedon 13 counties. That county was obliged to have policemen on its borders, ana the magistrates of the other counties were compelled to place policemen on their county borders, BO that the result was two men were placed where one would suffice. With regard to- lunatics they were now obliged to build- county asylums at a most enormous cost; and it dost certainly1 three, and perhaps four, times aa much to maintain a pauper donatio as it did a pauper. They- were not- allowed to sav what manage- ment tor diet' 6r buildings Hheltaatioi should have.; but they had the Lunacy CokaniEsiohers. with the Home Secretary at their back. to'dkitato to them what should be done. Bat why were they to paJr the whole of the expense, if they Were'tohavte no voice in the matter? Th? y might fairly ask from the Imperial Exchequer for a large amount of the expenditure for county lunatics, if not the whole. The same remark applied to gaols. Under the present system the more humane views of modem days prevailed, and, instead of dark dungeons, there were regulations even as to thfe cubic feet of air required in prison cells, and all these rules were laid down by the central authority. Well, if the central authority was to dictate as to the life they were to provide for their prisoners, let the central authority pay. They mignt want vey much in the way of contribution, which they did not now get towards objects for which they Were solely rated, and he thought in some cases tho burden might be put on the Imperial Exchequer. But he did not think it would' be right for him'' to encourage the Chamber to go in for an assessment of personal property for local rates, because, from the ex- amination he had made he felt it to be Utterly usiless. And though he found it was not the opinion of many others, he felt certain the Chambers of Agriculture would do much more wisely to put their fingers on certain heads of expenditure, and say that iney'tfe- quired this or that item to be paid from the Imperial Exchequer, or some contribution towards other items charged upon the local rates. He thought they wotild make more headway by so doing than if they en- deavoured to obtain an assessment of every kind of personal property. DR. TRENCH ON THE HEALTH OF LIVERPOOL. In his rencrt on the health of Liverpool during the < year 1S71, Dr. Trench, the medical- officer of that town, ( gives some interesting statistics in illustration of the I influence of vaccination in mitigating the fatal effects of small- pox. Among 1,616 patients treated for the ; disease the deaths of the unvaccinated and of those in whom vaccination was doubtful were at the fearful rate of 56.4 per cent; the deaths where one cicatrix was visible, on the other hand, were only 14.9 per cent. ; where two cicatrices were visible they fell to 9.8 per cent. ; while where three cicatrices were visible they were as low ae 7 per cent Dr. Trench traces the importation of the disease to two Spanish sailors who died of small- pox in hospital in Liverpool in August, 1370. Before this there had not been a death from small- pox in the' town since the preceding 1st of January. But these two cases were followed by an cpidemic, which, commencing in the immediate neigh bourhood of the hospital, extended to almost every district of tho town, and carried off 2,093 persons. From his experience during this small- pox epidemic. Dr. Trench proceeds to show the necessity for enforc- ing the power granted by the Public Health Act of 1S66 to nuisance authorities to provide mortuaries for the reception of bodies dead of infectious diseases. In numerous instances Dr. Trench found families in single- room tobitations, where the living were obliged to be, by night and day, in the presence of tho dead. " No language can be too strong to depict the horror of such a condition, its demoralising effect on the friends of the deceased, and its intense danger to them and to the community. . . . W akes were held over the dead in the overcrowded room, drunken persons lay dowm at night on the same bed with the corpse, and rose unwashed in tho morning to mingle with the general population." It appears that, not at all- too soon, the Town Council has estab- lished mortuaries, and that the Roman Catholic clergy have also onened a mortuary, and are exerting their influence with their poorer co- religionists to Induce them to avail themselves of it gBisrtflHiutms gnitfligcm, EOKE, FOBBIGU, AND COLONIAL. SEARCHING FOB THE SEARCHERS !— Tho New Tort Herald announces that the chief of the Herald expedition in search of Dr. Livingstone l » s been lest somewhere among the jungles of Africa. So BOW there is another man to search for. POST OFFICE NOTICE.— The following notice has been issued from the General Poet Office, dated the As* a large number of newspapers addressed to place* abroad, prepaid only with a single rate of postage, although exceeding four ounces in weight, oonUnne to be posted in all parts of the United Kingdom, it la necessary again to remind 1 publishers newivendor « , and the pmblic generally that every newspaper Intended for transmission through the post to any foreign country or British colony la liable to a separate rate of postage for « vcry four ounces, or fraction of four ounoes, and that If this postage be not fully prepaid the nowipaper canDot be sent forward. Among the newspaper weighing more than four ounces froquonlly detained In consequonco of MOVING A Cmam— Wo ( Builder) learn from an American newspaper that the great chimney of the Cabot mill at Brunswick, Maine, has been moved 20ft, to allow of the enlargement of the mill. The work was done by a process similar to that by which ships are launched, the chimney being slid alvqg. on greased planks. Tho chimney is 70ft high, amr THE SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A CLERGYMAN. • On Saturday afternoon, at the Lambeth Police- court, In 2f> ndoD, the Rev. Richard Arthur Garden, D. D., waa again charged with unlawfully obtaining various sums of money with Intent to defraud. 5Ir. George Lewis, Jan., appeared to prosecute for the ( Parity Organisation Society, and Mr. Montague Williams ( Jef ended the prisoner. 1 The prisoner was some time since minister of St James's, Kennington Park- road._ Upon leaving there a large number of his congregation followed him, and RETALIATION. While Mr. Disraeli was visiting Manchester last week Mr. Gladstone waa on a visit to Lord Chesham, at Latimef, Bucks, only a few miles from Hughenden. The inhabitants of Chesham formed a deputation, who ne wouia receive a puuiie acioress at i/ ue.- wi. un, uui, owing to a severe cola, he said he was unable to attend apublic meeting, but promised he would attend at the Working Men's Club. The committee of this club, therefore, hastily ma^ lc preparations to ' receive the Prime Minister. The knowledge that Mr. Gladstone was coming soon spread through the town, and a great number of people gathered outside the club, waiting his arrival. The town band struck up notes of welcome as soon as he made his appearance, m company with Mrs. Glad- stone, Lord Chesham, Lady Chesham, the Hon. Miss Cavendish, and Miss Lascelles. The secretary briefly stated that the foundation and the principles of the club were the same as those that prevailed throughout the majority of similar clubs In the country, its objects being to promote tho social, intellectual, and moral well- being of the werking men. Mr. Gladstone, on rising, thanked the audience for the enthusiastic reception they had given him, which, be said, was not surprising, as he well knew that to be a guest of Lord Chesham at Latimer was sufficient In itself to insure, apart from any personal merits of one's own, a hearty welcome from all classes in the neighbourhood. The right hon. gentleman then went on to say, with reference to working men's clubs, that he was glad to find they were extending and. being multiplied throughout the country. He thought they could not fail to do good, being founded, as they were, on the principles of self- help. Mr. Gladstone then alluded to the various beneficial measures which Parliament had passed with the view of better- ing the position of the working man. Referring to the great burden of Parliamentary labour which de- volved upon thosewho were the people's representatives in the House of Commons, and especially those who had to take a leading part in the responsibilities of the Government he said the mental and physical strain Very Rev. the Dean preached to a largo congregation. Tho words ol the text were from the 19th verse of the 20th chapter of St John's Gospel—" Peace be with you." At the close of his sermon, which lasted nearly an hour, the Dean paid a warm and feeling tribute to the memory of the late Profeqjar Maurice, whose whole life, from its bee inning To its close, was a vivid example of the gift of peace in all its senses. Doubtless many in that church had seen, and many others, high and low, had heard, of the life- long labours on hehalf of Christian truth and Christian love that endeared to thousands of his fellow countrymen the name of Frederick Maurice. In one sense, indeed, his • s a life not of peace bat of constant warfare, of war - inst all that wis mi an and bat* and false. It was o not of peaceful cose but of incessant unwearied toil; a bush ever burning, and as it burnt consigned with it* own inextipgui- hi. blf zeaffor God^ s Jteus* and for God's honour ; burning with a fiery flame that con- sumed the mind and the body that enclosed it It was also a life not withdrawn from the turmoil of earthly concerns. He livid in the very thick of the stirring in- fluences of our time. He was an English citizen even more than he was an £ gliah Churchman, and whi'e dinging passionately ^ nd devotefDjr td the of vne past, was full of all the thoughts and • vm> » of onr own in-' nien^. ria cu '_ i\ r\ 2." jt c. r.-.-. ce of in i. urvpe, not - ^ event ul jOj js was very great indeed, d8d he could refer to Bome, and especially to one great man, who had broken down under it Referring to the education question as being naturally of great interest to the members of working men's clubs, no said that of all measures that had come ; under tho consideration of tho House of Commons, this was the most comprehensive and complicated. Generally j speaking, in other measurcatht re was one simple print iple ^ embodied, which had only to bo earned out, but in the Elementary Education Act there was an embodiment of several principles, which had to be grouped together and experimented on at the same time. It would be impossible that such a measure could be framed to the perfect satisfaction of all parties^ After it had b^ en in operation some time, and cxperienoe had been gained, some amendments or modifications might be reouirvd, and in such an event Mr. Gladstone said full consideration would be given to the different views on the subject and^ he hoped, in such a way as Throughout Mr. Gladstone's address ho was warmly applauded by those present who felt very much the honour he conferred on them by coming among them in such a kind and informal way. iplenilid md valorous Highland Be^ imenu— such as wbilld ccrtainly « AVB tho « orps Irom extinctl. n by any Injudicious •' localisations cf our i^ cular forcca, evvn It ll trcreiliicladML Henceforth tLo Oltf Reidmtat offliially known mthe ^ fprlcsMre Highlanders." is to bo emitted tho •• 01ur, Tr* t.- aLo. isesAr » icfh. r « : JU= I. Urd « r3 :" the llarctuoutSi of Lorr. e having coDienlcd to the ulopiit. u « •! her -•• > iae wri*, ai* d the ( JueJ!. Lex mother, havtog KU- c-. i^.- Us u^ Jiga of title. Clapham- road, in which for some time past ho has preached. In November last a letter, signed by the prisoner, was sent to Mr. G. P. Bidder. It set forth that a family, once in comfortable circumstances, had been brought to deep distress by tho father ana two children dying of . emall- pox, leaving the mother and three little one3 penniless. It was wished, the prisoner stated, to raise £ 50 to assist them, and he : appealed for subscriptions for that object Mr. ' Bidder wrote, asking for the name and address of the family, to which prisoner replied by stating that he had accomplished all he wished. Notwithstanding that I statement, however, the prisoner again, in January last, forwarded to other persons an exact copy of the i appeal. One was addressed to' Colonel Freemantle, 1 who also desired to know the name of the distressed family, which prisoner declined to give. Shortly before his arrest prisoner had sent out a large number of the same appeals, and in his house were found, amongst other papers, a number of the appeals addressed to noblemen, the alteration being that prisoner asked for £ 100 instead of £ 50. It was further alleged that in December last prisoner sent out a large number of letters appealing for funds to enable him to give a dinner to 500 poor children. He had likewise made an appeal for clothing lor' poor children. From various ( natters that transpired, the Charity Organisation Society some time back com- menced inquiries, which resulted in the presentpro- secution being commenced. In a book found in prisoner's house wfts a regularly, kept account, in priJ Boner's handwriting, of various sums received. Against sums amounting to £ 143 10s. were written the letters " P. W.," £ 60 with the letter " D.." and £ 51 10s. with the initials " C. H." These initials, it was contended by the prosecution, meant " Poor Widow," " Dinner," and ' Church." The prisoner had, it was shown, received other sums that had not been entered in tho book, and evidence was forthcoming prov- ing that the whole of the appeals made by the prisoner were gross frauds. A summons was first issued against the prisoner, but on being served with it he expressed his determination not to cofae to the court, and on can-. sequence a warrant was placed in the hands of Detec- tive Sergeant Haw, who arrested the prisoner whilst on his way to church. He has since remained in custody at'Horsemonger- lane Gaol, being unable to obtain the, two bail in £ 250 eiych, which the Magistrate had con- tented to take. Mr. Lewis now called Lord Elliot, who said on or about the 28th of February, 1S72, he received a letter- like the one produced, relating to tho small- pox ease,- and asking his aid. There was another letter with it,- stating that the appeal had been forwarded to him before. He had the former appeal, which ho believed was a lithographed letter. Mr « . Lewis asked ix he had that note now. Lord Elliot said he did not keep begging lettert. In consequence of what he heard he did not respond to the appeal. He was chairman of the St Giles's Branch. of the Charity Organisation. Lieut- Colonel French said he had received a letter also signed with the name of prisoner. He sent 10s. immediately for the distressed family. He believwl tho- cftse was a g « nuiae- one, or he should" not haveidr- i warded the money. Major George John White Melville was called, and said in consequcnce of a letter he received signed by the Rev. W. Carden, appealing for help for a case of distress, he sent £ 5 to him for such a case. Mf Bancroft, lease of the Prince of Wales Theatre, also gave evidence to the effect that he received a letter similar to the' oho mentioned, and he sent' £ 1 for' the object named in it The letter was signed with the name of Carden. The Hon. Spencer Lyttelton stated that he resided in Eatory^ terrace, Eaton- square. In December last he received a WtteV, signed itt the name of the prisoner, a^-' ing for help to give 500 poor children a dinner. Ho £ or- warded£ 2 or £ 3- for> the object, find had an acknowledg- ment from the- pri » naP. 1 the postage prepaid bolng Insuffldent, the principal are the following:— IliiutraUd London Netc*. Graphic, Queen, | Lanct, The TW « , Utreford Timet, Engineer, Engineering, i Pall Mail Budget, and Guardian." To AGNES, B* A WHOLESALE POET.— The following specimen of poetry has been sent to us ( Court Journal) for admiration ; the writer evidently means business, and has gone in " on his nerve :"— " At Brighton on the ocean's briny shore. With a fragile ree< l I wrote upon the sand and stones— * Agnes, I love thee !' The mad waves rolled by and blotted out Tho fair tmpnwslon. Frail walking- stick cruel wave ! trcaoherous sand I 111 trust ye no more"; But with a giant hand III pluck From Norway's frosen share Her tallest pine, and dip its top Into the crater of Vesuvius. And on the high and burnlihed heavens 111 write— ' Agnes ! Hove thee I' And I would like to tee Any wave wash that out!" - ALL THROUGH THE LOOKING- GLASS.— Tho London Mirror of last week records five anonymous donations of £ 1,000 each to metropolitan charities, - and is in a state of great admiration for the genoroua douocs. - And very properly too-^ fdr this sort of thing will bea* reflecting < m\- Judy. A PROFESSOR OF MAGIC !— A droll account is given of the extraordinary way in which a professor of magic has announced his arrival in St Petersburg. A distinguished- looking gentleman enters a hairdresser's shop on the Nevsky to be shaved. Monsieur Philippe, the, master, not being at home, one of his men under- takes that anxious and delicate task. The gentleman sits down, the operator tucks in the inevitable napkin, lathers the hirsute chin, carefully strops the chosen razor, and, with his hands jerked out of reach of the impending cuff, is going to begin operations, when, to his amazement, he discovers that he is about to shave his man with a carrot I The stupefied friseur stares at his customer, stares at the carrot, then, throwing the vegetable away, and silently picking out another razor, again comes to the charge— with a cucumber! The devil I" he cries aghast, when his master entering, undeceives him as to the infernal charactcr of his SUD- ^ ect by addressing the gentleman fts M. le Professeur NOT GENERALLY KNOWN !— The Paris papers are indulging in all kinds of pretty stories about the Queen and Prince of Wales. The Avenir National tells us the following, which is certainly not generally known amongst us :— During hl » Royal Hlghness's illness, a robust young man. Half couutrym. nl, half gentleman, was always remarked at the chateau Sandrlnghnm; he was even admitted to the patient's bedaWo, and the Prince appeared to be deeply at- tached to him. Everybody was puzzled at the presence of this stranger, whoso name and position wtre kept secret. However, all has since been discovered, and here Is the enigma explained. In 1865, during the stay of tho Royal Family in the Isle of Wight, the Prince of Wales kicked over a basket 6f shells which a boy was gathering. The boy, red widh rogft, dar£ d hl « Royal Highness to " do It again," ond he would see what he would get. The Prince did do it aualn, and the boy therenpon landed his flat upon written, m amount aaaeji. . . • John Th'oipaSl/ iWt- n, relieving ofijctr md th<^, ha¥ b< iSi WjmiMl jfc* Island- pliwe. nor of a widow being left i childrcu/ is described. not^ ylieatcjtffn,( 6r relief.'" ' T^ unn ' saii she had officiated at thcorgnn far ,.. .= w_ or s church orv6everaroccasions. She had never heahPof « nch a case- of distress, or of a dinner being given'U>- 500 poo » .-,-:, J— 1 William, Wayrt printer) t Lowoc E^ nnington- lana, 1 X^ e mpnthfc. . Had been I imocirculars,., JE£ eprinted v. y for £ 100. Oi the circular ig for clothing 4or poor people he had printed 4fXi: ] SawpJWOnv. WoaQy at his amuse,. and vrwu^ d what wss required ^ to . be m » U* L, / L'RIS< M » < W, baa never told . him fchftpanyi and address. of,) J? e widow apdchildren.. QtWr evident having hpeft c^ U^ d^. to qircUm-. stances and , . , , Mr. Lewis MW further remand* , whigh wa* opposed by- Sir. Williams an the grouniLthafc there was: no case in law against the prisoner, the prosecutor not hajingckllaiLia singlei witnesa to positively show the false pretence. , , , , . MT./ Icwis said ithe. case w » supported by the strongest possible evidence of the falsity of prisoner's statements. The Magistrate said it must be for a jury to decide upon such a point. The prisoner would again be re- manded and the witnesses who had given evidence could be bound over to save their naviog to attend again. The prisoner, who throughout the case held his hand to his head, and appeared to BuHer considerably from the position lie was in, was tbeu remanded. The International Society attempted to hold a roeet- 3 m Dublin on SaniUy ni^. t, 1 at tho promoter! of It were iDUJhly Uiri'^ led by a nuini. fr of la'- jaiers whocrined ncceti I i" J- e w- i- ctlDs. and tui'. el oii. siltsut the rUalnnau ar » J — Toe actiiaj crtj^ cu^ iii arcatconfaal'- rn. only got , - Majesty, " and were you not already sufficiently punished, I would punish you myself. I hope you will always be served In tho same way when you ate cnllty of such conduct-'' The QueeD then sent for the boy's parents and offered to bring him up. The parents consented ; the boy has grown up with the Prince of Wales, and la now treated as his foster- brother " How TO GET A LOAN."— This is a sentence which never fails to catch the eye of the attentive reader- of his daily paper. And the way is simple. Steal something— it doesn't much matter what— and get Bent to Holloway Prison for three months on the silent system. That's a very effective way to get alone, — Judy. CONVICTIONS UNDER THE GAME LAWS.— In the year 1871 there were 8,913 persons summarily con- victed in England and Wales of offences against the Game Laws, and 62 persons on indictment for being out armed, taking game, and assaulting gamekeepers. Tho summary convictions comprised 7,725 for tres- passing in the daytime in pursuit of game, 429 for night poaching and destroy in s game, 28 for illegally selling or buying game, and 731 under the Poaching Act of 1862. rIne total nnmber of persons proceeded against summarily under the Game Lawn was 10,771, there being 1,858 discharged and 8,913 convicted. The total number proceeded against under the Poaching Act of 1862 was 927, there being as many as 190 dis- charged, and 731 convicted. In three English counties Buckingham, Dorset, and Hereford— the summary con- victions under tfce Gome Laws in 1871 exceeded one per 1,000 of the population, and in Shropshire the con- victions very nearly reached that ratio. A THOUGHT UPON TAFFY.— Your Welsh Cad is a greater Cad than any other. He numbers among his ancestors a Cad wall ad er and a Cadwallon.— Punch. MR. BRIGHT ON RKPDBLICANISM.— A person in Birmingham having been told by a member of the Republican Club that the republicans, if they gain power, would select Sir. Bright as their first president, wrote to the right hon. gentleman on the subject Mr. Bright has written back :—" Your Republican friend must not be a very despwrate character if he proposes to make me his first president though I doubt if he can be a friend of mine. As to opinions on the question of Monarcny or Republicanism, I hope and believe it will be a long time before we are asked to give an opinion. Our ancestor* decided the matter a good while since, and I should leave any further dis- cussion to our posterity. Now from your letter I conclude you are willing to do this, and I oan assure you I am not less willing." RATHER PLEASANT THAN OTHERWISC!— To those about to commit suicide it is interesting to know, on the authority of a Kansas murderer, who was hanged, that that mode of departing this life is ex- tremely pleasant ' lhe murderer in question, it is stated, was quite dead when he waa " cut down " to be operated upon by a scientific gentleman, who restored life by means of galvanism. The murderer's account of the sensations of strangulation is as follows:—" Hang- ing is rather pleasant than otherwise ; for, after the first spasmodic struggle for breath, a delightful tick- ling sensation followed my veins to the tips of my limbs. Consciousness seemed to lose itself very gradually, and for a time a portion of the brain seemed to retain its vitality. The happiest moment of a life- timo was centred in a dream at that instant From that moment until I found myself in the hands of Ecience I knew not" | Swiss EMIGRATION RETURNS.— Some Swiss emigration statistics are published by the Sieist Timet. | Reports have been furnished by the different Cantons, with the exception of Uri, Valais, Solothurn, and Geneva. These thr « - e cantons have long ccascd to publish any repjrt on the subject In the first of these the emigrants evade on all occasions the local autho- rities ; in the Valais the number of emigrants is com- paratively insignificant, so that no register is kept; and the people of Geneva have long ceased to emigrate Iwyond t « is, exoe( ft in isolated cases. From the remaining cantons the number of emigrants amounted during the past year to 3,494 persons. In lfifiQ the number was 5,206, and in 1868, 5,007. Of these 289 were from Zurich. 758 from l> rn, 51 from Luzern, 57 from 3chwyz,. 4 from Obwald, 3 from Nidwald, 187 from Glarus, 7 from Zug, 16 frcm Fribourg, 85 from the town of Basle, 94 from the province of Basle, 120 from Schaffhaufei. 30 from Appenz^ ll, 245 from St Gall, 159 from Graubttnden, 3S1 from Aargau, 0i from Tliu; yn'. i, 754 from Test in, 78 from the Valai", 82 from Neuenbnig. Oat of trie number 2.3T7 emigrated to North Ajru nca, 170 to the middle St - Ves, and 781 to thr South; 71 went. to Australia, 12 to Asia, 74 to Afrir->.; ' hue i< ; i ,. iY. 9 imljrai. U whose destination is flues connected, and the fires started in eight hours and a half. M. ELISEB RECLUS.— Those who have token part in tho efforts made by the English friend* of M. K^ clus for his liberation will bo glad to read th? following extract from a letter written by him from Zurich on the 18th of last month, sayB the Examiner:— " I am able at last to tell you that I am free. After hav- ing been kept for a long time In prisons, and sent from oua priioD to another, I left Paris for rputsrller, ctoorted by two police agents, who left me on the free soil of Switzerland. While breathing and enjoying the pure air of liberty. I do not forget those to whom I am indebted for my freedom, flaring been claimed by so many Englishmen as a student ot ( dance, I shall work on more than ever to. show them, nay gratitude by my works and deeds." VOLCANOES OP THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.— The Honolulu Gazette learns from persona who visited the volcano, on a recent trip to Hilo, that although there are no lakes of lava in Kflauea there are numerous cones which are of themselves active volcanoes. Somo of them have pretensions of no mean character, inde- pendent of the awe inspiring scenery which surrounds them. Somo of theee cones— small mountains in them- selves— are 1 constantly emitting from their cavernous mouths molten lava, which is projected into the air above tho summit of the cone 150 or ' 200 feet The exhibition now presented by Pele is said to be magnitt-. cent in the extreme. POST OFFICE SAVINGS- BANKS.— In the ten years from the commencement of post- office savings- tank* on the 16th of September, 1861, to the 16th of September, 1871, there were 14,555,525 debits made, amounting ( with interest added to tho end of 18,0) to £ 44 10S 744. Tho further amount of interest which had become dtie m 1871 ww about £ 2: iS, 000. In the ten vearr there were 4,843,966 withdrawals, the Bums with- drawn amounting to £ 23,044,540, leaving £ 16, » 4,204, the balance due to depositors in September, 187L The amount paid over. tothe National Debt Commissauerg up to September, 1871 ( with interest credited thereon), is £ 15,972,281 and there remained a balance tobepaui to them amouating to £ 211,975 being chiefly in banker^ bills having some day » to run. No cash was received from the Commissioners for the payment of with- drawals, but £ 30,052' was transferred by them for the post- office savings- banks to other savings- banks. , . CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACTS.— A Parliamen- tary return has been issued giving statistics of the number of conjmon wpmen coming within the provi- sions of the Contagious Diseases Acts, since the time they were first put in operation until the 31st of. December, 1871, in seventeen towns to which the statute is applicable. The- number of women regis- tered since the Acts came into operation is 11,995. Of these 5.324 hod left the respective districts, 578 had married, 907 had entered homes. 2.574 were restored to their parents, and 201 had died, making a total of 9,584 who had been removed from the register. Thd number of registered women at the cloee of the year was, therefore, 2,411, as against 4,852 when the Acta were first put in operation. In the caw of 128,938 women subjected to surgical examination, no disease was found, while 20,780 were suffering from malady. The number of cases discharged from hospital free from disease, in which the women still continued to follow their former pursuits, was 18,072, while 212 were dis- charged as Incurable, and 541 were proceeded against by information before the magistrates. WANTED, A COOK !— The following advertise; ment appeared in last Thursday's Timet .— Itequlred, by a gent near to Bromley, In Kent, a Cook, on plain cooking plainly intent. She need not make entremets, sauces, or Jellies, That cause Indigestion and irritate b— lies; Enough If she's able to serve up a dinner That won't make her master o dyspeptic grinner. If asked to bake bread, no cicuse she mint utter ; Must bo able to churn, and to make melted butter. If these she can do— eke boil a potato, And cook well a chop with a sauce call'd tomato, The writer w - £ 20 wages.— Address Vi A. GIANT'S WATCH.— Mr. Streeter, of Conduit- street Bond- street London, has just completed the manufacture of a gigantic gold watch tor Captain M. Technically — — ikv—-- rCT"— r * . hpnting repeater, and is of tho highest order ot work- manship throughout The case is made of 18- carat gold, weighing eight ounces, and is superbly engraved with emblematic insignia, representing the goddess of liberty upholding the national flag, on which is conspi- cuously displayed the stars and stripes. A MOKAL, FOR^ SPOBTSMEN !— The Vienna Correspondent of the i) a& y Ttlcyraph writes :— I have now a ^ porting anecdote for you, to which I beg to call the atteirtlrfnV hit the M F. H/ s of England. Tho Hnn- cari; i*" 0 « ui » t Kaalerloh waa returning last week from hunt- lnc— otli « r< vl£ « la cAojaa- pat PoterwarJeln ; he muat have had a seve re i& ypfol1 ntfhad tilled six' foxea. The. o he tied up ItffcUunehtheWnd log*, threw them aesoss his horse's Wnf. Ahcu jocgad hQme. Suddenly his hack — a quiet old favourito— bolted, charged a wall, gave the Count a ro? ukir etVllAr- bonef, add rtuliod off like mad, tho foxes all skvinjrtug abjut her. But she was not lunatlo— It turned out tlvat one ot the foxes was not dead, had suddenly fixed Its fan'ia Into the'mare's thigh, and hung on like grim death. Moral: Never kill alx foxoi a day. FqflEiqN TUADE OF THE UNITED STATES.— The Mowing ^ utembftl '' of teepbrts and imports for the alwfd. it ybivr 1871 ia furnished by the Bureau of StatiMfcsi" The- vilnes are all expressed in specie:— Imports of merchandise, 572.509,314 dols. ; imports of specie and, bullion, 17,399,415 dols. ; total imports, 5S9 908,729 co} s. Exports, domestic merchandise, 44. V542 607 ' adW. ; exports, foreign merchandise, lliSOlWdiilk i total export*, merchandise, 460,331.614 dote. Export*, domestic bullion and specie, 65,632,342 dols, ; exports, foreign bullion and specie, 12.009.128 dolf. ; total uxports, bullion and specie, 77,641,470 dols. Total pxports, 537,973,084 dole. ; exoess of Imports 51,9oo, 64r> dols. If w6" leave out of view imports and exports of forek; n- epecie and bullion, and regard ex- jiorts of domestic specie and bullion as we would grain, cotton, or any other product of domestic industry, the I account will stand as follows :— Total imports of mer- chandise, 572,509,311 dols. ; total exports of merchan- I . Use 460,:< J1,014 dols. : exports, domestic specie and I bullion, 60,032( 842 dols. ; total exporta, 525,963,956 I dols. ; ad verso balance, 46,645,358 dola, lhe foreign I Boecieand bullion accounts Btands as follows :- Im- I ports, 17, oli9,415 dols. ; exports, 12,009,128 dols. ; excess^ f Imj its, 5,390,287 dols. WOMB'S SUKFRAOE. — This month the Women t Svf. agc Journal entreats its friends who have ' been so tage: ly and successfully cultivating fresh fields not to lose > oght of the necessity for gathering in the harvest of oj uiions already ripe, and of bringing these to bear in the fbape of petitions to the House of Com- | mons" duricg the coming month of April. It adds :— ! " Last year the number of signatures to petitions in favour of the measure sent in before the second read- ing was 185,000. Up to the present time the number j of persons who have signed petitions tliia session folia | considerably short of this number. GRKAT SALE OF OATTLB.— On Thursday, in last week, Mr. John Thornton, of London, dispersed I the lato Sir. Pawlett's herd of pure shorthorn « attle at Becston, Sandy, Beds., when some extraordinary - ices were realised, resulting in a total of 4.7,837 40 head, being nearly £ 200 each The prices « & 1 very uniform throughout, many of tho lots being o ' 200gs. each ; and the highest, 550gs., was given by tno liev. T. Stainforth, for a seven yearn' old cow. Two 1 ' mall heifer calves, about eight weeks old fetched 250gs., being bought by a farmer near Hitchiu, and 1 the lots wtre principally distributed in the counties of Westmoreland, Cumberland, Lancashire, Yorkshire, 1 Gloucestershire, Kent, and Norfolk. Mr. Paw let t, a n » fflVeD upilitovv , UV trying various strains, cousidered that the Booth blood was the most valuable for the practical farmer. The salo was very remarkable for the enormous company of practical breeders and eminent judges it Uought to- gether ; end, save one bull, bought by the factor of the Duke of Richmond's northern estates, the whole of the stock was purchased by country gentlemen and farmers. Not one nobleman or distinguished foreigner was obrtrved amuL- t the 2,000 that gathered round Mr. TL< rnt< n'* iiig ; cheering a^ ain and ct- ulu bvtt forth w).£ n n !-. f sccurc* to rtmain in the nei< b- bourfcrcJ. ' Hit nrhole jiroorniiiigs w » :< e bioagUt U> ft ucot in - bout a coupie hours. i b • 1PHE FALMOtTTH & PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES SATURDAY, APRIL 1872 TENANT RIGHT IN SCOTLAND. Mr. Janies Caird has son t~ tho' following interesting letter on the above subject to The Times for publication :— Lord Derby has well said that silence in certain cases has its responsibility. It is under that responsi- bility that I seek the aid of your columns to bring into prominence an event that ia filling the minds of the tenant farmers of Scotland with indignation and • darm. Those who havo known anything of the extraordi- nary progress of Scotch agriculture during the last 30 years must know something of George Hope, of Fenton Barns, iu East Lothian. In his own country Ke has lofig held the highest place as a practical agri- culturist, bis example and advice are followed and Bought by the leading farmers of the sister countries, and the most eminent agriculturists of foreign coun- tries resort to his farms and profit by the instruction which be is always ready to communicate. If every farm in the United Kingdom were brought t- i the same high pitch of cultivation as Mr. Hope's, it is not too much to say that at least one- half of th8 present vast importations of foreign corn might be dispensed with. Mr. Hope, his father, and grandfather, in succession, hkve'been on this estate for 100 years, and on the farm of Fenton Barns for 80. In 1852 his lease wa « re- newed by a former proprietor, at an increase of 15 per cent, on the previous rental This was at the period of greatest depression following the final close of pro- | • " " t;£ d tective duties, when the average price of wheat fallen to 38s. 6d. Shortly before this he had tile- drained the whole farm, at a cost to himself of upwards of £ 2,500. During the period this farm has been under Mr. Hope's management nearly one- fourth of ft, which early in the century was so worthless as to be left waste, has been reclaimed by him and cultivated, and for many years has contrihnted to the rent- roll of the proprietor. Within the last seven yeare ho haH greatly added to the depth of active soil over the whole farm by the removal of hundreds of tons of stones from beneath the surface, and by the introduction of steam cultivation and heavy manuring. For many, years back, and to the present moment, his expenditure be- yond the resources of the farm, for manures and feed- ing 6tuffs, has been equal to two years' rental, being from £ 2,200 to £ 2,500 a year. The expenditure in wages and the employment of labour has been doubled. Mr. Hope was one of the first to introduce into East Lothian the cultivation of potatoes, for which the soil and climate have proved admirably adapted, and which, without an effort on the part of the landlord, has Added largely to the rental without impoverishing either the land or the tenant He is on suitable occasions an out- spoken who makes no secret of the profit which good fanning has brought him, and he has been often blamed by his brother tenants for having done more by his own farming and frank speaking to raise rents in East Lothian tlian any other man in it. Mr. Hope has made Fenton Barns a well- known name, and it has not been ungrateful, aa it has given him MI adequate ^ Itwas natural that this man should take a lead and be looked up to in all matters of local or national agricultural improvement. For 40 years he has been one of the managing committee of the East Lothian Agricultural Society. He has served aa a director of the Highland and Agricultural Society, and for many years has been on its various committees, and is an examiner for its diploma in agriculture. When the Scottish Chamber of Agriculture was formed- he was elected by his brother fannersto be ita first chairman. He was nominated for the cotfcty in 1865, and, though ie never asked a vote, and / ever even thought of standing until the day befofc the nomination, and withnekriy all the landlord influence against him, M^ fn^^ obdt^ rBrig ^ nersto inquire into the Law of Hypothec, an d ha* " contributed to the literature of the Game Laws by an able paper in the volume of Recess Studies. His lease is drawing to a close. To UBe his own words,— I was while? retain my Belf- respect never ^^ g hAdthe shadow of a quarrel with either l^ ord or neighlxrar, ^ d never having sought public duties, though I have never shunned them whem tiiey came in « nyW * feel very sorry to leave this place; it has a grip ef my must leave it, and leave his improvement* behind him without one farthing of compensation. This man, of whom his county and justly proud, has received notice from his landlord 1 hie lease will not be renewed. i At a meeting of the local society, held a fortnight uro Mr. Nisbet Hamilton took occasion to charoc- £ iie as libellous a statement made in a recent number Pnv> l Acrrimltnral Society's journal, m regard more sensitive than capital, and yet nothing is more common than the complaint that tile laiid of this country is not half farmed, because tho tenant either has not or will not use adequate capital. What is the cause? His tenure is insecure ; if overtaken by tem- arary misfortune, the result often of bad seasons, the w renders him liable to sharp expulsion and forfeiture of his sunk capital; if circumstances should render Ms removal desirable, he cannot dispose of the lease which his capital may have rendered valuable; that capital is exposed to injury by the undue preservation of game, and to confiscation if invested in buildings, reclama- tion; or drainage, absolutely needed for the productive cultivation of the land, but which the landlord waa either unable or uuwilling to execute at his own cost. _ It is now more than twenty years since I urged these views on public attention through your columns. Great strides have been made in agricultural improvement since that time, and yet Lord Derby was able to say only a few months back, with perfect truth, that, after all that high fanning had done, the land of the country did not yield one half of what it might be made to do if all our present resources were brought to bear upon the soiL " Security to the tenant," he added, " is the first requisite, and I hold that any tenant good enough to be kept permanently on the land ought to have a lease if he wants one." I have seen no reason to change the opinion I then held of strong preference for a lease of twenty- one years with liberal covenants, as compared with yearly agreements and compensation for unexhausted im- provements. The lease is safer for both parties, and if the principle is recognised by law that while the landlord has the exclusive right of property in the na- tural fertility of the soil the tenant has an equal right of property in its condition. I feel convinced mat agricultural improvement will receive greater develop- ment under a general system of leases than yearly agreements. A fatal objection to the latter is their tendency to perpetuate obsolete practices, paid for ad the entry of the tenant, and therefore payable by his successor. The lease gives the tenant a home and a- feeling of security ;. its covenants may be so framed as to permit all reasonable latitude in cultivation, and the law should extend to the tenant such rights as would insure good farming to the close By enabling him to ob- tain in case of disturbance full payment for that con- dition which he has added to the soil, and which has a dear and appreciable value. If this were now tho law Mr. Hope could not have been evicted without fair compensation for his improve- ments, at least. The wrench from his home, with its associations, he must bear with such consolation as the universal sympathy of his friends and brother farmers in Scotland may afford Lord Leicester, who haa a hereditary right to speak with authority from the wise and liberal landlords point of view, used these words in addressing the Norwich Chamber of Agriculture on leases .-— " My object in tho first clause was, if possible, to grant the lease In perpetuity, so that at the end of the 16 years the tenant might renew. Since I came to the estate— 30 years ago— not a single tenant has left it. I" quite agree as to tho superiority of a lease over a two years' notice to quit, with ample compensation; for I cannot ccmoeive that any ' com pensation ' would bo equivalent to the removal of a man from his home. To me the country would not be worth living in If the associationsbotween mo and my tenantry were removed." Landlords who carry into practice these liberal senti- ments need no legal obligations to keep them in the line of justice towards their tenants. It is the other class, represented by this gross aase of tenant wrong, whose conduct in this instance has disclosed the posses- sion of a crushing power of oppression by the use of a legal right, which can be effectually controlled only by erecting a corresponding legal right in the tenant to fair compensation for the capital which he cannot re- move. To the above, " A Scottish Proprietor and London Lease- holder," replies :— I have read the letter—*' Tenant Right in Scotland '* — by James Caird in your impression of to- day. I re- r; the existence of personal feelings ( the whole cause which we cannot pretend to know)' which prevents a good landlord renewing the lease of a farm to a good tenant, but I do not seo any tangible ground for a claim on Mr. Hope's part, or of tenants generally in Scotland, for compensation for improvements. Nat only does Mr. Caird Bay that the tenant " makep BO secret of the profit which £ ood farmjng has brought him," that the farm " has not been ungrateful, as. it has given him an adequate fortune," and that he " was prepared to pay a very large increase of rent-" ( show- ing that the past rent had been moderate), but that Mr. Hope had hi* farm on a lease of 19 years, ter- minating at the present time. If leaseholders are to obtain practically a permanent occupation of their farms by bringing forward large claims for compensation for improvements in Scotland, why should not the leaseholders of houses in London be equally favoured? I have laid out £ 20,000 in buildings which will be- come the property of my landlord at the end of a term of years very little longer than Mr. Hope's 19 years. I must get my return while the lease lasts, or 1 have made a Dad bargain. In the latter case " Tenant Bight" would be very useful, but I fail to see the i justice of it. Since Lord Derby's accession to tile House of Lords he has Assumed a mure decided political character than heretofore. His Speech at Liverpool early in January prescribed thf party tactics of the Session ; it was generally npplalded, because it said what so many id it his been consistently obeyed This thought, y —_— first appearance necessitated a second. At Liverpool Lord Derby spoke iji his own independent character, and might be thought rather the Chief than the Lieutenant. The meeting of Wednesday clears np this ambiguity. Whatever opinions Lord Derby may hold, they will not be maintained in such a manner as to alienate him from the colleague under whom he has already served. His language is forcible and sig- nificant. " I am proud," he says, speaking of the guest of ftie day, , rto recognise in him not only my old political colleague and chief, but a personal friend of more than twenty years' standing." " Few leaders of men have ever been more successful in securing the personal confidence; and sympathy and goodwill of those with whom they act, and no has ever shown himself more faithful both to the obligation of private friend- ship' and tbe honourable tie of party connexion-" The Conservative Party is, therefore, so far united. Yet, under this agreement, cordial and sincere though it may be, we cannot but detect the two elements which will henceforth exist simultaneously in the party until one ia the end prevails. Those who read Lord Derby's speech will find that, though short, and pro- fessedly subsidiary to what had gone before, it is really more definite as a programme of conduct. Lord Derby repeat ® his advice of January, and with the same air of authority. Let no man, he says, be dis- heartened at the defeats of the last Election, but wait for the inevitable revulsion, which will come as it came after the first Reform Bill. Let there be- no haste, no eagerness to snatch at any merely temporary and casual success ; above all, let u » aot be made- the tools of the Radicals, who will be glad to bring us into Office in order to> reconstruct their own party on a new platform pledged to more extreme and violent measures. Xieep in tho Ministers for tie pre- sent ; support them against tbea* own extreme fol- lowers ; prevent them from making bad worse in Ireland or in the American negotiations, and wait for the return of power until the result of an Election has demonstrated that they have lost the favour of tha country. Suchis the advioe of the younger of tho two Conservative leaders, and we cannot tat ffeel that.- from a party as well as a national point of view, it is soundtand likely to carry conviction. Thus the leadership of Mr. Disraeli will evidently be far from absolute. It wilEbe a primacy will- ingly conceded, because advantageous to the partv on Re- count of tho vigour, the resource, tho oratorical power with which Mr. Disraeli can endow the cause he this time— namely, in the year 1725— some teachers m the Orphanage at Halle had asserted that smoking was a sin, because the " bitter ta<< te of tobacco and the sweet doctrine of Jesus were incompatible," and were in the habit of comparing smokers to the chimneys of the infernal regions. The Hanovarians were, there- fore, of the firm conviction that any one who smoked could not be a Pietist in the opprobrious sense. They therefore inquired of the person with whom Fliigge lodged whether the latter smoked or not. Not giving complete credence to the assurances of the landlord nr the affirmative, they resolved to ascertain the facts for themselves. One evening Fliigge, who dwelt on the ground floor, and who, pipe in mouth, was marching up and down the room, heard before his window a great noise, which every moment grew loader. The Hanoverians had discovered a hole m the shutters, through which the in tenor of the room could be seen. But » the hole was too high, tables and forms were spctdily brought, in order that the observations of the spies might be comfort- ably carried on. As, however, the spies kept crowd- ing on the back of each other, the weight became so great that the shutters were torn from their fastenings, and a general crash and commotion followed, ihe sighs and groans of the wounded and the crashed were, however, outvoiced by the cry of joy. He smokss . he smokes ! God be praised be smokes !' when Flagge was seen with Ms pipe in his mouth. The following day Flagge was elected BBUMMBL'S 8TWrF- B0X AND TBE PKISCE BEOENT. When Brummel had offended tMo Prince by speak- ing flippantly of a lady whose name has been linked with the Regent's ever since; when. he had long Been banished from the Royal presence, and fallen into misfortune, while Bis old boon- companion ascended the throne ; when, in his humiliation and dire ex- tremity he was living at Calais, learningwhat it was to want a dinner and to- own an empty puree— George IV. passed through that town on his way to his dominions in Hanover. Brummel, hoymg that his offence might not be always unpardonable; stood j — tjje pjer jjg. jjjg Majesty pasasd;; bwt the A man who has not been a membfe. Gf Congress is, lobbyist. Congress in^ Tf is the best as a rule, a poor luuuyut. v school of the lobby, and » seat in the in the Senate, ia only sought by a certAL bers as a certificate of fitness for the duties of a of job- the corridors and the cloak- rooms. Entering Congress is only matriculation for the lobby, and the j » y of the member is nothing to the profits of the ex- member. Tho the_ pay ol chairmanship of a committee is a more honourable though scarcely a more important and certainly a leas influential position than the headship of a ring. No ring is complete without a Congress graduate to assume its direction. With everyjob some ex- member of Congress has some connexion. When his constituents refuse to re- elect bim he ceases to be a tool, and makes other men his instruments. His vote is no longer in the market; but he is in the market to boy other men's votes. He has been in Congress, and is a " statesman." He haa learnt something of the rules, and he knows how a trick may serve to delude the new men who succeed him a* d the other ex- members who graduated in the same class with him. The secrets of com- mittees are no longer secrets to him, for he has the " op- m sesame" which unlocks them at his com- mand. The members of these secret conclaves were once h » equals: now they are hni familiars and slaves. The clerks are his obedient servants, and he hails them in hearty good humour as Harry, Jack, and Tom. His ministers are everywhere^ and his evil spirit prevades the very atmosphere. Ihe congrtaa- man on his way to the Coyitol bowB to him obsequiously, and shakes Km by the hcaid The Senator vacates h » eurule chair that " the dktinguished gentleman who once occupied a seat on the floor" may fill it, and fronze his locks as a man of influence in tho sight of his clients in tho galleries. Congress ( adds tho Wash- ington conespoadent) as a school of vfllsny is unsnr- pazwd by any similar institution in the world, and even Fagan" mig& t learn something of tho higher branches of his art by observing closely tho ways of the e: Kongressmant sepouses. But the personal power oi the leader may not be even as great as when he was- himself only in the second poet, and when, the father of his present colleague was his nominal Chief. Such a change im the disposition of political parts has had many pre- cedents, for younger men must always be coming to the front, influencing the minds and oonduct of their elders, either directly or through the medium of tpe nation. The " great Conservative party," aa it loves to style itself, need not suffer from this cause ; but willi to our thinking, rather benefit by a- little internal play of opinion. It has been hitherto the weakness of1 its members to agree with a dead sort of unanimity, derogatory alike to their judgment as individuals and to their authority as a Party. CHILDBQ0D. King either failed to see him or wilfully passed him by unnoticed. Later, Brummel sent the King » imuff- box as a mark of respect which it is said ( truly or not)' Kmg George returned to him, with a hundred- pound note enclosed - r and that BrummeL though deeply insulted, yielded to Iris necessities aid pocketed the note; There are two other stories, one of which seems to confirm this tradition, white the other seems to throw doubt upon its conectness. What kfchowever, much mere au- thentic is that during the King's sojourn at Calais he went one evening to tba theatre, and fouad he had forgotten his snuff- box. The English Consul, who was in attendance, volunteered to supply his Majesty ; and, knowing BrummePs taste and fame, rushed off to the Beau's lodgings to beg the loon of a box. The decayed man of fashion, though deeply hurt at the two rebuffs he conceived himself to have received from the King, loyally complied When- the consul returned to the theatre and presented the box,, the King, having snuffed, said—" Why, sir, where- did you get this? There is only one person I know who can mix snuff in this way." " Itissomeof Mr. Brummel'syourMajeety," aaid the consul. George was silent: butnext day, as he was resuming his journey, he remarked, " T leave Calais, and have not seen BrummeL" Some have thought this enough to show that his slight of the- Bean's attentions at that time wa « not intentionaf: but Brummel evidently thought otherwfce. When he had gone mad and died in a content, geiftly tended by the nuns, his relics, his knick- knacks, Were sold. Amongst them was a snuff- box, and in it a piece of paper, on which be had written— This snuff- box was intended for the PrinCe Regent if he had conducted himself with more to the frequent" changes of tenants in East Dotblan, Ind in doing so he challenges the accuracy of the . information on which that statement hadbeen made. Thus called upon Mr. Hope responded to the challenge by stating that the author of the paper had oWned his information throughibta, that it- was put down In a wav which cHd not fuUy ex- press his meaning, and that he thought it a pity, as 1his was quoted ^ J^'^^' gfcg SahldTbut that the facto which be g » T « wer# a* curate, and capable <* proof. Promptif, Monday, Mr. Hope receded oottoa ffom " bet Hamilton's factor kthat. his lease would noT^ be re- newed 1 » Mr. Hope's speeches and writings are distasteful to his landlord, and Mr. Nisbet Hannlton hesitates not to sever a . Wctiim which has snbs » tod % three generations, with a man who waa an hont- ur to the estate, whether as tenant, neighbour, or employer of labour. There is no pretence here that he rnhde him- self disagreeable on the subject pf gfm*, % , he not; or that he was obtrusive in the expression of his opinions on public affaire, for he wa ® not. But he never shrank from that when he felt it a duty, though with all due respect for those with whom he differed. Other tenants on this eetate who vote on the Liberal side, but make no other profession of their political opinions, have received renewals of their leases, but the independent expression and advocacy of such opinions are not to be tolerated. U this had occurred in Ireland, what would now be the legal remedy awarded by the Courts of Law to the tenant? He has every claim which long and un disputed possesion can confer ; his industry , his intelli- gence and his capital have been unceasingly employed fn enriching his landlord's property, while drawing from it. the means of euga^ weU- jaid andremun^ from it the means of engaging well- paid and remune- rative labour; and on every grounS he would have established for himself the strongest and most substan- tial interest in the soil that the Insh Land Act em- braces. He could claim payment for disturbances, for beneficial interest, for drainage and reclamation, for unexhausted improvements. In Ireland the law re- cognises these £ the legal right of the tenant, even whentheir existence can hardly be discovered. In East Lothian, where, as in this case, they are patent, obvious, universally admitted, the law permits the whole to be absorbed by the landlord as completely aa If they had been the creation of his industry, his intel- ligence, and his capital, and not those of Mr. Hope. Mr. Nisbet Hamilton has thus, at a critical time, stirred up a large question. He and his friends dislike Mr. Hope's freedom of speech and of thought, and Mr. Hope is evicted I will not treat this as a political question, for, though it may be so in this instance, it involves the general principle on this side of the Irish Channel of the rights of agricultural tenants, which And powerful advocates from enlightened men of all parties. The natural result of free competition in any busi nous is tho utmost development of individual enterprise. If the landowner is willing to devote his attention to the details of fanning, he may keep the tenant's profit to himself by cultivating his own estate. But if, by reason either of personal disinclination, incapacity, or other occupation for his capital, time, and talent, he prefers to let his land to an agricultural tenant, the law ought not to weight that tenant with any impedi- ment, but it should recognize the aame right of pro- perty in his capital as in that of the landlord. In good farming the agriculturist must expend liberally in view of a future return. The high condition of his land is the gradual residt of yearly accumulations of good management which cannot be drawn out of it at once like t£ « ^ degojU b bank account. The farmer's capital In Great lintain thSs attachable by the landlord is enormous, a^ the public advantage is so much concerned hi the pro- ductive powers of oSr little island being f'^ y^ P^' that every hindrance to the safe empoymentofth" capital so invested should be removed. Nothing is AN AMBASSADOR OF DOUBTFUL SEX. ( From. 31. James* Ma> jtrtti>). After the death of L ouis XV:, his grandson Louis XVI., found among his grandfather'spapers a great mass of correspondence between the Chevalier d Eon and his grandfather; it ia pretended that this corres- pondence revealed to the young King the secret Of the sex of the Chevalier, and at the same time bore testimony to his noble character, his fidelity, and his talents. I should have mentioned that during the period of his residence in London, as Minister Pleni- potentiary, he had been slandered to the King, Louis XV., who, believing the calumnies, for a time withdrew his confidence and his credentials as Ambassador; how far this confidence waa subsequently regained we are not clearly informed, for the Chevhlier having made numerous frionda in England, among whom were the Duke of Bedford, the Earls of Bute, Egremont, and Fer- rers, Lord Halifax, and many others decided to remain in London ; but after the pretended disoovery of his sex ( I ought perhaps to now say her) the King much desired that she should return to France. He offered her a further pension of 15,000 francs and a Safe conduct to come to France, and if she desirod, to return again to England. This ahe refused, unless the King would give her a declaration, under his hand of the falsity of the charges formerly made against her. This the King, after some demur, consented to do, and this safe conduct and tho treaty or arrangement, signed by the King was sent to bet. These curious documents are given at length in the biography, and notwith- standing the knowledge the King pretended to have ob- tained of her sex, she was Btill treated as of the sex of which she wore the dress. In 1777 she oameto Paris dressed in the uniform of her regiment of Dragoons, was received by the King in a private audience with much favour, but was ordered to adopt a female oostume. She. however, visited her mother her native town of Tonnerre, dressed in her uniform a captain of Dragoons. She returned to Pans on e 14th of October in the same year, when, in obedi- ce to the orders of the King, she adopted the female costume, and the female title of " ChevaEtre, Instead of " Chevalier." yhich she had hitherto borne, and continued to bear it until her death. ... She earned her daily bread by teaching fencing in a house in the neighbour- hood of Boho- aquare. The father of the writer took lessons in fencing from the Chevahere. She died, never having resumed male attire, in the year 1810, at the age of eighty- two j and aa if mysteries were never WILLS AND BEQUESTS, QTrom tho lVAtatraUd London News.) le will of of the Right Hon. William Earl of Lcas- dale, P. C., F. R S^ of Lowther Castle, Westmoreland, and Whitehaven Castle, Cumberland, was proved ia. Her Majesty's Court of Probate, on the 28th ult., by his nephews, the Right Hon. Henry Lo^ ther, Earl of Lonsdale, and Mr. George Augustus FredenckCaven- dish Bentinck, M. P., together with Mr. William Nicholson Hodgson, M. P., ofcNewby Grange, and Mr. Charles Hspkinson, of Regent- street, iomt acting executors. The personalty was sworn under £ 700,000. The will is dated February 1C; 1870, with ar codicils, the last executed December 14, 1871; and Ins Lord- ship died on the 4th nit., at Iris town residence, 15, Carlton- terraco; Pali- Mall, in his 85th yew, a bachelor, and is succeeded by his said nepjew, Henry Lcwther, third Earl of Lonsdale. There we several- largo legacies and some annuities to relatives, fnends, and domestic servants; all free of duto To his exeoutore he leaves legaci » as follows — To Mr. Bentinck, £ 25,000 ; Mr. Hodgson, £ 4,000 ; and Mr. Hopkmson, £ 2,900. There are- two legaciee of 3125,000 each— one to- Frances, wife of Mr. Henry Broadwood, and tho other to Francis William Lowther, and their children after them. He has devised his landed estates and freeholds in Cumberland. Westmorland, and else- where in the United Kingdom to his nephew and suc- cessor, to whom he also leaves the residue of his ^ ThewiUof Mr. Thomas Butterworth Charles Bayley, formerly of the Bengal Civil Service, and late of Wyn- bere near Capetown, is the colony of the Cape of Good e. x- —- i- Dec. 29last, was proved berg, n ^ S^ ond^ 6n th? l£ V££ fcf nndsr' £ 35,060 personalty in England, the acting executor in this country being MrDaniel Baylev. Th* will is dated August 21, lffTL He bequeaths to his brother, Mr William H. Bayley, 6f the Madras Civil Service, the family plate, and thit he may select such of testator's books as he " ises. All the rest of his books he beqneathsto the _ jth African Public Library, Capetown. He be- queaths all his oil paintings, wat er- colcrur drawings, Mid other pictures to such public building for the exhibition of the fine arts as may be erected in the Cape, and gives £ 500 towards such budding fund, provided £ 1,500 can be raised in addition to his. He bequeaths • the Capetown Dispensary and the Ladies Bene- lent Society there £ 250 each. He bequeaths to his usin Daniel Bavley £ 10,000, to Adam Bajmes Mid mily £ 5,000. He has left several legacies to other parties in the Cape. The testator^ statee that he con- siders the breeding of good horees to be of great m- portance to the future agricultural prospenty of the colony, to which end he gives various sums prove their merits by a trial of strength and mettle— firstly, £ 500, from which £ 50 shall be withdrawn annually, as a donation to the " Breeders' PrizdT* oFproduce stocks for colts and fillies, three years' old, at the Capetown April races, till the whole amount is expended; 1 „ _ nrnn l _ u. l. OS/ 1 ninlu nnnnallv mvpn secondly, £ 500, from which £ 50 is lo be to the Trial Stakes for two- year- old colts and hlliee ; next, £ 1,000, from which an annual donation, to bo called " Bayleys Memorial," being a prize of 100 guineas, to be run for at the autumn meetings, added to the sweepstakes of £ 5 each, for all horses bred in the colony ; and £ 500. of which £ 25 is to be annually given to the Caledonian Races ; and also £ 500, £ 25 annually for the Swellendam Races. The residue of his property, real and personal, he leaves to his oousm. Captain Daniel Bayley, of Friarstoun, Dubbn. The will of the Rev. Sanderson Tennant, M. A.. late of Stanford- road, Kensington, was proved in London on the 20th ult., under £ 30,000; and that of Miss Elizabeth Stockdale Wilkinson, of 10, Queen- square, Bath, on the 19th ult.. under £ 60,000 person- alty. In the abstract of Mr. John Howell's will, given last week, there was a serious error, which we desire to set right It waa stated that one- fourth of the re- siduary estate was given to Messrs. John and Jamea Thomav the testators great nephews, and three- fourths to the other four executors ; whereas one- halt was left to the Messrt. Thomas, the remaining moiety being distributed among the other four executors. MANNERS. The following extracts are" from'" cifx's TobasooJ'Unt''^— An Englishman once went up^ cOhe gatret of his house to see something. Horror oT gorioreThe found his son smoking I Forthwith he niafle hxi Wfl. disin- heriting his son, who bAd ( xmmiit^ thet^ heinous ' HWStech a mortal « » uld'SJg ® WgSurely, none but a clerk in holy orders, hWwise an admirer of the diving wisdom of J Aides. L,- « 6hld have displayedsnch excearive seaL 1 • , ... A country clergyman in Germany waa inspired with far different feelings. His spn qamp home from the i^ Wlffefe Ltte trirfull h!< ot ISA* fo trmW « > » to. f^ l with tobacco. Flailwi.| lw, wr| lt » « > l; Lltato^, h. tot faith i » IKWL.. K tod It tr\ i. b » w ft hlookhmd Mid dsploi » bly ignormt, but he mi ft mat TftHftBt KnoVor. What ft carton. Tight is thrown on' aw wlftfaoii ol ecclesiastic to • molanK, by an incident which occomxl inth. earfy part ot tha eighteenth cnlittrj A man named Flacga, famous in his time as a preacher, bad scarcely undergoue with success his exammation as licentiate, when thsre was ft . trong disposition to off er hiru the Vftcant pulpit in the Hano. er Kreuxlnrch^ Hisprobationarysermoninthia church was heard with genial acceptance. But there wa. a doubt whether he ouirht to bo elected, because he belonged to therehgious nAy of Pietists, equivalent to thos. we in this coun- try know by the name of extreme Evangelicals. Now, the inhabitants of the city of Hanover abhorred Pietism and Pietists with intense terror ; and from a nicotian point of view, with iustico, eeeuig that about to ceaM respecting this singular pereonage, the liody was examined aftsr death by Dr. Copetod, of Golden- square, in the premce of Mi. Adair, a Wilson, and th. Rev FfttherEly*= e, aRomanC » thohcpnfcst, whenitvra. disoovered that the deceased was entitled to the mal. costume which he had no gallantly tone in w « r and in which he so greatly distinguished himself in diplomacy and tho UUa ItUru. THE LOBBY IN AMEBICA. At the piuamt time, when to Amerrauiiee our iniji- tntioos is esteemed one of the loftiert objects of ambi- tion, the account given by the Washington correspond- ent ol the 1? M York Htrold ofthe •' lobby' m connexion with CongreM at that city la not devoid of interest ( remark, th. Poll ifoii terUe). The war had much to do with the growth of the lobby, although It existed before the war. Every measure before Oongreas has a lobby of its own. which goueraUy takea its name from the scheme or schemee in whoee interest the lobby is at work. This winter, for instanw, there are the Steamship Subeidy lobbies, the IWlrond and Grant lobbiu, the Cotton- T » x lobby, the Indian King, and a * ThTtobSSS m. y i » classified as ( 11, the men who have no ii& uenoe, but boast ol having a great deal; ( 21 the men put forwaid to " s « mamber. and do the iible wort of . ring; ( 3), ox- cougrvunien j ( 41, iougreMinon. The trst of th ™ > da « e. u by lar tt. Wart They are constantly on the look out for people with sii. ll job. « nd littl. experience from whom they manage to extract a few dollar, tor their nppoeed influence with » me reprejentative orsenator TheMcond class is only above tte tot m influence and importance. They are th. " look- mit mm of the SSt and Infest the ante- rooma of tho Hou « ai of CWTMS, buttonholing congressmen and cultivating pleiSaiit relations with committee clerks rnd door- keepers. Th ® ex- congxesamen, who by the ruta ol courts^ have the privilege of the floor of the House have converted th « t privilege into an abuse of the most atrocious kind. They mngregate In the Vice- President's room, the Speaker e room, ths com- mittee rooms, and the reporter.' gellenc* Th mittee rooms, and the reporter.' gaflenM. The ex- member is a power In tbe l& nd, and his influence only ' begins to be appreciated when the wrong he haa done cannot l » undone. As a member of the Senate or House he had only one vote, and that very often not his own ; while aa a member of the lobby he may con- trol a doion, or score, or even a hundred. lo olroft congressman" is one of tbe pet phraaee of the capital, and some people count their property of this kind as the Southern slaveholder used to count their slave* The ex- congrcssman knows every congr » » nnm s value, and wh « he wants a vote ho pnys only for ita value. The manner, of the people are becoming so Inde- pendent, sometimes with rejoicing ia it said, somotiniea with regret; and by way of explanation we hear it added the lsst remnant of the old feudal feeling u dia- appearing. Is there, then, any connection botween maunera and feudalism T Are we to pay for the riddance of a dead institution by the loss of good manners? Is the connection other than accidental r What are manners T The very names we use to ex- press them, tell us. He whose natural prompting is to So whatevir he sees will make the way smooth for those around him, ia the oivil mail. He Who know, how to avoid angles, is the polite mail. The inha- bitant of the town ( ctvis), the man who la surrounded by and knows how to mingle with many men. m con- tradistinction to the rustic who sees and can mmgle with few Manners are the polish vdiereby we Avoid friction in the daily walks of life When a man stand, on a eminence of his own, aud, though polite to the utmost, descends from it, we say he b courteous. To recognise this standing in another, is to be deferential. Once, those who had ftccess to Court, ware the only men who had a standing of their own; therefore, the Courts has given their manner a name. Uvility. politeness, courtesy, deference, theae are the different ispects of what we call by the general name ot good manners. Feudal spirit or no feudal spirit wo need good manner, to- day, as much aa any dweller. • Tes or Courts of the Olden time; and even „ if poesible, for we havo more opportunity ot moving to and fro and mingling with many sorts ot men. We still need to be ready W smooth the way for one another ; thftt is to say to b. oirf. Ws. uU need to respect the feelhi. ol others,; that is to » y to be polite. We stmn^ to houonrthesnpmn- ex. cellonee of other.; thftt to, to bo d. eterentiaL W. . nU need to be conscious ot our own rights; that U, to DJ courteous. Iyirder to b. " OrtjTO J ™ a standing of iffiown- a po « " on which ottm^ l SSK1- 1 • « "• An independent l*" dr; J ™ Mefa sSfiTa. this i. ™ rceived • Undine which is the Joundation of courtesy, aud SZTrSiive fair polish as soon as men are so OJU- CIOM 3 fti » ££ rights that they hre not afreid to ^ now- similar rights in othere, and perceive that, while acknowledging them, they are in fact averting their | own.— ricfom fifafuwin*. LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE. The Timet has the following leader on the unanimity olth. two Conservative chiefs- Lord Derbj and Mr. Disreeil :— After the great oration of Mr. Disnioli on Wednea- d » y in last week. Lord Derby addrejssd the Con- servative gathering in a speech which Is not to be neglected because it waa short and unpretending. It 1, not the least tribute to the genius and succea. of Mr. Disraeli that the Head of the House of Stanley, th. son of one who was for eo many years the acknow- ledged Leader of the Conservatlvee. pre « mta himself In theTcapftcity of Mr. Disraeli's pobtical hojt, and renew. pubUcly and formally hi. profession of friendship and confidence. Lord Derby's speech is en intimation that no rivalry prevails between them, and that aa Mr Disraeli succeeded to the supreme authority in 1863 by right of services and seniority, so lid will now b. maintained in it by his former colleague. The position which Lord Derby has wmimed in the country, more especially since the accession of tho r, resect Ministry to power, makea this intimation ol importance, and no doubt it la very ratut « tory to the practical party men who dislike nothingmore thjn breaches ol union and discipline induced by the jealousies of individuals. Every one fed. that there is an essential difference between Lord Derby and the brilliant politician whom he accepts as his leader. Ever since Lord Derby's appearance in political life he ha. displayed astronglndlviduality. Perhaps there in no public man whoee opinions and probable career have- been so much discussed. Entering Parliament a. Uie son ot the Conservative leader under whoee unplusiye guidance Conservatism waa for the time tending to extremes. > marked difference « » u became apparent between Lis modes of thought and thee of his party. Had he been a few years older the influent ol Sir Eobert Peol might have made the youuj Lord Stanley a Peelite, like some of the abl< « men of the generation, with the peculiar cart of idea, which distinguished that political school. Pro- bably it was for the best that he was allowed to find his own way « nd educate his own judgment amid some what uncongenial comrades, rf. must h. ™ Mtawt a real reputation could not be baaed on such cries as aud Church Rates. So Lord much skill » ud dsbcacy, he domousttotad thftt it w » possible to hold almost nil Liber. 1 opinions, and yet to irithln th. pal. of Conservatism. ' The " ore advanced party claimed him aa in heart one of them, ^' i ldLuomisU believed that he would ^ StXooii the wale, of profit and lot. and m » ko th. bSKsKt by checking the <> t tary and coVmial administration. All th » tto. a laiye SSioTof the Conservative, themselve. looked to fam • 7 the future pillar of the party- one who should, pushed by one who had equa soWy of mindanda Lore scientifically cultivated int* mgence^ rd SUn- ley gained this reputation not by any starthng novM- tie/ of opinion, much less by that theatned1 parade^ o Radicalism by which some weak men of rank ocoa tion ally obtain a platformpppulanty. HehM not gone out of his way to search for new phrioflonhiea. he has not affected the sublime wisdom or displayed the insufferable complacency of the " thinker. He ha ® simply taken tho ordinary subjects of the day as they came, and judged them shrewdly and without preiu- dice. This has been enough to make a strong- brained and clear- sighted section in each class hud in ms opinions the reflection of their own and look upon bim as certainly destined to a high position. But Night has its silver lamps, and, terrible as may be the early recollections of the many, there is a star in every firmament— an oasis- in every desert. Child- hood is truly the thinking period of mankind We have more thoughts when young than when old, but, the power of ' concentration " being dormant, they are generally superficial, and' hence easily forgotten. What few we do remomber have some land mark whereby to distinguish them. A simple thought upon anything merely abstract not one in a thousand can boast of remembering : thoee- thoughts of Childhood of which we have the clearest recollection are invariably associated with mankindy the words and actions oi our fellow- creatures most impress us wnen young. There is a reality about them thai arrests our attention immediately; and this is not because the word or action proceeds from animate life; for the actions of the brute creation db- not impress us so deeply as do many other things. It Is Auman life that exerts so mighty an influence on young people. The philosophy of it is inexplicable. This " leaning of our kind " springs frem a law, or laws, like many others, in constant operation around as, at present Un- known. Let no heart heat with tearfulness lest man- kind have reached tha acme of their knowledge, and lest tha cry that burst from the heart of cultivated, re- fined, but pagan Greece 2,000 years « * o should soon be- come the burden of our lamentation : " We can advance no farther, and must now decline laje itself is a Bcience involved in mystery, on which at present there shimmers only a few stray beams of b'ght; and yet doubtless destined one day to be mastered by the human mind, which will then be the fountain of a thous- and streams leading into vast regions at present un- thought of, sufficient to en gage an eternity of discovery. Next to man, the only impressive power of any Im- portance that can be brought to bear < 6n the youthful mind is Nature in i- astness. A mountain, with its wild, terrific scenery ; a cave, whose rocky bed Is washed by a rippling floodlet; tho " falla," with thefr deep music, encouraging the swiftlv- flowing excited waters to take the giddy leap— these and like stirring scenes of Nature gi re rise to thoughts innumerable. Excite wonder in young or old, and you make the mind aa pliable as melted wax. on which every trembling thought is stamped with " an Indelible outHne. The conceptions of Childhood are the foundation of character. Wei- nlgh illimitable is the power our young thoughts almost un- consciously wield over our future Uvea. Could the world have seen the firsts deposits of the" Polybi, i lomp ages ago, make towards the volcanic upheavals that lav as tar as 12,000 feet below the water, it would have ridiculed tho notion of these tiny artisans being able to construct a barrier- reef along the north- east coast of Australia, 1,000 miles in extent Such howerver has ' been constructed, there hud else- where by millions of obscure workmen, fre- quently visible only through the microscope, who have produced such edifices In defiance of wind and wave, compared with whioh the walls of Babylon and the pyramids of the Libyan desert are but as chil- dren's toys. So It is with man. He* Octshla diaracter upon the thoughts aiid feelings of hia mindwhen. first broueht under the oonscious influence of society. Early impression ® beeome articles of belief: they aw our private rules for understanding man; and m moments of perplexity we fall back de facto upon them to counsel Deceit lies upon the very bosom of society; it Is. mani- fested In Itt courtesy snd custotM In dslly life we meet witll tut th. beet side M human nature ; and, . to, a Its best It is sadly ( Jc^ nwd^ TIUpi end Country. ECCLESIASTICAL VIEWS of SMOKING.