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20/04/1872

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Falmouth & Penryn Weekly Times and General Advertiser

Date of Article: 20/04/1872
Printer / Publisher: Fred. H. Earle 
Address: On the Quay, Falmouth
Volume Number:     Issue Number: 568
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lakmiflj k Imp AND GENERAL ADVERTISER. anna, NUMBER 668 PUBT- iISHEP, EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, BY FRED. H. EARLE, OFFICES ONTHK QUAY. FALMWTII. PRICE ONE PENNY. FALMOUTH: SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1872. Jjata Ity fucttmty NOW ARBIVj TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIO AUCTION, by •%/ MR. CORFIELD • t y _ At Penryn, forthwith,/ the large and /\ V valuable Cargo of Deals, Battens, and Prepared Flooring, Spars, Poles, Staves, Mouldings, & c Upwards of 260 juoads, ex Phoenix, direct from Chi' See subsequent Advertisements. Dated Falmouth,^ 7th April, 1872. \ To disposed ef. AGood General DRAPERY AND OUT- PITTING BUSINESS. Incoming rery easy, situation good, immediate possession. Apply to MR J CORFIELD, Auctioneer and Land Agent, Falmouth. To Persons seeking a comfortable Country (~ with early possession. ftbe, within one mile of Railway Station. TO BE LfiT, for such term as may be agreed upon ( with or without a few acres of rich meadtw laud), all that comfortable aud beautifully situate country residence known as ANTRONy with a stable and carriage- house attached, late and for many years in the occupa- patiou of William Rogers, Esq. On viejfr by applying on the premises. To treat ana for terms apply to Mr/ CORFIELD, Land Agent, Falmouth Dated March 27th 1872. IfaUs frij Suction. Valuable Freehold Dwelling Houses to be Sold. H Sandell's Hair Restorer Is totally different from any other kind, and has been pronounced by the Medical Pro- fession to be perfectly harmless. It will positively Restore Grey Hair to its Original Colour in a few days withrut dyeing it or leaving the disagreeable smell of other Restorers. It renders the Hairj beautifully soft, glossy and luxuriant. ' It will not only Restore Grey Hair to its Original Color, but will cause New Hair to grow on Bald Spots, unless the Hair Glands are decayed, when no stimulant can restore tjiem. When the New Hair makes its appearance be careful not td brash it too much. Directions are enclosed with each Bottle. In Bottles 2s. and fis. 6d. each. PBBPABBD ONLY BY THOMAS 0. SANDELL, Pharmaceutical Chemist ( by Examination ), YEOVIL. Messrs. OLVER & SONS AYE been favoured with instructions to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, on Mondav, the 6th day of May next, at 5 o'clock p. m., at £ he Fountain Hotel, Market Street,/ Falmouth, the following desirable aria Valuable Freehold Properties, Subject to such conditions as will be then and there produced:— LOT 1.— All that valuable Freehold Dwelling House and Premises, knowiyas the New Tnn, situate in High Street, iu tie Borough of Fal- mouth, now iu the occupation of Thomas Gerry, and held , on lease by him, ot which 2 years ' ew Inn has a frontage of aboat 38 fe » ta High/ Street, and contains on ground floor1 Bartf Bar Parlour, Back Parlour, Tap Boom, Drinking Room, and Cellar. On the first/ floor: 5 Bedrooms. Behind the same is anI excellent Brew House and other conveniences, also 2 large Yards, one about 27 feet by 2p feet, the other about 51 feet by 26 feet, in ona of which is a Dwelling House now in the occupation of George Lewis, containing 3 roomB ek a rental of £ 8. LOT 2.— All that Valuable Freehold Dwelling House, No. 15, Beacon Street, now in the joiut occupation of John Trenoweth, John Thomas, Joanna Hicks, Alfred Polwin, Mrs. Roberts, and Mrs. Martin, rat a gross rental of £ 28 16s., and having a frpntage on Beacon Street, of about 31 feet, afeo a yard behind, the same about 27 feet bw30 feet. Also, adjoining the above Premise, but entered from Harbour Terrace, a Dwelling House, in the joint occu- pation of Chawes Tong and S. Key, producing a gross rental/ of £ 11. LOT 3.— Two Freehold Cottages, near to Lot 2, and also altered from Harbour Terrace, now in the occupation of Edwin Thomas and his under tenants, at a gross rental of £ 10, and with a frontage « ) f about 40 feet 6 inches. The yuiole of the above Premises are fully occupied, and, at present Rentals, have always been sought after, thus offering good and safe for the capital invested. Fop farther particulars apply to the AUCTIONEERS, Green Bank, Falmouth. Dated 12th April, 1872. The People's Grocer, & c-, Penryn. The People's Grocer, Ac., Penryn. MARTIN'S Beautiful Breakfast ] V[ ARTIN'S Fine Flavoured Te:, 21- per lb ]\([ ARTIN'S Choice Mixed Teas, 2/ 3 per lb MARTIN'S Genuine Family TeL 2/ 6 per lb, 61bs for 14/- Carriage paid to any railw y station in the county. r J The People's Grocer, Ac., Penryn, TVTAilTIN'S Sparkling Lump Sr gar ( beautifully white), 5< L per lb - LTA c \ oist Sugars all Prices. ^ The People'a Grocer, Ac., Pentyn • Grocer, Ac., Penryn. Elorse, Trap and Harness to F AUCTION, in the Market icujth, at 11 in the forenoon, THIS ikrd^ y, April 20, 1872, by 1 Mr. S. COX, Auctioneer. Sole Agent for Falmouth : MB. W. H. SOLOMON, Dispensing Chemist. Are you troubled with a Cough ? RILHEN lose no time in applying for SOLOMON' 8 Pectoral Cough Mixture, Which is one of the best Preparations sold for the cure of Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Influenza, Ac., and the relief of Asthma aud Bronohitis. It is adapted for persons of all ages, and is sold in Bottles, at 7i< L> la- IJd., aud2 « . 9d. each. Prepared, by W. H. SOLOMON, Dispensing Chemist, 40, Market Street, Falmouth. N. B.— The middle- sizo Bottle is generally suffi- cient to cure an ordinary Cough, or give abund- ant satisfaction iu more extreme cases. riTHE HOUSEKEEPERS of Falmouth and 1 Neighborhood are respectfully invited to try SOLOMON'S Celebrated English Baking* Powder, ( For making Bread, Tea Cakes, Ac., without Yeast), and judge for themselves whether the professional Cooks and others who have declared it to bo the be< » t that is used, are correct in so saying. Sold by most respectable Grocers, also by the Manufacturer, at - 10, Market Street, Falmouth, in Packets, Id. and 2d., and in Tin Canisters, at 6d., Is., and 2s. each. Ask for Solomon's baking Powder. Homoeopathic Medicines, PREPARED BY J. M. KENDALL, M. P. S, Chemist by appointment to the Exeter, the Torquay, and the Plymouth Homceopathic Dispensaries, can be obtained in FALMOUTH of his Agent, Mr. W. H. SOLOMON, Dispensing Chemist, 40, Market St. Also, Rendall's THEOBROMINE COCOA the purest and most delicious extant, in Tins, ls. i 2s., and 3s. 9d. each. Legal & General LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY 10, FLEET ST., TEMPLE BAR. - Founded 1836. The Parliamentary Accounts reauired by the' Life Assuranoe Companies' Act, 1870 may be obtained on a Plication. Policies of this Society are guaranteed by very ample funds ; receive nine- tenths of the total nrofits as Bonus ; enjoy peculiar " Whole Worln" and other distinctive privileges, and are protected by special conditions against liability to future question. TRUSTEES : THB RT. HON. THE LORD CHANCELLOR, THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD CAIRNS. THB RIGHT HON. SIR W. BOVILL. LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, C. P. THB RIGHT Hon. SIR EDWARD VAUGHAN WILLIAMS. THB HON. SIR GEORGE ROSE. SIR THOMAS TILSON. THOMAS WEBB GREENE, Esq., Q. C. JOHN OSBORNE, Esq., Q. C. ROBERT B. FOLLETT, ESQ., TAXING MAS- TEH IN CHANCBBY Settlement Policies in favor of Wife and Children now granted in terms of the Married Women's Proporty Act, 1870. E. A. NEWTON, Actuary and Manager. Agent for Falmruth, HARRY TILLY, ESQ., Solicitor. CHEAP, QUICK and GOOD PRINTING at the Offices of this Paper. Irowpa Price and Quality not to ae surpassed in the County. Tea, 1/ lOi per lb „ t „ ^ The People s Grocer, 4c.. Penryn i, II- to li8T) per lb The People's Grocer, Ac.. Penryn. MARTIN'S Fresh- roasted Coffe MARTIN'S Choice New Fruits, U1 prices MARTIN'S Prime New Mild- cuijed Bacon, 4/ 6 per dozen lbs T The People s Grocer, Ac., Penryn. MARTIN'S— Good Boiling Peas, Ibid per g^ PwD„, Grocer, & 0„ P0Myn. MARTIN'S— Pure New Lard, 6d plr lb m „ , . „ ,. „ rT The People s Grocer, Ac., Penryn. MA ® ™ *' 3 Best Treacle, 61bs for llid „ , „ The People s Grocer, Ao., Penryn. MARTIN'S Genuine rdillbay Soapl 3ilbs for II- - LTJ- The People's Grocer, Ac.. Penryn. MARTIN'S Prime Smoked Bacon, 7Jd per lb iu- I The People's Grocer, Ac., Penryn. MARTIN'S New Season Jam, lid . per lb or 6d per pot - LTJ- r The People's Grocer, Ac., Penryn. MARTIN'S New Season Marmalade, 7id per pot - 111- 1 The People's Grocer. Ac.. Penryn Samples free on application at either of J. MARTIN'S Establishments, Lower Market'street, or West Street, Penryn. All Ooode delivered Carriage Paid. Orders by pott promptly attended to. ( total. Part of a House to Let. 5 ™ FALMOUTH. V// CLARKE AND CO., ARE NOW SHOWING AN IMMENSE STOCK Of SPRING NOVELTIES IN / Fancy Silk and elastic Coatings Silk and Washing Vestings Fancy, Scotch, and Angola Trouserings, SUITABLE FOR tHE APPrOACHING SEASON. S? T TIDftr HAVE ALSO A LARGE VARIETY OP BLACK AND FAncY COATS, Braided and Velvet Collar, 12/ 6 to 35/- „ / VESTS, Double and Single Breasted, 4/ 6 to 10/- LIGHT AND DARK TROUSERS, blocked Bottoms, 6/ 11 to 15/- 1000 JUVENile SUITS, Elaborately Braided, 5/ 11 to 21/- SILk HATS, 3/ 11 to 12/ 6 feLT AND STRAW DO / 6 to 5/ 6 CAPS OF EVERY KIND / 4J to 2/ 6 SCARFS, COLLARS, GLOVES, SHIRTS, BRACES, BELTS, PORTMANTEAUS, RUGS, ETC. J. F. TRULL, ARTIST PHOTOGRAPHER, lE^ A- IjIMIO- CrTII. Opposite the Polytechnic Hall, Church St. NOTICE . Cheap and Good Priutiug at the Offices of this Paper. rno BE LET, with it linediate possession, a PART OF A HO JSE ( consisting of a Floor of Three Rooms ) in Lansdowne Road ( lately called Obelisk Rfjad), Falmoath. The House is pleasantly and healthily situa- ted in close proximity ty the Quay, Dock, and Railway. Apply at tho Offices of this Paper, To be Let by Tender. qpO bo Let by Tender, the Globe Hotel Tap, Falmouth. Tenders, stating the Weekly Rental to be given, will be received until the 26th inst., by Mr- WM. WARN, Falmouth, From whom all particulars can be obtained. Falmouth, 19th April, 1872. To be Sold ( heap. TO BE SOLD A HEAP, a clinch- bail t and copper - fastened PLEASURE BOAT, with copper Ma « CWps and Rowlocks, quite new, Sprit- Sai^ u Jib, Oars and Paddles, Ac., complete, the pfop/ rty of a Gentleman who has no further use/ for her. Apply to SYMONS A SON, Bar Yard. Falmouth, 12th April, 1872. First- class / Bookbinding. PERSONS wishing to avail themselves of the opportunity of sending in the parcel now making up fo^ transmission to a first- clas « Bookbinding Establishment, should forward books and numbers which they wish to have bound, to the Printing Offices on the Quay, as early as possible, j Charges, moderate— quality of work, the best "- styles, modern and elegant. FRED. H. EARLE. Wanted Immediately. ONE HUNDRED; NAVVIES AND LABOUR EjRS f< W£ he construction of Government Railwav^ roT New Zealand. Ship to sail 9th April. > Edr particulars apply to / R.', F. THOMAS, JOHN BROGDEN \ A SONS, Falmouth. The Hojise for Tea. Teas of rare fragrance & strength Economical Tea for Pa nilies Black Green or Mixed the Finest Spring Crop. J. H. HEAD, Tea Dealer & Groo^ r, High Street, Falmouth. THE" BAGof BAGS'TorTRAVELLINU WMSao .... » .' Ti. a, To Farmers and Others. THE Falmouth] Unfted /^ strict Sew.< ra; o Board are desirous of deceiving TBNDEBS for about 25 Toni Imore or leBS) of the Sewage Matter In the Tank at Arwenack OutfalL The contents can be removed either by land or water. ^ V Tenders will be/ received by the undersigned on or before Monday, the 22nd instant, and all information can'be I obtained of Mr. COLLINS, the Board's Srfrveyjor. By order, WM. WARN, Clerk. Dated Falmouth, 10th, 1872. FALMOUTH Post- Office Itiiildiiits. TO BE LET, ^ Two Office/ in the First Floor, late in the occupation of W. R. T. Pender, Esq! s^ Utjifor. / The Large teoVm in the^ oecond Floor, aow occupied by cae fnlmoutn Harbour Commis- sioners. j / Two new Cottdgef at the back, adjoining Porhan Lane. [/ Apply to / Mr/ J. P. BENNETTS, / Wodehouse Place, Falmouth. Dated 12th A^ ril, 1872. THE FALMOUTH & PEffRYN WEEKLY TIME&. SATURDAY, APRIL 20,1872 benefits of the Homestead Bill extend to Eim, an! he may look forward to the blissful prospect of dying in his own cottage among his own oxen and pheep. This tendency of the agricultural mind has suffered no diminution from the political progress recently made bv Germany, and continues jinabated. after as before thofwar. . While defeated France is hardly deserted by one of her children, the sons of victorious Germany, aspiring to personal indenend- enco, continue to emigrate at the rate of 200,000 a year. The above sketches the aspect of tlilng3 at tho beginning of this year. The latest events in tho same field wjll mako the subject of t^ second letter., THE MURDER IN PARK- LANe. On Sunday officfc 1 intelligence arrived in London that tho woman, Marguerite Dixblanc, .. Who S? rmds accused the nAmkr of Madame Kiel, shad been arrested m Parisonthe warrant'under the Extradition Treaty by the Scotland- yard officers. Inspectors Pay and Druscovich. The circumstances attending the arrest show that there were many elements of difficulty in the matter. By the time that the information of " tho murder was communicated to tho police, the woman had had twelve hours'start, and tlHa, " with tho addition.-*!: advantage of being not easily to Tje distinguished from a SWnchwoman, enabled - her to leave, them jyith a tangled . skin in their hands, requiring more than ordinary ingenuity to unravel. She was also yen jirovided with^ rnonev. Faccd^ by ^ theao diffi- and many suggestions which, as usual, pour in on all hands, the Englishfi> 6lH) o ihfd to gather up tho true clue step by step: " rliey* ascertained beyond all doubt that she- left London an* Isunday night for- theOontiueit by the mail train from Victoria, and having sought out alLihatTwas known of her here they left London for Dp} rer\ 0n Wednesday night. Thqydid'jQQ^ leave Dover until Ihursday morning, having ascertained there that the woman had not gone tn Ostend, but to Calais. At Calais again they stopped, for they had to trace whtther she had gono a road eho'h^ dlbtfefihWJJP, is from Calais she migl^- have shaped her way tq, Verdun,, where she had livfcd. Their inquiries werd soch thafr- they oontinoed thfit journey, to'Pffif, ^ ere they arrived on Friday. Having arrived 5£ ' Ptois, tttc^ Wri ascertahifrl tbo whereabouts of some relatives of the suspected womari, Who were reiidifcfr in the n& glibouriiood of St. Donis, where it wa3 found Marguerite Dixtyahc had* Sept oir fhfe Monday night following th£' murder. The inmates of the house in question, on beiilg inter- rogated by the officers, - denied all knowledge of the woman for tfhorn search Jfras being - made; Hit1 on investigation the officers found in" the place some of the bank notes known to have belonged to Madame., Kiel, and also a - ring which f£ i6 had'nrom,! as well i as' the' gte^ n dress worn byi the suspected woman when she left Park- lane, as described by Watfs, the housemaid. With such evi- dence tho English detectives rcaueefl the appfcehension of the inmates of the house by tho French authorities^ and thpn retained possession of the, place, whioh was not left till the supposed mtarderess made, her appear- ance on Sunday morning, between two antl three o'clock. She Was, of cotuse, instantly captured and placed in the custody of the. French police. The . Paris Correspondent of the- Standard gives tho following particulars of her arrest :— ' At three o'cloak- on Sunday ramming/ a^ oordips to informa- tion obtained, from the police authorities in Londpn) Drnscovitch'sMtAB officer to'ihhko an InqBiry at the house above mentioned. There was a person standing halt way i a " the pas£ a~£" 5s If « alting tTie- miltal- ot suuih one."• Aft er a few interrogatories the officer learnt enough to guarantee the alqlost immediate'arrest of Dixbljmcs. Acc . mnanied by Inipfctftor ^ BrnsciMtCh and others, he proceeded at' once to a low cabaret_ In one of tho streets running" out of the Rue St. Denis, wfTere they found " Dixlilancs talking toHhe- landlord upo& tho subj^ ptof the Park- lane murder. From the description they, possessed of the woman thfit had no difficulty In recognizing her,' althfcragh she wa3 dressed very differently to what she was whra ihe left London. Seeing the officers cnt< r, tho woman beciiqe agitated. They told her that they Tiad a warrant for her arrest upon the charge of mnrderfng Sladamd Ri* I,' in ' Park- lane, on Sunday the 7th inst. DiiUaucs dtd. nqt, speak; for a moment * r two, hut turning to the two persona to' whom she'haa previously1 Beeivsptaking, aha said inFrench, " IftT quite true, I did murder Madame in .^ passion, but not' for her money " and shB was golng'on to- tJe » criye - tM mnir. cr in which she committed the murder, but after a few ten"- tenets, in the coarse of which she said that " Madatne strug-' gled with her for nearly twenty minute^ and that she suc- ceeded in killing her by pressing tighter upon her throat," Inspector Druscovitch requteted'' her to be silent while he read the warrant for her appreheu- J don. He accordingly did bo, and Dixblancs was at ' once' removed into . ustody. to - the smlzement and / con- sternation- ql the few individuals who by this time, had entered the cabaret. She was taken to the Prefecture . of loUW, arid upon being searched » coaple. more kejs and several sacuritie^ together with some English and French goia, were f » upd upon her.; - Here again sne made a state- ment of tic facts, which " wns taken down in the usual way, thenroman haws preyiously been cautioned. She ravartedi , to the straggle, andlior ultimntoly getUng hold* of mWldnw's - cedk with vehement genianiations. The Paris Correspondent of the Paijy TclcyrapTi, in f writing ipf Dixbian- j'd arrest, under ' date the 15th inst, ' feays:— ' ' ' •' " it nW transpired that the poople with, whom aha had heen stopping on the nlztt before • her- arrest wore named Dubois, and were charcoal- burners. Ehe herself waa dressed In the coarsest of clothes, and - was much be- irrime- i by thb " Mlarcoal which Dubois made inl the house. At first she persisted In resistance, declaring stoutly ( hat her name . was . Dubois. £ utj when s'. ie saw that all hope of escape was gone she cease- l her pretestations aud confessed- to botb- her name ant her crime. She declare! that she had no- accomplice id the awful tragedy, and that she had alone and unaided filled her mistress, ller explanation was that when } lad: tm< S EM entered the kitchen she ( Dixblanc) sprang at her andheld n. fr 80 tightly round the nc-. kby means of the rope that she qui My expired. Her constant remark was that she had not been ac- tuated by motives of chpldity, but simply by f'. el. B'i of revenge. The police searched the house, she loi. klog on half oiotcmptuously. They,, fioirevcr, f » und r/ jij. jf. ' in v& oas rooms, As well as the keyd of Miflame Riel, some trinkets, and a psir of enfls statr^ d with'. Wood. ffn' con- aeouenee pf the dlsi » yery of these thlnga and the fact that DixDlanc had, from the flnt, bt « n tn communi- cation ' with' Dubois and . his wife, thpy , were arrei, ted also on the charge of having knowingly rectivel stolen goods, and they will probably 1) 4 tcvtrely punislied^ It would appear that DlxWanfthad lost all hope of escape before sho was actually taken by P- ivtart, Di her pockets were found several newspapers, b6th French ana Engliih, and she stated to the police- officers when she found « o many were writing about her she destaired of getting away. From sWerel words she let drop, however, it i » clear that she REGT-. tonofchavlng gone to Amerioi m pre- ' ferenco to thing to Fran de. So far as the Extradition Treaty ia concerncd, Madamt DU)) l< Uic, ^ Wlofgh. a Ktlghin subject, has been unhesitatingly given up to the H^- isti detectires, and she is expected to leave Paris for Londf- n to- night." It is stated that Dixblancs procured a return ticket to Pari*, and in paying for it she changed a £ 5 Bank of England note, the nnmber of which shows it to be one' of those which were in the possession of Madame Rid. The half ticket has been collected at the other aide of the Channel; and the object of procuring a return ticket is supposed to. have been to avoid suspicion, and throw the authorities off their guard. Thu ticket was traced to Calais. ; 1 ' •'• 1 During the whole of Sunday crowds of people jisited Park- lane to Eee the house where the murder v/ as com- mitted ; and it gave the police considerable trouble to keep the foothways in the vicinity clear. ' Die l. lnids of the windows were closely drawn. The main object ot curiosity wa< sthe am; and msny m tifiecs TwyitoM to in order to look over the green hoarding which( shuts out the basement story from tho public view. It is thought that the cabdriver who gave the first tangible clue to the whereabouts of Dixblantfe will share in the reward of £ 100 offered for her apprehen- sion by the Secretary of State for the Home Depart- ment. Th(.- detective officers DroAcOvItch and Pay had not been, it in said, an hour- in Paris, - when tMey were fairly on the track of Dixblancs. Some few particulars ot ' tbe cOrfduct- of Wd prisoner while At her place in Echo, whlch. have been forwarded to xfitOail'/ I News,) by a correspondent, may Tend to tKrowa lW on the circumstances leading to the commission of tho crimeS— " A « already stated, Dixblanc. Was formerly/ in the B^ vice of 1L Dumas, n well- knfrk French c/ cafaUier, or, as wo should say, Italian warehouseman, Jiiing in Princes- street, Soho. She was iecommended to ° M Dumas by a Catholic clergyman, to whom Ac repr< v Rented herself simply as a co- religiorflrt, in great dfstres She remained iv. the service of M Dumas about five mtpths, and during that time he perceived but one fault in her— that .. she was a drunkard. She was indeed a pilferer too, but of wine only, and that for her own drinking, and she w? s never known to » teal either « atafejqs or, jponoy, though both, and the former especially, were often within her reach. When drnnk ( he was exceedingly quarrel- some, and on one occasion, when in this state, she gave one of the men in thehouso who had refused to drink with her a slap In the face. At first her intemperance escaped the notice of - M. Dumas, and it was not perceived until Christmas time, when she became worse than usual in consequence of the receipt of several Christmas boxes from the customer.) of the house. She was then warned that a repetition of such conduct would ensure her instant dis- missal. She was not sent away at onco, because, this failiriff excepted, it was believed perfect confidenco could be placed in h< r. A ^ dwif- rtic s* rvpit she was u resident ot tha Loose of A3 Dumas, ana h: vd orton been left in charge of the promises during tlio absents of the family. Sho was, moreover, an inmate of the house during a tolerably'long absence of M. Dumas in Italy, on business affairs, and Madamo and Mademoiselle Dumas had no complaint to mttlce against her on his return, though there had been no one elSe present to control hex. ' She was treated with great kindness by the family, and, oil account of her friendless oandtyiqn in London, Blie was some- times allowed to oco^ qipimy tlfciti oii'visTt^ and enfer- talned by tho' sen- artt* of-" their friend?,- and was permitted to receive tho \ i^ ts4) P* suclii- 6emnts in re- turn. This practice of joint visiting on the part of families and servants, is pretty general - aipong the French colony in London, rfnd is to some extent necessitated by tho difficulty .. which foreign servants experienced in finding acquaintances in a strange country. , - V SiHueidlpsion h& a been ma^ qXts Disblanc's alleged connection with the Communists. IT went no fuctner than a statement on her part rathor than a boast, to the effect that, during tho troubles in iPnris, sho had sheltered_ somo CommunalistS in a cellar, and " on one occasion had given some wine to the destitute wife qf a Comniunalist officer. This state- ment, o^ course, was npt made to M. Dumas, as, indeed., it djd iMt cpntern hjifi bub was nieifely tlle'posBip 6' f, the kitchen, which aftorwaMs frfund" its ' way upstairs. Had^ she been closely identified with tho movement, it is thought ^ probablo sho would h; yvo been . at no loss to find acquaintances in London. As it Was, she had JTlft one viator, an elderly man, understood to be con- nected wi£ E the religious establishment by which sho was recommended to M Dumas. For some time after her first warning against drnnkenne? H, her conduct was unexceptionable • but, finally, Bho repeated tho offence, and was summarily disohargwl. Madame Ripl unfor- tunately took tho woman without, a character. But in this service, it appears, Dixblanc soon fell into her old habits, and it is alleged that only few days before tho murder a French actress c^ me hy in- v^ tfon'to dinp with Madame Kiel, and found that no dinner Was ready, and that' the took Was intoxicated. From M Dumaa's ojperienae of Dixblanc, - he con- siders it highly probable that her crime wis in the first mstopee pron^ jted by some otWtpasiioft1 than' cupidity, ( knd- tnab her - doterminatioh to' rob'fiie House was an after- thought, prompted by the exigencies of her flight. He ia at the same timo able to confirm what has been already, stated As. to her- great persoflo^ strength." PATHS, if and ay.' „ It seemsilnrt Marguerite ' Dixblanc was not arrested in a low wine- shop at St. Denis, " but in a coal- shop.. When taken into custody her face was blackened like that of_ a^ chimney- sweep, i The English detectives, Llrn^ covitch and Pi. y \ rere not present when Marguerite pixblanc was arrested Mi St. Denis. Shb was br. ju| ht in' a cabilate on Saturday evening, to Byron's Tavern, ml'am, where tho tnvo detectives are staying. 60,000 francs (£ 2,400) of the jtolen prtfperty has beon rcooiered. laa well as jewds anTolher vaiffsbles— •*• In addition to Marguerite Dixblanc, five persons hdve l> eeU4ixrest « l ns acifcmplices, ttnd receivers, but they probablywffl" eonw ofrscot free. The principal being prosecuted in England, the French • courts .- rro incompetont.^ to ta^ thefn, pnjl the, jExtradition Treaty WjWnMday, April IT. Information from Parts etfttes that Marguerite Dix- blanc still remains in custody at the ^ Prefecture of. Police. H<- r snironder to tho'Briti* Vnuthoritie3 under Ihe'Cerms of the Krtradlllfiu Tieatj is delayed by tho • nrcumstance of her . Belgian nationality. Steps are, however, being taken, it is. aaid,,^ y the British Em bassy'to hsstrn the- preceedings. According to a telegram received at Scotland- yard las£ night from tho English Detectives in PsriH thift- e is a desire on tho It, appears that the letter written by tho prisoner, whfeb fell into the haniM of th'e French detectives, and which first set them on her track, waa addressed to SL DdboivROC SC- Denis, Paris. No StDtAoia could be found in tbe Hue St, Denis, and the letter was ac- cordingly opened at the Paris Post- office. It wM at once seen tnat the writer was no ofher than the ^ ook suspected of being the mdtderess of Madame RieL Tiiis very valuable piece of information was ioon turned to account. The investigations that were • rofcle conclusively shojved tjiat the M. pubois, Rue St Denis, " Paris, to w" Hom tho lettef K- as addressed, really lived at Rde du Port, at Str. Denis, and thither the detectives immediately pro- 56' jdcd. Marguerite Dixblanc was found there, and irrested. She had, asalready stated, blackened her " ace in order to condKil her i> Mitityi and seemed, iccording- t< k the acoflLnfc in tlfe Fi- jitTo, as though ihe had acme nothing allher life but measure out coals » nd charcoal. At first sho showed some dism- lition to resist the officers, bnt they sooil made her understand that resistance would be useless, And ah'; » qui'-' tly « llow » i- th^ m to handcuff her, and lftcrwams take h'- T U^ tHe Prefecture of Polifce. ! She stoutly maintfined ' that she had committed the murder in a moment < ft anger, and had not been urgedlto it by the desiA otiw- yssing her mfatre^ s s valuables.' AfcortKng tfc her own account, she was alone in the kitchen with Madame Riel, and deeming the moment favourable for strangling her, seized: her by the throat with such violence that death was almost instantaneous. 1$ re wnfchKhad hardly . time, indeed, to utter a cry, Mid 4n a lew ihoments had ceased to breathe. Marguerite Dixblanc then tied a rowe round the neek « f her victim, af| d dragged the body into the pantfy. She then seized upon a] l the valuables she could find. After this she wrote the letter which fell into tho hands of th< j. police. That night she says jho slept at a ttvern fn Majy- lebone, and it was not until tho nfext morning that she left London f<? r Paris. It wa^ not untd Friday that she quitted" Paris, and proceeded to St. Denis. In the interval she slept at. various low lodging- houses in the east- end of tho French capital She is said to be weUaoqmwnted- with P- UTS,/ laviog Uv « l there for eomd time. Her father resides at Ver- sailles. When arretted several newspapers were found > in her. pocket*' ont& ihing accounts'of the Park- lane murder. V THE LAST DAYS OP THE EMPIRE! The Trochu trial, which continues to bo the subject of excited conventions, is the source of certain anecdotes which throw ever new light- on the last days of the Empire. A etory is how cnkeht ii\ I'amthat so early as the , of August, J. 871, two diplomatists residing in Paris had received from their Governments. a cipher despatphannonpping tho capitulation of. Sedan. Tho two ' dipWmatihts went to tho ' Corp L « - gislatif to see wlmt effect. tho announcement of , tlie disaster hod produced on tho Assembly. Both were' alarmed at fipdfogfthatnO'corrtt^ unicatioft bad been made to the Assembly. One of them went to seo the Em- Eress, whom ho found in tears, who conjured him to eep silence, and o* ked him to advise her what to do. The advice of this diplomatist waa that the Empress should have the capital iff the open day, announcing herself tho disaster to France, and declaring to the nation that in presence of such a calamity she willingly - abandoned all power, to remove discord, and to leavo to the nation itself the care of rising from its defeat. " Such an act, Madame," added the diplomatist, " would fill France and Europe with admiration. You would fall like a Sovereign, and somo day your son would receive the fruit of fcuch self- denial." Tho Empress seemed struck with this idea, and seemed re- solved to carry it out, but her advisers prevented her from doing so. But this account, if true, proves that it was not General Trochu, but the IfcjpjtajatfaB* of Sedan which caused tho Empress to leave Paris, sinco on the 31st of August § he felt that she must leavo France. *, '.".. r It Is also said " thai a foreigu" dfplotaa'ti6fc whoha'S played a great part in'tho recent history of a quasi- German State, having gone to Chffiehurijt, expressed, on leaving Napoleon III., the hope of sqoing all rancour aisappqag and the young Prince return to France. At theso words, starting to his feet, ho is said to havo exclaimod, " Why my son ? Why not myself?" THE REASON WHY?-'' A Conveyancer writes the following to the leading journals:— " The Timet of Saturday last contains advertisements for tho ealo of more than SO landed properties In England and Wales, of an aggregato extent of about 40,000 acres. This isexclusivo of numerous advertisements rclutlng to house pro- perty with little or no land. Whatever the faults may be of tho English " laud lures," It can hardly bo said that there Is n » t plenty of ln/ id in the market for those who havo money to uiiy it." THE GERMAN STRIKES. Tho Berlin Correspondent of Tha Times, writing under date the 11th Inst., sends over the following letter rcspoctiiig tho Strikes in Germany. At this particular period it will ho read with interest in Great Britain Ever einco" tho conclusion of peaco with France, tho German workmen ^ iavo been at war with thoir masters. Striko has succeed8d. Strike, and agitation been rifo in " every quarter. There is scarcely ono manufacturing totvn which has not felt tho effects of the convulsion. To carry {. through this powerful movement the most extensive combinations were formed among the work- men. In some instances ajl the tradesmen of a place bound themselves to support one particular trade while on Striko ; in others tho members of ono trado in different places formed a league to enable their fiends In one locality to commence tho attack. Snch was tho strength gained by this web of blended •• alliances, that strikes were prolonged for . months, and negotiations carried on with the most eminent masters, not as with superiors, but as with equals, who hadj quite as much to loso as their adversaries, or oven moro. i ' I hroughout tho tone of the workmen was quiot, though resoluto and uncompromising, and as tho movement? was by far the rnoBt comprehensive of the kind ever' witnessed in Germany, so it was tho mc* lpBi| « ees8ful. Tho Strikes wero directed by' ittproVised commit-- tees, whoso members mostly belonged to ono of tho various Socialistic _ societies. Tho societies them-' selves are not particularly favoured by'the workmeq of thi3 country, aud at the highest estimate count only from 150,000 to 200,000 devotees. As they; moreover, are divided into three " parties, each in- tent upon realising the socialistic ideal in their own way, and anything but on friendly terms with the others, it Iiad been hoped. iliat their influence upon the mass of the working classes would not be very material for some timo to como. Tho strikes of 1S71 havo destroyed this fond illusion. Whether the German Socialists, under the orders of Lieb- knecht and Bobel, rally round the International, and regard a Republic as the necessary preliminary to Communism; whether, with Herr Mendo, they call upon the Government to confiscate all capital, and 1 become tho only employer, or whether, following the lead of the versatile Herr von Schweitzer, they offer to befriend the authorities if permitted to coerce the middle classes in a hundred minor particulars, since ab- solute confiscation is impossible— all theso' divisionp i havo been unanimous in supporting the strikes of the working clashes, and. as a rule, havo succeeded in con- ducting tlicm' according to their own special yjiwi To effect this did not give them much trouble • they only required to depute a small number of their men to the meetings^ of'the'malcontents, with orders to harrangue them in the usual phraseology of their class. By lpng theoretioal occupation with the subject, by superior intelligence, and tho " enthusiastic ardour of their convictions, theso deputies managed to usurp the direction * f hundreds of^ housands, who were either ignorant of the ulterior' purposes of the sect or else directly opposed to them. ' In their origin^ the Strikes wera not unjustifiable. Even upon the assumption that the former rate of wages was satisfactory, the workmen had a right to, demand an increase. Seeing that rent and provisions had'become so much dearer, why should not manual labour too? It is admitted on all hands that the cost of living at Berlin has been doubled for large strata of the middle classes in the last six or ; cven years, and increased < i0 or 70 per cent, even for the poor. It is nearly, though not quite, the same. thing in other cmwdtrablo towns." Who, then, can blani9 tho' workmen for advancing a claim that their pay, which was certainly never excessive, should at least keep- paco with what was exacted for hpuse rent and eatables ? Moro especially, who can be severe upon their demand at a time when the middle- classes are making money so fast, and when the growing riches of their betters have eo much contributed to repder the, necessaries of life dearer for tho proletariat? o 4he strilcea began by the working- men asking for an increasq of wages of £ 5 per cent, and a reduction of hours from 12 to 10 ? When they obtained theiWorms peace was re- established ; when they had to give in the attack was resume J a little later, ana, in- mapy cases, with better success. The result of the entire campaign is a general rise of the price of labour by 25 per cent, in a single year— a figure the more remark, able because a- like increase had been gradually effected in the six preceding yearq. A few, but not very maiiy, trades have been likewise victorious in the question of hours ; and highly skilled labourers, I am told, may almost ccunt upon twice the remuneration they re- crtfed shortly before the war. A few details will servo to illustrate these general remarks. The Strike of tho Berlin masons began in tho June of last year, and went on for six weeks. " The Workmen demanded an increase of their daily wagea from 2s. 3cC to 3s., a reduction of hours frpm 12 to 10, and extra pay of 5d. for each hour over- time. Upon this the 300 builders of Berlin formed a counter association, which negatived the programme of the working men tn Mo. Negotiations were re- jje^ tedly resumed, but as often broken off, hoth parties remaining firm! At last the routers gave if upon the condition that their defeat should be concealed under sc. me concessions of a merely formal nature. Since tfcen tho worfcmen have been givini theiij ser- viced for something like elevten hours at 3s. Od. per* day. While the strike lasted about a thousand woikmen left Berlin ; another 6,000 quietly remained hero, bang supported by tho voluntary contributions of tho other trades, which were ample enough for each man to receive 5l per'week. The rest of their wants fvas provided for by the men finding chanco work or mak- ing their wives and- daughters ply tho needle and scrub the floor more diligently than ever. If the worst came to tho worst, a visit was paid to the pawn- broker. The total expenditure of tho Stflke Cora-, mitteo was computed at £ 8,000, a residue of £ 100 being left in their coffers on tho resumption of work. An even vaster operation waa the joi^ era Strike, which broke out after that of tho . masons 11 rill been settled, and lasted nine weeks. Of . the 8,000 joiners In the city, 5,000 struck : 2,000 Went olf elsejvhero ; while 1,000 married peoplo with Urge families, remained staunch to their work; The cliims put forth were similar to those of the masons— 25 per cent, more wagnsfand a reduction of time to hours. Tho in* store, who in Berlin number no less than a thousand, with 300 wealthy contractors fcmong them, answered these- demands by the counter proposition that piece- work, which had n6t' been very general, should bo made universal, after which they hoped to be able to allow higher wages. To this the joinerk re- totted that nS thfey required an inalienable guarantee for higher wages in tho caso of piece- work, they must Int- ist upon an increase of daily wages being conceded. This reply put, a stop to negotiations, tho wording men's committee declining to entertain the com- promise proposed by the masters. During tho nino following weeks every married man received 6s. and every bachelor 4s. 6d. per week from tho striko funds. After the expiratien of seven weeks thoso masters who had taken contract work for builders, and fiyhn, owing ^ o the r. teady increase of house- rent, were enabled foao- cord higher wages, began to relent. Thus an opening was made for a compromise, by which the weekly wiges, formerly at from 15s. to 21a., were raised to from 21s. to 233., tho number of hours remaining the same. Piece- work under tho new conditions yields from 30s. to 3G& Eer week. Similar trials of strength wero resorted to y tho other trades, and have also ended in victory for, tho men. The example get by Berlin and the larger manufacturing towns generally was not lost upon tho smaller places, which were obliged to raise their prices without tho actual compulsion of a Strike. The miners likewise reaped soino of tho fruits of the campaign. . . • . Tho agricultural labourers havo profited by tho geperal rise of wages least of alL Their pay varies greatly in the different parts of the country, and can- not easily be calculated in money, a3 it mostly con- suls of substantial adyantagc3 in the way of food,, clothing, house reht, and tho free uso of land, kc. Generally speaking, however, tho agricultural labourer receives from a third to a fourth less than the worst paid ineehanic, and the difference is probably even fgreater than it was, now that tho wages in the towns inve risen in a few years 30 per cent, while only 10 p- r cent, or so has been added in the country. But tho field hand in Germany has a moro ex jilted object in life than high wages. His ideal is ( emi- gration. Owing to tho laigo class of small pro- prietors constantly beforo him— all German peasants aro lords of tho soil— there is not a common labourer in the remotest village but aspires to nave land of his own either hero or in America. As he can hardly hope to acquire even tho smallest I plot in the, old country, where peasant estates are rarely sold, and when Bold are quite beyond his means, ' the goal of his longing desire3 is a homestead in • the United States. To scrapo together enough to pay Ids passage Is nil he wants, Ouce there, fiia MARRIAGE OF THE MARQUIS OF BUTE. - Tn firm don, t. hn marriage of tho Marquis of Bute with tho Hon. Gwendaline Howard was solemnised on Tuesday mqrping, at the Church of tho Brompton' Oratory, South Kensington, with' great ceremony. We take the following account from the Standard .— The bridegroom, John Patrick Crlchton Stuart, . third M^ rquil of lsntei is tho only child of John, scoond Marquis, bybis second wife. Lady Sophia Hastings, second daughter of the first Marquis of Hastings, and was born at Mount ^ tuart, N. B., in September, 1S47, succeeding to the immense " amily estates a few months after his birth Ho holds, numerous titles in the peerages of Great Britain and Scot- land. The bride, Gwendoline Mary Aline Howard, is the; fid est daughter of Lord Edward George Howardib^ tlier of ho lith'Dukd ' of NOribTk, anil- Uncle to the preset peer),! by his second wife, Wlnltr'ea, daughter of Ambrose De, lisle, Esq., and was borntin February, 1351. Tho nuptial, occasion attracted an immense company of distinguished friends of the bride ' and bridegroom to wit- ness tho oeremony, and somo conslddrable time before tho appointed hopr of tho^ enice— although special admission tickets had been Issued- tio sacred building was crowded, and every available space occupied whero tho slightest i glimpso could be obtained of tho wedding party. . The Marquis arrived at the church about half- past ten, and remained on his knees beforo the altar in prayer until the arrival of tholirldal party. In the meantime tho friends of the brido and bridegroom began rapidly to take np posi- tions. • ' Amoug the earlitr arrivals were tho RJ£ hfcHon. E. Disraeli and Vicountess Booconsfleld, shortly followed by ' his RoyoT flinhhies the Dnke of Cambridge, who wai con- ducted by tho Buko ot Norfolk to a seat beaido Vlcountesa Dtaconsliold. Then came tho Ladle3 Howard ( sisters of the Duko of Norfolk), the Duke and Duchess of: Argyll, and ladj- Campbell, who oefeupicd seats near the altar. Tho Archblshoprif Westminster ( Dr. Manning) officiated,, assisted by the Very Eev. MousignoriltoieL , x£ b altar printed a grand appejwrace, being adorned, with Wahtlful fiowering plants, which contrasted with tha splendour at tha golden crucifix, the tabernacle, tho rell- qucrics, and the Immense lighted candelabras, Tho massive eloyitlon Candles forjninga grand front grotnd. Shortly before eleven the archbishop proceeded to tha fcltar, In a; purple cassock. acvanjjNuiied by FalftejtStanton - and lather Gordon, tho lion. Emek North acting as train ' bearer. After tho archbishop' hn'd occupied his throne'a mhort time, ho - waa robed In bis albb, girdlo, stole, cross, The voluntary had WreTy ceased wbpn a cdtfnttotlon ont- sldp announced the arrival of. tha wedding parly, who Imme- diately proceeded to tho altar, tho bride being attfred In white fcatin, deeply trimmed with Brussels lace, wlthdlaajond omwrtonts, and leaning on the arm of bur father. Lord Howard of Glossnp,' followed by her eight brldesmklds, dressed in white trimmed with pink :— Lady PhUllfq. iHowird( sister ofitlKt Duke of Nqrfolk), tody Flora Hastings, Lady Cicely Manners, Miss Margaret do Ltslo. and the Hon. Angela. Hon. Alice, Hon. Mary, and' Hon. Wfnflfired HtfwardlslsWrs of the bride;. , i •. The bride was met by the ntarqols, and the cereujony 1m- mdliatoly commenced. Tho bride was given away by hep father; and thi Eari of Roscbcry attended on the bridegroom. Tho marrisgc asrviee waa very brief.- Thenrehbi; hop inquired concerning the consent of the bridegroom to t » ke the bride, and1 the question twine repeated in the opposite form, they joined and loosed hands, then both being pledged to each other, the archblsbop j ® lnpd their hands, and said : " I join fob! toother in matrirudny." After which he sprinkled them with holy water. This dono, the bridegroom placed on '. the book gold and silver, \ vhiqh was also delivered into the hands of the bride, and also a ring, which was blftsseo. The bride- groom thfcn plaoed the ting on tha tlmmU fcfthB left htmtl of the bride, saying, " In the najne ot tho Father," on the second finger, " In the name of the S6n f on tho third finger. " In tho name of tho Holy Uhoit;" and lastly, on , tho fourth finger, " Amen," leaving the ring on tho. brido's finger, 1 After1 a abort prayer and the nuptial benediction, the brido and bridoaroom were conducted to sign tho rdcUter, which was, attested by his Eoyal Hlgness the Duke ol Cambridge, the Duke of Northumberland, the Duke of Argyll, the Eight Hon B. Disraeli, and soveral others, tho organ playing during tho ceremony. At tho conolnsion of sifting the register, and on tho re- turn of the bride and liridetroogi, to the altar, high mass was celebrated. At the termination of which the bride and bridegroom tartook. of the wafer and received a blessing Monsignor Ca> el concluded the ceremony with a most eloquent address on the duties of matrimony, and shortly afterwards tho welding party left the church. ' " AnTmmonso concourse liaJT5ssemM£ I" butsicie tne OfSlory gates, which extended t-^ mv distance along tho Brompton- road, and on tho departure ot- thdnpbla marquis and mar- chioness vwlferations of Joy met them on every side. Tne Duko of Cambridge and tho ElghlPHon- Benjamln Dlsradli also came in for a full share of the demofllratlon on recog- nition. „ A splendid wedding breakfast was prepared for the occa- sion. a grant number of distinguished persons being present, amongst whom was his Koyal Highness the Duke of Cam- bridge. [ Oar spuco precludes us from giving tho long list of distinguished guests.) The newly- wedded palrleft town shortly after two o'clock for Cardiff Castle, where they intend staying for a short period, at which place great preparations have been made fpr a grand reoeptlon. The bridegroom's gifts to his bride worq numerous, cofa- tiog of suites of. valuable jewellery, a magnificent Indlin tlnwl, and a variety of most costly articles. The presents to the toir. bridft displayed at the rosldencc'cf Lord Howard of Glossop were of the most dazzling descrip- tion, and included almost every conceivable object suitable for sncli an occasion which art and taste could suggest aid • weAlth obtain. The whole were arranged in an immense room, and had a charming effect. Among tho gifts of Ipi- S'jrtance were a magnificent armlet, with large centre of lamonds of great luttre. from the Dnko of Norfolk '. a splendid gbld pemlaht, with cross of diamonds ftiid pearls, from Viscountess BeaconAiield; , an efegant cameo pendant of rare cutting, also gold filagree brooch, with cameo head, from his IIollncM Hope Pius; an exquisite ring, composed of a large pearl, surrounded with brilliants,, from Earl and Countess Percy; a flno onjx pendant surmounted with a pearl coronet, from the Countess. of New- burgh; a large antique silver- gilt dish, frern tho Marquis and Marchionfcss Of' Westminster; a hand- mirror, silver frame, of exquisite workmanship, from tho Earl of Eosebcry; a silver chased bon- bon box,, from Lord Pi- nzance; a large sllrengflt caskot, fro in the Countess of Effingham; a beautiful cusurd service, with silver gilt spoons and tray, from Vicountess Campden, a splendid flounco of Irish point laca, from tho Marchioness of Klldaro : a pretty Venetian mirror, from the Karl and Countess of Glasgow ; a painting on porcelain, in elaborate carved gilt frame, sub ject—'" The Flight into E; jpt," from tho Vi- ry Rov. 6f. t'apel; a beau ! il ill armlet of diamonds, emeralds, and peatls, from l'. aron LloBel de EotliBchild ; a silver cross. In filigree work, from Baroness Burdott Coutts ; a pendant of diamonds, rnbles, and peals, from Baron- Meyer de Rothtohild: un unique gold necklet and pendant, and ear- rings of car- buncles, from Mr- JRPRfti. SS" > pon- holder, and Bohemian vases frtfli Sllss HOpo Scott, l. ady Petro, Lady E. Knox, and - Mrs. Graham, presented carriago clocks; an elegant writImf- table- « iiteH( fom Lady Stafford ; a beautiful casket, from Lady J. Stuart; some elegant china, and other articles, from Lvly B. Clifton, Lady Leigh, Lady O. Shaw Stewart, Lady Henry Somerset, Lady Manners, tho Ladies Noel, Hon. Mra Digby, Hon, Fitzalan " Foley, Mr. Q, Far- quhar, & c. Thp inhabitants of Rothesay and tho tenants on the Bnto Olid Ayrshire estates of tho noble tn& rquis contributed somo valuable gifts to tlia brido. Itothosay selected a splendid suite of. ornaments lu tho form of bracelet, pendant, and ear- rings of gold, set with coral of a Una pale tint, pearls, and diamonds. On the back of tho bracelet is an Inscription and the arms of, the town of Rothesay. Tha Bute tenantry pave a splendid lockot and earrings en suite, composed of diamonds, rubles, cmehilds, and fine Oriental pearls, set In alternate rows. Attached to the locket is a haudsomo gold collar. On the back of tho locket aro tho Bute and Howard arms, under a marquis's coronet, with dato of marriage.' The presents from tliy Ayrshire estato aro very costly, con- sisting of a gorgeous diamond tiara of seven brilliants, so arranged that, by simply unscrewing, they can bo worn as bracelet, brooch, and nccSlet; and a Scotch pearl and diamond rlnc, tho pearl of raro beauty. Tho arms of the noble marquis as Earl of Dumfries, together with those of Howard, are engraved on tho bracelet, with an Inscription and date of marriage. Tho tenants aud those engaged on I^ inl Howard's estato at Glessop presented n largo and beautifully- bound Bible and a Splendid carved Ivory crucifix on ebony stand, mounted In silver. Tho volunteers of Cardiff gave an exqulaitoly- palnted fan with pearl handle, contalnfiisimonogram in diamonds and turquol-. e, surmounted. with a laurquii's coronot of diamonds, emeralds, and rubies. • REJOICINGS AT CARDIFF. Tho rejoicings In Cardiff on Tuesday in celebration of tho marriage of the Marquis of Bute were on a magnificent scale; tho streets were elaborately decorated, the cost belnp met by voluntary subscription ; and tho business promises and private houses wero as lavishly decorated asi- the public buildings. In Main- street, leading to tho Castle, was ercctecf a magnificent Gothic arch: each Bldfl of the spacious street being festooned with flowers and ever- greens, looped up and suspended from Venetian poles from SOft. to 40ft. long. Intorspersod at frequent intervals wero bright streamers, and the poles wore garnished 1;> tha centre Trith shltl. ls of various kinds, from which rndfcited bawift*. The festoons were contiuuea to within a tew yards of tho Bute statuo, where an imposing triumphal arch had'been erected, consisting of three gable entrances; tho centre arch being flfty feet high, and surmounted by an amber- coloured glass crown, in the g= » blo facing St. Mary- street Vera transparencies, ono of which displayed the arms of tiro Rouses of Bute and Howar^^ In tho sido gables were the arms ol Cardiff, rurrt « ^ B:> d with the Tudor Rose ( tho Corporation seal) and tile mimorgan arms, or the anus of tho Earls of Glamorgan, surmounted with tho Red Dragon of Glamorgan Over tho centre arch were tho portraits of the Marquis and- his brido. In tho gable facing tho Castle was another transparency, and below a shield containing tho Hastings anus. Tho whole of tho arch was decoratcd with evergreens, and fringing tho upper outline, right up to tho coronet at the summit, were torchcs, consisting of polished metal backs glazed with palntcfd glass, and lighted up by pas burners behind, giving to the whole a remarkably effectlvo appearance. Within the arch, facing St. Mary street, was tho following inscription:—" O, happy day, rchen by faith and true a fac- tion comes tn piss this sweet union of Ucivard"* fairest / lower to Cardiff"! brightest honour." The sido gables wero surmounted by trophlc3aod flags, and overtopping th- j whole structure wero four magnificent Iodiaa azaleas in bloom. Two handsome silk banuera enhanced the effectiveness ol the arch. They had, elaborately worked, tho initial letters " J." and " G.," and tho crests of the Marqul3 and Marchioness. Tho weather was very fine. Business was entirely suspended, and many thousand visitors wero brought to the town by the Great Western, ttio Taff Vale, and tho Rhymney Radnay Companies, who ran cheap excursion i trains. In the morning tho town was paraded by a procession, composed of the Mayor and Corporation, merchants, ship- builders, pilots, and trado and benefit societies. At one o'clock a public breakfast was held at the Town Hall, pre- sided over by tho Mayor, who ^ proposed the toast of tho Marquis and- his bride. In the afternoon between six and seven thousand school children were treated to dinner, and lor tho amusement of the peoplo athletic sports were organized in the public park. Shortly after seven ocl ' ck a special train arrived, containing the Marquis and MnrcMoncssrtif Bnto. It was announced by a salute of guns fired by the Artillery Corps, a detachment of which was drawn np on a pleco of ground adjoining the Great Western Railway station. The plat- form was decorated with crimson cloth, and the Marquis anil Marchioiic « 3 were received by tho Mayor and corpora- tion. Tho XljrchlonesS having been presented with a " bouquet of Dowers from a bevy of young ladies, dressed in white, who occupied a position on the platform, tho Mayor read the following address :— • " We, tho Mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of this ancient • Bo'rouRh, desiro to offer our einWro congratulations to your lordship and your noble bride, n daughter of tho house ot Howard, to whom wo tender tho most heartfelt and cordial welcome on this auspicious day. We express not only our own sentiments, but those of every inhabitant, in fervently wishing that an happiness may bless your union with tho amtaiilelady who will henceforth share your liopounj and tha respect and affection with which aU arc animated towards yourself, tbo son of one of the most muniflcentand honour- able of England's peers, the founder of the great commercial prosperity of this town. Tdnr lArdshlp has emulated your honourable father's great qualities, aud thoreby created a bond of union between tho House of Bute and this borough, which we ardentlt desire may ever continue. Given under our common seal at Cardiff, tMs-. 16thday. of April/ 1372." The " Marquis, made tho Mowing reply,— Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen, on behalf 01 Lady. Data and myself I can only thank you very much for this address and these congratula- tions, which aro only a part of many acts of kindness for which wfl have to thank you, and f. may fcsy upon my wife's part, as well as upon my own, bow sincerely wo are affected by theni As for Lady Bute, I am sure that I may say that I know sho comes hore with a desire to do what Is right, and to be a source of happiness, not only to myself but to all of those by whom she is surrounded. ( Load and continued Vchcoring) ' ' Hie Marquis. and Lady Cute were thqn fscortcd to a car- riage, the pathway from the station to the carriago. which was covered with crimson cloth, b » ihg strewod with flowers. The neM* married couple tpok their seats in an open car- riago amid most enthusiastic cheering. Tho carriago was driven atwalking pace throujhSt. Maryfcreet and High- street to tho Castle. In the evening tho public buildings aud nearly every tmsipew establishment besides many private houses, were illuminated. In tho eourti of a few days addresses will be presented to the Marquis and Lady Date, at the Castle, from tho Catholio community of the town. CHERRY v. THOMPSON. In tho Court of Qneen's Bench, the cause of " Cherry v. Thompson" 1 has beeiuhear- i, and was a caso of a rather singular character. It was an actlohfor breach of promise of, marriage brought by the gentleman against tho lady; con- trary ( as Mr. Justice • Blackburn ' observed) to the common couTe in such cases. . > The p'aintiff, the gentleman, i3 an officer in the Indian Army, who met the lady at Homburg, in Ger- many, and they agreed, . to marry each other there. They afterwards, however, . agreed to postpone their marriage indefinitely, and the gentleman came to this country. After that the , dady addres3ed to tho gentleman, then in this country, a letter intimat- ing very clearly and firmly that she thought it best not to carry out their engagement. Ho wrote back declaring that he could not and would not ac- cept her refusal; but to this she returned no reply, and he afterwards sued her in this court under tho Common Law Procedure Act, which allows a party to sue another abroad on a " cause of action arising in this country." The question, howeyer, was, whether there any cause of action arising in this country, whloh wis- jd two points— first, whether ' il^ ' would bo sufficient that'any pari of it arose' here, and next; whether, if so, any part of it had arisen here. Mr. Day, Q. C., was for the plaintiff, the gentle- man ; Mr. Aston was for the defendant, the lady. It was argued on the part of the lady that there was no breach of contract at all, and certainly not in thi3 country. On the part of the gentleman it was insisted that the lady's letter, according to the recent judgment of the Court of Error in the case of " Frost v. Knight" ( reported last sittings) was a breach of the contract^ and that as the letter was received in this country it was tho same in law as if she had orally refused in this country to complete her contract. • The Lord Chief Justice said, a3 the case involved & very nice point of law, tho Court would take time to consider its judgment. Judgment reserved. THE OPENING OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM ON SUNDAYS. On Tuesday Mr. Harvey Lewis, M. P., and Sir Charles Dilke, Bart., M. P., respectively introduced to Lord Ripon deputations from public meetings held re- cently under the auspices of the National Sunday LeaguPj in Marylebone and Chelsea, for the purpose of promoting the opening of tho British Museum, anjl oth'- r national art galleriej to the public on Sundays. Mr. Slack,' as Chairman of the Marylebone meeting, said it was constituted of men employed in superior art work, who were, . desirous of promoting their, own education and that of their order. They considered there was nothiri.? unreasonable in asking what would be a great boon to a very largo number of persons at the expense of Sunday labour on the part of a very few, and ho pointed out that a large quantity of work was done now by working men nt their own homes, generally known as chamber work, because they had no place provided for them of intellectual or scientific resort. The gardens at Kew and Hampton Court, since they had been thrown open on tho Sabbath, had been largely patronised by all classes of people, but they were beyond tho reach of many of tho working class. Ho showed, moreover, that the move- ment was not confined to tho working class, but that it had the sympathy of vast numbers of the upper and middle classes. Mr. . Tames Heywood then addressed tho right hon. gentleman, and argued strongly in favour of art workmen being permitted on their only day of leisure during trio week to improve and refine their mental and social status. Mr.' Morrell, hon. sec. of the League, mentioned that in tho hist exhibition numerous West- end tradeMpen exhibited articles which they repre- sedted: " as being of' English manufacture, whereas the fact ) yas that, although made in England, tliey were the production of foreign workmen, who, in •' Germany in particular, had art schools and other privileges of the kind which they could attend on Sundays, and they moreover had access to all tho " works of the great masters and art treasures in tho national collections throughout tho empire. He also impressed upon the attention of the right hon. gentle- " men that the vast majority of working men favoured . the movement. . The Marquis of Eipou- pr< f3iised on behalf of Mr. Forator and himself the . ipost careful consideration of th* subjects but told tho deputation that they must all feel it could not be treated as a departmental question. It w," 3 rfallV a general qu'-.- tion, involving consider, ations of ' public policy and convenience, and it was therefore , imi> oasil^ lo for one department or any mdl- Vldnal members" of the Government to deal with it, bnt'Mr. Forster and ho would make it their duty to rfcpre.- mt to- their colleagues the nature of tho state- pjenta ojvl memorial laid befq^ o them, and on the part of the Government he was sure he might say the sub- ject would receive every consideration. Aft - r thanking his lordship and the vice- president for ;.".'> answer, the deputation retired. SATURDAY, AI'IJL 2U, 16, ijSSkuUAL parliament. In the Home ef Loris. April 15. on the m^ oo to reedre the reoort of sm- ndmOTts to the Iwans and Canons Re ri* natt* n Lai. the MarquU of Sentiment, the obj- ct of which « . to the mfaor canon* tLe benefit of this bUL In one dioewc fire out of tweire were orer seventy yean of ace. In another a yicar- choral. who hid 1st the nieof his voice, had taken to keep- The^ ArchIfahop'oi Canterbury objected to admitting the Tkan- cbonl within tbe clause. r The amendment waa agreed to. Tli" Lbhopof Gloucester and Bristol movc- 1 that the income mentioned in the bill should be calculated on an averaire of tho thrtr: preceding y( « ra. This > u agreed to. On clause 5, 1he Marquis of Salisbury mored an amendment to make tor « 3ati" n of this bill, ax regards lunatics, similar to tbe procedure In the case of blthopo. In combination with demerits thu. it poet*, he said, which were held at tho uni- ven! tie* would be affected. Tl. e Ciihop of Gloucester and Bristol objected to the amendment. Tail Beauciamp hoped the noble marquis would stand 3 it The Archhishop of Canterbury thought the amendment would lead to dim ,' iltlcs which, from his connection with a university. He must foresee. The Bishop of London explained the power which was already possessed by colleges, ai to getting rid ol insane officials. The amendment was then agreed to. The Lord Chancellor, in moving his Resolution in favour of the establishment ofanlmperUl Lupremo Court of Appeal, gave his reasons for proceeding at present by way of Resolu- tion and not by a bill. lie proposed to constitute ene great Court of Appeal, comprising within iUolf tho two at present distinct branches of tne appellate Juriidiction of the IIouio < Lords and the Judicial Committee of tho Privy Council. By this fusion a conflict between the decisions of two Sordinate Courts would be impossible. The Supreme urt would be formed into two divisions, the Judge* being enabled to migrate from one to the other as tho business Eight require. Tho first division would consist of all Peers who had lUled the office of Lord Chancellor or any high Judicial office ( for a specified time! cither in Great Britain or Ireland. It would also include all Peers who could fairly be called Law £ ords, from having ac- tually practised at the bar, and Privy Councillors now cap- able of bebw appointed upon the Judicial Committee. In each , division there should bo not less than threo or more than Ave Judges, who would be paid ££, 000 a year, and noblo lords who had filled the office of Lord Chaucellor and who accepted the obliga- tion to attend would havo their pensions raised from £ 5,000 to £ 0,000 a year. The Lord Chancellor would be at the head of tho second division as well as tho first, and among the membors of the second division would be thS" Lord Chief Justices of the Queen's Bench and Common Pleas, and the would u? t be valid until confirmed by a special comaiiUco appointed at Q tarter Sessions. In boroughs the practice would vary accordh* tf> the number of Justices. In boroughs where tho number of Justices does not exceed nine, new licences will be granted, as at present, on their recommendation. In all other boroughs, r. o new llcenccs are to toe granted, except upon the recommendation of a committee to be appointed by the justices, and whose grants should be confirmed by the foil court. In all cases, whether in counties or boroughs, no new licences will be valid until approved by the Secretary of State, whose confirmation had been found to work well in the Suspensory Act, and would Insure uni- formity of control throughout tho country. The system applied to the boroughs could ba easily worked in the metropolis. Licences were at present issued by tlio ma- gistrates of the different coonties forming the raetro- i polls. They would appoint a moderate numbcT as a com- i mittee to grant new licences, and the only duty of t_ e i full body would be to confirm or otherwise tho acts of i tho committee. Tho granting of new licences was aa I administrative act, bat their renewal was moro of a Ju- dicial character, ' and the bill pre, posed no change in the present system. All questions regarding the ro- ] newal of licences would continue to be dealt with at Brewster Sessions, subject to an apjeal to Quarter Ses- sions. Tho bill gave ratepayers no direct control over the issue of new licences, but any i erson who objected to tho transfer, renewal, or grant of a licence might appear before the Brewster Sessions, with an appeal to Quarter Se^ ns, or to the confirming body in tho case of a ne w llcRce. Publicans would be, however, protected against frivolous and vexations appeals. The bill would consolidate all tho present police regulations, and include some of those In Mr. Bruce's BUI of last ye^ r. A register would be kept of sorious and repeated offences on the part of publicans and beerhouse keepers, and in the graver cases the certificate would determine of itself with- out any action or option on the part of the magistrates. The bill increased the penalty of • drunkenness from 5s. to 10a. It also contained penalties against the adultera- tion of excisable liquors; and he read an amusing description of the mode fa which beer was usually adulterated. The bill/ would alter and simplify tho present hours of closing. Within four miles of Charlng- CTOSS publichouses and beerhouses would not bo al- lowed to open before 7 am., and must close at mid- night. Elsewhere In tho Metropolitan district and in towns of not less than 10,000 souls they must not open before 7 a. m., and must close at 11 p m. In other towns and districts tho hour of opening would also be 7 a. m., and of closing 10 p. m. On Sundays they must not open until 1 p. m., and must'close between 3 p. m. and G p. m. On Sunday nights tho hour of closing would be an hour earlier than the hour of closing on weok days, and would bo accordingly n o'clock in London, 10 o'clock outside the four mile radius and In large towns, and 9 o'clock In the country. The police regulations of tho bill would be enforced by special police inspectors, not less than one such inspector being appointed for eveiy 100,000 lnhabltanta, to overlook pnbllchouses and Bee that the law was enforced. The bill set op no rating qualification hi tbe case of publiohousoe. A rating qualification only existed in the caso of beer- houses, and with this the bill would not Interfere. Inasmuch, however, as thero was reason to believo that many of the worst- conducted beerhouses existed under false pretences, tlie biU would give the magistrates power to Institute a special valuation, which would weed out a number of low houses. The bill might be callcd a moderate measure, but It would diminish tho tendency to an undue multiplication of publie- houses, and simplify the existing law, without interfering with the Just rights of property. After a few remarks from the"' Duke ol Richmond and Lord Redesdale, tho bill was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on the 2ad of May ; and the House then adjourned. In the House of Commons, Mr. W. N. Hodgson gave notice that on an early day he would oall attention to the state of business In the Probate Court and move a resolution. Mr. C. Fortescue, replying to Mr. Jacob Bright, said there was no official report in tho Board of Trade on the subject of tha State purchaso of railways, but a non- official report had been made by an able officer of tho Board of Trade upon the present condition of railways in this country, ia which ho recommended the purchase of railways by tbe State. The document would bo submitted to tho committee now sitting en Railway Amalgamations. Referring to the Alabama Claims, Mr. Gladstone said, with reference to the conversation which took place tho previous day, that tho covering note of the British Government had alroady been circulated to many members, and copies sould be obtained at the Vote Office. Also, as regarded the counter case itself, that would be ready for circulation the following afternoon. Further, he had to say that the Government had learned from Geneva that Mr. Bancroft Davis had, on the part of the United States Government, put fa a statement that he had no instructions from Ills Government on the subject of any document or covering note put in by the British Govern- ment and that being so, he thought it his duty to reserve all the rights ot tho United States, so that they might not be prejudiced by tho presentation of the governing note. In answer to Mr. Fawcett, Mr. Gladstone said that when the University Tests ( Dublin) Bill semes on, the Irish Secre- tary will move to divide it into two parts, and if Mr. Fawcett wiH assent to that, he promised that the Government will do all in its power to forward that part which abolishes testa. Sir M. Lopes brought forward his annual motion on tho subject of Local Taxation, which this year took the form of a Resolution declaring that. In remedying the grievance of Imposing- taxation for national objects on ono description of property, the Ratepayers fa counties and boroughs ought to bo relieved either in whole or fa part from the charges for administration of justice, police, and lunatics. He began by reviewing the history of his previous motions, dwelling specially on the events of last year, and condemning the Re- port on which Mr. Goschcn's bills were founded. Colonel Amcotts seconded tho Resolution, and warned the Government that the question would bo irrepressible until a remedy had been discovered. Sir T. Acland moved as an amendment a Resolution which, While admit. Ing the justice of relieving ratepayers from pay- ments for national purposes not under los. il control, recom- mended that rates for new objects should be divided be- tween the owners and occupiers, which was seconded by Mr. Rath bone. A long discussion followed, fa the course of which, Mr. Stansfeld quoted certain passage* from Sir M. Lopes' speech, from which ho inferred that tho settlement ho offered would not completely satisfy public. opinion ont of doora. The Government, however, were not prepsrod to accept the Resolution, but they would accept the Amend- ment ; but it was with certain reservations that they would accept It; for instance, they would reserve to thcmselus the right of judging what were tho payments for national objects not under local control, for which relief should ho afforded. Tho Government were also fa favour of dividing local taxa- between the owner and occupier. After a general review of the question, Mr. Stansfeld stated that the Government was anxious to Introduce a measure ou tho subject, and he asked tho House, therefore, not to tlo their hands by a sweeping general Resolution. Tho discussion was continued by Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Goschen, cind on a division Sir M. Lopes' Resolution was oarried against the Government by a majority of 100— 250 to 169— andthe Opposition cheered loudly and long when the numbers were announced. Tho other business was disposed of, and the Houso ad- journed at Ave minutes to one. REPRIEVE OF PATRICK LENNARD. Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. The Judges of both dlvl- j alons would receive a retiring pension after a certain number of years' service. The establishment of such a Court would ; Obviate tho ' degradation of lay Peers attending fa order to mako a quorum, and an long tho other advantages of the rchemehe specified tho oontfauous sitting from November to February, whereby threo months would be gained, the | sitting for five days a week at least, Instead of four, and the i abolition of the appellate jurisdiction of - the Court of Ex- chequer and the Exchequer Chamber. Great expense would be saved to tho suitors, and they would ha vo a readier access to tho new Court. Tho duties of an appellate jurisdiction would no longer be exercised fa a sloveoly and perfunctory | manner, and a good and effective tribunal having been | secured, their Lordships would be left to tho undisturbed | performance of their other important duties and privileges. After a brief discussion, it was arranged that the Lord ] Chancellor should lay his bill on tho table the following ' evening, that the adjourned debate on the Resolution should be r< « umcd upon the night fixed for the second reading of j tho Bill, and that in the " Orders of tho Day" the Resolu- | tlon should have priority over the second reading. Their lordships then adjourned. promoted by tho Corportion of London, were read a second time, after some discussion ; and the committee to which the lattvrwUI be referred was Instructed to provide for the abolition of compulsory motage, and also for the ultimate extinction of all charges other than for services rendered. Mr. Cubitt gave notice that as an amendment to Mr. Miall's motion he wlM movo for a Royal Commission to in- qnlre'lnto tho origin, amount, Ac., of revenues belonging to Nonconformist bodies. Mr. DIsrneli inquired when the explanatory letter respect- ing tho proceedings beforo the tribunal at Genera would be laid upon the table ol the House. Mr. Perey Wyndham said that this country desired to know, and had a right to know what was the exact decltion taken by her Majesty's Governmont (" Order"), Ho wished to ask whether the Government had pre- sented the counter case, subject to a denial on tho ; part of her Majesty's Government that tho In- I direct claims were cither within the Jurisdiction of tho arbitrators, or that they ( the arbitrators) had any power to determine whether tho indirect claims wero wlthfa their Jurisdiction or not; or whether tho reservation made by her Majesty's Government was limited to claiming tho rigl. t to protest against aby award made under the head of indirect claims or on account of such claims. Mr. Gladstone said, in answer to the h" n. member who hail Just sat down, that tho reservation made by her i Majesty's Government in presenting their counter- case fa tho document accompanying that counter- case was, as ho understood It, a reservation of all their rights what- , ever, and was not limited to any particular point; | but tho substantial part of his answer would be fa 1 reply to tho right honourablo gentleman tho member for Buckinghamshire. Tho right hon. gentleman had aiked him when the explanatory letter as ho had termed It, would bo laid upon the table. By the term " ex- planatory letter" he presumed the right hon. gentleman meant what he ( Mr. Gladstone) called a note, or supplement, I a few nights ago. It would be laid upon the table with tlio" ' counter case, and tho counter caso would be laid upon the table formally the following evening, but ho was afraid two or three days must elapse before the copies could actually be In tho hands of the members. The nouso again went into Committee on tho BaUot Bill, and after disposing of Clause 3, and some ot the points fa di." usslon in Clause 4. Mr. Leatham renewed his proposal to'maka it an offcnco punishable with three months' imprisonment for any voter wilfully to display a ballot- paper so as to provo for whom he has vote- d. It was again very warmly debated, being opposed from the Liberal bcnche* by Mr. Harcourt, Lord Bury, Sir H. Hoare, and Mr. Fawcett, who declared it to bo an unbearable novelty and an unnecessary piece of tyranny to compel a man to vote fa secret if ho did not wish, and to treat the ex- posure of his ballot- paper os'a heinous crlro o. Mr. Harcourt pro- posed to subetituto " with corrupt intent" for " wilfully," and this amendment was supported by Lord J. Manners, Mr. Birley, Mr. Cross. Mr. A Egerton, and others, who urged tho fedly of legislating against public opinion, and predicted that no Judge or Jury would convict for such an o ft en co. On tho other hand, Mr. Forster, supported by Mr. Muntz and Mr. James, supported the original amendment, arguing that the Ballot being for the repression of bribery and'lgtlmidatlon, la useless if an elector has the means of proving how ho has voted. Mr. Leatham, fa defending his own proposal, sharply at- tacked Mr. Fawcett, who, he declared, on this as on other occasions had turned Ids back on his principles. Tho Committee divided on Mr. Harcourt's Amendment, but tho Tellers for the Ayes not agreeing a second division became neces ary. In this Mr. Harcourt carried the omission of the word " wilfully" from Mr. Lcatham's amendment by a mnjority of one— lt> 7 to 166. This result was received by tho Opposition with enthusiastic cheering, and Mr. Foriter at once rose and moved to report progress. The Commlttco was consequently adjourned until Thursday beforo proceed- ing further with Mr. Harcourt's amendment. Tho other orders were disposed of, and the House ad- journed at two o'clock. COSTLY GUNS. ( From the Naval and Military Gazette.) In these days of costly armaments for offensive and defensive warfare, we jjive our readers the latest prices nt which our wrougbt- iron, steel- lined, muzzle- loading rifled guns are produced, and charged for to Imperial Government departments, minus their sights and elevating plates, but including the cost of their proof : - 12- inch expounder guns, 23 ton3 weight, £ 2, G27 each; 12- inch COO- pounder guns, 25 tons weight, £ 1( 997 each ; 11- inch 500- pounder guns, 25 tons weight, £ 1; 893 each ; 10- inch 400- pounder guns, 18 tons weight, £ 1.305 each; 9- inch 250- pounder guns, 12 tons weight, £ 912 each; 8- inch ISO- pounder guns, 9 tons weight, £ 093 each; 7- inch 115- pounder guns, 7 tons weight, £ 560 each ; 7- inch 115- pounder guns, CJ tons weight, £ 503 each ; Gi- pounder guns, 31- 5 tons weight, £ 240 each ; 9- pounder guns, 8- 20 tons weight, £ 8- 1 each; 9- pounder guns, G- 50 tons weight, £ 78 each. In round numbers these prices show an increase of - 100 per cent, over what cast- iron guns cost— that is, taking the old standard for cast- iron guns of £ 20 per ton. Surely, in view of these figures, we are justified in again calling attention to " the fact of many of these costly guns having their A, qr inside tubes, split in the lines of the rifling after an insignificant number of rounds having been fired, thereby clearly indicating fault in their rifling. There can be no question aa to the superiority of the present manufacture of our iron and pteel built- up guns over that of the system origi- • ginally adopted, nor as to the very large saving to the country affected thereby ; but that i3 not the present question— namely, have we the best system of rifling? Unhesitatingly we believe not; and there are cogent reasons that the persons responsible to the country in this matter should wake up, and not rest in a " fool's paradise" any longer. According to a Daily News telegram, the Paris horse show is a lamentable failure. As an exhibition it is poor fa Itself, and the absurd entrance fee of five francs acts as a pro- hibition. There were not twelve paying visitors at the show during three hours on Monday morning. A mosfcjiudacious robbery has just been committed » t the forfCI Vln- cnnes. A battery of brass. mountaln how- itzers, each weighing about two cwt., were taken from their carriages during the night, and carried off. They aro sup- posed to havo been thrown Into tjie moat, and then drawn up by ropes and carried off on carts. They wore afterwards discovered concealed behind a barter's shop in a neighbour- ing village. The object of the thieves appears to have been to melt down the cannon and sell the metaL The complicity it some artillerymen of the garrison is considered certain, u 10 stranger could possibly enter the pLoe, and a sentinel is placed at ten paces from the spot from which tho guns were removed. Two soldiers have Loen arrested on suspicion, as yell aa three inhabitant! ef MoatrcuII, irfco hail rccemfl the ami Tn the House of Lords, April. 16, the Supremo Court of Arpcal Bill was brought fa aud read a first time. Tho second reading was fixed for the SOth fast. Eiri Granville presented to the House tho counter case of the British Government, In connection with the Alabama claims, which would bo printed, and ho hoped distributed to tbclr lordships tho following day. lie added: We havo pcason to know from our agent on the spot ( at Geneva) that, having been informed by Lord Tenterden that a statement accompanfcd our counter case, and had l> een presented to tho Tribunal of Arbitration, the American agent stated that his instructions had not contemplated the probability of such a statement as ours, and therefore he reserved to his Government a full right of vindicating what they considcfcto be the scope of the treaty. As soon as this reservation of right is fa our hands it will bo our duty to present It to your lordship*. The Church Seats' Bill was then read a second time. The Deans" and Canons' Resignation Bill was read a third time and passed, tho Archbishop of Canterbury expressing an opinion that it was only the beginning of other measures for carrying fate effect tho desire of the Deans and Canons to t.-. ke ' a more active part fa the working system of tho Church ot England. Lord Klml crley, in moving the first reading of the New lief nslng Bi'l, began by stating the reasons which had 1 lndnevd the Government to introduce " the bill in their Lord- » hip" » House. IVclinlng to go into the history of tho 1 i,-. i ting Laws, he said that anything more cociplicatc. 1 or difficult could hardly be conceived. No lers than tweire descriptions of licence wcro In foicc at the present moment. Glancing at tho various agitations carried on tv Uioio who desired an alteration of the law, be said th-. t the opinion cf " the country was fa tavrr. r of n regulated monopoly. Tho Bill which, on tho ptrt of the G vernment, he ha4 now to explain did not claim tt> le an ambitious measure. It would ne t seriously disturb existing interests, but its effect would bo to limit tho number of license', and to prevent, by stringent rollce rrgulations, the abuses of the present publichoose and b erhouie » ystem. Under the Suspensory Bill of last Seafca n > r. e* lice: ces could be gritted by the Brewster Sessions nii .*• « they n,. re confirmed by tLc Secretary of State. The fir '. r art of the pre* ent bUl refill lei the granting of new licences. In counties all new licences weald be granted, as » tpresent, ty the Justice* in Brewster Sessions; bat they THE COAL MINES IN INMA. The existence of coal ou the Nizam's side of the Wurda Valley is. ( says the Madras Times) now no longer a matter of speculation, and the active measures which his Highness's Government ia taking to ascer- tain tho real extent of these hidden mines of wealth show that it is fully alive to the importance of the dis- covery. Should the expectations which these discoveries have given rise to be realised, the future of these ter- ritories bids fair to be very prosperous. Coal has been found in the districts of lndore, Commumett, and Yellgundal, and the extent of these discoveries war- rants the belief that the coal measures are spread over a considerable tract of country. Experimental measures ou a large scale have as yet been carried on only at Raj ore and Tasti in the last- named district. A eeatu of coal In one part fifty feet thick, and as far as at present ascertaineck extending over an area of five square miles, has been struck, and the best kind of coal obtained has been pronouncod by an eminent geologist to be of a very good quality and equal to any that has as yet been found in India. SPUTTERINGS FROM " JUDY'S" PEN. A WAROTKa TO WOOLD- BB BLOKDIBS.— It is not every tight- rope dancer who can keep his balance— at his banker's. RIFIEHEN— Pickpockets. THE real Shooting Season— Spring- time. CURIOUS.— Though somo of tho theatres havo empty boxes every night, all the stalls In Covent Garden are engaged In advance for months to come ; i. e., tho stalls fa tho market. TRADE MEM.— A great many Germans last yoar learnt the art of French polishing. OFFICIAL.— Tho Ministers won't take their whitebait dinnSr this year. After all, tho proper thing for a Minister is plaice. WHAT is " parlour lightening" t— Walt till you have tho brokers fa; then you will know. THE Pot- hater must be a vegetable teetotaler. TUE Land of Cane.— Tho placo whero sugar comes from Gozso. on Circuit.— Taking a tulu on the treadmilL A TICKEI- OP- LEATE.— A pawnbroker's duplicate. WHEN a young wife began her housekeeping book with Gave a beggar a penny," she rightly said that charity began a tomo. FISH IS very dear Just now. In the winter time you have only to go on tho ice, and you can have a skato for nothing. THE Cry of Celestial Hypocrites— Cant- on ! WOOD Nymphs— Ladles'- school boarders. FASHIONABLE Intelligence.— Golden hair has gone out; it Is now worn plaited. A SEAFARING gentloman, visiting the Crystal Palaco on Good Friday, observed that the Aquarium had a yeryiflshy appearance, and that it looked highly fln- ished, though Its dimensions aro certainly somewhat cur- tailed, owing, no doubt, to the dog- fish. — Judy. CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS. life. EPITOME OP XEWS, BP. ITISH AND FOREIGN. The cabdrivers of Aberdeen haW struck work fee- an Ivance of wage3 from 17s. to 20s. per week. The fashion has been introduced in Paris and is elng patronised, of false hair for Children. The" famwis graadrilk- of Caleun a ot the Eolies Bereft as just been prohibited by the police. A lady at Marseilles has chosen the name of Gam- cttlna for her fomato^ ia'jy. % A new dance, dafed » ' De'ocfc. x- ichicocanftrd. 7 lias itely been introduced, and bids fair to become popular. The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges t} io. iceipt of £ 1, la stamps, from " E. F.," for income tax. as Conscience Money." A few ufehts since- a maJ. iianicdi2Iewni. aii,. ruling t Balllvcr, In county Meath. was fired at and dangerously* ounded, when returning to his residence. Tho outrage U eileved to bo of an agrarian character. A singular disease has broken out among the dogs in ome parts'of Shropshire. They exhibit great rostlcssiiess, ud on being opened a black fluid is found fa the stomach, rhich | s much inflamed. Tho Select Committee updn tho Governmont Bill or tho abolitlou of the truck system mot on Monday for the ret timer, Mr Gathorne IlorJ vin the chair, Xcwivtdcnce TOIS, owever. thken, thoCummittSfliaving decided toedpsider the leasura- ftith closed, doors. .... A Radical gentleman is an opponent of school Eoards fr. im " principle." lie goes " agin education," not bocauto of Its unconstitutionality, but becauso it's unnatural. Igno- rance is " natur," he says. \ Ve aro born ignorant, and ought to bo kept so. A corres] » ondent writes that nightingales have been singing at Bnaitey, fa Kent, sinco the 2nd fast This date is unusually, eatly, as fa formar years they have not been hear l before Cho lith April. \ The Times givea the heading to the following:—" A practical bishop."—" The Bishop of Winchester, fa ' Prayers and Rules forDistrict Visitors,' directs the visitor to inqulro in families whether the children have been baptized and whether all have bc- cn vaccinated. * An original idea was lately started In Hamilton, Ohio', wherTa fee of twenty- five carts was collecteiLfrom all persons who entered a church tofwitness a wedding. Tho monu. was glvdu to tho young people to 6tart them la — rfathering'of the Cambridgeshire and- Isle of Ely Chamber of- AgrloHlturo was held on8aturday,. whcn aft^ r a long dobate a resolution was passed, expressing regret attho agitation amongst tho labourers, and declaring that th8 movement was not calculatod to promote the interests of eithor tho employer or the employed. The Fifth Arcnue Journal, of New York, doted March 23rd last, publishes on its front pogo a well- exocuted likeness of Queen Victoria, " as an evidence of tho estima- tion in which Her Majesty Queen Victoria is hold by intelli- gent Americans, who havo not only sympathised with her during her recent trial, but have never ceased to aduilxo her wifely and motherly virtues." The report on the capitulation of Metz IS terminated,' but subject to revision. It ia to be ru- read paragraph by paragraph, fa order that the wording may bo in entire accord- ance with thi Intentions of the Committee. Notwithstanding the pledge of secreay taken by members of tho Committeo, it is said that tho report will very severely blamo Marshal Bazafae. Official notifications « onvey the welcome intelllgenoo of the abolition of passports fa'France. From tSio 20th o< April passports will no laugci be* required on tho Franco- Belgian frontier or at the Channel ports. Tho only formality necessary Ru bo gono through by travellers will bo giving their names'and signing tho daily police reports. The Loans to Infamts Bill, which was printed on Monday, sct3 forth that money- lenders and others aro accus- tomed to solicit Infants to borrow money, by which they aro defrauded, and that It Is expedient to prevent such solicitation. It is proposed, therefore, to make the solicitor Uon a misdemeanour, and to enact that any bond given by a tho Purpose of procuring a loan shaU be Invalid. The bill bears the names of Mr. Mitchell Henry, Mr. Head- lam, Mr. Scourfleld. Mr. Gilpin, and Mr. Maguire. Replying to the Secretary ef the Greenock tradee delegatesjMr. Brace has written a letter giving details of thi; operation of the CrimiuallLaw Amendment Act, and do- in a few instances convictions not Justified by the Act hive taken place, they only call for its amendment to the extent of removing ambiguities of ex- pression leading to conflicting construction, and that such a change ho is prepared to make. A Melbourne . paper says:—" The meat preserving business is m an active portion; and tbo days win soon ornve when a full export tcado win be resumed. The Mel- bourne Company, which at present exports the bulMf tho meats preserved In Victoria, is working up to tho highest pressure. During tho six months onding to- day, ndleaa a quantity has been shipped by tho company than 2,100,0001bs. weight of moat, qontauied in 4S0.000 tins, or 32,000 cases. . Mutton is stdl the principal meat operated upon." The old. conspirator BLanqui. sentenced to transpor- fat on for Ure ( the little life that fs left fa him) by Co& nel Jobey a court- martial on February 10, for tho small part he tooK in tbq insurrection of October 31.1S70, has yet one moro chance of passing his chair- days fa freedom and quiet- sun- posing quiet to bo possible for him. Tho military Conrt of Revision has quashed his eonvictlon on a formal point of The Coantew ' Wowikoff. wifo of the Rus. sian ambas- sador at vicuna, has been rubbed of moro than 100, o00fr.. worth of Jewels. It is intended to call in tho fourponny- piews, » as i^ jstsasfei^ tfi^ sr ^ IV. Thomas Yowler Short wlio re.< I; nod the bishopric of St. AMpU about two ago, has just died at A Parla tcl » gr » rn* 8tatoa. thrt a orcat imnressidfl'haa T& RN PRODUCED HWTO BYFT^ ENTEIIOO of UFT « n di » ," inu*> i.' nr mcnt to which Prince BIK- J .-•> has been coud< nmc. l f* r having engaged fa ^ fluel with tho Prince de Beauflmnont. Au Irish paper says, trying to pet up business with- out illturtfalng i » jlke at 4 pretty t> rRhrough a p » ir of green goggles. You may kflowrwhat Jtir aro doing, but np^ odj else does. A grand ceremony1 will take place at Orleans on tho StlrMny, to commemorate the lU,' rd anniversary ot the < lo- llvorifceo of tluit city by J4aa of Arc. A p^ egjrlc on thei hft- dlno wm tw- prwi0tfncc. fby HkthjDr. lYrTauik . Mr. Bright's appcarance in the House of Commons the other evening gave oMi/ ral satisfaction to tho public, aa well as to tho whole of his brother members. It. ls not known yet whether during tho present session ho will tako any part In the debates. " There is at least one State in Europe," says a - Dutch educational weekly, " whero there t » moro money spent on education than oil tho army. In Switzerland thu educational budget Amounts to Qvcr ten millions of francs, . whereas the military expenses remain below that sum; yot in tfatt of^ necd the happy Republic can raise an army of The fundamental study of beer is a peculiarity ofTW Germans. We read tho following announcement In tho French papers, and it seems thereby that tho Germans wish to win their victims over to their tasto :—" School of Browing at Augsburg — Practical and Theoretical Stndy of tho Art of Brewing.— Tho Courso of Study will commcnco on the 15th May." A stage coach accident occurred at Wigtown on Friday night> When entering tho town the horses became unmanageable, and> fa taking asharu corucr, overturned tho coach. AU tlfe passengers on the vehicle at tho time wero moro or less injured, two men being picked up lusensible and suffering from fractures of tho skulL Their recovcryl • looked upon as hopeless. Monsignor Oapel has been taking part with the members of St. Vincent do Paul's Sewlctv at Cork In their annual " religious retreat." Ho preached a series of eleven sermons, ono of then* being an eloquent denunciation of tho " canker of humau respect," which, ho said, was catlnn Into tho Catholic life of our times and making many Catholics ashamed of their religion. The eruptivfe period of Vesuvius, says the Official Gazette of Italy, which began fa tho first days'of the year, is now manifested with more Intensity. Tho uohes are moro frequent, and tho lava bursts out with greater force. A Fenian, over the water, was called on for a toast. Ho gave the following :— All hall to the American algle! Proud bird of freedom, aU hall! Tho fowl that no one can lnvngle. Or put salt on its beautiful talL The pale of 30 eases of cigars from tho ex- Emperor NapolfOn'Bfrtock wiU tako place at tho Louvre ou the 25th of Api II. Tho weed Is of the choicest kind, such as wouhl scarcely bo found fa'the trade, having been cWelly intended for tho guests at the Tuilcries Napoleoh, during the last years, had become too unwell to onjoy a cigar to tho eod, and had taken to tha use of clgarrettes 011 the advloe ef Dr. Conneau. Sir Stafford Northcote, President of the Exeter Chamber of Commerce, In responso to an invitation to bo present to discuss tho Western Railways Amalgamation Scheme, wrote :—" My foelings generally are, that tho com- petitive system, when pushed to the extreme, leads to a great and Uhnecessary expenditure of money, which, sooner or later, directly or Indirectly, Involves a loss to tbe publlo -. and that it Is for the public interest that nrraneimcnti should bo niado under proper sofoguards and restrictions to prevent this loss." On Saturday night some of the Exeter Volunteer Engineers were engaged to blow down a large disused brick- 1 kiln. Tholr efforts not , p£ Oving successful, a large crowd which had assembled began to ridiculo them, and attempted to force an entrance into the yard. This lod to a conflict be- tween the voluntedrs and the citizens, the former having to tako refuse in tho workhouse enclosure. In the milee several persons were injured by blows from bricks and stones thrown by tho mob. At the Liverpool Police- court, an Irishman haa been charged with bigamy. It was stated that about twolvo years ago ho was married to a young woman fa Mayo, and somo two years slnca ho camo over to. England and married 1 another wifo. Tho prisoner stated, that In tho first caso ho was married ag. ilnst hiswiU, having been seized one night about eleven o'clock by a party of his ' first wife's friends and carried off to thepriest. Thesecond wifesald shodldnotwish to prosecute, aud as it would be necessary to send over to " the wilds of Connemara' 1 to procure tho certificate, tho magistrate, in order to avoid this expense, liberated the - prisoner. Sunday, tho 14th, was the fifteenth anniversary of the birth of her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice, and ac cordingly tlio holla of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castlo, and St. John's Church, New Windsor, were run^ In honour of tho event.— At nir. e o'clock on Monday momfag the choristers of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, assembled under ! tho window of tho I'rfacesa Beatrice at Windsor, to serenade' her Royal Highness. The following is the selection of music which was' performed under the direction of Sir George Elvey, " Hark the L- irk," " The Thorn is in tho bush," " The Old Romance," " In this hour you stole my love," " God save he Queen." With the fine weather of the last few days, London is looking gay and agreeable. Moat of tho " upper teh" have returned to town, and from the number of invitations known to bo out for dinner parties, rccoptions, and bans thero Is evory promise that the season will bo a brilliant one. Tho Queen is said to be to better health than sho haa been for a long period, and private letters received fa town represent the condition of the Prince of Wales to be so satis- factory and improving that thero can be little doubt that his Royal Highness Win return to Englaud completely re- stored. Paris picture dealers are making fortunes at this moment at tho expense of foreigners. The public auction mart Is crowded with purchasers. The idea got abroad— at first Justly so— that objets d art were, to be had for next to nothing, owing to the misfortunes of the coun- try ; strangers arrived, and the brokeni aro making them pay fancy prices for aU kinds of rubbish. Thoro Is a verj sensational painting on view, " The execution of a Franc- fircur'by the Prussians." The prisoner has deposited his capote, liat, and chassepot in a heap; bares his breast, half- a- dozen Prussian musketa aro levelled with a zealous pre- cision, one being told off to silence the prisoner's dog; it Is morning, tho ground Is covered with snow, and in the dis- tance are tho evidences of the invasion. A painting such as this keeps the memory for revengo very green. A large meeting of the seceding members of the International was held at the " Black Swan," Leicester square, London, on Sunday night, for tho purpose ot protest- ing against unconstitutional conduct fa tho management ol the International, and also for taking means to expose to the world tho shallowness of its pretensions, and propose a vote of want of conOdoncefasoino of the principal of Ita dogmatic and dictatorial leaders. Thero were also protests againBt the International by- laws by which members aio to bo sworn not to subscribe or belong to any other demoeratlo associa- tion but the International, and charges against members for resorting to unfair proceedings to get themselves elected as paid secretaries or delegates to various meetings. Several of the scccding members of tho British section concluded by declaring that they had- no idea before they Joined that a society could exist in England whero such tyrannical tawB could be attempted to be imposed by one man over another Tho meeting adjourned tin Monday week. Last Friday evening ' tho Pope gave audience to a laige body of Romans, and on Saturday to400 foreigners from . T, nvtrlC*;. IL* P'y, Dg to th\ lr ^ successively blessed all the nations represented, recommending them to ift& W^ C3lh0"'- 1 » - His Holiness praised the Immense charity of France, and counselled certain French Catholics who haveshown themselves too intolerant to use moregcntle- ncss. He also said " I bless poor Italy, who is not free, wliv " w b" U v1 ln, chalD3 th « contribution of blood that SSSS.^ f her, Vjr tf! c f'-, rTlci'fce army » I pray for - e' diviJ'-' 1 by an anti- CathoUe and ambitious spirit, that she may remain firm and con- ?! prny. t0 tbe Almighty to give strength to the German Bishops, that they may uphold the rights ol God, the Church. and society. Let us pray for the dTnveralon of the fools who call themselves ' old,' because they relntro- duce old errors. Let us pray for Austria, who stmds much fa need of our prayers. I bleia the Catholics of Ireland, Poland, and Holland, and the CaUiolics ol America," The German Correspondent states that on his laafc birthday his Majesty the Gorman Emperor received a splendid piece ot massive 6liver plato from the Cologno banker, Herr voa Oppenheim. Tho piece Is executed with thehigtmt artistic skill. It represents a scene at the close of the battle ol Qravelotto, In which the Emperor forms tho contral figure. On examining the costly pleco of art hla Majesty said, in the manner so peculiarly Ills, own. that ho himself was not In a position to mako a similar and equally valuablo present to any one. Charles Flack, and Wm. Taylor, who wore convicted of garrotlng at last Kingston Assizes, were flogged last week in Horaemonger- lsne Gaol. Flack displayed at first a great doal of levity, and sallied when stripped and fastened to tho framewark fixed n. ar tho wall; but after three. or four eut « ho screamed out lustUy, caUlng oat " Murder!" " OhI don't! " and at last ho begged for mercy. Taylor received his punishment without icreamfag, but he winced under tho strokes. Both thoir backs were much discoloured. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has addressed ai letter to tho Commissioners of National Education fa Ireland offering prizes for the better cultivation of small fascia. Oat of 008,801 agricultural holdings fa Ireland, 317,157 are valued at less than £ 3 a year. Lord Spencer proposes that his prizes shall be given to tho farmers of this class In cortain districts, for neatness of houses, character of produce, and condition of livo stock ; the prizes to bo caUed the " Sponcer Small Farm Prizes," and the judgos to be tho Agricultural Sohdol Inspectors of the National Board. THE MARKETS. ifARK- LANE, MONDAY. Quietness has been tho feature of the grain ' trado at Mark- lano to- day; the business doing has been very moderate. The supply of English wheat has been Umited, but the) qua- Uty has beon rather bettor. With a thin attendance oi millers, tho demand for all quailtlea has been In active, at about late rates. Full average supplies ol foreign whoat on offer. Sales have progressed slowly at lint Monday's prices. With barley the market has boon modorately supplied Malt- . ngproduoe has changed hands quietly on former terms. Grind- ing parcels have sola riowly. Malt has been fa limited re- quest, and prloes havo been without change. There has been af air show of oats on the utands. A want of animation' haa characterised the demand, and tho prices realised have bocn about equal to last weok. Maize has sold quietly, on former terms. Thero has not been much Inquiry for beans, and peas havo been in limited request. The flour market has beeo oulut. at Monday's rates. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.— M0KDAT. Thore has been much heavinoss to tho cattle trade to- day, to sympathy with the depression to the dead meat market. The supplies of stock, owing to tho more liberal receipts from abroad havo been larger. As regards beasts, tho arrivals from our own grazing districts havo been about an average. The trado has been duU, and thero has been a decided tendenoy to lower rates. A fow choice Scots from Aberdeen have made 5s. 2d., but the Norfolk stock has been fully 2d. per 81b. lower, tho best breeds selling at 4s. lOd. to 6s. per 81b. From^ orfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambrldgeahlro wo received about 1,000 Scots and crosses, from other parts of England, 250 various breeds; and from Scotland, 155 Scots and crosses. With sheep tho market has been heavily snppUed, the ar- rivals from abroad being extensive. For aU breeds the trado has been dull, and prices havo been 41. nor 81b. lower. The best Downs and half- breds clipnod. si Id at 6s. CiL to 5s. 8< L, and occasionally fs. lOd. per bl6. Lambs hare been rather easier, at from Ss. to 03. i> er 81b. Calves have been dull, ai * tho demand for pigs has bi About half- past six o'clock cm Sunday evening, tho governor of Armley Gaol, Leeds, ilr. Kccne, receiv ed a telegram from the Home Secretary, static^ a re- prieve for Patrick Lennard ( for the munler of Hudson,) would be sent that evening. Mr. Wbeelhouse, M. P., Mr. Bftines, MP-, and the Rev. E. Jackson, of bt. James, each received a telegram from the Home Secre- tary, to the efleet that he hail determined to reprieve Lennard. On Saturday Mr. Wheelhouse, M. P., tele- graphed to the Home Secretary that thero was both in Leeds and Bradford an intense feeling that the execu- tion should not be allowed to take place. On Sun- day morning Mr. Wheelhouse received a letter from the Home Secretary, Rtating that on consideration of all the circumstanocs he did not think that Len- nard's sentence ought to be mitigated, and in fact the right hon. gentleman seemed quite to have determined to leave Lennard to his fate. But Mr. Wheell ouse at once went to the Rev. E. Jackson, knowing that he was a personal friend of the Right Hon. W. E. Forster, ana urged him to send to that gentleman by telegraph a remonstrance against the im- pending execution. Mr. Jackson did so at once, and the next step taken was to get the co- operation of ilr. Baines, M. P., who happened to be at MB Leeds resi- dence. And in the evening the united efforts of these gentlemen proved successful. During the whole of the day Lennard had been deeply affected. In the after- noon ha had been visited by about a dozen of his nearest relatives. All left the. gaol about four o'clock, having the full belief that they had seen the last in this world of their unhappy kinsman. Askepy, the hangman, arrived at the gaol when the heart- stricken parents and friends were taking their departure. A recipe for dressing the hair for ladies has pla- garised its. Glass thus :— First buy your hair. Anna Diskinson- says if she were a man she'd slap one's face wery day to the week. Pittsfield, Massachusetts, has had a " baby party," at which fifty gue3ts attended, and the bCUe was a young lady aged nine days. An American writer calls the ce.' eraony of young ladies biasing each other " a diyadfril " w . ate of the raw material 1" Miss Laura C. Redden complains that American women eat too much horseradish and too many pickles at lonch, entailing sharp elbows, thin calves, and red noses. Wendell Phillips says, " Put an American baby, six months old. on his feet, and he wUl immediately say, ' Mr. Chairman,' and caU the next cradle to order." A Connecticut clergyman wishing to ascertain how long it would take to read the Bible through, reid It aleud to his wife fa flfty- nfae hours and thirty minutes. The average American seems to have two formulra with which to greet his friends. Either defying good sense and grammaf he asks hla victim: " How is things 1" ot else kindly inquires: " What's tho. news ?" A young man out West was entrusted with the money to bring his father home agood family sowing machine. He carried off a neighbour's daughter to CLelcago, married her, and brought her home. It is computed by the Isaac Newtons of the present century that over 1,603 dollars has been paid during tho past thirty yoars for the printing in the Congressional Globe of the single word " laughter." A poet recently sent a song entitled What Shall mp Love Wear 1 to an editor, who regarded tlio question wholly fa its moral aspect, and sat down and wrote a kind put flrni article recommending her to wear clothes. There is a Canadian newspaper entitled The Saint Mary North Middlesex Argus and Review, and Lucan, Granton, Park Hill, and Widder Advocate, and Lucan Exeter Gazette. The Washington Capital asserts that tho sexton of a fashionable church there caught several couples dancing thu Boston in the vestibule of tho chureh ou a recent Sunday morning, to tho tune of Come, ye dieconsolate, which w. ej being sung by the choir. California has a new popt, who sighs to become a buzzing insect. lie says : ' Oh wud that I cud buzz about my love Of curly blonde bright hair; My dying sting should bo ono of love To her on the kitohen chair." The following elegant notice of' tho change of weather appears fa a New York paper:—" The snn is swing- ing up tho circle again and wifl soon cross tho overcoat line into the regions where Ughtcr clothing and ham and eggi teU us It is spring." There was a thoroughness about practical joking in the Middle Ages. When Pope Aurian died in 1523, the Roman peoplo, who hated and despised him, determined to testify their pleasure at tho event. They therefore adorned the door of his physician's house with garlands, adding this inscription—" To the deUverer of his country." An American burglar was recently frightened out ol his scheme of robbery by tho sweet slmpUcity of a solitary spinster, who, putting her night- capped head out of the window, exclaimed, " Go away ! ain't you ashamed!" He must have been an American, one of tho indirect claims gents. Un the leather " cockade question," a gentleman writes to the . Veio York Post:—'" I use them to distinguish my coachman's hat from my own. We are both gooJ- lo. !:- ing men ; we both wear ten dollar hats, and when we get out for a drive in tho park, I think it duo to myself that the public should know who owns tho carriage and who i^ ivcs A recent bride is thus described by the Louisville Journal .-— She was dressed fa white Pari3 muslin, trimmed with lace, all of which contrasted bewitchicgly with tho brunette of her complexion, while the sparkle of her dark and luminous eyes seemed to outdo the struggling flashes of her diamonds. Sho was pronounccd to be too lovely for a bride. Half hid away to the meshes of the muslin and lace, her delicate beauty looked more like that of an angel than a fairy of tho earth. A young man in New York was the victim of mis- placed confidence a short time ago. He was particularly sweet on a very young girl, and called one evenin?, having previously paid her several visits. The girl's parents, think- ing bcth too young to begin to keep company with each other, gavo a gentle hint to that cffect— first, by calling the girl out of the room, and sending her to bed ; and, secondly, by the lady of the house bringing in a huge slice of bread and butter, spread with Jam, and saying to the youth. Inh= r kindest manner, ** There tako this and go home ; it is a lung way, and jour mother will be ansiooi," THE FALMOUTH AND PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. SAT" 1> AY. APKIT, 20. 1872. Bnsirass Smioimremttrts. Polytechnic Hall, Falmouth. MQ The Pupils < J( ttiss UVKIVWS Ae » demy WILL QIVB THEIR ANNUAL BBCITAL On THURSDAY, April 25th, 1872, TO COMMENCE AT SEVEN O'CLOCK. A limited number or of Miss MABTYN r of Ticket*; at Is , 1, Dunstanville 1 each, mar be obtained of Mr. R. C. RICHABDS, Bookseller, Villas. PHO T O QBAFHY- The Oxford and Cambridge Photographic Association WILL Open an Establishment at No. 9, Berkeley ? lace5 Falmouth, On the First of May, for tbe ) roductioq ' of FIRST CLASS WORK in all kinds and sizes of On tbe most liberal terpis, which may be known on application as above. On the first two or three days the PUBLIC will be taken Gratis, and a Copy supplied. Clergy, Ministers of all denominations, and Public Gentlemen, will always xbe taken Free of / Charge, and Six Copies supplied. tor best/ work an appointment is particularly desired. Dated Falmouth, April 16th, 1872. READ HERE, AND SEE THE GREAT BENEFITS DERIVED FROM A Is. 1* D. ARTICLE. Allcock'e Porous Plasters have relieved « offerers when in the greatest pain and all other remedies had ailed. Physicians and sargeons of all schools reooramend them. A doctor said the other day :—" I do not know whether Allcock's Plasters oontain all the virtu* yon ascribe to them, bat this I do know: no plaster or local application haa ever ci » en ray patients such greet eomfort " We publish a few oases of curee, showing t bfltr wonderful virtues. Further * virt" noe of their value to • offering humanity ill be demonstrated to any one calling at the principal agency. f HFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. " Henry D. Brandreth, 57, Great Charlotte- street, Liverpool. " Dear Sir,— We beg to encloee another testi- monial as to the effit- ocv of Allcock's Poroos Plasters. James Radcliffe, 8tamford- street, Moeely, says he had been oonfined to hia bed five weeks suffering from infl/ - nonttion of the loags. He oooghed continually, with great expectoration and difficulty of btmthn. g, wi. ich brought him ao low that he was amble to rise in bed without sopport He applied one of vour plasters, and found relief in fifteen minotea, after which he aays the cough stopped and the expectoration ceased. He is now qrnte recovered. The above is exactly his own statement to me.— Yours reepectfolly, JOhn BiCKLe. . ^^ J' " Pro W. BOSTOCK, " 24, Stamford street, Ashton under- Lyne " November 24,1871." R Hevwood, October 9.1871- Henry D. Brandreth, 57, Great Charlotte- • treet, Liverpool. . Dear Sir,— Pl « se to send me another six dozen of Allcock's Piasters and two doaen Brand, reth's Pill's, Is. l* d. The Plasters seem to produce wonderful resalte. There is soaronly a day passes bat some one is telling me of the oares they are making. Rheamatism in various parts of the body disappears as if by magic. Only on Sunday last Mr. Jacob Heywood, Albert- terrace, SUrkey- street, Heywood, informed me that he had been troubled with sciatica for three years; so bad was it the last twelve months of that time that ho wae unable to follow his em- ployment. He had tried many doctors, been to Matlock, and spent £ 2 on a largely- advertised electric- chain belt, bat all to no purpose. Some one at last persuaded him to try yoar Plasters. tie aid he had no Uith in them, bat he would try them, for he was stuck fast; they oould not make his pain much worse, and it woold only be a little more money sent after the rest. So he bought two ; one he placed on is thigh, and the other on his back, and a week after he was ready for his work. It is now six months ago, and he has . had no return of his P^-^ rs tenl^ HE U MAT ISM OF THE WRIST Henry D. Urandrotb, Esq., 67, Great Char- lotte- street, Liverpool. 36, Orowu- street, Liverpool, Nov. 21st, 1871. Dear Sir,— Three months since I ooald not use my right hand, owing to rheamatism in ij and in my wrist, aud over ten weeks I waa in great pain— unablo to find any relief. After trying many remedies, I waa at last persuaded to try AUcock'* Poroa* Plaster*. I bound one round my wrist; in three days I had great relief, and in a w< ek's time waa perfectly cared Yonr plaster* are a blessing to tho afflcted. havejiositive inform* tion of their being of grea benefit in bronchitis and asthma. It will give me pleasure to answer anv communication con- cerning them.— Yoors trulv, THOMAS DAVIE8. BORWICK'S CUSTARD POWDER. Makes delicious Custards and Blanc Mange. Custards made with it are a great improvement to all Fruit Pdddings 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. aud Is. tins. LESLIE C. KELWAY, Bookseller, Stationer, and Duller in Fancy Goods, / HO^ EL, Falmouth, Opposite 1^ 0 BEGS MOST just returneid ing a carefully- selecl FANCY ARTICLF ing Cabinet Goods, Covers, ' [ l> ypo announce that he has mdon and is now show- : k of English < k Foreign every description, includ- w patterns in Flower Pot ' rate Ornaments, ( fee. Your kind patronage earnestly solicited. SATURDAY. APRIL aO. IH7S. g RONCHITIS. Heory D. Brundreth, Esq., Liverpool. 105. Hampton- street, Birmiugham, Nov. 27, 1871. Dear Sir,— I have for somo months past beon n the oabit of using Allcock's Peroas Plasters ( procured from tbe establishment of Messrs. Snape and Son, 18, Great Hampton- street, of this town ) when 8offering from bronchitis and severe pains in the sido, and have on every occasion found immediate relief, whereas I had previously consulted two medical men without deriving the least benofit. I can with confidence reoommend them to any one suffering from the same oomplaint.— Yours respectfully, GEORGE STYLES. A LLCOCK'S POROUS PLASTERS A are sold by all Druggists, at Is ljd each, with full directions for use, or in any size to^ snit. The yard Plaster is specially recommended for families and physicians. One yard equals 18 plasters. Price 14e per yard, 7 « 6d per half yard, or 4s per quarter. PRINCIPAL AOENCY FOB GKFAT BBITIAN ( Wholesale aud Retail ): 67, GREAT CHARLOTTE ST., LIVERPOOL. 8.— A Plaster sent to any part of the eoantry for 15 FALMOUTH EABLE'S ReTreAT CHAPEL. — The Rev. J. E. Coulson will preach here to- morrow afternoon, at 3. On Tuesday evening next, the service will be conducted by Mr. Lovell Squire, of the Obser- vatory ; and Mr. Thomas Hodgkin, banker, of Newcastle, commencing at NOTICe,— Early in May J. PrIOr purposes re- opening hiss SHOw ROOMS with a grand display of theTUsaitng Summer Novelties. Duo Notice will ye given. WATERLOO HOUSE, FALMOUTH Advt. MINING SPECULATION.— The mining fever has prevailed extensively at Falmouth during tho past few months, and is daily becoming more exciting. It has consequently been determined by Mr. Pol- lard to hold a meeting for the purchaso or disposal of shares at the coffee- room of the Globe Hotel, every Thursday evening. PIANO- FOrTE RECITAL.— From the great pleasure experienced at Miss Martyn's former recitals n very pleasant evening may be expected on T o ; : ; lay next, when ( as advertised in another column) the young ladies of her academy will go through a full and varied programme, no denbt with their accustomed tasto and skill. WEBBEr STrEeT CHAPEL.— We are pleased to leara that the Baptist church and congregation are subscribing towards a suitable testimonial to be presented to the late pastor of the church, tho Rev. R. G. Moses, B. A., aud a considerable sum has • already been placed in the hands of the deacons for this object. No doubt many persons not connected with the Baptist denomination will be glad <? f aU opportunity of adding to the amount, and so testi- fying their respect for Mr. Moses. GOOD TEMPLArS' EnTeRTAINmeNT.— A very fdeasant evening was spent by those who wero ortunate enough to secure seats in the Bethel on Wednesday evening last, when tho Good Templars gave their first entertainment. The entertainment was varied in its character, and was entirely suc- cessful. Thrilling and soul- stirring stories were read with much feeling, thorough - going Good Templar dialogues and witty and humorous recita- tions were given with much force of character, and a choice selection of melodies were sung so charm- ingly that the audience was kept in perfect humor until 10 o'clock. The members of the Falmouth Lodge I. O. G. T. meet every Friday evening, at 7.30, jn Mr. Knight's preaching room, Mulberry Square. Ter DECEASE OP A SUCCESSFUL COBNIsH- MAN.— Mr. S. Lean who has just died at his resi- dence, Tehidy Terrace Falmouth, at tho compara- tively early age of 42 years, affords another striking instance of the enterprise and success of many Cornishmen, whether at home or abroad. Mr. Lean left this country for Chili in 1851 and worked for two years in the silver mining district of Copiapo ; thence ho went to Bolivia, and from there sent to England immense quantities of coppor ore, and imported also into that country large quantities of goods from England, having a large depOt for general merchandise, He left Chili in 1864, after being absent from England for a period of 13 years, during which time he had met with great success as a merchant and adventurer. In 1864 he com menced ship- building for tho firm of Lean, Jose, and Co., of which he was the senior partner for 13 years, and after his return to England he becamo a largo adventurer in Cornish mines. He was ono of the chief promoters in setting ito work Great Wheal Busy and Wheal Daniell, ncajr Chacewater, besides other spirited undertakings, j Many of our readers will remember that about five years ago Mr. Lean became the purchaser of the valuable estate of Rosecarrock, in the parish of Endellion, formerly the property of Mr. Mark Guy, at a cost of about £ 24,000; ono of the finest estates in that part of county. He visited this estate once a year, and he was always received in the kindest possible manner by his tenants, and he died greatly respected and regretted. HARBOur BOArD.— The Board met on Tues- day, Mr. R. R. Broad in the chair; and Messrs. J. P. Bennetts, E. Handcock, Thos. Webber, H. S. Trethowan, W. P. Dymond, W. Selley, and H. Tilly wero also present.— A list of questions from the Board of Trade relative to borrowing £ 10,000 for the purpose of dredging the harbour to 18 feet low water spring- tides was referred to a committee to answer.— Rules for licensing watermen and the fares for certain distances within the jurisdiction of the Board were approved, and it was also agreed that in case of any dispute the decision of the har- bour- master should be final.— Tho Chairman, in answer to a question, said the boatmen of the port had been consulted, and were very well satisfied with the arrangements made.— The finance account shewed that during the three months ending the 31st March last £ 618 had been received as dues from vessels.— Mr. Bennett suggested that applica- tion should be made to the Board of Customs to ascertain whether thore was any doubt as to the legality of tho harbour- master's crew searching boats in the harbour.— Mr. Tilly concurred, because if tho crew obtained a prize they would then come in for a share of it; and it was unanimously agreed to make tho application.— Mr. Tilly asked whether tho account for the prosecution at the late assizes was to come on for consideration, or be deferred to another meeting.— Mr. Bennett was opposed to ; oing into the matter at once ; if the bill had been leliverod in time, it ought t^ have been oxamined. — Mr. Tilly did not think ft quite the thing to pospone the matter for a month .— Mr. Bennett objected to a special meeting being called expressly for the purpose of examining a bill.— After some further discussion Mr. Tilly moved " That this meeting be adjourned for a fortnight for the pur- pose of taking into consideration the expenses incurred with reference to the recent trial at the recent assizes." He thought it a most important matter, perhaps the most important that had como before the Board since its formation, and considered it was far better to have a special meeting in order that all the items might be inquired into apart from the ordinary business of tho Board.— Mr. Webber seconded the motion.— Mr. Bennett considered it a bad precedent, but after furthor discussion the pro- position was carried. BURIAL BOABD VESTrIeS.— The annual ves- tries for the Town and Parish of Falmouth, in con- nexion with the Falmouth Burial Board, were held on Friday. That for the Town took place at the Guildhall, and that for the Parish at the National Schools. Mr. P. H. GuthEriDgE, the chairman of the Burial Board, presided, at both. The auditors presented a report of the receipts and payments by the Board during the yeai£ and stated that the seventeenth instalment of the loan had been paid. The balance remaining unpaid was £ 225— from the Town, £ 120, and from the Parish, £ 105. The report was received and adopted. The report from the Board was then read. It stated that in defer- ence to a desire expressed at the last annual vestry they had taken counsel's opinion concerning the apportionment of the current expensos of the Board, and also regarding the costs of keeping the closed churchyards in ordor. This opinion it was resolved should be acted upon. It was also pro- posed forthwith to solicit tenders for tho erection of a mortuary house. The Board regretted that they had to announce that owing to increased duties at the Manor, Mr. J. J. Skinner had found it necessary to tender his resignation as clerk and registrar, the duties of which office he had ably and faithfully discharged from the formation of the Board in 1854. The report was adopted. The Chairman, Mr. T. Webber, Mr. Still, Mr. Cox, Mr, Jacob Olver, and other ratepayers at both ves- tries having spoken in high terms of tho services rendered by Mr. Skinner, the following resolution waa unanimously adopted That this vestry has heard with deep regret of . the resignation by Mr. John J. - Skinner of the office of clerk ami registrar of the Burial Board, and desires to record its high appreciation of tho able and satisfactory manner m which he has for so many years performed the several duties of the office."— Messrs. Jacob Olver, John Still, and Samuel Tresidder were re- appointed members of the Burial Board for the Town of Falmouth, and Messrs. John Hallamore. P. H. Gutheridge, and John J. Skinnor, elected for tho Parish. Messrs. E. Banks and R. J. Gutheridge were re- elected auditors of tho Burial Board accounts for the Town of Falmouth, and Messrs. J. E. Downing and P. H. Gutheridge, jun., for the Parish. It was then proposed and agreed to by the vestry that Mr. Thomas S. Skinner, Mr. J. J. Skinner's brother, be recommended to tho members of the Burial Board as a stjcc^ or to his brother for the clerkship, and at a suhse'jijent lijootiug of the Board he was unanimously electod to ihe PENRYN. SALE Of Grass.-- Mr. Corfield, last Thursday, at the barton of Cajawes, St. Gluvias, submitted to public auction tho depasturage, until tho 28th September next, of a quantity of Grass thoroon, prohibiting the takers from mowing or cutting during their holding. Tho attendance was unusually large and tho bidding most spirited, realising on the average € 4 17s. 6d. per acre, which was con- sidered by all present a very capital price, taking into consideration the scarcity of lean stock, fee. FATAL ACCIDENT.— An inquest was hold on Monday last, by Mr. J. Carlyon, at Penryn, on the body of Mr, Richard Bodilly, coachman to the Misses Tweedy, Truro. He died on Suuday night from injuries received on tha previous wednesday, by boiug thrown out of a trap which he was driving near tho town. Deceased was in company with Mr. Tidy, returning from Falmouth. ' On noarin" the drawbridge the horae turned to the left, and came into collision with the wall of Messrs. Free- man's yard, pitching out the occupants with great force. Mr. Bodilly was taken up insensible and continued so until Sunday morning, \ ylien h° re- gained consciousness. The improvement, however, was only temporary, and he died during the night. COUNTY NEWS. Gallant Rescue from Drowning.— On Sunday afternoon hwt, as a young man, named William Gluyas, was walking on the Lower Green, Helston, lie hoard children scream, and running to the spot from whence the cries proceeded, he saw the arm of a little girl just aljovo the water of the river Cohor. He at once jumped In, and then found that there were two little children being rapidly carried down' by the stream. With some difficulty he got them to the side of the river, when he, with tho assistance of eouje boya managed to place them on tha grass'bank; from where thoy were conveyed to thoir own homes. But for the timely aid of Gluyas both would have been drowned. fatal Accident by Drowning.— Mr. Henry Mor- com, of Crofthandy, went to Chili several years since, removing thence to Australia, where ho died. Near the residence of his widow and family at Stowell, Pleasants Creek, Melbourne, is a dam used . by a medicine manufacturer, and on th.; 20th of January last, Michael Henry Morcom, aged IS), one of the sons of Mrs. Morcom, with two others named Downe and Taylor, went to the engine pool to bathe. Shortly after entering the water, Morcom was seized with cramp, and called for assistance. It seems that at first Downe thought he waa joking, but on turning round he observed his companion sinking. He then went and seized him, but was unable to keep his head above the water. Taylor raised an alarm, but before any help was forthcoming. Morcom was drowned. Deceased could swim a little. The water was only seven feet deep, and it is thought that if Taylor had helped Downe, Morcom might have been rescued. Deceased, who was a member of the Weslevan Society, and of the chapel choir, was greatly respected by all who knew him. Fatal Accident near Truro.— A Husband and Wife killed.— On Saturday evening last, Mr. Edward Bath, of Trolver farm,. Feock, and his wife left Truro in a pony cart for their home, their route being by way of the new Falmouth turnpike- road. After stopping at Plynt's Barn turnpike to pay toll they proceeded onward, but on the steep descent the pony became restive, jumping and kicking. Mr. Bath tried in vain to pull him in, and an effort by Mr Hugh Pearce, who was walking on the road, also proved unsuccessful. The driver then pulled the pony towards the off hedge, at the part where there w a margin of some few feet between the roadway and the fence, his purpose being apparently, to avoid the more serious risk of accident at the steeper declivity, and the sudden turn near the railway arch. But in making this attempt the trap was capsized, and both Mr. and Mrs. Bath were thrown out violently, and in different directions : Mr. Bath being thrown out into into the road, and Mrs. Bath against the hedge, and near a low heap of stones. Mr. Bath fell with a heavy thud on his back, and received a violent blow and a cutting of the scalp at the back of his head. His wife's injuries were more serious, and very soon proved fataL Her scalp was torn off the left side of the head, and the left eye appeared to be destroyed. Each of the sufferers was unconscious when taken up, and the wife's unconsciousness was permanent. They were conveyed to the Infirmary. Mr. Bath, after treatment by Mr. Sharp, was conveyed to his home in Mr. Hugo's vehicle. Mrs. Bath's injuries were such as to compel her remaining at tho Infirmary, where she died in a few hours. Mr. Bath lingered on until Thursday morning, when he succumbed to the injuries he had received! The husband was 57 years of age, Mrs. Bath 51. They have left four children, the eldest of whom, a son, is abroad. Murder of Four Children by a Penzance Man, and Suicide of the Murderer.— On another page we give an account of a terrible tragedy which was enacted in London on Monday last by a native of Penzance, named Nicholls. It appears that the man left Penzance about 25 years ago, but he has near relatives there and many middle- aged and elderly acquaintances who knew him well. James Nicholls was one of the family of five sons and two daughters of the late James Nicholls, a carrier, who lived for many years in Market- jew- street. The principal actor in this horrible tragedy was, like two or three of his brothers, brought to the shoemaking; trade, and was an excellent workman. When about 20 he removed to Plymouth, and married the daughter of a dockyard's- man. From Plymouth he removed to London about four years since, having several children. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholls lived together comfortably, but previous to h aving Plymouth, Nicholls had got very pale and c kreworn. Machine- made boots and shoes interfered much with regular and lucrative em- ployment, and he had been heard frequently to express a fear that he must come to want, and if he dia so, he should never be able to resist hanging him- self. This morbid idea, constantly preying on a weakened mind in a weakened body, no doubt deranged him Two years since he was heard of as straggling on in London, with nothing unusual as to success or failure. And that is the last his Penzance relations knew until this sad event.— To show how momentous or strange is the history of the members of only one family we may mention that deceased's sister, Elizabeth, married a shoemaker named Richard Rodda. Some years a^ o they emigrated Australia from Penzance, and there Rodda, in a ... of insanity, cut his own and his wife's throat. Both died Three brothers of James Nicholls fought at St. Jean d'Acre, neither of them knowing that the others were present. The destroyer of his four children and of himself was 45 years of age, and bore a sober and industrious character. The Church in Cornwall— From the Nonconform- ist.— This westernmost county must be placed in a different category from the other western counties ; and, indeed, is almost, if not^ uite, exceptional among the English counties. For it has the smallest per centage of both criminals and paupers. Here then wa have, at the very extremity of the kingdom, found the sweetness and light which we have been hitherto vainly seeking. But then the county has also the highest percentage of Nonconformists, so that it is Non- conformity and not Establishment which must be cre- dited with the fact " Methodism, in its various forms, is the ^ Mother Church of Cornwall. It contains u$ oros of fine old churches, but the people mostly frequent the Methodist places of some ilk." An in- competent and indifferent Cornish Clergyman, who has thirty people in a church . holding 300, and whose living is sequestrated to pay liis debts, admitted to one correspondent that if it had not been for Dis.- senters, the people, in the time of his predecessors, would have buen as bad as heathens. In another parish thero is another clergyman, who is " so fierce a Churchman that he would rather bury himself in the Church's ruins than make any compromise with the Dissenters." But instead of preaching down Dissent he has preached away the people, who generally don't care about the Church, and are, as a rule. Noncon- formists. Their moral condition is " tolerable, but it Is due more to the efforts of Dissenters than of the Church— tenfold" The parish of near Pen- zance, lias 356 peoplo and a church holding 400, but the average congregation is not more than twelve, and rarely exceeds thirty. Both there and in — attenjpts have been made to increase the congregation by an increased number of services, but without suc- cess. One vicar does duty in both parishes, and is 83 years old, and iB described as a respectable specimen of the squire- vicar stamp. " I cannot," it is added, " say that he is either incompetent or negligent, but the influence of the Establishment was gone before he became vicar, and he was never the man to r- j • > ver it." " Nonconformity has done well for the religious wants of these two parishes, and in fact the religious life of thepcQple is in tJ> » ••'"^ wl and not iu the church." We have, unfortunately, less information respecting this interesting county than any other, otherwise we could, no doubt, have supplied soores of cases illustrative of the failure of the Establishment to secure the attachment of, or to promote the spiritual interests of the people. As it has been stated that the labours of the newly- appointed Bishop of Exeter in Cornwall have discouraged Dissent and " revived the work of the Church," we add the following:—" From observation and careful inquiry, I believe that this is a delusion. His lordship has certainly, at a great cost of time of time and money, rambled about the county in a desultory manner. The fact of his being a Cornishman, and tb^ disturbance about his appoint- ment, have brought crowds to hear him, and he has confirmed numbers of persons brought together in ways like those described. I do not think, however, that tho Church is stronger' than it' was two years ago." M A Visit t< f Epps's Cocoa Manufactory. — Through tho kindness of Messrs. Epps, I recently had an op- portunity of soeing the many complicated and variod processus tha Cocoa bean passes through ere 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 man- ifaotured by Messrs. Epps. to fit it for a wholesome aud nutritious beverage, might be of interest to tho readers of Land and Water."— See article in Land and Wafer, October 11. llrcakfa< - Ep/' s's Cocoa.— Oratefid and comforting. " By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutri- tion and by a careful application of the fine proper- ties of ^ yell- sejocted cqcoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a' delicately flavoured beverage whioh may save us many heavy doctors,' bills." Oivif Service Gazette. Made uinlply with ; boiling water, or milk. Each packet is labelled--" Jamt^ sEpps and Co., Homuoopathio Chemists, London.""— J^ lso makers of Epps's Cacaoino, a very thin beverage for evening use. If THEIIE ARE ANY LADIES who have not yet used the GLKNFIELD STARCH, thoyare respectfully solicited to give it a trial, and carefully follow out the directions printed on every package, and if this is done, thevwill say like the Queen's Laundress, it is the finest Starch they ever used. When you ask for ( rr. eJQtui. n STAHOH, see that you < rct it, as inforior kyjm are of-. c- n substituted for the sake of extra profit^ Beware therefore of spurious imitations. Manufacture of Cocoa, Cacaoine, < fc Chocolate.— We will now give an account of the process adopted by Messrs. James ITpps and Co., manufacturers of dietetic articles, at their works in the Euston Road, London."- See Article in Part 19 of CasseTs Household Guide. y/ rw vu> tal 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. $ irt( js, Carriages, antj geatjjs. BIRTHS At Alderley Edge, Cheshire, on the 22nd ult, the wife of Mr. Richard Jose, formerly of Penryn, of a son. At Trengove, Cortstiutine, on Tliur. iday last, the wife of Mr. Henry Harvey, farmer, of a daughter. At St. Mawes, on Sunday last, the wife of the Rev. J. F. M. Glanville, Independent minister, of a daughter— still- born. M: ARRIAGBS. At the Register Office, Falmouth, on Saturday last, Mr. John Brooks, to Miss Kate Quick, both of Falmouth. At the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Falmouth, yesterday, Mr. Elias Warren Chard, plumber and orazier, to Miss Selina Endean, both of Falmouth. At Perranarworthal, on Sunday last, by the Rev. Edward Hawkins, Mr. Hercules Williams, to Miss Grace Holm an, both of Perranwharf. D1CATHS. At Quay Hill, Falmouth, on Tuesday last, Jane, widow of Mr. Charles Vincent, roper, aged 78 years. At High Street, Falmouth, on Tuesday last, Mr. William Praed, shipwright, aged 28 years. At Penryn, ou Monday last, from injuries received from being thrown out of a rig, Mr. Richard Bodilly, coachman to the Misses Tweedy, of Truro, aged 52 years. At 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London, Mr. William Blake, of St. Mawes, commander in tha Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com- pany's service, aged 46 years. At 21, Tyrwhitt Road, Lewisham High Road, on the - 11th liist., Helen Elizabeth, second surviving daughter of the late Mr. Joseph Rickerby, of Sherborne Lane, formerly of Falmouth. ta t[ ie ( fcintar. This department is freely open to all wholesome dis- cussion, and fair criticism, of matters dflectim the public, and of local interest. The insertion of a letter it no guarantee of the Editor's approval of its contents. FALMOUTH UNION EXPENDITURE. SIR,— In proposing the resolution which wai unanimously adopted by the ratepayers at the annual vestry for this town, with reference to the cost of maintenance of the Workhouse paupers, fee., every object was tn.± t enquiry should be made into the cause of the excess, as compared with other Unions in the county, and not to reflect in any way, either on the Guardians or their officers— that there is a great differ- ence, according to the returns of the Local Government Board, caanot be denied, and the vestry considered it but reasonable that such differences should be ac- counted f > r by those to whom the expenditure of the rates had been entrusted If it can be satisfactorily orovci_( a& has been suggested) that there are special local circumstances which increase the cost of main- tenancy or that the mode of entering the particulars in the Falmouth Union Ledger varies from that ob- served by ouher Unions in the county, then the mind* of the rat- ipayers will, no doubt, be somewhat relieved, but I am not sanguine that even those circumstances will account for the whole of the difference that exists, as I find on reference to the abstracts of accounts of the Falmouth Union for the year ending Lady- day, 1866, that the cost of maintenance and clothing WAS then only 2s. 6jjd. per head per week, whoreas, at Michwlmas last it reached 3s. 4| d., being au increase in less than six years of lOd. per head per week. £ presume that this difference cannot ba attributed to any variation in the mode of keeping the accouuta. Down to 1886 yearly abstracts of accounts were regularly published on lar^ e sheets and posted in every parish in the Union, and it was to those that the rate payers naturally lo iked for information as to the ex- penditure ; since that time, however, no such docu- ments have been posted in either of the parishes, and the ratepayers have consequently been in ignorance as to the manner in which the rates have been expended. That they have themselves to blame for indifference and lukewarmness is true, and it is possible that but for the return published by the Local Government Board the great disparity in the cost of in- mainteaance as compared with other Unions would not now have been observed. It is satisfactory however, to learn that the Guard- ians have received the resolution in the spirit in which it was adopted, and that due enquiry is to be instituted forthwith into the several matters herein referred Your obedient servant, Dated April 18th, 1872. JOHN J. SKINNEB. THE CHICAGO LABOUR MARKET. DEAR SIR,— 1 am so affected by the sights I behold here from day to day that I really wish some- thing could be done to stay the influx of people into this city. They come here in search of employment, but there is none for them. There are hundreds here Out of work, and after they have pledged their gar- m'erfts they are literally starving, and many would gladly be at home working for their old njasters and earning the wages they scoffed at, but, alas, thoy have no in- in if returning. For the sake of the suffer:- ig hundreds of my countrymen, I ask you tj insert this and tho enclosed paragraph from the Chicago Tribune. I am, dear sir, yours respectf uly, T, H, EVANS, Chicago, March 25, 1873, The above is from a young man who left our neighborhood some time since. The paragraph to which he refers is a letter written to the paper namad, giving a very deplorable account of the position of parties who have come to the city in search of employ- ment whk a they had not been able to find. A letter from the Founder of " Earle's Retreat," received a few day3 since, expresses a fear that too many have left England in consequence of the reports which had been circulated respecting the demand for labor at Chicago. A late party which had arrived from Fidmouth he had advised to seek work in New York, or elsewhere, and hot to go on to Chicagq. The Co- operative Society.— We have a letter from a " British W'Jrknjan," respecting the Co- operr ative Society and its store. Our facetious cprresppq- ( Jeut in the course of his letter says the Society has a great fault of not blowing its trumpet * 0F too many months in the year; and forthwith he very adroitly sends forth a blast in its favor, that might moro suitably appear ia our advertising columns. The success of the store, he says, has alarmed the trades- men of the town in the same line " of business, and it is reported they are concerting measures for its an- nihilation ; our correspondent says anything that thoy may do will only open tho eyes of the publio more dearly on the advantages of co- operation. TIME OF HIGH WATER AT FALMOUTH AND PENRYN QUAYS. : 1I0BNIN0. EVUIN9. SATURDAY ... April 20 2 57. ' 3' JB ' SUNDAt : 21 3 40 3 S9 Monday 22 4 17 4 37 TUESDAY 23 I W .1 15 WEDMHDAY 24 5 36 5 55 THURSDAY 25 0 15 6 35 FRIDAI 26 6 52 7 13 M fHR FALMOUTH AND PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. SATURDAY. APRIL. 20. 1* T2 Seaetal iliiiiamicenient^ v SJli_ A_ IDtE OLVBa, Famishing and General Ironmonger, Plnmber, G- as Fitter and Mannfactnrer, STRAND, FALMOUTH. Is Selling off SUB. PLCS STOCK at great reduction in prices. Balance ivory- handle Knives, 10s., 12s., 16s., 20s. per dozen. Black handle Knives and Forks, 6s., 8s., 3 " i 2s. Gd., 3s. 6d., 4s. 6d., 5s. 6< L, 7s. 6cL pair. Electro- 9D. Dessert Spoons and Forks, 16s., 18s., 20s., 24s. doz, rtBoxc3, Salvors, Cake Baskets, Toast Racks, Tea Pots. 1 Klettles on Stands, 20s., 25s., 303. upwards. Tea Trays Fenders, parlour, Is. 6d., 2s., 3s., 43., 5s. Fenders, Fire Irons, 2s. 6d. to 30s. per set. Rumford Stoves ip ' ards. CookingRanges from 10s. Apparatuses from / a hing Machines, 12s. 6d., 60s., 90s. Chaff Cutters, 45s. T : ds, 6s. 6d. Iron French Beds, from 10s. to 30s. Half j Gas Chandeliers, Gas Brackets. Water Closets, and u ntier's Fittings. i jutared into eiher for work or supply. 9s., 10s., 12s". doz. Carving Knives and Fork , Silver Table Spoons and Forks, 20s., 24s. doz. Do. TeaSpoons, 8s., 10s., 12s. doz. Do. Sugar Cruets, tea., & c., & c. Bronzed Tea Urns and r from 5s. per set of 3, single Trays from Is. 6d. dining room, 5s. Feuders, drawing room, 12s. from 3s. upwards. Register Stoves from 8s. up1 20s. upwards. Patent Mangles, 30s., 45s. Wa 50s. Iron Cots, 7s. 6d. to 30s. Iron Folding B Tester Beds, Mattrasses and Palliasses. Lami all p! Estimates given and Contracts 42- Hi^ h Street ( for nerly tie Libaral Association Rooms ), KA- LMOUTH. Mr. j- s. SIDDONS, for many years Operator and Manager at Mr. J. P. Trull's, respect- fully informs his numerous friends and '* * " that he has, in coujuuction with Mr. J. C. Premises, and trusts, by the exercise of his production of Photographs guaranteed not to will obtain a fair share of public patronage. the public generally of the town and neighbor h STEPHENS), entorcd upon the above- mentioned v ell- known skill and careful manipulation ' in the o be surpassed in this or any other town, that they Portraits from Cirte de Visit? to Life - size, plain or finished in crayon, water or oil dolor. View of all liiids and out- door Groups taken, DR. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S CHLORODYNE. THE ORIGINAL AND ONLY GENUINE. CHLORODYNE is admitted by the Professloi to be the moBtwonderfnl and valuable remedy ever discovered. CHLORODYNE Is the best remedy known fir Coughs, Consumption, Bronchitis, Asthma. CHLORODYNE effectually oheckB and arresja those too often fatal diseases— Diptheria, Fever, Group, Ague. CHLORODYNE acta like a charm in Diarrhea, and la the only speoiflo In Cholera and Dysentery. CHLORODYNE effectually cuts short all atfaoks of Epilepsy, Hysteria, Palpitation and Spasms. CHLORODYNE ia the only palliative la Nejiralgia, Rheumatism, Gout, Cancer, Toothache, Meningitis, Ac. From Loan FBAITCIB C " Lord Francis Oonyngham, who this time last 3 Kr. Davenport, and has found It a most wonderful n~" tbe above address." " Earl Russell oommurdoated to the t , . vfll be glad to have half- a- dosen bottles sent at o Jege of Phyaioians that he received a dispatoh B effeot that Cholera has been raging fearfully, is CHLORODYITE."— See Lancst, 1st December 1864. PIRACY and IMITATIONS. GAUTTO* — Vice- Chancellor Sir W. PAQB WOOD stated) that Dr. J. COLLIS BBOWXB was, undoubtedly, tho Inventor of OKLORODYNE ; that the story of the Defendant, FaMitur, waa deliberately untrue, which, he regrotted to say, had T. lme.'.- 1- 8J94r_ .> Jone jg genuino without the words " Dr. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S -*--' 4iing Medical Testimony accompBnlcs each bottle. 3 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London. 1CTRO ' MAPPIN & WEBB MANUFACTURERS OF ELEGTRO- SILVER PLATE OP BEST QUAI. ITY, SPOONS AND FORKS, DINNER AND TEA SERVICES, PLATIIII DESSERT & FISH EATING KNIVES, CANTEEN CASES, < fcc. TABLE CUTLERY OF THE FINEST QUALITY. CATALOGUES POST FREE. ADDRESS CAREFULLY11 76, 77 & 78 OXFORD STREET, m MANSION HOUSE BUILDINGS, CITY, XJ03SRI30I5R. TL WORKS: SHEFFIELD & LONDON. General Hnnauiirenteirts. O^ TTTllOlN" Wanted to Purchase Tichborne Bonds. Old Indian China. & Curiosities JOHN BURTON, U PURIOUS Copies ofthe abovb, being now ij in circulation, all parties issuing such will be proceeded against. Genuine Copies are registered at Stationers' Hall, 1N0. I 273, March 11th, 1872, and can 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 selling by thousands. Each one is a great curiosity, bein copy of a real bond. Applicants will oblige by add] Envelope:—" Application for Bond . FOLK^ D AND SONS, 57, Bread St., ' London, E. C." May be had at the Offices of tl c F. and P. Weekly Times, at Is. ea< IF YOU VALUE YOUR HEA. I/ TH USE BRAGG'S PURE CARBON OR VEGETABLE CHARCOAL SOLD in Bottles, 2s, 4s and 6s each, by all Chemists* and by J. L. BRAGG, Solo Manufacturer, 14 WIQMOBI Siaaai, OAT « HDISB SQOAS 1, Loanoff, W. ng the Messrs. Cheapside, h. MONEY RE A General Mutual Perm: M4RKBT ST., FALMOUTH, IS OPEN TO PURCHASE EVEBY DESCRIPTION OP Old Indian China and other Curiosities, For which the highest market value will be given. STANDARD BANK, BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA, LIMITED, 10 Clements lane, Lombard- st., London, issues Drafts on the Diamond- fields and 15 principal towns in South Africa. This Bank transacts every description of Banking business. FOR GOOD PRINTING, in the best style of workmanship, with the greatest expedi- tion, at the most moderate changes, apply at the office of this Paper. DY TO BE ADVANCED BY THE auent Land, Building and Investment Society, CHIHE OFFICE :- - 44. BEDFORD ROW, LONDON, W. C. TBrSTEHS:— ROBERT NICHOLAS FOWLER, Esq., M. P., Cornhm, E. C. JOIFV FREEMAN, Esq., J P., Woodlano House, Falmouth. A ., OER\ IAN THOMAS S. 1WDEU, Bishopsgate, E. C. "" ADVANCES promptly made upon security jf Freehold or Leasehild Property, repayable by monthly or qu. ir-. erly instalment! for fifteen years or less, by which meina property may be acquired by payments slightly pxceedid^ tlie rental value. Surrey Fee and registration, £ 1 3s. Hd. on npp ications of £ 500t and under. INTESTMEN T DEPARTMENT.— Deposits received bearing interest at the rate of £ 5 per cent, per annum, '. vitbdrawable on short notice. SHARES, value £ 10, £ 25 and £ 50, bearing interest at the rate of £ 5 per cent. l and partic pating in profits declared, may be realized by singie payments or i. ionthly subscriptions extending over a term of years. For full particulars apply to I THOMAS COIUFIELD, th ? County Surveyor, Arwenack Street, Falmouth. CHARLES PHILLIPS, tk J Agent, Killigrew Street, Falmouth. Or to the Secretary, CHARLES BINYOX, 44, Bedford Row, London. BY ] JA. M. I3S The Ch « Consumers are warned that none is gei a leaden Seal. Also Manufacturers of " Barley aud Oats; and of Bone, Blood ant Particulars of JAMES GIBBS AND ( London, E. C., or thiir authorized A'enta, THE BEST INVESTMENT OF DAY, EPPS'S OOOOA. YAL LETTERS PATENT. I BBS A. ISTI3 CO., ile Manufacturers of the - FIXED O- XT^^ rO ipest and best Manure in use. "" line unless the bags bear the Trrde Mark and are secured with ' atent Ammoniated Phosphate," especially adapted for Wheat, . Special Manures of first- rate quabty. JOMPANY, Works : Victoria Tocks. Offices : 16, Mark Lane, the West of England Bone and Manure Company, Penryn. And where there is no pre- vious know- ledge of the business re- quired, is a Lemonade, MM jncroasefor Ginger ftimHwl rl rinlrm. The book, of 60 pages of Illustrations and information, forwarded for three stamps. S. BARNETT, Engine. br, 23 FORSTON STREET, HOXTON, LONDON, N. THE VILLAGE BROUGHAM, thel VICTORIA Brougham A the Park Brougham, RUOIBTUIIBD. lat, forms rfectopenorolosed carriage; 2nd, Brougham& Victoria: 3rd ' mi, Victoria i Driving PhaetoD, all in t^ he most perfect ^ doanyBize. Pon^ Phaetons in everyvariety, Draw « ; Acre, WO. manner. Mado anv Bize. PonyPhaetons in ev lags sent. J. BIDDLECOMBE, 67 Gt. Queen I iT? CONOMY IN CRAPE HOjjRNING. J2i ONE FOLD of KAY A RICHARDSON'S NEW PATENT ALBERT CRAPE IS AS THICK as TWO FOLDS of the old make. THE BLOODI THE BLOOD 11 THE BLOOD HI CLARKE'S World Earned Blood Mixture 70R CLEANSING and CLEARING the BLOOD _ from A T. I. IMPURITIES, whether Arising from yoatii- il indiscretion or any other cause, cannot be too highly raoommandad. It ^ Cures Old Sores Onres Ulcerated Sores in the Neck Cures Ulcerated Sore Legs Cures Blackheads, or Pimples on 1 Gores Sourvy Sores I Cores Cancerous Ulcers Ooree Blood and Skin II Cores Qlandul ir Swellir Clears the Blood from alTImpure Matter, from whatever pause arising. Aa this mixture la pleasant to the taataj and warranted fraa r— which all pilli and morit madlclnM sold ft* eaaes oontnln— the Proprietor aollolla i to giv » it a trial to teet 1 " Only in £ lb., | lb., and lib. Packets— tin- lined & labelled. Sold by the Trade in all Parts. Prepared by JAS. EPPS and Co., Hornceopathic Chemists, London. Homfzopatliic MvlrJiines ami Handbook. 300 pages, bound, Is. ; by post for 14 stamps. fPHE HOMCEOPATHIC FAMILY INSTRUCT- 1 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., Homceopathic Chemists, 4S, Threadneedlc Street ; 170, Piccadilly; and 112, Great ltussell Street. ^ Falmouth, E. Michell, chemist. Helston, H. Bennetts, chemist. Penzance. A. H. Buckett, 7, Chapel Street. Truro, T. B. Percy : Serpell: J. EvRickard. Agentsjfor Epps's Glycerine Jujubes, for Cough, Throat- Irritation, Voice. Sold only in labelled lx> xes, 6d. and Is. SJCAUTION— Each bottle or tube of medicine is sccured by a band over the cork bearing the signa, ture, " Jamc3 Epps and Co., Homieopatkic Chemists, London," without which in no case can they be p. p. 180, cloth, Is. ; post free for 13 stamps. DOG DISEASES TREATED BY HOMOEOPA- THY. By JAMES MOORE, M. R. C. V. S. London : — James Epps and CJ. , Homoeopathic Chemists, 4S Threadneeclle Street; 170, Piccadilly; and 112, Great Russell Street. WANTED. ' SLANTED IMMEDIATELY, a steady, ^ » respectable Youth, tp the Painting and Glazing Busipesij. App. ly to Mr. E. Ji Earle, near tbp Church', Falmouth. i all I part*. itabling 9 Thousands of Testimonials 1 Bold in BotUaa SB Sd each, and In _ Bottles, 11a each, saffloont to effort a p long- Handing aaaea, by all Chemist* aid Patent Medicine • andora i or aent to any address on ibooipt of ® or US stamps by | W. J. CLARKE, Cheriut, High Street, UNCOLIT. WHOLESALE AGENTS :+— tHOUV « 90M8, LONDON, AND AU THE WH0LE8ALE HOUSE8. i at it log the child from ° vaa bright aa a MBS. WIMSLOW'O SOOVHINA SYBUP » OB CHILD RES 1 Should always be UBed when Children are outting teeth; it relieves the littlo suSerers pt once, It pro- duces natural quiet sleep by relievinp pain, and the little cherub awakes button." It is perfectly harmless, and very pleasant to taste. It soothes the child, it softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and ia the beat known remedy ior dysentery and diarrhoea, whether arising from teething « other oauypa. Mrs. Wiualov. Js Soothing Syrup ia sold by ng Syrni,- thousands of Medicine dealers in all parts of . the world at la lid per bottle, and Millions of Mothers can u- iulyjo 1U vlrt—— VannUotory, 488 Oitod Btoiet, N. W ESTCOTT, Cargo Clerk am\ Gen: rid Mercantile Accountant, 1, " WATERLOO ED., FALMOUTH. Ship's Average, Victualling and Wag^ a.' Accounts calculated, and S'^ ryi^ ys iSeatly Copied. " Vessels' Half- yearly Returns to Shipping Master made out. Tradesmen's Books kept by the Year. Deeds Engrossed and Made Up, iu the newest London stj'le at the shortest notice. TWELVE CARTES de VISITE, 2 § 8d; 1 Six, 1* Sd. Cute enlarged to 10 Inohea, 6 « i € » bl » » u a. Seed • uta with tump*. Perfoot ooplea and ca- lginal retnrnaa tm. LooOon Photo- Copying Oampuy, 30i Ee< Kl- it., oyportU ttw Potj- teohnlc uid 40 Hl( h Holbcrn. London. F. 8. D, PttlUJra, Maoacar. JUDSON'S DYES.— 18 Colors, 8d. each. J^ IBBONS, WOOL, __ SILK, FEATHERS, ioticw. Genteel Sold in to be let # r Obelisk Road. TO BE LET 011 SOLD, with immediate possession, two elegantly- designed and eommodious DWELLINGS ( nrwly- built), iu Obehsk Road, coninanding the Pnest view » in Falmouth. Each House comprises 2 Parlors, 2 Kitchens, 5 Bedtooms, W. C., and a small Cellar; with a Garden in front and convenient Courtlage at tho back. Apply to Mr. JAMES MITCHELL, | Builder, Falmouth. '" pHOUSANDS are atjthis moment rejoicing « vit 1 the beautiful headsiof Hair restored to then by using NEWMANE'S HAIR GROWINQ POMADE, which was nevor known to fail la pro- ducing hair. Price Is. land 2s. Gd. GREY HAIR RESTORED to its original< » Ior { Greyness prevented and the growth of tk* Hair promoted by using NEWMANE'S HAIR LOTION. This is at obce tho CHEAPEST and Bm HAIR RESTORER out, as it has stood the test and ia pronounced superior to preparations, FREE SONS, the higher- priced Londoa [ from DANGEROUS POI* . and certain in i a action. Try one Shilling Bottle and be convince! of its efficacy. Bnttlaa Is. and 2s. 6d. each. SCURF or DANDR1FFF instantly removed br NEWMANE'S HAIR WASH. Tho Beataa4 extant. In Bottlos at M. Cheapest Hair Cleaner and Is. Sold in Falmouth by Market Street. W. F. Newman, ehooaki, GLENFIELD If there ate any ladies who hara not yet used tha GLENFIELD STARCH they are respectfully solicited to giv ® it a trial, aud carefully follow out th* directions printed on every package, and if this fs done, They will say, liki the Queen's Laundress, It is the huest1 Starch they ever used. When yon ask for Gleafleld Starch so* that yon get it, As inferior kinds aie often substituted for tk* sake jbf extra profits. Beware therefore of spurious imitations. THE CHEAPEST PACKAGE OF TEA IK ENGLAND. Y, containing IB lbs. of really gooA - Jrriage free to any railway- stanoaov market town in Englabd, on receipt of 40s, by PHILLIPS & CO. TEA MERCHANTS, 8 KINQ WILLIAM 8T. COT. LOaPOif, B. O. I I PBICB LIST FINL GOOD TEA CHEAPER THAN EVER. STBONG to Fine Blick Tea, Is 4d, Is 6d, 2s and 2s Sd po* lb.; 40s worth seht carriage free to any railway statioa or market town in England or Wales, on receipt of 40s by PHILLIPS & CO. TEAIMERCHANTS, 8 KINQ WILLIAM ST. E. C. Prime Coffee Is Is 4d, Is 6d. A Price List Free. PHILLIPS & CO. have no agents, and no c unection wilb any House in Worseetor, Swansea or ' Witney. BEECH - LOADERS. SECOND IUA EEOH LOADERS. FROM £ 10 lea. EOH - LOADERS. BOUGHT FOB CATALOGUB AND PUOB LIST, S STAMPS. WHISTLER, 11 STRAND. U> SDOM. BORWICK'S BAKING POWDER Gold Medal, Havre, 1868 ; Gold Medal, Pari* Society of Art*, 18^ 9 ; FOB ITS SUTKHIOBIT* ovaa an, OTHER BAjmra POWDERS. BAKING lORWICKS BAKING POWDER t makes delicious Bread without Yeast. lORWICK'S BAKING POWDER I makes Puddings, Pastry, and Piecrust* with Butter and EggBi POWDER BORWICK;^ BAKING POWDER sold everywhere, m Id and 2d. Packets, and Od., Is., 2s. 6d. and 6s. Patent Boxes only, and not loo: e by weight. Be shre to ask for and see that you get BORWICK'S GOLD MEDAL BAKING POWDER. FRAGRANT F wuiLixt — For the TEETH and BREATH. A few drops of this liqjuid on a wet tooth brush pro- duces a delightful foam, which cleanses the Te^ tf* from all impurities, strengthens aud hardens the gmna,. prevents tartar, and arrests the progress of di- ooy. It- gives to the Teeth a pej- uliar and beautiful - v' lbeness, and imparts a delightful fragrance to the Breath. Tt removes all unpleiusand odour arising from decay*-! teeth, a disordered storrlach, or tobacco smoke. Tno Fragrant Floriline itj uureJy- s- egetAhb, and equally adapted to okj and yoiiig. It Li thw greatest toilet discovery ftf the age. Sold iu lwgo bottles and elew » t cas « s at 2s. txl., by all Chemists and Perfumers. H C GALLOP, Proprietor, 4lJB, Osford Street, London. VALUABLE DIFCOVIL FOR THE HAHI!!— A verv nicely perfumed hair dressing, called V The Mexicai / n^ neWer'" 1no° abein$ 8old by mo* t Chezai- S « » P. d. PBrfa ™ ers at 3s dd per bottle, is fast supewedtoH Hnir Restorors' /— for it will positively V^ rTifi Grey or Tfhite hair to its colour without dye^ rt, or leaving Resto " — neu oi most * Restorers." It mingly be^ uiifol, as well as pro- itpots, where the hai* positively - . —^ -- .. « ... tir by a few applications, the disngreeablo • " " makes tho hair chi glanud aro not dedaypa. Certificate frata Dr. Vera. « T « 01Mrr^ Hn' Ask for TT O „ [ HAIR RENEWS " prenarod H. C. C^ UP, 483foxfora Strvol, Lond^ ^ ' BROWN'S BBONOTLL TBO. CHE s, for the enre of Ctmgho, Colds, Hoarseness, Bronchitis. Asthma. Catarrh, or MI irritation or aowndss of the throat, are now imported and sold ia thip country , at la ltd per box, pnt np in th? form of a " lozenge." It is the most convenient, pleasant, safe and sure remedy for clearing ana strengthening the voice known in the world. Th* Rev. Henry Ward Beecher says: " I have often recom- mended them to friends who were publio speaker*, and in many cases they have proved extremely service- able." The cenuine have the words " Brown's Bronohial Troches " on the Government Stamp around each box. Sold by all medicine vendors.— London Depot, 403 Oxford Street- ' the Faimonth anil Pemyn U « ikly JW- » ?" r* Hlrtk ni. l Published b\ j I RETKUITIII 5AIT\ N KJAI*, raiding at No. 9, H'CIJV S- « Rui i . « • Paritk of Falmoul'i jmcas ' tOen '*% Ui » Quay- M M* laW Pamsh. lord I that an thos^ F M& e, Hamilt C » Ueo Hnnto . lie I fHE FALMOUTH & PENRYN WEEKLY TIMEft SATURDAY, A1TJL 20, 1873. I'M ' © ojtfts of Ik gay. ( B'f an Occdsi'& nal London Correspondent.) Ifa: TOicrcmarfcaynflcr this head are to bo regarded'as ( he ex- presMoU of lHcWpcndcrit obluicW, troth tho pen ef a gentleman In whom vte havo tho gi- eateatoonfldencc, but for which we ; pevarthelcss do not hold ourselves responsible.] portuhities for learning the pleasant and valuable art of summing. The metropolis is very badly off hi this 1 respect. Commenting on thn fact that the liirst- Com- I missioner of Works has given. permission tt establish one swimming bath off Battcrsea Park and another near Waterloo bridge, tho Pall Mall says, " London is not only the ene capital, not only tho one city, but actually tho one largo town in" Europe, which is absolutely without swimming baths." This i3 an error. Wo have swimming baths in Lambeth and Pentonyille, but still these are ridiculously inadequate to the requirements of our town. Tho intended Brimming baths trill bo on a large scale, and will be a great boon to tho Londoners, whilo they will also set a good ^ sample to other towns. No town should bo without its swimming bath, which would promote koalth and Cleanliness bwideS tending to save life by teaching people1 to swim. Perhaps TOO shall somo day arrive at the accomplishment of natation being so general that no man or boy will bo allowed to enter on a seafaring life till he proves that ho can swim ; hut if we were now to make this a sine qua non, why— we should have \ « w few sailors. THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT. ' y , The statements of Lord Granville in the oho House , and o{ lVtf.' Gladstone in tho other appear to have ' produced'somp good effects on tho public ihind, but not much. From these statements we learni that in opposition to the American " case," our Government has presented to the Geneva Tribunal a counter case, .". which " does not contain any plea or argument with, respoctto what may be called indirect claims," and that. this is accompanied by a note on the piirt of the Uritish Government, " for tho purpose of reserving all rights appertaining to her Majesty on this arbitration, ' so that future negotiations may be in no wise fettered m ty the communication of this counter case." Of course, till we know exactly what this counter caso : is, we are not in a position to thoroughly under- stand the position of affairs; but we know this — that the British Government continues to ignore and repudiate tjh ® American in& rect claims, and that it has now— indirectly, if not directly— told the United States Government that Great Britain never entertained theso claims and does not mean to entertain them. The reply of Mr. Fish, therefore, will be eagerly looked for, and meanwhile there is some ground to hope that the United States Govern- , ment. will not endeavour to maintain the untenable position it has taken up. The Stock Exchange is per- haps, after all, the best guide to the state 6f public feel- ing in this country on the occasion of any important ministerial announcement, and it is important to note ^ therefore that on the morning .. after the declarations in Parliament the stock markets opened firmly, and that Consols improved ode- eighth. Of course, no one in ^^ hia senses beiieves,. there wil be any war arising out of this quarrel, but it will be . a mercy to have this miser- atde dispute settled. The Houso of Commons— I mean the building— is * notoriously not large enough for its members. It will not comfortably accommodate much more than half, and when two- thirds of the members are assembled the chamber is inconveniently crowded. The question whether the room shall be enlarged has often been dis- cussed, and I suppose that some day this course will be decided on. But meanwhile thero is a powerful claim A NICE POINT! Tho following little episode has just occurred at the Imperial Opera HOUBO in Vienna. In Lortzing's " Waffenschmied," thtrr is a scene where Count Lie- benau, Herr Neumann, has to kiss Iimentraut, Mdlle. Gindele. The kissing cannot be omitted, because in the two following scenes tho conversation is continually ttirmn'g upon it. After Irmentraut haa commanded the Count to kiss first her right and then her left hand, sho winds up by saying, " And now the hps." Full, prob- ably, of his part, Herr Neumann, in reply to this challenge, gaTe Mdlle. Gindele, at the first perfor- mance, the kiss specified in tho stage directions. The lady was so incensed, that she complained to the management. Everything like argument to the effect that tho person on the stage was Irmentraut and not Mdlle. Gindele proved perfectly unavailing. She declared she felt insulted in her honour as a woman, and that, if she could not obtain reparation from the management, she would seek it from the law. Several days elapsed, and the affair was a fruitful topic of conversation. At length the " Waffenschmied," was again put up. All the Initiated were very curious to know how the kiss- scene would go off. After Count Liebenau had kissed Irmentraut's right and left hand, the lady said : " Thero ; I will not trouble you for the kiss on the lips." Herr Neumann hereupon quickly replied : " Thank heaven that I have not to kiss that, fright" Mdlle Gindele became so excited that she had to be carried in a fainting state to her room. She has again complained to the management. Stage jurists are deeply interested in the matter, for they want to know whether a kiss given in character to a lady on tho stage cad be regarded as an insult to the recipient THE AMERICAN CRVVSYRF TIOX.— Mal- a- propot of the Alabama Claims, Hers. Malaprop remarked that che had no patience with those over- reaching . Yankees, they were so unscrophulous.— Punch. AUSTRALIAN MEAT.— Tbe Rev. H. Collis, ol Maidstone, writes:— " As a clergyman with a parish chiefly inhabited by working people, will you allow me to say that the ehief ob- jection to tho preserved meat from AustrAlla la It is over- cooked ? If any method could be devised of bringing the meat over to this country underdone it would a& on bccome with all classo3 acceptable." THUNDERSTORM IN SCOTLAND.— On FRIDAY evening in last week several loud peals of thunder and vivid flashes of Ughtning visited Aberdeenshire. The dwelling- house of Mr. Black, farmer, Smith^ Croft, | parish ol JUourtie, was scrucs Dy ugninmg. i nrei | the inmates were severely injured, and the others had narrow escapes. Mrs. Black, while in the kitchen with | a child in her arms, was severely injured about the head and back, and is still almost blind. Tho child escaped I unhurt. Alexander, aged C, son of Mr. Black, v. as at I the same time struck, nis clothes were torn into shreds, I and he sustained considerable bodily injury. Margaret Pirio, domestic servant, aged 16, was similarly injured. I A newspaper which Mr. Black wa3 reading was carried ! out at the window, while he himself escaped. Several | of the other inmates wero temporarily stunned. The 1 east gable of the house was knocked down, the windows , were Emashed, the plaster and part of roofing destroyed, Bi..!*. , ut, to ' THE SUBSTANCE OP SOLDIERSHIP.— There may, perhaps, be somo room for improvement in tho THE GIANTS AND THE BUNKUM- BAG. ( From Puuch.) Two won lntentioned Giants, face to face, Anxious to shake hands, bygones bid be gone, Are held Apart from couainly embrace By a huge wind- bag, all of Bunkum blown I When Giant John calls Giant Jonathan No more to let thir Bunkum- Bag prevont Tho two stout cousins' doing all they can To clear off scores of ancient discontent. Shall Giant Jonathan to Giant John Turn a deaf ear, and swear that wind has weight, And pin his faith the Bunkum- Bag upon, And ope new sorei, and old sore » aggravate! Shall not both Join the Bunkum- Bug to prick, 4nd give Its heated hnrabug t « the winds. And fall to settle the substantial* slick. And pay, or take, as arbitration finds t DREADFUL MURDER IN FRANCE. A French paper gives tho following particulars respecting the murder of Ave persona at Barp, noar Bordeaux:— A fearful murder, which recalls the wholesale butchery perpetrated by Tropmann, is reported from Bordeaux. The crime was discovered on Thursday in last week, in a lonely Cottage of the yillageof Tastous, near the great southera city." That cottagfe was tenanted by an aged' couple, Arnaud Mano and his wife, their daughter, a yqung tyoman of thirty, aad the four children ' of thd lktter, two boys and two girls. The cottage- Appatirs Id have stood' in a walled orchard. On Thursday five corpeoa were lying, fearfully mutilated,, partly in the or- chard and partly in/ one. of the rooms. Old' Mano, his wife and daughter1, the^' skulls' beaten, in. were stretched outside the hduW near a barn; the old woman survived thirty hours longer, although one blow had beaten in the wholeof one side of her skull, including the eye. In an inner room were found the corpses of two little girls, one five years old, the other a baby about one year ; they had been taken out of their bed, placed on a table, and there their brains had been beaten out with a heavy hammer. Tho way ia which this wholesale murder was discovered imparts an additional element of horror to the crime. In an adjoining room to that in which the two little girls' bodies were Gid out on the table slept two boys, ' the eldest of them only eight years old. They woke at the usual fime in the morning, and after calling for their mother to give them their breakfast before going to sohoolj . they went forth tp look after her, and the poc* little fellows_ saw the' fearful eight described above. They took their satchels as if to go to school, as usual, and on meeting a neighbour told him, " We are going to fetch father— everybody^ at home is dead, and there is a lot of blood about." The man oould not believe it, or paid no heed to what they said, and went his way ; and it was only the third person they met, and' to whom they told the same tale in their child's prattle, who thought it worth his while to go out of his way and see if the dreadful story were a true one, and discovered it was only too reaL The father of the children was sent for, and on beholding the scene fainted away. There seems nothing as yet to implicate him, but pro- visionally he has been taken into custody, as it is inferred from the circumstances of tho crime that it must have been committed by ono well acquainted with the ins and outs of the house. At first it was supposed that robbery was the motive, but that seems untrue. This murder is causing great excitement in Bordeaux, and even in Paris is exciting a kind of languid interest. military efficiency of our Volunteers. The one thing, however, of all things most needful to place them any- where nearly on a level, in point of soldiership, with the troops of the Line, would probably be pronounced by some of their professional critics, if those gallant officers would speak their minds, to be Pipeclay.— Punch. AN EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.— A com- munication from Kiel says:—" The town i3 in con- sternation. Two young men from the school of marine, midshipmen, as they aro called here, have just caused a tremendous scandal. During the night of the 22nd March, the Emperor's birthday, they wero at a music- hall, where they met two young persons belonging to respectable families, MM. Vogt and Esselgroth. Some words arose, and one of the naval cadets stabbed M. 1 Vogt, and then took to flight. M. Esselgroth chased him with a view to hand him over to the police, when, ia a retired spot, the midshipman turned and struck hi » pursuer with a poinnrd. Both victims died the next day. The emotion is indescribable. But one opinion prevails here relative to the license of these naval students ; they set the example of all sorts of disordera." DENUNCIATION OF THE ILLINOIS LIQUOR LAW. — A correspondent of tho Tribune, writing from Chicago on the 28th ult, says that a State Convention of brewers, distillers, and saloon- keepers, was held in that city during the preceding week. They denounced the law regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors ; formal a- ia another and a very different thing. Speculation of late has bean so active, that it was evident to those who paid attention to the matter, that it was being over- done. The check that has been given therefore to the profession of company- making— for it ia a profession, and a very profitable one to the promoters— is to be rejoiced at The old adage, " much wo hid have more," is always being illustrated by th$ demands made on the Post- office. The last demand is— it havincr " been arranged that' private cards ./ with written communications on tEttn shall - p^ sa for one halfpenny— that adhesive ' stamps a be avail- able. Eut tho Postmaster General says no, the ex- clusive use ef impressed stamps must be insisted on. Why even this should have been decided on is rather rrazfling, for there certainly has been BO great agitation for the halfpenny pri^ Ate Card ' system. Perhaps the next demand will for. halfpenny letters. May we not, however, go rather ^ So fax; in thy matter of cheap- The public have for some time past been entertained with all sorts of rumours, surmises, contradictions; and corrections with reference to that awful murder in the - aristocratio neighbourhood of Park- lane ; but all this has been happily followed by the definite statement of the capture of the accused and her confession of the dreadful crime. What but arrest could this woman havo expected ? Her plans for escape were posi- tively transparent.— Her track was marked out- by herself, and the pursuing detectives had an easy task. Tliis awful crime must havo produoed a saddening effect on the mind of everyone who has read the narra tive of it, and there must be a feeling of relief that the accused is now in the bands of justice. Whatever may be thought of tho merits of the dis- pute in tho agricultural world, there can be no denying the fact that we are coming to what may be called a very respectable bucolic revolution, and that tho move- ment is rapidly spreading to various parts of the country. As we cannot Jgnoro this fact, the question arises, how shall it bo dealt with ? Conciliation and arbitration— that is what is wanted; and it is satisfactory, there- fore, to find that the Warwickshire Chamber of Agriculture has been discussing in a matter- of- fact and conciliatory spirit this labour question, and has decided that a conference shall be held between representatives of landowners, fawners, and labourers, and that the Chamber has meanwhile recommended payments in coin and the adoption of piece- work wher- ever practicable. We are all deeply interested in this agricultural revolution, and whichever side we may take— whether we side with masters or men— we must all be desirous of an amicable settlement of matters in dispute. A conference, with all parties represented, Is the fairest way of arriving at this desirablo result. The labourers have put in their " caso;" let the farmera put in their " counter- case." It ls. to bo hoped that other Chambers of Agriculture will follow the example of that of Warwickshire. DUELLING IN FRANCE. WE shall soon forget Arthur O'Connor and his in- tensely stupid, but none the less criminal attack on the Queen. Tho result of tho trial must be pretty generally approved of. Had he been) declared insano ho would of course have been confined in a criminal lunatic asylum during her Majesty's pleasure, which Bim ply means for life, and then he would have been a great criminal Now he is only a little criminal, treated, as ho deserves to be, contemptuously. A year's im prisonment will give him timo for reflection, and he will emerge from durance vilo sadder and wiser, wbile tbe whipping with a birch rod is just the contemptuous punishment that bo merits. State organisation to test its constitutionality and mak » it a political issue in tbe next campaign ; denounced the men who voted for the , law, and tried to frighten them into repealing or modifying it by resolving to Bupport no man for office who would not obey their command?. While they were in session, a petition signed by l, 045convicte in the State Peniten tiary, agamsfc any change in the law, waa presented to tho Senate, over one- half of the unfortunate petitioners alleging that their crimes were the direct result of intoxicating liquors. Though coming from men of no standing in tho community, and under duress, the document had its weight The Convention did not accomplish any- thing ; and that it failed to intimidate the Legislature maybe judged from tho fact that a test vote on a Bill to repeal the law and submit it to the people was laid upon the table by an emphatic vote of 4 to 1. An attempt will undoubtedly bo made to compel the Re- Eublican State Convention to repudiate or indorse the iw and place the onus, one way or the other, on tho party. While politicians in the cities may be disposed to temporise, the sturdy farmers will not budge an inch. The'state of Illinois, as a whole, is sober and temperate, j and will give the law a fair triaL OUR FRUIT PROSPECTS.— Land and Water \ ^ Tfew weeks back tfcere was a very good show of blossom \ I for cherrica. apricots, peaches, nectarines, pears, and plums. 1 The season was unusually early, and tho trees burst iiito a i— splendent mass of blossom with a rapidity rarely equalled poat years, the elfectof tho mild weather which prevailed tbe commencement of March. But a chan* hai oome over Uie face of nature*— cold, cutting winds by day, and keen, sharp, stinging froata by night, have worked havoc among the WORDS TO A WIFE. love, thu'rt like yet unlike mutton. Likewise beef, and veal, and lamb. Do not answer that the glutton I bespeak mo that I am. They in price, } ear after year, aro Rising, thou muBt needs allow : Butcher"! meat growa ever dearer So, and yet notao, dost thou. For although my annual payment To my Butcher w& xeth still. Loss and less each time for raiment. Wanes tho Llnendrupor's bilL Thus by thrift expense thou meotest; Whence thy wisdom doth appear : Also, that I find thee, Sweetest, Cheaper etiU and still more dear.— Punch. IRISH CHURCH STATISTICS. Considering tha.', we aro a maritino nation, it has oog been matter ol surprise that we have eo few op- A member of the School Board recently in a town In 1 tho north, dropped into a village school and after hearing the urchins sing, passed them this coinnlimcnt, begot ol his opera exporloncoHoys, when I heard your beaut tul song to- night, I had to work hard to keep my feet atUl. Now, what do you think was thoinattor with them 2" Ihe anitver came BIUJ great promptness, " Chilli Iain th I" biosss'ras, ahdTjurnt, blistered petalstell a sad taloof blighted hopes to the gardener. The ehange which, let us hope, haa. now set In mav not have come too late, however, in some Instances. Apples are at least Bafeasyet, and the late pears, as well aa cherries, plums, and other fruit trec3, which were not too forward. A GOOD STORY OF JAY GOULD.— Hard beset by the band who broke up the Erie Ring— invested, not in his Inst ditch, but in his last room— Mr. Gou'^ like a good general on the verge of defeat, deliberat on the situation, and Bought a mode of snatching success out of disaster. He looked straight into tha facts, and his keen insight and long experience enabled him to perceive that only one of two things could happen, that there was no middle course, that he must either win or lose tho battle. All depended on his estimate of the issue, and he arrived at, the conclusion that Jav Gould would lose. Did ho despair ? Not a whit He foresaw an advantage eVen in defeat His argument was, that his expulsion from office would send up the \' alue of the Erie shares ; and he resolved to profit by tho fix in which he had been placed^, Making up his mind to speculate on therise, he secretly bought all the Btock he could obtaih, and having! aecured his market, he resigned P.- eans of victory were sung; Mr. Gould took his seat meekly as a mere director; the Erie Stock did rise ; and then Mr. Gould sold out His profit on the smart transaction is eaid to have been two'millions of dollars! FIE, MR. FEROUSSON !— The Misses Kirlingj ton have discontinued ThtjTimcs. They could no longffl allow a paper to entor their doors which dovoted a con siderable portion of its space to an article with such ai objectionable title as " Rude Stone Monuments. — Punch. THE LAND ACT IN ULSTER.— A Belfast cor respondent states that a caso of considerable im portanco was heard at, the Dungannon Laud Session on Saturday ; the claim was made by Samuel Burue i tenant of the lands of Gortshalgair, against the Earl of Ranfurly. Ho claimed £ 700 for tenant- right on th | expiry of the lease, and lib contention . was that h had a right to do so just as if he was only a tenau j from year to year ; for the landlord it was contend^ that the tenant- right custom which might hold good i j the case of yearly tenants, did not apply at the e: J tiratlon of a lease. The chairman, Sir Francis Brad] | l eld that the custom at the end of a lease was ui affected by the lease if existing at the time the leas was granted. He gave a decree for £" 300. A CHILD KILLED BY AN ELEPIIANT.— A bo j of 13, named Stanton.' has been killed by an elephai at Hanley. Messrs. Bostock and Wombwell's Men gerie arrived at that town on Saturday, and amor} I the animals was an elephant, which was taken to a | inn stable. A number df children gathered in the in yard, and amused themselves by giving the elepha: nuts, andother things. Some of thom aro said to ha given it stones, at which tho animal was BO irritate that he seized tho deceased child with his trunk, ai raised him to his mouth ; a keeper seeing what was c curring, called out, and the animal dropped the elul Ho was picked up and at once taken to a doctor, ari although every effort was made to restore him he di on Monday night from wounds in the head and sevd internal injuries. M LOST WITH ALL HANDS .'— Tho bark AaJ/ 3 land, Captain Iuglis which arrived at Greenockj Wednesday night in lwt week. from Pcr. tacola, buy intelligence of the low of the bark Andaman, of Bafl United States, with all hands. The Airland sightji the^ lm/ a man on the ISth of March. ± 55 miles uort$ tho Bermudas, in the North Atlantic, and 4j0 mf, S. E. from New York. Tho Rnffirlandbova dowii. u; J the " vessel, ascertained her name, and found she v ' sinking. • At tho time a strong north- westerly gale ^ raging, and owing to the heavy sea it Was found imi \ eibl& to launch a boat to naVe t* o crew of the disal ' vessel. They numbered six mon and a boy, and w r observed clinging to tho windward bulwarks of I Andaman, which was heavily listed. A raft had b constructed, nnd was lying alongside tho vessel, wh was dismasted. Captain Inglis signalled to the c: that he would endeavour to take tliem off by bear . round to leeward, but tho disabled vessel suddenly • tied down, taking all hands with her. The Kafirla cruised about all the scene of the disaster fori su' timo, but no trace of any of the unfortunate crew v, observed. Miscellaneous Intelligence, HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL, THE PENSION TO LADY MAYO.— Tbe Madras AthenaniKEAyB :— The pension proposed to bo given to Lady Mayo la generally considorcd, In this country, to bo too little. A feeling of gonoroalty la evidently abroad with reference to tlila matter, and a parsimonious dealing with It will bo aura to meet with condemnation. A sum of £ 20,000 down and a pension ol £ 1,000 a year is not considered liberal or handsome treat- ment of her ladyahlp, and everybody thinks ahe ought to bo treated both liberally and handsomely. The lato Lord Mayo, it Is known, was far from Dflluont, nnd it. la therefore the more nceeesary that due provlalon should bo made for his widow. LOGIC FOR LADIES.— It baa been said by some wise person, and believed by many not otherwise, that it lis in the power of any woman to make any man marry her she pleases. Very well; then do away with actions for broach of promiso of marriage.— Punch. AN ANCIENT MURDER.— A few days ago, at Cambridge, a skeleton was discovered in tho cricket ground of Corpus Christi College. Somo trees are being planted, and on removing the sod, the spade came upon a skeleton not more than fifteen inches from the Burface. Tho skull has bchiud tho left ear a fracture, tho result, it is said, of a blow, and the bone of tho nasal organ is also broken. Tho teeth on the lower jaw are perfect, and thero are only a few teeth missing from the upper jaw. The position of tho skull when found shows that tho body was forced into the ground with the face downwards. A medical gentleman has givon it as his opinion that foul play must bave been used With the skeleton was found a copper coin, dated 1771, but this by no means gives any cluo as to tne timo the skeloton has been deposited ; it is thpught but a very fow years. SUICIDB OF AN ACCUSER.— A chargo was lately brought against the convent of Sainte- Gracicusc, at Carcassonne .( Aube), by tho father of ono of the in- mates, who did not hesitato to make the most dreadful accusation against the clergv. The tribunal decided that thove was no evidence whatever to support such statements. Tho affair has just received an unexpected termination, as tho father of the -. complainant has poisoned himself. Tho J? Vanfai> states that a eearcli made by the authorities in the house of the deceased, discovered a document signed bv him, and thus worded :—" Nar bonne, 6th Apr. L 9k. cvemE?. Iput an end to my life voluntarily." The authenticity of the writing has, been recognised by oil the family. waiy* Brs^ 63. S2c « nce£ Excise ' The Pin • AfflOBS ! Thfe h' hto ® *"; ESs under bi jgais, f S$* E But* THE DOSS %% tabs'" Sitif , JIti3be> mchcase Witot for the representation ef India in Parliament. A conference, most influentially attended, has been Bitting at the Society of Arts, and has decided that members for India, for each of the great Presidency towns, should have seats In the House of Commons. Now supposing this is carried out soma fine day, the natural corollary will be, that Canada, Australia, New Zealand, & c., should be represented. What a monster assembly the House- weuld then fcecome! What interminable debates we should have on Colonial questions! But we may depend upon it that it will be very long before we come to this state of affaire. The recent advance in the Bank rate of discount has had one effect which has not been made public— it stopped several limited liability companies " coming out" And this result on the whole is one on which the public may be congratulated. In g6od Booth we have quite enough companies already. Indeed, till the advance in the price of money— a curious " phrase, but a correct one— the companies were coming out BO rapidly that there was a probability of the com- munity once again drifting into a company mania, legitimate enterprise is one thing; over- speculation DUTIES OF THE CLERGY. Bishop Temple, in continuing his charge to his clergy at Barnstaple last week, referred to the prevalent evil of intemperanco. In tho interests of morality, in the interests of Holy Writ, in the interests of their fellow- creatures, he b « sought the clergy to do all tliat was possible to blot out this wide- spread evil, as it degraded the social condition of tho people and de-' praved their fellow- men in the sight of God and their brethren. It was not the business of the clergy to legislate for tho country at large. H they were to take p| rt in legslation t^ oy should not do so as clergy, but as subject/ of the QueeSr All of them were bound as citizens to do their share towards the improvement of the country. He would not, however, Bjieak further on that matter, as it . did not concern them. But it did concert them in another way, for, by steady1 persover- ance in their efforts, they should endeavour, though there might be very great difficulty as well aa frequent failure, to do oil that lay in their power tb Aaso' tho moral tone of all classes of the people who were de- graded by thii sin. Tho clergy should not make a mis take, vand say it was not directly their business, or fancy that their services, the beautifying Of their churches, and the preaching of the doc trifle of tho Cross were any more their duty than was tho duty of wrestling with the sin of drunkenness, which seemed to have 60 strong a hold on the people. It depended very muoh upon the clergy to make their peoplo feel, not merely the duty of sobriety, but the duty of holy sobriety. Passing to legislation affecting the Chnrch, ho said that ho approved the Dilapidations Bill, because it would give an effect to the reports of the deans rural, which hitherto they had not- had. As regarded the Benefices' Resignation llill, he would remark that some olergymcn were very glad they could avail themselves of this Act, but complained that if they did they would be regarded, in some cases as having deserted their posts. What a clergyman bad to consider in all such matters was, what would be best for tho parish. H he felt it was better for him to retire, he ahould do BO ; but, on the other hand, he might be very unwilling to break the tie which bound him to his parishioners among whom he had laboured. Yet, if he thought that another man would be able to do tho work of the parish more efficiently, then it was his duty to resign. On the Athanaaiau Creed the Bishop expressed no opinion, but thought moderate language should be employed in discussing it He was in favour of greater elasticity in the services of tho Church. Besides dividing and abbreviating them, the clergy ought to have the power to make'slight modifications, particularly in the bap- tismal service. The Athanasian Creed should be dealt with separately- The practice of the sale of advowsons was - a real mischief, causing demoralisation in the ranks of the clergy. The law uiJon that matter cer- tainly required to be remedied. Touching the relations of Nonconformists aud the Church, the Bishop said he thought that both parties, when they appeared before their Master, would look back with feelings of shame that they Sid allowed small matters to divide them. Fashionable Paris Is surprised and shocked to find that tho luxury of duelling must be bought by resi- dence in prison ( writes a correspondent) Thostrange fact has just been revealed in the trial of the Prince de Bibesco for fighting a duel with the Prince do Bauffre- mont They had quarrelled on account of some offen- sive words which M. de Bauffremont had " written respecting M. do Bibesco in the pleadings of a process which was judged in 1370. Ffteen monflis after they were penned, the expressions met tho eye of M- de Bibesco, and the result was a challenge. _ The combatants met at the Calle Saint Cloud, and M. de Bauffremont received a wound which con- fined him to bed for ten days. When the au- thorities heard of the combat thev cited the chal- lenger, and no doubt he fancied that he would be punished with a trivial fine, like a long liat of other duellists who had only wounded their adversary. But it was in the days of the Empire that this law was ad- ministered with such laxity, and the Republic aims at a more Puritan standard of virtue. Great therefore was the amazement of tho noble duellist and his friends when they heard tbe advocato of the Republic demand- ing that the Prince should bo punished with imprison- ment " Imprison a man who had only defended his own honour 1 r' exclaimed his advocate with indignation; " such a penalty would make tho prison envied ! Im- prison a nobleman, who, although not a Frenchman, had fought for France, and carried on his breast the tokens of his bravery in the shape of the Cross of the Legion of Honour!" Such pleas go more directly to the heart of French than of English judges, and a year or two ago they would have been so powerful that the Prince would only have been condemned to pay a tr. vial fine. But on the present occasion the judges steeled their hearts against the sentimental rhetoric, anddecreed that the Prince Bhould be imprisoned for fifteen ( lays. Frenchmen deem th e penalty heavy, for theyhav^ ijojiyct learned to see tho barbarity of duelling. Officers of the army take, perhaps, the | highest place among challengers, and next como journalists. The chief writers do not, it is true, caft insults and cartels at each other; they havo abandoned that practice, I think, Binco tho da? when the most illustrious member of their craft, M. Armana Carrel, was Bhot by M. Eniilo de Girardin. t Bjlt'thji lesser journalists seem to writo with a rapier by their Bide and seconds in the next room. Ono journal in particular seems to be edited and written by a detacji- ment of such swash- bucklers as, a couplo of centuries' ago, were sometimes found in tho service of great houses. Thoy have but ono argument— infnflt'pfbaft ono kind of satire— insult; but one form of proof- insult— always insult Occasionally the insult is vigorous, and it is. ever accompanied by the implica- tion that a meeting in theBois, two meetings, three, four, a dozen, lie at the service of any one who d< geB not relish the hard name3 which are flung at him. The report of tho Representative Body of tho Irish Church, which lias been presented to the General Synod of the Church, states that the schoolliouspH bnd lands connected with them have now been vested in tho Church Body by tho Government Commission, ihey have also accopted tho vacant glebe houses at ft rent equal to theordnanco valuation, buthavo had consider- able trouble, in consequence of tho Land Act, frem tres- passers and persons ovorholding. The total annuitants in the Irish Church are 2,157 ; the commutants, 1[ 837 and tho uoa- commutants on tho 1st of March, 1872, 320. Tho number of clergymen who havo " com- pounded," resigning their incumbencies, is 309 ; their commutation capital, £ 877,762 ; tho composition al- lowed, £ 450,828; and tho balanco remaining to the Church thereby, £ 423,910. Thoy havo advanced to the clergy as loans £ 755,056. Up to tho present about £ 3,000,000 havo either been paid. over iu cash by tho Commissioners or placed to tbo credit of tho Repre- sentative Body. They havo invested in mortgages £ 758,000, and in railway debenture, preferenco, and Indian Government Four per Cent. Stock the remainder of a turn of £ 1,570,002, and obtain an average interest of £ 4 7H. per cent Wo havo received from an unknown writer a poem of somo two hundred lines. JIo tlikiks it would bo'a grout success, and to uso blaown terms " go down " Wo are suro It will if lie fcl£ n a brick to tho MS., and drops it ore r the tide oCactsamcv At the Judges' Chambers on Saturday the case ot the Tichborne claimant came on before Mr. Justice Brett on an application for bail, in pursuance of a summons grantod by Mr. Justice Keating on the pre- vious day. Mr. Gorton appeared for tho applicant, and Mr. Gray, Q. C., tho Solicitor to tho Treasury, with Mr. Pollard, appeared for the Crown. Mr. Gorton read an affidavit he had made, setting forth that he is solicitor for a prisoner in Newgate who had been committed under the names of Thomas Castro, otherwise called Arthur Orton, otherwiso called Sir Roger Charles Doughty Tichborne, Bart., upon two charges of perjury and one of forgery. That he had been in Newgate for five weeks on a warrant or com- mitment of the Lord Chief Justice Bovill, there to bo detained until the then next general sessions to bo holden for tho jurisdiction of tfib Central Criminal Court, to the intent that he should then and there answer concerning a chargo of perjury, unless he should in tho meantime enter info recognisances, himself in tho sums of £ 5.000, with tv » sufficient sure- ties in the 6um £ 2,500 each, or fourlin tne sum of £ 1,250 each, conditioned for his personal appearanco at the sessions. That tho prisoner was, up to the 9 th of April ; inst, unable to obtain sureties on his behalf for so j largo a sum as £ 5,000. On the 9th of April two in- ' dictments for perjury and one for forgery were pre- | ferred against him at the Central Criminal Court and a true bill was found on each, and - ho was now in custody at Newgate en such charges, there to be de- tained until discharged in due course of law. The three indictments had been removed by the prosecution by ; writ of certiorari to tho Court of Queen'B Benih, and- Mr' j Gorton believed that the prisoner oould not bo tried earlier than the month of Juno, or probably, could not be tried until the latter end of the year. He was 1 advised that tho three charges would involve, among , others, tho questions whether the prisoner was Sir j Roger Tichborne or not, and whether he was a person called Arthur Orton or not For tho purpose of prov- i ing that he, wasl Sir Roger Tichborno it would bo i necessary for a very large number of persons to see and ' converse with him in order to test him as to his identity, and that, in depottent's opinion could not bo fairly done whilo he was a prisoner in Newgate. Tho papers orjn- ; nected with the caso contained many thousands of fohos ; and were of so heavy a character that he believed it would be impossible for him to master them without ' the dally ana constant attendance of the defendant at his office, and' he did not believe he could obtain from him all the necessary information for his defence while ho was confined m Newgate. Me was prepared with surodos who were ready to enter into recognizances for a reasonable amount, for him to appear and take his trial, and also to appear and receive sentence if called upon. For the last month he had been almost exclusively engaged upon the papers connected with tbe case, and from what he had learnt from such papers, and from persons ho had seen who would be witnesses, he believed that tho prisoner had a good defence toall tho charges made against him. On the conclusion of the affidavit Mr. Gorton addressed his lordship in support of the application. Already the defendant had Wen five weeks in Newgate, and possibly be might not bo tried for eight or ten months, which in effect would bo a sentence on him before his triaL The case was a complicated one, and tho Aftomey- General the other night in the House of Commons had admitted it3 complication, and that was another reason for allow- ing the present application for bail. Jdr. Justice Brett observed that he could not listen to anything tho Attorney- General might have said in the House of Commons. Mr. Gorton admitted that his Lordship could not, and he only mentioned the circumstance to. show that it was a very complicated case, and required the defen- dant personally to attend at his ofScfc. His Lordship asked Mr. Gorton what his proposition was? r, f, Mr.' Gorton replied that the prisoner might bo liberated on bail aa a matter of right Mr. Justice Brett wished to know his authority as a right in an indictment for forgery. Mr. Gorton apprehended that' it waa a matter of right as to perjury, and as to forgery no doubt it was in the discretion of the learned Judge. Even in charges of murder persons had boen allowed baiL Mr. Justice Brett inquired on what groan da he I relied. , . Mr. Gorton said that he could not get up the defence | if the defendant was confined in Eyjwgato, and pro- bablv the trial would go on till November. I Mr. Gray acknowledged that the trial might go on till November. Mr. Gorton considered that after this admission it would be hard on the defendant that he should be kept in Newgate until that time, added to which there were the difficulties as to the want of access, such as was necessary to prepare the defence. Sir. Justice Brett asked Mr. Gray what he had to Bav in answer. Sir. Gray, Q. C., submitted that no legal grounds had been stated for his Lordship to take the caso into his consideration. Mr, Justice Brett remarked that there was no alle- gation that access could not bo obtained at Newgate for tho defence. Mr. Gray said access could be obtained under the regulations made, and as to the time mentioned it was no legal ground for the application. It should be b< 5rno in mind that the defendant was committed by Lord Chief Justice Bovill, and his Lordship had fixed the amount of bail, .£ 5,000 for tho defendant and £ 5,000 by sureties, and then only on tho charge of per- jury. There was now an additional charge of forgery, and he would leavo it to his Lordship to say whether ho would in the exercise of his discretion grant an ap- plication for bail when a true bill wiis forum on a charge of forgery. His Lordship observed that an application could bo made to tho Court of Queen's Bench on the snbjeot Mr. Pollard remarked that the Court would bo opened on MofldAy. . Mr. Gray further qaid, there was no affidavit suffi- ciently to bring the' case before his Lordship, but he, no doubt, was aware of its- serious character. After Borne further discussion. His lordship expressed his opinion. He thought the case might be fairly taken as befcre him. It seemed thata charge of forgery had. been preferred, and, in his ' View, it wda not a case in which he ought to admit the defendant to bail, unless a very strong ground had been made." There was no allegation that sufficient access could not bo obtained at Newgate, and as to the trial not taking place as stated, which, imght or might not be tho caso, he must on tho. grevnil. arged decline to grant the application. , jyjf. Gorton apprehended that , hP might go to tho |' His* Lordship replied that ho might adojit any course ho was advised. - i ,( , ni u 1 , ... ,| Tho application'was accordingly rotood, and it was " iSttriiaWthat tho caso would forthwith be brought befdre the Court of Queen's Bench. ' TICHBdftflfi y. , GpSFORD." i - JIh the Court of Prtbato ' and - Divorce, on Tuesday, tho cause of " Tichbortitf t>;> Gosford." came on, and . was a suit instituted for tlrt revocation of probate of Jfche will of Sir Roger Tiobbpme, . which had been granted to the defendant, as executor, on the ground that the plaintiff, now so well known as the Claimant, was then supposed deceased. Tho pleadings were concluded in August, 16C8, nnd no step in tho suit had since been Mr." Bayfor<| l, for the. dejenljont, npw aaked for an order for the trial of- the cause by a special jury. I ho executor did not wish to press in any way unduly upon tho plaintiff, who was now awaiting his trial for perjury and forgery; but ho wished for the order to be mado in default, in the usual course. An- other suit was pending in fliis Court, respecting tho right to administer to tha estate of tho late Lady Tichborne, in which tho same question was raised as in tho present suit Tho administration suit had been set down for trial by a special juiy, and the defendant's object was that tho present suit might be placed in tho t ame position. Notice of the application had been givon to Mr. Moojon, who was the plaintiffs attorney on the'record. ' Lord Penzance : After so long a time has been allowed to pass by without any step being talcen, I Bhould certainly make no ordor without pereonal notice to the. plaintiff. I think it better that no further step Bhould be taken in the mattor at present AN AU8TRIAN " CLAIMANT." The following It sont over by the Austrian Correspondent of The Times, under date, Vlonna, April 10 :— " Within the last few days a sensational trial, presenting some features in common with the Tich- borne case, has occupied Vienna. After the fall of the Mexican Empire and the execution of tho Emperor Maximilian a man calling himself Colonel Estvan made his appearance in Vienna. He pretended to have played a considerable part in those events, and to have rendered good service as diplomatic and press agent, and preferred on account of services thus rendered a claim of about £ 25,000 upon the Imperial family aa the heirs and representatives of tho late Emperor Maximilion. The moment was well chosen, for the Mexican tragedy had invested with a halo of romance overy one who had been in any way connected with it, and made him a subject of interest and sympathy. Estvan came well prepared to discount tins interest and sympathy. He had a well- prepared story of personal adventure, which he could support by an array of letters and documents, which, though they dwindled down into'nothing when examined in a court of law, were sufficient to give a plausible aspect to his claims. " According to his story he was the son ota pro- prietor in Bistritz, in Transylvania ; had passed his youth in Belgium; had served for some years in a Hungarian Regiment of Hussars, had taken part in the Hungarian War of 1848, and escaped after it into America, where he had first been employed as an en- gineer of a railway, then token part in the war as a Colonel in tho Confederate army, until, after the war ho returned again to the North, where he re- sumed his occupation a3 an engineer. in looa he pretended to have gone, as the corespondent; of the New York Herald, to Mexico, where he made the proposal to influential persons about the Emperor to uso his personal and literary influence in New York and Washington in order to produce a change in the public opinion there and induce the United States to recognize tho Mexican Empire. He alleged that an agreement was mad ® ' '— een him nnd the Mexican Government, which was ratified by the Emperor, and according to his statement, the latter had even previously asked him to devote his services to him. According to this agreement the Emperor guaranteed to him 5,000 dole, a year and 40,000 dol?. subvention which hs now claimed as a personal debt of thb late tm- peror. In orde* to establish these claims he pre sented petitions to the Kmperor . anclJ^ o ^ a Arch- duke Franz Carl, the father of His Majesty the lato Emperor Maximilian. In this he represented hi3 relation with the latter as quite of a personal nature, and pretended to have been obliged to contract a debt of 25 000 dols. as the promised subvention tvta not paid, to have beenTient on a mifesion to the Empress Char- lotte in Rome, and to have acted for a time as Mexican Charge d'Affaires in Paris, where ho had had an interview with the Emperor Napoleon. He asserted that the original documents^ authenticating; his claims were in tho possession of Father AugUsfin Fischer, that by tho will of tho late Emperor all the notes of the private archives had been made over to this latter, and that Father Fischer had received Jin order from the Emperor at the last moment of his life to be euro settle tho cla^ m of Estvan, " The petitions were returned from the imperial Cabinet with the remark that if Father Fischer held the proofs of bis claim in hand the claimant must get these proofs, and showjthat these claims were of a private nature. As for any claims which Estvan might have on the late Mexi nii ui Imperial Goveram* ent,'''' they " coid"" not " be taken into con- sideration. Not deterred or disconrnged by this refusal, Estvan went on " working his claims, in order to be able to prefer such claims a certain style t> f living was indispensable, and for this again money had to be procured; and there is How a list of gome thirty people, mostly tradesmen and small capi- talists, who, trusting in the reality of his claims, advanced smaller or larger sums, or entered into monetary transactions with him for the sale of houses - --- — and other property, and it is these transactions for which Estvan was prosecuted in the Criminal L/ Ourt, for getting money under false pretences. The preliminary examination sufficed at the outset to tear holes in tho web of the whole story. First of all, his name was proved to have been assumed, and that in a rather sensational way. From the time of kis arrest an old woman came every week bringing little money for his use, who, after inquiry, proved to be his mother. It was found that he was a native of Vienna, a dyer by trade, who went away iu 1817, and had been living in New York, as well as two of his brothers, ever since 1850. All the stories about his having served in the army were proved to have been fictions. " On the other hand, there could be no doubt that he was in Mexico in 18G5, and that he had had some in from the Minister Castillo, which, how- ever, w^ s soon cancelled, and the subvention stopped by that Minister's successor Arroyo, probably because the man had been found out by that time. As to what the nature of the commission was, and its terms, nothing certain was ascertained, the accused having only an unauthenticated letter of Castillo to the Emperor, dated the 20th of December, 1865, in which the advantages to- be derived from tho project of Estvan were set Forth, and to which was added a note by the Emperor approving the project, and a decision of tho Minister of Finance, L'Anglaix, who assigns 5,000 dob. a year for ' two years, and diminishes tha subventi6n of g0, U00 dols. to 40,000. dols. " But what came out most strongly was the way in which people had allowed themselves to be duped- There was a long list of swindling transactions with peoplo who partly believed in tbe reality of his daim3, or, at any rate, in his skill in getting them recognized, and hoped thus to make a profit out of it. There could be no doubt about the crime, which the tribunal has inished with six years' imprisonment, accompanied . hard labour, | but the interest of the case lay in tho by- play, in the mixture. of imposture and self- belief and pretension, which were so entwined that it wae difficult to say where one ended and the other began. Nothing could bo more grandiloquent than the description given by tho accused of his own activity and importance, and yet it every moment appeared that tho man who pretended to have played so prominent a part in Mexican affairs, and who un- doubtedly had been employed by that Government, waa utterly uneducated, and wrote 4 Chfiteau d'heu- reuse' instead of ' Chartreuse,' and mado of ' Bureau * a'Mr. Bu- ve- au.'' " For the- defence, it waa Btated that in the archives a patent, bearing the insciption ' Estvan,' by the hand of the Emperor Maximilian, was to be found, which, it was asserted, contained the authentic proofs of the claims, and, accordingly, tho counselforthe defeneepro- posed to interrogate lio office of the Court- Marshal on the subject The answer was, not that the patent existed or not, but that the Court- Marshal did not consider himself authorised to give any information relating to the private affairs of members of tho Imperial House. The rulo thus laid down may be quite correct, nor had these papers any reference to tho matter in question, as tho cases of swindling were too glaring to require further proof; but there may be an impression remain- ing that the clainn of Estvan wero still not without some sort of foundation, which is to be regretted, for, in any case, even if the accused had an agreement with the Emperor, aa ruler of Mexico, any rights under it naturally ceased with the end of the Mexican Empire." THE QUANTITY OF MEAT CONSUMED IN 1871. In Mr. Thompson's paper on our meat supply, con- tributed to tbo " Journal of tho Royal Agricultural Society," the meat consumed in this country in 1S71 is estimated at 1,447,181 tons, of which home- bred animals supplied us with 1,266,478 tons,, imported animals with 81,578, and imported provisions with 99,125 tons. Assuming that tho average nrice all round to the consumer for this vast mass of gross feed- ing would be eightpenco per pound, it fellows that the peoplo of the United Kingdom spent £ 108,056,181 upon meat in 187L Mr. Thompson fa of opinion " that our grass lands, if properly managed, would be easily able to meet the demand mado upon them for an in- creased production of meat, even if the supply requiied were greatly in excess of the present rate of consump- tion." It would havo been well for the community if the British farmer had contrived years ago to meet the Increased demand by increasod supply, and so had kept ilown pricc3 to something like their old level. The nation would then have saved many millions a year upon this ono article of consumption. Recrnitipg in the army is now progressing very slowly, and In tho Royal Artillery alone there are more than 2, COO gunners below thi, proper strength of lit cctatUsa- lnect THE GUN LICENCE ACT. " A Magistrate " writes to 7?. « Times.— Wfll you allow me attention to the great fcarebness with which d^ revisions of the Oun Licence Act "' are beingTnforced by the othcera or Excise against the unfortunate bird- scarers: The penalties under tho Act are very heavy- viz., a fine of £ 10, which may be reduced by the magistrates to a sum not less than 50s. ' Among tho exemptions from this liability^ are persons authorized by any employer to cany* gun lor the purpose of killing vermin, or tcanng birds on tod in b is own eccupation provided that the employer takes out a gun licence nimself. , This, however, in many cases they omit to do and In consequence the bhd- scarer though acting irnder his master's express order*, aud it ignorant that his master hid not taken out the proper iWe becomcs liable to the full penalty for carrying JSS order, but OB 1the « » pby « ; should have a discretionary power of reducmg it. But a~ ain, even where the employer has taken out the necessary licence, tho poor bird- scarer often. gets into troublo without knowing that he is commuting any offence. , , ' The Act says he may cany a gun for the purpose ot tilling vermin or scaring birds, and so, if he kills a single sparrow ho becomes liable to the same minimum penalty of 50s. . It is because I think the enforcement of the law in such cases is calculated to do harm that I havo ven- tured to trouble you with these few remarks. The Warwickshire Chamber of Agriculture held a special meeting at the Shire- hall, Warwick, on Sato- day last, to discu33 the Labour question. Mr. i ord, the President of the Chamber, occupied the chair, and there was a numerous attendance of tenant- farmers and landowners of the county, tho subject for discus- sion being of suecial interest, owing to the agitation among agricultural labourers having spread from War- wickshire into the adjoining counties. Lord Leigh, JLord Lieutenant of Warwickshire, wroto explaining that an important engagement in Cheshire rendered it ompossiblo for him to attend the meeting. Among those present were the Earl of Denbigh, Sir. ± L C. " Wise, M. P. for South Warwickshire; Sir 11. N. C. Hamilton, K. C. B., Messrs. James Dugdale, C. JVL. Caldecott J- Cove Jones, John Mordaunt, U. x. Muntz, T. A Perry, W. Smith, and G. Wise. ' The Earl of Denbigh referred to tho importance of adopt- ing a conciliatory . tone and of impressing landowners, farmers, and. labourers, that their interests aro aU identical, and then observed that he was fully convinced that tho strike among Warwickshire agricultural lobpurpra was tho work of political agitators, who had their own objects in •• lew. Tho best way to frustrate . detigns was by endeavouring to affeot an amlcablearrangemcnt of the existing differences. ThU. he thought, could be most effectually ac- complished by conferring with tho labourers,^ he had found it most successful in his own neighbourhood, when a strike was organised on the farm of Olio of his te^ apts. „ He had, therefore, great pleasure In proposing I— 1 " That, with a view of promoting a better understanding Ixstweeu farmers and labourers in South Warwickstoe tho Council of this Chamber bo requested to use their exertloM r* o bring about a conference between properly- appointed re- presentatives ol tho landowners, farmers, and labourers. ThU course would make them better nC< paJntedw^ tho - difficulties to be met, for In the settlement of them aU par- ties must bo considered. Insomoparts of Engand and even in some portions of Warwickshire, the condition of the agricultural labourer might require to be amcUMated buj noTaflord to give higher wages nor the landlords to take lower reuts, when the latter only got 2J per cent, for the capital Invested in land. Tho . question appeared to Mm to torn a sort ot " vicioua circle," and demanded most serious and careful consideration. He concluded by expressing Ids cordial approval of tho conference suggested In theresolu- TL° MR T. Horley, of the Fosse Farm, Radford, seconded the Deposition. He spoke of the Importance of improving the Cottages of agricultural labourers, the Insuflic ency and clutfacter of which he thought constituted their chief ground lor complaint. A mere temporary arrangement of wages would not aettlo the difficulty, unless better cottages wero provided for labourers, and thoy were given an interest In their homes. The fact was that by tho gradual dhnhmt on of cottages on large estates, to avoid settled poor, prior tothe Union Changeability Act, tho labourers had beenremoved from the£ nat£ 3 home, which should be near to the farm on which they were employed, and thus their sympathies were aUemitcd lrom their work and their employers, no recommended tho members of the Chamber to read the leading Mticle in TA* Times of Thursday last aa a fair and Just statement of tho question atissne. It was a fact that many farmers now Spent every shilling they conld afford on labour and many farmers then present well knew that If they had material y tMncreaBe the amount, they had far be ter givo up. their farms at once. The increased demands of labour would have to be met in various waya. Fanners would have to do with lewer hands, suspend the Improvements that had becn gmng onfor tho lit 25 years, and rartail expenses to every legiti- mate manner. Ho then strongly advocated the abolitionof 5l perquisites to labourers and the payment of their wages tho day before the market day In the district where they lived There was nothing, he remarked, that did the they were never estimated at one- ball their real value. Mr. Mark Phillip., ol Wclcombe and formerly 1L P. for Manchester. supported tbe resolutton, which he eoueidered embodied the only rational view that could bo taken ot a MMSu H. regretted Ugt Momy, Instead d stating their grievance, to thdr g° P> o, ra, Md. doged an attitude ot hostility and opposition. Still, a greotaeai ox good might yet be dJno by trlend y eonferencee withi the men and it would take the question out ot the hands ot 5£ M. ivhThS noTonnCCtion with agriculture, aud were not even locally Interested in tho matter. llr II G Wise, MP. tor South Warwickshire, also sup- ported the resolution, which suggested the course he had thought most desirable ever since the agricultural laborers Strike commenced. Hsd the tanner, and labourer, met to S Instance and talked over their djderences dlspar- Kmately, ho believed they would long ago have arrived at. satisfactory settlement oi them. It was not yet too lata to Sold Irlendly conferences, and that appeared to him decidedly the best course to adopt. Mr A. Startin, tho Vice- President ol the Chamber, argued that ihe proposition that landowner, should reduce reals ^ a fallacy, because rent depended upon the value of the laid that could be cultivated at a protlt The elect SMiiL'herwsges would simply bo to throw out of cultivation todSeh cS now he prolltablyIdled, hot would not ekmrcelate tho value of other laud. Ho affirmed that land- SmCT wU deteTrol from building cottage, and tamers SZ llipimnB f « m they held on Tease, by the untjir rnel- denco of local taialion, because in each case they were sub- StoSoor- rKf and other localI taxation, wMch wonld be • voided II the capital thus eipondcd were invested in the iZS'oliway debentures, or other similar securitla. Thero Kit boVee trade in capital, as in everything else, before aS Miuld settle tbe Questlou ol labourera' wages or indueo teniut. to invest capital In labour, or landlords to provide better cottogcs and Improve their property. The Chairman complained that tho agitation among laXrersTil Sen failed by Interested parties, who would bethepilners, while tho labourers would be great sudereis, hv the agitation. He asserted, from long personal expe- „ Vce thltthelabourers' hardsblp. bsd been iiuduiy magui- fled, and their carjdngs greatly underrated. They bad shared in tho general prosperity ot the country during tho SitIO year! The statement that they only earned iS , lis., and sometime, l! s. a week would bo proved to bo totally incorrcct.. Their average wage hod been 13s. or lte^ ud in aomo casis Ids. a week, and their perquisitea and privileges wero not fairly estimated. The resolution was unanimously adopted. Sir G. F. Munis, of Cmherslade- hall, pointed out that the argument that because meat fetched a high price turners could oilord to ray higher w. ges was fallacious- The tact that farmers had bad seveval bad seasons, and had lost a iVrgo amount of capital aa we as stock by the cattlo ! entirely overlooked. Wllb only one- hall tHe jS oven though it mad. double tho price it otber- Xo would have deae. the farmer wu reaUy no better Til A great quantity of keep, which ought to base prSt la t? io faniers' pocket, waa wa. t. 3 last year be- So Kck could not be procured to consume it Doao- knowlcl- ed the right ot labourers to form a Union, and de- SSStcd Ky attempt to prevent tbelr doing so so long as fKti ™ Jid not prevcEt them faithfully and fairly per- I^ iig their duties. He hoped, in somo ouartersto prevent the men joining the Union w( uld Lot bi SJ'SSi Bo then alluded to the payment of wies in k£ d. deprecatcd tho system as giving a very Swr repMeiSSlm of tbe actual wagea of labourers In d° nfrent dWric£ toau « tho actual cash payment was Xno iakS ffto ionsldeiaUon, snd moved the lollowins resolution:— " That the' practice or paying wages in kind prevents a Just estimate the'valde received by unreasonable demsada on the part of tho employedI and affords facilities for impositions by unscrupidous omplojers, leads to improvident habits, and Increases Intcmnerancc. That tbe llr it step towards arriving at a j oat and accept- able settlement of the Labour question should bo to aoousn all kinds of pavmcnts or remuneration for labour except payment in coin; and where it is necessary that any pare ct the n^ cMDrics of Lie should bs anrpl. oI by tto cm- p. yfr thut anoula be sold and p- Ul ! or Li corn by taa employed." i Mr - T. J- Burbery, of Stratford, seconded the proposition. Which was supported by Mr. C. M. Caldecott, of Holbrook- grange, who expressed himself strongly in faTour of tho abolition ol payments in kind, as they were not property appreciated or their value Justly estimated. Mr. 5lark Phillips and llr. Foster, of Monk's Kirby, sup- ported the resolution, which waa unanimously adopted. Mr. Simpson, one of Lord Leigh's tenants, proposed tho | next resolution, as follows:— " That this Chamber recommends employers to piy wages, when practicable, according to tho kind of work and the quantity done. Instead of according to the tlmo occupied In performing the work: that this Chamber la of opinion that by this system of pleco work more wages may be gained by the employed with greater economy to the employer.' "* Mr. Jamea Dng- ialo, ex- Hinh- SherHr of Warwickshire, seconded the resolution, and cited statistics of what his men had earned In the ordinary way and by piece work to prove that their condition was not Inferior to that of labourer la towns. The Earl of Denbigh thought the Eystcm of co- operation which had for years been so successfully adopted in Italy was deserving of serious consideration. A man tookapiccoof laud on lease and selected labourers to co- operato with him in cultivating It. At tho end ol tho year the master took a certain share of tho profits and tho rest waa divided among the labourers. No doubt there would bo difficulty in applying tho system in England, but still it did not appear insuperable. Tho working expenses, including In- terest on capital, should be put against tho profits, and tho difference would be tho amount to bo divided, tho fanner placing hla braina and Intellectual capacity against the thows and sinews of the labourera. If a year was a bad one, the farmer would have to aettlo what would bo a fair wage to pay hlsmen and thesumthusadvancedwouldhaveto be deducted trom the profits of the ensuing year. Ho thought at any rate that the subject was at least worthy ot consideration. Mr O Wiso and Mr. G. F. Muntz supported the resolution, and the latter described the stimulus that picco work gavo both to the Ingenuity and Industry of the labourers. ThU resolution was also unanimously adopted and tho meeting separated. The agitation for an increase of pay has extended to the county of Worcester, the greater portion ef which is purely agricultural. The wage3 paid to tho labourera ( remarks The Tones, from whom wo are quoting), are certainly not higher than the pay of the samo class in the neighbouring county of Warwick, and the condition of the men probably, is about on a par in the two coun- ties. The introduction of machinery has led to a de- mand of a higer class of skilled labourer; but the farmers have considerable difficulty in arranging their pecuniary bargains with their men, so that each labourer shall receive his duo hire. Tho wages average about 10s. for ordinary labourers, with an addition of 2s. per week to carters, and a certain allowanco of cider to eacji man and boy. This custom of giving cider is in nn- ous both to master and man, and if it could be abolished wouM tend to the benefit of both parties. In summer timo almost an unlimited quantity ot liquor is supplied to the men when at hay- making and harvest work, and. it is a very common thing to see them all fuddled together, men and bov£ at the close of their long, toilsome day. Ihe ordinary " drink " supplied to the agricultural labourer is worth 3d. to 6d. per gallon; but by proper care in the manufacture a beverage may be produced which would obtain a ready sale at Is. per gallon. Iho cus- tom of giving driirk as part of the wages is especially pernicious to tho'furaf youth. Every boyJhasi Ins allowance, and he very soon becomes habituated to it, and groTO up with a vitiated taste for liquor which does not dimmish as fib years increase If the present agitation shouIdlKid- to a readjustment of the rate ol money wage between Master and man, and the aboli- tion tbis'bftfl oustom, a - gifeat moral good will havo arisen from\ liat; af nresent seems to be a state of things much to bo deplored. ' , BwideB the weekly wage and the allowance of cider there is alsO'S"* harvest1 money " payment^ of il or . £ 110s. made by the Worcestershire farmers to their la- bourers. As a rule, c^ esaro not P ™ " de\ bru"^ ef are generally to be obtained in the villagee at rents of from £ 3 to £ 6. The cottage accommodation, however, is by no means up to tho mark; there is too much crowding, and consequently too little regard is paid to decency. The men being exposed to ad weathers, are very liablo to rheumatic complamts, BO ti^ t they become " old men " before their natural time and being unable to earn ev6n the ordinary labourera pittance, too often end their days in the work- Eouse, or eko out a scanty living by parish relief. The women- wives and daughters of agncultural labour- ers— often work in tho fields, stone picking, hoemg and weeding, pulling turnips, & c., and their pay is bd to - » Thev also assist in thrashing ( by machine) and in the haymaking time, and in harvest they tie up the corn as it is cut by their husbands on Piecework. These women have also the pnvilege of gleaning in the corn fields of their husbands master after tbe com is carried. Many of the careful hu8bandmen manage to keep a pig, and there is generally a small garden ^ tached to their cottage, in which they grow a few PTheemeetin53 of labourers held in Worcestorahiro have been at Kempsey, about fcm- miles from Worcester, Hanley Castle. a£ d at Colwall, nearMalvern wluch is in fact on tiie borders of Herefordshire. The com- plaiSt rf the men is inadequate pay ; it is the samo Smplaint everywhere. At Colwan the meetmg was pres ded over by the Rev. R. O. Carter. A^ lr Strange, from ne » LTOm^ t^, to^ tte m^ t^ t^ if ing he would undertake to find them BituaUons of not less than 15s. a week. A farm bailiff named Watte who was described by the chairman as " a sort of half- way house between a labourer and a farmer madeTlong speech, tho burthen of wh. ch was that the men were not fed as they ought to be to do a good day's work, and that they could not be properly fed on 10s. or lis. a week. " They would do better if better fed "- a truth which few who bowjhaU Worcestershire " clod- hopper is wdl gainsay Mr. Strange also commented on the want of cottage accommodation, many cottages having but one Dea- room. He recommended emigration to the north of England or even to New Zealand, if necessary. He considered no man should be than from six a. m. to six p. m. The carters and cow- men, in addition to their ordinary dady labour, have to attend to their cattle on Sundays. A largo body of farmers met at the Lion Hotel, Cambridge, on Saturday afternoon last to disc^ sthe r- farm labour " question. Major Pemberton presided. Mr. O. C. Pell contended that the British/ amer not: i tyrant, treating his labourers as slaves, that he hal been re- presented as btlng. ,, .. Mr. Holtcn, dwelling upon the labour qnesUon sald the neltators had argued as if wascs wero to be regulated by the number^) { children a man had. Until the fanner was enabled to obtain more profit in return for hU outlay, he could not- meet the of increased wages, but ^ t^ ncrcaso of wealth for invested capital tho labourer would come In for his share ol tho increase. Mr H W. Martin, Littleport, much regretted the agita- tion that was now going on, as it sot class against class. In viewing tho questionthey had to consider( the caso oF tho employers and tho employed. He admitted that la- bourtra hadTright to use aU legltimato means to get more wacM provided they were entitled to them, but he qucv iioneJ itthcywere justlHed in ^ inlnB together to demand a rise. In reference to cottages ho denied the atatementth^ men lived in hoveU not fit for pigs: and before such assertions were put forth, it would be well it agitators would look to London and manufacturing towns where famllies woro owners of laud had to be aatufled with 3 per cent. T while manufacturers wero not satisfied with 10 and ^ pcr ccnt. They paid labonrers 1S3. per week which, extras, were as cood as 203. In town. As to the nine hours movo- ment, heKknow plenty of laborers whodidnot work. more than six and seven ; they went claying about 7, left off at l, when they went to work for themselyea. He^ remembered the Time when labourers ate nothing but pork but now they had their joints of mutton and beef, a proof that they were lar better off than represented. He paid between £ 50 and £ uO per week for labour, and for reaping last harvwt between i- 300 and £ 100. To ono man, his wife, and two caldron he paid £ 17 for four weeka' work. Farmers, he said, had been, fvrongiy accused, and he denied that there was a bad feeling between masters and men. Mr Ellis, of Moldretli, said labourer used to ba paid Ss. ner week: they wero now reoeiving 12a. wot or dry weather, ind some 15s. Those upon coprolito works were paid from ISs! to 25a. Farm labourers were better off than mechanics mtoLT Speaking ol education, lie considered1 it unjua for farmers to be taxed with a school rate to teach the chil- dren^> fmen whose position enabled them to seudfhemto school. ... Mr. Wright, Fulbourn, pointed out the Injury wmwr agitators going about the country wero bnnjlug upon labourers, ond sald those publlo aglUtora had better keep at home, and look to tho distress in Bethnal- green and Spital- flelds. Ho contrasted the condition of the manufacturer and tho agriculturist, contending that the position ol the former was much better than that of tha latter. Mr O C. Pell proposed, " That this meeting vlows with extreme regret the agitation that had been attempted by Dersona unconnected and unacquainted with agricultural subjects with the object of implanting dUcontent In tho mind of the agricultural labourer, and that In the opinion of this meeting such ogitatlon U not calculated to promote the Interest either of tho employer or employed, whose welfare must depend on the universal lawol supply and rt^ mino. Mr.) or Pemiier-. on aeccalfid tha rcao!- iti- iii. autUhspro iteduig* cic-. « iii> THE LABOURER AND THE LAW OF ENTAIL. The following has been sent to The Times for publica- As Mr. W. Fowler, in his two speeches uponthp Law of Entail in the House of Commons on luesday night, did me the honour to refer to my Report to the Commissioners appointed to inquire, mto the employ- ment of women and children in sericulture, as sup- porting his view that the condition of the homes ol the agricultural labourer is mainly traceable to the present state of tho law as to the entail and strict settlement of land • and as this, though, no doubt, an important element in the question, was by no means tho sole, nor even the chief, element present to my mmd when I penned that report, I should be glad if you could find place in your columns for three paragraphs from my Report, which I think fairly state the caso aa it pre- sented itself to my observation. They will be found in the first Report of the Commissioners, pp. 6o M, sections 114,115,127. I say :— " 111. Tho majority of tho cottagci that exist in rural parishes are deficient In almost every requisite that should constitute a homo for a Christian family in a civilized com- munity. Tlicy aro deQclont iu bedroom^ mmodatlon. very few having threo chambers, and in somo parishes tne hu^ er proportion only ono ; they are deficient in dralnago anil sanitary arrangements: they are impcrfect y irapplied with water: such conveniences as they havo aro oiicn so I situated M to become nuisances: they arc full enough of draughts to generate any amount of rheumatUm: and In many Instances aro lamentably dilapidated and out of repair. . " 115 The natural history, so to call it, of these miserable, ruinous dwellings is very various Some ol tho ^ parish cottages, cither erected In the tlmo of the old Poor law or bequca hed to tho parish as a last homo for its aged paupers, which there are no funds to repair. Another almost uniformly bad class are the cottaecs run upbysqMtterson the waste, or hold upon a llfebol3 or copyhold tcmiro. and which have not yet fallen in to the lord " f the manor Others havo been put up. of Uie fllm, sif' speculative builders. Othora are converted a^ blciorfarm- housea, attesting iu one case the conquest of the> m£ r the road. In tho othor tho change in tlio phaso of agricul- tuvluill which haa merged half a dozen petty owupatlomi into ono large holding. Somo belong to small P>• oprletors, too indigent to havo any money to spare for th « lr improve- ment- somo to absenteo or embareasscd landowners, tho former of whom aro imwllllng to improve an estate which they never sce^ the latter In addition to being unablo aro equally unwilling to improve a property from which thoy get no advantage. " 127. In the districts ovor which I travelled amid many, instances to tho contray, it was pleasant also to And not a few of the largest landowners setting a noblo example of thdr Musclousness of rciprmsibUityinr^ ect of^ he dwellings of tho labourers who cultivate their land I may Select for special mention tlio names of the MarquU of rmolmondelcy and tho Earl of Leicester ia Norfolk.: of Iho Duke of Grafton and Sir Edward Mention in Suffolk of the Duke of BIchmond. Lord'LeconQold and the Don Mr. Vernon Harcourt in Sussex ; of tho EarU of Duclo and St. Gcrmains iu Gloccstcrahlro. I do not mean to say that the & Hf th^ o " oblemon and gentlemen are eve^ whero adequately suppUed with labourers' homos.^ fd Leicester Has publicly admitted his own great dcllciency; butaUaro working onward In the right spirit to tho r. ght cud and their example telU upon other landowners with an eiiccc proportionate to Its^ nspicuousneM Thero aro ^ ome ffroiinds for hoping that 25 years hence tlio villages oi Cud wm present a different and a moro pleasing picture i to fto eye of the traveller than they present now. Whatever may be tho effects of tho present state of tho law as regards entail and settlement— upon which A I confess I entertain an opinion not very dissimilar from that of Mr. Fowler— it will be seen that I never 1 attempted in my Report to trace tho present unsatis- factory condition of the home of the agricultural labourer to this as its solitary cause.— Yours, & c., J. MAUOHESTEB. Manchester. V * THE BISHOP OF EXETER AND THL PUBLICAN! Dr. Temple recently held a visitation at Torrington ( North- Devon), and while his carriage was being har- nessed for the return fourney to Barnstaple intimated that he would " walk on." Tho Bishop took tho old, hilly road, which ia now but little used, ana the coach- man unaware of this fact drove off, via Bideford, quite in another direction. „ For five miles his lordship trudged on, and becoming fatigued, and seeing no sign of his carriage, on arriving at Newton Tracey ho asked a respectable, publican and farmer there to - give him " a, lift," Boniface had a cart, but the cart was unlicensed, and ' he pleadbd this object tion against complying with Dr. Temple's wish. But the Bishop waa equal to the emergency; he wa3 desirous to proceed, and would pay the cost of a licence. This anxiety aroused the publican's suspicions^ who roioined that if his vimtor would " ait down and Se a drop o' summat " he would 8o toi Baram and get riLne^ But for this preliminary the Buhop could not wait, and tirced his host to harnos hi. cart at on ™ „ d take out a licence on reaching Barnstaple. More convinced than ever of the character mid occupation S to pedestrian, Boniface broke out emphasising his denuni& tion with sundry . trange oath. ' 1 knowtheei Thou'rt one of they supervisor fellow, that are ; aTway. going about the country trying to trap KH> r folk about S carts." Tho astonished prelate mildly endeavoured Susuage tho wrath of tfc irate puthoan b: r the statement that he was the Bishop of Enter. " No- Sn' the sort I" retorted the other " you wont trick me as you did my neighbour Vother - week, and get m. lied £ 3." So tho Buhop had asain to saUy forth, nntU'he was picked up, about four miles from hi. destination, by the carnage which had, in tha meanwhile, been sent out iu quest of him from Blm- etable. Tho publicaif had sitico been chuckling over frieud^ iSSSm SatSdayho narrated the incident with great glee. " I Wd nn, » said^ ha. " He wor got uf like a sort o- genUeman varmer, m a Piur o Saitere or breeches, and a rummy jort 0 hat, but ho wor one o' they Excise chaps, and I warn t goin to bo done,' cause you . ee my neighbour waa fined t other day for taking hi. wife out for a drive." His lonMup SSy be induced after thia to aid tbo nsitation for tbo exemption of farm carts from taxation, simply becauso now Jud then they may be used either for conveying the family to church or giving a timely lift to a Bishop who viats them unaware..— Daily Ntvjs. THE LABOUR MARKET. In connection with tbe strike of Agricultural labourers, th7foIl ™ ing. to them, rather agreeable communication, has been sent to The Timet:— Captain Palin, the Chief Constable of Manchester, ' who a fto wceksago recruited in Mbrth De ™ 60 fine yonngmeufor hi. forcc, has this morning forwarfed to mo a letter,' of which I eoalose jou a copy. You will add much to the great kindness which you nlw ™ ' show to the . agricultural labourer if you mU publish Iho Utter. whS I enclose Tho men of tbo eputh, it i. very true, when they migrate northwards, cannot ' at ficst work beside northern- bred men. But to use the words of a correspondent oE mine in Yorkshire, to whom I hatfe already sent many men " When instead of kettle broth, Devonshire men havo'had'three months' Yorkshire bee! in their beUie., thev cm work as well as a Ydritsbireman."-. The M d- lanii and other railway companies have at this particular " example wihtclr I hope - wiU soon bo foUowed by other • companies,, for it i. a change which is not only just and and kinduj consideriitf towards the workniB . but que which, it is generally believed, will at fc ™ JSwisb Gmnaslosi; Ganon of Bristol. - Ilalbarton- vicarage, Tiverton, April 12. " ScWcastlMn- Tyne, April 5,1ST2. " Sir— Wiil you kladly iiiforin Cahon Glrdlestono that nn will bo conlerTlagagreat beucflt on tha poor peoplo of DoS" MS" 5 ® and Cornwall, & o If be could send mdl bere in hatches , f.. r Irom the Ij'nc to the Tees, espo- dSly- on the two rivers, not, to. than 6.0M etnployftient at lahouierS TOk andmjlWjm ™ i-. to ocr week. J may toll you that the faiia labour- a? stelSrthmMXd hSJ jastgotthelr w. ges reised up A ® KM wll educated, aad tho finest oountrymen I have teen in S. nd Carter. In thU town ge. 2Ss. jet week I am , that E OOO men could bo absorbed in about three ™ £ a The cillleries. Ironworks, Ae„ ore so busy that men cannot be got, and it U a sin to idloi. KnElishmen in the Sh to onigfati from their country when work can be 8£ 3l them hfre at gooil wag^ a. Ojrcide. e. n £?,* » d am. ther^ o. obliged to treuble you, and will leel obliged by your toward- inathis. " I amiBlr, yoursfalthlolly. _ . i- Cap'ldaPahn, tnlel Cotiuible. ilsnchtatec.. A FKIGHWDL TRAGEDY AT MAIDA- HILL. Th hei^ WW of J-. STZl' Stful ' t'p^ of lu Who S a.. » id na- ative. which i. hi. Aagon ^ Sssassass —• time past. , . , pa3t accord- ing to the statement of his wife he had been vgj make of him. WhU. thus comm""^ opo » " cr mis ron half frantic, to her home but in time o^ y to witiei a sight of the most heartrending and terrible description. , On entering the top floor, where the> crime WM com- mittcd, Mr. Baker, surgeon, who had been sent for beheld a pool of blood issuing from nndei^ the^ back room door. Upon opening the front room door, a Sing scene presented itself. In a sort of semicircle lay three childin with their throats cut, The first a little girl, Louisa, aged three years lay upon her back, with her arms extended and her throat severed right Mrosi The tip of the left. hand forefinger was. cut off • in the palm of the hand was a sugarplum. and m the Sht hand a green bead. , The" next^ hdd was Rosiba, aged five years ; she lay wi h her ace down- waSs anS had her hands clenched ; her throat ago being cut. James Henry was the third child. He was a fine boy of fourteen months old, and was found lying half on his bade, with his- arms extended at right angles, and his throat severely fid in a " pool of biood. Entering the back room, which was used as a workshop and^ hich was in great confusion, every article of furnitvne being turned upside- down, near the door ay the body of the eldest girl, Eliza, aged nine years, upon her fight side, with her bead thtown backwards, hln3s clenched, elbows bent and threat cut, from which was issuing a stream of blood. This appears to have been the last one murdered ihe unfortunate man had then committed suicide^ It would appear he went to his scat, leant over a tea. chest which he used as a work table, and cut his owni throat in a most desperate manner, placcd the knife upon the table, and feU under it, the chair falling upon him. The bodies were afterwards removed to the work- house. FURTHER PARTICULARS. ! Specific details of the above horrible tragedy have come to light, from which it appears that on Monday evening, about five o'clock. Police- constable Neal was called to the house, 16, Capland- street, L « son- grove, by a woman of\ he name of lliles- who lived next door - and was told that something dreadful had happened. A little boy, who lived in the house, had called her attention to blood running along the second- floor'landingfrom under the door of the rorms occupied by James . Nicholls, his wife, and their ' six children. Upon the door being Durst open a most dreadful spectacle presented itseff. _ Thiee of the children Were lying on the floor with their throats cut BO'Tearfully that their heads weTe nearly; severed from thttr bodies. - These children were Rosina, aged five years : Lousia aged three years ; and James Henry, aged fourteen months. In theadjoinmg back room was, if possible, a still more ghastly sight, for there lay the dead body of another child, Eliza, aged nine, who was deaf, with her throat cut The father James Nicholls, was partly sitting on a chair, as if he had- fallen forward asleep at his bench at work, and _ his throat „„„ nml lif^ nuite extinct The instrument that had been used was a common shoemakers knife, sharpened away at the point It appears that the wife of the man is a Plymouth woman, and he came from Cornwall with her about two years ago, and ha3 had tolerably constant work since that time, but. of course, with such a largo family they were hard pressed. The wife used to go out channg when she was able, and left the house at seven o'clock on Monday morning to go to her occupation. The father sent out two of the children, tiessie, aged eleven, and Hannah, aged eight, telling them to go and buy some sweets, and he would mind the others, boon after they had gone the children were heard to cry, but no notice was token of it until, as above stated, the blood was seen running under the door and along the landing. All the throats of the chddren bore marks of the most fearful ill- usage, two of them especially being dreadfully jatrged, as if, instead of cutting the throat straight away, the murderer had stabbed them first under the ear/ The parents bore a very good character in the neighbourhood, and the . children were exceedingly clean and neat in their persons and dress, though poor. Nicholls was an extremely industrious, sober man. Ho was man- ied 1G years ago, and in addition to his own family of six, had an adopted child, who, at the age of eight months, was left an orphan, and with- out a relative In tbe world. Nicholls and his wife, who aro said to have lived on the most affectionate terms, out of sheer charity, adopted this child, and havo brought her up with the tenderness of good parents. She is now 15 years, and fulfilling a situation a3 general servant, going home at night to sleep. Nicholls' family, with himself and wife,' numbered nine in all, and lived and slept in two small rooms, Nicholls had recently a severe attack of rheumatism, which almost disabled his right arm, and his children were down with tho measles. During the last fort- night; he became vary desponding, and spoke frequently of his poor children, expressing fear that they would all go to the workhouse. () n Friday night, however, he was discharged from his employment, and this seemed thoroughly to crush the poor fellow beneath his weight of won. On Saturday ho again referred to his poor children in terms of the deepest despondency. Ho spent a portion of Saturday in finishing a pair of boots for his \ ittle child Rosina, five years old. On Sunday his rheumatism increased. Hecomplained of his poultices to tho part affected ; but notwithstanding her attention, he grew more and more desponding. On Mon- day his wife went to tho house of a tradesman, about a hundred yards from her own lodgings, to do a day a washing. About half- past four in tho afternoon one of tho children ran over to her, exclaiming, " Oh. mother, do come, father has killed baby, and it is all over blood. I couldn't help it, he would make me go out of the room." The poor woman ran round to her house, where the shocking tragedy, as above nar- rated, waa presented to her horrified gaze. PSYCNOLOGICAIPHENOMENON^— A Lady wrote of her lover who had become insane that " he had gone out of his mind, but had never gone out of hers." - Punch. SMOKING GOSSIP !—" It's no use talking about Bmoking shortening life," said a gentleman in reply to a clerical enthusiast against smoke. " Why, my grandfather smoked since ho was a boy, and" he's Boyenty- five years old." " That may be, my dear friend," replied the clerical party," " but if he hadn't smoked lie might have been ninety." The Japanese clergy are not opposed to smoke; they pause evary five minutes in their discourse, and say to their congre- gation, " Let us have a Bmoke." Cope also gives tho clergy a hint how to fill their lurches. He sayB :— " At the last siege of Antwerp, a priest could not induco tho soldiers to come early to church. Some- times ho had to begin when there was no one in the church but himself. He took a very effectual means of remedying the evil. He distributed cigars among the soldiers. They now not merely camo early, but camo in crowds, especiallv as they were allowed yaoke Juring the Fervice." SHE FAIiMODTR & PENRYN WEEKLY Tf'- ffRS SATTJTiDAY. APED. 20, 1872 IHE ATTACK ON THE QUEEN. Tho Daily Mies, In ono of thoso animated sketches which not ( infrequently appear in that journal, thus describes the sceno in court, when tbe prisoner was called up for judg- Tlie sentence passed upon tho foolish boy Arthur O'Connor of twelve months' imprisonment and twenty stripes is both merciful and judicious. Tho lashes will be administered not by the " cat" used for adult of- fenders, but by a stout birch rod efficiently wielded, and • will not be allowed to inflict serious damage on the lad's Sickly frame. Tho scream heard in Court when the sentence was pronounced came from his mother, who, poor woman, petitioned the officer in charge so earnestly ' io be allowed to remain, and had promised so faithfully to restrain her feelings, that she was permitted to keep her station oloso to the dock until the proceedings were at an end. Those proceedings, so far as the boy's defence was concerned, > were futile and ill- advised from first to last; and we venture to say there were not half- a dozen people whojspent " Thursday in the Central Criminal Court who did not think it a thousand pities that the original plea of Guilty " had not been allowed to stand. The lad had, it seems, told his mother an hour or two before he ap- peared in the dock that the scales had fallen from his eyes, nnd that he saw now how foolish and criminal he liad been. Following on this, he had pleaded Gnilty," and, but for a subsequent application to tbe Court, would have been sentenced, and the whole sub- ject would have been disposed of two days previously. Instead of this, the whole miserable story was gone through again, and every detail of the silly lad's crime and of the plea set up on his behalf by the dootors will be circulated once^ nore. The Attorney- General expressed the general feeling accurately when lie asked Dr. Tuke whether it was not rather a proof of sanity than otherwise that the lad should have thrown himself upon tho mercy of the Court by con- fessing his guilt, when his " acquittal" on the ground of insanity would result in imprisonment for life at Broadmoor ? This was what was in everybody's mind during the protracted proceedings of Thursday. Where was the use of proving tho lad mad at the time he pleaded guilts, when the punishment would be so much more severe than if he were treated as a simple criminal who had confessed ? Where was the kindness in con- demning him to a living death instead of punishing him and then permitting him to begin life again a wiser and better man? It was nearly a quarter past ten when Mr. Baron Clea6by, accompanied by Alderman Sir William Rose and the two Under- Sheriffs, took his seat upon the bench. Sir Thomas Gabriel came in shortly after- wards . . . Sir J ohn Coleridge appeared in his place a few minutes before ten, as did Mr. Poland, Mr. Serjeant Parry, Mr. Montagu Williams, Mr. Huddle- eton, Mr. Digby Seymour, and other lights of the English bar. After a few minutes delay . . . Mr. Jonas, the Governor of Newgate, took up his position at one • orner of the dock, and almost at the same moment Arthur O'Connor appeared The first and strongest impression on the minds of those who had not seen him before was that he looked much younger than his age. A slim, fresh- coloured, good- looking, neatly dressed, blushing, intelligent school lad— this is what Arthur O'Connor's appearance suggested at first eight. There was plenty of self- consciousnera about him, too; and when he took his place in the front of the dock, he bowed neither to judge nor jury, butposed himself as if sitting for his photo- graph. He waa neatly dressed in broadcloth, and wore spotless linen. His face flushed deeply as he turned from the jury to scan those in the seats set apart for witnesses, and from the time of his appear- ance to the close of the proceedings, his mobile face showed plainly the deep interest he felt in all that was going on, and how keenly he watched every detail as it told for or against the tkeory of the defence. There - was neither eccentricity nor affectation perceptible in bis demeanour, and his manner and appearance throughout was that of a respectable, middle- class lad. Close observation and a not inconsiderable sense of humour made themselves manifest during the day. During the preliminary sparring between Mr. Hume Williams, his counsel, and Sir John Coleridge as re- presenting the Crown, O'Connor followed each of the speakers minutely but with animation, and it was not until his father came into the witness- box aud testified to his son's bad health and irritable temper that the prisoner's colour faded and his brow became overcast. His face brightened, however, atthementionof his uncle, jFeargus O'Connor, and he looked round rather proudly when the Attorney- General spoke of the good character the lad had enjoyed in the various situa- tions he had filled. Again, when the list of his favourite authors waa given by his father, and the works of Thackeray, Dickens, Lever, Lover, Cooper, and other standard writers of English fiction were given, he smiled as if in acquiescence. When the Attorney- General asked the father if the boy Arthur ever read anything " stiff er " than the works of these authors, and when, on learning that he had himself written both poetry and prose, Sir John Coleridge asked gravely, " What sort of stuff waa it?" the prisoner laughed outright. Mr. O'Connor, his father, a soldierly- looking man with a black moustache and. a rubicund yif$ age, was cross- examined closely by the Attorpey- General with the view of proving that he. h^ d authorised or coun- selled the plea of " Guilty," and that the insanity was an afterthought. Mrs. O'Connor was examined next; and a more unlikely couple to have a son guilty « f such an outrage aa Arthur O Connor was sentenced for it would be difficult to find. Bpthr « peak like people who have been in a better position than they occupy now ; and it was impossible towithhold sympathy from the mother, who had to give evidence concerning her son's intelligence and habita; with that aon, who closely resembles her, standing within a few paces, and in such straits that his own friends were endeavouring to have him immured as a criminal lunatic for Kfe. During the examination of Arthur O'Connor's father and mother, the Attorney- General had let drop more than one allusion to " the doctors." and to Dr. Harring- ton Tuke in particular, which led one to expect that the cross- examination of that gentleman would be as severe as Sir John Coleridge could make it. One heard, " I have no doubt Dr. Tuke thinks so," or. " Dr. Tuke took the othet1 medical men, did he ?" and other observations half asides, and half, as it seemed, con- versational hints to the jury— which put those present • u courant. Thus it was that when Dr. Tuke's examina- tion- in chief, which included a long narative or mono- logue from the doctor himself, was over, and Sir, John Coleridge rose, every one was on the qui vive, and Arthur O'Connor leant forward eagerly, as if fearful of missing a single word He laughed out heartily many times during the " roasting" which followed. The Attorney - General's first, question sufficed to give every one present the cue. " To whom are we in- debted for the pleasure of seeing you here, Dr. Tuke ?" was said with a courtesy of manner which was almost strained. Perhaps it was the lofty polite- 3> fcaa of tho Attorney- General's manner which caused Dr. Tuke to mistake his meaning, for it was not until tho ouestion had been repeated more than once that the doctor said, " Do you mean who J> ays mo?" and the Attorney- General replied. Exactly : that is what I do mean." Nobody paid Dr. Tuke, and he had told Mr. O'Connor, senior, that his visits to his son should not cost him a pentoy. , The late Feargns O'Connor had been a patient of the doctor's, and it was out of respect to his memory and regard for the prisoner's father, whom he had known for years, that Dr. Tuke appeared in the case at all. . Then came a really severe cross- examination as to what constitutes insanity, what is reasoning insanity, and what is paroxymidnl insanity. Thero was plenty of laughter, in which the prisener always joined heartily, aa Dr. Tuke was drawn into one logical dilemma after another by his astute cross- questioner; and nothing could bo moro skilful than Sir John Coleridgo's method of snaring his bird. For example, Dr. fuke, having given " reason- ing in a circle " upon the subject of a monomania as one of the indications of insanity ; Sir John Coleridge put two or three artful questions, and received the doctor's replies. He then paused and seemed puzzled. " But," lie remarked with great deliberation, " surely wo are reasoning in a circle ?" " Yee." " And reasoning in a circle is a mark of in- • anity P When he asked Dr. Tuke whether he was prepared to say on oath that the prisoner, as hw stood there, did not know what he was about at the timo he pleaded guilty, O'Connor laughed out, and during the rest of the examination he more than once hid his face in his hands to prevent his amuse- ment being seen. He was accommodated with a chair for the first time just before Sir John Coleridge sat down, and the moment Dr. Tuko was free, about 2 p. m., the Judge rose, and with a look of ^ jreat weariness, said the Court would adjourn for a brief timo. The rest is soon told. Afier . tho adjournment Dr. Gibson, tho surgeon of Newgate, and another medical man, gave evidence. Then tbo jury interposed, and said their minds were made up, and they would not trouble tbe learned Judge to sum up. The only question they had to try was the prisoner's sanity, and on this thoy had no doubt. They very properly rejected Dr. Tuke's theories in Mo, and left the prisoner in the hands of the Court. No one could see O'Connor on Thursday and hear the evidence given without ap- proving this decision. It was tho only one consistent with common sense, nnd wo shall be mistaken if some of the propositions laid down on Thursday are not quoted hereafter aa tho rcductio ad absurdum of so- called evi- dence of insanity in criminal cases. Ihe following details concerning O'Connor, have beeu furnished to us ( The Lancet) by Dr. Sutherland, who, in connection with Dr. Bond, examined the pri- soner on the morning after the outrage with a view to ascertain his mental condition:— When aaked about the act Itself, ho stated that his inten- tion at tho tinio was to deliver a petition to the Queen de- manding tho liberation of all Fenian prisoners,, and that he thought by presenting a pistol nt Her Majesty to strengthen his appeal. Ho had no intention of shoot- ing tho Queeu at tuo time. He stated that ho was not incited to the act by any other person, nor by read- ing any sensational literature, but that the thought of doing the deed came upon him BUddonly one day when walk- ing alono in Ilydo- park. Ho said that he was In weak health, that he had had typhoid fever, and that he was then suffering from Indigestion. He had from time to timo been out of work, and was discontented with his position In life. He had not lived happily with his relatives at home. Ho be- lieved In Christ and In religion generally, but thought that no man ought to be bound by any particular form of worship. He slept well, sometimes dreaming, but never seoing any ghosts or hearing any voices by night or by day. Ho says he has never suffered from any '* allusion" or any- thing approaching to mental aberration, and he appeared to be much amusod at tho word " Insanity" being used in reference to himself. He was a'groat talkor, and was evi- dently pleased at having an opportunity of giving vent to his political opinions. Ills manner seemed to be above the averAge of his class but ho displayed a decided want of education in hie knowledge of grammar and of recent events. He denied that ho had taken such a step with tho object of making himself conspicuous, but affirmed that the act was simply done for the good of his country, and that he should not care if his name were never known or mentioned In connexion with It. He appeared to be an enthusiastic, fanatical boy, who, being discontented with his position, nnd probably excited by the recent evehts of the Thanksgiving ceremonies, had chosen this time to create a diversion in his mode of life and make himself notoriousfor the time b^ ing. There was nothing in his appearance, manner, or conversation that would lend to tho Impression that he was a person of unsound mind. LICENSING REFORM CONGRESS. A meeting of dolegatea from all over England, em- bracing some of the largest firms in the kingdom, con- cluded, on Thursday afternoon in last week, a two day's session at the Terminus Hotel, Cannon- street, London, held for the purpose of considering to what extent tne united trade might feel themselves justified in supporting the Licensing Bill of Sir Henry Sehrin- Ibbetson. . Mr. Cobbold, the chairman of the Country Bi ewers' Society, under whoee auspices this and other kindred meetings have been held, presided, and after he had given expression to his regret ( in which the meeting fully concurred) thnt the Government had left a private member to deal with BO important a subject, stated that his Bociety generally felt that they could givo their assent to the Bill, but having promised at previous meetings not to move without the support of others in the trade, had summoned this congress in order that the united voice of the trade might be taken. The meeting then proceeded seriatim through overy olause of the Bill, and the following were the princi- pal alterations agreed upon :— Clause 0 was struck out, it being considered un- advisable to create any new class of licence, and great objection being taken to the fact that under the new Bill a publican could not let lodgings without taking out a special licence. Clause 13, dealing with the rateable value of public- house property, was altered so that the value might be reduced. In clause 14 it was laid down that a licence Bhould only be liable to be removed once a year, A long discussion ensued on clause 23, " Reservation of existing rights," and the country brewers' amend- ment, with a rider by Mr. Ford, of Portsmouth, was Carried, laying down the necessity of its being proved that a brothel or other objectionable house absolutely communicates with the publichonse before the tenant of the latter shall lose his licence, and giving the land- lord power to procure a licence for a new tenant in the event of tho old one being held to be disabled from continuing to hold a licence. Clause 25, which deals with appeals, gave rise to an- other long discussion, every one holding the present Court of Appeal to be unsatisfactory, but it was at length resolved that the present Court be retained, the appellant having the power to demand a jury,_ and being entitled to his costs in the event of getting a decision against the magistrates. In clause 60 it was held that the public, rather than the trade, were the proper parties to say what houre houses should be opened on the Sunday ; but it was considered that there should be an uniform time of opening and closing for all houses. Clause 64 underwent a sweeping change, paragraphs 10, 11, and 12 being expunged. The first relates to serving children under 16 with liquor to be consumed on tho premises ; the second to nobody being per- mitted to pay wages in a licensed house ; and the thiid to dancing and music not being permissible without a special licence. It being considered that a publican might soon get into trouble under this paragraph with- out any fault of his own, the word " knowingly " was interpolated in three places to restrict the liability of the licence- holder. All the adulteration clauses, 66 to 73, remain intact, as also the drunkards' clauses, with some trifling alterations. Clause 81, giving half the penalty to the Police Su- perannuation Fund, was generally condemned, and it was unanimously resolved that the penalties be appor- tioned as heretofore. Clause 86 was altered to read that no offence should count as a second offence after three years, instead of five, as in the bill; the same alteration being made in clause 88. The entry of the police upon premises, in clause 91, was not objected to, so long aa the policeman produced hia warrant; and a similar alteration waa proposed Jn clause 96. In clauso 102, as to tho disqualification of brewers, & c., to act aa magistrates, there was a very earnest discussion, and ultimately the following rider waa ap- pended :—" Or any person objecting upon principle ( to the retail sale of fermented liquors. ' In schedule 4 some alteration was mode as to the duty on licences, and it was held that beer- houses Bhould be on an equality with publichouses as to wine licences and in schedule 6, while it wa9 the unanimous opinion that too great punishment could not fall upon those adulterating their liquors, " common salt," it was agreed, should be struck out of the tho list of adulter- ants, all brewers' liquor containing sufficient chlorides- to account for its presence. At the conclusion of the Conference on Thursday afternoon a warm vote of thanks was passed to tho chairman, and a committee of 11 was then appointed from the congress, who accepted tho principle of the bill, moro especially na tho Suspensory Act oxpirea this year, and Mr. Bruco had made no sign of in » troducing tho Government measure. Commenting on the " Licensing Keform Congress," and also viewing the subjoet generally, The Times of Saturday haa the following leader:— The Licensing Question has called into being so many popular organizations that an ordinary reader might well be at a loss to apprehend tho exact charaotor and purposo of that " Licensing Reform Congress" which figured in our columns of yesterday. Let us observe; then, a powerful and determined League, known aa the United Kingdom Alliance, seeks, without reserve or disguise, to " annihilate " utterly and unconditionally thetiado in intoxicating drinlu. A second Society, the National Temperance Union, is working in tho same direction with more moderate views, and would be content with fewer publicliouses, shorter hours of business, and more efficient superintendence. On tho other side, the Liquor Trade itself represents a standing organization, compact, resolute, and nono the less formidable bccaiwo it makes fewer demonstrations in the face of the public. Tho real object of this As- sociation is self- defence, or protection ; and we should not be far wrong in presuming that, if it spoke its plain thoughts and could expect to have its own way, it would concur to Mr. Bass in deprecating all legiblative interference whatever, and claiming for tho trade to bo simply let alono, like any other industry. As these views, however, can certainly not be realised, a disposition to compromise has been pretty plainly shown, aid that is the temper of which evidence waa given in the proceedings now before us. In point of fact, the " LicensingReform Congress," notwithstand- ing its title, is an organisation emanating from the trade itself. It represents, apparently, rather the manufacturers than the retailers of beer; but, as publichouses are practically under tho control of the brewers, and as the Congress appeal to the " united voice of the trade," we may infer that what is approved by the delegatos of tho great brewing firms will not bo disapproved by the Licensed Victuallers of the kingdom. So far, therefore, there is a prospect of ad- jjistmcnt by concession and agreement, but many more considerations remain to be taken into the account We- have said nothing yet of the anticipated action of Government in tho matter, and for the best of reasons, becauseGovernment haa said nothing itself. Whether Mr. Bruce has a now Licensing Bill in preparation, and, if « so; of what provisions it will consist, we cannot tell, but in the meantime the Opposition haa taken up tno question which the Government dropped, and a Licensing Bill introduced by Sir Henry Selwin- Ibbetson stands for its second reading on Wednesday next. This is tho measure with which the Congress at its recent meetings proceeded to deal, and to which, with certain reservations, it expressed itself prepared to assent. Consequently, the representatives of Tem- perance aro approaching to au agreement with the representatives of the Liquor Traffic, and to that extent an amicable solution of the question might be anticipated. But if Sir Henry Selwin- Ibbetson's Bill may be so modified as to satisfy tho brewing interest nnd the interest of the publicans, will it, in that shape, be acceptable also to the United Kingdom Alliance, the National Temper- ance Union, or even the Government itself, which, we must presume, has still a policy of its own ? What, in short, would be tho practical effect of such a measure on the Liquor Traffic of the country ? That it would not " annihilato " the trade we may be very sure ; but would it so far diminish the number of publichouses and Bhorten the hours of business as to meet the wishes of more moderate reformers? To put the case in a few words, how much of the money now spent in drink would this bill succeod in diverting to better purposes? That is'the inquiry to which, in ail discussions on this subject, wo must come at last. Nobody seems able to say, within ten millions or BO, what the people of this kingdom, and the working classes especially, spend upon intoxicating liquors; but the sum is almost certainly larger than the whole national expenditure provided for by Parliament and it is probably little leas than £ 100,000,000 a year. Now, outside the trade itself it would behard to find a person to deny that nearly a half of this prodigious outlay means misspent money. It is of no avail to argue that excessi ve intemperance ia actually on the decline. Per- haps it may be, but the extreme and brutish phase of drunkenness is not the only, nor, indeed, the principal evil to be dealt with by a Licensing Bill A man may easily take too much drink for his health, hia pocket, or his interests generally, without committing himself to hopeless or habitual intoxication. When, too, the Licensed Victuallers declare that a confirmed drunkard, instead of being an advantage, is actually a nuisance to the Trade, we may readily believe them. Such characters operate as " frightful examples," spoil good company, provoke the intervention of tbe police, and bring the whole establishment into trouble. But drunkenness may be condemned while drinking is unduly encouraged, and the present dimensions of the Liauor Traffic can fcordly be considered compatible with any but an im- moderate consumption of intoxicating drinks. The Licensing Question, therefore, however it may be handled, must mean the question of passing measures for reducing this consunyition ; and, as reduced trade must bring reduced profits, we may say that in any negotiation for compromise the practical question will be what proportion of their profits our brewers and liquor- sellers are prepared to lose. At Manchester last week Mr. Disraeli observed that a Liberal Govern- ment had treated a publican as a " sinner," and he classed the interest of Licensed Victuallers iu their trade with that of the Irish Church in its Establishment, and of Irish landlords in their estates. That was another expression of the " confiscation " theory ; but the least reflection will make it clear that " confisca- tion " or non- intervention represents the only alterna- tive of Which this Licensing Question admits. Those who agree with Mr. Bass that not a drop too much beer is drunk may logically proceed to argue that any mea- sures, be they what they may^ for curtailing the sale of beer must amount to a " confiscation" of the traders' pruSta In direct proportion to the curtailment actually accomplished. That cannot be denied, but if a Licens- ing Bill is to have any meaning, er produce any effect at all, this very " confiscation must idfevitably ensue. It is only a question of terms. Mr. Bruce waa charged with " confiscation " because he proposed to terminato interests assumed to be interminable; but any other proposition, if producing the same effects on the profits or property of the trade, might have befen resented as confiscation with precisely aa much justice.. Practically speaking, " confiscation," and nothing less, fjs the direct object of every Licensing Reformer, whether reason- u,~ or unreasonable. To come at onco to the point, any person prepared to resist " confiscation' must in reality take his side, Mr. Bass, and resist withall interference whatever. If thero is to bo interference, it must, as far aa it goes, bo " confiscation," and can never be anything else. Every Licensing Bill, whoever may be its authors, must be a Biir* for reducing consumption of intoxicating liqnors, and consequently for reducing, or, in other words, " confiscating," EO much of the existing profits of the trade. There is the whole case put in a nutshell. The practical question is a question only of degree, and we shall see next week, perhaps, to what degree of " con- fiscation" the " Licensing Reform Congress" of British Brewers is prepared to accede. labour of tbo 10,000 able- bodied persons assumed to be shut up in gaols. The inquiry naturally divides itself into two parts and as to the first there can be no dispute. If we consider what passes within the prison walls, it cannot be denied that the State gains whatever may be realised by the sale of the product's of the prisoners' labour. To this extent the cost of their maintenance is diminished, and the Exchequer bettered. How does the case stand outside the prison walls ? A certain quantity of commodities is thrown upon the market below, it is said, the prices ruling there, and, it may bo therefore assumed, below the prico nt which some of those ongaged in the manu- facture can afford to produce them. The result may for the time be disadvantageous to men in the trade, but it is for the national advantage. How does it differ economically from a reduction in price through an improvement in machinery, or through im- Eortations from some market to which we have for the rst time obtained access, or through the introduction of cheap labour in any other way ? So far as there is a disturbance, it is, in fact, nothing more than any other disturbance brflught about by cheap supplanting dear labour, and our sympathy with temporary suffer- ing, supposing it proved, cannot blind us to the troth • that this is a matter of national advantage. The only peculiarity in the case is that the supply of cheap labour which can operate on the market through the introduction of prisontmade commodities is limited, but this is a circumstance not affecting the soundness of the main argument. Even if it were ascertained • uat the cheapness of the products of Prison Labour lisplaced a certain proportion of outside labour, the lyetem of industrial employment in prisons ought to be maintained— first, because it relieves taxpayers of part 5f the lost of keeping prisoners; and, secondly, be- cause the community as a whole is always benefitted by jetting commodities cheap. We hasten to relieve what may appear to be harsh and cruel, if undeniable, truth by adding that no case whatever haa been made out to show that Prison Labour undersells the free competition of the outer world A certain number of workmen may, no doubt be brought together to say that they cannot work for the prices at which prison - made " articles are sold, and they are quite honest in saying this ; but when tbev are asked whether other people in the trade do not work at these prices, and could not increase their pro- duction indefinitely at the^ ame prices, they confess that they are men who are ready to undertake any amount of work at the prices they condemn as unre- munerative. The particular industry which excited Tuesday's debate was mat- making. Certain mat- makers declare they are undersold by the cheapness of prison mats. One fact is^ enough to take away the foundation of their complaints. Wakefield Prison is the particular manufactory attacked. The late Governor of that prison became so con- PRIS0N LABOUR v. FREE LABOUR. The Timet has tho following leader upon this rather vexed question, and many of our readers are perhaps suffi- ciently interested in tho question to examine ita pros, and cam. tor themselves :— It was probably desirable that the question raised by Colonel Beresford in the House of Commons the other evening should be thoroughly discussed, for it cannot be doubted that a large number " of workmen consider themselves aggrieved by the system he attacked. It ia one of the oldest complaints brought against industrial Prison Discipline that it interferes with the honest in- dustry of Working men outside the prison wiills ; and^ though tbo accusation haa been met and refuted again and again, it crops up with Buch persistency that we can scarcely hope tho time will ever come whan. it will • not be necessary to refute it once more. 1M& Bruce exposed its want of substance so thoroughly that • Colonel Berertford nuked leave in the end to1 with- draw his motion for inquiry; but the discontented operatives will soon get another member, metropolitan or provincial, to undertake their caufle, and Mr. Bruce or some other Home Secretary will again have to repeat the work'Of replying to their arguments. Neither na a matter of principle nor as a matter of fact could Colonel Beresford's clients make'out a case. Ho wisely elected to be non suited, and to' withdraw hia motion for a Select Committee. The qomplaint is that Pfiflon Labour undersells free laboun . We meet tho complaint iu the first case lay boldly asking, " What if it does T' Many benevolent and sympathetic porsdns may Bhuddbr at tho apparent liarahness of tho qucfltioft V out lot them fairly work out the answer for tbetnaolvoa before they pronounce judgment upon it. Tho facts of tho dispute admit! of being pimply stated. ' Lot us suppose that thero are 10,000 able- bodied persons whofor their orime3 against society are shut up imprison. The first condition of their confine- ment must, of course, bo that it shall bo painful, and this must bo secured whatever else ia sacrificed Tha mere fact of confinemontitself, howeveryeoea vory far to make imprisonment painful, and so much more painful than the free life of the prixon- filling class, that, aa far as they are capnble of weighing tno consequences of their own actions, thoy try to avoid it. Does the circum- stance that part of the labour exacted from them in Prison is devoted to the manufacture of useful objects, instead of being absorbed in crank or wheel work, make them more careless about punishment ? Mr. Bruce's statistics Bhowed that it does not The number of committals is decreasing with ail increasing popu- lation, and wo may fairly presume that, from one cause or another— either because the work is equally deter- rent. or because it gives a man a better chance of employment when he is released— industrial labour keeps men out of prison as effectively as the useless labour of turning a wheel. Tho question of Prison Discipline, raised with con- siderable ability by Mr. Keunaway, may be put on one side, and wo aro thus confronted with tho simple issue whether it is for tho national advantage or not that somo usoful results should be obtained from tho sudden plunge of Pe. jgy placedpieabove the French man, aud enabled mo to cut him in theface with aback- ' hander. He sank stupefied on his horse's neck, and I saw no more of him, These circumstances fej& ed with such rapidity, that a very few minutes WP^ occupied In those few minutes a crisis had occurred— we were retiring. With our light horses, we might as well have charged against a stone wall as against those cuirassiers. We were forced back by sheer weight. In retreating, I found myself alongside Joe Coblins. " Captain's taken," said Joe. " And Sam?" I asked. " Down, and cut to pieces," was the reply. " Look there !" it was poor Sam's riderless hoise aligning with me, the saddle red with blood. % " Look out!" shouted Joe. It waa time I did look out, for the next moment my brass chin- strap, and half my left ear with it, was divided by a crappo cuirassier, who was cutting at me over Sam's herse, as if I had been a round of beef. One of my holster- pistols settled that gentleman— greatly to my relief— for I could not have done it with my swonl- arin. ISKANDER KHAN. vinced of the profits which " were to be made in the trade that, on resigning his appointment, he set up a mat manufactory on his own account, which is now a largo and flourishing concern, employing many workmen at good wages. The whole secret is that the Wakefield Justices introduced steam power in the making of mats— tho machinery for the purpose having been paid for, as Major Waterhouse told the House, out or the earnings of prisoners— and the mat- makers who are undersold are, m fact, complaining of the in- troduction of steam into the business. We can easily understand that this change - would effect hand- workers; but it is quite impossible that Parliament should interfere to arrest an alteration in the 9onditions of the mat- making trade which is only one incident in the general development of English industry* The ex- Governor who set, up. in business for himself, and prospers in it, has proved to demonstration that the prison authorities do not sell their produce ' at rates un- remunerative for those who makrfmats according to the most improved methods of production. The discussion the other nightjitna subject to one drawback, which we may j£ gre<^ that the working man member so often talked about waa not present to take part in it As Colonel Beresford introduced the grievance, and Mr. Locke supported him in his most characteristic style, it may bo presumed that the inha- bitants of Southwark are interested in making mate by hand; but, though they did their best, they could scarcely identify themselves \ rith mat- makers, and, with the exception of a few mild remarks from Mr. Morley, no one said a word to back them up. It was quite clear that the House of Commons is not deeply moved by the supposed wrongs of workmen undersold by Convict Labour; but it would be a great mistake to suppose that it is a question in which working men are not deeply interested. They frequently discuss it, and in this, as in similar trade disputes, the Protectionists view is strongly held among them Their first instincts, like those of father men, are against competition with themselves, and a relapse into economic heresies under the influence of a Tory- Radical Socialistic combination is a danger of the future which can never be safely overlooked. It is with reference to snch contingencies that we can never hear a debate like that the other evening, Bomewhat perfunctorily conducted and tending to stray away altogether from the trade grievance which provoked it, without wishing for the presence of a representative working man to give It the vitality of personal feeling and personal conviction. If such an one oould join in the discussion to say what he and hia "( mates" think on the subject, and to hear what ia to be Baid On the other side, we should have means of mutual education such as can never be furnished by Reports, however ample, and we should have the best guarantees against dangers growing to a head unseen and uncorrected. A REMINISCENCE OF WATERLOO. ( From " The Story of a Recruit," from The PeopU's Magazine. Our turn waa now to come in earnest As near as I canjrecollect at this distance of time, we received a small ration of bread with a glass of spirits, as we stood by our horses, waiting for the order to mount The last of our army, including the heavy cavalry, had gone past some little time, when— Bang ! went a gun from the French, instantly answered by one of the English fieldpiecesstill in position. " They're waking up at last," waa the remark in the ranks. Thon began a tre- mendous din, of some half- hour's duration, during whicb could scarcely hear yourself speak, BO great was the uproar. I saw, with my own eyes, one of our guns dismounted. A twelve- pound shot struck the off- wheel, shattering it to fragments. It then glanced off and struck the Umber, making the splinters fly in all directions, killing and wounding every one near. " This is too hot to last," every ono near me said And BO it was ; for soon the firing ceased as if by mutual consent. Our own guns we could see limbering up and galloping off. " Now's our time," said Sam, throwing back his hanging jacket " Hussars, mount !" from the colonel. Wo were in our saddles in a moment. The next orders brought us into tho open ground from behind tho cover where we had been concealed, and there facing us when we had formed fine were the French. It was a splendid cuirassier regiment, coming forward at a walk, from being obliged to break their ranks to pass their own guns. A martial set of fellows they were, truly, all steel and hair ; their fierce faces wero half covered with hair, and horse hair streamed down their backs from their helmets, like the style adopted by young ladies at the present day. They were mounted upon powerful, large- boned ' horses. I should judge that we were about fifty yards distance from them. Whon fairly face to face, a thrilling, simultaneous " Hurrah !' broke from our ranks— not a throat was silent. Oh, wbat a momont it was ! what a moment it waa I My poor withered body trembles with the re- membrance. Every man's heart was in that cheer. A few hoarse shouts of " Ift'ee I' Empercur" were all 1 could boar from the French, before the trumpets on both Bides sounded. Then our colonel found his tongue. " Forward, Chargo !" in a voice of thunder. It rings in my ears now. In a few moments more we were upon them. Such a, rain of sword- flashes you never saw ! tMy immediate antagonist was a tall fellow on a dap- led horse, a quarter- master or something of the kind. Buppose I had swerved my mare n little to the left to save ber shoulder; but notwithstanding that, the Bhock nearly threw me out of the saddle. Another thing was, that Poggy had snapped, as she galloped up, at the neck of the French horse, and held a piece of it between her teeth. Then there was such a shak- ing of man& s and prancing ithat we, linman fighters, hod as much as we could manage to keep our seats. The cuirassier was grinding his teeth and swearing in his foreign way; for every cut which he aimed at Peggy, to make her loose her hold, was parried by me immediately, though the force of tho blows, which numbed my arm to the shoulder, showed mo that 1 had no chicken to deal with. At length the French horse set himself free, but for all that 1 could get no nearer to his master, as the creatures commenced rear- ing and sparring with their fore feet liko boxers. Finally ( I do not know whether to be proud or sorry) a Indian Government Setting himself in opposition to his brother, Shere Ali. Sultan Jan forfeited his life ; and his son, Iskander Khan, who, though only sixteen years of age at the . time, had been in command of Shere Ali's forces, was thrown into prison for siding with his father, and kept there two years and a half. He made his escape to Bokhara, with a retinue of 100 men, offered his services to th? Ameer, which were accepted, and was placed in command of a body of 300 Afghans, With which he was sent to defend the northern frontier of Bokhara against the advance of the Ru& uana, who were then encroaching southward of the Jaxartea. A variety of circumstances, however, soon made Iakander Khan's position in Bokhara both irksome and dangerous, and he found that one of the Bokharian Ministers was plotting hia ruin, if not his death. This personage being on a critical occasion in the Afghan camp, lskander Khan caused him to be bound hand and foot, struck his camp, and, in regular order, pro- ceeded with his 300 men to the Russian side. This little army marched six days and six nights with their prisoner in the centre, while on all flanks it waa con- tinuously attacked by flying bodies of Bokharian cavalry sent in pursuit It is Baid that Iakander Khan, finding that his prisoner was likely to create a revolt in the centre of the body while he himself waa engaged in repelling on all sidea the attacks of his pursuers, caused him to be put to death. Having thu3 freed himself from his greatest danger he was able to cut his way to the Jaxartes, and placed himself and his men at the disposition of the Russians. The Russian Government lost no time in offering Iskander Khan a commission in its service ; and during upwards of two years that the young manpassed in bt Petersburg as lieutenant- colonel in the Hussars of the Guard, he acquired £ con- siderable knowledge of the Rkssian language, which he speaks and writes ^ vith fluency and correctness. A few months ago he determined to return to C'abul, where, if his uncle Sbere Ali receives him at all, a high posi- tion undoubtedly awaits him It was, wo believe, sug- gested to him ( says the Pair Mall Gazelle), that he should take the direct route ; but ho preferred to make the journey by way of England, and during his temporary residence here is said to be turning his opportunities of studying tho country to good account. He is, moreover, learning the language, of which the only words he knew before hia arrival in England were our military words of com- mand. familiar to him from his childhood. With the geography of British India he was already well acquainted ; and he has a perfect knowledge of the distribution of troops throughout the country. It may be hoped that England and the English are making a favourable impression upon Iskander Khan, for— to apply the words of the Eussian World to our own case —" his return to Cabid will, aa a matter of course, affect our interests in Central Asia." MR. GLADSTONE ON THE STATE OF IRELAND. A deputation from Belfast and other places in the North of Ireland, waited upon Mr. Gladstone at his residence, Downing- street, on Wednesday afternoon, for the purpose of inviting him to a public banquet atrBelfast. Mr. M'Clure, M. P., in introducing the deputation, read a lengthy address, in which the Premier'a Irish policy waa eulogised. He handed Air. Gladstone a book containing the names cf upwards of 3,000 per- sons who bad subscribed to the invitation. Mr. Gladstone, in reply, said the only drawback to the invitation was that they had spokbn of his efforts to ameliorate tbo condition of Ireland in too eulogistic a manner. He was glad to hear from them that Ire- land was free from aenouscrime, and that shehad made great progress in the caus^ of legislation. The improve- ments whicli had taken placein Ireland had been due in the first place to the change of Government inlS68, and secondly, to the unanimous determination of the people of England and Scotland that justice should be done her. He waa very muoh indebted for his legislation in Irish affairs to the ability of the Marquis of Harrington and Mr. Fortescue, and three such men a3 Justice Lawsun, the Master of the Rolls, and Mr. Dowse, who wero men ofthe greatest talent ana ornaments of their profession. Then with respect to the Land Bill, he could say from hia knowledge of tho matter in the House of Commons that it waa but justice to grant it, nnd that 110 exorbitant or unreasonable demand had been made. He waa glad that what had been done in the matter had tended to restore confidence among-' all classes in Ireland, and had tended to remove tLe unsettled condition of the land. Referring to th question of Home Rule, he did not think that ever- one knew exactly what it meant, but he believe! he was right in thinking that all that its advocate wished was tbat the unity of the United Kingdmii should bo kept intact, but that particular maohi nery should bo used in order to regulate proper!, the SUCCCBS of Irish matters. After defending hi' Irish policy, and declaring that all the measure that had been uassed for Ireland had been the ream, of tho desire of the threo kingdoms to secure justice ti Ireland, ho referred to the Church disendowment, an ! said that tho members thereof had since shown Bel'- reliance and more confidence— he defended the measu. as one of justice, and for no other reason Afler having argued that all the past measures had tend. .1 to benefit Ireland, and that in future moro rem^ l measures would be applied, Mr. Gladstone jocose remarked that at such a rate England and ScotLn I would soon grow jealous of the attention shown tli • sister country. Coming to the matter of tho invr - - tion, he said he treated tho day would soon come wh> i an occbptanco of an invitation would be an acceptai" in principle and in fact He felt it would be a gr - loss both to himself and them did he decline tin i invitation. As ho took it that the invitation -• Belfast meant an invitation to the whole of Irehm he trusted that Ireland would in all respects be fun in a satisfactory condition. He would gladly ace. the invitation, but would havi to communicate w Mr. M'Clure respecting the date at which he intern, to visit Ireland. The deputation then withdrew. A recent number of the Russian World gives some interesting particulars concerning Iskander Khan, nephew of Shere Ali, the present Ameer of Cabul, who has for some weeks past been in London:— Before General Kaufmann's advance on Samarcand, Iskander Khan waa in the service of the Ameer, and com- manded an auxiliary force of Afghans, with which he passed over to the Russian side and placed himself under the Russian banner. This action on the part of a body of inde- pendent Afghans produced a great moral effect on the troops of both sidea. lskander Khan was at once received into the Russian Service with the rank of lieutenant- colonel; he was decorated with the Order of Stanislas of the second degree, and was intimately attached to the Lite Guard regiment of Hussars. Unfortunately, a variety of circum- stances unfavourable to Iskander Khan urged him to leave the service. He resigned hia commission and took his departure to Er gland. We now learn from London that Iskandcr Khan expects to return to Cabul with the assistance of the English Government. He ia received In - London not as a field- officer, but as a prince of tbe - blood. He ia granted a handsome allowance, and Mr. Mlchell, who was born in Russia and thoroughly under- stands Central Asian affairs and the Russian language, ia attached to him as mehmandar. It cannot ( concludes the Russian . World) but be a matter of regret to us If Iskander Khan hag left Russia with a feeling of bittemeia and disap- pointment, for in that caae his return to Cabul will, as a matter of ^ course, affect our interests in Central Asia In a manner not altogether to our advantage. . Iskander Khan is a Heratee, and son" of Sultan Jan, once governor of Herat, who during his lifetime and tenure of power was a warm friend of the Anglo
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