ialniBiifli k i& nrp mi AND ( ENEBAL ADVERTISER. PUI5USHED, EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, BY FRED. H. EAREE, OFFICES ON THE QUAY, FALaiOUTH. NUMBER 570. FALMOUTH: SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1872. PRICE ONE PENNY. | ales foj Juction. At ana near the Docks, Falmouth, Mondaj next, May 6th, 1872. ME. COEP1ELD has been directed jay Mr. Wiltshire, to Sell by AUCTION ( in consequence of his having completed certain contracts), the fallowing valuable Horses, Harness, Plant, Hay, Sheds, & c-, Consisting of 2 very handsome powerful Draught Horses, very attractive, light bay, fresh, in high condition 14 sets of fore and breeching Harness 3 excellent Butts and Wheels 1 valuable Timber Carriage, complete 2 patent Chaff Cutters. 1 Corn Orusl er, new Grindstone and Frame. 6 crosscut S iws Dogging and other Chains. Rope, Also, a substantially- boilt SHED, 83 feet long 16 feet wide, used as a Stable for the keeping of 16 horses, newly folted 1 other Ditto, 20 feet by 18 feet, jused as s Smith's Shop, with the Fittings thereon, in Bellows, Anvil, Vice, Tool £ & c. 1 other Ditto, used as an Office, al tached, 15 feet by 8 feet A part of a Stack of prime Meadow Hay A useful Boat, 16 feet long Pick Hilts, Fire Wood, & c. fS" Sale at Three. The Auctioneer begs to call the attention of Mine Agents, Railway and Dock Contractors, Farmers, and others to this Sale, considering it unnecessary to make any comm snt thereon, FALMOUTH. Very Eligible Business Premises for Scjle. MR. CORFIELD has been instructed by the I'roprietor to Sell by PUBLIC AUC- TION, on Monday, the 13th May next, at Gray's Albion Hotel, Falmouth, sub- ject to the conditions to be thed read, the Fee Simple and Inheritance of and in all those very desirable Business Premises/ Now and for many years useel as a Smith's Shop, commanding/ a good frontage on Kalligrew Street, TFalmouth, now in the occupation of Airs. Dinnis, at the nominal rental of £ 16/ This desirable Property being so central for the carrying on of a lucrative business in oiosc proximi- ty to the Market, Town Hall, and tile New Pier now in course of construction at the Market- strand, offers to capitalists and others a rarcj and unusual opportunity for securing a safe and profitable investment. 853" Business at Scvi For further particulars apply at/ the Offices of the AUCTIONEER, Falmouth. Dated May 3rd, 1872. the proprietor bding so generally known. apply- On view on Frid^ r and Saturday ing to the proprietor^ 11 the premises. Further particulars oa application at the Offices oitho \ \ v^ ^ AUCTIONEER} Falmouth, Dated Auction Offices, I April r Next, May 6th, al Five. Settings, STATION, PBNRYN. PRELIMINARY NOTICE. gales tg guxticn. Valuable Freehold Dwelling Hpuses to be Sold. OTICE. / SHORTLY EXPECTED. MR./ CORFIELD announces that he is" axpecting the arrival of a large and valuabla cargo of Deals, Battens. Boards, Spars, & c., Direflt from Christiana, ex Kringd on, which will [ be sold in due course, by AUCTION at Pqnryn. I See subsequent" advertisements. Ifeted May 3rd, 1872. Paiish of Budock. To Farmers, Nurserymen, ( jardeners, & c. Wanted Immediately. WANTED Immediately, a good WORKING HIND. Apply to A., Post Office, Falmouth. The louse for Tea. Teas of rare fragrance & strength Economical Tea for Families Black Green or Mixed the Finest Spring Crop. J. H. READ, Tea Dealer & Grocer, High Street, Falmouth. TWELVE OAETES de VISITB, 2. 8di - L Six, 13 Sd. Carta enlarged to 10 lnohee, Sa; Cabinet, fe. Send aute with lUmps. Portent ooplas and original retanad baa. London Photo- Oopylng Company, 304 Bagvnt- at., oppotftte PoJj- toetmlc « vlBHI* hHolbom. London. F. 8. D. PmLUH, Usavat. JUDSON'S DYES.— 18 Colors, 6d. each. TDIBBONS, WOOL, SILK, FEATHERS, il Completely Dyed In 10 minUat without loUlng tho hinds. NtMtovetion « sBppli « ). -" —'— BY TENDER, for a term of 7 or 3, from Christinas, 1872, all those very desirable productive and beautifully situated loses of Laud, ig 9a. lr. 2Gp;, with the COTTAGE and thereon, know" as the HUNDRED and being in close proximity to the charming grounds of Penwarne and in the parish of Budock, now aud for 6 in the occupation of the Rev. Mr. r apply on the Premises to Mr. F For terms and conditions of letting ho Offices of , Mr. CORFIELD. Land Agent, Falmouth, to whom Tenders must be sent on or before Mon- day, 6tlj May. N. B. 4- The highest or any Tender will not necessarily be accepted. April 23rd, 1872. Hers, Corn Factors, & others. rno BE LET, for a term of 7 or 14 years, from J_ 29th September nest, determinable by either party it the end of the first 7 years, all that Flour and Wrist Mill, Called or known by tho name of ROSCARRICK MILE, with the newly- erected and comfortable Dwelling House, Labourer's Cottage, and Out- buildings, and about S acres at rich meadow, ara- ble and' orchard Lands, now in tho occupation of Mr. I Webber, situate in tho parish of Budock, within about two miles of tho towns of Penryn and Falmouth. The Premises are replete in every respect, in ijl condition, laud very productive, and the mill fitted with all necessary, modom and good rhinery. descriptive particulars and conditions apply offices of Mr. CORPIELD, Land Agent, Falmontli view apply on the premises. Dated April 20th, 1872. § ales fry Jtictiim. Port of Falmouth. To Ship Owners, Ship Builders, and Others. Sale of Three Ships, Gridiron, Ship Building Materials, £ c., on Thursday, Mai 9, 1872. MR. ROBERTS HAS been instructed by Mr./ B. BLASIBY, Ship Builder, & c. ( woo has declined business in consequenfce of ill health) to Sell the following / Valuable Properties, by PUBLIC AUCTION, on Thurs- day, May 9th, 18721 commencing at 11 o'clock precisely, on board tho " Ganges," near thp Bonded Stores, and at the Ship/ Building Yard, Arwenack, Falmputh, suoject to such conditions / as shall be then read, if not previously disposed of by private treaty/:— The handsome and superiorlr- built Brigautiae "[ Hustle," 126 Tons register, carrying about 230 Tons, classed Al at Lloyds, with all her Standing Rigging, Sails, Anchors, Cnains, Stores, & c., as per inventory, as she now lies, in one lot. The well- known and strongly- built " Shamrock," 37 Tons registefi. carrying about 60 Tons, built by the owner inY870, classed 5 years at Lloyds, with all her Standing and Running Rigging, Sails, Anchors, parent Windlass, Chains, Stores, & c., as per inventory, as she now lies, in one lot. Also, the very excellenr^ nd strongly oak- built Barque " Gauges," With Gridiron, Deripck, and Stage attached, in one lot. ftoraosepalhis Meiaes, PREPA I ED BY J. N. BENMLL, M. P. S, Chemist by appointme it to the Exeter, the Torquay, and the Plymouth Homoeopathic Dispensaries,' can be obtained in FALMOUTH of his Agent, Mr. W. H. SOLOMON, Dispensing Chemist, 40, Market St. Also, Kendall's THEOBROMINE COCOA tho purest and most J delicious extant, in Tins, Is., 2s., anil 3s. 9d. each. On Thursday Next, May 9th, MR. S. MARKS WILL SELL bir PUBLIC ACTOTION, at the POLY TECHNIC HALL, large assortment of lining Room, mahogany • lor and Bed itoom uruitiire in gilt frames, ' arpets, & c. The above are of fc& e mostmoderndescription and superior quality. Immediately after the above, a large quantity of new / Drapery Goods Will be disposed of. Sale at Iy prompt. Goods on view in the morning. / Full particulars see posters, or of the AUQTIONEER, 14, High St., Fal uth. Seidell's Hair Restorer it' o ABOUT 3000 feet of first- qiiality English Oak 20 large Mast Pieces, in red and yellow pine Several large Spars. 2 spare Topmasts A quantity of seasoned Pine, from f ia. to 4 in. thick About 10 tons Bai Iron, assorted 8 tons of iron Chain Cable 2 wood- stocked Anchors Excellent Hand- fMachine for making Trenails Ditto ditjfo for punching Metal 2 Bottle Jacksi 2 pairs excellent Timber Wheels / 2 large Weighing Machines, with weights About 30 cwtI of galvanized iron and other Nails of various sizes Sheathing Mfetal. Metal Bolts. Copper and Composition Nails A large quantity of Sheathing Pelt Several large double and treble Blocks Iron Pullets. Ash and fir Oara Paints, Pitch, Patent Dryers, Oil, & c. Together [ with a large assortment of Ship Buifiding Materials, Tools, & c., & c. Goods on view the day preceding the Sale, from 10 till 4. For further particulars apply to the AUCTIONEER, Arwenack Street, Falmouth. Dated April 26th, 1872. kuy other kind, and r the Medical Pro- Is totally different from | has been pronounced b} fossion to be perfectly harmless. It will positively Restore Grey Hair to its Original Colour in' a few days with<- ut dyeing it or leaving the disagreoabio smell of other Restorers. It renders the Hair beautifully softs glossy and luxuriant. It will not only Restore Grey Hair to its Original Color, but will cause No v Hair to grow on Bald Spots, unless the Hair Glands are decayed, when no stimulant can restore them. When the New Hair makes its appearance . be careful not to brush it too much. Directions are enclosed with each Bottle. In Bottles 2s. and 3s. 6d. each. PREPARED ONLY BY THOMAS 0. SAN DELL, Pharmaceutical Chemist ( by Examination ), YEOVIL. Sole Agent for Falmouth : MR. W. H. SOLOMON, Dispensing Chemist. THE VILLAGE BROUGHAM, the VICTORIA Brrnn, Liam AthoPiwk Bronrrham, REOIBTIBFD. let. fbnni Krfect. i uorclo. teil carriage; 2ml, BronKham& Vlctona; ST< 1 o ogham . Victoria k DrivitiK Phaeton, all in the most per foot manner. Made auy 8iio. Pony Phao ton » in OTaryTariely. Ormw lags sent, J- BlDDLKCOJUsS. 67 Ut. Queoa Btioag A « a » , WG. MR. CORFIELD will Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, on Thursday, the 10th May, at Threo cj'clock in the after- noon, at or near Che Railway Station, ^ Kenryn, consigned for positive sale, tlwfollowing / iHinik, Spokes, & c., V vctfbsiSting of / 2000 lBet Aih Plank, lk inch to 5 inch. 50 daeen Dry Ash Helloes, 2}, 3, and 5 inch. 10 A - Oak Ditto/ 3 inch. SO ,. \ Prime Heprb Spokes. 50 ,, NSapling Oitto. 15 Narrow- Leaf Elm Trees. 1 Prime Chestnujl Tree. 50 Small Ash for Pick, Shovel, and Hammer Hilts. The whole will be sold in convenient Lots to suit Buyers. / Further particulars had by applying at tho offices of the / AUCTIONEER, Falmouth. Dated Auction Office/ May 3rd, 1872. MR. CORFIELD will submit tb PUBLIC AUCTION, on the aborts day, at a Field adjoining the DocUs, Falmouth ( formerly part of thj Ordnance Ground), about eight aires of Kick Grass / Thereon, the taker haring the pri- vilege of cutting and / removing the same. Also the / Depastnrage Of the said land until the 24th df June, 1872. Further particulars had on application at the Offices of the T AUCTIONEER, Falmouth. Dated May 1st, 1872. MR. CORFIELD has been instructed to submit to PUBLIC AUCTION, at ^ Gray's Albion Hotel, Faluiouth, on Monday, 13th day of May initant, at 6 o'clock in the evening, subject to the conditions to be then read, in the following or such other Lota as may be agreed on at the time of sale, the ilndermentioned very valuable I Messuages or, Dwelliug llousps, Situate, lying and being at the south end of the Ropewalk, Falmouth ( near the Grove Hill Lodge), known as GLYNN COTTAGES, Held for an absolute term of 100 years from 1870, at L com uted rent of £ 2 on each lot, viz. /:— Lot 1. All . that Demched " Cottage Residence, being No. 1, containing/ Parlour, Kitchen, Scullery, and 3 Bedrooms, togetl/ er with a productive Gar- den ™ Plot, Courtlage, / and Out- offices belonging thereto, now in the occupation of Mr. Wiltshire, at a computed rental of £ 18 per annum. Lot 2. All that oiher Cottage Residence, being No. 2, containing Ptplour, Kitchen, Scullery, and 3 Bedrooms, with tie Courtlage, Garden Plot, and Out- officea, now in fcho occupation of Mr. Volk, at a rental of £ 15 pen annum.. Lot 8. All thai central Cottage Residence, being No. 3, adjoining, containing Parlour, 2 Kitchens, and 4 Bedrooms, fwith the Courtlage, Flower and Kitchen Garden J and Out- offices, in the occupation of Mr. Gregory,/ at a rental of £ 18 per annum. Lot 4. All that other or Western Cottage, being No. 4, containing Parlour, 2 Kitchens, Pantry, and 8 Bedrooms, \ « th the productive Garden Plots and Out- offices, nofw in the occupation of Capt. Tucker, at the annua^ rontal, of £ 15. The abovfe eligible Property forms one of the prettiest blocks of Ornamental Cottages that have been offered for Sale in Falmouth for several yejvrs, beautifully situated within ten minutes' walk of the Railway Station and the surrounding charming walks, aid commanding beautiful peeps of the Harbour, J Tref us is Grounds, & c., & c. On vicfw any day prior to the Auction, between the houife of 11 and I" 2 a. m., and 3 and 5 p. m., by applying at No. 1. Furfuer particulars obtained at the Offices of the AUCTIONEER, Falmouth. Dated May 3rd, 1872^ Are yon troubled; with a Gjq^ li ? THEN lose no time in applying for SOLO IION'S Pectoral Cough Mixture, Which is one of the bes Preparations sold for the care of Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Influenza, « fcc., am. tho relief of Asthma and bronchitis. It is adapted for persons of nil jiijes, and is sold in iBottles, at 7£ d., Is.: * d., and 2s. 9d. each. Prepared by W. H. SOLO: ION, Dis^ isimj Chemist, 40, Market Sir et, Falmouth. N. B.— Tho middle sizo Bottle ia generally suffi- cient to cure an ordinary Uough, or give abund- ant satisfaction.! a mora uitrcmu cases Barton of Peijwarne, Parish of Tw Mawnan. O BE^ T BM TENDER, for a term ofl s(^ ten^ ™ iburtejen years, from Michaelmas, 1872, alNhAdesir^ ble Gra^ ingv SWeep, & Dairy Farm Called o^ Jpown ai PENWARNE, situate in the parish '• f Mawpan, consisting of a comfort- able newly Built Dwelling- house, commodious Barn, Stable, and/ other convenient Outbuild- ings, with about L36 acres ( more or less) of rich, arable, meadpw, and pasture land, now in the occupation o| Mr. TKEIIATNS. Also, all that lighly attractive MEADOW or closo of h id, known as the IlOD CLOSE, measuring aboul 85 acres ( be tho same more or less), situate In the parish of Badock, and ia close proximity to the foregoing estate. On view from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. by applying to Mr. F. ROBERTS, the Hind at Penwarne. For conditions and detailed particulars apply at the OlAces of I Mr. CORFIELD, Eand and Estate Agent, Falmouth, to whom tenders are to be sent on or before 13th day of May n, bst. N. B.— Tliej proprietor will not bind himself to accept the highest or any other tender. Dated April 20th, 1872. Messrs. OLVER & SONS HAVE been favoured with instructions from the Executors of the lat^ Mr. Ben- jamin Bowden, to Sell bfr PUBLIC AUCTION, on Mond^, the 6th day of May next, at 5 f'clock p. m., Or, .' at. the Fountain Hfctel, Market u Street, Falmouth, the following desir- / j£ Cf\ y able and Valuable / If ' Freehold Proilmies, Subject to such conditions as will be then and there produced :— LOT 1.— All that valuable Freehold Dwelling House .- m^^ emises, known/ as the New Inn, situate in Hidh Street, in the Borough of Fal mouth, now im Uja occupation of Thomas Gerry, and held on U<! asa by liiin, ot which 2 years remain unexpired.! 1 he New Inn has a frontage of about 38 feet on Higly Street, and contains on ground floor: Bay; Bar Parlour, Back Parlour, Tap ! Rbem, Drinking Boom, Cellar and Scullery. On the fitfst floor : good Dining Room, and 3 Bedrooms. On second floor; 5 Bedrooms. Behind tile same is an excellent Brew House and ^ ther conveniences, also 2 large Yards, one/ about 27 feet by 20 feet, the other aboutf 51 feet by 25 feet, in one of which is a Dwelling House now in the occupation of GeorJe Lewis, containing 3 rooms at a rental of £ 8. V LOT 2.— All thatf valuable Freehold Dwelling House, No. 15, Bdacon Street, now in the joint occupation of Jolln Trenoweth, John Thomas, Joanna Hicks, Alfred Polwin, Mrs. Roberts, and Mrs. Martin/ at a gross rental of £ 28 16s., and having a frontage on Beacon Street, of about 31 feet, also a yard behind, the same about 27 feet byj 30 feet. Also, adjoining the above Premised, but entered from Harbour Terrace, a Dwelling House, in the joint occu- pation of Charles Tong and S. Key, producing a gross rental pf £ 11. LOT 3.— Two Freehold Cottages, near to Lot 2, and also entered from Harbour Terrace, now in the occupation of Edwin Thomas and his under tenants, at a gross rental of £ 10, and with 4 frontage d( about 40 feet 6 inches. The whfole of the above Premises are fully occupied/ and, at present Rentals, have always been; sodc; ht after, thus offering good and safe returnA'for tho capital invested. For further particulars apply to W, J. BOWDEN and JOHN HALY; jun., the Executors, or the AUCTIONEERS, Green Bank, Falmouth. Dated 12th April, 1872. MABE. i A First- class Farm, adapted to keep fi Diary of 40 Cows, to Let. TO BE LET BY TENDER, for L term of seven or fourteen years, from MichtJdmas, 1872, all that splendid I Brazing and Diiry Farm Known as HIGHER SPARGO, lj ing and being in the parish of Mabo, containing a newly- erected Farm- house, convenient Barns, Stables, Bullock and all other necessary Outbuil* ings, with about 170 acres ( or thoreabouts) of very superior Arable, Meadow, and Pasture Land, now occupied by the proprietor, Mr. Thomas Modlin, declining farming. This v. ory desirable estate is iiji a high Kate of cultivation, is situate within abotit three mUes from the market towns and raUway stations of Penryn and Falmouth, and ten from Hilston and Truro, is exceedingly well watered, within a ring fence, ind is considered by competent judtcs to bo one of the most productive grazing aud flairy farms in the west of Cornwall. The tenant \ nll be expected to accept a lease, and execute a counterpart thereof, to be prepared by the lessor's solicitor at me tenant's expense, containing covenants for payment of rent, rates, taxes ( except landlord's property tax); tithe rent- charge, and other oiit- goinga payable in respect of the said farm, and to keep aud leave the premises in repair ( exccpt walls aud alated roofs), and the usual covenants for the cultivation and management of the farm. / On view by applying to Mr. John Rowe, the hind, on the premises; Plans, conditions, and Retailed particulars ob- tained at the Offices of / MR. CORPIELD Land and Estate Agent, Ifalmouth, to whom teu- ders are to be sent on or before the 20th May next. The proprietor docs not bind himself to accept the highest or any tend et. Auction Offices, Falmbuth, May 2nd, 1872. Carnmenellis Vicarage, within four mites of the ( owns of Redruth and Helston. MR. CORFBELD has been directed to submit tb PUBLIC AUCTION, in due course, without tho least reserve, the whole of the modern and genteel Household Fnnutnie, Bed and Table Linen, Musical Instruments, Dinner, Dessert, Tea, and Breakfast Services, Glass, and numerous other effects of the above vicarage, the property ot the Rev. W. S. Laeh- Sczyrma, leaving the county. See/ subsequent advertisements. Dated AoMion Offices, May 1st, 1872. ll' THE FALMOUTH & PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. SATURDAY, MAY 4.1S72 THE CARLIST RISING IN SPAIN. ( From Wodnotdaj\ Times.) The following is the Proclamation of Don Carlos to the Spanish nation:— " Spaniards! " It ts the duty ot t'jo King either to savo his tKftpIe crto die tor thorn. I give thanks to God, who has allowed me to kiss tho sacred soil ot my covuitrv, whoro my ancestors rest in their gravea. I hall the " great Spanish < people, 011 co foremost in the world, now one ot the moat tmhsppy. 1 ( eel happy because I find myself surrounded ! by Spaniards whom 1 am ahlo to address from tho depth of amy heart. Their hearts will understand mino and respond to ft. Spmlards, I am acquainted with your sorrows : I havo fcrard your complaints. From all sides yon have called upon flno. lloro 1 am. In my turn 1 call upon you all of you, " Without any tllstincUun of parties. I call upon all Spaniards • lor thoy are all my brethren. " The holy religion of our forefathers Is persecuted ; good Sn^ n ah) oppressed : immorality is honoured ; anarchy Is ' triumphant; the public Treasury Is pillaged : public credit ' threatened ; industry dead 1 If things are to go on on this ilootio<, the poor people will bo reft of bread, and Spain ot Ihonour. ! A, Our faUiera would not have endured so pinch. Let us ( fee forthtf ot our fathers. Else, Spaniards, for our God, for - - Our country, and for Jour King! " You know who I am, and also what I wish. What should { Twish but the greatness and happiness of Spain f TldsBpain / Which Is now lost, I wish to rave her with your aid; with { your aid I wiah to establish a righteous Government, a !< k) Vofnmeht worthy of the glorious days of Our fore ( a there, jand, at the same time, suited to tho tunes we live In. - I haTe no offerees to avenge. If any of Jon has any, let ; kim forgot or forglvo them. Let usall. be worthy of the high ' xnJjil jn which doubtless Providence has Intrusted to us— to isavo tbo Spanish people, and thereby, probably, bo tho Jtfcgiuning of salvation to all the other nations In tho world. ** Spaniards 1 yonr ancient Kings before sitting On the iXhrone swore that they would maintain the fundamental . la*-* of Spain. 1 swear before God, and I taVa the whole • world to witness, that I shall faithfully fulfil what I nojv i8o\ mnly promise. I swear that 1 will turn all my thoughts ajd employ all my forces to givo you peace, justice, and true UVr'- y. I swear that 1 will save the Spanish people, or will ifEMor them. " May God, who eces my hoart, aid our efforts and crown OBr enterprise. " Tour King, ' " CARLOS." This proclamation, which was published in Madrid • Q tho 26th int., was generally considered genuine. But it is very questionable whether at that tinre, or even lattr, Don Carlos had entered Spain; and, unleks he crosses the frontier, it may perhaps be possible for i § be Pretender to " save " the bpaniah people, but it is difficult to imagine how he can " die for them," A GRAND AND TERRIFIC ENTER- TAINMENT ! The population of Naples nnd their foreign visitors have been treated to one of those grand and terrific entertainments of which that placo almost enjoys tho monopoly among tho largo cities of tho Old World ( says The Times, in a leader, noticing this last eruption of ^ Mount Vesuvius). Thero has been a magnificent eruption of Mount Vesuvius, with, apparently, more than its usual complement of voluntary and involun- tary victims. The Italian President of tho Council of Ministers, M. Lanza, announced from his pined in Parliament that " somo persons, having approached to witness the spectacle, perished in the flames that burst from the earth under their feet." Prom other Bources we learn that among thoso persons thero were English and Americaus, one or two of whom, in fact, are still missing at tho hotels where they had their quarters. Much alarm, as may well bo ex- pected, reigns among the inhabitants of the towns and villages dotting tho shore all round the skirts of tho mountain, from Portici to Castellam. ire, and Bome of the more exposed localities, especially Torro del Greco and Torre dell'Annunziata, havo already been almost entirely abandoned. Of those said to have lost their lives on the ihst outbreak of tho vulcanic convulsion, the greater number, it may bo presumed. * * —• « their hard lot, and digious floods. All this boiling and bubbling con- tinued until the following year, when tho Corn Laws wero repealed and Heel* becamo quiot again. Hecla on till ^ occasion showed a tendency to interfere With us which it is tobe hoped it will not display on future occasions ; for, ur, content with keeping its own im- mediate neighbourhood in a state of ferment by ejecting stones of an cnormouN size, it actually throw somo ashes over tho Orkney Islands. STRIKE OF CARTERS AT LIVERPOOL. PIGEON SHOOTING AT THE HURLING- EAM CLUB, FULHAM. Thero was a large attendance at Hurlingham Park on Saturday afternoon to witness the shooting in an Optional Handicap Sweepstakes, which was contested by 22 members, among whom wero somo of the best shots in the club. Tno cbnditious were to shoot at seven birds each, those missing two having tho chanco extinguished; and only one shooter— Mr. Aubrey Pat- ton, at 27 . J yards* riso, who shot with a central fire breech- loader, by Stephen Grant— succeeded in gra- sing his seven birds, thus winning tho whole amount subscribed, £ 31 The next highest scores wero Captain Shelley ( 30) and Mr. J. Jeo, V. C. ( 20), whe each killed six ; Captain E. C. Nevile ( 2SA), Colonel Dudley Carloton ( 2C), Captain J. H. Anderson ( 24), Mr. S. Shirley. MP. ( 26), and Mr. J. Bultcel ( 28) scored fivo each ; Major Peploe- Peploo ( 26- J), Sir David Baird ( 26), Lord Suf- field ( 28), and Mr. E. Dering ( 2oJ), grassed four each ; Mr. T. G. Simpson ( 284), Sir Charles Legard ( 26$), and Captain Henry Bethune Patton ( 27- 1), three each; tho Hon Rowland Hill ( 30), the Hon. ¥ Wel- lesley ( 27), nnd Mr. C. Hammersloy ( 26), two each, and Air. W. 0. Dnncombe ( 28$), Captain liervoy Talbot ( 26), the Hon. F. Villers ( 27$. aud Mr. E. E. Daun ( 26 J), scored one each. In addition to tho above, two handicap sweepstakes at threo birds each wero de- cided, the first being divided between Mr. T. G. Simp- son ( 2SJ yards rise) and Captain Shelley ( 30). and tha second between Mr. S. Shirley, MP. ( 26), and Mr. W. O. Duncombe ( 2SJ). Considering the wind that pre- vailed, which was greatly in favour of tho birds getting away, some good scores wero made. TUE GUN CLOD, SHEPIIEBD'S BUSH. A numerous company assembled at tho enclosed E. und belonging to this club at Wormwood Scrubs t Saturday, when the Craven Handicap of 5 so vs. each, at six birds each, was decided. Thero were 13 competitors, of whom Captain Starkey ( 27 yards' rise) was thoonly one tbatbroughtdown all bis pigeons; there- fore he won tho first prize of £ 50. The second prize of £ 15 was taken by Mr. Honrv Rae- Reid ( 284). who killed five out of six. Tho other shooters were Viscount Stor- mont. the president of tho club ( 28$), Captain George Pritchard ( 27), and Mr. W. C. Alston ( 26), who scored four each ; Captain F. Leighton ( 27), Captain R M. Briscoe ( 27). and Mr. T. R. Peareth ( 26J), two each; Mr. Berkeley Lucy ( 29J), and Sir Charles Mordaunt ( 26), ono each; and the following failed to scoro and retired at tho conclusion of the second round:— Mr. David Hope Johnstone ( 29J), Major W. K. Harslaud ( 26), and Mr. J. S. N. Pigott ( 27). Three Handicap Sweepstakes wcro also shot off during tho afternoon, the first having nine com- petitors, and after an excellent contest between Mr. Augustus Grimblo ( 27$) and Viscount Stormont ( 234), it was won by tho fin> t- n. tmed gentleman, who killed sevenbirdsinsuccession. Thesecondsweepstakes brought out 10 competitors, of whom Mr. Da / la Hope Johnstone ( 29$), Mr. Berkeley Lucy ( 29$). Captain Gordon Hnvhes 28$). CapUin F. Leighton ( 27). Major Maraland ( 26), Mr. W. C. Alston ( 25), Mr. J. Lamont ( 26). Sir John Rae Reid ( 25), and Mr. Augustus Grim- ble ( 28j|), tied by scoring three eaoh ; and on * hooting off. Captain Gordon Hughes and Captain F. Leighton divideil at the ninth ronnd, having ea< Ji killed nine birds in succession. For the third Sweepstakes thero were 16 subscribers, ind half of tho number, Mr.' D. Hope- Jonstono ( 29$), ViscountStormout ( 23 A I, CapUin Gordon Hughes ( 29) 1 Captain F. Leighton ( 28), Mr. W. C. Alston ( 20), Sir Charles MorJaunt ( 26). Mr. T. R. Pearetb ( 20$), and Mr. J. Lamont ( 26)— killed three each. On shooting off tho ties another capiUl contest occurred up to the eighth round, when Sir Charles Monlaunt and Mr. J. Lamont divided, each scoring eLbt THE PARK- LANE MURDER. The necessary formalities of France and Belgium ' in connection with her extradition having been com- ipit- tod Marguerite Diblanc, who is charged with tho Shurder of her mistress in Park- lane, is now in safe custody in London. Inspector Druscovitch, of the de- fective department, Scotland- yard, left, for Paris on ( Saturday night; and Inspector Pay was subsequently { Summoned to Calais to meet the prisoner. She left Paris ret. Monday morning in charge of two French poliee- l <£ fieers and Inspector Druscovitch. Much exci tement H » rtvailed at Calais— crowds being assembled for the pur- of seeing the prisoner, who was there formally ' tn. ded over to the English officers. A privdto eCibin was set apart for her use on board the packet, « nd although great anxiety was shown by the other Kn- ngers to catch a glimpse of her on her presence > ming known, the passage ta Dover was made with- out their curiosity being gratified. Dui ing the passage she had some sound sleep, and took a little brandy t^ jd water and some sandwiches. Hie knowledge of her departure from Paris and ^ he lact of her having to land at Dover rendered that point p<- culiarly attractive to those who are curious in such matters, and a great number of people assembled th'- re to witness the boat's arrival. The writcHed woman was creeted with hisses and groans as she wak « d onto the landing sUge, by the side of In- ' Spector Druscovitch. She looked very despondent, ' lUi- i appeared to pay but little heed to the popular excitement as she advanced up the pier in the direction of the terminus of the London, Chatham, slid Dover Railway, where the " boat express" was ii readiness to convey the party to London. The ti ain was literally besieged as it stood in the station, several persons having even clambered to the top of Hie cariiagee to catch a view of the prisoner. Hie Erglish officers, with their charge, entered a first- d - s compartment, the blinds of which were drawn, • qt i the train left the BUtion. In order to effect the conveyance of Diblanc to the metropolis in as quiet a manner as possible it was ar- ranged that Ehe should alight when Herno- bill was reached. Accordingly Superintendent Williamson and Inspector Shore, of the detective department, Scotland- yard, with Superintendent Dunlop, in • veh' lie district the murder was committed, proceeded ffcitherto mc- et the pruoner, and with the assistance of Mr. Hancock, the sUtion- master, succeeded in keeping the platform tolerably clear on the arrival of tbe train, whi -. h was nearly 20 minutes late. Inspector Drus- oovi'xh was the first to leave the train; he hail with tim a light canvas bag,' sealed, which contained , the aotes and other articles carried away by Diblknc wien she left Park- lane after the perpetration of the Binder. The prisoner, who wore a dark waterproof cloak, wlth a gTev alpaca dress, and the white cap char- acteristic of French domestic servants, seemed to feel few position deeply as sho walked down tho piat- ferm, in company with the officers, to a cab, which was in readineES outside to convey her to tho King street police station, where Irspectrrr Beesley, was present on her arrival to Uke tho chafge, jefaich was that of murdering Maria Caroline Besson Eiell. at 13, Park- lane, in tho parish of St. George'a, Hanover- fquare. Through Inspector Druscovitch, j^ io acted as interpreter, the pris'. ner gave her name as JJarguerite Diblanc, of '" no address," her occupation feat of " cook," her age " 29," and her nationality" Bel- gium." It having been stated that tbe arrest was made' • pen the warrant of Sir Thomas Henry, the prisoner was removed to a cell; but she having expressed a wish to be placed in a " light one," a woman was remov « d from one cell to another, DibLinc Uking her dice, two police- constables being left to watch her. While the obaige was being taken the prisoner exhibited consider- able nervousness. She is stout built, with dark but '- not very expressive eyes, and remarkably large hands ; but the " redness of complexion," described by the police in tho " wanted sheet, lias materially disap- peared. Crowds of neople were in waiting at Victoria station Sthe arrival of the train to see the prisoner, but for e reasons stated above, they were doomed to disap- pointment Throughout the journey from Paris to London, Diblanc did not refer to the crime of which fibe stands charged. ffhe charcoal dealer at St. Denis, in whoso house the amst was made, has been brought to England as a witness. THE WARWICKSHIRE LABOURERS. Tbe voluntary " migration and emigration of War- wickshire labourers, underpressure and persuasion, ibu led to the spontaneous influx of bodies of Irish , labourers into Warwickshire to supply their places. I Some Warwickshire farmers have had Irishmen in their Bervice for years, and these men have recently com- municated with their brethren in Ireland, who havo eagerly seized the opportunity of emigrating to Eng- land, with the certainty of plenty of work and re- munerative wages, In preference to going to America. • Two bands of men arrived In Warwickshire on Satur- day, and will have no difficulty In finding employment though, except in the neighbourhood of Morcton Mprrel I, no inconvenience Is being experiencedby fanners from the alleged scarcity of labourers. It is believed that the places of the emigrants hnd migrants from Warwick- shire will bo BponUneonsly filled by labourers from Ireland, and various agrictdtural districts in England where the standard rate of wages is not so good. Tho Chamber of Agriculture's proffered conferencc | has been declined by tho Warwickshire Labourers' 1 union, and though nothing Eavouring of antagoninm ' to tho mep, or retaliation for the course they have taken, will be countenanced by the Chamber, over- tures for an amicable conferenco will have to emanato from the lalwnrers. Surprise is everywhere expressed I that, though the e « cond rulo of the Union declares that an attempt shall be made to dccide by arbitration all disputes between the Union and employers of labour as to remuneration or hours of labour, yet when appealed to act iupon its own rules the Union finds it ^> n vt- nieot to repudiate ono ol its fundamental prin- belong to these villages. It they must be, if not used to it, at least prepared for it. They live upon Vesuviu « , but only on sufferance. Pure air, a firtilo soil, a smiling sea— a very Paradise upon earth is their inheritance ; but thero Is this drawback, that their Eden lies at the gates of Hades. They Uke the good with the evil. They are aware of their danger, and reconcile themselves to it. Tho Neapolitans arc not distinguished for onurage, even among their Italian bretinen. Few people, indeed, cling to life with a moro stubborn instinct; but it is only to life upon their own conditions; to such a lifo as their soil and climate, and their indolent, open- air habits, endear to them. Their own " slice of Para- pise " is the world for them ; all that is enjoyable in tho world. Thoy must tither dwell there or nowhere ; and they cling to what is to them the only suiUblo abode with a fondness which seems hardly rational, yet with a faUlism which borders on heroism. Torre del Greco may die and bo buried ; but loug live Torre del Greco 1 Its present inhabitants havo their base- ments on their forefathers' roofs; thl- ir own roofs may become the foundations of their grandchildren's dwellings. It is a poor consolation for the3e sufferers to know that they havo curious, if not sympathizing strangers, English and Ajnericau", Germans and Russians, ready to witness, and, in some inst inces, to share their doom. For the Northern tourist idling in Southern Europe tho Campanian Eden lias great charms ; but the Cam- panian Hades eeems to poescss even more irresistible attractions. Of late years tho mouiit-. in has been in an uncommonly obliging mocd, and few of tbe gay biids of passage who make Naples their winter quarters havo been disappointed in their expectations of those sublimo performances for which the City and her bay supply 60 convenient ar. d becoming a theatre. It is from Naples itself, from her open squares, from her moles, from the various points which indent her coast, from her buildings, rising like so many steps round an amphitheatre, that the great fireworks of Vesuvius can be viewed to tho best advantage. The column of lurid fire rising from tho mountain- top like tho trunk, and spreading in the air like the cone, of the umbiella pine of the country • the huge mass*-* shooting up skywards, and bursting like rocket* as they fall; the streams of sluggish lava streaking the scared mountain sides ; the deuso cloud of seething vapour diffusing itself over land and'tea, till it encumbers the firmament; the fl^ th and roar of tho subterrane. m artillery - all that exhibition of terror and majesty to which words and colours si vainly strive to do justice, are best Been frum the safest disUnce. But with many m- ii, as with tlio muth, tho instinct is to goand singe their wingaib the flame. A per- fect fascination seems to seise upon the vast multitude and just as the convulsion, which is often as Betting as it is sudden, givm sign of abatement, they are otf, scampering along tho 1' ortici road, and chmbiog' up the steep, slippery, crumb ing slope, to arrive at the crater just as all is again ttill and dark, when all tho reward of their U- il is the innocent amusement of roast- ing cgps in the fiery crevices, or bearing off the impres- Bion of a five- franc piece in tbo molten lava, to be treasured up at home - s a remembrance " f Vesusviua, and shown as evidence of " having been them" Unfortunately, things do not always pass off in this harmless way. There are instances in which Vesuvius is terribly in earnest, and it is. precisely on these oc- casions that we hear of foolhardy travellers scoffing at tho fears of the warning guid<-, whom long exporienco has made familiar with evt rv tlirob aud groan of tho mountain, and rushing, wild with excitement, not where there is anything to hi seen or learnt, but simply where they may boastot having been furthertlian any man had ventured before them. It ii men of this temper whojm the hotels in Chiaia are probably awaiting at this moment, as there are ^ ucii men every season rejmrted missing at the hotels oFChauioutii or Zcrmatt There or perrons, says the Italian Prime Minister, who could not bo satisfied with contemplating the awful spectacle of nn eruption at a rc^[^ ectful distance, whose energies did not find proper employment in rescuing from tbe threatened villages the invalids, the cripples, and all whom ngo or iiifirmity, or, in eomo cases, even sheer terror, deprived of tho means of locomotion ; but who most needs press nearer and nearer to the scene of devastation, till tho shower of burning stones overwhelmed them or tho heaving ground yawned beuea'. h tlifeii1 feet. Very nearly 18 centuries have elapsed since the first curio'uj traveller came to a prematura death by too heedlessly trusting him- it withip reach of tUo stifling vapours of Vesuvius. But ho wrj a Natu- ralist; he found himself tlio Witness of an appal- ling phenomenon, with which both himself and contemporary ecience were imperfectly acquainted, and ho wished to account for u catastrophe which, for the first time within the memory of men, threatened to change the whole aspect of that lovely Cam- panian region. It is to the more prudent regard of the Younger Pliny for his own fafety that we are indebted for tho thrilling description ho left us of the great eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79 of our a: ra, of tho destruction of the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, aud SUbia;, aud of the melancholy end to which his uncle was led by his too ardent zeid for knowledge. But since that epoch there is littlo to bo learnt about Vesuvius to justify the sacriBco of valu- able lives, and we shall be greatly surprised if, when later reports bring us tlio names of those who have perished, wo have to lament am » ng tho killed and wounded any peroon whose love of science has led thorn into danger. It is a curious fact ( remarl- Ji tho Pa! I Mall Ga: ctt<) that eruptions of Mount Vesuvius are generally fol- lowed or follow or tako placo simultaneously with political disturbance at home. In 1S55 the resignation of the Aberdeen Ministry and the accession of Lord Palmerston to power wer « followed almost immediately' by a serious eruption of Vwuvius. In 1859 the resig- nation of Lord Derby and an eruption took place within a few days of each other. In 18G1 tho Trent affair occurred with America, Mr. Mason and Mr. Slldell being released on December 28 of that year, and Torre del Greco being destroyed by an eruption in tho same month. Another eiuption began on November 12, 1867, and on the 13th of the following month tbe Fenians attempted to blow up Cleikenwell Prison : the eruption coutiuucd to increase in intensity until Lord Derby resigned office in February, 1SG8, and Mr. Dis- raeli's Ministry was formed, when it gradually sub- eided. If we turn to Etna, we find tho same phenomenon. In 1830, the vear in which the Grty a^ jninixtration was formed, Etna had a serious eruption. In 1832 the Reform Act was passed in Juno, and in November tho town of Bronte was destroyed by an eruption. In Sep- tember, 1852, when the Duke of Wellington died, there was a violent eruption of Etna. In lbC5 an eruption began In February and lasted until July; three mouths later, Lord Palmerston died and Lord Bussell became Premier in his place. There if, os might pprliapi bo expected, less sym- pathy between Mount Hecla and our domoatio occur- rences than is evinced by Etna aud Vesuvius ; but, nevertheless, during the period of tho railwoy mania and tho Corn Law agitation of 1845, Hecla was hi a very disturbed state ; indeed, It had a most disagree- able eruption, which b^ gau in September, 18l5, and lasted until April, 181U. Tbreo now craters wero formed, from which pillars of liro rose to the height of 14,000 feet. Tho lava formed several hills, pieces of pumice- stone and Bcoriro of 2 cwt. wero thrown to a dis- tanoe of a league and abalf. nnd tho ice and snow which had oovercd the mountain for ecuturica melted Into pro- HERESY IN HIGH PLACES. ( From tho Econemut.) Mr. Delahunty's annual speech in de- nonstration of the injury which Ireland sustains by its having £ 1 notes, instead of a currency like that of England, is too Ftupid for criticUm. but, as pointed out by Mr. Thomson Hankey, in an excellent letter to The Timet, it has un- fortunately elicited this year the utteranco of a financial heresy by the SocteUry for tho Treasury, which, coming from snch a quarter, surprises us a good (" oil Anion? other things, in refuting Mi> Delahunty, Mr. Baxter is reported to have Baid that if the Irish £ 1 notes were withdrawn from circulation, that stop " would be followed im- I mediately by a depression in the price of all com- j modities, and as a necessary consequence, commercial I disaster and widespread distress would rusult." Thif ! LJ cerUinly a most extraordinary statement to make, ' amounting to an assertion that a minor ohange in the 1 instrument for making payments in a country would have an extremo effect on prices. It in no doubt quite conceivable that the sudden calling in of £ 1 notes in Iro; land would produce considerable inconvenience, espe- cially by reducing tho Lending resources of the Irish banks which have supplied tho circulation; but the chango need notbe sudden, and, if not. itis plain that tho vacuum would bo very easily supplied. There Is at pre- sent no difference between English and Irish prices except what is interposed by the expense of transport ba- tween the two countries, and the slightest fall in prices in Ireland would of course bring in English money— i. e., sovereigns— so that tho vacuum in the circulation would at onco bo filled np. It is doubtful even whether the banks would lose much by losing their privilege of issuing £ 1 notes. Banks must now keep largo reserves against their issues, so that the diminution of their resources by the withdrawal of £ 3,000.000 or £ 4,000,000 of notes would not be so much. \ Vhat is far more important, tho resources gained by the privilege of circulatiun are quite insignificant compared with the resources obtained by deposit, and tne Irish de- posits would at least l> e as lareo as before if £ 1 notes wero abolished. As tho IrUn deposits are nearly £ 30,000,000, and tho £ 1 notei are uuder £ 1,000,000, it is easy to soe that the cessation of the'privilege of ia ue, if gradually effected, would be far less important to the banks than changes in other conditions of their prosperity. They would perhaps haverather less of their least profitable money— viz., the surpluses which they employ in Lombard- street— then they now have, and that would be alL In every way, then, it is unlikely that the withdrawal of £ 1 notes would pro- duce any such disasters aB those Mr. Baxter talks about: but as the notes are as good as gold, and buit the habits of the people, there Is of course no necessity " for making any change. Mr. BaxUr, it maybe added, said something very dubious when he remarked in the B » tne speech " that great practical advantage had been found to result in tho United Slates from the circula- tion of greenbacks, consequent upon the war in that countrybut as ho did not commit himself to any ex- planation of what the advanUge was, or assert that thero was no balance of disadvanUge, we should be sorry to accuse him of advocating inconvertible paper. The strike of tho Liverpool carters, which had been forsomd days apprehended, commenced on Monday, when about 5,000 men abstained from work. Tho differences botween the men and their employers relate both to matters of tiino and wages. Hitherto tho hours of the men havo been long and indefinite, sometimes extending as far as 10 and 18 hours per day. Tho men seek to limit tho time of woik to 12 hours per day of actual work wi h carts and horses, exclusive of some two or three hours em- ployment at the stab'es, and to bo paid for over- time at the rate of 6d. por hour. Tho masters, on tho other band, desire to fix the tiino of working with tho carts and horses at 1- 1 hours per day, in- stead of limiting to 12 hours ; aud thoy are then will- ing to pay for overtimo at the rate domnnded. In respect to the question of time, the men would pro- bably concede an hour, so that the differenco between tbemand tho misters upon this point would bo limited to one hour. Tho men. however, also demand nn in- crease of wages from 27s. per week to 30s. The masters meet this demand half way, and offers 28s. Gd. per week. A minor matter in dispute, that relating to Sunday work, ban been fully conceded by tho masters, who are willing to accedo to the wish of the men to make tho number of their visits to tho stables on Sundays two instead of three. The strike of Monday extendod from the " quay carters" ( or those who cart goods to and from Ware- houses) to the general carriers'men, whoso employers aro forwarding agents throughout tho kingdom, and, who.' e business lies a good deal in tho cartiug of goods to and from the railways. Thus tho only largo carters able to conduct their business in Liver- pool on Mouday wero tho railway companies. The result has been a pretty general suspen- sion of business throughout the docks and warehouses, causing immense inconvenience and loss to many mer- chants and shipowners. Should tho striko continue, tho despatch of several ships and steamers must necessarily be postponed ; or tbo alternative must be adopted » f Bending them oil with their cargoes short shipped. Owinjr, in a great measure, to the judicious counsel of Mr. Simpson, a pentleman who has identified him- self to some extent locally with the interests of the working class, the demeanour of the men throughout thoday was n. ost'ort'cily and quiet. At the instance of Mr. Simpson, the men abstained from making a puhlic procession through the town. Theirplacc of rendezvous is an open space near tho Georges Landing- stage. During the day a small number ot tho masters co needed the demands of tlio men, and Mr. Simpson iB endeavour- ing to bring about an arrangement between the mer- oliauts and the master cartels, whereby the latter are to receive higher rates from the former, so that they in turn may be enabled to make some concossions to- the men. The masters, at present, Btato that their great difficulty in meeting the men arise3 from the fact that tho merchants are in the habit of deducting a discount from their accounts, and ' that the warehousemen have to receive certain gratuities or fees, which all teud to diminish their profit upon the cartage. Some members of the masters* committee went into the agricultural districts in search of men as substitutes for those on strike, and the masters express themselves confidently as to their speedy success in this direction, while, on the other hand, tho opinion is freely expres- sed that the want of local knowledge and their inex- perience in the " handling" of every variety of produce would render agricultural teamamea inefficient substi- tutes. On Tuesday the striko cf carters connected with the quays and thoso employed by the several carriers' com- panies continued, and thero wero on striko about 2/ » 00 carters, and upwards of 6,000 men employed at the docks and in the warehouses were out of work in conse- quence of the absence of cartage. For several days previous to the contemplated strike, agents of tho Master Carters' Association had been in the disaffected districts around Leamington picking up suitable people to replace those at present on strike, and on Monday night a large number of the men so selected: arrived in Liverpool; but the following morning, on be- ing shown their work, the majority of them declared that they had been sold ; demanded the same wages and hours of work as the men at present on strike ; and at last declined to work. This coming to the knowledge of the leadera of the men on 6trike, it was at onco resolved to raise a subscription, for the purpose of sending tho " agriculturists back to the districts whence they came, and on Tuesday afternoon a large number returned to their homes. Great difficulty was experienced in tho loading of steamers, in consequence of the want of cartage, and on Tuesday several steamers were compelled to leave tho docks and go into the river for the purpose of taking in cargo. Le mieuxeit V enneni dn lien, saith the French pro- verb. " The well is tho enemy ot tho mew," eald tho poor cat who had fallen In, and who was deservedly drowned for Joking at Buoh a inomout.— Punch. Mr. Forater on Tuesdoy, received a deputation of gentlemen engaged In the cattlo trado, whoao members kUted their objeotlons to tho Order In Couuoll dated tho 20th December last, which, providing for tho compulsory slaughter of stock at tho ports of landing, virtual y amounted to a pro- hibition of tho foreign trado. Tlio right hon. gentleman, who admitted that the foot and mouth dlsi aso had given him moro trouble th « n anything olso in his olllclal experience, promised to reriow tho grounds of tho order complalncd of. Tho following: highly appreciative " tribute" to uallfornla strawberries is from a Western paper:—-' Straw- berries grow In California all tho year round. The straw- berries attain a considerable size : It is not uncommon for an ordinary family to subsist on ono for a week. It must not bo supposed that all the varieties aro of this size; somo aro mnoh smaller, tttt( Tff Is hot an uncommon thing fora healthy man to finish ono at a meaL Last week the aggregate mortality in London and twenty other largo townsui tho United Kingdom was at the ratu of 20 deaths annually to every 1,000 persons estimated to bo living. In tho Metropolis 2,318 births, and 1 416 deaths wero roistered, tho formor having been 64, and the Utter 03, below tho arerngo. Forty- one persons dlod from small- pox, OS from measles, 17 from scarlot fever, seven from diph- theria, £ 6 from whooping- cough, 20 from different forniB of fever ( o( which throw wore cortlilod as typhus, 17 as enteric or typhoid, sad'slx as simple continued fever), nnd 16 from diarrhma. Tho menu temporatora during the week was 601, or 2 0 In oxccu ol tho average. FORESTS v. FORESTERS. Here is one fact:— " The authorltcs of California havo engiged a professional arboriculturist, at a salary of 15,000 Dollars per year, ta attend to tho setting out of forest trees In dlrforont parts ot the State. ' They never,' says tho Rochester Ezprctj • did a wiser thing. Wo want trees Judiciously distributed every- where— on tho mountain- side, in tho llolds, along country roads, in front of city residences. In parks and gardens ; everywhere some, nowhere too many.'" Here is another :— " Tho Ancient Order of Foresters have lncreasod their numben by 10.681 during tho past year, while tho sum ot ££ W, 000 has been added to tho reserve fund of Courts and Districts. Taking Into account the Juvenile Societies and tho Second DegrtO ( tho Ancieut Order of Shepherds), tho members now numbor moro than half amlUion, having funds invested to tho extent of £ 1,527,039 as a provision usainst licknoss and d « ath." So it would seem that while Cousin Jonathan has to pay heavily for his foresters, John Bull's flourish famously without payment. The order of proceeding in the two countries has beeii inverted. Jonnthan found his forests, and thought ho could dis- pen? e with the foresters: John Bull planted his foresters, without waiting for the forests. Ours Beems to havo turned out the more profitable arrangement. — Punch. ' TO THOSE WHO ARE BENT ON MATRIMONY! To those who are bent on matrimony, but have not found a suitable partner, we ( Pall Mall Gazette) offer urgent advice. Let them pack up all their property and start immediately for the mountainous districts to tbe extremo east of Hungary. They will find that at this season of tho year a fair is held of marriageable young men and women. From all quarters long trains of chariots wind their way to the plain of Kdlinosa. They are laden with household furniture, and followed by tho cattle of the family. In tho midst of these goodsinay be seen the young lady whom her familyhas brought to seek a husband at the fair. She is dressed in her best, with brilliant silk scarf and scarlet petticoat. These caravans take up their position onoofter tho other on ono side of the plain, while on the other side a cavalcade of young men approaches and deploys along tho whole line. The men— young. Wallaehians, for the moBt part— arodre6sedintheirbest'goatskinsand make what show of horsemanship they cam After both parties hawe taken up their respective quartern oppoait* each other, the fathers step forward and begin to negotiate marriages for their children. Tho question^ asked on these occasions aro, wo fear, of a somewhat sordid character. " How manv bullocks?'' " How much money ?" Your daughter s furniture looks rather old ;— that chest of drawers does not shut properly, I mui t find something better than that lot my son." Such would doubtless be a correct report of the conversations held in this primitive if not poutical Arcadia previoui to clinching the matrimonial bargain, The business is, however, carried out with a prompti- tude equal to its frankness. As soon as tho parents are ngrocd a priest, who is always ready at hand, is sum- moned. He chants a hymn aud gives his benediction, the brido then kisses her parents, mounts the chariot' and starts for some unknown village with a husband whom she has never Been before, tho furniture and cattle which her parents have allowfd her as amarriago portion following In tho rear. Thus every year many unions are contracted by this primitive people, and there is, we must confess, a plain honesty and absence of sham in this style of proceeding. One is apt to oom- pare it with tho deceptions and artifices employed in civilized society by those who, pretending to lore, only Beck to marry fortunes. BUSINESS IS BUSINESS.—" How much farther shall tli. a excrutlatlng uncertainty go, my holered* " To- fathor." was tho blushing reply. THE GREAT ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS-' NAPLES, Monday. Tho mountain Is Invisible, and rumbling noises aro still heard. L^ A The statement that fresh cratcr^^ Bened is Incorrect. Tho shower of ashes from MoncSKsovlus has been ac- eompanlod in soveral localities by stones. In some placcs tho ashes cover the ground two inches deep. Tho people are sad, but calm. Monday AftemiTOh. Mount Vesuvius Is displaying terriblo electric phonomens, marked by flashes of lightning and vibrations of tho enrth. Here and at Ccrcoli thero is a perfect ram « f sand, and at Massa Somma a rain of ecoiin). Professor Palmlerl telegraphs from the Observatory to- day at noon, ss follows:—" Scorico In great ahnndanco havo fallen In tho direction of tho Observatory. Tho instruments at tho Observatory are very disturbed. Tho projcotlles from tho volcaro riso to a helyht of moro than a kilometre. Tho lava lias ceaacd to flow." Monday Midnight Cinders fell all last night, and thoy still contlnuo to fall. A thin rain Is also falling. Kear Cercolii tho showor of scoria) has compelled the soldiers to bolld huts in which they may obtain shelter. Tha church of San Giordano at Cercola has been destroyed A numbor of people have been surrounded by tho lava close to Ban Sebastiano. At Ottoiano a heavy shower of enormous blocks of lava has commenced. Tho railway Is crowded with foreigners and Neapolitan* hurrying away from Naples. A fresh eruption Is feared, as loud explosions were heard la. « t night even In this city. Tuesday. Tho statement that no English or Americans aro missing Is lynflrmed. The mountain continues to eject ashes and pumloe- stone, which the wind carries off. Order Is perfect, nnd tranquillity is increasing. 8hocka of earthquake are frequent, but harmless WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE. On Monday evening a meeting was JielJ in St. George's- hall, Regent street, London, to promote the objects of the National Society for Women's Suffrage. The place was densely packed with people half an hour before the proceedings were announced to com- mence, and BO many of the proposed speakors were shutout with the crowd who desired to be present that an extra meeting was convened in the Cavendish- rooms. At tho meeting in St. George's hall, Mr. Jacob Bright, ALP., presided, and in opening the meeting, referred to the crowded gathering which had assem- bled, and said this extraordinary audience was a proof of the great ehange which h^ d occurred , in public opinion during the last four years in regard to the question of the woman suffrage. The real belief of the opponents of woman's suffrace was, not that women were too illogical for the proper use of the suffrage, but that they were too logical. Women were now observing closely tbe political history df the c ' untry, and had come to tho conclusion that the House of Commons did nothing except for those who proved thems- dvea its masters. After All that had been Baid and done in Parliament and out, a woman's property was still confiscated when she married— although a man did not marry his wife's debts. A Royal Commissidn had declared against legislation as to women'? . personal pghtsy and there had beer^ legislation in a direction under which, pool helpless women were dogged and tracked night and day, and subjocted to a sj- Btem of cspictnaye, which; il applied to the other sex, would destroy any Govern- ment in a week. Ho concluded by saying, that he would not declare that the advocates were on the threshold of victory, but he thought when they saw the diminishing forces of their opponents they saw the increasing number of their friends, and therefore he was in no doubt as to the result. Mrs. Anderson moved the first resolution :— " That to reeognlsatex as a ground of disqualification for voting In tho election of members of Parliament is contrary to the principles of English representation. Is unjust to tiios* excluded, and Injurious to the wholo community." Sho declared that this question was not wholly a woman's question, but really belonged to tho whole community, for the injustice which weighed upon women in this respect acted injuriously upon men, in training them to be selfidh and unjust, whilej tho women suffered loss of dignity, and Were inclined to tako a childLh view of life and its duties. Women thus debarred from the exercise of these rights were ready to think of trifles, such as dress and the con- ventionalities of society, and small tiling of that character, and personal vanity came prominently intr play. Mr. Thomas Hughes, ALP., seconded tho motion, . and- expressed the hope that the chairman's " little one claueo Bill" would pass through Parliament. The resolution, which was supported in speeches by Miss Taylour and Mrs. Rose, was carried unanimously. Miss L. Becker proposed a resolution to tho effect of affirming the ntcessity for a measure to remove the electoral disabilities of women, and giving the chairman authority to 6ign a petition in tho n^ me of tho meeting aud present it to the House of Com- mons. Tho motion was seconded by Misa Todd, am* was also carried. Mrs. Fawcett, who was loudly cheered, proposed a vote of thanks to the members of Parliament who had supported tho movement, and this motion, seconded by the Rev. L. Davles, w^ s carried unaaimou dy. Mr. Arthur Arnold and other gentlemen spoke, and the meeting concluded in the usual manner. At a meeting at the Cavendish- square Rooms the chair was taken by Mr. Wi. llson, aud the first speaker was Professor Bayne3, who moved th6 first resolution:— " That this meeting proposes that the suffrage Bholl l> a ex- tended to women oa tho same terms as it id or may ba here- after extended to men." Mrs. Runhiger, in seconding tho resolution, sai l she did so because she believed tnat they would gain great moral power. She further advocated, the principle on the ground of justice and right Miss Jex- Blake moved the second resolution :— Mr. Arthur Arnold soconded the resolution, whioh. was supported by Mr. Hoskins. Mrs. Henry Kingsley next supported the resolution, and very forcibly pointed out the unfair stato of the law as applying to property held by women, also the unfa'r administration of tho law as applied by magis- trates in criminal offoni- os. She maintained that the fearful brutality to women was greatly in- creasing among the lower classes, and that it was greatly to be deplored that persona are frequently sen- tenced to as much as six months' hard labour i> . r a. petty theft while men who knock Out their wives' eyes, kick them to death, or murder them by pushing thorn under waggon wheels frequently get no moro thap two- or tbreo months. The resolutions were all passed. SPUTTERINGS FROM " JUDY'S" PEN. A YODNO Lady would llko to know, II Patrimony Is the- Croperty bequeathed to her by her papa, what la that1 hid by erbite lamented mamma T— Why Matrimony, ol course, jou. sly one. A POSER.— The rash man who declared that he would not take Miss Fllrtlngton to bo twenty, was at once asked whether ho would tako her for better or woreo. MAIBIMONIAL.— Marriage makes tho husband and wire— one : query, after three months of It, Is, though, V. Which « r HINT TO HPSBAMDS.— Jonea says he alwayB gives Mrs. Jones her way, because it's tho only thing he hat to giro hor. A FOOL can't draw beer properly— U should be drawn with a head. LITERARY KOTK— Somo American publishers pirate books and steal plates. MRSIO Is the food of love— beef and matton that of matrimony. JuDT would remind thoso who mako such ail outcry about tho expenses of a Monarchy, that, by call lug at 73, Heot- Btreet, they can have both tho Sovereign and Crown of Ki. g- land for twenty- flro shillings. N. B.— Jour's oiUco- boy tays he don't expect many of them calling, as the Missus givoa no credit WHAT U tho difference between the hnrried rea ling of O fast Young Lady of the Period and tha painstaking reading of a Eluo Stocking f— The ono reads for pastlmo and the other for tho future. JODT'S clookmaker soys he passes a great many SPRINGS every year In hLs shop. A OAR OTTER reports that the turnkeys have struok in his prison ; it would aeomthat they struck him with a whip. WHY is tho Government Licensing BUI never likely t » be come law f— Because It will always remain merely a dravjht BILL ____________ A " Society for tho Encouragement of Young Men Desiring to Many " U organUlng among tho young ladlcu ot Kondout, H. Y. IBR REPORT OP THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS. TV CI Qprrz. > dc - era, ia thsir report for th* year [> 71. the total amount of the various • i/ xlta i- vl h » li by the o£ dal trosVea c- f cLxr table fan the - tad of 1671 ra £ 4.772,792. 1U. T- L. divided into 0.224 to a< x » / TD-.>. The C a tr ;• : t repeat the statement made in their hut report that tb' » ogh tbey belie* © the management c{ tl « e ftwN is on*'.? -* sA with complete regularity, and to the satisfaction of the trustees and other petwae in- t>.; » t' i • - ;. -:.• - .' - J, ioittntioD, yet tills •!.; • 3 run cat of O. r • ?..:•• Lai attained a d^ gr- r* af imp- rtjf. o aid tf. ..; j Is which was not anticipated at the time of ita Jti » titnti" 0, aad its jadldoas revision in » - ms p- vniculxra might, tne Cotnmistiotiers believe, tend to <—.-,.• « gTr— t- T convenience of admin Latra'i- . n as we'd as fa. il, ly (- r farther extension. In aracla irog their rep. rt, tb<: Coa. minioner* observe : " In oor former re- ports wo hi » » e taken occasion to explain, more or lxa in » J » tail. the vieiws which we have formed relative to the limited operation of the Charitable Trusts arte, w. d to p- ii. t oat thftdefi'ienciea b-) th in thoee enact- tfier.' i*, aad in the general law relating to charitable tras's. which in r- ur jodgmentstflJ called for legislative remedy. We humbly crave Uave to refer now to those e* pmsi'> ns <- f r; r oj- imon whkh our increasing exp?- rieace t* ml* to cnr. fi nn. New cases are coa. Untly brought unlcr our noti- e in which charitable endow- nwi t « ( f.-.-^ u » - ntly of c • nsiderable value) are ex,-: tided without a- i vintage, if not with positive evil to the com- munity, by reason <- f the obligation which the existing law . mi- ci* « - s upon tlwir administrators, of a » lhtriri£ to LI < 1. signed or antiquated trusts. We are repeatedly compelled to fc 1 even painfully our present [>> werlcga- 0 s to auie'i'- r,, te this evil We are indeed Author bed to prr> j> i » e, but have no effectual power to i< roavote, 1- .1 lativc rche( Dc « for the new application 0/ endow- rji'. x » t*, but the uo> uitablcno- « of that mode ofpro- Ccdtrro for tb* accomplishment of its objoct ha. t been aoccttaiue- l according to our experience and before cownjcGt- I upon by ua. We havo not thought it advisable to ha-, recourse to it during the past year." ^ In ocnofcMon with the shore Xteport, The TUtut has tho In thwe days of monster trials without a vcnlict, moiistex debates without a decision, and monster nego- tiations without a result, it is a comtort to bo reminded, J* y the app urauce of a thin Keport, price twopense hilf- peni. y, that a very considerable strokeof pork has bi tii done, and is still doing, without any noise, agita- ta n, or trouble. except to a few hardworking officials. ' J Jfj Nineteenth Report of tho Charity Commission, v, ith the Appendix, does not take more than half on hour to master nry thoroughly, though the tiaus- a'.'. K'm described arc multitudinous and im- Lcnt. mt. Such a quantity of small matters como t- fore the Commisaion ar. d havo to ho disposed of that it Is beginning to econornizo its labour, as well as that of the Bank, by including several transfers in tho same order. In fact, it hu. U> tran- f. r to the " Official Trustees" and invest i" tb- j public funds very many sums no more than a few pounds, or even a few ehillings, as well as the entire property of wealthy Foundation*, for schools, ajmehou'n- i, " Charitiea," andepeeialreligious [ jurpctfcs. From Mich bulky i. Uaira as the sixty Charities of Hack- ney, and Lord Wharton's thirty six thousand pounds for the distribution of Bibles and Catechisms, the Ap- pendix derceuds to tho smallest rcaiduum of an ancient buiefaction, tho last ghost of an institution, the mero nominal balance, perhaps, of a litigation and settlement. Tho Charity Commission is an elephant that can pick up a sixpenco as easily as itcan rai< « out of tho inudand plant on firm ground a whole " town estate" of many thousands, or all the Charities of some wealthy lady who endowed half a county some centuries ago. One cann-. t R- m- elysay whether the immense or tho Intiuitisiinnl i; i the stronger proof of its powers. It linn mado 1,001 orders during the past year, many of thorn it api « ' iirs, comprehensive ones. It has trans- f. rred to Offiuial Trustets £ 413,934, £ 55,000 being rc- transferred. To compare its operations with those ujv. n the eamo ground of the Court of Chane< ry nnd in the C^ ouuty Courts, in tho course cf eleven years it has mado 3,404 orders appointing trustees and establishing echemtis, against 95 authorized upplicatioDH for theso purposes to Chancery and « to County Courts. At tho close of tho vear 1871 it b » ld £ 4,772,792 divided into 6,22- 1' separate ncc'juiit'. Aitnougn cy tins timo it might be supposed to have made a con? iderablo impression upon the whole mass of Charities, its work continues, and, indeed, in- croaacs, as am> cars at onco from a most imposing enu- meiation of localities and titles of Charities— five or six hundred— it has taken charge of this last year. The addition of 2Co new Reports for Charities not reported before HC' DW to threaten a never ending series. Upon tho whole, tho Commissioners wish their task to be innde ca- ier, and think it may be, and, indeed, had better be, considering how successful they have been, and how nnioh more property of tho same kind they could deal with in the samo manner. This is a hint which wo venture to say might bo taken, and that in time. Why should not all the ri: J property— that is, all tho houses and land, and all the chaige8 on land— now held in mortmain for tho purpose of endowment bo rcscucd from tho perils such estates aro liable to, by being sold and the pro- COtda properly invested iu tho names of Oilieial Tru. itees ? There can be no doubt that tho sale would bo generally much to tho advantage of all parties intended iu every way. Estates held in mortmain cannot be managed properly and with justice to all tho parties concerned. They aro neglected, to the lodj of revenue and value; or they aro over- nursed for tho benefit of tenants and underlings, not with- out jobbery ; or they aro managed magnificently and unpivfitab y ; or tho nature of tho management and tho uncertainty of the tenure take away all motive to improvement. Anyhow, ono vory largo element in vu'. uo is lost by mortmain. In theao days laud will everywhere fetch a great deal more than its present pr> « luctivo value, on account of thoso other values which are conferred by aimplA proprietorship, by the liboityof dealing with it, by tho expectation of im- proving it, and by the circumstances of tho neighbour- hood. Land now rented at a pound an acre will find many purchasers who will pay for it forty, fifty, or sixty pounds an acre simply to call it their own, to play with it, to improve it if possible. Tho futuro i3 thus often a larger element in tho price than the pi ivcat; tho po- j iblo than tho actual; tho moral than the material. Moreover, much of this land, perhaps mo. of it, lies intermixed with other properties which have an adventitious and progressive value. Any land- ov> ner who desirta to mako Iris property complete, and who contemplates improvements, cither for profit or for tho picturori] ue, will generally bo ready to pay a high price for the land which stands in tho way. Glebo land a aro not always in bad condition ; but if they are in better condition than usual, or in as good condi- tion as the land about them, it is likely to be at the lo-- s of tho incumlient— that is, by an expenditure for which he cannot be reimbursed. Bishops, Deans and Chapters, Colleges, Publio Schools, and similar Foundations cannot steer evenly between doing too much and too little Cor their estates— sometimes Starving themselves for their tenants, sometimes im- posing upon them the treble infliction of parsimony, uncertainty, and neglect, as to material improve- ments. Agriculture, like everything else In these days, is a moo, and ho that runs in a race must bo unencum- bered. It requires a secure tenant, with a wealthy and generous landlord to back him up, else everything will fall to tho rear. But a functionary, whether of the Church or of the State, ought to have a fixed in- come, without vidsatudes or embarassments. He has his official work to do, and ought not to have the superfluous task of looking after the source whence his pay is to come. An investment in the funds is sure to yie! d him a much better income, with much less trouble and anxiety, than ono in land. It can hardly be dvubtod that if all tho land held in mort- main were sold — nay, even if it were all thrown at onoe on tho market, the result would bo an increase of 50 per cent, in tho income from this source. Even that gab, great as it is, would not be more important than the substitution of a fixed income, j aid with invariable punctuality by Commis- sionem, u r the fluctuations of rent and the " precarious rcsmts of experimental husbandry. The annual Ex- ports of the E< xl « isstical Commissioners, of which the L'lth is now before ua, show what an enormous Church work can be done with proper method ar. d :, « ; m. and Low much trouble and expense may be saved tc maunbenta, patrons, and leaseholders by a pro- ms whadh. so far as it goes, is the mtoih,^ of tiw • te < 1 edit for certain parccli o£ had is the security for • sk- iai iccemts. In th-' oid days of mortmain there wasno greatpub& j ceVt. not evui public credit- nay, hardly public fcv- vsr; there wssu a » great dspartowits of th « State tfla. corU tr^ U- 1 with any amount of property; there was no money, except that in tLe Laads of rpeculattve merehante and crasri" ^ usurers. La . was tae oaly fixed capital— the oalv security, the only type of mnstsney and pmetnStr. S-.\ if there was t.> be an endowment at all, it had to bj in land. Tu • eaae is widely different a- w, when Consols are the very type of secoritv, truth, and unchanpeal.! ea< ti- as far as these qualities are attainable in thi-. fle: t; c? world. It is trse a few years back, when we were fir-: starting ia our career of Reform ard prosreav- ive im- provem « at, wh* n, 00 to « r- sak. we were slipping our moorings and lamx- hins; into the deep, the. e wm r. terrible suspici - n of the State What ii it should manage to gra* p and depo- it jJl the endowments of the country in the » h » po of £ s. d. in tha Ba- k of England ? Even if it started with the fairest in- tentions. would its hr « ie-" ty— that is the hore3ty of Parliament and of the pe » iple—" always star"' the constant temptation? Whatever the grounli or the justice of that su" pic3on then, it can now be answered th - t the State Las been tried ; it has hrM in it" hands untold millions, and it has even operated with them for financial convenient, but nobody doubts its h - noura' lo int-^ ntions or th « strength of its moral principle. Nobody now exf- ec'. s tho British Empire to t'iru robber or defaulter in its old age. It has some fii s to answer for. It may be indifferent, it mu- t be liberal; it his t- o ste^ r its way as evenly as it can, to risp..-^ scruples, and cou- ider convenience ; but it L » , at Ita^ t, tolvent and strictly honourable in ita p- cuniai y tninRiction.^, n'> r do-^ tht- re appear any rcas n to appreh-. nd that it will over have the smallest temptation 10 be otherwise. " HARLAND AND CAWORD V. FLOWERS AND ANOTHER." In the Court of Prolate and DiVORCE, the above cause has been heard, and- wss a prrr. it jmilt hi wlil.-. h tho pIifntilTs propounded tho dr- « ft wr. l » fthe 1 t^- i Mr. George Johnson, ol ISromptoii, near Northallerton, la tiio oninty of Y- rk. who died on the 2lst April, 1871 The will was executed on tho 20th October, l846, and tUo uraft ol It now propuundtd was opposed Mr. Digby Seymour, Q C, Dr. Spinks, Q. C., and Mr. Bohu were couuscl for trie j. l iibtift's: » Dr Deane-. Q C., Mr. Henry James, Q. C., and Mr. Searle forthe defendants. it appeared that the t s'ator was a man of humblo origin, but by peraevcriiig iudu- try, energy, and good conduct had amassed a large fortune. Ia early life he went to America and it w- s whilo there that he mado tho fortune of which he died pj . ic-.' ied. That consisted of £ 85,000 of real property in America, £ 35,000 io Eng- land, and about £ 5,0' X( of iierconal property. In 18t> 5 he left America, and came to England, where he re- mained up to his death. On coming to England in 1665 he took up his residence at Millfield House, in the < ity of York, and in tho following year, while residing there, he executed tho will, tho diatt of which was now propounded. Lie was manied; but had no children. He bad, however, a number of relations, and among oth- rs a nephew, tho son of a deceased brother, who, if ho had died intestate, would havo been hi3 heir- at- law, and als- i was now the chief defendant in the opposition to this wilL Tue conduct of this young man seemed to have tlis^ ilu-' isod him, and one reason ho gave for making his will wa3 to prevent his getting the real property which ho possessed in Eng- land. By his will he however left him a legacy, as ho did to every relative whom he knew oh The will w. is prepared and executed in the oflico of Mr. Foule, a solicitor at Northdlerton, and after it was executed tho testator took it away with him. In April, 1S70, he removed from Millfield House. York, to Brompton, near Northallerton, where he died the following April. Onremoving his papers he took up a roll of tho. 11 and saia to a person scanning uy tnat ma will was contained in it, and h? looked it-, up in his desk, and ordered- it to be taken to Northallerton " with care." On tho papers arriving at the tettiter's new residence at Brompton he was seen to take this rol of papers and place them on a shelf in his own private closet, and down to his death ho was stated to havo spoken of the will a3 being still in existence. Three months before his death tho testator met with an acci- dent, which confined him to his bed, and from tho effects of which he diud. _ He was never in this clo- ct after ho was thus laid up in bed, but a servanr, who had tho key of this closet, iu which were kept the keys of the wine- cellar, saw tho roll of papers w ith the will on the bhelf where the testator had placed it. After tho testator's death the will could not be found, and think- ing that it might have been placed in tho coffin and buried with the testator an order wa3 obtained frt. m the Secretary of State to search the coffin, which wa3 done, but no will could be found. The draft was accordingly now propounded. In support of the will several witnesses were called. Ono of tho plaintiffs — Richard Harland, stated that he was a nephew of the testator's, and ono of the executors under tho wiiL His undo told him that ho had made his will, and had appointed him one of the executors. He was always very much displeased with tho heir- at- law, and said ho would take care that he should not squander his property. Miss M'Closkey, a relative of tho testator's, who resided with him and his wife, stated that she had heard the deceasod speak of the heir- at- law as a " curse." She also stated that plio thought the defend- ant Flowers was intriguing; and she had said that if tho will was not in tho closet after the death. Flowers must know about it. She saw Flowers and Mr. Foule, the solicitor, ransacking tho cupboard on the day of tho decease of tho testator. Dr. Deane ( in cross- examination}.— I suppose there was no lovo lost between you and Flowers ? Miss M'Closkey: That is presupposing there was some to lcae. ( Laughter). Dr. Deane : Well, was there any to lose ? Miss M'Closkey : No, there never was. ( Renewed laughter). She micht have said she would " bet a cookey " that the will was in America. ( Laughter). Dr. Deane : What do you mean by a " a cookey "— a small cook? Miss M'Closkey : No. It's what we call in the United States " a email cake." ( Laughter). Elizabeth Tunstall, a servant in tho testator's em- ployment, spoke as to tho will being in tho private closet after the testator was laid on his death- bed, and other evidence was adduced to show that the testator had on various occalions expressed his dwsatisfaction with his nephew, tho heir- at- law, aud that he had made his will in a manner which would prevent him getting the real property he had in England. On the conclusion of the plaintiff's case Dr. Deane opened tho case for the defendants, which was that the testator had destroyed the will for tho purpose of re- voking it in order that he might execute a new one, which for some cause or other he had failed to do. Ho then called Mr. Foule, the solicitor who prepared tho will and who saw it executed. The testator took away tho will with him after it wai executed, and it was no doubt put in an envelope. His impression was that the will was executed for a temporary purpose, and more than a year before his death the testator told him that he intended to alter his will, but he did not eav in what respect. About two weeks before his death he asked him if he intended to alter his will, but he made no reply. At the time tho will was executed the testator's real property in England amounted to £ 9,000, but it was afterwards increased te the present amount. On the morning of the testator's death ho searched the whole house for the will, but could not find it. Flowers came to him to ask him to scareh for the wilL Mr. George Flowers stated that ho was a joiner at Northallerton, and a nephew of the testator's wife. After the testator came to live at Northallerton ho lived with them. In March, 1871, tho testator told him that he was going to settle his affaire, as if he did not, George would come in and sweeu tho decks of everything; and when on his death- bed he said to him. " When I get a little better I will settle my affairs, and do right to every one." That was about two weeks before his death. He never had any- thing to do with the testator's paper?, nor did he un- pack them when they came to Northallerton. He aover saw liis will in the closet where he kept his papers, nor anywhere else. Ho had seen a roll of paper in the closet tied up with red tape. They were chiefly bills. He never had the key of the closet arid he was never in it after the testator was taken ill for onypurpoee what- ever. The case which occupied the whole of the day, was then adjourned. BoopeD, the ex M. P. fur Lambeth, who was con- rlcicd toaic years ego for tcrgery, ni^ ht Uave obtained a ticVet- cMcave, bit he prefers reiaimln^ 1a tho prison, where. It ii stated, hefcai launc^ se inCi- cnce uver iu iauatei Ho Is stea.' Cdj- rethxnt on tiw « ub; i. c: of the dime of which he vraj oarivicicd: bus the clupUia of the pii- oa tel e , j u^ S, te a eiruia extent, Iioapell has uedllced Li— to t- txa othcn. THE TICHB0RNE CASE. Tio Claimant hi3 sent the following letter to the papers, for publication :— fa tplteof tho per-" stent op^ alfioa of tha kgal ajrwers of the Crown. sndnc* wiUutan< fli « Mr. Justice Brett rc.' uwl to reUase m from cool, I have now obtitad my release br tie order of the fell Court of Queen s Ctach, ana ttatXon predUety tha jape eTII « oe a* the JQ.!^ Court over which L- rd C. ilef Justice BjtiUrefused mjrwsp. tsatSoa, statin,; that the fact of cetamicc m; in caol Ja- lses of Hie Coart of Q^ ea's understand too « Y! 1 the spirit of the Koglith law ea- i tho feeling, ofthe£-- ii people to treat mo otherwise tlian as iunooent until f ani provedto b-> sufltjv or to a « k for more th » a rvav nable bail to^ no given that I shall appear to take my trial uhea called That I shall appear and tais my trial nose need doubt; I am ready for it, aad without delay. i,^^.? 01? ^ 1 lor m? release? To the Br* ph public, to whom, tlironzh your piper, yoa enah'ed me to appsd and te whem. Sir, I nrl4t cik " yon, through tncsinio medium, to allow me to tend'jmj mostslacera and heartfelt thanks for the support afforded me. With that support I liar.; been enabled to appeal from tho dechion of * s, n? ie J tnd with tUo u. taunce of three release? mia at 2osh » h B^ r I hare obUlccd my When I penned my appeal to the public ( although ecn- tldeut of uiyonrn innocence), I was too much crushed in spirits, and felt too strongly the tremendous power brought against me, to hope that I should ever havo the chance of eipj- lng to t'uo world the gro- est co upiracy ever con- ° f provina myself to bo Sir ft ^ er Charles Doughty Tichbrat. , ^ dispelled, for in three weeks upwards of fiiOOQ have been sab crrtwd to procure for me a fair trial and If in so short a tima nearly a fourth of tho total amount I shall require to enable me to procure tho service of ouiinent counsel and the attendance of my witnesses has been sub- ; cr. be- J I bellove I may with oonfldence look forward t.-. the neccsury funds bein? forthcoming to enable mo to provo my innocence, and to sb. w that in this country there is . a right*" 1 CLlM Wh0 wiU not aLi0Hr flight to prevail against Oao word more, ilr attention hai been called to a letter In tho Daily Telegraph, of tho 18th Inst., in which the follow- ing question was asked ;— " Will any offlocr ( whether friendly or adverse to tho Claimant) who was In the Carblneera with Roger Tichborno assert that their old comradc Was tatooed 1" Such letter \ ns written by no one in any way connected with mo, nor could it have been written by any one cormcctcd with tiio defendants on the late trial; thoy would not h ivo asked such a question. The author of it must, therefore, hivo been some neutral person. Eight day3 havo elapsed since it appeared In print, and although . it least some of the persons to whom the question was put must have known of the tattoo marks had they in fact existed, nono of them hare ventured to suggest any knowlc< bto of them. What, thon, is tho inference to be drawn? I leave tho publio to Judge. If tho evidence as to the tattoo marks was false— and I assert that It was— tho whole of the evidence given by tho persons who swore to them mini bo worthless,— I am, & c., K. C. D. TICHBORXB. Harlcy- lodge, Harloy- road, Brompton, April 23. THE PEDLARS' ACT. A crowded public meeting of Btreet hawkers and pedlars was held on Friday night in last week, in the Borough- road Congregational Chapel, London,- for the purpose of protesting against the injustice aad hard- ships thoy suffered under the provisions of the new Pedlars and Hawkers Act. Mr. W. . T. Haynes, a manufacturer, occupied tho chair, and, in opening the proceedings, said, having carefully porused the Act, on being asked to preside over the meeting, he had co hesitation in pronouncing it a piece of unjust and exceptional legislation, bearing moat hardly upon a laree, useful, and hard- working class of the community.* He was a large manufacturer, and employed a considerable number of travellers going out about the country soliciting orders for his goods, but he was not compelled to take out a licence. Why, then, should the artisan, who made his own goods and went about the country selling them, bo com- pelled to take out a licence, and bo subjected to all the harassing and vexatious provisions contained in the Act? The Act was so oue- eided and unjust that he felt certain it would be modified by the Legislature if the necessary means were taken. Mr. Thompson said he was what was called a travel- ling tinker, going about grinding knives, razors, and mending pots, pans, & c. Why should he be prohibited following his trade without paying 5a. for a licence ? He was not either a hawker or a pedlar. He followed the trade to which ho had been brought upi and did not buy goods wholesale to sell again retail. Again, being subject to the provisions of tho Act, he was de- barred from taking his son out with bim to assist him in his business, because he was under 17 years of age. This was gross tyranny. The sons of men ' in his clans ... f life tinually followed the samo modo of getting a liveli- ! hood as their parents, but thoy must now keep them in idleness until they were turned 17. Tho Education Act very properly said that a child should attend school until 13 yeara of ago, but surely after that age the father had a right to bring him up in his own calling if ho thought tit to do so. Then there was the in- dignity inflicted upon an honest man when obtaining his license. His height, size, and general description were taken down by the police, as if he was a criminal or likely to become one. He also considered a licence once obtained and paid for should hold good for the year in whatever part of the country a man might travel, but under this Act the license had to be pre- sented to the polico for re- endorsement in ev. ry police district the holder entered, for which ho had to pay 6 J. each timo, and subject himself to the in- dignity he had before described. He bad also to lose at least a day while waiting for tho return of his licence from tho polic6, and dared not pursue his call ing while the licence was being endorsed, lie know instances where tho licence had been kept b. ick for three and four days, and the man compelled to remain idle all the time. Then, again, a man once convicted of any dishonest act, however slight, and at however distant a period, was refused a licence altogether, and thus prevented fromobtaiuinghis livinghoneatly. There wu3 a young man now in the meeting, who, 11 years ago, when a boy, suffered a year's imprisonment for a dis- honest act. For tho last ten years he had been getting his living honestly by selling goods in the streets. Upon the Pedlars' Act coining into force hp applied in the usual manner for his licence at the police- station, but itwas refused him because he had been con- victed 11 years ago. He appealed through some gentle- mm to Colonel Henderson, the Police Commissioner, but that functionary replied he could not help him, a3 the police only acted according to the law. It might be law, but it was not justice. That man had only two alternatives— to turu thief, or sell his goods in tho etreet without a licence at tho riak of being taken up and imprisoned. Mr. Williams, a glass and crockery rivetter and mender, contended that men who sold articles of their own manufacture ought not to be subjected to the pro- visions of the Act. Ho knew a young woman who aold combs in the street made by her father; while so engaged she was taken up by the police and charged with begging, for which she got a month's imprison- ment. The police now refused her a licenco to sell combs because she had been in prison for a month. The Rev. Mr. Murphy sidd the Act must have been pa& sed in the belief that every persoa who got a living by belling goods iu the streets was a rogue and vaga- bond. Oa no other ground could ho account for tue passing of auch an atrocious Act Several other hawbere having addressed the meeting, a petition against the Act was unanimously adopted. AN AMERICAN CHURCH IN ROME.— A letter from Rome, addressed to Galu/ uanCi Heat per, a^ ys:— " yon lately mentioned the intention of tho Americans here to build a new church within tho walla of : thii city. A site for it has beta already secured on tho Via Kjxionale, « t the corner of the Via JfapolL This part of tho city IULS beta eho* ea as being the centre of thwc uewquaiU re which, by rr& soa of their superior healthfulneu and fre. di> m from the danger of inundation, maii soon become the favourite realdcELS cf the f . reign population of Home. The loi hu a frontage of nearly lev feet oa the Via Sazt-. nale, and of I6i fi- eioo the Via. Xajxili. It " ill i£ C » rd room thai lor future en- largement of the church, and the erection of a buildltg to ierre as lecture- ro- jm. library, and nccam.< nodatloa for the elerjry. The design of tho nev church, by ilr. G. E. Sin. t, architect, Ls in the beautiful early Gothic of North Italy. It Is intended to seat S.' J persots. lis exterior diitei- uoiii Kill Le 152 by 01 feet As It fill sUnd oa whit wdl be the great street of New Eome, it is hoped that the literal! ty of ur peopb— of the friends of religious liberty through'.- at t.- ar 1 HI > 1— will en. ii. le us to nJc- j It no airworthy representation to ttii pec,- . ? c- ur £ jih and lut U> » ha cort Joilin ( THE LICENSING BILL. The Gove. nm cut BiQ, introduced in the House of Lords by L r i Kimberley. for rvgulatin; the sale o* intoxicating iiquurs in Unjlaad begins with clauses imposing penalties for iilicrt sale?. Sale by retail without a lirenKe, or at a place not authorised by tho licence, is to be visited with a heavy hue and impri- sonment aad forfeiture of a licence if hel L On a second conviction the offender may be declared by the Court disqualified from holding a licence for a certain term of years, or " for ever " on a third convic- tion. Any person mav, without warrant, apprehend ths offender. Penal clauses also impose heavy fines, with record of the conviction oa the licence, for eva- sion of the limitation of a licence for sale of liquor not to bo drunk on the premi ' ts, or for making use of an internal communication between licensed premises and unlicensed premised used for public entertainment or resort or as a refreshment house; or for setting otherwise than in imperial measurej intoxicating liquor sold by retail ( not in cask or bottle) in a quantity not less tlian half a pint. t There is a penalty of 20s. to iOs. for selling spirits to be consumed on the premises to a person apparently under the ngo of IG, laid not being a traveller or lodger ; also a penalty of 10s. on a ptraoi found drunk ! in any public place or on any licensed premises; and • - 10s., or imprisonment, on r. person who, in any public placo, is guilty whi'e drunk of riotous or disorderly behaviour, or who ii drunk while in charge on any highway of any carriage, horse, cattle, or steam- engine. Also a penalty, with record of conviction on tho licenco, on a licensed person knowingly permitting drunkennesss, or violent, quarrelsome, or riotous con- duction his premises, or being himself guilty thereof, or selling intoxicating liquor to a drunken person ; or knowingly permitting his premises to bo tho habitual resort or place of meeting of reputed prostitutes or re- puted thieves, whether their no rosorting or mooting is fer an illegal purpose or cot ; or for knowingly suffering a constable on duty to remain on the premises otherwise than in the execution of his duty, or for . supplying refreshment to a constable on duty unless by auporior authority, or for attempting to bribe a constable; or for suffering gamiug on tho premises ( and it is not to be necessary to provo that persona found playing were playing for any stake), or for suffering the house to" be used in contravention of the Betting houses Act. If a licensed person is con- victed of permitting his prendses to become a brothel, he will, besides a penalty, forfeit his license and be for ever disqualified from holding another, the premises also to be disqualified for five years. A licensed person may turn out uny one who is druuken, violent, quarrel- somo, or disorderly, or whoso presence would subject tho licensed person to a penalty under this Bill. A penalty is imposed on tho offender failing to depart when requested, and constables, if required, aro to assist in expelling liim. Passing noxt to the subjects of adulteration, Clause 20 proposes that if a person mixes with intoxi- cating . liquor exposed for sale by him ( or knowingly keeps for sale liquor so mixed) with nny deleterious ingredient,— that is to say, coc; ulas indicus, copperas, opium, Indian hemp, strychnine, tobacco, darnel seed, extract of logwood, salts of zinc, or lead, alum, or any other ingredient auded to this list by Order in Council, mado under this bill, and any ingredient deleterious to health, such person shall bo liable to a heavy penalty or imprisonment, and for a second offence to a higher penalty or longer imprisonment, and to be declared to be disqualified for a term of years to'bo named. If the person so convicted is a licensed person, ho is further, in case of a second offence, to bo liable to forfeit his licence, and tho premises shall be declared to bo dis- qualified for a term of years not exceeding fivo ; if tho Court does not forfeit the licence, tho conviction is to bo recorded on it. A licensed person convicted under this section is to keep up for two weeks on his premises, as prescribed by a ptybjic house inspector, a placard stating the conviction. Possession of adulterated liquor or deleterious ingredient by a licensed person, unless accounted for, will constitute an offence. A public house inspector or officer of inland revenue may procure samples of any intoxicating liquor1 kept for ealo, and havo them analyzed at such placo as tho Inland Revenue Commissioners may appoint, giving notice to the vendor. Tho expenses, if the vendor be convicted under tho adulteration clause, to bo a por- tion of the costs of the- proceedings to be paid by him : in any other event to be paid a3 part of tlio expenses of tho officer. The Bill deals next with tho hours of closing, first providing that, in caso of riot or tumult happening or tumult expected, tw4 Justifies may brder licensed premises in or near tho plvco to bo closed during such time1 as they fix.' In ordinary times licensed premises are not to open before 7 ifcui. On three exceptional days— viz., Sunday, Christmas- day, and Good Friday licensed premises are to bo closed until lp. m., and again from 3 p. m. nntil 6 p. m.; this Inst nstriction goes beyond the afternoon, church hours. TJie f. lobi| ig at night is to. be as follows^- Within four miles of Channg- crosa, at midnight of week- days, and at 11 p. m. on the three . exceptional days— viz., Sunday, Christmas- day^ and Good Friday; olsewherein the motopoli'an police district or in. towns with not less than 10,000 inhabit- ants, at 11 p. m/ on Week days and 10 pita, on the three exceptional days • elsewhere, at 10 p. m. oh week days and 9 p. m. on the three exceptional days, thus sending the people " early to bed " by law. But these restric- tions do not apply to the supply of liquor to " bond fide travellers." or to persons lodging in tho licensed person's nouse, nor to sales at a railway station to persons arriving at or departing from such station by rail toad. Tho local authority ( tho Commi- sionera of Police in London, with approval, of tho Secretary of State or Lord Mayor, and the petty ee-. siona elsewhere) may allow any licensed victualler or refreshment- honso keeper to be - open at suoh hours, except between one a. m., and two a. m., as may be deemed desirable for the accommodation of any con- siderable number of persons attending a market or following any lawful calling. A clause follows, rehiting to the effect of repeated convictions. If any licensed, person on whoso licence two convictions under this bill aro recorded is convicted of an offence which tho bill directs to be recorded on his licence, the licenco shall l> e forfeited, and he shall be disqualified for five years from holding a licence, and the premises shall be disqualified from receiving a licenco for two years f but this clause is not to lessen any power of severer punishment given in any other part of the bill. But j after five years a conviction is not'tct be receivable as I subj cting a person to- an increased penalty. The Bill now passes to the subject of supervision of licensed houses. Constables are to he appointed ia the several police districts as " publichouso inspectors ; their salaries and expenses, where a county is divided into police districts, are to bo deemed part of the general expenditure, unlesS the police authority direct an appointment for et. me particular police district, in which case the expense is to be part of tho local ex- peaditure for that district. The publichouse inspector xs tosecuro, a< far as in him lies, tho obseivance of the provisions of thiB bill, and to report thereon annually; and Her Majesty's Inspectorsof Constabulary are to report on tho efficiency of the inspection. The bill gives powers of visitation and examination to those public- house inspectors and to all constables. Tho grant of licences is the next subjcct dealt with. In counties a grant of a new licence will require to be con- firmed by a standing licensing committee ( to bo ap- pointed annually by the Justices from among them- selves), and approved by the Secretary of State. In boroughs whore thero are not 15 qualified Justices licences are to bo granted by the borough Ju- tices as heretofore, but in other boroughs licences are to be granted by a committee of Justices annually appointed, and the licences will require confirmation by the whole body of borough justices; and the borough licence also must have tho approval of the Secretary of State. For obtain'n^ his approval a repoit munt be sent to bim stating the circumstances on account of which the licence has been gi anted. A six day licence may- be granted for premises to be closed on . Sunday, on P- v> meat of Bix- sovenths of the duty. Offences under this bill mav be prosecuted in manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction Act of 1813, subject to some special provisions. Penalties and forfeitures under this bill aro not to be deemed to be under any Inland Revenue Act. An appeal against any order or con- viction will lie to the Quarter Scseions. Every peraon oi- liag or abetting the commission of an offetcs will be deemed guilty, whether the principal fa or is not con- victed. Any Justice having jurisdiction may dircct a pnblichoEU- j insjj- ct-. r or other constable to t » !: c pro- ceedings for pniiL- hii. g an ofTem er, and tho c^ U not paid as the costs of ordinary prosecutions uro paid ah- 11 be paid is part of the cnt3 of tho publichouse inspects. F.. nn> r c- t'„ $ under Liceir. rr.;; Acta will, for the purp < se. « '•/ tU- biil. be d<;-: ; n> dc. nviV. tions under It, and endorsed on the Jieei. c-;. No Justice is to act undsr this bill who t^ calip with a br ; wer, distiller, and no Jurtkw is to act in respect of premises m the prvht of which he is interested, « which are the property of a brewer, Win* his father son, or brother, or partner in any other trad*. The bill will not affect MJM ia theUr^, in S boats, or in canteens, these being under special Acts Sentences of imprisonment under this trill may be with or without hard labour. CHARGE OF OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES. At tne Worship- street P ' lfc^ ccurt, In Lomion. oa Pahuw day, Charles Carpenter, calling himself the Rev. Charles Carpenter," aged « . living to Ikam.' ut-' quare, Mllo- aud. was charged on remind with having, by false pretences, obtained, er attempted to obtain, various turns « jf money. 1 It may pctha. w b? remembered by newspaper readars that the prisoner addressed letters to several gentlemen of position, soliciting subscriptions on behalf of an institution to improve the condition of tho Watwshfc labourers and fi- hermen. The recipients communicated with the Mendicity Society ; inquiries were made, and the prisoner was apprehended at a coffeehouse in Shore- ditch, where ho had gone to rfceive a reply to ono of his application*. Mr Wingfield Baker said that he had sent monor on behalf of the British Waterside Mission," and had received acknowledgments in the handwriting ui tho prisoner. The prisoner, dn being asked if ho wished to put questions to the witness, said that ho intended to plead guilty to tho accusation. Tho Magistrate reminded him that ho was being charged under a clause of tho Vagrant Act. The prisoner, however, adhered to his intention. Tho Magistrate said that, as tho prisoner had been previously convicted, the case must go for trial. Mr. Sumner, the second clerk, said flie previous conviction was for passing a false cheque. Horsford, the chicf officer of tho Mendicity Society, said that this was the fact. Tho prisoner had also been sentenced at tho Mnnsion- hou.^ e to three mouths* imprisonment under tho Vagrant Act, Tho Hon. George Villiers said that ho had received a letter signed " G. Carpenter," and headed " Britiih Waterside Musion." 11 is reply was tho letter taken from tho prisoner at tho time of his apprehension. Before sending his reply witness communicated with tho Mendicity Society. He had recci veil several letters from Mr. Carpenter duringtho last ten years, but had no personal knowledge of him. , He had sent money on previous occasions in answer to applications, Mr. West, M. P., said that he hud subscribed twice to tho funds of tho " British Wateisido Mission." On the first occasion tho acknowledgment was as follows:— , " I beg to acknowlo IRO tho receipt of f. l which you kindly aont us from Mauoheitor, for tlio British Waterside Mission, and for which we aro vory much obllecd — C C. viU'i:. sTKii, Hon,. See." h Mr. Philip W. Martin, M. P., said that ho had re- ceived an application fr.. m C. Carpenter, aud sent a Post- office order for £ 1 ls. This order was given up by the prisonor on his being arrestod. Mr. Martin uadel that he did not know the prisoner, but took him for a clergyman. His father, now dead, had been in the hhbitof subscribing to the Mission. Mr. Bound, ML P., gave similar . evidence, and Mr. Leigh Pemberton, MP., said that for four or five yearn he had subscribed 10J. Cd. a- year to thy supposed charity. John William Borsford, chief officer of tho Mendicity Society in Bed Liou- quare, deposed that on the 20th of April, accompanied By another officer, he went to a coffee house in Shoreditoh. Soon after- wards the prisoner camo in aud asked for lotted. As ho was about to open ono, tho officer took him into custody. On his way to the station ho gave up tho Post office order which had been sent by Mr. Martin, and admitted that the so- called " British Waterside Mission" did not exist. Sinco tho arrest two letters had arrived at the coffeehouse for the prisonor. The Magistrate found that one contained a contri- bution of 10s. in postage- stamps for tho " British Waterside Mission." Horsford said that tho prisonor was known by several names, one of which was the Rov. 0. Chapman. The prosecution proposed not to go into any more cases. The Magistrate aaked tho prisoner what ho wished to say iu answer. Prisoner replied: I will ask you to deal with mo a* leniently as the circumstances of the case will admit. I did wrong, but it was under a mistaken notion. Tho Magistrate: You appear to have for a long timo carried on Prisoner here interrupted. The Magistrate : Will you hold your tonguo, now? You have said all you wished. You bavo carried on for a long time a systematic fraud, and practised it with considerable success. There arc six charges against you, and you will go to prison for threo months on each, marking in all 18 months' hard labour. LORD CLARENCE PAGET ON THE LATE NAVAL DISASTERS. Lord Clarence Paget has sent tho following letter to The Tima for publication :— " Sir,— In requesting you to Insert tho following remark* I am incurring grave responsibility. " It is no light thing for an Admiral who has lately com- manded one of Iier Majesty's fleets to appeal to tho publls, bnt times are out of Jolut with tho Nary when tho Minister for that Department lluds himself obliged, in replying to the uaual toast at a publio dinner, to speak of the Setrlco la apologetic words. " The late dlsastors need Indeed apology, but Is It only for tho sorvlco that exomes aro required t " During the lost threo years we havo lost ono Ironolad with all hands; four havo been on tho rocks, and thouirk rescued by great skill, rendored well nltfh useless, slnco It Is lmpossiblo that a ahip weighing 5,000 or 0,000 tons con bump upon the ground without seriously aliaking har Iramo and loosemng her armour plates. " But, worse than all, many officers of tho highest merit and promlso are wrecked in pronpects and reputation and th » country is losing ( but lot us hope only for the momout) it* confidence in us. " Why la all this? " I dcclaro my oxperienco of tho officers of tho Navy dur- ing three years and on many trying occasions was to tha effect'that they wero full of 7e-. 1l, prudeuco, and knowledge of their duths. I know that other Commanders- ln- Cldef will bear tho sume testimony. " Tho Admiralty, actuated by a pralsoworthy dc- rfro t* economize one of Lho mojt costly Items In tho Navy ( via., coal), and with a view to tho maintenance of seamanship Issued a series of orders restricting the uao of the cngiuo. " I cannot but think that It is thew woll- lnteutlonsd orders that havo contrlbhted mainly to tlio ilis- wtor*. " The officers of tho Navy aro a highly sensitive body of men, and, onto imprraaod with tho feollng that cont- umptlon of coal la displeasing to the Admiralty, they trill mn all soria of risks rather than Incur tho censure which has, I understand, been freely bc « towed on tome who have dlare- gaided their injonclloui. " Every ono of thcio mishaps may, In my opinion, be traced to the fatal Imp.. —. ion conveyed in the Admiralty orders. " If tho Captain had had her engine In use aho would have been lulled to the v- hid and aavod. " Tho Agincourt drill !, crab- like, on to tho Pearl IU « k because she had not he/% 1 way to stem the current. " Tho Lord Ciyds i - - d on to tho rocks becaoee her esglnea wero not ready 1 a I ime to save her. " llio Defence drovo fiom her anchors because « ho had not full power of ateam on And now wu hear tliat the ]{ « yal Alfred sol aground lu iJit- nn Uhaui. el because she had no steam ready. " These largo Ironclads are not safe when near the land or one another, or in bad weather without ateam power. " I havo reaeoa to believe that the A'lrairalty contemplate a reviainn of the orders to which I har* a t verted. I jju certain that no measure will bo more beneficial to the Navy or advantageous to the country. Meantime It la but Justice to the many bravo and dlatlngniahe- l officers who havo b- en tacriflcod at tho ahrino of false cc- non. y th. it tho publio should liuve an oj. pi'nunltv of farming th'lr Judgnjeat a* te the amount of blame which is fairly attributable to them. " I am. Sir, your very obedient aervant, " 7, CromTrell- gardena, April 27." " C. PAOEZ." FFTOPKKTY OP COAPOEATIONH.— Tho Incomo Tax under Schedule A, on IAJVLJ and U- aemenU ia the United Kitgdom, WM ^ e-^- t'l in 1--. 70 on proj/ erty of the gro- ii aauual value of belonging t>> ruuni- dr « l corporate bodied ; on _ pr"]> erty of tl. e value of £ 3,668,063 belonging to eccl&- i— ntlcal uvl wiuc-. t-'. nal c<.- rporate bodies ; on 1 r > p*. ity of the valuW £ 2.2i:> Sjf belonging to joint-' t-)'; k c^ panu-*-. aurl r- u proj*- r. y oi the valie of £ 2, C1 ', 074 1 • to </ tb « r < u> r\ r> ate h> die. J.- The total is p, 415,051- viz., 18,259 T£> a « - ttsi'. d in Zealand, i-'. ' » v/ j , u \' v.<. , an ' J^' j '..- 5 in Irelaud. Tho whole ^. c. uut ch . » „ « .• i • ii-' n !/.• Tkxunder Sche- Jule A in li flnai^ al year ending t. < t Slhof April, 1S70. waiI'l.' M 7Ws 1i- r. z , Z'Mj. Wt& A f. • in Ha^ lsaifl, in ix^ ilantl, utd H^ M^' SlivLi Ireland. THE FALMOUTH AND PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. Market Street, Falmouth. MADAM, Having just returned from London I purpose opening my Show llooins on Thursday next, the 9th Instant, with all the leafing Novelties of the Season, in Millinery, Mantles, Dresses, Skirts, Costumes, d- c., ibey Very Cheap Pure ^ mencary Cotton Shirtings. Black Dr^ ss ank ManilpjSilks— much below value. Also, black Silk Velvets. Some Jobs In KQQlaves— double and single buttons. Job Silk Umbrellas and Parachutes. Millinery— ierj/ attractive and becoming styles. An early gall will be esteemed. / Yours respectfully, ' H. PENLERICK. JZondon % ouse, S^ ahrvoutlv. Madam, • F leg to inform you that my SP/ IQUL HdfLaams. are tiaia ([' fieri, with a l flie J! ending • Novelties for tJve Summer Season-, in> French and fynalish - Millinery, Gosturtves and STcirts, SilTc and Gashmere jdantlc* and Ja- clcets, & aney Silks aivd Stress fabrics. She favour of a oall will ollige. I Vours obediently, ^ bomnbiOf. DRESS DE PAR T M E 8 I L K S .. The Stock is much larger and. more varied than in previous seasons. Special attention is directed to thc undermentioned Cheap Lines:— The New Tassorc Cloth, for Costumes, at 9d per yard, worth Is. The New Clouded Alpacas, for Ditto, at lO^ d per yard> worth Is 3d. The Satin Striped A Ipacas, for Ditto, at 18j< i per yard, inorth 2s 2d. ... Black Silks by every manufacturer of repute, in Cachemxre de Soie, Oros Grain, Oros de Londres, and Black Glace— wear warranted. Specially Cheap Lines at 3/-, 3/ 9, 4/ 11J, 5/ 6. A choice Assortment of Colored Poult de Soie. Col- ored Broche and Foulard Silks— newest shades and designs for the present season. Black Silk Velvets, in every make and quality. FURNISHING DEPARTMENT Thi< Departmentis supplier/ , rith every Rc/ uisite for Family Use, and as all goods have been purchase/ I 0 A R P E T S CURTAINS SHEETINGS WOOLLENS DIMITIES- from the manufacturers previous to the recent great advances, these goods will be found much under ma- nufacturers' present prices. ••• Brussels, Tapestri/, Felt and Kidderminster. Floor Cloths. ... New designs in Lace, Leno, and Net. ... A large parcel of Finlays and other well- known makers, especially cheap. ... Blankets and Flannels at last year's prices. ... White and Fancy Chintz in great variety. FOB Straic HATS Felt HATS Silk HATS Men's HATS Youth's, % HATS ^ A:..... HATS New .-./... HATS Cheap ., HATS Smart / HATS GO TO CLARKE & T'S, FALMOUTH. A Bazaar and Fang Fair IN AID OF THE CORNWALL Home for Destitute Little Girls, Will be held early in AugmVnext, in the GROUND Sv AT GYLLYNGDUNE ( Through the klrjl permiaeiob of Mrs. Waters.) LADY PATRONESSES : Lady Elkth. St. Aubyn Mm Ewtwick Lady A# u » ta Virian / Mrs. R. N. Fowler Lady Williams ' Mra. P. P. Smith The Hon. Mra. Tremayne / Mrs. K, M. Williams Mrs. Arthur Tremayne / Au a debt of £ 200 / g etlll remaining on the New Building, the Committee nro anxious to remove it, and earnestly entreat all the friends of thia valuable Chirity to help thom in this effort. / Contributions / of Work, Books, Pictures, Plants, and other articles will be thankfully received by any Member of the Committee; or bv the Hon. Treasurer, Mias KKABBK, Belle- Vue Terrace; or the Hon. Secretary, Miss FBANCI8, Stratton Villas, Falmouth. \ CORNWALL Home for Destitute Little Girls, THE REV. S. H. BOOTH, of London, will PREACH ( D. Y.) in the Baptist Chapel, Webber Street, on SUNDAY, 12th Inst., morn- ing and evening. Collections in aid of the above Charity at the close of each Service. Mr. BOOTH will also deliver a LECTURE in the TOWN HALL, on THURSDAY evening next, 9th inst on " Robert Blake, Admiral of the Commonwealth." Admission 6d. To commence at 8 o'clock. The proceeds will bo given to the above Institution. Falmcntli Hotel. Pa I in until. New Billiaid Room/ and sundry TENDERS^ are required for sundry altera- tions ana additions to the above- named Hotel. • . / Plans and specifications may be seen at any time at th£ HWl. 8ealci Tenders to bo sent or delivered to Mrs. Barr^ fVr I'. mouth Hotel, Falmouth, on or before / Uurdav, the 11th May, 1872, en- dorsed " Render for Biiliard Room, Ac.'' To Masters of Vessels. CARGOES JION ORE for Cardiff Vy may be had fowey Harbour, at all tides, in deep water. Fc/ ght, 3 « . per ton. Apply to JAME8 HAYES, Polruan, Fowey. Dated 9rd MAj, 1872. To Builders and Others. mO BE SOLD BY TENDER, the Building Materials ofythp- jPricnds*' Meeting House, at Falmouth; con^ iLim* £ tone, Slate, Roof, and other Timberl^ rooting, Doors, Window Sashes, & c., & c. ^ / For particulars apply to J. A. TREGELLE8, Architect and Surveyor, Falmouth, to whom Tenders must be delivered on or before Thurs day, the 9th instant. The proprietors jlo not bind themselves to accept the highest or any tender. mHE HOUSEKEEPERS of Falmouth and _ L Neighborhood Are respectfully invited to try SOLOMON'S Celebrated English Baking' Powder, ( For making Bread, Tea Cakes, < fcc., without Yeast), and judge fort themselves whether the professional Cooks an4 others wlio have declared it to bo tho bo" t that is used, are correct in so saying. Sold by most respectable Grocers, also by tho Manufacturer, at 40, Market Street, Falmouth, in Packet*, Id. and 2d., and in Tin Canisters, at 6d., Is., and 2s, each. Ask for Solomon's Baking Powder, Falmouth Union. Appointment of Collector of Poor Bates for Falmouth Union. THE Guardians, at thei/ Meeting to bo held on the 9th of Mirf next, will elect a COLLECTOR OF P^' OR RATES for the Town of Falmouth, afc'a Salary of not exceed- ing £ 40 beruumum./ Applicobom for tlie office, in the hand- writing of the appwwms, accompanied by testimonials, to be sent to me on or before the 8th proximo, endorsed, " Application far the office of Collector of Poor Bates." W. J- GENN, Clerk. Union Office, Falmouth, 26th April, 1872. FOR GOOD PRINTING, in thc best stylo of workmanship, with the greatest expedi- tion, at the most tnoderate charges, apply at the office « f this Pnptjr, BoRwick's cUSTARD POWDER. Makes delicious Custards and Blanc Mango. Custards made withlit are a great improvement to all Fruit Puddings and Pies. Vast numbers use it and no family [ should be without it. SOLD by all Grodcrs and Corn Dealers, Id. and 2d. packets, ^ nd 6d. and Is. tins. SATURDAY. MAY 4,, 1872. NOTICE. A Supplement is issued, with each num- ber of the F. and P. Weekly Times, this day. FALMOUTH. The Falmouth and Pmn/ nS Weekly Timet is Printed and Puhliihed by KAEBEFTIOK HOIIART EABLK, residing at No. 9, Wo- Uhowu, riace, in the Pariah 0/ Falmouth . at hn Qmetal Printing Offic the Qunv, in the 11> d Parith on SAIL HL> AY, MAY 1, 1872 EArLe'S RETreAT CHAPEL. — The Rev. G. E. Polkinghorne will preach here to- morrow after- noon, at 3; on Tuesday evening next, at 7, the usual monthly united prayer meeting will be held, to be conducted by Mr. C. B. Kelway. WEBBEr- STReeT CHAPEL.— We understand that the Rev. R. G. Moses, B. A., will preach here to- morrow morning and evening. NOTICE^- On Tjfosday next, May 7th, J PRIOR Aui^ aes ^ opening his SHOW ROOMS, replete wlfo luntoer NOVELTIES, too numerous to mention. nEW STOCK now ready for inspec- tion. WATerLOO HOUSE, Falmouth. THB WIDOW MISSING FROM WIDOWS' ROW. — The body of the poor old woman, Mra. Jane Hancock, who has been missing from tlio Widows' Row, since the 23rd ult, was fouud on Tuesday last, in the Swan pool. She had for some time been subject to deiasions of mind. CLOSE ESTIMATES.— Estimates for building either two houses, or a block of four houses, at Marlborough Road, have been recently givon, some of which ran remarkably close. Mr. S. Rogers—? houses, £ 456 10*., 4 houses, £ 958 10s. Mr. J. Mitchell— 2, £ 500. 4—£ 900. Mr. E. Williama- 2, £ 540, 4—£ 1,050. Measra. Stephens and Webb— 2, £ 510, 4—£ 1,004. Mr. J. Richards- 2, £ 530, 4— CI, 000. The PruDeNTIAL.— We would call attention to the advertisement in another column of this flourishing office. It iB a guarantee and evidence of the Prudential's success and safety that it courts the utmost publicity for its affairs, taking, aii it were, all its members, and the public outaido as well, into its confidence through the explicit adver- tisements which it publishes from time to time. THE OBPHANAge.— Many of our readers will be glad to 8ee from our advertiaing columns, that the Rev. S. H. Booth, a former much- osteemed minister of the Baptist Church in this town, is about to visit Falmouth to preach and lecture in aid of the Cornwall Home for Deatituto Little Girls. Mr. Booth ia now tho paator of a large and influential London Church, rhough many yeare have elapsed aince he quitted Falmouth Mr. Booth will l> e remembered by many aa au eloquent preacher and lecturer. We hope his appeals on behalf of the Homo may bo largely successful, as wo undor- atand that inatitution ia much in need of fuuda. | | MISErICOBDIA SOCIETY.— On Thursday last tho annual Bazaar in support of tho funds of this Society was held in the Polytechnic Hall, which is kindly granted frco of charge for tho purpose. It was feared that, aa some activo and valued friends of the society had been romoved by death, and others were prevonted from devoting their uaual attention to tho bazaar, while another bazaar on behalf of the Cornwall Home for Deatituto Children ia l> eing prepared for, there would be a falling off in the contribution to tho stalls. The result, how- ever, proved theae feara to be groundless, and the well- tilled tablea, with their tasteful arrangement of articlea of use and oleganco, enlivoncd by bouquets of flowers, and the Bkilful blending of colour, showed that tho ladies of Falmouth have not loat their long- standing and bonevolont attach- ment to thia useful society, any more than their akill and taato in feminine accomplishments. The fine weather brought a numerou8 attendance of viaitors from the town and neighborhood, and in tho evening tho Hall waa filled by an attendance largely juvenile, attracted by the militia Band and the evening sale. For tne service8 of the band the society is indebted to tho courtosy of Col. Cham- pion and the officers of the Royal Cornwall Militia. The receipt8 of the clay amounted to £ 130 la. 0d., and were considerably in excess of any former oc- caaion8 Tho details of the various stalls are as follows :— Stall No. 1, Miss Fox, Mrs. Alfred Fox, Mrs. Clift, Miss J. A. Fox, & Miss Backhouse, £ 17. No. 2, Miss Fenwick Mrs. Marshall Bull, & Mrs. R. Tweedy, £ 25 14h. NO. 3. Mrs. Bentley & Miss A. Rogers, £ 9 9a. 7d. No. 4, Mrs. & Miss Carne, Mrs. Penny, Mra. Bamfield, and Miss Boulderson, £ 32 lis. 2J. No. 5, Mrs. and Mias Baly and friends, £ 17 15s. No. 6, Mrs. Jno. Downing and the Misses Mogg, £ 23 15a. Ojd. Refreshment Stall, Mias Carne and Miss Curgenven, £ 2 9a. 7d. Gen- eral a de at cloae, £ 2 8a. 3d. Taken at tho door, £ 3 17a. 6d.— The aociety hoa been established for 01 years. It numbers about 42 district visitora, who havo charge of the 18 districts into which tho town ia divided, and who last year expended £ 162 17s. 2d. in the relief of 714 cases of aicknea8 and poverty, after caroful investigation of their eircum- stances. THE HARBOUR BOARD PROSECUTION.— An adjourned meeting of tho Falmouth Harbour Board was i, tld oi} Tuesday, to take into consideration the expenses inourred in tlje recent prosecution by the Board of men charged with wheat stealing. Mr. R. R. Broad, tho chairman, proaided, and Messrs, Jacob Olver, H. S. Trethowan, H. Tilly, E. Hand- cock, J. Hallamore, J. P. Bennetts, W. Selley, R. J. Richards, W. P. Dymond, and Com. Tinklar, R. N., were alao present.— Mr. Hallamore, tho chairman of the Finance Committee, presented their report, which stated that Messrs. Tilly and Co.' a bill of costs for the late prosecution at the asaizea amounted to £ 85, and witnesses' expenaes to £ 35. The sum of £ 22 waa received from the county treasurer on account of prosecutors' costs, the balance duo being £ 98. " The committee pre- sume that tho witnesses have received the uaual allowance from thc county treasuror, but it does not appear what the amount ia, aa the charge8 are in full for timo and expenaes. A charge of £ 10 10a. is included for the superintendent of the borough police, which the committee consider to be a very heavy charge for a public officer. The com- mittee consider some of the charges made by the witnesses high, eapccially for attendance before tho magiatrates, which they think should be reduced, ana credit also given for tho allowances from the county treasurer. The committee do not feel com- petent to discuss tho items of a solicitor's bill, and they leavo it to be dealt with- a9 tho Board may think propor." A discussion thon took place res- pecting tho amount charged by Messrs. Thomas Webber, Lashbrooke, and Carvosso, who were wit- nesses in the caae, the two former having charged £ 9 Is. each, and the latter £ 6 14s 6d. No credit, it wan stated, had been given for tho sum received by them from the Treaaury allowance at Bodmin. With rcapoct to Superintendent Julyan's charge of £ 10 10a. in addition to the amount received, at Bodmin, it waa suggested that as he was a police officer he could not claim moro than he had received, although tho Board were ready to give him a reasonable sum for hia services.— Mr. Dymond wished to know the position of thc superintendent of police with regard to his charge, and asked whether it was a part of hia duty to conduct public proaecutions and to be paid for hia aervicea abovo what waa allowed by the county.— Mr. Genn, the clerk of the Board, stated that if tho county polico had attended to the prosecution there would, he thought, be no charge ; but if the circumst- vncea of the caao were exceptional, it waa a matter for the Board to decide.— Mr. Handcock thought there wa3 nothing exceptional.— Mr. Hallamore aid not think tho town should be placed in a better position than tho county ; he thought tho superintendent should be paid fair, but not extravagant charges.— Mr. Tilly thought him worth all the money.— Mr. Handcock considered he had done nothing extra- ordinary, as he was told whore to go and what to do.— After some lengthened and desultory discus- sion it waa reaolvcd—" That the report bo received and adopted, but that the consideration of the ac- counts of Messrs. Lashbrooke, Webber, and Car- vosso, be postponed to the next meeting, and that in the meantime the amount of the county allow- ances received or to be received by each of them be ascertained."— Superintendent Julyan's account also stands over for the puroso of ascertaining tho amount already received by him A cheque was drawn in discharge of Mr. Tilly's bill of costs, £ 62. no arrangements short of what ia consistent with thia trusteeship can be allowed. - Correspondent of the Times, quoted in the Daily Mercury. •' A Fisit to Epps's Cocoa Manufactory. — Through the] kindness of Measra. Epps, I recently had an op- portunity of aeeing the many complicated and varied processes the Cocoa bean passes th « jferc it is sold for public use, and being both int( BS£ d and highly pleased with what I saw during my visit to the man- ufactory^ Tthought a brief account of the Cacao, and the way it is manufactured by Messrs. Gpps, to fit it for a wholesome and nutritious beverage, might be of interest to the readers of Land and Water." - See article in La , I and Water, October 14. « ^ rea# iM£ - Epps's Cocoa.— Gratefv) 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 woll- aelected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured be verage which may save ua many heavy doctors' bills." Civil Service Gazette. Made simply with boiling water or milk. Each packet Is labelled-" James Eops and Co. Homceopathio Chemists, London."- Also makera of Epps'a Cacaoine, a very thin beverage for evening use. IF THERE ARE ANR LADIES who have not yet used the CRLENFIELD STABCH, theyare respectfully solicited to give it a trial, and carefully follow out the directions pnnted'on every package, and if this is done, thoywill say like the Queen's Laundress, it is the finest Starch they ever used. When you aak for GLEN- FIELD STABOH, see that you get it, as inferior kinds are often substituted for the sake of extra profit. Beware therefore of spurious imitations. Manufacture of Cocoa, Cacaoiw. Chocolate.— " We will now give an account of tii process adopted by Messrs. James Epps and Co., • manufacturers of dietetic articles, at their works in the Euaton Road, London."- See Article in Part 19 of Casscl's Household Guide. New metal pocket Vesta Box, with patent spring Cover.— Bryant and May have recently introduced a very useful little Pocket Vesta Box, with a moat in- genious and simple spring cover; it i. s 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. COUNTY NEWS. Death from the Bite of a Rat.— A farm labourer named John Husband, of Mevagissey, whilst at work, observed in the hedge what he supposed to be a rab- bit's warren, and was putting hia hand into the hole to draw out, as he thought, the young rabbits, when he waa severely bitten by the thumb. He diacovered that his assailant was a rat, and killed it. The virulent effect of the rat's bite was speedily followed by inflam- mation. which, ending in a high fever, caused the poor man's death. Husband was a hard- working man, aged 50 yaars, and leaves a wife and 5 children quite destitute. Lucky Find,— On Saturday last a little boy named Simon, son of a poor man named James Matthews, of Tregony, waa running after the hounds across a field that had IK en recently ploughed, belonging to Mr. John Howton, of Comelly, when he saw something shining on the furrow, what he thought was a brass button half covered with earth. On taking it up and cleaning it, he discovered it waa something else. Some big boys who were with him offered him a penny for Erize, but Simon could not be duped that way. He xik the treasure home to hia parents, who discovered it was an old spade guinea, in a perfect state, and coined in the year 1773. Rotten Harness.— A serious accident occurred tho other day through the use of rotten harness. A little boy named Truran, of Gerrans, was recently driving a horse and cart for Mr. Johns, butcher, of Gerrana, and while going up a very steep hill out of St. Mawes the boy, who waa walking alongside, dropped a stick and went behind the cart to pick it up, when the strain of the cart, which was empty, caused the harness to give way and the cart suddenly ran down the hill and jam- med the l> oy against the wall, breaking his right arm at the elbow, and otherwise badly bruising him. The Door boy was immediately removed to the residence of Mr. Harding, surgeon, who speedily set the injured limb, Accidents at St. Mawes. •— On Saturday last, as Mr. W. Rickard, of Messick, in tho pariah of St. Just- in- Roseland, waa driving a horae and gig from his farm to St. Mawea, on arriving at Newton Farm, the horse, which is a young one, shied and ran one of the gig wheels into a deep ditch by the side of the road. Fortunately Mr. Rickard and another man who waa riding with him succeeded in jumping out safely, and no damage was done besides breaking one of the shafts of tho gig. — On Monday, Mrs. Wilmott, a lady resid- ing at St. Mawes, was walking down a very steep, rough hill, at that place, when she alipped and fell, breaking her right leg just above the ankle. She waa removed home and the leg speedily set by Dr. Hard- ing. She is progressing favourably. The Church at Flushing.— The late Miss Sutton left a sum of money now realising £ 650 ( by will, January lf 1869), aa, a commencement of an endowment for the living of Flushing. On Juno 28th, 1871, and at the representation of Rev. J. W, Murray, vicar of Mylor, the governors of Queen Anne's bounty made a grant of £ 200 for the same purpose. On November 18, 1871, Mr. William Gibbs, of Tynte's- field, Bristol, offered £ 100 for a similar object, provided another £ 100 would be raised to meet it, and this aum having at once been given by the present Miss E. W. Sutton, of Flushing, upon the further representation of Mr. Murray, the governors of Queen Anne's Bounty, on March 13,1872. met these sums" by a grant of £ 200. Between January, 1864, and March, 1872, tho total sum of £ 1,250 has been securcd as a beginning towards a better endowment for Flushing. Cheap and Wholesome Food.— The whole of tho inmates of the County Gaol are fed exclusively, so far as animal food is concerned, upon Australian preserved meat, chicfly beef, no English beef or mutton having entered the establishment during the post quarter. The testimony of the Gaol Surgeon, Mr. Couch, and of the Governor, Capt. COLVILLE, ia unhesitatingly favourable aa to its nutritive aud wholesome propertiea as well as to the economy of its use. The prisoners, too, prefer it, for it is tender and digestible, and the officers of tho fjaol look upon it as a favour to bo per- mitted to obtain a supply through the same channel an that by which tho meat ia procured for tho prison. Tho coat per head for maintenance of thc priaonera in our county establishment ia remarkably light — only Is. lljd. The Signal Station at the Lizard.— I am given to understand that the laying dowu of the telegraph wires from this station to tho Post- office, Falmouth, which waa suspended for a fortnight when within a short distance of the latter station, has now been com- pleted. Several repreaentations have been made to the General Post- office, pointing out that tlie applica- tion, by a private ahipping firm, for tho signal station and wire in question, although plausibly for the publio advantage, is in reality for the promotion of their own interests IUS a competing ship agency houso ; and it in surprising that the Post- office authorities did not in- quire earlier into tlio object of an application of this sort emanating from a private firui. It is superfluoua to aay that the General Post- office, charged aa it un- doubtedly is with tho triiBteeahip of the public inter- ests with regard to all telegraph lines, cannot in fair- ness concede to any company or firm the privilege of such a monopoly, and we are therefore, confident that BIRTHS At Berkeley Vale, Falmouth, on Tuesday last, the wife of Mr. Thomas Sedgmond, of a daughter. At Carnmenellis, on Saturday last, the wife of the Rev. W. H. Eikin, of a aon. MARRIAGES. At St George's, Truro, on Thursday last, by the Rev. P. Wrench, Richard Henry, eldest son of Mr. Alexander Lashbrooke, ship agent, Falmouth, to Lily, second daughter of the late Mr. John Storer, of Falmouth. At Budock Church, on Monday last, by the Chan- cellor of the Diocese, William Rose Wynter, Esq., 16th ( Queen's) Lancers, to Beatrice, widow of the late Capt. Harby Barber, of the 15th Madraa Infantry. At 8, Sandyford Place, Glasgow, on Thursday last, by the Rev. A. McEwen, D. D., assisted by the Rev. John L. Moody, John Henry Phillips, of Manchester, to Jesaie, daughter of Peter Adam, Esq. — No Cards. At Wesley Chapel, Falmouth, on Saturday last, by the Rev. G. E. Polkinghorne, Mr. George Smith, shoemaker, Flushing, to Miss Eliza Lewarne, of Little Park, Mylor. At Wesley Chapel, Falmouth, on Wednesday last, by the Rev. J. E. Coulson, M. Edwin Francis, of St Austell, draper, to Julia, daughter of Mr. Richard E. Wheeler, of Falmouth, hair- dresser. DeATHS. At Clifton Place, Falmouth, yesterday, William, the only son of Capt W. H. Valler, aged 4 years and 8 months. At Erisey Terrace, Falmouth, recently, Mrs. Martha Trible Harding, widow of the late Mr. Henry Harding, formerley of H. M. Customs, Falmouth, aged 78 years. At New Street, Falmouth, on Sunday last, Misa Margery Ann Dymond, aged 43 years. At Berkeley Vale, Falmouth, on the 25th ultimo, Mrs. Alice W. Trestrail, widow of the late Mr. Robert Trestrail, aged 78 years— a consistent mem- ber of the Falmouth Wesleysn Church for 65 years. At New Street, Falmouth, on Saturday last, Mr. Samuel Hughes, boatman, aged 27 years. At Killigrew Street, Falmouth, on the 22nd ultimo, Miss Grace Trethowan, aged 77 yeajs. At hia residence, Claremont Villa, near Devoran, on Saturday last, Mr. Matthew Symons, late of the firm of W. and M. Symons, Devoran and Black- water, aged 53 years. Setters to % ( Siritur. This department is freely open to all wholesome dis- cussion, and fair criticism, of matters affectini the public, and of local interest. The insertion of a leiter is no guarantee of the Editor's approval of its contents. A SUGGESTION FOR A SHAM- FIGHT. DEAR SIr,— As we are hearing almost every day about military manceuvTes and soldiers meeting volun- teers, it has occurred to me that if the officers' of the militia now in training at Pendennis Castle met our officers, something of the same sort might take place hero; thonghof course on a smaller scale, aud I na/ e no doubt our brother volunteers from Penryn and Truro would heartily co- operate with us. The Castle is just the very place for a sham- fight, and, on such a day as Whit- Monday, it might be the means of attract- ing a large number of visitors to thia town. Apologizing for taking up ao much of your valuable 8pace, I remain, yours truly, „ A VOLUNTEER. Falmouth, May 3rd, 1872. Soral TO A BROTHER WArBLER. To my honoured ami much- esteemed friend, John Harris, the following lines are most affectionately inscribed by 0 THE AuTHOr. My brother warbler in the realm of song, Had I the noble gift of eloquence To grace my language, I would sing of thee In strains as sweet as ever poet sang, I would record in never- dying verse The many Christian graces which adorn Thy worthy character, aud earn for thee The love and honour of thy fellow- men, And, more than all, tho favour of thy God, Whose amile has kindled in thy glowing breast That flame of genius, that gift of song, Which flows from Inspirations aacred fount. Nor has thy precious talent been concealed, For thou hast laboured With it to peruse Fair Nature's volume, and portray the charma Which beautify the 8iniling univerae The varioua productions of thy muse I greatly value. Thou hast well- deserved The praise which has so freely been bestowed For the high merit of thy poetry. God's blesanig evermore on thee descend ! And when thy useful life on earth shall cloae, Be it thy blessed portion to receive A golden harp, and join the heavenly choir ! JOSEPH B. COOKE. Quorndon, near Loughborough, TIME OF HIGH WATER AT FALMOUTH AND PENRYN. QUAYS. SATURDAY ... May 4 MORNING. 2 41 EVENING. 3 6 SUNDAY 3 32 3 58 MONDAY .... 6 • 1 15 4 36 TUESDAY 7 4 57 5 17 WEDNESDAY. 8 5 35 5 53 THURSDAY .. 9 6 10 6 26 FRIDAY ; io 6 42 6 58 THF. FAIJMOTITTI ,\ tD PENKYN WEEKLY TTMES. SATURDAY, MAT « . 1873. business ifotic& i CLVRKE A\!> ((>., i Boys' Suits. Boys' Suits. I Boys' Suits. Tailors & Outfitters, Boys' Suits. W Faiimmth, AliE NOTED FOB Youths' Suits. Youths' Suits. Youths' Suits. Youths' Suits. FIRST- CLASS POETHAITS, ARE TAKEN ONLY AT Trull's Photographic Establishment, Church St., Faluioufh. ( 4r SEE THE 15s. CABINET, not h be surpassed in England for Price, Style, and Finish. Every Description of PHOTOGRAPHIC WORE, from Carte de Visite to Life Size PHOTOGRAPHY. The Oxford and Cambridge Photographic Association WILL / Open an BstabUs'ament/ at No. 9, Berkeley ^ lace; Falmouth, On the First of May, for the junction of RPRST- CLAS3 WORE in all kinds and sizes of PaOTOSRAPflMOTlITS s VIEWS On the most liboral terras/ which may be known on application as above. On the first two or three days the PUBLIC 10UI be taken Gratis, and a Copy supplied. Clergy, Ministers of all denominations, and Public Gentlemen, will always be taken Free of Charge, and Six Copies supplied. For bdt work an appointment is particularly desired. Dated Falmouth, April KJth, 1872. MONEY READY | TO BE ADVANCED BY THE General Mutual Permanent Land, ihiltling and Investment Society, CHIRP OFFICE :— U, BEDFORD ROW, LONDON, W. C. ROBERT NICHOLAS FOWLER, Esq., M. P., Cornhffl. JS. C. JOHN FREEMAN Esq., I. P., Woodlane House, Falmouth. ALDERMAN THOMAS OWDEN, Bishopsgate, E. C. ADVANCES promptly made upon security of Freehold or Leasehold Property, repayable by ontlily or quarterly instalment? for fifteen years or less, by which means property may ba quired by payments slightly exceedidg the rental value. Survey Fee and registration, 3s. 6d. on applications of £ 500 and under. N VESTMENT DEPARTMENT.— Deposits received bearing interest at the rate of £ 5 per r- per annum, withdrawable on sho^ t notice. SHARES, value £ 10, £ 25 and £ 50, bearing interest at the rate of £ 5 per cent., and participating in profits declared,- may be realized by ingio payments or monthly subscriptions extending over a term of years. For full particulars apply to THOMAS CORFIELD, the County Surveyor, Arwenack Street, Falmouth. CHARLES PHILLIPS, the Agent, Killigrew Street, Falmouth. Or to the Secretary, CHARLES BINYON, 41, Bedford Row, London. SLADB OLYER, Furnishing and General Ironmonger, Plumber, Gas Fitter and " vlannfacturer STRAND, FALMOUTH. Is Sellinp off SURPLUS STOCK at great reduction in priccs. Balance ivory- handlo Knives, 10s., 12s.,- 16s.. 20s. per dozen. Black handle Knives and Forks, 6s., 8s.. 9s., 10s., 12s. doz. Carving Knives and Fofks, 2s. lid., 3s. Gd., 4s. ( id., 5s. 6d., 7s. 6d. pair. Electro, Silver Table Spoons and Forks, 20s., 24s. do2. Do. Dessert Spoons and Forks, 16s., 18s., 20s., 243. doz- Do. Tea Spoons, 8s., 10s., 12s. doz. Do. Suiar Boxes, Salvers, Cake Baskets, Toast Hacks, Tea Pots, Cruets, & c., & o., & c. Bronzed Tea Urns and Kettles on Stands, 20s., 25s., 30s. upwa. ds. Tea Trays from 5s. per sot of 3, single Trays from Is. 6( 1. Fenders, parlour, Is. Gd., 23., 3s., 4s., 5s. Fenders, dining room, 5s. Fenders, drawing room, 12b. Fire Irons, 2s. Gd. to 30s. per set. Romford Stoves from 3s. upwards, llegister Stoves from Ss. hp wards. CookingRanges from 103. Apparatuses from 20s. upwards. Patent Mangles, 30s., 45s. Washing Machines, 12s. 6d., 60s., 90s. Chaff Cutters, 45s. 50a. Iron Cots, 7s. Gd. to 30s. Iron Folding Beds, 6s. Gd. Iron French Beds, from 10J. to 30s. Half Tester Bods, Mattrasses and Palliasses. Latrips, Gas Chandeliers, Gas Brackets. Water Closets, and all ulumlxir'a Fittings. Estimates given and Contracts entered iufco eiher for . vjrx or supply . PHOTOGRAPhIC GALLERY, 42. High Street ( formerly the Liberal Association Rooms ), fALMOUTh. ~ Vf~ R. J. 8. SIDDONS, for many years C perator and Manager at Mr. J, F. Trull's, respect- fully informs his numerous friends and the public generally of the town aru neighborhood that he has, in conjunction with Mr. J. C. STEPHENS, entered upon the above- mentioned Premises, and trusts, by the exercise of his svpll- known skill aid ca. eful manipulation in the production of Photographs guaranteed not to be surpassed in this or any other town, that they will obtain a fair slu » re of publio patronage. 1 Portraits from Carte de Visite to Life- siza, pliia or flais'nal in crayon, water or oil Color. Views of all kinds and out- loor Groups taken, and Works of Art copied. Prices of Cartes de Visite— Twelve for 6a.; Six for 4e. ; Three for 2*>, 6d. from 25 outstanding Policies involving the contingency of Sickness. At tho same date there were in force in the Industrial Branch t02,20S Policies for Assurances of £ 6,531,931, the tfremiums on which amount to £ 288,221 annually. Tjhe average amount assured by c- ach Policy is £ 8 | 0s. lOd, the average weekly Premium rather mfore than ljd., the average rate of Premium b< jing £ 4 8s.~ 3d. per cent Der annum. The significance of the last fact will bo understood, when it is ( added than 4 per cent, of thy Policies in force are on ( live* above GO years of age, and attention is directed to it as tending to explain the serious mistakes into which some persons have fallen, who attempted tj> apply to this branch of your business tests of solvencK- derived from the experience of Companies whose Policies have been granted on very different terms. ! The values by the Caiflisle Table of Mortality at 3 per cent, interest of the turns assured, annuities and future premiums payable under all these contracts, have been carefully commuted. To provide for future expenses and profits tho following deductions from the present value of the premiums have been made, viz., in the General Branch 20 per cent, for the participa ting, and 10 per cent, for the non- participating policies ; in the Industry I Branch 41 per cent. The amount of such provision LB £ 128,834 per annum. The effect of these dedi : tiona is to make a reserve in the General Branch cl sely approximating to tho result which a premium valuation would have pro- duced, and in the Indi strial Branchy to make an ample provision for th expenses, and further to assign a positive value to each of the classified groups of the liabilities at ever age of life. When it is added that the present val le of the future premiums in the Industrial Branc i is very nearly 18 years' purchase, further cominen on the sufficiency of such a reserve is needless. The general results of th ! Valuation are as follows, viz. :— Assurance Fund £ 383,110 Estimated Liabilities .-— General Assurances £ 224,281 Annuities 36,976 Sickness, & c. 576 £ 261,833 Industrial 45,118 307,014 Surplus ... . . ... £ 76,096 • Of this surplus I would uggest that the amount to be rlivided on the present Occasion should not exceed £ 60,000. If this suggestion be adopted, tho share of four- fifths to which the as sured are entitled would be equivalent to £ 27,157 pir cent, on the amount of premiums paid during ; he last five years on tho policies entitled to parti ipate, and this would be sufficient to give reversion ry bonuses averaging more than 51 per cent, on that amount, a result which cannot fail to be satisfactory in the highest degree. I am, Gentlemen, ypur obedient Servant, ARTHUR H. BAILEY, Actuary. I/ ondon Assurance, 7, Royal Exchange, 4th April, 1872. To the Directors of the Priltlcntial Assurance Company. GENTLEMEN.— As instructed by you, I have made a Valuation of the Assurance and Annuity Contracts in the Ordinary Branch, which were subsisting at the 31st December, 1871. j The business of this Branch comprises three classes of transactions:— 1st.— Life Assurance Policies. 2nd.— Policies securing Assurances at Death, together with allowance in case of Sickness. 3 rd.— Annuities. In tho first class, there were existing at the date of " Valuation, 11,179 Police i, assuring, with bonuses, the sum of £ 1,790,292, and j roducing an Annual Premium Income of £ 60,549 2s. Of this amount, £ 35,238 is reassured at a cost of £ 1 203 16s. Od. annually. In the second class, th a number of Policies was 25, securing £ 1,716 5s. ( inc usive of Bonus ) at death, and £ 13 5s. a week in case » f sickness. This class pro- duces an Annual Premiilm Income of £ 84 18s. 2d. It will be seen that thq amount of this business is inconsiderable. Tho ( liability under it amounts to £ 576 18s. 4< L, in addition to the sum at present standing to the credit of this class, which has not been included in the Gerieral Valuation of the Life Assurance business, but forms a separate fund. The number of the Immediate Annuity Contracts was 148 for £ 4,303 18s| per annum. The number of Polices for Deferred arid Contingent Annuities was 38 for £ 1,032 2s., in respect of which annual premiums are receivable to the amount of £ 120 10s. These various contracts have been valued on the assumption that the mortality experience of the Com- pany will be the same as that shown by the Carlisle Table, and that the Interest realised will be 3 « por For tho purpose of/ Valuation, the great bulk of the policies, after being separated into the various classes of risks, have been vhlued in groups, according to the ages attained. In certain classes where this mode was not practicable, eachj policy has been valued separately. In estimating the ralue of the future premiums, the office premiums actn illy payable have been taken into account. If howev » r, credit were taken for the full value of these premi urns, it is obvious that no pro- vision would be ma< e for future expenses and profits. A reserve has there ore been made for these objects of 20 per cent, of the official premiums on policies participating in profits, and 10 per cent, in the case of non- participating > olicies. The amount of the margin so reserved s £ 10,664 per annum. The result of the Valuation is as follows:— Life Assurance C mtracts £ 224,281 Annuities 36.976 261 » 257 Sickness and Ass irance £ 724 Less Amount of Special Fund under this head . J 148 576 Total Reserve fot the Ordinary Branch £ 261,> 3 The whole of th( statements and calculations, in- volving a very largle number of operations, have been made with great c; ure, and every detail hTw been care- fully verified as tin work proceeded. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, WILLIAM HUGHES. Actuary to the Ordinary Branch. 62, Ludgate Hill 4 h April, 1872. To the Directors of he Prudential Assurance Company. GENTLEMEN,— Ii accordance with your instructions, I have personally s lperintended the valuation of the Assurances in tho Industrial Branch of the Company. The valuation is Imade up to tho 31st December, 1871, the number of policies valued being 812,208, assuring on this datb £ 6,531,934 4s., and producing an Annual Premium Income of £ 288,221 5s. 4d., which amount I have Verified by the ledgers of tho Company. Although many ojf the clauses and schedules of the Life Assurance Companies' Act, 1870, are not fairlv applicable to what Is termed Industrial Assurances, 1 have, nevertheless, bn the occasion of a first complete valuation of this [ Branch, adhered strictly to the forms of the Act, necessitating the enormous labour of dealing with nearly] one million valuation cards. The Carlisle Table of Mortality has been the basis of the calculation, itnd the interest to be realised has been assumed at thi rate of 3 per cent, per annum. From the peculiar nature of Industrial business it is quite impracticable, if not impossible, to adopt the net premium system of valuation ; the value of the office premiums ( only has therefore been computed, and from this an avfcrage of 41 per cent, has been de- ducted in order to'determine the net liability. A valuation made on these principles will produce positive values at cvtry age. The margin of the Annual Income thus deducted is £ 11S, 170 14s., and thL is 10 per cent, more than the fixed expenses of the Industrial Branch. The extension and tfyccial new business expense* of past year* have oeen defrayed out of the first year's inoome from newtbusiifd- s, the Company receiving full premiums, but uolt incurring the liability of the full sum assured in mist cases for twelve months, and if the item of extension and special new business charges is continued, the amount of premiums received in respect, if She business for which no liability attaches will bo mure than sufficient to defray suck charges. The summary oftthe valuation of all the policies in the Industrial Branch according to the principles stated is as follows:— Present value of Sums assured ... £ 3,099,439.4 Present value of premiums £ 5,176,708.9 Less forty- one per cent. ... 2,122,450.6 3,054,258.3 Net Liability A £ 45,181.1 The net amount reserved for tho Industrial Branch in 1866, with a premium income of £ 118,000, was £ 25,000, but this amoknt was purely hypothetical, as no means were then in\ existence for ascertaining the exact reserve required but the valuation now con- cluded shows that with a premium income of £ 288,221, and providingVi Larger margin for expenses than is really necessary, the liability has been found to be only £ 45,181 2s., wkich conclusively proves that the amount reserved in 18% 6 was largely in excess of the requirements of the case. In the present Valuationtao allowance whatever has been made for the temporary character of a largo portion of the business, anVin valuing the Admt Assurances effected during 1811 and in force at the period of Valuation, amounting to £ 1,694,244, I have considered this the full actual liability, although it is not incurred until all the policial have been one year in existence. In obtaining the particulars/ from the cards, every operation has been checked, and this has involved tho necessity of passing each of tho cards through the hands of sixteen persons, and the calculations, which occupy more than eight thousand sheets, have all been twice checked, so that tho result now obtained can be relied upon as accurate. I havo the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, THOMAS CHAS. DEWEY, I Actuary Industrial Branch. 2, Lndgate Hill, 4th April, 1872. Reports kc., may be obtaihed of the Secretary, HENRY HARBEN. AGENT FOB FALMOWH, LESLIE C. KELWAY, 34, MARKET STREET. FALMOUTH UVttBOUK. Petroleum Act, 1871. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN pursuance of provisions of the Petroleum Act, 1871, the Falmouth Harbour Commission- ers have framed and adopted the following Bye Laws, and intend to apply to tho Board of Trade for confirmation thereof after the expira- tion of one calendar month from the date of this notice. And further notice is hereby given that objections to the proposed Bye Laws may be lodged with me, the undersigned, at my Offices, in Church Street, Falmouth, at any time before the expiration of one calendar month from the date hereof. )< w. JVGENN, Clerk to thf Commissioners, lialmquth, 4th May. 1872. FALMOUTH HARBOU H. THE PETROLEUM ACT, 1871. BYE LfeWS. 1. The Owner or Mast/ r of every Ship carry- ing a cargo, aw part of which consists of PetrotajraT to which the ahove 4fit phal\, on entering the Hqrboip, immediately give notice of the nature <£ such cargo to the Har- botaiTM aster, and shall place or moor hik^ iip ineuqh place as the Harbour- Master sadl direct, and whilst any such Petroleum shall remain on board, shall not remove his Ship without the written permission of the Harbour- Master, fexcept for the purpose of proccecung to sea. Petroleum shall be discharged or loaded only between sunrise and sunset. The holds if every ship carrying Petroleum shall pe freely and properly ventilated from/ the time of her entering the HarHour until the Petroleum shall hava been all discharged or the ship shatt have left the Harbour. • 1. No ShiMshall be allowed to have a fire or liglt on board during the time of dis- charging, and no smoking shall be allowed on the ship or any lighter into Tfliich Petroleum shall be discharged. 5. Petrd/ eum shall not be discharged into any fighter' except such as may be author- ised for that purpose by the Harbour- Master, and no un- authorised craft , shall be allowed to lie alongside any / ship discharging Petroleum or having I Petroleum on board. Erery ship or lighter having Petroleum on / board shall keep conspicuously exhibi- { ted, from sunrise to sunset, a red flag, and no such ship or lighter shall at any time be left without a sufficient on board. PENALTIES. For mooring, landing, or otherwise dealing with any ship or cargo in contravention of the foregoing Bye Laws, the owner or master of sucn ship or the owner of such '•' ifgo, as the case may be, shall each incur a penalty not cxcceding £ 50 for each day during which such contravention continues; and the Harbour- Master may cause such ship or cargo to be removed at the owner's expense to tho place appointed for mooring the same. If notice of the arrival of any ship with Petro- leum on board is not given to tho Harbour- Master, as required by the foregoing Bye Laws, the owner and master of such ship shall each incur a penalty of not exceeding £ 500. NAMES AND EXPRESSIONS. The Names and Expressions used in the foregoing Bye LawB shall have the same mean- ings as are assigned to the same Names and. Expressions in the Act. PSUIIENTIAL Assnrame Company. CHIEF OFFICE :— 6A LUDGATB HILL, LOJTDOU QTTINQUFNNIAL EEPOET. FOE THE PEBIOD IKDISG 31ST, DEC., 1871, Submitted to Sharehollir< s' Meeting, held 18th April, 1872. In reviewing the operations of the Company for the quinquennium completed on the 31st day of December last, the Directors are glid to report that they can do so with unmixed satisfaction. In every Department If the Business very great progress has been made, aiid, notwithstanding excep- tionally heavy exi> endittrc during the period, the Profits have been large. 1 The comparison of the pfcsition of the Company on the 31st December, 186( 5, aid on the 31st December, 1871, is as follows:— 1 At the latter period thl Annual £ s. d. Premium Income will ... 348,975 15 6 At the former period l\ 154,162 16 11 Shmving an increase of il 194,812 18 7 At the latter period the UAniir- x anA Fund was ... 1 383,110 0 2 vAt iffeNyrmer period V. 147,058 19 1 Showing an increase of | 236,051 1 1 Atlhe latter^ ljeriod tliL New PremiineftlncWuj was 1 148,904 6 10 At; the^ ormVr period 62,264 16 5 Shcrtrajj an increase of . ... 86,639 10 5 Tj^ epe remarkable results hi ve not been obtained by ariysudden oi- fitfuLihcrease o the business, but by a continuous and c\ iBtantly proj ressive accession during each ytirof thv period. In aeteniitthi'' I Hie prin aples upon which the ValiiatiiJmshould be Conductec, the Directors resolved to subuutr the affairs oT the Company to a test of iinul^ al severlW.; and alt lough the Industrial Bifcinesa ought not « t the ptesi nt time to be submitted t& mc samfttest as ykisydli- a iplied to the Ordinary Branch, yk the DirectonJ ( eomed it advisable to * dopt a uhiform principle > f valuation, and they instructed their Actuarial- to i: ie the Carlisle Table of Mortality,, i^- yier cent, ntcrest only, although ; he investn^ ts tafj t| ij Comj any produce a higher They furtUer dflfseted that i I the Ordinary Branch, rwenty neij » - cent. of the § - oss Premiums on the Profit Policfes, and Ten per c< nt. on the Non- Profit Polices, shWild be reserved as a provision for future ; xpenses pnd profits; and they instructed the Actuary of the Industrial Branch to reserve an imount for expenses larger th n the occasion required. The strain to which thest data will subject the Company in the Ordinary Branch, may be instanced yjf tho circumstance thatl nearly ono- half of the [ ncome of the Company in th a Branch was transferred x> it upon a £ 4 per cent valu ition, and the Annuities io transferred were upon a £• J per cent, basis, while ill the Annuities granted by the Company itseli are ipon the Carlisle £ 4 per cent table. The result of the valuation may be shortly stated as : ollows:— Assurance Fund, on fhe 31 it December, 1871, as certified by the Auditors ... £ 383,110 Net Liability under all Po icies 307,014 Surplus, being profit made < tiring 5 years £ 76,096 _ The Directors are empo rered, bv the Deed of settlement, to divide the w ole of the surplus now ihown to exist, or to set asid any portion thereof to neet contingencies, and thej haVe resolved to transfer he sum of £ 16,096 to a Contingency Fund, and livide the sum of £ 60,000. The Directors propose tlw t this Contingency Fund ihall be permanently mai tained and increased, in iddition to the amount r quired for the liabilities inder an ordinary valuatioi , so as to form a reserve, ilike protective of the in erests of the Share and Policy- holders. The amount allotted ; o the Policy- holders is iquivalent to an average re ersionary bonus of fifty- one per cent., or will vary uccoi ding to age, iromthirty- one ninety- five per cent., on : 11 the premiums paid sinco ; he last valuation. The amount of the Annual Premium Income reserved for future ex[ mses and profits ia as : O11OWB :— Ordinary Branch p. ... £ 10,664 Industrial Branch ... 118,170 Total Premium Income eserved for ex- penses, & c £ 128,834 And the present value o such reserve is € 2,279,478. These facts prove incon estibly how strong is the position of the Company. Very great diversity of ipinion having prevailed in reference to the construction of the various Schedules > f the _ Life Assurance/ Companies' Act, and the peculiarity of some portion of tho business of this Jompany rendering the interpretation of the clauses nore than usually difficult, the Directors have deemed it right to obtain the mofet eminent professional advice in the matter; the whole of the Schedules of the Company have been Submitted to Messrs. Quilter, Ball, & Co., Public Accountants, and they have been subsequently placed beflure Mr. Napier Higgins, Q. C., and Air. Phear, both idembers of the Chancery Bar. On receiving tjho opiniciis of these gentlemen that the' Schedules are in c< nformity with the Act, the Directors will deposit t lein at the Board of Trade, and will then transmit co] ies to the Shareholders, and they hope to be able to do BO before the Annual Meeting. Due notice will be given to all the Par'' ' paring Policy- holders of the i mount allotted to the!.- respec- tive Polices, but, in consequence of the very large number of calculat ons requited, some time must elapse before the amoiint cau be apportioned to each policy. In the moaikune those Policy- holders who prefer taking their Bonus by way of reduction of premium, must pay t le full premium now payable, and a return of the < i lerence will be made when the computations are con pleted. The Shareholders will also be informed in due course of the amount espectively allotted to them. JAMES GILLMAN, _ , _ , . . „ Chairman. Dated 5th April, 1871. • To the Directors of th Prudential Assurance Company. GENTLEMEN,— I iave carefully examined the valuations of the liab lities of your Company made by Mr. Hughes for the ( kmeral, and Mr. Dewey for the Industrial Brauch. 1 ' he conditions under which the business of the two branches is conducted differ materially. In the ttndustrial Branch tho Policies have almost all been n- anted for the whole term of life, but it is found hat a large proportion of the whole number is kepi in force for short periods only. The Premiums on all these Policies are payable weekly, and being co! lected by the Company from the Policy- holders, such a business necessarily involves considerable erpenst, and therefore, the rates of Premium must be hig her than in the General Branch. From these ciroimstiuices it seems to me that the liabilities of the two Branches should not be regarded in the same manner, i This however, seems to be at variance with the pibvisions of the Life Assurance Companies' Act, which requires that a valuation of the whole of the liabilities shall be periodically made, and that Schedules containing particulars of all tho outstanding risks shall be delivered to the Board of Trade. The enormous labour attending such an investigation in the case of your Company has, therefore, been undertaken, and the results are now submitted. On the 31st December, 1871, there were in force in the General Branch 11,179 Policies for Assurances of £ 1,790,292, including '£ 16,511 bonus additions ; 148 Immediate Annuities! of £ 4,303 : 38 Deferred and Contingent Annuities tf £ 1,032, tlio Premiums pay- able under these centrists amounting to £ 60,669 per annum ; Ee- assuraneeJ were subsisting to the amount of £ 35,238. There is nlso a small liability arising THE FALMOUTH & PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. SATURDAY, MAY 4. 1872 © npits of the glair. ( By an Occasional London Correspondent.) i [ The remarks under this head aro to be regarded ns tho ex- prpssionof indepandent, opii} ipn, from the pen ol a gentleman In. Vrhotuiro'liave ttid'cre iteat coiifldence, but lor which we • eVerthclesS 06 not hold ourselvcc responsible.] On Saturday last, the International Exhibition for ,1872 was formally opened. A grand reception in Albert Hall was the leading feature of the ceremonial; and it was priced bytho presence of the Duke of Edin- burgh and the Princess Louise, as representing the Queen. The60- oalled *' Official Reception " ( though I • cWOd never make out " who received whom) was a • thoroughly enjoyable affair. I believe— and friends " with whom I have compared notes, agree with me— that ( the Albert Hall, wb& filled with a brilliant company, with its colouring and its positively perfect lighting— is, decidedly the finest hall in the world. On Saturday evening it was thronged with a fashionable company, ' dressed with consummate taste, tho elegance of the ladies' toilettes " being no. more remarkable than their really pood taste ; and the entire effect was delightful As a matter of course the programme was not strictly ' carried out— official programmes never are carried ' out— and there was some disappointment on this score; but still the official reception, or whatever it was, was a thoroughly enjoyable affair. The inauguration of the London International Exhibition tof 1872 will not soon be forgotten by those who had the pleasure of witnessing it. As an official ceremony, there was really ncthing in it; but then people camo to Bee and be seen; it was the elegantly- dressed throng that made the spectacle, and the Exhibition itself, ' as an exhibition, was postponed till a more favourable season. Bat I doubt not that this second of the series of International Exhibitions will prove more attractive than its predecessor, and that it will be thoroughly popular. The first of the series was clouded and overshadowed by the war, but this is not marred^ by anything of the kind, and its treasures ol art and its in teres tiug exhibits in machinery and manufacturing processes will attract throngs of visitors from all parts of the country during the spring and grimmer months. The absence of the Prince of " Wales—( of whose health most favourable accounts arrive from the Continent), has caused a great deal of official work to devolve Upon the Duke of Edinburgh. On Saturday, for example, His Royal Highness pre- sided over a large gathering at Willis's Rooms, to make arrangements for " establishing a me- morial to the late Lord Mayo, and then in the erening presided at the grand official reception at the Albert HalL The Prince seems everready to take part in anything that will benefit or give pleasure to the public, and as I have particularly observed him on many such occasions, it is but right to add that the manly frankness of his bearing and the modesty with which he always addresses his audience, have gained for him golden opinions from all sorts of people. Parliament will probably be prorogued about the 14th inst. for the Whitsuntide holidays, to meet again • n the 27th. " What progress the Legislature may make between now and the middle of Slay remains to ke seen, but at present the legislative business that has been actually achieved is not great in amount or Tory important in character. When Parliament re- assembles after the Whitsuntide holidays, one of the most exciting subjects in all probability will be the licensing question. By that time the Government Bill will have come down from tho Lords, and the l? eoond reading of Sir Selwyn Ibbetson's bill will come on about the same time. I need scarcely Bay that neither measure gives satisfaction to opposing • parties— the repressive party on the one hand, and the brewers and publicans on tho other— for this is self- evident ; but it is possible that the two bills may be referred to the same committee, and that the " out- come" may be an Act of Parliament; but there is an © pinion afloat that we shall have another session pass away without any legislation on this subject. It can readily be imagined that tradesmen who barve read the account of the recent meeting of the Civil Service Supply Association must have felt some little satisfaction at the abundant evidence that these birds in their little nests do not agree ; but the cause of the nproar— the goods not being sold cheap enough— is a point that tradesmen would dispute ; they maintain that they are already too cheap, and that these co- operative stores are doing a serious injury to trade. Be this as it may these co- operative associations cannot be put down They are a legitimate development of free trade, and however much tradesmen may objoct to them, it must be admitted that tho purchasing public benefit by having the power of econo- mising in their housekeeping. As the tradesmen cannot put down these ' associations, would it not bo well for the former to imitate tho latter in one respect at least— the ready- money system ? Confidence may be an invaluable element in business; but credit is on the whole alike— injurious to seller and purchaser. free Sunday every fortnight— there is the domestic platform. We may preparo for a similar movemont in tho South, and there are indeed indications of it already. It is a curious phase of tho short- time move- men t . and perhaps we shall ero long have a conference betveon mistresses and servants. Certcvn y both Lave much to say for themselves. Tho movement among the agricultural labourers at one time threatened serious consequences, and many people looked forward to a beucolic revolution^ but it is pleasant to see that on tho whole the dispute is in procoss of amicable settlement. Tho farmers have actcd in this matter with moro generosity than they appear to have had credit for; in numerous districts they aro raising the wages of their labourers, and thus the condition of the latter wilNie undoubtedly improved without that of tho farmors being deterior- ated. So far the reBult is eminently satisfactory, for it is indisputable that till recently our farm labourers have not been too lavishly paid. Foreigners and provincial visitors to London, as well as Londoners thomselves, must regard it as a curious anomaly that with a population of between three and four millions and with a river running through this mighty town, we have 60 few biidges, while the larger proportion of these aro subject to toll. Comparing our position with the 27 free bridges of Paris, we ought to be ashamed of ourselves. But all the deputations on the subject and ail the declamation and writing are powerless beside the simple consideration that the whole affair is a matter of money, and people are much more ready to talk about the freeing of our bridges from toll than to subscribe for effecting the object, and we can't expect tho country generally to aid us in effecting a reform which is chiefly, though not wholly of local importance. SERVANTGAL- ISM.- MEETING OF DOMESTIC SERVANTS. Tho Dundee AdrertiMr g! vc3 the folio wing account of a meeting of domestic servants belonging to ' that town and neighbourhood which was held ou Kr. day night :— Strict silence was maintained for a considerable time, until at last Ihey began to look to each other for some one to break the ice. A Servant: I think it is time we were making a bo- ginning ; we needn't sit here like dummies. There was no use of coming here if we weroa't to say anything. ( Hear, hear.) + Another: I vote for every second Sabbath to our- selves. A Third : And a half holiday weekly, or a whole one fortnightly. ( Hear, hear.) A Soeaker: I think the Sunday cooking is most dilu ting. ( Grc:. t applause.) A Member : They should have it all cooked on Saturday night, and wo would be willing to oook potatoes on Sunday. Another: ThatiB If they have cold meat. A Second: I voto for a rise of wanes 1 ( Hurrah, laughter, and hear, hear.) Another: I second that. A Third : I beg to be exoue'ed. Tm a, stranger here, and wasn't at last meeting; but I by the news- papers that you had been speaking about \ he hours. The papers taid from six to ten. Do you all agree to that? I decidedly object. ( Hear, hear.) A Fourth ; So do L Its far too long. A Membtr: From six to seven is iong enough, or from seven to eight. A Member : I propose from Beven to 6 « ven. A Third : But if we got extra pay I wouldn't object to work extra time. A Speaker : I object to extra time. There is no use for extra time for servants. Let them make' their en- gagement and stick to it. I hope every one will give m with what they may. hear here, and not yield to mistresses in their fiuo flattering way 1 ( Great aughter and applause.) Another: I really wonder why mistresses can think their; servants are able to do what they expect of them I do believe they actually think we aro not made of the same material ( Roars of laughter.) From six to ten ! It's quite ab.- nrd. If any. one objects to what I have said 1 will be - happy to hear her., A general chorus : Not at all I not at all t A Voice: If we are to wear caps. the mistresses should bold them up. and if they don't hold them up we shouldn't wear them. ( Hear, bear.) Another : I don't see any use for wearing caps ; but if they aro to be worn they should be provided by the mistresses or a little more wages given. A Member : Oh, you cap speak for that when you make your engagement, A Second: What about tho jewellery? ( Hear, hear, and great laughter,) A Third : Ah, tell us tjbout that. The Reporter ( in a whisper): You should go about • our business in a regular way, and you should begin > y voting some one to tho chair. Who is in tho chair just now? A Voice : I don't know. Tho chair is just empty, sir ; but we shall be happy to see you iu it. ( Great laughter.) If any one has anything to say she should take the chair. Now's the time. Another Voico.— Now or never ( Greajt laughter.-) One of the servants was ultimately prevailed on to take the chair. Th Chairwoman on taking her seat was loudly ap- dauded. She said., I suppoae you all know what we ipve iactfor, and I think we are all of opinion that While the discussions on that unfortunate and apparently interminable dispute, the " Indirect Claims," are being carried on, there is one little fact which is consolatory so far as it goes. I alludo to the presentation to her Majesty of Mies Grant, the daughter of the President of the United States. It is well- known that the opinions of General Grant with regard to Alabama claims are very important in the consider- ation of this knotty point, and therefore his sending his daughter on a visit to this country, and her presentation at Court may be regarded as an evidence of friendliness towards ourselves, which is not altogether without its value. And while we are talking of the unfortunate differences between John Bull and Brothor Jonathan, an approaching contest of a very different kind is attracting attention. The Anglo- American four- oared race, at the beginning of June, wiH doubtless attract to the banks of the Thames a mighty throng of spectators who, while they may indulge in tho spirit of partisan- ship. will nevertheless wish fair play to both sides. Long before this friendly contest is lost and won. may the Alabama affair be amicably settled. These are days of conferences and conclaves. Meet- ings innumerable, for all sorts of objects, are one of the features of tho time, and besides these gatherings, several conferences, existing or to come, are exciting attention. A conference on the Agricultural Labour question, at Willis's Rooms, is announced, and another on the same subject is Bhortly to be hold at Birming- ham. In Berlin a conference of schoolmasters has been holding its sittings, and is to continue them ; and an International Prison Congress, with representatives from several countries in Europe, and with a distinguished philanthropist representing America, is forthcoming. The practical result arising from theso congresses and conferences may not be immediate, but it must be ad- mitted that public opinion is thus largely influenced, and as " opinion Is stronger than armies," to quote Lord Palmerston's aphorism, social reform and progrets aro thus achieved. ton, to discuss their grievances. Mr. Sollis, butler at Leamington College, presided, but the great mass of the meeting consisted apparently of coachmen, gardeners, and stablemen. The chairman, who asserted that the condition of many goutlemen's servants was worse than that of slaves, com- plained of the long hours butlers, gardeners, and others had to work for the wages they received, and advocated shorter hours and increased pay. He spoke of the separation of married couples as a grievance, which also conduced to immorality, and said it would be to the interest of masters that they should have a dwelling near to their employers' residence. Though the platform was bare there were many wealthy supporters behind the movement, and, if only united, he was confident of their suc- cess. Mr. Taylor and Mr. Duckett, of tho Leaming- ton Trades' Unions, spoke of the advantages of unionism, and counselled tho formation of a Men servants' Union. A resolution was unanimously adopted for the formation of the union of butlers, gardeners, grooms, footmen, and porters. Cheers were given tor the " Maids of Dundee," and at the conclusion of the meeting a number of members were enrolled. I suppose we may now fairly consider that tho agitation among the domestic^ ervanta of Dundee has become a great fact Tho formation of the " Dundee and District Domestic Servants Protection Associa- tion"— what a lengthy title !— is at all events a fact. Shorter working time, a weekly half- holiday, and a — — .. - union would be of Croat benefit ( Applause.) I at last meeting, otherwise J, would not have agreed to some of the things that i saw iu the papers. ( Applause.) It is proper, I say, that we should have a free Sunday every fortnight and a half- holiday every week. ( Loud applaqse.) As for cpoking on Sundays, I do'nt see wliat use there is for that. ( Applause-) A servant hero, entered the room, and, apparently delighted at seeing such a largo attendance, exclaimed —" Hurrah ! Well done! Good for the servants I" The feeling which prompted tho exultation was evi- dently largely shared, and was reciprocated heartily. Tho Chairwoman, when the interruption ceased, pro- ceeded : In regard to the working hours, I quite object to what I saw in tho papors, that they should be from six to ten. ( Hear, hear, and applause.) From six to seven, or from seven to eight, is long enough to work any day, and I don't think wo should work longer. ( Applause. The Sen- ant who was afterwards chosen secretary: I second that proposal. ( Applause.) The Servant who last entered the meeting :- Ayo; that is tho way. ( Laughter and applauso.) Tho Chairwoman: It is a mistake, i say, for any one to argue that slavery only exists abroad. I say it is to bo found in Scotland, and many of you know that. ( Loud applause*) i The Socretary : We ought to make it a rule, too. not to- co into six monthly, engagements, and should demand quarterly payments- a month or six weeks being sufficient for warnihg. ( Applause.) The Chairwoman : I hope wo will stand together, and that wo - will abide by what we aro saying. ( Ap- plause.) I know, there are servants who are easily flattered by a word from their mistresses. I know women have a weak side, but I hope they are hardy on this question, for I can tell you I will stick to all I havo said. ( Laughter and applause.) The Girl who last entered the meeting : My, de/ ir, there are many perfoct sneaks— those, I mean, who spend an hour or. BO daily with tho mistress in the drawing- room— who. aro not here, but who might have been hero helping their fellow servants. ( Applause.) What are you to do with these? Tho Chairwoman : I have never had any experience of them. The Jast Speaker : Then yon have not been with the juto lords. . ( Great Iaujjhter.) The Chairwoman No, I havo not; but I have been witli lords whose money was as good as theirs. But you know there is good and bad among all classes. ( Hear, hear.) A Servant: Yes, and servants are as often to blame as mistresses. The Chairwoman: If that is the case wo should not have been here ; the thing Is all right according to you. It was then ngrood that a union should bo formed, and that it should bo designated, " Tho Dundeo District Servants' Protection Association." ANOTHER STRIKE! A crowded meeting of gentlemen's s2r\* mtswas held on Monday night at the Temperance Wall, Learning- the request of the Society of Antiquaries by Mr. Glad- stone, who was then Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Cowper- Temple, First Commissioner of Works. The requisite sum was granted by Parliament, and the woric was intrusted to Mr. Gilbert Scott, who has restored tho place as nearly as possible to its original Btate. The roof has been entirely rebuilt; the paintings, which were concealed by the bonk shelves, are now disclosed. Those at the east end over tho stalls of the Abbot and his four chief officers are of the 14th century, and represent the seraphs ronnd the throne of the Saviour, and those round tho walls were painted in the 15th century by one of the monks of the convent named John of Northampton, and represent scenes from the Revelation of St. John, with pictures of birds and beasts underneoth. The figures on each Bide of the entrance, representing the Angel and the Virgin Mary, are ancient Ihe central figure is modern, but represents what was formerly there. The tiles on the floor, covered with curious heraldic em- blems, are now seen for the first timo. The tracery of tho windows has been restored after the model of the ono which had been left uninjured on tho north- west side. NATIONAL TEMPERANCE LEAGUE. The annual meeting of the National Temperance League was held on Monday night in Exeter- hall. Mr. Edward S. Ellis, J. P., presided. Before proceed- ings commenced prayer was offered by the Rev. J. C. Clutterbuck. Mr. Robert Rac, the secretary, in reading an abstract of the annual report, referred to the efforts made during the year with a view to secure the sup- port of the medical profession. The " Medical Decla- ration respecting Alcohol," signed by 263 physicians and surgeons, bad been sent to every medical practitioner in the United Kingdom. Returns re- ceived from 126 regiments showed that the total number of military abstainers was 6,679, including 1,528 who had consistently adhered to the pledge of total abstinenoe for at least one year ; 56 meetings of Guards had been held in London garrisons, and there were 1,150 children of soldiers in the Army Bands of Hope. At Aldershott, where the General in command had encouraged the formation of these societies, 14 regi- mental temperance societies had recently been organ- ized and numbered 1,361 members, and in some regi- ments there had recently been a marked diminution of insubordination and crimo. ThcRoyal Navy Temper- ance Society had enrolled 1,300 members during the year, and had established branches on board 35 ships. Lectures and addresses had been delivered to prisoners in county and borough gaols, and deputations had visited 11 training colleges for ministers and school- matters. A missionary bad addrefsedthechildren at 718 metropolitan schools, with an aggregate attendance of 81,3S9 children, of whom 16 935 were abstainers. The sailors' missionary had paid 5,799 visits to vessels in tho port of London, and had taken 392 pledges of total abstinence. Temperance sermons had been preached in Westminster Abbey and in Mr. Spurgeon's Taber- nacle, and in a large number of churches and chapels. Tho Crystal Palace Temperance Ffite was attended by 63,000 persons last year, and the committee had made arrangements that at the next ffito no alcoholic liquors should bo sold at tho refreshment bars in the Palace. The income of the League, includiuglast year's baLincr, was £ 4,777. The subscriptions and donations amounted to £ 2,192, an increase of nearly 50 per cent over any proceeding year. The Chairman, in his address, said tho temperance movement was never more satisfactory than at the iresent time. Referring to the number of Bills now icforo Parliament promoted with a view to regulate he traffic in intoxicating liquors, he remarked that it vaa a matter for congratulation that the Legislature had at last been forced to consider this question. The Rev. Samuel M'All said that the public might well look with jealousy on the power of the brewery— a power which had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished, and which threatened to control majorities in Parliament, to influence Cabinets, and to overturn Ministers. The Temperance League did not aim at diminishing the number of publichou3es, nor did they ask for a Sunday Closing Act; they wanted an Every Day Closing Act; but, at the same time, he warned the young members of tho League that no cause needed so little to be advocated intemperately as theirs, ond no cause suffered so muob from intemperate advocacy. They should urge their views on the broad grounds of prudence, charity, and expediency. They must look for success in tho movement to personal abstinenoe from personal conviction ; they must begin there; they might go to the doors of St Stephen's afterwards. Mr. Henry Taylor, of Morpeth, thought tho mem- bers of the League might congratulate each other on the change in their position sinco the days when a great novelist ridiculed the teetotal lectures of a Stig- gins. On the. previous evening tho speaker had at- tended service in the grand old Abbey at Westminster, where the lessons were read by a Dean, and a temper- ance sermon was preached by a Canon of the Church of England. The Rev. Benjamin Broadley, a Wesleyan military chaplain, said the temperance movement in the army had passed through three stages. At first it met with opposition, next with indifference, and now with en- couragement, officers not only permitting a room to be used for temperence meetings, but often presiding on such occasions. Indignantly denying that soldiers, with all the temptations that beset them in garrison towns, were, as a class, more addicted to drunkenness than others, he expressed his belief that a bright future was before the movement. The Rev. H. Sinclair Paterson, M. D., of Glas- gow, treating the subject of total , abstinence from alcoholic drinks in its medical aspect, expressed some surprise that we had not in the south ? ot rid of the notion that intoxicating liquors were id J ewary as daily dietetical drinks. In Scotland the. bouring classes did not take ale or alcoholic drinks",' at ughout the Week, although he admitted that on theU , per- haps on thefirstdayof the week they did drink whisky, but then it was for the sake of getting " honestly drunk." While the audienco assembled tho Royal Greenwich Hospital band performed a splection of v o^ rite airs. WESTMINSTER ABBEY. ArRIL FOOLS IN FEATHERS. ( Song, & y Mr. Hawfinch, on a laU Vicissitude of the Weather.) A pnrty sight It wuz to view Tho jailer primroses appear. Likewise the vi'luts, white an 1 bine, So early as they did this j ear. Daisy and shiny buttercup ' l'wuz pleasant peepun' to behold. And dandelions blazun up > Wi" leaves bright green and vlowors o" gold. To show how forrard all things be, Swallers, this April, dreo or four, A vnrtnlght earlier I zeo Nor ever yet I sin afore. And J'ist about when they appeared, A- chevy'n hinsex on tho wing. The cucVooono Bne day I heerd. And nightingale the night droo sing. The pl£ 3 his tuneful notes mistook. And wi. ke, some on ' um, tip vrom bed, ' Ca'iso why they vancled " Cnook, chook, ehook." Was calluu' of " nm to be fed. Their disappolntmunt, ( or to squake. And crunt, tho hogs In concert made. How ' tl?, thinks I, to lleawako And hark to Natur'a serrynade I Dnt all at once to North snd East, Fi ora West and South the wind chopped back. And then the feathery quire, at least. Fell dumb as mutes In funeral blaek. For then come sleet, and then come hail. And frost o' marnuns on the ground. And nare a slug, nor nit a snail, Wui by them songsters to be found. Cuckoo and nlghtlngalo found out They'd made a bit of a mistake. And so did t'other birds, no doubt: ' Two ( wallers don't a zummer moke, Npr twice, nor, dree, nor vour times two. Theo Dear In mind that golden rule. Then ono thing April sun wun't do; Willi't ne'er make thoo an April fool— Punch. Utisallctnmrs Jfntelligmtt, HOME, F0BEIGN, AND COLONIAL, The Chapter- house of Westminster wa3 for the first time opened to tho public on Monday, and during tho day some thousands of persons avoiled themselvei'Gf the opportunity of inspecting it. It has been, as' is well luiown, restored at tno public expenso. It still remains for the present the property of tho Crown and under tho direction of the Board of Works; but it has been determined to throw it open to the public, in concert with tho Dean and Chapter of Westminster, to whom belong the approaches through tho Abbey and cloisters. There will be a guardian stationed in tho Chapter- house by the Board of Works, and the Dean has placed here, as in other parts of the Abbey( brief notices of the history and peculiarities of the building. Tho whole edifice is completed, with the exception of tho erection of the warming apparatus of the Abbey, which will be needed if the Chapter- house is to bo visited or used in tho winter, and the windows, which will require stained glass to complete the design, and to mitigate tho painful glare occasioned by tho present blaze of light f The Chapter House was built in 1260 by Henry III. on the site of the earlier Ohapter House belonging to the Abboy as founded by Edward the Confessor. It was on account of its beauty called tho " Incomparable Chapter Houso." It was there the abbots and monks of tho time of tho ancient monastery held their Chapter or meeting for discussion and business. Almost from tho timo of its first erection it was used for tho sittings of the Houso of Commons. The House of Commons camo into existence in 1265, and at first sat in Westminster Hall with tho Houso of LordB ; but in 12S2. fchey parted, and from that timo for 300 years . their meetings were held in the precincts of Westminster, sometimes in tho Rofeotory, now destroyed,' but usually in the Chapter House. On tho clissplntion of tho ancient monastery in 1540, tho Chapter House passed into the possession of the Crown, and from that time tho Dean and Chapter havo held their meetingB in tho Jerusalem i Chamber, the Chapter Houso becomingja depository of public reoords. During this period it was fitted up with book shelves, which disfigured and concealed its In ^ 865, after tho removal of the records to the Rolls' House, on the 800th anniversary of tho found- ation of the Chapter, and tho 600th anniversary of the HOUBO of Commons, its restoration was undertaken at DEATH OF A LADY FROM OVER EATING.— An inquest has been hold, in London, on the body of Mrs. Sophia Burdin, aged sixty- eight, a widow ladv of propeity, residing in Palace- street, Pimlico. It appeared from the evidence that on Thursday in last week the deceased lady dined at> the house of a gentle- man connected officially with the' Geological Society, with whose family she had been acquainted for over forty yfears. She made an extraordinary hearty meal, eating very quickly.. She eat more than one pound of rump steak, with potatoes, cauliflower and bread, and also a quantity of pudding. She left the house about seven o'clook in the evening, and on reaching her own house was taken suddenly faint and ill. and died before tho arrival of a medical man, who had been sent for, and a post- mortem examination made by Dr. Lang- ston showed that the heart wos weak and fatty. The stomach was healthy, but filled with food, much of it undigested. He found pieces of meat about throe inches in length. Death had resulted from spasms of the heart, induced by tho overloaded Btate of the stomach. Verdict— Natural Death, 1 MORE CENTENARIANS.— There is now living at No. 6, Surman'B Almshouses, Isleworth, an inmate named Ann Slocomb, who completed her hundredth year on the 17th inst She was from 1828 to 1839 matron of tho old Isleworth Workhouse. Mrs. Slocomb was born at Send, near Guildford, April 17. 1772, andat present is hale and hearty. On her last birthday she planted a tree in the garden of the alms- houses to commemorate the event Since then a local subscription has been set on foot to provide her with some additional comforts now she has entered on her second century. Some few months since a female pauper died in the Isleworth Union Workhouse at the advanced age of 104 years. A DIE- A- TONIC DRINK.— Tho Pall Mall Gazette gives us some curious facts of that most delight- ful but deleterious of " bitters," Absinthe, in connec- tion with the history of its introduction into France, from Algeria, where it was originally used as a " malaria " medicino in default of Quinine. Absinthe- drinkers, like Opium- smokers, inevitably carry the in- dulgence to an excess, and so indulged in, the liqueur inevitably produces nervous stimulus first, then mad- ness or imbecility, paralysis, and death. With this catalogue of consequences, may we not translate, in our prayers for John Bull, tho French Absinthe and its family into tho Latin absintt— PoNCn. DEATH AT THE OPERA.— On Saturday night, at the Royal Italian Opera- houso in London, just as Mdlle. Albani was performing the sleep- walking scene at the mill in La Sonnambula, a cry arose from one of the stalls, and a gentleman there was seen to be in con- vulsions. Tho house was very full, and the incident caused some excitement, but Mdlle. Albani continued without noticing it The gentleman was taken out into the lobby, ond the opera went on to its conclusion. He proved to be Mr. Cristobal de la Quintana, of the well- known Spanish mercantile houso, Cristobal Murrieta and Co., of London. Dr. Edmunds, of Fitzroy- square, sitting in a box just over tho stall oc- cupied by Mr. Quintana, saw the seizure and hastened down to give assistance. Mr. Oscar Clayton, one of the Burgeons to tho Princo of Wales, also Boon after arrived from another part of the house. The offioials of the Opeia- houBO rendered every assistance that was practicable, but as the unfortunato gentleman did not recover his sensibility after a second attack of convul- sions, he was seen home by Dr. Edmunds, who called on tho road for Dr. Ghambers, Mr. Quintana's usual medical attendant Both physicians went homo with him, and tended him assiduously till the last The convulsions recurred, however with such severity that on several occasions the circulation was only restored bv artificial respiration, and after the eleventh attack all efforts at resuscitation failed. Mr. Quintana died at 4 o'clock on Sunday morning, the rites of extreme unction having been performed. Tho deceased gentle- man was 42 years of age. THE BALANCE- SHEET.— In tho financial year ended the 31st of March, 1872, the gross public income of tho United Kingdom was £ 74,703,314. The Cus- toms' duties produced £ 20,326,000; Excise, £ 23,326,000 • stamps, £ 9,772,000; land- tax and house duty' £ 2,330,000; property- tax, £ 9,084,000; Post Offico £ 4,680,000; telegraph service, £ 755,000; Crown lands ( net), £ 375 000; miscellaneous, £ 4,060,314; this last item including £ 1,177,794 military and naval extra receipts and proceeds of old stores sold, £ 850,000 repayment of issues for the Abyssinian expedition, and £ 441,139 received from India on account of army charges. Tho expenditure of the year con- sisted of £ 26,839,601 for interest and management of tho Debt; army ( inoluding £ 340,000 on ao- count of abolition of purchase) £ 15,861,6S0, navy, £ 9,900,486; expended from voto of credit for the war in Europe, £ 101,097 ; civil services and charges on the Consolidated Fund, £ 12,109,42- 1 ; collection of Customs, and inland revenue £ 2,578,094 ; PoBt- offico expenditure, £ 2,455,692, and packet service £ 1,138,700; telegraph service £ 154,477, and telegrai h sinking fund is £ 50,869. These items amount to £ 71,490,024 Deducting - this sum from the yearVincome, there re- mains a surplus of £ 3,218,294. That surplus is reduced to £ 2,848,294 if we deduct £ 370.000 expended on forti- fications ; but this last sum is not a chargo on the year's income, but is provided for by the creation of aunuities terminable in 1SS5, the payment of which will form part of tho charge for the Isationnl Debt, year by year. The balances in the Exchequer amounted to £ 7,023,435 on the first of ApriL 1871, and £ 9,312,652 on the Slat of March, 1872. THE IRISH EDDCATION DIFFICULT*.— A diffi- culty, when it is formulated, lea* likely to be foilowed by a solution than a dissolution.— Puach. LONDON SLAUGHTERHOUSES.— Dr. Eraser & ss laid before the House of Commons a bill • nacting tliat the slaughtering of cattle or sheep by-- v3- V. cber in his private slaughterhouse, duly licenst^ fcnot be held to be the carrying on of anoffensivo cjjgjBous bus in• srf within the meaning of the Metro]> ' r duudings Act - f 1844. That Act provides tliat nfier the expiration of 30 years from its passing it shall cease to bo lawful to carry on such a business at a less distance than 40 fY.- t from a public way or 50 feet from buildings of tho fint or tlwellinghouflc class, save, as is provided in that Act DEATH OP AN INVENTOR.— Mr. Augustus Siebe, sen., the mechanician and inventor, died at his residence in South London on the 15th nit., at the ago of 84. He was born in Saxony, but was taken by his parents at a very early age to Berlin, where he was educated. He was apprenticed to a fine caster, ari l early evinced great tasto both in modelling ar l chasing. In 1812 hu had to join the Army, and fought as Lieutenant in the Artillery at the battle of Leipsio, whero he wa3 wounded. On pence being signed he went to Kiel, where he worked at watchmaking. In 1814, he came to England, and obtained employment as a watchmaker, afterwards as a chaser, and then as a gun- maker. In 1S20 having become arquainted with Mr. C. A. Deane, who had invented an apparatus for entering into fires, he suggested to him the practica- bility of worlring under water with a similar apparatus, and eventually constructed an air pump and diving dress, " now known as tho open are ® . Seeing the dangers to which the divers were exposed in using the open dress he afterwards invented what is now known as the close diving helmet dress, by which all danger was removed and to this ho continually added improve- ments— head piece, tho outlet valvej the inlet valve, and the r. gulating valve. In 1848 Sir Charles Pusley, C. B., who was employed in removing the wreck of the Royal George, requested Mr. Siebe to make a trial of his apparatus, which was done with the greatest suc- cess, and eventually it was adopted by the Admiralty for the use of the Navy. In addition to this contri- vance, Mr. Siebe was the inventor of a great number of mechanical appliances which have found their way into general use. " WASTE LANDS OF IRELAND.— An official re- turn states that no applications have been ma le to the Board of Works in Ireland, under section 43 of the Landlord and Tenant Act of 1870, for advances towards reclamation and purchase of waste lands. The waste land of Ireland is stated to be 4,259.795 acres. This con- sists of tho area of bog, mountain, and other unre- claimed and waste land, on which there was no live stock found at the last enumeration of agricultural statistics, namely, in June and July, 1871, including also the road3, rivers, fences, and smaller lakes throughout the country. VISA VERSA.— Since the French talk of re- establishing the wretched annoyances connected with " protection," ought we not to retaliate by lea\ ing off their wines, and ourselves returning, like truo sons of British fathers, to our own too long neglected Pa's port system?— Punch. THE NEW CLAIMANT.— The Minneapolis Tri- bune, of April 13, says :— The Lord Gordon,, who has just been arrested in New York, at the ipstanco of Juy Gould, on account of some trans- actions In Erie stock, is well- known In Minneapolis ami St. Paul. He resided here last summer, presenting, when he arrived, letters of introduction to some of our leading citizens, who afterward showed him con.- Jdorablo attention. Uoclaimed to bo the son of tho Earl of Aberdeen, but was always subjected of romancing in this particular. While here be made many friends, being a person of coLjideiable culture ana lavish In the expenditure of money, ol which ha had an abundant supply. HOPS AND BREWERS.— A Parliamentary ro- turn shows a gradual decrease in the number of acres under hop cultivation in England. According to the agricultural returns obtained by tho Board of Trade, the number of acres was 61.280 in 1867, 64,488 in 18oS, 61,791 in 1869, 60,594 in 1S70, and 60,029 in 1871. But the amount charged for brewers' licences ( regulated by the quantity brewed) increases, and amounted, for the United Kingdom, to £ 376,061 in 1807, £ 375.429 in 1S68, £ 3S*, 139 in 1869, £ 388,3S9 in lt70, and £ 399,576 in 1861, the year in each instance ending cn the 30th of September. DOUBLE OR SINGLE ?— Tho announcement of Autumn as to the Ballot Bill appears not very likely to be verified from the indications of Spring. Tho Bill, which wa3 to present itself at the door of the Houso of Lords with " an authoritative knock," looks as if its knock would resemble a housemaid's rather than that of a footman. Of course, however, tho knock, whatever may be its nature, will not be tho knock of a servant out of place.— Punch. " WHAT IS GREAT BRITAIN.— The following appeared in The Times of Tuesday :— I am an Englishman, and some 20 years back was holding a vicarage near London, when my wife paid a visit to one ot the Channel Islands, it was a visit tf ouiy a fow week*, but during that visit a son was born This year my son was ioi applicant for a certain studentship at Cambridge, and, bo cause he was not born in England, has been declared in- eligible. Tho trust of this studentship requires that thi applicant should have been " burn in Great Britain." Hid particular question which concerns the tons of thou » onda who annually visit the Channel Islands Is— Aro the Channel Islands an Integral part of Great Britain ? In tho CoMtn French Treaty, I am told by a high legal authority, the Eng- lish Government pleaded that they were. Perhaps somo of your readers could furniih preciso and definite information as to the legal definition of Great Britain, If yousliould'thbilc this snbject of sufficient general interest to hisert in your renowned paper. I am, sir, yours truly, A. BIDDY, LO ChAlet, Gouray, Jersey, April 23. ANIMAL MAGNATE- ISM.— SeeiDg the price wild animals fetch, as was exemplified in the late salo of " Wombwell's Menagerie," and the cost of thoirkeepns well as that of their keepers, a man to make money bv a wild- beast show, must indeed drive a " roaring" trade, as, in fact, we believe the magnates in tho animal line do.— Punch. MUNIFICENT DONATIONS.— It is stated that Mr. Humphrey Nichells, parish clerk of Manchester, called on Mr. l' « . Gladstone, on Friday morning, and handed him a donation of £ 5,000 for the Barnes Con- valescent Home, and that Mr. Nicholls made a similar donation on Thursday to the Society of the Widows and Orphans of the Clergy at Warrington. Mr. Nicholls intends. it is Eaid, to make asimdargift to the Salford and Pendleton Dispensary. Theso munifi- cent gifts, it will be remembered, are but repetitions of previous benefactions of Mr. Nicholls to the same in- stitutions— namely, £ 10,000 to St. Mary's Hospital, £ 10,000 to the Barnes Convalescent Home, and £ 10, CCC to Salford Dispensary. Mr. Nicholls has also contri- buted £ 500 to tho endownment fund of tho Oldham Infirmary, and £ 500 towards the expense of flagging the Blue- coat School playground. Mr. NicholLt re- cently gave £ 500 to the general Infirmary fund, and £ 500 for the gymnasium in connection with the Blu<*- coat schools. WANTED A TURN- OVER AT CASE.— Apply to General Schenck, Ambassador for the United States, before June 15th.— Punch. AN EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.— In London, last Saturday, a man, whose namo has not been given, jumped into the Thames. He was rescued and taken into King's College Hospital, where ho was constantly under the charge of a constable. On Monday morning he was supposed to be well enoogh to go before a magistrate, and was about to be taken out of the house, when, as the policeman's back was turned for a moment, he forced his way through the window of the room in which he was. Ho began to cut liis throat with the broken glass, and as soon as an attempt was made to captureliim, jumped off the window- sill to the ground, and was instantaneously killed. DEATH OP MB. HORACE MAYHEW.— An- other of the early contributors to Punch has passed away. Mr. Horaco Mhyhew, who was on the sti ff of Punch almost from its commencement, died at his residence, Addison- gardens, Nptting hill, on Tuesday morning. Mr. Horace Mayhew' wad one' of tho " Brothers Mayhew," whoso literary efforts, now to amuse, and now to instruct, tho public, havo been numerous and successful. Thedeceased gentleman s own writings have all been of the light and humorous order. " Model Men and Women " beiog ono » f the most euc- cesful books published under his name. For the last twenty vears, however, he has been chiefly kuowa as ono of the writers engaged upon Punch, Mr. May- how's death will be mourned by an unusually kr * e circlo of friends, among whom he was celebrated for= i\ gaiety of spirit which neither advancing years nor fa: i » big health ever si emed to dash. Mr. Horaoe Mayiew married a widow lady a year or two ogo, but leav'js no issue. Ho was fifty- six years old, and his hwvlih has been known to be precariam for a ooniitkralie time. The final cause of death was the rupture of a blood. Tcssel. 5ATTKL A7. MAY 4.1S7? THE FALMOUTH & PEXRYX WEEKLY TIDIES. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. CONVICTIONS FOB DRTJNKEN2TTSS. half t-/ r the Pacific Eailway snd Canal Iicprr vem- nts. riie Earantee waa connects I with the Treaty of Washington, but » correspondence which would explain it « n not com [ let a, and could n" t yet be UM on the table. Being piiascj to state whether tho guarantee waa dependent on the accept- ance by Canada of the Treaty of Washington. Mr. Gladstone said that to answer simply la the negative or affirmative wool! not canvey a c-. nect Impression; and, br ing farther prej « - d, hepr miscd to consult the Colonl. il Secretary as to whether the letter of the Government whioh would explain the matter could not be produoedat once. The Ballot bill engjged the House during the remainder cf the evening, but before going into Committee Mr. llonk sated whether it wis intended to proceel further with * he Corropt Practices Bill this Seas on. Mr Gladstone replied that it would be necessary to pots the bill this jrcar, bocause otherwise the Elections Act and other be- neficial provisions for the prevention of om. pt practices would expire. But slocc the Personation Clauses bid been Jntroduct- d luto the Ballot Bill the special omnexion of tho two bills no longer existed: and tho convenience of tho Hou « o, therefore, would bo consulted In the time of pro- ceeding with the Corrupt Practices BUI In eomequcnce of this answer as toon as the House went into Committee, Mr. Q Benttock moved b> report proareas. In order to complain of it aa a breach of faith, and virtually an abandonment of tho Corrupt Practices Bill. He wai wio- eorttd l. y Mr. B. Hope and Mr. J. Lowther, and Mr. onter, In reply malntalni- d that tho arrangement would carry out tho engagement made at thecomroen « « ncat of tho Committee, and that there, was no f. ar of tho Corrupt Practices Bill not being passed thla Session. Alter tlila preliminary controvert)- had bo ™ disposed of, several new clauses were brought up by private moml> er3 and discussed. AJr. Wheelhouse proposed a cJause to provide for Uklng the votes of tick anil Infirm pereons by means of Vottog papers, but it waa negatived by 212 to 132. A similar clam- o^ ovtd by Mr. Gregory, providing voting iterator ont- votwain c-. iiotir?, was reject, d by 226 to 140; and a clause moved by Mr. Kail: ™ , to limit the duration of the bill to the i. 11 General Election and the continuance of the Parlia- ment then clccted, waa negatived by 215 to 137. The Committee then paa » ed to tho schedules In which oro laid down with much minuteness the rules to guide tho rctnrntog ofllcera, voters, and all concerned in the conduct cf an election. They wero very closely scrutinised, but the few changes made wero merely verbal amendments with one cxccptlon. Mr. Cawley propoted that tho names cf the cwiiiiilates should bo printed on the vothig- p* p* is In tbelr colours M M to aid tho voter ia understanding whero he Is to put hla mark, but cn a division bis suggestion waa negatived l. y 07 to 33. Mr. , E. Potter proposed an elaborate sch< me for taking the poll, pn'cillilng every motion of the elector In giving hta vote, which was Illustrated on tha notlco paper by an Intricate ground, plan, but be did not press It to a dif lsi" n At the In- stance of Mr. Crawford pro vL- ion was made for the case of Jchj ealkd on to voteon Saturdajf, and worts were inserted In KuJo 24 p< rmlttlng the presiding officer to mark the ballet- piper for those who object on rc'. tglnus grounds to nxuk It for themselves. In the eame rnle, which provides that tho presiding offlc r may murk the paper f r the voters " Incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause," Mr. \ V. H. Smith prop- sod t remove tho r ttrlc- tlon conveyed In tho Word " pbydoiL" Hla amend- ment led to a long and animated di- cuwdon, and In its support the caso of the Illiterate, non English- speaking and other voters, who it was urged, would bo disfranchised with- out wmo such assistance, was strongly Insisted on. Mr. Forstcr, on the other hand, oppo.- ed It, mainly becauso It wr. nld put too much power In tho hands of tho presiding Cffi''' rs. Ultimately tho amendment was negatived by a majority of Cl— 05 to HI; and tho Committee then ad- | Journed until Thnraday. Tbo Pensions Bill was read a third timo and passed. Thc other orders were disposed of, and tho House ad- i Journed at half past ono o'clock. Mr. E. ST. Fowler said that cu the 23th May he would call ftteaUon to the affairs of South Africa, and move a reio- Mr. M'Arthur ann- iuneed that on that day month he would move aa humble address to her Majesty praying for pro- tection to the Feejee Island j. Mr. C. rry asked the First Lord of thi Admiralty whether his attectloa had been drawn to a letter In Tht Timet ol jalti- Uj, s% a « d by Lord Clarence Paget, recently Com- mander- In- Chief of the Mediterranean Squadron: whether he wo nliTlay upon the table of the Howe the eyries of orders restricting th- use of the engine referred to in taat letter: and whether it was true that the Admiralty costcmplatc a revUlon of those orders; aad If so. whether tho revised orders would a'so be laid upon the table. Mr. G « ich « n replied that, of course, his attention had been called to the letter of the ex- Commander- la- Chief of the Mediterranean Squadron, on acoount, amongst other rcawi- s, of Its i>> nmption of there having been can sea for disasters when the results of the inquiries Into those disasters hod not yet reached this country, and were not- yet known. In the Government's opinion, It was against the evidence whi. h hid boen given. In tho cr. se of the Captaim, the signal which waa given by the admiral ia command was that tho squadron was to get up steam and te connect their screws. In tho case of tho Affi'- court the commander had given orders to go at greater speed than sho was at In rerard to other ca « es In which tho proceed- ings bad not yet reached this country, ho would observe that the steam waa up in the De/ cnce at the time of the disaster, and tho fhlp waa lying at anchor. Steam was up In two of the boilers, and tho captain askod that It should be got up in the other two boners, and inquired what timo It would tike. The answer given by tho engineers was twenty minutes, but by a mistake it was transmitted to him as five, and accordingly, having Halted till the oxplration of that time, ho gave orders to proceed. Aa regarded the Lord Clyde, she wax proceeding almost at full steam. Sho arrived In the night, and had to wait until morning to rendor assistance. When she arrived the fires were banked up In four of the boilers, and she was then capablo of going st tha rate o! U-. n kr. nts per hour. As soon as he had tha full materials beforo him he should be able in his place in the House to refute the charges which had been made by Lord C. Pag- t. Every order of the kind referred to should be laid upon the tatde. Tncre were some restrictions as old as 1830, but ha found that the restrictions of 1S05, which wore more stringent even than thosa now in forca, were signed by the then secretary to the Bjord, Lard Clareuco Paget. Mr. Plurket drew attention to tho unequal salaries ro ceived by Civil g^ rvants in England and Ireland, and moved a Resolution declaring that, having regard to tbo great increase in the expense of living in Ireland, tho scale of Irish official salaries should bo revised, with a viow to put- ting the ^ Services on an equal fitting In both countries. Mr. Downing scoonded the motion, but protested against an Inquiry being conducted by the Treasury, having no kind of confidence In Mr. Lowe. The . Chancellor of tha Exchequer admitted that tho general est of living was much the same In Dublin as in Lon- don and the larger English to » ns, but there were certain aniall differences in fav. mr of Dublin, such ns the absenco of ass. s'ed taxes, house tax, < tc. The greatest difference, however, waa In the shorter hours and tho lighter work In tho Irish offices. Bat, while ho declined to treat it as a question of equality or difference of treatment, ho was willing to con- sent to an inquiry whether tho Civil Servants aro a lequately paid, and ho offered that tho Inquiry should be con- ducted by persons nominated by the Irish Secretary. But they must also inquire whether the offices were over- manned or not. Sir D. Corrigau, Dr. Brady, Mr. Magulre, and Dr. Ball sup- ported the motion. Mr. M. Henry instituted a comparison between tho cost and the results in tho Criminal Lunatic Asjlums at Dundrum and Broadmoor, which drew from Mr. Walter a general defence of tho ad- ministration of tho latter establishment. Mr. M'Laren. Mr. Miller, and Mr. M'Lagan insisted that tho inquiiy should bo extended to Scotland, whero the griev- ance waa felt with equal severity. This, however, waa de clined by the Government; and Mr. Baxter remarked that no complaints had been received from Scotland, whllo Mr. lion sell, in referenco to tho payment of postmastere, of which complaint liad been mado, declared that theso officers are paid on the same scale In each of the threo kingdoms. In the end, Mr. Plunket accepted the offer of the Government and withdrew his motion. Mr H. B. Sheridan was moving for a Select Committee'to inquire into tho propriety of repealing that part of tho Income Tax Act which relates to Incomes derived from trades and professions, when tho Honse was counted out. A Parliamer tarv return shows that in ti> « * iiBSthe 1st of July, loTl, there were in tee Uu. . i Kir- 1.2123S. 2T1 c- iavictjoas for being dru-. k or drunk and ulsonl- rly— 13V7S5 in England, 15.194 mScot- lani. 32,293 in Ireland. The total is 37 per cent, cl the whole number summary eonvicti. ics fur criziiaal cSfuiccs. Tha to'al includes 23,175 which were second convictiocs— 10,922 in England, 1,0( 4 in ScotLvad, 11099 in Ireland ; third convictions, 12. lVj_ 3. S61 in Er rlind, &>; in Scotland, 7,64$ in Ireland. The number which had been preceded by three or four con- victions is 21,51*— 4,018 in En^ L- ni, 919 in Scotland, 16,911 ia Ireland. It must not be tnppoeed that this shows the number of drunkanls. On the one band, the aH . ve number counts, not ofTes ' ers, but offences, and the habitual drunkard may be reckoned several times over ; bu% on the other band, smscb larger number of drunkar ls aro omitted owing to their not getting into the bands of the police, or being convicted of assault or some other offences, instead of drunkenness. Several of the officers making the Irish returns lay the blame upon the quality of the liquor, which is often an adulterated compound that makes the drinker outrageous and mad. It i3 mentioned also that in several listricts the publichouses are closed on Sun- days and holy days by erder of the Roman Catholic IXsbop, and that this has greatly l » f= sened the number of case* of drunkenness. The officer who make* tho return for Skibbereen states that if publichouses could be closed early on Saturday nights, and not open oa Sundays ( with little reasonable exceptions), nor until eight or nine a. m. on Monday, there weuU not bo 15, nor five per cent, of tho crime and want that now prevail. Another Parliamentary return shows that the recent • Wine and Beerhouse Acts are working well; the num- ber of licensed homes is being reduced, and there is a marked improvement in the conduct of beerhouses. In 1370 the Chief Constable of Bradford reported an increase of drunkenness, attributed to the illicit siJe of beer in private houses when licensed houses wero closed. The Chief Constable of Kent reports that he cannot apprehend a greater evil than would accrue from tho Dower of licensing being transferred from the magis- trates to any parochial authorities. EPITOME OF NEWS, E2IXISH AND FOBEIGH. if mentioned that Mr. Bright Is still nervoM about Ms hA ^: II & lh! s'feellu$ wl'- l r. va wo « ** G « 3toa wbe.' IM condemned to dcrath for taking part ia the ol the ArchbUh^ pol Parisarsd oti.- r h^ t- was shot a." Sakuy, oa Tuesday racruu. j. at eight o'clock. i An authority ov^ snbject says the d. iitv Ixmd. ia water supply is tK^ r . W. OCO WO gVl < t* e r>, la* m| J vlrw over thtrty- nre gallons- » day to each IndlTUilft V.- he nun, or wemsa, or child. , ., The French Sorh^' SKvnr* atW Bl^- A hsv « awsnlcd Mr. . Vrchcr Burton « W.- sh. f.- ath- ruaa tv at CvV. cata. their Wn » Ocv^ W^ Vma 1b nv^ tttSp of the services he readcred 7a In Oermany. The Chancellor of the En.^^ aetaowl^ w., w Conscience Money," the reoetv*. efx < i> in Bar. V n,. t « « , AE£ n,- and of IDa. la postage i. H," tor tn- oomeTax. The French Government tho decree of proscription a? aiast Karl Bk" » J. unJcr au ordla- aa » signed by M. Lefrsna. Among those who passed tho examii'^ ti'm in arts of. tho Apethecarlea Society of London on > ridsy. April is,- were two ta. hes, Jttt Henry UTOti « wl ilin Afica Itowland. There were £ 0 caadldatis, of wh^ cn 23 ivero re- The Diritto publishes a letter from Fathrt Seochi,, the K Mnan astronomer, lslh Inst., In which, -" t r- rinc to the late comet einjW. he sajt that the worst witiich could happen from the earth owning In contact with a cos^ sj would be a great shower of falling stars. ^ An account has been published showing that thr^ amount of cash received from depositors In the Port Office Savings' Bank from tho lat January to tho Slst IVcember. 1S71. amounted to £ 6,664.625 lii Od., whilst the rvnaymenU of cash during tho same period was £ 5, OS* 5,4S7 7s. Til A lady recently asked a distinguished memW of tho French Academy of Sciences, " What Is the use <•( being an academician If you cant tell what c . meta aro mado . « f I" TO which the learned man replied, " Madame, that I uiay be able to say I don't know." Tho expression used by the prisoners condemned ta » death at \ ersalUes. when they iaillcate tho pr- xlui/ ite rid- dling with balls of one of their companions, it upjiear* is, " Bo is going to be made luto a cabbage- strainer," in allu- sion to the number of holes to bo made. It ought to take three people to say this German wonl— y'xceobfrappellatinnsneru- hlsprothoni> tar\ iis. It is on official title, and means the Deputy of tho Chtef Pr- « thom> t* tf In the Appeals Court. The word must l. iok Imposing oa tho back of envelopes addressed to tho gentleman. On Saturday the Court of Exchequer ma^ o alvolnto a rule which had been ob'atne 1 to eet asldo the verdleO riving £ 330 damages to ono Miss Watklns, a drcs- iriaker, who had recovered that amount as compensation for breach of promise of marriage from Mr. Baluby, a barrister. A national testimonial is abouh to bo presented to Mr. Magulre, M. P., on the completion of thu 20th year of his parliamentary services. Subscription to tho te^ umonlal Is not to be considered to Imply adhesion to any special political or religious views. A sum of about jti. OvO has ilresdy been subscribed. On the 2- lth inst, Mrs. Grace, a widow lfdv, residing; » t Avlesbury, attained the ago of 100 yoais. hiVlni^ been born ( cm tho 24th of April, 1774 Mrs. Grace, who'o maHen name was Rlckford, Is sister to tho lato Mr. William Kl.- Unrd. who formerly represented tho borough of Aylesbury in Parlia- ment. Mrs. Grace onjoys excellent healtlu The little girl who was carried off by the Looahal tribe in India, and who waa recently recovered by tho forca Btted out by tho Indian Government, and known as tho " tooshai Expedition," arrived in Glasgow on Kil. lay « venlng from Liverpool, on hor woy to Elgin, whero alio is to rialdo In future with hor grandparents. A general meeting of country brewers was hold in Mhiclng- lane, London, on Monday, to consider wh^ t steps could bo taken on their behalf with referonco to tho see- » n J" rea. llng of the Government Licensing Bill In tho House of Lotds. The licensed victuallers, it was said, wero anxious lo » a Just settlement of this question, but thoy considered that the objoctlonable provisions, tho penal clauses, those relating to the appointment of Inspectors, and espsel illy the provisions rotating to hours, should bo amended. A deputa- tion to Lord Klmbcrley was agreed upon. Mr, Snurgeon, in addressing's meeting tho other daf » laid that ho had been censured by a certain paper for having spoken hard things against | the modern school of thought. He would only say that if he had uttered anything that ap- peared hard It was intensely soft and gentlo to « h » t ho woUld. say if ho knew how to say It, for ho bad no fooling towards it but that of Inextinguishable hate. But If tln re was any opithet thoy could fling at lilm that would » how his hostility towards them he truated tlioy would say it. Ho felt flattered by their contempt and gratlllod by their ani- mosity. Qne of tho Paris illustrated patera rApreAenbt tho' venor » ble President Thiers as Borneo, with a cotton night- cap. climbing up a ladder to the bftlcony of tho Ely -(•••. When Juliet ( Paris) clings to detain him, " nark,'" ho siys, " i hear tho whlstlo of tho last train." Paris—" You mistake. 1 > vo,' the owl." " No; it is the last train- ' I must rush fn. ni yorUf loved presence. What will they say at Versailles I' why, flr, love," " Imust. AdlouI Aurevoir." And laughter rolls,- In the eye of the man in the moon, who looks at the lovers through the pale luminary. A correspondent thinks that the following capital mot of Paul de Cassagnao's ( a BonapartUt) in tho Paul should not be allowed to pass unrecorded :— Comuieutlug oa a recent canard, that an " emissary" was arrested at Calais tho bearer of 35 millions of francs for the •• idles at Chlslehurst' tho irrepressible Paul exclaims, " Xlaitwivfc • millions I Oh, ye pure and Immaculate snobs of . lofl^ eratty, * If we had such a sura we ahoultl havo been back long ago. We would havo bought you neck and crop— every man of you, — and hayo still a handsome balance luft." CLAIMANTS to the SPANISH THRONE. In the nonse of Lords, April 30, Lord Granville ( In reply to Lord Derby) said that tho Amcr, can despatch wasreceived thoprovloua evening by General Schenck, but a copy had not yet been handed to him. Upon tho order of the day for tho second reading of tho Supreme Court of Appeal Bill, It waa arranged that the ad- journed debate on tho qnestion of the Supreme Court of Appeal ahoiild bo resumoil ujion tho Lord Chancellor's Reso- lution, and not upon hlB bill, with tho understanding that tho provisions of the measure should be discussed as if tho bill iuelf were beforo the Houso. L rd Cairns thereupon entered Into an historical review ol the appellate Jurisdiction of tho HOUPO of Lords What- ever might have been the eaSo In Lord E'don'a time, ho had never, cither as barrister or Judge, sten any but Law Lords sitting on appeals, the tribunal for which usually comprised lour and often Ave numbers. TtiopresenttritMinal had cleared off all the arrears Olformer sessions, and within oniontb every case now ready forhearingoUght to lie dlapoted of— a statement which could not be made of any other Court in the country, lord Colonssy contributed his txperiuice of Scotch law, and I> rd O'llagan was ready to glvo them tho advantage of his Irish experience. With regard to the Judicial Committee, there had been a temporary pressure for which it had been jiee- tsary to lcgblate. but Itarose fr.* nan increase of appeals from the Courts of Bengal, arising from causes easy to explain. He osked why this particular inoaa ire should be brought forward while tho Report of tlio Judicature Commission, made two years ag*, and re- commending tho fusion of Liw nnd Equity, an alte- ration in the Circuits, and other important reforms, was al- lowed to remain a dead letter. Tue construction put upon it out of doora would be that it had SMQO connexion with tho agitation for tho abolition of the Uouto ol Lords aad Mr. Gladstone's speech at Blnekheath; and that it was a step In this direction If the Government meanwhile took away as much of thli Jurisdiction of tho House of Lords as possible. The bill did not concern England only, for there were few appeals from this country, because the Intermediate Courts of Appeal were so strong. The greater number came from Scotland and Ireland, and he cited tho authority of Lord St. Leonards, Mr. Anderson, ami tho Writers to the Blgnct against removing tho appellate Jurisdiction from the Douse ot Lords It mhht be contended. Indeed, that the till would bo a violatloa of tho Treaty% f Ccion with Scotland and Ireland, and neither those countries nor tho Colonies would bo satisfied to exdui. go the appellate jurisdiction they aow possessed for that < d thrw barristers of ten years' standing, even although they might be called au Imperial Supreme Court of Anneal. Alter a lengthened review of tho bill. Lord Cairns con- duded by re tuning to accept tho bill, either in k. t princlplo or details, ' as an alternative for the present aystem of appellate Jurisdiction. He should not oppose a motion to reter the subject to a S Jeet Committee, but in that caso tho bill must be referred to the Committee as a document, aad not as a measure to which their lordships had given a second reading. In the evcutoftho Resolution being pruned be should move as an Amendment that the proposals of the Government to provide a substitute for the present appe- late Jurisdiction were unsatisfactory. Lord Per tanoo agreed it was desirable the bm should be further considered. In the main it was an honest s'tempt to create a tribunal worthy of being the Supreme Ccnrt of Appeal, but some changcs would bo necessary, especially in the proposal to transfer the jurisdiction of the Court of Crown Uases Reserved. He, therefore, recommended the Lord Chancellor to aoe* pt the suggestion of Lord Cairasand refer the Bill t* a Select Committee. Lord Westhury congratulated himself upwi having advised their lordships not to part with thtir Jurisdiction until they kr what tribunal It waa to be given ux When he saw the bill h - was aware it would not bear discussion, aad that it was impossible to build upoa it. It was, however, painful that » twit they had all so long desired should be frustrated by the oourse taken by the Gcvcn. i* ent. Unless ihe L-> rd Cu- - e'. lor accepted the inquiry by a Select Coirmittee ho ahoaM vote against both tho Bt sedation asd the bill Th* Lord Chancellor said that If such were the wish ol their h- nishipa he should willingly accede to the prop- ned Inquiry. Three Seicct Committees had. however, sat. ia 18-. S. ISM, aad lK- d, and ha tal thought the matter ssffl. cttatly ripe for letislattaa. COD ten ling that L- rd Cairns had Bet grappled with any coe cl the prop. siUoas he had { aid d » » n. hs ccmpUiccd that the to hie and leaned Jcrji ha. i not dealt quite fairly cr candidly with the Iri.. m « « f< d that the appellate Jurisdiction whkh ® « « oallyapi* rtaiaed to the whole House was rally lelt to It,^, : ^"^ h the jcisaeiit attecdaacc be satisfactory, out of the six Law Lords wboDscaQy Tho following particulars concerning the various Spanish pretenders will bo found of interest at the present moment :— Ferdinand " VIL, King of Spain, who died on Sep- tember 19, 1833, left two children, girls, one not quite three yeara old, the other having hardly completed her first The Duke of Anjon, grandson of Louis XTV., called to the Spanish throne in 1700 by the testament of King Charles II., had imported into his new king- dom the French Salio law, which excluded from tho succession the female descendants of the sovereigas. Ferdinand VII., at the instigation of bis fourth wife, Maria Christina, whom be bad married in 1829, abolished, by tho will ho left behind him, the Salic law, and designated his eldest daughter to bo queen after bjm, under the rcgency of his wife. By that act he disinherited his brother, Don Carlos, who, under the French system, was his natural heir. In con- sequence, scarcely had the child, for some years called " the innocent Isabella," been proclaimed, in virtue of the will of the late King, sanctioned by the Cortes, when Don Carlos claimed his hereditary rights, sword in hand, with the support of all the partisans of absolute power, and a large portion of the clergy: whilst tho whole Liberal party ranged itself on the side of tho constitutional monarchy of the little Queen. After a sanguinary struggle of several years, Don Carlos, being conquered, took refuge in France, was interned at Bourges, abdicated in 1845 in favour of his eldest son, and died in 1855. He had taken in Spain tho titlo of Charles V., but in exile he called himself the Count de Molina. His eldest son, also named Don Carlos, and styling himself Prince of the Asturias ( title of the heir- pre- sumptive), and Count de Montemolin, accepted the succession of his father, after the abdication of the I latter, but did not make any serious attempt to obtain j possession. He died childless in 1864. His brother then became the legitimate pretender, and this is the personage who has now made appeal to ; arms. He was born in 1S22, is named Jean Charles ; Marie Isidore, and mnrried in 1847 a daughter of tho ! Duke of Modena. He ought to call himself Don Juan, | or Juan L, but perhaps he prefers taking the appella- ! tion of Don Carlos, from the remembrance of his | father and brother, or does tho world give it to him by | habit or through confusion? He also bears the title of the Duke of Madrid. Spain, therefore, at this moment possesses a legal king, Amadeus L, son of Victor Em- maauel, and three pretenders, legitimate by the right i hand or the left:— L Don Juan or Don Carlo?, heir accord- icg to the Salic law, but deprived of his claims by a de- cree of the Cortes; 2, AlphonseFrancisco d'Assises Fer- dinand Pie Jean Marie, besides other names, son of ' Isabella, who has abdicated in his favour, bom in 1S57, also set aside, by a law of tho Assembly ; and 3, Antoino Marie Philippe Louis d'Orleans, Duke do Montpensier, born in 1821, son of Louis Philippe, and married in 1316 to the Infanta Maria Louisa Fernanda, second daughter of Ferdinand VIL, and sister of the ex- Queen Isabella. This last personage is not an openly- declared pretender, but maintains an expectant attitude, something like that of his father in the time of Louis XVTL and Charles X. PRINTING AND STATIONERY IN THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. In the Paper and Printing Departments of the In- ternational Exhibition, in ltoom 21, bibles in all lan- guages are shown by the British and Foreign Bible Society, printing typeJ of all sorts and sizes aro dis- played in albums and frames by various printers. A complete sequence of the processes, from tho drawings done on tho battle- field to the illustrated newspaper ready for sale, which go to make up a number of the Illustrated London Kcks, ia exhibited by its proprietors. Marcus Ward and Co., of Belfast, hero show some of their excellent colour- printing, and we never saw any- thingbetteric its way than their pictures, forcheapdraw- ing books—( remark* The Times, from whose description we are quoting). Tho doorways in this part aro nuug with paper curtains, a new invention, worth the atten- tion of thoso ladies it concerns. The patterns are pretty and novel, some of them imitating chintz very well; they seem durable, and, of course, aro cheap. There aro counters at which the Heliotype and Wood- bury processes are in full work, while a little further on, note- paper is being put into black edges, and coloured, clipped, and 6tamped in various modes by a party of young women. The next room brings U3 to the great collection of Stationery. Cases full of funeral cards and other implements of mourning and memorial observ- ance^ which would bo curious if practised by the Chinese ; programmes, fashionable and other- wise, of balls long ago cfcitoced out; bills of fare, delicious and otherwise, of dinners long ago eaten; inks, home and foreign, arranged in their cases like cellara of rare wines curious in their vintages and bottling; an elephant in bronze, and Her Majesty and the Prince of Wales in red sealing- wax ; pens, from the neat little ccow quill, slight aad new, and fit for nothing but a billet- doux, to tho great swan's plumo with which an Bmjwror might sign a treaty— all these and a million other objects make up a really interesting if rather " shoppy " Collection, Messrs. Parkins and Gotto ehitw at least '•' 50,000 articles suitable for presents ;" Mitchell and Co., all the processes of steel pen making, and all the sorts of steel pens, evon to weapons of twelve points. A frame on the south walls contains some curious " railway ticket ruling," designed to make tickets distinctive by printing them in various colours geometrically arranged. Fixed against the light are samples of watermark paper, in which English makers excel; of bank- notes, old and new; elsewhere on tho walls aro all sorts of playing cards, and in tho cases valentines, dress patterns, and a thousand and ono other articles. Japan sends cigar cases, hats, shoes, umbrellas, masks, toys, and an imitation of stamped leather, all dono in paper. There is a reel of The Times paper, 2J miles long, and some parchment paper of such strength that a sheet of it sustains a weight of 5cwt. This department comes to an end at a counter upon which are exhibited a number of table ^ pergnes and a singing automaton nightingale. Turning to the left and keeping to the rear of Spiers and Pond's great re- freshment- room we come to a corridor, upon the walls of which are folded, in frames, cojiiea of most of the newspapers of the world. The United States' collec- tion affords some curious titles; and as ono strolls along the eye is caught by headings which seem whim- sical enough to English eye3, such a3 The National Baptist, The Sunday Republic, The Manch Chunk Democrat. CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS. A Virginia turkey- gobbler is said to be hard at work trying to hatch four apples. Mr. T. Winkle having married Miss Starr recently, the event has beon thus poetically anaounced, T. Winkle. T. Winkle, little Starr." A Californiaa editor lately purchased a donkey, and another editor la the same locality records the circumstance as a remarkable instance of self- possession An exchange says that " a gentleman who went to Falls Village with a view to settling there, has returned dis- couraged. He says the eoll is so poor there that tho people give concertsfor its benefit." If you want to talk cleverly to the lady you have been dancing with, ask her to tako a " protoxide of hydrogen." It sounds loftier than saying " an ice." All women rights women will think it so clavtr, so awfully A box containing a black bear was received at an express offlco In Saa Francisco the other day; outside was thu inscription : " Black Bare— Ef yew don t want to get bit, kepe your fingers out of thejerax." Aa Indiana editor makes a pathetic appeal to his readers, saying:—" If there Is anything you know that ls worth knowing that we ought to know, and you know that we doa't know, please let us know It." The lady principal of a schodl, in her advertisement, mentioned her lady assistant and tho " reputation for teach- ing which she bears," but the printer left out the " which," so tho advertisement went forth commending the lady's " reputation for teaching she bears." It i3 a grand thing for the poets that" ever " rhymes With " never," aud " love' with " dove," but for their helps to the imagination there would have been no poets in Eng- land la the 19th century. New London, Conn., has a doctor who has adopted the hawking system. He opens the door and slags out every day at the houses of his patron3, " Anybody In here got tku rheumatism, coughs, colds, neuralgia, heart- disease, small- pox. or anything else J" On rectiving a negative r6ply, ho retorts, " Glad of It," bangs the door, and moves on. la one of the earliest trials before a coloured jury in Texas, twelve gentlemen of colour were told by the Judge to retire and " And a verdict" They went to the Jary- room. The sheriffs and others standing outside heard the opining and ahutting of drawers, the shimming of doors, and other sounds of unusual commotion. At bat the Jury came back Into the court, when the foremaa rose and said, " We havo looked everywhar in the drawers and behind the do,' and can't found no verdlc." It warn't in the room." A religious journal is authority for tho statement , that the following is sung In some western Sunday schools:— I I hear, I hear, I hear. I hear de organ's tones; I feeL I feel, I feel. Religion la my bones. An economical Iowan. who had the toothache, de- termined to remove his tooth In the Indisa fsshion. A- c rd- ingly he bent down a sapling to the woods, lay down himatlf, and attached a stout cord to his tcoth at one end aul ! xo saving at tho other, then be released the sapling, and tte next thing he knew was that he had Jumped over a grjve cf about 40 small trees, and was trying to get oaj cl a Dial tato welsh he had hapgeaedto alight I Mrs. Partington wants to know why some of the Sowirg- Machlte Advertisers do not call their machine tho Crrtt. Her nephew, who is learning the Heathen Misogyny, tells her that Ceres first taught Sowing.— PuncA. A numerously attended conference assembled on Tu-'.- ay at Willis's Rooms, London, and discussed aeveral notats bearing upon ths agricultural labour question. Mr. Mcmsca MP., presided, aad the speakers included Mr. Joseph Arch, organising secretary of the Warwickshire Labourers Union ; fclr C. Trevelyan: Mr. Thomas HaHlday, pr. : of ti « Amalgamated Association ot Miner*; Mrv O » opcr, preii lent of the Hants Agricultural Laborers' I r. kon C- a .1 Girdlestoae : Mr. R M Latham, president of the Laboor Eeprx ^ otitlon Leazue ; a » d Mr. George Potter. The importance < t fanning talons la the aCTiculicral teicU was rsnerslly recognised. At the Liverpool County Magistrates' Court, a coal- heaver, named Wolnwrlght, lias been charged with attempting to drown Mr. Jones, tho dockmaster, at Garston, near LiverpooL Tho prisoner's wifo had been given Into custody by Mr. Jones for stealing coal from tha dock quay, and on Friday the prisoner watched his opportunity, and Rushed Mr. Jones into the dock, from which ho was rescued i a nearly unconscious state. Tho prisoner, who pleaded drunkenness— but who was said to have been quite aobcr at the time— was committed for trial for attempting to drown Mr. Jones. In London, on Monday night, a nnmorously at- tended conference was held at tho rooms ol the Labour Rep- resentation Leasuo respecting the agricultural labour ques- tion— Mr. M. Latham presiding. Among the representative men present was Mr. Arch, tho agricultural labourer who has led tho strike movement In Warwickshire. Mr. Arch, made a lengthy statement respecting tho state of affairs in the part of the country he came from, and was afterwards questioned as to ' his knowledge of tho condition of the labouring classes generally In tho parts of the country with which he Is acquainted. Tho mult of the conference was the passing of resolutions welcoming Mr. Arch to London, sympathising with thestriko movement in Warwickshire and other places, and offering that movement all tha assistance i hat the working men of London can afford it. Paris and most parts of Fraaco are new visited by a Kgue cf Dies of an unusual aspect. They are large nasty- kins black files with large long bodies and short narrow tails. The popular belief is that they aro generated by dead bodies, and they aro commonly called mouehetdt [ amort and Prussian flies. They are perfectly Innocuous, and when they settle on the person they are so sluggish that It is not easy to frighten them away, but they never bite, lhe sueaUOo world is endeavouring to class them. Some call them phry- games, ichneumons, and hymcnopU- rro. It la siijrgi etcd that though they do not bite mankind they are terlblo foes to caterpillars, and so may prove a blessing. Another theory ls that they have been brought hither by a peculiar current of equinoctial wind, but they do not item long lived, or likely to settle aad colonise. " We regret to state that Lieut. Colonel the Hon. A. Anson, Sl. P., is at the present moment lying dangerously 111 at Duuley House, Park- lane. Both hii lungs are affected, and a day or two ago ne burst a blood- ve* aeL Colonel Anson has been suffering for two yean ftrX from a bad cough. He not only omitted to take any remedies for this cw.; b. but committed the imprudence lately or going to Hcikm- 1 on a dack- shootlng expedition. His medical " at- temlar, ts are very uniasy aVrrtit his condition, and proiaoiU- eate that at the best he will l- o confined to Lis room f- r two months t> come. Thli interruption to Lis parliamentary duties wOl be deeply lamented by tbe officers of the army, whr- o sturdy champion Colonel Anson kaj always been. For more unselfish rcav- us a'sothey will Join a Urge circle of peiv- nal frien ' s to hoping for a st^ o. y recovery of this dis- tinguished officer.*— The London SUndarO, April SO. Liverpool is going to havo aa underground railway. A Dolly Vaiden Ball in London is the latest novelty proposed. Tlie Manchester Schr< d B^ ard estimate their ex- peaoitore aext year st- j£ l>>, uM. Tr e Dumfries masons are on strike in consequence of th- employment; Of slaters ia pointing fronts of houses. The Art Union of London held ito annual meeting oaTncs- iay; Lord H^ rghtan la ths c'liir. Tte sum aub- saibil for the year bad „ cn nearly £ 12.0.0. It J- H3 been announced that an engineer named Zcbi is going to build a railway up M.- unt Vesuvius. ( The recent eruption oi; cause him to. pause in hta scheme.] A report is widely current te the effefet that the Marquis ot Lome wffl shortly be anpoiated Private Secretary to the Queen. A whit.' flir w just now waving over the prison of Moot ers, ia Switzerland, as a siga that the cells are without Ti; e Governor of Lee- Is Gaol has received a commu- nication from the G « mo Oalce to the eject that the sentence on Patrick Lennsrd, the Bradford murderer, ls commuted to penal servitude for life. A great addition has just been made to the list of in- door paupers if the York Union in the adtoissloa of a femi'e mimed Douglas, whose weight is 37 stone. Mrs. Douglas is a native of Darlington. Tho climate of Sierra Leone is reported to be par- ticularly unhealthy just at tho present season. Mr. Pope Hennessey, the new governor, lost his onlv sou, a lad six years ol ago, n few weeks after landing upon tho island. A War Offico circular limits the number of Volun- teer to bo engaged in the next autumn maDarnvres to 4,000, but it is stated no less than doublo that number are desirous of attending. Tho Itappd says;—" In London on Sundays you do not meet tlw tipplers lr. the streets. Go into the houses and you will find aU Englishmen under the table." For a cram- mer who caa " beat the Jtappel J" From tho lst to the 27th April the Exchequer re- ceipts amounted to £ 5,017.050, a considerable increase over the corresponding porlod of last year. The expenditure has been £ 7,5S3 IS7. Tho balance in the Bank of England on Saturday last was £ 0,142,317. " Tho ponaltv of greatness" is exemplified in tho case of the Earl of Shaftesbury. His lordship is advortised to take the chair at what are called tho " May" meetings ( they commenced A. ril 18, and will finish Juno 20) upon no less than' 10 occasions. A woman, eighty years of age, living at Sidemoor, ne it Bromsgrovc. attempted to commit aulddo on Saturday, by cutting her throat with a pair of scissors, and afterwards endeavoured to strangle herself with a ropo. Although tho wound penetrated the windpipe, tho woman ls oxpocted to recover. Among the replies to an advertisement of a music committee for " a candidate as organist, muala teacher," ita, a vacancy having occurred by the resignation of tho organist In offlco, was the following:—" Gentlemen. I noticed E. ur advertisement for organist and music teacher, either dv or gentleman. Having been both for several years, I offer you my sorvlces." On Sunday last Archbishop Manning assisted ponti- flcallyat High Mass, and Monslgnor Capel preached after Vespers at the church of tho Pauionlst Fathers, Hlghg& te — the occasion being the Festival of St. Paul of tho Cross, founder of the order, to which, it may be recollected, tho late Father Ignatius belonged. One of Miiller's pictures fetched just closo upon £ 6 Ser square inch at the sale to London, and yet this artist led not very nymy yeara ago of a broken heart, because tho Royal Academicians refused to admit any of his pictures to their walls. It seems to lie almost a general rulo that artists must dlo to reach tho zenith of their fame. Open war is declared between the Tribune and New York limes on the subject of tho indirect claims. Tho Times says thoy could only be withdrawn to the caso of Great Britain virtually granting the point . for which the claim was preferred. This tho Tribune denounces as a betrayal ot the dignity of the country at the dictation of the British Ministry, and for considerations of political expediency. The Leeds flax striko has termiaated ia favour of employers. The operatives demanded the nine hours'system, but they have abandoned the struggle, and work wiU bo re- sumed on the old terms. In tho opinion of theleadcraof the strike, " the battle has not been lost from the conduct of the masters, but because some of tho men had proved un- faithful to their fello, vs." A correspondent of The Times writes to say that it may, perhaps, bo Interesting to meteorological readers to hear that a'few days ago, at Pau, Bassos PyrenCes, there was a heavy yellow shower, which proved to ba sulphur. Quau titles of it were gathered from off tho roads where it had fallen. The correspondent asks If Mount Vesuvius caa havo anything to do with it A proclamation signed by Don Carlos is circulated in Madrid, to which he thanks God for permitting him to kiss tho sacred soil of his country, and to find himself among Spaniards. The manifesto urges tho nation to rise in arms, and promises, on the part of Don Carlos, that he will deliver them or dlo to tho attempt. Some Journals havo been seized for publishing this proclamation. It Is rumoured that the King insists on taking personal command of the troops sent agauiit the Insurgents. At the annual meeting of tho Zoological Society held on Monday, it was stated that tho total number of visitors to tha society's gardens to 1S71 had bom 605,017, being 22,913 more than the corresponding number to 1870. The greatest number of adml'Slona on any ono day to 1671 has been 31,400, which took place on tho 29th of May ( Whltsun Monday). The numberof animals to the menagerie on the 31st of Decembor, 1871, w as 2,072! Many of tho acces- sions during tho year bad consisted of specimens of rare or little known animals, of which full particulars were given. Viscount Walden. F. R. S., was elected president for tho next year, aad Mr. P. JL Sclater secretary. Marshal B^ zaine is publishing a work on " The Army of tho Rhine from the 12th of August to tho 20th October, 1S70." In it the Marshal points out at some longth the defocts to the condition of the French Army at the time of tho war with Germany, and suggests various changcs in training and organization, with a view to rendering It more effpctlvo In future. He is of opinion that in the lato war France should have acted at first on tho defensive, as her re- I sources were not ready and she was only oblo to oppose a limited number of men to tho legions of Prussia With regard to his own part to tho war, Marshal Baiiaine says he aw aits with coafidence the judgment of history. Shortly before six o'clock on Monday evening the Prince Imperial ( Napoleon) paid a visit to tho House ot Com- mons. His Imperial Highness, who was accompanied by Viscount . Sydney, and two or three Frenoh gontlemen, entered the Peers' Gallery while tho Ballot Bill was under consideration to Committee, and sat over tho clock for a shert time listening with apparont interest to a not very animated discussion. Soon after the Princo took bis seat, Mr. Ayrton went up to the gallery, and was introduced to hin1! by the Lord Chamberlain, ills Imperial Highness had previously visited the House of Lords, and occupied a seat in the Diplomatic Gallery for a short time. The Prince re- turned to tho llouso of Commons later to the ovealng, and remained for more than an hour. THE FALMOUTH & PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. SATURDAY, MAY 4. 1872 PUNCH AND THE PUPPETS. We are Indebted to that, excellent Journil, All the Tear Jta/ ntf. for tho following oxt- rricta fr » ni an interesting article, entitled " Punch and the Puppets " ;— . Of the ones numerous race of puppets. Punch Is by far the best known in " England at the pre.- ent time. He, kifslct, alone of all the puppets which once used to amuse English audiences, retains his hold on the popu- lar favour. Every one who has lived in a large town must he tolerably familiar with the shrill squeak and absurd appearance of the performers going through their various parts in a comedy, which, when con- sidered from a moral point of view, is contrary to all • ur previously received ideas. Two theories only as to the origin of Punch appear to have any tinge of probability. The one idea is that the idea of Punch first originated in the mind of an ingenious Italian in the city pf Acerra, near Naples, abont the begin nin'^ of the seventeenth century. Three Italian authors. Riccoboni, Giunna, and Semiorelli, jrtate this, and Giunna is so precise as to give tho name o£ the ingenious inventor. He says : " Silvio Fiorelli, - comedian, invented the Neapolitan PulcineUa, to which Andrea Calcese, by study and natural grace, added much." Mr. Payne Collier, in his work entitled Punch and Judy, has adopted this account as the most pro- bable, though even he admits that it is open to doubt whether Punch is not one of a family of far greater antiquity. The othsr theory as to the orgin of the English Punch is that which Doctor Johnson was ac- customed to support, namely, that he is not the in- rention of any particular man or time, but the amalga- mation of several| characters, which were all well- known in the puppet- plays of the Middle Ages, more especially • f that one called the Vice or Iniquity of the mor- ality plays which took place of the miracle playB of an earlier epoch. This much at any rate is clear, that this particular feature of Punch's exploits is not peculiar to him, but was copied by him from puppet and other plays that were common in Europe before he was ever thought of. Yet Punch, as the English representative puppet, has a high and ancient genealogy, which he wonld do ill to exchange for his alleged Italian origin. He and his troupe are in England almost the • nlv surviving representath es of a race of small beings, whose birth dates beyond the times of the ancient' Romans, and who for centuries en- joyed universal popularity. By assenting to the theory that would place his birth at Acerra in the • eventeenth century, Punch would cut himself off ffom an illustrious ancestry, whose exploits are to be fonnd recorded in the pages of Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Petronius, Galen, Apuleius, Tertullian, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Ben Johnson, Molifere, Pope, Swift, Field- ing, Voltaire, Goethe, and Byron. Yes, the pages of all these great authors contain some reference to puppet- plays and players, who are the direct ancestors • f Mr Punch. It is no figure of speech to say a very early period, lor the practice of representing scenes and incidents dramatically by means of puppets is of extreme anti- ^ HeroJotuB, in the hundred and forty- eighth chapter • f his second book, states that the Egyptians, in their ceremonial of the worship of Osiris, used to cany about Phallic images, or puppets, the limbs of which moralities & ad indecencies that disgraced tlie plays of that period. We are now approaching that epoch when our friend Punch appears on the miniature stago in his own peculiar character. Mr. Payne Collier thinks this charactcr first ap- peared in 1088, and came in with the House of Orange at the great Revolution. On theothor hand. Grainger, in his Biographical History, asserts that traces of him are to be found before that time, and he is of opinion that he came from France in tho rotinue of the Stuarts at the Restoration to dethrone tho old Vice. The part of tho Italian Pulcinella was mutfh more that of harlequin or clown than that of our Punch. He tilled up tho gaps in tho piece with jokes and by- play, and was by no means tho principal personage, round whom, as in the case of Punch, all the rest revolve. His part was that of mimicry and buffoonery, like that of the ancient Roman mimes, from whom his character seems to be derived. It was, however, not in hi3 present character of chief Eerformer in his own drama that Punch first appeared, utinone that combined the parts of theclown in a pan- tomime and that of tho old Vice, Even as late as 1697 Punch was a roystering blade, with nothing of the mixture of the character of Bluebeard and Don Juan that he assumed later. Addison has described him at this date iu a charming Latin poem, which was published at Oxford in 1698, in a volume entitled Musarum Anglicanum Delectus Alter, and of a few lines of which the following is submitted as a transla- tion:— \ A tlnjr folk dlsportB Itself among / Tlio trappings round a tiny stage uphung, / Tut o'er the rest a mannlkin 1* Of harshly croaking voice and pompous mien. Huge Is his stomach, swelling proud and high : Behind, a monstrous hump- back meqts tho oye. were moved by strings. The same performance, the pseudo- Lucian tells us, took place at Heliopolis. Again, we are told that automaton images iVere « omno& at the festivals of Bacchus, who is the same as Osiris, for Calixenes, in his work, the Banquet of Athenseus, tells us that on one occassion when Ptolemy Philadelphus held a festival in honour of Baochus, a statute of that deitv was carried about, which raised itself at its own will, poured out a libation of milk, and sat down again. A very celebrated group of automaton images at Proeneste is mentioned by Cicero, in his book, De Divinatione. It oonsisted of Jupiter, Juno, and their children, seated on the knees of Fortune, and they ap- peared to move of their own wilL The knowledge of the contrivances by which _ these little beings were made to appear to move at their own will was at first entirely in the hands of the sacerdotal caste, who were the educated class; and, whilst this was so, automaton images and puppets were found at religions ceremonies alone. But when the science of mechanism and geometry was divulged, it became a means of ministering to the passion of the Greeks for plays and amusements; and two mathematicians, Archytas of Tarentum and Eudoxus. are said to have introduced automaton puppets into the popular recrea- tions. Favorinus of Aries mentions of the invention of Archytas. It was a wooden dove, which used to fly, to the astonishment and amusement of the spectators. When Christianity became the religion of the world, the drama, both the real and that represented by marionettes, fell into disrepute. Naturally the early Christians looked with more than suspicion on an art that had been so closely allied, as this had been, with the false worship of the heathen deities, and cen- turies elapsed before the puppet race began again to lift their heads. When, however, it came to be recognised tliat art and science might be used in the interest of religipn, a great step had been taken in the direction of a point which was reached later, of admitting dramatic repre- sentations of religions subjects. At first these representations were performed by • eligious confraternities, and later were transferred to the puppet stage. When they were thus transferred, it is not possible to determine very accurately, but Eustathins, who was Archbishop of Thessalonica in the twelfth century, in his commentary on the Iliad, when explaining the hundred and twenty- second verse • f the fourth book, expresses his astonishment at the renown of the Greek neuropast Pothinus, but he at the same time states that the art wai well known in the Greek empire. It has already been stated that the miracle plays which used to instruct and amuse the people in the Middle Ages were first performed by members of ligious confraternities, who on Sundays and saints' days were accustomed, after morning service, to give representations of certain scenes of Scripture history. We are told that the denunciation of Nineveh, Jonah, in the belly of the whale, and especially tho Deluge, with Noah in the Ark, were favourite subjects, and oontinued to hold their place even after the morality plays had bean introduced. These seem to have been added to the miracle plays about the middle of the fifteenth century. They re- ceived the name of morality plays, because the players took each the part of some virtue or vice, and carried cut the part in a manner appropriate to that character. The Reformation under Henry the Eighth treated the puppet stage with consideration. Extravagant fanatics, such as the New Gospellers and extreme Puritans, cursed all amusements, but the churchmen took a more enlightened and liberal view of the matter, and an Irish bishop, John Bale, Bishop of Ossory, composed, and had represented by the pupils • f the episcopal college at Kilkenny, a score of miracle and morality plays, inculcating Protestant principles. Under Queen Marv of course Protestant plays gave way to Romanist, wnichiwere carried out with great pomp in London. Ouecn Elizabeth was somewhat in adifficnlt position with regard to the stage. She was supported by the Puritan party, whilst her own views had nothing in common with puritanism, and she had no wish that her countenance of the drama should seem to favour either party. She therefore solved the difficulty, in a characteristic manner, by prohibiting performances of religious kind altogether. The consequence of this prohibition of religious plays was that secular plays of a classical turn became very common in this reign. In 1562. the stage, both great and^ small, fell under the ban of Calvin, who prohibited scenic representa- tion with the utmost rigour. The effect was immense, • ays a French writer. All the Presbyterians of the three kingdoms, with whom the word of Calvin was more holy and eacred than the Gospel itself, raised a howl of reprobation against the theatre, which came, they said, from the ashes of paganism. From this time, owing partly to civil and poli- tical difficulties, as well as to the Puritan influence, the drama declined, till it was finally prohibited alto- gether by the Long Parliament under Cromwell, who, curiously enough, had himself taken part in a morality play when an undor- graduate at Trinity College. Cam- bridge. The piece was the Combat between tho I ongno and the Fire Senses, and Oliver Cromwell played the part of Touch. At the renaissanrc of the stage the puppet drama re- vived also, and downofc appear, even in the worst days • f the Restoration, to have lent itself U the ia- ort doth be seek the converse of the fair; With saucy lip doth court the lovers bliss. And still ou cheek reluctant prints the kiss. The puppet- show of Punch here described was ap- parently that of Powell, which enjoyed great popu- larity at the beginning of the eighteenth century. The following advertisement of a sort of mirade play, in which Punch appears, serves to show what his part in the puppet drama was in 1703. It is to bo found in Strutt's Ancient Mysteries, page 230 : " At Crawley Lodge, opposite the " Crown" Tavern in Smithfield, there will bo performed during St. Bar- tholomew Fair, a little play called the Ancient Crea- tion of the World, newly touched up and improved bv the addition of the Deluge. Many fountains will play during the piece. The last scene will show Noah and his family going out of the Ark, with the animals in pairs, and all the birds of the air perched upon trees. Finally, by means of various contrivances, will be seen the bad rich man going into Hell, and Lazarus being carried into Abraham's bosom. Several figures will dance jigs, sarabands, and quadrilles, to the admiration of the spectators, all accompanied by the joyous fantasies of Segnior Punch and Sir John SpendalL" It was a very common incident of these puppet- plays to introduce Punch into the Ark, forit is related by the author of Punch and Judy, that in one of these shows of the Deluge, Punch appears from behind the curtain, when the ram begins to fall, and observes to the patri- arch, " Very hazy weather Master Noah." A most amusing account of Mr. Powell's celebrated puppet- show, in which Punch appeared, is given in the sixteenth number of the Tatler. Two fashionable ladies are striving for the leadership of society at Bath, and the te3t is, which will get the world to follow her to the amusement she selAts on a particular evening. The one invites her friends to go with her to the theatre to see the play of " Alexander the Great ; the other calls her followers to her house to see the creation of the world. This ladv carried # 11 before her, and her house was crowded, because it was given out that no one could get in, but here the Tatler must be allowed to speak for him- self. " When we camo to Noah's flood in the show, Punch and his wifo were introduced dancing in the Ark An honest plain friend of Flornnel's, but a critic withal, rose up in the midst of the repre- sentation, and made many very good exceptions to the drama itself, and told us it was ogainst all morality, as well as the rules of the stage, that Punch should be in jest in tho Deluge, or, indeed, should appear at alL This was certainly a just remark, and I thought to sfitond him, but he was hissed by the other party, whereupon we, who were his friends, hissed him too. Old Mrs. Petulant desired her daughter to mind the moral, and whispered to Mistress Mayoress, ' This is very proper for young people to see.' Punch at the end of the play was very civil to the whole company, making oows till his buttons touched the ground." Since 1790, Punch has continued to play the part here assigned to him. From time to time incidents of popular interest have been introduced into Ills drama, as they are now introduced into the pantomime, but. the main features of the play remain the same, and probably ever will, since they have been so successfully stereotype! by Mr. Payne Collier and Mr. Cruikshank earlier attempts to extend it, were absolutely for- gotten. The decay of Jacobitism transferred to him tho chivalrous devotion to the person of tho sovereign which had sprung out of the troubles of the Great Rebellion, and been consecrated by the scaffold at Whitehall. But it was in his own temper that we must look for the origin of a wholly now sentiment, which in a yet more special way than its fellow- feel- ings has produced in the English people their present warm affection for the Crown. The love of domestic lifu which George III. at all times displayed, his family affection, the quietness and piety of hishome, won a strange regard amongst the most home- loving people in the world. From his time the most common in- cidents in tho daily history of the Royal household became subjects of national interest. The birthddys of its members became as familiar to the ordinary Eng- lishman as the birthdays of his own children. Their habits and modes of life are discussed with as real a concern as those of his sons and daughters. A domestic poetry, in fact, an idealisation of the family life of the sovereign, endeared the one Royal home to every home" in the land. It is in the union of these three national sentiments, of personal affection, of political trust, and of domestic interest, that we find the peculiar character of English loyalty ; a loyalty a3 unuke the loyalty of our own earlier history as it is unlike the loyalty of other peoples in our own day. The personal devotion, indeed, which is only enhanced by the misfortunes of the sovereign is common enough. But German loyalty would never find its ground in an absolutely powerless sovereign, and we know that the domestic temper of Louis Philippe won ridicule instead oi admiration from his came to live in Massachusetts, in 1846, it was as the agent of sheep- farmers and wool- growers in Ohio, one of whom he had been for half a dozen years. Iheir interests required, as they thought, that an agency to stand between them and the New England manufacturers, to whom they sold their wool, should be established at Springfield in Massachusetts, and Brown was selected as tho fittea^^ Wjun to manage this agency. He accepted the was active and faithful in it, but he held sition also as a means of developing his schen. c f^^ RITncipation. Before he took up his residence in Springfield he carried his family thither, and his son- s there made the acquaintance of a coloured man, a fugitive from the eastern shore of Maryland, Thomas Thomas by name, who was living in a humble capacity at Springfield. The young men accompanied Thomas to the African church in the town, learned his history and something of his upright and courageous character, an engaged him to work for their father when he should come to take charge of Ids wool business at Springfield In due time John Brown came, and sent for Thomas to call and see him. He did so, and was directed to come and begin work as a porter at the wool warehouse the next morning. " How early shall I come? " said Thomas. " We begin work at eeven," replied Brown, " but I wish you would come round earlier, for I want to talk with you." Thomas ac- cordingly went to his work the next morning between five and six o'clock; found Brown waiting for h m, and there received from him the outlines of his plan to liberate the slaves, and was invited to join in the enterprise, which he agreed to do. This was nine years before Brown went to Kansas, four years before the Fugitive Slave Bill was passed, and two years before Sumner, Wilson, Adams, Phillips, Hoar, and their friends formed the Free Soil party of Massachu- setts. Thomas was afterwards sent by Brown to look up Madison Washington, the leader of the courageous slaves of the vessel Creole, who was wanted as a leader among the coloured recruits that Brown hoped to enlist in his band of liberators. But Washington, when found, proved to be an unfit person for such a position. ENGLISH LOYALTY ( From the Saturday Ittvieic). There can be no doubt that the outburst of English jyalty which accompanied the illness of the Prince of Vales fell up< m most of us with a certain shock of surprise. It is- characteristic of the singular disinclina- tion for political speculation which Englishmen oddly enough combine with a rare aptitude for practical politics, that, with the single exception of Mr. Bagehot, no philosophic observer has attempted to examine the character of the Engli.- h monarchy as it actually exists, or to estimate its real hold upon the nation. On no subject was the ordinary politician so utterly at sea. Half an hour before tho first bulletin was issued a very shrewd person would have been pnzzled by a plain question as to the amount and warmth of the existing stock of English loyalty. Such a question is not likely to be asked now, but there are other questions which in- evitably follow on the solution of this primary one: and the chief advantage which we have gained from recent occurrences is that they liavo ' set people fairly thinking otcr some of tnem. Even amidst tho enthusiastic verbiage of the great miss of Thanksgiving sermons it was possible hero and there to cofne upon such a thoughtful and temperate discus- sion as that in which. Mr. Stopford Brooke traced tho origin and characteristics of English loyalty. The whole subject, however, of our kingship requires a far closer and m » > ro thorough investigation than it has yet received. The popular notions of the Crown are derived in a vague way from Blackstone and the lawyers, and it is hard to say whether they are more untrue to history or to actual fact. The hlbtory, in- deed, or English royalty has recently been cleared of a vast mass of traditional rubbish by inquirers like Mr. Freeman, but. much still reniainB to be dono in tracing the connexion between the present and the past, and in explaining, tho subtle process by which, at the lowest point of its political weakness, the Throne has acquired a hold on tho affections of Englishmen such as it never won before. The outlines of such an inquiry are perfectly clear, and it is only the outlines that wo can give here. The '' divinity that doth hedge a king " begins at tlje very outset of royalty. As the blood descendant of Woden, or some other divine progenitor of tho race wh'om he ruled, the older Teutonic king was possessed, hot merely of authority, but of a vague personal sacred- ness, the reverence derived from which only paled before the enthusiastic fidelity and affection sworn to him bv the band of young comrades who followed him Us their war- lender. XJnd « r the later feudalism this vow of enthusiasm died down into a mere bargain of fee and service between tho vassal and his royal lord ; and, oddly enough, the word thatndw embodies all the warmest feelings of devotion to tho Crown reiklly ex- presses this bargaining temper of mediceval obedienco. " Loyalty" is simply tho rendering of the servico actually due by feudal law to the Crown. But even at times when the English king snemed to b © sinking into a mere " first baron" of his realm, ho retaind a. peculiarnacredn^ s. If the conquest of the Norman fand broken down the traditional reverence for the raco of Woden, Christianity moro than compensated for the lots by the solemn unction and consecration which raised the monarch into " tho anointed of the Lord." The ruin of feudalism, the fall of th » baronage who disputed its nutliority, and of the priesthood who rivalled its K acred character, raised royalty in England, rw elsewhere, to an unexamplocl height ; the first of the Tudors remained tho one political power in his realm, while tho peculiar character of tho English Re- formation invented tho second with a strange religious reverence as tho hood and legislator of tho new Prctestant communion. But tlicrw is nothing really subjects. As in so many other instances, we have hit out something very odd, but not without a certain originality or fitness to our own national ten- dencies. Beneath all his outer roughness an Englishman is the most Bentimental of men, and it docs not follow that his loyalty is the less strong because it takes a sentimental form. But it is plain that such a conception of kingship, and such a regard for the sovereign, has at once advantages and perils peculiar to itself. Take, for instance, the strength which the Crown derives from the quiet trust of the people in its fidelity to constitutional law. It is unique in its way. Were the Count of Chambord to mount the throne of France to- morrow, the most zealous of Legitimists would at once take up a position of silent suspicion. He would assume, as the most probable thing in the world, that the new king would wish to get more power than the Constitution gave him, and that even in the most loyal of subjects a certain jealousy on behalf of liberty was indispensable. In England the mere whisper that the Sovereign was deliberately planning to lesson the power of Parliament or to embarrass the Ministry would be regarded a3asign of insanity. It is impos- sible to estimate too highly the mero adaiini3trative convenience of such a confidence as this— the play and freedom, for instance, which it allows to our consti- tutional machinery at such awkward moments as that pf a change of Ministry. Its value in lifting the idea of Government itself out of the range of party suspic- ions and controversies is of . course still higher. But it is difficult to reflect for a moment on this confidence without seeing that its unruffled continuance is by no means such a thing of- course as we commonly assume. It is only a hundred years ago that George III. was battling desperately, and for a timo_ with good sus- cess, against sinking into tho position which an English sovereign now occupies. It i3 still a position absolutely unintelligible to Continental politicians. No Frenchman can understand a king who reigns but does not govern, and a Hohen- zollern would fight to the death before yielding to what he would brlievo to be sheer vassalage to his subjects. We trust, in fact, simply to the strength of our con- stitutional tradition, and to tho good sense which has so long characterized, whatever may have been their other merits or demerits, the occupants of our throne. But It is a trust which would be rudely shaken either by the accession of a man of great genius or by the accession of a fool. The first might very fairly bo im- patient of his exclusion from all direct influence on public affairs, while the second would be very likely to mistake the pomp and popular regard which are the accompaniment of his station as being the actual measure of his power. In the same way, it is easy to see that the domestic tone of modern loyalty, though it has added enor- mously to the strength of the throne, ia not without its perils. It has added to the strength of the throne in the simplest and most direct way. by collating on its side the commonest and yet the deepest of English sympathies. There are few of her subjects who are from actual knowledge able to appreciate the sterling worth which the Queen has shown in the discharge of the higher functions of her office. But the poorest peasant understands that she has been a good wife and a good mother. Every incident too of royal life, a marriage or a fever, excites a fresh emotion of loyalty, and gives a new warmth and vigour to the pop- ular affection. But, simple as are the conditions on which this, homely affection rest*; it is only fair to remember in how few families they are continuously met We never dream of the pos- sibility of a direct feud between the sovereign and the heir to tho throne, and yet the present instance Is the first for centuries m which such a feud has not taken place. But a feud which in the case of " poor Fred " r the Regent simply gave a new impulse to political lartisanship would now pause the keenest national Beer, best adapted t<> support out- door labour, is now kept from the ptoplc. heiugi made, by legislation, too .1 « ar for them. An infusion of a plant brought from fJhina is made cheaper to the working man than an infusion of a plant grown by the cottage door. The home barley grower is injured for the benefit of tlii Chinese tea grower, and all our working men are injured morally and physically to an extent beyond human calculation. This is British Legislation. Tea is very good for guenching thirst, but, when ex- clusively used, requires a full diet, and, when that can- not be obtained, there is the desire forsome more potent stimulant. Hence the Chinese find the necessity of opium ; the English, Scotch, and Irish labourers who drink tea and are too poor to buy sufficient food resort to " in and whisky. The love of strong drinks is not natural to the Eng- lish, but is created by the English law. William III. and Queen Anne taxed malt, and made tho beer too dear for the people, and encouraged the extraction of spirits from barley for tho sake of revenue. In the reign of George I. and II., gin- drinking bccame a grevailing vice. In 1703, the dear and fiery wines of ortugal wore admitted at a third less duty than the light cheap wines of France. Thus, the British Legis- lature created artificially the taste for strong drinks. This has gone down from father to son, from generation to generation, and has produced more moral guilt, more destruction to human life than all tho battles fought by England since the Conquest. Gin drinking has been sanctioned and encouraged in this country for the sako of revenue, just as gambling has been encouraged at Homburg, Baden, and other towns on the Continent, to the everlasting disgrace of the British Legislature. It is well known that those who drink beer with their dinner require, and ought to take, lees solid food. Our agricultural population are notoriously ill fed, and their terrible diseases arise chiefly from this cause and its consequence— gin- drinking. If good, wholesome beer were allowed to be brewed in the cottage, or to be bought at a price at which the labourer and his family could obtain it, this would sup- ply food and diminish drunkenness. The rich man, with abundance of wine and spirits in his cellar, . is seldom tipsy. . He has no reason for drinking to excess. He can always have it, and learns from experience the value of moderation. The labouring man, in the like position, would aot in the same way. It is the forced abstinence in the previous days of the week that causes the abuse on Saturday. But beer, free from adultera- tion, can now scarcely be had for money. The ex- hausted labourer drinks, and, by drinking salt and worse ingredient^ becomes more thirsty. He is doubly robbed— robbed in character because he drinks too much— robbed in pocket because he is cheated. He is then driven to gin, and dies a drunkard, or is hanged ns a murderer. For all this the British Legislature is responsible. May it be held answerable here and hereafter! pause , , Jistress, and might possibly issue in the creation of bitter social dissensions. Our ordinary family expe- rience in the world around us hardly warrants us in looking for perpetual peace in a royal home, any more than it warrants us in expecting that tho occupant of the throne will in all case3 be wise or^ good. " No doubt tlie very anxiety with Which the nation now regards every act of the Royal Family is in itself an immense check on excesses such aa thoBe of George IV. ; but a George IV. is always poisible. It seems to bo agreed on all hands that the acces- sion of a really worthless sovereign would now be a serious danger to the throne, and that the very strength of tho domestic loyalty which iB now its support would then becomo a political peril. It is not likely that any future Sir Walter Scott will treasure as a sacred relic the glass out ot whifch the Regent had iust imbibed his morning draught of braudy: or that any English loyalist would tolerate for an nour tho infamies of Isabella of Spain. But after resting our loyalty on the personal character of the occupant of the tlirone, it will be less easy for us than It was for Sir Walter to fall back on the abstract sentiment of devotion to the throno itself. In perils such as these, no doubt, tho practical good sense of English statesmanship will find timely resources ; but it Is as well to rememberthat such perils do exist in the very nature of our modern loyalty. IMPENDING CHANGES. ( From St. James') Magazine.) We are on the threshold of another century, must mould our future by the warnings and the le; of the past. No one who reads the signs of the times can fail to see that we are on the eve of great changes, and perhaps in time of a " New Departure r in the history of the English race on this continent. Already the beginning of the end is at hand. The Old World is bidding farowell to the land, and to the dream of the United Empire Loyalists. While instinctively we are clinging to nerckirts, the last hold on them is slipping from our grasp; and when the last British soldier is called upon to do a last act " for the encouragement of trade," by furling the British flag, and carrying it aw with him from our shores, he will leave us a nation. While British statesmen are doing so little to realise the idea of a United Empire, and so much to render it impossible, there is an unexpected source of hope from a quarter whence we might least look for it, from a new and mysterious influence that during the past few years is everywhere making itself felt and obeyed. The tendency to a reunion of races is suddenly developing itself throughout the civilised world in an inscrutable and irresistible way ; and language is exerting a new power on the destinies of nations. That it must ulti- mately make itself felt among ourselves we cannot doubt. The language of commerce is now the English tongue— a fact that was strongly impressed upon the writer during a recent visit to fc> t. Thomas, Santa Cruz, St. Eustacius, St. Bartholomew, St. Martin's and other colonies in the foreign West Indies, where the Danish, Dutch, Swedish, and French langunges have been swallowed up by our own; those islands being English communities in everything except in name. The English tongue is now more or less spoken throughout a large portion of the civilised world, and more than one- half of the commerce and shipping of the world is controlled by the English race, the United Kingdom, in point of tonnage, standing first, the United States second, and the British Colonies third, the new Dominion alone ranking next to France as a maritime Power. A reunion of the English race may well startle us by its magnitude and its grandeur, for, if realised, it would dwarf the greatest nations of antiquity, and become one of the wonders of history. Nor need we believe powerless to reunite the wide- spread branches of the Fnglish race by its influence. In our days the magic power of the German tongue has realised the dream of a United Gormany, wtiilo Austria is torn asunder by the tendency of its Sclavic and Germanic races to gravitate east and west towards their kinsmen. As barbarism is elevated into civilisation, its tribes and clans are merged into nations. The nations of civilisation themselves seem about to realise a new stage of development; and their future seems destined to be regulated, not by trade or geographical boundaries, or historical traditions, but by a voice that, coming to them from the very cradle of their race, seems destined to revive on a grander scale the very same rivalries that marked tho early history of the world Is there not reason to believe that future contests for supre- macy will have a wider and grander theatre, that the wars of the Titans will be revived, and that a struggle of the races is awaiting us ? In looking forward to the future of the English people, we may have little to hope for from tho aspir- ations of our statesmen, but we liave much to expect from the spirit of the age and from the example and influence of other races. Whon we see languages that have no past national history to appeal to breaking down the barriers that a thousand years of rivalry ana division have built up, we cannot believe that the English tongue, that is identified with tho birth of liberty, and with the growth of commerce and civilis- ation, has in one short century of disunion lost its virtue ; nor can we suppose that it alone is unable to re- echo the voice of reuiuon of races which has gone forth among the nations, and which nature itself seems to have learned at this late day— those whom God has joined let no man put asunder." CHEAP BEER WANTED. ( From " The Petple't Blue Book." By Charles Tennant.) The malt duty entails an Excise duty on sugar used in brewing of 7 » . 6d. per cwt. over and above the Cus- toms duty. The details of tho arrangements con- sidered necessary to protect the Revenue against the improper uso of sugar are of an Utterly absurd charac- ter, and would fill volume^. It wonld be ridiculous, if not sogrovious, that a broker should have to pay three farthings per pound rtiore for Ktlfcar than any one else. The brewers like tbeso threb fathings per pound addi- tional tax, because it helps th'eir monopoly. The demon of the Exchequer likes these'- tliree additional farthings, because lid claws them in every year, and in the year ended 31st March, 1870, he clawed in 33,136,880 of these additional three farthings, equal to £ 103,552 15s. But will tho people like it when they understand it? The people ore already aware that a better order of things once existed. In 1745, tho farm labourer bought his barley at 2s. 3d. per bushel, turned it into malt, paid no tax,—( tho cottagors were then not taxed)— and made excellent ale for his own use at Jd. per quart. THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS AND ITS POPULATION. From the report of the births, deaths, and marriages in the state of Massachusetts during the year 1870, which has just been published, it appears that in spite of the civil war the population had increased in the ten years between 1860 and 1870 by 226.285 souls, and that at the oiose of decade it amounted to 1,457,351. The rate of increase during the last five yeire oi the period was fifteen per cent., which, were it to be maintained, would double the population by the end of the century. Thegreater numberofbirths amongthe foreign settlers than among the natives, which baa often before been noticed, not merely continues, it is attain- ing constantly growing proportions. The increase is not regular, but it is always going on. In 1870 the excess of fortig i over native births was greater than in any year sin e 1865. It was as high as 2,776. On the other hi. nl, the native births were fewer in 1870 than in 1869 by 463. In this way a mixed people o£ German, Irish, and Canadian descent is rapidly taking the place of a people almost pure English blood. If this process goes on unchecked, it is calculated that by the end of tho century the old English stock will not exceed a tenth of the population of the State. As is the case here at home, in Massachusetts also a steady diminution of the agricultural towns is going on side oy side with a corresponding increase of the manufacturing ones. Contrary to what would be expected, it appears that there Jwere fewer deaths from consumption in 1670 in the winter quarter/ fhan in any of the other three seasons. In connection \ Hth this subject a curious contradiction is afforded by the returns of two maritime counties. Thjr neighbourhood of the sea, as that specialv exposed to thif dreaded east wind, is generally believed to be the nroet unhealthy ; and, as a matter of fact, in Suffolk County, which contains Boston, and lies upon the bay, the death- rate in 1870 was higher than in any other county. But opposed to this is the fact that in Barnstaple, which is almost surrounded by the sea. the death- rate at the same time was the lowest. With respect to longevity, fifteen persons are stated tohavd died during the year at ages ovor one hundred. All of them had been married, and, contrary to the general opinion that men live longer in the trying New England climate than woman, ten of them were females and only five males. Seven, or nearly half the whole number, were natives of Ireland. From a comparison of the births and deaths in 1870 with those in former years, as well as from the marked decrease in the percentage of infantile mor- tality, it appears that the health of Massachusetts is improving. But as this improvement would seem to increase with the ir crease of the immigrant population and its immediate offspring, the fact will no doubt be regarded by those who believe in tiie degeneration of the while race in America as affording additional con- firmation of their theory. JOHN BUOWN'S SCHEME TO GET RID OF SLAVERY. ( From " Jthn Broion in Ma& tachiuetts," from " The Atlantit Monthly.") It was about fourteen years after this second mar riage that John Brown came again to Massachusetts where he lived from 1816 to 1840. In the intervening years, since he studied with Parson Hallock at Plain- field, he hod been a tanner in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and a shepherd in Ohio,— tho latter occupation, he says, " being a calling for which in early life he had a kind of enthusiastic longing." At the age of thirty- nine, when he entered upouthis " calling " as a regular business, ho also had, he says, " the idea that as ahusi- ness it bid fair to afford him tho means of carry- ing out his greatest or principle object." This object was the liberation of the slaves, and the plan which he bad formed for this was in substance the same in 1839 that it was twenty years later, when he put it in exe- cution. * piis statement is made on the authority of his wife, who declares that he oommunioated it to her as early as 1839, and that all her children were brought up to believe in it and to aid in it. Tho precise time when this plan was formed it is perhaps impossible now, to detormine,( nor is it import- ant to do so; if we " accept Mr. Imerson's view of the mattar in his speech at Salem, a month after Brown's martyrdom : " His enterprise was not a piece cf spite or revenge, a plot of two years or of twenty years, but the keeping of an oath made to heaven and earth forty- seven years before. Forty- seven years at least, though I incline to accept his own account of tho matter at Charlestown, Which makes the date a little older, when he said, ' This was all settled millions of years before the world was made.*" Ho was indeed a most implicit believer in foreordination. as his Puritan forefathers had boen. Ho had long looked upon himself as called to take part in the liberation of the slaves, and how constantly his mind dwelt on this subject will appear froman u » a- dent whiah is now for the first time published. When he THE DANGERS OF TRAVEL IN THE HOLY LAND. The Levant Herald publishes the following letter, dated Jerusalem, March SO:— The adventures and capture of a party of scientific travellers by that notorious ruffian, Mujelli Shaykh, of Kerak, m Moab, may perhaps interest some of your readers as much as they did the inhabitants of this place. Twq months ago Canon Tristram and Dr. Guia- fcurg, accompanied by four other gentlemen and the Rev. Mr. ipein, a resident mL- sionary, started for Moab. The two first- named gentlemen had received a grant from the British Association to assist them in exploring moro thoroughly than bus yet been done the Land of jMoab. They first went to Hebron ( El Rhald), where they engaged certain of the JehaJin Arabs to esc art them to Kerak. Arrived at the Ghor- el- Safi, they found tho Ghawarinsh Arabs and the Beni ' Attvyeh ( a division of the Maazeh from beyond PetrajTprepared to attack them. Diplo- macy, however, aided by " Backshish" Pusha, gained the day. ( Then Mujelli Shaykh, of the fell& hin of Kerak, sent down his son to rescue the travellers and escort them t » Draa. Here they were bled to the extent of some thirty napoleons. Arrived at Kerak, they complained to the mujelli, who affected great in- dignation at his son's enforcement of backshish, and said that he had no wish to touoh a farthing. He, however, confined the travellers to their tents for three or four days as strict prisoners, and then demanded £ 600 as ransom. They managed in this interval to send off a Christian of Kerak to Jerusalem with a letter to Mr. N. T. Moore, her Majesty's Consul. This gentleman acted with the greatest promptitude and decision, telegraphing to Damascus and Nabbas for soldiers, and sending off Mr. G. Salamd, his ch an- cellier, with the necessary gold, to proceed to TE1- Salt and go down to Kerak with the troops. Meanwhile. Zattam, son of Fendi el- Fais, Shayh of the Beni Sakhkhr, had gone to Kerak, having made a contract at the English Consulate, after Dr. Tristram's departure, to escort, the party anywhere in his territory or that of allied tribes. The Bedouin proved a most valuable ally td the Englishmen, who finally got off with a further payment of some twenty- five to thirty napoleons. O. n hearing that the party had escaped safe and sound in person, the troops who were marching on Kerak received orders to proceed no farther, and an inquiry was set on foot Had it not been for the energetic action of her Majesty's consul here these gentlemen would not havo escaped so easily. Shaykh- el- Mujelli is a fellah, whoso father is said to have been so poor as to possess nothing in the way of i clothing but a single ( abba." The present ruffian rolls in wealth, chiefly extorted from travellers, such as the late Duke, de Luynes, M. de Saulcy, and othors, from the IGreek convents at Kerak. I He has thus been able to satisfy the " itching I palms" of commissioners. He has forcfd tbdl Christians of Kerak, vroo detest and fear him, toj sign a p » p « r exonerating liim from all blame ; ami hel himself has written to saylthat be treated the traveller* with all oourtc- sy and tooh nothing from them, but re- 1 quires satisfaction for defamation of character! Tiifi Turkish authorities have cyiosen to take this version « • the case as true, preferring to believe the statement ofl a fellah of notoriously ruffianly hobitsto that of sovflM well- known English gentlemen— threo of whom arfl clergymen— and of a Bodnoin Shaykh of good repn. JM tion. All this, notwithstanding the energetic protest ® of ILB. M.' s Consul. If the matter be all- iwert to reafl thus, it will be useless for the American explpripl party to attempt work in Moab. unless thoy are pnB pared to pavo their road with gyli Our Transatlantic cousins hSvo undertaken t'.. l survey of the country east of thv Jordan, wh le that ^ the west has been be^ un some four months lij ( English) Palestine Exploration Fund, whose isiriH has already surveyed the country between Rurnlen aifl Jerusalem to an extent of nearly 250 square milea. iH