Istaflffr k Smip imps AND GENERAL ADVERTISER. PUBLISHED, EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, BY FRED. H. EARLE, OFFICES QN^ THE QUAY, FALMOUTH. NUMBER 572. „ BEGISTEEED FOB TBANSMISSIOS" ABE. OAB. FALMOUTH: SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1872. PRICE ONE PENNY. £ alt « fry gmtim ly 8th. 1872. $ al* s try ftirfimi. Neat Modern Household Furniture MESSES, OLVER & SONS will Seii by PUBLIC AUCTION, on Thursday, May 23rd, the excellent/ Modern Household Furniture .. • and other effects of the laie Rev. J. ^ C. Ringwood, Stratton Terrace, in the Pariah of Budock, comprising PARLOUR.— Mahogany Table, Coucli. in Ameri- can cloth, Easy Chair, 6 Chsnrs, Kidder- minster Carpet, Hearth Rug, render and Fire Irons, Chimney Glass, Paraffin Lamp, Folding Chair with leg rest, Tea- Caddy, Cheffonicr, Chimney Ornaments. PARLOUR, NO. 2.— Loo Table, douch in hair seating^ Chair, 6 / Chairs, Work Table, Stfrpfct, Hearth Rut, Pictures in gilt and oth^^ rames, Fenders and Fire Irons, Chimney ( Jrnamoofcs. BEDROOM, No. 1.— Iron] Frencly Bedstead, pair of Palliasses, hair llattrass, Bolster and Pillows, Bedding, Washiitand, Dressing Table, Chamber'Set, TAwel Horse, felt Carpet, Chest of Drawers, Fender and Fire Irons, Looking Gliss, caned Chairs. BBDROOM, NO. 2.— Iron Bedstead, pair of Pal- liasses, Mattrass, Beddfing, deal Chest of Drawers, Washstand/ Chamber Set, Looking Glass, fell Carpet, caned Chairs, & c. BBDKOOH, No. 3.— Iron Beistead, pair of Pal- liasses, Mattrass, Dressing Table, Cham, ber set, caned Chairs & c. KITCHEN.— Table, Chairs, Boilers, Candlestick American Clock, P; as Carpet, Mats. A usel Kettles, Saucepans. Knives and Forks, isage Canvas, Stair ifm lot of China, Glass, and Eaithen\ ' are, and a small lot of Plated Goods. Sale to commence at 11 view the day before the S Dated Falmouth, May for 12 o'clock. On le. 4th, 1872. Excellent Boat for Sale, without reserve, MR. dORFIELD will Sell by AUCTION, on Monday, 3rd June, ut Two, at the Barton of Bonython, parish of Cury, near ' Helston, the following ! tnperior Fat Stock, Comprising— 20 ifime Fat Steers 50 ripe Fat Wethers, of undeniaolo quality A dure bred Hereford Bull, 9 months old Porkers, Ac., the property of Mr. Topham. l) at « d May lAth, 1873. A Bazaar and Fancy Fair IN AID OF THE CORNWALL Home for Destitute Little Girls, Will be held early in August next, in tho GROUNDS AT G^ LLYNGDUNE ( Through the kind pennissi/ n of Mrs. Waters.) fNESSES : [ ra. Eastwick ,_ irs. R. N. Fowler Mrp. P. P. Smith Mra. E. M. Williams FALMOUTH. Waterloo Road and Bellevue Terrace, on THURSDAY, 30th May, at 6. ~ 1TR. COR FIELD is directed to SELL BY7 JJX PUBLIC AUCTION, on the abov/ day, at Gray's Albion Hotel, Grove Place, Falmouth, subject to the con- ditions to be then and there rean the following desirable Freehold / Messuages or Dwelling Houses, LADY PAT Lady Elizth. St. Aubyn Lady Adnata Vivian LadyWilliama The Hon. Mra. Tremayne , Mrs. Arthur Tremayno / As a debt of £ 200 fa still remaining on the New Building, theyCommitteo\ jire anxious to remove it, ana earnestly entreat all the friends of this valuable Charity to help them in this effort. J Contribution/ of Work, Books, Pictures, Plants, and other articles will be thankfully received by any Member of tho Committee; or by the Hon. Treasurer, Miss KRABBE, Belle- Vue Terrace; or the Hon. Secretary, Miss FRANCIS, Stratton Villas, Falmouth. Stable and Coach- house to Let. GOOD Premises, in excellent order. Apply at the Offices of this Paper. Viz.:— LOT 1. The Fee Simple and Inheritance of and in all that new and substantially built Cottage Residence, situate ii Waterloo Road, parish of Falmoutn, and containing 2 parlours, an excellent Kit- chen, Scullery, 2 Bedrooms, < fcc., lvith a neat Garden in front enclosed by iron pallisades, with the kitchen gardbn and appurtenances thereto belonging / at the back, now in th? V occupation / of Mr. Bevan, at a rental o^£ 15 10s. LOT 2. The FeeSimple afad Inheritance of and in all fffat ipligible knd moaern- built Dwelling House, with neat flawer gar- den in flunt, aira productive kitchen Krden in tl^ e rear, ^ sfith back / entrance, autifully situated on BelleruJo Terrace, in the parish afBudock, in the occupa- tion oi Mrs. 1?. Krabbe, as an annual occupant at £ 26r> er annum. JThe house contains on the casement, z Parlours, Kitchen, Sculleiy and Pantries. On the first floor, 2 Bedrooms, Anteroom, w. o. Second floor, I spacious Becuroom and 2 Attics. T This property is pleasantly situated, com- manding uninterrupted views of the bay, har- bour, and the picturesque soeneDy around, is in good repair, with all the necdssary Fittings, including water and gas, & c., & jo. On view by applying to j the respective tenants from 11 to 12 aau. and/ 2 to 4 p. m. Detailed particulars obtained by applying at the Offices of the AUCTIONEER, Falmouth. Dated May 17th, 1872. To Masters of Vessels. C « ARCTOES W^ LRON ORE for Cardiff ) may be halji Fdfcvey Harbour, at all tides, in deep water. Mraiglw. 3A. per ton. Apply to JAMES HJ^ ES, Polruan, Fowey. Dated 3rd May, 1872. MR. CORFIELD wiiyaeU by AUCTION, on Tuesday, 4th/ June, at Oue, at Cornmenellis Vicarage, within four miles of Redrmm and Helston, the whole of the modern and genteel Household / f urniture, Bed and Table Linen// Musical Instruments, Dinner, Dessert, Tea, Jp. d Breakfast Services, Glass, and numerous other effects of the above vicarage, the property/ of the Rev. W. S. Lach- Sczjrma, leaving the / county. See subsequent advertisements. Dated Auction Offlbes, May 1st, 1872. MR. CORFIEEDwill sell bv AUCTION, on Wednesday, 6th June, the residue of the Genteel Furniture Ana numerous effects at Carn- menellis Vicarage. Detailed particulars see handbills and subse- quent advertisements. Dated Falfcouth, 10th May, 1872. lo Builder* rpHE Falmouth Burial Bopfd is desirous of J_ receiving TENDERS for the erection of a Mortuary House. tnelplajw and specifications for which may* pe\( 4eeif on application to the undersigned, by \ § irDm ^ Tenders will be received until the 3rd day of Jane next. The Board do notyoind themselves to accep t the lowest or any " Render. By order, , / THOS. S. SKINNER, Clerk. Dated May 9th, 1872. iS 9 Sandell's Hair Restorer Is totally different from any other kind, and has been pronounced by the Medical Pro- fession to be perfectly harmless. It will positively Restore Grey Hair to its Original Colour in a few days without dyeing it or leaving the disagreeable smell of other Restorers, It renders the Hair beautifully soft, glossy and luxuriant. It will not only Restore Grey Hair to its Original Color, but will cause New Hair to grow on Bald Spots, unless tho Hair Glands are decayed, when no stimulant can restore them. When the Ntfw 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. SANDELL Pharmaceutical Chemist ( by Examination J, YEOVIL. Sole Agent for Falmouth : MB. W. H. SOLOMON, Dispensing Chemist. PHOTOQE/ APHT. The First Week of the Oxford and Cambitfdge PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION Has De^ L a . great success, But the Manager very muoh regretrTiiV inability, from over- crowding, to Photograph the whole of his Visitors, and his necessity to disappoint so many scores of them of their Photographs. These, however, and The Public wiU fiud iue terms of the Association are IWT LIBERAL. Clergy or Ministers of M denominations and Public Gentlemen will always yPhotographed FREE OP CHARGE. APPOINTMENTS IN THE MORNINGS AEE PABTICULABLY DESIRED. Dated 9, Berkeley Place, lalmmul^ May 7, 1872. MARKET STREET, FALMOUTH. • MADAM, I Having just returned from London, I have OPENED MY SHOW ROOMS, WJTH ALL THE LIliWftOFTIMl v , B Millinery, Mantle^, 1 rd^ sy, Skirts, Costumes, & c., & c. Very Cheap Pure \ r, ertcan Cotton Shirtings. Black Dress and tie Silks— much below value. Also, black Silk Velvets. Some Jobs in Kid Gl ntes— double and single buttons. Job Silk Umbrellas and Parachutes. Millinery— very attro dive and becoming styles. An early call will bq esteemed. Tours respectfully, V I H. PENLERICK. FIRST- GLASS PORTRAITS, ARE TlKEN ONLY AT Trail's Photographic Establishment, Church St., Falmouth. SEE THE 15s. CABINET, not to be surpassed in England for Price, Stylel and Finish. Every Description of PHOTOGRAPHIC j WORK, from Carte de Viaite to Life Sis DR ESS DEPAR TMENT t / FURNISHING DEPARTMENT CARPETS CURTAINS SHEETINGS WOOLLENS DIMITIES- J- e Slock is much larger and more varied than in / previous seasons. Special attention ia directed to the undermentioned Cheap Lines:— The New Tdssore Cloth, for Costumes, at 9d per yard, worth 1*. The New Clouded Alpacas, for Ditto, at lOJ'i per yard, worth Is 3d. Tlie Satin Striped Alpacas, for Ditto, at 18J< 2 per yard, worth 2s 2d. . Black Silks by everu manufacturer of repute, in Cachenbire de Soie, Oros Orain, Oros de Londres, and Black Olace— loear warranted. Specially Cheap Lines at 3/-, 3J9, 4/ 11}, 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. . This Department is supplied loith every Requisite for Family Use, and as all goods have been purchased from the manufacturers previous to the recent great advances, these goods will be found much under ma- nufacturers' present prices. . Brussels, Tapestry, Felt and Kidderminster. Floor Cloths. .. New designs in Lace, Leno, and Net. i. A large parcel of Finlays and other well- known makers, especially cheap. . Blankets add Flannels at last year's prices. • 0 White and Fancy Chintz in great variety. ll/ TR. CORFIELD will sJu by AUCTION, -" J- on Monday, 27tl May, at 6, at the King's Arms Hotel, Falmouth, ^ several Freehold Messuages or VP Dwelling; Houses? '• v, Beershop, Bakehouse and Premises thereunto belonging, situate, lying and being in Behcon Street, in the Town of Falmouth, in the several occupations of I Messrs. Rosvear, Share, Snow, Pippin and Hosken. For further particulars pply to the AUCT : ONEER, Falmouth. Dated 15th May, 1872. MR. CORFIELD wi! Sell by AUCTION, on Monday, 2! th May, at 7, at the King'B Arms lotel, Falmouth, sub- ject to the coi ditions to be then and there read, ei her together or separ- r\ ately, the fo lowing FREEHOLD ^ MESSUAG1 S or V Dwellingl Houses, Situate, lying and being in Vernon Place, Falmouth, viz.:— LOT 1. AJ1 that newly- erected Messuage or Dwelling Housej being No. 1, together with the Courtlago ana Premises belong- ing thereto, now in the occupation of Mr. Henry Chard, at a rental of £ 12 per annum. LOT 2. All that othir Dwelling House, being No. 2, with thef appurtenances belonging thereto, now in the occupation of Mr, Collins, at a rontal of £ 12 per annum. LOT 3. All that Duelling House adjoining, being No. 3, with the premises thereto belonging, in] the occupation of Mr. Medland, at a rental of £ 12 per annum. LOT 4. All that ^ Dwelling House adjoining, bei%^ fo. 4, lwith the premises thereto beloSgi|^ g< ip the occupation of Mr. ^ Aj^ hufc^ Ctiard, at a rental of £ 12 per Theiftpremifws ire substantially built under the specVl superintendence of the proprietor, command^ m uninterrupted view of the narbor, and being u^ ted form a compact investment. To view apply tfo the respective tenants, or to Mr. Pearson, NoKolk Road. Further particulars may be obtained of the I AUCTIONEER, Falmouth. Dated May 14th118k2. PABISW OF CONSTANTINE. Valuable Free/ Lid PROPERTIES For Sale. MR. CORMELD will Sell by AUCTION, on Wednesday, 29th May, at 3, at the Red Lion Hotel, Truro, ( unless pre iously disposed of by private con ract, of which due notice will be giv n ), the Fee Simple and lnheri- tan je of and in all that very superior Ba ton and Dairy Estate sailed " Trevease," M ist eligibly situated in the parish of Constantino, in the occupation of M •. John Gluyas, under a lease for 2. years, from Michaelmas last, at tl e yearly rent of £ 200, and com- p ising about 160 acres statute n easure of productive meadow, a able, and pasture land, a commo- d ous Dwelling Hsuse, new Barn, a id Cart- house, extensive range of e : cellent Cattle- houses, sufficient f > r 40 bullocks, capital Piggeries, a id other convenient agricultural 1 uildings. This valu ble estate is very compact, well- watered, eaf y of access by good hard roads, and advantj geouslv situated, being about one mile south < f the Half- way House on the road between H< lstone and Penryn, and within five miles of the latter town, six miles of Falmouth, and six of I edruth, all good market towns. The es^ at > has the additional advantage of having baei farmed for several years previous to the prase it tenancy by the proprietor, who has recenilv expended a large sum of money in erooting f| u1 stantial buildings Mid bringing the estate into i, high state of cultivation. Also, tha F se Simple and Inheritance in rever- I lion, expeotant on the death of a person aged 80 years of age, of all ( that JTenement Called Little Trevease, containing 8a. 2r. 36p., adjoining the above- named estate, in the occupation of Mr. Henry Williams, mts will shew tho properties, and further p rticulars may be obtained of the proprietoi T. W. REED, Esq., Trevissomo, Mylor, ne r Penryn ; of the AUCTIONEER, Falmouth ; and of Mssrs. SMITH, ROBERTS, < fc PAUL, The Solicitors. Truro, M y 8th, 1872. MESSRS. OLVER & 1sONS, are instruct- ed to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, without reserv , on Saturday, the- 25th of May, 1 $ 72, at half past 3 o'clock in the afternoon precisely, at Flushing Qu ly, in the Parish of Mylor, that firs class Mackerel^ PMiard Driving o , T » f v. ft / Namejl '/ COCK OF THE - V WALK'", wfth all her Nets com- plete. JThia Boat is 35 feet long, / jy\ 10ft. / 6in. beam, and 10 feet deep, t Cv \ V'€ stimated jo carry from 18 to 20 \ tons. / Uy0 All hey Sails and running gear are ' in excellent condition. She is well supplied with Nets, 8 of them perfectfy new, never having been used./ The above is Spld in consequence of the death of the propriety, and will be offered in one or suoh other lotsras may be determined on at the time of Sale. / Further particulars may be had of Mr. W D. TURNBR/ 52, High Street, Falmouth, or of the / AUCTIONEERS, Green Bank, Falmouth. Dated Fafinouth, May 10th, 1872. SHOCKING OUTRAGE. , At tho Central Criminal Court, IaHtweek, Sara'j Murray, SI, ind Mary lynch, 21, wore Indicted lor feloniously and I nail cloudy auditing Susan SDel) grove, or. d causing her Kovous bodily harm, with Intent to cause ', uch bodily harm, o prisoners wero also charged In anoth er count of tho in- | ftlctu e it with assaulting the prosecutrix with intent to ma m and disfigure her. Mr. Poland conducted the prosecntl JH ; Mr. Kelly defended tho prisoners, through the intervent j0n 0f Mr. Under- Shcrtlt ttosslev, upon their having given ar^ ntlmaUon that they wero unable to provide counsel lor ther^ iselvcs. This prosecution was instituted by the direction of the Commissioners of Poli'j © , and tho charge against the prisoners was of a vory seriou3 and aggravated character. A man nameiiDaniel Harris, who cohabited with the prisoner Mflxray, was committed for trial upon a charg? of street robbery to the Surrey sessions. The prosecutrix, Suzan Snellgrove, was a mxtenal witness agaiost him„ acd she was subpoenaed to give evidence at the trial. As she was going to the court she happened to go into the house of a person named Smith, wbereshe found the prisoner Mureay, whopressed • her not to go to the court to give e videnoe againBt Harris, ' and finding she soold not prevail upon her to do so, so me violent threats were made use of. It wxs necessary " that- the prosecutrix should be protected to the court bv Hobson, the detective officer, and she was followed ' thereby both the prisoners, one of whom said " There - goes tho lagging cow," and the other saia some- thing to the effect thafif she did fcive evidence against Harris she wonlS have htr — Jaw broken before night." In consequence of the violent threats and conduct ( Jf Harajs'e friends, Mr. Hardman, the chair- man, directed the court to be cleared, and the pro- secutrix was examined, and in the result Harris waa convicted, anf. as be hsribeen previously convicted, and bore a very bad character, he was sentenced to eight years'. peual ssrvitudeand seven years'supervision of the police. TheSriends of the prisoner wero so excited at this, that thd i& iiriban difectted" the officer to go home with the prosecutrix and see her safe into her own house. He accordingly did so, and when they got to LMis- do WD- place, Kent- street, where the prosecutrix lived, - the prisoners had assembled, with a number of other persons, and violent threats were again made, use of, and- oneof the prisoners said that her eye should be gouged out before night The officer cautioned them, and told them that the magistrates had said - that if any one molested the prosecutrix he should be severely punished ; and he left the prosecutrix in her own house apparently in perfectiSafety. On the same evening the prcwecttrrxi seeing that the cofcEtwaaaj* patently clear, went out for some purpose, and when she fad only gone a few gtepathe two prisoners came behind her, and Lynch 6truck her a blow which turned her round and then Murray struck her a blow on the right « ye, the effect of which was to knock the eye completely ontof thesockfet, andaiter the prosecutrix had been taken to the hospital, it was found necessary to scoop out the remains at the eye from the socket. Alter the prisoners lad beentaken into custody they did not appear to - to have denied that a blow had been struck; « but Murray declared that no instrument had been used, and that they did not intend to cause the injury to . her eye. The prisoner Lynch was taken to the bad- rmde of the prosecutrix to aee, if she could identify ' her, apprehension being entertained at the time that i she mightjpse the sight of the other eye, and the pro- jsecuteix immediately recognised W& s beings one of the pereonfe who had assaulted her. Lynch at first arp- Ipeared to be eorry for what had taken place, but she i subsequently became very excited, and shook her fist at the prosecutrix, and said, " I wish I had stiffened you. 1 May yen lay there'stiff for ever, you - old • cow. M According to the evidence of the surgeon, Mr. Gfllingham, the injury mi^ ht have been occasioned by a blow from. the fist or by fhe thnmb- nail. and that the sensation to the person injured would be that of a flash of lightning passing over the eye. The prisoners sug- gested subsequently that the injury was caused by the prosecutrix falling against a. wall, nut the. evidence of the sureeon tended to negative thia. In answer to questions put by the learned Judge,. Mr. Gillingham, the surgeon, said that he had never - seen a case where an eyehad been gouged out, buf, his impression was that the injury in this case was caused by a blow. . . Mr. Kelly made an able appeal to the jury for the defence, and he contended that the most that had been proved was that an assault waa intended, and that there was no evidence to show that either of the prisoners in-, - tended to cause the serious mischief that liad Wen in- flicted upon the prosecutrix. With regard to the threats that had been made use of, he endeavoured to show that foul language of thi? description waa very fre- quently made use of by persona m the position of the prisoners without any definite meaning being attach- able to it. Baron Bramwell having summed up and directed the attention of the jury to all the points of the case that rwjmfal their consideration, they deliberated for a very few minutes, and then found both prisoners Guilty. Baron Bramwell said he inferred from thia verdict that, in their opinion, the prisoners intended to knock out the eye of tne prosecutrix. The jury replied that that was their opinion. A female warder at Holloway Gaol proved that Lynch had beeif convicted" arid" imprisoned for felony a number of titneefc With- regard tft - the* other prisoner, Murray, very little was known of her. Baron Bramwell, in passing sentence upon the pri- soners, said that they had been found guilty of the offence of which they were accused, anil no one whe had heard the case cotfld doubt that it waff a " most proper verdict, and be could not conceive a more hor- rible crjme short of prard^ r than the, one they had committed. They had caused the' prosecutrix the most cruel pain and mischief, and had done this in the most savage manner possible. It they had used a , knife or a dagger,-, or any other instrument . of a rimilaY kind, ftPWuld " have been bad enough, But in this case claws had been used like a savage beast, and this had been done from the very worst of motives, at all events in a court of justice, namely, to punish a witness who had oome forward to give evidence • gainst one of - their companions. He aid not know whether some - cf these companions might not at that moment be outride the court, inclined to attempt to destroy the remaining eye of the prosecutrix, in con- sequence of the evidence che had given that day, and in ordfcr to deter • taeh persons he felt that it was ab- solutely nocessary that he should pass a severe sen- tence, and he considered he should be neglecting his duty if he did not pass npen them the extreme sen- tence of the law for the offeree of which they had been convicted, and this sentence was thkt they be kept in genal servitude for the remainder of tneir natural Directly the sentence was pronounced the prisoner Lynch made a rush at the other prisoner* and seized her " by the hair, at the same time exclaiming, " 1$ is you - who brought mo to this," and itfppearedf that she Was not taken into custody cntil som^ iime after the occur- rence, and she was under the imprtesioQ that Murray lad said something that had leJtoiher being taken into - custody. Precautions had been taken, from the Jmown character of tho prisoners, to have plenty of assistance at band, and they werelaid hold of by tho • warders and carried out of tne dock, otherwlao serious mischief would probably have been done. The learned Judge ordered a gratuiiyuif two guineas J ® £ i, en a Pohce- constahJe of the M divisi on, who had shown a good deal of courage in apprehenotng the jmsoner Murray in a houso where aeseral desperate character were present. WOMEN AND TRADES UHIONS. . on Saturday, to confiim" th$ iSes^ arteS^ y^ ronw mittee of young milliners, resolved on resisting the long' hours of work enforced in some houses, and determined to oppose the systematic unpaid " overtime." A benefit . and protection society has also been organised to afford • help in times of sickness, 4c. Miss Faithfull was re- quited tbpresideoverthenaeeting, and while expressing • great sympathy for the workers, who were suffering from She hardships complained of, she counselled forbearance towards employers, believing they Weft often'- ttn& ble to resist the pressure put upon them. The present combination had her good wishes, because she believed { hat nothing short ot a power among the workers to demand a modification of the terms on which they laboured would effect any permanent good. Such a power properly used might prove a protection even to employers, but it could only bo obtaimed by nnion. Several questions were put to tho meeting by Misa Faithfull as to the length of hours and overtime work complained of, and facts were elicited which proved the necessity of combination for the purpose of protection. . . * .... .... ... Tttf meeting w. is afterwards addressed h'S several ipealwrs, : iid a mera-. m! to tvd Home Hrm*.'. try ; fc- ainst the 14 hours'movement . rai R)> io& toy vLe trmwtdwrt aa they left the Portland Spill. 1 THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND DTR. LIVINGSTONE. The fortnightly meeting of this society was hold on Monday evening r. t tho University ol London, Sir H. Eawlln- Bon in tho chain. After some, routine business had been transacted, tho Chairman s" aid, knowing tho great interest which was felt in re^' ird to Dr. Livingstone's movements, an in- terest wh ich scorned to be increased by the telegrams that had been received, he much regretted that ho had nothing. authentic to announce to them. He had been expecting to receive authentic intelligence ever since the arrival of tire last telegram, but the mail which ar- rives on Sunday had. not brought the expected letters. In lact the Indian mails appeared to have left Aden two oc threo days before the arrival of the Abydos at tliat port, * nd consequently they mnst wait another week. In the meantime it might be satisfactory for them to know the opinion which the Council of the Royal Geogra- phical Society had formed on the Bubject. and he be- lieved that that opinion was favourable to the authenti- city of the intelligence- they received by telegram. They had every reason to expect that Dr. Living- stone and Mr. Stanley would meet about the be- ginning of the year. But there was one point on which a word was desirable, because tho belief generally prevalent showed a misunderstanding as to the posi- tion of the parties. It had been generally inferred from the late intelligence that Mr. Stanley had discovered' and relieved Dr. Livingstone, whereas, without any disparagement to Mr. Stanley's great energy, activity, nnd resolution in this matter, he must say that, if there had been any discovery and relief, it was Dr. Livingstone that had disoovered and relieved Mr. Stanley, and not Mr. Stanley who had discovered and relieved! Dr. Livingstone, because Dr. Livingstone Was in clover, and Mr. Stanley was absolutely desti- tute. They knew by the last account that Mr. Stanley was without supplies, and he must have undergono much difficulty in getting to fUjiji, whereas this place was the headquarters of Dr. Livingstone's supplies. It was just an well that they should understand tho relative positions of the parties, instead of running away with the idea that Dr. Livingstone was starv- ing, and that " Mr. Stanley had' penetrated into the wilds of Africa. It was very much to tho credit of Mr. Stanley that he had performed such a journey under such circumstances, and he trusted that their own expedition would relieve both of them, and be the means of enabling both of them to finish thp re- searches which they had commenced. He expected l that they would have fnll letter^ in thecourse of a fort- night from Zanzibar, which would inform them on what was known about Dr. Livingsteno and Mr. Stan- ley; and in the meantime he dould only say that the telegram was credible. The Geographical Society had never given any countenance whatever to the suspicion that Dr. Livingstone was no more, and they had full jonBdence throughout that he must be alive, and there was no rumour to contrary. The Rev. Mr. Badger inquired where the telegram ume from : and the chairman in reply Baid it was re- ceived by Mr. Pinder afid Stf James Anderson, the head of the Steam Company in England, from their igents at Aden, communicating the intelligence which they received from the Abydos on her arrival at Aden from Zanzibar. Tho Rev. Mr. Waller said he did not attach much importance to the telrgrams, and his imDression was that thev would find when the news came home from Dr. Kirk that it was nothing but a rumour which was prevalent that Dr. Livingstone was alive and welL A REASON WHY. j A certain eago gave China laws, tr ) Ago above twise ten long ages; .. . Confucius he was called— because He did onfute all other sages ?— Punch. WESLEY v. THE NORTH METRO- POLITAN TRAMWAY COMPANY. In the C- Iurt : ol Commbn Pleai, on Monday, the above cause was heard. - The plaintiff J, Miss Eliza Wesley, is a teacher of music in London and organist at St. Margaret Pattens GhUn& i and she brought this action against the Tramway Company for alleged negligence in the con- struction of the window of one of their care, by reason of which she h* d suffered injuries to one of her ters, incapacitating her for a time from follow- er profession. It appeared that ehe was 3g in one of the defendant's cars from Isling- ton to the city on the 17th of August, and put up one of the windows for the sake of air. She had pointed out pome house in the road to a companion, and was resting her hand on the sill, when the window fell and crushed one of her fingers jn such away as to render her unable to play upon the organ o » piano uhtil tho middle of December, and to make her finger still pain- ful and partially disabled. Her medioal attendant whs called and stated that the tendons were much bruised, and that permanent injury to the joint h » d been sustained, and he was corroborated by another medical gentleman who had been consulted by the plaintiff. „ Tljp def? ncg , was tjjat the - windoW - was in perfect order, and that there was no" negligence in its con- struction or condition. It was made, however,| upon a principle'which required that it should be put up to the top, if railed at all, in order th^ t the spring should catch it and keep it np ; and it was " said that the plain- tiff, hot understanding this, only raised it partially, and so brought the accident upon herself. It appeared, hbwever, that even fcHetf tlie VlndoW was partiidly up the spring pressed against the side so" ks to keep it up unless violently shaken, and it was also fitted with indiarubber at the sides to effect the same , object. Medical evidfencJ \ tas produced to ppove that, th? in- jury was slighter than represented on the part of tho plaintiff, but in the result the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages, £ 100. SPOTTERINGS FROM '' JUDY'S" PEN. A VEEDAKT yonth thought the weather- glass trade must be a good one, as ho had heard many peoplo rnonti^ lately that their barometers had fallen. How to make a Taper Waste— Stand it in a strong draught. ABE running accounts kept in sloping banks 1 > How to avoid Crying Out while haying a Tooth eitracted — Hold your Jaw. WU^ Vla bread moat - wanted ?— When It's kneaded: VEUV ODD.— BOBT", are invariably soled before thoy are bought. A wHE- BEjfasa in Newgate, the other day, begged tor mercy. Tho Gpvernor said, " Give it him." They did. 6OME old maids are like the Volunteers- alwaysready, and never wanted, i CciKOUKEi were supposed to have gone out— Judy meets them out everywhere. _ LevE is Ukp, Irish ppplins— three parts stuff. TiTEKEisaskeleUu in many women's dresses. THE tone a ghost usually spoalu in is a tomb's- tone. ANNIE T. ACIUK was aibolancholy moid; but when married becamo ANNLE- matod. A GIRL of tlio Period is like a thrllty farmer when she cul- tivates a waist. ACBOBATS mast spend a fortune In locomotionthey're always taking a fly. • . A oKEAT- COMpOETt— Newspapers, naw- a- days, on never one- sided.' How ro COLLAR BEEP.— Watch your opportunity, and when no one is looking, grab it aud bolt. TUB poor refugees in 8olio are sold to profer a Email bjll to s large one, because U, is lots tosptare. A TITLE by Prescription—^ That of fcho last medical baronet. JUDY boars from a country friend, that the new sexton Is likely to grow up a grave man. IKTESDIKQ visitors'to Mount Vesuvius should stndy Mb. HENPECK complains that his totter- half gives him no quarter. - Judy. MPBDEE.— A coroner's jury iiavo found A verdict of " Wilful murder" against James Wright, aged 79, living atPlungar, a small village in the Vale of Be* voir, and almost within sight of Belvoir Castle. Itapp. wed that ho had frequently ouarutlled with a son m- l^ w on nocoun. t of . the Uttee bqing. iflridictcd to drinking.- His son- in- law returtied home late on Saturday night intoxicated, disturbing the prisoner, whocompLxined of such conduct. Next mornfng the prisoner muVl he had pains in his head, which he feared woul( 7 lead to madness, and said he felt aa though he should like to be killed or to kill soijifebody. Being remonstrated with, he expressed contritijin for what ho had said. After hreakft » 4t the deceased went to tho front doc. ^^ rualr.^ Ui eo/ if,, and ' lie prisoner taking np n lovied gup nnd mpping it, fired M liuu, - i JdHii. ghlJfl. fhHtatytilne^ isJy. >.'" then quietly sat by thi. fire, iuk? m l. e'iig visited f> 7 a polico- con.' jtable, 1 said be did it, jnd was very sorry. AN APPEAL TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS. The causo ot " Dixon v. Evans ( the official manager of the Agriculturist Cattle Insurancn Company) and others " was heard laat woek, before Lord Westburv ( who presidod In tho absence of the Lord Chancellor), Lord Colousay, and lord Cairns, and wns an appeal from an order dated the 5th of November, 1809, made by tx> rd Justice Giffard, whereby he reversed a decision of tho Master of the Rolls, ahd directed that tho appellant, Mr. Thomas Griftles Dixon, should be included in the list of contrlbutories of the Agriculturist Cattlo Insurance Company, which Is now being wound- up under an order of tho Master of tho Rolls, dated tho 20th of April, ISfll. This was admittedly » very hard caso upon the appellant, who, after a lapse of 20 years since he had been in any way connected with it, was now called upon to contribute towards the payment of the debts incurred by the company in question. It appeared that in 1846, at the instanoeef Mr. Daniel Wilkie, the then manager of the company, the appellant at that time . resident at Woodcot, in Haddingtonshire, was induced to take nominally 10 shares of £ 20 each in the Com- pany, for . which Wilkie paid, and to act as extra- ordinary director of the Company in Scotland on the distinct understanding that hie was not to become a shareholder until an Act of Parliament was obtained limiting the responsibility of the shareholders, an Act which never was obtained- On ( the 4th of May, 1846, he executed a proxy for the pur- rof voting on these 10 shares, and in 1847 reoeived a dividend of a few shillings upon them. He, however, never executed , the deed of the company. Being exceedingly dissatisfied with the transactions of the company he was anxious to get rid of his Bhares, and in 1849 an arrangement was come to between himself and the directors by which he was per- mitted to take his name off the list of shareholders on paying up all the calls which were then due. Thia arrangement stood unquestioned from 1840 until 1869, when Mr. Dixon was called upon to pay his shore of the debts of the Company as one of the existing share- holders. The appellant contended that as the main condition in nis contract with the company— namely, the passing of the Act above referred to — had not been fulfilled, the directors were justi- fied in releasing him from his obligations as p. share- holder. On behalf of the respondents who represented the creditors of the concern it was urged that the agree- ment was ultra vires on the part of tho directors, and thatthe appellant was still liable to be placed on t^ e list of contributories. Lord Westbury, in giving judgment for the appel- lant, " after adverting to the facts of the case, said that the only question was whether Mr. Dixon, on. the one hand, and the directors on the other, bond tide believed that there was so much legal doubt as to the . position of the former with regard to the company as to justify the latter in entering into the agreement under which the appellant claimed to be exempted from all liability as a shareholder. By the 164th section of thq deed of settlement it was provided that it should be lawful for the board of directors to pay or discharge any debts or claims owing by or made against the company upon evidence which they might think proper, and to entef into or make any compromise or composition with respect to any claims made against or debts owing to the company. In the present cose the appel- lant bad bond jide raised the question whether he was or was not a shareholder ; and the matter being one of some doubt, he was of opinion thot the agreement came within the terms of the section of the . deed of settlement to which he had jnst referred, and that therefore it was competent for the directors to enter into it as a compromise with respect to a claim made against or a debt owing to the fcompany. Under these circumstances,- the decision of the Court below must be reversed, and Mr. Dixon's name must be removed from the list of contributories. His Lordship expressed his regret that, owing to the usual practice1 of that House, the whole oosts of the suit could not be awarded to the appellant. Lord Colonaay concurred. Lord Cairns said that it was quite clear the late Lord Justice Giffard— whose name he could not mention without expressing the sense he had of the loss which thepublic had sustained through his death— would have been only too glad, had he been able to see his way, to decide in favour of Mr. Dixon; but that learned Judge had unfortunately believed hinlrielf to be hampered by the decisions of their Lordships' House in oth^ r cases, whioh in realjty were totally distinct from the present one. He entirely concurred in the judgment_ which had been pronounced by his noble and loomed friend on the woolsack in favour of Mr. Dixon. The decision of Lord Justice Giffard was then re- versed, with costs ; the costs of the respondents being directed to be paid out of the estate. M. GAMBETTA ON THE CONDITION OF FRANCE. A deputation from Alsace have presented to M. Gambetta a. bronze bustj/ the result of a subscription among his admirers in the, ceded Proyincw as a testimony of their appreciation of his efforts bn their behalf. In his reply, after thanking the deputation and the subscribers, SL Gambetta said.:— | " Tho period is one of great difficulty, and it is rery much to be feared that If we were to listen only to the suggestions of our patriotism and to bitter reflections of ineffectual struggles, to a senso of our uoliiuon In the world, and to a remembrance ot the shortcomings . which havo overwhelmed us, wo should exciMthe bounds of prudence, and might dompromlso a causo that wo coulu better servo in another way. That which, yon should repeat to those who elected me, and who recognised in ma the last protester and tho last defender of their right and their honour, are not words ot excitement noy of. enthusi- asm— they are words of resignation, but of resignation with a view to action. The'state of France inost be boldly considered. At tho present time the Republic, which you have always connected not only with the do- fence of the country but with Its reatoraUon and regene- ration— the Republic is accepted by some from necessity, by others from interest, and by the mass of thin ling men from patriotism. . . . Time is with us. We must iiot rely upon time to do everything for us, but wo must take it into account and mnke uao of it to urge upon all the necessity for a spirit of concord, of union, and also of resignation and of sacrifice, Together with tho nation an parties are uniting in demanding tho punishment of the crime of treason to France, commuted under the walls of Motz, and you see Joining our ranks of true patriots men who, without hesitation or diacusslQn, have performed their duty, and behaved as real heroes in the Army of the Loire. Those who had borne a part In tjie struggle have fell that there was no other resource, no other honourablo m^ ans for Franoo, than to raise tho flag of the Republic as the standard of the nation. This spectacle md^ t iefidns to rely upon ourselves and to endeavour bv a new effort, a new lm- C'se, to Impress upon tho intelligent mind of France the e methods ot restoring our moral greatness, our scientific greatness, our financial probity, and our military efficiency. And when all these processes of reconstruction are commenced and are in progress, do you think that Europe wiU not hesitate before ratifying the violent acts of brute force T Do you believe that that barbarous and Gothio axiom which was and is current— force makes right— will remain inscribedupon tho la^ bf nations? No. If that axiom has hitherto been received with an Ill- omened silence It has been becauso Franco Is stricken down. But there ia not a country in Europe whioh does not regard It as a necessity that France should reconstitute itself. There is no thought of as- sistlngus; the force of arms has affected even the best disposed ondmost friendly towards us. Wehavenotrecolved. and wo shall not for a long time to eomo receive, any aid ; but tho feel- ing of common liability exists. It Is felt that the storm, although it has swept over us. Is not dissipated, and it may yot visit other countries and fall upon other nations. The fooling of general preservation is rising; when a glance is cast towards France it is seen that there Is a void in Western Europe. Lot us give an example of morality, of Internal power, and not, aa has been too frequently the case In former times, a spectacle of dynastic quarrels or chimeri- cal disputes. Lot us give tho pledge to Europe that we havo no other view than to take all tho time that may be nccessary to attain to that material and moral position tn which thero is no noed even to draw the sword, in which tho claims of right are duly satlsQcd because Is is known that behind that right there Is strength. But wo must ( rive'way neither to eXoitemont not to despondency. Our enemies have' given us an example in that respect with which you aro better acquainted than wo are; for, placed as pou aro between us and them, you had adopted from them a wider intellectual culture, with a study of scientific idoas in their application to tho'conduct of the affairs of life, at the same tfino as you possessed that fire, that energy, that vigour, which are tho properties ot the French race." BRIDES. — A newapapor correspondent at Vienna writes:—" I always calculate tho number of strangers by the number OF brides Which cross one's path. Your female relidds will ask how I know a bride when I see one, :. But I reply, my dear ladies.. I can tell, in on iqstanfo- pnd, so to say, with half an eye — any travelling ' young married woman.' I havo na' need to look at tho lilggdge, which is new; nor at th# hnHband, who looks new, And as if he is not quite sure that he has not been haaity i nor even at the dress. Na A bride walks into a room as a thing apart Brides are divided into two classes— tiSe serious and the smiling. The first entera with a queon5y step, and seems to day. • Dont looTc it me. D6nt" v^ "^ U aee I\ a married, anil that Uiose dayn are oarer! * 1 The' other comes aii smil- ing, RP uiuuh us to CI. y, ' I'VE£. na'""- d him. Isn't It good funf'r <> — J IRISJI ABSENTEES AND IRISH RESIDENTS. On the motion of Mr. Patrick Smyth there has beei I loid before the House of Commons a return preparet in 1370, based on tho valuation books of 1869, givinj an account of the owners of land ( in fee simple ii perpetuity or on long leases atchief rents) in the countrj : or rural districts of Ireland , county by county, but not including owners of lands and buildings in cities , towns, and townships. The total number of pro i prietors enumerated was 19,547 ; their holdingi ' amounted to 20,046,182 statute acres, and the valua tion of the property was £ 10,180,434. Of these pro- prietors 5,982, holding 236,873 acres, of the value of £ 257,100, held less than 100 acres each. Those having 100 acres or upwards were 13,565 in number, and they held 19,809,309 acres, the valuation of which was £ 9,923,334 ; and of these landed proprietors the fol- • lowing classification is given :— 5,589 who were pro- prietors of 44' 8 per cent of the above area; their land constituting 47 ' 6 percent of the valuation were resident on or near the property; 377, with 4 " 3 per cent of the area, 3 7 percent, of the valuation, were resident usual y elsewhere in Ireland, but occasionally on the property ; 4,465, with 22 per cent, of the area, 21 " 4 per cent of the valuation, were resident elsewhere in Ireland. Thus, therefore, 10,431 of the 13,565, being the pro- Erietors of 71' 1 per cent of the acreage, constituting i value 72" 7 per- cent of the valuation, were resi- dent in Ireland. There were 180 who were proprietors of 6* 9 per cent, of the acreage, being in value 61 per cent of the valuation, and who were usually resident out of Ireland, but occasionally on the property. . There were 1,443 who were proprietors of J. 5U per cent of the acreage, being 15' 5 pet cent of the valua- tion, and who were rarely or never resident in Ireland. The proprietors of 3 per cent, of the acreage, being 2' 4 per c<- nt of the valuation, were public bodies, 161 in number. The 1,350 proprietors of the remaining 31 per cent of the acreage, being 3 " 3 percent, of the valuation, could not be classed. The particulars regarding residences were obtained, at the desire of the Irish Government, by tho Poor- Law inspectors, through personal inquiries from the clerks of unions, poor- rate collectors, and other persons possessing local knowledge of the facts. CAPTAIN HALL'S EXPLORING EXPEDITION. A correspondent of the foeto York Times writes from St. Pierre, Newfoundland, that a Danishtbrig had brought intelligence from Disoo, in Greenland, that Captain Hall, the Arctic explorer, had been obliged to put bock to that port on March 1 for the purpose of repairing his vessel the Polaris. On February 8, we are tola, the Polaris encountered a heavy gale, and while lying to ran among what Captain Hall termed " icy snags," by repeated collisions with which Bhe sprang aleak, and it was only by unremitting labour at the pumps that she was enabled to reach the harbour of Disco. The danger, indeed, was so great that a large quantity of provisions had to be thrown over- board, and much of what remained was damf god by bilge water. Captain Hall, however, was sanguine that he would soon be able to start again on his ex- ploring expedition, and if no nnforseen accident hap- d to be back in New York in September. With respect to the pros|> ects of that expedition itself, Captain Hall had already been strengthened in his belief in an open polar sea. , According to the report of the Danish captain, the crew of the Polaris hod killed a whale, which was found to havo in one of its fins a harpoon similar to those used in the South Pacific. Aa this happened where, Captain Hall says, ". the sail of an American or European vessel had never been given to the wind before," he argued that the whale must have come up through Behring's Straits and round the Pole. In confirmation of this inference, it is alleged that Captain Hall has obtained evidence that a genial atmosphere prevails at times in the extreme un- discovered north. For instance, it is asserted that plants were found in ice which are in- digenous to southern climates, and that a floating stick of wood was met with in the middle of January, which proved, on examination, to be a limb of a huge birch tree. But stranger than all is the statement that Captain Hall was able to sit on deck all through the night of the 14th of February reading, writing, and making lunar and astral observations. After thia it is not Surprising to be told that throughout the whole month of January very little ice was seen, and that each night the sky on all sides glittered with meteors of the most gorgeous description. ' CONGREGATIONAL MEMORIAL HALL, IN LONDON. The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the proposed Congregational Memorial Hall was performed on Friday in last week, upon the site of the building in FarringdoD- street, pi tne presence of a numerous assembly of ladies and gentlemen, among whop were a large number of Independent ministers and others of various Nonconformist sects.. Thdire were also {{ resent, Mr. S. Morley? M. P., Mr. C.- Reed, M. P., Mr. Leo, M. P., the Rev. Dr. Halley, Rev. T. Binney, Dr. Allon, Professor Hoppu^, & c. The proceedings commenced with a hymn, after which tne stone was laid by Mr. J. Remington Mills, who used an elegant silver trowel with an ivory handle. After a short address of congratulation by Mr. Mills, a prayer was offered by the Rev. T. Binney, after which. Dr. Halley, president of New College, addressed the meetiig at some length, paying d warm tribute to the memory of one of the principal promoters of the memorial movement, the late Dr. Vaughan, ^ ho, he Baid, would have been standing in the speaker's place had ho been alive. He advocated a strict adherence to the Puritan faith professed by those ministers of religion whom thc Uniformity Act of 1662 bad de- prived of their homes, and honed that the trtyle of architecture to. be adopted in the construction of the Hall would more resemble the homely simplicity of the old Puritans than the - Gothic _ edifices of the present day, with their many modern innovations. Dr. Kennedy then addressed the meeting, and was succeeded by several other reverend gentlemen. The committee have prepared a brief statement of the circumstances in which the movement had its rise, and an account of the present position and prospects of the undertaking. Tho Act of Uniformity, passed in the year 1662, nad the effect of ejecting from their charges more than two thousand ministers who could not conscientiously subscribe to it At a meeting of the Congregational' Union, held it Birmingham in 1861, it was resolved to commemorate the event A iConlerenco. was convened and held, at- which it was decided that a Bicentenary Miemorial Fund should be raised, among the objects specified being tho erection of new chape la, tho extinc- tion of chapel debts, & c. j and especially the erection of a Congregational Memorial Hall. _ 1A com- mittee was appointed to carry the scheme into full effect, and at the next annual meeting it was reported that the total amount paid and promised in connection with . this commemoration was nearly £ 250,000. A site was found in Farringdon- stseet, wbich had formed- part of the old Fleet Prison, and the ground was pur- chased at a cost of £" 28,000. The' architect's deigns comprise a baU to hold from 1,200 to 1,500' people ; a ibrary, a board- room, and other offices, the whole to erected at a cost of not less than £ 30,000. A young lawyer was examining a bankrupt as to hoW he had spent his money. There were' about three thousand dollars unaccounted for, when the attorney put on a severe scrutinizing face, and exclaimed, with much self,, complacency, " Now, sir, I want you to tell this court and jury how you used those three thousand, dollarst" The bankrupt put on a aeria- comis faoe, winked at the audienco, and exclaimed, " The lawyert got thai!" The judge and audience were convulsed with laughter, and the counsellor was glad to lot the bankrupt go. Switzerland— as far as" the people at large gee- stems to havo approved the project of tho revised . Constitution, which would have tho general effoct ot substituting a na- tional for amerely cantonal unity by fuslnc tho whole of tho cantonB, for certain purposes, into one. Tho nunbers wero — Ayes, 239,140; Hoes, 223,023; Jmt, ont of 2B cantons, 13 voted against the revision, and consequently the favourable vote beoomos invalid. It Is significant that all tho Roman Cathollo cantens wero against the revision. Last week the aggregate mortality in London and 20 other largo towns ot tho United Kingdom was at the rate of 23 deaths annually to every 1,000 persons estimated to be living. In the metropolis J, 123 births and 1,850 deaths were registered, the former having bnon 101 and the latter 227 below the average. Thirty- nino persons died from soiall- pox, 35 from measles, 10 from scarlet fever, 9 from diphtheria, 83 . from whooping- cough, 27 frnra different forma of forer lot which 4 w< wo certified as typhus: 16 as enteric or typhoid, and 8 asdmplo aout'wued fever), artd 10 from dfanhasa. The cuixll ten voratum ins or- lv 47 " 2 degs., end 4" 2 degs. below thq avcr . tfl for tl-> . one* po:, illng wee* In AftJs, meat. oT. In" rftj' M « w[, Ua en. iatnntoy ttniWttl • Tarred to WmSc* o* the n* pt » to* 7 lm" QlUllg phthisis were 37A. - v THE LICENSING BILL. On Saturday afternoon the Iwl of Kimberley re- ceived at the Colonial Office a deputation of represen- tative working men, organized by the committee of th ® Public Rights Defence Association with reference to those clauses in the Government Licensing Bill placing further restrictions upon the houre at which public- housss are now allowed to bo open. Several members of the deputation addressed his Lordship, and stated that those present were all prac- tical working men, many of whom had taken an active part i| » most of the industrial, social, and political movements of tho day. They felt no hesitation in saying the opinions they were there to represent were Bhared in by fully three- fourths of the working- classes and by the public generally. They con- tended that the present hours at which public- houses were allowed by law to remain open were satisfactory to the general body of the public, and that any further restriction of those hours, while it would not in any way decrease drunkenness, the existence of which they, in common with all right- thinking men. greatly deplored, would greatly inconvenience the pubhc and cause much dissatisfaction. They denied that the working classes generally had signed petitions in favour of further re- stricting the houri Those working men who had signed such petitions wero but a small section of that class, and belonged to the teetotal body, to whom, as not requiring the convenience of the publichousv, it did not matter how early they were closed; but they maintained that this comparatively small section have no right to enforce their views by law upon the great body of worki ngmen, who knew how to use the con- venience of a publichouse without abusing it It was a wrong principle in legislation tp make the many suffer for the faults of a few. Intemperance did not exist among working people to anything like the extent alleged by the teetotal party, and where it did exist it was mostly to be found in the very lowest class ; in that class whose unhealthy dwellings and surroundings drove them to seek a stimulus to their phyrical powers, vitiated by the state in which they lived. The improvement of the dwellings of the working dasses- and their better education would improve their habits. If intellectual recreation were provided for the people by opening the museums and Art Galleries on a Sunday afternoon, it would bo a prompt means of reducing intemperance. With respect to the hours of opening in the morning, they contended that six o'clock was too late to suit the_ convenience of thousands upon thousands of working men who now left their homes for their placesof work at five o'clock, and had to be at work by six o'clock. Those men turned out of a warm bad into the cold and possibly wet streets, having to work for two hours before breakfast upon a scaffold exposed to the weather, or in a " damp workshop, or by the waterside; and many of them were in the habit of calling in at some of the few publichouses which opened at that early hour for the public accommodation, taking a penny- worth or threehalf penny worth of gin or rum, or half a pint of beer, drinking it honestly off, ami going on their way. On these and other grounds they asked that the hour for the morning opening should not be later than five o'clock. With regard to the night closing, the deputation stated that at the pre- sent time, while one- thirdof thepublichouaesin London closed abont eleven o'clock or shortlyafter, about three- fourths of these houses were closed at twelve o'clock^ and that the one- fourth which now remain open until one o'clock were chiefly in the neighbourhood of railways stations, places of puhlic entertainment, and in some of the leading main thoroughfares where there was alway3 a considerable traffic at all hours of the day or night To compel these houses to close at twelve o'clodk w6md greatly inconvenience thousands of persons, while if tho taking off the hour would at all diminish, drunkenness- it wonld b « to such an infinitesimally small an amount as not to compensate for the inconvenience it would occasion. With respect to Sunday closing, the Govern- ment had exercised a wise discretion in leaving the houses much as they were at present, although tbe deputation failed to see any advantage to the cause o£ temperance by keeping the houses closed until six o'clock in the evening, instead of five as at present I The Eaxl of Kimberley, in reply, said he had listened ; to the statements of the deputation with great interest, and he hoped with much profit, as they had been made by practical working men. He had no doubt but that tbey represented the feelings of the great bulk of the working men in London, but he could not shut his eyes to the fact that a largo number of working men held different opinions, although he was well awaro how the petitions alluded to were got up. They mnst also deplore the amount of intemperance existing among large portions of the peeple, and it was the duty of the Government to endeavour AS. tap aft, possible to remedy the evil. He feltlthat this was not alone to be accomplished by repressive or restrictive mea- sures, which he personally disliked. He fully- went with the deputation in " their : belief that an im- provement in the home^. of labouring classes would greatly decrease drunkenijpss., He jvas also with them in their desire to see innocent and intellectual recrea- tion provided fot tho people on the Sunday afternoons. Personally, he was fn favbur of opening the Museums on that day, but he was afraid public opinion was not- with him on that point Having replied to some of the statements of the deputation, ne said he would give them all his careful consideration, but he coald not now promise to make any further cotfcession in- the- hours for opening and closing thanhehad ipade in the House of Lords on Friday night. ' As the deputation believed, they were right, he should ncK- iiSo' them to persevere. There was plenty of time; a3 the Bill would not be re- ported until the 4th of June. The deputation then retired, thanking his lordship, for the courtesy with which they badbefn received. DEPUTATION OF LICENSED VICTUALLERS. A deputation of the licensed victuallers of the Tower Hamlets, introduced by Mr. J. D. A. Samuda, M. P. for the borough^ and consisting of Mr. . Ed. Hay Currie, member of theLondon School Board.' and president of the Tower Hamlets Licensed'Victuallers' Defence As- eociation; Messrs. J. Pnzey, St. George's; B. B. Beale, Poplar; It Farin, Limehouso; J. P. Langdon, Bromley; T. Botts, Stepney : and A. Cole, hon. sec., Poplar, waited on the Earl of Kimberley by appoint- ment at the Colonial- office oh Saturday. Mr. Samuda; M. P., in introducing tho deputation, said the object of their waiting on his lordship was not to go through, the Government Bill,, as had been done by the representatives of tho trade of the country, with whose objections and suggestions they entirely' con- curred, but to point out the great hardship that would be inflicted upon the working classes and the trado of their district t> y their houses not being permitted to open as early and obliged to close earlier than other parts of the metropolis situated within four miles of Charing- cross. The Earl of Kimberley said he would at once eave the time of the deputation by stating that hehadiinhis place in the House of Peers on tho previous night in- timated his intention ty epetend the radius to fhe whole metropolitan area. Mr. Currie thanked his lordshipfor the concession, and at the feme timo'drew his attention to the saving clauses in the Act exempting grocers and others from ts operation, which he considered uDfair to the licensed victualler. j, After a few remarks from Mr. Langdon and Mr. Pnzey, the Earl of Kimberley thought it would be diffi- cult to place grocers and' wholesale dealera under police regulations, and had been given to understand that the general public did not object to the sale of spirits and wines by tne grocers. Mr. A. A. ColsVegrtttta bad to ^ lordship upon tho question Of the supemaion oi the grooer and wine merchant and be would, remind hi* lordship that he had introduced » bOlfpr ^ purpose of reducing drunkenness, which was alleged to be opreat evil and prevailed to un alarmtog extent r^ ctlble lk* n* d victualler could obiect. but he woirid submit for the consideration of his lordship that while thft Government on the one hand, were teking every meahs to repress drunkenness, they were giving every encouragement to the grocers to sell intoxicating drinks, which being secretly drunk at the homes df tho- people, Wad • treating'a greater evil than was at present perceived, The Earl of iKimberiey sftid there was great force in the remorks of the last speaker, which deserved con- sideration, and though it was not the original intention of the Government to take up the gi- ocers' licence, as amendment" on th » - que>; ion . rould be moved by the Dnke of It. ohmon > on tho rt;- ort bring brought up, it wo^' d benciei- swy ft'rt'iVGove. nmenito consider tho matter; but H" he hud n- t 3ten those amendments, he wo? sot in * position to ^ ivf, ttiri deputation his opinion upon t'lcn. SATUEDAT. MAT 18.1^ 2 THE FALMOUTH & PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. IMPHBlAfr PARLIAMENT. tn the House of Lords, Msy 13, there was • very numereM attendance of peers ; a Urge number of ladles sat in the tide galleries. while the strangers' gallery ou toon crowded. A nomher ol private hills wue read a third time and assed. Jf1? Chanccnor presented the Statute Law Revision Bill, which was read a first time. bird Granville, in the performance of his promise, ex- plained the present rtate and prospccts of the negotiation • with the United States. With regard to the Treaty itself, although he regretted the omission which had led to the Eesent difficulty, he believed it carried with It healing the past, good for the present and advantages to botn countries In the future. Beginning with the presentation of the Engliah Case last December, he said he read the American Cose with feelings of surprise and annoyance which were by no means a speclflo for tbe gout. Having consulted with Blr Roundell Palmer, who had consented to act as counsel for Der Majesty's Government, and who agreed with him that the American Claims trans- gressed the limits of the Reference, he brought tho matter before the Cabinet, which, on tha 18th ot January, decided that it was Impossible to submit tho Indirect Claims to Arbitration. From that posi- tion they had sever swerved, nor had they done anything to weaken it. Then describing the successive steps in the negotiation, ho camo to the period ( April 28) when Her Majesty's Government had grounds for hoping that a pro- I tiosal made bv General Schenck > nnid ofTnr. i it.. t>.. i. - » a- satisfactory solution. They accordingly, setting puno- tflio aside, framed a Note, which was communicated .. Mr. Fish, and by him submitted to President Grant Yesterday he was Informed that it was the President s Intention to submit tho Note to the Senate and at the moment he was addressing their lonlshlps the Senato In its executive capacity had the Note under consideration. It was impossible for him to give any assurance as to the action to bo taken by the Senate, but tbe step taken by the President showed that ho was willing to concur with the Senato In carrying out the proposals * Her Majesty's Government aa the basis of a set « o- inent which would bo honourable to both Governments. If Her Majesty s Government succeeded they would take no « redit for success. They had been helped by the forbearance of both Houses, by tho moderation of the Press, and the good feeling shown by the people of both countries. He bore warm tertlmony to the labours of General Schenck and, expressing his personal thanks to both sides of the House, he made a further appeal to their lordships not to go into a discussion at a moment so critical. Tho Duke of Richmond Inquired when the reply of the American Government might be expectod. Lord Granville said It was impossible to answer. The Senate might tako two or three days to consider the matter. After some remarks from Lord Russell, Lord Derby agreed that the present was not a convenient time to discuss either the merits of the Treaty or the negotiations by which it had been succeedcd. Our Cabinet Lad, it appeared, made a proposal for modifying the provisions of the Treaty, which had received tho assent of the American Executive. They had obtained an as- surance from the Foreign Secretary that the Indirect Claims would not be referred to arbitration, and tbat Her Majesty's Government had never swerved from that deter- mination. That was is clear and explicit a declaration as their lordships could expect to receive, and it would serve no Kbllc purpose to carry the discussion further. After what d happened, however, their lordships had a right to say, " Let us have no more misunderstandings." The Party Processions ( Ireland) BUI and the Pacific Islanders Protection BUI were read a third time and passed. Their lordships then adjourned until Friday, the 81st of May. In the House of Commons the promised statement with regard to the position of tho Washington Treaty drew a very large attendance, though on tho eve of the Whitsuntide Recess. Every seat was occupied in the body of the House, and all the galleries were filled to overflowing. After some preliminary business had been disposed of, A MAMMOTH BUILDING BLOWN DOWN. A Boston despatch ol April 26th, to a New York paper ' " Fate and the elements seem to have combined against the international musical festival which waa projected and somewhat advanced by the irrepressible Gilmare, of Peace Jubilee fame. The mammoth coli- seum, in which the great festiv.' U was to take place, and which had within a few dayB begun to M3ume a definite shape sufficient to warrant completion in season forthe great event, has to- night been reduced toa conglomerated mass of debris and ruins. The destroying element was wind, and not fire, and as the prostration of the structure was reserved until about half- past eight o'clock, the twenty five hundred workmen usually employed on the premises had gone home, and therefore a great human slaughter was prevented. The structure was just in that condition to receive the full brunt of a gale, and at this time it is fair to presume that it is no fault of the architects or builders that it yielded. Only one of the large trusses had been erected, and this was the largest and the one supporting the roof at the main end and entrance of the structure. On either corner, at this end, were large towers designed to be Gothicly ornamental rather than u3wfuL These were almost wholly completed, and the entir front or end of the whole coliseum was all boarded over, and not a small portion of the roof had also been finished. Some idea of the gigantio proportions of the truss may be formed when it is stated that it is about five hundred feet in length, semi- circular in shape, and about two hundred feet high in the centre. The ex- pense of building and raising this single truss alone was about five thousand dollars, and was regarded as the most troublesome and tardy work that there would be on the whole building. It weight was about forty tons, and when it fell it not only ruined itself, but also destroyed other and equally valuable framework in the vicinity, " Th6 largo timbers began to crack for half an hour before the building yielded, and for several moments before it toppled the whole structure swayed violently. Finally1 there came a powerful gust and the mammoth coliseum, the work of months, was in a moment a heap of ruins. The crash was tremendous, and alarmed the whole neighbourhood. The wreck severed all the gas- pipes around the premises; and added to the confusion excitement, and alarm was a terrible darkness, and not until an alarm of fire had been sounded and lanterns furnished by the department could the full extent of old boreas' damage to the building be ascertained. Thousands of curious and alarmed spectators were in- stantly upon the ground, and the crowd increased in numbers until long after midnight. " If the calamity had occurred a few hours earlier, while the workmen were engaged the sacrifice of human life would have been terrible. What effect this disaster will have upon the success of the great International Musical Festival it is now impossible to determine. Mr. Gilmore's arrangements for the chorus of 20,000 voices and for an orchestra of half that strength had already been completed, and eminent bands and musicians are already on their way here from foreign countries. Other arrangements for the event had als* been completed, and everything seemed to warrant that the unparalleled musical entertainment would be inaugurated under favorrable auspices in the middle of the coming June. The loss, financially speakinp, cannot be less than a hundred thousand dol- lars. The committee held a meeting this evening and resolved to recommence the work at once." An" IwJand judge, it is said, ask^ ed if all tbe jury were u/ 4fodL " Yes, Judge," was the r.' ply, " we're all frozen together.-' In the window of a snop, m an obscire part of London, is this announcement—" Goods removed1, nte « sage8 taken, carpets beaten, and poetry composed on any subject." An advance of wages and the nine hours system for winter work have been conceded to the carpenters and Joiners of North Staffordshire. Conscience money.— Tho Chanoellor of tbo Ex- chequer acknowledges the receipt ot a chcquo for £ 4 lis. from " W. ¥." for income- tax. After a struggle, which has continued for seventeen weeks, tho dispute in the nut and bolt trade at Birmingham has been settled by mutual concession. The United Kingdom Band of Hope Union held its seventeenth anaual meeting on Tuesday evening, at Exeter- hall. In Tuesday' 0 sittings of the Spanish Parliament a bm was Introduced, fixing tho strength of tho army at 80,000 men. A widow won 20,000 dollars from a German gambler at Baden- Baden, and a French general, whose hatred of Germany is undying, married the avenger of his country and the 20,000 dollars. A country curate complained to a bishop that he re- ceived only Ave pounds for preaching a certain sermon at Oxford. " Five pounds ! " said the bishop, " why I wouldn't have preached that sermon for fifty !" Among the passengers by the Cuba, which arrived at Liverpool, last Saturday, were Mdlle. Christine Nllsson. Madame Parepa Rosa, Mr. Santley, Mr. Llndsay- Sloper, and others. At one of the schools in Cornwall the inspector asked tbe children If they cou'd quote any text of scripture which forbade a man having two wives. One ofthe children sagely quotedjin reply to the text, " iro man can serve two masters. Baron Lionel do Rothschild has purchased the Tring Park Estate of 3,013 acres, with a noble mansion and deer park of 800 acres for £ 230,000. It was given by Charles IL to his chamberlain, Henry Guy. In noticing a running match recently, the reporter says some one present took the prize, bat a meddlesome and firm policeman made him put it right back where he tookl A return has been issued showing the number of seamen dead In the year 1871 belonging to the British mer- chant service. The number amounts to 4.338, which is less than in 1870 by 185 deaths, and than In 1869 by 491. When Rachel ( the great French tragedienne) caw her stout sister dressed for the part of a shepherd rcss, her com- ment was . " Sarah, dear, you look like a shepherdress who has Just dined on her flock." The Nazione states that the hereditary Princess of Monaco, with Prince Louis, Is about to take up her residence at Erfurt, where the Emperorof Germany has placed a royal castle at her dlsposaL Italian emigration to the United States is on the in- crease. The Dirilto says that during the first three months of tho present year 766 emigrants for America embarked at Italian ports. 48. Mr. Assheton suggested that when tho presiding oUlcer marks the Ballot- paper it shall be In the presence of tho agents of the candidates. Mr. H. James supported the amendment, and Mr. Forster ultimately gave way and accepted It A division, however, being demanded. It was carried by 100 to 60, which led to some severe remarks from Mr. Leatham, Mr. M'Laren. and others on the gradual deterioration of tho measure, and Mr. Msguire gave notice that he would move to recommit tho bill In orderto oxpunge this rule. No other alteration calUng for mention was mode, and the Third Beading was fixed for Thursday. Jlay 30. After this the House was engaged up to midnight on the Court of Chancery ( Funds) BilL Sir R. Baggallay was anxloul that It should be referred to a Select Committee, and mado a motion to that effect, In which he was supported by Mr. Hunt, Mr. Crawford, and Mr. Aytoun. But ho did not press It to a division, and after a short debate he allowed it to be negatived. Tho House then went Into Committee and settled the clauses of the bilL The third reading of the Irish Church Act Amendment Bill was opposed by Mr. Newdegatc, but on a division it was carried hy 86 to 25. The Juries Bill was read a second tlmo and referred to a j Select Committee. Several other Bill were forwarded a stage, and tho House adjourned at twenty- five minutes to two o'clock until Mon- day, tho 27th Inst. THE WARWICKSHIRE LABOURERS. On Tuesday evening, a public meeting, under the auspices of the Warwickshire Labourers' Union, was hela in the Market- square, Warwick, and notwith- standing the rain, there was a large attendance. Mr. E. Russell, jthe corresponding secretary of the union, who presided, Baid that there were 4,000 members of the union in Warwickshire, and throughout the country there were about 50,000 agricultural labourers in union. In this country they had £ 1,500 in hand to keep up the agitation. Mr. Arch said his experience of twenty years showed that agricultural labourers were not contented with 12s. a week, hence their asking for higher wages. He com- plained that the employers had not been cjurteous to their workmen, and ol tho way the men who joined the union had been treated. The result had been that labourers had been sent to other spheres of labour, and replies had been received from some of them statinp that they were earning 28s. per week, and bad no wish to return to their former labour in Warwickshire. Other persona afterwards addressed the meeting, the feeling of which was in support of the union. THE TWO GRACES. Grace was said before dinner by Archbishop Manning and after dinner by the Archbishop ol York."— ( Literary Fund Banquet.) Henceforth the respective titles of these heirarcha evidently must be : of the one, Grace before meat; and of the other, Grace after meat.— Punch, WORK TOR WOMEN. Mr. Gladstone said thnt he had forborne to place upon the notice paper a motion for the adjournment of the House for the Whitsuntide holidays. In order that It might not appear as if the Government were desirous of bringing any pres- sure to bear npon the House; and for the same leason lie shoold forbear to move any adjournment, as that waa a matter which they should leave entirely to the House. Hi thought It would be seen that tbe time had not yet come for laying the papere before Parlia- ment. Considerable forbearance had been shown by the House and the country towards the Govern- ment, and he now only proposed to give a brief narrative of the proceedings, from the time when the Government first took this question Into consideration, beginning at the 18th January, when the whole question came before the con- sideration of the Cabinet, Tho Government then came to the conclusion that the Indirect claims were not within the- scope ot the arbitration, and, therefore, that they could be no parties to their being submitted to the arbitrators. On the 13th ef February they addressed a communication to the Government ot the United states to that effeot, and tho substance of that communication was Xnade known to Parliament In the Queen's Speech. These declarations had since governed the procedure of the Government, and they had not thought it necessary to go beyond them, nor had receded In the slightest degree or de- parted from them. The right hon. gentleman, after ex- plaining the tone of the various despatches which had passed between the two Governments, stated that Mr. Fish's reply to Earl Granville's despatch of the 20th March In which It was contended that from the terms of the Treaty Itself, as well as from the understanding of the commis- sioners, the indirect claims were not within the scope of the arbitration, was argumentative although friendly, and It offered no solution of the difficulty. A suggestion waa made by the American Minister, and her Majesty's Government sub- mitted a proposition based upon that suggestion and the de- clarations they had made. On Wednesday last they were in- form « d that In order to meet the views which had been stated on their part, it would be necessary that a reference should be made to the Senate, and that that power should also be called In aid with the view to a satisfactory and complete settlement. On FrMay acting upon the suggestion of th* • Government of the United States that they were perfectly willing to deal with the question m that aspect, as a matter requiring the assistance of the Senate, her Majesty's Go- vernment proceeded to place their views in the shape ol that which might become an article on the subject ol an International compact between the two countries. A de- spatch was forwarded to General Schenck, the American Min- ister, on Friday evening, and was by him telegraphod to the Vnited States. It was taken Into consideration by tha American Government on Saturday and yesterday morning. Earl Granville was informed that tbe proposition ef the British Government was entertained by the President of the " United States, and would by him be submitted to the Senate of the United States. That communication between the Presl- - dent an l the Senate was strictly confidential, but Its reception by the President Implied an approval on his part of it, con- ditional upon the approval of the Senate. Probably within two or three days the opinion of the Senato upon the character of tho proposition would be received, and he trusted that nothing wonld be said or done to Interfere with the perfectly free consideration of this great matter, which was now, as they trusted, advanced so near to maturity by the Senate of the United States. The House of Commons had - ever exercised a remarkable degree of self- restraint and forbearance, which had contributed considerably to the favourable result, and If that should be gained It won! d in no smiill degree be due to that remarkable exercise of wisdom and self- restraint by that body If those who had the oon- dact of this affair should succeed, something would be ashleved for the benefit of peace; if, on the oontrary, they should fall, the failure would be nothing less than a misfor* tune to mankind. Therefore herMaJestyl Government trusted that they wonld be contented to await for the short time which yet remained the result which could hardly bo otherwise than decisive, and which he hoped It would not be too sanguine a venture on bis part to say that there was every probsbility that they might be able to recognise as honourable and satisfactory. Cheers. Mr. Disraeli Bald that In the critical state of affairs as regarded our relations with the United States of America, will eh had now subsisted for five months, ho thought there had been two duties for Parliament to fulfil The first was to give fair play to the Government, constituted of whatever party It might be, placed In sach a position, and he might say that without at all binding them- selves to any approbation of their course, giving them that constitutional support which he thought they had a right to look forward to in a difficult position. The second duty had been at the samo tlmo consistently with that line to assert that policy with respect to the matters in qaeation, on which be believed the great ma- jority of the people of this country were decided. ( Hear, hear.) He had himself boon Influenced by these two feelings, and he believed he represented accu- rately feelings ot gentlemen sitting on that side of the House In this matter. He gathered from the right hon. gentleman opposite that he and his colleagues nad pre- pared a distinct proposition which had been made to the Government of tho United States; that that proposi- tion had been aocepted by the President of the United £ tales; and in order that it should be ultimately adopted as the solution of these difficulties, it was at this moment submitted to the United States Senate. That being the caso be could not for a moment hesitate to express his own opinion, and so far as his opinion conld influence those of others, he wished to express it most distinctly that ths Hoose was to doty bound to continue that forbearance which they had already shown. ( Cheers.) It was quite dear that their opinion as to the policy ol the Government must DO based upon the prcciso language contained In the proposition which thsy had made to the Government of tha United States, and it was quite impossible therefore for an opinion to bs expressed at the moment At the same time he would express a hope that tho papers would bs placed upon tho table without any unnecessary delay. Mr. Gladstone said that It was tho desire of the Govern- ment to lay tho papers upon the table at the earliest posdbl* moment. The House took up the Report of Amendments on the Ballot BUI, which waa left uncompleted oa Thursday. The much disputed regulations for taking the votes of 11 Iterate voters occupied some time. Mr. Foister proposed thatUhe » o- er, when bo requests the assistance of the presiding officer to mark his Ballot- paper shall produce a declara- tion made before a magistrate that he cannot read, ana shall produce also a certificate to that offaat; but aJt,> r a short convention ho abandoned the certificate. Mr. V. Harcourt moved that the declaration bo made baton the presiding officer, but en tdlxldon fee vis beaten. tj U2 to CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS. A " Chicago sufferer " who made New Year's calls In Milwaukee had his cards artificially smoked to remind his hosts of tho great fire. A new Mexican telegraph operator, whose wires blew down, fixed matters by scalplug the first squaw that came along of her hoop skirts, and using that for wire. A New York wedding cake weighed 40 pounds. It was In the form of a three- story house, with sugar bride and groom coming out of tho front door. The " money artiele" man of an Alabama paper reports money as " getting closer and closer, but not close enough yet to seach this part of the country." A peculiar- looking bone left in a street car In New York has been sent to a learned society to see what it was. The secretary labelled It before returning it " Os- car." A land speculator in America, in describing a lake on an estate In Cumberland county, says it Is so elear and so deep, that by looking Into It you can see them making tea In China. A couple announce in the New York Poet their mar- riage, ana add to the notice: " No cards— nor any money to get them with." Mosquitoes are large and sonewhat ferocious in Mississippi. A man who went out one day to look for his cow found her skeleton on the ground and a large mos- qulto on an adjacent tree picking 1U teeth with one ol her A lady well known as a politican always accosts a stranger with, " I think I have seen you somewhere," which often leads to a clue for her finding out the history ot the party. One evening recently sho played off he » usual game on a gentleman wbe understood her character, and who re- plied, " Most likely, madam, fori sometimes go- there." The ceremony of tying the knot is much simplified In tho Hoosler State, as the following scene will show :— " What Is your name, slrf" " Maty." " What Is your name, miss?" " Polly." " Maty, do you love Polly t" " No mis- take." « * Polly, do yon Maty! * " Well I reckon." " Well, " I pronounce you man and wits All tho days of your life." A New York young lady was sweeping the streets with a trail two yards long, a young man stepped upon It, partly tearing it from the dress. She turned slowly upon him, and sa& l, " Sir, you are a rowdy." He retorted. " Madam, you are a dowdy." " If I were a man I would thrash you, said she. " This Is Insnffurcblo," said the lady, gathering op her calico and turning away, " That is true, he replied, " whether your remark appose to yourself, your dress, or the weather. A wealthy widow in Pittsburg/ ell' in love with tha - eoachman who drove her to her husband's grave, and finally, married him. He unfortunately had - a. wife living, waa ar- rested for bigamy, and implored hlasooend to furalsh baH. She chucked him plajially under the chin, and . bade him. gptogantakeamam. That's A meeting of a novel character was held at the rooms of the Social Science Association, in London, on Friday in last week. It consisted of a conference , of ladies, who have formed a Women's Society for the • by cultivation of the knowledge and practice of sanitary " laws, and many of the most experienced sanitarians of the country were present. Among tbe members of the Society are Miss Twining, Mrs. William Grey, Mies E. Blackwell, Madame Parkes- Bellsc, Baroness M. de Rothschild. Madame Bodichon, Mrs. Kingsley, and Miss Goldsmid. Among the gentlemen present were Mr. George Hastings, Mr. Ernest Hart, Mr. E. Chadwick, C. B., Dr. Sieveking, Dr. Corfield, Mr. Westlake, Mr. Pears, and Dr. Hardwire. A Statement made of the objects of the Society showed that it was formed under the name of the National Health Society, and purposed to assist in the formation of local societies, to induce schools to include sanitary instruction in their teach- ings, to form an office for answering questions, from private individuals and others, as to the proper modes of procedure in cases of sanitary difficulty, and to establish a reference library, with places, models, and papers. in a discussion which followed, several of the ladies spoko of the great difficulties they had experienced themselves in their endeavours to apply sanitary laws, and they spoke of the desire which many ladies had to assist in this home work. Mr. Hastings, Mr. Ernest Hart, and Mr. Chadwick, • poke with regard to the means of organizing, and as to the practical means of working, such a scheme, and it was understood that the National Health Society would formally apply to be admitted, as an affiliated Society, or aa a special department of the Health De- partment of the Social Science Association. The new Society had a fund of several hundred pounds, and in- cluded among its members, chiefly, ladies of considera- tion and known activity, and the general opinion of the meeting was that, by a judicious and active main- tenance of its programme, it wonld render great as- sistance in a subject which is now attracting great at- tention in the public mind. A WARNING TO OUR WILLIAM 1 ( From Punch.) WILL, have you had tho beating yet You ' scape no week together t At last I fear you'll hardened get In heart as well as leather. Once when you left tho whlpplng- place, Twas with a look ol sorrow: But now you como out with a face Says " Whip again to- morrow I" . A boy can't be flogged overy week, And yet as Prefect trusted: Stout DOOTOB BULL who hates a sneak, With a shirk feels disgusted. Though pluck's a noble quality In man or schoolboy either, Pluck that takes licking quietly. Does credit. WILL, to neither. There's scarce atask thatyou've had set, But birch for it you've tasted : Your talont all admit, and yet Your wit In words seems wasted. More haste worse speed,— still with your work You muddle, mull, and mess on. To expel you DOCTOE BULL ' twould irk. But you must learn your lesson I EPITOME OF NEWS, BBITISH AND FOREIGN. The Ctfvwner of PondEherry has prohibited dano- SUASfiStig u" tart « *" « t. 2SMSS ^ Mit^ lte was the sententious uply. ™ A haltor' eW. erly maiden lady, hearing for the first time that matches are mado In heaves, declared that she dl ™ t cwea straw how soon she left Uds stotal world for • better The agricultural labourers of Aberdeenshire have re- solved to raise a land ol £ 10,000 to mslst members of thX class to emigrate with the view ol Uasenln8 th. ronolt ot labour, and thus raising wsges. ' The news has reached Washington that the late Tycoon of Japan has been invited by tho present relgnlne Xmperor to come out of his late retirement, and has received jsn honourable appointment under tho Govsmment, accom" txanled by an highly complimentary title. Mr. Butt, Q. C., has declined to undertake the de- fense of Marguerite Diblane. He has also rofmtd to accopt a nmnber of Inducements held out to him to practise at tha English bar, having decided to devote his attention ex- clusively to the Irish people. According to a Paris telegram, It » not trufrth& tf thff German Government has decided against granting tin rcqnesf ot Marshal Bazataie to let him prove by tbe evidence: of Ger- man officers that be dtd not brcalcfkst with Princo l-' rederick Charles. There t » room, it is said, to believe that leave may be given So these officers to come and appear as wltnesns,. At a meeting ot the Liverpool School Board held on Mondty, It was reported tkat the number of children attend- ing the publlo elementary scheols of the tow a waa 6,000 lu excess of thenumber attending when the Board was estab- lished. The average attendanoes had also considerably In- creased. Official returns received front France on Friday evening In last week show that In the ten days over which the statistics extend there were 81 animals attacked with the plague tn the Republic. Tho disease prevailed In ouly three Departments, but it committed considerable ravages In tho Nord and the Somme. Deputations from several French watering- place » have waited upon M Thiers for the purpose of urgfig him to support the proposed revival' of the gambllng- taide in France, by which they declare a new source of wealth will be opened up In the country. M. Thiers Is reported to have that tho initiative in the matter must rest with- the Assembly. Five months ago a retriever dog bit several people at Crookes, near Sheffield Two of them ( chllilr< rn) died soon afterwards. Thomas Ashdale, a painter, another of thoso- bittcn, has Just died at one of the hospitals In SlufiUld front hydrophobia In Its worst form A valuable horse and a. number of dogs bitten by the same brute on the same day have been destroyed. On the reassembling of Parliament, Mr. W. E. Forster will introduce s BUI to confirm a provisional order made by the Education Department under tbe " The Ele- mentary Education Act, 1870," to enable the School Board for London to put In foroe the compulsory Clauses of " The- Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1SA5, and th » Acts amend- ing the same. The fashion of calling things shortly is awkward. A msterfamlllas was rather taken aback the other day at receiving abUlfor a " pair of Infants." The account had been made out with an excess of conciseness : the addition of one word—" gloves"— would have prevented all misappre- hension. An alderman fso gallant) said to a young lady who was kissing a turtle dove—" How much 1 should like to bo that dove I" " Indeed," she replied; " but you would not like to be a turtle, I'm sure." " Why not, Miss Emma?" said the Innocent alderman. '" Because then you could not eat It." The International Exhibition at Dublin is to be opened on Jane 5. It will comprise several loan collection* of works of art, prominent amongst which will be a number of portraits, renresentatlve of the eminent men whose careers havo at all been Intimately associated with the his- tory of the sister Island Travel stimulates observation and intellectual re- mark differently. Recently a young lady on being asked whether she had been to Rome when sho was In Italy, re- plied, in a hesitating manner, " Rome I Rome ? Let me see. Did we go to Rome, mamma 1 Oh, yes 1 This Is where we saw a woman shaving a dog on the steps of a Church." Paris has been visited by a perfect swarm of flies, which, though quite innocuous, are exceedingly irritating. M. Blanchard, of tbs Academy of Sciences, designates them as Bibiones hortulani, whoso papulam Is not animal but vegetable. He ascribes their great prevalence to the fact cil the double siege having scared away the birds that feed on their eggs. A curious Admiralty suit was heard by Mr. Serjeant Wheeler at the Liverpool County Court on Saturday. The claim w° s for seamen's wages, part of which had been deducted because the men had been convlcte- 1 and Impri- soned at Calcutta for alleged neglect of duty. The court now held that there was no legal proof of the conviction, and on hat and other grounds directed that the men should be paid for the term of their imprisonment. A witness in court who had been cautioned to give a precise answer to every question, and not to talk about whst he might think the question meant, was interrogated as follows:—" Yon drive a waggon J " " No, sir, I do not." " Why. sir, did yoa not tell my learned friend so this mo- ment?" " No, sir, I did not." " Now. sir. I put it to you on your oath : Do you drive a waggon ?" " No. sir." " . What Is your occupation, then J" " I drive a hoise." roesfhry too sanguine a view has been taken on the subject of the Berlin strike. At a general meeting of non- unionist Journeymen masons and capenters, it waa deter- mined not to accopt the conditions proposed by the provislonsi arbitration. The principle on which the movement Is to continue will be that of holding out against individual masters until they agree to join the court of arbitration instituted by the men. Tactics such as these may prolong the strife Indefinitely, by testing the tenaolty ol tho dispu- tants on either side. THE MARKETS. MARE- LANE, Mo? rDAT. The grain trade at Mark- lane to- day was decidedly firm, owing to the wet weather. There was a fair attendance of millers. The supply ot wheat from Essex and Rent was limited, and the quality Indifferent The inquiry was very forced, and an advance over the prices o' Monday la * " from 2s. to Ss. per qr. was required for both red and WUIHJ produce. There has been a fair show of foreign wheat. Sales progressed steadily, at 2s. to 3s. per quarter more money. With barley the market has been moderately supplied. There has been a good demand for all descriptions, and prices have had an upward tendency. Malt has cbangt- d hands steadily, at full prices. The show of osts has- been tolerably good. There has been a healthy demand, at extreme cur- rencies, Beans have sold at full prices, « iti a moderate Inquiry. In peas sales have progressed steadily, and prices have had an upward tendency. Malzn has been In request, at Od. to Is. per qr. advance. The flour market has been firm, and prices have risen Is. per 2S01K METROPOLITAN CATTLE: MARKED*.— MQRDAT. The cattle trade to- day has been rathee less active. In sympathy with the quieter tone la the dead meat market. The weather, too, has been less favourable for killing, and there has been a thinner attendance of country butchers, hence the want ot animation in the demand. About an aver- age supply of beasts has been, on offer, and the quality generally is good. Tha Inquiry has besn less active, but prices ave Baled firm, the best Scotl- and crosses selling at 6s. 6d to& s. 8d per81b. From Nor- folk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire we recalvmi about 1,650 Sottsand crosses ; from other parts of England, about 200 of various breeds; and bom Soottand, CV Scots and crossca. There has been a moderate ahow of sheep tn the pens. The demand has bee& leas- active ; nevertheless, the quotations have ruled firm. The best Downs and half brwla have boon disposed of at lod. to ts. per Sib. The lamb, trade has been rather easier, prices ranging from 7a. to 7s. fld. par alb. Calve* have been In moderate reqie& t. Pigs havo nvlil slowly. Per 81b. to sink the off& L ad.* d Prtae Soathdown 5 10 6 0 Large coarse calves 4 4 6 < 1 Prime small 6 4 0 ( 1 Lamb* ......... 0 S ft a. d. it d. Int ooonebeasts.. 3 10 S 6 1 Second quality.... S 10 4 S Prime large oxen .. 1 1ft 6 2 ! ' rime Soots, fto... 6 ti 8 if. eoaxsesbsep .. S 19 4 6 ! acond quality .... A 86 0 rtmsooarsswool'd 5 4 6 8 METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET.— MOSDST. A'BOd# tuISf 01 bMn oa trsda Per 81b, by tho carcase. » . s. d a d. I g. a. a < Inferior beet ^.... 3 6 4 0 I " " Middling ditto .... 4 I 4 ditto.. 6 0 6 3 4 8 6 4, Lamb, 7s. 8d, Inferior mutton 4 4 4 10 Middling ditto 6 0 5 4 Prime ditto.... 6 B 6 10 I* rge pork .... 3 8 4 t Small pork .... i 0 6 4 to 8s. 4a. HOPS. Dnrtnglhe past wesk a firmer tone has prevailed. Tra » » - aeUons have not been extensive in any descripUon, but the sneral tendoncj of prices has been favouraolo. Kor foreign ops » speculative demand has been observable, at low rfqfis. Mk^ Lod East Kent, £ 10 10s. to £ 17; Woald of set, £ 810s. to £ 1010s.; Sussex. £ 7 16s. to £ 9 9s.; Famham mi ceuntry, £ 11 lis. to £ 16. Yearlings: Mid and East Stent, £ S to fce 10a. ; Weald of Kent. £ 3 to £ 616s. ; Sussex, ti to £ 5 6a; Famham and country, £ 6 to £ 7; olds, £ 1 Ca. to £ 2. POTATOES. Moderate snppBos of potatoes have been on sale. Tho trade as been quiet at our quotations. English flakes, 120s. to 170a.; ditto regents. 120s. to 140s.; Dunbar regents, 130s. to 160*.;' ditto rocks. 120s. tolJOs.; French whites, 60x to 100a.; and Victorias, 160s. to 180s. per toa WOOL. Although badness In the wool market has been rather Ir- regular, the tons has been more hopeful, and prices generally * j firm. Tbo total quantity of wool disposed of has the average. As regsrds values the weakness principally perceptible la taHOor sorts, fine lustw deacrt^ ttoi* ttfnj £ ra Is ralttfc THE COLESHILL LABOURERS. At a meeting held at Coleshill on Saturday, to pro- mote the union of labourers employed in agriculture, it was stated that 48,000 members had already been enrolled, and that it is intended to embrace in the onion the labourers of Ireland as well as of Great Britain. THE LANCASHIRE COLLIERS. A delegate meeting of Lancashire colliers, held on Monday, at Keareley, resolved to demand anotl^ r ad- vance of wages. This ( the Man hestcr Guar dim. re- marks) is becoming a householder's as well as a collier s question. It was stated that coal had r* tched a higher price than was ever before known in Lanca- shire, ana the men allege that their wages have not been advanced in proportion. A resolution was therefore passed in favour of another advance of 10 percent.; and Mr. Halliday hearing that one firm of coalownere had raised the price of their coal 10 per cent, ex- claimed that the colliers must go in for 15 per cent. A CHURCH SET ON FIRE BY LIGHTNING. During the thunderstorm on Thursday in last week, the tower of the parish church of Rainham, in Kent, was struck by lightning. About four ' elock, one of the ringers, named Croucher, on visiting the belfry, found that a massive beam, in which the vane was fixed, was on fire._ He immediately raised an alarm, and, with the assistance of his neighbours, succeeded in extin- guishing the flames. The beam, however, waa burnt mort than half- way through. A search being made for the cause of the accident, it wax found that the vane had been'struck by lightning, which had run down its shaft and set fire to the beam in which it was fixed. It thence passed to the bell used for tolling the death- knell, and was conducted by a wire attached to it into the church, where it displaced a stone in the wall near the west porch, and passed out into the graveyard. It melted the lead on the roof of the tower, and did so much damage that it was found necessary to remove the vane to make the requisite repairs. On Thursday night all was considered safe, but about five o'clock on Friday morning smoke was seen issuing from the church. The tower being atcended without loss of time, it was found that the woodwork of the belfry was burning. The fire was discovered just in time; had it gone on for another half- hour, Berious injury most have been done. As it was, the belfry was so filled with smoke that those who assisted in extinguish- ing the fire were greatly hindered in their work ; but the flames were eventually extinguished by the exer- tions of the villagers. The tower of Rainham church, one of the most im- posing in the neighbourhood, was struck by lightning on' October 20, 179L The church, which is eight centuries old, i^ a very handsome edifice— indeed, one of the most handsome of the parish churches in Kent, It has a double nave, two chancels, carved rood- screen: three stone sedilia, Btalls, and brasses, some of them of the date 1409. It contains the burial- place of the Earls of iThanet, and of the Tuftnns, who held land in the parish in the reign of Henry IIL There are many monuments to families in the church, and eight earls and six countesses lie buried there; among them Henry, the last of the once powerful earls. The London and North- western Railway Company have advanoed the wages of gangers from £ 1 per week to S4s.. and platelayers from 18s. to £ L The Naples Gazette states that the sums already coHectod for the victims ol the ereptlon exceed 300,00Ofr. It ia stated in the Ootu* Circular that Prince Leo- pold Is suffering tram tho jets ol a slight sprain ol ths knee. n> e Lord Mayor of Dublin has usucd invitations to a grand ball for the 6th of June, to moct the Lord Lieu- tenant and the Duko ot iillnburgh. A Times' telegram 5-- Y> ro Berlin says that according to * decree of the Governor ot Poland, all Polish exlla* returning homo are assured of lull pardon. From April 1st to tf . e lith instant tho Exchequer receipts amounted to £ 8,367,770 as compared with £ 0 03. « , 970 la the corresponding period 01 last year. The expenditure has been £ 9,208,309. The balance In the ll& nk of England on Saturday last waa £ 6,735,461. The proposal that an International Exhibition should be held In Madrid next year • ssems totn< M « with fsvour, as the Municipality has offered to siitaertbe terelvt million reals to carry out the scheme, and ten rnllhins uipce ace expected from other sources. The Duke of; Edinburgh, on hehaSf cI her Majesty bold a Levis at Buckingham Palaco o « Monday aiteruoon' There were upward* ot 200 presentaboos to tils Royal High- ness, which are to be otuuUfored as vmiy v « - nS to oreduit*. Uonat^ xWaJatj,. St. Marys convict prison, at Chatham, is to be enlarged, so that more convicts may bo employed on the defences of the dockyard At present there are 1,700 em- ployed on the extension works. On presenting his letters of recall to the Pope, en Monday, the Marquis d'Harcourt, on the part of M. Thiers, took occasion to congratulate his Holiness on having attained his eightieth year. M. do Bourgolng, replaces the Marquis d'Harcourt, as representative of France at tho Vatican. Five Foreign Seamen were on Saturday convicted in London, before tho Thames polloe magistrate, of having smuggled 1451bs of tobacco. Each of them was fined £ A0 » , wHh the alternative of six months' Imprison meut with hard The most interesting discovery beard of lately is one for laying down submarine telegraph wires, even across the Atlantic, with Insulation amounting only to a single unit Instead of the 170,040 units of the present cables, thus saving two- thirds of the present expense of these cables, and making oceanic telegraphy cheaper even than that of tbe land. The Secretary of State for War has decided that in future, In those regiments of Militia which desire to adopt the plan, the annual bounty of men who reside away from the head- quarters of their regiments may be Issued to them post- office orders, payable at the post- office nearest to their respective bouses. The usual commission accordlne to tho amount of the orders will be borne by the public, vouched by the receipt of the postmaster. An Oxford correspondent writes:— Mrs. Elizabeth Cooper has Just dfed at the village of Cumnor, near Oxford, at the advanced age of one hundred and two years and five months, having been born on the 13th of December, 1769; and Mrs. Eobart Hill has lately died at Oxford tn her ninety- fifth year. Both ladles retained possession of their faculties to the last, Mrs Hill being able to read and write without spectacles to the day of her death. A new Jersey paper tells a story of a well- known character, who frequently figured on juries In New York. While on a jury, as soon as they had retired to their room to deliberate, he would button np his coat and " turn in" on a bench, exclaiming, " Gentlemen, I'm for bringing In a verdict for plaintiff ( or defendant, as he had settled his mind), and all creation can't move me. Therefore, as soon as you have all agreed with me, wake me wp, and we'll go In." A German has made experiments to ascertain the amount of loss that coal undergoes when exposed to the weather. It would perhaps surprise many readers to hear that the loss is considerable; ordinary bltumluous coal loses nearly One- tbird in weight, and nearly one- half In gas- making quality. Nature shows us the correct way— she always keeps her coals considerably under cover. A gentleman relating to a Royal personage that he had been run away with when driving, and that at a critical moment he jumped out of the carriage, his Royal Highness bluntly exclaimed, " How exceedingly stupid 1' " Now," said the gentleman, on telling the Incident, " it's aH very well for him to call me a fool; but I can't conceive why he should. Can you T" " No P was tho r* J « lnder. I can't, because he could dot suppose you Ignorant of ths fact" A Brussels correspondent writes:— The Echo du Parlement answers the complaint of the Journal del Dibats that Mr. Disraeli did not mention France when he spoke at the literary Fund dinner of the establishment of the Inde- pendence of Belgium by remarking that the publication of Lord Palmorston's correspondence by Lord Dolling " has modified a good deal the opinion generally entertained as to the r61e of French dlplomscy with regard to Belgium In 1831 and 1S32." Owing to the prospective influx of capital it is thought In some quarters that the directors of the Bank of England may, in a fortnight or three weeks, reduce the official minimum. Already upwards of £ 800,003 is an- nounced to be on its way to England from New Yprk, and further large amounts will follow. There are also consider- able sums coming from Australia and India, and, without additional totals are required for Germany, the tide ot bullion may be considered to have already turned. Advices from Australia inform us that the " Mel- bourne Meat Preserving Company " have declared a dividend of 6s. per share, equal to 10 per cent, on the subscribed capital; and other companies at Geelong, Warnambool, and the Salt Water River are also reported to be in a prosperous state. Tbe latest advices from England have caused all these ventures to be looking up In the market and the same news has at onco given some 60 or 60 per cent, additional value to all squatting properties. A large and influential meeting was held at Willis's Rooms, London, on Tuesday, In sld of the Special Endow- ment Fund of King's College. The Archbishop of Canter-, bury presided, and Mr. Gladstone, the Bishop ot Peter- borough, and Mr. W. H. Smith, M. P., were amongst the speakers. Resolutions were passed declaring that King's College deserved tho confidence and support of all who ac- cepted religion as tho basis of true education, and that the present effort to clear off the debt and form the nuclous ot a moderate endowment was essential to the welfare ot the Institution. Intelligence has been received by Messrs. Walter Grieve, Son, and Ca, Greenock, that their Balling vessel. Huntsman, has been lost at the Newfoundland sealing grounds. She was out on her first trip when caught In a floe and destroyed. Tho captain and 40 out of a crew of 60 wore lost. Tho Huntsman waa a vessel of 120 tons. Several other seal an were lost at the some time. The sealing voyage has been most disastrous this year » mnng sailing vessels and steamers, from the long- continued heavy les, with rough weather and snow drifts. Other vesaels are reported dis- masted and Injured by ice. No reports havo been roselvad as yet from the steamers on their second trips. A fatal yachting accident occurred on tho Thames off Grays on Saturday afternoon. The day was fixed for th* opening sail of the Junior Thameo- Yacht Clnb ( Greenhithe). and ono of the members, a gentleman named Tracer, living at Dart ford, and the owner ol a smaU yacht called the Minnie was cruising about before oomine up to the station, but when off Grays the yacht i « a* oanghi in * violent squall and blown over, tbe three oceapants being throws Into the water. Mr. Tracey only waa - drownedw the two others being picked upby a boat sent to t'aslr assistance. The yacht filled and sank almost lmmedlatel p. Tuesday night's ReCM^ C says » —" IWehave already announced that tho deeial MI In tho Bennett ease will not be delivered until afteeWhi Asontlde. But tha Judicial Com- mittee have again met to - day, in order tooonslder their Judg- msnt It is no longf . r a leeret that on soma essential points It will not bo favov jab) e to the appellant We forbear to say more « t present, « sxcept that tto decision will not be unani- mous. We belie' rt a'd parties in the Chureh agree that the eonsUtutlon of f . he ecaomittee to decide the Issues in this very important casa was moat nnsatisfaotory. At some future period It may J * obaWy bo necessary to direct attention fa the subject SA c^. ® ? poisoning was investigated by a coroner's ry, . r,' lermlniter on Saturday. Tho inquiry wa& as to o death o/ a child named Alfred Beames, tho son of a carpet f rs. Beamce had been In the habit of giving the « y ™ P. and In a bottle similar » o the one con- J?" 11?*" ae syrup sho had some laudanum. ' Intending to glv* SStXir 1 50 ® 8 ' OO^ S • nop o? Wednesday evening she • eddes tally took up the wrong bottled gave deceased a ™ i landannm. Ihe mistake waa discovered an boas or lw.° * * ter, but medical assistance wsr* of no avaO. The fair ned * verdict to tha effto'. UM th* nolsoa was imuHj administered. w - THF, FALMOUTH AND PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. S W i'DAV, M A Y 18. 1872. ( total Iimmliiceiiieiits. STEPHENS & SIDDONS, PHOTOGrHAPHERS, 42, HIGH STREET, FALMOUTH. Likenesses from the smallest to the largest size, plain aud finished in Crayon, Water or Oil Color, Landscapes, Mansions. Ships, Sea Views, and Groups, WORKS OF ART COPIED. Mr. STEPHEN'S had the honor of bei g the first person to take the likeness of any member of a Royal Family by the Photographic pr . cess ; First Class Silver and Bronze Medals have been awarded him bjy the Royal Cornwall Pol ' technic Society, he being the ' only Medallist for Cartes de Visite taken in the County. Mr. SIDDONS has also claims in the production of the Negatives and Enlargements for which the only Medal has been awarded by that Society for that class of Photographic Work. General. falmouth HArBoUr. Petroleum Act, 1871. Franconi Ginnett's Model CIRCUS And Palace of An usement. With a Splendid Stud of 50 Horses FOE ONE DAY 0NL5T. At FALMOUTH, Tiiesday, May 21. PENRYN, Wednesday, May 22. Grand Profeession at I o'clock The First Performance ip commence at 2.30, the secondmt 7.30. ADMISSION :— Stalls, Cs.; Boxes, 2s.; 2nd Seats, Is.; Arena, 6d. < QT Great Treat- All School Children ONE PENNY EACH to the Afternoon Performance. bRONCHITiS. Henry D. Brandreth, Esq., Liverpool. 105, Hampton- street, Birmingham, Nov. 27,1871- Dear Sir,— I have for some mouths past been ! n the oabit of using Allcock's Porous Plasters I ( procured from the establishment of Messrs. ' Snape and Son, 13, Great Hampton- street, of this town ) when suffering from bronchitis and severe pains in the side, and have on every occasion found immediate relief, whereas I had previously consulted two medical men without deriving the least benefit. I can wiih confidence recommend them to any one eaffering from the same complaint.— Yours respectfully, GEORGE STYLES. INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. " Henry D. Brandreth, 57, Great Charlotte- street, Liverpool. " Dear Sir,— We beg to enclose another testi- monial as to the effieacy of Allcock's Porous Plasters. James Radcliffe, Stamford- street, Mceely, says he had been confined to his bed five weeks suffering from inflammation of the hugs. He oougbed continually, with great expectoration and difficulty of breathing, which brought him so low that he was unable to rise in bed without support. He applied one oi your plasters, and found relief in fifteen minutes, after which he gays the cough stopped and the expectoration ceased. He is now quite recovered. The above is exactly his own statement to me.— Youra respectfully, " JOHN B1CKLE. " Pro W. BOSTOCK, " 24, Stamford: street, Aahton- under- Lyne " November 24,1871." sCIATICA. " j^" OTrcE IS HEREBY GIVEN that in X i pursuance of provisions of the Petroleum Act, 1871, Mie Falmouth Harbour Commission- ers have framed and adopted tbe following Bye Laws, and \ ntend to apply to the Board of Trade for confirmation thereof after the expira- tion of one calendar month from tfyfe date of this notice. Amd further notice is hereby given that objections \ to the proposed By el Laws may be lodged with me, the undersigned, at my Offices, in Chdrch Street, Falmouth, at any time before the expiration of / one calendar month from the date hereof. W. J. GENN, Clerk to the/ Commissioners. Falmouth. 1th May, 1872 FALMOUTH HARBOUR, THE PETROLELeum ACT. 1871. BYE Laws. 1. The Owner or Master of every Ship carry- ing a cargo, any part of which consists of Petroleum, to which the above Act applies, shall, on entering the Harbour, immediately give notice of the nature of stuch cargo to the Har- bour- Master, aild shall place or moor his ship in sucli place as the Harbour- Master shall direct, and whilst anv such Petroleum shall remain on board, shall not remove his Ship without the written permission of the Harbour- Master, except for the purpose of proceeding ta sea. Petroleum shall oe discharged or loaded onljMiet^ een sunrise and sunset. The holds of everr ship carrying Petroleum shall bjfe freely and properly ventilated \ fiftyn the tine of her entering the ^ arbyir umtil the Petroleum shall havV leen all discharged or the ship shalYnave left the Harbour. No Ship shall bf allowed to have a fire or light on board during the time of dis charging, land no smoking shall be allowed on] the ship or any lighter into which Pen- oleum shall be discharged. Petroleum shall not be discharged into any lighter' exoept such as may be author- ised for that purpose by the Harbour- Master, land no un- authorised craft shall be : llowed to lie alongside any ship disc barging Petroleum or having Petroleum on board. Every ship o lighter having Petroleum on board si all keep conspicuously exhibi- ted, fro u sunrise to sunset, a red flag, and no ; uch ship or lighter shall at any tin e be left without a sufficient on boa d. Boot and Shoe Business in Falmouth/ FOR DISPOSAL, which / as been carried on for 22 yea\/ in a commodious Corner Shop ani large Working premises in the main thoroughfare, nearffife shipping offices. Ill- health is the solo' cause of the present proprietor retiring. / Good- will, Fixtures'and Stock at valuation. Rent moderate. / Apply to / / Mr. JOHN ELLERy Opposite the Chnrch, Falmouth. other officers present are Lieut.- Col. aud Major Sir Charles B. G. Sawle, Bart., Captains Joseph Pomeroy, W. E. Michell, Thomas R. Polwhele, and Colman B. Rashleigh ; First- Lieutenants T. M. A. Horsford', John B. Bolitho, and Fras. J. Hext ; Adjutant Lieut- Col. Reginald Henry Champion; and Surgeon F. C. Bullmore. The rank and file number 333, and tho staff, 19. Sixty recruits havo formerly received a month's instruction. The regiment will on the 22nd instant, be inspected by Colonel Vesey, It. A. The men have conducted themselves exceedingly well. FALMOUTH BOARD OF GUARDIANS.— The fort- nightly meeting of this Board was held on Thurs- day. There were present Mr. M. H. Williams, chairman, the Rev. W. Rogers, vice- chairman, and Messrs. Geach, Sanders, Doble, Blamey, Manser, Hawkins, Richards, Rickards, Pender, Scott, Chard, Turner, Webber, Jacob, Martin, and Rowe. A man having been admitted from Penryn whilst suffering from small- pox and placed in the receiving ward, the medical officer stated tjhat the guardians Should not occupy the board- room for fear of infec- tion ; the meeting was therefore held in the dining- hall. Peter Chegwidden, jun., of Ponsanooth, at- tended to answer the communication of the clerk calling on him to contribute the total expense of the maintenance of his wife in the asylum. He stated that hiB average earnings amounted to about 23s. per week, out of which he had hitherto contri- buted 5s » woekly towards his wife, and paid 2s. weekly to his housekeeper ; that his house- rent was about 2s. 4d. per week, and on the remaining 13s. 8d. he had to provide for his housekeeper, his three children, and himself. The guardians, after duly considering the case, came to the conclusion that the relatives of Chegwidden, who were well- to- do, should assist in the matter, and informed him that they would expect him to contribute the total cost, amounting in the last quarter to 10s. 2d. per week.. Capt. Eustice attended aqd stated his inability to contribute towards the support of his son in the asylum, and promised to furnish the guardians on the next board- day with a statement showing his earnings for twelve months previous to lady- day last. A letter from the Local Government Board was read, confirming tho appointment of Mr. Eykyn as medical officer of the Constantino district for 12 months, at a salary of £ 24 ; also a letter from that board stating they would delay, the Considera- tion of the vaccination contracts for th6 ^ Falmouth and Mylor districts until after their, vaccination in- spector had made his report. A lettej& irom the governor of the county gaol at Bodmin-, in reply to a communication from the board, was. read, stating that Australian cooked meat exolusiv# y had been used in that establishment since January, and that it was more palatable, nutritious, and. easier of mas- tication than the ordinary butchers' contract meat, and that in his opinion it was every way superior to the meat formerly Used. The guardians requested the master to procure price lists from Messrs. McCall and Co., " and to lay. them before the Board at their next meeting. There were five applica- tions for the office of collector of poor- rates for Falmouth town, viz. : Irom Mr. E: Cobon, Mr. L. . C. Kelway, Mr. W. H. Hayman. Mr., John Strong, and Mr. J. R. Corlyon. Mr. Kelway and Mr. Strong offered to fill the office at a yearly salary of £ 35. Mr. Webber moved, aud Mr Chard seconded, and it was unanimously resolv^ fcffi? U Mk Corlyon lie appointed at the salary, of the former officer, viz. : £ 40. Boots Wanted. ALAD wanted as Boots. Apply at the Albion Hotel, Falmouth. Cook Wanted. WANTED a good plain COOK. Apply by letter, box 19, Post Offii- e, Falmouth. Turnip and mangold Seed. THE Best sORTS in cultivation on sale at rundELL'S Seed Stores, Market Street, Falmouth. Heywood, October 9,1871 - i . i r> . > _. t. ; r y. 10/ 1. Henry D. Brandreth, 57, Great Charlotte- street, Liverpool. Dear Sir,— Please to send me another six dozen of Allcock's Plasters and two dozen Brand- reth's Pill's, le. lid. The Plasters seem to produce wonderful results. There is scarcely a clay passes bat some one is telling me of the oores they are making. Rheumatism in various parts of the body disappears as if by magio. Only on Sunday last Mr. Jacob Heywood, Albert- terrace, Starkey- street, Heywood, informed that he had been troubled with sciatica for three years; so bad was it the last twelve months of that time that he was unable to follow his em- ployment. He had tried many doctors, berni to Matlock, and spent £ 2 on a largely- advertised electric- chain belt, but all to no purpose. Some one at last persuaded him to try your Plasters. He aid he had no faith in them, but he would try them, for he was stuck fast; they could not make his pain much worse, and it would only be a little more money sent after the rest. So he bought two ; one he placed on is thigh, and the other on his back, and a week after he waa ready for his work. It id now six months ago, and he has had no return of his pains.— Yours truly, W. BECKETT- BORWICK'S CUSTARD POWDER. Makes delicious Custards and Blanc Mange. Custards made with it jare a great improvement to all Fruit Puddings and Pies. Vast numbers uso it and no family should be without it. SOLD by all Grocers and Corn Dealers, in Id. and 2d. packets, and 6d. and Is. tins. • 3AT JRDAY, MAY 18, lBT" RHEUMATISM OF THE WRIST. Henry D. Brandreth, Esq.," 57, Great Char- lotte- street, Liverpool, 36, Crown. street Liverpool, Nov. 21st, 1871. Dear Sir,— Three months since I eould not aw my right hand, owing to rheumatism in it and in my wrist, and ever ten weeks I was ' in greal pain— unable to find any relief. After trying many remedies, I was at last persuaded to try Allcook's Porous Plasters. 1 bound one round my wrist; in tkre< » days I had great relief, and in a week's time was perfectly cured Your plasters are a blessing to tbe afflicted. 1 have positive information ol their being of great benefit ft bron- chitis aud ast ma. Jtwi. lgive me pleasure to answer au) communicUi'ju concerning them.— Yours truly, THOMAS DAVIES. ALLCOCK'S POROUS PLASTERS are sold by all Druggists, at 1b IJd each, with full directions for use, or in aDy bi « e to suit- Tho yard J'lustor is specially recommended lor families aDd physicians. One yard equals 18 plasters. Price 1- ls per yard, 7 « 0d per half yard, or 4e pc- r qoarier. PRINCIPAL AGENCY FOB GRKAT BRITIAN ( Wholesale aud Retail ) : VI, GREAT CHAULOrr & P., LIVERPOOL. | J.— A Plaster sent to any part of tho country for 15 PENALTIES. For mooring, landing, or otherwise dealing with any ship or cargo in contravention of the foregoing Bye Laws, the owner or master of such ship or the owner of suchlcargo, as the case may be, shall eacbl incur a penalty not exceeding £ 501 for each day during which such fonti- avention continues; and the Haipour- Master may cause such ship or cargo to be removed at the owner's expense to the place appointed for mooting the same. If notice of the arrival of any ship with Petro- leirni on board is not given to the Harbour- Master, as required by the fore going Bye Laws, the owner and master of such ship shall each incur a pdnalty of not exceeding £ 500. NAMES AND EXPRESSIONS. The Nimes and Expressions used in the foregoing Bye Laws shall have the samo mean- ings as are assigned to tho same Names and Expressions in the Act. GRACE TrEThOWan DECEASED. / PURSUANT to tW statuta^ 22nd and 23rd Vic., cup. 35. NO'flciC IS HEREBY GIVEN, that all me£ sous Mving any claims or demands a^ ainstrttMst& te of GRACE TRE- THOWAn.'^ aiaJoL'Falmoutb, in the County of Cornwall, spihster, debased ( whose Will was proved on thA 9th / ay of May mst„ by Mr. William Walton, o/ Killigrew Road, Falmouth, Tea- dealer, the sofe Executor therein named), are hereby required to send particulars of their claims or demands to us the undersigned at our offices, at Falmouth, aforesaid, or to tho said Executor oy or before tho 1st day of July next. And all persons indebted to tho said Estate are hereby requested forthwith to pay tho amounts of their respective debts to us tho undersigned or to tho Baid Executor. Dated this 16th day of May, 1879, TILLY St CO., of Falmouth, Solicitors for tho Buid Executor. FALMOUTH EArLe'S RETREAT CHAPEL.— The Rev. E. Crump will preach here to- morrow afternoon, at 3 ; and Mr. John Studden on Tuesday evening next, at 7. THE £ 12 MUSICAL BOX, at Mr. Carver's, High Street, will be drawn for on Friday next, chances Is. each. Winner will be published in tho F. P. Weekly Times, of Saturday— AMI. YACHT INTELLIGENCE.— Arrivals during the week:— Cutter " Eveline," Mr. French, from Cowes ; yawl " Cambria," Mr. Longworthy, from Portsmouth; yawl " Breeze," Mr. Freeath, from Fowey. CUSTOMS.— The Commissioners? h ve issued a notice that Saturday, tho 1st of Juno next, having been appointed for the celebration of Her Majesty's birthday, will be observed aa a holiday in the Customs' department. SALES BY AUCTION.—' The auction held on Monday last, by Mr. Corfield, for the sale of Glynn Cottages, was very numerously attended, and, after a sharp contest, the cottages were purchased by Messrs. Howell, Adams, Volk, and Gregory, sever- ally ( tho two last- named being tenants), in tho total sum of £ 920.— At the same sale the black- smithory premises in Killigrew Street, in the oc- cupation of Mrs. Dinnis, wore purchased by W. H Bond, Esq., in the sum of £ 280. OUr STEAM- FLEET.— The largo steam- fleet belonging to this port has just had added to it a very handsome- modolled iron screw steamer, the " Enigma," about 50 feet long, built by Mr. John Payne, of Bristol, for Messrs. J. H. Deeble & Son, ship- chandlers, which arrived in the harbour yester- day morning. She is stated to bo very fast, having, on her trial trip in tho Loch, at Bristol, on Tues- day, run over two measured miles iu 9J minutes, her coal bunkers and water tanks being full at tho timo, for her voyage round the land. ImPrOVEmENTS.— We notice with pleasure that a great improvement has been made by Earl Kimberley near Trevethan, Falmouth. The nar- row path, commonly known as " Quarter- mile lane," has been converted into a good carriage road some thirty feet wide, with a nice footpath, forming a new entrance into Falmouth from the Constantino district. We hear it is hoped Mr. Baasott will also construct a new rpad through his property from Ashfield, aud thus Fftlijioijtb ujay be reached; from Penryn by a fino open road instead of by the con- fined entrance leading through High Street,. SUNDAY SCHOOL ANNIverSArY.- V- TIIO anni- versary of Pike's Hill Wesleyan Sunday School took place on Sunday. Excellent sermons were preached by tho Rev. J. R. Berry, of redruth. The school completely filled tho largo end gallery and its aisles, aud the report showed an increase in tho number of scholars during tho past year. Several choice melodies which had been got up for tho occasion were sung by the children in good stylo, their time- keeping being almost faultless. Owing to the inclemency of tho weather preventing many friends from attending the services, the col- lections were not so largo as expected ; but equalled those of last year. THe MINEBS' ArTILLErY. — " The Royal Cornwall and Devon Artillery Militia, now under- going drill at Pondennia Castle, are under tho com- mand of Colonel Sir Column Rashleigh, Bart. The PENRYn. PENNY BANK, M ay ILTH.-^ Received from ninety- seven persons £ 5 Bd. Paid to fourteen per- sons £ 6 16s. 4d- , InFesTATION OF CATTLE,— Mr. Gray has landed another cargo, of fat Spanish cattle this week. PeNrYN MAY FAIr.— This Fair was held on Monday last. There • was . an average supply of cattle, but very few flit ones, and owing to t ne high prices demanded few sales were effected. Cows and calves realised from £ 14 to £ 18 10s. Some bullocks from tho eastward sold at high prices, as did also a few sheep. Altogether the fair was vory dulL funeral of Mr. Humphry Willyams.— The remains of the late Mr. Humphry Willyams, whi'"^ had ' "- en brought to Carnanton on Friday night, interred in the family vault in the churchyard at Mawgan on Sunday last. A very large number of persons arrived at Carnanton early in the afternoon to join in paying the last mark of respect to the deceased gentleman. About three the corpse waa taken out of the library and placed in the hearse. There were three coffins, shell, lead, and polished oak, and on the lid was the following inscription :—" Humphry Willyams, of Carnanton, born 20th April, 1792; died 7th May, 1872." The funeral arrangements were conducted in a very satisfactory manner by Mr. Jacob Olver, of the firm of Messrs; Olver & Sons, of Truro and Falmouth, undertakers.* On the arrival of tho hearse at the entrance to Mawgan, the corpse was taken out and awaited the arrival of the mourners, Mr. and Mrs. Brydges Willyams, Mr. Arthur Willyams, and Mrs. Ferdinand Stephens, sons and daughters of the deceased • Master Carus- Wilson, grandson ; and Mr. Charles Hussey Wilson. The procession on reaching the churchyard was met by the Rev. F. Stephens, son- in- law of Mr. Humphry Willyams, and rector of St. Mawgan, who read the service. The interment took place in a vault in the churchyard during heavy rain. The vault wa3 constructed ten years since by deceased's orders and after his own design. His body is the first placed there. The church and churchyard were crowded by neighboura and friends, about two thousand persons attending the funeral. A few Sundays smce, whilst at church at Mawgan, the deceased gentleman on hearing the hymn " We love the place, O God," was so struck by the singing and words, that during his illness he expressed a wish that it should be sung by the choir of St. Mawgan Church through the village. This was done accordingly. '' A Visit to Epps's Cocoa Manufactory. — Through the kindness of Messrs. Epps, I recently had an op- portunity of seeing the many complicated and varied processes the Cocoa bean passes through ere it ia sold for public use, and, being both interested and higMy pleased with what I saw during my visit to the man- ufactory, I thought a brief account of the Cacao^ and the way it is manufactured by Messrs. Epps, to fit it for a wholesome and nutritious beverage, might be of interest to the readers of Land and Water."— See article in Land and Water, October 14. Breakfast - Epps's Cocoa.— Grateful and comforting. " By a thoroughf 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 well- selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured be verage which may save u3 many heavy doctors' bills." Civil Service Gaulle. M^ p simply with boiling water, or milk. Each packet is labelled--" James Epps and Co., Homoeopathic Chemists, London."— Also makers of Epps's Uacaoine, a very thin beverage for evening use. ^ Manufacture of Cocoa, Cacaoine, <& Chocolate. — " We will now give an account of the process adopted by Messrs. James Epps and Co., manufacturers of dietetic articles, at their works in the Euston Road, London."- See Article in Part 19 of CasselCs Household Guide. IF THERE ARE ANy LADIES who have not yet used the GLENFIELD STARCH, theyare respectfully solicited to give it a trial, and carefully folio > v out the directions printed on every package, and if thia is done, they will say like the Queen's Laundress, it ia the finest Starch they ever used. When you ask for GLENFIELD STARCH, see that you get it as inferior kinds are often substituted for the sake of extra profit. Beware therefore of spurious imitations. yew 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 is a novelty in every way, and will soon come into very general use- being of metal instead of card, and retailed, filled with vestas, at one penny. Any Tobacconist, Grocer, Chemist or Chandler will supply it. FRAGRANT FLORILINE.— For the TEETH and BREATH. COUNTY NEWS. — Tho Royal Cornwall Rangers' Militia now under training at Bodmin, numhers upwards of 700 men. — The county volunteer prune, shooting takes place at the Truro range next week^ — No name of any cornish member of Parliament appears in the division- list on the clauso of the Ballot Bill with respect to - the abolition of public nominations. - The sum of £ 21 lOs.'^ vASdiJllected at the Wesleyan chapel. Penzance, on Sunday, ' after a sermon by the Rev. S. R. Hall, in aid of the family of W. Munday. the Porthleven boatman who recently lost his life jn, such a melancholy way. — A bottle was picked up at Port Quin bay, near Padstow, on Saturday ' which contained a slip of paper, on which was written the following :— " Cinan You Born Alla Vrom Main." — The Town Council of Truro has resolved to memorialise the Board of trade for power to preserve the oyster fishery in the Truro river. — By an entertainment thft1 St Mawes Wesleyan schoolroom, presided over hj? the Rev. C. W. Carlyon, £ i was realised towards the fund for paying off the expenses incurred in building the sea wall. - 1 Lad Drowned.— Mr. Roscorla, county coroner, held an inquest at the Lizard on ' Saturday, concerning the death of William Thomas Tiddy, a lad of 16 years of ago, who was drowned aV Kynance Cove. From the evidence it appears that deceased with two others had crossed from the Cove to the Gull. Rock. 1,1 111 returning a gully of about three feet wide and twenty feet deep, through which the sea flows at times with very great violence, had to be crossed. Deceased waa the last to cross, and in tho act of jumping he was carried away by a wave. He rose twice, but his companions were unable to render him any assistance, and he disappeared. The body was picked up near the spot on Friday. A verdict of " Accidentally drowned" was returned. Dead upon the Waters.— The dead body of a man was picked up on Monday, by a fishing- boat return- ing from Porthleven. On examination it turned out to be that of John Henry Williams, of Mullion, who was drowned • with William Mundy and his two sons three weeks since. Deceased waa not recognisable by his face, which was much decomposed, but his olothes wore in the some state as when ho left his home. On being taken to the lifeboat house, some money and papers were found in the pockets, aa well as his watch, which had stopped at 11.47, the boat having gone down near midday. It appeared that a schooner waiting for the tide had anchored near the scene of the accident, and it is supposed the anchor or cable had shifted the boat, or in some way released tho body. Sparns in He/ ford Harbour. - Mr. C. Fox writes in Hardwicke's Science Gossip ;— On the 15th ult. a fisher- man of Holford harbour brought tome a Spanshoops, which he had just caught in a herring- net. It was twelve inches m length ami two inches in depth. The silvery gleam of the body aud of its yellow stripes was most brilliant; there were patches as of burnished gold in front of the eyes. The first British recorded specimen was caught near the entrance of Falmouth harbour in 1849, aud waa brought to my brother, Alfred Fox, who had a coloured drawing of it taken, of which Jonathan Couch published a copy iu his valuable book on British fishes. It is a more faithful representation of this beautiful fish than that given by Bloch. Dr. Cooks, of Falmouth, sent a boops, caught at a later period ( in the same fishing ground), to the British Museum. I have often seen this fish in the market of Algiers. The sword- fish is justly esteemed there ; its flesh is, I think, preferable to that of other scomberidiu, such aa the thunny or mackerel. It prob- ably swallows tho blood and other juices of tho fish that it wounds, as it is almost toothless. Its ear- bones must be very minute or rudimentary, as I could not discover any. few drops of this liquid on a wet tooth brush pro- luces a delightful foam, which cleanses the Teeth from all impurities, strengthens and hardens the gums, irevents tartar, and arrests the progress of decay. It fives to the Teeth a peculiar and beautiful whiteness, and imparts a delightful fragrance to the Breath. It removes all unpleasant odour arising from decayed teeth, a disordered stomach, or tobacco smoke. The Fragrant Floriline is purely vegetable, and equally adapted to old and young. It is the greatest toilet discovery of the age. Sold in large bottles and elegant vases at 2s. 6d., by all Chemists and Perfumers. H. C. GALLUP, Proprietor, 493, Oxford Street, London. BIRTHS At Killigrew Road, Falmouth, on the 8th inst., the wife of Mr. J. P. Polglase, of twin daughters. At Perranwell, on Sunday last, the wife of Mr. John Dowrick, of a daughter. At Mylor Bridge, on Friday, the wife of Mr. P. Ashtoh, schoolmaster, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. • At Falmouth Church, on Monday last, by the Rev. J. Baly, rector, Mr. R. Olver, of Penzance, to Ellen, eldest daughter of the late Mr. R. G. Lake, bookseller, of this town. At the Independent Chapel, Falmouth, on Sunday last, bV the Rev. Jenkin Jones, Mr. John George • Powell, engineer, to Miss Mary Emma Perry, both of Falmouth. DeATHS. ^ t Dover, on Tuesday last, Alexander John, second son of. mr. Alexander Lashbrooke, ship agent, of this town, aged 26 years. At Erisey Terrace, Falmouth, on the 9th inst., Elizabeth Walker, youngest daughter of the late Alexander R. Browning, Esq., surgeon R. N., aged 27 years. At Prince Street, Falmouth, on Saturday last, the daughter of Mr. John Griffiths, aged 15 years. At Basset Place, Falmouth, on Saturday last, Ann, the wife of Mr. John Godolphin, aged 28 years. At Mount Zion, Falmouth, on Tuesday last, the son of the late Mr. Edward Woolcock, aged 10 years. At Perranwharf, lately, Mary, wife of Mr. William Hodge, foreman smith at Perran foundry, aged 59 At perranwharf, on Monday last, Jane, daughter of Mr Saunders, of the Perran foundry, aged 18 years. At Porthleven, on Monday last, Jane, wife of the Rev. B. Nott, Bible Christian minister, aged 69 years. letters to the Editor, This department is freely open to all wholesome dis cussion, and fair criticism, of matters aficctin/ the public, and of local interest. The insertion of a letter is no guarantee of the Editor's approval of its contents. TIME OF HIGH WATER AT FALMOUTH AND PENRYN QUAYS. MORNING. EVENING. SATURDAT ... May 18 0 53 1 26 SUNDAY 19 1 56 MONDAY 20 - 2 48 3 14 TUESDAY ..... 21 3 37 4 0 WEDNESDAY 4 22 4 46 THURSDAY ..:: 23 4 9 5 32 U 551 6 Part of a House to Let. TO BE LET, with imUediate possession, a PART OF A HOuSE ( consisting of a Floor of Three Rooms ), in Lansdowne Road ( lately called Obelisk Road), Falmouth. The House is pleasantl r and healthily situa- ted in close proximity to the Quay, Dock, and Railway. Apply at the Offices ofjthis Paper, High- sail boat for Sale. A Nearly new BfeX i firtt- rate order, 24 ft. 6 in. iii length, witih Sails and Gear com- plete— known as the " Velocipede " for Sale. Apply to E. WHITFORD, New Street. READ HERE, AND SEE THE GREAT BENEFITS DERIVED FROM A Is. 1£ D. ARTICLE. Allcock's Porous Plasters have relieved sufferers when in the greatest pain and all other remedies had ailed. Physicians and surgeons of all schools recommend them. A doctor said the other day :—" I do not know whether Allcock's Plasiers contain all the virtues you ascribe to them, but this I do know: no plaster or local application has ever given my patients snch great comfort." We publish a few cases of cures, showing heir wonderful virtues. Further evidence of their value to suffering humanity ill be demonstrated to any one caliin g at the principa 1 gency. PHOTOGRAPHY, f Advertisment ). SIR,— In your last week's issue I fijm an advertise- ment from the Messrs. Stephens and Siddons, photo graphers, of this town, fejating th/ ft Mr. Siddons has claims in the prikliAtimTV Negatives and Enlarge- ments for which the only medal has been awarded by the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. I must say that Mr. Siddons makes a grave error when he states such things to the public. The facts of tho matter are jua/ these :— Mr. S. did not tako the Negatives nor did he ever print anything of the kind for which the Medal was awarded. I may add that whilst Mr. S. waa in my employ he never took a negative from which a first- class Solar Enlargement could he printed- 1 am, Sir, your very obedient servant, J. F. TRULL. Falmouth, May 17, 1872. t THE FALMOUTH AND PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. Busium Mntim. . SATURDAY. MAY. 18.1873 SLADE OLVER, Furnishing and Ganeral Ironanagar, Plumber, Q13 Fitter aad Ianufictarer STRAND, PALMOUTH:. Is Sellin? off SURPLUS STOCK at great reduction in prices. Balance ivory- handle Kniv 10s., 12s., lGs., 20s. per dozen. Black handle Knives and Forks, 6a., 8s 9s., 10s., 12s. doz. Carving Knives aud Forks, 2a. 6cL, 3s. 6d., 4s. Gd., 5s. 6d., 7s. 6d. pair. Electro- Silver Table Spoons and Forks, 20s., 24s. doz. Do. Dessert Spoons and Forks, 16s., ISa., 20s., 24a doz Do. Tea Spoons, 8a., 10s., 12s. doz. Do. SugajyBoxes, Salvers, Cake Baskets, Toast Racks, Tea Pots' Cruets, & c., & o., & c. Bronzed lea Urns and Kettles on Standa, 20s., 25a., 30s. upwards. Tea Trays from 5s. per set of 3, single Trays from la. Gd. Renders, parlour, la. Gd., 2s., 3s., 4s., 5a. Fenders dining room, 5a. Fenders, drawing room, 12s. Fire Irons, 2s. Gd. to 30s. per set. Rumford Stoves from 3s. upwards. Register Stoves from 8a. upwards. CookingRanges from 10s. Apparatuses from 20s. upwards. Patent Mangles, 30a., 45s. Washihg Machines, 12s. Gd., 60s., 90s. Chaff Cutters, 45s. 50a. Iron Cots, 7s. 6d. to 30s. Iron Folding Bedd, 6s. Gd. Iron French Beda, from 10s. to 30s. Half Tester Beds, Mattrasaes and Palliasses. Lamps, Gas Chandeliers, Gas Brackets. Water Closets, and all plumber's Fittings. Estimates given and Contracts entered into ciher for work or supply. Price and ^ iilily not U be surpassed in ihe bounty, MABTIU'S Beautiful Breakfast , Tea, 1/ 10J per lb The People's G- rocer, Ac., Penryn JVfAItTIN'S Fine Flavoured Tea^ 21- per lb f The People's Grocer, & c., Penryn. MARTIN'S Choice Mixed Teas, 12/ 3 , per lb . l/* The People's Grocer, & c„ Penryn. MARTIN'S Genuine FamUy Tefc aKTper lb, 61bs for 14/- Carriage paid to any raitvay station in the county. The People's Grocer, Ac., Penryn. MARTIN'S Sparkling Lump Sttgar ( beautifully white), 5d. per lb Moist Sugars all Prices. The People's Grocer, See., Penryn. Coffees, II- to 1/ 8 per lb The People's Grocer, < fco., Penryn. MARTIN'S Fresh- i MARTIN'S— Ckoi\ itfa^ Fruits, all prices MARTIN'S Prime New Mild- cured Bacon, 4/ 6 par dozen lbs The People's Grocer, & c., Penryn. The People's Grocer, & c., Penryn. MARTIN'S Good Boiling Peas, 10id per gallon Tha People's Grocer. Ac., Penryn. IVfARIIN'S Pure New Lard, 6d per lb MARTIN'S Best Treacle, 61bs for llid The People's G- rocer, See., Penryn. The People's Grocer, Ac., Penryn. MARTIN'S-— Genuine jlillbay Soap, 3£ lbs for II- The People's Grocer, & o., Penryn. ATARTIN'S Prime Smoked Bacon, 7£ d per lb The People's Grocer, & c., Penryn. iVfARTIN'S New Season Jam, 4id per lb or 6d per pot The People's Grocer, & c., Penryn. IVTARTIN'S New Season Marmalade, 7id per pot The People's Grocer, Ac., Penryn Samples free on application at either of J. MARTIN'S Establishments, Lower Market Street, or West Street, Penryn. All Goods delivered Carriage Paid. Orders bijt post promptly attended to. rpHOUSANDS are at this moment rejoicing o\| er 1 the beautiful heads of Hair restored to thejm by using NEWMANE'S HAIR. GROWING POMADE, which waa never known to fail in pro- lucing hair. Price Is. and 2s. 6d. REY HAIR RESTORED to its original color; T GreynesB prevented and the growth of the Hair promoted by using NEWMANE'S HAIR LOTION. This is at once the CHHAPEST and B^ ST HAIR RESTORER out, . as it has stood the test and; is pronounced superior to the higher- priced London preparations, FREE from DANGEROUS PRI- SONS, and certain in its action. Try one Shilling Bottle and be convinced of its efficacy. Bottles s. and 2s. 6d. each. QCURFor DANDRUFF instantly removed py ^ NEWMANE'S HAIR WASH. The Best and Cheapest Hair Cleaner extant. In Bottles at t d. and Is. ^ Sold in Falmouth by W. F. Newman, chemibt, Market Street. Wanted to Purchase Old Indian Chiaa. & Curiosities JOHN BURTON, MARKET ST., FALMOOTH, IS OPEN' TO PURCHASE EVERT DESCRIPTION OF Old Indian China and other Curiosities, For which the highest market value will be j given. Ihe House for Tea, Teas of rare fragrance & strengtp Economical . Tea for Families Black Green or Mixed the Finest Spring Crop. J. II. HEAD, Tea Dealer & Grocer, High Street, Falmouth. THE HOUSEKEEPERS of Falmouth and Neighborhood are respectfully invited to try SOLOiUON'S Celebrated English . Baking- Powder, ( For making Bread, Tea Cakes, Ac., without Yeast), and judge for themselves whether tho professional1 ' ooks and oth- rs who have declared it to be the ue « t that is used, are correct in so saying. Sold by most respectable Grocers, also by the 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 Biking Powder. \ JUDSON'S DYES.— 18 Colors, 6d. each. RIBBONS, WOOL, SILK, FEATHERS, Completely Dyed in 10 minutes without soiling the bands. N1 tatfrnctionj suppUsd. OfiUOoMk Homoeopathic Moines, J. M. KENDALL, Sl. P. S, Chemist by appointment £ o- ttlie JSxeter, the Torquay, and the Plymouth HonicBopathic Dispensaries, can* bp obtained in FALMOUTH of his Agent, • Mr. W. H. SOLOMON, Dispensing Chemist, - 10, Market St. Also, RendaU's THEOBROMINE COCOA tbe purest and most delicious extant, in Tins, Is., 2s., and 3s. 9d. each. N. WESTCOTT, Cargo Clerk ami lien nil Mercantile Accountant, 1, WATERLOO Rd., FALMOUTH. Ship's Average, Victualling and Wages' Accounts calculated, and Surveys . Neatly Copied. " Vessels' Half yearly Returns to Shipping Master made out. Tradesmen's Books kept by the Year. Deeds Engrossed and . Vlade Up, in the newest London style at the shortest notice. THE VILLAGE BROUGHAM, the VICTORIA Brougham. Victoria A DRIVINE Phaeton. oUinthe mo-. pcifect manner. Made any also. PonyPhaetons in every v a nuiy, uraw- tags seat. J. B1DPLB00MBS, 67 GU Quaoa BlLong Aer » , W0. ( nciiteel Mouses to be Let or Sol < 1 iu Vbeiisk Road. ro BE LET OR SOLD, with immediate possession, two elegantly- designed and commodious DWELLINGS ( newly- built), in Obelisk Road, commanding the linest views in Faliuoutb. Each House comprises 2 Parlors, 2 Kitchens, 5 Bedrooms, VV. C., and a small Cellar j with a Garden in front and convenient Courtinge at the back. Apply to Mr. JAMES MITCHELL, Builder, Falmouth. © Mitral Hmiffunceraeirts. 3 MONEY 3SADY TO 3E ADVA JOED General : Ia* u: ii j? i'raaie| t LaaJ, Buililing uad larcstaieat jSoeiciyj CHIRK OFFICII:— H, BEDFORD ROW, LONDON, W. C. BORWIC K'S BORWICK'S BAKING POWDER < MD M « LJ, H. TO, 1858; Gold MRIIL£ 2 8od. t, al Axis, 1888 ; ion m Kmmnxrr ^ i Ili UUJI RU » FOITDKBS. HUSTEE8 :— ROBERT NICHOLAS FOWLER, Esq., M. P.. Cornhill, li. O. JOHN FREEMAN, E « q., IJ. P., Woodlan. j :[ ouso. Falmouth. ALDERMAN THOMAS S. OWDEN, Bishopsgate, E. C. ADVANCES promptly made upon security of Freehold or Leasehold Property, repayable by onthly or quarterly instalmeutf for fifteen years or less, by which means property may ba ORWICKS BAKING POWDER makes delicious Bread without Yeast. B BORWICK'S BAKING POWDER makes PuddingB, Pastry, and Piemrusta wttk kw Batter and Eggs. quired by payments slightly exceedidg; the rental value. Is. 6d. on applications ot £ 500 and unddr. Survey Fee and registration, NVESTMENT DEPART VIE NT.— Deposits received bearing interest at the rate of £ 5 per c per annum, withdrawable on short 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 ingie payments or monthly subscriptions expending over a term of years. For full particulars apply to THOMAS CORF1ELD, the County Surveyor, Arwenack Street, Falmouth. CHARLES PHILLIPS, t| ie Agent, KiUigrew Street, Falmouth. Or to the Secretary, CHARLES BIN YON, 44, Bedford Row, London. ARE NOT POISONOUS. CONTAIN NO PHOSPHORUS. LIGHT ONuonTHE BOX - flfltcmONERDfflr FWp ^ mmms^ r PATENT Sold by Grocers, Ch£ MISt?,/ ronmoncer&~ Chandlers. Stationers Scc. evEjiYWHEitm. WHITECHAPEL ROAD. iTHDON. £. DR. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S CKLORODYNE THE ORIGINAL ANfcj ONLY GENUINE, rairnnn ™ ?! *"" Mkn° mr" Oo° s1'' A.,^. OCTT XS^- S- wS! M " WtePT. BrsMrin, PUpiiulon ud Spurn., CHLORODYNE i. a. < mi, paiuuh. to ^ Cmc. r, Tooa„ h,. " Earl Russell communicated to the College of Phvsicians that, ho „ J;„„„*„ v ^.^ rMajesty's Consul at Manilla, to the th£ ch ™ rlt£ a beenlS^ f^ U^ and that the ONLY remedy of any service was. OHLOBODYNE » - Seo '' CAUTION.— BEWARE of PIRACY and IMITATIONS. CiimoiT.— Vioe- Chancellor Sir W. PAQB WOOD stated that Dr. J. COLLIH BBOWNB was, un loubto< My, thrf Inventor of OHLORODYNE ; that the story of the Defondant, FBBBUAS, was deliberately untrue, whicli, he redrottedVto say, had heen sworn to.— See Timet, 13th July 18M. . ^ Sold in Bottles at Is lid, 2s 9d, 4s 6d and lis each. Non^ is Renuino without the words " Dr. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S OHLORODYNE " on the Government Stamp. Overwhelming Medical Testimony accompanies eaoh bottle. Sou MAsujAortTMa:— J. T. DAVENPOBT, 88 Great Busaell Street, Bloomsbury, London. J_ THE BEST INVESTMENT OF THE DAY FOR A SMALT. OUTLAY, Beer and Soda Water Machine, as the publioj taste Is so And where there is no pre- vious know- ledge of the business re- quired, is a lemonade, « ==—= » . Ginger ^ dfiSfi^&^ S&^ i afirateddrinka. The book, of 60 pages of illustrations and information, forwarded for three stamps. S. BASNETT, Engineer, THE CHEAPEST PACKAGE OF TEA IN ENGLAND. ACHINESE CADDY, containing 16 lbs. of really good Black Tea, aont carriage free to any railway station or market town in England, on receipt of 40s, by PHILLIPS A CO. TEA MERCHANTS, 8 KING WILLIAM ST. CITY. GOOD TEA CHEAPER THAT* EVEB. STRONG to Pine Black Tea, Is 4d, Is 6d, 2s and 2s 6d per lb.; 40s worth sent carriage free to any rau., ay station or market town in England or Wales, on recoipt, of 40s by PHILLIPS & CO. TEA MERCHANTS, 8 KING WILLIAM ST. E. C. Prime Coffee Is 2d, Is- Id, Is 6d. A Price List Free. PHILLIPS . v CO. have no agents, and no connection with any House in Worcester, Swansea or Witnoy. POWDER BORWICK'S BAKING POWDER sold everywhere, in Id. and 2d. Packeta, and 6d., Is., 2s. 6d. and 6B. Patent Boxes only, and not loose by weight. Be sure to ask for and see that you g « t BORWICK'S GOLD MEDAL BAKING POWDER. REECH - LOADERS. SECOND HINT EECH- LOADERS. raoii £ io 10* EOH- LOADERS. BOUGHT warn am, CATALOGUE AND PRICE LIST, S STAMPS. WHISTLES, 11 STRAND, LONDOS. VALUABLE DISCOVERY FOB THE HAIB 11— A very mcely perfumed hair dressing, called " The Mexican Hair Renewer," now being sold by most Chemist* and Perfumers at 3s 6d per bottle, is fast superseding all Hair Restorers "— for it will positively restore ** every case, Grey or White hair to its original colour, by a few applications, without dyeing it, or leaving tho disagreeable smell of most " Restorers." II makes the hair oharminrfy beautiful, ae well as pro- moting the growth on bald Bpots, where the hatt glands are not deoayed. Certificate from Dr. Vera- mann on every bottle, with full particulars. Ask tor " THE MEXICAN HAIR RENEWEB," prepared b » rn — Oxford Street, London. 7 H. O. GALLUP, 41 MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP FOB CHILDREN Should^ always be used wl en Children are cutting teeth; it relieves the little sufferers at one ® ,' it5 dneM natural quiet Bleep by relieving the 0! pain, and the little cherub awakea as bright as a button." It is perfectly harmless, and very pleasant te. It soothes the ct ild, it B " " to taste. ot softens the gnmfl, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for dysentery ana diarrhoea, whether arising from teething mt other oausea. Mrs. Winalow's Soothing Syrup ia Bold by thousands of Medicine dealers in all parts of ath « world at Is lid per bottle, and Millions of Mothers can ' to its vino*.— Manufactory, 406 Oxford BtrMt, BBOWN'S BRONCHIAL. TrocHEs, for the cure of Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Bronchitis. Asthma, Catarrh, orany irritation or soreness of the throat, are now imported and sold in this country at Is lid per box, put up in the form of a " lozenge." It is the moat convenient, pleasant, safe and sure remedy for clearing ana strengthening the voice known ui the world. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher says: " I have often recom- mended them to friends who were public speakers, and in many cases they have proved extremely service- able." The genuine have the words " Brown's 1 extremely aervice- r> ,.,„.- v—-— ,—•-- — 0 words " Brown's . bronchial Troches on the Government Stamp around eaoh box. Sold by all medicine vendors.— London Depot, 493 Oxford Street. STANDARD BANK, BRITISH SOUTH O AFRICA, LIMITED, 10 Clements lane, Lombard- st., London, issues Drafts on the Diamond- fields and 15 principal towns in South Africa. Thia Bank transacts every description of Banking business. IF YOU VALUE YOUR HEALTH USE BRAGG'S PURE CARBON OR VEGETABLE CHARCOAL gOLD in Bottles, 2s, 4s and 6a each, by all Chemists* HE ' UAL, of BAGS" for TRAVELLING DRESSING and WRITINO. the most compact » nd mcfuJ orer JENNRB UL KNKWSTUB, VUEATOA'OT^ HLA. IL A NIHPMNI TWELVE CARTES de VISITE, 2. 8d 1 Six. u 8d. Cute to- Send ; . SK10 HEAP, QCTICK and GOOD PRLN TING at the Ollices of this Paper. ECONOMY IN CRAPE MOURNING. ONE FOLD of KAY A RICHARDSON'S NEW PATENT ALBERT ORAPB L IS AS THICK as TWO FOLDS of the old make. I . IE BLDDU CLARKE'S " World Pamed Blood lixture T? OR CLEANSING and CLEARING the BLOOD JD from ALL IMPURITIES, whether arising from yontfe- mmendecL11 It ^ otbar CWM> cannot be too higVj Cures Old Sores Cures Uloerated Sores In the Neok Cures Ulcerated Sore Legs Cures Blackheads, or Pimples on Cures Scurvy Sores Cures Cancerous Ulcers Cures Blood and Skin Disease* Cures Glandular Swellings dears the Blood from all Impure Matter, from whatever cause arising. As this mixture Is pleasant to the taoto, and warranted ( TM from mercury— which oil pill* and moat medicines cow tor IKS atev* IUSMMB oontain— the Proprietor aolicUa tatfkrsrm to give It a trial to test its rata*. Thtraaands of Testimonials from all parts. Sold In Bottlaa 3S 3d each, and la Cases, containing « Bottlee, lis noli, aufilalent to effect a permanent cure tn long- standing cam, by an Chemists and Patent Hclrcma • snitam 1 « r aant to any address on ivceipc of t> or 133 stampa, by » Ohemiflt, High Stmt, LINCOIJI. T- EBAXIR AOBNT8:— ' ND ALL THE WHOLESALE H0U8E8. G L E iM F I E L D STARCH is the only k ind nsed in ' Her Majesty's laundry If there are any ladies who hare not yet used the GLENFIELD STARCH ^ hey are respectfully solicited to piv it a trial, and carefully follow nut tlra • directions printed ou every - package and if this is done, Tliev will sav, like the Queen's Laundress, It is the finest Starch they over used, hen you ask for Glenfleld 3tarch see that you get it, As inferior kinds are often substituted for the sake of extra profits. Beware therefore of spurious imitations. he Falmouth and Penryn Weekly Times ii Printed n\ H Published by £ REOERIOK UOBART EARLE, ' hiding at No. 9, Wodehnwt Cice, in the lariih 0j Falmouth . at hit funeral Printing Offices or*, the Quay, » '• » the said Paruh on 8AT0ai> AV% iLAY 18^ 18724, IHE'FALMOUTH & PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. SATURDAY. MAT 18, 1872 topics of % gan. ( By an ~ OccasionaX Lbiid'tSn ^ GimesjwM& it?)' [ The remarks under tliia head arc to bo regarded ns the ex- Whatever may bo said for or. againat> the principle of the Ballot and its probable working in practice, the majority of people, no matter what their politics, seems now to be opposed to the existing system of Nomi- nations, and the decisive majority by wlych the^ onfe of'Commons has abolished the system, and adopted thy* of fife Parliamentary and Municipal ElectioilB Bill,' will doubtless exert " Considerable influence On tile Upper House. I am persuaded that the grekt masi of tho respectable, order- loving: people of this country, will bo glad to see Parliamentary Nominations as they have hitherto been carried ettt " become things of the • part. Most of the £ f> fcpllb{ l . election riots hafye teally been nomination riots, and the rioters have not been the electors, but the non- electors. Many members of the present House of Commons could tell rather startling ) tales of their " hair- breadth ' scapes" at A nomination. • Bludgeons and- brickbats; - fighting and-- fisticuffs, I hooting and yelling— it is high time that we abolished all this, and that our Parliamentary and Muni- cipal Elections were conducted with that sobriety and order worthy of the occasion. Apropos of the ' discussions on this bill in regard to the manner • in wEch those persons shall vote who cannot read, jit is surprising that no member had the courage to : propose that people who cannot read should ipso ! facto bo disqualified for voting. I for one would not allow a man to vote who from sheer laziness and neg- lect has not learnt to read ; but then such a disquali- fication would be hard and even unjust in many cases. . There are many people who cannot read ordinary print or MS. simply because they are blind, and if we were t< have a sweeping clause of disqualification on this ground, it is worthy of remark that one of the most learned and cleverest members of the House of Com- mon^ would be disqualified. But the difficulty of ' settling this knotty point will gradually diminish, and in the next generation a man who ought to be able to read and cannot will become a refreshing rarity. The sharp and animated discussions in the House of Lords on the Licensing Bill, and the numerous divisions on points of detail, clearly show how ex- tremely difficult it is to legislate on this subject. I merely refer to the matter to add that there is a growing opinion that either this Bill will be rejected by the. House of Commons, or else that it will be BO modified and changed— possibly by amalgamating with it some ef the proposals of Sir Bel win- Ibbetson— that its authora will not be able to recognise it The devotees of the gentle art— the disciples of Icaak Wa'ton— will, wherever they wield the rod and line, be gratined to learn from the repor o the Thames Angling Preservation Society, that the fishing in this river during tie past Beason has been good, and that the river keepers have been ac- tively engaged in protecting and preserving the fishery. But the once " silvery Thames" will never . again merit the praises which poets have lavished on jit— it will never, for example, verify the epithets of , Sir John Penh am, " though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull "— till the towns and villages along ' its banks are precluded from polluting the stream. It is marvellous that after all the talk on this subject, and after the enormous expense very properly incurred in carrying out the Main Drainage Scheme, minor and yet not unimportant abuses should be still maintained. The commercial community generally, and in fact tho public at large, are interested in the formation of a Trade Mark Protection Society. I wonder that this ' sort of association has not been formed before. The ( interests of honest and fair dealing and the rights of in- ventory and traders are involved in the matter to which ' the new association will direct its attention. It pro- ! posts to aim at a system of official registration of trade- marks and labels ; a register of these for the use subscribers; the amendment of the laws against fraud and the piracy of trade- marks ; and the prosecu- tion of offenders. This is really not a matter which merely interests the owners of trade- marks, labels, & c., l » ut one which affects the interests of the public and the morality of trade and commerce. A trade- mark is as much property as a patent or a copyright, and yet the trade- marks of large business firms are continually being pirated. Now and then the Court of Chancery is put in motion and an injunction is obtained against a tracer who has been making money out of the reputation of others; but frequently the pirating of trade- marks is carried on with impunity. It is to be bipod that this kind of fraud will ere long lie made more difficult than it now is. It is gratifying to hear that the system of forcing British travellers to give their names and addresses on landing at Boulogne has been abolished, and that " passengers now land without any formalities." I presume this applies to other French ports. The pass- • p « rt system was an intolerable and vexatious nuisance, which did the French authorities no good whatever, as people who wore " wanted" always travelled with pass- ports in a wrong name, while it considerably annoyed John Bull, Mrs. Bull, and family, and, in fact, kept English mosey out of France. But as to tb is petty system of signatures, it was simply a sham ; no very great annoyance, but an irritating formality, and the french authorities have done well to abolish it. International communication is one of the best means of promoting international amity, and the only wonder is that M. Thiers and his colleagues have been so long diaoorering the fact. present is not the reader's present, and one " now" is much earlier than'tbe other. But it is a perennial topic, nevertheless, and just now— my now, bo it observed — it is a matter of general complaint and mutual lamentation that the May of reality is 60 different to the May of the poets and the imagination. In Lon- don we are in the height of the season; opera, theatres, picture- galleries, the Exhibition, the Crys- tal Palace, and the thousand- and- one attractions of tho metropolis, are supposed to be at their zenith; but the damp cold weather mars all, just as it deadens the enjoyment generally to be found in the country at this usually lovely time of the year. But you know " hope reigns eternal in the human breast," and bright sunny weather must come ere long— with which con- sideration wo console ourselves as best we may. And having incidentally mentioned the International Ex- hibition, let me add that everything tends to show that this year's show will be a greater success than that of last year. The exhibition in itself is more in- teresting, and it is evidently and naturally more highly appreciated. THE DUKE OF ARGYLL ON THE PRESS. The Duke of Argyll presided at the annual dinner of the Newspaper Press Fund, which was held at Willis's Rooms, London, on Saturday evening. His Grace was supported by Lord Houghton, their Excellencies the Persian- Peruvian, and Honduras Ministers, Monsignor Capel, Sheriffs Bennett and Truscott, Sir J. Trelawny, M. P., Mr. Ayrton, M. P.. the Attorney- General for Ireland, Sir'J. Benedict, Mr. W. Ashurst, & c. After the loyal toasts, Sir J. Kaye proposed that of the " Military and Naval Services," which was responded to by General Sir W. Codriugton. Tho Chairman proposed " The Foreign Ministers," for which the Persian Minister returned thanks. The Duke of. Argyll, in proposing " Prosperity to the Newspaper Ptess Fund," said— That society had, no doubt, suffered In some degroo among members of the Press, from a feeling that the independence 61 the body might be compromised by public contributions to the funds ; and he was not quite sure that among public men there was not some shyness in connecting themselves with it, because they felt that they might thus appear to be making up to the Press. ( Hear, hear.) He ventured to say, however, that neltherof tnose feelings was a worthy one. As regarded the class to which he had the honour to belong, he meant the class of public men, he held that the relations in which they stood to the Press and the Press to them should be relations of mutual and perfect Independence. ( Cheers.) As to the feeling of some members of the Press that it would ' 9 unworthy of them in their position to appeal to the public a behalf of an institution of that kind, he would remark that there was noclassof society which was altogether independent of the Bupport and sympathy of other classes. ( Cheers.) It was one of the most curious characteristics of the Press that It preserved almost as a sacred principle absolute imper- sonality. ( Hear, hear.) There were a certain number of gentlemen who were of course well known as editors ; there were a certain number of other gentlemen who were as almost well known as " correspondents ; " and there were Borne Individuals whose writings were eo well known that they were immediately recognised. But he believed it a principle highly valued by the mombers of the Press that those who write for it, especially tho political writers, should be absolutely unknown. ( Hear, hear, and cheers) He had no authentic information as to who the gentlemen of the press were. They did not, of course, live above the clouds, but might he not say that they lived behind the cloudsf No man knew how or what they were ( a laugh) but he thought he could not be much mistaken in sup- posing that they belonged, on the whole, to the great middle class to whom so much of the material and so much of the Intellectual wealth ot our community belonged. When he spoke of material wealth, he could not donbt that the enormouB increase of wealth which was going on In this country found its way in the main into the middle class. But did that indicate that particular classes of men belonging to that section of society should therefore not need public sympathy or publio support in times of distress, of old age, crof sudden mischance ? ( Hear, hear.) They heard much in tho present day of the necessity of increasing the wage3 of the working classes, and no wise man would grudge them the success ot their efforts to raise the price of their own labour. ( Hear, hear.) But he declared it to be his con- viction that among the middle classes, among the class of educated— well educated, highly educated— gentlemen there wore more cases of severe and urgent distress than among the working classes themselves. ' Hear.) He felt sure that a society llko that. If it were adequately sup- ported, would be a real blessing to a large and most deserving class of the community ; and, supposing that to be the case, why, he asked, should not those who managed its affairs appeal to the public for aid? ( Cheers.) There were three aspects under which the Press might be re- garded — first, as a caterer for news; next, as Influ- encing in an important degree the political opinion of tho country: next, as containing criticisms upon literature. As regarded news, he thought they were all very much In the position of tie Athenians, who were always desiring ( Renewed laughter.) No man could deny, whether he or rejoiced in it, the political influence of the Press; and he had no hesitation In saying that pjbllc affairs would not go on as well as they did if there were no members of the Press writing articles on political affairs. ( Hear, hear.) Then with respect to the great department concerned with criticisms upoh literature, ho was often astonished at the rapidity of thonght and the precision with which great works were criticised In the daily press; and he thought It would be acknowledged that the dally and weekly press had In the mutter of pure literary criticism to a treat extent taken the place of the old quarterly reviews. So far as he knew, there was no statistics whatever which g » v « cs any information as to tho number of gentlemen Connected with the press. He was told, however, that there were about 1,400 newspapers in the British Isles: and although he had no means of ascertaining how many literary men were employed upon the staff of these news- papers, yet he apprehended that there could not bo less than somb 5,000 literary and highly educated men connected with the press of this country ; and he thought that if tho society were generally looked to as ono which would afford relief in caws of sudden distress, old age, - or of various . misfortunes which might overtako literary men, the amount of subscrip- tions would be materially increased. ( Cheers.) Lord Houghton, the Hon. E Ashley, Lord Bhck- hur- it, and the Attorney- General for Ireland, were among the subsequent speakers. The Secretary ( Mr. Byrne) announced that tho donations connected with the anniversary amounted to about £ l, 500. DOMESTIC BLISS. ( Poem by a Paterfamilias.) THRUSH, measles, scarlatina, small pox, schooling, Struggles to get your children on In life, Have been your lot; when you've gone through your fooling, Your " boy must wed : your girl become a wife. Well fo^ your daughter, If you cannot leave her A living, and espoused she wealth enjoy; But for your son, delirious with Love's fever. To rush Into anxieties— poor boy !— Punch. Between the estimable Lord Shaftesbury and the jaost eminent geologists we get a statement that is « utfioiantly startling. It seems that the latter have frequently told the former that " England constitutes the cover of a subtorranean well of fire, and we are liable at any memoat to meet the fato of the district round Vesavws." Two questions naturally occur— who are the eminent geologists, and do they know any- thing aWmt it t At all events, we who are not eminent geologists cam only hope that these alarmists altogether wr* ng I The anniversary dinner of the Newspaper Press Fund was alt « cether » very enjoyable affair. The speeches | wer » uot as ft whole quite so amusing and entertaining as U MWf'y the o* M at publio banquets, but there ' iru a great deal tf sound coram on sense and inter- iceting matter in the remarks of moet of the speakers; jwhilo tho auiioal part of the evening's entertainment ( was considerably above the average. There is a kindly Ifediag between musicians and singers on the one bond, • and gentlemen of the press— newBpaptr men is perhaps a ( better phrase— on the other, that does honour to both, litis notdlf& oult to find the cause of this, but we need Inot go into that. The fact itself is an agreeable one to tal parties oeaoemed. As to the speeches, that of the idxairmn, the Duke of Argyll, was full of plain, practi- | ca MIIM, and it ought to produce a good effect— espe- ,< » iilly in inducing members of the press to support their . own fawtitation. About the most unsafe subject on which a corns- The operatlvo tailors of Sheffield have obtained an poiijcat call comment ia the weather, lor the writer's » dvu; ice ol 10 pec a!'. ! a their wagte. THE BALLOT BILL PASSED THROUGH COMMITTEE. Referring to the difficulties In the way of passing the Ballot Bill through tho House of Commons, the Daily News Tho Ballot Bill has at length assumed the shape in which it will go up to the House of Lords. Mr. Foreter has succeeded in| piloting it through the rocks and rapids of tho two stages of amendment, and it is to be read a third time on Thursday, the 30th of Way.. Both in Committee and in consideration on Report, the bill has been incessantly met with amendments hostile to its principle. Mr. Foreter has partially yiel' to seme of these amendments, out of the mere w< ness of perpetual resistance; in one or two points the House itself has failed to see the public need. The abandonment of Mr. Fereter's proposal for extending the hours of polling is. the chief misfortune which the Bill has undergone in its latest stage.' The proposal was only a compromise, and as such was not entirely satisfactory ; but it was an instalment of a claim that any House of Commons fresh from the consti- tuencies would probably grant in full. Mr. Fore- ter has had an oxtremely difficult task. He has had to push through this bill in the face of an united and resolute opposition, and with a small half- hearted section among his own supporters, who were willing to wound and yet afraid to strike. That ho has pushed conciliation t* tho utmost possible limits ho would himself be ready to admit; that he has done BO some- times to the injury of tho bill will be seen when it gets to work. It is, however, more important to pass the bill as an assertion of tho principle of free voting than it is to make its machinery theoretically and practically perfect. The bill will not make our election machinery all that it may bo made for quiet, order, convenience and secrecy ; but it at least reconstructs our wholo election system, and establishes the Ballet as the principle on which henceforth votes are to be taken in this country, as in all other self governing nations. PisallfUMws $ nfel% enx*> HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. EMIGRATION TO CANADA.— The Government of the Dominion has instructed its agent, Mr. W. Dixon, of 11, Adam- street, Adelphi, London, to make advances by warrant to suitable emigrants at a rate of 10 dols. for each adult This will bring the price of passage for emigrants bv the Royal Mail and other steamships plying to the Dominion down to the rate of £ 4 5s. for adults, £ 2 2s. 6d. for children, and 14s. 2d. for infants, including provisions. The Dominion Government is OIBO offering to settlers free grants of 160 acres of prairie or meadow lands in the new Pro- vince of Manitoba. CRIMINAL LUNATICS.— IB the House of Com- mons, on Monday evening, in reply to a question asked by Mr. White, Mr. Bruce said the reason why the Wells Union had been relieved of the cost of mainte- nance, at Broadmoor Asylum, of William Bis grove, while in tho case of Christiana Edmunds there had been a refusal to relieve the ratepayers of Brighton from the burthen of her maintenance, was that the former had no relations from whom the expense could be recovered, while tho latter had; and it was possible for the parochial authorities, but not the Home Department, to compel the relations to pay. FRUIT PROSPECTS IN KENT. — Reporting on fruit prospects in Kent, the Maidstone Journal says the fruit crop this year appears to be almost a total failure in most districts round Maidstone. With the exception of some kinds of cherries, there is every ap- pearance of a short crop. The earlier sort of cherries were cut by the severe foists, but of the later ones there is a probability of an average growth. Goose- berries and currants have been great sufferers from tho weather, the new sort of black currant being almost entirely destroyed. With the exception of a few favoured spots the crop of plums will also be short. Apples have blossomed very badly this year, and are likewise suffering from an attack of maggot. There is every appearfCnce at present of the filberts being attacked by the caterpillar, as they were last year, but, as in some districts the trees are looking strong and healthy, they may eventually escape. Considerable damage has been done by the severe frost on Saturday night last. RAVAGES © F THE SMALL- POX.— The report of Mr. Simon on the public health for the last year soys that the epidemio of small pox from which England has been suffering, has been far severer than any which had been witnessed of late years, or probably since the general use of vaccination. It appears to which had been witnessed of late years, or probably since the general use of vaccination. It appears to have killed in England, within the year, nearly 23,000 persons, including 7,876 of the population of London; and even at the present time there is no reason to sup- pose that the epidemic has nearly completed its course. The severity of this epidemic became evident in two different ways ; first, bv the extraordinary multitude of persons whom the disease attacked, and, secondly, by the extraordinary intensity of the disease in its in- dividual cases. At the London Small- pox Hospital, where 950 cases were treated during the year, the deaths in proportion to the cases were nearly twice as many as tho average experience of the hospital for thirty- two years would have prognosticated. MURDER OP Two OFFICERS IN INDIA. — A deplorable occurrence is reported by the mail from India. A private named John Butler, of tho 108th Regiment, stationed at Deesa— a man of bad charac- ter— in a determined manner watched all night for Captain A. H. Laurie, of his regiment, and on his going out in the morning for parade fired at him two or three times. Lieutenant and Adjutant Albert Munro, hearing the shots and tho screams of Mrs. Laurie, who witnessed the occurrence, rode to the spot, and was shot dead bv Butler. The wretch then fired again at Captain Laurie, who was fearfully wounded, and at two other officers, who fortunately escaped, and when pursued, he managed to blow his own brains out, firing in all eleven shots from his gun in a few minutes. Cai- tain Laurie died shortly after. Both officers were great favourites with their regi- ment. No motive for the horrible crime is assigned. CaptaimLaurie served with the Saugor Field Division in 1859, and obtained a medaL DISCOVERIES AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY. — In the excavations consequent upon the rebuilding of the Receiver's house at Westminster, the bases of the pillars and a part of the encaustic tile floor, as well as some other remains, of the ancient Chapel of St. Catherine have been brought to light. This was ths chapel of the Monk's Infirmary, and was the scene of many interesting historical incidents, as will be feund recorded by Dean Hook and Dean Stanley. The build- ing is of the transitonal Norman date, and took tho form of a parish church with a nave, aides, and a chanceL It must have been but just erected when " St. Thomas of Canterbury" almost came to blows within its walls with his rival of York. Another discovery re- cently made at Westminster consists of a large number of the capitals of tho pillare of the ancient Norman cloisters, some of them beautifully covered with figure subjects. A QUESTION RECEIVINO AN ANSWER.— A writer in a rabid Republican paper demanded to know why M. do Cassagnac had received tho Legion of Honour. He bitterly replied, " I will tell you citizen. I received it for baring chastised three of your gang— Rochefort, Floquet, and Lassiganay; and shall only be too happy if any more of you will meet me." It ia not profitable asking questions of that gentleman, it is clear. A MISTAKEN IDEA.— When Count Beust, in hia speech at tho Literary Fund Dinner— one of the best made on that occasion— said that though the youngest of the ^ jflqmatic Body " he could not aspire to the eminence of a Benjamin," thoughtless people imagined that His Excellency meant a complimentary reference to Mr, Disraeli, who was present, and ono of the chief speakers.— J'uncA. BUKJHAM YOUNG AT LIBERTY.— A despatch from Salt Lake City of the 28th nit says:— Tbe Mor- mon Conference met to- day, in the morning and after- noon. About 8,000 persons, including a large number of Gentiles, were present lirigham YoUfg discoursed at length. He thanked God for being permitted to be with his people again, and hoped the time would come when he mignt have an opportunity before a court of justice to prove the falsity of the charges against him. He defied all the people of the world to show any sign against his moral character. He was glad that neither he nor his brethren had the power of God till they bad the wisdom to use it, or thev might be led to destroy all their enemies. He should demand from those who had been prosecuting them all the papers connected with the cases, that they might know positively who their prosecutors were. He praised the Deputy Mar- shal who had him in oharge, denounced the lawyers, scolded the Saints who had not paid their tithing promptly, and finally, with his blessing, closed the Con- ference here till next October. THE WEATHER AND AGRICULTURE.— Tho Magnet says the accumulation of superabundant mois- ture in some parts has resulted in a aeterioration in the oondition of the wheat plant. Thisis particularly notice- able in Essex. Generally speaking, the wheat crop on heavy soils looks well; but as a large proportion of the crbp is late Sown mire than usiial dependence " will have to be plaoed on the character of the season. By some it is maintained that the heavy rainfall of the past few months will'offer a serious hindrance to the growth of a good crop. However, a great deal of the damage said to be sustained is believed to be imaginary, and a spell of fine weather'would be ol great use in dispelling such adverse rumours. Tho actual acreage under wheat is not BO large as woa expected ; and as the crop i » not so forward as was thought would have been the case, the weather lately hot being forcing, the prospect of an early harvest must bo modified. Spring sowing Is now drawing to a conclusion. Some. of the early- sown barley has not answered well, and, in BO me instances, has had to be replanted. A CURIOUS ANALOGY.— There ia a somewhat curious analogy traccable between the various political parties ef Spain and France at present ( remarks the Pall Mali Gazette). First, we have the Carlistsjepre- sented by Don Carlos, as the Legitimists in Franco are by Henri Cinq. Then there is the Constitu- tional party, that of the eldest branch oE the late Royal family, represented by the son of the ex- Que en Isabella, Prince Alphonso, as also i » France a similar party is headed by the Comte de Paris. If we look away from tho Royalists, we find a like parallelism between the Republican sections of the two branches of the " Latin " race. Sp^ in has its moderate Repub- lican party ruled over by anothor Thiers, namely, Espartero, who would probably be President ot the Proviiional Republic. Then there ia also in tho Peninsula the party of Radical Republicans, led by a possible Dictator, Ore Me, between whom and Gaoietta it la poadblo to tract; several pofataof. sircilAui* PLUCKY REPLY.— Examiner. Give some ac- count of Beroros.— Candidate. He was a drunken character. — Punch. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.— Mr. Bass has laid before the House of Commons a bill providing that no person shall be committed to prison for making de- fault in payment of any debt duo from him under an order or judgment of any Court, unless it be proved to the satisfaction of the Judge that the debt was con- tracted by means of false representation, or that the debtor wilfully contracted the debt without reasonable expectation of being able to discharge it, or has made a transfer of any property with intent to defraud his creditors. The bill also proposes to enact that no person shall be imprisoned under this bill for longer than a period to be named in the bill, nor be im- prisoned more than once in respect of the same debt. GOOD ADVICE.— Never do things by halves, except when you send us Bank- notes by post.— Punch. BURNING OF THE MELBOURNE THEATRE.— Details have arrived of the burning of the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, on the 19th of March. On the eve of its destruction, The Streets of New York had been performed ; and shortly before twelve, the vicinity of the dressing- rooms was found to be on fire. Alarm was instantly given and help Boon at hand ; and at first there seemed a chance of saving the building, but the scenes caught the conflagration, and the whole edifice was soon in flames. The Melbourne Argus says:— " The destruction of three large Australian theatres— the Haymarket in Melbourne, tho Prince of Wales's opera house in Sydney, and now the Theatre Royal— in tho brief space of eighteen months, seems a remark- able coincidence. The three events coming so quickly after each other have been a severe blow to the pro- fession, and it hoped that theso disasters will lead to the introduction of an improved style of building for such places of entertainment." WORTH KNOWING !— A distinguished Paris physician says:— " I bellevo that during tho twenty years I have practised my profession, twenty thousand children have been carried to the cemeteries, a sacrifice to the absurd custom of ex- posing their arms. Put the bulb of a thermometer into a bab) ' s mouth and the mercury rises to ninety degrees. Now carry tho same to its little hand ; if the arm be bore and even cool, tho mercury will sink to fifty degrees. Of course, all the blood that HOWB through these arms must fall from teu to forty degrees below the temperature of tho heart. Need I say, when thesa currents of the blood flow back to the chest, the child's vitality must bo more or less compromised f And need I add that we ought not to be surprised at the fre- quently- recurring affections of the tongue, throat, or SWEET THING TO SAY.— A literary gentle- man, a believer in Spiritualism, said that he was him- self the subject ol spiritual influence, under which he olwayB wrote his articles, thus being, in the work of authorship, a Medium. " That," remarked a pleasant friend, " may account for your mediocrity."— Punch. LADIES BEWARE !— If a law which it was found necessary to put in force in the seventeenth century in England were to be resumed now, it would cause an immense downfall of the chignons. It was as follows:— " All women, of whatever age, rank, profession, or decree, whether virgins, \ rtves, or widows, that shall, from and after this date. Impose upon, seduce, and betray Into matrimony any of His Majesty's . male subjects, by scents, paints, cos- metics. washes, artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish wool, iron, stayB, hoops, hich- hteled shoes or bolstered hips, shaH incur the penalty of the laws in force against witchcraft, sorcery, and the like, and that the marriage, upon conviction, shall stand null and void." AN EPISCOPAL HORSE.— In one of his tours, Elder John Leland came up at night to a public- house, where he was acquainted, and where he proposed to pass tho night. The landlord met him with a smil- ing countenance, and told him that, having built anew barn, he was nicely prepared to accommodate the clergy. " I have," said he, " a very good stable, with all the improvements, for Episcopal horses, and a com- fortable sort of stable for Presbyterian horses, while I keep the old barn for Baptist horses; the feed is ac- cording to the style of the stable." " Well," replied the elder, " everybody knows that I am a Baptist, but my horse is an Episcopalian." LETTER CARRISRS' WAGES.— A very numer- ously attended meeting of Post- office letter carriers was held in Manchester on Sunday, for the purpose of agitating for an advance in the rate of their wages. The recent advance made by postal authorities was denounced as being unsatisfactory. The amount now paid is 18s. weekly on appointment, advancing to 26a. after ten years' service. A resolution was passed, urging that a guinea weekly should be paid ot appoint- ment, and an increase of a shilling a year unt J 30s. was reached. It was decided to send a memorial to the Postmaster- General. TheSunday delivery was strongly condemned. INTERESTING DISCOVERY.— An interesting dis- covery has lately been made, which throws some light upon tho course and rapidity of the great ocean cur rents circulating between tho continent of South America and the western coast of Australia ( says the Melbourne Argus.) The figure- head of a large ship was picked up some time ago at the little island of Ilott- nest, near Fremantle, Western Australia, and has since been identified as having belonged to the Blue Jacket — a wool ship which was lost between tho Falkland Islands and Cape Horn, on her voyoge from New Zealand to England. The Blue Jacket was burned on the 9th of March, 1SG9, in about 63 deg. south lat, and 60 deg. west long., and tho distance from that point to Rottnest Island is therefore over 6,000 miles. The time occupied in traversing this distance was about two yearn and a half, giving a mean rate of about six miles and a half a day. EXPECTED DISCOVERY OF DIAMOND FIELDS IN AUSTRALIA.— The Minister for Works and Mines in Queensland has is- ued a proclamation offering a reward of £ 1,000 for the discovery of a diamond field. The nouce is as follows:— " The Government have received Information encouraging the belief that diamond drifts exist In various parts of tho colony, especially near Warwick, Nanango, and Agate Creek, Gilbert River. It is hereby notified for general information that they have decided upon offering tho above reward (£ 1,000 sterling), subject to the sanction of Parliament, lor the discovery of any diamond field or drift upon the follow- ing conditions, viz.: The reward Shall be payable to tho person or party who shall first mike known to the Govern- ment the existence of a diamond drift or field, and to be paid on satisfactory evidence being placed before the Government, showing that not leu thmi one thousand persons are probably engsgedon tho field In mining for diamonds." BRIBERY AND BALLOT.— The Ballot will, we are told, put a stop to Bribery. Will it! What is to Lrevent a Candidate for the Beat in Parliament from etting any odds against his own return with an elector, and, if ho loses hia bet by gaining his election, from paying the money ?— Punch. MR. JOHN STUART MILL ON THE WASHINGTON TREATY.— Iu reply to an inquiry, Mr. Jehn Stuart Mill writes as follows respecting the Treaty of Wash- ington :— " Avignon, March 24,1872.— Door Sir,— It Is perfeotly true that the unfortunate differenco in tho Interpretation put opon tho Treaty of Washington by the two parties does appear to mo a proper subject for reference to arbitration ; and to tho very arbitrators provided by the Treaty, unless tho parties prefer, and can agTee upon, some othH tribunal. If thero la any value at all in tho principle of international arbitration, there Is surely no subject to which that prui- i clple can bo more fittingly applied than to determining the true sense of an international engagement. Wo may regret that this method of settling national differences should bo ? subjected to so severe a trial at so early n period of its history; but we should not bo therefore justified to re- pudiating it in one of the very cases which require it most. — I am, dear sir, y « ur » very respectfully, J. S. MAI." THE PROPOSED RAILWAY AMALGAMATION.— The joint select committee on the various bills now before Parliament for the amalgamotion of several groat railway companies met again on Monday, Mr. C. Fortescue, M. P., in the choir. Mr. Thompson, chair- man of the North Extern Railway Company was ex- amined :— He said twenty years ago, the system he represented was cut up into 37 independent lines. Competition then was virulent, fares very high, ao- oommodation to the public very bad, ana the profits nil. Since amalgamation, competition had ceased, the fores wore lower than in any other part of the kingdom, trains were run rapidly and frequently, and the highest dividend paid by any large company Was paid to tho shareholders of the North Eastern. Asked by Lord Derby what were the inducements, competition having ceased, to reduce the fares, tbe witness said— first, self- interest ; second, emulation of other railways, and tbe desire to stand well w ith the public. The public opinion in the district was in favour of amalgamation, yet he considered that in all future amalgamations, Parlia- ment should decide on the merits of each individual case. The chairman asked him what wos tho great danger to be feared from great amalgamations, and the witness replied, the traffic between certain districts might be seriously damaged, unless special provision was made. There was no danger to the pubho so far as the fares were ccowxnei The oomnaj2& tt. MU, ouraea for three weeka. I THE PRESEM STATE OF FRA>* BL — Mr. William Chambers, who ia on a continenl^ our, writes in a letter which is published in the Scotsman .-— TV ® state of affairs In Fnuice Is getting beyond a joke. All with whom I couversed spoke despordlnS] y of the future. Tradesmen on all hands are complaining of the Increased taxation, and of the probable distress s arising from an erroneous commercial policy. Yet Franco has largo re- sources, at d it may contrive to get through its financial difficulties. At present, I must say, things do not look well In the money t'vay. During my whole stay I encountered only one gold napoleon. Circular notes are cashed in notos of the Bank of Fraincff, and for small change I was favoured with notes of from two foflve francs. LADIES IN THE ARMY.— Fact. The other day a Ladyreceived a Commis& Ton from another Lady. Wo know it included purchase, bat thj; terms were not, we believe, distinctly stated— Pun ch. POST OFFICE ANNUITIES.— Under the Act of 1864 the Government have granted, through the Post Offices, 2,299 contracts for annuities, amounting in the whole to £ 47,440. The sums received for the purchase of them amounted to £ 451,117. The sums paid to an- nuitants down to the end of 1871 amounted to £ 105,900, the payments being 9,939 in number. At the close of the year 1871 there were in existence 1,798 contracts for immediate annuities, amounting to £ 37,132, and 258 for deferred annuities, amounting to £ 5,015. Ninety- five contracts for annuities amounting to £ 1,886 had been closed by death : 147 had lapsed by default, & c. The amount withdrawn from the fee fund for expenses is stated at £ 1,654. HEST AND BE THANKFUL.— At the Royal Academv dinner, the other day, H. R. H. the Duko of Edinburgh, with the frank good- nature charac- teristic of his family, responded to the toast of " The Health of the Prince and Pr incess of Wales, and the rat of the Royal Family." Considering how much of his time the Sailor Prince has been giving lately to charitable ond kindred institutions, ho must be of opinion that the rat of the Royal Family ( when they get- it!) is tolerably well earned.— Judy. RAILWAYS AND THE STATE.— On Tuesday morning a special meeting of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce was held for the purpose of discussing the subject of railway amalgamation and the question of the acquisition or control of railways by the State. Mr. Hugh Mason, president of the chamber was in the chair. After speeches by the Chairman and Sir E. Watkin, it was resolved, on the motion of Mr. P. B. Ferguson, seconded by Mr. R. Johnson—'' That the Manchester Chamber of Commerce views with dis- favour, both on economic and political grounds, tho project of the purchase and vorking of railways by tho State." It was also resolved, on the motion of Mr. S » Ogden, seconded by Mr. H J. Leppoc—" That this chamber, while expressing no opinion on the subject of the amalgamation of railways now being inquired into by a joint committee of both Houses of Parliament, ia of opinion that it is essentially necessary to preserve the principle of competition, which has done so much for the general interest of the country." POSTERITY'S BENEFACTOR.— In a few years, when the face of England shall have been almost en- tirely overspread with bricks- and- mortar, it will be said that the man who makes a grove of treea grow where a block of houses stood before, deserves well of hia country. — Pun ch. THE PRECIOUS METALS.— The Custom- house returns show that the registered exports of gold from the United Kingdom, which amounted to less than £ 200,000 in April, 1871, reached £ 1,046,324 in April, 1872 : and the import, which' exceeded £ 1,400,000 in April, 1871, was but £ 772, S60 in April, 1872. In the first four months of the present year tho export of gold from the United Kingdom has reached £ 5,894,627, being more than double tho amount for the correspond- ing: period of last year ; and the import of gold has been only £ 3,017,579, or nearly 2A millions sterling leas than in the corresi> onding period of last year. The four months' export of silver— viz., £?, 200,855, shows an in- crease of above 1J million ; and the import has been only £ 4,211,703, bt- in « a decrease approaching two millions. In the first four months of last year our re- gistered import of gold and silver exceeded the export by & J millions sterling ; in the first four months of 1871, on the contrary, the export has exceeded tho import, and by as much as £ 3, 836,200. CLASSIFICATION OF CRIME.— From the re- cent " Return of the trade or occupation of the persons taken into custody during the year 1S71 " by the Metropolitan police some rather suggestive figures may be extracted. Among the culprits there were for simple larceny 105 shoemaker?, lOO. sailora/ 95 painters, 84 carpenters, 69 smiths, 60 tailors, 49 brick- layers, 44 soldiers, ar. d 7 butchers; for common as- saults, 164 sailors, 140 shoemakers, 129 tailors, 127 carpenters, 120 briddayers, 113 smiths, 102 painters, 35 butchers, and 37 Boldiers; fcr being drunk, or drunk and disorderly, 337 carpenters, 333 tailors, 300 sailors, 2S6 painters, 250 shoemakers, 178 brick- layers, 177 smiths, 95 butchers, and W soldiers. It would seem from these figures that soldiers are an ex- ception to the rule that the propensity to violence exceeds the propensity to dishonesty; that tlioy are also an exception to the rule that the propensity to drunkenness exceeds either of the other two ; and that if sailors are to rank as highly as soldiers in honesty, the former must be more than twice as numerous; if in abstention from violence, more than four times as numeious ; and if in sobriety, moro than eighteen times as numerous. POETICAL ERROR.—" A Thing of Beauty is a J « iy for ever." Is it my boy ? Marry it, and you will find that it is very much the reverse.— Punch. SLAVE TRADE.— A Parliamentary return, ex- tending over tbe period from the Ist of July. 1S69, to the end of the year 1871, showed 21 vessels captured off the east coast of Africa for being engaged in and. equipped lor the slave trade. There were 722 slaves captured in them, but six of the vessels were restored and 283 of the slaves, most of themhoving been shipped from Zanzibar within tho prescribed period, and some as having been kidnapped from the shore, and being, therefore, restored to their owners; 277 of the slaves were emancipated, tho remaining 62 unaccounted for probably died between the capture and condemnation of the vessels. In moat cases the return describes tho bounty as not yet awarded to the captors ; it amounted £ S0S in one case where only two slaves were captured, and to £ 715 in another case where 15 were captured. The captors in such cases exercise their right of claim- ing £ 4 a ton on the vessel in preference to £ 5 a head on the Blavo3. THE CHEMISTS AND VESUVIUS .'— The follow- ing is the report of the analysis made bv the chemists of Noples on tho mixture of ashes, cinders, and oond which have fallen so abundantly in Naples and neigh- bourhood during the past week :— " Tho ashes are of a dark grey colour, heavy, of a sightly acid taste, and grate between the teeth. Water dissolves but an Infinitesimal portion of tliem and the solution de- rived therefrom b of a decidedly odd nature. Heated a bituminous odour is exhaled, and tho prosenco of chloric add gas denoted with condensed chlorido of ammonia mixed with slight traces of chloride of Iron. Traces of sulphuric acid, too, b'avo beeu discovered, as also of pnro sulphuric acid, which list la probably duo to the exposure of the first to the humidity of tho atmosphere. Not tho least traco of sulphuretted hydrogen has beeu visible, and only a very amaU quantity of sulphuric add, and m> small Ion of oommon sulphur. NotvJ' 1 portion sulphur. Notwithstanding that tho TWELFTH NIGHT ; OR, WHAT YOU WON'T.— Sir Toby. Do3t thou think, because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale ?— Malrolio. As many cakes as you please, but no ale at all.— Punch LOAN FUND BOARD OF IRELAND.— Tho amount of money annually circulated by the Loon Fund Boon! of Ireland continues to decrease. In the year 1871 it it was but £ 542,295, or less than a third of the amount before the famine of 1847 and the emigration to which it led. At tbe end of 1871 the sums in borrowers handa amounted to onlv £ 129,404. The number of loans made in tbe yeir was 115,096. Tho Board, aft « paying expenses of management, lwd to pay interest Sn their capital of £ 143,699, belonging to 1,000 owner*. Tho amount of surplus profits apobod to ehanUb eor useful purposes in tie several localities of the 81 loan funds or societies rendering annual accounts ™ £ 1 567 in tho year 1871. , The Commissioners state m their report of the proceedings of that y- ar that the decrease in the loan rand circulation may be attributed, to same extent, to tho improved circumstances of that portion of the industrious agricultural poor of l » eland Which constituted the borrower class of loan funds ; but that mainly it must be ascribed to the practice adopted by branch banks throughout the country of isming loans, as low as £ 10 and even £ 5, to borrowers of that class of small farmers and dealers on a emal scale who could only heretofore get loans of. Each smal amounts tnm\ iran losdai SATTOJUYIUY 18,1875 THE FALMOUTH & PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. " IHB TICHBORNE CASE. On Tnc^ Bfc afternoon the " Claimant," upon the in- vitation of^ fcumhjr of the tenants of the Tichborne estates and roe to-^ people of Alresford, which is du- tant pome three milAfrom Tichborno- ball, paid a pub- lic visit to the littl^ illage of Alreaford, where he re- ceived an enthusiastic welcome. The " Claimant" has " been stopping for the last few days at the Greve, Ropley, the seat of Mr. Guildford Onslow, M. P. for Guildford, and it w arranged that on Tuesday afternoon he should proceed thence to Alreeford, outside which the townspeople were to make a " demonstration" in his favour. Shortly after 3 o'clock a waggonette, drawn by four gram drew up at the Grove, and Mr. Onaloy, M. P., the " Claimant," and some friends, enterecTit They were driven along the road where, at various points, the " Claimant," who appeared to be in good health, was loudly cheered. At the villas and houses of the well- to- do people of the neighbourhood, ladies appeared in the windows or at the gates, and waved handkerchiefs, " Sir Roper * acknowledging the compliment repeatedly. When the outskirts of the village were reached a band met the party, and there was on the ground a large body of respectable- looking men wearing blue silk rosette;. The horses were taken from the waggonette, and, amid the moet enthusiastic cheering and shaking of hands with the " Claimant." the vehicle was drawn into the yard of the " Swan" Hotel, where the people assembled to the number of about 2,000, and constituted a meeting. The old people especially flocked round the " Claimant," and cried. " God bless yon, Sir Roger." The Times givoa the following report of the proceed- ings :— Mr. Guildford Onslow. M. P., then delivered an address from tho waggonette. He said: As we are all here amoDg the old friends and tenants of Sir Roger Tichbome, I tako tho opportunity of congratulating him In being again re- stored to liberty from the dUmal gaol of Newgate, where he was Incarcerated certainly without being convicted. ( Cheers.) I think we have a right to thank the British public for the part they have already taken, and for the handsome man- ner In which they have oome forward to assist the De- fence Fund, to enable us to resist the Government prose- cution. Ilad it not been for the working classes In all probability Sir Roger Tichbome would be still In prison, and bo perfectly defenceless. We have received pressing in- vitations from different parts, from Birmingham, Bristol, Southampton, from Bradford, and from several smaller towns • which it la proponed we should visit, or rather, which it Is In- tended wo should visit. Wo shall visit them on their Invita- tion for tho sole purposo of engaging the public voice in the cause of fair play with a view of getting Sir Roger ( cheers for Sir Rogor) that fair play which has hitherto been denied him. ( Loud cheers.) But I am happy now to see Sir Roger down here among his tenants, his old friends, and his servants ( great cheering), who havo better opportunities of knowing him than anybody else. I am glad, thereto— " « -- « • « -• — efore,' to see that his first vlsltslnca s among his old acquaintances, and the spon- taneous manner in which he has been received, and tho very flattering manner la which he has been greeted to- day In Alnaford show, I think, what the feelings of tho public are about Mm ( Cheers.) There may be a few exceptions, but tho general public In the neighbourhood— I mean In this neighbourhood— Is decidedly in favour of our friend Sir Roger Tichborne ( enthusiastic cheers), for no other reason than that they are satisfied as to his Identity. ' ( Renewed cheers.) The general public look upon his case as one In which fair play should be secured, but here In his own neighbourhood we knew him before he went away and therefore with you It is a case of actual identity. ( Great cheering:) I am, my friends, very happy to say that tho Defence Fond already reaches a good round sum, bnt this • will be a very expensivo law- suit, and it Is vory necessary that Sir Roger Tichborne ( cheers for 81r Roger) should havo tho best advice and counsel ( a voice '* So he shall"), and, therefore. I hope the publio will not stop In their efforts to supply that fund and to meet the expenses of a rjsecntion for which we have no precedent. Sir Roger being prosecuted by the Government at an enormous cost to the country; for of course It must Involve the ex- penditure of a large sum of money, though In this case the family conld weU afford to pay it ( cheers); and I believe there will be a very great objection taken in the House of Commons when the vote which will be put upon the Esti- mates for this prosecution comes before it. If the Government are sincere and really desire us to see fair play on both sides, It Is very necessary, absolutely necessary, they should bring frem Australia George Orton, tho brother of Arthur Orton, who they say Sir Roger is. Let us have him over from Australia and hear what he has to say. ( Cheers.) We are preparing BOI ng an . oger Tichborne Immediately after arriving in this country, id all ~ "" "" a also after the death of his mother, made Alresford for nearly two years his home. If he had been an imposter, that was going Into the very mouth of the lion. ( Cheers.) Bear In mind, too, my friends, that the first time he visited this place ho came disguised, but you will, recollect his dlsguiso was of no use to him, as he was immediately recognfted. ( Cheers.) Then, again, the moment he comes out of prison, le first visits Alresford, and visits It on the invitation of bis old friends, tenants and servants, who have asked him to come down here. ( Cheers.) We hope next week to visit Bristol, as It was from there we received the first Invi- tation, and there I hope to enter more minutely into details of great case, which I maintain up to the present mo- ment has never been allowed to be explained by any reply to the Attorney- General. Many persons were led away by the long winded speech of the Attorney- General, though I have every reason to believe they would have been led. the other way if they had had the opportunity of listening to the reply which Serjeant Ballantine would have made. ( Loud cheers.) I am sure Sir Roger feels the deepest gratitude to the British public for the efforts they have made in subscribing towards his defence, and I think I can assure them In his name that we mean to fight out his case to the very end. ( Loud and prolonged cheers.) The Claimant then came forward, and was received with loud cheers. Ho said:— My friends, tenants,. and neigh- bours, I havo not very much to say, but to thank you kindly for tho invitation which has brought me once more among you, for it gives mo great gratification te come here among those who knew me in former days, and who know I am not the impostor, the villain, the scoundrel as branded by the Attorney- Goneral ( great cheering), and which he has cer- tainly not yet proved that I am. ( Cheers.) I hope that my days here will bo many more than they have been, for I look forward with hope and confidence to regaining my estates and living once more among you. ( Cheere.) If, as the Attorhey- General Btated, I am an impostor, surely I have even you every opportunity of finding me out, for I have vod among you with my family for nearly twelve months. Yon have seen me on two or three hundred occasions. I havo been continually with you who knew me in former days—( enthusiastic cheering>^ and jet no one here has ven- tured to call me an impostor, except the connexions of my family who are interested In so doing. I also hope you will remember that when I first returned to Eng- land I was invited to come down here by my former solicitor, Mr. Hopkins, who Is well known to and very much respected by you alL It is not necessary, therefore, to say anything more of Mr. Hopkins, because you know him almoBt better than I do myself. Now, if 1 had been an im- postor, he had In his possession during all that time docu- ments which would have convicted me at once. He would have found out If I was an impostor, and no one could have lived in his house for a fortnight, as I did, without being de- tected. I wish to ask, why should my mother's evidence be Ignored f Is Sir. Hopkins, who did all my business before 1 left England— Is he to be ignored? Are all these who lived In this neighbourhood and knew me before I left England— are they all to be ignored because a Lord comes forward and swears he tattooed me. ( Cheers and cries of " All humbug.") Then, again, there was the military ovidence— the evidence of my brother officers, men who were above bribery, and the evidence of the tenants and the working men on the estates— they are men and honourable men, although they work for their living— why should not their ovidence be as good as Lord Bellow's f ( Great cheering.) I distinctly tell you, gentlemen, that the tattooing business was neither more nor less than a con- spiracy concocted at a moment's notice, when they found they could not beat me In any other way. ( Cheere and " Shame I") However, I thank you kindly for the great interest you have taken . In mo and on my behalf, and for the fair play wliich you Insist that I shall have, and which is all that I ask. Again thanking you for your kind invitation, I will concludo by saying. I hope the time will shortly come when 1 shall come and live among yon again. ( Loud'cheera.) I will then prove to you I am not the imposter, tho forger, the villain, and tho vagabond described by the Attorney- General. ( GretT cheering.) Mr. Q. Onslow, it P., again came forward, and said,— As I have before said, it is a source of the deepest gratifica- tion to me to be present here, and see this great assembly . come to meet Sir Roger to- day in this, as it were, his crodlo — In his house ( cheers): for It U here, above aH other places, where he Is fcetter known than in any place in tho world. ( Great cheering.) No man bnt the right mm eoold have stood that 26 days- cross- examination, when tho Attorney- Guneral stated he had met his match, and that Sir Roger was the cleverest man he ever had to deal with. If Sir Roger is an Impester, he Is the cleverest man that . aver lived oinee the days of Adam to hare * tood anch t cr6 « s- examlnatlon; bat, on the other hand, as he is Sir Rarer, there is nothing extraordinary in It. He has « tood u. like a man, and the public have come forward to Jmwrt frlm, to enable him £ resist the prosecution of the oi^ rnracat and they are g* ng to stand by, to the last. ( Chei'rs.) It U true ho wa « committed to^ ewgate, but wUhont betog convicted.- d I . rncoa^ cadhe bo convlctet. because the voice of the public is In his favon£ and I have never known the public; voiceto be wrons It Is right on ev « ry great occasion and it U right on thiii occasion, believing, as it does, Sir Roger Tlehbomfi to be the right man. The voice of tKubUcljVtth him. and it U a righteous one, and ho wmuch m^ ro honour. hIe is it lo hhn and how much more dotastsfcle to the*? who oppflsoMmtosee that meeting In the midst of Ma estate servants, and ; both before and . t his t"!* t The - vWewv, o, to iterated wi'newttfl viu receive/! 1y the Oa.'^, bno I hie - other's evidence w^ s lcnored *> s wed m tin.' or bt> u. cieseo, who were dis. cicyst-. U I oave seen that pwnj moth( T, with her pale face, and I know she died of a broken heart from the way in which her ton was treated Gentle- me?' " Parted 8lr Roger from the commencement and will continue to do so to the end. ( Loud cheers.) As a parting word, let me say that I am. Indeed, pleased to see around me so many ladles and gentlemen whom I have known frem their childhood, and I will add that a more honourablnand truthful class of people never existed in any part of th^ world. ( Cheers.) Thei party then adjourned to the Assembly- room of the ' Swan," where the Claimant received a deputation Southampton of the local defence fund.— Mr. Guildford Onslow, with a few words of welcome, intro- duced the deputation to the Claimant, who wa3 received with the warmth which had characterised the previous proceedings— Ho ( the Claimant) said he was glad to be present to acknow- ledge the great kindness he had received from the people of Southampton. After a few more general remarks, he said he should liko to explain why Mr. Rose, one of his solicitors, had left his case. One night after going to the theatro ho and some friends wero at supper at Evans's, and while in the room ho heard that Mr. Rose had told a Mr. Lawson that the case looked very doubtful, and that it was very likely tho firm of Baxter, Rose, and Norton would retire from K. He said nothing then, but tho next morning he went to Messrs. Baxter, Rose, and Norton, and had an interview with Mr. Spofforth, telling him what he had heard, and that under no circumstances would he again allow Mr. Rose to appear in his behalf. Mr. Spofforth entreated him to reconsider his decision, bnt ho adhered to it, and that was tho reason why Mr. Rose had withdrawn from the esse, ana that withdrawal had been followed by that of his father. He thought that explanation was dne to the public, as the withdrawal referred to had somewhat prejudiced him in the vyea of the pufello. Al- though he had callod 8< J witnesses, the fact was to be bome In mind that he had the sworn testimony of 53^ 1 witnesses, and It was only the lack of funds that had prevented him calling the greater portion of those. He had to complain, in con- sequence of being unable to continue the fees to counsel, that his case had been conducted towards tho last In a very indif- ferent manner, more especially at regarded the cross- exami- nation of witnesses. The Jury saw thai, and there was no doubt that it influenced them. The Attorney- General also noticed the fact. ( Cheers.) That gentleman told the jury, the 102nd day of tho trial, that he had 2S0 witnesses to cxamlno, which was equivalent to telling them that unless they gavo him a verdict they mu « t sit for a whole year. ( Cries of " Shame.") He also had to complain, and he did so most bitterly of tho Judge. They would recollect that he had told him that so long as he sat on that bench the other side would need no couuscL ( Groans.) Why had not tho loarned Judge committed him on that occasion, for it was cloar contempt of court, except that he dared not do so? ( Cheers.) Allusion had bcon mado during tho trial by the Attorney- General to the fact that ho had given 200 guineas for a h" EdO. That was intended to prejudice him in the minds of the public for extravagance, but he would tell them thkt he had bought that horse on condition that it was not to be paid for until he obtained his estates; and he would only say further that a capital horso she— for It was a mare— turned out. ( Laughter.) Referring to tho f » ct that ho used to cdmo to the court in a carriage, while Lady Doughty used to come in o cab, ho said he would inform the Attornoy- General that the carriage had been provided by hiB friends, and that Lady Doughty no doubt might have come In a carriage if she was so dis- posed. The tattoo marks matter he again denounced as a vilo conspiracy, and he asked why It was that during his three day*' examination at the Law Institution no re- ference whatever had been made to those markB. Ad- verting next to the testimony of Mr. Alfred Seymour, he asked why that gentleman had allowed him to remain in tho honse with his sister ( Claimant's mother) when in ono moment he could have said, " This man Is an impostor, he has not the tattoo marks which your son had." ( Cheers.) Referring next to the evidence of his cousin, who declared she saw him.. catching minnows with his left hand, he said those present knew that the Hampshire streams were clear as a looking- glass, and that if a man waited until he could catch a minnow in that way ho would havo to wait a long tlmo for his dinner. ( Laughter.) As to tho evidence of the servant who had robbed him of Ills clothes at Rio, and who stated he had never seen any tattoo marts, they1 would judge of the value of his evidence, but the whole story of the tattoo marks was concocted at tho last hour to crush him. He then thanked the deputation from Southampton, and especially Mr. Gray, who had supplied means to his wife and children while he was In prison. The Claimant afterwards dined with Mr. Onslow and several gentlemen at the " Swan," and there were great rejoicings in the town. of forty- eight, which were sent out for the Bocioty. The robins have been placed in the aviary at the Royal Park, where they are getting on well. A fine specimen of our English brown trout, weighing 7$ lb., has been caught. When placed three years ago in the stream from which it was taken it was l. J inches in length. It was hooked by Judge Skinner, but the Acclima- tization Society decline to disclose the scene of the capture. A DIFFICULT CASE TO DECIDE. Among tho many difficult problems to bo solved by Mr. Cardwell in connection with the extinct purchase system in the army, the case arising out of the death of the late Lord Graham promises to give some trouble. Upwards of nine months ago, before the new measures were in force, and wheD officers made their own arrangements with each other, Lord Graham, who was then a captain in the 1st Life Guards, agreed to sell his commission to the senior lieutenant in the same corps in the usual manner, and it may be presumed for the usual sum, which is about six thousand pounds. The documents containing his own statement of his wish to leave the army, the record of his services, and the medical certificate to the effect that he was not then suffering from any mortal disease, were thereupon forwarded to the commanding officer for the purpose of being trans- mitted to the militaiy authorities, and having thus " sent in his papers," Lord Graham obtained leave of absence to travel abroad till he was gazetted out of the army. The progress of these pan era was, how- ever, unaccountably delayed, and Lord Grahnm died in April last as a captain in the 1st Life Guards, when according to both the former and present regulations the value of hi3 commission was lost. His father, the Dukeof Montrose, knowingtbathisson'spapershad been duly sent in, has naturally claimed the sum of moiey which may be considered as having been due to him. But by whom ? The subaltern of the Life Guards who promised the money on condition of obtaining pro- motion by Lord Graham's retirement has not obtained that promotion, and even if he had the new rules com- pletely debar him from handing over any purchase money whatever. It is clearly out of the question that he can be asked to pay; bnt the War Office authorities have undertaken by the new regitfatipns to place themselves in the position of the, purchasing officers; do they thereby assume their liabilities 1 Clearlv not in this instance, for Lord Graham had not made his arrangements withSir Edward Lugard and the Pur- chase Commissioners, who are therefore unable to tako any cognizatite of the case. Here the matter Btiuids. — PaXimalt Gazelle. MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. On Friday afternoon a deputation, introduced by Mr. Dixon, M. P. waited upon Mr. Bruce, at the Homo Office, to present a memorial mgned by 4,000 Noncon- formist and Jewish Ministers urging the Government to n » e their influence to legalize marriage with a de- ceased wife's sister. Mr. George Dawson, M. A., of Birmingham, said the discussions which had occurred on this subject in some redpects made the task of speaking on. it easy. The present law was objected to in the first place u forming part of the code given to a polygamous cottnti^. 1 By some the authority of Moses was denied, except so far as supported by the English Legis- lature. The Honse of Commons had declared the law to be unnecessary and unjust. They therefore denied the basis upon which it was founded. Society had longagVeed ih regarding a marriage of this sort an re- flecting no stain upon the character of thoso who con- tracted it, and the issue of such. marriage as perfectly legitimate. The latter . were, however, in the same position in law as children boni out' ' bf1 wedlock, 1' and if they were included among those on whom the present law inflicted hardship,] the class would be found to bo very much larger than people were accustomed to re- gard it. ID conclusion he urged the Government to bripg such pressure to bear upon the House of Lords as wou/ d induce them t6 Jdtfefttre law. The Rev. J.' It Hanrreaves, of Ramsgate, 1 stated that ho belonged t6 the Methodist persuasion, and that one half of the ministers of his church had signed the memorial. ' --'•'• The Rev.- W. - Ms - Statham, of Hull,, reminded. Mr. Bruce that Her Majesty had already sanctioned marriage with a deceased wife's sister in South Australia. The Rev. G. J. EmantisT, of Birmingham, said the prohibition was based npon the 16th verse of the 18th chapter of Leviticus, which affirmed that a woman might not marry her sister's husband, ( They deduced from this, therefore, that if a woman might not marry twobrothers, a man might not marry ttfoslfcWrs. This would be strong, indeed, if it were not that two verses further on the passage was explained by - saping that a man could not marry a second sister while the first ra liviDg. The upholders of the law, however, reste- l on marginal reading, which had been declared by scholars to be without foundation. The Rev. Dr. Adler, of London, also advocated tho alteration of the pfesent law. Mr. Bruce, replying to the deputation, said that per- sonally he quite agreed with their view of the question- but although it was true that the present- difficulty had arisen from a mistaken interpretation of the law, yet society had accommodated itself to the law, and it was Dot easy to prevent it remaining BO. HO himself had supported the movement for a change in the law, with the majority of the- 4Sov* rom" nt. Many, however, were still opposed to an alteration, and it was no secret that the Lord Chancellor was strongly against such an alteration. With regard to the request that her Majesty's Government would nse its endeavours to get- the bill passed through the House of Lprds. he was afraid to hold out any false hopes, of this being done. In certain political cases it was possible for the Government to bring a pressure to bear uprttfthb Upper'Housg, ' which had considerable Weight in infldfeneing thtir- course of action; but it WBS impossible to exercise a pressure in reference to a nprely social question such as that of marriage with a deceased wife's sister. He believed that the measure would be extremely beneficial to all • classes, and more especially" to the lower orders of society, and he fully felt the great importance of the unanimous declaration of the Jewish Church in favour of the measure, and he . had no donbt that the arguments adduced would have great weight in the proper quarter. In the meantime he would commhnicate with the head of the Government, and give any assistance he could when the matter came under consideration. The deputation, having., thanked Mr. Brnco for his courtesy, then withdrew. . A ROMAN CATHOLIC ON RITUALISM. Monseignor CapeL preaching last Sunday eveningat the Pro- Cathedral, Kensington, London, on the " Pre- sent Movement towards Catholicism in England," selected as the especial subject of bis discourse the question of the " authority'' with which Ritualistic clergymen prescribe certain religious ordinances and order the performance of certain religious rites. He reminded his hearers that on the previous Sunday he said, if he were asked what was the special characteristic of the present movement towards Catholicism in England, he should answer that in its outward appearance it was essentially a revolt against the Church— that while the Church of Antiquity made obedience one of its ruling principles, this Church of the Ritualiste revolted against Arch- bishops, Bishops, Convocation — everything. God forbid that he should have any motive in speaking as he did, save that of a love of truth. There were men engaged in the movement for whom he had the greatest affection and admiration— men who honestly believed they wero members of the Catholic Church ; but he also knew men who were dishonest in this movement, who held in servitude men's souls, and who carried on the movement for their own ends and purposes. Where was the authority of these men ? The apostles spoke, not merely^ as earnest men with convictions, but with an authority which was not theirs— with an ambassadorial authority. Every corporate body— evciy body politic must be guided by a principle of authority. Take an army, surely the source of authority must be in the com- mander- in- chief. All must be in subordination to him, and all the different departments were mapped out with a due regard to mutual dependence. This gave to the army its living character. Take that away and let every person do as he wished, our forces would rest on a sandy basis. Was it not the same with a mighty empire like this, which boasted that the sun set not on tho dominions it possessed ? In the Catholic Church nothing was more marvellous than the spirit of obedience and the limitation of authority in different grades. No. priest could start liturgies of his own or take the initiative in anything without the permission of his Bishop. The teaching of the priest might be questioned by the Bishop, and that of the Bishop by him who ruled over the Church of God In this way they wore a power the world might well bo affrighted at. Dr. Newman gave back to Oxford the authority it had given him, and that was the first " impetus given to the movement called " Catholic." But how changed! How marvellous the contrast between the conduct of Newman and of the men who now'directed, not the movement, but worked in it, who defied thuir Arch* bishops and Bishops, who defied all authority, and claimed for themselves an authority that DO Bishop or priest of the Catholic Church dare claim I For them the voice of the Bishop was not the voice of authority. Notwithstanding the Articles of the Church of England, this new body of men loudly declared, On their own authority, that there are seven Sacraments, and not two. Notwithstanding the assertions of their own Prayer- book, they permitted the adoration of the Body of the Lord Notwithstanding the distinct voices of their own Bishops and the distinct expressions of their own Prayer- book, they were obliged to'contort and pervert the latter so as to give a colouring to their own position. Their Prayer- book said that those who were in trouble of conscience should turn to their clergy, and seek from them counsel and comfort; but the practical commentary of the Ritualists upon that was to insist' upeh all persons geing regularly to their confession. They went further, and permitted the use of the statues and images at devotions, and all that Catholics did in their devotion to the Blessed Virgin. Where was tho smalWrt ground for their authority to do this? If the Ritualists were asked for their authority, one of their answers was that they followed the practices of the Church of Antiquity. That was utterly false, because the rites they had in- troduced into London, such as tho " Three Hours' Agony," were unknown to the Ancient Church. These were not practices of antiquity, but practices intro- duced since the Council of Trent. Earnest as these men were, great as were the sacrifices they made they had not a shred of authority for what they did. If they had any authority it might be summed up in a sentence: They imitated Rome to tho fullest possible extent. Was it possible there could be a living power in that body ? They know as well as tho Bishops knew that to promote these things in the name of Catholics, and at the same time under the garb of Protestants, was not the way to uphold the truth or to make men honest, or to make them advance to the Catholic Church. Their authority in opposition to all Bishops was an authority derived exclusively from them- selves. What consequences had resulted from that? There were facts associated with that authority which were simply a shame and a disgrace to any man or any body of men. When men were in doubt, and were taking onward steps towards the Catholic Church, these Ritualists who had defied their Bishops were in the habit of saying they would takeupon themselves the responsibility of these people's; souls. Neither Pope, Bishop, nor priest had a right to hold a posi- tion of that hind ; but the Ritualists, having usurped authority and defied their Bishops, laid down such • things as these, r In such- servitude did this authority hold people that— and an English audience would icarcely; believe it— these people dictated whom their Socks should see, whom they should know, and whether ihey sheuld visit their friends or not. Where was the patholic priests who dare do such things without bring- ing down upon him the severest censure of his Church? Catholic priests had, nothing to do- with these things.' Their authority was Spiritual; but to dictate to people whom they, were to see. and whom they were, not , to see— to , te] l , people, it was p. deadly' Bin to enter a Catholic church in this country, but not so across the Channel, was to him the very acme of folly. Ho knew people who were held in a servitude in this respect that was to him Bimply appalling. Were he to read to the oontfrtgstion letters in his possession written on tho^ e very- points by people who were becoming Catholits, he felt sures, each, person present wotild declare'he could scarcely' beheve what was read. There was this abyss between the Catholics and the Ritualists'. The former had an authority, and submitted to it : they believed in an. authority, but $ he' Ritualists believed it not, because they were bound to take authority from themselves. He earnestly exhorted his hearere not to submit- to an authority until they were convindW it'existed, but to hold the freedom of whiph they boasted as English- men in their own hands. ACCLIMATIZATION IN VICTORIA. The Acclimatization Society in Victoria has, says the Melbourne Argus, been steadily prosecuting its work, and at the animal meeting held on the 11th of March a very favourable report was presented; A good deal has been done in the rearing of pheasants, and upwards of 150 guinea fowl had been placed in various secluded spots in forests, far removed from settlements, where it WBB confidently hoped they would increase, and in a ftew years afford both food and sport. In September last 2,260 brown troatova were obtained from the Salmon CBnitntesionera of Tasmania, and were - hatched at tho society's establishment at tho Royal Park,,,. Some 600 trout fry were also procured by the President of tho Society while on a visit to- ( Tasmania, so that on the whole about 2,500, livo trout had been placed in different streams during tho past Beason, q large pijoportion of which was put into the Watt^ ftaplendid, tributary, of the Y/ trnij admirably adapted for trout.' Some English porch had also been placediinitwo fine fe3ervoirs at Kflmore, and a number of ^ carp" had been distributed. , Npt many de^ r, had been turned out during the past year, but those • hitherto liberated in many parts o^. tfiq. cplony were sprttkling and increasing rapidly > for- instance, it was mentioned that in the Wimmora district the Axis deer had spread oyer an area of aj Jeast, sixiy miles. The valu- able flock of Angora goats and the ostriches belonging to the societv were located at Lengerenong on tho Wjmmera) where they were thriving and increasing. Although most anxious to eqcouraee and promote sericulture, the society foiyid it ip advance this" industry in a really practical manner, eo as to be of" hen^ fit to the colony. This was the principal dis- appoiptment experienced by ' the Society; and it was mentioned that,' notwithstanding the Game Act, it was found very difficrift1 to'preserve the pheasants, Ttares, and other game fr6m the depredations of un- scrupulous and unsportsmanlike persons. In, prder that the public may bo induced to take a greater interest in the « fcjety, it has boon determined to increase the zoological element. ' The councQ propose in the first instance to form as complete a collection as poss: ble of the fauna of An? tr. l « ' n, an- 1 her- afUT, whtn in a pcaidoi- f. u do so, to adu to it ftr. ose of other countries. In wranwliou with oCcKmsti7> tionwas mentioned ' that by tbq ftef . < 3tiip A'urtkui,- thero arrived a consignment of tkirty- flt* English roblni", the survivors THREATENED STRIKE AND LOCK- OUT IN THE BUILDING TRADES. On Saturday night, a crowded meeting of carpenters and joiners, delegates from ' the various carpenters' sooieties, and all tne large firms and building establish- ments in London, was held in the assembly- room of the " Brown Bear" Tavern, Broad- street, Bloomsbury, for the purpose of receiving the final report from the Nine Hours Committee previous to action being taken by the men to enforce tne demands contained in the memorial sent to the master builders. The demands of the men, as stated in their memorial, are:— 1st. That a code of working rules, for the guidance of both employers and employed, be established In the London dis- trict, and that the employers be asked to co- operate with the men In drawlnc up such a code of rules. 2ndly. That the working hours be nine per day, from Monday to Friday, with six hours on Saturday, making 61 hours per week; and thirdly, that tho rate of wages be Od. Instead of 8d. per hour, making the wages £ 118s 3d. per week. This memorial had been considered_ by the Master Builders' Association at a special meeting, who unani mously refused to accede to its demands, treating in the same way a memorial with similar terms sent in by the masons. On this refusal being officially noti- fied to the Nine Hours Committee, they then asked the Masters' Association to receive a deputation from the men, with the view of discussing the question, and coming to an amicable settlement. This offer was also refused. District meetings were then called by the committee, and the correspondence between that body and the Masters' Association laid before them, with the result that at every meeting resolutions were unani- mously passed approving the action of the committee, and pledging support to the terms of the memorial. It was stated at some of these meetings that the masters had resolved on a general lock- out £ f any attempt were mado by the men to enforce the memorial. Under these circumstances the committee resolved to convene an aggregate meeting of the carpenters of London at St. James's- hall to confirm the action it proposed to take. The above facts having been embodied in a re- port, and laid before the delegates on Saturday evening last, considerable discussion ensued, after which the following resolution was almost unanimously agreed upon as the resolution to be submitted for the approval of tho aggregate meeting :— " That this meeting viows with much dissatisfaction and great regret' the position taken up by the Master Bulldera' Association In roinslng to recelvo a deputation from the car- penters and Jniners of London to discuss the terms of their memorial, with the view of coming to an ami cable settlement, thus Ignoring our claims ana disregarding our overtures, leaving us the only alternative of adopting the neoessary means for enforcing what wo believe to be a Just and rea- sonable demand. This meeting Is therefore of opinion, that we should take action on Saturday, the 1st of June next, by leaving work In such Arms as the dolegates shall de- cide upon, unless in the meantime the employers make known their willingness to accede to our demands; and we hereby pledge ourselves to give all the moral and peounlary aid In eur powor to the committee to enablo them to carry the movement to a successful Usuo." The speakers and other details respecting the meet- ing having been arranged, a resolution inviting Messrs. G. Potter, Applcgarth, and Cremer to attend and ad- dress the meeting was strongly opposed by several Of the delegates on tho ground that these persons were not now working as carpenters, and that they wished to show the employers the men engaged in tne trade were quite competent to conduct their own movement without the extraneous aid of parties whose advocacy might be more damaging than otherwise from thfir prominence in agitation. The resolution was negatived by a largo majority, amidst loud cheers. ' It was then resolved that Messrs. Harry, of London, Last, of Bristol, and Prior, of Manchester, the secre- taries of the three general societies of carpenters, should be invited to atten'd the meeting. At a crowded meeting of carpenters and joiners of the metropolis, held in St. James's Hall, on Tuesday, a resolution was passed with acclamation that the men employed by certain specified firms should leave work •< n Saturday, lst June, unless meanwhile the master baildera assent to the nine hours movement, and to an increase of pay from 8d. to 9tL per hour. The various speakers expressed regret that a strike should be im- minent, but asserted that tho conduct of the em ploy em in refusing to meet the men and discuss the question] amlca& ly, had l « ft them no alternative. THE LABOURERS AT THE EAST- END LONDON. A largo open- air Meeting was held on Sunday mom-, Ing in the New Cut, Lambeth, in support of tho Labour Proter4-"-" , an issoaation of waters'^ wharf, dock Mia la h< aire re at- trie East- end, formed with tun objwjC or obtaining a unilorm rale for labourers in all r'- pa " mKJlSlof work, at the rato o" Sd. per hour while -" . iriloy^ u . The league now numbed about 6,000 mem bera. WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE. On Friday evening, at the Hanover- Bquare Rooms, London, a meeting of the Women's Suffrage agitators was held for the purpose of making " a reply to the speeches delivered in the House of Commons against the second reading of the Wonien's Disabilities Bill." Dr. Lyon Playfair, MlP., presided, and in opening' the proceedings he acknowledged that a" male chairman at a meeting like this was an anomaly. The meeting was to hear ladies who had so much^ t heart the exten- sion of the suffrage, and the demand they made tipoh' the country was one of great simplicity, for it was merely that the franchise should be extended to all persons alike who possessed property, who performed its duties; and bore its burdens. This was desired for women as well as for men, but the simplicity of this demand had been supposed to cover a much deeper object, , and their view3 had been so much magnified and dis- torted that they craved to make an answer to the objec- tions. The great champion of women's rights— John Stuart Mill ( cheers)— had said that women were'still under the subjection of man, and the truth of'that might seem to be inferred from their having a male chairman. But the reason why they had urged him to take the chair was to show that those who were concerned in that movement did not desire to take upon themselves posts for which men by th& ir natural attributes and experience were best fitted. (" Hear, hear," and launhter.) There were, however, matters which were common to both sexes of the genus homo, as love of justice and love of country, ana they know when they were well or ill governed He proceeded at still greater length to argue that it would be right and just to give the franchise to women, and be described the opponents of this purpose as being smeared' with the oil of expediency. Miss Becker then proposed the first resolution, which " That this meeting expresses Its earnest thanks to Mr. Jacob Bright, Mr. East wick, Mr. Magulre, Mr. Heron, the Eight Hon. Sir Charles Adderley, and the Attorney- General, for introducing and supporting the Woman's Disabilities Removal Bill, also to the rest o! the 160 members of Parlia- ment- who voted or paired In favour of the second reading on the 1st of May, respectfnlly requesting them to take stops for the re- introdnction ot the measure on the earliest possible occasion, and pledging itself to Increased and unremitting efforts until the Bill shall heve become law." i, . She said this resolution expressed the feelings of the women of this country conducting this movement, and who desire to see the political emancipation of women, and she believed the strength of feeling in this direc- tion was considerably underrated by those members of the House of Commons who had spoken in opposition to this bilL She then proceeded to deal with Mr. Bouverie's remarks in regard to the manner in which the petitions were got up and while she acknow- ledged that the signatures were collected as desbribefl she defended that course as being one of the means. by which people could be called on to express their opinions. As to what these opinions were, they were tobe seen by the fact that 346,000 signatures were sent to tlio House of_ Commons in a month. She then examined the division list on the lst of May la3t, and Bhe pointed out that among the Conservatives who,' voted were tbe- ffiost eminent members of the party, and she ' said thafr thfey were more prominent in favour of women's rights than were the followers of the Liberal party. The great opposition to the bill was foudded n£ on thje same reasons which the child gave for not saying tne first letter of the alphabet— that if he did he ' would be called upon to say the second. " It was thought that if tins bill was carried more would'be demanded, but she said that if the purposes of the bilV was just it should be acceded to without - arguing about what' would be the sequence. She proceeded flt considerable length to argue that, women's questions were not fairly. considered— that girls' education was thought of less consequence than boys', that governesses wero paid less than_ masters, and she said that women . desired the political franchise not only as a means of levelling these inequalities, but also that the standard of virtue among men might be raised. Miss Rhoda Garrett seconded the motion, and she, entered into a critical examination of Mr. Beresford Hope's speech, and after quoting that member's wbrds, she said, to quoth the words of Mre. Poynter, in Adam Bcdt, " I will not deny that God Almighty has created women foolish, but they were made so ; to match tho men." ( Laughter.) She denied the truth of the picture which had been drawn of tho women concerned ft this agitation, and she said they laboured, not for their own ambitious purposes, but because. they believed it would not only benefit tho women, but prove advantageous to the'country at large, v - i, - Mrs. Rose supported the motion, and dealt with the speech of the Attoriiey- Gfenbrtl for Ireland at length, H. nc] was followed by Mrs. Eawcett; who took an en- Cogging view of the late division, laisd urged those in favour of the women's suffrage not to lose heart. Her speech entered into an examination ofl newspaper iwticlea, 1' miwrrizine papers, fepeefchoa of members in the House of Commons, - and conversation^ and she dis- cussed nearly all the" « rguments which had been adVortced against the purpose - of - the bill i The resolution was then put, and the chairman declared . It to" be carried wSth'Attt taking a show of hands. His decision vrp&, however, challenged, 1 and he then took the show of hands, whi>. h,'- though over- whelmingly in favodr of the resolution, Bhowed that all present Were not in favour of it.' It Was then de- clared earned, 7 » Other speeches were made in proposing the . vote of thanks to the chairman. Among those preoent were Dr. Brewer, " MP., and •? reW? JvMr- Maffmre, M. P., Mr. Robertson, M- p., Mr: M'Lareo, MP Mr. Charles Gilpin; M. PT! Mr. H. Richard, MP., Mr. M'Clure, M. PT, Mr H Kingsley, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Arnold, Mr. Jacob Bright, Miss Emily Faithfuil, and the Hon. H F Eliott. 011 Am, 1T,' clln f^ pcr, in alluding to the wuoof ibi illaconriDiianco. suvr. • o. u- Journal Whad but - J" l « » 0floer. a de^ lc- in groceries, ^ ho paid In of paper haYo lived fixJmlvoly on salt Ibh andcham- pagae. REWARD FOR SAVING LIFE. Two remarkable cases of gallantry in saving life from drowning have just been regarded by tne Royal Humane Society by the presentation of the bronze medal, together with handsome testimonials, in recogni- tion of the services rendered. The first case was fchat of Haipode Gadree, a La « car of the Port Department, Mauritius, who saved a fellow Lascar during a violent gale in which the ship Stafford* iAirewas disabled. A steam tug had gone off to her assistance, there being. al1easy. 5ea running at the time. By the bad management of the Lascar who was steer- ing the boat accompanying the tug she took a broad sheer and capsized, precipitating the three men who were in her into the water. Two of them, being good swimmers, got on board the steamer; but. the third, Eriab Summasee, who had drifted a considerable dis- tance from the steamer, and who could hardly swim at all, would certainly have been drowned but for the gallantry of Hamode Gadree, who, stripping himself in an instant, seized a light line and swam to his a- sist- ance when he had already sunk once, and, skilfully avoiding the grapple of the drowning man, attached the line to him, when he was hauled on board. The other case_. w! W that of Thomas Freeman, of Her i^ Iiyesty^ shjp Columbine. He was instrumental in saving Thomas'Carr, of the tame ship, who fell over- board at Seychelles. In this and the'other case the water was " infested with sharks. 1 1 A remarkable instance of cool courage on the part o£ a bov, 16 years of age, named Richard Bachelor, has also been investigated by the Committee of the Royal Humane Society, which has just transmitted to him its bronze medal, accompanied by handsome testimo- nials recording his gallantry in- saving the life of a boy named Frederick Bavirstoek under the following cir- cumstances:— The boy. Bayerstock wap engaged in drawing water from a well at the " Waggon ' pulilic- hot^ se, Luton, its depth being 100 feet, with nine feet of water at the bottom. While handling the wind- lass, by some means Baverstock's feet Sipped and he was precipitated down the well, one of the buckets used being at the moment in the water. Wonderful to relate, the , boy neither struck against the sides of the well nor against'the bucket in the well. Some boy's who were standing near immediately raised an alarm, and fortunately this was heard by a man named Bachelor,' - a well- sinker, living near, and his s.. n Richard, who at once hastened to the spot. The youth Richard Bachelor immediately volunteered to go down tho'well to the assistance of Baverstock, whose cries could- be heard With his foot in the loop of a rope, young Bachelor was lowered down the well by hand, the. rppe. being passed over the roller. When ho got dawn , the 100 feet to the water ho found the boy Baver^ tock clinging to the bucket in the water, for when he rose to the surface he had seized hold of tho bucket, and by means of it he had up to that tinio supported himself. After some difficulty Richard Bachelor at length got the boy into the bucket, and fastened him in with a rope. He himself then also got on to tho bucket, and the two were eventually safely lifted to the BUriace. NATIONAL PORTRAIT. GALLEBY.— The trustees of the National Portrait Gallery. South Ken.- ington, London, state in their report on the past year that tho donations have been increased to 93 by the presenta- tion of portraits or busts of Joseph Strutt, engraver and antiquary; General Sir CharlesJJapier, SirElijah Impey, pr., Sonthwood^ Smith, James Wyatt, R. A., and Partridge's Meeting of the Royal Cotomission for Fine Arts at Gwydyr Hdt& e in 184f>, containing 2S portraits, presented by the artist . The purchases now amount to 245, the following additions having been made in the year :— JCing Henry VTIL, Princess, afterwards Queen Anne, with her £ on the Duke of Glocester; Prince George of Denmark, Benjamin Franklin, - Robert- OWen, George Earl of Macartney, and his . secretary. Sir G. Staunton, in conference; Sir Philip 1 rrancis, Lord Chancellor Camden, W. Pulteney, Earl of Bath, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, purchased for £ 100 • Dr. Isaac Barrow,^ Sophia, Electress of Hhnover, mother of George I. ; King' Richard II., Annie of Bohemia, ( his Queen' Consort), King Edward III, King Henrv IJL, and Philippa of Hainault, Queen Consort of Edward IIL, these .' ast five being plater oa3ts from the offices in, Westminster Abbey, taken " by permission of the Dean of Westmiti< t* eT. It is in- tended thAtf" tbesdApl> b'dr WproauOTcfifc ciiall be con- verted - inte Irnaz-. b* electronr> insjj;;, Tb » number of j is i tore M the gallery in tbu v^ iir l? 71 amounted to 63,195. Tlio- jinmlw 011 E « htei' Menday this year reaohed 4,~ yi. < m tablets affixed xo the frame* of the paintings aro nanus and dat&,' with a few leading: events connected with the persons represented! THE FALMOUTH & PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1872 A DUTCH NAVAL HERO'S TRICKS. ( From ' As a curious instance of the manner in which his ( De Ruyter's) life was preserved, It may be mentioned that, meeting an Bullish man- of- war on bis homeward journey, in the Channel, he ordered a salute of half- a- dozen guns. While he stood behind one of the pieces it suddenly exploded. Everybody round about was hurt, one man was killed, another loat both his legs, half- a- dozpn were seriously wounded, but he alone escaped without hurt. Not long afterwards one of the sailors came running up to him with the unwelcome newB that a Dunkerquo pirate was in sight, towing a prize behind her. Now De Ruyter had a very valuable cargo, which it would be a pity to lose. Being heavily laden, it was no'uae attempting to escape, but he knew that his ship was largely built, and looked in the distance like a man- of- war, so, though he had scarcely half a dozen guns on board, he hoisted the admiral's colours, made all' sail, and bore down upon the pirate. Tho Dunkerque, afraid to have an encounter with sq large and deter- mined an adversary, let go his prize ana fled, where- upon De Ruyter coolly turned homeward and dragged another man's prize with him into port. On another occasion his cunning was equally fortunate in saving' his ship He was returning from Ireland with a cargo principally consisting of butter, and had anchored n lot fur from the Isle of Wight. A large number of other merchantmen were already riding at anchor in the same place. A few of these were waiting for a favourable wind, but the greater part, terrified by tbe pirates that were cruising up and down in the channel in great numbers, dared not go out The November storms were raging, winter was at hand, and every day became precious. More- over butter was scarce in Zealand at that moment, and BO. though his ship was small and badly armed, De Ruyter determined to risk it. He had not been out very long when a pirate" was descried bearing down on him. In vain all sails were spread to the rushing winds— every gust, every wave brought the pirate nearer. The men were at their wits' end, but our captain knew a trick or two. He ordered his men to take off their boots and stockings, and aBCore or so of butter- barrels were brought on deck. In a few minutes these had been knocked to pieces, and the butter was thickly spread all over the deck and outside the ship. Not a rope or a spar that was not glib or slippery. Even without their boots and stockings the sailors " could scarcely keep on their legs. On came the pirate, not knowing what was in store for him. De Ruyter assumed an. air of penitent submission and allowed them to come alongside quietly. But lo ! when they jumped over, fully armed with pistol in one hand and sword in the other, they slipped about and tumbled over each other on the buttery deck like so many rats. One fellow shot head foremost down into the cabin, where he was immediately sat upon by the boy ; another slid all across the deck, and shot out into the eea by an opposite porthole. Not one of them could stand on his legs, and, as these bad men are gene- rally superstitious, a* idea Beized them that the ship was possessed of the devil; they hurried back into their own ship, cast loose, and De Ruyter got safely into port at tbe expense of a few pounds of butter. Coupled with such marvellous cleverness, he pos- sessed a generosity and largeness of heart that en- deared him to every sailor. On one of his journeys, while the war with Sjf& in was still going on, and he was commander of a small frigate, misfortune sent a large Spanish galleon in his way. Fearing that he would be overcome in a contest, De Ruyter wisely sought to escape, was chased, overtaken, and compelled to fieht. Then he went at it with allhis might Their positions were quickly changed. The venturous Spaniard was too slow and heavy to follow the quick Dutchman in all his movements, and ere an hour had gone by he would gladly have retired. But de Ruyter was now master of the situation, and poured • volley after volley into his big enemy antil he began to sink. The Spaniard hoisted a white flag and begged for mercy. The Dutch sailors were against this, butDe I Ruyter ordered the boats to be put out and the Spanish : crew were brought « n board. Instead of being grate- ful for their lives, however, they remained sulky. De Ruyter went up to the captain—" Would you | have treated us with equal generosity, if you ] had sunk this ship ?" asked he in a stern ! voice. The haughty Spaniard Bhook his heal, j " It was my intention." he answered, " to drown i every one of you." Then youH go overboard," I said De Ruyter, indignant at the answer; and, | turning to his sailors, ordered them to tie each prisoner I hand and foot with a cannon ball round his ncck, | and throw him into the sea. The men began to lament, the captain remained stern ; but when he, too, was being tied, his savage haughtiness forsook him, I and, falling on his knees, he begged for mercy. As De Ruyter wanted no more, it was readily given, and the subdued captain and his men were put ashore at the firot opportunity, with a severe reprimand to be more just and generous in future. near relatives of those on board, we are using the word in the same, or at least in a strictly cognate, senso. ... It is so common an observation as almost to have passed into a proverb, that the trials of life leave men very different from what they were before, which is another way of saying that " their characters are in- fluenced, whether for better or worse, by the sufferings they havo undergone. Here, however, one or two questions naturally present themselves. It may be objected that every event or action of life, pleasurable or painful, leaves its mark on the character, as 3 ell as what are called its " trials"; and, again, it may be asked whether by speaking of suffering as trying men's character, we mean that it moulds, or only that it reveals their true nature, and whether we mean to imply that its influence, if it has any, is beneficial. As to the first point, it is of course a truism to say that character is tested and acted upon by every action and circumstance of daily life, great or small. We are " the creatures of habit" because habits are formed by acts, and when formed react on our conduct and ways of thinking. In this sense a man is always on his trial, and is never in precisely the same moral condition when he goes to bed that he was in when he got up in the morning. Every day has its trials, whethor they are trials in the popular sense of the word or not But it is not therefore un- reasonable to connect the term especially with those great crises of life which bring out what is in a man more rapidly and more completely than months or years of an ordinary routine existence. Marie- An- toinette's hair turned white in one night through excess of suffering, and the bodily change is but an outward sign of the inward action on the mind. A sudden ac- cess of prosperity may act as quickly and as strongly on the mina as a great sorrow. But the hero of Ten Thousand a Year is not often to be met with in real life, and as great afflictions are far more common than great successes or wonder- ful luck, we have naturally come to associate the former rather than the latter with the idea of searching tests of character. It is a fact, broadly speaking, that the great sorrows of life are also the great trials of life, and hence both ideas have come to be expressed by a common term. The second question has already been in some degree answered by implica- tion. Strictly speaking, of course, to try is to test, and not to mould, character. It is a process analogous to " proving" cannon. But thenthereis just this difference between things and persons— that moral agents cannot be tested without their character being at the same time influenced, and very decisively influenced, by the pro- cess. Even a school examination, to go back to our old example, does not simply ascertain a boy's mental calibre, hut very materially affects it, if he takee any pains about the matter at all. Aad much more is this true of the trials of his after life. It is often said that some men " oome out" under great trials, and show a depth and power we had never before credited them with; and no doubt in suoh cases there must have been good, stuff in them, as the phrase goes, or they would not have borne the test when it came ; but still tbe result is something more than a revelation. The trial was needed to bring out, as well as to exhibit, their latent energy, at least as much as the action of fire is needed to bring to the sur- face the letters written in sympathetic ink. There is a natural inertness about the great majority of men, which requires the application of some powerful external stimulant not only to exhibit but to develop and bring into play tbe capabilities that are in them, and trials are the touchstone and stimulants of character, as necessity is the mother of invention. The third question does not admit of so simple a solution. All trial involves discrimination, and to dis- criminate is to separate the base coin from the good. If there are men whose merits shine out under ad versity with a lustre we had never suspected, there are others whose demerits are for the 6rat time brought to light when tfcey are tried without being purified. A sudden and severe demand develops as well as exhibits latent forces, but it cannot create what had no previous ex- istence. . . . Perhaps we cannot be far wrong in saying that ass* rule, trials make good men better, and bad men worse. Persons who have no depth of character, who, as Dr. Johnson used to express it, have no bottom, snccumb; the tinsel is rubbed off, and their innate shallowness and worthlessness becomes manifest both to themselves and others, and gets more hopelessly in- grained into them by the very fa; t of its manifestation. But then, on the other hand, experience goes to prove that lofty moral altitudes are seldom, if ever reached TRIALS. without trial. It is a common remark that children are never considerate, and are therefore, deficient in the kindness which, unlike mere good nature, implies consideration for the feelings of others ; and certainly the exceptions are comparatively rare. But the same may be said of grown- up people who have led an eaBy, unchequtred sort of existence, and have had little experience ot the ups and downs and sufferings of life. It is only those who are not unacquainted with trial themselves who can truly say, miseris succurrere disco. And that is precisely because endurance of trials, if they are patiently and bravely endured, not only braces the moral nerves, so to speak, but adds a depth and tenderness to the whole character. Coaree natures, unless they are hardened by The following article from the Saturday Review, Illustra- tive of the dtflerent meanings attached to the word " trial," BUKBests t'i the mind of the reader many thoughts upon the subject which will amply repay a perusal :— There are perhaps few words in common use that have such a variety of different though not diver- gent, senses as the word " trial." Schoolboys often speak of " tbe trials," meaning the half- yearly or scholarship examinations, while the cognate verb is probably most familiar to their sisters as applied to i trying on a new dress. Any contest of rival forces, from a game of cricket or croquet to the more serious I struggles of later life, may be called, according to its demand on the intellectual or physical resource* of the combatants, a trial of skill or erf strength, j The Medieval ordeal was an appeal to the Judgment of God in the trial by fire, as the legal pro- | cedure which has superseded it is called a trial now. An institution which has been newly started, or is threatened with attack or decay, is said to be on ite trial— a remark applied some years ago by the late Prince Consort to constitutional Government Then, again, a tried man is a man who has had something of the experience of life, whether generally or in some particular line, and has profited by it; while in such phraaes as the trials of life, or a great trial, we usually understand the word in a sense almost synonymous with afflictions. The latter sense seems to predominate, though without excluding the idea of probation also, in the we made of tbe word by the English transla- tors of the New Testament ; or at least it is the sense which would most naturally suggest itself to an English reader unacquainted with the original, where the different Greek words rendered by " trial" point to tho etymological rather than the derivative sense. And it is in this strict sense of testing or proving, " as silver is tried in the furnace," that the verb, both active andpassive, is ordinarily used in both the Old and New Testament. In modern parlance the active voice conveys the notion of enterprise, and the passive of suffering. A man tries to do his best, and he is tried by a severe illness or the death of a friend; while, again, a very trying occasion suggests the double idea of suffering and undergoing a test. It is obvious at once that all these various uses of the word, however widely some of them may appear to differ, have a common origin and scope. They are all reducible to two, not at first gight neceesarily connected, but which the immemorial * se of language proves to have a very close inter- dependance on each other in the common experience of mankind, and thus in fact are ultimately resolved into the one strict and original senso of the word. A trial simply means, as its equivalents in other languages mean, a testing or proving; and it is because teats are so various in their kinds and their consequences, that it has come to embrace such a variety of distinct applications. But it may be interesting to examine the oonnexion of thought a little more closely. The original sense, then, of tho word trial is that of ' probation, or applying a test. It is in this way that a competitive examination comes to be called a trial; or any contest, from a game of cricket to a war between two great nations, a trial of strength. And thus indi- viduals or governments or institutions are put on their trial when we are taking stock of them, so to speak, to see what is in them and what they are worth. A trial in a law court is a testing or sifting at once of the prisoner who is being tried and of the evidence alleged against him, as the old method of decision by single combat or burning ploughshares was supposed to test his innocence by the infallible criterion of a divine judgment expressed in his endurance or failure under the ordeal. All this is clear enough as soon as it if stated. But it may not seem equally obvious to everybody that when we say, for Instance, that tho loss of a passenger ship at sea is a most heavy trial to the suffering, are sure to be softened by it, and refined natures gain in strength and power of active sympathy without losing anything of their refinement. There are some trials which directly tend to embitter a mail's feelings against his fellow*, and so to produce a hard and cynical temper; but even these will be turned to account for an opposite purpose by tho nobler natures, though the effort is at first a hard one. . But in proportion as the providential office of trials is recognised as no mere penalty to be endured as best it may be, but a3 at once a test to discriminate the genuine ore from the dross, and a discipline to evoke and perfect nobleness of character, will be their bene- ficial effect If to be a tried mim is to be a man who may be trusted and looked up to, then to have borne trials, and borne them well, is not only to have estab- lished a fresh claim on general sympathy and respect, but to have acquired an additional power of goodness and a larger heart. CATS. ( From Chamber*'* Journal.) The Rev. S. Lysons, in a work called " The Model Merchant of the Middle Ages," published in 1860, gives a considerable number of facts to show that the story of Whittington and his Cat is not a myth. Several facts in his account of the matter seem indis- mt ible. At the age of twenty- five, Richard ( son of Villiam de Whjtingdon, lord of the manor of Paunt by Gloucestershire, and born 13G1) was BO rich as to be able to lend Philip Mansell, his maternal uncle by h£ ft- blood, five hundred pounds ( five thousand in those days). It is quite certain that he married hia master's daughter, A,'' 00 Fitzwarren, and became thrice Lord Mayor of London, namely in 1397, 1406, and 1419. On oHe occasion he lent one thousand pounds ( or ten thou- sand pounds of our currency) to Henry IV. His profits aa a London mercer must have been very lucra- tive. With Richard Harweden, he rebuilt the nave of Westminster Abbey in 1415, and at his sole cost built and endowed St Michael Paternoster, the Guildhall chapel, and gave as much as four thousand pounds of our money towards supplying the Library of the Gray- friara' Monastery in Newgate- street with books. The icat story, however, does not rest on so sure a foundation. Mr. Keightley thinks that in 1375, when the celebrated voyage is suppoaed to have been made, the west ooaat of Africa was nearly as unknown to Europe as America. Mt. Lysons replies, that in 1344 ( thirtv- one yearn before tho cat theory), according to Hackluyt, Maoham, an Englishman, discovered the Island of Madeira, off the west coast of Africa, and sailed along the coast of Morocco ; and upon his infor- mation many adventurers went out. Travellers have mentioned the enormous amount of rats, and the scar- city of cats, in West Africa. The Machams, or Machins, appear to be an old Gloucestershire family, still re- sident in the county, some now living on the property which, in tho medieval period, belonged to the Fitz- warrens. As Mr. Lysons remarks, it would be interesting to trace whether Hugh Fitzwarren sent his venture out on hearing of his neighbour's discovery. On August 10, 1862, Mr. LvKBOna was able to add a remarkable confirmation of his theory. On that date he commu- nicated to Notes and Queries the discovery of a sculp- tured stone in basso- relievo in Westgate- street, Glou- cester, representing young Whittington with his cat in his arms. An ancient rent- roll in tho possession of the corporation of Gloucester ( c 1460) supplies the information that tbe house ( in the foundation of which the relic was discovered) belonged to the great- nephew of tho Lord Mayor Whittington. Two able arohffiologiats, Messrs. Franks and Alber Way, saw the stone at tho Worcester congress of the Archio- logical Institute, and pronounced it of the fifteenth century. " This discovery," says Mr. Lysons, " must, I think, set at rest for ever all question oil the subject of the cat; but if sceptics will still contend that ' there was no part of the known world to which a cat could be sent to realise a sum sufficient to lay the foundation of any person's fortune,' let me refer them to the state of things in Morocco, even down to 1780, as described in Lemprifcre's " Tour to Morocco," in Pinkerton's " Voyages " ( xv. 736), where it is related as " a singu- lar circumstance, that in the immediate vicinity of Morocco, for some distance round the city, the ground is totally occupied by a great number of rats, of a larger species than any I had before seen, which bur- rows underground like rabbits, and allow strangers to approach very near before they retire to their holes." It is curious that Pennant, speaking of the rebuild- ing of Newgate by Whittington's executors, says, " his statue, with the cat, remained in a niche to its final demolition on the rebuilding of tho present prison." We turn to Brand's " Popular Antiquities " for the folk- lore of cats. Melton, in his Astrologaster," says:—" When the cat washes her face over her eares, we Bhall ha/ e great store of raine." The sneezing of a cat was considered a lucky omen to a bride who wa3 to be married the next day. In Wils- ford's " Nature Secrets," cats coveting the fire more than ordinary, or licking their* feet and trimming the hair of their heads and mustachios, presages rainy weather." In the " Statistical Account of Scotland " it is stated that if a cat was permitted to leap over a corpse, it portended misfortune. The tribe Felidce comprise cats, lions, tigers, leopards, and lynxes. The skeleton of a cat is nearly a miniature representation of that of a tig< lion. The ethmoid bone is very complicated in the cat, and the senses of smelling and hearing very acute. But it is quite unnecessary for us to describe the pe- culiarities and attributes of the cat ; we must content ourselves by noting some of its varieties. The Angora cat is a very beautiful object, with fine silvery hair. The Persian cat is often more silky in appearance than r is cu the Angora, though the colour is different, being gray. Pure white Persians, with blue eyes, are meat beautiful animals; but, strange to say, are always deaf. Those exhibited at the recent Cat Show at the Crystal Palace had this peculiarity. Somo years ago there was a white Persian cat at Allesbury Rectory, near Coventry, quite deaf. Of her many kittens, those quite white were always deaf, but those with the least colour could hear well The Isle of Man produces the tailless cat, a very curious variety. When these are crossed with an ordinary- tailed cat the progeny exhibits the inter- mediate stages between tail or no tail. IN CONSTANTINOPLE. Picking my way, as well as I could, down awfully steep, narrow, and tortuous paths, frequently leading through deserted cemeteries, across which my nag wended his way ; dodging the tombstones in a most marvellous manner; on, on, I went for a mile or two down to the Golden Horn, across which a most wretched and rickety bridge of beats led into the Turkish town par excellence. StambouL What did I see ? Oi. ce more the dilapidated, dirty, dingy rows of wooden houses, in lines so irregular that it is only by a euphemism one can call them streets. No horse road, properly BO called, no pavement: ruts and pools of stagnant water, through which I splashed and stumbled at the imminent risk of my neck ; knots of half- naked, savage- looking creatures, either lounging in the road doing nothing, or busy in strange booth- like establish- ments with open fronts, which for cohvenience sake we will term shops: occasionally a group of female figures envelopedfrom head tofootin long loose garments ( which give one the idea that they are escaped lunatics, who have purloined the sheets fiom their asylum, and adopted them as cloaks), shuffling along in loose yellow slippers down at heel, carefully veiling their mouths and foreheads with some flimsy piece of muslin or cloth, but not particular at all about exposing stockingless legs ; water- carriers, such as one reads of in the " Ara- bian Nights," with their leathern bottles slung over their shoulders, roaring " Soo, Soo" (" Water, water "); beggars lying at every corner, in a picturesque state of rags and filth which quite distances that of their Western confrtres ; hammals bearing huge loads on their back of the most miscellaneous descriptions chairs and tables, chests of drawers, fruit, fish, flowers bottles, casks, enormous cages filled with poultry,& c., & c., displaying feats of strength everyday which would astonish an English acrobat; donkeys laden with piles of wood ard coal, under which they stagger from side to side along the street, knocking against the foot- pas- sengers and horsemen in a moat embarrassing fashion ; itinerant vendors of fruit vegetables, and Turkish pastry, roaring " Sheker, sheker" (" Sweetmeats"), or the name of some other Oriental edible— such were the sights which greeted me as I stumbled on through StambouL I occasionally descried, it is true, amidst the mass of hovels, here and there dingy big houses, inhabited, I was told, by Pashas, the windows all closed up by Turkish wooden lattice blinds, through which the in- habitants can see. but which effectually prevent an outsider from obtaining any view of the interior. All this was strange enough, you may say, to satisfy the most ardent lover of novelty ; but where • were the Oriental splendour, the quaint buildings, the piquant scenes, which we are generally led to believe characterise the East ? I am sadly afraid nowhere but in the excited brains of tourists not over- particular about telling the truth. Certainly, here and there, amidst tho wretched wooden houses and loathsomely dirty lanes, you will occasionally be surprised by a picturesque tomb of some Sultan, all marble and gold, cypress trees, grass arid flowers. Also almost in every street there is a pretty drinking- fountain of marble, ornamefoted with Turkish or Arabic inscriptions in blue and gold, telling the name of the donor, or conveying somo appropriate precept of morality. Tho mosques, too, stod the omnipresent cemeteries, with most grotes plE and elaborately- in- scribed tombstones, covered wiffl eulogiums on the defunct Mussulmans lying at y<) ur feet, or Arabic verses in blue and gilt letters, worked up sometimes into the most - undecipherable monograms, relieve the generally dismal appearance. The bright- coloured flowing robes of the picturesque costume of the old fashioned Turks, thp variety of dress exhibited by different nationalities; the Greek, Armenian, Persian, Croat, Arnaout, Kurd, Russian, and many other, tend to enliven the Bcene. But the vast open spuccs, caused by the ever- occurring fires, left covered with tho ruins of the houses destroyed, the unpaved, uncleansed, stinking streets, the absence of all traffic except in eatables and clothes, and the other most indispensable necessaries of life, tho non- existence of carts and cabs and all other vehicles, except a few lumbering old carriages, which remind one of the first attempt at coach architecture in the middle ages, the gloom caused by seeing no one at the windows, except au occasional veiled figure looking down stealthily and withdrawing immediately on per- ceiving you, the ragged and filthy appearance of nine- tenths of tho people you meet— all proclaim misery and decay, sloth and hopelessness.— Dr. Charles Wells, in " Gentleman's Magazine." 22 8; at the recent census there were 1137 females hving in London to each 100 malea. Distributing the deaths in public institutions among the five groups of districts in proportion to the rates of mortality among the normal population, the death- rates per 1,000 are found to be 22 " 8 in the west of the metropolis', 23 " 8 in the north, 2- 1- 1 in the centre, 26" 8 in the east, and 251 in the south. Nearly one- fourth, 24 2 per cent, of all the deaths in London in 1871 are referred to the seven chief zymotic diseases— viz., 7,876 xto small- pox, 3,894 to diarrhoea, 2,229 to whooping- cough, 1,896 to scarlet fever. 1,746 to other forms of fever, 1,431 to measles, and 313 to diphtheria. The epidemic of small- pox, which began in 1870, showed throughout 1871 a ten- dency to subside. It is regarded as a satisfactory siga of an improving sanitary condition that the London deaths from fever havo been declining for years, and have fallen from 3,689 in 1864 to 1,746 in 187L The Registrar- General observes that zymotic diseases de- serve especial attention, as they give rise to all the epidemics. The precautions commonly adopted have in view the isolation of the Bick; and this, in such cages as leprosy, hydrophobia, and syphilis, where the zymotic matter is fixed in a solid or fluid, proves effec- tual at all events in restraining the disease within limits. The Registrar- General holds that the man or woman who goes on communicating a disease BO in- jurious aa syphilis to tho human race, is a living nuisance, to be suppressed by the law at any reason- able cost . In 1S71 there were 2,594 deaths from violent causes in London, 2,138 of them from negligence or accident, including 909 from fractures and contusions, among which are 208 deaths caused by horses or vehicles in the streets. Among the deaths by negligence or accident are 490 from suffocation, nearly all cases of infants; there were 109 cases of murder or manslaughter, nearly all of them cases of infanticide. 23" 9 per cent, of all the deaths in London were of children under one year old, being equal to 171 per cent, of the number of births registered. There were no less than 14,665 deaths in the large public institutions in London last year, or 18- 3 per cent, of the total deaths ; 6,675 in workhouses, 7,486 in hospitals, 347 in lunatic asylums, 81 in naval and military asylums, and 76, in prisons. London, that is, the registration division so called, comprising 122 square miles, had at the recent census 417,767 inhabited houses, containing on an average 7^ 5 persons to a house. The population reside at a mean elevation of 39ft above Tnnity high- water mark ; the elevation ranging from lift below that mark in Plum- stead marshes to 429ft above high- water mark at Hampstead. " N0N NOBIS GKATIAS." The examination at first proceeded in classes, but this only for a short time. It was well understood that such a " humdrum " mode of progress would soon have wearied the duchess, a calamity not to be con- templated. Accordingly, a little manoeuvre had been preconcerted, and presently came off. One of the ex- aminers proposed that a child should be put forward, so that her grace might subject the little victim to a fire of cross- questioning. The duchess eagerly entered into the plan, and Aleck was selected. Besides being the best scholar, there was something sensationally interest- ing in a little boy, an orphan and friendless, which might operate as a stimulant to her grace's somewhat languid moral circulation. It need scarcely be explained, that Mary was utterly ignorant of this little scheme. She had obtained a half- holiday from Miss MacMous eland, and was now sitting in the farthest corner of the crowded room, awaiting coming events with quickly beating heart. She had made Aleck as smart as soap and plenty of good rubbing could effect The boy's front hair was Cted down on his temples, by dint of water and d brushing, just above the ears, which stood out preteraatnrally red and shiny from the effects of the extra scrubbing. Mary had not deemed it necessary to give her brother any special instructions save on one point. Painfully conscious of ids want of acquaintance with the forms of high life, and deeply impressed herself with the necessity of observ- ing them, she had enjoined him, whatever else he did, to answer her grace in the proper terms, should she deign to address any question to him. Indeed, her last words when parting from him before turning into the school— for she did not wish to enter it with him, lest her shabby appearance might bring him discredit — were these : " Wow^ ie sure, Aleck, if she speaks to you, that you say ' Your Grace !' " Thus admonished, little Aleck obeyed only too literally. After the first rush of confused sensation, when the child found himself standing before the duchess, one thought filled his mind. His eyes sought Mary, and an assuring glance conveyed the remem- brance of her parting injunction. " A very interesting child, very," observed the duchess, as she inspected Aleck through her eye- glass, while listening to a summary of the orphan's biography. " Curious how these children do get on ! I never could understand it, never ! But don't you think there is a danger of teaching them too much ? It might take them out of their station, you know." What that " station" might be, as intended not by the arrange ments of men. but in the purpose of God.— where He might place them, or what work He might have for them, formed no part of her grace's thoughts. Happily the teacher was not obliged to answer the ciuestion, though no doubt she would have agreed with this or anything else her grace might have propounded. Meantime all eyes in the room were fastened on little Aleck, and Mary was undergoing slow torture while awaiting what was to come. It came all too soon. " Well, my little man," commenced the duchess, her inspection of the child finished, " are you very happy to be examined by me?" That was a puzzle which it would have taken a wiser head than Aleck's to solve. But, in truth, except for the tone in which it was put, the child would not have known that a quoation had been addressed to him. A nudge from the teacher, and an admonitory " Speak up" from the baillie, convinced him that the critical moment had arrived. Now or never ! He had been enjoined, when addressing the duchess, to eay " Your Grace!" Aleck knew only one " grace"— that be- fore meat." Putting his head well back, shutting his eyes, and folding his little hands before him, he now repeated, with the voice of one conscious of duty, the well- known " grace before meat," beginning with " For what we are about to receive," and duly ending with an emphatic " Amen." For a moment there was a silence of universal astonishment, the next a shout of laughter rung through the room. Aleck looked about him in utter confusion, then, finding himself tho object of general merriment, he burst into loud sobbing. But there was another not less affected by his discomfiture. Elbowing her way through the crowd, and wholly forgetful of all but her brother's wrongs and distress, Mary snatched up the child • and turning upon the duchess and the rest of the influential and reverend company a burning face and flashing eyes, she insisted that she " would na let them laugh at her brither, she would na," and carried him from the room.— From " True to the End," hi The Iter. Dr. Edersheim, in " Evening Heurs " for May. VITAL STATISTICS OF LONDON. In the fifty- two weeks ending on Saturday, the 30th of December. 1871, 112,535 births and 80,332 deaths were registered in the metropolis. The natural in- crease of the population, therefore, by excess of births over deaths, was 32,203. The estimated increase of population, however, between the middle of 1871 and of 1872, is 48,719; so that the natural increaso was supplemented by about 16,000, representing the excess of immigration over emigration. The birth- rate in London in 1871 was equal to 34' 5 Sir thousand persons, being 0' 5 below the rate for all Dgland. The birth- rate varies remarkably in different sections of the population, depending much upon ages, proportion of the sexes, conjugal condition, aud social position. Last year the birth- rate per 1.000 was but 14 in Christchurch, sub- district of the " City," and 15 in St James's square sub- district; while it was 40 in Hoxton Old Town, 41 in Haggerston east and 44 in St Jamfca'a Bermondsey, sub- districts. In the five di- visions or grouper of districts of the metropolis the birth- rate for the year averaged 30 in the west, 34 in the north, 32 in the central, 39 in the east, and 36 in the The death- rate in London in 1871 was 247 per 1,000, being 21 above tho rate for all England ; exclusive of the deaths from small- pox the London death- rate would have beon only 22- 3. As it was, the rate of mortality was higher than in any year since 1866, when cholera waa epidemic. Tho male death- rate of London in 1871 was 20 " 6, while among females it waa only ORIGIN OF THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF LAND TENURE. ( From " The Land Question," by Empson Edward itlddleton.) Tho question of landowning has brought as to the time of tho fourteenth century, the time which may be said to bear especially on this subjeot in its present direct issueB. Those issues are our present state of taxation, and our disgraceful burden of poverty and consequent crime. The revenue, as we have Been, was raised from the Crown lands; but the division of the lands made no provision for an increasing population ; the division was arbitraiy, the knights' fees amounting to sixty thousand at four pounds a piece in the time of Henry IL The divisions of the lands was not based on the principle of justice, to tho end that cach man in the kingdom should have a sufficiency to provide for him- self and family, at a stated rent from the State, and on tho especial terms that ho in turn acted justly by such land and worked i^ that is, farmed it after the best Btandard of farming in those days. Had this been done, and in addition a ground- rent been charged for each house, with an additional tax on the size of such house, an increasing population would have pro- vided an increasing industry, increasing harvests, higher farm- rents, and a rapidly- increasing gTound- rent from tho sheer necessity of having a roof over one's head. A wise law would have been necessary to prevent the accumulation of rented ground in a few hands; for instance, a law ( such as la badly wanted at present) determining: the largest size of farm at so many acres; in the present day no farm should be permitted'over. tw^ hundred acres, nor should any building lots be allovi^ gw such size as would throw any power of co*. ulsidKTintbthe hands of builders. But'inst governm^ BWas n< n even aimed at How expect grapes frem tj ® lea? The men, being robbers, acted as robbers Naturally would, and thought of nothing but • personal aggrandisement The king eimply studied personal aggrandise- ment ; each peer, baron, and knight simply studied personal aggraivli^ ement Personal aggrandisement led to distorted k? eus of personal authority ; and this battle for penooal authority led the king to be- stow enormoup estates on immediate supporters, and to divide the whole lauds of the country among his own favourites, the number of acres bring in proportion to the amount of support expected in return. Personal aggrandisement led eack supporter, carl or baron, to act in the same way ; so that land was handed over to people who had no idea of tillage, and little wish for anything but pillage. Again, the number of hmded proprietors was very small for perronal aggrandisement— pompk vanity, and show required waiting on, and uiso required a number of dependent vassals as immediate retairiers in num- berless privy little matters, such as private quarrels and the indulgence of every description of " vicious, unheroic- bredism. Personal ag^ raodisemeni, there- fore, made_ the number of . landed proprietors such as best suited tbe ends of personal rapacity. But the rapacity of the kings and the ra& njia for conquest was such, that it caused a constraint drain on tho revenues paid by the collective barons, aad determined them to oust the burden from their own- rackets to those of the ( to them) unmentionable and utterly despicable- third class, namely, the commercial world— a class which, for a long time, was not even allowed to form a part of the national parliament, or, strictly speaking, of the feudal parliament, the- nation not being represented at that time, but only a small part of it. The consequent of the determination of the- barons to shift as much revenue as possible en to thi* third class, led, together with the long's extravagance, to the taxation of all property and movables, but espe- cially to the peculiar curse of taxation, that on com- modities used as food— a branch of taxation which is, more than anythingelse. themarkof bad government, or no- government. The year of Edward IIL, 1340; shows that this species of taxation had advanced to " the unusual tax of a ninth sheaf, lamb, and fleece, imposed by Parliament;" and this was to meet a sodden emergency, imposing the extra tax of sending: im- mediately to a certain and distant market for « ie at emergency price. On this occasion the parliament granted twenty thou? and sacks of wool for the war in. Flanders, that article being the most saleable com- modity in the markt; in fact, the next thing to ready money. There is no saying where taxation would have stopped, short of utter national bankruptcy, had net the House of Lancaster usurped the throne, and by such usurpation strengthened the parliament, the re- straints of which had ever been set on one side by former- kings ; the House of Lancaster alone not venturing Ur impose taxeswithoutparliamentary sanction, on aecount of their weaker title to the throne. The struggle of the roses, however, has a direct bearing on the question, in that it led to constant changes of property; estates chang- ing hands from attainders, now from Yorkists toLancas- tnans, back again to Yorkists, to be again transferred to followers of the House of Lancaster, so that even correct ideas to whom they truly belonged and on what terms were to a great extent " shaken, and indi- vidual claims that the land should be private property- were of course strengthened ; the ignorant possessor in the reign of Henry VIL being most likely as blind to all knowledge of the feudal laws as many in the pre- sent day. We have already had cause to state that English wool was the most valuable article in the European market iu the fifteenth century, and it Appears to# have led the large landowners to turn their estates into immense grazing grounds, without the smallest regard to the claims of the agriculturists, who were, ofcCurtfeJ driven to the nearest villages and towns in search of work, and rapidly formed the nucleus of that fearfully distressing pauper class of the present England. From out of that state of things arose the poor- laws, the first of which was enacted in the fifth year of the reign of Elizabeth: this state of poverty immediately arising from the sale of wool and restraints placed upon the exportation of corn; the landowners, of course, making the markets to suit themselves. The pior- ratea entailed expense upon estates where the poor lived, consequently they were driven off the estates, the most cruel and heartless ejectments of whole dis- tricts being carried out by grasping, rapacious land- owners, who did their best to, and have certainly suc- ceeded in the present day. in making the country of England a large, uninhabitable desert, with here and there a huge country seat enshrouded in trees, as if for further retirement— a satire on the utter want of sur- rounding life which may strike any one in the present day that ventures out of a city or " town. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. ( From the Illustrated London New.) The will of Captain Sir Algernon William Peyton, lst Life Guards, late of Swift's- hou^ e, Bi ester, Oxford- shire, was proved in London on the lst inst. by Mr. Henry Richard Cox, of Craig's court, Weatmin ^ . the Hon. and Kev. Francis Edmund Cecil Byng, of St Peter's - vicarage, Onslow - gardens; and tho R> v. Cloudesley Dewar Bullock Marsham, of Stoke Lynn, Oxford, the joint acting executors and trustees. The personalty waa sworn under £ 60,000. Sir Algernon succeeded to the baronetcy and estates in 1866, mur.- ird in 1870, executed his will' in the same year, and died, March 25th last, at the age of 3S. The testator has bequeathed to his wife an immediate legacy of £ 10,000 in addition to the provision by settlement on mar- riage for herself and any issue of the marriage. He has bequeathed to his friends, Messrs. Edgcomlwj Yenning and Godfrey FitzHugh, each a legacy of £ 500 ; to hia nurse, Elizabeth Stevens, £ 500 ; aud to his groom, Henry Quartennain, £ 1,000— all free of duty. The surplus residue to be laid out in real estates and added to the settled estates. The will of Mr. George Annesly, of 19, Queen's- gardens, Hyde Park, was proved in London, on the 26th ult, under £ 40,000 personalty, by the Kev. Francis Hanbury Annealey, Hector of Clifford Chambers, Gloucester, the son, and Mr. Benjamin Wyatt Green- field, the testator's cousin, the joint actiug executors and trustees. The will is dated in 1860, and the tes- tator died oA the 8th ult, aged 64. He leaves tbe numerous presentations made to him to his wife, to he held by her during* her life; and he bequeath- the same after her decease among various members of his family— the cup called the Bedfordshire Cup, pre- sented to his uncle, Francis Anuesly, MP. for Rt . i l- ing for 30 years, the gift of his constituents, at a c- .- t. ot 300 guineas, he leaves to his son Francis, as well n other presentations. Ho bequeaths £ 5; 000 to his wife, also a life interest in the residue of lua property ; t'..' principal, after her decease, is to devolve to their children. To the incumbent of Clifford Cbamb- i> he leaves £ 20, the interest for the poor of that parish, to be distributed in bread and necessaries, at the sain.' time that a like bequest left by his uncle Li. - r Annesley is distributed. The will of Mr. Spencer Bell, of 1, Devonsli re- place, Marylebone, and Fawe- park, Cumberland, « - proved in London, on the 8th ult., under £ 30, OO1' i" ' - sonalty, by which he leaves a reversionary bequest of £ 3,000 to be distributed among charitable instilutiu s, at the discretion of his executors. Tho will of Air. Edward John Armytago, form> r'y of Eccleston- road, Belgrave- square, and late of <, Spencer- villas. Clapham Junction, was provtd i London by the Hon. and Be v. Henry liligh, ni • another executor, under £ 5,000. The wills of the under- mentioned gentlemen b been proved— viz., Lieutenant- General Marcus .1' Slade, Colonel 60th Foot, under £ 12,000-, General Charles D. Robertson, R. E., lately reside- Brighton and France, £ 25, « 00; Mr. wick, of Birstall- hall ( at Leicester), £ 120.000; Henry Fielder, of Carlton- viUa, Mauln- v £ 120,000; Mr. Francis Farquhareon, of the > 1 Clifton. Somerset £ 60,000; Mr. Robert TV, of Woodside, Eslier, Surrey, £ 40,000; Mr. \ Slark, of Terrace- house, Herne- bay, £ 45,00: i; Richard Swift, of 6, Upper Montague- street, llu- • square, £ 50,000; Mr. Frederick S. Fischel, Ke - ton- gardens- terrace, £ 18,000; and Mr. George M. the Manor- house, Puddlehinton, Dorset £ 16,000. ' i willa of the following ladies havo been proved— nun t Dame Georgina M. C. Mayne, relict of Sir Rich Mayne, KC. B., under £ 1,000 ; the Baroness ot George, Emma de Kantzou, £ 3,000; Mrs. Ill Dawes, of Hyde Park- gardens, £ 30,000 ; Miss A > Maria Aulkee, of St. Margaret's, Rochester, £ 12,0 and Misa* Mary Ann Rogera, of Preatwich, Lancwt i £ 10,000.