AND GENERAL ADVERTISER. PUBLISHED, EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, BY FRE£. II. EARLE, OFFICES ON THE QUAY, FALMOUTH FALMOUTH: SATURDAY, MAT 25, 1872, PRICE ONI PINNY. MB. COBPIELD will Sell by AUCTION, oil Monday, 27th Mar, at 7, at the King't Anns Hotel, Falmouth, sub- ject to the eunditictw to be then and there read, either together or separ- C ately, the following FREEHOLD , MESSUAGES or Dwelling Houses, 8ituate, lying and being in Vernon & Place, Falmouthi viz. :— LOT 1. All that newly- erdcted Messuage or Dwelling House, being No. 1, together with the Courtlage ana Premises belong- ing thereto, now in the occupation of Mr. Henry Chard, a< a rental ot £ 12 per annum. LOT 2. All that other Dwelling House, being No. 2, with the appu - tenances belonging thereto, now in th< occupation of Mr, Collins, at a rental o £ 12 per annum. LOT 3. All that Dwelling House adjoining, being No. 3, with tl e premises thereto belonging, in the > ecupation of Mr. Medland, at a rental > f £ 12 per annum. LOT 4. All that Dwellin; House adjoining, being No. 4, with th 5 premises thereto belonging, in the occupation of Mr. Arthur Chard, at i rental of £ 12 per annum. These premises are subst intially built under the special superintendence of the proprietor, oommand an uninterrupted view of" tnc narbor, and being united form a co npact investment. To view apply to the res > ectivc tenants, or to Mr. Pearson, Norfolk Roafl. J 8 Also, several Freehold Messuages org ' Dwelling / Houses, i( f Beershop, BaUehouse and Premises v ' thereunto belonging, situate, lying and being in Beacon Street, in the \ Tcftrn of Falmouth, in the several occupations ( of Messrs. RosVear, ^ Sharff^ nowi Pippin and Hosken. MB. COBFIELD is directed to SELL BY PUBLIC AUCTION, on the above day, at Gray's Albion Hotel, Grove Place, Falmouth, subject to the con- ditions to be theh and there read, the following desirable Freehold Messuages or Dwelling Houses, Viz. :— LOT 1. The Fee SirnpW and Inheritance of and in all that liew and substantiallv- built Cottage ' Residence, situate in Waterloo Road, parish of Falmouth, and containing 2 parlours, an excellent Kit- chen, Scullery, 2/ Bedrooms, & e., with a neat Garden in front enclosed by iron pallisades, with hue kitchen garden and appurtenances taereto belonging at the back, now in tfhe occupation of Mr. Bevan, at a rental of £ 15 10s. LOT 2. The Fee SiAplo and Inheritance of and in all that Bligible and modern- built Dwelling Houie, with neat flower gar- den in front,/ and productive kitchen garden in the tear, with back entrance, beautifully situated on Bellevue Terrace, in the parish pf Budock, in the occupa- tion ot MrsJF. Krabbe, as an annual oocujjant at £ 26 per annum. The house contains on the basement, 2 Parlours, vAitcWa; Scullery and Pantries. On the fin^ flobr, 2 pecfrooms, Ante- room, w. c. Second Jlooii 1 spacious Bedroom and 2 Vttics. V . This property is pleasantly situated, com- manding uninterrupted views of the bay, har- bour, and fihe picturesque scenery around, is in good repair, with all the necessary Fittings, including water and gas, < fcc., & c. On view by applying to the respective tenants from 11 ijo 12 a. m. anfl 2 to 4 p. m. STEPHENS & SIDDONS, PHOTOG ^ APHERS, 42, HIGH STR SET, FALMOUTH. Likenesses from the smallest to the largest size, plain aid finished in ( rayon Water or Oil Color, Landscapes, Mansions. Ships, Sea \ Tiews, and Groups, WORKS ART COPIED. HJtT Mr. STEPHENS had the) honor o being the Brat perron to tale th « liksneu of any memhor of a Koral Family by the Photograph r proceaa ; First Class Silver and Bronze Medals havo been awarded him by the Royal Cornwal Polytechnic Society, he being the only Medallist for Cartes do Visite taken in the County. Mr. SIDDONS has also claims in tho pre duotion of the Negatives and Enlargements for which the only Medal has been awarded by tl it Society for that class of Photographic Work. A Bazaar and Faney Fair IN AID OF THE CORNWALL Home for Destitute Little Girls, Will be heldsearly in August next, in tho GROUNDSNAT GYLYVNGDUNE ( Through the kktdWrmurion nf Mrs. Waters.) LADY POTRON/ SSES : Lady Elizth. St. Aubyn > Mjd East wick Lady Agoata Vivian Mrs, R. N. Fowler » Lady Williams ftp. P. P. Smith The Hon. Mrs. Tremayne / Mis. E. M. Williams Mrs. Arthur Tremayne \ As a debt of £ 200 iJ still remaining on the New Bail ling, the ( fommitteo Nare anxious to remove it, ana earnestly entreat Ml the friends of this valuable Charity to help them in this effort. / \ Contribution/ of " Work, Books, Pictures, Plants, and other articles will be thankfully received by any Member of the Committee; or by the Hon. Treasurer, Miss KRABBE, Bello- Vue Terrace; or the Hon. Secretary, Miss FRANCIS, Stratton Villas, Falmouth. Mii. CORJIELD will Sell by AUCTION, on Tuesday, and Wednesday, June 4 anfl 5, at Cirnmenellis Viearage, witnin four miles of Redruth and Heliton, the whole of tbe modern and/ genteel Household Furniture, Bed and Talile Linen, Musical Instruments, Dinner, Dessirt, Tea, and Breakfast Services, Glass, and numerous other effects of the above vicarage, the/ property ot the Rev. W. S. Lach- Sozyrma, leaping the county. Sale each juay at One, See Handbills for detailed particulars. Dated Auction Offices, May 20, 1872. iVrISH Of CpNSTANTINE. Valuable \ eehold PROPERTIES For Sale. MR. CORFIELD Lill .^ ell bv AUCTIO$ on Wednesday. 29th May, at 3. at the Red Lipn Hotel, Truro, ( unless previously [ disposed of by private contract, of which due notice will be given ). the Fee Simple and Inheri- tance of and in all that very superior Barton anfl Dairy Estate called " Trevease," Most eligibly situated in the parish of Constantino, in the occupation of Mr. John Gluyas. under a lease for 21 yeara from Michaelmas last, at the yeany rent of £ 200, and com - prising / about 160 acres statute measuri of productive meadow, arable, and pasture land, a commo- dious Dwelling Hsuse, new Barn, and Cart- house, extensive range of excellent Cattle- houses, sufficient for 4Q bullocks, capital Piggeries, and other convenient agricultural buildmgs. This valuable istate is very compact, well- watered, easy ofI access by good hard roads, and advantageously situated, being about one mile south of tno Half- way House on the road between Helstone and Penryn, and within five miles of the latter town, six miles of Falmouth, and six of Redruth, all good market towns. The estate bps the additional advantage of having been farmed for several years previous to the presenutonancy by tho proprietor, who has recently expended a large sum of money in erecting substantial buildings and bringing the • state into a nigh state of cultivation. Also, the Fee Simple and Inheritance in rever- sion, expectant on the death of a ] erson aged 80 years of age, of all hat Tenement Called Little Trevease, containing ia. 2r. 36p., adjoining the above- named estate, in the occupation of Mr. Henry Williams. The ten ints will shew the properties, and further particulars may be obtained of the proprietor/ T. W. REED, Eso., Trevissome, Mvlor, neir Penryn ; of the AUCTIONEER, Falmouth/; and of Messrs. SMITH, ROBERTS, < fc PAUL, I The Solicitors. Truro, May 8th, 1872. JTR. CORFIELD will Sell by AUCTION, ' J- / on Monday, 3rd June, at Two, at / the Barton of Bonython, parish of / Cury, near Helston, the following Superior Fat Stock, / Comprising— 20 prime Fat Steers 50 ripe Fat Wethers, of undeniable quality A pure bred Hereford Bull, 9 months old Porkers, & o., the property of Mr. Top ham. Dated May l « th, 1872. Stable and Coach- house to Let. GOOD Premises, in excellent order. Apply at the Offices of this Paper. To Masters of . Vessels. BENSON 8 Watches, Clocks, Gold Jewellery, SILVER AND ELECTROPLATE. CCARGOES OF ABO* ORE for Cardiff ) may be had ip Ffyty Harbour, at all tides, in deep water. Uxeiglft, 3s. per ton. Apply to JAMES/ HAYES, Polruan, Fowey, or to Mr. J. P. Bennetts, Wodehouse Place, Falmouth. / Dated 22nd/ May, 1872. Special Appoint- \ mcnt to H. R. H. Legal & General LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY Royal Family, 10, FLEET ST., TEMPLE BAR. - bounded 1836. The Parliamentary Accounts reouired by the " Life Assurance Companies' Act, 1870T maybe obtaine t on a Plication. Policies of this Society are guaranteed by very amplo funds ; receive nine- tenths of the total profits as Bonus ; enjoy peculiar " Whole Worlu'' and other distinctive privileges, and are protected by special conditions against liability to future question. TRUSTEES : THBRT. Hoir. THB LORD CHANCELLOR, THE RIGHT HON. THB LOED CAIRNS. THB RIGHT HON. SIR W. BOVILL. LOBD CHIEF JUSTICE, C. P. THB RIGHT HON. SIR EDWARD VAUGHAN WILLIAMS. THE HON. SIR G& SORGE R03E. SIR THOMAS TILSON. THOMAS WEBB GREENE. Es^, Q. C. JOHN OSBORNE, ESQ., Q. C. ROBFRT B. FOLLETT, E « Q., TAXING MAI- TBB IN CHUNCEBY Settlement Policies in favor of Wife and Children now granted in terms of the Married Women's Property Act, 1870. E. A. NEWTON, Actuary and Manager. Agent for Falmouth, ' » HARRY TIT. LT, ESQ., Solicitor. Wanted to Purchase Old Indian China & Curiosities JOHN BURTON, H1BETT ST., riLKOUTH, _ IS OPEN TO PURCHASE EVERT DESCRIPTION OF Old Indian China and other Curiosities. For which the highest market value will be Millinery, Mantles, jDreiies, Skirts, Costumes, & c., < kc. Very Cheap Pure Arfurkan Cotton Stortings. Black Dress and Maiitle Silks— much below value. Also, black Silk Velvets. Some Jobs in Kid Gloces— double and single buttons. Job Silk Umbrellas and Parachutes. Millinery— very attractive and becoming styles. An early call be tdtcmcd. BjSjp ; || • Tours respectfully^ B. PRNLKRICfC. TWELVE X BHIITT C theay and ttood Printing at the Offices of this Pajcr. 8 Excellent Boat for Sale, without reserve. MESSRS. OLVKR It SONS, are inslniot- pd to Sell bj PUBLIC AUCTION, without reserTL', on Saturday, the 23th of May. 1872, at half past 3 o'clock in the afternoon precisely, at Flushing Quay, in the Parish of Mylor, that first class Mackerel & Pilchard Driving Boat, UNamed " COCK OF THE WALK ", with all her Net « com- | j plete. This Boat is 35 feeUlong, / 10ft. 6in. beam, and 10 feet deep, / estimated to carry from 18 to 20 f tons. / All her Sails and running gear are in excellent condition. She is well supplied with Nets, 8 of them perfectly new, never having been used. The above is sold in consequence of tho death of the proprietor, and will bo offered in one or such other lots as may be determined on at the time of Sale. Further particulars may be had of Mr. W D. TUBNBR, 52, High Street, Falmouth, or of the AUCTIONEERS, Greon Bank, Falmouth. Dated Falmouth, May 10th, 1872. High- sail Boat for Sale. A Nearly tew foX in firtt- rate order, 24. ft. 6 in. in l^ rtW/ with Sails and Gear com - pleto— knownas Ac " Velocipede" for Sale. Apply to E. 3fv IFLTFORD, New 8treet. - V SLADE OLVBB, Famishing and General Ironmonger, Plumber, Gas Fitter and Manufacturer STRAND, FALMOUTH. Is Selling off SURPLUS STOCK at great reduction in prioea. Balanco ivory- handlo Knives, 10s., 12a., 16a., 30e. per dozen. Bl^ ck handjo Knivos and Forks, 6a., 8a., 9s., 10B., 12S. do*. Carving Knives and Forki, 2s. 6d., 3s. 6d., 4s. 6d., 5s. 6d., 7s. 6d. pair. Eloctro- Silvcr Table Spoons and Forks, 20s., 24s. doz. \ Do. Dessert Spoons and Forks, 16s., 18s., 20s., 24s. dos. Do. Tea - Spoons, 8s., 10a., 12s. doz. Do. Sugar ( Boxes, Salvors, Cako Baskets, Toast Racks, Tea Pota, Cruets, & c„ & c., & o. Bronzed Tea Urns and Kbttles on Stands, 20s., 25s., 30s. upwards. Tea Trays from 5s. per set of 3, singlo Trays from Is. 6d. 1 Fenders, parlour, Is. 6d., 2s., 3a., 4a., 5s. Fenders, dining room, 5s. Fenders, drawing room, 12s. iFire Irons, 2s. 6d. to 30s. per set. Rumford Stove ® from 3s. upwards. Register Stoves from 8s. upwards. Goo king Ranges from 10s. Apparatuses from 20s. upwards. Patent Mangles, 30s., 45s. Washing Machines, 12s. Bd., 60s., 90a. Chail Cutteni, 45s. 50s. Iron Cots, 7s. 6d. to 30s. Iron Folding Bells, 6s. 6d. Iron Frenoh Beds, from 10B. to 30 « . Half Tester Beds, Mattrasses and Palliasses.\ Lamps, lias Chandeliors, Gas Brackets. Water CloaeU, and all plumber's Fittings. Estimates given and Contracts entered into eiher for work or supply. MARKET STREET, FALMOUTH. MADAM, Having just returned from London, I have OPENED MY SHOW ROOMS, WITH ALL THE LEADM NOVELTIES OF TUG S£ AS9\ THE T? ATjMOTTTH & PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. SATURDAY. MAY 25.1872 THE LONDON COACHMAKERS AND THE NINE HOURS MOVEMENT. On " Friday evening" an aggregate meeting of the operatives engaged in the various branches of the ooMhmaking trada of London was held at St. James's- bad, in furtherance of the Nine Hours Movement. The large hall was eriwded to, excess. The Earl of Shaftesbury had been announced to pre- Jide, but having to leave town suddenly, he sent a letter of apology, in which he wished every success to the IS ine Houra movement. In the absence of bis lordship, Mr. Frankum, the chairman o| the Coachmakers Nine Hours League, occupied thaichair. Mr. Btown, the secretary, then dt- tailed the circum- Btances whu- h had led to the formation of the' leaguo and the calling of the present meeting. He also read letters from Mr. S. Morlev.' M? P., " Mr. P. H Taylor, M. P., Mr. T. Hwghes? MP., Professor Fawcett, M. P., and other gentlemen, cordially approving of the movement. The Chairman then briefly addressrd the meeting and said the movement was receiving the supportnot only of ihe society, but of the non society men, and it only required united action - to; obtain, the object of the meeting. . T"( I • •' I : •. Mr. Asplin then moved the following resolution:— That in the oplnloti of this meeting it is desirable that tho working hours in the coach trade n> Loml. ni, should bo reduced to 64 per week, a booiy which Is now onjoyed by almost every trade in the United Kingdom." ' He said that a reduction in the present hours of labour was necessary, both in an educational an<. in a Banitary point of view. He drew a graphic description of the unhealthy. and unwholesome workshops in which the men now passed from ten to twelve and fourteen - hours'per day, and said it was quite time that the . xeducti' . Q to nine hours per day was carried into effect. .( CheexaJ . Mr. Bonner seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. , Mr. Reanely moved the following resolution :— " THat Uiis meeting desires the committer < f the London United Coach Makers' Nine Hours League to draw up a memorial to be presented to the employers, praying for the adoption of those hours, with a request that a rep y bo given on or before this day month; and that the movement bccomo general from the 1st of July next" - He thought, JIO eiaplojter . could take . offence at the above resolutions. It was respectfully worded, and there was no threat contained in it. He hoped the employers would- treat the men in the same spirit cf conciliation, v,, - ' , ' measures taken for the proper preparation of priests to hear the coi fusions of their penitents he # then went on to criticise the Ritualistic confessional # prac- tices of the present day. Ho took up especially a • « Parish Catechism of Christian Doctrine published at Folkestone under the auspices *> f the High ChurcU party, Ahdhea- ked'the attention of the congregation to tho remarkable resemblance between the doctrines laid down therein and those in the old Catechism of Christian Doctrine. The Roman Cathoho catechism had this passage: " What is the sacrament of penance ?"' arid the answer was, " Penance is a sacra- ment whereby the sins we have committed after baptism are ' forgiven." What did the Jktuol » bo catechism say to the same q « * t » nY Here was the question, and the answer : .". What is penance or absolution? Answer: It is the means by which sins are forgiven which wo have committed after baptism." In the Roman Catholic Catechism the question was asked : " When did our^ rd ordain this sacrament?" and the answer was, " men he breathed . upon Has apostles, and said, 1 Whose BUM you sha, U for- ff$ o> • they are forgiven.'" _ Now. what said the Ritualistic book? It had this question, When did Christ institute it ? " Mark the answer, and compare it with that in the Roman Catholic catechism. It was thi9_ « ' When He breathed on His apostles and said, ' Whosoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto tliem." The very rev. gentleman went on to argue that While the Roman Catholic Church, by its practices and its teaching, framed the mindB of its priests BO that-, they could properly confess men and women, the Ritualists sent into their BO- called confes McmaL inexperienced, and unpractised men. And these men, while copying the forms and the 1 antra acre of the Roman Cathobc priesthood, did not possess their experience or their genuineness. Having illustrated this by a series of ^ notations from the two Catechisms, he observed that that used by the Ritualists was ail imitation made by would- be Roman Catholics, and any person I of common sense could see at once the genuineness on the one side and the utter hollowness and miserable imitation on the other. The very rev . gentle- man quoted again from the " Parish Catechism - the catechism of '. he Ritualists— m which the following passago is found: " Q- i '' You have spoke" of the Eucharist, of a sacrifice— what is it besides T A- : it is. a communion in which the adorable body and blood • of Christ are'taken as food"— a passage bteanne out distinctly the charge as to the doctrines which the Ritualists are attempting to teach illegally, if not dls- 1 hc/ nestly. In conclusion Monsignor Capel urged that all present should weigh well the great considerations which this grand picture of the true Church presented. The Drat to answer to his Lordship's appeal was Absolam Blickman, Lynehara, who said he had ft wife and five children, his wngos being 10s. per week. He had to pay 50s. a year for his cottage. Then he paid 4d. a week to a benefit society, and 6Jd. a week to a clothing club. Out of what was left there were « oven peoplo to be kept. Ilo should be glad to know how ' twas done, for he didn't. What was the remainder distributed out over soven people ? Be had been trying for a long timo to get on, but the more he tried, tho farther he got behind. ( A voice.—", And po do most on us.") Thomas Fry next stood forward to speak, and said that ho didn't blame the landlords 10 much as their stewards. Somo time ago a poor widow weilt to tho steward to pay her rent, when the steward axed her where her two sons were working, and sfco told'en that one was working for Mr. So- and so. BDd tho other was working at the 8 win don factory, when the steward toldier that unless her soni loft Swindon factory and came back to work for a farmer, she was to be turned out of her cottaco. ( Shame!) ( A Voice : •* Wern't that Lord Lanxlown's stewartf") Ves, it wer LordLansdown Stewart that did It. William Beer, of Calhe,' a very respectable- looking and well- dressed man, next came forward. He said he had always worked on the land, and could well recollect the timo when his wages came to lid. per head per day for himself and family to livo upon. But about 20 years ago ho was fortunate enough to fall into a bit of land, which assisted him very much. He had known. the time when he wa* getting 10s. a week < waccs that it took 14a a week to buy bread— that was when they got enough of it. But he was thankful that he fell into the bit of land, for although It was worso than some of the farmers' adjoining, and was much higher rented and rated, it enabled him to live. After that ho managed to rent another acre, and then he got alto- gether two acres. This had enabled him to raise himself above dopendenco on the farmer for the means of living, and was thankful to say that somo time ago he managed to buy an acre of land of his own, and paid £ 160 for It. ( Cheers.) Ho thought If men had a bit of land they could cultivate on their own account it woiiltt make them Indus- trious and It would make them honest ( Cheers.) Henry lies, of Christian Malford, also boro testimony to what might be done with a bit of land. He was lucky in renting an aero of land at £ 3 under the Marquis of Lans- downe, although the far tiers wero renting better land close by at 87* an aero: yet it had enabled him to raise himself above dependence on the farmer, and had enabled him to bring unhis family of eight children, three of whom wero no* out at service. Mr. R. lander seconded the resolution, which was also carried, r ' • *• " Mr. Hills thta mov#:— . > " That in the opinion eft this meeting It H deflraTSle that the arrangement of the hours be left to the employer and the men in each establishment, with the one exception that the sho, 5 be universally closed at one o'clock on Saturdays. Mr. Costello seconded the resolution, which was ** Aresolution was also adopted npon the motion of Mr. lialcomb, seconded by Mr. Read, pledging the meeting to support the league in all its movements to gain the object in view. THE LICENSING BILL. The Government Bill for Regulating the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors has been reprinted, in order to Bbow the amendments made by the House of lords m Committee on the Bill on the 10th of May. As regards the record of convictions on the licence the severity of the Bill has been lessened. The words requiring such a record to be made in case of con- viction for any cf the following offences have been struck out of the Bill:—' The buensed person having in his possession on the premises intoxicating liquor draw up another petition and request to be sent to England. Bather bewildered, they of course, wrote the required de- mand, and were unexpectedly sent to Calais, and there put on board a steamur. They are now at 81, Francl « - street, Gower- street. They all have a trade: they ore young, eager for work. They ceme from Paris or Versailles ( not Cherbourg); two only of them belong to Bollevlllo or Montmartre, and of these two one 1. an artist ( cameo sculptor), the other a superior skilled engineer. All Is not scum, as you see, even in Belleville and Montmartro. MR. LOWE on the HIGHER EDUCATION. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, spealdng as mem- berof Parliament for tho University of London, last week, at the annuul meeting for the conferring of de- grees remarked on the difficulty of the examinations for degrees in the University of London, and drew from it reasons why unsuccessful candidates should not be unduly discouraged, and why the public appreciation of the value of these degrees waa steadily increasing. In reviewing the relations of the university to " foreign" bodies, Mr. ( Lowe ~ Indian gold ring, and other articles of small intrinsic value were found and also identified by the projector as his property. None of the mo- e valuable articles have been recovered. The Judge summed up the evidence, and after a short consultation, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, the foreman expressing their or prosecutor was greatly to blame, want of foresight, in not exa1"""' received it from the prisoner. It having been proved that Murray that tke r( l ST^ lt ' a licket- of- e was sentenced to ten years penal servi- THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS. ' A meeting of the agricultural labourers of Hereford- shire was held, on Thursday evening in last week, in a field at Shirlheath, near the village of Kings Land. The Rev. Mr. Blakeway, rector of btretford, ad- dressed the assembled men and women, informing them that their object in meeting that night was to carry out the intentions expressed at a preliminary meeting of forming themselves into an Union, through which they would be able to improve their condition. They ought to he " able to earn at least las. a week- Without cider, although, of course, those who were not able to do a day's work niu^. be content with less. They were also to ask for extra pay in tho harvest time,_ and for Thomas Newman hoped these meetings would do good. Very often he had nothing but stark- naked bread, and some- times not enough of that. His earungs were lis. a week, and ho had six In family. Very often he had to keep his Utt# ones on ljd. a day. A Voice In tho Crowd : May the women speak! Lord E. Fltzmaurlco: Ob, yes, certainly. A woman here made her way through tho crowd and took her stand by tho side of the noblo president of tho meeting, amid tho cheers of the company. She gave her name as Anne Atter, and said she had eight children, but threo of them were out now. Her husband used to get 0s. a week, but they were muchbctieroff nowslncchehad beenamllktr and worked Sundays; ho not gow 12s. a week. But still she'elt that tho poor were screwed down too hard. They had £ J a year to pay house rent, and it had often gone to her heart when the had only a bit of bread with nothing on t to p. irt out among her children. Sho was thankful her husband got his 12s. a week through being a milker, but she thought tno poor pian was screwed down too hard. ( Cheers.) Lord Edmund Fltnnanrlce next addressed the meeting. Commencing with the remark made by Fry, that the steward on his i rothcr's estate had threatened to turn the widow woman out of her oottago unless her son lett the Swtu « n factory and returned to farm. work,: his Lordship salu he should have been glad could he have denied tho truth of tuis altogether ; but he could not. Tho talo had been brought to him, and ho had thoroughly Investigated It, and wai sorry to And there was some truth in it Dut It was not on his brother's estate that this had happened i it was not the steward of the Maquis of Lansdowne who had made use of this threat, but tho steward of a neighbouring clergyman. This fact, he hoped, would act as a caution to persons making statements like the orfe they Just now heard at meetings like the present one. Before making statements of the kind they should do, as he had himself done before repeating It- make a thorouoh Inquiry into its correctness. ( Cheers) His Lordihip then proceeded to review the present movement from Its various aspects, and contended that tho end would prove advan- tageous to all parties concerned In It allko. He counselled the labourers to bo firm, respectful, moderate, and fair and then no power on earth could stop this movement, nut it ttould remain with- tho men themselves whether an Increase of wages would be a blessing or a curse to them. There would still be the beorhouse hlddtng for a shajo of their earnings, but there would also be open to them the postofflco savings- bank and other kindred Institutions, « y supporting which they might leafl themselves on te Inde- penitence/ Having reviewed therflve leading features < Jr rules of the West of England labourers' Association his lordship concluded a long,, able, and Interesting address, which was listened to throughout with breathless attention long after the night had closed In and the eye of the speaker found it Impossible to reach to tho oufaide of thp listening crowd. Cheers were then proposed, and most heartUy given for Lord Fitzmaurice and Mr. Atherton, after which the meeting broke up in tho most peaceable manner. ' which he is not authorised to sell, and not accounting fenr the same to the satisfaction of the justices; neglect to keep affixed conspicuously on the premises 4 statement of the jbusine%> r which they are licensed ; Ihe harbouring or supplying liquor to a constable on duty, or bribing a constable, sale by retail, and not in cask or bottle, nor in a quantity less than half a pint, otherwise than according to standard measure; the licensed person being him- Belf guilty of drunkenness, or violent, quarrelsome or riotous conduct. The last offence is rtrack out qf the Bill ; the others remain, and subiect the person con rioted to penalties, but not to a recordof the con_ viction on the licence. The cases m which the BiH as it now stands enacts that a conviction, even. the tart, shall be recorded on the licence are the following.— Selling by retail intoxicating liquor without having a licence! or at a place where- the- littoce doe^ rrtl authorise the sale, or an evasion of the limitation not to be drunk on the premises," such liquor being- sold with intent to evade the condition- by consumption m a Bhed, kc., or being drunk on the licensed premises or adjoining highway if it shall appear that such dnnk- ing wafS thT privity or consentof person; knowingly permitting dronfcemTCS*; OT any violent, quarrelsome, or riotous conduct on the premises, or selling to a drunken pereon;• tnowmgly Sfu! . reputed prostitutes ; suffering gaming or any unlawful game on the premises, or suffering the house to be used , in contravention of the Betting Houses Act; keeping the house open when required by law to be• closed; adulteration, or knowingly selling intoxicating liquor mixed with any deleterious Sigi- edi6nt— unless on con- viction of this last offence the court forfeits the ljcencp. The possession by k lidenfeedperson knowingly of adul- terated liquor!, or of a deleterious ingredient, for the possession of which he is unable to account to the satisfaction of- the Court will constitute the offence. The licence is absolutely to. be foiftitcd on conviction of having an internal communication with an un- licensed house of public entertainment or resort, and a conviction for permitting the premises to be a brothel forfeits the licence ^ pd for ever disqualifies its owner. The clause relating to the effect of a conviction for an Offence directed by this Bill to bp recorded on the Jicence, after two convictions for offences against the BiU have already, been recorded, forfeits tho licence and disqualifies the holder for hvo years, and proceeds to enact that,— ( " The premises In respect of which Us licence was granted may. If the court having cognizance of the c- p. se in its dis- cretion so thinkB lit to order, be disqualified from receiving any licence for a term of two years from tho date of such thirdconvlctlojL," •, ,, ,., ...,, „, ... , , . , Owners of licensed premises are to be entitled, on 1 payment of Is., to'inspect the register of licences with the endorsement of convictions, Tho hour. i for closing licensed bo. unes are altered, but some words which should be struck out of the firrt part of the clause have been left in it by mistake, Tho hour of permitted dpeningttn w'e^ k- day mornings is to be 6 instead of 7 a. m., and the whole of the metropolitan police district is to have the hours which the Bill at first assigned only to tho district within four miles of Charing- cross. The clauses re- lating ten ppblichouse inspectors are struck out,' but by an overekrht they are. still named in some clauses as having-^ certaiu pov/ era, though there will bo no such persons in existence. A new clause is added, empowering the licensed person to seal with his seal samples taken for analysis, the analyst to certify that he receives the sample'with the seal un- broken. The clauses relating to the grant of new bcences require further revb- inrfi the'veto'. of the Home Secretary is still referred t\ and indeed is still required in borough licences, as the bill now stands. The interpretation clause has been altered, and the new definition of " licensed" dots. not setm an impsove- ment. Various alteratiohs Have been made in tha bill to make its meaning clearer, and to exclude tin?' neceesaiy words, and in tforue linstaliceB probably be- cause tho existing law. mtb\ a the case. But tho foregoing are - flic material alterations at present made. The bill baa now been reduced to 07 over pay after C pm. and before G am. Cottages should also be rented from the landlord wherever thev could, and thev were to ask to finish work at 4 o clock qn Saturdays.' One of their own order would receive their subscriptions to the Union, which they should make as liberal as thev could, and he suggested 6d. a month, or Id. or 2< L a week, which they should wd- lingly pay in the hope of obtaining as a result a rise of at least Is. per week in their wages. _ ... A labourer, named Mills said the meeting had been called to consider the question of a rise in the position in life of the agricultural labourer— the hardest worked and worst paid class in the country. The artisans had joined Trades' Unions for years, and they were ( jetting their 20a., 30a., and 40s. a week. If they stood in need of union, surely the agricultural labqurer, who dad in comparison horse's work, quite as much required 1L , He denied that there was any strife between them and ! the fanners, though they had been spoken of as ignor- ant and unprincipled agitators. If they were ignorant, the farmers should give them better wages and thev would educate themselves ; a- s to bemg unpnnciWed, if they stated their case fairly, and the farmers stated their case also fairly, they might leave it safely to the public to judge between them. These imi- tations wero very unmanly and unfair. If it was fair for the farmer to get the best price he could for his whekt. and to pay the lowest price for laWr that he could get it at, was it not also fair for tho labourer to pay the lowest price for flour, and to get the highest Wges he could for his labour. The speaker afUp- wards referred to tho shutting up of the commons and heaths where the poor man used to feed a sheep or two oraoow. Tho landlords now had all that land. He en trees ted that the Government should reclaim it and let it at low rents to tho laboustrs, He urged his fellow- labourers to join tho Union. Thfey were told they were 706,000 strong. and aU ehould unite, for unity was strength. 1 heir plan was to secure the weekly wage. If that was not done, if the supply was greater than the demand then they must buy up tho surplus labour and either send it to other parts of tho country, where there was a de- mand for it. or send it to the Colonies. That would keep labour up to. the proper standard. The cham- ber of Agriculture Wl made it their stand point that, in consequence of the vicissitudes of weather and tfie peculiar nature of their business, farmers could not fix a standard of weekly wag?, and that there^ could> no rule for fixing such a rtandard. But that difficulty might be solved. It had been solved years ago by the Government. Government workmen were paid by tho hour. H they fixed on a standard of 3d., 4iL, or M. an hour, according t. the capabilities of the workmen, that would be a solution of tl> o difficulty. ( A voice.— " 3d.") Yes, 3d. for able bodied men, 2d. for men in the decline of life, and 4d. an hour for skilled work- men. Ten hours a day at 3d. would bo 15s. a week. He understood that fince this matter had been taken up some of tho farm- re had raised tho wa/ es. Ilo then, amid somo laughter from tho women, stated the case of a labourer who had had; 17 children. Of these he had five at home, and with himself and wife three meals a day made 21 meals a day to provule for out of 10?. rt week, besides shoes, clothe*, rent and other things. How were thoy, likely to get their threo- quartors o? a pound of meat a day, bke the sokher out of that. Then they wero charged with_ being wasteful and cxtrava- ant. Let tljo lady housekeeper sketch'of the proposals recently'made for e . . a legal university and a conjoint medical examining board, and of the proceedings of the Senate in refer- ence thereto. " . . t .. As to the legal university, every one admitted that the right to become legal practitioners should not be conlerrea as now by the Inns of court, simply in return for so much money and the eating of so many dinnere. On the otter hand, the multiplication of bodies examining for degrees, especially In close proximity to each other, almost neces- sarily, owing to competition between tho examining bodies, led to a deterioration in the quality of the examina- tion. Multiply teaching bodle- If you will, and promote any amount of competition between them; but let tho exa- mining body bo one which shall secure that the teaching Is al- ways and everywhere of the best possible quality. From an amucing derivation of the word university ( as If from eerttu unum, and therefore denoting a body not bent upon one thing) Mr. Lowo " naturally concluded that a University devoted to law alone, or to medicine, or any other subject alone, was no University at alL But tho views of tho Senate and of Convo- cation had " been carefully explained to Sir Roundell Palmer, and probably the term Unlveralty, as applied to the proposed 8chool. f Lsw, would be dropped. The examina- tions of tho numerous bodies which have the right to confer a degree or licence to practise In medicine wero a good illus- tration of the way in which competition among sueh bodies operated. Hcnco arose the movement for a conjoint ex- amining board for each of the three kingdoms In this movement the Senate had heartily joined ; but at the last moment It was found that the University was precluded by its charter from surrendering Its right to confer a licence to practise In conjunction with its medical decrees. The Home Secretary had, however, undertaken to introduce an Act of Parliament empoweilng the university to hold that right In abt- yanco. MR Lowe then referred to the recent opening of a" coloi> y" of the university, viz. the Brown Animal Sanatory Institution at Wandsworth, and stated that, untdhe became one of tho Cattle Plaguo Commissioners, he had no ldM oi t ne extent to which human pathology might be Illustrated by the study of the diseases ofanim ds. Among the signs of advancement of the age, not tho least was tho improvement In tho condition and treatmeht of animals. This was In part due to tho writings of Mr Darwin, who, though ne was considered by some to h. ve dragged down man, ndght equally well, perhaps better, bo considered rather to have elevated the animal creation. Looking now at " home ^ e nriocinal question at present under discussion was tne rc- tentlon or relectlon of Greek at tbo matriculation, or. rather the making examination in that language compulsory or optional upon all candidates. Considering tho time and trouble consumed in acquiring a modicum of Greek, to be forthwith, in many eases, forgotten, Mr. Lowe, though ardent admirer buih of the language and its literature, v quite of opinion that for candidates who Intended to proceed Si science and medicine a good knowledge of German and Physics was far more advantageous, aud that candidates should be allowed to take up One such modern subject in- stead of Greek. EXTRAORDINARY LEAP FROM THE IRISH MAIL! A few mornings ago an Irish gentleman named Ferguson left London for Dublin in a first- class com- partment of the Irish limited mail. All went wefl until after ltuKby was passed, which took^ place about " '- THE TWO SIEGES IN PARIS. The results of the inquiry made as to the damage sustained by the inhabitants of Paris during the two sieges and the devastation ciused by the Commune have been communicated to the Municipal Council by the Pre- fect of the Seine. The number of claims for compen- sation were 12,480. representing a sum of four hundred and seven million i'raut- 3. These demands have been cut down and classified in the three following categories : — Damages caused by foreign war to 1,703 cLdm*, and rather more than two million francs ; damages caused by the second siege to 2,436 claims and abwut nine million francs; injuries dono by the Commune to 8,451 claims and fifty- five million francs. These sums, added to to a further sum of ten millions for subse- quent demands pince admitted pive a total of ceventy- seven millions (£ 3,080,000), which will be shortly dis- tributed. Out of this amount only tyvo million franca are contributed by the State, the remainder being pro- vided by the City of Paris, and it is proposed to raise the- necessary resources by means of ten annuities of eight millions each. A law( of the 10th Venddiniaire, year IV., decrees that each commune must bear the cost of any damages caused by insurrectional troubles, but it does not apply to Paris, though at the same time there is nothing in it which stipulates that the State sha| l be called on to repair the injuries inflicted upon the capital. The municipal council has, therefore, acted wisely in taking upon itself the same burdens which fall on the village immediately around Paris, instead of engaging in an invidious litigation with the; State ; the re.- ult of which would depend upon how the law mentioned above was interpreted. ., - „ . half- past ten o'clock, when it is supposed BIr. Ferguson was fast asleep. After the train had reached Cathiron- lane, where there is a steep embankment, foity feet deep, he seems to have jumped up suddenly, opened the door, and sprung out. The train, popularly known as the " Wild Irishman," on account of tho terrific speed at whji- h it ordinarily traveb, waa flying along at the rate of about fifty miles an hour at the time Sir. Ferguson left it He / ell ten or twelve feet down the embankment, and then rolled down to the bottom of tho . ravine into a water pit. As mifjht naturally be expected, he was m6st seriously injured, but fortunately his life was spared! His right arm was rendered useless, his face severely cut . and mangled, in addition to which he had several teeth knocked out. and was generally bruifed about the body. Too add to the discomforts of the situation; he found himself in a lonely part of the conntry, the night pitch ( Lirk, and rain descending in torrents. After lying in the water Bome time, he got out and attempted to scramble up the banks, but several time3 failed from loss of blood and general weakness. Ultimately he succeeded and groped his way across a field to a farm- hotme.' tvherb he begged for a glass of water " for God's sake." The untjmely hour, and the suspicious circum- stances apparently surroUnding the application, led the inmates to refuse all assistance. He then crilwled away to a neighbouring farm, and roused an old woman. She, too, declined to help him, but directed himtoNewhold, where he had the good fortune to meet witi) a police- constable named Enock, who procured him: some, refreshment, and conveyed him in a cart to Kugby. Battered and bleeding, drenched to the skin with water from the J) rook and rain from the skies, and without hat, he presented apitiful spectacle. Mm Bird, landlady of the Windmill Inn, at'oncohad a warm bed prepared and removed Mr. Ferguson to it' while messengers were dispatched for Dr. King and Dr. Buckmill. Thoso gentlemen were promptly. ih attendance, but 60 severe were tho injuries thab they advised that Mr. Ferguson Bhou^ d be removed to the Birmingham General Hospital. His friends, how'- ever, removed him to London next day, and placed him under tlio best medical treatment. I Mr. Ferguson was unablo at ltugby to assign the cau^ o which' led him to jtimp out of the train, but it is supposed that ho had been asleep, and either jumped out unchjB Some^ Bomhambulic jnlluence, or suddenly waking up, Inapt from tho carriage before he was aware of what, he was, doing. , , MONSIGNOR CAPEL ON RITUALISM. On Snnday evening, at the . Pro- Cathedral,.' Ken- sington, London, Monaignor Capel Rave the third of a series of lectures npon the " Recent Movement towards Catholicism in England." Tho handsome church was crowded long before the timo for tho commencement of the service, and hundreds of people were obliged to go away unable to obtain admission. The very rev. gentleman devoted tho entire lecture or sermon to the subject of the confessional ; and ho commenced by showing what amount of preparation, in the shape of study and instruction, was required before a man was fit to sit in the confessional and hear tho Hins of any fellow creature. TbiN preparation, ho eaad, WAS provided in tho llyman Catholic Church, wnero « V', iy priest received a thorough theological education. Having shown In detail what where tno who made this charge come and exercise her ingenuity in carving half a pound of rusty bacon among tbo whole family instead of three- quarters of a pound of meat apiece, and he thought she would find there was not much room for extravagance. He concluded by iDnealinc to his fellow- workmen, who, he said, suffered . iko himself from the bitterness of poverty, to combine together to vai* o themselves in the social scaje. They w^ ted only to state their cake fairly to tho country, and lot tho country judge them. . The rest of tlio proceedings had reference d, the payment of subscriptions, enrolment of membere, and appointment ol officers. MEETING ON LYNEHAJVI- GRE^ N. On Friday evening in last week, a meeting of agri- cultural labourer-) was h< Id on Lyneham- green ; Lord Edmund Fitzmaurico, M. P. presiding, '^ meeting - was called in connexion, with the Went of England Agricultural Labourers' Association, with tho view of fom fn" Tbranch society. The ovenmg proyed to bo S wr£ cl » d and miserable » Keevening ; yet there were from 700 to 800 labouring men and women assembled under the wide- spreading branches of the largo elm where the meeting was to bo held at seven o'clock, the time appointed for tho com- munremtnt of tho proceedings. Lord Edmund Kitzmanrico, who had drlren oVCT frOrt Bowool through tho pelting ram. having taken illi stand ra one of the8projecting roots of tho elm treo un- ler tho branches « f which tlio otopanv had ^^''^' inWat he to open tb., 1. u. lne s ., f the feting by remarking tliatlio fully believed tho present movement, although > y some it was looked upo4 as belongs to itfio labourers themselves would re, ult in benefit to tho tenant- farmer pnd the landlord also. Ilo hoped, there were sorao farmers ' present, for l. o cnul. f assure them of Ids Aim belief that they would eventually gain by this movomoiit. but, above nil, ho wished to fiay wns from no, hostilei feol- inci towards them flftt liC and others had Identified them- selves with tho movement. What was needed more pnttl- cnlaily was that mastors and men should meet together ana lulk the matter ovcrtalriy an, I calmly together. Ho slu- uld uttho ouu. t call m on tho labourers t « . make their stato- I merit* and then, should thorn be nnv tenant- fanner present » h," uo. iid llko to ii - ai, he ehould ho c- iualiy ploasca to ' hear nun. THE BANISHED COMMUNISTS. M. J. B. Bocquet, 1 Trench Master at London TJni- vereity CoU^ eSchool; late Mayor of tho Fifth Arron- dissement, Paris; late Commandant of the 113U> Battalion of the National Guard, Pans," has sent tho following letter to The Tinus for publication :— Would you allow one of the so- called Communists to offer you a few observations on the subject which has lomiioh encaged public attention of latet I have been Uvlng ln Knt: land for tho last twenty yean, being an exllo of ter ten yeare 1 have been a French master at Londup University College School After the reverses of the French annlesha August, 1870, I, a cKtllan of fifty- two year, of age k( t England to go and tako my part in the defence of Paris On thc lih of September I was appointed mayor of the fifth awondlssement ( Pantheon), afterwards elected " com- mandant" of the 118th Battalion ol the National Guard. Ip both capacities 1 did my duly. Afterwards, bolng an old Republican, I sided, as a matter of « . u~ w. th Republican Parts against Boy^ I was arrested in Juno, 1871, and went through the five « « // « oftba^ Orsngtrie" at Versailles, tho last of which might re- mhidany oiieof Dante's Inferno or of tho Calcutta black- hole; In August I was taken In a cattle waggon to Lorlent, whwe wo were huddled together, about 90Jof ^. ontho^ nfon La Vengeanco. The r/ jimt of the hulks killed many. A s for mjsel "! was In November taken. In a djlcg state to tlw maritime hospital of Port Louis. I11 becombor I was ty order torn from my bed of ilclcneis, hurried off to Versailles, toere to S tried at once. 1 was however, not caUed. before a court martial before tho end of March. What sufferings I. with the rest of my fellow- prisonore, hid te endure during these many long months are boyoni de- 6cHptlon B^ d and Insulllclout food filth dampness, sleep- less nlahts on bare, cold, wet ground or floor, vermin, with wldch our bodies and clothos we? e swarming, leaving us no N either nliht or day, want of pure alr. llght. and exerclso ; Seanent lMulU, threaU ( sonieUmes acted upon) ot being S ir shot at, undermined tho health and constl ut on of^ the spirit of most. Add to that the excruciating panw^) f many neadB of famlUe. at tho thought of wife and llttlo onesstirvlng at homo. - ( lur atrocious " houses of bondage" were much like the UvrJ> erie » of tho Middle Ages; wo all looked "' rights OTdUt, my noor countrymen " hen toey landed at Dover looked, as stated, " an unpromising lot. But a • Wh wash, food, and a change of clothes would restore iraugu nni, r„ « nectablo annearauce. as. CUTTINGS FFTOM AMERICAN PAPERS. ^ A western poet calls the dew the " perspiration of In Boston a total abstinence society has been started, which announces as its object " total abstinence from med- dling with other people's affairs." A facetious keeper who wai taking two convicts to gaol, when the train stopped called out, " Step out, gentle- men, fifteen years for lcireslunent." A young man ngked n, young lady her age, and sho repBed, " 6 times 7 and 7 times 3 addea to my ac- e will escied C times 9 and 4 as doablo my age excieds 20." Tho^ youiignian said ho thought she looked much older. An American author hps reason to believe that whenever tho wage3 of the mechanic are raised to eight and ten dollars a day the workmen wUl not come at all, they will merely send their cards.. A cool critic calmly observes of a singer that " even she sings she becomes transfigured before yhu, and her forni rises to a rare and bewildering beauty, that scarcely Raphael himself, were ho alive again, could adequately palilt." gentleman recently married in Chicago presented at, tbe witi the original trauscript of one of the first despatches ever sent over the first telegraph line, irons Baltimore to Washington. It was the announcement ^ Jh ® grandmother ol her birth, and read, " Only a A young man rode ten miles in a railway carriage with a pretty gl'l, one moonlight oicht, with the intenrlon of popping tho question, but all Mb said was, " It Is quite inoony to- night." " Yes." she replied, " muchly." And there wasn't another word said. A Massachusetts' judge has decided that a husband may open a wife's letter?, on tho cround so often and so tersely stated by Sir. Xheophllus Parsonfe, of Cambridge, at " th>" lltub: lntl 610 onB. and tho husband Is A very good and characteristic story is told of a Boston lady who obtained an introduction to the Pope. . JKtiquette requires that the party thus honoured should. bow- low upon bended luieea when his flolluoss appears. Ev/ deritly our New Englajd friend was ignorant of or ignored tho custom, for sho walked bravely up to Pius IX.. grasped him by the hand, and said, " Jly dear sir, I'm delighed to see you: howdoyou do?" " American !" muttered his Holiness, as he slightly inclined his venerable head and moved toward a group of Italian ladies assembled in'the centre of the talon. JOSH BILLINGS on MABHIAGE. — Sum Many for luv without a cent in their pocket, nor'a friend in the world, nor a drop of pedigree. 1 This looks desperate, but It Is the strength of tha gamfe. Almost everj body gets mar- ried, and it Iz a eoo. l joke. Sum marry in haste, and then eet down and think it carefully ov « r.. Sum thiukit caft- fnUy over fust, and Uien set down and marry. Roth ways are right if they hit tho mark. If ennybody aiks you whl fe° lrt. gClt'married jt De ® da teU ^ you do0, t reco1" CALICO B. VLL.'— The Irish Benevolent Society of Ottawagave, tho other night, a grand calico ball, under the patronage of the Governor- General and Lady Lisgar. All tho ladies present were dressed strictly in calico, but, on account of the showv bright colours and nice trimmings, their dresses looked quito as handsome a^ d gay as if they wero madp of the usual costly matcriali It is customary after such balls for the l. Uies to give their calico dresses to tha poor, which Is a very , good way of disposing ol them. The proceeds of the ball will go also to the poor. VEGETABLE HIS'TOKT.— The strawberry is ono ov natur's sweet pets. She makes them worth ' fifty cants the first she niaken, and never allows them to be sold at a mean price. Its fragrance iz like tho breath of a baby, when it firtst begins tew ehit losSitfgers ; Its flavour iz like the nectar which an old- fashioned goddess used tewleave la the bottom of her tumbler when Jupitor stood treat on mount Ida Ther is many breeds or this delightful vegetable, but not a mean one In the whole lot. Cherry a are good, but they ate too much like sucking a marble, with a hundlo tew it. Tho man that can eat strawberry's besprinkled With bashed sugar and bespattered with sweet kream ,' at somebody else's expense), and not lay lils hand on hiz stummuck and thank the author ov strawberrys and stummuks, and the phellow who pays for tho strawb? rrys, iz a m- iu with a worn- out conscience.— Joth B. UHhciji. them to their fonnir'decent and respectable appearance, I hope, they did mo. At last on the 23rd ot March, after ton months Imprison- ment I was brought before a court- martial and sentenced to five years banishment by military men who, I dare say, tad dono their duty towards Franco more horoagWy and mors disinterestedly than myself during tho late war. The next day I applied te tho Home Secretary, as directed, to be sent away at once. But, contrary to the terms of my sentence of banishment, contrary to law, J "" kept illegally In eaol by the most legal Government of VersalUcs for five moro weeks I was Jolted through four more prisons, and LtTa9st embarked at Calais under tne eyes of a policeman In nlaln clothes, to whom I had to pay £ 3 4s. for that service aTlt rtot boon for the strenuous exertions o my many ln- nuenthU English friends Should have been detained a still loiiser ttmo. mte eiw ol tha Frenchmen landed at Dover readi very much llkomine. The, have heen, ono aod all, condemned S So or tm jeata' hanlihment lor havlnj Ip « ft'agaln. t Ve" ame. rthei have been, one nnd .11, detained 111, e;"!, . nmo ai mnch aa threo monthe, alter . eotenco had bee. enthein. They tvero without provlouj notlcehurrled from l'aria or Verialllea ( not Cherbourt), to CU^ tt. h. tlra had no dianca to call upon their ( rlenda lor any little hel|, they ? u2" « onld have received. No wonder they have beS thrown deatltuto en tbo ihorea ol HnEland, and had te tramp It to London through mnd and rain. Now gir another word, and I have done. In February I uw and teid on tho wal'a ol tho " D « Pdt de. ChanUer. and fvlr? one Ol my l. VX lellow pdMueia huddlml up In the thro, room* oMhat building aaw and read like my.. 11. the following bill . tuck up everywhere:- " L'AnBletorre, la Belglijno, la Sulase, l'Eepagno, reluseut do rccevoli lea bmnj.^ ^^ oormiKT ol th. DtpJt del Chantlen." The rnmmotlon thue froducod among ua, especially among men w" o ™ k" my'ell. knew Sngland, may be ea. Uy ln. agli, ed. On tho " 1th of March I was told to draw up my petlion, . tSV « to what foreign conntry 1 Intended to go. Bute iuornh 1 deelied 1 wished to So to England an. b. nded ™ M the Governor ol th. phua. " Mf . Vsirr,' cried bo : " have you not road the bill T DoUt vnu know England refuses the Sanlshed r " I have read H e h ! sir hot with allduercipectto governmental bu s i no St believe thit EnS.. n* relise. to receive th. banished " l Gnnet lor » ' ard vour petition: you meat draw up noni. her Thsn 1 did draw up another. I had to wrile live SSSSn nnet alu. y. requesting to bo e » nt to England. they remaiuca - AU of k sudden th-. y were told tu THEFT OF JEWELLERY. At the Jllddlcscx Sessions, Henry Murray, aged 85, haS been Indicted for stealing two gold watches, twogold chalni two gold rings, twenty- two pearls, two opal stones, and dlvere other articles, valuo £ 100 and upwards, tho property of Captain Henry Cavendish Angelo. The prosecutor in this case was a captain in the army, had been a great traveller in Africa, and had been in tho service of tho Iman of Muscat. Some vears ngp ho formed the acquaintance of Mrs. Murray, who passed ns a widow lady of property living in Great Coram- street, Russel- square, and the intimacy continued until the death of tho prosecutor's wife. In October last the prisoner became an in- mate nf 1 Mrs, Murray's house, and ultimately ebe acknowledged him as her husband, and as such he was introduced to- Captain Augelo. In January last the prosecutor was chany icq his residence, and accepted tho proffered services of the prisoner in packing and arranging his effects. For about n fortnight the prose- cutor lodged at Mrs. Murray's house until his nowresi- denao was ready for him, nnd before doing so be delivered into the prisoner's hand? for' ftafe cus- tody a dressing- case containing some valuable articles of jewellery, and a number of foreign decora- tions which had been presented to Captain Angelo for his military and diplomatic services abroad. Tho prisoner^ saw the prosecutor placo somo of theso articles in the dressing- case, which was fastened by a lode, and secured by a cord tied with a reefer's knot. Whon the dressing- case waa returned to Captain Angtjo'about a fortnight afterwards he ob- served that the cord wna no longer secured by the same description of knot, but ho paid no particular attention to this fact. He then placed tihe dressing cqso iu h chest in which was kept his plato nnd other valuables property, tho key ' Of which he always carried about him. In tlie> early part of Mor6h,. Coptain Angelo had occasion to go to tho dressing- case, when ho . found the lock broken, and all the articles of any value removed. Ho immediately went to the prisoner, who advised the issuing of hundbills offering a reward of £ 20 for the recovery of tho missing articles. This, was accordingly dono, and peraons having in- formation to give upon.: the subject were referred to tho prisoner. In the meantime tho police woro in- formed of the IOFS, nnd tho prisoner was taken into cuufr^ v. T/ r his bed room waa found a silver pencil- cuso which Uitj prosecutor identiiitd as being among the 9ont( uvs ( if the drei>^ ing- ca? e. A subsequent yLsit was ttiTd to the house, and i-. rough o|> al, a cuiioit THE DEMOCRATIC CHARACTER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS. At the banquet; on Saturday, given by the Fish- mongers' Company, at the Fishmonger' Hal , London, on the occasion of presenting the freedom ol the Com- pany to His Royal Highness tho EukeofEtlinbiii^ h, the Lord Chancellor, in responding to " Ihe Health of the House of Lords," proposed by the Prime Warden,, said:— i • Mr. Prlmo Warden, your Royal Highnesses, my lords, and gentlemen, I feel deeply Indebted ti> > MU upon nO occasions when I have the honour of meeting yon in this halUor the kindness with which you personally receive my heidth, so far as It concerns mj- sclf; but cm thU occasion, In returning thanks for tho Ilouso of Lords, I will not detain you furtDer than to say that you seo in the instance btforo you of opo belonsiug to your body being raised to tlio House of Lords, a memorable proof how, iuthisfrco couutry, there Is a con- tinual circulation ot all estates ot ni^ i. nccoriling to their several abilities, that nobility is never sullei cd to harden Into crust, and that thoso who by their ability liavo any title to be called to hi? h staUous may, by iudvi^ try and constant perseverance ln the course ot duty, )> oraised to the h ghest positions. ( Cheers.) It is some » h: it sbicular, indeed that the House of Lords should be in Its constitution and forms or a much more democratic character tbnu the House or Commons, for tho House of Commons reootfuses m their Speaker one who rules and governs them, and to whoai they nlways submit. Hut the Lurd ChanctUor h.- is no such autho- rity in tho House of Lords. ( Cheeri) There all are equal All the members ai? 6 peers, and they do not listen to the voice of tho Lord Chancellor anymore than Ui.- y « aula to that of any other peer in tho assembly. Notwi h- standlng that, liowqver, so far u I hare had an cp^> rUinUy oljadgteg. they do hear with patlei. ee the arsuments » ldeh nrG produced before them, and, to say tho le^ t of it, they listen with as much decorum to vtorn " l^^ rhw^ S to the great mass of the assembly us ttmttto do ; and, I bellnvo, in r. ll ii. stauces it viUl. efuund that tno Tho Fmneror of Japan \ vas recently wntty ; he was ibe- LmpOTor oi o( wiDe i, y ... steaiu'liamiaar. n^^ ou^ d Ume ttoC'mer might bo made t;; uncork tto sSdfled h tetenUon ol taking the shine out uf Oio Uaiumer -^ corked the botUe, and called for phuiia. Liverpool was en on Monday, not only onac- count of Whitsuntide, but in honour of » visit from Prince Arthur Uis IUn- al Highness arrived on Saturday at the ^ Tjence of Mr. Graves. M P., ami on . Monday at noon, with SToscort of dragoon*, his Iioyal lllChncev us nrreicutlng her Majo'ty, proceeded to tho Town Hall, where h-.- was received by tho Mayor and an assemblage ot the principal ciilxens, and their wives and dauthtcis. Ait. r tho presenta- tion of coinpMnieiitary and loyal addresses, a 1 ri c- s. ou was lormcl to ftefton Pwfe n uew pi ; ee ol i- . e. U'U lor th^ i- euple, WU1J4 J. J lvtku):> 01-.-:- W LI. UvjAUU'- nKf - SiXU. lDAT MAT 25, 187SJ THE FALMOUTH & PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. TEE CHAKG^ i Or bluAMY. In London, last Saturday, at the Marlboro gh- « treet PoDce- eonrt, Henry Sermonr, aged 75 yean, ca'Hng himself some- times th- Hon. HeDry Seymotir, and on ot'ier occasions tho HOT. Hene^£ gvendL » h, tue Hon. Henry Fonsonby, and the Hon. « k, was again bron." C before the magis- trate/ Ptfy f having coir mil Ud bigamy by inter- ^ KlliibetU Pngh, his wile Alcthea being who pron- cuted, sold, on the last occasion the prisoner asked for time, in order that hia solicitor might attend ; hot no solicitor was in attend- ance, the prisoner having od'pted th « < same excuse when tried before. He would now produce a certifi- cate copy of tho marriaze between Henry CSvendish and Ale'thea Thomas in 1861, the hn^ bind being de- scribed as bachelor, the wife as spinster, and he would then call two witnesses who had seen the prisoner's firxt wife alive in Paris a few days since. Sire. Edey said : I was present at tho Register Office Southampton, on the 10th August, 186L and saw the IBT married to Alethea Th< ina « , and I was one of nibecriblng witnesses to that marriage. I have been to Paris for the purpose of seeing Alethea Thomas, or more properly Mrs. Cavendish. I met her on Thursday last . ^ JF^ SgJ* that Cavendish bad travellrd 1,500 miles from the frontiers of Russia for toeourpose of being identified. Mrs. Bell said : I was a subscribing witness to the marriage of the prisoner in the name of Cavendish to Aletbea Thomas, and I saw her alive on Thursday last at the " Railway" Hotel, Paris. I am quite sure she was the same person. Some letters were here handed to Mum Pugh, who • aid they were all in the prisoner's hnn iwriting. Mr. Straight then read them as follows „, . . T , Sunny Bank. Hlghnte. July, 1MB. ansa i" ugh— in reply to yooi advi rtis^ ment. I nm seeking a lsdy iu whom I can place impU. it confide nee, to take the entire charge of my estabiishm. nt, situated in Italy, and to navel with me In the summer, being an old man add a Widower, desiring an agreeable companion. Kindly favour lth un ' any answer, as my stay In England ia limited. — Direct to Z., Post- oflice, Highgste. ( Private and confidential.) T Sunday Evening. I now write as promised, dear Miss Pngh. When I saw you l told you of family annoyances and jealousies They Have become so annoying that I have made up my mind to place an insurmountable barri. r to their pretensions bv • eeklng some 6ood and trustworthy English girl with whom I could place my pood name and honour in perfect confl- iT?!/^] i! l8(; i! L1vWi, e ont ray Immediate circle.. In if if"? 8^ Wl, t, h yon U "- e to think 1 had found the desired object in you. Your ladjlike man- Rf! Si^ Pi^^ K anpeara.. co struck mo forciblyInd ih'' W f ™ 8 J? wWch your worthy aunt spoke of 7? an d1? f'ded to venture on tho offer I now mike. You wUl caU to mind Uie questions I asked you:— Ln dis « nP^ ed! 2. Wero you a Ireo agent! To toth you aua « -. red nlDnnaiively. Ifcen d'mc° U Question How could 1 present you to my houseboM and my friends, to secure to you the respect and esteem yon are so justly entitled tot ™ victed in Brusatls of fraud, and sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment and a fine. The Prisoner: H it is your intention to send me for trial, I shall reserve my defence Detective- sergeant Ham informed the magistrate that there were two charges of fraud against the pri- soner, but in one of these some of the witnesses were not in attendance. The Magistrate did not consider it necessary to RO into any other ca^ es. and committed the prisoner for trial at the Central Criminal Court. ARTISTS' GENERAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. The annual dinner of this Institution took place on Saturday evening at Willis's Rooms, London, the Marquis of Lome presiding. The company, number- ing more than 200, iucluded Sir Francis Grant, P. R. A. ; Sir William Boiall. R. A.; Sir Henry Holland, Mr. J. S. Henry, M. P. ; Mr. John Heugh, Mr. John Fowler, Mr. John Penn, Mr. Alfred Clint, P. S. B. A.; Mr. George Godwin, Mr. Prescott H- wett, Mr. Alfred Elmore, RA. ; Mr. W. P. Frith, RA ; air. F. Leighton, RA. ; Mr. G. E. Street, K. A. ; Sir. P. H. Calderon, R. A. ; Mr. Heury Weekes, R. A ; Mr. T. Faed, R. A : Mr. R. An. ' ell, RA.; Mr. J. TennielL Sir J. Gilbert, Mr. Edmund Yates, > ir. P. C. Hardwick. Mr. J. E. Mi Dais. R. A. ; Mr. H. O'Neil. A. R. A.; Mr. Gu- tav Hirscb, Mr. F. W. May- nard, Mr. A. W. Hunt, Mr. Val rrinsep, & a It appears that in the management of this institution relief is extended to distressed meritorious artists, whether subscribers to its funds or not, as well as to their widows and orphans, merit and d stress alone constituting a claim; the names of persons thus relieved not being promulgated. The institution being princi- pally dependent upon voluntary tubscriplions to meet its yearly expenditure, the council appeal for assistance to all lovers of art, and also lo those of the profession who regard with sympathy the distresses of their less fortunate brethren. Eighty- seven applicants were relieved during 1871, the sum of £ 1,595, in grants vary- ing from £ 10 to £ 00. The worjtinsf expenses of the year amounted to £ 210 7s. 3d. From the establish- ment of the institution in 1S14, to January, 1S72, 2,769 donations have been granted, in sums amounting in the aggregate to £ 37,7- 13. After the usual loyal and national toasts. The Chairman gave " Success to the Artists' General Benevolent Institution." He remarked that that charity was born at the beginning of a century which perhaps had excelled every previous one in its appre- ciation of art, and one consequence of that had been a great rise in the prices of modern pictures. There was a great contrast betweeu these days and those when Correggio was allowed to live in penury, or when, iu later times, Rembrandt died insolvent; but this difference of circumstances oply made the necessity of help yet stronger, for there was much more temptation now to enter the profession than formerly. Great artists got large sums, it was true, but the struggling men were far more numerous than before, and as the run was made upon those who had acquired great names, the number of those who could not get on, and who, with their belongings, fell into dis- tress, was very great. A large class of persons w, ere now devoted to art as a profession. Many among them might not have been fortunate enough to strike the right vein at once in the field of the popular taste. They might have failed to hit on the idea that, em- bodied in painting, might have raised their names on to the first step necessary to attain that position which enables a man to catch the eye of the public. This must first be done before tho picture would sell well, or the namo got. known — ( hear, hear)— just as, if you wefe an author, you must get noticed for having written something worth reading before you could ri$ 3 above the dead level of others, or get your works bought and read. Some had never done what would set them on a pedestal. Others had made a name, but the namo had been sun- denly left to live only in fame. Its possessor had been carried off, and the hand that worked so effectually for the family could vi » w no longer turn into gold the aspects of that busy life around them which the hus- band and father used to watch and ponrtray, but which now flowed on, bringing with it care and distress and penury to his wife and children. The artist, overtaken by illness, could not work as he used, and he was, pechaps, used harshly— When closed at last the attentive eyes, That saw the manner in the lace of tfae rough world, which became even rougher the more need there was of its tenderness. There were many sad cases of that kind, and it was greatly to the honour of artists that they did show, as was exemplified by that charity, compassion for those who fell by the way, or were not able to endure the march in which others were successful. Among those who had liberally contributed to that charity was Mr. Chantrey, and since his death Mrs. Chantrey had subscribed for twenty years, having given in all £ 587. ( Cheers.) The pupil room of the old masters gave them many opportunities of doing kindnesses to young men, but none of them, he dare say, ever did such wholesalo kindness as the modern mastera who contributed and took pains with the working of the charity. That society helped carefully and judiciously. Every case of relief afforded to an artist in distress, whether from sickness or some other cause, was vouched for by the Committee, and a sum handed over to enable him to title over the evil hour. Widows and orphans wrre also assisted, and if that society had existed, Hogarth's widow might never have been obliged to sell tho prints which were the last ! re- membrances of her husband. Not long since, ho was told, there was a case of an artist dying in sUch wretched clrcumst mces that there was nit a stick of furniture in his house except the bed oh which the dead body had been laid out, and yet this man had a family of several children, the eldest girl being ' WAVING OOR KERCHIEF. ( From Punch.) We will not deceive you longer. This is the real American difficulry, and the last telegram, from the Musical Wxrfld office, has settled it, as followi :— " ilADASCE ARABELLA GoDDABD has accepte I an engage- ment to play at several concerts, in the great " Boston Peace Jubilee,' under the direction of Mr. GlLMORE, and will leave London on Haturday, the 6th of June." " That goes against the Mac Nabs," observed the swimming Highlander, MacNab, when his enemy, a Macintosh, cut off his own hand in the water, and pitched it on t- hore— the bargain having been tliat the land was to belonf? to the first who " laid hand" on it. For the MaoNabs, read the English. A grim story, yet appropriate in the case of one whose hand has " achieved a thousand triumphs. We are to lose her, unless war breaks out before the eighth, and Mia keep Arabella at home. This we dare not hope for, and so we wish her bon voyage, a series of triumphs, and a happy return. " Arabella" baa ever been ATr. Punch's ward, since he wrote of " The young and pi'ted Miss GODPARD Whom with admiration all the critical squad heard;" and he caps those exquisite verses with two as lovely:— " Jfone holds hish- claas music in more real honour than The hospitable. Indirect- claiming, but otherwise unexcep- tional JONATHAN." THE TRUCK BILL. The Master and Servant ( Wages) Bill has been examined and amended in Select Committee. The bill now extends to Ireland. Some alteration has been made in the clause relating to weekly payment of wages ; wages are to accrue due weekly ( oi at less intervals if so agreed), and are to be paid within a week after the end of the week at which they accrue due ( oratless intervals if so agreed); but the contract may specially provide for the pay- ment at that time of a part not being le- s than 75 jjer cent., and the residue within a week of the balance being struck on the completion of the work. The bill is not to render invalid contracts for dcduc- you Justly to? i now » ce, myaear girl, having deeply ami wellrtfl. rtcd on the matter, the only way for you to enter my house with honour to up both is as Its lawful mistress. If you will Ho me lie favour to became my wlfejou will confer upon me a great bleising, and on my part I will do all in my power to ren. ier your life happy. lean offer you a splendid homo and perfect lmlei> endencehy which I hope to acquire your esteem and ns modi of your lovo as you may find me hereafter worthy of. Now, my dear Miss Pogh, Come! tho great difficulty to solve— the great disparity of ace. Whehl think of this tla awful. But it will be in your favour, though I enjoy perfect health, and never spent a pound with doctors in my life. I caunot, however, expect a very long existenco. Then you know, after contracting one marriage de ccmvenance, you may contract another of inclina- tion, with all the advantages of wealth. If you accept ' my offer, frankly made, ourmarriage must bea secret one, to avoid coming toan open rupture with my faihlly. Once united, ' the public papers shall announce the event, and then my family will seek you and court you as my wi'e. You, my <} ear girl, being endowed with, a largo amonnt of Judgment, will appiociato all this. ' This is a sobjcct uyon which you cannot consult anyone. You may. If you please, mentii it to your respectable aunt, but no one must guide you. . . I beg you, dear one. to give me your positive answer— yes or no. 1 do hope it will be the former. 11 jou refuse my offer — which Heaven forbid— retom all my let'ere in a blank envelope, and forget the offer was ever made. Direct to ** Z." for my niece makes no scruple of opening my letters. No. S. To Miss Anne Pugh. My dear little Girl— So it appears if I can give your annt satisfactory . explanations I shall bo well received ; if not, I may make my bow and depart. What havo I done to bo thus doubtedT II able, will ceo you on Sunday night; but have had my shoulder dislocated, and am in much pain. Last evening a kind niece arriv< d from tho borders of Wu'es, and will see me. I will see you tomorrow, and III cp't give a good account of myself 1 shall bo iiliCharged, and all lor love of you, my pretty wife.— I am, ns I ever hope to be, yonr devoted husband, HENRY. Miss Pugh : The letters were received by mo from the prisoner. The certificate produced is that of my marriage to the prisonet at St. James's Church, Picca- dilly, on the nth August, 1869. Mr. Straight said the certificate bore on it the names of Richard Henry Conway Seymour and Anne Eliza- beth Pugh. Miss Pugh : For some time I lived with the prisoner. I first saw Miss Stride early in January, ana I have been acting under her tdvico ever since. She has behaved very kindly to me. Mr. Straight explained that Miss Stride had a " home." The Magistrate said he was acquainted with Miss Stride, and she was well known to the magistrates of all the police- courts in the metropolis. Mr. . Straight said he would hand in some letters which ho intended to have read; but as Mrs. Pugh, who had been summoned, had not thought proper to attend, he did not wi.- li to prejudice tho prisoner by doing so, as he would not have an opportunity of crbss- 1 examining on them. _ I The Pris ner : What w* 3 your motive in marrying me? Miss Pu^ h : I was urged to do so by Mrs. Pugh, my aunt- Tho letters I sent to you were dictated by I Wis. Pugh. Some of the letters I wrote you as a wife, and that is why they contain expression^ of affection, as I did not then, know you had another wife. I married to oblige my family. I was not morally con- vinced you were already married twelvo months ago. The change in me towards you is because you are not my husband. You never intimated to mo that vou expected anything from MraJ Pugb. Mr. Straight: You will find in one of the letters to Mrs. Pugh an application for the loan of £ 30. The Prisoner : Was not Mrs. Push's object in going to Dieppe to get £ 12,000 ? Miss Pugh: It was, but she did not receive it. It was to assist her in gettiug into business. I belipvo Mra. Pugh anticipated thatl 6h6uld bo of great benefit to herself and family. The Prisoner: It was not likely Mra. Pngh, as alleged, would go to Dieppe to get Jliss Pugh's troua- Bcau, as tho young lady was there herself. The Magistrate : After the legal proof in the case as to the marriage, if you make Mrs. Pugh out to be the most infamous woman in the world, aud show that she even sold her niece, it will not help you. The Prisoner : Mrs. Pugb swore direct falsehoods, and I shall be able to prove a serious charge against her. My first marriage with Alethea Thomas was no marriago at all. Mr. Straight: With great respect I must interfere. I strongly object to any imputations being made, which can only be for the purpose of inflicting pain. The Prisoner: The question is whether my marriage with Miss Thomas was legal or not. Mr. Straight: On the previous occasion the prisoner took the same line of objection, but without effect. The Prisoner: Why do you not produce Miss Thomas ? The Magistrate: Because she is your wife. The Prisoner: I was told by a solicitor a few days ngo that the first wife was the only person who could prosecute, because she was the only person injured. The Magistrate : You are labouring under a mis- take, ami 1 should like to be shown such a law. If the jury'don't believo the evidence of the two witnesses then you will bo entitled to an acquittal. Detective- sergeant Ham said: I took the prisoner into custody in Tower- street, Waterloo- road, having followed him from Laura- terrace, St. George's- road, where ho was living. I said, " Mr. Seymour, I believe!" He said, " No, you have mado a mis- take." I said, " Cavendish, then?" He again Baid I had made a mistake. I told him I had not, and that I had had the pleasure of meeting him at Brussels. He looked up at me and laughed, and said, " I should not have recoTniscd yon if you had not me." I told him I should take him into custody, and he said, " Very wrll: this is the second time you have had me, and I should think you are doing very welL" I produce a certificate of the conviction of the prisoner in July, 1867. when he was sentenced tol2months' imprisonment for bigamy. He made a defence about the first mar- riage being invalid, and then pleaded guilty. Ho was convicted in the name of Henry Cavendish, and was known as Belmore at Brussels. The prisoner has been a c'mji^ r life since IS 13, and had bwu coa> tion fr> m wages of money advanced by the master to the woikman, or rent of premises let to him ; or of a sum in respect of medical attendance, medicine, or subscription to an infirmary, or dispensary, or in re- spect of fuel for domestio use, or of materiols, tools or implements ( other than gas or steam power) supplied by the master for use by the workman in his woik, or of provender supplied for consumption by an animal employed by the workman in his work, or in respect of victuals dressed or prepared under the roof of a master and there consumed by the workman, so that tho sum deducted for fuel, materials, tools, imple- ments, proven ler, or victuals do not exceed their real and true value ; but no deduction is to be made in re- spect of medical attendance when the majority of the workmen shall have notified in writing their objection to the medical attendant employed. The bill is not to authorize any deduction from wages in respect of the use pr standing of any stocking frame or machine. There is to be a penalty of 10i a day for using such a frame or machine in the manu- facture of any articles for persons other than the master. Tho bill is not to prevent payment of wages at the place of ordinary employment, although contiguous to a house licensed for sale of intoxicating liquors or at a shop, provided the master has no interest in the trade. So far as concerns the prohibition of payment of wages in drink, and conditions as to spending wages in drink, and deduction* or actions in respct of drink, the bill 13 to extend to workmen in hus^ bandry. The power of tho Secretary of State to grant exemption with respect to the time of payment of wages, or to certain deductions from wages, is to extend to cases where it is fchown that by . reason of the work- man incurring or sharing the risk of profit or loss, or the difficulty of ascertaining the wages earned within the periods limited by the rill, or by reason of other exigencies in particnlar pases, it is expedient to grant such exemption. The penalty for offences against this Act is not to exceed £ 10 for the first, £ 50 for the qecond, £ 100 for a subsequent offence. In paying wages, bank notes current in the place are to be deemed coin of the realm. The bill, iis amended, has been reprinted. Ahe Vienna papers describe the want of house- room for the poor in that city as most deplorable. A new verb to express the sudden access of heat in the atrn. sphere has been invented—" U TMuriofrj A bill has been read in the Spanish Parliament fix . lng^ he number oi men liable for miaury tervlcv Qi year at Deschamps has been condemned to death by tho Military Tribunal at Versailles for the murder of a soldier luring tho reign of the Commune. _ The Norwegian people are at present preparing foTa great national festival, to ccloterate the l, i> jolh ann venarv of iu existence in a united state. On Sunday the King of the Belgians, after a visit to this country which has extended over twenty days, em- barted from Woolwich Mr hia own dominions. It is said that, on a recent occasion, the people waited patiently oufcldo the doors of the theatre at Dresden ££ a « p « cc of cloven hours to hear Madame Lucca ting In It is stated that the Associated Master Builders of ioLd , n have, by a majority, resolved to meet tho threatened withdrawal of the men by a general lock out It is added th. it many of the masters are In favour of a compromUo. In Mississippi hundreds of horses and mules are dying from the attacks of tho " buffalo gnats," and too f. rmers in some places are unable to cultivate their crons for want of teams. A company is putting up a large factory in Fairfield, America, and will shortly engage In iho building of carriages entirely of iudiarubher cxc. pt in axles and tires. A great snperiority Is claimod for the material over wood. The death is announced on the 14th inst. of Eatherino, daughter of tho late Sir James Hall, Bart, of Dunglass, who, " Debretts I'eeiago" states, married, 1834 i General Sir James Bussell, K. C. U , who died 1859. There aro now S00 newspapers published in Italy; 80 of these are clerical. Since the chair of theology has been abolished bv the Italian Parliament, the bishops and arch- bishops of Piedmont propose to found a theological univer- sity, after the model of that of Louvain, in Belgium. The number of foxes captured and destroyed during the last two or three months In various districts of Pertn- shlre has been unusually large. Oamekeepers havo in many instances succeeded in capturing from half- a- dozen to up- Up to the present time twelve public Acta have been passed and one local statute In the Session which commenoed on the 0th of February. The Marquis of Lome and the Princess Louise left London on Monday, tia Carlisle, and took steamer at Greenock for Inverary, where they solved In tho craning. The King and Queen of Saxony will celebrate their " Golden \ V edding" thn yacr. according to th » « ** maa custom, their Majesties having been married fifty years. An eccentric gentleman in New York has had his house painted black, as a token of his grief for the loss of his wife. University College, the oldest foundation in Oxford, or indeed in existence, having been founded by King Alfred in 67! A. D., will celehrato Its thousandth anniversary on Juno 12. ^ Earl Brownlow has advanced hia labourers wages to lGs. 6d. per week, and reduced their hours by half an hour dally, and they ore to cease work at three o'clock on Satur- days. At the Junior Gun Club at Hendon a novelty in pigeon shooting has been Introduced, each competitor lnths UaU Handicap Sweepstakes having to hsst his gun on a hurdle until the shooter calls " pulL" Conscience Money.— The Chancellor of the Ex- chequer acknowledges the receipt Of a Bank of England U22TIC'M'O note lor £ 10 from " A Converted Man/ No. ' Have you in your album any original poetry f asked ouo joung lady of another. r, No,' 7 was the reply; " but some oi my friends have favoured me with original spelling." Mrs. Elizabeth Cooper has just died at. tho villaga of Cumnor, Berks, at the aco of 102 years and five months, having been born on the 13th Of Doccmber, 1769. She re- tained her faculties to the last. We learn from the PeJcin Gazette that " the per- mission to use a yellow bridlo previously granted to Htl- Il- pa- cha- 0rh- cha pu, Mongolian noble of the first rank. Is withdrawn, it having been discovered that no such privilege has ever been aliened to nobles of either tho third or fourth rank I The inhabitants of Syracuse are building a monu- ment of white marble to Mazzlni in tho famous nuarriea In osition of the Christian SPUTTERINGS FROM " JUDY'S" PEN. Never write secrets with a quill- pen— it might split. A NAXMEROUS . MAN— A coffin maker. So Mr. GREELEY has been nominated by tho Cinclnnatl- Conveutiun. It's G- reolly true, thou t THE Epsom Boad on Derby Day would seem not to bo so popular as It was once: people say tho fun of the thing Is going down. THE only Spring JFFD? believes in— The spring In her urn brella. ; JUDT Is a forgiving creature. Thousands take her In every week, yet she bea> s them no ill- wilL . " WHAT IS the difference between a sportsman and a prize- fighter?— The OHO marks Ills game before he strikes it; the other sti ikes his game before he marks it. THE " WILL" of the House— GLADSTOSE. MANY hands are employed in printing, but JUDT has seen a foot- print. " DROWNINGmen catch at straws:" had they not better c& tch straw hatsf To make a thin man appear fat— Call after him, and he will then look round. How is It a storm is heavy when it keeps lightening I— and the darker it gets the more it lightens ? ' ffn? can't a donkey stop without being ill- treated?—' Be- cause ho mtast then bo oss- halted. PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY— Anotorious young thief, when asked by a clergyman to reform, remarked, that he liad heard p « oplo say, ". Age before honesty," and quite believed In ' the sentiment. — Judjj. wards of 20 foxes each. Recent uneasiness as to the population in Japan, for which there seemed but too grave cause, wi 1 be relieved by a message Iron Yokohama, stating that aa Imperial decree has abolished all edicts against Christianity. The Bejgians are delighted with- the reception given to theft King in London, especially at tho Literary Fund Dinner. Mr. Disraeli's Bpeech on that occasion, which ' been translated and primed verbatim in tho Brussels ni papers, has given greut satisfaction. A new green has been discovered which is brilliant enough to replace the poisonous col ur produced by arsenic. It 13 composed of twenty parts of oxide of zinc and — oi sulphate of cobalt, mixed into a paste with water, expoiedto a red heat. The Germans are paying very special attention to naval affairs. It is announced that tho German Government will shortly submit a memorandum to Parllnment recom- mending tho acquisition of some naval stations abroad, but rejecting aDy idea of farming colonies. ' No plant absorbs nitrogen so rapidly as the sun- flower, s ravenous as tho stomach of an ostrich. A pigeon i buried between the roots of a sunflower; after some ks not a vestige of the bird was found— the pldnt had de- voured and digested oven tho feathers., The Journal Officiel says that the courts- martial ren- dered, between the i9tli April and tho 6th May, 640 Judg- ment, and liberated 32 prisoners for want of evidence. The total number of sontences pronounced hitherto 1s 9,353, and the individuals set free amount to 21,312; making a total of 30JJ70 cases decldcd upon. " You can read and write a little, I suppose?" asked an eminent educationalist tho other day, iu ine neighbour- hood of Newcastle, of a stulwart young collier. " Read an* wrolte I" laughed the youthful giant; whoy, there's noine of uz l" t* family, an' noan on uz can tell t' clock I" A new cannon of thirty- six tons is to eclipse the . Woolwich Infant of tliirty- flvo tons. The now gun is to be employed on land lor harbour defenco, most probably in in s- mo of tho now forts at Plymouth, while the use of the Woolwich Infants will be confined to tho navy. The Earl of Ahcrdeen, the Premier, appears to have been rather awkward in a ball- room. V/ jten obliged on one occasion to stand up with an ambassadress, Samuel Rogers said " Tho earl danccd a3 If he was hired for the purpose and wus not sure of being paid." The subject of Chinese labour still engages the at- tention of tho sonthoru planters In the United States. It appears that a company has been formed with a capital of 200,000 dollars fox tho purpose of carrying out ti ls project. The emigrants are to bo engaged at wages of eight dollars per month with all found. From the Scotch Registrar General's returns it ap| » \ ara that the births InScotland last year show an Increase of 704 as compared with the previous year; the deaths Bhow an increase of 677. aud the mairiagea 178. Of tho total number of biiths, 11,073 or rather more than 0 per cent were Illegitimate. The Mormon ladie3 are going to start a paper in Utah to advocate their " rights," including, no doubt, that coruer- stone In the Mormon theological edifice, polygamy. According to a Mormon publication in this country, tho la ilea of Uta'i are " tired of tho misrepresentations of the ignoraut and tho bigoted." " The latest method of New York thieveB is to pick pnck'. ts at funerals, wilt re persous are naturally least on their guard against such depredations. A day or two ago, at a funeral up town, three of the pall- bearers, while carry- ing the cofflu from the house to the hearse, were robbed of their watches in the mo « t adroit and mysterious manner. In some Instances where funerals are large, policemen are sta- tioned at tho door of tho family residence to prevent tho en- trance of well- known cut- purses. just grown up at the time of her father's death. Another case that might be mentioned as illus- trating the working ot the eociety was that of a sculptor, who lost the use of his eyesight for a time, and had to be helped, and was efficiently helped, with a handsome sum from the funds of this society.^ There was 6uch great need for an orphan fund, that last year immense eiforts were made, and all available revenues turned in that direction : but one result was that all savings bad disappeared. Everything that conld be done had been- done to save all unnecessary working expenses, and the whole machinery of the charity only co3t. £ 170, which 6howed almost un- paralleled good management, for the outlay in dona- tions was at the same time £ 1,595. ( Cheers.) But little aid could be got from the public. Let them remedy this as best " they could this year, and set an example to be followed in other years. ( Cheers.) The toast was very warmly received, as was also the toast of " The Royal Academy," which tho chairman described as having been formed out of a chaos of small rival cliques, but as now constituting an earthly para- dise to which all painters wished to go. Sir F. Grant responded to the toast, and proposed " The Health of Sir J. Gilbert," who, on rising to reply, was greeted with loud cheees. Mr. Hardwick, the treasurer, afterwards read a list of subscriptions, amounting in all to £ 2,552. He men- tioned that the chairman was a subscriber to the amount of £ 25, and that a friend to whom the institu- tion was already greatly indebted had promised a do- nation of £ 500. THE SCOTCH MEMORIAL TO THE PRINCE CON- SORT.— A meeting of the committee for the erection of the Prince Consort Memorial in Charlotte- square, Edinburgh, was held on Monday. A sub committee was api> ointed to take steps for the purpose of raising subscriptions to secure a crunite pedestal for the monu- ment and to lay out the garden in an appropriate manner. It was intimated that the Duke of Buccleuch had guaranteed the sum of £ 2,000 to the fund, which had already enabled the committee to give orders for the commencement of the work. A letter was read from tho Marquis of Lome stating that Her Majesty had allowed the Princess Louise to subscribe £ 300 to the pedestal fund. It was resolved to add his lor' 1 ship's name to the committee. PAUPERISM.— The monthly returns stating he number of paupers receiving relief in England and Wales continue to show improvement. At Lady- day, 1S70, the number was 1,017.662 ; at Lady- day, 1871, 909,0S5; and at Lady- day, 1872, 907,017 ; hut, owing to some classes of paupers not being included in these retnms, the above numbers are rather more than 3 per cent below the real numbers. The paupers at the end of March, 1S72, were 9 " 2 per cent fewer than at the corresponding date in the preceding year. In the j metropolitan districts the decrease was as much as 16 O per cent ; in the north- western division ( Lancashire and Cheshire) 15" 7 per cent. ; in tho other parts of England the decrease wa3 not so great— in Yorkshire only 513 per cent, in the south- westem counties 4" 8 per . cent, in Wales 3 1 per cent 1 EPITOME OF NEWS, | BRITISH AND FOREIGN. The Earl of Carysfort died at Florence on Satur- day evening from lever. Upwards of £ 3,000,000 is to be distributed amongst the people o( Paris who suffered loss from the two slege3 and tho devastation caused by tho Commune. Geneva was, on Sunday last, the sccne of a meeting between tho Danish Royal family anil the Prince and Princess of Wales. Prince Humbert will shortly leave Rome for Berlin, where he is to bo godfather to tho last infant of the Princcis Imperial of Germany. The absence of { us Royal Highness will bo about ten days. On Monday afternoon between two and three o'clock another melancholy occurrence took place < 11 the Thames oil Twickenham Eyot, through the upsetting of two pleasure- boats, whereby four young men wero drowned, and four others had a very narrow escape. The Rangoon Times publishes a warning to native boatmon not to go to sleep in the bows of their boats, as the nllU atois have discovered that, by a little exertion, they can reach them. Several cases are said to havo occurred lately of men being dragged off boats by these monitors. ' A young man of a fast turn, and looking like ahy- tlung but a doctor, complains that all his tradesmen are de- termined to give him the title of Dr., but they put tho Dr. after his name instead of before it. At a meeting the other day, Mr. Frank Buckland' re- lated that one day last summer, just before the autumn manoeuvres, ho was out in Berkshire, aud stopplue at a country inn for refreshment, ho waited some time without seeing any one to servo him. On asking the reason he was told the l. aidlady was engaged In making port wine for tho Berkshire volunteers I . '.' The fending round of the hat for « tho Claimant ) v° al. d » PPe » r. t<> be made a precedent for further ap- peMs to what is currently understood as our English sense ?„ iSfliPUy-. ^ u < or M[* suerite DiblSno comes forward on behalf of his client, whom he pathetically des- begs that a little of the stream of bounty flowtog towards the many- sided ' Sir Rocer' to sustaining tho cause he has espoused."— > J^. the fragments of tho VendOme Column have mlTnr^ ^"^ a portIoQ near th" top and middle part of the shaft. 11 has now been ascertained that n th° ? l the immune, some foreigner In tho surrounding hotels ( Americans, it U said) were able price lour lar^ e pieces; in Edition to HmJ? i'hn^, £ ecome k, i"" n that a 3wls » . staying at the . U^. ChSt, ham' becimo the proprietor of a tifth niece & « ad of his'. 01 WhiCh h6 ^ iaBt ^ » nJ^ ML° nd, 0Ii S^ h001 Eoard have at bit upon the f",,?,'. ed", catlou- bavo ascertained that it , to provido , or the education of 100,000 children, and that this would entail a rate of lJd in the pound. It has been estimated that It will take twopenw JsK?. ' art, hl" ca for 2( j0 <**> children, and threepence tSS farthings for 300,000 children. Tho estimated £ rt^ f « ch child Is twenty- Uve shillings yearly, of which the State will bear one portion and the fees another portion 1 he Swis, society for promoting the better obser- I^ ZfXZ7 "" i^ titors to send talE^ on the subject of the most practical means to abolish or reduce ® J't'day railway goods traffic and to secure a day of rest ^ 200 ^ respectively t merits of the compositions to be decided by a jury. Any language may be employed at the ontion of a translation into French ZstT^ pany all productions not written In tnat languago ~„ r? UrryJcc ™ 3 t0 bo the curse of London existence which 7,0u0 Athenians wero confined after tho sloge of Syracuse by Nicias. It Is a curious antithesis that a monu- ment to a liberator should bo raised In a prison. A large watch and clock manufacturer in NeuchatcB has set the example of participation of profits with his1 workmen. A regular account is opened with each man, and his book Is made up annually, four per cent being added by - the employer to the amount duo to be paid, as intorest on the capital for one year. Mr. John Bellows, of Qlocester, prints for the Go- vernment the blank forms for clectric telegraph messages, and hastoissuo weekly 300,000 copies— that Is. 1,300,000 monthly.; and 15,600.000 In tho year; and tho order involves the use oE 42 tons of paper in the twelvemonth. This paper Is a strange composite; It Is made of palm leaves, Esparto grass, and bright oat- straw. It is stated that the executive committee of th « London Irish Home Bulo Association has determined to hold a reries of public meetings In tho metropolitan boroughs, for the purpose of pr pounding tho principles of Bums Eulo, and of promoting tho registration of the Irish resldonU in London. Tho first of these dem > nstratlons will be hold In the Agricultural HaU, Islington, on Monday, June 10. | Professor Palmieri has just received an address, signed by seventy citizens of Bomc, expressing their admlrv tion'of his character and conduct, and congratulating hlmi on tho success of hl3 efforts to save numerous vlctlmr from destruction In the late terrible eruption of Mount Vesuvius. In London, on Saturday evening tho Duke of Edin- burgh, following the examplo sot by so many Illustrious personages, was admitted to tho Liverv of the Worshipful' Company of Fishmongers. The ceremom * as succeeded by a banquet, at wldch his Royal Highness, tho Duke of Cam- bridge, the Lord Chancellor, tho Archbishop of York, and Mr. Bouverie, M. P., were amongst tho speakers. Commerce is urging on diplomacy in the matter o£ tho Alabama claims. Numerous bankers and business corporations have forwarded addresses to tho Foreign Coa>- mltteo and the Senators in favour < t tho ratification of tha Supplement ' 1 Article ; plainly stating that they do so as a means of relieving tho embarrassments of business causod bv the pending disputes between Great Britain and tho United States. Monto Video has been visited with a disease resembl- ing yellow fever. Preempt measures wero taken by th « authorities. A military cordon was established around th* affected districts, and the inhabitants forcibly removed in two Government steamers to Flores Island, in order thai they might perform quarantine. Mr. Maguiro intends to move tho re- committal of tho Ballot bill for tho purposo of omitting tho 26th rule, described as tho " illiterate clause." The hon. member will move it as an amendment to the third reading of tho BUI. which the Government propose to mako the first order of the day on the 27th lust., to which day tho Houso of Commoni stands adjourned. I The gradual disappearance of woods and forests from tho face of the civilised world has raised a cry ot alarm from various quarters. Tho question has received much attention in France and Germany, and the diminution of t^ e pine forests of Norway has been lately noticed; and It seems thattho apparently Inexhaustible timber supply o£! Nort h America may ere long show signs of exhaustion. It la alleged that the Western forests are perishing like dew. j For the last three or four yeare French smokers havo been complaining bitterly of the bad quality of the tobacco which the Government has been providing in spite of tho extra charge of It 25c. per lb. By way of protest tho grumblers havo taken advantage of the Prussian occupation to Indulge In unlimited smuggling, and tho consequenco has been a very appreciable diminution in tho profits which the French Government make on the sale of the noxloua weed. The Assize Court of the Morbihan has been engaged1 In trying a woman named Bourgerou, aged 20, on a charge oE having set fire. In 1871, to the prison at Vaunes, where sh* was at that time detained. Tho conflagration was very I terrible, one woman perished in the flames, and tho loss < m estimated at £ 8.000. Tho evidence showed that tho prisoner had repeatedly sp » kcn of fire as tho only means of recovering her liberty. The Tribunal condemned her to h& rd labour far life^ life.^ The new alloy phosphoro- bronze seems to bo cominr mto veir general use for the purposo of artillery. Tho Belgian Government are using it for rifles, and tho Russians for cartridge cases. It can be made as tough as wrought- iron, while Its hardness may be regulated to that of steel; its elasticity Is great. It Is said to be perfectly homogeneous! with a fine grain and fine fluidity. This preparestho way for considerable economy in the manufacture of revolvers. Its power of resisting largo charges of cannon powder U ap- parently very much greater than that of ordinary metal. Last weeK 30 members of the Devonport Police foreo petitioned the Watch Commltteo of that town to Increuo- their pay and give them some privileges. A previous appB- cation had beon refused, and not only did the committer refuso again, but they decided that all those who did not agree to remain In the force on the present terms were to be dismissed. At six o'clock on Monday night some with- drew. and 10 were discharged. They had an opportunity givm them of rejoining tho D^ vonport Force next morninjc, but they all refused to take advantage of It. PAT., alttrhis cIIee.'- ComapundBnt olDaUy TcUgrapK. In London, Monday was the worWman',, holiday. 1. it B, S """ h" U. J lunay Fam, ™ nnml » S left I^ ndon in all direction, lor the ration, placc, o( • nbntbaa rerert. Th. tt, roDB, la Wot oi licrStCSod • Ma. upon the dect. ol Ut. river . teamboaU f 55? XSd X. S T. K° p ™ metropolitan llae. ot ntui^ T „ d ~ 7. . the omnihusea upon every road leadiag onl ot tho netropoli* Ko prevloui holiday ha. been more Sene » St ,] y In the City, but throughout tho entfi ^ n . i .. II|, J * throughout tho entiri capital. At some plaeea the number ot atghtseera wa » un- precedented. There were u. 000 vWuSTSttTzMj gicul Garden,, and more than ti. ooj to the EihlblUon. " A tvi. low lady, aged 40, redding in the country, u JS^ SS. 0' 3* ™ " ", tb ' uiuower, over < t7eS " l age with a vie. to matrimony ; be muat ti In builnuTind be po « e,. ed oi a numerate Inctne, aa . he ha. m^ S• children no objection whatever. - Addreaa " ic _ ' iSSSCJ^ tSr gentleman, in a good poaitlm In bniln. vrlshea to corrtsrcud with, n lady, from 25 to 35 otc Usementa in tho Manchester Examiner. ' < tc-~ A( lTer- Lord Northbrook arrived at Bombav on tb « 0 « iK liSli THE MARKETS. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.- MOTOAT. Although tho market has had somowhat of a holiday a&- pearanco. the tone nevertheless was ct- rtnlnly firm Tha supplies of stock were less than tho averago. but tho quaUtr was good. As regards beasts, tho foreign supply comprUei a fair number of Spanish stock. The conditional our home breeds was satisfactory. For all qualities tho trade was firm, at last Monday's prices the best Scots and crosscs making 6s 8d. per 81b. frJn Norfolfc Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, wo received about l S Scots and crosses ; from other parts of England, about 10J0J various breeds ; and from Scotland. HO scots and rrn VJt With sheep the m. rktt has been only mo^ ate^ suppl^: but the quality has been good. A fair busincj haTheS doing, and prices have had an upward tendency. Tho best DOHUS and half- bred* have ma e 6s. lod. to so£ o pcL81b', have been di- p^ ed ' S at al out tho rates previously current. Calves have been In lS- creased supply and moderate request, at latt ice, P £ sold on fonner terms. At Dcptford t ere havo befo .1? b « uta and about the usual iupply of sheep Si' t^ L whilst generally firm, has been without Important feat^ but prices have been steady. ^ ' icaiure, Per 81b. to sink tho ofUL • l. d. ii. In. course boasts.. 2 10 3 0 Second quality .. 3 10 4 0 Pnmo large oxen 4 10 6 4 Prime Scots. 4a.. 6 6 6 8 In. coarse sheep .. 8 10 4 6 Scoond quality.... 4 8 6 0 Pr. coarse woolled 5 4 6 8 Prime Southdown.. * 6 ioo * o Large coarse calves 4 4 6 0 Prime small 6 4 0 0 Largo hogs... 3 8 4 4 Neat small porkers 4 0 6 0 lambs 7 q a 0 METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET.— MoSDAT. Inferior beef 8 4 S 10 Middling ditto.... 4 0 4 4 Prime large ditto.. 4 0 4 8 Pnmesmalldltto.. 4 10 6 0 Veal 4 8 6 0 Inferior mutton.. 4 o" 4 Middling ditto.... 4 10 6 0 Prime ditto 6 4 6 8 Largo pork 8 8 4 2 aimJl pork 4 0 6 4 advice8 the Province of Biscay iS ^ m A P « 7 free of Insurgents 6,000 are said to havo submitted on Sunday last. Importance is attached to the news that the Carlist Junta in Bllcay, wldch Srt p? ouo^ ed for the rising, has bc< n dispersed, and that the insurrec- tionary forccs are thus left without organisation. From April 1st to the 18th instant the Exchequer rece^ tsamounted to £ 9,499,023, an increase of nSriy £ 1 600,000 upon the revenue in the corresponding period of last year The expenditure has been £ 1 uSW O,/ Satur- day last the balance in the Bank of fcnglknd wai £ 0,& 26! l6O. A man, \ yho described himself as a cooper's labourer ra; i°. D. Sle8dSy to^ months1 imprisonment, with the southwark poljM ma.. iitrjte forlivi » g committed a brutal assault upon his wife. At the same court three months of the like punUhmeut werelwa£ ledt? a S^ n on" Ur^ X'S^ T6 C° mPial0a ^ ^ h<! ^ It may interest lady readers fcays the Levant Timet) to be Informed that Queen Olgaof WQrteMberg, whe^ Visi " d SS'SJf. r? 8 v0f BJasenfc* colour trimmed trith ^ rt K. . h, lteU. Ce'h, er ^ ad dreas being a small diidSa. ^^'^."'"^ Ktho visitthosams altcrnoo5~ S. ivore a gre « n satin dress richly trim= ed, It is stated that h « Russian Steam Navigation Company had Wd out han 3J. 000 roubles In fitting up and decorating the Ofaa garner, in which the Queen Is voyaging anTwh ch I CTvesheras on hoteL Her MaJ. sty has slept on board 1 Kui ^ h8W ter « ss THE FALMOUTH AND PENrYN WEEKLY TIMES. SAT'-' UPAT, MAY 18. 1872. IJusiiiws innanacemtnts. PHOTOGRAPHY. The First. Week of the Oxford and Cambridge PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION has been a success, But the Manager very much regrets his inahjfitv; fn5m over- crowding, to Photograph tho whole of his Visitors, and his necessity to disappoint so many scores of them of their Photographs. These, however, and The Public will tiud the terms of the Association are MOST LIBERAL. BORWICK'S CUSTARD POWDER. Makes delicious Custards and Blanc Mange. Custards made with it are a great improvement to all Fruit Puddings and Pies. Vast numbers use it and no family should be without it. SOLD by all Grocers and Cofji Dealers, in Id. and 2d. packets, and 6d. and Is. tins. Clergy or Ministers of all denominations and Public Gentlemen will always be Photographed FREE OF CHARGE. APPOINTMENTS IN The MORNINGS ARE PARTICULARLY DESIRED. Dated 9, Berkeley Place, Falmouth, May 7, 1872. FIRST CLASS PORTRAITS, ArE TAKEN OnLY AT Trull's Photographic Establishment, Church St., Falmouth. f£ T SEE TEE 15s. CABINET, not to ill surpassed in England for Price, Style, and Finish. ETory Description of PHOTOGRAPHIC WOrK, from Carte do Viste to Life Size Part of a House to Let, TO BE LET, with i/ nmpdiate possession, a PART OF \ F'/ QSE ( PO" listing of a Floor of Three l ooms/, in Lahsdowne Road ( lately called Obelisk Road), Falmouth. The House is pleasantly and healthily situa- ted in close proximity to the Quay, Dock, and Bail way. Apply at the Offices of this Paper, To Tailors. WANTEDrfor thfe Outfitting Business a PensoB ds Cutter and Foreman — one willing to majte UimSelf generally useful, and to work on \ ieV^ 5oard when not otherwise engaged. Apply to Mr JACOB, Arwenack Street, Falmouth. / May 24th, 1872. Edict ill; ul( iii£. 1 FALMOUTH Volunteer Fire Brigade. ALL PERSOns having CLAIMS oil thi » Brigade are requested to send in particu- lars of tho same to t lie undersigned on or before the 1st day of June next, so that they may be examined and paid. ThoMAs OLVER, Captain F. V. F. B. Dated May 24th, Homoepathic Medicines, prepArED BY J. M. REndALL, M. P. S, Chemist by appointment to the Exeter, the Torquay, and the Plymouth Homeopathic Dispensaries, can be obtained in FALMOUTH of his Agent, Mr. W. H. SOLOMON, Dispensing Chemist, 40, Market St. Also, Kendall's THEOBROMinE COCOA the purest and most delicious extant, in Tins, Is., 2s., and 3s. 9d. each. D\ S Obergerichtj der freien Hansesdadt BREMEN macht hiedurch bekannt: dass auf den Bericht der Pupillencom- mission der Antirag von . Tohann Eduard Stake, Christian Xudwig Habbert Wittwe Adelheid, geb. Stake, Johann Heinrich Stake, Hans Wult, Namens seiner Ehofrau, Helene, geb. Stake, Greorg Wilhelm Stake, und Albert Wilhdlm Stake, " ihren Bruderi FRIEDRICH HBINBICH ALBEBT STAKE, [ Sohn des verstorbenen hiesigen Muehlenpesitzers Johann Caspar Heinrich Stake lund dessen i; leichfalls verstorbener Ehetrau, Marie, geb. Finke, geboren hieselbsl am 24. October 1838. welcher im Auguit 1868 als Capitain des unter PreussiscHer Flagge fahrenden Schiffes " Anna '' leine Reise von London via Newport nacn Kingston ( Jamaica) gemacht liabe uni von da im December 1868 ueber Blaca River, Jamaica, mit demselben Schiffe mit einer Ladung Blauholz nach Filmouth versegelt sei, ohne dort anzuUommen, fuer todc zu erklaeren," als zulaessig und aemgemaess eine Ediot- alladung des Versphollenen erkannt wor- den ist. I Es wird daher der rorerwaehnte Friedrich Heinrich Albert STAKE hiedurch geladen spaetestens am MONTAG, DEN | 7. JULI 1873, VoBMITTAod 10 UHB, vor dem Obergerichte in dessen Audienzimmer auf hiesigem Rathhause persoenlich odor durch einen Bevollmaeclhtigten zu erscheinen, oder bis dahin Kunde vlon seinem Leben und Aufentlxalt zu geben, wijlrigenfalls er fur todt erklaert und sein VermoeKen den in Folge seines Todes dazu Benechtigten verabtolg werden wird. 1 Sodann word en Alle,] welche von seinem Leben oder Tode Nachridhten besitzen, aufge- fordert, solche dem Obergerichte mitzutheilen. Zugleich werden die u ibekannten Erben und Glaubiger des obgenannuen Friedrich Heinrich Albert STAKE, hiemit jeladon, ihre etwaigen I Anspruche und Fordor lngeu bei Strafe des Vi. jBtes derselben, n dem obgedachton Termine anzugoben, un< geltond zu machen. Bremen, aus der Caizlei des Obergeriohts den 23. April 1873. ' POST, Dr., Seer. Genteel Houses' to be Let or Sold in Road. TO BE LET Or SOLD, with immediate possession, wal elegantly- designed and commodious DWElliNGS ( newly- built), in Obelisk commmanding the finest views in Falmouth. BadWrNnisc comprises 2 Parlors, 2 Kitchens, 5 Bedrooms, W . C., and a small Cellar; with a Garden V front and convenient Courtlage at the back. Apply to Mr. JAMES MITCHELL, Builder, Falmouth. THE HOUSEKEEPERS of Falmouth and Neighborhood aro resjiectluUy invited to try SOLOMON'S Celebrated English Baking Powder, ( For making Bread, Tea Cakes, < tc., without Yeast), and judge for themselves whether tho professional Cooks und others who have declared it to be the be « t that is used, are correct in so Sold by most respeciabfe Grocers, also by the Manufacturer, at 40, Market Street, Falmouth, in Packed, Id. and 2d., and in Tin Canisters, at 6d., Is., and 2s. each. Ask . or jo- omon's Baking Powder. THE VILLAGE BROUGHAM, the VICTORIA Brougham & lhoPark brougham, RBGIBTHBKTI. LBT, forms p « rfoctfii> euorolo » edciirriaKe; So- J . ilroncham AVictorln; 3rd Brougham, Victoria & Drivtng" Phaoto! j, all ID IHO most perl cot raiinrjjr. Made any size. Pony Phaetons Ixi every vunoty, Drftw » tngnnl, Bouti^ j Wniited. A LAD wanted/ as Boots. Apply at the fx. Albion Ho^ f, Falmouth. Cook Wanted. \\ TANTED a ( jooJ pliin COOK. Apply \ t by letter, box 19, Post Office, Falmouth. [' uiiiip Jkfugolil Seed. i^ HE BEST W^ fS in cultivation on sale at UIJNDJPLL'S Seed Stores, Market Street, FalmoufrnT To guilders. IIHE FalmoutlU^ yriaL^ oard is desirous of receivingEI^ DliRS for the erection of a Mortuary llouRe/ thc/ pluus and specifications for which may/ byseen on application to the undersigned, by wKom Tenders will be received until the 3rd daVof June next. The Board do not bind themselves to accept the lowest oj/ anj Tender. By order, THOS. S. 8KINNEB, Clerk, Dated May S) th, lti72. © etitral. SATURDAY. MAY 1HV2. FALMOUTH. EArLE'S RETREAT CHAPEL. — The Rev. C. Burgess will preach hero to- morrow afternoon, at 3 ; and the Rev. R. G. Moses, B. A., on Tuesday evening next, at 7. THE £ 12 MUSICAL BOX drawn for last even- ing at Mr. Carver's was won by Mr. John Roberts, Jun., who held only one share in the drawing, being number 3. QUEEN'S BIrTHDAY.— We are requested to remind thoBo of our readers who receive navy allotments, pensions, & c., that the Custom House will be closed on Saturday, the 1st June next, and that the payments usually made on the 1st day of the month will take place on Monday the 3rd June. SUPPOSED TO BE LOST AT SEA.— Thomas Warren, a fisherman, about sixty years of age, re- siding at Flushing, went to sea in his fishing boat on Friday night, and is supposed to be drowned, his boat ( containing fish) having been picked up at eea and brought to Falmouth. A VIOLENT PAUPEE.— Emma Exelby, a pau- > er of the Helston union, absconded from the work- l'ouse of that union last week with the union clothes, and, on Tuesday, received an order for ad- mission into tho Falmouth house. During the day she deliberately smashed 24 panes of glass in the receiving ward, and on Wednesday was committed for 28 days' hard labour. ACCIDENT. — Mr. Tremayne, a travelling ped- lar, wishes us to state that he met with a serious accident on Tuesday Veek when embarking from the Market Strand for St. Mawes, by which he dis- located his shoulder and badly sprained his arm through a heavy fall, from the slippery state of the granite steps. He hopes this notice will cause the responsible parties to get the steps rough- picked for the safety of persons using thom. MASONIC.— A provincial meeting was held at the Royal Hotel on Thursday last, at which a large number of brethren were present, including— the F. G. M., Bro. Augustus Smith ; Bros. R. Rogers, D. P. G. M., Corlyon, P. G. Sec., P. P. War- dens Jenkins and Solomon, Bro. Chirgwin, Sec. Cornwall Masonic Annuity Fund, Bros. Johns, P P G. S., tho W. M. of Lodge " Love and Honor," Bros. G. A. Jenkins, P. P. G. R., Jacob, P. P. Supt. Wks., Spargo, Bullmore, Jephson, II. Rusden, Fontana, Ac. The meeting was convened for con- sidering the best moans of furthering the progress of masonry in this particular neighborhood ; a lon{ discussion took place, the application for a seconc lodge in Falmouth being much desired and strongly supported by all tho leading brethren of the pro- vince and neighborhood. It is hoped tho meeting may tend to the desired result, for the members of the Masonic body are so numerous in this locality ( and differences of opinion will arise even amongst the most patriotic of men ), that for the true masonic spirit to be properly cultivated nothing less than tho re- establishment of a second lodge wil bring about that desirable end. STrIKE OF CArPeNTErS AND MASONS.— On Saturday evening a large number of carpenters and masons in the employ of Messrs. Olver and Sons, J. W. Halligey, S. Rogers, James Mitchell, E. Williams, Stevens and Webb, S. Richards, and T. Pye, met at tho rooms in High Street, lately occu- pied' by tho Liberal Association, having been en- deavoring, without success, during the last few weeks to induce their employers to adopt the nino hours' system. Mr. Wm. Mitchell presided, and stated that at the last meeting it was decided that if tho employers did not consent to that system, they should come out to a man. There had been no reply from tho masters. There wore whispers that some of the mou present at the last meeting had not maintained their integrity, and he though it a shame and a disgrace not to do so. ( Cheers.] The secretary said their employers had been res- pectfully invited by bills and ciroplars for the nine hours' system pure and simple to* como into opera- tion on the tot lowing Monday. Having reiawed only two replies out of 16 employers, it was oBBr- mined to send thom a deputation. This hid been done, and the deputation was informed that the subject should be considered and a reply forwarded. No reply had been received. He suggested that they to a man should not resumo work until they had received, without making the least concession, their simple and practical requeSt. Tho chairman was glad to see some employers sought the welfare of their workmen. The Messrs. Freeman had treated their men well, for without asking they had granted the nino hours' movement and Od. per day extra. Other speeches followed, and it was carried unanimously " That in consequence of not receiving any reply from their masters they would all decline to go to work on Monday." HArBOUr BOArD.— Tho monthly meeting of the Falmouth Harbour Board was held on Tuesday last. Thoro were present Messrs. r. R. Broad ( chairman), Hallamore, Bennetts, Dymond, Tilly, Banks, and Selley. The costs of witnesses in the late prosecution at Bodmin was again brought for- ward, and tU" clejk ( Mr. Genn) read the amounts of tho county allowances. They wore as follows : — Messrs. Lashbrooke, £ 1 10s. 9d.; Carvosso, £ 1 9s. 9d. ; Webber, £ 1 9s. 3d. ; and Julyan, £ 1 2s. Mr. Tilly would make a few remarks with references to Mr. Julyan's charges. Ho considered they were only reasonable. He was now in a posi- tion to explain how the claim of £ 10 10a. was made up. His personal exponses, such as railway fare, substitute during his absence, boat hiro, and 18s. for the maintenance of prisoners under remand, made £ 4 14s., added to this the credit of £ 1 2s. to tho Harbour Board ( the county allowance), this would leave the sum of £ 4 14s. for Mr. Julyan's own services. Surely no member of the B0ftrd would say that this was one farthing too much, considering the importance of tho case and the trouble Mr, Julyan took. The Chairman regretted that these particulars were not made know to tho Board before. Ho had received a lettor from Mr. Julyan, dated yesterday, in which he stated- " Referring to what appearod in the press, pur- ( after apprehending the prisoner), and which case was instituted by a Marine Insurance Board, and I was allowed a guinea and a- half per diem besides my railway fare ( first- class). In the present case I undertook the un- enviablo post of prosecutor ; the case was several times remanded, and the prisoners were kept in custody six days and nights at my expense. No delay was allowed on my part in dealing with tho case, and the prisoners were ably defended. I never took a more active part in pro- secuting a case, and I now say, without fear of con- tradiction, that but for my services there would not have been a conviction." Mr. Hallamore would not detract from the services rendered on the occasion by Mr. Julyan, but in a letter in one of the papers ho had stated that a deputation of four commis- sioners had waited on him and told him not to spare any expense. As his name ( Mr. Hallamore'B) had been mixed up in the matter, he begged to state that he wa3 not one of the four members. After some discussion, during which it was stated that the Town Council was liable for the mainten- ance of the prisoners, it was resolved on the motion " Mr. Selley that £ 8 10s. be paid to Mr. Julyan, addition to the £ 1 2s., the allowance of the county, and the 18s. which he must charge to the town. Mr. Lashbrooke's claim, less the £ 1 10s 2d. county allowance, was ordered to be paid, as was abo Sir. Webber's. Mr. Carvosso's account was curtailed one guinea, and a cheque given for £ 3 3s. 9d., instead of £ 4 4s. 9d., his charge being con- sidered excessive. The steamboat committee pre- sented their report, signed by E. Handcock and J. P. Bennetts, in which they recommended the de- duction for extras, £ 23 8s. 2d., from Messrs. Wil- loughby Brothers' account. It was adopted, and a copy ordered to be sent to those gen^ cmen. Air. Selley then read the following extr' A from the Act of Parliament governing the Hi > Wr Board :— " Any person who at any time after his appoint- ment or election as a commissioner, shall accept or continue to hold any office or place of profit under the special Act, or be concerned or participate in any manner in any contract, or in the profit there- of, or of any work to be done under the authority of such Act, shall thenceforth cease to be a r missioner, and his office shall thereupon be< vacant." Mr. Selley did his duty by drawing the attention of ^ he Board to the matter. Mr. Ben- netts : That is giving us all a warning; perhaps Mr. Selley would give a case. Mr. Hallamore : Must it be taken as retrospective or prospective ? Mr. Selley would state a case— the recent assize prosecution. Other desultory discussion followed, and the subject then dropped. porting to give an account of tho proceedings at the Falmouth Harbour Board, at a lato meeting, with roference to my charges thoroin, I now claim offer a few remarks in explanation thereto. It may appear to some of tho members of your Board that the claim made by mo was for my services only, whereaa tho sum of nearly £ 4 were oxponscs pai out of my own pocket, and to show that it is nc unusual to bo paid, I may bo allowed to instance case tried at the asaues, wheroin 1 was a witness PENRYN. DISSOLUTION OF PABTNEBSHIP.— The Lon- don Gazette notifies the dissolution of partnership of the West of England Bone and Manure Com- pany, Penryn, as far as regards W. Manser. UNION OF SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHEBS.— The teachers of the Wesleyan Sunday Schools of the Falmouth oircuit met on Tuesday at the Wesleyan school- room, when a tea was provided, and enjoyed by about 100 persons. WHITSUNTIDE WEATHEr,— Whitsuntide here has been a period of much wet and wind. It has been altogether an unpleasant holidav time. There are no rejoicings to note. A few people endeavoured to amuse themselves, but hail- stones as large as marbles are not constituents of jollity. True on Wednesday there was a misadventure. In the evening of that day a party, intending to have row down the river, lett the quay at nine o'clock. They had not proceeded far, however, before the boat " stuck in the mud," where she had to remain until two o'clock on Thursday morning, thus af- fording the occupants an opportunity of seeing the lartial eclipse of the moon, which was visible from i0.30 p. m. till 11.30 p. m. COUNTY NEWS. Gwennap Pit Service.— Gwennap Pit, the well- known spot where John Wesley preached, was, in consequence of the unfavorable state of the weather on Whit- Monday, not so crowded as usuaL The Rev. S. R. Hall, of Penzance, chairman of the districtj de- livered a heart- stirring discourse from Isaiah xii, 6. The rain fell smartly during tho service, but the con- gregation kept their places to the close. Wanton Mischief.— A sliding window of one of the compartments of the railway train was broken in piece's on Monday evening by a large substance thrown at the carriage when near Perranwell railway station, and on Tuesday evening the plate- glass window of a first class compartment was broken, and the pieces flew over Mr. Win. Tweedy and Mr. T. Webber. J. P., of Falmouth, the only occupants of the compartment. It has since been ascertained that the stones were thrown by a boy. A Hero of the Sea.— The silver medal and vellum of the Royal Life Boat Institution has been presented to Samuel Bate, the assistant coxswain of the Albert Edward life boat stationed at Padstow. It has been given in recognition of his services in helping to man the boat on 14 different occasions, and in saving a num- ber of mariners from a watery grave. He was the man who caught the infant in his arms when dropped from the bowsprit of theship Viking, recently wrecked in Padstow Bay. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. R. Tyacke, tho local secretary of the institu- tion, and the medal was pinned on by the Hon. Mrs Brune. Suitable addresses were made and thanks returned. Attempted Murder and Suicide near Liskeard. — Some time ago a man named Sleeman, at Crow's Nest, a village near Liskeard, died, leaving a wife and three young children. The family were in somewhat impoverished circumstances, and the mother became ry despondent, and determined to destroy herself and ; tle ones. On Tuesday last she procured some rat poison, and calling her children around her, she made thom take some of it, and afterwards took so- ri • herself. Fortunately it was soon afterwards discovered chat she was suffering from the effects of poison, and a medical man was sent for. He was speedily in attendance, and, administering to the sufferer* an antidote, he ultimately got them out of danger, and they are now in a way of recovery. whit- Monday at Redruth.— Owing to tho very lpromising weather in the morning, with thunder, lightning, hail, and blowing pretty hard for the first three hours of the day, the town of Redruth and Gwennap Pit were not so numerously attended as in former years. The amusements were very much of the usual character, the exception being the presence of Ginnett's circus, which was largely patronized, although their tent was blown down about the ears of tho audience, and a considerable part of the per- formance carried on in a flood of rain. The shows were somewhat sensational, and mostly of the natural history ordor, embracing monstrosities of various kinds. " Weight," however, was in full blooin, and of improved appearance. No accident or offenco was reported by tho police, and good behaviour seems to have specially marked this year's gathering. Perhaps the preaching in various parts of the fair has tended to bring about the better state of things. Cornwall Wesleyan District.— The meetings of tho Wesleyan district committee were held at Pen- zance last week, under the able and judicious chair- manship of the Rev. Samuel Romilly Hall, when Beveral matters of interest were discussed. The Rev. Samuel E. Rowe, of Truro, was unanimously elected secretary to tho meetiijg. There was no case of discipline upon any point of ministepal character efficiency, and no death was reported. The humbera of members in tho Cornwall district were found to be as follows, viz., church members; IOJOSI : On trial, 8711 new members received ( luring 18H- 1672, 2,023; received from other circuits, 261; removed to other circuits, emigrations, & c., 1,303; deaths, 317; nett decrease of members, 48. Truro and Hayle circuits each asked for an additional minister, thus affording most gratifying proof of process ; whilst two super- numerary ministers, who had been for some timo laid aside by affliction, were recommended to be appointed to circuits. B. Browne, Esq., of St. Austell, was nominated as lay representative of the district to tho conference. The review of the financial affairs of the district was, on tho whole, satisfactory, although much regret was expressed, both by minist- ors ang laymen, that in some circuits a better unil < tandina was not arrived at as to some of the connexion J I funds. An important discussion took place respecting the assessment of the children's fund, which resulted in a resolution being carried, nem. con., faking for the appointment of a committee fc^ fl^ Konference to investigate the whole matter. t^^^ Kisfaction was expressed at having the Rev. W^ M. Hall in the district as chairman, and he was, Without one dis- sentient, elected representative to the stationing committee. At the cfose of the meeting thanks were heartily given to the friends at Penzance for their hospitable entertainment of the ministers during the week, and abo to thfe Rev. S. R. Hall and S. E. Rowe, for the admirable manner in which they had discharged their duties as chairman and secretary to the meeting. The district committee was one of the most influential held in Cornwall for many years, and it was felt by all present that it was calculated to exert a jjreat power for good on all the Methodist societies m the county. Truro Whitsun Fair.— This great pleasure fair of the county took place on Wednesday. During the night there had been a sharp frost the thickness of a shilling. The morning opened very fine, the aun shining brilliantly, but about 9 o'clock, just as the first down excursion train arrived at the station, clouds arose which soon began to send down rain, then hail aslar'aas small marbles. This during the shower ( which lasted two hours) covered the ground, the hail being accompanied by thunder and lightning. Showers heavy and constant continued throughout the day. A large proportion of the fair ones accustom- ed to find summer and not winter at Whitsuntide wore their muslins and light dresses, a strange contrast to their waterproofs and umbrellas, with which most of them were fortunately provided. As the sun broke out between the clouds these paraded the streets, the mud of which soon altered their clear and trim appearance to one of quite the reverse. The principal attraction of the fair was Wombwell's col- lection of beasts, the largest exhibition in Cornwall for many years. Weight's Theatre had its accustomed place in Boscawen street, a large number of shows, comprising jugglers, works of art, wonderful horses, goats, ana other animals, and giants, Barry's collec- tion of animals, round- abouts driven by steam power, shooting galleries, and cheap jacks with the novel accompaniments of confectionary stalls, toys, and the thousand and one things we find at such times, made ug^ the fair, our old friend Punch, of course, not being '' 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 Eroceases the Cocoa bean passes through ere it is sold ) r public use, and, being both interested and highly pleased with what I saw during my visit to the man- ufactory, I thought a brief account of the Cacao, and the way it is manufactured by Messrs. Epps, to fit it for a wholesome and nutritious beverage, might be of interest to the readere of Land caxdJ Water." — See article in Land and Water, October 14. Breakfast - Epps's Cocoa.— Grateful and comforting. " By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutri- tion and by a careful application of the fine proper- ties of well- selected cocoa, Mr. Epps hasprovided our breakfast tables with a deheately^ uavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills." Civil Service Gazette. Made simply with boiling water, or milk. Each packet isllabelled-" James Epps and Co., Homoeopathic Cherpista, London."— Also makers of Epps's Cacaoine, a very thin beverage for evening use. | Manufacture of Cocoa, Cacaoine, & Chocolate. — " We will now give an account bf 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 CauelCs Household Guide. IF THERE ABE ANT LADIBS who have not yet used the GLENFIELD STARCH, theyare respectfully solicited to give it a trial, and carefully follow out the directions printed on every package, and if this is done, they will say like the Queen's Laundress, it is the finest Starch they ever used. When you ask for GLEXFEKLD STABCH, see that you get it, as inferior kinds are often substituted for the sake of extra profit. Beware therefore of spurious imitations. New metal pocket Vesta Box, with patent spring Cover.— Bryant and May have recently introduced a very useful little Pocket Vesta BoXj with a most in- genious and simple spring cover; it is a novelty in every way, and will soon come into very general use— being of metal instead of card, ana retailed, filled with vestas, at one penny. Any Tobacconist, Grocer, Chemist or Chandler will supply it. FRAGRANT FLORILINE— For the TEETH and BREATH. A few drops of this liquid on a wet tooth brush pro- luces a delightful foam, which cleanses the Teeth trom all impurities, strengthens and hardens the gums, jrevents tartar, and arrests the pr » gre33 of decay. It rives to the Teeth a peculiar ana beautiful whiteness, und 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 elejjant uses at 2s. 6d., by all Chemists and Perfumers. H. C. GALLUP, Proprietor, 493, Oxford Street, London. BIRTHS At Falmouth, on Tuesday last, the wife of Mr. J. H. Head, tea dealer, of a daughter. At Tuckingmill, the wife of Mr. Jno. Osborne, wheelwright, of twin daughters. This is the fourth double birth in succession. MARRIAGeS. At Falmouth Church, on Monday last, by the Rev. Robert Matson, Mr. George Henry Angove, car- penter, to Miss Ellen Mary Stevens, both of Falmouth. At Wesley Chapel, Falmouth, on Sunday last, by the Rev. A. T. Hocking, Mr. Ekenne Brutin, mariner, to Miss Catherine Bond, both of Falmouth. At King Street Chapel, Plymouth, on the 13th inst., by the Rev. Nicholas Boynes, Mr. Nicholas Henry Toms, Royal Navy, to Elizabeth Ann, daughter of the late Mr. William May, of Mylor. deaTHS. At Woodlane, Falmouth, on the 17th inst., Elizabeth, the beloved wife of William Henry Bond, Esq., R. N., formerly secretary of the Cornwall Railway, in the 73rd year of her age. getto to tfre & ftitor. PHOTOGRAPHY. ( Advertisement), SIR,— There are some people who4> ecome so habit- uated to the use of hyperbolic egotism, that they imagine others readily believe every thing they utter, no matter how contrary to reason and common- sense ; in this way Mr. Trull, in a letter in your last week's paper, cavils at o « s- advertis » ment ( to the entirety of which we adhere), land ponies my past services. Plenty of ckhience day b6 adduced that I took not only the greatest noFtipfi of the printing negatives, but also thoU^ or knlarging from, and as to their quality, they- were gaaerafly pronounced first- class— an Enlargement from oft of them having been exposed to view in Mr. T.' s wimflw so late as last week. It now amounts simply to a question of veracity, and to the publuTl can with conhdence apneal as to our respective characters in that respect. I may add that I ao noMntend to be led into a newspaper con- troversy, but, should it be necessary, shall take other steps to repel any assailance that may be made upon n, Sir, yours very faithfully, JAMES SIDDONS. 42, high Street, Falmouth, May 24th, TIME OF HIGH WATER AT FALMOUTH AND PENRYN QUAYS. HORN IHO. EVEN INS. SATURDAY ... May 6 38 1 2 ai 7 26 7 51 a; 8 IS 8 37 TUESDAY 2H 9 6 9 33 WEDNESDAY 10 3 10 31 TMtinnn. v 11 9 11 42 FUIUY . SI — — 0 IS THE FALMOUTH AND PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. SiTTOPAT. MAT. '-' 5. 1872 SemaL FALMOUTH HAKBOl'R. fetftleuin Act, 1871. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that in pursuanco of provisions of the Petroleum Act, 1871, the Falmouth Harbour Commission- ers have framed and adopted tho following Bye Laws, and intend to ipply to the Board of Trade for confirmation thereof after th(? expira- tion of one calendar mrfnth from the date of this notice. And furthjbr notice is hereby given that objections to the i/ roposcd Bye Laws may be lodged with me,/ the undersigned, at my Offices, in Church Street, Falmouth, at any time before the exmration of one calendar month from the date mereof. / W. J. GENN, ( Jlerk to the Commissioner, Falmouth, 1th M » j/, 1872 FALMOPyg HARBOUR. THE PETROLEUM ACT, 1871. B T E 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 such cargo to the Har- bour- Master, and shall place or moor his ship in such place as the Harbour- Master 8hall direct, and whilst any such Petroleum shall remain on board, shall not remove his Ship without the written permission of the Harbour- MaBter, except for the purpose of proceeding to sea. 2. Petroleum shall be discharged or loaded only between sunrise and sunset. \ The holpk or every ship carrying Petroleum sjrall be freely and properly ventilated Arom the time of her entering the Harbour until tho Petroleum shall have peen all discharged or the ship shall have left the Harbour. No Ship spall be allowed to have a fire or lightf on board during the time of dis- chan* ing, and no smoking shall be allowed on the ship or any lighter into which Petroleum shall be discharged. Petroleum shall not be discharged into any Kgnter' except such as may be author- ised for that purpose by the Harbour- Master, and no un- authorised craft $ 1 be allowed to lie alongside any p discharging Petroleum or having roleum on board. Eve ip or lighter having Petroleum on a shall keep conspicuously exhibi- . from sunrise to sunset, a red flag, ax d no such ship or lighter shall at ai y time be left without a sufficient board. PENALTIES. For moorii g, landing, or otherwise dealing with a: ty ship f r cargo in contravention of tl e foregoing Bye Laws, the owner 0 • master of such ship or the owner of s ich cargo, as the case may be, shall eich indur a penalty not exceeding 1 50 fyi each day during which such cpntrapention continues; and the 3[ arbour- Master may cause such ship r cargo to be removed at the owner's , expense to the place appointed for mooring the same. If notice of the arrival of any ship with Petro- leum on board is not given to the Harbour- Master, as required by the fpregoing Bye Laws, the owner and master of such ship shall each incur a penalty of not exceeding £ 500. NAMES AND EXPRESSIONS. The Names and Expressions used in the foregoing Bye Laws shall have the same mean- ings as are assigned to the same Nanes and Expressions in the Act. © mtal N. WESTCOTT, largo Clerk anil Gen? ral Mercantile Accountant, 1, WATERLOO ED., 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 Made Up, in the newest London style at the shortest notice. THOUSANDS are at this moment rejoicing over the beautiful heads of Hair restored to them by using NEWMANE'S HAIR GROWING POMADE, which was never known to fail in pro- lucing hair. Price Is. and 2a. 6< L pREY HAIR RESTORED to its original color; VT Greyneas prevented and the growth of the Hair promoted by using NEWMANE'S HAIR LOTION. This is at once the CHHAPKST and BEST HAIB RESTORER out, as it has stood the test and is pronounced superior to the higher- priced London preparations, FREE from DANGEROUS POI- SONS, and certain in its action. Try one Shilling Bottle and be convinced of its efficacy. Bottles Is and 2s. 6d. each. SCURF or DANDRUFF instantly removed by NEWMANE'S HAIR WASH. The Best and Cheapest Hair Cleaner extant. In Bottles at 6d. and Is. " Sold in Falmouth by W. F. Newman, chemist, Market Street. READ HERE, AND SEE THE GREAT BENEFITS DERIVED FROM A Is. 14D. ARTICLE. Allcocfs Porous Plasters hare relieved safferers when in the greatest pain and all other remodiea had ailed. Physicians and e org eons of all schools recommend them. A doctor said the other day :—" I do not know whether AUcocfs Plasters contain all the virtues you ascribe to them, but this I do know: no plaster or local application has ever ( riven my patients such great eomfort." Wo publish a few cases of cures, showing hair wonderful virtues. Further evidence of their value to suffering hnmanity ill ba demonstrated to aay oao otUin* at the principal genoy. ( Stnrral Itmmtitremeirts. MONEY READY TO ' BE ADVANCED BY THE General Mnfuai Permanent Land, 3uililin; a; il investment Society, Cm BP OFFICE :— tl, BEDFORD ROW, LO. VDON, W. O. THUSTEES :— ROBERT NICHOLAS FOWLKR. Esq., M. P., ConUill, li. C. JOHN FREEMAN, Eiq., J. P., Woodlano Home, Falmouth. ALDERMAN THOMAS S. OWDEN, Bi « hops; ate, E. C. ADVANCES promptly made upon security of Freehold or Leasehold Property, repayable by monthly or quarterly instalmeutf for fifteen years or less, by which means property may b. » .- quired by payments slightly exceedid^ the rental value. Surrey Fee and rei^ stration, 3s. 6d. on applications of £ 500 and under. NVESTMENT DEPARTMENT.— Deposits received bearing interest at the rate of £ 5 per r. 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 bo realized by ingie payments or monthly subscriptions extending over a term of years. For full particulars apply to THOMAS CORFfBLD, the County Surveyor, Arwonack Street, Falmouth. CHARLES PHILLIPS, the Agent, Killigraw Street, Falmouth. Or to the Secretary, CHARLES BINTOif, 41, Bedford How, London. Zmm^ Emr PATENT ARE NOT POISONOUS. CONTAIN NO PHOSPHORUS, LIGHT ONLY ON THE BOX Sold by Grocers, Chem/ sts./ ronmongers. Chandlers. Stationers kc. everywhere.. WHITECHAPEL ROAD, LOICDON, E. jgRONCHITIS. Henry D. Brandreth, Esq., Liverpool. 105. Hampton- street, Birmingham. Nov. 27, 1871 • Dear 8ir,— L have for some months past been n the aabit of using A llcock's Porous PI asters ( procured from the establishment of Messrs. Snape and Son, 13, Great Hampton- street, of this town ) when suffering from bronchitis and severe pains in tho side, and have on every occasion found immediate relief, whereas I had previously consulted two medical men without deriving the least benefit. I can with confidence recommend them to any one suffering from the same complaint.— Yours respectfully, GEORGE STYLES. J NFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. " Henry D. Brandreth, 57, Great Oharlotte- street, Liverpool. " Dear Sir,— We beg to enclose another testi- monial aa to the effieacy of Allcock's Porous Plasters. James RaMoliffe, StamforJ- streei, Mosely, says he had been confined to his bed five weeks suffering from inflammation of the lungs. He ooughed continually, with great eipeoto ration and difficulty of breathing, which brought him so low that he was unable to rise in bed without support. He applied one ol your plasters, and found relief iu fifteen m mutes, after which he • ays the congh stoppec' and tho expectoration ceased. He is now quite recovered. The above is evactly his own statement to me.— Yours respectfully, " JOHN B1CKLE. " Pro W. BOcJTOCK, " 2- 1, Stamfordrstreet, Ashton- under- Lyne " Norember 24,1871." gCIATICA GRACE TRElilOWAN, DECEASED. X PURSUANT to the statute 22nd and 23rd Vic., cap. 35, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that all persons having any claims or demands against the Estate of GRACE TRE- THOWAN, late of Fahnoutlyh the County of Cornwall, spinster, decayed f'whose Will was proved on the 9th ( day of/ Way inst,, by Mr. William v7altjn,\ of[ Killigtew Uoad, Falmouth, Tea- dealer, the sile JixejJutor therein named), are hereby required to . send particulars of their claims or demands to ns the undersigned at our offices, at Falmouth/ aforesaid, or to the said Executor on or before the 1st day of July next. And all persons indebted to tho said Estate are hereby requos^ d forthwith to pay the amounts of their respective debts to us the undersigned or to the said Executor. Datejmis 16th day of May, 1879, TILLY & CO., of Falmouth, Solicitors for the said Exeoutor. The House for Tea, THE Gnnpowder Tea Warehouse! REGISTERED TRADE Black Green or Mixed the Firmest Spring Crop. J. H. HEAD, Tea Dealer & Grocer, High Street Falmouth. Heywood, Ootober 9,1871. 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, Is. ljd. The Plasters seem to produce wonderful results. There is scarcely a day passes bat 6ome one is telling me of the cares 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 me that he had been troubled with sciatica lor 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, J^ en to Matlock, and spent £ 2 on a largely- aaKrtised 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 stnok fast; they oould 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 baok, and a week after he wis ready for his work. It is now sis montus ago, and he has had no return of his pains.— Yours truly, Yf. BECKETT- RHEUMATISM OF THE WRIST. Henry D. Brandreth, Esq., 57, Great Char- lotte- atreet, Liverpool, 36, Crown- street Liverpool, Nov. 21st, 1871. Dear Sir,— Three months since I oonld not use my right hand, owing to rheumatism in it and in my wrist, and over ten weeks I was in great pain— unable to find any relief. After trying many romedies, I was at last persuaded tp try Alloock's Porous Plasters. 1 bound one round my wrist; in three days I had great relief, and in a week's time was perfectly cured Tour plasters are a blessing to the affiioted. I have positive information of their being of great benefit in bron- chitis and asthma. It will give me pleasure to answor any communication concerning them.— Yours truly, THOMAS DAVIES, ALLCOCK'S POROUS PLASTERS are sold by all Druggists, at Is ljd each, witti full directions for use, or in any size to suit- The yard Plaster is specially recommended for families and physicians. One yard equals 18 plasters. Price 14a i- er yard, 7s 6d per half yard, or 4s per quarter. PRINCIPAL AoBscr FOR GREAT BRITIAN ( Wholesale and Retail) : 57, GREAT CHARLOTr . ST., LIVERPOOL . B.— A Plaster sent to any part of the ooantry for 15 stun pa, JUDSON'S DYES.— 18 Colors, 0d. eaoh. RIBBONS, WOOL, SILK, FEATHERS, Oomylately Dyed In 10 miantes CHEAP, ^ UICK and GOOD PRINTING at the Offices of this Paper. DR. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S CHLORODYNE. THE ORIGINAL AND ONLY GENUINE. nWT'nSSSvSS " ftdmi" ed Profe88i0ntobetbe 1,1081wonderful and vainable remedy ever disoortwd. nSinDniivS * b" t rwn8dy knOWn for ^^ Consumption. Bronchitis, Asthma. nTTT ivo rVfWATTP eff6CtaaUy 0h90ta" md too often fatal disssses- Diptheria. Fever. Croup, Agv. nTTT XS^ TWATxi ^ ^ * * D1* rrh ® a' is the only specific In Cholera and Dysentery. nWT XS^ TYV^ tfe 6ffl> CtUftlly cutt" lhort'U of Epilepsy. Hysteria, Palpitation and Spasms. UMLiUKUJJ Y JM £ J is the only palliative in Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Gout, Cancer, Toothache. Meningitis, to. „-, - , . „ . FromLoaDFEiircis ComnroiUM, Mount Charles. Donegal, 11th December 1888. w, who Un? e y ® . 1": bon8ht 80me of Dr- J- CoUis Browne's Chlorodyne from Mr. Davenport, and has found it a most wonderful medicine, will be glad to have half- a- dozen bottles sent at once to the above address." - " Effl communicated to the College of Physicians that he received a dispatoh Gons^ 1 at, Manilla, to the effeot that Cholera has been raging fearfully, » nd that the ONLY remedy of any servioe was CHLORODYMTS."— See / xwerf, lat De& mber 18M CAUTION— BEWARE of PIRACY and IMITATIONS). OAUHO*.— Vloe- Chanoellor Sir W. PAGB WOOD stated that Dr. J. Coma BBOWKB was, un, loubtedly, the Inventor of OHLORODYNE ; that the story of the Defendant, FBBEHJJT, was deliberately untrue, which, he regretted to say, had been sworn to.— See Timn, 18th July 1881. Sold In Bottles at Is 1W, 2a 9d, 4e 0d and lis eaoh. None is genuine without the words " Dr. J. OOLLI8 BROWNE'S OHLORODYNE " on the Government Stamp. Overwhelming Medical Testimony accompanies eaoh bottle. Sou MunrfAOTUMm t— J. T. DAVENPOHT, 88 Great Bussell Street, Bloomsbury, London. THE BEST INVESTMENT OF THE DAY THE CHEAPEST PACKAGE OF TEA IN ENGLAND. FOR A SMALL OUTLAY, Beer and Soda Water Machine, as public taste is ao muoh on th# increase for abated drinks. S. BARNETT, Engineer, 23 FOBSTON STREET, H0XT0N, LONDON, N. ACHINESE CADDY, containing 18 lbs. of really „ Black Tea, sent carriage free to any railway station or market town in England, on receipt of 40s, by PHILLIPS & CO. TEA MERCHANTS, 8 KING WILLIAM ST. CMR. GOOD TEA CHEAPER THAW EVER. STHONG to Fine Block Tea, Is 4d, Is 6d, 2 » and 2s 6d por lb.; 40s worth sent carriage frco to any rau.. av station or market town in England or Wales, on roceipt of 40s by PHILLIPS & CO. TEA MERCHANTS, 8 KING WILLIAM ST. E. C. Prime Coffee Is 2d, Is 4d, Is 8d. A Price List Free. PHILLIPS & CO. have no agents, and no connection with any House in Worcester, Swansea or Witney. TABLE CTTTLEE Y OF THE FINEST QUALITY. CATALOGUES POST FREE. ADDRESS CAEEPU^ IYII 76, 77 & 73 OXFORD STREET, MANSION HOUSE 3UILD1NC. S, WORKS: SHEFFIELD & LOHDitt. f ECG \ STANDS. Agents required where not already appointed, who will bo treated on the^ most liberal terms. BORWICK'S BORWICK- S BAKING POWDER Sold M « U1. H. rre, 1888 ; Oold M « U1, Bat Ai*, 1889 ; 1 BAKING BORWICKS BAKING POWDER mak « delicious Bread without Yeast. BORWICK'S BAKING POWDER makes Puddings, Pastry, and Pie- crusts with leas ButUr and Kgga. POWDER BORWICK'S BAKING POWDER sold everywhere, in Id. and 2d- Packets, and « d., Is., 2a. 6d. and 6B. Patent Boxes only, and not loose by wcifiht. Be sure to ask for and see that you BORWICK'S GOLD MEDAL BAKING POWDER. BEECH - LOADERS. » _ _ 3BOOHD HAXB. EEOH - LOADEBS. IBOII / no uk EOH- LOADEBS. BOUGHT FOB OUOL L'ATALOOUH AND FSIOI LIBT, 3 STAMPS. WHISTLBB, 11 STRAND. LONDOS. VALUABLE DISCOVERY m THE HAIR 11— A very mcely perfamo. 1 hair dressing, callod " The Mexican Hair Kenewer," now being sold by most Chemists and Perfumers nt 3s 6d por bottl.-, is fast superseding ali " Hair Restorers "— for it will positively restore in every case, Grey or White hair to its original colour, by a few applications, without dyeing it, or leaving the disagreeable smell of most " Restorers." It makes the hair charmingly beautiful, as well as pro- moting the growth on bald spots, where the hair glands are not decayed. Certificate from Dr. Vera- mann on every bottle, with full particulars. Ask for " THE MEXICAN HAIB RESEWER," prepared br H. 0. GALLOP, 493 Oxford Street, London. MRS. WINBLOW'B SOOTHING SYR DP FOB CHILDREN I Should- always be used wl en Children are cutting teeth ; it relieves the little sufferers at oncej it pro- duo* natural quiet sleep by relieving the child from pain, and tho little cherub awakes " as bright as a button." It is perfectly harmless, and very pleasant to taste. It soothes the cl ild, it softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for dysentery and diarrhcBa, whether arising from teething or other oauses. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup ii sold by thousands of Madidne dealers in all parts of„ the world at Is lid per bottle, and Millions of Mothers can " Tirto^— Manufactory, m Oxford Street, testify to h Loadaa BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES, forthecureof Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Bronohitis. Awthmn, Catarrh, or any irritation or soreness of the throat, are now imported and sold in this country at 1B ltd per box, put np in the form of a " losenge." It is the most convenient, pleasant, safe and sure remedy for clearing and —:— the voice known in the world. ard Beecher says: " 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 Bronohial Troches " on the Government 8tamp around each box. Sold by a" *— T— J— Depot, 493 Oxford 8 QTANDAUD 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. This Bank transacts every description of Banking business. IP YOU VALUE YOUR HEALTH USE BRAGG'S PURE CARBON OR VEGETABLE CHARCOAL SOLD in Bottles, 2B, 4B and 6s eaoh, by all Chemists* and by J. L. BRAGG, Solo Manufacturer, 14 Wiexoaa Stun, CATOTDISH SqoAia, Loauo » , W. ECONOMY IN CRAPE MOURNING. ONE FOLD of KAT & RICHARDSON'S NEW PATENT ALBERT CRAPE IS A8 THICK aa TWO FOLDS of the old mate. . IE BLUDD CLARKE'S " World Tamed Blood Mixture IR CLEANSING and CLEARING the BLOOD F° fcl inc Cores Old Sores Cures TTloerated Sores in the Neok Cures TJloerated Sore Legs Cores Blackheads, or Pimples on Sfeo* Cores Sourvy Sores Cores Cancerous Ulcers Cores Blood and Skin Diseases Cores Olandolar Swellings Clears the Blood from all Impure Matter, from whatever cause arising. Am tUa mixture is pleasant to the taste, and warranted fraa from mercury— which all pilU and most medicines sold for Whs ikon ittism contain— the Proprietor solicits soffltrsre to give it a trial to teat Us value. Thousands of Testimonials from all parts. Bold in Bottles ts Sd each, and In Caeee, containing « lafSdect to efl^ ct a permanent core tn as, by aQ Chemists and Patent Modxnne I or Mi to any address on reoeipt of » or in stamps, by » Ohemiat, High 8tr ® et, UHOOLH. T- E8ALE AOENTB : — » ND ALL THE WH0LE8ALE H0U8EB. GLENFIELD 8TAROH is'too^ ytinJin '± ier Majesty's lanndi- y If there are any ladies who have not yet used the GLENFIKLD STAJ& OH they are respectfully solicited to j^ ve it a trial, and carefully follow out the directions printed on evory package, and if this is done, They will say, like tho Queen's Laundress, It is 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 profits. Beware therefore of spurious imitatica^. I he Falmouth and Penryn Weekly litres ii Printed and Published by FREDERICK UOBART EABLE^ ritidmy at No. 9, WodnKov... I lace, in the Parithi oj Falmouth , at An U, nerat / Offioes i/ » . .' As Quav, i% the 11id Parish on SAJIBHAY% HAT 25, ltfZ, THE FALMOUTH & PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1872. Copies of % gajr. ( By an Occasional London Correspondent.) rCho remarks under this hfcad arc to Tie regarded ns llic ex- There is just now, perhaps, but one " subject which : may be" Raid- to disturb the public mind, and that is the still vexed and continuously uncomfortable dispute • with America. Our Government, it is pretty gene- rally admitted, have done their utmost to settle the difficulty— just as any other Government, by the way, woUld have done, and theJ. niatter now rests with the American Senate. This august ' body have to decide oh the acceptance or re- jo ! i< m of the supplementary article to the Washing- ton Treaty— an article the adoption of which would make final and amicable settlement a mere matter of detail and arrangement. What course the Senate will adopt we are scarcely likely to know before the 24th, and meanwhile we must hope for the best. We are most of us utterly Weary of the whole affair, but, un- happily, it is not one which weariness will settle. It ' iB at all events consoling to think that the Senate will accept the proposal that has been submitted to them. If they will not, there will certainly be a strong feeling in this country in favour of throwing up the treaty altogether, and leaving America to take her own course. I was not aware till very recently that the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke of Cambridge are Fishmongers, but it seems they are, and when they dined on Saturday with that anoient and honour- able Corporation, the Fishmongers' Company, they were, simply dining with their brother Fishmongers. ' The first mentioned Duke is a fL- lunonger by patri- mony, the late Prince Consort having been a member of tlio company. The Duke of Edinburgh has ju3t received the freedom of the company, as it is facetiously called; and has now been bound down to do or not to do certain things as to which he was perfectly free before. But let that pa's. I suppose it would be useless to ask these royal Fishmongers to use their influence in giving us free trade in 6sh, for the benefit of the whole community! It is a strange fact that fish is as dear in London as ever it was, notwithstanding the immense facilities of railway carriage— the mode of conveyance by which five- sixths of the fish supply is brought to the metropolis; and another strange fact is that ever since the Columbia lish- Market was ban- led over to the Corporation of London, the market has been going down, down, and seems likely to become a dead failure. Depend upon it there is SJime reason for this, and it requires a eatis- fatory explanation. Reverting to the banquet at Fishmongers' Hall, I cannot help noticing what an immense amount was said and what a little there was in the speeches. It was a curious display of mutual admiration and reciprocal compliments. Some remarks, however, which fell from the Lord Chancellor are worth consideration at a time when 60 much is said about the constitution of the House of Lords. Lord Hatherly maintains that that House is in its constitu- tion and forms of a much more democratic character than the House of Commons. Rather startling this, and I think his lordship scarcely proves his case. " The House of Commons," ho said, " recognises in their Speaker one who rules and governs them, and to whom they always submit But the Lord Chancellor has no authority in the House of Lords. There all are equal." Very true, but this does not make this House more democratic than the other. As to the decorum of the proceedings of the Peers, there can be no doubt of that. His lordship did not say as much— but a note might be taken of this in " another place." We shall hear something definite with regard to the French prisoners who have been sent over hero when Parliament re- assembles, but meanwhile the conduct of the French authorities is exciting no little indigna- tion in England. Whether the unhappy men who have l> een diportis to our shores, and landed penniless at Dover, were or were not Communifts, that is no Te& Eon why they Ehould be Bent over to England to be kej) t at the public cost, or to be a burden on private charity. The sufferings of these poor fellows ap- pear to have been very great Taken from a prison in Paris, told to be ready in two hours to leave for a foreign destination unknown to them; prohibited from seeing their friends; packed off by railway to Calais; refused all aid by the com- miFsary of police of that town, and by the French Consul at Dover; and actually sent adrift at the latter place without money ( it seems twelve men had ten francs among them), without friends, and unable to speak English; begging their way to London, subsisting partly on " raw vegetables dug np in the fields"— all this and much more show that the treatment of these men has been cruel and unwarranted, if national rights are to be considered at all- The French Government, of course, are troubled with people whem they would much like to get rid of— at Cayenne, or in England, or anywhere else— but so have we. We could send France a pretty considerable number of " habitual criminals" and ticket- of- leave men; we could ship them off to Calais, shoot them down on that inhospitable quay just as we woulJ land cargo, and leave them there to starve or be kept by tho French. But what would the French Government say to all this ? It is well that public attention on both sides of the Channel i3 now being dirfceted to this cruel deportation of French prisoners, for I believe that there has been much more of it than is generally thought The subject was mentioned in both Houses of l'itrliament many weeks ago, and this deportation stems to have been going on at intervals ever since. It is to be hoped that there will be no more of it— at least under the same cruel circumstances. The poetic adage regarding lovely woman, that " when she will she will, you may depend on't, and when she wont she won't, and there's an end on't," is veritied by the Scotch lassies in domestic service per- sist ' g in their agitation, and actually forming an aiso iation to better their position. No doubt there is much to be eaid on the other side, but it cannot be denied that these servants have a good deal to say for themselves ( women generally have), and that there is much justice in their remarks. A meeting has been held at which " discussion of an irregular nature " took place. Of course. We cannot expect servants to make speeches with the cut and dried precision of practised orators; but our servants seldom want for words. One rather laughable grievance that Scotch domestics or helps— they probably will soon repudiate the term " servant"— complain about is the " flag " or servant's cap, which they say is a badge of servitude. But really, Mary Jane, you like nicer— and you know • what it is to look nice— with your flag than without it You had better courageously stick to your flag. But on some other points I, for one, feel Inclined to agree with you. I think there is much justice in your denunciation of unnecessary Sunday work that six o'clock is early en'. u ; b to ri- e, considering what a long day you have beforo you ; and that there is some reason after all in your complaint that while rigid inquiries are made into your character, none is permitted to be mado as to tho character of the " missus." But depend upon it you will be a long time before you effect such a social re- volution as would be involved in tho mihtre> « having to give a " character" to the servant before the .' attor is engaged. And in other respects you scom to be coing too fast and too far. Work less burdensomo and wages more liberal— really this is serious In its very vagueness; a weekly half- holiday, a free Sabbath every fortnight, and three hours absolutely at your disposal daily- is not this insisting on too much ? And " full latitude as to the stylo of apparel!" Really> Mary Jane, this is becoming serious ! There has recently been a discussion in tho North of England as to the price of coke and coal, and especially tho former. A startling fact was mentioned by tho chairman— that while a short time ago 20,000 tons of coke could bo purchased for £ 12,000, there has now to be paid for a like quantity £ 32,000. The probabilities of a coke famine were also seriously discussed, and this by gentlemen practically acquainted with the subject If we look also to the reports of tho iron and metal trades, we shall find prices rising, and considering what a number of branches of industry depend on theso parent trades, the matter becomes worthy of deep con- sideration. The rise in prices may mainly be accounted for by the increased commercial activity of the country, and consequently by the increased demand for coal, coke, iron, and various metal3 employed in industrial branches, and also by tho rise in the price of labour. There will no doubt be, sooner or later, a reaction, and prices will give way generally, including the prices of labour, but meanwhile the country is undoubtedly in a sound commercial position. Ono feature is especially observable. For somo years past there have been complaints that Germany was always ready to be a very large seller to, but never prepared to buy much of Great Britain, and that Bbe was underselling us in our own markets; but during the last few months Germany has become a very large buyer of British products. We are also now doing a large continental trade generally, and our internal trado is sound and healthy. If we can but get this miserable Anglo- American difficulty settled, and if we can keep on tho right side of over- speculation we shall have abundant cause for satisfaction. lUisallancous Intelligent*, HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. MAN AND THE MONKEY.— Are wo really de- scended from the monkey? Professor Langer lately brought under the notice of the Anthropological Society at Vienna rather a startling argument in favour of this view, in the shape of the cranium of a negro, presenting the hitherto unobserved anomaly of five supernumerary teeth. Moreover, three of these, viz., an incisor and two molars, were situated in the lower jaw. By the arrangement of those teeth there are in each row, right and left, four large grinders instead of three. Now it is a well- known fact that the monkeyB of the New World have thirty- six teeth, with four molars, just as they stood in Professor Langer's negro skulL This is considered strong evidence by the humano simian party.— Galignani. THE MANCHESTER SUNDAY SCHOOLS.— The unmial procession of Sunday schools in connection with the Church of England took place on Monday, and the weather being fine there was an unusually numerous gathering. The number of children and teachers generally fluctuates between 15,000 and 10,000, and on Monday it could not have fallen much short of the higher number. The clergymen, churchwardens, and sidesmen usually accompany the schools, and each school is headed by a band of music, and numerous scholars in the ranks bear aloft banners with various devices, some of them of elegant design, giving to the procession a gay and exceedingly animated appearance. Most of the children were well dressed. An immense crowd of people lined the sides of the streets through which the procession passed, and from nine till twelve o'clock all access nearly was cut off to the business centre of the city. Some of Uie older scholars, with the teachers, afterwards attended Divine Service at the cathedral, whilst tho younger ones were taken back to their respective schools, and regaled with buns and THE MARSEILLES MURDER.— Tho trial of the prisoner? accused of the murder of M. Greco, a mer- chant of Marseilles, commenced at Aix at nine o'clock on Monday morning. The three young men arraigned are:— Toledano, a broker, 21 years ; Sitbon, a mer- chant, 20 years ; and Sizouri, 22 years of age. The prisoners maintained a thoroughly apathetic attitude, and did not appear to realise their position. Toledano answered the questions put to him in the most imper- turbable manner, his countenance not betraying any sign of emotion. He did not admit any important fact, declaring that he had only played a secondary part, and accusing the two other prisoners of the chief share in the murder. Violentaltercations frequently occurred between the prisoners, who reciprocally accused one another. THE SERVANT QUESTION IN LONDON.— A gentleman applied to the Magistrate, at Worship- street Police- court, in London, for his advice, and wanted, he said, a summons against his servant for non- performance of work, when tho following colloquy occurred :— The Magistrate : What has he donoT Applicant: No, unfortunately, It's a woman, and I can't get her to do a thing. The Magistrate : What, a domestic servant t Applicant: Yes. Tiie Magistrate: Then tnrn her out. ef doors. Applicant: I've given her notloe, but she won't go, and she won't do a thine tn the place. The Magistrate: We have nothing to do with domestic servants here. Von most turn her out of your Louse. Appli<- ant: If " it" were a mm I might Unt- itle Magistrate : I cannot help you at alL The gentleman, apparently in a state of the greatest . perplexity and indecision, considerably increased by the last remark from the bench, then left tho court. THE WORKS AT SEHASTOPOL.— It iB announced at St. Petersburg ( says the Eastern Budget) that the Russian Government has not made any statement, re- assuring or otherwise, to the guaranteeing Powers, re- specting the new works which are being carried out at Sebastopol; but that General Ignatiuff, in reply to a question put to him on the subject by the Minister of Foreign Affairs at Constantinople, said that the works are of such a nature that they might have been com- menced direetly after the conclusion of tho Treaty of Paris without in any way violating that treaty, besides which, the convention of last year has left Russia free to fortify her coasts as pleases. MAKING ROYALTY WELCOME. — Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, while staying at Danielle's hotel at Venice, had a grand serenade given in their honour. At nine p. m. all tho gondolas were illuminated with coloured lamps, and" the grand canal was crowded. A large barge, which was gaily decorated with flags, flowern, & c., held tho band and chorus. This went down tho canal first, and was followed by the gondolas containing the Royal party and their suite, and 1,000 others. The effect wa3 quite fairy- like, and most thoroughly foreign, everything being so well arranged and succesbful. ' 1 he night was very fine and bright, which heightened tho charm of the wholo proceedings. Most of the houses were illuminated; one in particular, being adorned with red and green lamps, which were constantly re- volving and throwing most lovely colours on the scene, had a very striking appearance. THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD. — On Friday in last week the United Presbyterian Synod in Edinburgh gave their decision in regard to the ques- tions as to tho use of instrumental music in publio worship and union with the Presbyterian Churches in England. Aa to instrumental music the following resolution was carried by a large majority:—" That this Synod declines to pronounce judgment upon the use of instrumental music in public worship, yet do not. longer make uniformity of practice in this matter a rule in the Church. But tho Synod urge upon the Courts of the Church, and upon individual ministers, the duty of guarding anxiously tho simplicity of publio worship, and press on tho earnest attention of all the members of the Church watchfulness over tho unity of our congregation." The following resolution in regard to union was also carried by n largo majority : " The Synod regards with much satisfaction tho increasing desire for union on the south of tho Tweed, as ex- pressed in tho recent decisions of tho En.- libh Presby- terian Synod and tho English Synod of this Church, nnd appoints a committeo to co operate with tlio English Synod in cherishing this dobiro, and in advw- ing as to tho measures which it may be tit to take for realizing the desired union as soon as practicable," THE BURMESE EMBASSY AT ROME.— The 1 Italic of Romo states that the Burmese Embassy, which has arrived in that city, is composed of an am- bx- s. iilor, two secretaries, and a suite of thirteen parsons. The party alighted at the HOtel de Rome, and were shortly after visited by Count Tomielli, who enmo to compliment them on the part of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In the afternoon they drovo out, and visited St Peter's and other public monuments. The chief speaks no foreign language, but the secre- taries are familiar with English and French. All wear silk robes of the richest quality, with magnificent cashmere turbans, and their aspect is described as noble and imposing. THE FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE.— The last official return of this disease shows a very serious in- cr- a- e ovi r that of the previous week in the county of Oxford— in cattle><* 123 ; sheep, 317; pigs, 13 ; and farms affected, 11. The division of Banbury and Bloxham is reported as having 115 cattle, 203 Bheep, and 30 pigs diseased ; three of tho sheep are suffering from scab; the disease is confined to 11 farms. In the Chadlington division, with three farms affected, there are 6 cattle, 115 sheep, and 9 pigs diseased. In the Bullingdon division there have been four cases of pleuro- pneumonia reported at Tetsworth since the 3a inst. The foot and mouth disease still prevails with consider- able severity in Norfolk ; the last weekly official return records upwards of 2,000 case3 as having occurred in the county within seven days. DOCKYARD LABOURERS' PAY.— A numerously attended meeting of labourers in Portsmouth Dock- yard was held on Friday evening in last week, in the British Workmen's Hall; Landport, to adopt such measures as might seem best calculated to obtain an in- crease of wages. The chairman, a labourer named Keenan, referred to the agitation which was going on throughout the country for an increase oF wages, and uiged that they were justified in asking for an increase. A labourer named Monck said they had trusted to the generosity of the Admiralty long enough, and moved that they should ask for an increase to 22s. per week. This was seconded by a man Darned Goodall, who said they could not live upon 14s. a week. A man named Itchin declared that the dockyard labourer was worse off than the agricultural labourer. The resolu- tion was carried and a committee appointed to further tho object of the - WORKING OP THE VACCINATION ACT.— A par- liamentary return relating to summary convictions under the Vacdnation Act shows that in England and Wales there were, during the years 1868, 1869, and 1870, 1,419 summary convictions for neglecting to pro- cure the vaccination of children, and in thirteen cases more than one conviction in respect of tho same child. Thero were sixty- five convictions for disobeying the order of a justice for the vaccination of a child, and in nineteen cases more than one conviction in respect of the same child. In Scotland, during tho same period, there were only two convictions— both for refusing to allow the vaccination of a child. In Ireland there were 2. S59 convictions for not causing children to be vaccinated, but in only thirteen cases were thero two convictions in respect of the same child, and there were not in any case more than two such convictions. " ANGELS AND MINISTEBS."— If ladies are to have a finger in the political pie, as is threatened by the Woman's Rights Movement, and exchange solici- tude for evening parties with anxiety for parties political, many of us will find ourselves constrained to alter Scott's beautiful lines to suit the circumstances, as thus:— DEATH OF LORD CARTSFOBT.— Wo regret to announce tho death of this nobleman, which occurred on Saturday evening at Florence. Lord t'aryiifort had spent tho winter in Egypt in tho hope of recovering from the severe fall he had from his " drag" last year, and died at Florence on his way home, after a few day..' illness. His Lordship is succeeded by bis brother, tho Hon. William Proby. Grenville Leveson Proby, late Lord Carysfort, was the son of the third earl and was bom at Bushy Park, county Wicklow, in 1825. He married in 1853 Lady Augusta Maria, eldest daughter of the second Earl of Listowel • was Controller of Her Majesty's Household from June, 1859, to July. 1860, and represented Wicklow from February. 1858, to November, 1S68, when he became a peer. His successor was born in 1836, married in 1860 the eldest daughter of the Rev. R. B. Heathcote, graduated B. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1858, and was appointed captain in the Wicklow Milieu in 1861. PRESENCE OF MIND.— An Italian named Gio- vanni showed remarkable presence of mind tho other day in a tunnel" on the Bogen bridge not far from liienne ( says the Swiss Times). Six holes had been made in preparation for a blast, tho six matches had been applied, and tho six workmen were to be drawn up, one after the other, in a basket, out of the reach of danger. Giovanni, who was the last tad already got ono foot into the basket when, by aome mistake, the baiket was drawn quickly up, thereby jerking Gio- vanni out The danger of being blown to pieces or of being dashed over the precipice became overy instant moro threatening. Such a situation might well appal the stoutest heart, for each moment might be the last Giovanni, however, did not stop to think, but taking out his knifo, severed each match one after the other, and by this method his safety was secured. AN UNSINKABE SHIP.— Captain M. Tweedie, R. A., has addressed an important and valuable sug- gestion to the Royal Artillery Institution for iron- plating a cruising snip so as to avoid the disadvantage appertaining to iron- plated vessels generally, and to Ciovide a comfortable seagoing ship, fairly capable of olding her own with an ironclad on an emergency, and yet almost unsinkable. At present, ho minks, neither the iron- clad nor the wooden ship fulfils tho necessary conditions— the iron- clad < on account of tho injurious action of thesalt water upon her iron- plating exposed to it, the difficulty of repairing1 in foreign ports, and her doubtful qualities as a sea- boat; the wooden ship, on account of her being an easy prey to an iron- clad enemy on a sudden outbreak of hostilities, and her liability to be sent to the bottom by the first gale of wind. THE MORMONS.— A conference of Mormons was held in Glasgow on Sunday. Mr. G. Reynolds, Vice- President of the Conference of Saints was pre- sent. and delivered an address. In closing he alluded to the recent trial of Mormon leaders yi the United States. The Latter- day Saints, he said, lived above the Constitutional laws of tho United States. They lived according to the laws of God, and tho assurance that God would assist them to keep Hi. i command- ments. They expected to bo persecuted, as they had been in the past, for righteousness' sake. The plural marriages, patriarchal order, and many other things God had revealed to them; but it was not bccauso of their belief that they were persecuted, but because their pure and righteous lives were a reproach to the people around them. He did not claim that they— or even Brigham Young— were perfect: but they lived as near God as any men on the face ol the earth. The various speakers expressed indignation at tho treat- ment their leaders had recently been subjected to. A GIGANTIC CANDLE.— In the Romish Cathe- dral of Seville tho service on Easter Eve is begun without sound of bell or note of music. On the north- side of the altar stands the Paschal candle, a, pillar of wax nine yards in height, and thick in proportion, weighing eighty arrobas, or about two thousand pounds. This candle is recast and newly ornamented overy year, being broken in pieoes on Whitsun Eve, and a part of it used in the consecration of tho bap- tismal font. Tho candle is lighted with new fire, struek by a priest from a ( lint, and burns until Ascension Day. It is lighted and trimmed by a BUT- pliced chorister, who climbs to tho top by means of a gilt iron rod, furnished with Btojis like a flagstaff. M. Louis BLANC ON THE FRENCH REPUB- LICANS.— M. Louis Blanc has just published in the Jlappcl an article entitled " The Republic without Kepulilicans." He thinks that past sufferings entitle the Republicans of tho present day to places and honours, and the following picture is Bet by him beforo the eyes of his readers :— " The lilstory of tho nineteenth century I » , one may say, tho m irtyrolotry of the Republicans. Engaged during tho French Rovwlutlon In on epic struggle In which their blood Unwed in toircnta for tho con. iuoat of right and tho defi!" eo of tho peoplo ; decimated under tho First Bona- p 11 io, pcnecuted to tho death under tho Restoration, delivered to tho numberless perils and grievances of u military policy under Louis 1' hluppe, gagged by the Second Bniiaj arie, they havo during eighty years experienced and eudured everything— tho scaffold, prlion, oxllo, ontmsi', c. ilnmuy. For them IMS was enly tho fl. mli | Hi lightning which renders still darker tlio night it traverses When they were not killed or proscribtd they were pointed out m MecUiUus to the hate of tome, and us Utoplats to thu mockery of others." A DOG'S TALE !— A correspondent of the Daily Telegraph narrates the following :- A Scotch gentleman, whom we will call the O'Collcy- Mnre, has a breed of dogs which are perfect wonders— the shepherd has them up on parade, and explains what they have to do during the day, and they do it' The other day he wrote to the great canine dealer, Mr. Bill G——, to tell him he might sell two or threa of his pups ( worth any sum), and in reply he received this letter, brief and almost stern : STRATEGIC ABILITY OF BRITISH OFFICERS.— The public will be gratified by learning that in the opinion of Colonel Hamley there are numbers of officers in the army who are well qualified to retain the tradi- tional reputation of the force. The offer of a prize by the Duke of Wellington for the best essay on tactics called forth thirty- Eeven responses; and Colonel Hamley, who was asked to award the priz*, speaks of the successful competitor in very high terms. The President of the Staff College says that the essay dis- plays in an " emineut degree " knowledge of the theory of modern war, extensive reading of contemporary literature, and the power of drawing from theory and fact new and original deductions. UNSUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES.— After a recent examination of female teachers in Ohio, some of the unsuccessful candidates complained that injustice had been done them, whereupon the examiners were so cruel as to publish extracts from the papers written by the rejected applicants ( remarks the Boston Advertiser). The following are a few specimens of the answers :— " The food is first masticated and then passes through the phalanx;" " Respiration is the sweating of the body ;" " The chest is formed of twe bones, the sternum and spinal cord;" " Empha- is is placing more distress on some words." One candidate says that " Virginia obtained its name from the Virgin Mary ;". another that " it was so named by Queen Victoria calling it a Virgin State." A PROFITABLE PATIENT.— M. Latour, referring to the death of M Cherest while still young, mentious a singular patient who contributed to his income 14,600f. per annum, and in leap- years, 14,640f. ( says the Mcdical Times and Gazette). This patient a well known person in the mercantile world, had a terrible fear of dying, and besought Cherest to pay him a visit while in bed every morning at nine o'clock, his fee being 40f. per visit Cherest consented, and for several years paid his daily visits, always re- ceiving his 40 franc piece. During the last years of his life this patient a very old man, became really ill, and exacted first two visits a day, then three, and then four, always paying his 40f. for each. ADMISSION OF THE PUBLIC TO ALTON TOWERS. — The Earl of Shrewsbury has addressed a letter, of which the following is a copy, to Mr. Cook of Leicester:— " After consideration, I have determined to allow these gardens ( at Alton Towers) to bo open to the public, and I trust that tho prlvllego I thus accord will not be taken undue advantage of. I have made arrangements that the refresh- ment- rooms In tho grounds should only be open at meal times ; for whilat 1 am desirous that those who come from a distance should have what thoy require, J have no intention of allowing any excess. My object In opening the grounds Is to afford real enjoyment to those who appreciate the beauties of nature, and do not often get a holiday in the country - and I rely upon the public to keep order, so tliat 1 shall not have to regret tho permission that t havo until now cheerfully accorded. Kindly give publicity to this letter, and believe mo, sincerely youra.— SHREWSBURY." THE LIVERPOOL SAILORS AND THE WAGES MOVEMENT.— A large meeting of the sailors of the port of Liverpool was held on Friday, at which the re- port of a committee was received recommending the following rates of wages :— To the west as far south as Orleans, considering the yellow fever, £ 5 per month to Cape Horn, £ 3 10s. ; the Pacific ( a healthy voyage), £ 3 Gs.; the Mediterranean ( a short voyage), £ 3 10s. ; coast of Africa, £ 4 ; East Indies, China, and Japan, £ 3 5a. ; with a month's advance in all cases. The pre- sent rates for the respective voyages ( with no advance) are £ 4, £ 3, £ 3, £ 3 10s. for firemen, and £ 3 for sailors; to the East Indie?, & c., from £ 2 15s. to £ 3, a general rise having recently taken place on account ' of the scarcity of seamen. The burthen of the sailors' com- plaints at the meeting was that they cannot get into contact with the shipowners toexpliin their'grievances, not only as to wages, but in respect to treatment on bo aril hliip ; and a deputation was appointed by the meeting to wait upon the shipowners' and steamship- owners' associations to represent the case of the men. The speakers for the tnost part deprecated a strike, and repudiated intimidation. In the meantime, however, they resolved to withdraw themselves from the Sailors' Home for a few days. It is understood that if the owners offer some advance on tho present rates, even if it is nut equal to the scale recommended by the com- mittee, it will be accepted. HABEAS CORPUS ( NO. 2).— The Anatomy Act. — Punch. SCENE AT THE TRIAL OF A COMMUNIST.— An exciting scene occurred the other day, in Paris, during tho trial by court- martial of a woman named Augustine Chiffon. Doling the fighting in Paris this woman was seen in tho streets, her hands steeped in blood, and boasting that she had killed two soldiers. On the entry of the troops she was taken prisoner and placed against the wall to bo shot, but on ner saying that she had tended the wounded, the troops spared her life. On the trial, an officer who was charged with her de- fence pleaded that her mind wa3 deranged. " I am not mad," she exclaimed, " and protest against the words. I have suffered too much in prison, and de- mand to be put to death ! But your turn will come also : tho men of Versailles were too cowardly to kill me, but you will all be shot like dogs ! Vive la Com- mune !" At those words the public rushed on her, and the guard had to intervene for her protection, and dragged her away still crying out, " Vive la Com- mune ! A has les Vereaillais !" and without her bonnet or shawl, which had been turn from her in the struggle. The Court eventually condemned her to twenty years' hard lalxiu « \ The woman was then brought back, and on hearing her sentence read, she agaift burst out in a tono of mockery. " The cowards, they do not dare ! J^ ah ! I am thirty- five, and in twenty years I shall be only fifty- five, and slill good for something.. But it is only a matier to laugh at; a chango of Government, anJ I shall bo out at once, and that will not be long. Vive la Commune I" NOVEUCA.— Master Bandcrsnatch is learning Latin. The other day he declared that a Step- mother must be an idle woman. His rensi oi being demanded, he said that she was uo- vurker. Ho was worked off to bed, promptly.— Punch. A WUALE IN TUB WAY.— Tlic steamer Boijne, which arrived at Southampton when off Capo Finis- terre, lust week, found her speed suddenly diminish, although her steam power was kept up. After some time the diminished speed was discovered to b6 owing to a huge whale which the cutwater of the ship had struck and penetrated in tho centre, and was driving aloug. The whale must have been floating on the sur- face dead or asleep when the ship struck it. Tho passcngere wauted tho monster to bo hauled on board, but tho captiin could not aliord the time to do so. He, therefore, backed the ship for some distance, and the leviathan become disentangled and sank. • DKATH OF A MEMBKR OF PARLIAMENT.— On Saturday intelligence was received at Oldham that Mr. John I'latt, oi| e of the members of Parliament for that borough, had died s ddenly at Paris. Mr. Piatt bad been travelling ou the Cnntinent for a few weeks, his uit pi i e of visit being tho Frouch capital. His friends received word about tho beginning of the week that ho was Hufforii. g from cold, and one of his eons left England ^ o join him at Paris. Ou Friday night a teleyraui conveyed the information that the hon. gentleman was seriously ill, and on Saturday about noon tidings of his death came to hana. The decou » ' d w.. s head ' Of' the firm of Piatt, Brothers, aud Co., one of the Lu- gest machine- making concerns in Eugland, if not in, the world. They hnld a pre- eminent position aa makers of machinery for spinning aud weaving cotton. Mr. Piatt Was fin. t elected for Old- ham nt the general eleotiou'in 1865. Ho was again returned at the general flection in 1SG8, but his majority Way to unall over that of Mr. J. M. Cobbett ( thu vctc- Mug— Piatt, .6.122 ; Cobbett Cllti) that an attepipt wijp made, to uypW hi « eleoti- n upon petition. The petition win heard before Mr. Justice Blackburn, tho re- ult being in favour of the Liberal candidates, Me-- 1 - Mililteri. mrtl Pratt. In politics, Mr. Piatt was uu adi auccd Liberal, and it is not too much to say that he onjoyed the • onfidence of ] I: B i arty in Oldham to the fullest degree. Mr. Piatt is tho second member of l'is family wb. iwU .- Midden death has for a timo" deprived tho « : i'U> U Wtiqy " f are^ ris.- nji tivoinyarliiuijent. In Au^ nst. JSV. M- \ uiiiiLjur Mother, Mr. . fames Piatt, 11 II junior member for Oldham, was killed by thu ulriiUl dL- ohar^ e of a yuu when nrcumpanyiog a • liootiug p. Li- iy on the Siddltiwotldi ihour^ A DISTINGUISH I D GDEST.— Mrs. Malaprop is determined to obtain a lady's ticket for next year's Literary Fun Dinner, as sho thinks it must be a most amusing entertainment— Punch. " BAD THING FOR THE COO."— A few days sincoa bull was being conducted to the slarghtcrhouro at Basle along the road in a line wWtajjf railway, when on a sudden the animal became Efnned by the whL tlo of a train arriving from St. Lot^ j/ broke loose from his conductor, and leaping the baWier, rushed forward with his head downward to encounter the engine. Tho result of such a contact may be imagined. Many Beconds had not elapsed before he wa3 knocked down and so mangled that out of a weight of between eight and nine cwt there was not more than a few pounds that could be used as food. LORD DENBIGH ON RICE.— Lord Denbigh says his attention has been drawn to a report of a speech by Mr. Arch at an agricultural labourers' meeting at War- wick, m which the following words occurred :—" The speaker then referred to the statement of Lord Den- i ii' ^ a working man could live on rice, and challenged the noble lord to a week's mowing on that diet. His lordship denies ever having made such a statement, and explains that all he has said is that agricultural labourers do not half appreciate the value of nee. Lord Denbigh now adds-" If, instead of spending theirmoney almost exclusively on white bread and tea, they would lay out some on rice, which was the staple food of many hard working nations, they would find their money go further in providing a good meal for their families. I have often regretted to see the very imperfect knowledge of even the trnt principles of cooking possessed by our poorer elates, which, if they would only once master, would enable thein to nourish themselves much more wholesomely and com- fortably, and, at the same time, not less economically.* THE EX- EMPEROR NAPOLEON'S HEALTH.— A correspondent writes as follows of the Emperor Napoleon:— " So many fictions and inventions— the offspring of purs malice— have b « oa lately circulated In England, and very much more In France, regarding the state of the health of the Emperor Napoleon, that perhaps it may be satisfactory to the very numerous friends of that personage to hear the opinion of one who had not till to- day seen His Majesty since July last. The Emperor says he is perfectly well, and, judging from his appearance, not only is such the awe, hat he looks several years younger than he did at St. Cloud, in July, 1870. I should think tho superb calmness of his nature, which cannot even be ruffled by personal misfor- tune, Is the great cause of His Majesty locking as he does to- day — younger than he really is. Hi3 icina'k on the climate of England was characteristic: - When you havo such a recaption and such a continued welcome at I have had In England you do not much heed the climate."" CONSTITUTIONAL AGITATION.— Of all agitations now in progress, the one least astonishing and most characteristic is the agitation for Womm's SuBrage. But the fullest concession of political rights to women will fail to allay the agitation which most of them are subject to. Unprotected females, especially, will continue to bo agitated by the slightest causes, inso- much as to exist in an almost constant state of agitation. In many instances their agitation will be, as now. Protectionist— Punch. PREDICTION OF THE ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS. — Mr. Silbermann addressed a letter to the president of the Acad^ mie des Sciences, which was dated Satur- day evening, May 4, and forwarded by post In this he announced that on Monday morning, May 6, an eruption of Vesuvius, more violent than those which had preceded it, would take place. In the letter he detailed the atmospheric conditions which induced him to predict the greater violence of the eruption then to take place.— Medical Times and Gazette. THE NEW REMEDY FOR SNAKE BITE.— Addi- tional instances have been furnished showing the value of Professor Halford's remedy for snake bite ( savs the Melbourne Argus). At Mr. Mitchell's station, Dairy, on the Woudiyalloack, a man, named Edward Reynolds, was bitten on the little finger of the left hand by a black snake, and as no immediate medical assistance could be obtained, the usual bush treatment was resorted to of tying a ligature tight round the wrist, and freely cauterising the wound. He was then taken to Lillydale, a distance of 15 miles, and by the time the doctor could see him he v^ as in a state ot pro- found coma, and at first the meaical man had very small hopes of his recovery. He immediately injected a solution of ammonia into one of the veins of the right arm, with almost miraculous effect In two minutes his patient showed unmistakable signs of relief, aud after an interval of about the same time consciousness returned, and he was able to walk about as usual. The following day he rode back to the station, and seemed quite recovered. The Hamilton Spectator also publishes a detailed statement of the successful treatment of a girl by m? ans of Professor Halford's remedy, and a similar ca- e in which this mode of treatment wa4 equally beneficial is reported in the Majorica Independent as having occurred at Carisbrook. STRIKE TO SOME PURPOSE.— So the Builders threaten another strike, do they? What a blessing it would be, particularly to some inhabitants of the suburbs of London, if they were to suike altogether I — Punch. ENGLISH GOVERNESSES IN BERLIN.— The Rev. Robert Bellson has sent the following letter for _ publication:—" Ithink it my duty as British Chaplain' m Berlin to make known, through the means of your columns, the fact that at the present timo there is absolutely no opening in Germany, at least not in this part of it. for the many English governesses who are continually arriving in hopes of finding situations in German families. Throughout the winter it has been a matter of deep concern to me to hear of numerous cases of disappointment arising from the Cmpossibibty of finding situations. Many have been here for months waiting and hoping but in vain, and I can now only advise them to return to England, rind advise others who may be intending to come to abstain from doing so, unless they secure the situations they require before leaving home. Cases of positive destitution, arising from this caution not having been attended to, hhve come frequently under my own notice." PRICE OF MEAT.— The Registrar- General, who records from time to time the price of food, which has its influence upon the comfort aud health of the people, notices in making hu return for the first quarter of the present year the enormons rise in tho price of meat iu tbe 1 ist 20 years. In tho year 1852 the average price of beef by the carcase at tho Metro- )> olItan Meat Market was - 1J I. per lb. and of mutton 4| d. In the first qunrter of the yenr 1S72 the averages havo been 6Jd. and 7Jd. respectively. In the 20 veare beef has risen in price 4S per cent and mutton 46 per cent The price of beef may have been affected by the cattle plague, and the measures of restriction to which it lea, and the prices during the whole 20 years have been increased by the depreciation in the value of money circulating in the world. The Registrar- General suggests that the exorbitant price of butchers' meat mignt be reduced to 6ome extent by diminishing the consumption, which in many families is excessive; he regards it as well known that bread, fruit potatoes, vegetables, and similar diet furnish adequate sustenance to all adults, except to the men employed in severe physical labour. He adds that i.- reater simplicity in public dinners, where so much food is wasted, might lead to private economy. RATIONAL ANCIENT ROMAN. — " Nothing," said Sempronius to Cato, " would make mo consent to die for my country but tho fear of worse punishment if I declined." " Don't be pusillanimous," was Catu'a reply. " Abuse," rejoined Sempronius, " is" no argu- ment"— Punch. " PAPER CLOTjitNa."— A journey into the country of the Bed:; win Arabs requires to bo taken under their guidance and protection ( remarks the Jewish Chronicle.) They by such rncnris levy black- mail on all travellers who pass through then- country. It seems singular that the Sult- m does1' not provide guards or make the road tafe. But it seems to be a part of tho peculiar miego'vernment of tho country to allow tho Bedawin tribes of each locality to levy con- tributions on travellers, or, in other words, to rob them of conduct monev. Travellers have to purchase the protection of the Bedawins of tha Jord.- m against all enemies of their own or neighbouring tribes , and tho agreement is to the effect that they shall be taken by tho Sheik Keschid nnd a proper guard to the Dead Sea and tho Jordan and back in safety to Jeru^ leni, With- out such protection the jotirney Is siniply impossible, and thore is an ornusing accent of a lady and gentle- man who had attempttd the trip without the formality of a Bedawin guard, aud who hat! been met and roblxii of their baggage, th « ^ ir money, clothe?, and valuable.— the gentleman having to beg of the Bedawin robb- rd The Times newspaper in which to clothe himself and hi.' wife. The husband returned to ' Jenwakin ih that valuable journal, lus wife being wrapped up in to- supplement* SATURDAY, MAY S5.1672 THE FALMOUTH & PENRTN WEEKLY TIMES. D2L LIVHIG STONE. At Tfj * » « i'ir. nlr » tino in cocaeetino wrtt fhe etle- Irvrl traveller. I IT. Iiviagstote, precites B r- than anal irJMTvt a*. tbe prrr^ a'. mon.- ut, we lure pleasure is jr. T - • ti.- - - have been sent to 3V r.-^ va lor ftHSlun :— lMdMWH( tt># lrra * letter I h « ve received thia Bonbt frm Ur IMS Liri^ uoce, - lv> U on* of Um Wik- 1 r* 7 Ml tils fuirj H" is date! tbe l* ut of A- TB, atd ft i-^ iaiji bcu^ s It Bp to the « * h it tutooclk Toe will pnbsbly rewire other Items which hsvscroe by Ma MJ1: llirtM Um TIIh of Ow tow HM wfll sw no farther toss to nprant the b -! al< atg In tbe mind of Dr. Livtacstoa* s too reepscUag hi* father. The new* Iron Zstz bar nouU t" tM « — vix.. that » atroM manor rtiUi then la April lut th » t the great traveller wis safe at CJiJl a few r, uiha W re Tntta the boy* < d beat * b. « to to- » a calm judgment resc- ect- ln « him rectiv* a fresh tapolss- ane th » t U ad . Iti.^ oally STREASTIAENOD by UM Mill more Ira;-' rtant fact that no o s contrary naicre prevail tflfter In the lotmot or on the It u a mstter of sinews co> gratolatioa to find that the extwliii- m bis not only a curt j the valuable « m.- i of Mr. » w. but that a number of the Xasslck buji ar « already mrt> U* l an l prefanng to aeek Im their cots- rmilea > r* cave bees so leuj absent » Un t* r. Urlofatone.— 1 am. Ac.. HdUU W1LLU. Leytonslooe, May 20. " My dear Mr. Wiiler,— I will flrrtof an clre you what news there to of my fat act. A car* ran haa Just arrived from UnysnyemV, and we hare aeen aotns of leading men, who • ay thai Stanley ha. niched CjtJI, sAiere be ha* met my father, who haa received the so; iea ae- it up to him. There are no letter* fr* n toetn, and I believe the » t- ry is. for the most put. a lie, though I am Inclnel to thluk that tome supplies hare reached fjljl. ai. j there Is lUUe doabt bat th* l Stanley haa left Cnyamwczl. All reports ( peak of my father beta* wounded bv a boflalo, which m* ke* him limp * ed' 7 We hare * U Xs* I k boys In hand. • ad we are endeavouring to teach them to be niefoL They will make excellent fellows, although t ey sre rather tlow. Csfortanately, we have n' t en ugh work to ( five then. We THE TICHEGBITE CASE. Tbe London papers of Tuesday pebusbed tbe fol- Cwing.— WBI y- a ice tt- favrmref paWtohtoff the UnOowfa. reply to a r trva Mr 9pu « arth wbk- fc « red In ; c « r lease of Thonday the I « h. tn » L- a v at ceoUews accseee sse of kavinc n maud cw— ia hcv w.^ rdcza^ t to the late Mr. 1 I moch regret It it the * aM « 4 of a emrmlioa asppeeed be private ihosld have by any tana* cU* lne> l a new*. psper poMlctty. bst each bri • anlortonaWr the ra^, I a ® e « np » ned. Is siy own Jeettfc tins, t> defend mye- lf from the laputation of a tact fw my own benefit. It wa* hard to be ea.' 1- l a - thl. fr a liar, a perjurer, s fcrrer, an- 1 a Villain of tbe deepest dje" by a paid advo- eate ipecUIly eneajfi to vilify me, t- f . re the reanh of a fair trial eostd pa- late tnch aboae. It to barter to And myvelf ateurel of dapUctry by one to whom 1 wwn mytelf grate folly Indebted fur mai. y U of Undne.*. Altbrmrh my oppooeu'i hive net ntgsei vry Orlxtian example u to the mpect die to the . lea * | ha. l mv U; trated mot Her hare lived how dUe-' ntly wru'. d ihe have bers apnken of. bow dlff « . eat wosM - are been my p-.- iUon). • till 1 lay I regret that « ry public reference » '. - u: have been made to the late Mr Koee: and. * i i- lj In my r wn def'i » oe. I b- g to Inqalr- « f Mr. Spoil.- rth wh. n. er I . Id not on the Sth of January. 1873. i die** a letter to him m mhich I ( tated I had b- en at Ev* oa* with ntt ri. n l* on th iprerlo- u rvenlnj, when I be. rd on c" od anthonty that Mr. llo « ebad( on the evrnl gprwt.. u » to that) been Hlkluc si. ut my ci « e. that he had utn - d " It loo& cd v. rj n- hv." and Uut " the firm th u; ht sb- t clvin? it op" 1' iyler tbeae drcum « tao « * i, 1 a tne » - n » r time erote Mr. 3p' ( T rth " thai I would sot all" W Vlr. iUiwe to appear at future con* ultatlon oo my beh. lf." I hereby not only anthortoe. bnt apedal'y rrqne » t Mr a* s natter o£ oommou joxtlce to me, to publtoh The onfortnnate ( difference between Mr Bote i-. d myielf dnc* not for s moment leaven n y f- ellnz of encitude for the seal, energy, and talent dU. layed in tbi • • mlact of my * ult by tbe other members of Uut eminent Arm — 1 » ra Sir. your obedient servant, K. C D. TiaiBoUL Ear ley- lodge, Ilarley- road, Eromptou, May 20. " Dr. and Mrs Kirk have been rxtrrmely good to. us. BUttln^ them• elves to no end of trouole on our account If It were not for them we should be nowhere. Since we came both Dr. and Mrs Kirk have b. en d . wa » lth fever. I found two of our Saadtk b.. y* dying yaaterday; but after a dose of • rou* er"( Dr. Livli> g< u> nc'* pr<-* cnpUon) and quinine, they have recovered mast wondenully. . . . " Since wrlllngtho la* t w « have beard that my father has Jfot all the Mores lent to TJJIJI for him, and that be ha* met Stanley there . so you see t. iere li every probability of his reaching home before we get to UJiJL " April 20. " P. fl — Owlna to a tremendous cyclone wMch occurred here last Sunday ( April 15), the Atyd"', which takes this letter, has been del « » ed tor a week, * » I c& n plvc jou s few line* about the great catastrophe, there being no other news " It began to blow on Monday morning, and when we got up we could see that some d » mmre was done, many dhows being ashore. This aeiit on till about 1 p. m., when then wa* a lull, the coat re of thu ttonfi betnjf upon us. About 2 p. m. a mo « t tremendous eust tore open our windows, . * • ir tables and chairs, throw. I door, and upset our lablea and chslrs. thro^ I iEi i ., Th0 nu,* e wu » o » ethlDg awful, the wind and the water fr.. m th..- sea rushing through the windows made n sound resembling ste* m cscap- Iur from a Itoller. The roeims were fuU of water and sll our thlnRs floating about In It All the bouses In the town wero unroofed, nnd many otherwl. « - everely damaged. In the harbour tl. o AbydotHon* kept afloat, stelmlngfull speed against. thewind up to h r anchors and wlthixtm weights ou the safety valves. Th ® Sultan has lost all his 0D? ,"' a" vc, ht' wWoh w" » t Mombss with Mr. New On Expedition business. l ive merchantmen wcro wrccked, one with nil hands lost, and over 100 dhows many with valuable cargoes arc sunk In the country only ono In thirty of the cocoanut trees to s'aiilJtng, and the cloro towjw njoatly destroyed, thus ruining Zanzibar for some As any conQrmatlon of the nows of the great Explorer'a safety must be of general Interest, I take the curliest oppor- tunity of informing you that I have Uito mornlug reo ived s letter, dated April 10. from Dr. Jaiue< Christie, physician to the 11. II. Sultan of Zanzibar, which to as follows :— " One cannot write from Zinz bar without montionlDg Dr. Llvliu'it'. no. I bcllerc tli » t he is aliro and weU, and that Mr. Stanley has relieved him In ITJIji. I would not be sur- C! d to meet Mr. 3., and probably Dr. L., hero any day, so It li doubtful if the Scarcn Expedition ever starts" I * co from KatUM for ilav 10 that the Council of the Eoy » l Geographical Society think it more likely that the Doctor ho* relieved Mr. Stanley, a* the latter " was without supplies, and he must have undergone much difficulty In get- ting to UJIJI, wh- reas t to place was tho head quarters of Dr. Livingstone's suppll. s Dr. Cliri » tio's letter, on tho other band, seems to confirm tho news already received by telegram.— I remain, & c., W. H O0RF1KLD, M. A., M. B. ( Oxon- X Don. Sec. of tho Epidemiological Society of London. May 20. THE DUNDEE DOMESTIC SERVANTS. On Friilay evening in last week, the domestic ser- vants of Dundee met in the Thistle Hull, Dundee, when theru was a good attendance. The girl who presided at tho previous meeting was called to the chair, and the secretins read the rules, which wcro adopted niter discussion, in which the sub- jects introduced were as diverse As the statements made. Monthly engagements wero strongly advocated, tho payments to be ( quarterly, and it was argued thot the sen- ants were not likely to desecrate tho Lord's- day if they got a freo Sabbath every fortnight. Servants it was contended, ouylit to bo at liberty to wear what they chose, " so long a. i they," the treasuress sarcastic- ally observed, " did not make themselves so odious as their mistresses." " The ILig," wjiu stigmatized as tho " badgo of servitudu " ( Jae » peakcr declared that servants must have their liberty, and * he demanded to know who were willing to wear the flag. Tho chair- woman and two other eprikora expreaaed their par- tiality for " tho flag," aiciil hixaini: and laughter. Tho meeting acreed that if the flag was Insisted upon it should be paid for by the iu Lb tress es. The treaauress Baid that when tho u. « > ciation was in fnll working order one part of its business would bo to mako a thorough investigation iutu the characters of mistresses. Tho subject of Sun. lay cooking pave rise to an ani- mated discussion, a servant declaring that in ono place where she bod been it was the urai tice to havo a regular guzzlo on Sundays, when the whole affairs of tho week wore discussed. On one occasion there was a • upper party on a Sunday, and the minister was sip- ping his toddy while ithu was cleaning tho crystal early on Monday morning. Tho manner in which mistre » es tried to injure the characters of servants was referred to, and a speaker state- 1 that a minister's wife bad told her that all the got^ l s- rvants had gone to America or were dead. Siio thought tho aame might be a& rmed regarding miatrea.-**. Tho justice of some remarks made was question' .1. and tho chairwoman declared that so lung as they lived they would have to serve. A chairwoman, treomress, arcretarcss. and 12 of tho committee were elected to carry on the business of tho association, and it was Stated that 200 servants were ready to join. Temporary premises have been secured for the association. Tho following were tho rules submitted to tho meet- ing :— " That thlc association shall be called tho Dundee and Dis- trict Domestic Servant*' AmocU'. Iuu. " That the object of the oc. itlon shall be to Improve the condition oi tho doin " i - rrant*. by rendering their work lea* bnrlcn*. mo and fic'r wages more liberal than at preaenL That. In tho tint l. i.. n - , « err » nt » shall have a weekly half hnlydiy, e » miuem- in « ^ t 4 ..' clock, and a free Sabbath every fortnicht: but, wnilo inatotlng on these oon- ocsslou. It to not to be undviotood that necessary operations In tho house which cannot re o nal. y be left undone shall , not be performed. That, while It l « Impossible to arbitrarily settle the worklns hour* of servant*. It to felt to be per- fectly ceimpaUble with kll demands that may be made upon them that they thould La to at luOr sbiolate disposal three hours daily. " That encasement* '" nil In future be msdo for a period • ot exceeding one m vnth. » •> airan.* emcot which haa become Imperative In consequeuoqot the annorancs which mlxtreiics aa well a* s » - rvanta al ]. r. : i a, vi noo from the long In- terval whi h eiaper* brt'- ee i t: e lime when icrranta are compelled to iati- iat U. cix d^ cUloa and the date of the ex- . plry « 1 tho engage treat. " That fair and full latitude abill be accorded to servants as to the style of the i - ucl which thiy may think it not Improper for them to wr. j. •• Th* t, in order the > r » nccessfully to secure the ceoeral rvcognlUoo of tv c > Invested above, each member of tbs as « oc< » l n I aw u. dly subscribe one ahllling to a fund » hich will b.- d » v » : ed I- j the ( aymant ol salaries to the treasurer wod » * cr.- tanr for the time being, who wCl be rv'le re ot aptrii.- e. nd thoa be able to devote their whole time and altjuUon t • tha Ink rests of the servants. " That tt shall derolve o- tboteoOdalB to keep a registry at aa office which will be .. t hluh a I that engagement* shall in f tcrv be made r : i thH agency. Instead ol thron^ h the regUtr. o c.,'^ i v - - e ' An Fnglish arti't. travelling ; ft tdaaaBy through Scotlaad Sadoccuaoa to r. .- anday la a small town lathe North. In a « » * Id tte e^ viroos the picturesque ruins ot a eastWurt 11 » ej He - •' lu Caaie of * eoca- t* 7T" aaw' . « u| _ n. jT- M, - IrtBOttetoj to S « c-* jin" sOout s... ti Ir^ it." , Tbe following is the letter that elicited the fore- going :— With reference to a italenient which appears In your paper of this mornin? as having been made by th* Claimant In thl Ttchborne trUl at a meeting of hi* fro n to at Aires- fort, to the effect that the late llr. W. a tto- e, one of the junior counsel, waa, by hto de. ire. wlthdramn ' rim the case, I request your perbrtisl. n to contradict that aisteinent, which. If correctly reported, to untrue. I remember the Claimant on or about tho 7th of January. 1872. mentioning u> mo a rumour that Mr W D. Uc^ e had expresscl to Mr. Lawton an unUvourable opini. e ot hi* cue, snd suggesting that, ff tru . he miyht be prejudiced c? Mr. W. B. Ko* e representing him ss counsel; but I found, as I expected, that the Claim » nt bad been misinformed, and that there wa* no JPstiOcAtion fur tho rumour; and Xlr. W. B. Eo* e continued, with tha Claimant * lull knowledge and approval, to render hi* valuable services until prevented by that illness which, to the deep regret of all, terminated In his death. It is equally incorrect that the withdrawal of Mr. Rose, sen., with that of his eld t son and partner, Mr. P. Frede- rick Rose, from s further connexion uith the case bad anv relation to this circumstance. Mr. Rose having communi- cated to hto partners tho grounds for his determination In the beginning of December. Upon tho subsequent withdrawal ot Mr. Rose and hto son aa solicitor* In the cause and tho iune of new rtlimers to counsel by the other members of the Arm, no fresh ret ilner waa offered to Mr W. B. Rose, the illr. ess from which he was then suffering entirely incapacitating him from attend- ing court.— I am, <£ c , SI. aporruKIH. 6, Victoria- street, Westminster, S. W., May 15. THE KILLJOYS. Bra warem LAWSOB Said untc DAWSOH BURNS, " Suppose wo liquor up!" Replied that otlur Platfonnbt, " Brother, We're Ju* t the lads to crush a cap."— Punch. A CURIOUS MISSION TO QUEEN VICTORIA. A curious mission ha* recently left Calcutta, and is now on its way to England, with a sealed letter for the Queen. The mission is from the Court of Sultan Suleiman, atTalifoo, the Panthay capital, lying north- east of the Bunnah frontier, between that aud China, and consists of Prince Hassan, a son of the Sultan ; Prinec Yusuf, the Sultuu's nephew : and an interpreter, and fivo follower?— a very sellable number to come from an Eastern potentate. The contents of the sealed letter are, of course, presumed to bo private ; but the Embassy brought friendly ftiejsages to the Government of India, and it is believed that the object of the mission is to obtain the help of Eng- land against the Chinese. Sultan Suleiman claims to be sole ruler of the Parithay territories of Yunan, and some Fay believes in a tradition that he will yet be Emperor of China. Tbe simple order to the mission was to proceed first of all to Calcutta to pay proper respect to the Indian Government, and then to go direct to England by the nearest mute. Tho head of the Mission is an intelligent, and is believed by those who have come in contact with him to lie an ablo man. He has travelled a great deal in China, visiting all tbe chief ports and towns. The Saltan himself was elected to the Monarchy some years ago, and esta- blished his Court at Talifoo. Four military and as many Civil officers—^ whrt the Chinese would call Mandarins of the firat class— were associated with him in the Government, and, in the case of the fornjer, were appointed to certain districts, though all matters of importance are referred Talifoo, where tho Monarch haa the advice of his Civil Council of four. The Pantbys seem in all their organizations to have a wonderful idea of the value of compact- ness and of small numbers in Government. They profess to be strict Muhomodans. and to abstain from strong drink and tobacco. The male popula- tion is almost ontitely military, and are said by a recent traveller to be " fine atldetio men of moderate height, fair skins, with obliquo eyes, high cheek bones, and a ca- t of countenance very distinct from that of the Cliinese. They usually wear a moustache, but pull out all other hair from their faces, alter Chinese fa.- hion. They wear the Chinese jacket and short trouaen'. A bright orange waistband, in which a dagger is usually carried, completes the costume. The women dress after the Chinese style. Yunan, it may bo necessary to htate, h one of those four Chinese Provinces to the north- east cf Burmah which have thrown oil tho Chinese authority. The other three Provinces aie Sechuen, Shensi, and Kansu. Tali, the immediate country of Sultan Suleiman, is the western portion of the Province of Yunan contiguous to Burmah. REMINISCENCES OF THE FLEET PRISON. A few days ago the foundation- stono of the Con- gregational Memorial liall, was laid cn tho site of the old Fleet Prls- m, Farringdon- street, London. By a curious coincidence this site appears to be the most sacred spot connected with the history of In- dependency in England. In " A Retrospect of English CongregaUonalism," which appeared in the Noncon- / ormut last week, it is remarked :— " In the Fleet Prison ttc earliest martyrs of Independency were confined, and from that prison the j wero hurried to the acafiold. Whltgift s controller, in stating the nature ol the lndlttment asafmt Il rrowe and Gretna ood, narrates how thry were broucht before the Star Chamber In 15SC. and ' enlarged upon Lood*. but all In vilo, for. after their liberty they barst Into lurtli.- r extremities, and were again com- mitted to the Fleet, July 20, 1SSS. where they published tbelr scandalous and sc itiou* writings for ahlch they were proceeded against at Justice- hall, near Newgate." From the Fleet, In 1550, Greenwood Issued his answer to Git fard! slculng himself • Christ's poor afllicte • prisoner in the sleet, at London, for the Truth of the CotpcL' Then he snd liarrewu were tied to a cart and borne to Tyburn. To the Ffoet,. J. boinn was committed in and thence issued the una.. rial from the Various Inde- pendent prtovners In the London poto, statin; their • misera- ble uia^ e,' ' laden with as many iron as they c < uld bear'— " ijeJ men. aged women, aiviyouog maidens' beingConlned for years amongst the vilest prisoners. Later on. in 137, Ponne. Bastwlck, and Linton vtn committed by Laud to the Fleet, tram wheofe they w « re taken to the pillory, branded with hot Irons, sad their ears cut off: sent back again to the Fleet, snd thence to their nspeetive prisons. Have we not all heard of the crowd tha: lined the stnetoaad roads of Loedao from tbe KUet ' Oil bejond Ilich^ te' when Pry nee was coavcycd to Lancaster Castle? Un the erouad where these men had suffered, which they had trod for weary years, the Contrc^ aUoaaltots ot England, 111 Ue more than two hundred years later, are erecting their Memorial A clever English f! who had b~- n caught at the Bank ot France in the act of ttealing iIOCO w rth ot bank notes, and who was tateu to hi* bc< « l by the police officers, nana^ wi to escape aad lock tbe door up. n then whilst they wen; ensured to Karchir. i ha lu- j rr. Tbe d- tecUrea had acoce treble In cetUa^ n 1 = ajr. l ir » m Citlrt- u » jr* ry prboa lr> tbe Tv. t fal!= jiej . : u - : - jui UK IC- 1 tia Bit bed. i^ X btdZ E- Ct HARVEST PROSPECTS. Sir. L J. Mechi, writing from Tiptrw- hall. near Kelvedon, Essex, has sect the tallowing letter to Tin Timet:— Harvest rrapects hare been eor> s! t- nbly ^-- fag tbe last tm.' Uht ot eold winds bailstennv fl axta ra x loth before aa. i after the aerer* tr^ t ot Saiurrlay r- tr^ t tb. 11th ioat. which partially . utoed trrnt pronptcto, 1- ^ « - ed the potato plant*, and ao nipped the lea. is. f the wheat plar. t that they hare withered sad bee w yeOo « . gtrmg to tbs crops a more sickly appearance than the re-' iij Gloomy people asr that this to " a settler- L< tbe wh. emt crop, especially oo tbe heavy uadraioed cUyt or tile eartba. and do doubt the dancer to great, f r the cootinia> « « ' wet and a low temperature mar, by lnpedlst circulation and evaporation in the wheat plant, cause Us roots to r. t, and the plant to become laU or root- lsUen. Very much will depend upon the westb* r ot the next fort- night, for, " aa May leaves the crops, ao harvest £ ada them/ ts, hereabout, an accepted agricultural maxim. Drying winds and brfzbt sunshine might slITl be In lime to diminish damage, but at present with a at* ady d « - wn- pour and s cold conb^ a « terty wind, thing* do i . it look pr. miiinc- It la true that this weather to very tav urabia to permanent pasture, artificial gnssra. b. an* •-.' ex. clovers, oata, and other food tor animals, comi rUbur aa area ot aboct X 000,000 of acres: but does it ml i f » r moat extraordinary and anomalous that, while « S,. « 0 ol our acres are given to the making ol meat. 1 ulUr. ui. lk, cheese, beer, and horse food, only 4 M0. 00 ol - eres - re • pared for the first necea « ary ot life, our dailv lr - df There can be no JuatlflcsUon or excuse for tl It < ice, t that we have forgotten that we were once a primitive, pastoral, and sparse population, one Inhabitant to each 10 acir « , wLile now the proportion to changed to one for one -> I * liaU acre. So that we have entirely neclected to re. J i* t tbe acres and their productive power* to tbs altered Lumbers and condition of our present peculation. This must and can be profitably done, for In TOT own ea « e and asversl others more than 40 per cer t., lnstea I of • b'.> 9 per cent, ot seres are used fur tbe production ol abundant wheat crops. Our 42.000,000 of seres ( net producing wheat) do not yield even enough ol meat, buUer, chee* e. or beer for our p pa- latlon, or food tor their hor* ea. so thst we r « i. i I • y > r to foreigner* £ 21,000,000 tor these articles and £ 42, i . tvJ for breadatuSs Surely our poor weedy pastures must soon bo converted Into arable It to worthy of note that bearded Rlvett wheat to luxuriant and has suflered nothing from frost and rain. SIR STAFFORD N0RTHC0TE ON THE " ALABAMA" TREATY. The Right Hon. Sir S. Northoote, Bart, M. P., pre- sided on Friday afternoon in la « t week, at the it nnal meeting of the Exeter Chamber of Comm- rcr, of which he is President. Haring spoken of the ques- tions between Canada and the United States w . If cted by the Washington Tr. at/, referring to the AlaUmia negotiations, he said :— " The past yaar has been one of great snxlely an ' tronVo In connection with the questions raised u> . l r t'. ot Treaty, and perhapa you will forgtvo m « for Baying that to myaelf personally tho time which wo have been going through has been ono of very consider- able anxiety— ( hear, hear) — not tbe least so because, until within the last few days, I have felt myself In a position— we, who were the Commlsalonera lost year, havo felt ourselves In a position In which it wa* our dut » t.. hold our tongues, and though holding one's tongue to often very agreeable and right, there are occasions upo i which It involves conaidrrable aacriflce. But I think Uio c nmtry generally has appreciated tho motiv. a wliich havo 1 d to our alienee, and we have felt that It was far belter to be subject even to tho misrepresentations, or, at all events, to suspicions which vae thought we could h> ve cl- retl away it we could have spoken, than that we should tay anything which could by any poialblllty mar the sen lenient to which we wero anxiously looking. ( Hear, hear.) Bnt tho matter has this week passed into a stage which placet u* In a somewhat different position. It does not lnd « " e. l > b-.. lvo us from the necessity of great caution in f. ijlng any- thing of a personal character, but It docs p'ace us In a po i- tlon in which wo may speak with more fieedt'in » illi rv- rard to the great international Interests conccrned I'nr position, personally, has been one of very grtat dellcao au. l em- barrassmeut, and for thia reason. Two qu- » tl" H. i I no been raised— ono, tho personal question aa to wliat nan tbe under- standing between the Commissioners atall event', and i « r- haps between the two Governments, at the tin, « the I'rea'y was concluded; and the other, as to tho general merits " I tho 3uestion raised with regard to what are callcd couoequenlLal images and Indirect einjrriw " With regard to the personal question, 1 will only ssy this— that we, the Commissioners, wore distinctly nsmiiieiblo lor haring represented to the Government that » c under- stood a promise to be given that these clilms were not to be put forward by the United States. But. il we are to main- tain that position, we of course mnst be brought Into painful relations, and perhapa painful. qnca< Ions, bet > tei) oiirselv. s and our American colleagues upon that CuunnUiion. It would have been most unjustiliable If, while the matter waa under discussion, we had allowed any desire to make good our own case In the matter to Interfere with the great Inter- national settlement which has been going en. Whether tho tlmo vrlU ever come for speaking fully on the matter I don't know, and I comparatively little care. What I am anxious for to that a reasomhlo a rsnje- ment should bo oome to which m± y secure to both countries— and I will go so far as to say to i b world at large— tho great advantages that we promts- d ourselves in the ' conclusion of the Treaty, ( liear, bear.) Whf i b- question waa one merely between the two ( governments it w. vj 0 ffl- calt to treat it without entering upon the perv., r, al qu- Ulon, but It haa now so far passed beyond the two \ rhr. euts that an arrangement has . been provisionally come to between them which to now awaiting tha sanction .. l Hie Untied States Senate, and which must. If accepted by t , m. c . mo before the Parliament and the people ol this countrj with n view to its ratlficsUon by us also. I therefore » j e . k with some little freedom, because I feci that I can do so- without raising the other class of questions to which I bate referred. " Nothing, I think, can be more satisfactory than the at- titude which tho people of both countries ha v. : n tince this difficulty arose. There was very great satis . n In America and ln England also—( hear hear)— when tlie Wash- ington Treaty was concluded. At ill events both cmntrles believed that a settlement of a trouUesomo « nt--•! m had been arrived at, and tho principles were agreed ui>.. n which were likely to be of very great Importance lor the future. Saddtnly& nd most unexpectedly to the pep'o of t!, U country, and as I am perfectly convinced, equally unexpectedly Ui the peoplo of the United States, a difficulty w. nuwd tl at seemed likely to overthrow the whole settlement IfOtMitjR I think, could have been more honourablo lo Uieppblreot both countries than the monr) er,| n. which, in the i. tce ol thnt great disappointment, they both behavoiL Th. r ; has been no disposition to Irritate or to embarrass tix qucitioh'; on the contrary, there has been an anxious ' de* iifc' shown by bothaldeato endeavour, U possible, to uttflo ftb knot, and to arrive at a satiifactory conclusion. And lb ugh I do not wish to tako credit to the late Oommi si. n for >• hat may n" t belong to them, atlB one cannot help thinking ihnt t'n- manner In which tho negotiation waa conducted un !• • • ( Ides had aomething to do with bringing about a better it do of ferling between the two countries than prevluiidy exi- ted I firmly believe that tho natural lrritaUonwlii. h| M rvaded a largo pro- portion of thoUnlted States immediatelyadt• rtlietemVe civil war through which they had posse- 1 waa greatly tllayed by tho proipecta of last year : and that eveti If—, idch I iruft may not be the case— this srrsngem. nt should unhappily fall througb, I bellevo that the disposition widch ha.-, been shown to a friendly settlement will not lie wit iout its fruits But with regard to the projects of a settlement. I sish only to say this,— that I havo great confidence that tho snirtt which haa animated both peoples will anim- tc Uie authorities also. ( Hear, hear.) Tho Treaty- of li. t year wai arrived at under circumstances of great difficulty, arising In m the peculiar relation of the United State » ' Senate to Uie G . vern- mcnt; end those difficulties were enhanced by the tsct that the Treaty embraced sercral distinct ma'. ters. and also by the considcrati jn that the Senate had oa forme- • Ions rejected a. Tresty for the icttlemont of th- J ia>. >>• « c ims. All this made tho negotiation extremely diffli- olt nnJ .! cilci » tc. I am bound to say the spirit In which tin - e d' • v. a wtr » dealt with by the people, by the aoverniuen t, and! , y t h. S.- nate of the United States wki a spirit very encuuis^ lnu. as if they were disposed to prefer great lntcrn. it !• n. l etmslileritifli a to tho smaller and more personal considerations, lo » hleh 1 have referred. And they dealt v ith this question In a broad and stateamanlike manner, which, I trust, au; ura well for tho future Settlement of this question It mist Iw felt hy us all that it to of the highest Importance to tho I a Wrest*, not only of commerce, but of peace and tranquility throughout the world, that thes qu. - ti , ns shlah lave been raised should recelvc a sstisfa- t ry to otion, t at minor questions, such as national delicacy and nati mal prUlc— erea although 1 am the la- t who w. m. d wtoh to see national honour In the leait dtree tainted or weakened— should not be allowed altogether to ; \ t t at of our sight theso veTT great, broad, iut • rmiionai queatloi a which are concerned in a aettlem ntof thto kind And my Him belief to, whether we arrive at a setCem nt low or whether thla matter should be poatponed. .' t should be for the future to take it up again uu « < t happier an'jT- e). that we have now arrived at a stage at « h": h both e - entries are prepared to give proper weight to thuso grnt iu- ' iota to which I have referred, and In whl. no i- l: j : ra- tions will be allowed to Interfere with the settlement. ( Ilcar. hmr ) 1 do not speak— you would net ci t rao t^ apeak— ot the particular arrsngem- nt ni> w pr. pv • •* ; but I do believe, U the matter la treated by the Senate In the same spirit as they deaU with ournegotiat ona las: year, w shall before Ion; aee such a eettiunent of It aa - M. U. t > the world thvfcj frr. lts which we had so carnert > ho 1 ard 10 conQdently believed we had secsred by our negotiations ot lut year." ( Applause.) DIFFICULTIES OF AN INVADER. Mr. Vcrao Hazcoort, M. P, aJdrwwd the mwNrs of tbe United Service Institution, in Lcadccu on Wed- nesday even inc. in last week, cm " Our Naval and Military EstaKbhment*. regarded with reference to the dargen of invasion." Premising that he had accepted their invitation for the purpose cf elkitmg inf.^ rmati. m, and because an interchange of ideas between civilians and the two professions tende. 1 to tbe public advantage, Mr. Har- court disclaimed ths notion that military and naval men had any desire to ke< p tip unnecessary arma- ments, assuring his audience that no desire existed among civilians to reduce them below tbe require- ments of tbe honour and safety of the empire. Ex- cluding the consideration of foreign polky and external wars as political questions widen the institution c uld not enter into, and confining bis remarks to the defence of this cvuntry and its dependencies, he asked why it was we had now in round numbers a land force of 100,0( 0 men, when during the war with Napoleon and up to the Crimean War it numbered only 50. OW It could not be owing to an increase in Continental forces, for those forces bad always been three or four times as large as our own, and the question was not how large they were, but how many men could threaten our shores. Had the power of transporting men increased during the last 20 year* in a greater ratio than the power of rerist- snc* ? The BatlU of Dorking assumed that the invaders landed, but this was begging the question, for if the passage of the Channel was easy it was admitted that the military force of the great Continental Powers was immensely greater than our own. Assuming that we could promptly concentrate 30,000 infantry of the line, half our actual force, with reserves behind them. 10,000 cavalry, 5,000 engineers, and 50 batteries of field artillery, he presumed that an invading expe- dition would consist of not leas than 30,000 infantry, 10,000 cavalry, and 50 batteries of field artillery. Dis- cussing the question how such s force could be em- barked, Mr. Harcourt remaiked that the inferiority of other countries to ourselves in mucantile marine was s - arcely appreciated. France was obliged in the Crimean and Roman expeditions to send its soldiers on board its men- of- war; and the neutrality lawn, which were becoming more and more understood, would prevent the hiring of transports, so that an enemy would be confined to its own resources or those of allies. In proof of the difficulty of embarking a force ^ ith cavalry, Runp. Won- combatants, and provisions, he mentioned that Ihe embarkation of 25,000 English trooj* from Varna occupied a fortnight, a process which might be expedited in a port provided with docks an. I other facilities ; that the passage to the Crimea occupied eight days in Calm weather and unopposed, and that a month elapsed between ths determination lo sail and the battle of the Alma. So far as ho could ascertain we employed 400 transports, and had the French and Turks employed transports instead of omitting cavalry and guns and embarking the troops on men- of- war, 1.000 transports would have been necessary. Now. where cduld 1,000 transports be found in Europe or America,? They might, indeed, bo con- structed, but this would involve time and also notice to the threatened Power. The Abyssinian expedition included 50,000 non- combatants to 14,000 combatants, and 35,000 beasts of burden, but be would assume that an invading German force would bring 25,000 horses. Assuming that tho transports could bo provided, he dwelt on the facilities of blockading tho ports from which the expedition would sail, and urged that before the embarkation was completed our fleet mi*.- ht anchor off those ports, communicating by cable with the Admiralty in Tjondon. No expedition would start unless it had a fleet prepared " to fight, and in the present state of affairs it was very improbable that any hostile Power should have the permanent or temporary command of the tea. We had 40 ironclads, more or less effective, whereas Fiance had only 34, and an authority on whioh ho cuu'd rely had paired off the English and French navies, ship by ship, taking into account thickness of plating, weight of gund, and sliced, tho result being that 31 English vessels could be matched against the 34 French, leaving a preponderance in our favour of IS first class ironclads. Prussia had three ironclads, two built in England and one in France, while she was now attempting to build one at home. Hence it was surely as unlikely that sho would attempt an invasion of England by sea as that we^ hould attempt to march on Berlin by land. Kussia bad two ironclads with 4. Jin. plates, inferior to the Warrior, and three of the same cla- s as the Dtftnce, but inferior, while she was build- ing two large vessels of the Deputation class. As for the United States, they had no ironclad which could safely cross the Atlantic unaccompanied by a merchant vessel. ( Laughter.) Assuming, therefore, that France, Ilussia, Prussia, and America com- bined to attack us, we should have ten first- class ironclads in excess of their united forces. In the pre- sence of such a fleet no flotilla of transports would put to sea, and our powers of construction, if menaced, were infinitely greater than those of any other Power. A-- suming, however, an invasion resolved on, the transports provided, and our fleet destroyed, torpedoes would prevent the enemy from entering some estuary nnd seizing some small port. He would consequently havo to land on an open beach, an operation which would take three or five days, and which our troops Would make very uncomfortable. ( Laughter.) The country for ten miles round the point of landing would have been cleared, so that tho enemy would have to bring with him food and land transports, and to keep his communications open the permanent command of the sea would be essential. Mr. Harcourt urged, in conclusion, that, if our navy was not overwhelmingly superior, it mignt be made so, and that this would be a much easier task than to compete with the armies of Continental Powers. In the discussion wbtch ' fcill< iv< u3. Sir Shafto Adair remarked that, whereas Continental Powers formerly levied armiea, they now armed the whole people, and that he could conceive the practicability of a more formidable combination than that supposod by Mr. Harcourt being provided with transports for an atUiok on onr commerce and shores. The expedition would naturally be divided, in order to distract attention and to I dispense our ironclads. He believed, from ( he ex- perience of the Crimea, that only one steamer and two transports would be necessary to every thousand men. While thinking the force for which statutory power existed in the event of war or invasion would be suffi- cient, he demunedto the assumption that the present force was too large, and urged the danger of supinene* s. As to Ireland, it was perfectly able to defend itself, with the assistance of loyal subjects and of such troops as could be spared from England, against tbe strongest • hkh be admitted to be incuodnsive, < m whkh h » had made this statement He p. onto! out tbe dimcnl* ties which wou'd attend an invading force having only 5,000 borw- s, confront* 1 by HlOOO ante and 50 bat- Urirs, and urged that ±* moats of defence, a-< well as of atufk, bad increised. torp « d.> e « , bo uuder » tood, Keing more available for the f.* me? than for the Utter. He reminded Colonel Cbesney that if our fleet could I* destroyed by •" sudden developments," an army rx* of 100, Oiiemen, bet ol l. POau- O would be necewsry, an 1 with regard to the nurcantile marine of Kurfpean Powers he maintained that it did not collectively equal the tonraje employed in onr Abyssinian expedition. TV discussion was then adjsumed for three weeks. Sir W. Coilrii- gton soggesting that in the interim th » precise statistics as to Uie recent expeditions should bw ascertained. In connection with tbe foregoing, the Pall Mall OoittU remarks:— la the dl eussion following upon Mr. Vernon Itareourt's address on the " Dim. jlles of an Invader," at the I'm ted Service InstituUn the other evening, a fact well worthy ol notice waa men tered CVl. t el th- sa. y It will be re- membered that In U. e BaUU if Dorkiiy the disab'lng of tbe Biitlah fleet ts assumed uj m~ « ns ol some anddeulv dee. loped IcslrumrnWvt defeBiM. While the K+ llU » J A'i.^ eM tieirc written, and quite sntnowu to the author < J it, two torpedo twat sijuadroi- s wers helns constructed In tierman port*. V[ ilhaprol » Nlity. aa Colon 1 Cbesney ssys. of deetrvytng the French uavy bad the • ar contiuued. Thu cli ruiustance si ne mitiht warrant some hrsilatl < n In tbe sceeptiuce ol Mr. Vernon Harcourt's adsr tationa, whether lu rsise or prose, et D* Savoii Land* Britannia. FISH TORPEDOES. The Royal Laboratory Department in the Roy » Arsenal, Woolwich, is actively engaged in tbe manu- facture of various kinds of torj- edoes, both a_ trrt* aivo and defensive, the production of these warlike imple- ments apparently taking precedence of all other kinds of work. The torpedo up> n which tho largest number of workmen is engaged is tho " fish torpedo;" it is made of iron, in the shape of a fish, nnd is about 5 ft. long. When discharged from the sido of a suitable vessel it is set in motion by a .' mall atmospheric engino, whit- h givee to the tail a motion similar to that of » screw propeller, and passes thru ugh tho water at th ® rate of nine knots an hour to the side of a hostile ship, which it strikes with wonderful accuracy, instantly ex- ploding, and causing tho almost certain destruction of the vessel. Theso torpedoes can, it is said, bo used with effect against vessels at di- tances of 400 to COO yards from the point at which they are d scharged. The other kinds, of which thou- ands are ntowed ready for uso in the dockyard at Woolwich, includo tho more simple submMine mines intended to be moored in rows at the entrance to I, arbours or rivers, as well as around the coast, wherever required. Those contain from 500 lb. to 1,000 lb. of (< uu- cotton each, nnd are fired by electricity from the ehoqe by an operator seated at an instrument very much resembling a piano, to whom intelligence is conveyed the instant that an enemy's ship is directly over it, when that torpedo or any of the others can be immediately fired. Another kind of tor- pedo, tho nature and purpose of which are at present a profound secret, ia being constructed in the came de- partment by a number of old and trusty workmen, who are engaged every night in their manufacture in » certain portion of tho factory to which no- othem havo access. HIGH PRICES. Five hundred years ago the people of England were suffering from the same excessive price ol provisions that they complain of now. Tho complaint* they made and the remedy they obtained are set out in tho following writ issued by King Edward 1L in 1315, which I send to you ( writes a Southampton corres- pondent of The Timet), fancying you may think it of interest to some of your readers:— " Concerning certain ordinances mado to bo observed upon the salo of oien, cowa, and divers other an I mala— Tho King to the Mayor and Sheriffs of London, greeting. We have received tho complaint of tho Archbishops, llistions. Earls, Barons, and others of the commonalty of our realm — contained In their petition exhibited before us ami our Council— of the present great and almost Intolerable dear- ness of oxen, cows, sheep, piga, gecso, hens, oapons, pullets, pigeons, and eegs, to the great Injury and lnconvenlonce ol themselves and all othera dwelling within our said realm, and for which th^ y earnestly entreat us to prnvtdo a suitable remedy Wc, therefore, assenting to the said peti- tion aa scetncth fit ( or the common weal of tho people of our realm, do by tbe counsel and consent of the Prelates, Karla. Barons, and othera ot our Council, In our last Forllamens held at Westminster, < rdaln that tho beat live fat ox, not corn fed, exposed for salo ahall bo ( old for lCs. and no more, and If fatted with corn, for 2U. at tho most. And that the best livo fat cow shall be sold for 12s., a two-) ear- old fat pig for 40 pence, a fut sheep with tho fleece for 20 pence, and 11 shorn, for It ponuo; n fat gooso In our aal. l cltr for thrco pence, a good fat capon for two pcnco half- penny, u'fat hon for one penny halfpenny, two pullets for a penny halfpenny, three pigeons for a penny, and twenty eggs for a penny. And If it • hull happen that any person or persona having such aaloablo articles bo found unwilling to « oll them at tho prices thus proscribed, then tho nfore- sald. saleable articles ahall lie forfeited to our use. And whereas we will that the ordlnanoe aforesaid bo forthwith ilrmly and lnviolatcly observed In our city aforesaid, we command you, firmly enjoining yon that you do publicly and distinctly can. su tho siuno to be proclaimed in our said city ahd tho suburbs thereof whnrcver it may seem to you to be expedient, and do sco t1 at it be kept inviolatoln all and aingular its article* under paloof the tliu forfeiture aforesaid tlirouchout your bailiwick And this, aa von would SvdlU out Wntth and keop> onr elve^ un- harmed, you may by no means rieglcct. Witness thu King ab Westminster tho 14th day of March." A similar writ was aent to all the Sheriffs cf England, tho King's Bailiff of Rochester, Queen Murgurot'e liailiff of Middle ton in Kent, and the Chancellor and Proctora of Oxford : with this difference, that the fat gooso was to be sold for 2^ 1., the capon for 2d., the nen for Id., two pullets for Id., four pigeons fi. r Id., and 24 eggs for Id., beiug n certain reduction of the prices authorised to bo demanded in London. Assuming the value of money in those days to have been— as is supposed— about 20 times greater than it is now, the present prices are in most ca^ cs far in excess of those which roused Kingr. Edward's wrath. Beef, however, at present the special subject of complaint aa to the butcher's charges, seems really not much dearer. £ 24 being a fair price for an average fat bto* t ; but mutton and pork are more than twice as dear, and so is poultry. CONFERENCE OF IRONWORKERS. On Sunday afternoon at Killamsro village, aVw. t six miles from Sl^ tteU. two boys, Charles I\>' er, » : ri li years, and Herbert Staccy, aged 13, quarrelled ab et a bird a nest. They came to blows, and Sue.-) « irt » a p - ; t- knlfe snd struck Foster oo the bead several Ui. i F " r fell, and while he was on ths rreond SUery iu V- e l l ira on to, left side ol tbe back, penetrating tl- kidney Tk « I J-. rrJ boy la now Ijlcs at l » = e In a preciri vt- l -• I hi: rtepo^ Uiaabave heenUb- Si r ' rr, ; force that could bo despatched to invade it. Brigadier- General Adyo, while questioning Mr. Harcourt's as- sumption that our navy would always be at hand to defend our coasts, agreed with many of his statements, especially as to the difficulty of improvising or conceal- ing arrangements for embarkation. Owing to the wamingB of the Duke of Wellington and Sir J. Bur- goyne we were in a much stronger position than was the cafe prior to 1847, nnd every harbour and river ought to be barred against an invador by guns and torpedoes, obliging lum to land on an open beach without a baso of operations, a moment when he should certainly be attacked. He deprecated ex- clu « ive reliance on the navy, or on a smaller land force than 100,0W) regulars and 140,000 reserves, and men- tioned that many ports were being armed with heavy guns. Colonel Chcsney expressed an opinion that an in- vader, in consideration of the difficulty of transport. *| would bring only 5,000 hones, and pointed out that facilities of locomotion had immensely increased the power of making war. Indeed, it was the opinion ol some Germans that bad Napoleon had one line of rail- j way in 1812 he would have easily conquered Rnsscw Mr. f Larcourt'a contention as to the efficiency of the n ivy ' would imply thaJ an army was altogether unnecessary, bnt he deprecated exclusive reliance on the former. In defence of the Battle o/ Dorking, be explained tiai it assumed the daatrnction of tbe British fleet by no in* fu Idenly developed means of fighting, and meatiotw- d that at the tsne it was written fleets of torpedo boats were being constructed, unknown to tbe author, in Germany, with a probability, had the war c& niinued, of destroying tbe Ft each navy. Several other gentlemen joined In tbe disnssion. the points urged by thcan being that by means of two lines of steamer* at Hamburg and Bremen 60,010 men could easily be transported to our shores, thai the German mercantile marine was steadily increasing, that on some parts of our coasts hostile transports a. uld be run up > Jo* c to the beach, that at night no mum of commnnt- eation existed between coastguard stations and head- quarters, and that tbe time selected for the invasion would be when our forces were scattered, or we were otherwise at a disadvantage. Sir William CodrWton, who presided also exprenvd a doubt whether 4' J0trans- port. were employed at Vs. ma. ilz. Haraurt, in re; lj, c. cnlkot4 tla sotbac& j, A conference of Ironworkers was- opened at Sheffield on Monday and resumed tho following day. The number of men represented was between 40,000 and 50,000, employed in Staffordshire, East Worce tershire, GloceSterdiire, Monmouthshire, Scotland, and else- where. Mr. Anoott presided. The object of tho conference was to endeavour to unito the whole of the ironworkers In t'; e United Kingdom in one national association, so that- the i ande policy might be pursued by oik As the prices of iron rise and tail in tho ilillerent market* simrdtaneously, so it is thought should wages rise anil fall at one and th > same time throughout kth » whole of die iron dis- tricts. The following resolutions were adopted :— " That there ahall be ouenallanal union '.( tending to all iroaworklng districts and embracing sll ironworkrr » , includ- ing blast furnaccnien and others connected with tho trade who are disposed to associate wrth OS." " That to enable tbe irouworkers to accomplish the above object the delegates assembled at this co derenci agrem. In. the name ol their constituents, to accept aad abide by the revised rulas which have received tho « aiI& I ca- l ration, of Mr. Busi- rt Kettle, with snch bve- U » « as i- r. i I, agreed, to by tho delegates aaaembled, and wbijh, In their opinion, arc deslr. itile to promote eSeiency In Ui. w..* li g j art- men t of tbe attrition. All b>- lawsbea( 4> r » vrd by ab least tb; e « - fourtbs ol tbe member* before they i- t . iin « binding." It h wing h » rn agreed that 2JXX) numbers si oldl have the privilege ot appointing an ugut, thu follow- ing rnolntion was passed :— ' That there s « - Ul be an agent apprdnttd frnta f- biff- rrd. ablra and East Wo « o^ slerablre, a.< n us thr. r- c jje\ nuaber of timbers, accerdlnx tbe ninthly return 1/ otn ths above named districts amorists to 2JHj " It was arramred that delates i. boul/ 1 be sent < ut aa saon as poasibU to the various districts, wh* re • her.- in no association of ironworkers, with the <.'> ct of getting the men to unite. Tbe tx/ nferea^ v. 1," b had sat with closed doors, catcln- led atnut six o'ekek. On Tuesday rvenlng the aannalnaeHiug of tbe P'Sre ftocicty waa held In ViD » bury Cbsp- l, Lorvloo. Wr • - ul Kowly In tbe chair, fbe r- j- rt, wtile acknoslr-'.- i / the dUanx, ir. imrnt ey^* si( med by the d> lay in crrj. r,. 1 he Treaty of Waabln< v n. erprt « s'd a-. ttit^ ctt/. n at ti e t r. ee and mutual BtKAi. ui rr. Ai. rfesVd by tba twemst I isb- si- eaklod rj- jurs ' n U- tb - lies of t * AM. • th* er. nrmot * 4m enid- s vv, » w « r r rv g ' it B5CW& the S^ ii'. j t .1. .. t THE FALMOUTH & PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1872. THE POPOLATION OF THE CITY OF LONDON. Dr. Letheby, tlie mistical officer of health for the city, gives in his annual report nom © interesting parti- culars as to the population of his district. He states that at the beginning of the present century there were jL£ 8, S33 persons living within the city boundaries, and in the four succeeding decades the numbers fluc- tuated between 121,124 in 1811, and 125,065 in 1821, but in 1S51 they rose to 129,171. That was the largest • population of the city during this century and perhaps Tba densest on record, for it was in the proportion of 9 • persons to every house, or ISO to an acre. lnlSClthenum- $> er of the population fell to 112,063, which was at the rate of 8' 4 persons to each inhabited house, or 155 to an acre, ana then, at the census of 1871, the number of resident inhabitants of the city was returned at only 74,732. The la< t census was, however, taken at a time • when the number of the population was at its very lowest, for at midnight on Sunday, in the early part of April, the city was to a very large extent deserted. The day population of the city could not be less than a quarter of a million, for to say nothing of the 509,611 persons who at the day census in- 1866 were found in the city as clients and customers, there were 170,133 mer- chants, shopmen, clerks, and othois engaged in the warehouses and shops. These, with the 74,732 who sleep in the city at night, make a total of 244,865 per- sons as the resident ' lay population.. Distributed among the 9,321 inhabited houses of the city they amounted to rather more than 26 peraens to a house, or- to more than 338 to an acre. Even the night population amounted to about 103 persons to an acre, whereas in the whole of the metropolis the number was but 41 " 7, and in the 20 chief towns of England but 33 " 8— the range being from 10- 6 at Sheffield to 96 8 at Liverpool. Again, in the 198 districts and sub- districts comprising the chief towns of this country the number of persons to an acre was but 3- 9, and in all England and Wales only 0 6. or just three persons to five acres of ground. It was manifest therefore that notwithstanding the great reduction of the population of the city during the last 20 years the density of it was still excessive, and there could be no doubt of the necessity for the same vigilant exercise of • sanitary powers as hitherto. During last v^ ar there were 1,268 marriages, 1,854 births, and 1,762 deaths registered in the city, the arerape for the last ten years being 1,451, 2,579, and 2,502 respectively. Notwithstanding the large decrease • f the city population since 1861 the number of births ia that interval had been slightly in excess of the deaths. Hiat proved that there bad been a considerable migration of the city population, and it was no doubt due to the extensive demolition of houses for city im- jwovements. At no period in the history of the city since the fire of London was so large a proportion of the area vacant as in 1871, for while in 1861 the in- habited houses numbered 13,293, in 1871 they were but 9,321. It could not, however, be long before the vacant ground of the city would be again occupied, and then the number of the popmktion would rise to something like its former proportions. The marriages last year had been at the rate of 16" 5 per 1,000 of the inhabitants, and those for the past ten yeare, 15' 1. In all England the rate was but 8- 4, in Austria 8' 4, in France 8.0, and in Italy 7' 5. The births in the city were at the rate of 24* 2 per 1,000, while in the whole of the metropolis the average was 35" 1, in 17 chief towns of the United Kingdom 36- 9, in all Eugland 35" 4, in Austria 40" 2, in Spain 3S0, in Italy, 37 5, and in France 26" 3. The deaths were at the rate of 23 per 1,000, and the average rate for the last ten years was 26 " 2. In the - whole of the metropolis it was- 24' 1 ; in England, 22' 5 ; Austria, 32 2; Italy. 30' 5 ; Spain, 29 5 ; and in Trance, 23 7. Of the 1,762 deaths in the year 276 were among children of lees than a year old, and 557 among children under five years of age : 123 were at from 5 to 20 years, 259 from 20 to 40, 334 from 40 to 60, 220 irom 60 to 70, and 269 at 70 and upwards. Ex- cepting in the worst districts of the city, the infant mortality had not been excessive, and it had fallen considerably below the average for the preceding ten years. The chief causes of death were thus enume- rated :— From violence, privation, premature birth, and poison, 124 ; phthisis, 209 ; tabes and scrofula, 58 ; hydrocephalus, 33; convulsions and teething, 96 ; alvine disorders, 61 ; continual fever, 33 ; scarlet fever, € 1 • smallpox, 88; measles, 16 ; whoopingcough, croup, and diphtheria, 58 ; eryapelas, 14 ; pneumonia, bronchitis, and asthma, 324 ; and other causes chiefly chronic, 584. With the exception of smallpox the mortality from each of the diseases had been gieatly below the average. JAPANESE PLANTS. A Correspondent to the Gardener'* ilaQazint writes :— The vegetation of Japan is particularly interesting t* British horticulturists, on account of the many ex- Iremely beautiful plants obtained thenoe for the decoration of our wardens. Hitherto thoee plants have not obtained sufficient attention, as I hope to be able t* prove presently, my object in forwarding this note being to awaken, if I can, the attention of the public to a smbject of real public importance. It iB found that a considerable majority of the Japanese plants that have obtained a place in our gardens prove to be quite hardy. The noble LQium anratum, the glossy green and richly golden forms of Buonymus japonica, and the splendid series of varieties • f aucuba japonica may be named as examples. I donot intend to offer any li-* t of plants, for your trade cata- logues will supply one if it is required. It is my business to make nome general remarks on the condi- tions of vegetable life in Japan, and to show how they correspond with the conditions of vegetable life in some parts of the British Islands where man has done lite- rally nothing to eoften the forbidden rnggedness of barren nature. If, relative latitude be alone thought of, the Japanese islands appear unfitted to supply plants for our gardens ; they lie between 31 deg. and 46 deg. north latitude, but Great Britain lies between 49J deg. and 58$ deg. north latitude. The difference is consider- able, and if we confine our attention to latitude as a key to climate, all the Japanese plants ought to re- quire greenhouse treatment here. The parallel of 40 deg. north latitude, which cute through the middle of Japan nearly, also cuts through the centre of Sar- dinia, the island of Minorca, and the very centre of Spain and Portugal. Hence the interesting question arises how to account for the near agreement of Britain and Japan in respect of the conditions that govern the development of vegetation. The answer is not far to find. Take any good map on which is marked the isothermal lines, and an important step will be taken towards a solution vf tho problem. The mean temperature of the Japanese inlands is nearly co- incident with the theoretical mean of their latitude, but the mean temperature of the British Islands is de- cidedly above the theoretical mean, for the great Gulf Stream is incessantly acting on all our western coasts. Hence it is not surprising to fii. d that the climate of Nagasaki agrees very nearly with that of the southern parts of England. . In respe t of winter temperature, the Japanese climate ia apparently far more favourable to vegetation than ouis. I Bay " apparently" because, as an ex- perienced traveller anu constant observer of natural phenomena, I will not be led by the nose by the " thermometer. I have known 10 deft, of frost ( Fahrenheit) to occur at Nagasaki, and I have known the winter to pass without a single fall of the thermo- meter below 35 deg. But animal and vegetable life in Japan exposed to cooling inflnencea that tlie thermometer takes no notice of. In these islands fogs are frequent and extravagantly dense, and they are often followed by galea that threaten to sweep the islands clear of every tree and house upon them. The newcomer in Japan ia apt to sneer at the cities because the houses are only one story high ; but when he has tasted a Japaneae hurricane, ho perceives a reason for low roofs, and can praise the rich men for being content with them. The climate in Japan is probably the most changeable and convulsive in the world, and the • fetation of the country is consequently subjected to tnals of which we shall obtain no account by consult- ing the thermometer or the parallels of latitude. It is . cspociaJly worthy of remark that wind acting on organic tksues has much the same effect as a lower temperature would have; and hence the Japanese plants are, Eenerally speaking, considerably hardierthan we might ave expected to find them had we been content to Jorw an opinion by a consideration of latitude only. The Japanese are great gardeners, and wonderfully patient in providing against the adverse influences ante • which thefr horticultural 1 ibours are carried on. Eveiywhere you meet with protected gardens, enclosed with wood jalousies' to break the force of the wind. Their tea plantations' are usually protected in this way. Now I wish tho reader to quit Japan for a moment Aid look at Brighton; then let the mental eye ror$ westward to Lizard Point, fini^ then turn north, say, as far as Llandudno, and how often will it bo found that thero is a lack of adorning vegetation to make complete some of our finest examples of marine scenery ? In many instances Japanese plants ' would do wonders for our seaside resorts. But let us go baok to Japan to consider the case. The Japanese islands are extremely narrow ; a width of 100 miles is the utmost. Consequently you cannot got away from the sea and the eea- brceze a greater distance than 50 miles anywhere, and, generally speak- ing, the inland districts are at the utmost only 20 to 30 miles removed from the sea- board. We may then* foro consider the vegetation of Japan as wholly marine, and hence peculiarly adapted for introduction to our " eea- girt isle," and of course more especially for the southern and western districts that have a mild climate and a humid atmosphere. I send with these notes a reduced pen- and- ink copy of a beautiful Japanese picture illustrative of the climate. Here are the protected gardens that tell of the hurricanes that sweep the country, and with won- derful fidelity the artist has depicted the rising of a dense fog in a succession of sharply- defined bands of different tints of cold grey. A FRENCH VIEW OF THE SUPPLE- MENTAL TREATY. M. John Lemolnne, writing to tho Journal des Dibata, alter reciting the explanations of the English Ministry con- cerning the proposed Supplementary Treaty in respect of the Indirect Claims, says :— " It must be borne in mind that the Convention can only bind the two States which may sign it, and can in no way constitute a general international principle. We must add that this arrangement would be en- tirely to the advantage of the Americans, who will be able to regard themselves as irresponsible on account of the immense extent of their coast line, and who have not signed the Treaty of Paris, which stipulated for the abolition of privateering. The Americans know perfectly well what they are about. If they ac- cept the English proposition they will take credit for having made a concession, while in reality they will obtain the establishment of a principle from which they will derive all the advantage possible. It might, there- fore, be supposed that this affair is concluded, and yet it is not. j The negotiation is complicated in America by questions of personal pride, ana of the Presidential election. We have on previous occasions explained that the executive power in the United States, nas not, as it has in England, tho right to conclude treaties, and that the sanction of the Senate is required to ratify such arrangements. It was the Senate which rejected the first treaty, concluded in Lor Palmerston's time, and it is that body which is now deliberating upon a second treaty. President Grant has accepted the English proposition, since he has transmitted it to the Senate, but it is not at all certain that the Senate will ratify the President's acceptance, as for that purpose a majority of two- thirds of the votes is requisite. It cannot be denied that, not- withstanding the reserve which is maintained in both Houses of Parliament, which separated without enter- ing into any discussion upon the subject and notwith- standing the prudence exhibited by the English Press, which the Government felt bound to acknowledge,— it cannot be denied that the public mind of England is very much annoyed, hurt, and humiliated by the general course which this afliair has taken. It is that feeling which may be discovered in the sharp and bitter words of a man to which his social position, Sand great services confer exceptional importance, we should not be surprised, if Lord Russell's speech should reach the United States before the vote of the Senate has been given, if it produced anything but a conciliatory effect. Speaking of the shuffling of which the Americans have been guilty, Lord Russell said ' that no swindler or pickpocket ever had worse terms applied to him than those which were applied to us by the American Government' Lord Russell, whose patience is evidently exhausted, declared that immediately after the reassembling of Parlia- ment he will renew his motion, and will continue to renew it as long as the American demand has not been categorically withdrawn; and he con- cluded thus :—' The case appears to me to be one between the honour of the Crown of this country and the election of General Grant as Prerident of the United States. For my part I prefer the honour of Her Majesty— I prefer the honour and reputation of this country— to any prospects of the re- election of General Grant.' General exception has been taken to Lord Russell's language as having been too strong, but it really expresses the feeling of the cbuntry. As a diplomatic question, then, nothing is concluded. The American reply may arrive on any day, at any hour ; it appears to us to be a very doubtful matter, but, in any case, this treaty, which was so prematurely boasted of, cannot fail to be for England an unfor- tunate affair." THE COINAGE IN 1871. The Deputy- Master of the Mint has presented his Report on the year 1871, and states that the coinage of gold and silver in that year far exceeded the average. The large gold coinage was rendered necessary by withdrawals of specie from the Bank of England, amounting in the last half of the year to more than ten millions sterling, including two millions transmitted to Germany. It became necessary to extend greatly the hours of work and employ extra workmen. The total number of coins struck at the Mint in 1871 was 30,022,404, of the nominal value of £ 10,580,061. There were no less than 8,767,250 covereigns struck, 2,062,970 half sovereigns, 3,425 605 florins, 4 910,010 shillings, 3,662,684 sixpences, 4,627 fourpence* for Maundy money only, 1,004,121 threepences, 1,290,318 pence, 1,075,280 halfpence. The demand for coin in 1871 was very great; but, apart from its magnitude, the gold coinage of 1871 was not marked by any special feature; The amount of light gold received by the Mint for re- coinage was £ 701,000, almost entirely imported by the Bank of England. It is noticed as matter of regret that other banks and public bodies have ceased to avail themselves of the regulations under which light gold coin is received and coined at the same rate as bullion— v » ,£ 3 17s. lOJjd. per ounce. The with- drawal of worn silver coin from circulation is effected in England through the Bank of England, and arrangements have been made with a view' to like operations in Scotland, Ireland, and the Colonies. As is well known, silver, when extracted from ite ores, contains a small quanity of gold, and it is possible now to extract with piotit any quantity of gold exceeding two grains in the pound troy of silver. The half- crown now in process of witiidiuwal from circulation contain an average of four grains in the pound; and when, therefore, any considerable quantity of these coins has accumulated in the Mint the gold will probably be ex- tracted from them before the silver is re- coined. In regard to the operative department of the Mint, the Deputy Master observes that tho accuracy of the automatic weighing machines, in whioh eucij piece of gold and silver is weighed before it is issued, wan severely tested in the large coinages o{ la- t year. It will give some idea of the work performed by these machines when it is remembered that the hundredth part of a grain is sufficient to cause a sensible deflection of the beam. These machines being automatic, are an effectual safeguard against errors which would in- evitably attend the alternative of weighing coins by hand, especially when a large demand causes the hours of work to be prolonged. With reference to the question of waste and " sweep," the Deputy- Master states that on the completion of tho gold coinage of £ 6,600,000 in June, 1871, the defi- ciency of metal was found to be nearly 403 ounces, of the value of £ 1,568 ; but the greater part was recovered by the sale of the " sweep" for £ 1,241 leaving the actual loss on coinage £ 327, or £ 50 per million. The " sweep " from the silver coinage of £ 448.866 executed between the 1st of January, 1869, and the 31st of March, 1871, was also sold, and ihe loss proved to be £ 137, or not quite £ 304 per million. These results are regarded as showing that the work of coinage was carefully executed. The waste included the loss on the re- coinage of light gold, which has always a certain amount of dirt on the surface, and which also is in re- ality below the exact standard of fineness, and requires tho admixture of a certain quauity of fiue gold. The Deputy- Master notices that the ruott important change which occurred in 1871 in the coinages of Europe was the introduction of a new coimige of gold into the currency of Geiinauy; but it is regretted that tho coinage adopted is objectionuble. Thero are several gold coins, issned or proposed, containing nearly the same quantity of pure gold— the English sovereign 7' 32 grammes, the United States half- euglu or 5- dollarpiece 7' 52 grammes, the proposed 25 franc piece 7" 26 gram- mes, and the proposed Spanish piece of 25 pesetas, of • qual raluo with the 25- franc piece; but the German 20 mark piece, containing only 7* 16 grammes of pure gold, will be equal to not more than 19s. 7d. in English money, presenting a further divergence from the uniformity so much to be desired, and an additional obstacle to the adoption of an international gold coin. The change in the design of the French coinage is noted, the coins bearing on the obverse a head repre- senting the Republic, and on the reverse an allegorical figure holding m its hands a table of laws. The Re- port notices also the opening, in 1871, of the Mint at Osaka, Japan, and the determination of the Govern- ment of that country to adopt a gold standard, and to coin a piece of 20 yen of the fineness of nine- tenths of pure gold to one- tenth of alloy, and containing 30 grammes of pure gold, in addition to pieces of ten, five, two, and one yen, the latter coin being the unit. The Deputy- Master concludes hia Report with the expression of his hope that tho Legislature will sanction tho removal of the Mint from Tower- hill to the proposed more convenient site at Whitefriars. The removal it is stated would give an opportunity for the erection of improved machinery, and the change could not only be effected without loss, but will occasion a saving to the public. He states that no acid is employed in the fusion of the metals at the Mint, and no operatibn is performed which can be injurious to health or in any wav a nuisance to the neighbourhood. Among the papers in the Appendix to the Report is one explaining tne process of toughening brittle gold unfit for coinage by means of chlorine gas, which eliminates, as chlorides, the metallic impurities causing the blittleness, ' ihe loss on thus treating 40,000 ounces of standard gold was only one- tenth of an ounce. The process is now regarded as having fairly taken its place as an operation in minting. A GREEK THANKSGIVING SERVICE FOR THE PRINCE OF WALES. The Rev. George Williams writes to the Guardian:— I have lately received through the courtesy of Mr. Curtis, of Constantinople, a number of the Neologos, published in that city on the 2nd inst., containing an account of a thanksgiving service for the recovery of the Prince of Wales, which will, I am sure, be of in- terest to many of your readers :— The service was held in the Greek church of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin, Pera, which was crowded to overflowing by a vast multitude of the Orthodox, including the most distinguished families of that rite: the ( Ecumenical Patriarch being also represented by four ecclesiastics of his suite. The following prayer was offered up, after the thanksgiving, in the midst of the deepest silence and reverence :—" The Lord our God grant a long life to Victoria, the Christ- loving and most pious Queen of the English, with her illustrious heir, Albert Edward. O Lord, preserve them for many years — for many years." At the conclusion of the office, two sermons were preached— one bv the Metro- politan of Ctcsarea, the other by the Bishop ofc Delia porta. The former of these is reported at full length ; and I hope to publish a translation of it shortly. It is a very remarkable discourse, showing an intimate acquaintance with our national character and institutions— social, political, and religious— and a most friendly appreciation of them all. This is followed by on illusion to the Bishop or Gibraltar's visit to Con- stantinople, and to the reception accorded to Arch- bishop Alexander by the English Church, as an evidence of the sympathy existing between it and the Orthodox communion. He concludes with renewed invocations of blessings on the Queen and the Prince of Wales, with this remarkable addition :—" Long live the great English nation and its whole hierarchy 1" This was taken up by the vast congregation, and the chnrch rang with cheers for the Qu « en, the Prince, the Eng- lish Ministers— especially Gladstone— culminating in prayers and vivas for the union of the Anglican and Eastern Churches. UMBRELLAS. ( From the Saturday Revitw.) The greatest revolution of the 18th century took place on the day when Jonas Hanway walked down Fleet- street with an umbrella The dress, the social tone, the very architecture of the West were modified in a moment. There was no longer any necessity for the heavy porticoes which sheltered a visitor from the rain. Men flung off the cumbrous coats and watch- men's capes which had been their only protection against a shower. Even the shaggy beaver gradually disappeared, and the Bilk hat weathered storms which at an earlier age in the world's history would have re- duced it to a shapeless wreck in 20 minutes. The mere sense that rain was at last beaten, that it wa3 no longer necessary to watch the clouds and tap the barometer before starting for a walk across the fields, gave a now sense of freedom and exhilaration to man- kind. Child as it is of the East, the umbrella only found its true realization when it ventured in Jonas Hanway's fist into Fleet- street The " Lord of a Hundred Umbrellas " is really only the master of as many para- sols. ITie umbrella of the Assyrian King or of the Byzantine Caesar was a mere appendage of Royal pomp. The Papal umbrella of the present day is the last relic of a time when Btate had absorbed what was meant for mankind. So long, in fact, as the umbrella lived only in lands of the sun, it missed its vocation ; and even now, when the peasant of the Riviera appears with an umbrella, it is with something utterly undeserving of the name. Rain is a phenomenon, and he constructs a phenomenon to shelter him against it, red, vast, and formless. It is hard to believe that the gigantic erec- tion has any kindred with the exquisite little implement which dangles from every lounger's finger in Pall- malL In the civilized umbrella, however, the practical plays only a subordinate part It is far more than a mere protection against a passing shower ; it is the symbol of a life, the companion of leisure hours, the index to character. It is impossible to dissociate her umbrella from Mm Gamp. There is something in the very bulgineas of its vast circuit which marks the monthly nurse. A recent Archbishop of Canterbury used to be famous for walking across Westminster- bridge to the opening of Parliament with a cotton umbrella, and wo at once recognize the temper and theology of the man. It is from a sense of thiB that an ingenious tradesman has just patented a " Clerical Umbrella," whosb stout ebony handle and serviceable alpaca marks at a glance the decorous, hard- working parson. But a mere glance at an umbrella- stand is enough to show the wonderful diversities of character which can be expressed in thin way. We see the dapper little darling with its curious monogram on the top, and know we shall bear all the scandal of town as soon as we enter the drawing room The rough horn of another tells us that our solicitor is fussing for ns in the study. Its neighbour, unkempt hut lovely in its negligence, is the sign of an artist friend whoso pictures find no favour with the Academy. The square, short umbrella leaning again.- t the wall means " a little bill." When Mr. Sampson Brass is recalling the memories of the departed Quilp, he does not mis3 the one great symbol of his character—" His wit and humour, his pathos and his umbrella, all come before me like visions of my youth."' But if it is this to the world withont, it is more than this to its owner. There are few things so companion- able as an umbrella A stick is a shade too light A dog is a shade too troublesome. A friend walks either too fast or too slow. But an umbrella is just heavy enough to rive one the feeling of having something with one, iQiever bothers, and it always goes one's own pace. It if a prop in the moment pf languor when one is forced to make talk in front of Laay Dawdle's garden- chair. It ia a toy with which one plays as one flirts with her daughters. It has its peculiarities, its history, its stories of flights and returns, its memories of pleasant little UU- drlltes with charming beings who found a shelter in it from showers. There is some- thing human about it which endears it to us. We talk of it to our friends, we discuss its Btick and its colour, we make a grievance of it, and write to The Times about the harpies who rob us of it at the Academy. There are few hours of loneliness and desertion when a man cannot console himself with his umbrella. It is owing, perhaps, to their late introduction into Europe that men have as yet hardly rocognised any distinct or separate property in umbrellas. Like game, they be- long to the class of ferce naturce. A faint trace of com- munism lingers over tho stand in the halL Nobody feels very guilty at taking a " stray " umbrella if it happens to De raining as he leaves his club, or at find- ing himself walking homo with a new umbrella when he was conscious of having left it with an old one. It is amusing to notice tho unconcerned curiosity with which the new owner, as he puts hia spoil by with his hat and coat, guesses who on earth such a pretty little thiog could have belonged to. There is not the least Bense of guilt in the question. In common thought the umbrella is gifted with a certain vague personality which is supposed to ox plain its constant tendency to get astray, A kind of gipsy- like and vagrant nature is assumed to belong to it. It is credited with a volition of its own, and supposed to be in Bome way itself responsible for its presence in any man's hand but the man who bought it. Its own will brought it to us, and if it happens to be a new one we generally leave it to its own will to take it back again. There are, we believe, persons eccentric enough to return umbrellas, but the instances are rare. BETTER HERE, THAN THERE! The flourishing state of brigandage in the border counties of Texas is vividly depicted in a presentment made by the grand jury of Hidalgo county on the 5th of last month. For many years past, say the grand jurors, the inhabitants of that and the adjoining counties have been domineered over and held in terror by roving bands of marauders, whose only means of subsistence is cattle- stealing. The local authorities are utterly inadequate to the task of suppressing these raids, so much so that the bands constantly plunder up to a few miles of tho forts garrisoned by United States troops, and escape with their booty across country by- paths and by- roads with which they are familiarly acquainted. " The want of ade- quate protection," they continue, " is fast loosing the bonds of civil society in this country. Ameri- can citizens, pursuing peaceful avocations on American soil, live in abject terror, and hold their lives and pro- perty by the frail tenure of the will and pleasure of miscreants who find a safe shelter and asylum by cross- ing the narrow river that divides us from Mexico. To such an extent has this terrorism prevailed that wit- nesses summoned before grand and petit juries cannot be induced to give evidence against their oppressors, because, from the moment in whioh they do so, then- lives are in danger, and no succour or protection is at hand to Bhield them from murder and robbery. For this reason the administration oHjostice in this county is practically paralyzed. Jurors are afraid to convict isolated members of the bands of cattle thieves who are sometimes arrested and arranged for their crimes, and each successive acquittal gives new courage and energy to their comrades in arms, who prowl over the country and laugh defiance at our lawa from their secure retreat across the river." WILLS AND BEQUESTS. ( From the Illustrated London Newt.) The will of Mr. Robert Blako Byass. late of Brabant- court, Philpot- lane, and of Nevill Court, Tunbridge Wells, has been proved in the London registry of the Court of Probate by his sons, Mr. Robert Nicholl Byass and Mr.' Arthur Byass, the English assets being sworn under the value of £ 400,000. The whole of the testator's property, subject to a liberal life provision for his widow and legacies to friends, relations, persons in his employ, and charitable institutions, is bequeathed to his two sons in equal shares. The following legacies are left to charitable institutions:— The London Hospital, £ 1,000 ; Diocesan Church Building Society, £ U) 00; Society for the Propagation of the Goepel in Foreign Parts, £ 500 ; Tunbridge Wells Infirmary, £ 500; Royal Free Hospital, £ 200; Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, £ 200; Consumption Hos- pital, Brompton, £ 200; Convalescent Hospital, Wal- ton, £ 200 ; Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, £ 200. The will of Captain Edward Thomas Dowbiggin, of her Majesty's 7th Dragoon Guards, was proved on the 4th inst by Mr. Charles T- otter, of Woodhill, Perth- shire, and Captain Henry Edward Poole, of Bay- house, Hants. The personality was stforn under £ 25,000. The testator has left the whole of his property to his wife for her life, and after her decease to their children; and, on failure of their obtaining vested interests therein, then to his nephew, Charles Graham Trotter, the son of his sister, Elizabeth Trotter. The will of Mr. James Chad wick, late of Manches- ter, and of Urmston Bank, was proved at Manchester on the 15th of March last under £ 250,000 personalty, by Jane Chodwick, his relict; power being reserved to his two sons, James and Samuel, now in their minority, on their attaining 21. The will is dated the 7th of April, 1871. He leaves to his wife an annuity of £ 1,000. The remainder of his property he bequeaths to his two sons, James and Samuel; one moiety of which is to be received by each one as he attains 21, and the other moiety to be invested for their future benefit The wills of the undermentioned have also been proved :— Mr. William Smyth, of Little Houghton, Northampton, in London, by Mrs. S. G. Stopford Saokville, M P., and another, the personalty sworn under £ 18,000 ; Mr. James Harding, of Winchester, late of the 17th Lancers, under £ 10,000; Mr. Pri- deaux Selby, 61, Prince's- gate, £ 25,000 ; Mr. William Ealea, formerly of Cambridge- park, Twickenham, and of Hartlepool, Durham, under £ 12,000: Mr. James Macdonald, Birkenhead, £ 12,000 ; Mr. Richard Har- dinge Stewart, of Crauley- hotwe, £ 10,000 : Mr. Thomas Stenhouse, of Banbury, merchant, £ 35,000; and Mr. Robert Baalham, surveyor, Bridge- house, Battersea, £ 7,000. SCIENCE OVERCOMING OBSTRUCTIONS One of the chief complaints of prisoners in the pre- sent day is that all the old methods of escape are exhausted, and that the utmost ingenuity can rarely devise a means of eluding the vigilance of gaolers ( re- marks the Pall Mall Gazette). The period of imprison- ment can only be shortened by a ticket- of- leave, and the day has gone by when liberty might be regained by a ladder of roi « s, a rusty nail transformed into a key, or any other of the numerous devices planned by the captives of romance, such as Jack Sheppard or Baron Trenck. To an American prisoner belongs the credit of having brought the later discoveries of science to bear upon prison walls, with, it is true, only partial success, but • till with a boldness and originality that will doubtless find imitators, and at all events command the admira- tion of the immured. The attempted escape of Filden, " the express robber," from Clinton prison the other day, ha*, it seems, excited no small sensation in the United States, and was, says the New York Tribune, " a bold affair." By some means he managed to get a sledge- hammer and some powder and fuse into his cell. Ou the night of Sunday, the 28th ult, he mode some torpedoes with the powder and fuse, and . laving broken open the door of his cell, he emerged into the corridor. He then touched off the torpedoes, and in the noise of the exploeion with the sledge he broke open the doors of the cells of three other con- victs. They then broke a window and jumped into the yard. Filden was, however, captured before he coidd climb the wall, and was taken back to prison. The others scaled the wall and escaped. Poor Filden him- self is now, it is stated, in solitary confinement. The OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE about the " ALABAMA" CLAIMS. The official correspondence . between the English and American Government relating to the construction of the Wa- hington Treaty, and especially with regard to the Indirect Claims, waspublishedinthe London QaxetU last week. Early in February last, Earl Granville in- timated to the American Government that he did not consider it within the province of the Geneva Tribunal to arbitrate upon the Indirect Claims. To this, Mr. Fish, on bohalf of the American Government, replied that he had received, tbe announcement with surprise and regret as those Claims were originally presented to the British negotiators in precisely the same form in which they afterwards appeared in the American Case, and no objection was then made. Earl Granville, in his rejoinder, [ joints out that the withdrawal of the claims on account of the Fenian raids and the expression of re- gret inserted in the Treaty were agreed to by Her Majesty's Government on the understanding that they implied a waiver of all Indirect Claims. Tn a further despatch Mr. Fish contends at great length that the claims for national losses, or the Indirect Claims aa they are commonly called, have all along formed a part of the American Claims, and that up to the signing of the Treaty they were never challenged. The concluding despatch is from Earl Granville, in which his lordship distinctly states that no claims were ever formulated or accepted by the British Government ' as Alabama Claims except the direct claims of American citizens, and that, on the contrary, the claims for consequential damages were never alluded to in previous negotiations, and were not understood to be comprehended in the general phraso " Alabama Claims." THE JEWS IN RUSSIA An interesting paper on the Jews in North- Westera Rursiii, by M Nebolssir, was read at a recent sitting of the Russian Geographical Society at St. Petersburg. 1 he author says that the Jewish population in the above district may be divided into two groups, which differ from each other as regards both religion and language. The Jews belonging to the first of these groups are more or less believers in the Talmud, and often take it in its literal mea& sijaRjThe second group, called the Karaims, reject Nj Talmud, and are not even absolute believers in tffc Bible ; they have their own traditions, which have tie< ® collected into a book, and this has the same authority over them as the Tal- mud has over other Jews. The Jews of the first group speak a corrupt German dialect; those of the second have a language of their own, which is of Tartar origin. The first group, again contains two religious sects— the Miahuaidim and the Cassidim. The first are the Talmndists properly so called; the Cassidim, who are mo3t numerous in Bessarabia, Volhynia, Podolia, Lithuania, and Poland, are ca'led by the R us- sians " Skakuntchiki" ( Jumpers). This sect was formed about the eighteenth century as a reaction against the outward forms and ceremonies, in whose strict fulfilment the majority of the Jews consider they do all that religion requires of them. The Cassidim at first endeavoured to introduce the practice of in- ward prayer, but in this they failed; andjnow they are even more pedantic in their adherence to forms than their other co- religionists ; accompanying their devotions by lively gestures and movements ex- pressive of religious e.- stasy. Among the most com- mon of these movements is that of leaping from the grouDd, which has gained them their Russian nick- As regards the eocial condition of these Jews, M. NebolsBin divides them into four classes:— 1. The worldly Jews, who outwardly observe all the Jewish manners and customs, and often go to the synagogue, but do not otherwise trouble themselves about reli- gion. 2. The devout Jews, partly hypocrites, whopass a great part of their life in the synagoguejond carry self- denial to the verge of asceticism. 3. The " Ger- mans," followers of Moses Mendelssohn, who have replaced the Jewish costume by modern dress, and the Jewish language with German more or lefe pure. 4. The " Epicureans," who not only repudiate all the external manners and customs of the Jews, but als> the Talmudic code of laws. In Eastern Russiaithe majority of the Jewish population belong to the fixat of the above classes. Hart, the Kentucky sculptor, is engaged upon what a kind frieud calls " tin. m » i beautiful female llgore the wurld li. ui cv « r seen;" It will require many rears to com- pleto tho » ,> rlc. ' You know, my dear friend," aali " It takoa nlunleea years to make a pefoct woman." PETRA IN 1872. The following letter, which has been sent to The Times for publication, will probably interest many of our read era :— It may, perhaps, be of Interest to some of your readers who may be purposing at some future day an expedition through the beautiful Peninsula of Sinai, If we say that we have Just pasted through Petra without any difficulty or any serious annoyance from the JeHahln— the native Arabs the place. We took the route from Akabak, which Dean Stanley sug- gests that future travellers should explore— viz , that pass- ing up the WUdy El- Itbym, and entering Petra on the east, through the magnificent gorge of the Slk. This route occn- Kled us a little more than five days, and was one of great iterest. The Wfuly El- lthym is a valley of great beauty, the rocks on either side being gray and red granite, streaked in a remarkable manner with other strata of primeval rocks, running along them vertically and horizontally la in a well- defined line, from a few inches to several yard~ j in width. We then entered on the great plain of Bumeiymeh, extending northwards for nearly two days' journey. To- wards the end of It we passed the extenaivo ruins of the town of that name, and found traces of a Roman road and an aqueduct from tho adjoining mountains. We thea came upon a moat remarkable country, apparently flat whon seen from a distance, but on nearer approach we found it to be cut up into ravines of the most fantastic shapes, in the sandstone rocks below the general level of the ground. Then through a strange mountainous country, huge downs of bleak hills rising ridge after ridge In succession before us, until on a sudden we gained the highest point, and came upon the most magnificent, panorama of the whole rockjr range of the Petra district with its beautiful tints of rose, purple and crimsoD, having the mountains of Seir on our left, ard Mount Hon standing in its grand sublimity full In front of us high above the Petia range. Winding round these mountains eastward we entered the wonderful gorge of the Slk, along which we wound until we came upon the ancient site of Petra. We remained there for twa days, meeting with no annoyance from £ ie AnJM except that they were continually lurroundlntf the cave in which we had taken up our abode in consequence » T the heavy rain which fell soon after our arrival. We endeavoured to impress upon the Sheykh of Petra the desirability nf having socne fixed tariff, as well for his own ss for the general i nterest of travellers, who would be likely to resort ia much greater numbers to his country. He said we spoko like good men, but when the arrangements al> oat payment were subsequently made we found him more exacting than we could have wished. However, we may state that the whole amount paid as bacsheesh to the Sheykhs of Aknbah and Petra did not exceed £ 15 per head. Upon our leaviug Petra the Sheykh conducted us out of the place f.~> r some two hours and a half, to keep us from the molestations of some 12 « f his Ar » bs who followed us in a somewhat threatening manner, - demanding more money, and he only induced them to leave us by asking us to give him money to send thom back. During our journey from Petra to Hebron we underwent much more annoyano* from the Arabs than we experienced at the former plaoe, haviue been stopp. d by them no less than four times in one day, but no violence wai offered u*, and a small bacsheeth generally settled the difficulty, sheathed the swords whioh had been drawn, und put out the tire of touch- rope which had been lighted for the guns. We at tho same time showed that we were well armed, and gave our escort to understand that in case of a fight we should probably kill ten to one. The Arabs of the Alouyn tribe who conducted u3 from Akabdh to Petra were a fine set of fellows, faitlifol and devoted to us, and thoroughly to be relied upon in case « f any emorgenoy. HENRY LEWIS. w. PAOB ROBERTS. ¥. G. FLOLMFCI. Mediterranean Hotel, Jerusalem, April 10. MORE BOYS THAN GIRLS IN SCOTLAND. It appears from the report of the Registrar- General for Scotland, just issued, that there is an undue pre- ponderance of the male element in Scottish nurseries. Of the 116 127 children born in that country during 1871, CO, 072 were boys and 56,055 girls ; thus showing that tlie proportion of the sexes at birth was 107.2 boys for every 100 girl*. It is well known, and has bcea repeatedly pointed out, that the preponderance of male births in Scotland exceeds that observed in England or on the continent of Europe. Another peculiarity observed only in S otland is that this preponderance of male birihs in Sc itland continues year after year to show itself, more particularly among the illegitimate births. On the Continent, on the other hand, the ratio of male births is lower among the illegitimate than among the legitimate. ' Ilie usual proportion ol the 6exe* in all births in Sc . tland is about 105- 5 boys to 10 » girls, from which numbers the observed deviations have hitherto been for the most part trifling. In 1870, however, wheu the ratio fell to 104" 5 boys to 100 girls, there wus a sensible fluctuation ; but during 1871 a sudden and at present inexplicable change iu the opposite direction has occurred, and the observed numbers of male and female have been in the pro- portion of 107 2 to 100. It will be interesting, adds the Registrar- General, to find whether this extreme frequency of maie births has during 1S71 been observed in other divisions of the kingdom. SOMETHING LIKE A CORONATION! The Levant Times gives a long account of the corona- tion of Princ « Cassa, the new King of Kthiopia, which took place at Axum on the 14th of January. The solemnities lasted a fortnight, and the first step in them was Prince Casaa's departure from Adoa on the 4tli of January en route for Axum, which was reached on the 12th. On the lath a grand review took plaoo, at which 3,000 Abyssinian priests were present as spectators. On the 14th, Cassa made his solemn entry into the Cathedral of Axum, where the coronation ceremony WHS gone through. At the termination of this, he repaired to a palace which he had bud specially built for the occasion, and mounted the thmne, leading up to which were twelve Bteps, wearing the crown upon his head. At this moment the company were so overjoyed as to be unable to restrain themselves, and began discharging firearms in the throne room, much to the delight apparently of the new monarch, but to the detriment of the ceiling if not of the nerves of anv delicately organised Ethiopians. The eating and drinking lasted three consecutive dny « , and during the whol6 of this time the King remained in the room. The people entered by relays of - Ktf at a time, and the carnival did not end until - 1,00ft bead " f cattle und 500 hives of honey used in the pre- paration of hydromel had been consumed.