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15/06/1872

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Falmouth & Penryn Weekly Times and General Advertiser

Date of Article: 15/06/1872
Printer / Publisher: Fred. H. Earle 
Address: On the Quay, Falmouth
Volume Number:     Issue Number: 576
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AND GENERAL ADVERTISER. PUBLISHED, EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, BY FRED. H. EARLE, OFFICES ON THE QUAY, FALMOUTH, PRICE ONE PENNY. FALMOUTH: SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1872. NUMBER 576. SALE OP NEAT / Household Furoitnr^ And Effects of Mr. E. Andrew, on Monday next, 17th Jnne, at Park Villa, Ponsmooth, under such circumstances as / will prevent any reserve whatever, consisting of— j Capital mahogany Loo and other Tables, jtwo Easy Chain in leather, mahogany Couch and set of 6 mahogany Chain, in hair cloth, Chimney Glass, pair of Lustres, wax Flowers under shade, Fenders and Fire Utensils, Tapestry and Brussels Carpets, Hearth Rug, Floor Cloth, skin and cither Mats, mahogany Four- post and Half- tester I Bedsteads, Drapery, Feather Beds, Bolsten aid Pillows, Mattrasses, Palliasses, Bedding, mahoiany Wash- stand with marble slab, Chamber \ ' are, Toilet Tables and Glasses, mahogany Chert of Drawers, cane- seat and Windsor Chain, 8- day Clock, deal Tables, ParafBn^ Lamps, Tea Trays, Sarthenware, China and Glass in variety, Boiler, Saucepans, Kettle*, Wash Trays, Flour Barrels, ' ails, Garden Tools, and many useful Effects, ogether with several Pictures, plated Articles, and a few Vols. /^ TajX. Joseph Beringer and Sons, r ' IILWTT^ Ti Watchnkkers, Jewellers, Photographers, & c. t § m Menekge St., Helston, and Market St., Falmouth, i T) EG to return their sincere thanks to the gentry, public, and VSP^ S^^ T?^• PFFL J) friends, for the kind support and patronage they have B Jl) ^^ fiftec^^^ fcHMSniU ff received, and would solicit a can and recommendation to their choice and wdU- selected STOCKS; and also would acquaint _ JMMCTSS' " iMBfflBlft^ P their customere that in Meneage Street, Helston, they have REMOVED tola more commodious Shop and Premises directly opposite to the one in which they have carried on thein business for so many years. The Stocks are renewed with Gold and Silver Watches, Clocks of all ( descriptions, specialities in Marine Timepieces, , Gold Alberts and Chains, colored, bright and Allu mini am Necklets, Bracelets, Brooches, Lockets, Pendants, Scarf Pins, Studs, Sleeve Links in Gold, Silver, Jet, Coral, Plated Gold and Gilt. A superior assortment qf Electro- plated Goods. Spectacles to suit all sights. Marine, Opera, and Field Glasses. Musical Instruments. Pianos and Harmoniubis kept in Stock. Works of Art in the Cornish Serpentine. Photographic Views of both neighborhoods. I The Glass House at Helston is built in private grounds, in a beautiful garden, and has every convenience to insure fint- class work. Tho best- built House in the West of England. Agents for MAPPING < L- WEBB'S celebrate/ 1 Silver and Electro- plate Warehouse, London. \ Licensed to buy Old Gold and Silver.' Repairs executed with despatch. Crowded Houses. Polytechnic Kail, Falutouth. MESSES, POOLE AND YOUNG beg to announce that in consequence of the success of their Unrivall/ d Important Sale, without reserve, OF CPWABDB OF / 50 Tons of Iron / Goods. To Smelters, Iron Founders, Mine Agents, and Otmers. MESSRS. OLVER AND / SONS are fa- voured with directions from Aiessrs. Robert Mitchell anfl Son, in conse- quence of their declining the Lead Smelting and do. Silvering Branches of their businesi, to SELL BY PUBLIC AUCTION, without re- • Q / serve, at the SMILTING WOBKS, at . OK/- POINT, near Devpran, on TUBSDAY, \\/ h the 2nd day of July next, at Two > o'clock for Half- past to the minute, / L- after the arrival! of the 1.45 train at ' * Perranwell Station, distant about . ' 1} miles, the wtiole of They have made arrangements to remain open Six Night ® Longer, From Monday, June 17th, to Saturday, 2pnd, inclusive. DAY EXHIBITION; Wednesday, June 19th, at Three} o'clock. Open at Half- past Two. Third Seats not open to the Day Exhibition. Connected therewith, viz. :— IN ISDN. A. complete Battery of 13 iron Kettles, capable of containing 10 tons eaqh, and weighing about 27 cwt. each. A large number of each of the following, viz :— Large and small Ladles, block - and ingot Moulds, iroa Bars, Paddles, Fire Doors and Frames, a considerable number of Winches and Cranes, With chains and hooks for each kettle; Tram Waggons, Bails and Chaiftsfor transferring/ the metal, a complete set oftron Studs, Braemgs, & c., for a Rever berating Ma^ ftne, witlin the same works, with kettle ana all J appliances complete. Several tons of old and new " V rought Iron, also 3crap Iron, 2 ScrewJ Jacks, large iron Hand- Pump for drawing water fr > m the silvering works, parts of 2 Small Stean Engines, with 2 large ly wheels, 7 ft." dial leter, steam pipes, See.; 8team Boilers, about I feet long, 2 feet internal diameter; iron Tube, 18 feet long, 3 feet dia- meter one end, and 2 feet 2 inches the other, well adapted for a mine dry; nearly new powearfUI treble- pur hase Crab Winch, by It us di an and Brown, ) f Exeter ; several large and small Beams and! Scales, with a number of adjusted weights ; alfew tons of iron Drain, various sizes ; trianae Shears, with chain and sundries; about 30 anall bags of patent iron Nails, various sizes. I BRICK MAKING PLANT. 3 Brick Presses, oni nearly new Hand Press, by Clayton, with miulds, b trrows ; hand PUR Machine, revolving Lifting Machine, with pallat board complete for brick making. About 70,000 New and Old FIRE BRICK, A large quantity on Brick Bats, also a quantity of Roofing Tile. ASSAY OFFICE FITTINGS. Silver Weighing Beams and Weights, small Beams and ScSefe, tin ore Samples, Moulds, new Machine for making Capels, Pestles and Mortars, and othac Appliances. CONTENTS 0F GENERAL STORES, POOLE Am YOUNG'S NEW AND BEAUTIFUL PANORAMA kTB. CORFIELD will ( D. V.) Sell as above IJL at 2 o'clock precisely, I - Dated Auction Offices, Falmouth, June 14th, 1872. Photography for the Million, JPJL E/ IS, IN ALL ITS GBANDEUR! PARIS 6N FIRE! PARIS lid RUINS! PARIS AS IT WA 9, AND AS IT IS! Concluding with a be; . utiful Diorama of the Interior of tl e Cathedral of NOTRE DAME, WITH THREE DISTINCT EFFECTS, Painted by those eminent Artists, Messrs. Albert Callcott and T. Gray. Stratton Place, FALMOUTH. MODERN AND GENTEEL SURPLUS Household Furniture And numerous Effects for Sail by PUBLIC AUCTION, in consequence or the Owner, p Mr. Truscott, changing hid residence, on Thursdas next, the 2pth Jane, Of France and Germany— Vocal and Instru- mental — will be renderefl at each performance, FIRST CLASS ARTISTES. Each Evening at Eight b'clock— Open at Half- past Seven. ADMISSION— First Class Seats, 2s. Second Class Seats, Is. Third Class Seats, 6d. Children under Twelve and Schools half- price to First and Second Seats only. First Class Seats may be secured at the Hall each day from Eleven to One o'clock. ABB FITTED WITH New and Important Improvements, AND ARE THOROUGHLY GOOD in PRINCIPLE AND WORKMANSHIP. ta- PBlCES VERT MODERATE.- ffi » Falmouth, AGENT NATHANIEL FOX, IRONMONGER, FALMOUTH A large number if oak Trenails, various sizes, about 200 goodi empty petroleum Casks, 70 bundles of new Laths, oil Casks and Oils of varirus sorts, a/ few Deals and Battens, and sundry other Effects, Nail'Hutches, Candle do. jCART SHEDS. An excellent exhibition prize Farm Cart, on patent axles, / with patent drag and shifting cradles for eftrrying hav, See.; a first- class nearly new light four wneel spring Waggon, with paten\ 1 axles and patent drag; iron Plough, StcJ J LIGHTER. A strong River Lighter, in excellent condition, to carry about 15 tons. The fflnole of the above will be sold to suit oonvenienco of purchasers, and can be easily removed by road, river, or rail. For wrther particulars apply to the AUCTIONEERS, Green Bank, Falmouth, or Lemon St., Truro. Dated June 4th, 1872. [ 10 BB LET, from Midiummer- day, well- situated, L a neat ^- roomixl COTT5AGE. Apply to Mr. CORFIELD, Estate Agent. Parishes of Cmry and Mawgan, Within FourlMilea of ffelston. 3 Very Durable Farms Of about 470 Acres/( be the same more or less) TO BE LBT BY TENDER, From Michaelmas, fl872, for a Term of 7,14, or 21 years, either together or separately, as may be agreed upon, afflthat Valuable, Sheep, Corn, and Dairy / Estate known as the BiARTON OF THE CommittA Aye B TENDERS fir A Room in the above Esflibl Plan and Specification f ing to Mr. Treb/ cocki Road, Falmouth, And tn sent on or be for? Saturdji addressed to tire Secretarj Falmouth 6th of June, lesirous of receiving bntilating the Billiard [ lishment. may be seen on apply- < Surveyor, Killigrew le Tenders are to be ay, the 22nd instant, Millinery, Mantles, DreAses, Shirts, 1 Cost lines, <& c., & c. Very Cheap Pure America/ Cotton^ Shir ' ings. Black Dress and MantWSilks— much be bio value. Also, black Silk Velvets. Some Jobs in Kid Qlyics— double a) xd single buttons. Job Silk Umbrdla/ and ParachiUes. Millinery— very/ Attractive and becoming styles. An early call will be esteemed. Yours respectfully, H. PENLERICK. Situate in the above Parishes, now ocoupied by Mr. Joseph Topham, with whom an arrangement has been made to relinquish his Intontst therein, viz ,— Lot. 1. All Ithat Compact and Desirable Farm, containing 5 Rich Closes of Arable and Pasture Land, measuring about 100 Acres, with a Farm Houst, Outbuildings and Orchard belonging thereto, coloured Green on Plan. Lot. 2. All those other 9 Enclosures, mea- smring 163 A ores or thereabouts, with the Farm House, and sufficient convenient Out- Buildings, colored Pink on Plan. Lot. 3. All those 13 Enclosures adjoining, and measuring 216 Acres or thereabouts, with the F « rmlHope & a'l necessary Out- Buildings, colored Blue An Plan. To vie* apiff to Mr. HENRY HOCKING, nt toe Li* aM, " JOSEPH THOMAS, at Mml^ n, vXerr a Plan » f the Property For Det tied Particulars and Conditions apply to „ JOHN TAYLOR, ESQ. 3, W tyuare, LONDON. W. C. Or to MR. COB FIELD, EsOtts Agent, Falmouth, To either o ' whom Tenders for the entirety or any single ] ' arm are to be sent on or before 8ATURDA t, 29lh Day of June instant. The Own > r will not * b\ nd himself to accept the highest^ or any Tender. Dated June 11th, 1872. ANearly new BodC\ v'first- rate order, 24 ft. 6 in. in lengthj/ tvrth Sails and Gear com- plete— known as the "/ Velocipede " for Sale Apply to E. WHjtFORD, New Street. Is totally different from any othor kind, and has been pronounced by the Medical Pro- fession to be perfectly harmless. It will positively Restore Grey Hair to its Orininal Colour in a few days without dyeing it or leaving tflie disagreeable smell of other Restorers, j It renders the Hair beautifully soft, glossy and luxuriant. It will not only Restore Grey Hair to its Original Color, but will cause New Hair to grow on Bald Spots, unless the Hair Glands are decayed, when no stimulant can restore them. When the New Hair makep its appearance be careful not to bursh it too muoh. Directions are enclosed with each Bottle. In Bottles 2s. and 3s. 6d. each. PEEPABED ONLY BY THOMAS 0. SANDELL, Pharmaceutical Chemist ( by Examination J, YEOVIL Sole Agent for Falmouth : MR. W. H. SOLOMON, Dispensing Chemist. THE BEST INVESTMENT OF THE DAY FOB A 8 MALL OUTLAY, And when • Beer and fea » l » Bopi « - flfW Soda Water Yionsknow- « K>: ' J A/ i Machine, Mge of the VI ig? 3 R Qv I M tbo poblie boalna" ny- li^ OB W& Trm I^' nwle MBFa / fmMw ™ 1011 00 "" Ginger InVi tte book, of SO ptgw of Qlnstrfttlona and informatics, forwarded tor thrM atampa. 8. BABUETT, Engineer, « S fOBSTON 8TBKET, HOXTON, LONDON, K. STEPHENS & SIDDONS, PHOTOGKAPHER8 42, HIGH STREET, FALMOUTH. THE CHEAPEST PACKAGE OF TEA in ENGLAND. ACHINESE CADDY, containing 19 lbs. of really good Black Tea, sent carriage tree to any railway statin m market town in England, on receipt of iOe, by PHILLIPS A CO. TEA MERCHANTS, 8 KING WILLIAM ST. CM. togpoy. » . q. a ma un » n » . GOOD TEA CHEAPER THA" EVER. STRONG to Fine Black Toa, U 4d, Is 6d. 2 » and 2a 6d per lb. j 40s worth sent carriage free to any rai- . ny etauon or market town in England or Wales, on receipt of iOa by PHILLIPS & CO. TEA MEBCHAHTS, 8KING Wiluam St. LC. Prime Ooffee la 8d. laid, Ifl « d. A Price List Free. PHILLIPS & CO. hnve no agonte, and no connection with any Hooso is Worcester, Snaoaea or WUOQJ. Likenesses from the smallest to the largest size, plain and finished in Crayon, Water or Oil Color, Landscapes, Mansions. Ships, Sea fiews, and Groups; WORKS OF ART COPIED. Mr. STEPHENS had the honor of being the first person to take the likeness of any member of a Roval Family by the Photographic process ; First Class Silver and Bronze Medals have been awarded him by the R< yal Cornwall Polytechnic Sbciety, he being the only Medallist for Cartes de Viaite taken in the County * Mr. SIIJDONS has also claims in the production of tho Nogativos and Enlargements for which the only Medal has been awarded by that Society for that " class of Photocraohic Work. PROPOSED PUBLIC SCHOOL for GIRLS. A meeting has been held In Loudon, at the Albert H » H under the auspices of the National Union for Improving tbe Education of Women. Lord Lvttelton, who occupied the clialr, said, in opening the proceedings, that the establishment of large schools for girls in London was a matter of great importance. Such schools of course would bo at first an experiment, and he should like to see it tried. There was but one collt£ o for women, established by jyiiss Emily Davis, ' and the impr& veineril of educa- tion for women- was greatly to be< itsirod. ( Cheers.) There was one branch of education confined to men which might be advantageously extended to women, XJSs, 4hat . relating, to constitutional gndj^ nglish law— especially that" j^ irt relatuig to " domes tic affairs."" Tfie marriage quostion was looked upon in a heartless and unfeeling way. Won? Mi jsvere told that marriage was their normal condition, and unless they married they must exriect to mict with hardship and distress. Mar- riage in his opinion was the normal condition of both Eexes { Cheers,) JJe should like to & ve a larger field open to women for- honourable em ploy merit. ( Cheers). Mrs. William Grey, the chairwoman of the central conjunittee of the Union, explained the scheme of the proposed School. What was intended was to give a good education at a moderate cost, and this could only • be done in a large echooL Tho special work of the Union no A- WAS to establish schools whi_ h were to bo . public, and characterised hy qo exclusion of class or creed. ( Cheers.) They were also to be day schools, and i a ticular attention would be given to the " trair. ng of • teachers. The first effort would be tho . estal'LiUment of a large public day school at Chelsea, which they had met together that day to inaugurate. moved a resolution pledg- ing the meeting to support the establishment of a girl s school, the funds to be raised by the issue of shares, and the whole concern to bo a limited company. There w. ns a great want of good and cheap Schools for girls bejtfn_ 5n § to the middle classes. The'presenjreystem was a Dad one, and the parents were to blame for the encouragement they gave to it. Young ladies were educated and . brought up apparently for no other pur- pose, and therefore in such a way as to please and captivate " eligible partners fpr life",( laughter), and the great mass of such men did not like strong- minded or intellectual women ( cheers and laughter.) What was wanted forgirls was a vigorous and thorough sjstfni bf education, and not an eSctensivfc 1 miscel- laneous knowledge such as that given in American schools. It waj better to teach one or two things thoroughlyJ& 4P to give jj . mere spattering. of many euhj<- c's. .< Iftaff, he* rh He thjtaght jt.'^ ot^ d be im- pos- iUe in this old aristocratic country to establish schools into which all classes were admitted. Thercould not expect Lady Geraldine to 6itat the same deck with l> Iiss Hit ks, the grocer's daughter. If they thought they could have 6uch schools he believed they_ were ml- tifceq. The daughttra of tradesmen wanted better eduraJ* or\ i andjas Mt^. GAFR- pbegrgfedTnoble wonjeu WiitilJ make noble men. ( Cheere). If ' manners make the man,*" it was the woman thai made those manners which made the man. ( Cheers). Dr. Higg seconded thfc motion, which was agreed to. BrHi.- My, tif KingVCollege, and others, addressed the meeting, and the proceedings were terminated by a vote oj thankto the noble khairmaa. L CURATES TROUBLES.' ( From Ceflmnt » Kep Monthly ilajaziruL) In the first place, I want to know why church carpenters make the kneeling- boards at reading- de* ka with such utter dif^ fgard to the jcbnfdrmation of the human I'g. A curate's leg it human— very human. For twelve months I have alternated between slipping down, till my head Wag lost in the big prayer- book, whilst I felt as if in a douche- bath, and lurching my- Belf op like a frog on the look- out fot flies. If I kn< lfc tp all the time, my back ached. My back is not strong. If I let myself goitly down into a state of occultation, people libelionsly said I was asleep. Fanny said it looked irreverent. N. B. Fanny could r<- t sed me when I subsided below high- water mark. She liked to' see me. She said so. Talking of mark* : there are book- markers. I wottder who first invented those infer 1 beg pardon— those infamous machines for the confusion of curates. Tbry are pvrettly pretty. Fanny's were. I tried to use them. For her sake: that wis how ehe put it. But they acted like half a dozen pain of braoes mixed up among the leaves of the prayer book. If cne was in the right place it never would work with the other thi? wainx. The pealms interfered with the collect, and the collect clathed with the litany ; and both ob- jected to the Athanatian Creed. I was always reading in wrong places and tearing the book to get the right ci- e*. My conscience tells me that I did incalculable damage to that portentous volume. At last I managed it. I stowed all the book markere away by themselves out among the Thirty- nine Articles, and, bairing an occasional loss of place, and substitution of morning for evening service, and vice versa ( I am so fond of classical quotations), got on pretty welL I used to star it at the neighbouring village church Er. n etimes, v. hen I got a Sunday out. It ltd me into difficulties. In the first place, Fanny said I was " wandering." 1 thought! was, mentally, sometimes. I have wandered, alas 1 bodily and mentally now. The fir » t church I^ gic- L^ ed in waa fitickyfprd. There they were very correct, « td had the altar on a " foot pare." In plain English, there was an unnecessary in- equality of six Inches in the limited amount of fk » r I had to stand on. I forgot this, 1 aid Same d wu with a gasp in the middle'of the- FohrthCommandment. It shook me. I suppose I was " wandering" then. I only wanted to get my pocket handkerchieL I Jiada eold. I often have colds, and they always come on in lobgest places, like the Fourth Commandment. The doctor said it was nervousness, ft felt'' to me like tickling. Then in the pulpit there was an elaborate bra** desk thai worked up and down with complicated machinery. I am tall Fanny says graceful. Some persons allude allegorically to a lamp- post They are rude. That de » k at Stickyford brought my manuscript about the level of the lower part of my stomach. I cling to my manuscript, land dislike rant The fact is, I am not equal to it. In a misguided moment I tried to alter the desk, and the whole of the top came off in Joy hand. I turned a screw with the other hand, and • Jhtn nothing would persuade that refractory tor to go on again. I tried it and it wobbled. If I had left it. it would have fallen over and hurt an old lady. My manuscript did, but that ( in Fanny's silk velvet case) wa* not so heavy. I need not say I was covered with COL fusion. I blush very readily. This is not m^ aut for a pun. I hate puna I felt like an ecclesiastical Marius among the ruins, and the clerk had to come up and repair the thing with a hammer before I could get on. I needn't say it ruined th^ flermon. I ney^ r officiated at Stickyford afterwards. 1 never shall again, or anywhere else. I am reckless, as I think I said before, and, when my moustache has grown, shall turn bandit or pirate— or I wouldtf tlje sea agreed wiihana. /< i . , PROTECTION OF BIRDS. The following letter which baa be? p sent to The Timet for publication, is of such general interest, that we have pleasure in reprinting it :— A* yon have ever fonnd rate la - your Journal for the ad- vocivy of tbe direct and indirect claims of animals on tho humane treatment of mankind, to whose necessities, lux- ii1> f, and pleasure! they to largely minister, the Ladle*' I& Ju cation) Committee of the Royal Society for tbo Prevpn- lon of Cruelty to Animal*, of which I am a member, venture to hope that yon will permit me on tbeir behalf to seek to » ' tract public attention to certain Acts rec- ntly passed b\ Parliament for tb « preservation of our nutlvo breeds o* Mrd*. The 8es Birds Act has been followed this year by a Wild Fowl ftotcCtlon Bill, snd, as It is hoped such t. ii will also roceiv* legislative sanction, these bsautliol and n » < fol varieties, probably, will obtain that legal protection which tecurea to anlrnaU a close season. Another Act of cou- sl lerable Importance to tho feathered community has also be. n paused. The Wimbledon and Putney Commons Act plv > protection to all animals fortunate Enough lo ll/ e under Its government, and by it# by- laws birds of every des- cilpil / n will rccelvo security acalnst tho ohiectlonsblo pr^ c Ices of bird trappers. No doubt the Metropolitan Boaid of Works will luue tlmllar order* for the rexuluUnn of llamp- st- a i- heath, and tho Corporation of the City of London will jit ilrably, likewl » e„ prottct. the birds of Euping Korcet. In short, wherever luDgs for our over crowded city and health- ful means of enjoyment f ir thousand* are procured or con- servated by tho prc* ervstion of open space* around the in- tropoll*, tlicre 1 t I* honed, the umo wl » o and bencflcenft r » KuUtlon » will be injured. 1 But from the ( tatomcnt* whhih have been recently mado In many quarter*, snd which bavo come under tho « pedal con- sldc- iatton of tbo committee In whp* e oamo t now address y ou, some more * peidy and itrinnent mrtiurt* are netxajary II we would prcacrvo our sweet eliixlug birds— creatures which in our colonic* and In America p< opietravel mllesund mile* to see and hear. The lark, Uio mavis, tho cuckoo, the Christmas robin, and thni9he's nro household words, dear to all classes whorovor the English tonguo is spoken, and who represents to us son ® poetry, childhood, summer, and home. In no very distant timo tbtso will bavo vapUhed from our hedgerows, commons, ana wood*, loaving them desolate and dull, with no lifo but the cankcrworm'*. The probable extermination qf our birds by bird traffic, and tho great cruclty Inflicted flirMlgh'lts age nay, are tho main reasons which have Infltlfced tbe committee to a « k you kindly to grant this opportunity to snftgeit that an Act for tho pro- tection of birds during tho scasou when tho young bird* cannot live without their parents' caro might well bo enactcd for sUvarlettw,. similar to those laws by which * ca birds are protected in Kngland, and small blr. ls In Germany. Thi* security would restore Uie uatur^ l proportion of one surtef bird to another, which ha* been destroyed by tho Indlscrimlunto and ignorant slaughter of our feathered friend* arul tho larger birds which prey on them: andltwoull prevent tho whole- sale oruclty Intli « io< l AD our most- beautiful aud delightful 8on: s'. eis by bird- traders. I have bcon s leeted to make this suggestion, an I represent tho pitiable caso of our little client*, bccauso I am able to speak of tho practices of tho trade allnded to, from information wltbln i » y - own ksow- ledgo. I havo endeavoured to lnduco tho nightingale to build Its nest In my garden at llighmte with success, and It would shortly have been a wolcomo visitant In the neighbouring gar. lsn*: but as soon a* tUo poor thing* bcgs& i to alng they were trapped. Not caring to ibreed nightineales for bird- fanciers, I havo given up tho attempt; but the other pretty denizens of air who come for shelter and roost In my tree* aro oqually tnircd by trapper*, and, owing to thl* ' circumstance, mf garden will shortly be left in possession of superabundant caterpillars snd other Insect life, a result which has unhappily b- eu prevalent on tho Continent, nnd has caused serious Injury to agricultural and enrden produce there. I ascertained from my gardener that these bird- trapper* como mostly on Sundays, during church time; and he also told me that manyol the revolting Era dices attributed to them are founded ou fict. This also I ave had verified forme at the Sunday bird mart, whcrcmaybe found sometimos 20,000 persons congregated and occupied In bird traffic on Sundays. Adding these men to othors employed at tbe same hour In ensnaring bird* gives a larso numW of per » ons encaged, not In buying and selling, but In following the most demoralizing rnctices. I allude to the taking away from the creature God's gift of iljht by the application of acids or s red- hut wire, In order to qualify It to act more ' efficiently as a de: oy to Its unensnared companion*, And to the scarcely, If at all, less cruel practice at the bird mvt of " training" by mean* of perpetual d » > r » ness, as well as en- veloping tiny cage* In thick coverings, * o that the poor blinded ocoupant*, eurrouudei! by cages o'n^ n- slBjlns bird* uncovered and for aale, may attract a pi^ ltltu ie of dupes hy tl clrsuprrlor music, and » etve to gujl them Into a delusion thai the song'of the decoy, which they hnvo adtatred. Issues from tho throat* of the timid little creature* they now pur- chase and cany to their homes. Tbo practice of entrsfrplfig birds nt this season of the year Induces a second form of cruelty. If tho hen be taken from Its young, protracted autiering* and death follow to tha bereaved progeny : snd If the helpless young be tiken and ; exposed for sale at the mart, perhaps for * everal day*, they , also will Inevitably sudor from privatlont before death ensue, even should their belpleasne** touch somo soft part of tbo haut of tbe dupe who bas bought them and done his best to rear them ; otherwise they will be starved In their miserable cage*, or thrown to tho cat I remember somo time ago buying a pretty litt 1e bird, which seemed very tamo, bnt exhausted, ana ontrrtnginglt boms snd cWug It water, which It was unable drtnlr. I dUenvered ligatures llitro- ' duced amid it* feather*, which hindered It* movements, and fully accounted for it* apparent tameness. I cut lU fetters, and restored. tho bright creature toalr and liberty. I scarcely venture to hope that the poor bird* bought In the purlieu* of Bethnal green are equally fortunate. The state of thing* revealed by. tbe bird . traffic could not fall to impr< siour committee wHh the urgent desire to * ee ' some remedy applieJ. One Of icur m\ ln object* 1* the dif- fusion of Information respecting animal* an J. an endeavour to promote their bumaae Oes* m nt llr- Mly, because life 1 Is in itself too sacred to: those who Inherit it to be tortured or tormented nith impuulty; secondly, b< on* « the habi- tual and unchecked lloenee In regard to tho wanton destruc- tion of animal li'e must sestt most Injuriously on man. The brutal practice* occasional v. and not uufrequtjitly, brought under public noilce by tne prew * eem not to re- ceive from the director*- anfl ^ roiAoter* of education tbe attention which the * ubject de* ervea Under our social system there I* s deadly germ of cruelty habitually seething which It U Impossible not to connect with tho criminal acta, occasionally bursting UfrornA legal. c » nst|* lat* » Might U not be wise to impose additional check*, and to lmprn* on the cruel, tbe thoughlesa, snd the heartless, through tho law that life, whether in man or beast, is sacred In its eye, and that animal* endowed with sensation are given to man for use. and may not be lightly regarded by him, and must never be abused I— I am, ic., BcEDrrr- TocTTS. Coyal Society for tho P « * ahUan at Cruelty to Anlnals. Ins'ltuiion Building, 105, Jcrmyn- fctrcet, St. James's 5. W., June*. THE BBSTOK JUBILEE; feetrrlng to 4hls great musical Jubilee, the PhOa& dptiia Ltdgrr uys .•— r > AU fithf'r nipdern muHical performances wOl sink into insignificance by the side of tho great Boston Jubilee, or to give it its full title, the " Boston International Musical Peace Jubilee," at which a chorus of 2J, 000 eingers and an orchestra of 3,000 instrumental per- formers will assist. To accommodate so vast a number of a- tists and the hundreds of thousands of visitors who will come from all parts to enioy this tremendous " concord of sweet sounds," the BfatonlaAs are erecting a Coliseum cap- able of seating 100,000 persons, thus surpassing the famed Coliseum of Rome, which, it is said, could ac- commodate only 80,000. The most eminent musicians the civilized world can ptoduce and some of the best bands Of Europe— such aa the Imperial Army Band of- Berlin, and the band of the Grenadier Guards, which is the best military tyand In England, and is under the lead of Mr. Daniel God frwy, the composer of some of themost popular modern waltzes snd galops— ore to V inter] iret" the composi- tions of the great misters, as well as of those of inferiorrank, Boas to give to the public speciinensnf every variety of music in vogue in this country and F. urope. To go beyond that range would be to introduce an exhi- bition of what issomntimes called music, but is scarcely more worthy of th tt came than are those dulcet strains with which Thomas and Tabitha nightly thrill enraptured sleepers from the garden or the house- top. We allude to the art as it is, cultivated in China, India, and the East generally. The genius of some of the first living composers has beeii enlittod for this in- teresting occasion- Among them are Franz Abt, Sir W. S. Bennett, jSir Julius Benedict, Sir R. P. Stewart, and Arthur Sullivan. It would have beena satisfaction to learn that Von FJotow, Gounod, Verdi, Ambroise Thomas and Wagner had been invited to contribute, but pernaps they,, baye. On st^ h a grand occasion, which willibe an ^> och in the annals, of music, the aid of trealus of the highett order should he sought. fhe verY vastness of'the design is one of tho prin- ci^ il 9be^ cles to its realization; but the striking energy showniy Its'promoters in rectifying the acci- dent which occurred to the building a short time ago, whereby a large portion of it was tnruwn down, and a change in the shape of the edifice was rendered neces- sary, gives ample warrant for believing that the affair will be a triumphant success. It may be as well to mention the fact that the security and stability of tho whole structure has been severely tested and found complete ; so that timid person^ need not W in con- tinual fear of a 6udden collapse while listening to the strains of Handel and Beethoven. Purhapi tho strain upon the nerves produced by the enormous volume of sound will be try in 2 to many persons, especially to those of an excitable temperament; so, also, may the long duration of the performances— from the 17th of June to the 4th of July— fifteen days, exclusive of Sundays. It will be wise for those who desire to derive the greatest amount of enjoyment from the Jubilee to attend only puch portions of the cervices as they particularly caro for; omitting the Test, and lining up the time with other and ditudmilar occupations. It may be safely asserted that those who go in for getting every cent's worth, af muuic. in CJJ- change for their money will be lucky if, at the expira- tion of the fifteen days if they come out with nothing worse than a headline; " SfiOBT TIME" IN tyuw Yobk.— THQ ulti- mate limit of Trade's Union Bgitations- r- the fixing of oigHt hours aa the working- day— seems likely to be reached by the principal building trades of this city in a short time ( says the New York Timet). That the bricklayers, carpenters, stairsbuilders, ate., have a perfect right to mike an organized attempt to reduce their . hours of labour is incontestable. Their time is th6 merchandize which they bring into market, and they ore as clearly entitled as any dealer in produce or" In imports to give as little as they can ill return'for a < certain sum. The increased cost of the results of labour will, of coufse, tend to increase tho cost oJ. living all round, and tliih tfill tell Upon the earning* qf the labourer rather more severely than upon those of anv other body. The labourer fcai', howoVef, use | hfa additional two hours of daily leisure in such a way aa to benefit him iu body and mind to an extent which will amply repay tho sacrifice he makes. On the other hand, he may so use them as to keep hiru in closer contact with poverty and want than heretofore. All the labour platforms in tho world will not affect tho value of industry, tnrift, and cobriety to their possessor, nor will they give to a working- man who is destitute oi such qualities a balance at the eavings- bonk. THE CASE OF MR. BENNETT OF FR0ME. The long- deferred judgment In the case of Mr. Sheppard v. tho Rev. W. J. E. Bennett, Vicar of Frome, was delivered on Saturday. The members of the Judicial Committee of tffci Privy Council present were the Lord Chancellor, fche Archbi- hop of York, tho Bishop of London, the Master of tho Rolls, Sir J. Colville, Lord Justice James, Lord Justice ^ fellish, Ma Montaguo Bernard, and Sir Montague Smith. Sir Joseph Napier had assisted at the hearing, but was not present in Court on Satur- day. The oour t was thronged, and the decision was watched with much interest. The case, it will be remembered, waa commenced 111 the Arches Court more than threo years ago. and although Mr. Bennett had not appeared either before their lordships or in the Arches tllc^ e had been an appeal to the Judi- cial Committee on A reformation ot tho article made by Sir R. Phillimoro, the Dean of ArChefl, which reformation their lordships sustained. Tho artiples still contained four charges of alleged heresy, namely :— 1. The actual presence of Our Lord, in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. 2. The visible presence of Our Lord upon tho altar or table of tho Holy Com- munion. 3. That there is a sacrifice at tho time of the celebration of the Eucharist. " 4. That adoration or Worship is due to the con « ecrated elements of the Lord's Supper. The alleged heresies were contained in publications by Mr. Bennett— in an essay on " Srtme Re- ults of the Tractarian Move- ment of 1833," and in " Letters to Dr. I'usey," of which there had been th ce editions and alterations made. The Dean of Arches gave judgment in July, 1S70, and, admitting a retra. tion in a corrected edition of the pamphlet asto the visible presence in the sacra- ment, and the adoration of the consecrated elements, he arrived at the conclusion that to describe the mode of presence as objective, real, actual, and spiritual, was not contrary- to the law bf tho Church of England. From that judgment the promoter appealed to their lordships, and the case was argued before a committee of ten members, and th^ ir lordships had had six con- ferences in private to consider the all- important question to the Church of England on the question raised. Tho Lord Chancellor announced that his Grace the Archbishop of York would read the printed judgment of their lordflMpr as ha might not be able to complete the reading. Tho Archbishop of York * ald thl* was on appeal from a final sentence pronouueed by the Dean of Archei, and two Interrogatory order* made by tho same Judge After review- ing the previous stages through whlob the ZMB had passed In the Court of Arches, hi* grace expressed the regret of tho court that the. reipoudcnt did not appeac. npon the hearing, and that they , h* 4 pot. ha 1 the assistance of argument* of counsel an his behalf. Oo con ldcratlon ol the appeal from tbe Anal decree of the Court of Archci, ono point might be at once disposed of. Ibo articles of charge set forth several ps* aago* from • the - respondent"* " Plea for Tolor- atlon in the Church, of , E* gland " l% » letter to tho Be v. E. B. Pusey. The • bcoud edition, which theao pis- sage* were contains t. w « * . published In 1807, bnt In the third edition, published in 18GS, there were Im- portant correction* of expressions in the * econ 1 edition, whlfch expression* formed part of the charge agaloit the respondent. Tnelr lohUhlp* considered It comietcnt for them to receive tho r** p* DdentW. cxidanatlons of the pas- sage* In the second edition which he made In the court below, snd they attached mat importance to the fact that the third edition wu published before tbe suit, and they thought thiy talent) dietefore- accept the altered words as the expression of hi* meaning. At the same time they fully en orsed tbe eenaur* of tlw leahied Judge upon tho re- spondent, that be had not accompanied tbe alterations In the third edition with an oxpre** ion of sorrow or* elf- reproach would be adhered to In thl* case, and the que* tion must be decided by the article* of the Liturgy; and tbe court had applied to the cor. Mdcratlon of these book* (" Plea for Toleration," and " 8- jme B- suits of tho Tractarian Movement," by th* respondent) the aame rule* which had been long established, and were by taw applicable to the conilderatlon of all written Instrument*. Dealing only w| th the third edition of the respondent'* woik, and having re- gard to their foimer dedal . n that the c'large cont'd tied In the 29th Article should bo struck out, their lordship* con- sidered the remaining charges undt* tllree heads. Fiist, ss to the presence of Christ lu the Holy Communion : secondly, as to the sacrifice in the Qol) Comi » uiUoM and thirdly, a* to the adoration of Chriit present In the Tloly Communion. The respondent wss charged wjUt maintaining the fol- lowing proposition* .-— Vint, that In the Bicramcnt of the Lonl'i Supper there wag • an octW presence of the true body and blood of our, lA) rd lu tbe lire » d and wine external to the communlcaat, and it was contended by counsel that the tqu ' body meant tho natural body; secondly, that the cownmulen table wai an alUr of sacri- fice at which the print appeared la a » \ p » r4ottU po* ltlon, and lhat at the celebrtttrth th. ro wss a Sacrifice of- offering upof Our Lord: thirdl/, that there * honld be lb* * d. r- t t. n or Oar Lord In tho consecrated elements on tteVr ui. J that nnder them was . veiled the presence of HI* b dy. Re- ferring to the 4th, 28' h, and 52th, sad 31st Article* of the Church, and to ths<> Uchlun. his grace said the que* tlon to becoual'lered was not what tho article afflimed, but what they excluded, ( md thelr lordship* were of opinion, with re- gard to the rlrstuarge, that there was nothlug In the Articles which was repugnant or coLtrary t > the respondent's position. With regard also, to the declaration of kmeHqgat the end of the office Mr the Holy Communion, tbe Judympnt of their lordiblpt upon thl* point was in favour of thp frspocdent, for he h » d ntwr afDrmol that the body of Chflst was present ui a cotooreal natuial msnntr, but lnu, on the contrary, denied It, eslng not the wontt "- Vrrporal" or " natural," ' but " * upern « turil/' " Ineffable,' Ac. The next charge waa that there was a* tho Com- munion tablo s sacrifice It w » * not lawful for a clergyman to touch that the sacrifice or offering of Christ upon the Crow could be repeated In the orrtluauce of tho Lord'* 6upper, nor that In tnat ordinance there could be any tacridco or offering of Christ which was efficacious In tbe sense la which Christ * desth wo* efficacious In trocurlng1 redemption : but by many/ divines the word icrtfloe had beau applied to the- Lord's Supper, oemmrtno- rJlively only— amonn-> t them by iibhop Bull The ro- ipondent might havo applied the word lu the . same senso a* Bishop Bull; and upou thl* point, therefore. It Was not clear that the reapondent had used the word sacrifice so as to contradict the language of the Articles. A* regarded the third charge of tho adoration of Chrtit ss prcient la the Holy Communion, tbeir i lordships j accepted Mr. Bennett'* explanation of tho language chained lu tbe 20th Article of chargo, but there remained the 27th Article, In which ho wai charged with having promulgated the doc- trine that adoratioa wai due to Carlat, pre tent upon the altar In tho f'jrm of bread and wine, on tbo ground that undep tbeir veil wa* the ss.- red body and blftod of onr ford. Their lordthlp* had to consider bhether the pa** ag< S re- ferred to were repugnant to or contrsdictory . of the 2Sth ArUcle or doclurstlop of kueeUug. The Chbrcn pf England had forbidden all acts of fdoratlon to the BOcramenL and bad there been any out* ard act the principles laid down In " Martin v. Mackouochie" would have applied. Tbe Judgment In that case had not been delivered until after tho pub- Illation of the word* referred to. , Some of their lord- ships were doubtful whether the Word " adore" did not refer to Inward adoration, and upon the whole their lordship^, not without doubts and divisions ot opinion, hod come to the conclusion that1 this charge Has not ao clearly made out as the rules which governed penal proceeding* re- quired, and they therefore gave Mr. Beon tt the bonedt of tho doubt. Their lordship* muitthoreforoadvUe her Majesty tUat the appeal mu*\ be dlsmived, but they were bound to add that there wis milch In the Judgment of the learned Judge In the court below lu, » hkb they could not concur. They considered that Mr. Jlentett'S wordk were rash and 111- Judged, ami dellcatelv near to a violation of the law, but they had not alloyed any feelli KS ot disapproval to Influence the Impartiality of their Judgment, but hid construed In his favour any reasonable doubt. There would be no order as to costs, a* Mr. Benuctt had not app « « re< l.'\ THE FENIAN PRISONERS NOT TO BE RELEASED. At a meeting of the Amnesty Association ( held in Dublin), a letter wan ruad addressod by Mr. Gladstono to Sir Rowland Blennerhasset, M. P., in reply to tho memorial of 32 Irish timbers of Parliament praying for the release of the remaining Fenian prisoners. Mr. Gladstone says:— " The Government has endeavoured to draw a clear and broad distinction between cases of political offonce fnd those which Involve other ele ments ilm Government ] arp unable to ngree with those who contoud that the remaining Kenlan prisoners aro ( o be regarded as political olfouders only." Mr. Gladstone continued,— " Wo do not rogard tho three, or I might almost say the two, romolnlnu Manchester cwei entltl. d to the boneilt of tho distinction to which 1 havB'nbuvo adv'eTte,!,' Still lessaro wo able to consider the cases ol tho 17 soldiers who form the bulk of the remaluing prisoners entitled to apeclal leniency of treatment ' W3 , ir< • bcrtnlpslWsil to view them dif- ferently, alike from a regard t general principles nnd by our sfij'n. iard of hll'rnnr / nd to which they belong, in these clrcuni- taiicea, 1 regret that Govern- ment' feol thenu- IVM^ priicjiMjd from compliance with tho request you havo fortrmftd." 1 The Association pnssi d a resolution declaring tho reply must disappointing, pjnJ tjhara^^ erizing hlr, Gladstone's conduct rotj^ ntly in regard, to tho amnesty as very unsatisfactory, adding, thut they • annot accept fhe letter to Sir H: Hlednol- liiVsaAt - a^ a r>' plv to their ocent commttoication furnishingr Mr. . Gladstone, in compliance with his own renueBi, jvith the exact wf rda of his promise to tho late Air, George Henry Moore. fn connection with the foregoing, The Times of Tuesday has the following leader .— Mr. Gladstone has, by the letter we published In our Dub- lin letter of yesterday, st last refuted tho » tatem « nts litely circulated In the most effectual manner by distinctly ro- ' fusing to comply with the demand of tho Fenian Amnesty ' Association. Whether this refusal will bo accepted as final by that Importunate and unscrupulous bidy Is more than wo can say, but we msy at once express our conviction that any ; less decisive answer would have seriously, and Justly, dlv 1 credited Her Majesty"* Government, aa it would assuredly I have disgusted every loyal subject In Ireland. Iriih- I men wlU romombcr, though Bagllahmon sometime* forget, tho history of FenlanUm, and aro not a little anmed that Ministers like Mr. Bruce or Mr. Glad- I stone should address the Amnesty Association with a cour- tesy bordering o respect, Instead of treating It aa what it really is— sn organization for levying a kind of Fenian " rent," and keeping allvo the spirit of rebellion. It is how about seven years since the Fenian Brotherhood wa* first roused Into activity by a set of Irish flUbn » Uws who had bcon engaged In the American War and pretended to assume military oommand*. 1b Ireland. As an Insurrectionary movement It waa never othorwiso than perfectly contempt- ible, but several policemen wero * hot down by assassin* In American fasMon, hero and there a successful raid wis made i onsmsgizlneoragunmnkcr'sstoro, and a general scnsdpf ] Insecurity wa* produced In Great Britain, as well as In Ire- ; land. Till* reached its climax when an actual plot for the | seizure of Chester Castle wn* discovered, when a number ot poor creatures wore butied under the wnll of Clerkeuwell 1 Prison—' victims of an Insane attempt to liberate a Fenlaft- pri- 1 soner— and when two other Fenian prlsonera were rescued by j a e'esperate sswult on the prison van at Manchester, in the ; course of which a polke- sorgeant was murdered. Meanwhile, a 1 great many Fenian* were captured and tried, some on ( he charge* of murder, * « me on charges of high treason, lome on charge* ot treaion fe'ony, and some, bofng soldiers la Her | Majesty'* service, for the specific offence of breaking, and seducing others to break, their oath* of allegiance Of the i first class, though several wero found guilty, only a few ] were executed, nmong them being three ringleaders j of tbe Manchester party Of the aeoond class, not ; one was executed, though more than ono had been I taken with arms In their bands, and fully merited , capital punlshnunt. Those convicted ot treason- felony, I or of military treason were sentenced to various ] terms of penal servitude, and, together with the men con- : vie tod of high treason, were oithur confined in English con- I vl, t prison* or sent to Western Australia. It is a curious fact that hardly any Interest ha* been manifested about these last by Irish aii'a- or*, snd that all the stories which have been fabricated wholesale a'lout the Ul- treatment of " poll- . Ileal prisoner* " in British gnols have always had special: If not exclusive, referenco to prisoners Incarcerated in this country. Early In tbe year 183), Mr. Gladstone waa lnduced'by urgent solicitations to grant a partial Amnesty to person* concerned In the Fenian outbreak. We have always held tbls Amnesty to have been a mistake, not only because It was premature, and savoured toomuohofa concession to un- rfssouuble clata.- U', hot also because we entirely failed to detect any discriminating principle o(* electlon between those amneitled and Uii* « lWt fn prison. In fact, some of the noil notoriou* Fenian leader* were among the first recipients of tho Boyal pardon, and two of them publicly evinced their ( gratitude by delivering Inflammatory apeocbes before qui- ting Ireland for AmfTlca. A* might . have bfeen antioipa- ed. so apparently capricious an Instal- ment of clomoncy only raised instead of satisfying the claim* of the Fenians and their advocates smong the Irish members Mr. Gladstone was repeatedly and Im- portunately assailed with petition* for the release of. all the " political prisoner*," and with remonstrances againtt tbe ihamolul usage to which they were ( aid to be subjected. In , an unguarded, moment, he repljed to Mr Q. H. Moore In language which has been construed as implying a piomlsu thst when Irelind should become tranquil s complete Amnesty would ' be granted, while he * o far abdicated the proper respouaibility of tbo Executive G ive nrr. eut aa to Issue an Independent C> mnJ** lon, With lustra - tlons to Inquire Tntff ail the allegation* of hahh treitment. Th- j Report of this dothinlsslon thoroughly exposed the utter falsehood' of those allegation*. It turned out thst, * o far from being treated with exceptional severity, the Fenians bad been treated v^ lth most exceptional leniency, snd thst but one ' Substantial grievance affecting a single Individual could bo tstabHshtd i after tho most careful lu vesication. Nevertheless, before these rrsult* were published, Mr. Gla ' stone law fit to advfso her Majesty tiiat all the Fenian* under ttntencefor high treason and treason- felony should be ruleased on A° other condition than banishment from Ireland. Even thl* condition was afterward* waived In hvoar of some, snd It may bo alidad ( baft among those discharged there was at least one who had narrowly evcapad conviction lor murder, and was liore than sflspected of another mnrtlerouS d< slgn, which be licked nothing but the opportunity to carry ont the, rations assigned in a formal letter which announced and Justified the Amnisty were, In effect, that It Is alwnys expe- dient to condone political crimes as soon as the public safety; ahmlts of it, . and that Ireland uu ia a stato which enatyed. the Crown to apply tal* principle without any fear' of Its mercy being abuied. m There were many who at the time quertlone^ the wl » dom of this conclusion, and pointed out that it would be Im- possible to obtain c mvlctlon* from Irish Juriei against pedltlcal criminal* If tho lentences passed were to be thus lightly set aside by a plUble Government. It is not our present purp s- to consider whether this view or that adopted by Mr. Gladstone was the sounder, as tested by subsequent experience. In either case, snd whether It wa* right or wrong to set O'Donovsn Bossa and his a- soclales st large, not a word can bo ( aid for the Manchester conspirators and military traitors, for whose pardon the Amnesty Association ha* never ceased to agitate, and thirty- two Irish member* h ve cot been ashamed to memorialize the Government. None of these men were in any intelligible * en » e political offenders. Those who sided In the murder of Sergeant Brett could not even have Imagined their enterprise to be lu the nsture of civil war; those who broke their oaths to her Majesty were consciously violating an obligation ot fidelity which Irishmen are supposed to bold peculiarly sacred. Tha line between th i r guilt and that of those already re- leased was, therefore, clearly marked, aud the necessity of drawing * omo line beyond which clemency shall not go ap- pear* to u* Imperative. No one. Indeed, bo* spoken morertitHKly on this point than Mr Bright, who cannot be nccuied of a disposition to sacrifice liberty to order ; and if anythtu? bad been meded to confirm hi* argument! " would have been tba conduct of tbls Amnesty Asso- ciation, or persoifs assuming to represent it, during the Prince or Wales's stay last year. It dldi not need the contemptible outrage of which our Dublin Cor- respondent telegraph* particular* to- day to prove that tbe Insane folly to which Fsnlanlam owe* its vitality Is not yet dead. With tbe i htenlx Park riots still fresh lu our ifecdlectlon, there would have been a* trange incongruity in making th? Duke of Edinburgh's vialt the occasion for a fnr- tber concession, which Mr. Butt would be the first to de scribe a* wrung from the fears ot the Government, snd which dould not but dUcourage— nay, which must needj tend to ( Strange, all those upon whom we must rely for the per- manent administration of Justice In Ireland- " GILCHRIST v. HERBERT." In the Court of Chancery, the above cause has been heard, and was an appeal from a decision of tho Master of tho Bolls. The plaintiff's case involved a singular and romantic Story, the substance of which has already been pub- lished. The plaintiff is the widow of the late Mr. (• rilchrist, who carried on a large business as a tja'dor In Calcutta. According to her statement l) e induced her to break off fin engagement she had made to marry a Dr. Evans ana to marry him, upon a promise that he would settlo £ 10,000 pin money upon her, and would leave her half bis property by his will. ' Thiq promise was said to have been contained in some letters, but the kttera were not forthcoming, they having been lost in d fearful storm whlith the plaintiff encountered on a voyage to India in 1864 in the steamship Candia, in which her luggage was entirely destroyed. The mar- riage was celebrated in 18G3, but differences afterwards arose, and there was a suit in the Divorce Court for restitution of conjugal rijflits, which ended in a com- promise. The husband died in 1868, without, having given anything to the plaintiff by his will, This suit was instituted in 1870 to enforce performance of tho alleged promise. Tbu Master of the Rolls thought the plaintiff Bad established her case, and made adeoree in her favour eyed the executors of Mr. Gilchrist appealed. The argument of the apjieol was commenced on Friday'and continued oh Saturday. On Monday afterhoon it was Boated that tho parties had agreed to a compromise, the main term of which was that the plaintiff should have a fourth part . of the property, which it is understood dmounts to more than £' 12( 1,000. i I Their lordships, ou behalf of the infant daughter of the testator, gave their sanction to, Che proposed com- promise. PUNCH AND JUDY. The following quotation appears in & provincial paper:— " Money la said to bo tho slfitiws ot war. It U'equally tfio sinews of marriage. Without it uo couple can carry tho war With the Government, that in, and Soci& y, and BurroundingB. Between themsolves, with money or without, they carry on the war, most of them, so long as they live together. Only without money married life is generally savage, with money mayibe civilised. Warfare.— Punch. Out in Wisconsin the other day a gallant young man drew a pretty young: girl towards hlin and kissed her, and Justat that momeht n licfmi fell from tho floor nbove to tho spot whore * ho was irtundthg More. Tho etory has spread llko wildfire, and the " UlonuiiDK lft'ses * throughout thK state generally aro now cuutlnuaily belug snatched from lmogiuury daugurs. » A " TRADE MARK" Tn tre Court'of Chancery/ before the Lord*' Justices of Appeal the Court gavo Judgment on Tuesday morning in tbe case of " Ford v. Foster, which came before it by way of appeal from a decision of Vice- Chancellor Bacon. Th9 fol- lowing 1* the report of tbe case as given In The Timu: The plaintiff is Mr. R. Ford, of the Poultry, London, the inventor of the " Eureka " shirt, and by this suit he sought to restrain the defendants, Messrs. Foster, Porter, and Co.', of Wood street, from using the word " Eureka" as applied to shirts, on the gronnd that the piaintiff has an exclusive trade mirk in the word The defendants alleged that the word ba# long been in com- mon use in the trade, and also that the plaintiff was disentitled to the assistance^ the Court because ho had described himself in certain advertisements and in- voices as " patentee," which he is not. The Vice- Chancellor dismissed the bill, and the plaintiff appealed. The hearing of the appeal occupied three days, at the beginning of this Term, and their loidships reserved their judgment till Tuesday morning. Lord Justice James Bald that the caso appeared to him primA facie to be one of the simplest snd pi i inert casos ever brought Into court. It was Impossible to di. tingulsh It from tho cases of the " i. xcolalor Sosp " • and Kinaban'a " L, L. • Whisky." He thought that tbe plslntiH was entitled to an injunction to restrain the defendants from applying to shirts of their manufacture or shirts sold by them ( other than shirts made by the plaintiff) the word " Eureka " or Bny other part of the pUln lfl s trade mark, and from advertising for salo any such iblrts as " Eureka" shirts by using nny boxes, card* or labels In which the word " Eureka" should be applied to ony shirts not of the plaintiff'* manufacture. It would not be right to oxtond the injunction to trade lists and price list « , bte- cause tbe fraud committed was on the ultimate purchaser. The shopkeeper who bought from the defendant* was not deceived, and the object of the lnjunstion was. not to prevent tho defendants from using the word " Eureka," as they law- fully might, to describe the article, hut to prevent them from leading an unwary purchaser to suppose tha*- he was buying th< article made by the plaintiff. The injunction limited as above would afford the plaintiff all the protection ho re- quired, and he was entitled to tho ensta of the suit. There remained the question of tbe account. . As thj equitable remedy was ancillary to the legal right, as the plaintiff had made a representation which he certainly was not Justified in making; and as he had not been vory vlaiiant In looking after hi* rights, and moreover, having rrgard to the fact that the extent of tbe asle by the . defendants would not be a proper measure of the Injury done to the plaintiff, his . lord- ship thought the account should not extend back further than the date of the filing of the bill. Lord Justice Melllsh was of the same opinion. Ha screed that the plaintiff was orMnallj entitled to the prtKeefloifof thiCOun. Had, then the wt> rd " Euieka" since beoomo publici juris as aptdled to shirts? No doubt a word origin- ally used'as a trade1 mark mights booomepudiiiif juris, as In " tho case ol Harvey's 8auce. What was the teat of- thhf His lordship thought the test was this— whither the use of tbe word by a person other than the orl- gidal mto waa ' calculated to detelvo the jhibHc, ' t> r any part of the public. If the word ha4i bedome trf such common use that no one could be' deceived into supposing that he was buying the goods of the ori.- lnal maker, thuu tho right of trade mark was gone. Prom the eddence In this case hi* lordshipcamo to the concluriofi that tho word " Eureka" had become publicijurit as between the wholc^ alamakarand the retail dealer ot shirts Bat he thought that a very con- siderable portion « t the public— viz., thup^ r*' in who bought the ihlrt* in order to wear them, were still liable to be de- ceived by the use of the word ** Eureka,' espec ally when it was mark& l on tbe same part ef th* shirt as that on which the plaintiff had always marked it His lordship camo to this conclusion becanse Mr. ford was the only person who had intensively advertised that he *. ld shirts *•> mark-*!, and that none others were genuine. It was said that the plaintiff always marked bis shir's " Ford'* Eurekabat people would remember the word " Eureka" wh? n they fpr^ ot the name " Ford," and when they aaw in a shop, either here or Ln the Colonle* ( for It wa* in evidence that these shirts were largely sold In the Colonies), a shirt marked • fThoEorsta" they would think It was one., made by the original maker. Then came the question whether the plaintiff Was prevented from obtaining relief hy reason ol, tbe misrepresentation he had made that hi* shirt was a patented article. It was nec: « Sry to con « lder— first, whether, under these circumstances, an action at law. bj| Uie e. plsintltt Would He : andsecondy, if it would, whether the ISlntlff Was entitled' to n U f In equity ThU Oa u wa* not ke that of " Milling v. B- fX ", bafore Lord Colt, aham, where the defendant was entirely innocent Tt was * case exactly like 8ykes v. 8ykes " < 3 Barn srtd Cna- A where IBU scoon was maintained. tVrguld, then, thenilerenrqsenUtlon which was made in this ease be a defence to such tm setlont If the misrepresentation was contaluqd i » the trade, mark Itself, bis lordship had a pretty clear opinion that . thi* would be an answer to the action st Jaw. The rule ex turpi eautd non oritur actio would apply. So, too, it would bo a defence If the tr. ide Itself wa* a fraudu- lent one. In " Plddlng ri Howe" snd ln " Perry e. Truefltt" there - was strong ground for saying that this was so. In " Perry v TrueOtt" the object wa* to fyiJuco tbe public to ( believe that some horrid stuff, which never came from Mexico at all, did como from Mcxico. But when the trade itself was not fraudulent, and tho trade mark was perfectly honest, his lordship was aware of no Common Law principle by whUh the m re fact that the plaintiff had committed a fraud against seme ons else would be a defence to Ills action. There would be . this difficulty— How much misrciirccent^ tion . would be an answer to the action? If a loin bad - once Lsssed a false advertisement, would all hj* iMijlvtpinhls bndo mark begotrt> T His lbrdshlp was therefore of opinion that an action at law could be maintained by thej. laii. t fl in tl, l* case, snd this Court was now in the sam? position as if, before Sir John Rolf* Act, an Injunction had heen refused till au action st law bad been tried, and the action had bceh tried'success- fully, and the plaUilit! had come ba< k here It never oonld have been meant by the old cases that the plaintiff should bave to go on bringing poTj. etuol action* at law Tho oSly question would be, could a Court of Equity, pu the ground of the plaintiff's misrepresentation, rcblrain t! e bringing of the action at law I There waa no • utbosUf. foaasfiog that It could. If the de'endont had no e luitahle richt, how could he l « e entltle- i t > h < vs the action at U » stayed? and ho could havo no ennlta le rfcht ahO'i he wss cdmmittiug a fraud himself. In the Leather ClothCi* C the ml « repre: enta- Uoh whlcls was the grounil o: the dc tl n of the Houje of tifdswto 6ihfdued In the trade mark itself, uod'Uasfaot merely collatoial as It was he e On tbls » econd ground, alsbhls lordship was of oplui<> u thit tliorc Vaj nif tfiaorf « hy tho plalntitl ( botild Hot' succccd ln tbU oomt Ho sgfeci with Lord Jut tire James that tho account thoulif be only'from the date of the filing of the bill He was enn- Vidced that at law only « 0s, d imiges would be locoverod. Xhfero was no evidence of sped Be dumago. Tha aocouiil oukht, therefore, to be limited lu that way. THE LONDON BUILDERS' STRIKE. On Monday evening, after the Carpenters' Nine- Hours' Committeo had ltd j burn ed^ Mr. Matkin, the secretary, received a note from^ M r. Finer, the secretary of ' the Rlastere'Committee, stating tnat as the1 dfcle- cates of the then at their meeting i> n Saturday evening had approved the principle of aibitration in settling thb existing dispute the Committee of itHEtera w^ re prepared to meet a deputation on the fol- lofring day ( Tuesday) at 5 o'clock to settle the terms upon wnich the arbitration should be proceeded with. On the btrike Committee re assembling on Tuea- daly morning the secrfcttiy laid Mr. Piper'. s letterbeforo them. It waa tbe uminiAious opinion of the committee that before any deputation could be appointed to meet the Masters'- Committee the delegates rftust be Sum- moned to appoint the' deputation, and give them the necessary instructions, the committee having no powers to1 act upon so important a question independently of the delegates. This opinion waa embodied in a resolu- tion, ana having beet! agreed to was taken to the Masters* Committee by Mr. Jlatkin and Mr. Smith by whom tho position of thecominitt. e was explained. After somedio- cusoionit was agreed that the meetingehouldbeheM/ and that each committee should be represented by four of its members, with the two secretaries. Upon the re- turn of Messrs. Matkin and Smith, they having re ported the result of their mi- sion, the committee at, once resolved to convene a meeting of the delegates. At this meeting the deputation of four will be appointed arid receive their instructions. A letter wa^ received bj| the committee from tho firm of Messrs. Hill and Son, Islington, stating- that the firm, on and after Saturday next, will concede the nine hours and the payment of 9d. p< rhour. Letters to the tame effect were also received from several small firms. ; . A STRANGE TRAGEDY.- The Melbourne Aga^ recoids the following i— Two men formerly employed as wardsascu In tha Mol- bonnie Hosplt: il were ( ouu- i lying in tl » u Tn^ wuryli miens under most extraordinorj circumstances. Out of ttkm, who w^ snamed Marks, was tijlug from theefleots of « bul. et wound from a recently discharged nlstaL , Tha other.. Feenty. was lying by bis ( ldo, a4iparenty unoonosraed, « Ith a loaded pistol m hi. h . nd J hu evidence ( bowed t at all cstraordluary iptlmacs existed between the two men, thAt they had often vowed to dlo-. tosttter, and that tbey hud gone out each with tl e purpoie of shooUna iiU friend. Feeney carried out his portion of the cnfpiot, l* i| from some came or another Marks did not. reeney ha* sluca been convicted sud sentenced to death. NOMINAL NOSSKNSB.— A Committee of tho Council of the Institution of Naval Architects has re- ported to the Board of Tiade that, in their opinion, " the term ' ncmimd hovse- power,' os at praseut ordi- narily used for commercial pnrpuscs, couvejano defi- Ste meaning." Woise than that, in one case it volvea a contradiction in terrtis. Who but a nioko Would mention tha. nominal horse- pour uv of ft douj- u J - engine!— PuncA » IMPSi^ AL PARLIAMENT. lA the Iln^ fcp. Lords, Jan- 10th, Lord BIpon, 111 moving | he second K^ Jing of the Parliamentary and Municipal Elections Bill, ndd that the pica ol Insufficient time pat for- ward last Seitlqh for post poDlng the conrideratlon of the mea- gnro couldnotnow beurg d, while the umlimlnithcd desire ol the 01 her Hoose lor the bill wassho* n by the largo majorities by which it had been sect up. Defining It* main objects to be such an Improvement In our doctoral machinery as would es- tablish greater ord- r and regularity, and put an end to Intimi- dation, and greatly diminish the evils ol bribery, he quoted the despatches of Mr. Du Cane and Sir J. Ferguuon to show the • dvaniagiKitt w# H" » if the Ballot Innur Australian colonics, and cited the _ ic. aiuni undei the London School Board as Inrther evidence of tho good order produced by secret voting. Apologizing for travelling over the flr. Tjfnenta by which it wa., Ills duty to recnmmtnd tho Ballot BlUof last year, he said that the opinion of the House ol Commons upon a question of electoral machinery was entitled to special consideration ! rom their lordships, and he trusted they would not reject a bill sent up a second time after lull and cart ful examination by the other House. Lord Groy, In moving that the bill be read a second time that day tixmonths. aiid they had been warned by the Prime Minister that tho Ballot was only one of three Important changes that were required, the two others being a further extension of the franchise and a redistribution of seats. 11 a revision of our electoral system were imminent. It would he mo> t imprudent to make one partial chargo. Ills main objection to the bill was that It would give us a woiro instead of a better Douse ol Cbmmous and. would bo a powerful obstacle to such a rel'irm lo that House as was most urgently re- quired. Accusing the Government ol a lack of fore- sight and state nmnabip, he said that useful legislation was at a stands. Ill,' that Important measures like the Contagious Diseases Act Wire decided by clamour and passion, and that the interests ol the country were sacrificed to those of a political party. Denying that tbo passing of this bill in two sncccsslve years by the other Hoiuo formed a sufficient Justification for the present motion, ho asserted that U their lordships were not to exercise an Independent judgment In such a matter that H" uae had better be abolished. He deprecated any such trickery as giving this bill a second reading, with tho vlowof intro- ducing amendments inconsistent with its spirit, and said that tho only materia! amendment he should support would be tho clauso of tho former bill, giving facilities lor ascertaining on a scrutiny how i ach elector had voted. Tha Duke ol Richmond regretted that the Government had thought it necessary to deal with this question, and contended that their lordships were last year perfectly justified in post- poning legislation for eootber Session. lie adverted to the node in which the subject had been dealt with at various periods; the evils complained ol; and, ls3tly, the probability that they wonld bo currd by the bill. Alter being snubbed and summarily r Jcctedby Liberal Ministers toraseriesotyearsthe Ballot Bill has now been brought lorward to meet the demands of the advanced scctlon ol tho Liberal party. Replying to tho atguiuents of Lord Bipon founded on Colonial, experience, ho said • that tha bill contained many anomalies. Seeing, however, that It had come up ft second time supported by lar^ e majorities ol the other House, and by all the power ol the Government, and that if it were r. jected the present apathy might be • uccoeded by a great and dangerous agitation, he had oonse to the conclusion tlixt, alUou^ h he disliked tbo bill. It would be unadvitable to. opi- ose the second reading. He should be prepared, however. In committee, to propose several amendments.— t g., that secret voting should be optional, and not compulsory, and that there should be the powi- r of tracing votes if given wrongfully and corruptly. Lord Sbafteshury, although agreeing in opinion with Lord Groy, and sharing" Ids apprehensions, thought that the Duke ol Kiohmo& d hi d spoken the words ol wisdom in advising their lordships to give thebillasecond reading. At th « same time, by a proposition f » r socret voting the country Inflicted npon iUell a direct dishonour. It was an open avowal ol cowardice and corruption. The bill would, moreover, be altore' her ineffective to put down intimidation, and it would m* ke bribery ten times worse. Quoting a warning given to him by the l& Sf Daniel Webster, that the Ballot could never coexist in England with monarchical institu- tions. he opposed the bill lrom a variety of political, socli. l, and moral considerations. He was prepared to wit- ness the dissolution ol the Established Church and a vital attack upon the House ol Lords. He was prepared to tremble oven lor the Monarchy, but he was not prepared for an immoral people, fearing to come to the light because their deeds were evil Lord Cowper and Lord Rosfbery supported, and Lord Bavcnswerih and theDukool Eutland opposed the second reading. . ' • Lord Lyvedrn thought he had never heard more in- consequential speeches than those in which the Duke ol Richmond and Lord Shaftesbury had declared the bill to bo fraught with evil and mischief while recommending their lordships to read It a second time. The Duke intended to substitute a peimL- slve lor a compulsory Ballot, but It was certain that tuch an amendment would be rejected by the House of Commons, and the month ol August would find both Hooses still discussing the Ballot. He agreed that against public opinion when deliberately expressed there was no power ol resistance in their lordships Houie, but they oupht never to yield to the House ol Com- mons upon this qnettlon until after a dissolution. This was the constitutional lulo in all great reforms. The Bill had been brought forward to unite the Liberal party and to bring ' together in the same lobby Sir G. Grey and Sir C. Dilke, and for this purpose their lordships were asked to pass a measure whiih they all disliked and some of them abominated. Ho w ould tell them frankly they had no means ol getting rid ol the bill except by votlni a alnst tho second reading, and this ho called upon their lordEhlps manfully to dtLord Oruarron twitted the Treasury Bench with its "• flenWtluring the debate. He pointed out that the eooial circumstances of the Australian colonies were so peculiar that no analogy could be drawn as to the operation of tho Ballot la this country. Ha warmly opposed the principle ol the bilL Lord Belnwrefahn spoke from an Opposition Bench) gave his coli experience as an ex- Governor of New South \ V » leB 03 to the working of the Ballot In the Australian colonies, and especially In regard to personation and scru- tiny. Ho looked forward to its adoption in this country without alarm, and, believing that if the bill were thrown out a dai. gerou! agitation would arise, and that it would come back aialn lor adoption, he should rote lor the second reading. Lord Klmberley denied tlafc tho Government rested ftho case for this bill upon the papers relating to tho Austrian colonies, and especially npon the opinion ol the Governors. Ho attached much more weight to the opinions of the respon- sible Ministers ol those colonies, some ol which he cited. BepWingtosome of the objections wved by previous speakers he thou Jit the bill would be especially beneficial in'Ireland. It would not work a political revolution, and while its effect would be salutary he did not believe it would realise the predictions either of its friends or ol its enemies. , Lonl Salisbury regarded the argument as to the Australian colonies as woithjpsc. The Ballot had been established in many Coptineatalcounlries, and they were all familiar with discussions as to how and by whom the urns had been violated. The thesis now before them was, why the Home of Lords should not vote according to its opinion. Last year it did, and why should It not do so again ? If it were said that the House ol Commons had. declared twice In favour of this bill, and that it was consequently the duty of their lordships to pass it, that House beenmo a mere copying machine, and the sooner its duties were remitted to that useful instrument tho better. He, however, drew the widest distinction between the nation and the House ol Commons, which only theoretically represented the opinion ol the country on this question. The Ballot had never been before the constituencies at all, the present Government having gone to the hustings as non- Ballot politicians.... The difference . hetween the Dike ol Richmond and himself WHS th-. t the Duke hoped tobbuln the objects he had in view in Committee, whilo lib diffi- culty was the uncertainty whether, il these amendments were carried, they would ultimately bo incorporated In the bill. Nevertheless, il the bill went into Committee, he sbonH unreservedly rapport the amendments of • which the Dnko had given notice. There was no one in who?- judgment bo bad moro absolute confidence, but his noblu friend's mind was a little disturbed by tho fear of that autumn agitation against the House of Com- mons which was al « ajB coming and never came. The Duke would either fall to pass his amendments or he would succeed ; lu the latter case, he would Incur that very danger ol Irritating the House of Commons which he now deprecated. In England the Ballot might not make much change . it was the case ^ f Ireland that alarmed - htm, because it this bill pas- ed trc Legislature would bave to meet a deniaud for Separating fnm the majority ol Irish representatives. Be- lievlrg that a fearful constitutional danger now threatened their lordships, he should give his hearty suppert to tho amendment. T io Lord Chancellor deprecated tho nnconditimial re- jection of the bill, and, as a proof that it was dethanded by the country', asserted that every candidate who had gone to an election since tho discussion on tho bill had been compelled to declare blmsell In lavour of the Ballot. Lord Calms contended that the bill by its complicated and unintelligible directions would disfranchise half the constituency. Ho would bs no party to giving a vote in ^ TWrkirdshlps divided, when there appeared a majority ol SO in favour of the bOl— viz., Contents, 8C: Not- Contents, E8. • The bill was accordingly read a second time, and their lordships adjourned at half- past twelve o'clock. Tho House ol Commons was engaged np to midnight in rommlreo of Supply on the CTvU Service Estimates. Before SSriflto Commltte, Mr. Hlhbert informedI Mr. St Aubyn ihat it fa not Intended to bring In a Bill this year to establish County Financial B . ards. In Class II. ( Publlo Offices) on the vote for the Privy Seal Department, Mr. DlTlwyn made bis annual attack en the office the retention ol which was warmly vindicate d by Mr Gladstone, who as- aertsd thnt the assistance derived by the Cabinet from an official of this kind was most valuable, and that the abolition ol ll » e illco would bo a blow to the public service. On a division, it was carried by 193 to 67. The only other point of controversy arose on the vote lor Secret BeiViee Uorey, which Mr. Bylands as usual, moved to reduce by the - urn of £ 10/ 00. On a division, however, he waabeaten by 1 « J to 86 ; and a little fnrther on a motion to dulllow the sum allott d lor Queen's Plates In Scotland he W^ eBUhodrr, yiUri^ ation Act ( 1900) Perpetuation BUI was read a second time. ... . „ „,„ In O mmittee on the Customs and Inland Revenue Bill, Mr. Alderman Lawrence moved to extend the present Ia- eomo- Tax exemptions to incomes of £ 150. The Chancelloi of tho Exchequer opposed the motion which would make s difference in his Budget calculations of nearly a quartet of a million, and complained rather sharply that a ques- tion ol so much Importance should be raised at that period. This led to an animated wranele between Mr. Hunt, Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. Lwe as to the oppor- tuneness ol the motion, and ultimately it was negatived by 103 to 65. Mr. W. H. 8mlth moved the omis- sion ol the clause which exempts Irom the House Tax premisej occupied as e. fflces and left in charge of a care- taker at night. Mr. Lowe, though ho defended tho clause allowed It to be seen that he was not enamoured of It; and on a division the clause was struck out by a ma- jority of one— 79 to 78. A clauso moved by Sir Powell, to exempt sheep and cattle dogs Irom the Dog Tax. was re- jectee! by 89 to 55 ; and Mr. Gregory succeeded In introducing into the bill words moro Itrictly defining the term " horse The'other Orders were disposed of, and the House ad- journed at 25 minutes past two o'clock. In the House of Lords, June 11, Earl Granville roso to mske to thslr lordships his promised communication relative to the American negotiations. Having referred to the questions which were put to him by Lord Oranmore, the noblo carl said he had to inform them that on Saturday last it became clear that the Government had failed to arrive at an agreement as to the Supplemental Article and toe Indirect claims. That being the case, but tho agreement not being Irremediable, the Government re- olved, acting upon a suagestion previously made by the United States, to prop of e an adjournment. Ho regretted that this d « spatch should have been published, but the American Minister could not account lor its publication except on the ground that the telegram was sent en elair and not in cypher, since then he had received a communication, and had made a reply to the United States. The lollowing day, the Lord Chief Jus- tlcc Sir KoundeU Palmer, and Lord TenUrden would proceed to Geneva, with precise instructions and full power to Insure that there should be no departure liom tho declarations con sistently made by Her Majesty's Government In regard to the Indirect Claims. , Lord Cairns said that * helr lordships had beon so accus- tomed to surprises during those negotiations that a dis- closure of tho most secret and sacred despatches had ceased to astonish them. A proposal, however, to adjourn the Arbitration for eight mouths transcended everything that had yet becomo known. II the object ol this adjournment were decently to put an end to the Treaty It would bo better In the Interest of both countries to do so openly and fairly. Mr. Fu> h had now staled that It was useless to discuss the amendment ol the Supple mentary Article, as the United States had no suggestions elthelr to offer orto entertiin. We appeared to be getting deeper and hopelessly Into tho bog, and he trusted that the Government would give some assurance that at the end ol another interval ol eight months they would not bo found still engaged in fruitless negotiations. The Lord Chancellor denlod that Mr. Fish had over stated that no adjournment ol the Arbitration could be made ex- cept through another Treaty. Severely impugning the line token upon the Treaty'tbrouEhout by Lord Cairns, who had, he said, first raised a doubt ( repudiated by everyone else) as to the Indirect Claims not being barred by the Treaty, he hesi- tated to accept him as an authority upon tbe Arbitration. lithe two parties were not agTeed as to the meaning of tbe Treaty, then it might be necesaaiy to cancel the appointment, not under the Treaty, but because the Treaty in that case had never taken effect. He trusted that the negotiations would he prolonged as long as there wis any hope of arriring at an amicable settlement, and, for himself, he entertained a nope that the great object In view might still be attained. Alter remarks from Lord Salisbury and Lord Kimberley, Lord Derby said he hoped the Government would tell iheir lordships why this delay in the Arbitration had been specially asked lor by ui, and why there should be a delay ol eight months. The American Government had quite as much to lose as ourselves by breaking < ff the Treaty, and the question respecting the Supplementary Article might be settled in a much shorter time— In a very lew days lndeed- 11 it could be settled at all. It naturally occurred to every one that the pe s ponement was attribut- able to the Presidential election, but hat would place IU In a position at once ridiculous and degrading, and a pending pcgotlatlon could be expased to no greater risk than to be thus hung up while two political parties abroad fought their battles. Lord Granville explained that the period ol eight months bad been selected by Her M j' sty's Government because it combined two advantages. The meeting of Congress was fixed lor a certain data, and their next meeting would bo lu the first week ol December. On tho other hand, the Im- perial Parliament usually met at the beginning of February, so that no final arrangement could be made before Parlia- ment met That was no proof ol distrust. Lord Grey expressed great aKrm at the present position Ot affairs at Geneva, and a « ked whether their lord- hips would have acquiesced lu the withdrawal of Lord Russell s Resolution except on the understanding that, if the Supple- mentary Article were not agreed to. Great Britain would at once withdraw from the Arbitration. Lord Granville, who said that Lord Grey could not have heard his statement on this point, added that the papers to be laid an the table would contain lull information as to the negotiations connected with the Supplementary Article, and aU tho correspondence that was not confidential He also gave further explanations In answer to questions, and in- timated that when he laid the papers on the table he would make a statement. Tho ordera ol the day wore disposed ol, and their lordships adjourned. In the House ol Commons, on the order for the third reading of the European Assurance Society Bill, Mr Eykyn moved that the order for the third reading be discharged, and that the bill be recommitted to the former commlttce. He was strongly in lavour ol the principle of arbitration, but he objected to the selection as an arblt ator of an ex- Lord Chancellor, who was In receipt of a large pension from the country, on the ground that It w- as unwhe lor such a personage to do retail business, and enter Into competition with their brethren ol the long robe. He had received a communication from persons connected witn this matter In reference to this motion and hei prottsteei I against any attempt to mike a member of Parliament accountable to persons outside the House lor his conduct In Parliament _ , ... . Alter a short discussion, however, Mr. Eykyn withdrew the amendment, at the same time giving notice that on a future day he would move a resolution declaring th « ex- pedlency lor the luture that ex- L6rd Chancellors should accept no lee or reward for actios as arbitrators or referees unless specially appointed by Parliament. The bill was then read a third time and passed. On the order for the consideration of the Mid- London Railway ( Western Section) BlU, Mr. H. Lewis moved that tbo bill, as amended by the committee, be tiken into consideration upon that day three . months. i.. Mr. Carnegie defended the course taken by the committee In passing the bill, and opposed the amendment. Mr. B. Hope said that this blil was only a part of the scheme which had been submitted, and to which the Mary- ' lebone Vestry consented only as a whole. It ran entirely counter ta tho great principle ol the inner and outer circles of communication in the metropolis. Mr Greene said the committee felt that this line was for the public benefit, and that the opposition to it was very weak indeed. , The House divided :- For the bill, 154; against, 97: majority, 67. The blH was then considered, and ordered lor third reading. Mr. Gladstone rose to make his promised statement, which was brief and divided under three hea ls— first, the negotia- tions for tho conclusion of a Supplementary Treaty : second, tho enlargement ol time before the Arbitrators ; and, third, the measures to be taken at Geneva if the Government fulled to negotiate a Supplemental Treaty and to obtain a postpone- ment. With regard to the first point, he announced that the Governmeat, with the time at their command, had 1 ued to come to an agreement with tho United States aa to the terms of the prospectivo engigement not to prefer Indirect Claims for tho future, although there was no difference between them as to what should be done with the Indirect Claims if they had arrived at an under- standing on the Supplemental Article. With regard to the enlargement of time the two Governments were still in com- munication, and he sould not say what the issue of the ne- gotiations would be. Under the third head, Mr. Gladstone said the Government, If they tailed to obtain an adjourn- ments the 15th, were prepared with the measures they thought best fit to sustain tho declarations they had always made on the subject of the Inellrect Claims. Mr. Osborne, who described himself as listening ln_ mute astonishment to this statement, produced a copv of the Daily News, and asked whether there was any truth in what ho characterized as tho " humiliating despatch" telegraphed therein from the United States, to tl e . tfect that Lorel Gian- vUle had asked tho Arbitration should be postponed lor eight months. There being some apparent hesitation In giving an answer to this, „ Mr. Osborne rose again and said, " I pause lor a reply: whereupon Mr. Gladstone remarked that In a matter ol this gravity a Minister might also be permitted " to pause for a reply to such a question. The proposal attributed to Lord Granville — and whlchhe maintained was not humiliating, but Just and honourable— had been made. Ita object was to enable us to eome to an agreement on the terms of the Supplementary Convention, which it had not been pewlble to conclude be- fore the 16th Inst., and tho term ol ehiht months had been mentioned because at the end ol it both the 8enato and Parliament would bo in Session. - Mr. Disraeli was astounded at Mr. Gladstone's want ot frankness In omitting from so Important an official explana- tion all allusion to Lord Gia ivllle's request for a i> ostponc- ment ol the Arbitration. No doubt Mr. Gladstone felt satisfied that he had given the correct reason lor fixing the period of eight months; but it must be remembered that during the greater part of this interval tho United States would bo the scene of a hot election contest and nothing conld be more unwise or indiscreet than to make tho relations ol the two cenntries a stalking- lume of discussion on every platform during the Presidential campa'gn. What, lie asked, was to becomo ol the other parts ol tho Treaty— ol the Canadian Guarantee, for Instance f Was the country to be left In Ignorance of the exact causes of difference be- tween the two Governments, or would the papers relating to the Supplemental Treaty be laid on tho table f His first Impression. Mr. Disraeli said, on tbe alarming statement made by Mr. Gladstone led him to Join issue with the policy of the Government, which, he feared, would end In disntcr and disgrace. Mr B Cochrane asked whether Mr. Fish had declined alto- Kther to ask the Arbitrators to adjourn, and Mr. Newde « . te ring moved the adjournment ol the House, so that the dlscu> sl'- n might be continued without a breach ol order, Mr. Horsham asked whether Mr. Fish's answer would be pro- Mr. Gladstone said th » re would be no advantage— quite the contrary In lact- in laying on the table. Lord Granville s letter and Mr. Fish's reply at present, dissociate.< 1 from what followed and preceded them, and he accounted for tbd publication of the first by the fact that it had not been transmitted In cipher. He laughed at Mr. Disraeli's chargo of want of frankness, seeing that It would have been impossible by e '- serving silence about It to keep Lord Granville's proposal s- cret To Mr. Disraeli's other questions he replied that if an ad journment of the Arbitration were obtained the other parts of the Treaty might go on Jnst the same as If no difficulty had occurred, and so far from leaving the country In Ignor- ance of the steps which had been taken, he honed to ay papers on the table before the end of the week. He repeated that the Supplemental Treaty could only be said to have failed in so far that it had been lound impossible to conclude it belore Saturday next [ The discussion was continued by several hon. members, but the chief points are given above.) The rest ol tha morning sitting was spent in Commlttco on tho Scetch Educational Bill, which was advanced two Clauses, 51 and 62, which lelate to the remuneration ol tho schoolmasters. At the evenlne sitting, Mr. Bovrring had besun to call attention to tho Inconveniences ol " counting out," an i to offer some suggestions lor lntimldsting those who resort to this practice, when he hlmsell was summarily cut short by a " count out," and tho Hon e adjourned at five minutes past 9 o'clock. THE MARQUIS OF BUTE ON THE HOUSE OF LORDS. Tho Marquis ol Bute returned thanks l » r the House ol Lords at a banquet given In Ills honour one evening last week by the Conservatives of Swansea. Ho said :— I have to thank you. in the name of the Souse of Lords for the manner in which you have received the toast of_ that House, and on my own part for the manner in which you have received my name. In this age of revolution, I never hear that toast proposed in any assembly of her Majesty's subjects without feel- ing that it is something more than a formal compliment to them. Nor iB it, I feel assured, a formal compli- ment from such an assembly as the present. The House of Lords is happy in being able to offer to this country the advice of men who are, for the most part, of mature years, almost all of them certainly men of considerable knowledge of the world, and often of very considerable parliamentary experience. And not only this, but the Houseof Lordsishappyinbeingablotcoffer to this country the advice of men who have the highest education which tho resources of this country afford. The House of Lords is aluo happy in being able to offer their country the advice of men whose position is not dependent upon the fickleness ot constituencies. I think I may go further, and say that the House of Lords is happy in being able to offer to this country the advice of men in whom exists, for the most part, a sense of \ duty whioh may be deepened ip sincerity by years, but i which is, I assure you, instilled from childhood. As | lnnjr as, under the influence of that feeling of duty, the | House of Lords endeavours t< y do, as I believe " it en- I deavoura to do, that which is right, however arbitrary may appear in theory the idea of the hereditary legis- lative chamber, I do btlieve that th< S result of that political experiment, as tried in this country, will so commend itself that tha name of the House of Lords will always continue to be, welcomed in all wise as- semblies. His lordship resumed his seat amid immense cheering. THE SAFETY IN " CROSSING" A CHEQUE. Although reference has been previously made to the pro- posal by Sir John Lubbock to extend the protection ol " Crossing" t(\ Bank of England Kotos, the following remarks from the Daily Neun will bo read with Interest b » the com- mercial part of the community :— Almost everybody who has to pay or receive money knows the great convenience of the " crossed cheque." By the simple expedient of writing a name across the instrument, it is made as safe a means of transmitting money as human ingenuity has hitherto devised. Every week millions of pounds are sent through tho Post- office in this Way, the sender feeling scarcely more concern for their safety than if he had delivere< 3 the draft into the hands of its destined receiver. But, conveniept as is the crossed cheque, there is a limit to its U3e. It is not available where its drawer is not known, or. not sufficiently known to command credit. Even where no question of confidence arises, tho cheque is not money, and often can only be ex- changed for money by a process more or less circuitous. Under these circumstance-?, it has occurred to Sir John Lubbock, a member of the House of Commons to whom the banking and commercial community ac- knowledges many obligation's, to propose to ex- tend - the protection of crossing to B. ink of Eng- land notes. The Bill provides that a note may be crossed by the Bank itself, or by any holder thereof, by writing or stamping the name of a banker across its face: and that when this has been done the crossing shall be taken to be a material part of the note, and tbo note shall not be a leg j tender by any person except the banker named in the crossing. In shorty the legal effect of crossing will be the same for the noreus for the cheque. Under this Act, should . the bill become law, it will be as safe to ppst a bank- note, for however large an amount, as a draft, and , without the array of special precautions which are now found necessary by the remitter. CONFERENCE ON RAILWAY TRAVELLING. On Friday morning last, a conference was opened at Willis's RoomsLondon, for the purpose of discussing the desirability of the Government acquiring the whold of the railways, and instituting a system of uni- form fares for all distances. The chair was occupied by Mr. A. R. Campbell Johnson, F. RS. The chairman having opened the proceedings, Mr. Raphael Brandon, the secretary of the association, briefly explained ita ttbjects. Mr. Farris then moved, and Sir John Bowring seconded, the following resolution :— , " That, in tho opinion of thU meeting, the time has arrived when. In the Interest of tho country aild of the railway shareholders, it la duty of the Government to acquire, on equitable terms, the ownership of all tho nuIiVays In the United Kingdom, and to institute In lieu of the present ir- regular mileage ratc'a system of uniform farts." The Rev. Mr. Hodson, a Great " Weatertf shareholder, the Rev. E. Petavel, and Mr. Grant Brown supported the resolution, tho litter gentleman contending that competition between railway compahies waa almost impossible, owing to the ease wiihwhich they could come to an understanding. Mr. Wright ( Durifnes), Mr. Armstrong ( Ireland), and Mr. Edwin HuU also supported the resolution, which was then adopted Sir. Briggs moved, " That petitions throughout the Kingdom be at once col- i lfcted and presented to both Houses of Parliament, for Uie purpose of carrying out the first resolution; and that a national subscription ba Instituted, and the co- operation ol all classes bo s> llclted." Mr. F. Edwards seconded. Mr. Barker Rose con- i tended that a question of such magnitude could not be discuFsed properly at a meeting liko the present, but nrged that the nation should have an opportunity of discussing the matter. Railways were commercial undertakings, and if they put all commercial under- takings in the hands of Government, it would never be able to carrv them out. Mr. Motterahead supported Mr. Buker " Rose in his objection to centralization. Mr. Humphreys supported the resolution. He thought ' there was nothing worse than the patronage of railway boards. The resolution was then put and carried, and the Conference separated. READING MADE UNEASY.' In a delightful letter, in the Pall Mall Gajfillt, by Mr. Charle3 Reado, that gentleman describes the Kensington Show of Musical Instruments. But he " Thea there are Italian spinets, one of which ought to In- terest tho Ladies, for it has nineteen hundred and twenty- eight precious stones outside It, and very little music Inaldo." What do you mean, Mr. Reade ? Why should this specially interest the Ladies ? Is a Lady something externally rich, in expensive glitter, and intornally devoid of charming and harfnSnfoils qualities?' Can, you intend to signify this? O, dear Sir, explicate.— Punch. Alderman Binnis, ofNew York, be in? called upon by a woman In great llaite, and quite Indignant at an ex- pression u* ed to her, addressed him thus: •• Alderman, Mrs. Snooks my next- door i elu'lihour, called me a thief; can't I make her prove ltf—•< Well," said the alderman, altera moment's deliberation, " yon can, but you had better not" EPIIOME OF HEWS, BRITISH AND FOREIGN. A steam ballot- box Is the latest American novelty. It is said that experiments are about to bo tried in London, to te, t the applicability on street tramway lines ol steam propulsion. A recent writer mairi^ uw a new theory namely, that all , n? cls are not y„ un^ a.. d love y^ but that many, on the coatrai7. are old, scraggy, and shabby- looking I The death is reported of the ArtUlery Major General Atschwaeger who is said to have ordered the fusillades of mii " women'and children at Bazeilles, when in flames. American . auctioneers take people to the, sales gratis or road, and find a free banquet, and music Into the bargain. . The news from the Cape diamond fields is still very ' mjctoflkSS "<"">"" ."". v*" 1! " ^ InteUimncabaa teen received of the accouchement » u » t. ct.. rj addendum that both mother and daughter are ' ll* farther mnnificent donation of £ 1,0001 ™ jmt b. ™ SSSbulS to me funds ol the WMg Hospital, London, bjaa auoLjmons donor, under the initials "' the Judges of th(, forthcoming show of thecal LLAH inSshire Ajrte. Utural Socretjwert CIO. CD • DO, S. tur- day. Oue • ( those who will decide upon tho butter and cheese ia a lady. j( A young mnn named Cann, twenty years of age, I rode on a bicycle la. t week from Sheffield to Plymouth a distance of about 30 i miles. He started on Saturday morn- ing and reached P0 mouth on lUesday afternoon, bclig an average of 85 miles a day. . According to the latest account? the inundations ex- j tertdeJ over an area of about 65 geographical square miles , ( 1100 English tquare miles), and destroyed life and property amongst a population of 000 000. The devastations on tho lower Po are estimated a » £ 800,000. , The death of the 1 rincess Soltykoff took place last Friday nlaht at her residence in Eaton- square, LondOh, some- what suddenly, as shb had been cut In ^ carriage but two nays previously, and only complained of illness on the day preceding her death, which arose from consumption. Mr. Disraeli has accepted the invitation of the Council of the National Union of Conservative and Constitu- tional Associations to the banquet which is to take place on the Sith instant at tho Crystal Palace, under the presidency of the Duke of Abercorn, KLG. A correspondent of a Madras paper, writing on the necessity of the introduction of game laws, says— Host titers are very harmless animals, and do an Immensity ol good In killing wild phrs. The mtives kuow this very well, and are often glad to have them near their villages. And yet pigs in their turn are good, as they pitch into snakes. The death was announced on Tuesday morninp, of Sir Charles Dalton Prico, thasoc nd Baronet. He was bora In 1800, and succeeded his father In 1834. ( This baronet left England in 1830, and has hot been heard of for 05 years.) sir Charles is succeeded 1., the baronetcy by his nephe w Captato Hose Lambert Price, of the Royal Murine Light Infantry, born 1837. , Eighteen years ago last Monday ( June 10) the Crystal Palace was opened by the Queen andthe Prince Consort. In that period the total number of admUsions has been 30 076 929, being nearly an equivalent of ten visits for every man, woman, and child In the metropolis, and exceeding by 186,716 one visit for ev; ry person living In the United Kingdom at the census of last year. A curious story is going the rounds of a lady of high lite, young and beautiful- full of life and vivacity- return- ing home irom a ball the other, morning at two o clock, and being seen the following midday at 12 Joyless and grey- haired. Tho greatest curif. slty is Of course expressed to know the secret, of which nothing is known. Life might have travelled quick with her, or her halr- dye not have lasted out. " Her MtijeAty the Queen attended service at Crathie Church on Sunday, with the Princess Beatrice and Pnnce Leopold. There were also present the DowagerDuchets of Athol, the Dotvsger Marchioness of Ely, Lord Bridport, Colonel Ponsonbv, the Hon. Miss M'Gregor, MdU^ Novelle the Hon. Miss Lascelles, & c. The Rev. PrinclpalTullocb, ol St. Andrew's, preached. The death is announced of Sir Mlnto Townsend Farouhar, Bart., which took place very suddenly on Sunday evening from the barring of a blood- vessel. The deceased baronet was In his 35th year, having been born in Decem- ber 1837, and, being aMchelor, la succeeded In the baronetcy by Ms brother, John l^ enrj, born In 1839. A paviour's rammer Worked by steam has recently been employed in Parla This mechanical appliance la the Invention of M. Lignur, and consists if a small Lenoir gas engine, that operates a heavy steel hammer. The rapidity ot execution of the work results in great economy of labour, and lis said to more than compensate for the outlay ol cost alnd fu? L _ . . Liverpool was visited by a thunderstorm on Sunday afternoon, and during the storm, which lasted about half an- hour a house in No. 20 court, Colling wood street, occupied by Ann Donolly. was struck by the lightning. The electrio agent came in contact with the top of the chimney, but the damage occasioned was trifling, only a few bricks being knocked down Tne pernors in the house escaped unhurt. The thunderstorm was followed by heavy rain, which con- tinued with night intermission throughout the dsy. Mr. John Blight's testimonial from his friends in the Staffordshire Potteries has been exhlhited at Hanley. Iti Isi a handsome walnut cabinet, filled with Choice specimens of the productions of the neighbourhood. There " J Inscriptions bearing testimony to Mr Bright'* eloquence and fidelity. Whlcn are suited to have greatly contributed to his country s pros- Eerity. On account of Mr. Brighfs state ol health, the presen- itlon la to tako place in pi lvate. The following powerful appeal was mnde in a Yankee court of justice by a learned member of the bar :—" Gen tie- men of the jury, de you think my client, who lives to a plea- sant valley where land is rich and the soil Is fertile, would be guilty of stealing little skein3 of cotton f I think not— I reckon not— I calculate not ! And I guess, gentlemen of the Jury, that you had bi Iter bring my client in not guilty, for If you convict him, he and his son John will trash, the whole, of you 1" ' ( I It is stated by the Madras Athtnceum. that the terrible storm which recently did so much damage in Madras 1 tie if was even more destructive In its effects at v eilore. Excluding the mlUUiy population, which is taken care ol and provided for by the Government, there are abeut 6,000 people destitute and homeless. Moreover, between 700 and 800 persons perished, while at Madras the loss of life was small. Thetflstress is very great, and tho Madras Atheiucum says that relief la urgently needed. A case has been decided in the Court of Criminal Appeal, as bearing on the extent to which a jury must be cut off from' all communications betore giving a verdict. Two persons had been ctfnvlcted, and the jury felt they could not arrive at a decision without viewing the scene of the occur- rence. While doing so th. y pyt questions to the witnesses, and it was now sought to quash the conviction on those grounds. Lord Chief Justice ; Kbvlll did not consider the | fact sufficient to set aside the convlfcttoh, which was accord- ingly confirmed. There was considerable fun at a representation of | J? omeo and JuliAt In a little French theatre the other day. Madame Deharme, the Juliet ol tho occasion, was lying dead on a tomb. It was raining torrents; a drop came through the roof and fell on Juliet s nose, she made a face ; another -, drop fell on her eyollds, she winked. Finally, she took to watching the drops and dodging them. The audience cauifht the Idea and sympathised with her. " Look out, Mrs. Juliet," said one fellow : " there's a whopper a- comln I — 1 see It I" " Mind your ojo I" said another. " Madame, said a third, ri- inc, " will you accept the use ol my i umbrella ?' Of course the tragedy ended. It is said that the ex Emperor and Empress of the French are about to leave Cidslohurst. The owner cf that mansion, It Is understood, desires to return to it as his own private residence, and tho Imperial exiles are therefore under th « necessity of looking out for another. In the meantime— that is, about the - utumn- there U some likeli- hood of their seeking a house fitted for them on the sea, in the vicinity of Great Yarmouth, tho air of that coast being re commended as probably prying benefiolal to the neuralgic affection to which the Empress continues painfully subject. Her Majesty still suffers considerably lu her face from those attacks. Miss Wallington, at a meeting of the National Association for the promotion of Social Science, held on ] Monday nfcht. read a paper on " Mixed Education" The lady 1 essayist took favourable viows of the subject, and expressed | them at some length. Nature intended the sexes to pass I through life together, and she thought mixed sehoels were , the proper places In iwbich children should bo trained. ' America had, after forty years experience proved that mixed education in Its better features was not only advantageous i bat beneficial. Mrs. Ilowe, an American lady, addressed the mjetlng on the same side, and a discussion followed. ] An Amet ican writer spenk3 thus of Miss " Grant, the daughter of the President ( the J OUIIR lady who was recently received by the Queen at a private audience):—" Fortunately, although so young ( she will be seventeen the fourth of July) Miss Grant Is not ono o' tho girls who is likely to have her head turned by the attention she Is receiving in Europo. . Although she has been constantly wlthher parents cvor since • her father entered upon public life, and has, as a matter of course, received much attention ai, d no llltlo flattery, she Is 1 thoroughly unspoiled— Is, In fact, ono of the most modest, • unassuming gfrls 1 have ever seen. Sho Is a young lady who I will do credit to American young ladydom abroad. Without being a beauty, she Is very pretty, havlne about her that peculiar giace of youth and Innocence which Is as rare nowa- days as it la charming always. She Is about medium height, has light brown hnIr, largo grey eyes, and fair complexion with a dellcato bloom in her cheeks. Sho is graceful ana qnlot In her movements, and easy and natural in her - on- venation." Count Moltke ia said to be pursuing military pre-, paratlons with the greatest activity. The latest cure recommended is asparagus eating for the gout and rheumatism. Artichoke does tUe like. [ Then* can be no harm In try ing ] The Japanese ladies have indignantly protested against the Introduction of chignons. They prefer thos « two lanky grease bits of plaits to hang behind. The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges ( as " Conscience Money •") the receipt of the second halves of bank- no£ fes, amounting to £ 70, for Income- tax, from " A B. From New Zealand comes the intelligence that the administration of kerosene has had a most decided effect In the cure of chronic rheumatism. The done Is a teaspoonful In a win a- glassful cj pater every other night. Miss T. C. Claflin, one of the leaders of the •-• woman's rights " movement In tho United- States, is a candi- date for tho colonelcy of the 9th Regiment ( New York), in succession to the late James Fisk, jun. A fairly perfect human skeleton has been discovered by Dr. Reviere in the caverns of Baousse Rouasse, near Menton, on March 26 ; and a short paper on this Interesting find was read to the Academy of Sdenccs at a recent sitting. " An Irish M. P., representing a small borough, has it Is sild, netted eight sweepstakes of £ 200 and £ 60.000 oa the result of tho Derby, principally from backing Brother to Flurry for a place.— Court Journal American JOhnMdSr; while generally regarding tho Treaty Is saved, cottunent with severity on the action ol their own Administration. It is said that tho debate In tho House of Lords showed that tho members misunderstood tho people of the United States, « ut understood Mr. Fish and President Grant better than the Americans themselves. A correspondent writing of a concert in the Tyrol, I says:—" We also heard, for the first time, the so- called I ' wooden laughter,' or Ghigheltra. an Instrument composed of a graduated piece of wood, fastened to small rools of straw, so combined^! to produce music oi tho awoetekt aoft- I neis and beauty." An American paper Bays—" We are glad to notice that masquerade surprise parties are looked upon with dis- favour and will be banished from select society next season. Nothing Is in worse taste. To haio a crowd of people dis- guised In fantastic habiliments to an unrecognisable extent, hurst In upon a young lady without warning, Is very fanny to the participants perhaps, but to the hostess. It Is decidedly unpleasant." One of the most commendable things a landlord can do in dealing with his tenantry has Just been done by the Marquis of Huntley. He has renowned fer nineteen years the leases of no fewer thin thirty- seven of his tenant*, three, and In several cases more than three, years before the expiry of their current leases. At a crowded meeting of the delegates of the men on it: ike in the building trade of London, a proposal from the masters to submit the matter to the arbitration of the Earl of Derby and the Marquis of Salisbury was received with much dissatisfaction. A resolution was passed to the effect that, while admitting the principle of arbitration, the men absolutely refused to accept the conditions under which IB was submitted by the master builders' meeting. An imposing ceremony took place last Sunday at St Petersburg on the Neva. The boat of Peter the Great, on its way to the Moscow Exhibition, was brought in procession from the fdrtreis to the new railway station below the city by the Gran* Duke Constantine. A religious service was celebrated before the statue of Peter the Great., The shipping was dressed with flags. The weather was lovely. A baby was left at the house of a very respectabIo man in Aberdeen the other night, with a note, saying :—" I have heard you very highly spoken of, and so I leave thi « dear child In your care. Be good to it ; bring it np in luxury ; never let It know but what It Is your own ; don't give it any brandy ; get a first class wet- nurse for it, because it has always been used to one, and the mother will always feel greatly obliged," Ac. The latest novelty from the United States is paper cab wheels. The tire Is of steel, and when turned up ready for the filling it Is made taper Inside, so that the Inside diameter on the flaDge Js half an Inch smaller than on the other. The body of ths wheel is a paper block made of straw- board cut Into circles, 801n. in diameter, pasted together with ordinary paste, and consolidated under an hydrai lie pressure of about 300 tons. This block, after being slowly dried for nearly two weeks in a dry- house, is turned and fitted in a common pattern lathe. - THE FALMOUTH AND PENrYN WEEKLY TIMES. SAT" 13 DAY, JUNE 15,1872. SEE THE 15s. CABINET, Style, FIRST- CLASS PORTRAITS, AKE TAK EN ONLY AT Trull's Photographic Establishment, Church St., Falmouth. not to be surpassed in England for Price, \ nd Finish. ETery Description of PHOTOGBAPHIC WOliK, iiom Carto da VUite to Life Sizo Cook Wanted. Stable and Coach- house to Let. Cabbage Plants. Early York, Drumhead Savoy, Little Pixie do., Dutch Bed for Pickn,, all for present planting. ASmall quantity of above superior kinds for disposal. Pnrcha- ers not requiring a bundle of one sort, can have them mixed. Apply to Mr. T. JONES, Church St. Part of a House to Let. TO BE LET, with immediate possession, a PABT OF A HOUSE ( co » sisting of a Floor ot Three Booms), in Lansdowne Boad ( lately called Obelisk Boad ), Falmouth. The House is pleasantly and healthily situa- ted in close proximity to the Quay, Dock, and Bailway. Apply at the Offices of this Paper, Quay, Falmouth. TO BE LET, with immediate possession, all that eligible | SHOP AND PBE^ ISES, Situate on the Xorth C^ aayy formerly in the occupation of Mr. Robert Sopwith, aad now of Messrs. J. H. Pope and Co Further particulars [ m/ y be obtained on application at the Manor Office, Arwenack. Dated 14th June, 1872. house to be Let. fully decorated for the occasion, having sever5! appropriate mottoes displayed. The public meeting took place intho chapol, the congregation comprising many members of neighbouring Indopendentchurches and of other christian communities. After singing aucl prayer ( offered by Mr. H. V. Bailey), R. R. Broad, Esq., was called to the chair, which he ably tilled during the eveniug. Appropriate addresses wero given by the Rev. Messrs. Glanville, Staly- brass and Coleman, pastors of tho St. Mawes, Truro, and Penryu Independent Churches respec- tively ; after which the Rev. Jenkin Jones acknow- ledged in feeling terms the many evidences, as well as warm expressions, of welcome that had been accorded to him. The meeting was of a very interesting character, and the good feeling between the newly- united pastor and people found vent in warm applause whenever the relationship was re- ferred to by the speakers. FESTIVAE OF church CHOIrS.— The ninth aunual festival of the West Cornwall Association of Church Choirs was held in Falmouth on Wednesday last. Tho church was crowded during the whole of tho service. Choirs from the following places wore present :— Helston, Camborne, Breage, GodolpHin, Sithnoy, Constantine, Mylor, Mawnan, St. Just, Ladock, Gwenuap, Feock, St. Gluvias, Budock, Treleich, and Falmouth, the aggregate number of voices being 330. A sermon, having special reference to saored song, was preached by the Rev. M. Rickards, of Constantine. The text was taken from the 1st of Chronicles, 29th chapter aud 11th verse—" Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and tho power, and the glory, and tho victory, and tho majesty." Tho singing was very good. Miss. Duckham presided at the organ, the duty of which she discharged with admirable taste. THE DRAINAGE WOrKS.— It having como to the knowledge of the Falmouth Sewago Board that a system of drainage was being carried out at Pcn- ryn without any arrangements for disinfecting, the result of which would be that tho wholo of their sewage would flow into the harbour, the Falmouth Board called the attention of the authorities in London to the matter, and at tho last meeting of the Board a letter was read from tho Local Govern- ment Board, stating that the plans of tho drainago works at Penryn have boon returned to tho Ponryn sower authority for consideration, and that the sewor authority havo been recommended to confer with the joint committoo of the Falmouth united district, and to agree with them on a schemo of out- fall works which can bo accepted by the authorities of both districts. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ON BOARD SHIP.— The Spanish s. s. Pizarro arrived here on Wednesday with a cargo of oxen, bound from Vigo to Liver- pool. Tho vessel had experienced very bad weather in her voyage, and from tho proper precautions to jnsuro the better standing of tno animals not having been taken several of them had fallen down and been trampled on without any chance of rising again ; consequently, when she came alongside the Docks no less than 2.5 dead oxen were found and takon out of her, and 7 others wero landed in their last agonies. The Spanish seamen hoisted out the living animals by their horns, regardless of tho tor- ture to tho poor dying brutes. The Dock authorities refused to hoist them out without proper slings ng put under them, and Police Inspector Middle iekly came on the scene to stop tho Spaniards To be Let. Western Provident Association. ESTAB L I $ H d D 18 4 8. FOB securing Sick Pay Aot exceeding 20s, per week, and sum at J death of Member and his Wile from £ 5 to £ 300. PRESIDENT EABL FORTESQUE. Numerous Nobkmtn ank Genaemen of the Western Co untie* are Vice President and Trustee* of the Society, in whose names the funds are invested. The Management is by the| members themselves at the Head- officc and Branches. Present ANNUAL INCOME is about £ 0,000. The invested savings are nearly £ 40,000, and yearly increasing, The Contributions are the ldwest that will secure the benefits. Members incur no expenses whatever beyond, aud arc liable to n'J duties, lines, or loss of time. The Table were prepared by an eminent Actuary, and the whole atliirs of tho Society are investigated by him every keven years. Branches are establishe 1 in most of the towns of the Western Counties, and in London, Bristol and Portsmouth. Where theife are vacancies Branches will be formed on application. Prospectu s, Reports, itnd all further informa- tion may b<- ibtained of die Secretary, Mr. MORTIMER, ll, Bedford Circus, Exeter. Or of the Local Secretaries in this district FACMOuth J. j. Skinner, Manor Office. PENZAnce Mr. J. Caldwell, builder. TRUrO Mr. J. R. Crewes, Ferris Town. LisKArd— Mr. N. Hare, Jun., Barrel Street. reDRuth— Mr. W. Nicholls, Jun., Rose Hill. HELSTON, Mr. E. J. Anthony. Hmk. St. Ives Mr. F. A. Penberthy, Royal Square. Mr. J. Dyer. Mount Charles. rOsELand - Mr. W H. Webb, Gerrans, J Grampound sAtuRDAY, june 15, 1872. FaLmOuth THE CHAPEL AT EARLE'S BETREAT.-^- TH Rev. W. Freear will preach ( his farewell sermon here to- morrow afternoon, at 3 ; and Mr. Marsden) Barrett on Tuesday evening next, at 7. EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT.— A meeting of the drapers of the town was held at the Council Chamber on Tuesday lait, when it was unanimously agreed to close their shops on Friday afternoons at 5 o'clock, beginning on tho 5th proximo. GRAMMAR SCHOOL.— The award of Midsum- mer prizes at the Grammar School ( head master, the Rev. J. ii. P. Bennett, M. A.,) is as follows English— 1Truscott, Batting, Beringer, Stephens 1, Stephens 2, Bennett 2, Philp. Latin— Downing 1, Powell, B ., downing 3, Bennetts. Math< matics— Ti .. cott, Pascoe, Toms 1, Carnall, Uren, Webber, Banks 2. French— Banks 1, Downing 1, Stephens 2, Ollvey, Worsdell. Greek— Parker, Powell. German— Banks 1. Drawing— Mansel, Truscott, Lightfoot, Thomas. Writing— Langford, Uren, Greenwood, Read 2. Drilling— Langford. Repetition— Banks J. THE PANORAMA OF THE LATE WAR.— This first- class work of art, co: r » memo rati vo of tho most awful struggle of modern times, has achieved tjucli a successful exhibition during the past week at the Polytechnic Hall, that tho proprietors have been induced to remain for six nights longer.— We can only say, after having personally witnessed this ex- hibition. thatthepaintiugs— embracing tho prominent places and principal incidents of tho lato campaign — are of first- class merit ; tho dioramic effects are eminently realistic and startling ; whilst tho musi- cal accompaniments are of a superior character. We can strongly recommend this exhibition to our readers. SUCCESSFUL COMPETITORS.— A. t tho Bodmin meeting of the Royal Cornwall Agricultural Society, yrhieh has been hold during the week, tho following competitors from this neighbourhood wero success- ful : — Large Setters, Mr. T. Webber, J. P., first prize, for Rufus, 1 year and lj months old. Game Fowls, Di* W. K. Bullmore, second prize, in tho cLisb of black- breasted and other reds. Mr. S. Rail, Mabe, sucoiiJ prize; Mr. E. C. Pope, third prize, for Duckwings. Partridge Cochin, Mr. A. C Travers, lirst prize, for l, esfc cock ( 14 months old). Pigeons, Mr. J. Blamey, Penryn, 2 lirst prizes, " second, anil highly commended - in yarioys plafcscs . Mr. J- W. Stephens, Ponryn, 1 first prize, 2 second, and Jiighly eouiiiienili- d in various classes. Plants, Mr. J. W. Stephens, 1st prize for tricolor geraniums. INDePeNDeNT CHURCH.— A recognition nor- vico WM hold on Thursday last in connection with the installation t<> the pastorate of this church of the Rev. Jenkin Jones, lato of Uckfield, Sussox. A luigely- attoiiikd tea preceded the public meeting, and waa held in the schoolroom, which was taste- suggested the rewards in tho shape of prizes for tho boys who had shown themselves the best scholars that year, and Mi- Webber put his sugges- tion into practical form by offering a subscription. This step led others to offer prizes, aud from that time to the present the school has gone on prosper- ing, and under the able mastcrsldp of Mr. Eade the boys havo each laboured hard in order to win one or the other of the prizes offered. To Mr. Webber, thoreforo, they all naturally feel very grateful, and evinced a desire to show their gratitute by giving to that gentleman a testimonial which would prove a lasting memorial of their gratitude. The boys, with tho ready- assistance of tho masters and ex- aminers, therefore purchased a very handsome gilt clock, of a large size under glass shade ( obtained of Messrs. Beringer and Sons, of this town), and on Monday last, in a quiet manner, the presentation took place in the schoolroom. Tho Rector of the parish ( tho Rev. J. Baly ) presented it on behalf of. the boys, and in doing so referred to the many great services Mr. Webber had rendored to the school. During his stay in the parish he ( the rector) had always found Mr. Webber a willing and ready helper.— Tho Mayor of Falmouth ( Mr. Lean) also made a few remarks, and highly approved, of the system of encouraging boys m their learning by giving prizes. He hoped tho school would go on prospering in the future as it had done in the past, and that Mr. Eade would still be proud of his boys, aud the boys themselves continue proud of their master. Mr. Webber thanked them all heartily for the handsome recognition of the humble services that ho had rendered to the school since he first offered a prize to the scholars. He would, he said, still continue to give any assistance that lay in his power to further the cause of education. The clock boars the following inscription :—" Presented to Thomas Webber, J. P., by the pupils, masters, and examiners of the Kimberly Grammar School, Falmouth, as a token of their sincere respect." The school separated after giving threo hearty cheers for tho Rector, the Mayor, Mr. Webber, and Mr. Eade. from further cruelty. Tho remainder of tho cargo ( which comprised 72 oxen) is expected to be landedat tho Docks, and will be disposed of under tho super- vision of Mr. Olver, tho Government Veterinary Inspector. THE FIRE BRIGADE.—' The Local Board for the Parish, that for the Town, and the Lighting Committee for Budock, having given subscriptions for the purchase of tho engine ( the formor the largest amount), Captain T. R. Olver attended tho Local Board meoting of the Parish on Friday evening, and made a very satisfactory explanation of tho wholo of the circumstances with regard to the ar- rangements he had made in case a fire should occur n the absence of the brigadoe aud engine during their - ecent drill at Launceston, aud his proceedings throughout. Tho Board considered that not only Falmouth, but the county, wero indebted to the brigade for their great exertions and resolved unani- mously, " That this Board, having heard Captain T. R. Olver's explanation respecting the removal of one of tho fire- engines out of Falmouth on a recent occasion, desires to express its entire satisfaction therewith, and to record its high appreciation of his indefatigable exortions as captain of the fire brigade, and its earnest desire that he will continue his ser- vices as hitherto." It is hoped that this may be the means of healing the differences that have arisen. ROYAL CORNWALL YACHT CLUB.— The Ad- miralty warrant for this club was received by tho lion, secretaries, Messrs. T. Webber and S. Jacob, Thursday last. It sets forth that—" Whereas .. j deem it expedient that the vessols belonging to tho Royal Cornwall Yacht Club shall be permitted to wear the Blue Ensign of Her Majesty's fleet on lward their respective vessels, with tho distinguish- mark of the club thereon, namely, tho Prince Wales' Plume in White, and a Blue Burgee with the same distinguishing mark. We do, by virtue of the power aud authority invested in us, hereby war- rant and authorise tho Blue Ensign of Her Majesty's lleot, with the distinguishing mark of tho Club thereon, and on a Blue Burgee, to bo worn on board the respective vessels bolonging to Royal Cornwall Yacht Club."— We uudorstaud that tho Regatta in connection with this club will tako place on Tuesday, the 3rd Sept., in Falmouth harbour and bay, and will be preceded by a channol race from Dartmouth. Lord Wodehouse, the commodore of tho cluf), has ntimated to the Hon. Secretaries his intention to iffer a handsome vaso to bo sailed for on tho occa- sion by yachts. A NEW VOLUME BY JOHN HARRIS.— We understand that our townsman, tho winner of tho Shakespere Prize, in 1804, is about to issue a new work, entitled " Tlw. Cruise of the Cutter, and. other Peace Poems." This will bo his eighth publication a- book- form during tho last twenty years, which shows an amount of diligence altogether praiso- worthy. Unliko his pravious volumes, all of which, noro or lens, contain blank verse, this work will bo mtiroly lyrical, the number of original pieces being beyond fixty. Many of tho pooms havo a local in- terest. Thus wo have Duvgan, ljudock, Mawnan, Helford Passage, Maiuporth Crag, Flushing Ferry, Cuckoo Mills, Mylor, Liaird, Lion's Don, Nino Maidens, Porranporth, Enys, Falmouth, Pendenuis, Treslothan, & c. His object, wc are told, in publish, ing these poems is to condemn the wickedness of war, and to show the advantages of following peace with all men, which should commend itself to christians of whatever name. We know not of any collection of lyrics on this subject, therefore Mr. Harris's little work will sorve to ( ill up a void. There aro battle- song*) enough, lauding the sword and spear, tho life and drum, and tho dextrous sabre slayer ; but no one has yot attempted to set poaee- lo\- e to music, and we trust our poet will live to hear his idyls sung in many a rustic home. Tho book is soon to be brought out by tho woll- known firm of Partridge and Co., London, tastefully bound, with an eugraving, and the price is to bo only oighteonpenco, which brings it within the reach of all. We aro gratified to hear that the dis- tinguishe 1 lady, tho Baroness Burdett Coutts, hai kindly accepted ^ be dodicfltion of this volume. A ^ irge part of the edition' is already promised to sub- so rubers . PRESENTATION to Mr. T. WEBBER, J. P.— The boys and masters at Kinjberley Grammar School, ( principal Mr. J. B. Eade, F. R. G. S.), havo lung felt they owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Webber for many services that gentleman had rendered them, especially in promoting tho giving of prizes to tho pupils. During Mr. Webbers mayoralty ho COUNTY NEWS. Illness of the Rev. Samuel Romilly Hall.— We regret to hear that the Rev. Samuel Romilly Hall, chairman of the Cornwall Wesleyan District has had a slight attack of paralysis at bis residence at Penzance. Dr. Barclay Montgomery was called in, and ordered entire cessation from work, and perfect quiet. The rev. gentleman is quito cheerful, and can move about ith ease, so that hopes are entertained of his recovery, A Valuable Oat.— A cat which caches fish and so becomes a caterer for the family to which it belongs, deserves a high place in the catalogue of useful animals. Such a cat, we are informed, is owned by Mr. R. Richards, of Perranwell, a sleek Persian, which, a few days since, went to the river and caught three fine trout, the largest measuring 9J inches in length, and brought them into the house.— We hope pussy was allowed to share the spolL Death of Sir Charles D. Price.— Sir Charles Dutton Price, formerly of Trengwainton, near Pen- zance, 2nd Baron, expired at Jersey on the 18th of May last. He was bom 1890, and succeeded his father, Sir Rose, 1834. [ This gentleman must have been of a somewhat eccentric character, as his death, which took place on the 18th of last month, is only just announced, and we . see by Debrett's Baronetage that in 1830 he left England and was not directly heard of by any member of the family > for more than twenty yoars, although they had reason to believe he was alive.] He will be succeeded in the Baronetcy by his nephew. Rase Lambert, born 1833, whom we see by DcbrcU is son of the late C ipt. Francis Price, of the l!) th Foot, by Catherine Henrietta, third daughter of the late Henry Hewitt, Esq., of Cork, and is Captain the Royal Marine Light Infantry. A Plucky ' Tradesman.— On Saturday night, Mr. J. W. Cocking, of Chapel- street, Penzance, tailor, wits attending to a customer, a coatless man rushed into his shop, snatched a white felt hat from the counter, and was off in a minute. So was Mr. Cocking ; and turning Princess- street corner, and traversing the length of that thoroughfare, he overtook and collared a man who proved to be Henry Matthews, of St Just. Having collared tha man and the hat, Mr. Cocking had great difficulty in getting the man to the shop. No one would help to secure him. Even when Mr. Cocking had his capture at his own door no one would fetch a policeman— a piece of unneighbourly conduct and con- nivance at roguery which the Penzance Bench were not chary in condemning, whilst they approved of the pluck of Mr. Cocking in sticking to the robber. Matthews elected to be tried by the local magistrates, and has been committed to gaol for one month. Another " Priest" gone " Mazed".— A corres- pondent, obviously a clerical one. sends the following from Llanarth, Cornwall, to the Church Times:— " Holy Thursday, Whitsun Day, aad Trinity Sunday have been kept here as well as can be expected in - village, where the population is chiefly composed schismatic*. On Trmity Sunday the choir was augmented by the members of the late Rev. W. J. Coope's choir from Falmouth, and altar lights were used for the first time. There wero processionals and retrocessionals at all services. There are in U36 the colours for stoles, and bookmarkers ! green and white frontals, red super- frontal, red chasuble, and the other colours will bo used as soon as possible. There ore red, green, and white burses and chalice veils ( violet promised), and incense will soon be used. Lay helpers are sadly needed."— Tho laymen seem to have retained their senses if tho " priest ' has lost his. Servant Gal- ism!— What are wo coming to ? We havo been incliued to think that Mr. Thackeray over- drew his Jeamses, and that the illustrated ana comic Loudoij papers are rather severe on tho ladies of the kitchen ; but the matter simply requires to bo examined and is will bo found that there is no exaggeration. Not many days ago a vacancy was known to exist for a female domestic in a genteel family in Penzance. A. 11 the applicants were very strong on " wages and liberty." Here is a specimen. When in the presence of the lady of the house, the young woman said, " What wages do you givo ?" A sum was named and ob- jected to, but a promise was made that £ 1 or £ 2 would not be an object if paid for a good servant. Then the applicant proceeded, " Do you employ a charwoman to clean tho house 1" if Do you employ to clean boots and shoes and knives?" & o., & c. b very thing having boon satisfactorily answered she added- " I shall ex- pect every Sunday after dinner, and an evening once a week, " The lady replitd, " I would advise you to take a house for yourself and not apply for service! I am sure you would not be happy with me, as I roally do expect my servants to attend to my work and not to bo waited on— altogether ! "- Cornish Telegraph. The School Board Prosecution at Gulval.— Mr. ( Thomas Nicholson, of tho Forest of Dean, has ad- dressed the following to the Freeman. It will bi observed by those who remember the case that he is under ft misapprehension with regard to some of the details :—" There are two great fallacies in circulation relating to the Elemontary Education Aot, aud those two faUacies are the trading capital of Mr. Forster's friends and admirers. 1st. That the Act is the guardian of " religious education, and secures the read- ing of the holy scriptures in public olementary schools. ' 2nd. That it guarantees tho liberty of poor parents to select the schools for their children. As to fallacy 1— The Act provides no security for scriptural religious teaching. Under its provisions Mr. Bradlaugh and Mr. Odger may, if they please, establish atheistical schools, and obtain Government grants for their sup- port, It is truly sickening to find persons defending this hybrid measure professedly in the interests of the bible and gospel truth, when wo know that it opens tho doors of the educational State endowment to every conceivable heresay under tho sun ! As to fallaoy'No. 2. This Gulval case is an opportune illustration of the real position of affairs. It shews clearly that the selection of the schools for poor children rests, practi- cally, with the local authorities, aud not with the parents. Poor parents have no liberty of choice beyond this— that where there are two Government schools within roach tho parent may select one such Government Bchool in preference to another. Our Wesleyan brother, George Comry, although he can- pay for his children's schooling, is not allowed to judge for himself as to what school they slnlll attend. He was threatened with injprisdiinj'eijt'jii IJorlmiii gaol because he sent Iris children to a dame's school, artd rtfus'vd to send them to tho school established by tho Church clergyman! and recently tranferred to the Gidval School Board, of which the reverend gentleman is chairman, and of which the Church schoolmaster is clerk L. The friends of educational liberty must investigate affair. It is a symptomatic incident of serious ch ® tfter." '' A Visit to Epps s Cocoa Ma n ufacloWjp- Through the kindness of Messrs. Epps, I recently1 had an op-' portunity of seeing the many complicated and varied rmesses the Cocoa bean passes through ere it is sold 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 readers of Land and. Water."— See article in Land and Water, October 14. Brcak/ ati - Epps's Cocoa.— Grateful and comforting. By a tnorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutri- tion and by a careful application of the fine proper- ties of well- selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills." Civil Service Qazetie. Hade simply with boiling water, or milk. Each packetis labelled-" James Epps and Co., Hoinreopathic Chemists, London."— Also makers of Epps's Cacaoine, a very thin beverage for evening use. Manufacture of Cocoa, Cacaoine, < L Chocolate. — " We will now give » n account of the process adopted. by Messrs. James Epps and Co., manufacturers of dietetic articles, at their works in the Euston Road, London. "-- See Article in Part 19 of CasseWs Household Guide. , FRAGRANT FLORILINE.— For the TEETH and BREATH. A. few drops of this liquid on a wet tooth brush pra- luces a delightful foam, which cleanses the Teeth trom all impurities, strengthens and hardens the gnnu, > revents tartar, and arrests the progress of decay. It jives to the Teeth a peculiar ana beautiful whiteness, and imparts a delightful fragrance to the Breath. It lemoves 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 tha greatest toilet discovery of the age. ' Sold in large bottles and elegant coses at 2s. 6d., by all Chemi3t3 and Perfumers. Hu C. GALLOP, Proprietor, 493, Oxford Street, London. Caution. — In calling the attention of the Trade to a recent decision in the House of Lords, in the case of Starch is indisputably established, we would also intimat « that this decision renders the sale of the starch made by the defendant illegal, and will subject the seller of it to a Penalty of £ 10,000. We beg to intimate to those who may have been induced to buy it, that to save them from total loss we will allow 20/ per cwt. for it, at the Glenfield Starch Works, Paisley, in ex- change for the genuine Article, at the current price. This will entail a loss upon ourselves, as the packets will be broken up and sold for Waste Starch, but it will at the same time be tho means of rendering the Article useless for further deception. Any information that will lead to conviction will be rewarded. R. WeTHErSPOON & Co. Sew metal pocket Vesta Box, with patent spring Cover.— Bryant and May have recently introduced a very useful little Pocket Vesta Box; with a most in- genious and simple spring cover; it is a novelty in every way, and will soon come into very general use— being of metal instead of card, and retailed, filled with vestas, at one penny. Any Tobacconist, Grocer, Chemist or Chandler will supply it. Birtfc ffi uriages, auft Ijatfri. BIRTHS At 4, Norfolk Road, Falmouth, on Monday last, the wife of Mr. J. Harvey Gutheridge, of a son. At Clare Terrace, Falmouth, on Saturday last, the wife of William Jose, Esq , of a son. At Parkside, near Macclesfield, on the 6th inst, the wife of the Rev. J. A. Ladbrooke, of a son. > 1 AREIAGK3. At Wesley Chapel. Falmouth, on Sunday last, by the Rev. G. E. Polkinghorne, Mr. Richard Cowan, mariner, to Miss Mary Williams, both of Falmouth. At Brighton, oa cha oth inst,< by the ReV. John T. Athawes, head muter of St. John's Middle Class Schools, Kennington, brother of the bride, the Rev. Herbert Harman Mayo, of Clinton House, Flushing, chaplain in Falm mth harbour, to Sarah anne, eldest daughter of the late Rev. John Athawes, rector of Loughton, Bucks. DEATHS. Drowned, at St. Ives, on the 6th inst, Mr. William Bryant, fisherman, belonging to the mackerel boat " Morning Star," aged 62 years. Setters tff tfce ( fciutor. WHERE ARE THE POLICE ? SIR,— I am led to make the above enquiry from having been an ear as well as an eye- witness to the disgraceful scenes which are continually being enacted at the foot of and in the Rope Walk This place seems to have become a resort for large numbers of persons of very questionable character, who, in the evenings and on the Sabbath afternoons, derive pleasure from annoying and insulting passers- by, not only by indirect indecent remarks but by actions of most immoral nature. On Thursday night, a gang of blackguards ( male and female), assembled at the foot of the Rope Walk, andafterhavinginmany ways annoyed the pedestrians who passed that way, commenced an attack on a channel pilot ( a foreigner), residing in GlynCottages, who, being of an eccentric turn, takes delight in open- air musical and other amusements. Finding that silent contempt had no effect on the brawlers, Monsieur sallied forth, accompanied by his wife, in order to attempt some retaliations, when there ensued a scene wuich entirely exhausts one's descriptive powers, and which was continued late into the nic; ht. Surely, sir, if the police sinjply did their duty, such annoyances and scenes would not occur— and, lij my opinion, the fact of their beiij£ so continually repeated is a sure sign that such duties are not per- formed as they ought to be.— I am, yours faithfully, A PASSER- BY. Falmouth, June 14, 1872. FALMOUTH RECTOR'S RATE, ETC. SIR,— According to epistles which have appeared, the vexed question of the incumbency of Falmouth— town and parish— is likely soon to crop up again, and a neighbouring olergyman writes to defend the old domiuoering and narrow system. Is there no clever, sincere writer about who could and would logically answer him, and show that a burden laid upon the ^ generations, for all time, by one man in the old' feudal time, mast be an unjust thing— a tax upon industry, and a fetter upon liberty and free- will, to be struggled against and got rid of by tho purer laws of equity and justice, if possible ? At any rate, some one not warped by prejudice, some candid- minded gentleman, worthy of all confidence, might do worse than commit his opinions to tho press, to advise and enlighten the public on this popular matter. As to thfe ritualistic divergence froin proteslfant simplicity, sir, while their lordships the Bishops ore as tender with tho delinquincies on that point, aijd with subtlety contrive loopholes for the escape of the delinquents when called to question about their slippery ceremony, it is hardly to ba hoped that they will forsake their mal- Jesuitical performances. Have you observed, sir, with what subtile skill Mr. B—• » ' s exploits wero explained away, and with what tender- ness the head of the church oan handle arguments, and fit them to circumstances, lost the world dare to pretend to understand the nice distinctions of the churches wont, or presume to judge where they should conform, what submit to, what to join in, and what to condemn. Yet, thank Heaven, that has " iven us reason, to judge, and the Bible to guide, pDot, and direct us. _ „ R. SIMPLICITy Crowan Churoh- town, June, 1872. TIME OF HIGH WATER AT FALMOUTH AND PENRYN QUAYS. MORNINg. EVENING. SATURDAY ... JUI SDNDAT MONDAV TUESDAY WEDNESDAY,.'...., THURSDAY FRIDAY UORKIHO. 16 11 20 16 17 0 52 l M i3 2 5S 20 3 64 a i < 6 " VVTANTED a good plain COOK. Apply >> by letter, box 19, / Post Office, Falmouth. j rpO BE LETji& ik possession at Michael- mas next- iTGotiiort- vjle and GEntEeL rESIDENCE, Situate tit 23, Dunstanville Terrace, Falmouth. Apply to Mr C. L. OLVER, next door. Falmouth. 4 Resectable family RESIDENCE TO ^ II BE LET at, Midsummer, commanding a line view of Falmouth Harbour, & c. For particulars apply to Mr. JOHN STILL, / Kiligrew Road, Falmouth. rO BE LeT with immediate possession the house. No 11. Harbour Terrace Falmouth, coutain\ nj jstiren rooms, v'tz:— Front Parlour, Back parlour, Kitchcn an^ foar. Bedrooms ; with frunl AQ! back gardens.' For particulars a|^ ply to Mr. JOHN COPLIN, 15, Erisey Derrare. the Rev. J S. Spencer, Wesleyan Minister. formerly of Falmouth, will preach in PIKe:' s HIll CHAPEL, on Wednesday, Junflk I at 3 o'clock, and attend a PUBLIC UOH^ MISSIONARY MEETING in the evening\ « t 7 o'clock, when the Buv. JENKIN JONES the CIrCuIT MINISTERS will speak. Collections for HOMe MISSIONS at the close of each service. THE FALMOUTH AND PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. FLATI/ FT AY, JUfTB. 16.187a j Omul A Bazaar and Fancy Fair IN AID OF THE CORNWALL Home for Destitute Little" Girls, Will be held on Thursday, 1st August nfcxt, in the GROUNDS AT GYLLN/ GDUNE ( Through the kind pei^ pission of S^ re. Waters.) MiWEastwick MrsYR. N. Fowler Mrf. R P. Smith Mfg. E\ M, Williams // \ LADY PATRO, Lady Elizth. St. Aubyn Lady Agitata Vivian Lady Williams The Hon. Mrs. Tremayno Mrs. Arthur Tremayne As a debt of £ 200 is s New Building, the Com remove it, and earnestly entreat all t\ e friends of this valuable Charity to help them in this effort. Contributions of lWork, Books, Pictures, Plants, and other articler will be thankfully received byany Member of the Committee ; or by the Hon. Treasurer, Miss KRARBE, Belle- Vue Terrace; or the Hon. Secretary, Miss FRANCIS, Stratton Villas, Falmouth. The House for Tea. THE Gunpowder Tea Warehouse. BEGISTEfiED MASK. TBADE Black Green or Mixed the Finest Spring Crop. J. H. IIEAD, Tea Dealer & Grocer, High Street, Falmouth, T IHE HOU8EKEEPEBS of Falmouth and - L Neighborhood are respectfully invited to trj SOLOMON'S Celebrated English Baking1 Powder, ( For making Bread, Tea Cakes, & c., without ~ xeast), and judge for themselves whether the professional Looks and others who have declared it to be the best that is used, are correct in saying. Sold by most respectable Grocers, also by the Manufacturer, at 40, Market Street, Falmouth, in Packets, Id. and 2d., and in Tin Canisters, at 6d., Is., and 2s. each. Ask for Solomon's Baking Powder. NOTICE. dlSraeral. N. WESTCOTT, Cargo Clerk and Gen? ral Mercantile Accountant, 1, WATERLOO ED., FALMOBTH. 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 Dp, in the newest London style at the shortest notice. THOUSANDS are at this moment rejoicing over the beautiful heads of Hair restored to thom by using NEWMANE'S HAIR GROWING POMADE, which was never known to fail in pro- lucing hair. Price Is. and ' 2s. 6d. QREY HAIR RESTORED to its original color; ~ ' uaing Greyness prevented and the growth of the Hair promoted by using NEWMANE'S HAIR LOTION. This is at once the CHEAPEST and BEST HAIR 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 bo convinced of its efficacy. Bottles Is and 2a. 6d. each. MCURFor DANDRUFF instantly removed by 7 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. IJD. ARTICLE. Allcock's Porous Plasters have relioved sufferers when in the greatest pain and all other oiled. Physicians and surgeons of all schools them. A doctor said the other day:—" I do not know whether All cock's Plasters contain all the virtues you ascribe to them, but this I do know: no plaster or looal application has over ( riven my patients such great comfort" We publish a few cases of oures, showing heir wonderful virtues. F. urther evidence of their value to suffering humanity ill bd demonstrate! t j any one calling at the principal genoy. TRUSTEES :— ROBERT NICHOLAS FOWLiSR, Esq., M. P., Coruhill, E. C. JOHN FREEMAN, Esq., J. P., Woodlane House, Falmouth. ALDERMAN THOMAS S. OWDEN, Bishopsgate, E. C. per cent, for 1871 ( including Bonus, 2i per ccnt.) paid to holders of completed Shares of twelve months' standing, and placed to the credit of Subscription Shares. 6 per cent, per annum paid on Deposit Loans of £ 100 and upwards, for sums deposited for not less than twelve months. 5 per cent, per annum paid on ordinary Deposits,, withdrawable on short notice. Interest paid by Dividend Warrants half- yearly. Profits divided annually, and paid by Bonus Warrants. SHARES, value £ 10, £ 25 and £ 50, bearing interest at the rate of £ 5 per cent., and participa- ting in profits declared, may be realized by singie payments or monthly subscriptions extending over a term of years. ENDOWMENTS for Children not forfeitable in event of death. Females and Married Women can join the society as Depositors or Members, and their Investments are specially protected under the " Married Women's Property Act, 1870.'' For Prospectuses and Report of Anhual Meeting, apply to THOMAS CORFIELD, the County Surveyor, Arwenack Street, Falmouth. CHABLES PHILLIPS, tho Agent, Killigrew Street, Falmouth. Or to the Secretary, CHARLES BIN YON, U, Bedford Bow, London. ADVANCES promptly made upon security of Freehold or Leasehold Property, repayable by monthly or quarterly instalments for fifteen years or less, by which means property may bo acquired by payments sbghtly exceeding tho rental value. NO BALLOT or Sale of Appropriations. The Monthly Repayments include all Law Rharges of Mortgage, Interest, and Expenses. No deductions at time of making the Advance or heavy Fines on Redemption. Survey Fee and registration, £ 1 3s. 6d. on applications of £ 500 and under. B RONCHITIS Henry D. Brandreth, Esq., Liverpool. 105, Hampton- street, Birmingham, Nov. 27, 1871. Dear Sir,— I have for some months past been n the nabit of using Allcock's Porous Plasters ( procured from the establishment of Messrs. Snape and Son, 13, Great Hampton- street, of this town ) when sufforinx from bronchitis and severe pains ia the side, and have on every occasion found immediate relief, whereas I had previously consulted two medical men without deriving the least benefit. I can with confidence recommend them to any one suffering from the same complaint.— Yours respectfully, GEORGE STYLES. NFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. IJAMES SAWLE, will not be answerable ) from this date for any Debt or Debts con- tracted by my wife, Elizabeth Lean Sawle. JAMES SAWLE. Falmouth, 29th May, 1872. Genteel Houses to be Let or Sold in Obelisk Road. TO BE LET OB SOLD, with immediate possession, two elegantly- designed and commodious DWELLINGS ( newly- built), in Obelisk Road, commanding the finest views in Falmouth. Each House comprises 2 Parlors, 2 Kitchens, 5 Bedrooms, W. C., and a small Cellar; with a Garden in front and convenient Courtlage at the back. Apply to Mr. JAMES MITCHELL, Builder, Falmouth. " Henry D. Brandreth, 57, Great Charlotte- street, Liverpool. " Dear Sir,— We beg to enclose another testi- monial as to the effieacy of Allcock's Porous Plasters. James Radoliffe, Stamford- street, Mosely, says he had been confined to his bed five weeks suffering from inflammation of the luaga. He couched continually, with great expectoration and difficulty of breathing, which brought him so low that he was unable to rise in bed without support. He applied one of yonr plasters, and found relief in fifteen minutes, after which he says the cough stopped and the expectoration ceased. He is now quite recovered. The above is exactly his own statement to me.— Yours " JOHN BICKLE. " Pro W. BOSTOOK, " 24, Stamford: street, Aahton- under- Lyne " November 24,1871." OCIATICA. Hey wood, October 9,1871. BORWICK'S CUSTARD POWDER. Makes delicious Custards and Blanc Mange. Custards made with it arefc great improvement to all Fruit Puddings and Pies. Vast numbers use it and no family should be without it. SOLD by all Grocers and Corn Dealers, in Id. and 2d. packets, and ' Gd. and Is. tins. CAUTION. Tichborne Bonds. 8PURIOUS Copies of the above, being now in circulation, all parties issuing such will be proceeded against. Genuine Copies are registered at Stationers' Hall, No. 273, March 11th, 1872, and can be had wholesale, at 8s. per dozen; single copies on receipt of 13 stamps. These Bonds are at the present moment causing great commotion in the Metropolis, and are selling by thousands. Each one is a gre^ t curiqaity, being guaranteed as a genuine popy of a real bond. Applicants will oblige by addressing the Envelope:—" Application for Bonds. Messrs. FOLKABD AND SONS, 57, Bread St., Cheapside, London, E. C." May be had at the Offices of the F. and P. Weekly Times, at Is. each. EOR GOOD PRINTING, in the best style of workmanship, with the greatest expedi- tion, at the most moderate charges, apply at the office of this Paper. THE VILLAGE BROUGHAM, the VICTORIA Brougham 4 tho Park Brougham, RBGIBTBEBD. 1st, forma pwfectopenor oloe ed carriage; 2nd Jrougham 4 Victoria; 3rd Brougham, Victoria & DrivingPhaeton, all in the most perfeot • miner. Madeany siie. PonyPhaetons inovaryvariety. Draw- lap MM, JJTIDDIJJOOMBjl, 67 G4. QombgtJSBg Aon, Wa WBLY13 CARTES de VXSITE, 2s 8d » to^^ jto* - —" — "—" street, Liverpool. Dear Sir,— Please to send me another six dozen of Allcock's Plasters and two dozen Brand- reth's Pill's, Is. lid. The Plasters seem to produoe wonderful results. There ia searoely a day passes but 6ome one is telling me of the cares they are making. Rheumatism in various parts of the body disappears as if by magic. Only on Sunday last Mr. Jacob Hoy wood, Albert- terrace, Starkey- atreet, Heywood, informed me that he had been troubled with sciatica for three years; BO bad was it the last twelve months of that time that he was unable to follow hia em- ployment. Ho had tried many doctors, ' been to Matlock, and spent £ 2 on a largely- advertised electric- chain belt, but all to no purpose. Some one at last persuaded him to try your Plasters. He aid he had no faith in them, but he would try them, for he was atnek fast; they oould not make his pain muoh worse, and it would only be a little more money sent after the rest. So he bought two ; one he placed on ia thigh, and the other on his back, and a woek after he was ready for his work. It is now six months ago, and ho has had no return of his pains.— Yours trul- w. R1 HEUMATISM OF THE WRIST. Henry D. Brandreth, Esq., 67, Great Ohar- loLte- fltreet, Liverpool, 36, Crown- street Liverpool, Nov. 21at, 1871. Dear Sir,— Three months ainoe I oould not use my right hand, owing to rheumatiam in it and in my wrist, and over ten weeks I was in great pain— unable to find any relief. After trying many remedies, I was at last persuaded to try Allcock's Porous Plasters. 1 bound ono round my wrist; in threo days I had great relief, and in a week's time was perfectly cured Your plasters are a blessing to the afflicted. I have positive information of their being of great benefit in broa- obitis and asthma. It will give me pleasure t< answer any communication concerning them.— Yours truly, THOMAS DAVIES. A LLCOCK'S POROUS PLASTERS Q_ are sold by all Druggists, at Is 1 Jd each, with full directions for use, or in any eiso to suit" The yard Plaster is specially recommended for lamiliee and physicians. One yard equals 18 plasters. Price 14a per yard, 7s 6d per half yard, or 4e per quarter. PRINCIPAL AGENCY ? oa GBEAT BEITIAN ( Wholesale and Retail ) : 57, GREAT CHARLOTTE ST., LIVERPOOL . B.— A Plaster sent to any part of the country for 15 stamps. JUDSON'S DYES.— 18 Colors, 6d. each. JJIBBON8, WOO L,^ SILK, FEATHERS, c HEAP. QUICK aad GOOD PUINTIN3 U. the UiHcat of tki » Piper. General Iiiitotrncemetrfs. SAF3 & PROFITABLE INVESTMENT. Jlotirw. THE Geucral Mutual Per, a, incut Laud, Building anil Investment Society, CIIIBP OFFICE:— BEDFORD " fiOW, LONDON, W". C. BORWICK'S BORWICK'S BAKING POWDER Hold Kod. J, Hum-. 1648; Gold HaU, Parte Am, 136ft ; lam, Si mma ana BAKING BORWICK'S BAKING POWDER makes delicious Bread without Yeast. BORWICK'S BAKING POWDER mkc Pndding,, P11U7, ud IMi « * k Lm Buu. r U.. 1 K,. POWDER BORWICK'S BAKINU POWDER sold eraywh « re, is Id. ul 2A ao4 « d., la., 2>. 6d. ul fie P » t » nt Bom only, < md m< loou by vyivht. B « rare to utk for tod MO tb. it was* BORWICK'S GOLD MEDAL BAKING POWDER. BEECH - IiOADERS. - ECOKD HAM. EECH- LOADERS. yBOll £ XO loo. EOH- LOAD BBS. BOUGHT fOB , ATALOUCTB AMD PRIOB UBT, , BTAUTS. WHISTLES, 11 TBAHD. MNDOH. PROTECTION ERQjvtfp^ 1 A. tAUfa. Vj. y. m. f, JIU^*** BRYANT & MAY'S ARE NOT POISONOUS. CONTAIN NO THOSPnORBS, LIGHT ONLYONTHE BOX Sold by GROCERS. CHEMISTS,/ HONMONOER » CHANDLERS. STATIONERS kc. EVERYWHOKS. WHITECHAPEL ROAD, UAODGTF. E. DR. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S CHLORODYNE. THE ORIGINAL AND ONLY GENUINE. XSt ^ Sxiji- S- S " "" b" t , ™ m Consumption, BnnchlU., , PUT ADnnV^ TV "" * ° h* ™ " » th. only sp^ lllo to Olol. m snd Dywntory. nTTT XSrtTWArS * ® lom* lly u'*° k" BpU'W. Hystmi* Ptfpituion Kid Spurns. LULUHUD y JM i, a th. only pdli « ti„ to Ksnmljcto, Hhenmntam, Oont, Cnncm, ToothMlw, Menlngltk, to. ' t^ CoxTsott. je Monnt OWlee, Donegal, lltb Decsmbsr 1M8. u wh° """ thy . last year bought some of Dr. J. ColSs Browne's Chlorodyno from SiSSXSfeS5 • "" as""! medioto,. will b. glvl ui ban h « lf- a- d. « , n bottle. » nTu onS » " Earl Huasell communicated to tile Oollege of Physicians that h « received a disnatoh Cona51 Manilla, to the'elftct that Cholera his beS riltS/ fSjSut • nd that the OUlT remedy of any aemoe was OHLOBODYNE."- See JM, lu to& mbS mL*' CAUTION.— BEWARE of PIRACY and IMITATIONa. OinnoF.— Vloo- Chancsllor Sir W. P. os WOOD stated that Dr. J. COLLIS BHOWSB was, nn lonbtodly, tho Inventor of OHLOROBYNE: that the story of the Defendant, Fituur, was deliberately nntme, which, he regretted to say, had b « n sworn to.— See Tiwut, 13t& July IBAI. Sold to Bottle, at Is l^ d, Bd, Sd and lis each. None ia genuine without the words " Dr. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S OHLORODTNR " on the Qo. emment Stamp. Overwhelming Medical Teetlmoay accompanies each bottle. Sou Uumomu,— J. T. DAVEWPOKT, 88 Great RuaseU Street, Bloomabury, London. OF BEST QUALITY. BERINGER & SONS, GOLDSMITHS, SILVERSMITHS, JEWELLERS, OPTICIANS, • CLE excLusive AOENTI, PALMOUTH. The exaot prices charged as at Moppin and Webb's Show Booms and London and Sheffield Factories. DINNER AND TEA SERVICES. SPOONS AND FORKS. TABLE CUTLERY OF THE FINEST QUALITY. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES POST FREE On application at tho above address, OB TO 76, 77 & 78 OXFORD STREET, MANSION HOUSE BUILDINGS, LONDON. 8HEFFIELD FACTORY - THE ROYAL CUTLERY VY0RK8. LOtOOM FACTOR* - W1HSLEY STREET ELECTRO WORKS FAXTTABI. E DISCOVER? FOB THE HAIBI!— A VER* bair d£° S8inS' caUcd " The MkriS irS p" f!! o0Y, beul? , IA HY most ChemiBto « d Perfume ™ at 3a 6J pc rlo le, i, fast superseding all Hair Restoi r3"- for it u Li positively rattan in every case, Grej , • 117, , , ir to its orig& ial coloml ' : ' 1 dyeing it or leaving ( , bl°, "' Ofrt " Kestorera." if makes tiie hair charmingly beautiful, as well as pro- motuig the growth on Wd spots, where the Safe • glands are not decayed. (' erLilicato from Dr. Vers- ni^- ionev ry , ..- it! full particulars. Ask for ' Ml- I MiWEu," prepared by H. O. QAXXUP, 4' JJ Oxford Street, Loudon. ^ MBS. WIN BLOW'S 8OOTHD « O SYBDP FOB CHILDEEN 1 quiet sleep b v relieving tl iain, and tho little cherub awakes " as bright as a mutton." It is perfectly harmlcr. 3, 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 diarrhoea, whether arista.; from teething or other causes. Mrs. Win- low's Soothing Syrup ia sold by thousands of Medloine dealers in aQ parts of . the world at Is lid per bottle, and Mi^ fm* ox Mothers on testify to its virtue.— Manufactory, 438 Oxford Stnet- BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES, for the cure of Coughs. Colds, Hoarseness, Bronchitis, Asthma, Catarrh, or any irritation or soreness of the throat, are now im'portod Mid sold in this country at Is lid per box, put up in the form of a " loaengo." It is the most convenient, pleasant, safe and sure remedy for clearing ana strengthening the voice known m the world. The Bev. Henry Ward Beocher says: " I have often recom- mended them to friends who werepublic speakers, and in many cases they have proved extremely service- able." The genuine have the words '' Brown's Bronchial Troches " on the Government Stamp around each box. Sold by all medicine vendors .— London Depot, 493 Oxford Street. SITANDARD BANK, BRITISH SOUTH ' AFRICA, LIMITED, 10 Clements- lane, Lombard- st., London, issues Drafts on the Diamond- fields and 15 principal towns in South • Africa. This Bank transacts every description of Banking business. IF YOU VALUE YOUR HEALTH TJSB BRAGG'S PURE CARBON OR VEGETABLE CHARCOAL SOLD in Bottles, 2s, 4s and 6e each, by all Chemist^ and by J. L. BRAGG, Sole Manufacturer, 14 WiQMO- a JiaiBT, ( UTMDISH S^ UAM, Loaooi, W. T7C0N0MY IN CRAPE MOURNING. Hi ONE FOLD of KAY 4 RICHARDSON'S NEW PATENT ALBERT GRAPH i 18 AS THICK as TWO FOLDS of the old M BL OLAJRKE'S World Tamed Blood Mixture " OOR OLEAN'SING aud CLEARING the BLOOD JL from ATil< IMPURITIES, whethor arising from yoolb- Cal Indiscretion or any other caiue, ftii^ r^ ba too m< Uv I. ~ " Cores Old Sorss Cures Ulcerated Sores in the Neok Cures XTloerated Sore Legs . Cures Black'loads, or Fimpleson Tfeat Cures 8curvy Sores Cures CancoroiLs Ulcers Cores Blood and Skin Diseases Coras Glandular Swellings Clears the Blood from all Impu » JCLu: t- er, frcwhatever oauae arising. As this trlxtraa p; , act to th3 tac". and warranted frae lscta tnafo^ jy— ioka ..' yiiu l ii n_ o2 i__ dicinae sold toe tto iWnifi iho . . r. prietor aolicata UHKM to jive 11 a trial to i^-. & TtioB. ' BITORUII* of TeicLaonials from all parts. bedd to Dotttw fc^ ii eacn, und in Cases. oontainin « 8 Jo^ lao. lis safc ient to euect o permanent cure to long- rtanata* cauee, Ly all Oheznist^ and Patent Meduane Vtadroi or MZS to any -, idre^ on receipt of S or 1XS rtompe, by * Chemist, High Street, LINCOLN. '• BaiXE AOBHTS:— « KD All THE WH0LE8ALE HOUSEi GLEN FIELD STAROH is tLy only kind used in ' Her Majesty^ laundry If tliere are any ladies who'have not yet used the GLEN FIELD STAfiCH they are respectfully solicited to give- it a trial, and carefully follow out the direi . wus printed on every package* and if this is done, They will say, like the Queen's Laun'jreggf It is the unest Starch they ever ' When you ask for Gleafleld see that you get As inferior kinds are ol>^ n substituted for the Hake extra profits. Beware therefore of spurious imitations. ^• IJ- UJJUJW BY LUKI. CAICJK . IOBABT HIBLE, r+ ldty , ; Vo. 9, W • in thc Pariti oj FalwM, at hit dm u fruUiny offices on QUFY . CH • ATI > A rt J'JNE 15, 187^. THE FALMOUTH & PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES, SATUKDAY, J TJNE 15, 1872. topics of the day. ( By an Occasional London. Correspondent.) fTho remarks uhder this head aro to be j'egSrded as tho ex- rssloii -> f indopofidcnt opinion, from t- he>> uo[ a gpntleman whom we hove tho gro. itest confidence, but top which wo nevertheless uo not hold oursolvcc responsible.] Friends of tlio Ballot are of'course gratified that tho House of Lords has by a largo majority'^ though in a small House) agreed to read tho Bafj^ t,' Bill a second time ; but tho battle is not yet over. - nWhen the Bill goes into committee on the 17th thero. will, be. some im- portant amendpiebts' discussed, and' if Sonic - of those amendments arecarrkxS, it is very^ doubtful'^ whether the Commons will , aco » de. to. them. that. really the supporters of the Ballot are far, from, out ot the wood 7*- . Here is a pleasant little item of news that - will be read with general interest— the Duke of Edinburgh regularly attends tho practices of tfco Civil Service Music Society at King's College. fos Royal Highness is aa expert violinist To this I may add that tire Prince ip also an accomplished pianist, and that be has, almost from a child, take* great delight in ttrncic. And he is not only' a drawing- room amateur. Douglas Jerrold, in his " Black- eyed Susan," makes one of bis characters say that his hero; William, " could fiddle like an angeL" What sort of fiddling this is I can't say, but the Duke of Edinburgh has many a time fiddled under much the same circum- stances as William. The Duke's violin ha3 been his • companion on all his voyages, and on many occasions has he played a lively jig or hirnpipe while the sailors have danced on tho deck of the good ehip GalaUa. No wonder he is so popular in the service. tho complicated affairs of the London, Chatham, 1 and Dover Railway. But, however pleased tho general public might havo been to havo seon the proposed arbitration, or rather arbitrators, accepted, it is not at all surprising that the men havo declined to accept tho names submitted to them. The two noblemen command the esteem of the public at largo, and against their high character the carponters and joiners have not a word to say, but the men object to them because they can knotf nothing of the points in dispute ; " because these noblomen wore nominated solely by tho masters; and because there ought to be a larger number of arbitrators, with an umpire or referee. But though their first effort to settle the dispute by arbitration haB for tho present faded, there is good reason to hope that this mode of settlement will be agreed to, and that thus a dispute which at the moment threatens very serious results may be amicably arranged. The Horse Show this year was better on the whole than any one of its predecessors, and it was deservedly a brilliant success. As an exhibition it was more entertaining and amusing than any I remember, and, as a bazaar or mart, the business connected with it must have exceeded that of any previous year. The Show was especially remarkable this year for the num- ber of foreigners that it attracted, and many of them evidently had an eye to business. How prosperous is the country commercially is shown by the returns of the Board of Trade for the month of May— which, by the way, the public are not permitted to see till the 10th of June. They show that our exports during tbat month amounted to £ 20,771,303, which is £ 1,671,423 more than during tho corresponding month last year. We have done trade with foreign customers to the tune of more than a million and a half over our trade in the May of 1871, representing so much more profit for our manufacturers and merchants, and so much more employment and wages for our working classes. But the increase in our imports is astounding. Last May they were £ 27,577,813, being £ 3,270,053 more than during May 187L This simply shows our increased purchasing power, or, in other words, our increased prosperity. There are, however, three considerations which are calculated to repress undue expectations— the Ameri- can difficulty; the disputes between capital and labour, and notably the strike in the building trade ; and the weather. But, making all due allowance for these, we have ample cause for gratitude and re- joicing. It is to be hoped that England and America will mever have any more serious contests than the Inter- national Boat- race, which was so gallantly rowed on either side. The race did not from the first perhaps attract mything like the interest that attached to the Oxford and Harvard race, but at the last moment— the weather being exceptionally fine for a very short time— the public seemed to take a very deep interest in the affair all- at once, and there were immense throngs of people to witnesB the manly struggle for victory. That the Americans lost did not, I think, surprise many people, for in truth it was the general opinion from the outset that they never had a chance of victory. Now that the battle has been lost and won we shall expect to find the Ame- rican press saying that the four Atalanta men were by no means the best men that America could send us, and I believe this is true. But why did he not Bend us her best men. She may depend upon et that it will take four very good men to beat the lorack oarsmen of the London Rowing Club. Unlicensed street singers havo just been prohibited in Paris, so I suppose we shall ore long have them over here. Well, I would much rather have them than the barrel- organs, which are a perpetual nuisance. I dearly love music ( perhaps that is why I hate barrel, organs), and at rare intervals listen with deb'ght to the singing or playing of some wandering minstrels in the great city. Among the haunts of city men we sometimes hear really good inusia in the streets. Why, then, should there not be some regulation to Secure a little more of this— simply by abolishing those horrid instruments of torture, the anything but musical boxes ? I would have street musicians licensed, on proving that they can play fairly ; and I would abolish this piteous organ- grinding, which, among other evils, involves the tyrannous and cruel treat- ment of poor Italian men and women by their ruthless padroni. • • • To make one contented with one's lot there is no con- sideration so potent as that of the lot of those who are worse off ; and so nothing is more likely to lessen our grumbling at the weather than reading of the positive calamities that have ^ happened elsewhere. It is said that 40,000 persons have been rendered homeless and great damage done to property by an inundation of the river Po, the floods spreading over a large extent of country. In our own country we have at least been happily spared from such calamities as this. But even the most cheerful among us must admit that May and June havo not on the whole brought us that charming weather which we look for at that time of the year after our long winter. Eut we may console our- selves by sitting by the firo- ride and reading the glowing descriptions of summertide in which poets indulge, and wo may cherish pleasant anticipations of the good time coming, and which may even have come to my readers. men cet'^ ng afloat at 10 minutes part 9 o'clock, followed, at 20 mlr. ates prut, by their opponents, who rowed In crimson Jers< vy » , tho London men wearing white, as usual. Within fivomlnutes tho crews wero at their stations, tho LonUon men on tho Inner, or MiddleBOX sldo, and tho Americans about ? 6 yards outsldo them. Tho river horo, looking down It, bends sharply to tho left, and tho curve continues for up- wards of a mile, so that tho homo crew had slightly tho better position, but as tho wind blew, tho Atalanta Four wore on their weather or windward Bido, so that matters woro pretty well balanced. Tho tldo having turned and ebbed about oighteon inches or two feet, tho wind was In favour ot tho crews all tho way, and both wiDd and tldo setting In the samo direction, the water was smooth and well suited for rowing, addod to which tho prevailing brecao seemod to promise very quick timo. Tho sun was shining brightly, though beginning to sot in tho west and astern of tho crews, and tho faces of the multitudes ahead wore lighted up by it, so that tho view to tho passengers on the steamers, which wero lying some two hundred yards above tho end of tho course, was very plcturesquo, prominent In the foreground, with the rays of tho sun full on thom, being the whito bodies of tho Londoners and the crimson crow of tho Atalanta Boat Club, tho background bolng filled 1 » by tho houses and buildings of Mortlarfo. Considerable difficulty had been experienced In clearing the courso of rowing boats and other craft when they had onco broken In upon It after tho passage of the steamers up river; but thanks to tho efforts of Mr. Lord, the Conservancy Superin- tendent, It wos again clear, although very contracted In width whon compared with tho broad roach at Putney— nearly half tho rivor being taken up by VCSBOIS at tholr moorings. TUB RACE. At 28 minutes past six o'clock the signal gun was fired by tho startorand the race commenced, the following being tho foun, who had no coxswains, but steered themselves:— LOHDOH CREW. St. lb. I St. lb. 1. John B. Close.. .. 11 S 3. A. do L Long.. .. 12 3 2. F. 8. Gulston .. .. 11 9| W. Stout ( stroke) 1113 ATALANTA ( USITED STATES) CEEW. St lb. I St. lb. 1. E. Smith .. .. 0 13 3. T. Van Radon .. 10 13J 2. A. Handy 10 0 | R. Withers ( stroke) 11 3 Tho Instant the two crews dipped their oars Into the water the London Four led oat, and rowing at tho rato of 41 tremendous strikes per mlnuto, shot clean away from tho AUlanta crew llko an arrow from a bow, drawing clear of them In loss than a dozen strokes. Indeed, tho roar of Itho crowd that, " They're off," had scarcely subsided before ithe English crew wero out ot sight of their opponents. Lon- don crews are proverbial for rapid starting, as tho records of Henley will prove; bnt with smooth water and a fair wind abaft them, all in favour of tho lighter four, it was an unexpected sight to behold the Ameri- can crew completely out ot tho raco from the tery first dip, notwithstanding they were rowing 14 strokes a mlnuto. Going right away from their opponents, tho Lon- don crew led by three lengths at Bamcs- brldge— reached in Smin. 17secs., rather more than half- a- milo having been rowed— by six at least at the Bathing Place in tho Duko of Devonshire's meadows above Chltwick, by eight at the foot of Chlswick F.) ot. and ton at Hammersmith Suipension- bridge, through which the headers passed 30 seconds ahead of the strangers, in 12mln. SSVCS. from tho moment of starting. When tho first half mile had been traversed the London crew ilowed their stroke down to 37 and 36 to tho movement from Sir George Bowyer, Mr. Butt waa Bo loudly called for that he was compelled to rise, v/ hen his reception was most enthusiastic. He said the people were the trhe friends of England who came there in the name of the Irish people to make her an offer of friendship and of peace; and the Irishmen who had settled in that gTeat metro- polis and seen the grandeur and the greatness of the English people, and what free institutions had done for England, could draw from what they saw the strongest lessons of the necessity of free institutions. God forbid that the day should ever come when misgoverament or tyranny should separate Ireland from England ! Might their alliance be per- petual ; bnt to be perpetual it must be on terms of perfect equality. The hon. gentleman resumed his seat amid deafonirg and long- continued cheers. The following resolutions were then carried, after some in- terruption :— " That while wo would Insist upon the management of tho domestic or exclusively Irish affairs by an Irish Parliament, wo would willingly leave tho exclusive consideration and con- trol of all the questions of an Imperial scope and character to an Imperial Parliament." " That tho London Irish Homo Rule Association pledges itself to forward the object of the Home Govornmont Association of Ireland by using all legiti- mate means of influencing public oploion in Great Britain, and by seeking to unite all Irishmen lor the purpose of in- creasing and utilising their electoral posers.". ' f'he meeting terminated at a late hour with a vote of thanks to the chairman. Bon voyage to the band of the Grenadier Guards on their way to assist at the monster Peace Festival at feoston. Objections have been raised to the sending our military bands to a foreign country ( America Is a foreign country, though we can hardly be brought to think 6o), bnt really there is no good reason why our military bandsmen should not go. Several continental Governments have permitted their bands to assist, aad why not ours ? By the way, what a monster musical festival this will be! There are to be no less than 2,000 instrumentalists in the orchestra, which altogether is to consist of 40,000 performers, while the Coliseum, which has been specially built for the festival, ia capable of holding 100,000 auditors— if that is the right Word. Brother Jonathan deals in great things— great rivers, great waterfalls, great buildings, great newspapers ( the Boston Notion used to be tho largest paper in' the world), great everything, and now comes the greatest orchestra the world has ever seen. I wonder Whether it will be a great failure. It is quite possibly; & Dot, perhaps some American speculator will get up a still larger affair— with cannon, steam guns, and boiler beating in the chorus tea ! But such d noisy affair can ecarcely be called a Peace Festival. Meanwhile, it is to be hoped that before the International Peace Jubilee at Boston is commenced all diffifculties'between Great Britain and America may be settled,, and that this jubilee may really be more of an Anglo- American peace festival than it was ever intended to be. An International Prison Congress Is shortly to be held here, and several philanthropists and re. formers are to assist at it. No subject can be more important than the prevention and ^ ep^ esslon of crime, and it is to be hoped tbat the conference on this difficult matter may produce a beneficial result. But let me ask, would it not be well to obtain the opinions of, let me say, gentlemen 6f fhe tjcket- of- leave persuarion 1 The benevolent person* jvbo will flit in con- sultation have never been in prison ( and are never likely to be), and their notions on the treatment of crime must be to a great extent founded on theory. Of • sour se it would never do to have convicts or ex- convictS sitting at the same table as our prison reformers— this would be conference with a veDgcance— but some of these gentry might at ajl events be oalled on to give their evidence. It would be Interesting for example, to know what gentlemen who have suffered ( be delicate attentions of the cat with the nine tails think of that operation, especially considering that so many of our fair sisters take totally, opposite views of the moral - tBacta of this punishment! Whttever may be the result of the unhappy dispute in the building trade, the proposal of tho masters to refer it to the arbitration of the Marquis of Salisbury and tho Earl of Derby cannot be too highly com- mended. Practical builders— masters as well as men— may be inclined to say, what do theso noblemen know about the bai? dlng trade? Very little, no • doubt, but perhaps frc'Oi this very fact they would lie all the better arbitrator This may sound anoma- lous, but it may be quite torto. A special knowledge of the building trade would intwitably involve foregone Ideas, if not conclusions, and > ronld render absolutely iinp& itlal deliberation and juc.\ jment very difficult, whereas these two distinguished n'' blemen conld enter on an arbitration without prejudice on either side. The Marquis too, it will be remembered, has shown bis opacity for difficult negotiation, having, in conjuno- ion with Lord Cairns, successfully effected arbitration THE DIVISION ON THE BALLOT BILL. When the division wa* called on Tuesday morning ( shortly after midnight), the Duke of Richmond, accompanied by Lord Cairns and several of the Conservative Peers, left tho House without voting. The two Opposition " whips " ( Lords Skelmendale and Hawarden) abstained from performing their usual functions as Tellers, and surveyed the taking of the division, in the company of the Duke of Manchester and one or two other Peers, from the railing behind the Woolsack. . Only one Bishop— Ripon— to. jk part in the division ; he voted with the Ministry. Earl Russell did not remain for tho division. Among the Peers who fol- lowed the leadership of the Marquis of Salisbury and voted againut the second reading were the Dukes of Marlborough and Rutland, the Marquises of Clanri- carde and Bath, the Earls of Harrow by, Carnarvon, and Malmesbury, and Lords Lyved « - n and Lyttelton. Among the Peers who voted with the Government were Lord Chelmsford, the Eails of Belmore, Long- ford, Devon, and Darnley, Viscount Oasington, Lords Dynevor, Romilly, and CainpbelL The announcement of the majority of 30 in favour of the bill was received in sdence. Tho Duko of Richmond re- entered the House after the division. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishops of Wint he » ter and Peterborough, and several other Prelates were present at an early period of the evening, but did not wait for the conclusion of the debate. THE INTERNATIONAL BOAT- RACE. On Monday evening the four- oared race between the London Rowing Club and the Atalanta Boat Club of New York was rowed over the Metropolitan Course, though down from _ Mortlake to Putney with tho ebb tide, instead of up from Putaey to Mortlake with the flood, and resulted, in accordance with the anticipa- tions of everybody i- bo bad the least pretentions to be a judge of rowing, in the signal defeat of the Americans, says The Times ( from which journal we extract the following report of the r. ice) :— For some two days before tho race tho weather was mos unpropltlous, a gale of wind, accompanied by heavy shower* of rain, having prevailed since Saturday. So bad, indeed, was it on the last- mentioned day and on Sunday that con- siderable doubt* were txpre- sed whether th « r « co would be rowed as » aa expected, the Aiaericau crew having stipulated for a condition of the elements suitable to racing craft. A written agreement had been entered into between tho captains of tliO two crews to the effect that If. in the opinion of tho Umpires and Referee, iho - ater waa too rou,- h to row in, it should be In tho power of the Referee to order tho race to bo rowed down on the ebb, and thus avoid tho surf which is well known to roll through Cornoy Reach when a etrong westerly wind meets a full flood tldo. On Sunday the wind blew a furious palo from the westward, and although it bad somewhat abated in violence the following morning, It still blew with sufficient force to render it a maltjr of doubt whether there would not bt- too great a wash above Ilmnuior- Biuith for the competing boats t" travel through In safety. Howover, as tho hour appointed for tho start, 4 80 p. m., drew near, there was every sign that the British public had no doubt about tho race cpnnng off, for sightseers were making the best of their way to tho riv<- r banks, and to tho houses abutting on the Thames, in thousands. By 3 o'clock tho Influx of spectators had commenced at Putney, and the usual' fleet of t to tuners, launches, tugs, and rowbuats mado their way to the upper end of the courso ; wldlo, ashore, the tow- ing- path was densely tenanted. Four large paddle- boats were permitted fo accomnany tho match ; one carrying the Referee, Mr. 11. Lesley, President of tho Oxford Unlvenlty Boat Club, and the two Umpires, Messrs. Webster for tno Americans, and Herbert Playfurd for the London crew; andther for tho representatives of tho Press, and one each for tho members and frloudi of tho Atalanta and London Clubs. Some time previously to tho appointed hour It was rumoured that, as tho wind waa stljl blowing very strongly and tho surface hi tho riv$ r rather rough, the roco would most likely bo rowed down; but by half- past 4 o'clock tho accompanying steamers had all taken up th'- lr positions at Putney Aqueduct, and tho starting boaU had been moored to tho caatwaidof mid stream. After a dolay of another quarter of an hour, durlug which tho tldo began to slackcn in force, thn London crow woro seen being rowed off to the Umpires' steamer In a rkltT, hold- ing their oars on end. It thus became evident that tho raco waa going to be rowed down. They wero presently fol- lowed by the Atalanta crew, whp likewise embarked on tho Umpires' steamer, both raco boats having previously beau sent on up to Mortlake, with a couple of hands| n each. Tho fleet of steamers, headed by the Referee, at 6 o'clock mado their way upstream. There was, meanwhile, a groat multi- tude ot Hammersmith, tho Suspension- bridge being black with people, somo of u hom had oven stationed ( hemtolvcs half- way up tho chains which support tlio roadway. At Blffen's, at Hammersmith, where tlio Ataluiita crow train, thero was a great crowd, axil so ulso ut the Water- works Mound, opposite Chlswkk t'lmrch. In the bight* on the Middlesex side of tho river, past Cblswlok Eyot nud on the 8urroy side from the corner opposite Chlswick Churqh to Mortlnko, thero was a r » rfect fleet of .' largrs, steimers, row- boats, and other vessels mado fsst wi "• bin the limits pro- scribed by tho ofllolala ot tho Thames Conservancy. On Barnes terrace and In tlio neighbourhood'Of tho " fihip" at Mortlako the attendance was immense The stoamer*, preceded by tho irc. o linnta of' tlio crows— at 6p m.— steamed slowly up above Morlluku Alter some tlmo • pent In mooring the stalling bonis from 100 i'o ICO yard* sbovo tho BWp, tho crew prepared toemburk, t.' io London minute, rowing a long, steady drag, evldontly without effort, while the Americans were pounding away after them in a hopeleas stern chase, at a rate of * troke never belotr 40 to tho minute. After shooting the centre arch of Hammer- smith- bridge the London Four drew farther and lurther away, but the number ol rowboat* which were horo scat- tered all over the river— consequent, no doubt, upon tho change of course— all eager to get down to the winning- post, which was where the stortlnc- post was Intended to nave been, waa so gr » at that both crew* wero over and over again In the moit Imminent danger of being rowod Into. Off tho Soap Works,' while tho London crew were oppo* lto tho " Crab Tree, a skiff, tho oecupant* of which were mostly women, wa* pulled oat towards the centra of tho course, evidently to get a closer view of the Americana — In which respect, wo are sorry to * ay, It was imitated by • core* of othere, who divided their attentions between tho two crew*— and, to tho Intense dl » gnst and regret of every onlo ker, came into collision with the Atalanta Four, by which the Utter lost at least a down stroke* before they could got their oars clear and row away again. That the collision wa* entirely unintentional was evident. Indeed, to some extent tho American Four help. rd to bring it about, for they wero steered much too wide all down tho reach below Hammeramlth bridge, their boat paving away to tho leo- ward toward* the Allddlt sex aide of the river, where all tho row boats were, to which end the let of tho tide which trend* into the bight or bar below tho Suspension- bridge contributed. The accident had not the slightest Influenco ui on the result of the race, though It is none the less to be deplored on that account. In fact, however, when It was first learnt that the coarse bad been changed, doubts were freely ex- prensed among boating men on b-> ard thesteomboats whether It would be possible to preserve ( a. clear. coune, as} thcre was such a swarm ot row boats on the sccne of aotlon. By the delay which occurred to the Atalanta crow tho Londoner* were enabled to g » ln a few additional length*' lead, bat, as they had been ro « lng a steady practlco stroke for nearly tho wholo of the courae, h ilf- a- dozen lengths or so wero of little moment. They continued to row away from their opponents, and reached the winning fl< g, moored about 120 yards above Pntn y Aqueduct, the easiest winner* Imaginable by 45seconds, or Z6Q yards in distance— moro or less— the American crew being abreast of Simmon*' Yard when the Londoners were passing the post. The time of the raco, taken by a chronograph bv Dent, of Cockapor- street, wus 21 mln. 25 sec*. Taken by Benson'* chronograph, it was 21 mlu 23 sec*. The result wa* exactly what had been foreseen, and what the betting of 3 and 4 to 1 on tho Londoner* Indicated It would be, and, without wlshl' g In the least to disparago the prowess, or question tho pluck, of tho Atalanta crew, wo navo no hesitation in asserting that tho London crow could have won by a greater dUtanco had they chosen. Indeed, It was evident by tho time the English Four reached Borues- bridge that they had the race omnletcly In their hands, as they slowed their * trokc, and sctiled down to n steady rate of work which demonstrated to tho Initiated tho fact that they were rowing within themselves. The scene on Putney Reach aiter tho conclusion of the rnco must havo been witnessed to bo appreciated, the surface of tho river bolng completely black with craft of ono kind and another, and how tne two craws managed to got back throngh the con- futed mass of boats to their boathouses wfthont accident 1* Indeed a marvel. But for tho timely assistance of two polico- sklffs, which preceded them, it is a question whether they would have succeoded In reuching them. The winner* rowed in a new boat with sliding seat*, build by J. II. Claaper, of Oxford, and tho losers In one by Btffon, of HammonmUh. GEOLOGY FOR JACKASSES. The Central News and New York Associated Press united In arrangements for laying a telegraph cablo along the Thames, to Ulegraph instantaneously a description of tho race ana 1U result. At tho last race between Oxford and Cambridge thecahlB wasD » ld outas the r « co proceeded, from one of the steamers following : and, although the arrange- ment was perfectly successful, it was subject to many contin- gencies which it waadi- sirable In thlscaan to avoid. The plan was therefore adopted of lay inga cable along tho Thames bofore tho race was rowed, and connecting it with four look- out stations. The race was watched from Putney, Hammer- smith, Barnes, and Mortlake, an i telegrams wero sent from cach statiou. By this means instautaucous Information of the altered arrangements and ol the progress of the raco wero sent to tho United states and published throughout the United Kingdom from time totlnio. HOME RULE, In London, on Monday evenintr. an enthusiastic meeting of the supporters of tho Home Rule move- ment for Ireland was held in tho Agricultural- hall, Islington. Tho meeting was convened by the London Irish Home Rulo Association, and tho chair was occupied by ^ Ir. John Eugene O'Kavanagh, chairman of the Association. Among those present wero Mr. J. F. Maguire, M. P., Mr. Rowland Blennerhassett, M. l\, and Mr. Lac Butt, M. P. Tho Chairman, In opening tho proceedings, said ho was truly proud at witnessing such a large assemblage of i his countrymen, and evidence would soon be afforded to the Empire at large that the Irish residents in I/ ondon were as much alive to tbo necessity of Homo Rule as were their rompatriots in Ireland. Thero was not tho sllghtebt doubt tliat they soon would have a meeting to congratulate themselves on having attained tho objects of their Association. Mr. J. F. Maguire; M. P., moved: " That tho bitter experience of the last 72 vear* has satls- tbat the Act of Union has failed to reallzo tho sanguine anticipation* of It* promoter*, ahd wo hereby exprej • « lemn belief that nothlnglessthan Homo Ruloor the control tho domestlo nflalrs of Ireland by a Parliament, consisting of Its own representatives, fitting In Dublin, can confer her pnoplo those solid advantages of progress and piosperlty to which they aro entitled." Mr. Maguiro said ho did not believe from his long experience iof Englishmen that thoy had any hostility to Ii whmcn. Thero was no doubt that thousands of Irishmen had been driven from their homes, and per- haps into sharp rivalry with Englishmen ; but after a short time the jealousy caused by that rivalry died away, and lie believed that even where that rivalry waa existing at the present moment there was also a strong " and generous sympathy between the two races. The Houne of Commons did not know how to manage Iri- h affairs; and if tbey did, thoy had not time. Had the promises of the Union been realised ? If anv man with his senses about him went into and through Ireland— not to Cork city, not to Belfast, where there was perhaps as much activity as iu England— but into tho towns and into thecountry, and penetrate on all sides, he would find that the position of Ireland Wi\ s not such aa it oug lit to be a part and parcel of a givat Empire. He asserted that Irishmen were half a cenlvory behind England ; and he also asserted that it was ne> t the fault of the people. Mr. O'Leary seconded the resolution, and it was carried. After a few remarks in favour of the Homo Rulo Folks talk of tho Crust ot the Earth; Its strata which outermost lie. A Fool reflects, chuckling with mirth, This world, then, ' s a pudding, a pie: Vesuvius, at seasons, lets out The gravy within it has got, And that being lava, no doubt Inside that tho meat Is all hot— Punch. EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGES IN DUBLIN. At about half- past ten o'clock on Sunday a daring attempt was made to blow up the statue of the late Earl of Carlisle which ornaments the People's Garden in the Phoenix Park, Dublin. A canister of powder, containing, it is estimated from its Bize, at least six or seven pounds, was placed between the legs of the statue and ignited by means of a fuse made of ravelled rope. The perpetrators wero disappointed in their design, for no material injury was done to the statue bv tho explosion, which was so loud that It was neard by several persons along the quays distinctly at two miles off. The statue was only blackened by the smoke. This is believed to be attributable to the lid of the canister fitting tightly. Great com- motion was excited in the Park and neighbourhood by the explosion, and the police with some soldiers who were in the vicinity maae every effort to discover the perpetrators, but without success. The only persons observed in the neigbourhood of the statue wero a cab- driver and two other men under the influence * f drink, and who professed themselves unable to give My ex- planation of the occurrence. Simultaneously with the outrage at the People's Garden an attempt was made to blow- up tho plaster model of the Prince Consort in Leinster Lawn. Some remains of a powder canister were found lying about after the explosion, and the cast was blown to atoms. The rest of the monument is but slightly injured. SPUTTERINGS FROM " JUDYS" PEN. JCDT'S butcher says, no ono can beat his steaks. Unfor- tunately, Judy's cook Is obliged to. ONE of Judy's bachelor readers supposes a lady'* bridle- day Is that on which the first takes the rein. A Druhkard IS generally a bad arguer, for tho oftena he comes to the pint, the ntore Incoherent he 1*. TEE Shortest Ship In tho World— Coure- chip. IF a Sailor has been travelling on horseback, can It be said that he rotred J A LADY who Is remarkatolo for jilting her lovers Is nn- daubtedly a good miss. THE Best Thing Out— An aching tooth. A TIGHT Fit— Delirium tremens. A WATER Pitcher— A fire- engine. a SHAKY Business— Making Jellies. REAL Water- colours— Green and blue. A GREAT Mistake— Small coals ( i. e. a grate mus' take small coals If It can't get large ones). W U AT IS t'io quickest way to get a glass of half- and- half at a railway st ition T— Why, to ' all tho porter, to bo sure. To A BEGINNER — Ladies do not usually drink champagne out of cheval glasses on a racecourse. WHEN a man parts with his " stud," he often gives up the " ring" as well THE Lion's SHARE !— Do they ( the Jackalls) say thoy don't share fairly, though T The LAST MAN— A cobbler. MEN frequently find themselves lh a noose after leaving the ( l>) aUar. QDBRT.— I* " old" port evor elder f Master. HAHO, PAT, where are yon off to now T— on good, I know— Pat. Faith, no, yer honour; for, thure. I was going to look Jar you I — Judy. Miscellaneous Intelligence, HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL, FATAL ADMINISTRATION OF CHLOROFORM.— An inquest has been hold in London, at the King's College Hospital, respecting tlio death of Willi am Lyon, aged 3G years. Thb evidence was to the effect that the deceased to an had for some tjmo been suffering from abscess in the left cheek, and that he was in a very weak state. He entered the hospital to have a portion of diseased bono removed, and while inhaling chloroformbe died. A post- moVtcni examination showed that tlio heart waS ratller degenerated, and there were tubercles on the apex of ono lung. The jury consulted for an hour and a- halfi and then decided uponreturning ap open verdict, to tho effect that the deceased had died from paralysis of the heart caused by chloroform. MOLESTATION.- r- A bill lias been printed, bear- ing tho pames of Mr. Vernon Harcourt, Mr. Japaes, Mr. Mundella, Mr. Dixon, and Mr. Melly, which has for its object to amend tho provisions of tbe Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1871, relating to molestation. The bill proposed to repeal the first sectipn of tho Act of last year, and to enact instead that it shalj be deemed nn act of criminal coercion to use violence to any other person, or to the property of any other P9rson; or threat op or dnUtnidate any other peTson In such manner a* would Justify a justice of tbe peace ( on complaint inudo to such justice) in binding ovfcr to keep the peace of the person so threatening or in- timidating ; or molest oi- obstruct any other person by persistently following him about from place to pljvce ; or by followiug him In or through any street or road with two or more persons in a disorderly manner; or by hiding or " depriving him of, or hindering him in' the uso of any tools, clotnes, or property, owned or tised by him. No person, however, is to be liable to any punishment for doing or conspiring to do any act ot the ground that suoh act restrains or tends to restrain the | r* c course of trade, unless such act is one of tho acts hereinbefore specified, and ia done with the ebjoot of coercing. THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY AND TH7. IR SERVANTS.— In London, on Sunday after- noonadunsely crowdedmeetingiifcmp? oy< fsoftheLondon and North Western Railway Company was held at Mil- ton Hall, to take into consideration the terms offered by directors of the cimpany to the request by memorial of the men sent to the directors a week or so elnco. It having been generally known amongst the men that the directors of the company had mode a largo con- cession to tho men. itho pi oceedings wero of a moat en- thusiastic obaracter. Nothing could exceed the ex- citement and entliueia » m of the mon, who, although they only received > about one half of the amount of their demnnds, viz., sbout la. 6d. to2i a week instead of 2a: 6d. to 3s., naked, cheered the directors of tho company in tho most. hearty manner. Outeide the door of Milton Hall some 200 to 300 railway- men were as- sembled during tho proceeding*, having been unable to obtain admi- » -< ion to the hall, and theso caught up tho cheers as they camo from tho meeting in the halL When tho Secretary of the Amalgamated Railway Servants' Society, Mr. Chapman, and Mr. Baxter f jangley entered tlio hall at different times, there were loud and repeated cheery nud all through tho proceed- ings there was not a word said by tho men of the company against tho directors or officials, but ofi the contrary the utoiost, satisfaction was expressed at the speedy and happy termination of tlio dispute between the directors ot the company and the men. AMERICAN PAPERS, PLEASEJ^ PV.—" Knock- ing the consequence out of a fe ® o" is a common school phrase for the process of ^ fc, Yankees mean applying to U3 when putting in practice their happy thought of inflicting " consequential damages." How- ever, there are many happy signs that this threatening storm- cloud will be soon dissipated, and the American Case will prove no casus belli, even as regards a war of wordi, but brutum fulmcn— mere Sumner lightning. May the trouble, like so many others, be ended in the bowl, and, instead of squabbling over last year's Washington bantling, let Jonathan and John proceed' to " kiss the baby."— Punch. THE CASE OF MRS. MERRETT.— Mr. Bate- man, Vicar of St. John's, Waterloo road, London ; Mr. Nunn, Vice- Consul- General, of the Uuited States ; and Mr. Thompson, Secretary of the London Brewery Company ; recipients of the public bounty to Mra. Merritt and her seven children, whose husband and father was shot in the Belvedere road, Lambeth, on the morning of the 17th of February last, request the papers to make tho following statement with reference to the disposal of the fund :— The tot. nl amount re- ceived by them from all sources was £ 1,815 4s. In addi- tion, Mr. Partridge, themagistrate at S> oithwark Police- i court, has deposited £ 30 in Sirs. Merritt's name in tho Post Office Savings- bank. The Bum of £ 1,700 ( produc- ing £ 1,644 12s. Id. stock) has been invested under an, order of the Court of Chancery in their names, as trustees for the widow and her children, in the India- Four per Centa., and the balance of £ 115 Is., after de- ducting £ 19 lis. 9d- for advertising and commission on stamps sold to the Post Office, is retained by them for the support of the widow and ber family untd the pay- ment of the dividend upon the ifavestmeiit. ana for contingent expenses. Messrs. Bateman, Nunn, and Thompson add that the services of the solicitors and counsel necessary for the application to the Vice- Cbancellor were given gratuitously, and that Mrs. Merritt has asked them to thank most heartily those who came to her succour in the hour of distress, and to assure them of her continued gratitude. A NEW LIGHT.— At the meeting of the In- ventors' Institute, held in London last week, Mr. Carl Molchin, a native of Hamburg, exhibited lamps burning a new compound oil to be used for l% hting Eurposei, which was found to afford a steady even ght, very closely approximating in power, clearness, brilliancy, and intensity to the electric light, at a cost somewhat less than that of colza oil. It resulted from experiments made with this oil, burnt in a moderator lamp, that a light of 174 spermaceti candles was ob- tained, This light is considered as very valuable for lighthouses, railway signals, railway carriages, and other purposes, and received the hearty approval of those present at the meeting, opinions beinp expressed that its use would mark a new era in artificial light. INFLUENCE OP FLOWERS. — Flowers, says- Harper's Weekly', exert a Wonderfully refining influence upon character. There are few who are not sus- ceptibly to it, under favourable circumstances. The model farmer of olden times, who begrudged his wife or daughter a bit of land to beautify, who denounced all blossoms which resulted in no marketable fruit as useless, and ploughed up the bright pinks and mari- golds with ruthlefs hand, has passed away, we trust, or at most but a few of the species remain. It is be- coming more and more the pleasant fashion, not only in towns and villages, but in secluded rural , home3 where the plain fanner's family toil hard, for the children to bave little plots of ground where they may raise flowers to charm the eye. If parents only realised the educating power of plants, and how keenly most children enioy watcHing'the growth and develop- ment of vegetable life, they would foster the desire they so often express " to have a garden of their own.' AQUATIO INTELLIGENCE.— Mrs. Malaprop was heard to express the hope that the result of the Inter- national Boat Rice would be a glory to the Umpire ca which the sun never sets.— Punch. IMPORTS OF WHEAT.— It is noticeable that the imports of Russian wheat into the United Kingdom continue to present a larjje tincrease. In the four months ending April 30 this year they amounted to 6,592,426 cwt., as compared with 4,724,255 cwt. in the corresponding period of 1S71, and 3,921,127 cwt. in the corresponding period of 1870. On the other hand. the imports of wheat from the United States- declined in the first four months of this year to 1,891,316 cwt, as compared with 3,860,408 ctvt in the corresponding eriodof 1871, and 3,955,926 cwt. in the corresponding period of 1870. The value of the Russian wheat im- ported into the United Kingdom in the four nlontha endinsr April 30 this year was £ 3,763,779, as cvnfcirtd with £ 2,656,804 in the correspoi- ding period of 1S71, and £ 1,721,797 in the corresponding period of 1870. BISHOP FRASER ON THE BENNETT JUDG- MENT.— The Bishop of Manchester preached to a crowded congregation on Sunday in St Stephen's Church, Westbournepark, London. At the close of an able and eloquent discourse his lordahip passed in review some of the changes which have recently found their way into the conduct of the service of the Church of England. Then, turning the attention of his con- gregation to the judgment delivered on Saturday in the case of " Shepherd v. Bennett," he said—" It will be a lamentablo tiling if this equitable, moderate, con- i- derate— nay, I will call it charitable language, is abused, if the extreme men begin to chant pte ins— if what they will call a victory is pushed to the utmost extremity. In this day of ours we need moderation— the moderation and fair- mindedness of such a states- manlike divine as was Richard Hooker." The Church ' cannot make progress while the very foundations are being undermined." Quqting Dollinger, bis, lordship- concluded in the language of that great syholar by ex- pressing not only a hope but a belief, which amounted to a conviction, that there were brighter days in store for the Church. A WORD FOR SIR WILFRED.— An advocate for compulsory abstinence from spirittiotis liquor may found an argument upon tho fact tbat the three fin- t letters of Ignorance are convertible into Gin.— Punch, A WOMAN 119 YEARS OLD.— A San Fran- cisco paper gif eg an accoifnt of a lady in that city who is said to be 119 years old. She is at presentof medium height, though when younger she was tell and portly, and, as ono or two of her old friends say, she, was con- sidered beautiful; and, even now, though ber fac. is a network of wrinkles, she has an agreeable ap- pearance. As a matter of course, she is con aiderably stooped from age, but not so much as one would naturally Imagine. Her in bid en name is Madrugal— Mary of the Immaculate Conception Mod ruga]. Her husband's name ifs or was. Jtiarez. She is descended from Castilian emigrants t< Mexico, and was born in the '" City Of the Rosary " in Sinuloa. She has several children, the youngest of whom is fifty- six years of age. She speaks'the Spanish language so as to be distinctly understood,, but cannot speak English. Her health is remarkably good and the faculties of her mind unimpaired. _ She goes almo- t daily to communion, which requires in ' a C:\ tlu> b'c il . greatest pnrity, and attends r< gularly the SacTifi' •• of tl mass ; and to . this habit she attributes her long life. Sb has latterly made San Francisco the place of her, per manent abode, though she travelled much dtwng be lifetime in Mexico and California. The rea- ou sin has decided upon ending her days in San FrahciVeo i because she finds in that city more " peace for he souL" Judging from her present appearance the i likely to live for some years more, though her lea1'- • f lifo cannot be very long. She has always been tern perato in her habits, and now she reaps the benefit o; living welL COST OF THE COMMUNE.— The Jqurnal Assurances gives the following estimate of tho dam: » p to public and private buildings in Pans during tb< period of the Commune :- H< 5tel de Ville, 30 OOOjOOOf. ; Tulleries and Louvre, 35,000,000f. ; PaMfc- Roya!. 3,000.000f.; Ministere dea Finance^, 15,000,00m. - Palais do Justice, 3,000.000f.; Conciergerie, 500,0(! 0f ; Pri5fet do Police and Hfltel du Prtfet, 2 OOO. OOOf. : Legion d'Honneur, l. OOQ. OOOf.; Cunseil d'Ltat, Com des Comptes, 10,000, OOOf. ;' Cgisae> des Consigns tions 4,000, OOOf. ; Assistance' Publinhe, fi,- 000.0 W Gobelins, 1,000, OOOf.; Entrepot de la Vil. tt.. Grenier d'Aboadnnce « t Merchandises, 27,000, OOOf.; barracks. 1,000, OOOf. ; churches, 1,000, OOOf. ; theatr. 1 000 OOOf.; Rue Royalo, eieht homes, 2,000, OOOf.; liu Rivoli, 12 houses, 3,600, OOOf. j Boulevard do Stras- bourg. four houses, 300.000f. ; Boulevard Bcanmannir 500, OOOf. ; Boulevard Eichard- Lenoir, 600, OOOf. ; liu. do Bao, eight houses. l, 500.090f. ; Rue de Lil1 3,000,000f.'; Rue Vavin, 300,000F. ; Ruo Notu- Dame- des - Champs, 1 two houses, 1 500, OOOf.; Rue Saint- Martin, five ltfmsW, ' llW. OOof. 3? 1 Rue Temple, one house, 4," 000,000f.; eight bouses near tl. Hotel de Ville, 2,000, OOOf.; various houses bun.-, bpmbarded, and damaged by the Commune, WLtfflQ. O" tbe house of M Tylers 1,0.00. OOOf. - Ljfal.^ Sl 0 • - i < furniture and goods, 270,200, OOOf.— Gonoral total, 600.000.000f. / SATURDAY, JUNE 15,1872. THE FALMOUTH & PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. " ON BO, THE ARETHUSA." A writer in thcMiUy Newt gives the following well- written sketch from the Boat Race. Ho entitles it " On Board the Arethusa To pail up the Thame* on a morning In Juno— to anchor opposite a fair stretch of river sceneTy— to have chicken, and salad, and . Slllery under an awnlneon dcck— to have around one various rammer costumesof white, and blue and rose- pink, with a band at the further end of the vessel discoursing Aubcr and Strauss— that, lurely, was a charming picture to be conjured up by a bit of paste'word. Of course, wo all of « u treat urtd this card, and stuck it in prominent places so that it could not be forgotten, and then arrived at the placo of appointment without It. But on this melancholy pier a vpry din. rent sight was presented to tho first omen. Everb'xly knows the ballet scene In Robert de Diable, where a number of young persons who are really clad In the lightest of dnsces, appear in grey and sombre hoods and cloaks, coming for- ward to tho footlights with slow footsteps and downcast beads. Something of the same scene was visible on the pier, by the side ofjthe A rrthusa. where the brilliant costumes suitable for June were hidden under waterproofs and shawls. Anxious mammu doubted whether their daughters should not return home. The flags on the Arethma hung damp and limp ; and from over the wilds of Sou thwart came rolling clouds of vapour that threatened every moment to tiring down on nB the delugo. But somehow, when the vessel at last glided away lrom her mooring, the spirits of the party rose. Thero were glimmerings of tho sun up by Wejtmlnster. Adventurous young creatures began to throw aside their wraj. s ; to that the dcck of tho Arethusa speedily grew warm and bright with colour. And. then, as all the worM knows, tho day rapidly cleared ; and with the coming In sight of the low and green fields that He ontdde tho city the sun eame la'rly out as well, and wo urged on our wild career towards Putney. No one could exactly say how that amiable lady In the black silk and the yellow roses, who was' the chaperon of about a dozen girls, bad come to regard with a deadly malice a perfectly harmless young man » ho had come on board with as. Sho was always warding him otf. as a hen ml^ ht guard her chickens from attack ; and she had gone the length of spreading tkc report. In a loud whisper, that be was out of his mind about an American girL Tho tall yauhg gentleman with the curly hair certainly gavo us 1 some reason to think ( hat such was the case: for he no , sooner discovered that the Art, thus a was hung from stem i to stern with American flags than ho was greatly delighted, | and forthwith began to make frantic bets of sovereigns, hats, and gloves that the American crew wo mid win. Now the I llghthouse- keeperat John- o'- Groats- lf John- o'- Groats is by • the sea— must know by this time that the betting on the raco was three to one in favour of the English. Tlie young man was " that mad " about the American girl that he scorned to accept any odds, lie would make an even bet with any- j body that the Atalantas would win. Did he want to loso bis money, we began to wonder, so as to secure the compas- ! « lon of that young person In America f Did he suppose hat be would havo a claim upon her for consequential damages? At all e. venta, the chawron in the black silk { need not have persistently snubbed him. Just as If Jie were a wicked old general In a rustic drama, and she the'protec- tress of the village belle. There was not much betting, however— not even at lun- cheon, which took place In the cabin, just as the Arethusa was steaming slowly up to Kew. This t rellmlnary scamper op the river before settling down In our appointed berth was a highly delightful performance; but thero was little attention paid to it. All the ladles had gone down into the cabin, attended by a few of their more favoured attendants ; and all the strategy of crar chaperon in chief was of no avail In keeping the hawk out of the dove's xiest. The young man who had been backing the Aialant& i— as innnocent and well- intentioned a young fellow as ever breathed— was discovered to be ri^ ht in the cen re ot a group of girls, over whom the elderly lady had been supposed to watch; and what should hinder his carving all • sorts of things for them, and getting champagne for ttiero, - and Insisting on their bottlns plovest He was. as has been hinted, not very success'ul in his betting. The odds of three to one rather frightened the: young creatures around him, although he showed tliem that these odds were a tremendous advantage to them. It may saf. ly be affirmed that If half the bets he offered had been accepted he w.. uld very speedily have » Ji lnei that young Isdy in America, in the guise of a fraudulent and expatriated bankrupt. As it was, the following memoranda, which he handed round for In- spection, wlfl show that his friends wero charitable : INTERNATIONAL FOUR OArED RACE. Betting: 4 to 1 on the English crew [ t and off). Amy . Six pairs of Jouvtn's 6J against two pairs ot any maker's 7J. Mrs. . An even liAU- crown on thi English. Old . Three hats to one on the Encliih. If I win the t: uee hats, may be changed into a dinner at Bl n> hard's— my option. Edith. . A black and gold fan against a pencil- case. The award to be purchased In Regent- street next Wednesday at S. 30. Academy altertfards. These are only a selection, and they prove that he was not after nil betting recklessly. But in any case, how can man bet better tliaii by facing fearful odds, if he expects to have his losses repaid a thoniand:( pld In sjmpathy ? When all the luncheon and the betting was over we found ourselves moored a little dlstanci b< low the " Ship " at Moitlake, with the sun shlolngout of a clear bine sky, ami a mighty crowd Of people ranged along the banks, all waiting for the race. And so we sate or lounged on the gaily- coloured Arethusa, and the river and the river- banks got more and more crowded, and the afternoon sun mOre warm and brilliant. fi.> me desjricable creatures had gone up to the bow of the boat to smoke cigurs la a surreptitious manner; but wo took no notice of them. There was sufficient amusement in tho scenes of the river, to » hlch we contributed by the produc- tion of a waiter who had drunk too much champagne, and who, when he was shunted Into a boat, and sent ashore, raised a mighty disturbance over this ill- usage, and en- deavoured, by hiring sevcial watermen's boats In succession, ( to board and storm the haughty Arethw> a. . . . Thehonest truth is that the majority of the folks on board the Arelhuta seemed to have forgotten the race altogether, and so far It was well with them. A few Impatient souls complained that they h id been on board something like , half- a- dozen hours, and that six hours In a Thames steamer, went a long way. But there was no such repining In the talk fit thq young fo kg, who were Shading themselves from the sun and speaking In rather a tow voice from tiuder their umbieUos, and contentedly gazing at the very pleasant scenery around, and tho wholly unprecedented crowds that stood | llko a human wall under the trees of the right bank. The band playtd their best; and the mueiulaus in distant steamers took up the tale wherei they left off. There was a bum of conversation that- to Judge by certdln faces- treated of less Solemn matters than a boatracc: but Juit at this Juncture, when everybody had got resigned to waiting, a strange murmur nrOBe up the n? er, and before the sound had become distinct wo knew that It meant the approach of the boats. Then there was a scramble for places such as the Arelhuta eeldem sees. Provident joung men who had bien ktcping their eye on a good rfor their especial favourite, coolly ousted from it children who had clambered inlo It, and nstalled there some tender- hearted maiuen who was all in a flutter about the coming bouts. The young gentleman with tho curly hair was the mainstay and support of lulf- a- duzcn girls who beld n precarious footing on the rid? seats, \ fhilc he also en. cavoured, to sweep tho horizon with an opera glais to know his fate about the hats, gloves, and hall- crowns And thin there was a moan if despair when some far- sighted folks announced that it was no raco at all — that the English were coining on about a quarter of a mile In advance ot their opponents. You see, we knew nothing of tho previous fortunes of the race. We knew nothing of the splendid tpurt / with which the Engli- h crew got away from their opponents and prcserVed an easy lead We knew not' Inc of the boatful of boobies who, iu deflancc of repeated warnings and entreaties, camoblunder- In ' in a fatuous fuahiou rit- ht iuto tho American boat. All this was unknown to us ; Hn 1 we only saw the English crew comedown the river with an apparently easy and sleady swmg, the Atalantus far In their wake. You may be sure the winning crow pot a fair amount of applause from the Arelhu a: insomuch that more than one young creature had B,, r y upset herself into tho water by the Jubilant way in which the clapped her hands. And when the Americans tame up, there were such expressions of pity h< ard, uttered In such gentle ton s, that if the objects of all this sympathy Coul, 1 have listen, d to these phrases, they would have had t . misfortune of defeat creatly mitigated. It wai all over in a few minute". The youn,; lolks jumped down fion their exalted positions llic matrons began to look alter shawls. Tho Arelhuta swung round, and 6 ... n wo Were plunging through tho multitude of small cruft that worn swarming on the wide sur- I of tlie river, catcbin?, as we wt ut by. a glimpse of tho At . iHntus in tlulrred drus close by the . Iter's o. ige. where tl„-, were being surrounded by n enthus a. Uc crowd. But. ns f - r the delight of the young man who had lost gloves, ' and fans to various people. In getting "" lh„ r.^ rUo°: |. , sto what they would liko. who can describe itT bev. ral ,' r .. rs In London will be astonished, and for some time it I o ,. bsble that in this City thero wlU be a singular dearth cl kid gloves with three buttons and embroidered wrUts. WHAT THE BURMESE AMBASSADORS OUGHT TO BE SHOWN. A crowd at a Railway Station struggling for their Tickets at ono small aperture, two feet by nine inches. The Streets after a couple of rainy days* One or two of our Four- wheeled Cabs. All the Public Statues. A Butcher's Boy in fnll career along a crowded thoroughfare. Leicester Square. The House of Commons voting away a million or so of the public money. The House of Commons deeply interested in a personal squabble. A few of our most accomplished Street- beggars. An Irish Election. A City Feast. A City Church, with a clergyman ( handsomely Re- munerated), clerk, beadle, pew- opener, sexton, and organist, but no congregation worth' counting. The British Museum— if it does not happen to be shut. The British quart " Wine- bottle. Samples of the Necessaries of Life well adulterated. The neighbourhood of a flourishing Ginf- palace at twelve o'clock on Saturday night. A very High Church. ( N. B. The interpreter should explain to their Excellencies that. Eopfiiy is not the established religion of the country at present.) The interior of St. Paul's Cathedral. Our roomy and convenient Law Courts. Our Organ- Grinders. A Beadle. A Match making Mamma. The inside of an omnibus on a pouring wet day. The admirable arrangements at the Royal Academy for taking care of parasols, sticks, and umbrellas. A Third- class Railway Carriage. THE BELFAST " LOCK- OUT. A Belfast correspondent writing on Monday says :— The condition of Belfast to- day is extraordinary and unprecedented. Every mill is idle except seven or eight, and of the< o three will close daring the present week. Out of about 830,000 spindles in Ireland devoted to flax spinning upwards of 600,000 are in Belfast Out of these 450,000 are now silent, and of the remainder 50.000 or GO, 000 will be idle by Thursday next 25,700 people are. out of employment, and on Saturday next, should this deplorablo dispute continue, upwards of 30,000 people connected in one way or another with our great staple trade will be unemployed. A strike and '-' lock- out" on so gigantic a scale has never hitherto occurred in this country, and there seems no immediate prospect of a settle- ment The masters have finally determined that beyond the 2s. per week advanced to dressers and Toughers they will not go, even should the mills stand idle for months. Tho dressers and roughers, on the other hand, are apparently inflexible in their determi- nation not to accept the 2?. offered, and bf cause 2,000 • workers cannot come to tarms with their masters in a matter involving only Is. a week each of wages, nearly 30,000 men and women, boys and girls, are this day walking idle'through the streets of Belfast. So far there has been no attempt at a demonstration on the part of the workers. ATTEMPTED ASSASSLNATTON OF AN INDIAN MAGISTRATE. The Mhow correspondent of the Timet of India, writing on the 12th of May, gives tho following account of tho late attempt to assassluate the British magistrate at that sta- tion :— We had a dreadful scene in our magistrate's court to- day, when he narrowly escaped tho fato of Mr. Norman and the late Viceroy. A police peon, a Mus- sulman, and once a great favourite of the late notorious anddisrfepntable'Kotwal, \ Vas brought before the - ma- gistrate on some charge, and was found guilty, upon which the magistrate dismissed him from the force an J took away his belt. Enraged at this treatment, the villain watched hi3 opportunity, and when Captain Mayne was leaving the office He took up a sword and aimed at him a blow, which fortunately failed of its intent. The fellow then turned on the jemadar of the police, whom he severely cut on the forehead. The acting inspector of police was also cut on the back. A very old and faithful duffadar, who happened to be present, cjame up to arrest hip, but the villain knocked him down, and so severe " were the blows that the poor fellotv died in the evening. Hie creature determined on killing every one he couldJ. oa. ha. flew sword in hand after every one . in the office, but they bolted and shut themselves up in the rooms pf the court The villain then cut his own throat. Another letter says:— The police peon who murdered the duffadar was buried the same evening with all religious ceremony and honours. His funeral procession was large and attended by a good many of bis caste ; sopie of them wore proud and delighted that he gave his life, as they stupidly think, for a religious cause— and that on a Friday too. They seem to be sure that he will become a saint or par after that. . THE DUNDEE DOMESTIC SERVANTS. This movement, which has created such widespread attention, may be said to have completely failed. At a recent meeting rules were adopted, and a provisional arrangement made for carrying them into effect, and an opinion prevailed that something would be achieved. An effete body, known as the Dundee Trades' Council, were of opinion, however, that tho servants were unfit to manage their business, and so announced that they wero to take them under their shelter- ing wing. Accordingly, a meeting was called for Fri- day evening, at which six or eight members of the Trades' Council appeared. About the eame number of reporters were present. All servants resident in Dun- dee nnd district were invited, b\ it tho friendly oflices of the ubiquitous Trades' Council were not appreciated, for only six or eight maids attended. What was done at the meeting has not transpired, as the reporters were excluded, the members of the council being of opinion that the reports previously given were burles- ques and calculated to hold the maids up to ridicule throughout the country. So matters stand . for the present, but it may be men- tioned that the secretaress and treasuress have both refused to accept office unless they can receive a guarantee that their salaries would be paid. It may be stated also that ht the shop where it was intimated the names of those wishing to become members of the Dundee and District Domestic Servants'Protection Association would be received only a few maids have called, and it is said they have manifested a desire rather to obtain information than part with the sum necessary to constitute themselves members. The terrors which this movement have inspired may now be shakon off, and the maids of Dnndee, like many other personages who have created unnecessary commotion, arelikely soon'to suffer a total eclipse. winter, hours from 7 to 5, and 4d. an hoar overtime ; for IGa. weeklv in summer, hours from 6 to 6, and 6d. an hour overtime. At the conclusion of the- meeting » branch of the union was formed. At Avebury, Rumsbury, and Broad Hinton similar meetings have been held, and the district branch of tho Union now numbers 5i> 0 members. The agitation which commenced in the south of Cambridgeshire has extended itself to the east, where it continues to create much excitement Farmers aro doing all they can to suppress the agitation, and in many villages wages have been raised and the ill- feeling that did exist has subsided. The movement among the agricultural labourer* has now extended to the county of Herts. In con- nection with the South Beds and Herts Agricultural Labourers' Union a meeting was held on Thursday evening, in last week, at No- Man's land, a common about three miles db- tant from St A1 ban's, and situ- ated between the villages of Sandridge and Wheat- hampstead. There was an enthusiastic gathering of about 500 labourers, and from statements made during the meeting it apDeared that, the rate of wages in Hert- fordshire is from" 10s. to 19a. per week, with a few- exceptions. A farm labourer named Joseph Allen stated that until lately he had been paid lis. a week only, but now received 12s.; of that amount be had to expend 4B. in rent, firing, and candles, leaving him with 8s. for the maintenance of himself and a numerous family during the week. He reckoned that his wagea allowed 2W. a day f. « r each member of his family to live upon, and how any one could live properly upon that he did not know. In harvest time, however, he ma- naged to earn a few shillings extra, which enabled him to purchase some clothing for the children. Another farm servant proposed a resolution pledging the labourer* to join the Unions and on being put to the meeting it was carried amid deafening cheers. Williana Jonea said he had a family numbering eight, and until quite re- cently he had been receiving only IIR. a week. It cost him 10s. a week for flour, 4c. The Rev. O. W. Davys, Rector of " Wheathampstead, said he had been re- quested to addxees a few remarks to the meeting. He reminded the labourers that their labour was a marketable article, and, like every other market- able article, would secure its price_ if they made it worth it He was strongly of opinion that the value of labour was increahiug immensely, and would in- crease still more as the labouring classes improved in education. In concluding his remarks, he said that- many agricultural labourers who were earning only 12a. a week spent as much as 3a. of that amount at tho publichouse, and he expressed a hope that if they ob- tained an increase they would spend it at the shops of the butcher and the baker. The proceedings ter- minated with three cheers for the Union. THE BIRMINGHAM SEWAGE BILL. In the House of Commons, on Monday night, Sir Peel wished to put a question to the right hon. g. ntleman the leader of the House, and, in order to put himself in order in explaining it, he should con- clude with a motion. Sewage Bilb had been intro- duced this Session by the Corporations of Rochdale and Birmingham, and had been submitted to com- mittees. The former Was thrown out by the com- mittee, its object being to take 1,300 acres belong- ing to Lord Derby for the sewage of 45,000 in- habitant*!. The latter proposed, for a population of 350,000, to take nearly 1,000 acres in the immediate vicinity, a great portion of it belong- ing to himself, and to throw upon it daily from 18.000,000 to 22,000,000 gallons of sewage. Every gallon would contain five grains of ammonia,' nnd no process was known whereby the deleterious matter in the sewage could be removed. As a Conntry gentleman living on his property and on behalf of his n- ighbours, he wished to atk the right hon. gentleman i whether bills affecting so materially the interests of country gentlemen should not have been made publib i bills rather than have been promoted by ^ private legb- ; lation. ( Hear, hear.} His right hon. Iriend op[ i'* ite and himself had not had any fair opportunity of dis- ! cussing this bill. The Speaker: Tho observations of the right hon. ' baronet are altogether irregular. Tho right hon. | baionet has said that ho proposes to conclude with a I motion, but, whatever that motion may bo, it is quite irregular to anticipate the discussion of a bill, whether a piivato bill or a'public bill, which is set down. Sir R. Peul said he bowed to the decision of the right hon. gentleman nnd would not discuss the matter further. He wished to o& k the right hon. gentleman at the head of the Government whether it was not possible for him, as leader of the House, to prevent such Bills as Bills relating to the sewage of towns and affecting vastly the rights of private individuals from being treated as private Bills in order that the Houso might have a fair opportunity of discussing suoh Bills. He also wished to knew whether the right bon. gentle- man at the head of the Government would cease to Eupport the Birmingham Sewage BilL The right hou. baronet concluded by moving tho adjournment of the House. Mr. Gladstone said the Governm- nt had taken no 1 part in supporting of opposing the BilL The question whether such billp should be triated as public bills would be o proper matter to discuM when the arrange- ments with regard to private business camo under The motion for the adjournment of , Uie House was | withdrawn. CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS. A " beautiful blonde " female preacher is stirring up something like religious feeling In Georgia. A lecturer proposes co- operative farming. What next? Ol cours", the labouror provides tho brains and thews, and the farmer the cash. Miss Rose Hawthorne, youngest daughter of the novelist, ha « changed her local habitation and her namo by becoming a wife, and Is now a Boso without Ha- thomo. The flies are getting ready for biz in New York. There will bo just thirteen Aiilllon more this summer than last. Caldheaded men can keep them ofl by anointing the apex ot the cranium u iuh. molaises. " A party by the name of Jone3 " has written a book to proTc that the United States is the kingdom of Heaven. We regret to be forced to believe that Jonesneoda a thorough review of geography. One of the judges of the United States Supreme Court had ono of his eyes badly Injured the otherday, during the argument ofa case, by Inadvertently allowing it to " fall upon a poinf in the evidence." They seem to be converting people very thoroughly at Waterbury, Conn. The American says:—" Of tho five la iy converts baptized by the Rev. Mr. Bailey on Sunday, three were gentlemen." A Yankee has taken out a patent for luminous hats. They would, he says, preserve the wearers from being run over by cabs at ni^ ht, and would, tosomo extent, enable a saving In in the lighting of streets with gas to bo ellecteil. A philosopher says that for tho period of a month before marriage, and a month after death, mon regard their wives as angel). Amnrg the rules of the hotel in the " diggins " at Bccse Riv r, are the following : " Lodgers lnslao arise at 6 a. m. ; in the barn at 6 o'clock ; each man sweeps up his own bed ; no quartz taken at the bar ; no lighting allowed at the table ; any one violating the above rules will be shot." A lawyer in New York, who was pleading the cause of an infant plaintiff, to . k the child up his arms, and pre- sented It to the Jury suffused with tears. This had a great effect, till the opposite lawyer asked what made him cry. " lie pinched me," answei td the little Innocent The court was convulsed with laughter. There is a school- houve in Hoboken, on the window- sill of which Is painted ( it Having been a grocer s store), " Powderand Snot"—" What tho deuce have powder and shot to do with education f ' A great deal," replied a wag; " is it uot the schoolmaster's calling to teach tho young Idea how to shoot ?" THE SILVER COINAGE CASE. in the Court of Queen's Bench, the cause of " Tomllne Lowe" has been heart, and was an action asalnst Mr. Xowo ns master of tho Mint for rofuslng to coin silver brought to him for that purpose by tho plain till. The declaration In the action was demurred to by thp defendant on the ground'tbat there was no duty on tho Master of tho Mint to coin silver so brought. Mr. Giffard. Q. C., and Mr. Line appeared for the plalntlfl in favour of the declar. itl" ii: the Attorney- General and Mr. Archibald supported the demurrer. The Attorney- Genei. il referred to the Coinage Act, 33 m 1 31 Victoria, cap. 10, the 20th section of which rep i j the Acts passed in 18 and 19 George IX., and 66 George III., by which Acts the coinage was formerly regulated. Section 8 of 33 and 31 Victoria imposes the eluty on the Master of the Mint to coin gold which 6hnll be brought to him for that purpose, but no mention is made in the Act of this duty as re- gards silver. The Attorney- General contended that this clearly showed that there was no statutory duty cast on the defendant to coin silver at all, and, in the absence of any duty being shown to exist at common law, that : he was not bound to do so. Mr. Giffard, Q. C., then proceeded to argue that there did exist tho duty at common law. He referred to numerous old statutes which regulated the coinage of silver, and provided for the manner in which per- sons bringing 6ilver to the Mint were to receive pay- ment for it. He argued that none of theso statutes conterred any new right on the subjects of the Crown to have their silver coined, but clearly recognized an old pre- existing right, and only regulated tho mannet in which that wai to be exercised, and, in the absence of any statue conferring the right,' that it must exist at common law. Hq c^ ed various old petitions and Acta made in consequence of them, in support of his context tion. There docs not appear ever to have been a cats ® which decides absolutely whether this right does or does not exist. Mr. Justice Blackburn, in giving judgmant, said that manv old statutes had been cited, but no autho- rity had been brought to the notice of the Court to show that the Master of the Mint was bound to do that which ho was sought to be compelled to. by the present nction— namely, to coin all silver brought to him for that purpose, giving an equivalent in money, and in tho absence of such authority his judgment would be for the defendant. Mr. Justice Mellor and Mr. Justice Luah concurred in this view. Sir Henry Rawlinaon, as cliairm'an of the Royal | Geographical .- ociety, at a meeting on Monday night, c « m- I mcntc- d upon the te-. kgrams lately received from Dr. Kirk ! nnd Lieutenant Dawsod; nnd, while failing to seo any great j discrepancy between tho two, asserted that he had no doubt that Dr. Livingstone was yet alive and making the best of bis | way to tiio sea coast. Tuu announcement was received with oud cheers. A horror of the forthcoming Jubilee has overtaken at least one ol the Bostonitrs. and we judep from the follow- ing he 1s getting ready to abandon Boston 5— " 1' ell mo, ye raw cast winds, That in tills region roar, Do ye know tome spot Where people sing no moref Somo quiet little place. Some village in the west, Where freo Irdin notes and fiddle- sticks, A body might find rest?" The Providence Prat ( United States) says:—" There Is a man of our acquaintance living in this city, who has been married tliirtj- four years, nnd has still his wedding suit, which he has worn every Sunday since, and it is still In good condition for Sunday wear. He ha& worn it In all seventeen hundred and sixty- eight days." AN IRISHMAN'S DESCNIRNON OF ASIEBICA.— An Irishman, describing America, said, " I am told that you might roll Knjlaud thru it, on'It wouldn't make a dint in tho ground ; there's fr; sh water oceans inside tint yo might droun Ould Ireland In ; and as for Scotlaud, ye might sf. ck It lu a corner, and ye'd never be able to find It out, except It might be hy the smell o" whisky." STOLEN DESERT.— Mr. William Prescott Smith, manager of the Air Lino between now York snd V,' ashlng- ton. In a speech delivered at tho recent railroad c/ jlebration at St Louis, put to his cnthuslaxnfe hearers th'j following slguincmt conundrum:—" Where Is the Grer. t American D. sort that I read of when a hoy, and that my schoolmaster slowed me in tho geography J "— Every man ia the audlenco forthwith had red urte to his pocket geography ( rallroud men alwajs carry a gc. grnphy In their pockets), but not one ot them could solve the puzzle. Presently a voice from the rear of the hall shouted. " Put up yoi\ r book>, gentlemen. Yon can't find the Gre » t American oesert Ihera. It was ttoUn by the ' land grabbrrt' durin- j the lait session of Cun- pre& s."— Smith promptly ottered ttiu man a situation on hU railroad. DEATH OF MR. ELLIS, THE MISSIONARY. The death was announced on Tuesday of the Rev. V , l » m I'. llis, tho we 1 known missionary in the boutn R. : 1- lands and in Madagascar. He m born in 1795, r 1 in early life became connected with the Ixindon M -,- ionary Society, under whosu ampices< be went out • ,^- euie his labours abroad. I " m 183d to 1810 he -. - foreign Secretary to the Lon. Ion _ Miau » « ry S ,- i ty. When the question of a hWwprfe for Mada- - ear was first mooted it v. a, offered to Mr. Lllis, though a DU. ei. ter, the Archbishop of Canterbury • • rt iking to ordain' an? consecrate him if he would :> t it. After senile- con- lderatie t; the proposal was c lined. He has published a " Hi t . iy of Madar r c x," " Three VL- ita to Mida^ i- wr, Vuidi- n of the South Sea Mi « i « |!; 9.' k" \" 7 of the Lcrdon Miseionarv Society." pn 1 oth.; r k- u li. 1S37 Mr. Ellis married MjsaSarah Snckney, who *. me of the lir- t to n ite on tocial. ubj. CM connected v. w omen. Mm. Ellis is unverbally ki. owu m the 1 onss of " The Women of Lu land." " be^ UDi* t ion," " The Daughters of. England," " family cts, and other works. THE LIABILITY OF RAILWAY COMPANIES. In the Court of Exchequer, before tho Lord Chief Baron > nd Barons Martin, Bramwell, and Channel!, the cause of " Kendall v tho London and SjaJb- Western Eallway Com- pany " has been he* rd, and the poin? Involved in this case Is of extreme importance to the publlQ, and to railway com- panies In their capacity as carriers. It appeared that in July last the plaintiff booked his horse from Waterloo station to Ewell, signing a note on the counteifoil of his ticket. The condi- tions on the ticket were that the company would not be responsible for any injury or damage to any horso in the receiving, forwarding, or deliver- ing thereof, if such injury or damage were occa- sioned by the kicking, plunging, or unruliness of the same. The horse was placed in a box by one of the defendants' porters, the saddle remaining on and the stirrups being allowed to hang down. The box was placed at the extreme end of the train. On the horee's arrival at Ewell he was found to be much frightened and greatly cut about, more especially about the forearms and fetlock joints. The plaintiff sued the company for the damage occasioned to his horse, and the case was tried before Baron Martin, at GmldhalL It was admitted that tho defendants h id been guilty of no negligence, and the point involved was whether the defendants are insurers for the safety of live animals intrusted to their care, as they aro in the case of inanimate goods. The defendant called some stud grooms to show that the sending of a riding- horse saddled and with tho stirrups hanging down was the best mode of carrying him ; and it ap- peared that this mode of conveying saddle- horses was general with railway companies. The verdict was entered for the plaintiff for £ 39. the question of liability being reserved for the Full Court, who were to have power to draw inferences of fact. Mr. Henry James, Q. C., moved for and obtained a rule on the ground that the defendants, under the cir- cumstances, were not liable. Mr. Horace Ll" yd, Q. C.. and Mr. Graham showed catise against the rule ; nnd Mr. Henry James, Q. C., Mr. Wood, Q. C., and Mr. Mangles supported it. The Cotir', at the conclusion of the arguments, which were heard before Baron Martin and Barons Bramwell and Pigutt, took time to consider judgment. The following is the substance of th^. j^ dgiqentB delivered by their Lordships :— In the course of giving Judgment, Baron Bramwell said,— No doubt the horse was the Immediate cause of its own Injuries— i. e., no person got Into the boxand injured it. It slipped, or fell, or kicked, or plunged, or in some way hurt ItSelf. If it did so from no csuse other than its inherent prtipensltles, " its proper vice,"— that Is, from fright, or teh por, or struggling to keep its legs— the defendants are not liable. But If It so hurt Itself from tho defendant's no.:! lgerce, or any mlefortune happening to tho train, though not through any negligence of the defendants, as, for Instance, from the horse- box leaving the line through some obstruction maliciously laid upon it, then the de- fendants would, as insurers, be liable. If perishable articles, say soft fruits, are damaged by their own weight and the Inevitable shaking of the carnage, they are In- jured through their own intrinsic qualities. If through pressure of other goods carried with them, or by an extra-, ordinary shock or shaking, whether through negligence or not. the carrier [ 3 liable. Since this judgment wastigreed upon, tho caie of the " Great Western Railway v. Blower," has been decided In the Cdmmon Plefcs to this effeeU Now, it might be a question to whom. In such a case as tho present, the burden of proof lay ; but in tho actual ca< e each gave evi- dence. The dtfrndants" witnesses stated that the train pro- cteded without disturbance or intcnuptlon, and that there was nothing to excite the horse to do what he did to his own damage— no cause for tho mischief except his own inherent disposition. If this Is so, tho defenl- ants are not liable. On the Other hand, the plaintiffs witnesses proved the horse was quiet, used to railway travelling, and therefore, they say, there must have been sometning extraordinary to excite the animal. This Is a question of fact properly for a Jury, but referred to us. IX I am to decide It I find for tho defendants. The evldenco of the plaintiff's witnesses renders It impn. bahle that It was the " proper vice " of the horse. The evidence of tho de- fendants makes it Impossible it was otherwise. It will be observed I take no notice of the saddle and stirrups being on tho hone, as described. First, I am tatUfied they were not the exciting cause of the mischief; secondly, ft appears it was proper to carry the horse so caparisoned ; and if so, and if this horse was affrighted by their being there, it was his own inherent end peculiar disposition that made him so—" his proper vice." At all evonts, I cannot flnjl for the plaintiff on this ground. I cannot trace the injury to this cause. Nor do I notice the special conditions, because I understand the lehrned Judge who tried' the cause to re- port that tho defendants did not show that the damage arose thus. For these reasons I think the rulo onght to be made absolute. Baron Martin stated that ho quite concurred In Baron Bramwell's judgment. The case was a very difficult one, and he had great difficulty In bringing his mind to a conclusion upon It. Baron PIgott differed In opinion from his learned brothers : and after reviewing the facts of the case his Lordship went on to say,— The Court is to draw inferences of fact*, and I Infer ( there being no negligence on either side) that the animal either was thrown or got down in the box, or in struggling to get up again received tho injuries In question. In my opinion the cut on the forearm was caused by Its lying on the stirrup, and the Injuries on the hocks and fetlocks by struggling and kicking on the floor of the box, the result of some accI. Unt or casualty, without evidence to show how caused. The law of carriers, I apprehend, is clearly this— lhat, in the. absence of any speeial contract, they undertake to carry safely, and they Insuro against and hear the risks of all casualltcs'of the transit except such as result from the vis major— i e., acts of nature, otherwise termed'acts of God, and of the Qneen's enemies,— and that since the due of " M'Man us r the Lan- cashire and Yorkshire Railway Company " there is in this respect no distinction between live and other ordinary merchandise. The prerent case, said his Lordship, Is thus reduced to One of or. ua of proof, and upon whom Is such onus cast, for it can be but purely speculation how this par- ticular mlscbUf occurred? There may- have been ah acci- dental jerk at a curve of the line, or a Jolt of the train by sudden stoppage « or, oa the other hand, possibly, ( though there Is no evidence of It) the animal itself may have been the cause of its own injuries by some intrinsic pro- pensity of its own nature. In this state of thidgslt seems to me only reasonable that tho carrier, who has sole control of tjie article, and who alone can know what has occurred,. and certainly has the means of knowing, which the sender df the goods has not, should, if he rely upon any exception to his common law liabUity, show by affirmative proof that the case is brought within the exception. This tbe defend- ants have failed to do. and their liability to insure apainst a cn « ua) ty of the Journey Is unremoved. Therefore, I think the olalntiff is entitled to recover. The majority of the Cotirt being in favour of tho Company, the rule was made absolute. A PAINFUL CASE. At tho Central Criminal Court, In London, oa Monday, Clarance Herbert Todd Neal, S3, a very gentlemanly- looking toung man, pleaded guilty to an lndlctincnt which charged im with folonlonsly forging the signature of his father to a Bond for £ 100, with Intent to defraud. Sir. Metcalfe, who appeared for the prisoner, stated the circumstances of the charge, which were of a very distressing character. The prisoner had been employed in the Bengal Civil Service, but was invalided, and returned to this country. Tho prisoner's salary waa £ 700 per annum, but after his return to this country liis income was reduced to £ 25 and subsequently to £ 10 per month. This caused him to become embarrassed, and ho was desirous to return to Iniiia, where he would have reocived his full salary, and he applied for a loan of £ 100 to pay the expenses of his passage, and as his father refused to become a surety, he signed his name to the bond in question. If he had returned to India he would have been enabled to pay the loan without any difficulty, but he was again attacked with illness after baring paid his pas- sage, and thus the fraud was discovered. He urged that the prisoner had no intention to defraud ultimately, and he aaked that a lenient sentence might bo passed npon him, whose friends would undertake to send him out of the country. The Recorder said it was a peculiar case, and ho sentenced the prisoner to one month's hard labour. A MISSION FOR THE ENGLISH PRESS, The Daily Telegraph thus pleasantly banters on tho proposed visit of Pnnco Bismarck to England:— It 1s well known that Prince BUmarck never does anything without a deep motive; that his lightest remarks arc chargcd with political moaning ; that, llko alescutlo's soldier visited by Queen Mab. he " dreams of cutting foreign throats" almost every night; and that he spends oven his hours of seclusion " 111 warrior meditation, mercy froo." We, there- fore, shudder to hear that ho is about to spend his next holiday at the Isle of Wight, under the shallow and trans- parent pretext that the bathing will do his health pood. Who believes that the Iron Prince Is eve » illf Who credits the assurance that he comes here merely for relaxation or change of air f No; he has evidently read tho recent discussion at the United Servlco Institution, and ha wishes to see for himself the possibilities of a landing on our southern coast. In former times we should have seised hfa at a hostage, perhaps put out his eyes, or at least compel e4 him to piss blindfold through our land. But In these piping modern days all we can dols to send detectives who, from neighbouring bathing machines, can watch his gambols in the waves, and thus get at the truo object of his visit A sepa- rate contingent might be told ofl to steal his clothes, and ex- tract any of those " Memoranda for Moltke " which would bo found In cipher. Perhaps, too, some of " the lorce"— stalwart and rough men - might manage to disguise them- selves as bathing women, and wade about unsuspected near the Princo. Another suspicion naturally arises: may not the seaside visit have a double aim— private Interviews with tho Queen at her marine residence, as well as a reconnoit- ring expedition? After having collocted all the re'iuirite In formation, nnd discovered our weakest points, the astute Prince might knock at the gates of Oaborno Uouso and offer alliance or war— demanding as the price of the alllanco damages for all the Indirect, losses caused to Ger- many by our sale of old Tower muskets to Ameri- cans, who sold them again to the French, ' who shot several Germans, and thus prolonged the war. With all these approhei sions on our soul, our only bopo Is that tho English press will organise a corps of resolute Interviewers determined to go through Are and water and put the Prince to the question. Even his great soul would ihrlnk from such an ordeal, and the loyal and pretty little Island would be freo from what tho late Mr. Bunn, writing tho libretto for tho " Bohemian Girl," called " the hoof" ol tho ruthless In- vader— preserving, no doubt, the satanlc and cloven- foot character ef our modern great men. > THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS. A number of agricultural labourers at Cubbington, as wot." expected, struck on Saturday, in con « equencc of the fcrmera having declined to accedo to the terms of tho Union— I6i per week for nine hours and a hall work per o. ay, and 4Jd. overtime. Tho centre of tho strike is Cvbbington. a village about two miles from Leamington, containing a population of nearly 2,000, chiefly engageo in agriculture. Tho strike also extends to the neighbouring parishes of. Offchurch, Radford, Lillington, Weston, and_ Hunnineham. A few farmers are left without a single man, but the majority have a sufficient number to enablo them to go on with for the presfeit, row that the stock is out at grass. Many farmers Are willing to give the wages required by the Union, but will Lot concede- the shorter hours. The men, however, staad ont determinedly for the full programme of tho Union, both- asto wages and hours. There are probably betv « en 300 nnd 4O0 men on strike;, and a few more*, whose notices to their em- ployers did riot expire until Saturday night, were ex- pected to turn out. iLtthe Crown and Anchor YardVMarlborough, on. Friday evening about 200 agriculto-- al labourers and others met to form a branch of the National Union. The chairman, Mr. Royce, said the labourer* suffered- profound tbisery - they never tastofl meat'for months, and if they did they ate what dogs woald turn nway from. Mr. T. Strange, a deputation from the National Union, in the cqurse of a Jong speech, urtjed npon the labourers to form a Union, to agitate for 24s. weeklyin MR. 0DGER ON THE WASHINGTON TREATY. On Saturday evening the inaugural meeting of thfr Borough of Greenwich Advanced Liberal Association waa held at Greenwich, Mr. Floyd in the chair, upon which occasion Mr. George Odger delivered an addre^ a upon The prexent situation of political parties, and tht ddty of working men at the crisis." In the course of hia address Mr. Odger tonched npon the Alabama question, and said there was no question more im- portant— he might say vital— fo the interests of the people of England. It was vital not only to the peace of England and America, but to tho best liberties of both countries. We were more seriously concerned in it, for tbe best of all reasons. When that great civil war was raging in America, Mr. Bealea, Professor Beesley, andoneortwoworkingmen, includ- ing himself, went to Mr. Adams, who was then Minister on behalf of America, to induce him to use liis best influence with the Government to prevent a rupture in consequence of f he departure of the Alabama. They were with him for two houra, and every one was struck'with the dignity" and general character of the man in explaining the way in which we stood with re- gard to the departure of that vessel. He told them that duringthe war between Russia and England representa- tions were made to the American Government that a vessel called the Moray was about to leave that country laden with arms and ammunition for Rursia. Within three days an embargo wa* laid upon that ship, and orders were issued for the ship to be examined thoroughly, which was done before she was allowed to Ipave. He thought, America having set us so good an example, we were bound to reciprocate some part of that good feeling. He said it in common fairness, and if it were France or Russia he should give utterance to the same words B-. t Mr. Adams went through the history of the Alabama, and told them he was watch- ing her from her alteration— for she was altered from her first design. He wrote to Earl Russell, but the answer was that the question was being submitted to the law officers of the Crown; and when they reported upon the'sribject the Government would be prepared to take action. Mr. Adams again wrote to Lord Russejl, telling him that tho ship waa ready to sail at a few " days' notice ; and three days before her de- parture he wrote again, when he received an answer telling him that he should hear from the leral advisers. He wroto again the day she sailed, and his lordship- managed to take action exactly two or three hours too late, Tbq ship wis gone. Supposing England had been treatedin that maimer by America, would English- men have thought it ^" Per conduct? Had the American Government of that day been a monarchical instead of a republican one they would have acted very differently. They, as working men, were interested in the qu^- sti. n. With regard to th » matter in dispute ho believe- 3 it would be settled. He believed tl » Government saw clearly enough that a settlement must bo arrived at, and he waa of opinion that they would soon see their way to a settlement. With regard to damages, he was bound as an Englishman to say he would not sanction our country paying nny thing in the shope of Indirect Claims. Damages, that could be proved, that came direct, by aH meana let us pay, for we were the guilty party, lite tone of the nation was in favour of a peaceable settlement, and the fact that Earl Russell had had to withdraw his motion was a proof that there was Eometbing behind the scenes which would warrant them in hoping for a good understanding. A vote of thanks was passed to the speaker at tho closet TIGHT LADS. A rational order has proceeded from Head Quarters. His Royal Highness the tield- Marshal Comman. m. g in Chief, in a memorandum recently, issued, dirjeta that, " in future, clothing for recruits be fitted aa loose as possible, to enable them, aa they increase in size from good diet and healthy their drill without impeding the free ^ of their hin^ s and the action of the heart.. . Nothing could b* wiser in its way than this improvement of the British Soldier's Uniform, wept the exUnsion of its principle so as to provide caedy- htting clothes for him when rations and drill thall have developed him from an attenuated recruit into the plenitude of a full private. A tight uniferm is so bad a thing for the soldie . that there cannot be a worse, except the personal tightness of the wearer when he has got tight himself. And observe, that, when a mm is tight both in himself and iu bis tunic and trousers, tightness of dreaa ia attended with laxity of discipline.— Punch, THE FALMOUTH & PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. SITTODAY, JUICE 15, 18T2 DISCOVERIES IN A BONE CAVE IN YORKSHIRE. fFrom the Pali Uall Gazette.) The « crt> nfific exploration of caves in various parts t> f Europe » daily becoming more important from tho light wtich it throwB on ancient races of men, and o a the animals which are no longer to be found in the (' Js- tricts wKch they once occupied. Each fresh disco very offers fresh proof of the continuity Which exists be tween geology ana history. A cave seems, indeed, * lhe last place find anything bearing on history ; brjt never- theless the results of the labours of the S ettle Cave Exploration Committee, carried on for t'oe last two years, are most valuable both geologically and his- torically. Tho Victoria Cave is situated about half- way up a line of grey limestone cliffs overlooking the grey limestone " pavements'" and broken precipices • which extend northwards to Ingltjborough, and con- sists of large chambers filled very nearly to the roof with accumulations of earth, clay, and . stones. The committee began their work by cutting a trench from tie outside of one of the entrances through a l. vyer two feet thick of angular fragments of stone broken away from the cliff above by the action of frost, which rested on a dark stratum composed of fragments of bone more or less burnt, burnt stones which had formed fire- places, very xiany fragments of pottery, find a few Roman - coins. It was evident that the cave had been inhabited in ancient times, and that " the broken bones of the Animals strewn about were the relics of the food of the inhabitants. As the trench passed into the entrance the talus of stones disappeared, and the black or Roman- Celtic layer, as it may be called, covered the floor, passing over its inequaEties, and lying some- times underneath enormous masses of rock which had fallen from the roof since it was accumulated. Besides spindlewhorts, beads, and curious articles of bone, it yielded bronze fibulae of Roman workmanship, spiral bronze gilt armlets, amd a portion of the ivory hilt of a Roman sword. Some of the ornaments present a style of art which is certainly not Roman, being com- posed of two plates of bronze soldered together, Mid bearing flamboyant and spiral patterns of admirable design and execution. They certainly belong to the same school as that which produced the illuminations f one of the Anglo- Saxon gospels at Stockholm and the gospels of St Columba preserved in Trinity College, Dublin. The bronze gilt brooches and finger- ringB ornamented with enamel, in red, blue and yel- low, and green, were also of non- Roman workman- ship, although some of the designs bore traces of Roman art Most probably they are the work of the Roman- Celts ; and there is nothing at all strange that the Irish art of the sixth or seventh centuries should have had some points in common with that of the neighbouring kingdom of Strathclyde, which at that time embraced the whole of Lancashire and a considerable portion of Yorkshire, since there is clear historical evidence that Ireland in the seventh and eighth centuries exerted important influence on the neighbouring countries. The broken bones of the » pimftla Bhow that the Celtic shorthorn, the goat, horee, and pig were the principal domestic animals which supplied the food of the dwellers in the cave. Bones of fowl implied that they kept poultry, while the roe- buck, red- deer, and grouse contributed but little to their feasts. There can be no doubt that this strange collection of objects was formed during the abode of a family for some time in the cave, and we have to account for the pre- sence of so many articles of luxury in so lonely, strange, and uncomfortable a place. The personal ornaments and the delicate Smmn ware are worthy of the villa of a wealthy Roman rather than of the dwelling of men who lived by choice in caves. The few coins which were found explain this difficulty— Bome belong- ing to Trajan, Constans, and Constantine, and others being barbarous imitations of Roman coins, which are assigned by numismatists to the time when Britain was being evacuated by the Roman legions. To say the least, there are two extremes between which the date of « > » '• occupation of the cave must lie— the fifth cen- tury, as shown by the barbaric coins, and the first quarter of the seventh century, whan the kingdom of Strathclyde was conquered by the Northumbrian Angles. It cannot be later, because of the presence of Roman and the absence of all English coitus. So long as the Celts of Strathclyde, cut off from the Roman Empire, held their ground against the Angles, they would certainly follow as nearly as they could the manner of life handed down to them by their forefathers, the Roman provincials, and they would use Roman coinB and rude imitations of them for their currency. We can hardly doubt that this cave was used by un- fortunate dwellers in Ribblesdale who were compelled to fly from their homes with some of their cattle and other property, and to exchange the luxuries of civili- zation for a h^ rH struggle for common necessaries. In no other way can the association of works of sit of so high an order be accounted for side by side with the rude instruments of savage life; for it cannot be allowed that they were introduced into the cave by robbers, because many other caves in the neighbour- hood contain articles of the same order. These re- mains, therefore, afford as true and vivid a picture of the troublous times of the sixth or seventh centuries as the ruins of the Roman villas and cities, which for the most part have been burned. In the latter case we see the homes of the Romano- Celts ravaged by the invad- ing English, and in the other the boles in the rocks to which the Romano- Celts fled for refuge. But there were evidences of a very much older Roman occupation than this. At the entrance, below the Romano- Celtic layer, there was a talus of angular stones six feet thick, which rested on a layer of stiff clay. At this level the committee discovered a few rude bone awls and a bone fish- spear or harpoon, along • with chipped pieces of flint and broken bones of ox and bear, which proved that " inn in a rude state of civiliza- tion inhabited the cave before the accumulation of the talus. And if it be admitted that the debris has fallen from the rliff in equal quantities at equal times, the fact that it is two feet thick above the Eomano- Celtic layer and six feet thick between that and this earlier one would prove that the interval between the two is three times as great as that which separates the former from our own time ; the two feet being accumulated in about 1,200 years and six feet in 3,600. If this rude estimate be accepted, the date of the earlier occupation would be about 5,000 years ago. The grev clay on which these more ancient traces of men rested offered a serious obstacle to further ex- amination, since it was more than five^ and- twenty feet in thickness within the cave, and contained no remains of men or of animals. Fortunately, however, the enterprising gentlemen who form the committee have lately sunk another shaft, and have obtained evidence of a still older occupation of the cave, not by men, but by hyenas. The broken bones, coproUfces, and teeth of those animals show that in ancient times they lived there in considerable numbess, and the Sowed bones and teeth of the mammoth, bison, rein- er, red deer, the great woolly rhinoceros, and the cave " bear belong to the creatures which formed their prey. The time when these animals were living in Yorkshire is that wbich geologists know as " Pleistocene" or " Quartern ary," and corresponds with that daring • which Kent's Hole and Kirkdale caves were being filled with akailar remains. The shaft at present has been sunk to a depth of thirty feet from the original snrfaoe, and the accumulation of earth and bones ex- tends to an unknown depth below. We very much hope that the oommittee will be encouraged by these results to - cootfane the exploration, and we should cer- tainly advise any one who carea for beautiful scenery and feels any interest in euch investigations as these to visit the district which lies round Settie, and to see the wonderful contents left behind by the hyaanas which are being discovered every day. CROSSING A HALF- FROZEN RIVER. / » " rom " The Great Lorn Land" Br Captain W. y. Butler, * P. B. a. B. J 1 lay dawned upon us on the 6th November camped in a little thicket of poplars some seventy miles from the South Saskatchewan: the thermometer atood 3 deg. m. below sero, and as I drew the girths tight on poor l'. lackie's ribs that morning, I felt happy in the though t that I had slept for the first time under the stars wt* h 35 degs. of frost lying on tho blanket outside. Another long day's rido, and the last great treeless plain was crosssd, and evening found us camped near the Minitchinass, or Solitary Hill, some sixteen miles south- east c<( the south Saskatchewan. The grass again grew long aikd thick, the clumps of willow, poplar, and birch had reappeared, and the soil, when we Kcraped the snow away to make our sleeping place, turned up black and rich- looking under the blows of the axe. About midday on the 7th November, in a driving ( torn of mow, we suddenly emerged upon a high plateau. Before us, at a little distance, a treat gap or valley seemed to open suddenly oat, and farther off the white sides of hilli and dark tree- Sops rose into view. Indian to the edge of this steep valley I beheld a magnificat river flowing between great banks of ice and sn'jW 300 feet below the level on which we stood. Upor. each side masses of ioe stretched out far into the nYr, r, but in the centre, between these bankBof ice, ran » swift, black- looking current, the sight of which for a moment filled ns with dismay. We had counted upon the Saskatchewan being firmly locked in ice, and here was the river rolling along between its icy banks for- bidding all passage. Descending to the low valley of the river, we halted for dinner, determined to try some method by which to cross this formidable barrier. An examination of the river and its banks soon revealed the difficulties before us. The ice, as it approached the open por- tion, was unsafe, rendering it impossible to get within reach of the running water. An interval of some ten yards separated the sound ice from the current, while nearly 100 yards of solid ice lay between the true bank of the river and the dangerous portion ; thus our first labour was to make a solid footing for ourselves from which to launch any raft or makeshift boat which we might construct. After a great deal of trouble and la- bour, we got the waggon- box roughly fashioned into a raft, covered over with one of our large oilcloths, and lashed together with buffalo leather. This most primitive looking craft we carried down over the ice to where the dangerous portion commenced ; then Daniel, wielding the axe with powerful dexterity, began to hew away at the ice until space enough was opened out to float our raft upon. Into this we slipped the wagaon- box. and into the waggon- box we put the half- breed DanieL It back in memory With all the vividness of a picture, and I feci again the horrible sensation of being utterly unable, though almost within touching distance, to give him help in his dire extremity— and if ever dumb animal spoke with unutterable eloquence, that horse called to me in his agony; he turned to me as to one from whom he had a right to expect assistance. I could not stand thescene any longer. " Is there no help for him? " I cried to the other men. " None whatever," was the reply: " the ice is dangerous all around." Then I rushed back to the shore and up to the camp where my rifle lay, then back again to the fatal spot where the poor beast still struggled against his fate. As I raised the rifle he looked at mo so imploringly that my hand shook and trembled. Another instant, and the deadly bullet crashed through his head, with one look never to ^ forgotten, he went down under the cold, unpitying :! It may have been very foolish, perhaps, for poor Blackie was only a horse, but for all that I went back to camp, and, Bitting down in the snow, cried like a child. With my own hand I had taken my poor friend's life; but if there should exist somewhere in the regions of space that happy TnHinn paradise'where horses are neverhungry and never tired, Blackie, at least, will for- give the hand that sent him there, if he can but see the heart that long regretted him. floated admirably, and on went the axe man, hewing, as before, with might and main. It was cold, wet work, and, in spite of every thing, the water began to ooze through tho oilcloth into the waggon^ box. We had to haul it up, empty it, and laun « h I again ; thus for some hours we kept on, cold, wet, and miserable, until night forced us to desist, and make our camp on the tree- lined shore. So we hauled in the waggon and retired, baffled, butnot beaten, to begin again next morning. There were many reasons to make this delay feel vexatious and disappointing ; we had travelled a dis- tance of 560 miles In twelve days: travelled only to find ourselves stopped by this partially frozen river at a point twenty miles distant from Carlton, the first great station on my journey. Our stock of provisions, too, was not such as would admit of much delay; pemmican and dried meat we had none, and flour, tea, and prease were all that remained to us. However, Baiuel declared that he knew a most excellent method of making a combination of flour and tat which would allay all disappointment— and I must conscientiously admit that a more hunger- eatiating mixture than be produced out of the frying- pan it had never before been my lot to taste. A little of it went suoh a long way, that it would be impossible to find a parallel for it in portability; in fact, it went such a long way, that the person who dined off it found himself, by common reciprocity of feeling, bound to go a long way in return before he again par- took of it; but Daniel was not of that opinion, for he ate the greater portion of our united shares, and slept peacefully when it was all gone. I would particularly recommend this mixture to the consideration of the luardians of the poor throughout the United King- dom. as I know of nothing which would BO readily conduce to the satisfaction of the hungry element in our society. Had such a combination been known to Bumble and his Board, the hunger of Twist wonld even have been satisfied by a single helping; but, per- haps, it might be injudicious to introduce into the sister island any condiment so antidotal in its nature to the removal of the Celt across the Atlantic— that " consumation so devoutly wished for " by the " lead- ing journal." Fortified by Daniel's delicacy, we set to work early next morning at raft making and ice cutting ; but we made the attempt to cross at a portion of the river where the open water was narrower and the bordering ice sounded more firm to the testing blows of the axe. One part of the river had now closed in, but the ice over it was unsafe. We succeeded in getting the craft into the running water and, having strung together all the available line and rope wo possessed, prepared for the venture. It was found that the waggon- boat would only carry one passenger, and accordingly I took my place in it, and with a make- shift paddle put out into the quick- running stream. The current had great power over the ill- shaped craft, and it was no easy matter to keep her head at all against stream. I had not got five yards out when the whole thing commenced to fill rapidly with water, and I had ju? t time to get back again to ioe before she was quite full. We hauled her out once more, and found the oilcloth had been cut by the jagged ice, so there was nothing for it but to re- move it altogether and put on another. This was done, and soon our waggon- box was once again afloat. This time I reached in safety the farther side ; but there a difficulty arose which we had not foreseen. Along this farther edge of ice the current ran with trreat force, and as the leather line which was attached to the back of the boat sank deeper and deeper into the water, the drag upon it caused the boat to drift quicker and quicker downstream; thus, when I touched the opposite ice, I found the drift was BO rapid that my axe failed to catch a hold in the yielding edge, whicti broke away at every stroke. Alter several ineffectual attempts to stay the rush of the boat, and as I was being borne rapidly into a mass of rushing water and huge blocks of ice, I saw it was all up, and shouted to the others to rope in the line ; but this was no easy matter, because the rope had got foul of the running ice, and was caught underneath- At last, by careful handling, it was freed, and I stood one more on the spot from whence I had started, having crossed the River Saskatchewan to no purpose. Daniel now essayed the » task, and reached the opposite shore, taking the precaution to work up the nearer side before crossing ; once over, his vigorous use of the axe told on the ice, and he succeeded in fixing the boat against the edge. Then he quickly clove his way into the frozen mass, and, by repeated blows, finally reached a spot from which bS got en shore. This success of our long labour and exertion was an- nounced to the solitude by three ringing cheers, which we gave from our side ; for, be it remembered, that it was now our intention to use the waggon- boat to convey across all our baggage, towing the boat from one side to the other by means of our line ; after which, we wonld force the horses to swim the river, and then cross our- selves In the boat. But all our plans were defeated by an unlooked for accident; the line lay deep in the water, as before, and to raise it required no small amount of force. We hauled and hauled, until snap went the long rope somewhere underneath the water, and all was over. With no little difficulty Daniel got the boat across again to our side, and we all went back to camp wet, tired, and dispirited by so much labour and so many misfortunes. It froze hard that night, and in tho morning the great river had its waters altogether hidden opposite our camp by a covering of ice. Would it bear? that was the question. We went on it early, testing with axe and sharp- pointed poles. In places it was very thin, but in other parts it rang hard and solid to the blows. The dangerous spot was in the very centre of the river, where the water had shown through in round holes on the previous day, but we hoped to avoid these bad places by taking aslanting course across the channel After walking backwards and forwards several times, we determined to try a light horso. He was led out with a long piece of rope attached to his neck. Ip the centre of the stream the ice seemed to bend Blightly as he passed over, but no break occurred, and in safety we reached the opposite side. Now came Blackie's turn. Somehow or other I felt uncomfortable about it, and remarked that the horso ought to have his shoes removed before the attempt was made. My companion, however, demurred, and his experience in these matters had extended over so many years, that I was foolishly induced to allow him to pro- ceed as he thought fit, even against my better judgment. Blackie was taken out, led as before, tied by a long line. I followed clone behind him to drive him if necessary. He did not need much driving, but took the ice quite readily. We had got to the centre of the river, when the surface suddenly bent downwards, and, to my horror, the poor horse plunged deep Into black, ouickvrunning water! He was not three yards in liont of me when the ice broke. I recoiled in- volunti'rily from the black, seething chasm; the homo, though he plunged suddenly down( never let bis head un.' ler water, but kept . swimming manfully round and round the narrow holo, trying all he could to get upon the ice. All his efforts were useless; a cruel waill of sharp ice struck his knees as he tried to lift them on the surface, and the current running with immense velocity, repeatedly carried him back under- neath. As soo. n as the horse had broken through, the man who he.' d the rope let it go, and the leather line flew back about poor BlacJde's head. I got up almost to the edge of the holo, and stretching out took hold of the line . again ; but that could do no good nor give " him any asa^ tance in his ttruggles. I shall never forget the way the poor brute looked at me— even now, as I write those lines, the whole scene comes THE LATE MR. MATTHEW DAVEN- PORT HILL, Q. C. The death of Mr. Matthew Davenport, Hill, Q. C., Com- missioner of the Bristol District Court of Bankruptcy, and formerly Recorder of Birmingham took place last Friday morning, after a painful Ulneae, at his resldenco. Heath House, Staploton, Gloceate rehire, at tho age of fourscore years. He was the eldest of a family of which several members have Identified themselves, with the great moral and material Im- provements of oar age and time. To use tho words of a writer in the English Cyclopaedia— " Their father Mr. Thomas Wright Hill, who died in 1851, at the age of 89, was a native of Kidderminster, and he subsequently settled in the neighbourhood of Birmingham as the head of a school, which in later years became celebrated for the original views of educa- tion which were there carried into practice as ' the Hazlewood system.' Afr. Thomas Hill's merits have been Bet forth in a ' Brief Memoir,' published in the Annual Report of the Council of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1852. His love of scientific pursuits continued from his earliest to his latest years, and even within a month or two of his death he was occupied in framing a system of nomenclature for the stars. He was equally distinguished for his adherence to the principles of civil and religious freedom from hi" earliest manhood. In the riote of Birmingham, in 1791, he strove against a furious mob, to defend the houses of Dr. Priestley and at Baskerville, the printer, and the same spirit led his betrothed wife, at this perilous time, to refuse to utter the party cry of' Church and King,' when the carriage in which she was riding was surrounded by a desperate mob." It was 4 priori probable that the sons of such a father would seek and obtain distinction in the world; at all events they could scarcely fail to imbibe from him a wish to merit such distinction, and to do good service to their fellow men. The subject of these re- maiks was born in the year 1792; and after assisting his father in his school, first at Haxelwood and subse- quently at Brnoe Castle. Tottenham, we find him called to the Bar at Lincoln's- inn in Michaelmas Term, 1819. The first important trial with which his name. was pub- licly associated was that of Major Cartwright, whose de- fence he undertook against an indictment for political conspiracy; and the talents which he displayed on that occasion introduced him to the friendship of Jeremy Bentham, and also of such legal celebrities as Brougham, Wilde, and Denman. With the first- named of this trio he was associated some five- and- forty years ago in the establishment of the newly- founded Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge; and for several a1 he took an aotive part in its proceedings and pub" ons. In the first reformed Parliament he was re- turned as one of the members for Hull, and he had not been long in possession of a seat in the House before he took up vigorously the question of municipal reform, upon which subject it is said that he had the honour of presenting the very first petition which was addressed to the Legislature. The freemen " of Hull, however, appear to have failed to appreciate hlB labour*, as at the next general election they returned another candi- date in his stead. In the two years during which he was a member of Parliament Mr. Hill distin- guished himself by supporting the Bill for allowing persons charged with felony to employ counsel in their defence, and by proposing other amendments in our criminal law. He also took an active part in obtaining the bill under which the now flourishing colony of South Australia was founded. Upon the erection of Birmingham into a municipal corporation the Recordership of that town was conferred upon Mr. Pill, who, in the charges which from time to time he delivered to the grand jury, contrived to give public expression to comprehensive and philosophical views not only on the subject of juvenile crime, but also on the proper treatment of adult offenders and on the general principles and practice of criminal law— views which were at that time in advance of the age, but have since had their soundness very largely veri- fied and tee ted by experience, and have come to be generally accepted as true. In 1843, in con- junction with Lord Brougham and other likeminded friends, Mr. Hill took part in forming and esta- blishing the Society for the Amendment of the Law. In 1851 he was nominated Commissioner of Bankrupts for the Bristol District Upon obtaining this appoint- ment he necessarily gave up his private practice as a barrister, and reoolved thenceforth to devote Buck spare time as he could command to his favourite subject— the general amendment of the law as regards the treat- ment of javenile criminals. It is not too much to say that it is in a trreat degree owing to hiB unwearied per- severance in the cause, and by various able and well- timed publications on this and other kindred subjects, that the Reformatory question has come to occupy the attention of statesmen and legislators, and that the amendment and reclamation of our young street " araks" from vice and crime has been " raised from the position of a benevolent theory into a great practical principle, demanding the co- operation of all parties, in order to carry it into full effect." It should be mentioned that at his decease the name of Mr. Commissioner Hill stood at the head of the long roll of Q. C's. in the Law List, and that he ob- tained the honour of a silk gown, with a Patent of Precedence, as far back as the year 1834. Besides his " Charges " delivered as Recorder of Birmingham, Mr. Hill published biographies « f men who have proved themselves benefactors of their country ; he was also the author of several pampleta and essays, among which we ought to mention his letters to Lord Bongham and to Mr. ( now Sir Charlesi Adderley, on The Repression of Crime, and Practical Suggestions to the Founders of Reformatories. Mr. Commissioner Hill, in enforcing hi « views upon the reformation of crime, was largely aided by the labours and publications of his brother, Mr. Frederick Hill. Alty- ai, eix mouths. Herr von Cotto directs attention to the remarkable fact that not only are the rocks of the Altai and their relative position such as are found in central Europe, bat also the organic remains of tba different geologi- cal periods are the same : even the plants of the coal formation of countries so widely separated in space are essentially similar, while the living flora are characteristically different. Still more singular is it that the coal formation of the Altai region appears to belong te the same geological period as those of Cen- tral Europe and Northern America; whereas in the whole of European Russia not a Bingle district is known in which the coal formation belongs to the coal era of Western Europe. The coal beds of Euro- pean Russia are all older than those of Central Europe. On the other hand, it is found that in a part, at least, of China the coal formation is later. It would thus appear that the coal region of the Altai was formed intermediately between those of European Russia and China, and are contemporary with those of Western Europe and Northern America. The present climate of the Altai is marked by a cold winter and very rapid alternations of temperature, which are extremely injurious to the development of plants. Germany and the Altai lie in the same latitude, but the number of plants growing wild in Germany compared with those peculiar to the Altai is as 7 to 4. While again in the very warm and dry Bummers sugar ana water melons thrive in the open fields, in the course of every winter the temperature frequently falls BO low that quicksilver is frozen. And to this must be added violent snow- storms, which make even short trips dangerous. and for the completion of any unfulfilled arrangements in connection with the Crossley Orphan Homo and SchooL His son is made residuary legatee, and the will appoints Lady Crossley and tha* « re executors guardians of Sir Savile Crossley durA'ais minority. There is ope provision in the willwhSL- ia of interest to the inhabitants of the town of Halifax, viz,—" And whereas among my books will be found u volume which I very much prize, containing an address presented to me on the occasion of the opening of the People's Park at Halifax, and having the signatures of upwards of 8,000 of the townsmen and townswomen of Halifax aforesaid appended thereto : now, I hereby expressly commend the same volume to the special care and con- servancy of my dear wife and son, Savile Brinton Crossley, and 01 such others of my descendants as may from time to time be intitled to the possession thereof, feeling assured that they will best secure the delivery down of that volume as an heirloom in my family to the latest possible generation, so that the same may belong to the male head of my personal branch of the family of Crossley for the time being." Codicils executed in August, 1869, and May, 1871, do not effect the disposition of the property. GROUND VINERIES. ( From the Floral World.) The simplest way of making glass available to pro- duce first- class grapes is the adoption of ground vineries. In the first instance of using these, a trench was dug ; the trench was lined with slates, and was covered with a small glass ridge. The vine was planted in common soil at one end outside the trench, and was trained along the centre of. the trench under the glass, the bunches being allowed to hang in the trei^ h, and receiving heat direct from the sun overhead, and in- directly by radiation from the Blates. This answered very well; but experience proved that the simplicity of this contrivance might be simplified. • Tfce glass ridge was placed on the level ground, on a row of bricks placed a few inches apart to afford ventilation, and with slates or tiles laid on the ground inside, so that now the bunches lay upon the slates, and were there subjected to greater heat than when they hung in the trench, and the consequence was, the berries grew to a greater size and ripened more perfectly. There is no mystery about ground vineries ; any carpenter can make them, any amatem, even a mere beginner, manage them; and they are so far useful for the cultivation of grapes, that by their aid bunches fit for exhibition may be grown in them without difficulty. The ohief secret of their efficiency is their power of absorbing and retaining a greater amount of sun heat than is possible for either walls or exposed soiL Cur- rents of air which quickly cool the common soil, are excluded by the glass, which also tends to check radia- tion, so that within the ground vinery a better climate is secured than can be in any way obtained without the aid of glass. These vineries are made in various ways and sizes. Some are adapted to accommodate two vines side by side, others for single vines only. The size found most suit- able for one vine is thirty Inches wide, sixteen inches from ground line to ridge, twenty inches slope of roof. For two vines, forty- two inches wide; twenty inches deep, twenty- eight inches slope of roof. The length of such vineries may be indefinite, but for convenience sake they are usually made in seven feet lengths, and as the vines extend in length, additional lengths of glass frames are added ; and of course the vines are always kept to single rods, closely spurred in. To ap- propriate these simple structures to the purpose they are intended for Is easy enough. The ground is marked out, and bricks are laid a few inches apart for the frames to rest upon. The bricks keep the frames from touching the ground, which tends to preserve them from decay, and they serve at the same time to insure perfect ventilation, so that there is never any occasion for this purppsf to move any portion of the glass. As for the vine, that is planted at one end, in a mixture of good loam and broken plaster or old mortar, with a little manure. A rich soil is not desirable, but it is desirable the position Should be dry and the soil light; conditions which promote a perfect ripening of the wood in the autumn. The slates are simply laid on the common soil, and the vine is kept in its place on the slates by means of a few pegs. THE GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY OF THE ALTAI. Referring to the work on the geology and mineralogy of the Altai, by the eminent German, Herr Bernhard von Cotta, the Pall Hall GazetU remarks :— Herr Bernhard von Cotta, an eminent German pro- fessor, has just published a very interesting work on the geology and mineralogy of the Altai. The Altai region comprises 7,800 German square miles, and is somewhat larger, therefore, than Great Britain and Ireland together. It forms part of tho private possessions of the Imperial family of Russia ; and its gold, silver, and copper mines aro estimated to have yielded an annual income of about a million roubles. Of late, however, its silver mines havo shown signs of exhaustion, and the new mines opened have not turned out nearly so remunerative as tho old ones. Under the& e circumstances tho Russian Govomment in the spring of 1868 commissioned Hon- von Cotta to visit the region and examine its mineral resources. The work he has now given to the woild is the fruit of his journey. In it he has not confined himself, how- ever, to the mere object for which ho was sent by the Rusian Government. Tho first part of the work gives an interesting account of his travels; the second is devoted to the geology and geography of the Altai, and its present and early inhabitants. The AJtai rises almost in the centre of the Asiatio continent, forming tho western end of that great chain of mountaiiAS whioh stretches thenos away to the mouth of the Amfour, and separates Eastern Siberia from Ohina. Aline^ t in the centre this giant chain is breached by La ke Baikal and its southern feeders. In its ridges also ai. e tho sources of the Yenisei and the Irtish. The Obi takes its rise in the Altai. The name " Altai," we are toid, is interpreted in four different ways. The first dermis it- froin Ala tun, that is, golden mountain; the second from Alin- tau, which means parti- coloured mountain; the third , from Altaiya, or PREACHING IN A MUSIC HALL. ENGLAND'S INCREASING PROSPERITY.' ( From The Timet.) What are the signs of national prosperity ? We hav « often asked that question, but, whatever the answer, we think just now there can be little mistake about the fact. For the " upper ten thousand," or, as it would be fairer to say of this country, the upper million, let London of to- day speak, crammed as it Is beyond precedent with residents and visitors ready to take anything at any price, and anxious only for a chance of the bargain. Let picture sales speak, where fifty pictures a day fetch each the value of fifty acres of good English land, and a couple of teacups will be bought in for a hundred guineas or so. Let subscription lists speak, in which thousands upon thousands are given for any object in any country under the sun. Perhaps the rejoinder would be that abouttheupper millions no question need be raised or evidence tendered. Go a step lower, then, and look at the activity of trade in all its departments, the pries of every article of produce, the condition of th « money market, and, above all, the gathering of the eagles above the carcasses. There is good provender be sure in the shape of capital when adventurers are spread in such abundance before the eyes of the capitalists, and we are once more, perhaps, on the eve of the " mania" which precedes a panic. Take, again, the public Expenditure and Revenue— the one so large that it has been denounced as essen- tially intolerable, the other so elastic and so easily raised that people hardly trouble them- selves about the matter. There used to be a never- failing protest at this stage of the story, but even that cannot be sustained now. The working classes are getting their share of good things at a rate never before witnessed. The rise in the value of labour is so universal and so extraordinary that it has now its regular place in the estimates of the largest employers in the world — the railway companies. Profits which have hitherto gone to shareholders are being shared by servants, and not unjustly. It seems to be a question whether next month's dividends will be maintained at the rate ruling in January, notwith- standing the buoyancy of the traffic and the exuberance of receipts. If we are reminded of yet another stratum of society, we answer that pauperism, too, is on the decline, and that the very poor and needy are fewer than they were. We can anticipate the criticisms of a certain school about the unequal distribution of all this wealth, and It is true enough that property is very unevenly divided. Some people have more than others, and others would be glad to get more than they have. We fear these two classes and their antago- nism will exist to the end of the world, but it is not correct to say, as is said with more pertinence, that while half the nation has risen in condition the other half has not risen at alL If, as the author of Sibyl said five- and- twenty years ago, we are indeed " two nations"— the Rich and the Poor— it is certain at any rate that the former nation is by far the larger one. Wealth, in the sense of more or less enjoyment of life, extends more than half- way down the scale. There is no class which is not better off than it used to be— we believe we might say there is no class which has not risen. Does England, then, we shall be asked, really keep its _ people better than it did fifty years ago? We say. Yesand, what is more to the purpose, and yet is always for- gotten, it keeps twice as many of them. In 1821 the population of England " and " Waios was just 12.000,000; in 1871 it was within a fraction of 23,000,000. The labourer has had his old indulgence, has married imprudently, and under circumstances whioh would forbid such a step to his betters, and yet with all this great and unceasing multiplication of the mouths to be fed they are all fed stilL Within the narrow limits of this island there are now, as com- , . .... . { op To the last of these ( Oxford Music Hall, Oxford- street), a favourite resort and rendezvous of the gay and profligate of all that part of London, and by the attractive character of tho entertainments a popular place of amusement, we paid a visit one Sunday evening. On reaching the hall, we found groups of all characters— good, Dad, and very bad— hanging about the door; attracted and arrested by the noon- day blaze of gaslights which illunrnated the passage. Two agents of the mission stood there distributing tracts, and also a copy of the hymns to be sung inside. Pushing our way in we found ourselvee in a great hall; the aspect and furniture of which told at once the ordinary use it was turned to. Anything but the gospel preached, or gospel company found there? At the upper end was a stage, with footlights as in a theatre ; the walls were garnished with paintings and statues of Yenuses and Cupids, other heathen, and by no means respectable divinities; in front of this stood cases with fidales— big and little— and other musical instruments ; on the floor near these were marble tables, stained with tobacco ashes and the impressionsofiugs of foaming porter Conducted with our party to some half dozen stuffed andcomfortable chairs, we having declined totako any part in the service or go up on the stage to sit beside the preacher, had leisure to take a survey of tho heuse and congregation. With a sprinkling of respectable, church- going people liko ourselves, the company consisted < 5 those the services were intended for— orro- looking characters ; ill- visaged men with uncombed locks, great bushy whiskers and beards, who wore a sinister look, and had their shabby overcoat— if it was over anything but the naked skin, buttoned up to the throat; many young lads and flaunting girls. Some of the latter walked in during the service, and after staying a few minutes walked out again. They had mistaken the place for one of public entertainment; were taken, in fact, " by guile" through the blaze of gas at the door. This is illustrated by the answer given to one who asked why they were leaving^ when some hundred bolted en masse after the first prayer. " Why, sir," Several shouted out, " the first act was over, and we had had enough 1" It was plain to us that some, like fish out of the water, fonnd themselves very uncomfort able. They looked so ; and hearing truths no way to their taste, made off for more congenial pursuits. Yet thfey may have heard something that would stick, and wsue in their salvation. There for fun, they behaved ill, giggling to each other ; still that occasion would not have been the firatwhere sinners had gone to mock, and Btayed to pray.— From " The Sunday Magazine." The LATE SIR F. CROSSLEY, M. P. The will of the late Sir Francis Crosaley, dated the 7th of November, 1868, was proved in the Wakefield Court, on tho 27th ult., by Mr. John Crossley, Mr. Edward Crossley, Mr. Louis G. Crossley, Mr. Henry Crossley, and Mr. Benjamin Mu9grave, the five executors and trustees appointed by the will. The personal estate was sworn undor £ 800,000. Tho testator gives to Lady Crossley for life his mansion and grounds at Belle Vue, Halifax, with a life annuity of £ 6,000, and the right to occupy Somer- leyton Hall, tho farms, and those parts of the Somerley- ton estate In his occupation at the time of his decease during the minority ot his son, Sir Savile Brinton Cross- ley, and subject to this condition, that both the above estutes are entailed on his son and his issue, with an expressed hope that no tenant in tail will part with either of the said estates without good reasons. The testator gives legacies of £ 400 each to his executors, and also legacies to several old servants. He makes the following charitable bequests :—£ 1,000 each to tho London Missionary Society, the West Riding Home Missionary Society, tho Congregational Pastor's Retiring Fund, and Airedale College, Bradford ; and £ 500 each to tho Congregational Board of Education at Homerton, the Halifax Tradesmen's Benevolent In- stitution, and the Halifax Infirmary, all free of duty. Certain provisions are made with respect to the endow- 1 meiit of the almshouses erected by him at Halifax, pared witn tne early part ot tne century, two men tor every one, and yet it is a debatable point whether any are worse off than formerly, while it is certain that the majority are far better off. How many, we should like to know, of the descendants of the workmen or tradesmen of 1811 are now in some higher rank of society? In a few weeks holyday- tim will begin, and not for one class of the people, but for many. Let any traveller, indeed, observe for himself, and then eay what class forms an exception to the rule. No d^ ubt there is a " residuiim " beyond reach even of excursion trains and bank holydays, but it is hardly more than an atom compared with the mass. For the last forty years comforts, pleasures, and luxuries have been steadily spreading downwards from one class of society to another. A small shopkeeper may now see as much of the world, and get pretty nearly as much of its enjoyments, as a small squire did in the last generation. The old grandees find them- selves swamped at levies land drawing- rooms, and the n6w- comers who press upon them there meet with exactly the same fate a little lower down. Every clas3 treads upon the heels of the class before it, and, for that matter, without much jealousy or heart burning. We are said to be driving fast towards De- mocracy, but if it be so, the level will bj reached rather by rising than by falling. It would puzzle any- body, wo think, to say what has been lost in any rank of the people, except excluBiveness. There are a great many things which are no longer the privilege of the few, but that is all the misfortune which the few have sustained. Money will buy anything, and money is now aWhe command of millions instead of thousands, while oountless inventions provide for its convenient circulation. It is not merely that many more men than formerly have sovereigns in their pockets, but that these sovereigns will buy so much more enjoy- ment. The diminution in the purchasing power of gold may be all a true story in theory, but it is not so in fact. A hundred things have so counteracted the result that practically a man can do more with his money than before. Railways have been the mo- t powerful of these agents, but as the popular taste for enjoyment increased with the means of obtaining it, the supply becahie naturally proportioned to the de- mand. It is instructive to remember that of late years we have had but one visitation of domostic difficulties, and that this was occasioned by the ab « so of excessive wealth. Even the panic of 1866, thoujh it paralyzed industry, straitened trade, stopped work, ana brought privation to many a household, was no evidence of national poverty, but only of public distrust. At the very worst crisis of that time there was money enoueh in tne country for anything, but the uses towbich noney had been turned, and the losses which had ensued, s » i frightened its possessors that they no longer dared te put their savings out of their power. That wis the whole history of the " want of employment" which three years ago was the talk of the country, and which, in fact, was itself to a great extent only a re- action from an artificial glut. The speculations of the previous five years hail created an enormous and unnatural domand for labour at high pricee. and when these collapsed the demand oollapsed too. Other- wise, and exoept for that check, our prosperity h s been continuous. Of course we do not siieak of the Cotton Famine, an exotic affliction, largely mitigated out of the general woalth, but for full five- and- twenty years we havo enjoyed with little interruption that prosperity of wMch our columns now daily coniain some record or other. That the result would not satisfy a French Socialist we are well aware, but we have never yet met with any vision of Socialism which oould be thought to promise any better product of realities. All persons, or if not all persons at least nino out of every ten, are gainers by tne prosperity with which the nation is blessed, and yet all this whil « thei has been BO little loss that aristocracy and capital can still be satirized as if they represented the invidious lot of an insignificant few.
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