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26/10/1872

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Falmouth & Penryn Weekly Times and General Advertiser

Date of Article: 26/10/1872
Printer / Publisher: Fred. H. Earle 
Address: On the Quay, Falmouth
Volume Number:     Issue Number: 594
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AND GENERAL ADVERTISEK. PUBLISHED, EVERT 8ATTJRDAY MORNING, BY FRED. H. EARLE, OFFICES ON THE QUAY, FALMOUTH, FALMOUTH: SATUBDAY, 0CT0BEB 26, 1872. PRICE ONE PENNY. NTJMBEE 594. gafa tft guffjmi. Cadgwith and Lizard. FOE THE BENEFIT or TH/ C0NCERNED . mo BE SOLD BY AUCTION, at Cadgwith A and the Lizu( l, on Monday next, th* yi8th instant, upwards of 600 wnaged Kice N^ w ljp# g at thoso places, salved from ifia wrecked vessels " Marian- oa " an* " Nuovo Raffaelino " ; and ap^ farther quantity which may Am salved therefrom prior to the sale. Also a quantity of Embty Rice Bags. The Sale ib commence at Cadgwith, at Eleven o'clock. I For further particulars apply to MeArs. G. C. POX and CO., Falmouth, or to I HENRY POLLARD, Auctioneer. Dated Falmouth, 23rd Oct., 1872. Polytechnic Hall, Mb. COEFIELD respect ulljr imomm that ho has been instrui ed by Messrs. A. Griffiths and Co. ( the well- nown manufac- turers ), to Sell by PrBLIC A ICTION, at tha Polytechnic Hall, Falmouth, on Wednesday and Thursday neit, October 30th and 31st, commencing each day at Twelve o'clock, their eitcnsive and valuable SIOCK- IN- TRADE, removed for convenience of tmlc, consisting of Eleetro- platcu Ware, Most of which is on Nickel pQvcr, including1 a variety ot Three and Four- Braich Epergnes Richly- chased Dish Covers J 8almon A Entree CoverJ Tea and Coffee Services ( In elegant deeigns ) Hot Water Kettia on 8tands Soup and Saucfe Tureens Richly- gilt Fruit Standi. Venison Dishes Tea and Coffee Trays. Salvers ( round & oral) , Claret fags * Biscuit daddies Corner and Hot JYater Dishes Cruet, Egg, Pickle, and liqueur Frames, with richly- cu| Bottles Bread, Card, ani Cake Baskets Butter Coolers Sardine Boxes. Marmalade Stands Toast Backs Pearl, Ivory, and Silvtfr- hondled Dessert and Fish Knives and Forks, in handsome Cases Soup, Sauce, aAd Toddy Ladles Sugar Tongs Together with a variew of Spoons and Forks, in all the latest and post beautiful design*. The R ntlery Consists of ivory- hafcdled Table and Dessert Knives, with beef nnM game Carvers to match. Table and Dessert S| ts complete in handsome CabinetfftfyfllCarvera, cake, butter, fruit, and bread HMVCS,^ with Jpcarl, ivory, plated, and V J carvedlhandles, & c. t^ T On view thejmorning of Sale, after Ten o'clock. Sale at Twelve o'clock each day. Further particular obtained at the Offices of tho r / AUCTIONEER, Falmouth. Dated 21at Octobir, 1872. THE LATEST NOW REkDY FOR INSPECTION AT WATERLOO HOUSE, Market Street, Falmouth. Begs to announce that he has completed his Purchases for the present Season ON WEDNESDAY NEXT, OCT. 30ni, HIS SHOW lOJIS WILL Hi IHPK. H8D / WITH aSIlilll H9¥ ELTIK8. AN EA& LY CALL IS SOLICITED. A Vacancy far a welMucated YOUTH as an APPRENTICE. look Wanted JBUt WORTH BEGS TO ANNOUNCE TXAT HER fc) v——' ••!. FOE SALE NEXT WEEK AT LA YIN'S, Draper, Penryn. Having bought some LABGE AND CHEAP LOIS OP DRAPEBY GOODS at the very lowest turn of the Market, will give his Customers the opportunity of securing a VERY CHEAP PARCEL. Sale for One Week, commencing on TIIJ5SDAY next, THE 29TH INSTANT. / Several Thousand Yards of WINSEYS, from -> d. to lSd. per Ard. Several Hundred Yards of CHECK WINSEYS, at S| d. per/ ard. Several Hundred YardB of COEDED EEPS, at 7Jd., 8Jd.,/ nd lOJd. per yard. Several Thousand Yards of FLANNELS ( white and colorsH), at 8Jd-, lld„ 13Jd., lajd- Several Hundred yards of FIGURED REPS, at 8Jd„ wo/ h Is. An important Parcel of FRENCH ME EINOES, all & nicolors, at MJd. and 20d . Several Hundred yards of beautifully figured SATIN CLOTHS, at 16Jd., all wool, worth 2s. 3d. .1 / One Hundred COLORED SKIRTS, alitjle soiled, ayfialf prices. A Lot of WOOL SHAWLS, first- clssiWKi and qualities. Several Hundreds of WOOL CLOUDSVVAj/ jACIETS and wool Hosioiy of various kinds, wonderfully clieap. V / 8everal Thousand Yards of SERGES and BLAI4KETING8 from lOJd. to If. Ild. A Large Lot of Stout Government BLANKKTSfat Is. lid. and 5s. lid. Several Hundred Yards of Stout SHEETING/ 2 yards wide, 10Jd- per yard. Several Thousand Yards of Whit ® CALICOES at 2jd., 3d., 31d., and 4Jd. Several Thousand Yards of Good Whito 8IOTRTINGS at Hd., and yard wide at 5d. Several Thousand Yards of Grey CALICOES at ijd., 3( d- and 4Jd. Several Hundred Yards of Felt CARPET1NGS at Hid. per yard i Hemp Carpetings. 4Jd. and 6Jd. j Several Hundreds of Prime Brown Cotton SHEETS, at ls. lid. the Sheet, nearly two yards by 2J yards long. T Several Hundreds of UMBRELLAS, llpacca, Ztoella, and Silk, frijm 2s. lid. .. Us. a 1. Several Parcels of BLACK SILKS— BARGAINS— will be sold at Is. lid., - it. 6J 3s. lid., Is. lid., 5s. lid., 6/ lld. One Hundred MUFFS, at 2s. lid.,/ s. lid., la. lid., to 8s. lid. One Thousand Pairs Good Kid GIpVES, at 13id the pair. Two Hundred Men's Wool Shirts, at 2s lid and 4e 3d. Several Hundred of Girls' Straw HATS, from 4| d to ls. Several Hundred of Stout Good Cricketing FLANNELS, white and colored, good lor Shirts, at 2s 4jd, worth 3s 9d. Several Hundreds of Men's Cloth HATS, at S^ d, and imitation Seal- skin Oaps, at 81d. A lot of damaged PASSAGE CANVASSES, stout, at IJd and lid. per yard. A lot of wide Unbleached TOWELINGS, at 3d per yard. Two hundred first- rate white COUNTERPANES and QUILTS, will be cleared out wonderfully cheap A lot of grey Goose FEATHERS, good at 8| d and 9Jd per Ib. There is also a lot of Goods not enumerated, which will be sold at the same time. SALES FOR READY MONEY. ^ PEH CENT. DISCOUNT. Two active Intelligent Youths wanted as Apprentices. FOR THE WINT3R SEASON, REPLETE WITH ALL THE / IK Millinery Bonnets, Hats, Flowers, Fancy Feathers, Kelt and Straw Hats, Fur and Cloth Jackets Polonaises, Cardinals, Satin andyOther Fancy Skirts, the new Shades in Frenoh Merinos, Striped and Plain Velveteen Silks, and other Dress Fabrics, Trimmings, Ac. With the increasing demand for Costumes, a large and choice selection has been made in Waterproof Tweeds, Toplipettes, Wool and Silk Reps, Sergee, Satin Laines, Diagonal Cloths, &(!. Baby Linen and Ladies Under Clothing. A Large Stock of Woollens and Manchester Goods, at last season's prices. AN EARLY INSPECTION WILL OBLIGE. Polhorinon & Trewoon Farms, PARISH OF MULLION. MR. CORFJELD has been directed to SELL tl- PUBLIC AUCTION, with- out reserve, on MONDAY, 4th November next, the whole of tha valuablo Live any Dead Farm Stock thereon, the roperty of Mr. Kempthorne, declining farm lg, coniprising :— 6 prime dairy Cows, in calf. 1 handsome 1 eifer, in calf. 6 growthy 3 eers, in high condition, three yeara ) ld. 3 Steers"' I two yoar31111 advantage. 6 Yearlings 28 ripe, fat, Ind breeding Ewes. 29 Lambs, from same stock. \ excellent labour Horses, of great strength. 1 handsome bay Colt, rising three. 1 useful dirk bay Pony, a good stepper, quiet tot ride and drive. 4 handsome brood Sows. 12 fat PiH 6 store ditto. 8 other ditto. A quantity of Poultry. About 5< w lbs. of Wool. 8 stacbsW prime Hay, about 60 tons. Implements enumerate, threshing, winnowing, And bruising machines, an oxcellent corn pyaggon, two butts and wheels, one llignt cart, sets of ploughs, harrows, Irollcrs and frames, fore and shaft har- Iness, whips and traces, plough chains, Y barrows, ladders, tools in great variety. Alio a valuablo reaping machine, by Bren- ton J a four- wheel phaeton, in good condition, witb/ lamp$, Ac., harness for ditto ; also saddle and/ bridle, and numerous other effects. llie Auctioneer begs to call the attention of his numerous agricultural friends to this im- portant sale, the stock being iirst- class and in nini condition, r Sale at One, prompt. BPurther particulars obtained at the Offices of 1 AUCTIONEER, Falmouth. / Dated 22nd October, 1872. MARKET STREET, FALMOUTH. Madam, Having just returned from the Markets my SHOW ROOMS AlfcE^ NOW OPEN And your Favors will Esteemed by youra- respectfully, \ g. peistlk- RIOK:. P. S— H. P. has made large Parohases of WINTER GOODS, in Plain and Fanoy Drapery, at Prices about the same as last year. NOVELTIES IN SHAWLS, MANTLES, AND MILLINERY. LAMPS. GAS FITTINGS. STOVES SLJL3DE OLYBE-, Furnishing and General Ironmonger, Cutler, Gas Fitter, Plumber and Manufacturer, Strand, Falmouth, Has received a new assortment of Lamps, Gaa Fittings, Ao., & c., direct from the manufacturers, and offers to the public the largest stock and greatest variety of Ranges, Grates, Stoves, Fenders, Fire Irons, Trays, Tea Urns, Beds. Mats, Brushes, Maps, Umbrella Stands, Warranted Pocket and Tafcle Cutlery. Agent for " Weir's " 65s. Sewing Machine, Best Electro Silver Sp o on s. Forks, Tea and Coffee Services, Cruets, Cake Baskets, Biscuit Boies, Dessert Knives, Ac. Washing and Mangling Machines. Coal Scoops, Coal Sifters, Fire Balls, Fire Baskets, Fire Lighters, a large Msoitment of Coal Vases very Cheap, Colzaand other Oils, Cazeline Paralfin, & c. Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Colours, and general Stores. Pumps, Closets, and all kinds of Repairs executed To Persons removing and others who may have Uonsehoid Furniture And FurmshiYjJsoods of any description for disposal in town or country, a fair second- hand Price paid immcdAu'. v in Cash for the same, by applying at A MARKS'S, Auction ana Furniture Sfile Booms, 21, High Street, Sales and^ ralua. uo._- conducted in town or country on reasonable terms. All accounts settled same day as Sale. ARB FITTBJ'WITH New and Important Improvements, AND ARE THOROUGHLY GOOD IN PRINCIPLE AND WORKMANSHIP. AGENT NATHANIEL POX, IRONMONGER, FALMOUTH. FRIDAY NEXT, November 1st. IITR. MARKS is instructed to SELL by -" J PUBLIC AUCTIOX, itf the POLTTICH- HIC HALL, Falmouth, an usortment of genuine and modern Walnut Drawing- room, Mahogany Dining- room. Parlour uad Bedroom Hoiwhol^ Furniture, Feather Beds, Bedding, Carpets, Looking- glass, Ac. Also a \ jj COTTAGE PIANO- FORTE, with double acti6n, in superior rosewood case, beautiful tone and condition, cost 60 guineas. A great portion of the above are the property of a lady, an, d removed from the country for convenience/ Of sale. Goods ou view in thejmorning. Sale to com- mence at 11 for 12 prompt. Further particulars in hand- bills, or of the Auctioneer, 21, High Street, Eklmouth. ^ TX7ANTED in a Country Rectory, a good ** plain COOK, able to manage a small Dairy. Address Mrs. E. H., Parkham Rectory, near Bideford, Devon. Joseph Beringer and Sons, Watchmakers, Jewellers, Photographers, & c., MeruxLQK 8t. f HtJj> lon, awl MarkH SC., Palmoulh, ( LATE JOIIXH ), BEG to return their » inoere thank* to the gentry, public, and friends, for the kind mwnt and f> otruna « (> r they have rccdvtd, and would solicit a i- all und recommendation to their ch - ice an i w* l, • elected STOCKS ; anl & Lto would acquaint th « r cnA/ natr* that in Mmtrvje Street, UeljUon, they have KE ( JVED f> a more commodiou* Shop and Premise- dirertly ' jpfmite to Uie one in whi'. ij they hav* car ried on their bttdne-.^ for • » many year*, - fl'fee renewal THE FALMOUTH & PENRYN TIEBKVI TIMES. SATURDAY, OCT. 26, 1872 The COMPLETION of the TELEGRAPH to. AUSTRALIA. r7The Mayor of Adelaide sent tlie. following telegram to the l « t> rd Mayor of London :— " ADELAIDE, Oct. 21, 9.12 am. " The Havor of Adelaide congratulates the Eight Hon. tho Lord Mayor oi London on tho opening of telegraphic communication between Australia and Great Britain, and trusts the communication so auspiciously begun may still further cement those feelings of loyalty and attachment to ber Majesty's throne aud person which character- lie tho Whole ef the Australian Provinces of the British Empire, fcod save Ui » Que* a.- To the above tho Lord Mayor replied in the follow- ing terms:— - '' The Lord Mayor of " London 1a much cratlfled by the re- ception of tho telegram from tho Mayor of Adelaide, and luUy reciprocates tho vory kind expressions la tals mast agree- able oommuni ration." " Viscount Moncfe addressed the following telegram to the Governor of South Aggjrajia :— .: _. " As chairman of iho British Australian Telegraph Com- pany, I congratulate' you and the Colonies of Australia on the completion of our ereatVorS? The spirit and determi- nation of South Australia have nobly combined with tho enterprise of the mother country in triumphing over all our • difficulties." Referring to this, another triumph In the cause of humanity and progress, the Daily News writes :— Another graShd peaceful triumph of science and civilization was finally accomplished on Monday. England and Australia. were joined hand in hand by the Telegraphic Cable, and Mr. Francis S. Dutton, the Agent- General of South Australia ihlLohdbn, received a communication to that effect from Adelaide, dated an hour afternoon. Almost simultaneously a message from the Mayor of Adelaide was feceived by the Lord May or of London, expressing those loyal and friendly f eel- ings which happily bind the colonies to~ the mother country. The result of placing the Government and people of England in immediate and instant contact with those great and growing communities, cannot fail to be most advantageous to the interests both of the mother country and of her children at the An- tipodes. Every year the commercial relations be- tween England and Australia are becoming more important, and the Australian interests which have their central representation in '' the City," are attracting more ana more the capital, and enter- prise of dur mon « y marEet. Tho completion of this telegraphic line • rill- he ' a boon to man* families and households, sepMratla, but not divided, Jby the circuit of the globe ; ana the Cable will do more than colonial Societies tor conf « ences to preserve unbroken the chain of natural affection and hereditary sympathy which should unite the scattered, but not sunderedj branches of the great family that strikes its roots in English CURIOUS FACTS OF LIFE AND DEATH. Many interesting facts concerning the deaths among infants and persons of extreme old age are furnished in the Registrar- General's annual report recently issued ' V- v< ni 3 In the healthier districts of England it appears that out of 100 children born alive. 10 die in the 12 months following. The births in a quarter have been com- pared with the deaths in the same time under one year of ago in 17 larce English towns, and the deaths are 15 to 100 births ;' five are killed by Various causes in these towns in addition to the ten that die in healthy country districts. Real infant mortality may be measured by its proportion to births registered; to each 100 births in 1870,16 deaths of infants under one year of age oc- curred ( the percentage was 17' 4 among male and 14' 5 among female infants). Among children aged between 5 and 15 years of age $ 3,890 deaths were registered in 1870, or 6' 6 per cent, of the deaths at all ages; among male children the proportion was 6' 5, ana among female children 6* 6 per ,* ent Between 15 and 55 years of age the deaths of miles also exceed those of females. Between 15 and • 85 the deaths of females exceed those of- mota^ - Not- only is the mortality among male infante larger than among females, but of persons surviving the years of infancy the mean age at death is greater among females tfrian among males. Thedeathsof persons aged 55 years and upwards showed in 1870 a proportion ol 27- 3 per cent, of the total deaths; the deaths of males at these ages did cot exceed 25* 9 per. cent., while those pt females ' - Was 28 " 9 pier cent Tttie greater longevity among females is more remaAable at the extreme ages; in 1870 the deaths of only 4) t01 males at the ages 85 years and upwards were registered while those of " Females at the same ages were 6,660; the proportion of deaths of males aged 85 and upwards was 17 per cent, of the total deaths, while of females it was 2* 7 per cent During 1870 the deaths ot 18 mules and 63 females whose ages were stated to be upwards of 100 years were registered; in all 81 persdns, against 63 and 79 respec tively in 1863 and 1869. The, highest ages said to havo been attained in 1870 were l08 by a male and 107 by a female. In 1870 the deaths are recorded of 18 males aged 100 years and upwards, viz., six aged 100, one fcged 101, thrt'e aged 102, two aged 103, five aged 104, and one aged 108. In the same year the deathd are announced of 63 females aged 1QQ years and upwards, - viz., 22 aged 100,13 aged lbl. ll agedU02Tsix agedl04, two aged 105, and one aged 107.' rfcp • 4 LUDICROUS RESULT OF A DUEL.' There fives at Rome a charming and Amiable young man who is as yet innocent a, nd beardless. He be longs to no journal, but is greatly attracted by the life of a journalist, and is as hasty and impetuous as an old sabreur. In the heat of a political discussion he quarrelled with one of his best friends. Some other hot- headed persons who were present envenomed tl^ e ' dispute, till at last the words ftWe will fight! " were pronounced Seconds were chosen on the spot, and the adversaries separated thirsting for each other's • blood The seconds, upon'considering the matter coolly, found that one of them was really too young, and decided upon turning the matter into a joke, with the connivance of the elder of the two belligerents, and at the expense of the_ violent young hero. A duel with pistols was accordingly fixed in que form for tax in the morning; the conditions were a " distance of twenty paces between the combatants, who were to fire at each other till one was wounded ; the place, the Esplanade, near Port Salara; the expenses for the carriages, doctors, pistols, & c.,> to be paid by the aggressor. The young man accepted thp conditions, and paidlOO lire beforehand Thev all reachedthe appointed spot at the same hour with two supposed dpctors. The hero of the anecdote proved that his heart was as affectionate as it was brave; he wept only when thinking of his mother and his sister, and had passed the night in writing letters of adieu to those he loved best, giving them to his seconds to be delivered in case of his death. The pistols were, to all ap- pearances, loaded the steps measured, the two adversaries placed opposite each other; the - signal " Fire!" was given, two shots were heard, and one of the duellists ( he was in the secret) fell, apparently mortally wounded, to the earth. The other, on seeing him fall, turned deadly pale, and uttering an exclama- tion of horror and despair, fainted in the arms of his friends, who carried nim to the carriage and to the hotel, where he found the breakfast laid and his slaughtered enemy awaiting him with open arms. THE WRECK REGISTER FOR 1871. There are some remarks in the Wreck Register for 1871/ just issued, respecting the unseaworthiness^ of vessels of the collier class so well worthy of attention that they will probably pass without much notice ( re- - marks the Pall Mall Gazette). It is. says the Register. truly lamentable to observe that the total number of Bhips which, according to. the facts reported appear to have foundered or to nave been otherwise totally lost on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom, from unseaworthiness, unsound gear, & c., in the last ten years is 524; and the number of casualties arising from the same causes during the same period, and resulting in partial damage, 655. In 1871 there were on and near tho coasts of the United Kingdom 120 wrecks and casualties to smacks and other fishing vessels. Excluding these 120 fishing vessels, ft will be seen that the number of vessels em- ployed in the regular carrying trade which have suffered shipwreck or casualty here during the year is 1,807. If this number Is again subdivided it will be found that nearly half of it is represented by tho collier class, whicn suffers most severely. Despite all that has been said and written on the subject, there can be no doubt that hundreds, or rather thousands^ of these craft are despatched to crawl from harbour into the channel, badly formed rotten from fige, gaping ta the seams, over- laden, with no sailing or steer- ing capacitics, and wholly at the mercy of a moderate gale. With a dead- weight casgo they are easily sW& mped, and are so utterly crippled when anything goes by tho board " that, half- water logged before they put out. they either sink in a storm like stones, or break into pieces on a sand bank, before the waves have washed over them for half an hour, or the crew have been Bavdd by a lifeboat. fewer than 506 coal- laden vessels were wrecked in 1871, and the full bearing of thpse figures can only b<? estimated by comparing them with the losses sustained in other trades. Perhaps those who have made such enormouB profits out of the ' coal tracle this year will be anxious io apply some of their gains to improving the condition of the rotten old tubs which form the collie* fleet of Great- Britain. SUGGESTIONS FOR THOUGHTFUL WORKING- MEN. The following leader from Wednesday's Times, although more especially referring to London, should nevertheless be thoughtfully perused by every working- man in the kingdom, for In It are contained counsel and suggestions of price ess value and of present need :— Ottr working classes have just won a succession of great victories. The campaign of labour against capital may be considered at an end for the pre- sent, and tho results may be calculated almost as easily as those of the late Franco- German War. They may be stated either in time or in money. Taking the latter test, it is. not too much to say that five million men have won on. the average b shilling a week, from tljeir employers, even when all allowances are made for the increased price of food. That is thirteen millions sterling a year, and if capitalised, is about the amount of the French Indemnity. ^ Ve may dismiss the consideration whether this is likely to last. Another question of much more practical and immediate importance is forced upon us. What use are the working classes making of their victory and their gains ? How ^ re they spending their increased time and money, their hours of liberty and tneir extra shillings ? They need be at no loss for objects at once' useful, respectable, and the Bouroe of much ^ reasonable enjoyment— better houses, schooling, cheap literature, institutes for self- improvement, healthy outings, assistance to less successful rela- tives and friends. A multitude of good works i are - at a standi for want of money orvof men, aqd* as a lurking' man in these days is as good as his anployers, there is no reason why1 he should not take us turn, and lend a hand in labours of love, whatever they are. For the present, we grieve to say, we gee no signs of the working classes taking the place of their employers, or even honestly trying to be their own em- ployers, as they have a perfect right to do. We may look over our own columns day after day for the proof of that regeneration which ardent politicians have con- fidently predicted from an extra sixpence and an extra hour a day. In one column, and one only, do wo seem to trace a cause and effect The Police; In- telligence is becoming a very serious part of our naWs ; the caraaft} ei~ of 4- ringle day are often as heavy astpose of a battle. On Monday Mr. D'Eyncourt had to diitose ? f fifty- three charges of ( Jrunk^ nness. At Westminster, of the twenty- nine prisoners in the charge- sheet, the whole had been more or less drunk when taken ' into custody. " At Worship- street and Lambeth dmnkeijnfes Fupplied the chief business of the day. At the other Police Courts there is a strong smell of liquor about all the cases. One of them was that of a painter on glass, who insisted on forcing himself on his dy ing wife when in a state of intoxication, and giving a violent blow in the eye to the poor woman's mother, for wishing him him to wait till he was sober. After this feat he withdrew to a publichouse to get up his courage afresh, and returned to assault another woman. We should think this is, probably, a very fair sample of near a hundred cases, for anybody well acquainted with oui streets must know that it is not mere stagger- ing, reeling drunkenness that brings a man to the Police Court So long as a man can hold to the railingd and leave the Queen's subjects in the quiet possession of their teeth, eyes, and noses, he is generally allowed to recover himself at leisure, or to find his way to the friendly shelter of the nearest publichouse. May we flatter ourselves that all this 13 exceptional, or that the Police Reports are the fcfarit ride of things ? Monday may, indeed be a little worse than other pays, and one street may be " worse than another; but the In- land Revenue tells much the same tale, and no aoubt a considerable percentage of the increase in wages'finds its way to the Exchequer. The hours gained from labour are given to the country in one seifee at, least, that they help to build our Ironclads. There float, so it is said, in strong drink, as the imor- tar of our old church steeples was said io be made with strong beer. But this is not a cheerful view of thingB.' There iB no promise of stability about( it The nation— the. Constitution, . we ma J- say — is undergoing great and rapid changes, and supreme power is being thrown with eager ana impetuous Jinste to the working classes, on the supposition that 1 they are wise^, and better, more thoughtful and sdlf- re- strained than their fathers before thpm., / How it may be for mental development, and for' the' exalted ( Juali- ties which in all time have been desired in rplers, and the men who jhaye to, ( jhoose rulers, it i? not easy to say. What guage is there for men's minds unless 1 it be that whioh they., apply cto themselves in life and conduct Wef are reduced , to usq the teeble and erring'aid ' Of Sense iri ' this matter/ and what the( senses bring to, « • in- crease of intoxication and . disorder. The bthar day four thousand policemen met and solemnly declared that the energies of » ven; thoHsand polioemen were overtaxed in keeping up a semblance of orqer in the streets of'this metropolis. But- fifty years ago there was no such thing as a, policeman, or anybody charged with the fnmntenauce of peace in! this whole metropolis unless it were watchmen, in great- coats, carrying lanterns and rattles, crying the hour of the night and'the state of the weather. It would be treason to deny that we are better tb ftn our fathers, and Loiidon a better ordered city than it was at that tint* All. this we take ac-. count of, but it is qot enough to account for the social condition of this metropolis at this present time. or the condition of any of our large towns. Slavery is a very bad thing; and it is. hardly less bad « that a man should have to work like a slave the whole day in order to keep body and Bool together and support him- self, w^ fe, and children; hut there is that which is worse, inasmuch as a brute— a violent brute, fi man who makes himself a violent brute— is worse thin any slave, who can hardly be heM anpwerable for his own degradation even if toQ weigh him down to the meanest beiat of burden. I It ia not one question, but fifty that present them- selvia. But what are the Churches ana ' the Societies about! Of course they cfvnpot $ 0 everything'or be found everywhere at once; but, iot the matter of the result, they, might be nowhere. We have Societies now to overlook Societies; Societies to fill dp the gaps of Societies; Societies to do what Societies do not do, or to do better what they all do; Societies for every purpose that can be described in words or imagined without a description; At least a dozen sects, and still more associations,; battling for every given BOUI in this metropolis, and the Church of England would Oertttinly hold that its three mil- lions had undergone ® n,. irremediable loss if they were suddenly deprived of its protection. ( In mere de- fault of aid and we must & dd, in the course of reason and common Bense, we must turn to the people them- selves— the working men— to rescue themselves, and to put themselves in the right before the country. Tbey have been fighting for time and money, both things of value and most lawful objects of desire. They have got the most of what they wantefl. As those acquisitions are comparatively novel, they may be excused for'not knowing at once what use make of their spare shillings and hours. It is time they should see to this. If they make a good luse of these gains they will realize them, keep them, eiyoy them, and make them the means of further ancj larger acquisitions. If they fail to make a good use, they will speedily lose the step they have gained and find themselvm falling the heavier because they have been climbing higher than they were fit for. This metropolis, with all its faults and j short- comings, does yet provide the working man with means and opportunities for comfort improvement and progress, whether material or mentaL In other words, everybody can do well, live well, and get pn well here; and it is his own fault if he does not Un- questionably the recent triumphs of industry put these things still more within the reach of ordinary men. But they must put out their hands to secure thd prize, or it will soon elude their grasp and disappear before their eyes. At tho laying of the first stone of a new Corn- Er- chango at Bedford on Monday, the Duke of Bedford an. nounced his Intention of presenting to tho town a statue 0? John Banyan, to be executed by Mr. Boehm. INTERESTING STATISTICS. An instructive article in a German newspaper makes known by carefully selected statistics, the great in- crease that has taken place of late years in most European countries in the consumption of articles of food and drink which our grandfathers regarded as luxuries. As a matter of course the increase has been much greater in gOmearticles than in Others. In Prussia the yearly consumption of meat per head had advanced from 33 lb. in 1806 tort40 lb. in< 1349, brandy had grown from 3 quarts to 8, and wine from J" quart to 2 quarts. The increase in sugar, again, was from 1J lb. to 7 lb., and in coffee from 3 lb. to 4 lb. TheBe figures do not bring us to the latest times, but the in- crease has been even in a greater ratio during the years since 1849. Thus, Kolb estimates the total con- sumption of sugar. per head of the population in the area of { he Zollvereki for the year 1860 at 7' 37lb., and in the - year 1864 it had adVanced to D " 23 lb. The annual consumption of the population of Lon- don is given, on the authority of the, Ecoiy> jtMt, as followsM- ih ttie: vear 1848t' 3ugar\ lG, bi l\> t; tea, L47 lb. ; cocoa, 0.09 lb. ; wine, 0.22 gallon ; spirits, 0.87 gallon. In the year 1865: Sugar, 4L17 lb. ; tea, 3.26 lb.; cOcoa, L14 lb. ; wine; 0.40 gallon ; Spirits, 0,89r gallons, From these figures itfappeaif that Eng- land. be^ s the palm easily in all suoh matters. From the recent work of M, Block, " L'Europe Politique et Sociale," it appear^ that the sbgar con- sumption of France per nerid per year is 7.4 kilo- grammes, that of Prussia 3.75, Austria 2.46, Russia L2, Holland 7.03, Belgium 4.06, while England stands at 19. S8" kilogrammes. It is the same with tea. England also uses above half as mnch silk as the whole irthfe'hrtt 6t Ettftpe. • LfiTfEK- FROlJt THi? ' COUNT DE CHAMBORD. The Count de Chambord has Written a letter to M. La fyichelle, » member of the A^ embly. in which he jays that France can only be saved by a monarchy, and protests against the ekabliahihent of a Republic, which would be the commencement of social anarchy. Count de Charpfrord denies that any difference exiats between the ^ artv of Y^ lence. wmciibromise peace'to'men while declaring W « fr against God, and those more prudent persona who' obtain the same end by more covert means. He appeals to the energy of Frenchmen who really love their country to counteract the weakness and timid compromising conduct of Dthers, and to oppose a frank policy to a policy of 6ctions and lies. He declares that France at neart is Catholic and Monarchical, Mid says :— j " We must guide France to the haven safely. Nothing can make me deviate from my path. I do not retract one word nor regret a single act of mine: they have all beenlmplred by Iovo for my eountry. Let uS have confldence In the mlsalon of France. Europe and the Papacy have need of her, ind an old Christian nation like ours cannot therefore Mriah." & DESERTED FLEET IN THE ARCTIC. . An American pauer publishes th » following private letter ffom CaptSin William B Kelly, oKDIngbampton, who was captain of ono of the fleet of wh£ ers deserted in the Ice it Point Belcher a year ago, and la again in the Arctic Ocean In command of a vessel. The letter ia dated ship James AUen, August 12, 1872, and says:— " Thinking you would like to hear from the Arctic, [ will take the op portunity of sending by the schooner Maria, all the news concerning the Ships left at Point Belcher last year. The barque Minerva lies at the en- tranpeofAVfanlight Inlet, aagoodas when abandoned in hull, but her cabin is marrfcd' considerably. She lay on 1 the edge of the beach, and ah'eswung inshore clear of the haavv ice whiph grounded qutside of her, and she re- L fctiv ® no damage. The Ttymas Dickinson lies an her beam ends, on the tank, bilged, and full of watte-. I don't1 know whether thev will get- htr off or not The barque Seneca ( brother tfed's vessel) was dragged by the i6e up the coast,- som£ distance— her bomprit gone, bul- warks stove, and rudder carried pway* - She was, then frozenjih sofid and so' thSy foSnd he*; she wilt pro- bablybe saved if she is not stove. The Reindeer sank, and the Florida lies ashore on Sea- horse Islands, burned to the water's edge; and all the rest of the deet were either carried : away by the ice or crushed to pieces in shapeless masses, or burned by the natives. They burned the Gay Headjthv ship ,! abandoned) and Concordia where they lay. The barque Massachusetts went round Point Barrow. There wasone white man onboard her who stayed up here last winter. He made his escape over the ice this summer, and was five dayB getting back to, the ships. He was about, used up when they found him this summer. The natives set out to kill him, but the women saved him, and af terwarda the < fld phlef took care of him. He saved a large quantity of bone, but the natives took it away from him, except a small quantity. He said 150,000 dols. would not tempt him to try another winter in the Arctic^ J0e said that four days after we left the ships last year the watqp froze over, and the natives walked off to the ships; and 14 days after there came on a heavy north- east gale and drove all but the ground ice away— that never moved Shortly after there blew another north- east gale, and he said that of all the butting and smashing he ever saw the worst was among those ships driving into each other during those gales. Some were ground to atoms, and what the ice apared the natives soon destroyed after pillaging them of everything they pl^ ed.- We> inU the rpason they apkred the three remmhingMlt^ s n.. bedatiBe they were' handy to the villages, and they probably, thought they would have them to pick on. No doubt they wpnld have destroyed them'also, but they were totally un- prepared for the speedy arrival of the white men. Captain Smith, of the Carlolta ( loBt last q « a4on in the ice), travelled up the ice coast from Point Lay, accOm-- panied by two natives, interpreters frqm Kotzebue Sound They had one of the Kyato^ cpnQefl and ar& rived at the inlet safely, taking- the" natives bv sur- pns?. They thought he dropped from the clouds, and tfiey ran and hid away. He came up to them and gave a shout of peace, which thev understood, and then they came out. The beach was lined with whalebone and ivory, and other things they had plundered from the, ehipa. Lots of, things were wantonly destroyed, and the Minerva was a sight to behold They had cut into the flour cask, and rolled it out, and strewed the contents all over. There was nothing but the wanton wretches cut into that they could get at The dibris in the cabin was knee deep 1 with articles of all kinds, dirt, l& c. Everything in the run w^ s broken open, and the contents ptrewed all over. The other .- Bhips were'in the eame con- | dition. All the scuppers were cut out. and every j piece of lead they could find The sails were cut ! from the bolt ropes, and of those they made tents. No sooner were they ' apprt& ed of the arrival of the ahipa than they loaded their canoes with whale- bone, & o., and started off to trader The love of barter is as strong as ever. They were very independent and Baucy, and cared only for guns. Since writing the above I have Been the Seneca. I dont believe she will be got off. She lies high aground and on her beam ends. The hull of the Champion lies two miles south of her J the Reindeer still further'Bouth; only the Minerva will be saved As the last fciifc of news at present, I took a large whale yesterday, and am buBy trying him out The ice is opening fast, And I hope to nave good success 1 this season. Captain Fraset took a whale abo yester- • day.— Youra truly, " WM. H. KBLLEY."; HYDROPHOBIA.— The returns recently issued bv the Registrar- General show that in England and Wales there were 32 deaths from hydrophobia in the year 1870— viz., 25 males and7 females. All these deaths occurred in the Northf- 10 in Lancaahire, 9 in the West Riding qf Yorkshire, 4 in Durham, and none in coun- ties lying south of the ' Trent. In 1869 there were 18 deaths from hydrophobia in England— 3 in London, the other 15 again in the North— viz., 7 in the West Riding, 5 in Lancashire. 2 in Durham, 1 in Cheshire. Hydrophobia comes and goes in periods. Thirty years ago it seems to have had a season of prevalence: for in the five years 1838- 42 there were 73 deaths in England and Wales from this disease, averaging nearly 15 a year, the range being from 7 to 24. The causes of death for the next four years were not ab- stracted but there seems to have been a period of few deaths from hydrophobia, as there were but 5 in 1847 and 7 in 1848. In the seven years 1849- 55 tho deathf rose to 111, averaging 16 a year, the rango being from 11 to 25. In the next eight years— 1856- 63— the deaths from hydrophobia fell to 26, averaging only 3 a year, and ranging from 1 to 5. In the next seven years— 1864- 70— this disease prevailed again, and the deatlu were 134, averaging 19 a year, and ranging from 7 ir 1868 to 32 in 1S70.- In the year 1870 the deaths fron hydrophobia in England were at the rate of 62 in 1 million deaths from all causes. SUPPLEMENTARY FUEL. The following communication, which baa bean sent to The Times for publication, possesses more than usual interest not only from the urgency of the sub- ject on which it treats, but from the well- known name it bears:— The drain on tho resources of All fciaases of society oc- casioned by the high price of coal must be considerably greater to most ot them than that occasioned by the exten- sive .. lalluro of the potato crop; and yet, while the moat earnest attention has been devoted to the latter calamity, and various remedies have beon proposed, scarcely any at- tention has been bestowed upon the former ; and, so far as I am aware, no remedy in any degree adequate to the almost universal emergency has ever yet been mentioned. Having from more than ono point of view long acd earnestly regarded the subject of our coal supply, I confess that my diaappointmenfwaa great when, out of the delibera- tion of toe British Association at their recent meeting at Brighton, no light should be thrown at inch a Juncture on tho dark prospect before us. That disappointment, how- ever, compelled me to look more earnestly and ( may I add f) more prayerfully Tor a. remedy | n, a direction to which my attention had frequently, during y « W, been turned, and I rejoice in the confidence that I nave not looked in vain. In'this confidence 11 request permission, through your columns, to lay this remedy in its simplest form, as a sub- sidiary fuel for domeatlo purposes, as fuUy and clearly at I can before the public, announcing at the same time my Ann conviction that; by a full and fair application Of science to this point, the development of this flrst application of the principles Involved will call Into extensive use two other natural products, ot the combustibility of which there can be no question, but the use of which, ttfeciuse of certain ap- parently insurmountable difficulties, has, hitherto been ex- tremely limited. With those who have ever noticed or read ot the great specific heat ot chalk, or the large amount of carbonic acid contained in it, and the convertibility ot that acid by means of heat into carbonlo : QxldQ, ,( a; combustible form or sub- stance), or With thoTe Who have merely noticed either the vast amount ot heat which.- genjwatf. d by a corriparatively small proportion of fuel, is radiated from a lime- kiln, or, again, the eHect in smelting ore, ol a few hundred weight of lime- itone or chalk, it has long been a matter ot strong per- suasion that the time must come when, at least for domestic purposes, chalk, if not limestone, shall bo made subservient to the increase of warmth and heat and to the diminution of the consumption of coaL From time to time, indeed, modes of effecting so desirable^ an end have been devised and published. Some 20 or 25 years slnde, for instance, the Rev. J. Hicks, Rector of a parish in Dorset, published, especially for the use of cottagers, a mode of placing, lump* of chalk at the back ot an ordinary fire, and all who, with a moderate degree of care, tried this mode must have been satisfied, aa I myself was, with the result, both as to the brightness of the fire, as toiacrease of heat,, aud as to economy of fuaL,, About eight or nino years ago ah experiment, highly satisfactory In all these respecta, was carriedOn during a whole winter In the Dorset County Hospital by a nephew of mine, the houso surgeon itl th& t Uititutfom The fires in tho two large convaleacwit. wards were made pp. pnd attended to by the housemaid in charge of them under his direction. Chalk was placed at the back of each fire in nearly equal pro- portion with ths coaL In prder that the patients might not, by Incautious stirring of the fire, interfere with the position of the chalk, and so deaden the tlrei by bringing It < 0tward upon the coal In front, the fire- irons were removed from the room. In both ward* full a » tla ( action wu felt both aato the cheerfulness and aa to the warmth of the fire. The patients frequently remarked that they never before had so much warmth In the rooms. Numerous visitor* expreased- their de- cided; apph> vaC And the saying eHatted throughout that winter in tHosi two fires w# f6 per cettt. For while previous to this use of chalk two boxes ol coal were barely arffflclent for each ward for one day, during ita use one box was suffi- cient for two daji. Toeflact thi » saving, however, the eye of a master waa re- quMtftJChat nutter Was wUhdrawirptad, doubtless because of the extra attention and labour required of the servant, left tq herself, the use ot chalk was relinquished, and the experiment has never since been repeated. I fully admit that in this arrangement ot chalk and coal in a fire such an amount of care and attention la rSiMsBoiM to reader it a matter of great tincerUln& whether the Ore might - be very good qr very bad, and whether any saving ' of coal might not, undefcert » ln circumataniAa, be ratUw the reAUt of dimi- nished combustion and diminished heat 1 On this account, as I huppoee, the burning of chal^ even in the villages in which it was most largely adopted, has fallen into disuse ; and the announcement of any new mode of burning it will doubtless be consequently received with complete distrust. Nevertheless, since I most certainly have been led to the discovery' ot a mcxie of rendering chalk a subsidiary fuel, and ainOe the experiments which serve to verify the truth of that discovery can be tried by any ono In any cla* j of society at a very trifling cost, and in our extensive chalk districts at no cost at all, the prevalent distress constrains me, in the face ol that distrust, to make tho following announcement- of a new mode of burning chalk, which, while calling tor 00 extra care and attention, shall, with a brighter and better fire, save . generally 50 per, cenf; ol the coal pow uaed. The entire process consists In covering the bottom of the grate with lumps of chalk, each about two or three inches in • diameter. In modem diniog- room and drawing- room grates the layer of chalk might rise to the flrst bar,* and should be kept a^ o^ t an kich behind the bar, tb u to ' admit ot small places of Coal being placed in front. In cottage grates, which are generally deep, and in many kitchen ranges, the layer may be three or four inches in thickness. On this layer the flrj » is laid and lighted lit the ' prdhuiy ; way. There may occa- sionally be soma little slownesa in the first kindling, but. once kindled, the Are will generally, without any additional fuel,' and Without need of Stirling; burn steadily fer three or four hours. When fuel la to be added it should be applied before the ambers have sunk- low, and in comparatively small quantities. Any stirring should be of the coals alone. 1 The chalk should not be lifted; but occasionally, in order to liberate the dust, the poker ahould be passed through it horizontally. t JL- J In a strong fire In a kitchen range I have placed the chalk - four inches deep; and in a deep cottage grate I have made the depth ot the chalk six Inches. In the latter caae) 61b. 1 weight of coal, together with a single turf for- kbpdlM the fire ( this was in Huntingdonshire), burnt'hWgntly- Ton five hours. In my own kltohen, with a depth of three inches Of chfllk, my cook considers the heat greater than when coal la C used, and nnds' ftoldifflculty In the change. The Only fihlng to be guarded against Is that of allowing the fire to sink ao low that there shall not be sufficient heat in tho coal to con- , tlnue to e& tract carbonic acid from the chalk, in whioh case the fire becomes dull. Even here, howevffl-, * he difficulty Is not so great aa in an ordinary coal fire; for if the coal T> 6 the former case than In the latter. r[ fTfie ultimate effect of burning It la to convert the qhalk I into lime ; and the greater 01 less rapidity with which this effect la produced must depend, ol course, on the greater or lesa Intensity of heat generated by the united action of the two substances. In a id token range in which there has he en much cooking and baking, I have known good lime to be burnt In 15 hours ; whereas in a moderately sized patio or grate, or in a cottage- grate, the aame quantity ol chidlf, be- cause of the alowneaa with which the carbonic acid if ex- tracted. has served well aa subsidiary fuel tor a fortnight. In the former ol these caaos, although more chalk la btrnt yet its value as lime, either lor whitewashing, for intdoor plastering, or lor apjfllcatlonin various ways to the land, Is considerable ; in the latter caae— the continued use , for a lortnight— besides cheeking during so long a time the knore rapid consumption ol coal placed above it, and yet Increasing heat, it ol necessity saves 14 times ita bulk of coaL If any ot your readers ahould dealre a scientific explana- tion of thla phenomenon,- 1 would first dlreot'thelr attention to the simple fact that, the heat being applied to the chalk from above, both the carbonic acid gas and the carbonic oxide pass of necessity into the fire which generates that heat, and In thia way Increase It. I would then refer them to , Miller's Chymistry, Second Edition, VoL 11, p. 74. H all this be correct, then the relief to bo obtainqd by every class ol society, must be immense. The consumption ol coal tor domestic purposes, and tor warming large build- ings in London, will be diminished 50 per cent. O^ reknlU, however, I will not dwelL The length this letter fc^ blda my adding more at present than this— the working! of a chalk- hill being much more eaay than that ol a coal- mine^ the delivery of chalk In any part of Great Britain ana Ire- land ought to be affected at far leas coat than that of c^ ai— lam, & o., Hamti^ pOLa Fordlngton Vicarage. * In due time the bottoma of gratCS, for the more effectual working ol tho plan, will be curved. ' j In connection with the foregoing ^ he following has also been Bent for publication :— In ordor that the Rev. Mr. iloule'a letter ot to- day! may promote the object he haa in view, economy of fuel, yonr readers must carefully distinguish tho facta from the fancies by which they are surrounded. A layer of chalk lumps on the bottom ol a firegrate, like firo- balls, or even a sheet ol Iron, may do uieful work in preventing that quick con- sumption of fuel and that rapidity of draught which c irrtBa most of the heat up the ohimne^. Such materials intelligently disposed about tho bottom, hack, and sldea of a fire- bed divert some heat from tha flue to tho apartment, but to suppose that the ohalk contributed h ® at— that li to say, adds to tho total amount of heat detlVablo from the coal— la erroneous. Indeed, during tho conversion ol chalk Into lime, heat 1s absorbed, aecurely locked1 up,' not even given out again when the materials are cold- Tho' piau conventionally called a " lime- burner " makes and sells4imo, he doep not burn It. Ha does not even burn chalk,: h ® " unburns It by aid of the fuel which he does burn, or rather/ Jwilch nature purns lor him The queBtlon of economy ol fuel dops not make much head- way. Nor will it, I lear, uutU a larger proportion ol the publlo possesses some knowledge ol tho simple natural laws which Inflexibly govern tho matter— in other wordfl, tin science is well taught in all schools.— I am, & o., JOHN ATTMETD. 17, Bloomabury- Bquaro, W. C., Oct. IS. Marshal BazaincTia in auch ill- health' ho will die before tho indlotment against him- can be drawn ud. I 1 THE RAILWAY ACCEDENTS^ F IS71. f The Times, m a leader, gives the following resumi ot Captain Tyler's Report, in which almost every reader la in- terested:— The Report of Captain Tyler to the Board of Trade on the Railway Accidents of 1871, to which we have already made incidental reference, is especially in- teresting at the present moment At first sight it appears to show that the safety of railway travellers has increased in a remarkable degree, for the propor- tion of passengers killed from causes beyond their own • control was only one in thirty- one millions and a quarter, aa against one in rather more than nine millions and a half on the average of the preceding five years, and ono in rather more than five millions for the single year 1870. The proportion^ passengers injured shows also a small reduction, being 1 m 443,787 of thoBe carried, as against 1 in 390,759 on the average of the five preceding years. Unfortunately, however, the num- ber of accidents reported upon waa no less thanl71, or 40 more than in the year 1870, and 85 more than the average of five preceding years. Moreover, as Captain Tyler well points out it is a mere accident of an accident whether a collision be or be not attended by a great , mortality. An encounter between two mineral trains ^ imperils only a small number of the servants of the " Company, while a similar encounter between passenger or ' excursion trains might sacrifice numerous lives. In the long tun, the amount of mortality will follow the number of collisions; and the descent from the 66 pas- pengers , who were killed on Railways in 1870 to the 12 who were killed in 1871 is not only too great to be due to any'dthbr than merely temporary causes, but is also likely, on the doctrine of averages, to be followed by a rebound In the opposite direction. __ The Com- panies have not yet been able to furnish complete passenger returns for the year; but they estimate the number of journeys at three hundred and se venty- five dions, or an increase of thirty- eight millions and a ' on 1870. This estimate is probably near enough for all practical purposes; but it must in any case be conjefturaL since no record is kept of the movements of the holders of season tickets. Again, the deaths by. accident among the officers and servants of the Companies are estimated by Captain Tyler at 1 in 931, and the injuries at 1 in 619; but he adds " that accidents to servants do not appear in many cases to have been reported by certain Companies; and their numbers would, if the whole truth could be ascertained, be very Considerably increased." All . who; are conversant with railway matters know that this statement is fully borne out by facts, and they know also that fatal accidents to raflway servants are frequently occasioned by the open violation of rulea which exist upon paper and areappealed to at inquests, but which the men are practically forced to disobey, and are never punished for disobeying. They occur, . ^ n niQ^ lj instances, from jumping upon, or frojn, en- ' gines or ' carriages ini motion, chiefly in making up trains and in shunting operations; and this proceeding, which, is very generally forbidden, i3 as generally rendered necessary by the short time allotted to a given number of men to accomplish a given work. The accidppffl- to, railway servants, it will be observed were fatal m nearly one- half of the cases; although the accidents to passerigen were fatal only in one case in ; S evenly.' 1 , , If we turn now to the accidents themselves, and set ' aside a small'faumber which were of a miscellaneous or exceptional character, it appears that 12 per cent of the whole were due to defects of or obstructions on the permanent way. Fourteen per cent were due to ' failures of axles or tires; 8 per cent, were from pas- . aenger^ trains being wrongly turned into sidings, or otherwise through facing points; and nearly three- fifths of the whole were cases of collision under dif- ferent classes. In other words, more than three- fourths of the accidents were due, to causes which a block tele- graph ByBtem and points interlocked with signals would render absolutely impossible. In this simple statement We'think, it is to be found a sufficient answer to the en- deavours made by railway Companies to diminish or escape from their present liability to pay com- pensation to passengers injured upon, their lines. It is quite true that some of the^ claims made upon them are altogether false and ^ fraudulent, and that many are grossly exaggerated It ia "• quite true that a " railway case" is_ usually con- spicuous for an amount df hard swearing, scientific and Other, and for a display of irreconcilably Conflict- ing opinions, which induce many men of high character to hold themselves resolutely aloof both from plaintiff and from defendants. If all accidents arose from flaws in'iiiaterial, undlscoverable except by the event, or from the necessary imperfections of human agency, then the Companies would have a claim to relief, and might fairly ask passengers to take these risks upon themselves. But, while three out of every four depend upon the absence of proper mechanical appliances, or upon the neglect of precautions the value of which experience has proved so long must the shareholders expect'to pay; sometimes even exorbitantly, for the default of those whom they select to manage their aff^ s. It behoves them, then, to scrutinize very narrowly the list of accidents upon the lines in which they are interested The distribution of accidents ' might, indeed, almost aeem capricious. But we have little doubt that there aro very good reasons for the differences, which the shareholders might get at and general summary Captain Tyler reports t^ at not one of the train accidents investigated can be'properly classed as purely atcidehtal, but that all were of a nature to haVe been avoided by care, fore- thought, or the adoption pf proper means and appli- ances. He also points Out that for every defect which is brought to light there are usually many others whipfy remain unnoticed or uncorrected and which are not' only sources of danger in themselves, but are also the occasion of lax methods of working and of general carelessness among the servants employed- upon the line. Familiarity^ tolth danger and frequently recurring narrow escapes from it are the certain sources of a groundless con- fidence that a similar immunity from harm will be con- tinued; and in many instances of accident the only matter for surprise is that the calamity was not brought about long before it actually occurred. Captein Tyler stated that many important junctions, especially York, Pres- ton, Swindon, and Glocester, are still unprovided with appliances which he deems essential to safe working, although the. expediency of their . adoption has for many years been amply demonstrated On the whole, the picture he draws is one whioh can h^ fdly be said to be consoling to intending travellers ; and, unfortu- nately, experience proves that it is drawn frolh life. Since the Kirtlebridge collision scarcely a day has passed on which we have not had an accident or accidents to record; and indeed, these occurrences have now be « come so frequent that they cease to attract notice unless attended by exceptional loss of life. If the nature of these so- called accidents is inquired into, they will be found only in a few cases to arise from the inevitable errore of humanity, as from the neglect of p- ngine- drivere to observe signals, or from the reckless- ness, bom of habit which induces platelayers to stand upon the rails till an engine almost touches them, or to step upon another line without looking round to see that it is clear. In the majority of cases it is the absence of " proper appliances which is most obvious. . The monotony of indifference to life and property which such collisions display ia one which can hardly fail to awaken, at no distant time, a publio opinion which must re- act both upon juries and upon the Legis- lature. We have hitherto been content with a liability to damages for injuries as the sole punishment for the negligence of Railway Companies. The evidence which Captain Tyler adduces will go far to suggeat the in- quuy whether some further means should not be em- ployed to aid in obtaining safety for those who travel; and whether it would not be desirable to impoae penalties, even when passengers have not been killed or maimed for the negligence which must but for some happy chance, have resulted in both. AMERICAN WHIRLPOOL.— A correspondent of the Baltimore American gives the following account of whirlpool at tho mouth of the St. Croix river, which runs between Maine and New Brunswick :— " It is somewhat singular that a dangerous whirlpool has always existed, and atlll continues to frighten and be cautiously avoided by boatmen and fishermen, without a slnglo ohronlclcr to state Its whereabouts and its dangers. The whirlpool Is about midway between Deer Island and Dog Island, where tho channel Is very narrow, and a rapid six- knot current prevails on the flood tide. Indian river flows at right angles with the St. Croix, atriklng It Immediately at the entrance, rushing by the projecting point of Deer Island with gioat velocity. These causes, added to the counter current of the eddl » s, running nearly as swift as the flood tide, and huge boulders, supposed to lie at tho bottom along the centre of the turbnlent waters, form tho whirlpool. Tha tides in thla locality rise and fall from 25 to 80 feat, and at half tldo the roar and rush of waters can be distinctly heard lor ten miles along tho shore. I have aeon large log* and timber standing perpendicular in their spiral embrace, and many fishermen and other persons have been swallowed up In their treacherous foldi. On the ebbing ol the tide th » M no danger." BANQUET TO MR. STANLEY. A basrae* * M given ia Lrmiou, on Monday even- ing by members of the Condi ud Fellows of the Itoyil Geographical Sidetr, and by wmbewcf the Gsogrsphi JJ Clnb, at Willis" « Rot/ ms, to Mr. H. M. Stanley, the discoverer of Dr. Livingstone. The chair WM Ukea by Major- General Sir Henry Eawlidson, K. C. B., who had on Us r* ht the prmdz* l guest of the eveninz. The company, which nambercd upwards of a hundred, indnded, besides the chairman, the following member* of the Comadl of the Bard Geographical Society— Sir IL Eartls Frew, G. CJS. L. K. C. B., Admiral Sir Georzs Beck, Bear- Admiral Pochards, C. B., ¥ ice- Admlral Collinwm, C. B., Vice- Admiral Ommsnney, C. B., CapUin Sherrard Osborne. R. N., C. B.. Lord Art ha* Ilu* fcU, the Hon. Genrge Brodrick, Sir Katherford Akock, K. C. B., Mr. Murray, Mr. Reginald Cocks, Mr. Clements, K. Markham, C. B. fan old Abyssinian campaigner) ( secretary), Mr. H. W. Rates ( uutut secretary); the folio win? Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society — The Lord » Iayor, Major- General Sir TJneent Eyre, K. C. S. L, C. B, Sir Henry Anderson, K. C. 9. L, Sir Junes Anderson, Colonel Nsasaa Lees, Captain Felix Jootm, Csptain Richard P. Burton, Captain Mayne, RE, C. B.. Captain de Kantzow R. N Mr. James Rateman, Rev. George P. Badger, Mr. Char lee White, Mr. Hqgh Tburburn, Mr. Charles Greg, Mr. Jame* Wylde, Sir. Win wood Reade, Mr. E. Delmar Morgan, Mid several others ; the following old Abys- sinian campaigners— Major Euan Smith, Captain Tryon, R. N., C. B.. Lieutenant- Colonel Bngga, C. B., Lieutenant- Colonel Eonner, Major St. John, R. E., Lieutenant Dawes, R. I. N., Mr. W. T. Blandford, Dr. Knapp, and Captain GMilan ; and in addition to Mr. Stanley the following guests— Mr. Moran ( United States Secretary of Legation), Mr. E. Maraton ( of the firm of _ Sampaon Low), Mr. Hugh M'Culloch ( late United States Secretary to the Treasury), Sir Frederick Elliot, K. C., M. G., Mr. Peek, M. P., and about thirty- five others. The Chairman, In proposing the first toast, aaid that the health of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen waa alwayi received with especial enthusiasm by geographers, because they regarded Her Majesty as the patron of their Sodsty. Moreover, they knew that the Queen took the warmest In- terest In the event they had met to celehrate that evening. If they might J ad go from the gracious expressions contained In s letter which hid been made public, they might feel assured that Her Majesty regarded the discovery and relief Of Livingstone as one of the brightest pages in the history of her raws, and that she fully sympathized with her sub- Lets In their admiration of Mr. Stanley's successful enter- prise. ( Cheer*.) The Chairman next proposed " The Health of Her Ma- jesty's most august ally, the President of the United States." ( Cheers ) He waa proud to seo on his left the representative of the great Government of America, and also to find so dls- tinauished an American statesman as Mr. McCulloch among them that evening. After the petty warfare of political life It waa a cheering sight to see Englishmen and Americana clustered round one festive board. Intent on a common object — the acknowledgment of personal merit. ( Hear, hear.) The two nations had common language, common literature, com- mon love of aider and sttachment to free Institutions, and It was really deplorable that political dliferences should etsr arise betwoen them. Let them hope that those differences were now burled for ever in the grave of the Geneva Arbitration. < Cheers.) At any rate, the fields of literature and science, though they might be In honourable rivalry, had neither Jealous* nor enmity. In geography, especially English- men had always gone hand In hand with Americana. A reference to that Society's list et medalists would show that they bad constantly bestowed their rewards on Ame- rican citizens. Grinnel waa one ot their honorary mem- bers! the name of Kane waa aa well known In England aa in America ; and they were now watching the progress of Hall ID the Arctic regions aa keenly aa any one In America. Turning to literature, they found an Englishman, Mr. Froudo, now enjoying an ovation at tho hands of American citizens similar to that which Mr. Stanley waa about to re- ceive here. ( Cheers.) Be trusted that those courtesies would In future be the rule of our International relations, and be congratulated Mr. Moran, the representative of the American Government, on the achievements of Mr. Stanley, who had relieved the English mind from a heavy weight of anxiety and In succouring i Livingstone had covered his own namo with Imperishable renown. ( Cheer*. Mr Mnran responded. He waa sure the President of the United States would feel flattered by the high compliment Jmt paid him. The President took a deep Interest in the achievement of his countryman, Mr. Stanley. Dr. Living- stone bad won for himself a world- wldo reputation, and Mr. Stanley ene honlly second to It. Mr. Stanley had dared to BO, single- handed, Into the unknown wilds ot Central Africa to relieve a distressed English traveller and bad returned to fhid his achievement warmly appreciated - In this country. Ho was glad to flnJ the Geographical Society giving him all the honour duo to his courage and energy, what had fallen from the chairman as to the relstlons between the two countries waa the feeling shared by all Intelligent men on both sides of the Atlantic. The difficulties connected with the Alabama bod passed away, and an example of good feel- ing between the two nations had been set whlch, he hoped the rest ot the world would be prepared to follow, and by which wars might In future be avoided. ( Cheers ) The Chairman then rose to propose the toast of the evening. IIo expressed his own regret and that of the Geographical Society that tbty could not have meet at an earlier period to do honour to the guest of the evening. Bit dot qui eUo dot was an axiom which they all knew and approved; and he spoke the mero truth when he said tliat they should have been delighted to have reoelvod Mr. Stanley with opsn arms on the day ot his arrival among them had that been possible. ( Hear, hear.) He was bound to say that proposals to that effect were MILT ; I- ated to him at tho time by many of the moat In- fluential associates; but all who had lived in London— and Mr. Stanley himself also— must know that a public dinner In the- month of August was all but an Impossibility. We might boast ol our freedom and were Justly proud of It, bat In many respects we were slaves— the ilaves of the Inexorable laws of habit and fashion ; and one of the most Inexorable ot those laws was that as soon as the London season was over, they wore forced to migrate to the oountry, only to re- appear tn their old haunts as autumn was drawing to a close. If they had attempted a public dinner la August there would have been but a beggarly account of empty b nchos. Though they had a goodly assemblage that even- ing, he was sure that, had Mr. Stanley been able to remain 31 other month In town, the present attendance would have been doubled or trebled, flo trusted, however, that they might make up In cordiality for their lack of numbers. After recapitulating the Invaluable services which Mr. Stanley had rendered to Dr. Livingstone, the Chairman said, that " JA was In acknowledgment of that special service that they wore met together that day to do honour to Mr. Stanley. The llfo and fame of Livingstone were the property of the nation, and Mr. Stanley, therefore, had been looked upon aa a public benefactor lor preserving to us these national treasures. He had been honoured, by order of tho Quoen. with a bandsomo present, and as warm a letter of thanks as were ever tendered from the Crown of England to a private gentleman, and he had also received from the name exalted quarter personal acknowledgments which very few had ever the good fortune to receive or to deserve. , ( Cheers.) 1 The guilds of London and the cities of Scotland were proud to Inscribe Mr. Stanley's name upon thels rolls. 1 The Royal Geographical Society had also that day decreed to Mr. S anley the Victoria Medal of 1872. ( Loud cheer*) Not only as president of the Society, but as almost the senior medallist on tho list, he declared his pride in that decision, b-. lievfng as be did that In their long roll of distinguished niedallira no one had contributed more to the advancement of geographical science than Mr. Stanley by succouring Livingstone and by bringing home the lnvaluablo geo- graphical records which Livingstone had collected." ( Choera.) Mr. Stanley. In rising to respond, was received with enthusiastic cheers. He said that tho welcome now accorded him waa one such as Livingstone himself would have sighed for. Livingstone had told htm that tho Royal Geographical S clety were his friends ; that he loved them : that he waa ldmseU one of their a umber; that they were those who had < u< tilicd and backed him : and that they would also back him Mr. Stanley) when he got to England. Why did l> r Livingstone kindle In his bosom hopes of a kind re- ception ftom that society, unleaa It waa that the Doctor kne « what he had done better than any other man T Ho need not recapitulate the circumstances under which he tint met the great African traveller at Uliji, or relate over again the conversation ho had with him under the verandah. Some cynics might say " What a tool that eld man is to remain eut there!" But U they allowed the better feeling* of human nature to prevail they wooM better snderstan. 1 and appreciate his suit Auiullau. 11 was not a desire for the glory to be gained on gory baiOe- flelds that actuated Livingstone, bat a sense ol duty He • tuck with John Bull- like tenacity to the task of ex- pl tin; the watershed of the Nile set him by his lamented fri. I Sir R, Muchlson. He had himself suggested vari- ous plans of action to the Doctor, who. however, thought th. t the best coarse for him to pursue after being relieved and sui plied afresh was to go upon an exploring trip which would occupy eighteen months, or. allowing tor^ possible ooo- tlcgendaa, two years. He asked the Doctor whrthf* when he had satisfied himself aa to the sources of the Mle. he trould rvtura home and satisfy other people. The EkxSor r. led that that was cxactly what he meant to do. aad » Den Se had satisfied every body be would ol coune satisfy ths Rojal Geographical Society. ( A laugh.) Avery remarkable letter hsdW written alew days a « o by Captain Burton— hlmaetl a distinguished African traveller— urging the Royal Geographical Society to send an expedition up the Congo to rescue Dr. Livingstone from starvation. With all respect for the csoelkat mouvx whicn dictated Captain Barton s pro- posal. be said that Dr. Livingstone waa In no danger of starv- ': and that such an expedition was unnecessary. And here he :- ist acknowledge the assistance he had derived Is his search for Llvinrvcce from the previous laVurs of Captain ' l^ ri s » and Captain Assuming that livirgstoco was Ut tn Central Africa, and that a yoang man who was chosen to go out and find him succeeded In discovering and relieving hUc, and also brooght safe home the treasures which th* Illus- trious traveller had crOecSed. after many years ot toll and • uS rtag. It might have been expected that the society tor wh- se ejects the explorer had worked woeld have received that yocng man with a certain degree of favour. Bet he was kid, shea he arrive^ at r. m.^ m. that yu fiojal Geo- cnpfclcal Society wt « ld csadesn t± n tor oat? what they ha. i wished to do. And. when be came to London, every- body seemed to be enveloped tn a dood which would not let t^ c see - road dsylight. Xow, however, they had assem- bM together to have a general shake hands. ( Hear, heat) If the Royal Geocraphlsal Society deigned to comer on him a aold medal, he might tell tiesi that that was Just what be had been dreaminz about. It was all Dr. Livingstones fault, for ths Doctor told him that he should hnvs It; and if they had not aecurded him that reception and that hoooor, they would have disappointed Livingstone. (" Hear, bear," and a laugh.) That was a time for evsrythln? to be forgiven and f ygotten. Be was Informed that Dr. Kirk had revived a very friendly letter from Dr Livingstone. He was delighted to hear ll- As long as Uvingitone thought he wss Injured by Dr. Kirk, be would think so also ; and if Livingstone would think Dr. Kirk was his friend, be would think so too. ( A laugh.) Again. If the Eoysl Geographical Society entertahied the r, pinion that Livingstone was stfll their associate, he . would entertain that opinion likewise. If Dr. Kirk took only I one step towardsre- establlahln* that friendly Intimacy which chancunsed U. ilr intercourse on the banks of the Zambesi, be engaged that Dr. Livingstone would cordially respond to inch an advance, lo conclusion he could only thank them all from the bottom of his heart. In the first place, for the banquet they had given him, secondly for the medal they had bestowed on him, aad lastly for the kindness with which they had listened to his Imperfect remarks. ( Load cheer*.) " The Health of Dr. Livingstone " was proposed by Sir Bartle Frere, and acknowledged by Mr. Stanley, on behalf of his abeent friend ; and " The Health of Mr. Gordon Bennett" waa proposed by Captain Sherrard Osborne, B. N., and acknowledged by Dr. " The H « * hh of the Chairman " having been pro- posed by the Lord Mayor, and duly acknowledged, the proceedings, which lasted till a very late hour, then terminated. THE GAROTTER'S GLEE. ( From Punch.) BLOW, Warder, blow from aoundest arm. And thy Nine tails waved on high ! For the rascals have wrought with the violent hand, And have done a robbery. The Lash a cruel caitiff's meed Ought evermore to be ; And his hide should he wrung and his shoulder* should be stung. And the brute whipped handsomely. The Warder looked with a glowering eyo, Each craven rogue to see, I bear a strong arm, and, by my good troth, They shall feel It— or else, blow me I Sterner the Warder bared his arm. And his HlnetaUs waved on high ; And their hides they were wrung and their ahoulders they were stung, And tho brutes whipped handsomely. CLOSE OF THE EXHIBITION OF 1872. On Saturday afternoon, punctually at five o'clock, at the close of a dark and dreary October day, the Inter- national Exhibition of 1872 expired. But it must be confessed ( says the Observer) that the South Kensington Farewell, the valedictory ceremony, the last day in the old home, the latest occasion for worshipping at the shrine of art waa not such an imposing ceremony as might have been imagined. Anything more melan- choly than the scene it is not easy to imagine. The show did not conclude with a shout, but with a long- drawn sigh. The visitors could have been counted with the greatest ease. Many of the galleries were quite deserted. The cotton and fabric avenues echoed only to the melancholy tramp of a guardian policeman, the whirr of the machinery was hushed, and the silence of the long manufacturing corridor waa broken only by the fitful laughter of two boys folding the last copies of " The Key." The only Bigns of life were visible among the musical instruments and the jewel- lery, where the last gushing season- ticket holder fa- voured the company With tbe latest " Morceau pour le piano," all shakes and twirls, where the little old gentleman like . Alexandre Dumas waa busy superin- tending the washing of the last watch- chain by elec- tricity ; where the awe- struck voung ladies were sighing over the Countess of Dudley's jewels ; and where an energetic proprietor of musical boxes im- proved the occasion by catching hold of a stray visitor, and accosting him with the old bazaar jargon, the old touting formula, " Would you like to buy a nice musical box, sir, cheap? Very cheap, I assure you, sir I A great reduction in prices to- day !" We had not been in the instrument room three minutes before we were accosted in this fashion, and we pursued our course after this by the photograph stalls and jewel cases with fear and trembling. The complete buisance of the bazaar system— if Saturday can be taken as an example — must have spoiled the pleasure of peeping and prying about which belongs properly to visitors at such ex- hibitions as these. We want to learn and be instructed, not to buy. We want to see what manufacturers are doing, not to fill their pockets. Bis there anything more profoundly melancholy and pathetic than the appearance of a friend's house, where laughter and revelry have gone hand in hand, at some unfortunate time when reverses have come, and the bit of carpet is hung out of the drawing- room window? The notion of the old home and pleasant scenes under the bitter rod of the auctioneer and the coarse control of the broker was not dis associated from Saturday's break up. It looked very much as if the carpet wAs flung out of the com- missioner's window, and soenM not un suggestive of summer pleasure were being rudely trampled on. The picture galleries were denuded of their best treasures, tbe French gallery waa a desert of dirty walls, and everywhere there were those sod stains of the outlines of the frames, and large holes from which the nails had been cruelly wrenched. The public was evi- dently in the way, and exhibitors seemed in a hurry to pack up and be off. The bier garten, where once WV smoked in the summer, and which was then BO merry and animated, was littered over with packing cas « e and joints of machinery. Specimens everywhere were ticketed for departure, and round about the pal- laoes wandered just a few art- lovers who were anxious to be in at the death, and to bargain for some object which had caused them delight Damp without, and depressing within, the scene was anything but enliven- ing. Wandering disconsolately through half- filled picture galleries, on every side ami at every turn a gap, and avoiding the attacks of tradesmen hungry for custom, such of the public as dared to brave the misery of a wretched autumn day saw on Saturday the last of the International Exhibition 6f 1872. WORKING MEN and the BALLOT ACT. At the meeting of the Labour Representation Leagne held in London, on Friday evening, at Cockspur- street, Charing - cross, Mr. R. M. Latham, the president, in the chair, the following memorial to Mr. Forster, M. P., in favour of an amendment of the Ballot Act, with the view of preventing the recurrence of the " Preston card trick," and other improper practices at elections, was unanimously agreed to:— " That your memorialists view with profound dissatisfac- tion and regret the failure of the Ballot Act In its present form to secure to elector* the Independent and untram- melled exercise of their franchise by secret voting, aa was proved at the recent elections ( one Parliamentary and the other municipal) at Preston and Wakefield, when persons acting on behalf ot the so- called " Constitutional" party surrounded polling- booths, soliciting and obtaining Information as to how the votes hadbeen given, thus effecting by systeaMtised effort a subversion of the law by Us evasion. Your memorialists, frankly accepting the Ballot Act of last aasslon, not as a nullity or sham, bat as a measure of enlightened stateamanahlp really Intended to secure freedom ot election by secreay of voting, and to pre- vent unscrupulous persons frcm exercising coercive power over the action of poor and dependent men, pray yon to use your Influent With yotn colleagues In the Cabinet to authorise your Introduction In the next session of Parliament a bill declaratory ot the Legislature's In- tention In passing the Ballot Act. For preventing the aforesaid and other Improper and dishonour ably prac- tices at future elections, your memorialists humbly sug- gest that such bill shall provide :— L That any violation or evasion ot the secxesy of voting, or the intention of the Act, either by the collection of cards after polling, prying Into the balloting chamber, or otherwise, shall be punish- able as s misdemeanour. 2. That any Interference with, or molestation of an elector by a canvasser or other person within a prescribed distance from the polling- booth during the hours of polling, shall also be punish- able as a misdemeanour. 3. That if Parliament deems it Impracticable to abolish paid agents altogether, It should nevertheless restrict as much aa possible the action of such persons at elections. A Tbe prohibition of the employment of paid canvassers, and also of all bouse- to- hoase canvassing: as the Inordinate power those afford to rsn-* n » t— for ascertaining and consequently Interfering with ths opinions of electors Is destructive to freedom of choice. Everyone who Is worthy to possess the franchise ought sarely to be left free to make up his own mind, and exerolsc an unbiassed choice aa to the claims of rival candi- dates. Your memorialists earnestly hope, therefore, that yea win see fit to give practical effect to the futgtbg rcg- gesaac* azA ai in duly tweed, 4a* THE HIGH PRICE OF PROVISIONS. A pobK: meeting was held on Monday evening in the Howe Congregational Church, Blue Anchor- lane, Bermccdsey, Lone on, to take into consideration the above question, chiefly as affected by the Game Law*. Mr. W. E. Fielding occupied the chair, and in open- ing the meeting, said that no more important question could occupy the public mind. He hoped that in dis- cussing it they would not be led away by opposition to ny particular class, and he was happy to see that there was among the working classes n desire to inves- tigate the matter in a calm and temperate manner. Thc first resolution was moved by the Rev. J. Sin- clair, and seconded by Mr. J. Babbs. It ran as fallows:— " That this meeting records Its- conviction that the first duty of the Government is to discover and remove all customs and laws which either directly or Indirectly Inter- fere with the food supply, the industry, and the general well- being of the people. Mr. Sinclair adduced some facta relative to landed owners having ejected farmers from their holdings, and turned the property into waste land for the pur- pose of converting it into deer forests ; and Mr. Babbs particularised an instance— that of the Sari of Breadal- bane— who, he said, could take horse and ride within a radius of one hundred miles from his house, over which tract all the farms had been swept away, and the land converted into hunting- grounds. Mr. George Odger, who with Mr. Weston consti tuted a deputation from the Anti- Game Law League, moved the second resolution :— " xtutt this meeting affirms that the Game Laws diminish the area of cultivated land, and the capital and labour cm- ployed upon it; that they check the production of food, and Increase its cdst; that they prevent the occnpaton of land lu small holdings; that they tend to brutalise the community, and largely swell the criminal classes ; that they are glaring tnstanoes of class legislation, and that they ought to be abolished. " He referred to the fact that the Game Laws diminished the area of cultivated land, and said that the lawB were the work of the aristocracy. They might say that the lower classes did not understand the question, and wished to destroy the vested interests of the land- owners, but that was the doctrine they had preached for a long time back. After remarking upon the damage done to farmers' crops by hares and rabbits and other " vermin," briefly advert- ing to Mr. John Brizht's attempt in past years to do away with these obnoxious laws, he urged the meeting to use its endeavours to rid the statute book of provisions which were productive of degrada- tion, brutality, crime, and misery, and concluded with an effective quotation of a poem by the Rev. Charles Kingsley. A final resolution, to the effect that a deputation should wait upon the Government to present the reso- lution that had been passed, was then carried, and the meeting separated. SPUTTERINGS FROM " JODrS" PEN. A SCHOOL BOARD that Is never Elected— A black board. NETBK marry a woman tillyou know where her dress ends and her soul begins. IF a man has but one eye, let him get a wife, and she will be his other L In what case is it absolutely impossible to be alow and sure f — In the case of a watch. THE husband who devoured his wife with kisses found afterwords that she disagreed with him. AM old bachelor says a woman may bo surprised, asto nlshed, taken all aback, but never dumbfounded. " MB3. ToomJCH, Where's your husband T" " He's dying, marm, and 1 dont wish anybody to disturb him," A very considerate woman that 1 A YOUTH with a turn for figures had five eggs to boil, and, ] being told to give them three minutes each, boiled them a quarter of an hour altogether. " I'VE Just laid out a thousand pounds In Jewellery lor my dear wife," said a fond young husband. " Your dear wife Indeed 1" sneered an acrim jnlous old bachelor. AN affectionate watchmaker may call his wife " My llttlo ! Jewel; " but she ought to call him " My Utile Jeweller." | THE Digger- Indians are never known to smile. They must be grave Diggers. J0NE3 wrote to a friend, and closed by saying, " I am glad to bo able to say that my wife Is recovering slowly." IV a woman tolls more than the truth In speaking of a rival's age, she will probably inake the thing even by stating ! her own. MOTTO for Chess- players.—" Act on the square." A Dra- HER In the City.— Big Ben. THE Best Thing for a Frta> Told.— Get It cured. A SEASONABLE TIP,— The Dent wine Is— other people's. | — Judy. | CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS. " No JOKE.— The California Advertiser has what it calls " Laughorlsms," a column from the comic Journals. Not long back a contemporary told its readers" In the article upon a new college, in our last, for ' alum water' read alma mater." A man ran through Detroit the other day shouting that he was looking for " the road to heaven. The crowd called him crazy for looking for It in Detroit. An Iowa newspaper publishes poetry written in the county gaoL Some of the readers tfiinir the author lu the right place. i Seven hundred gallons of whiskey were destroyed by lightning in an Indiana town tho other day, but It was a pretty even tussle between tho two. A Californian writes that they have fire flies BO large In that Interesting State, that they use them to cook by. They set tho kettles on their hinder legs, which aro bent for the purpose like pot- hooks." A Michigan love- letter—" Dear , come and see us soon.. We have Just got a new lamp that will turn down, dowvj down, and make It dellclooily dark. Your affectionate One of the States passed an Aet that no dog should | go at large wlthont a muzzle, and a man was brought up for ' infringing the statute. In defence, he alleged that his dog had a muzzle. " If you don't want tho soot, don't yon go up the chimney," was the reply of a Kew York editor to " respect- able parties who requested him not to mention the fact , that they had been arraigned in the police oourts. j A gentleman going to Texes asked his lawyer for a | letter of Introduction. The lawyer opened a drawer, took | out a large and handsome apring- bladed dagger knife, and ' gave It to him. An American paper sayB one of the passengers upon ' the Mttu at the time of the disaster was an exceedingly i nervous man, who, while floating In tho water. Imagined i what his friends would do to acquaint his wife with his fate. ; Saved at last, he rushed to tho telegraph office and sent this wltcL- 80~~'' De" 1 8111 " Ted* Break U eeDtly 10 wy EPITOME OF NEWS, BRITISH AND FOBEIGN. Card- playing, even when only " for love," ia now against the law In Georgix The number of passengers on the railways of the Uirtted Kingdom in the year lo71 averaged more than a million a day. The East- end parishes of London are following the ! example of the West- end In contracting for the supply of preserved meats for regular consumption in the workhouses. . u interesting to Nonconformists to know ^ SfhMdhorst, Secretary of the Central Kon- confonnlst Committee, has been elected a town councillor lor Birmingham, In opposition to a candidate who came for- ward in the publican and State Church interest. It is reported that a pilgrimage to Rome, in the S?!^ the wtnkei U being organised In France, to consist of 2.000 persons. The pilgrims are to pay 120 franca a head for Journey food and lodging, so they must make up their minds to pilgrims tare and shelter Indeed In this most ex- pensive city. " A correspondent says he has just overheard a pr* 7? f.? r , , Dimo- ' Oh, beloved Joseph,' murmured a r?* 7 ut"? on her knees before a flaming taper she had Just lighted In his honour, - grant tomsa good husband, plenty ol Ironing to do, shirt collars without I starch, and charcoal without smoke: and to my dear old | aunt an easy death All these oiestings as sil lily as may , be. — Court Journal At a mass meeting of iron- workere held at St George - Hall, Wolverhampton; It was resolved that after the P^^ t year the men would expect to wcrk at 112. be. to the I cwt Instead of ISOIfcs.; the " turns" of work to be six heats of common Iron in ten hours. It was stated that by the dose of this year the members ot the Amalgamated i Miners' Association would number 2U. OCO. Dr. Moffat ( father- in- law of Dr. Livingstone), ad- dressing * meeting of the Sheffield auxiliary to the London , iliadonary Society, expressei his confident belief that , Livingstone would return to this country within twelve He had heard from Sir Bartle Frere that he ( Sir Partis) had received instructions from Her Majesty's Go- vernment to go cut to Zanzibar to arrangements for aru ilatingthe Eastern slave trade, and to ope^ WttoLC- IdU^ coainaBicatianwMDr. Urinsstone. ^^ The postage collected in the cetropolis tn the last CaaacLfyear was£ ii* » , l » 10a. 5d. The declared value of hams imported in the List nine months est « 3$ t* » . The Bethnal- CTeen Museum, in I< onJi « i, was visited last week by persons. Roche fort has written a n-> vel in prison which is about to be published in one ot the dally Paris papers— so It Is said. J •-! f The Germans are Calculatifrg far naval glnry1. " ant! have opened a large Naval School at Kiel with 14 pro- lease ra. The white elephant recently captured ia Sinn takes rank after the Queen, the heir- apparent rankl. ig after the elephant. The Pope has added tc the list of Catholic saints the late Qae » n Mans Christiana Naples, Nicholas vA dtr FlOe, the French nrtc » Jean d* Ars, aufl Pope Eugenius IH. A new form of advertising has apgeared ia i'xauw ; an outfitter con « tructs a van in the farm of a gtanh txslj n- j ably dressed : a bootmaker adopts the form of a ooot • a shirt- maker that of a chemise. Tho Mess draws attention and laughter. • The Gloucestershire Chamber of Agriculture on Ssturday passed a resolution affli mtcg the need of- tegt^ latlve enactment to secure outgoing tenant farmer* compen- sation ft. r unexhausted Improvements, and that laM**^* should h- Coiuvrcusated for deterioration or dllapviation. An old widow, about 70 yoars of age. nanfced Mis. Matthews, of Grindley Brook, near Wltchurch. Sid p. was crossing the line when a train ran over her, oemplaUly cut- ting her to pieces. Her leg* and head weie found some distance from the place where the accident occurred. Tho engine driver saw the deceased, butSoo late to stop the train. It is said that the eldest son of Bar- On Jamei Eothschild, of Paris, is engaged on tho compilation of a family history of the RothschlMs from 1S06 to 1871. The history will contain several Interesting letters written by ' Napoleon L and hitherto unpublished; also of several , eminent statesmen. j A fellow coming from the top of the Alleghanjes to Kew Y<* k. In winter, a as asked whether It was as cold there as in thi city. lie had probably been at some march of In- ; tellect school, for be glanced at a thermometer. " Horribly cold," said he, " for they have no thermometers there, and, ot couno, It's Just aa cold aa It pleases." At Whitcombe, Devon, a boy named Browning, 14 years of age, has alternately alarmed and amused his com- panions by putting a noose round his threat aud pretending to hang himself. He h. s repeated the isst on « Wi pften for, on Saturday, his parents were horrified to find his dead body hanging from a tree. ^ From a parliamentary paper just issued as to poor- rates and pauperism, U appear* that the 0041 ol in- mainten- ance and outdoor relief In the m< tropolis showed a decrease ot per cent; for the half- year ended Lady day last, » * compared with the corresponding period ending I^ dy- dfcy, 1S7L. Acoording to the Journal of the Society of AH* It appears that there are In Canterbury IS water- power engines worked by the constant water- supply— namoly, two soda- water machines, four printing maohlnes, loos sawing machines, two drilling machines, and a circular saw^ pno for pumping, one for hair brushing, and one for a lathu. \ On board the Cunard steamers the Church servioQ is read every Sunday morning. Tbe muster- roll of the cretr Is called over, and they attend service. A gentleman said to one of tho sailors—" Are you obliged to attend public ser- vice f " Not exactly obliged, sir," replied Jack; " we should lose our grog If we didn't." The customers of a cooper in the Highlands paused him a vast deal of vexation by their saving habit* and per- sistence In getting all th> Ir tubs and casks repaired, buying hut very little work. " I stood It long enough, however * said he, " until one day old MacCawbrie brought In an old bungholo, to which he said he wanted a new barrel made. Then 1 quitted the North In disgusts. Sir ThomaB Cochrane, G. C. B., Senior Admiral of the Fleet, has died, at the age of eighty- three. He had been tn the service ever since the present century began, and was made post- captain In 1806, at the early ago of seventoen. During the long peace he was Governor of Newfoundland for nine years, and for some tfine he represented Ipswich tn Parliament. At Banchroy lately, the parish schoolmaster, out of ' curiosity, put the question to the scholars—" What ls. no- thin?!" A nauso ensued, until an urchin, whose pro- clivities for earning a penny were well known among his school- fellows, got up and replied—" It's when a man aoohs yo to hand hla horse, and Jlst says thank ye." At a large meeting of the Amalgamated Railway Servants' nil Ion, held at the Albion Hotel, Leamington, on Sunday night, Mr. Churchwarden Warmslcy presiding, It was decided to memorialise the Great Western and London And North Western Railway Companies for a rise of wages, a reduction bf labour to six days of ten hour* each In the week, and payment for overtime. Railway aeddenta were stated by the men to be due mainly to overwork and In- sufficient station staffs. A strike Is threatened if the terms are not complied with. The doubts existing as to the burial- place of Amy Robsart have lately been set at rest by the Rev. J. Burgon, vicar of St. Mary's, Oxford, who, after much research in the Bodleian library, has discovered the exact spot, and has caused the following Inscription to be placed In the chancel of St. Mary's Church:—" In a vsult of brick, at the upper end of this quire, was buried Amy Robsart, wife of Lord Robert Dudley, K. G., Sunday, 22nd September, AD. 1& 60." German newspapers express great gratification at the gift ot about 16,000 Bibles by the British and Foreign Bible 8odety to the widows and families of German soldiers and others killed In the war. The Bibles being Intended not sa alms, but as tokens of condolence and stlaCes tn bereavement, the presentation has not been limited to the poor, but families In gooa~ drcumitances have as thankfully accepted them- The Km per or William himself has been presented With one, and has received It with thanks. A circular has been issued from the Foreign Office directed to the various Chamber* of Commerce throughout the country calling attention to the proposed alterations ot the tariff in France ; stating that there may be errors of com- pensatory duties and drawbacks which, If uncorrected, may seriously affect different interests ; and asking If tbe Cham- bers have any further observations to offer, that they^ nay be Immediately notified at tho Foreign Office. Monday's returns . of the foot and mouth disease In Dorset show an alarming Increase of the malady. There are 32,221 cases in eight divisions of tbe county, comprising 2.2IH diseased cattle, 20,632 sheep, and 421 sirlne. The divi- sions affected are Sherborne, Ware ham, Wlmbourno, Shaftes- bury, Dorchester, Cerne Abbaa, Sturmlnster, Blandford, and Brid port. There were nearly eighty outbreaks during the post week, and upwards of 400 farms are affected. A correspondent at Geneva announces that Dr. Merle d'Anblgne, the historian of the Reformation, was found dead In his b « d on Monday. On Sunday morning he went to chapel and took the Sacrament, and In the evening had family payers In his own house. He had not complained of illness. The deceased wss born at Geneva In 1704. tie waa for several Cars pastor of a French church in Hamburg, and afterwards Brussels. In 1S30 he was appointed Professor of Church History In tho new Theological School of Geneva His works on tho Reformation have been translated Into F. ngllsh, and are well known In this country. Prince Albrecht, the brother of the Emperor Wfr 11am, has received the last solemn rites— which took a peculiar character of lmpresslveness from the fact that they were partly celebrated after nlghtralL Hie fmpeilal family alone wtre present at the first portion of tho obsequies, held In tbe Palace of the deceased Prince on Friday night, and concluding with the funeral sermon somewhere about mid- night : and next day the publlo service was held with all dua pomp In the Cathedral, whither tbe body had been borne In state, and where all the Imperial and Royri relatives of ths dead warrior were present. An accident of a very remarkable character has hap- pened to a young woman named Maria Shattaytf She was employed as a spoon and fork buffer at the silver- plate manufactory belonging to Messrs. Wilkinson, of Liverpool. The shafting in the huffing wheel runs along over the win- dows. The unfortunate yonng woman had been dewing the window over the butlers at which she worked and had turned round to Jump off the bench. She gave a spring, when the very large chignon She wore was caught by the shafting, which tore not onlr her chignon and net but also her hair and scalp comp'ebly off her head, and one ot her oara She was taken to tbe Publlo HospiUI and Dispensary, whare her Injuries were attended to. She now lies In a very precarious condition. According to the correspondence of the New Tori Derald, an Ingenious plan has been adopted by Professor Agasdz's expedition for determining bow tar the submarine regions- sre pervious to light A plate prepare* for photo- graphic purposes U enclosed in a case so contrived as to be covered by a revolving lid in the space ot forty mlntites. The apparatus Is sunk to the required depth, and at the ex- piation of the period stated is drawn up and developed In the ordinary way. It is said that evidence has thus been obtained of the operation of the actinic rsys at much greater depths than hitherto supposed possible.— Nalur*. A Paris Correspondent, in referring to the results ol the recent elections In France, says It Is now conclusively shown that almost all the sitting members of the depart- ments no lenger represent tbe opinions of the constituency. The only defeat sustained by the Republican party wss In the Morblhan. Even there the Republican candidate obtained 30,000 votes, and his opponent, supported by ( the Legitimist, Orieanlst, and Cierlcal parties, received only » , 000 more. Everywhere else the Republicans carried everything before them. In London 2,210 births and 1,3^ 0 deatls were regis- ter! d last wees. After making allowance for Increase of population the births were SO and the deaths VI below the average r. smbsn In the corresponding week of the last ten years. The annual death rate from ail esmsea, which In the two previous weeks had been equal to 30 and 10 per 1.000 respectively, rose last w » ek to 22. The rate, after distribu- tion of the deaths In Institutions in proportion to population, was tS per 1,000 tn the Wekt. 19 In the North, 21 In tfrj Central, 23 tn the East, and 25 In ths South gronps of di » trirta. The 1. J86 deaths Included 1) from small- pox, U> measles, 17 from scarlet fever. 12 from diphtheria, 87 frota whooping- cough, 18 from different farms of fever, tjid a from diarrhoea. The annual rate of mortality In Port'xaoaXh wss 25. Norwich 23. Birmingham Z7, SheJleid S5, >" e, irca « U » BPcn- Ijne 29, and BilstUZL It has boen resolved to erect k Wsihltkeat Episcopal Cathedral tn New York at a ccst ot dollars. ^ An q.- i^ au- n^ m^ favour of universal suffrage is In ths last nine fiemths the declared value of gutta pcrcha imported vas* » *\ « L Frem the returns> eceiv< sl in Paris it seems that the RepubUAn or Radical candidates have been successful In ail tbe recent elections An Italian newspaper laments thatt after the liberal subscriptions made t*. e: e ter a monument to QntbtflOL that agitator will not take the But. Reports from various parts of Lancaahahlr* show that the potato crop through Ait the county la a failure, and the vheat crop eouMsntity bdow ths average. The " bottle of sacred oil," recently found in tho rulnCflf Pompeii, turns ont to have been a battle ot whlaky 141 by an Irish party of visitors. On Saturday aftertiPbh, as IfObt- ttat ww rburning to MontK^ e, after communicating with a vessel In tho bay. It was caught by a gust of wind and capsized. Five of ths crew were drowned. __ r* '! A.— The people in the next house tons are form- ers, and bare nothing whatever to do with me. Thej^ eep my people from mo by telHrg falsehood*— Coma— K." V Advertisement in the Iteuy XiUjrapJt. Her Majesty the Queen, with their Royal IIi|! i- nesses Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice. aStendedrby the Lad Us and Gentlemen ot ths Court, is eipeeled to arrive at Windsor Castle about the 17th ot next mouth. A few days ago died at Florence, after a long and painful Illness, at the advanoed age of T3 year*. Dr. ru.- d- notti, ons ot ths must rtlstlngBlshsd professors ot tho healing art In Italy, The Olamow ITa- ahi states that ( he Queen ba- » con- tributed / 150 to the funds ot tho " Association for GaoQo- sjyuklngStudenU^ fremthe^ Northorn Synods la connexion The Km York Herald says that from the initiation of tho Joint Commission down to the dose of thetieuova Arbitration proceedings, tho wholo business seems to have been a carnival at eating and drinking, mutual admiration, and overstrained couteay. Now that the American printers havo got their eight hour* a day and an advance of 20 per emit in wafces, they don't seem quite happy. Work is being scot away from New York to England. It Is very unpatriotic, but it Is remunora- . tivo. The fire in the DarfieLd Main Colliery turns oat to be much mats serious than was at first anticipated. Jha proprietor* have found it necessary to flood the entire mine with water, and It U feared thut many months Will pMS before the pit can bo again worked- It is stated that the result of Captain Tyler's invoati- gatlon a « to the csuse of the lamcntablo accidont at Kelve- don, on the Great Eastern lull nay, U tbat it arose Irem a spring of the engine breaking, and not from any dufeot of the permanent way. Ftom the report of the Civil Service Supply Asso- ciation recently Issued It appears that during tno last half- year goods were boughtto the. amount of £ 303,93: tbrt the grow profit from traalfifc al4 other SOBtrsa wasX3i, SBT; that tbo ordinary working expanses were £ 23,433 ; and tho not balance In favour of tho aaaoclation £ 7,017. In a recent case at Greenock, brought by a servant girl against her master tor damages for Illegal dismissal, the dofonco urged was the Improper conduct of tho girl, ami tt was explained that on one occasion she dressed herself In tho master's cWthei. corked mouttaChtol'Ofi Her Taee. and tn thU gulso exhibited herself tothechlldren and neighbouring sor- The sx Prince ImpiSriU of * fno « e, who # ill Join fte Royal Military Academy at Woolwich In the course of next month, will have for a companion the son of Dr. Conneau, the Emperor s physician. A house orf Woolwioh- common Is to be procured for tho WWce* residence during Ms stay at the Academy, and he will also bo accommodated with quarters In the Academy. V A good story is told of a dignitary of the Church of England, who happening to bo In London a short time ago, went on 8und « y morning to service at Westminster : Abbey, It having been announced that tho Dean would pteach. ' How did you like the sermonf aaked the lady with whom he was staying. ' Oh,' ho replied, ' It was very good ; but it was not what I went to hear. I wont to hear about the way to Heaven, and I only hoard about tho way to Palestine.'"— Court Journal. An American paper states that the old elm tree under which Washington took command ot tho armies of the United States U still standing at Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an Iron railing around Its ancient trunk and a granite monument beneath Its branchea, hut Is beginning to show the effects of old age. Recently ono of lta largest bronchos, measuring upwards of thirty feet In length and a foot In diameter, fell to the ground. The venerable tree will soon disappear wtth other relics of tbe revolutionary period. On Saturday afternoon, Charles Fenwlck, of tho firm of W. and C. Fenwlck, plumbers. Broughty Ferry, while experimenting with the gas used for the purpose of cement- ing sheet lead, had his head blown to plcces by an explosion. The cylinder containing the gas Is beliovcd to havo been overcharged ; the lid was blown off. striking Fenwlck on. the face. Ho was killed on the spot. Two other persona, wero present, and miraculously escaped, their bats being knockod off by a portion of ths apparatus. THE MARKETS. MARK^ XuLNE.— Mo. NDAT. At Mark- lane to- day the trodo has boon much depressed. The supply of English wheat has been only moderate, and the quality has been bad. With a thin attendanoeof miQsjs, the demand has ruled heavv, and Very Utile business has been concludod oven at a decline of is. to 2s. per quarter. Foreign wheat, the show Of which has boeu moderate, has sold sldwTy, at Is. to " 2s. per quarter leas money. The supply of barley has been moderate. The d » - maid has lacked activity, and prices havo receded Is per qr.' Malt has boen dlsposod of at about late rates. There has been a supply ol oats on offer. The t^ l1* has besA qslet, at about late rates. Maize has been dull, and rathor easier.] In beans transactions havo boen restricted, at a de- cline oils. per <( r. Peas havo been dull, and la per qt. lower. . The flour market has ruled heavy, and American barrels have been Od. to lai lower. MARK- CANE.— WHDUE8DAY. There has bomwio^ eatye^ o^^^ piirtaote^ Ui the^ graln all qu'aLtles the demand has been qulot. In the barley trade there hht been a Want qf animation, but no further change has been noted In prices. Oat* havo been quiet, ah Monday's dedlfio. Maize has been In limited request, on former terms. Beans and peas have bo4n sold at late rates. Flotu has been quiet, at last Mondsy's prices. METROPOLITAN CATILK MABKJ5TL— MOTOA?. There has oeen much depression lg the oatUe trade to- d sy, and prices have experienced a general reduction. The supply of beasts baa not bsen extensive, but It has been more than sufficient for requirements. During tho earlier part of the morning the choicest English stock occasionally made 6s. lOd. per 8Tb;, but this (/ notation was ndt main- tained, and late to the day 6a. 8d was with difficulty obtained, whilst tnany good animals wore disposed of at U. 2d. to 6C4d. per 0b. Tbe fall In the value of prime breeds Is from 2d. to 4d. per 81b.; Inferior stock Is altogether Irregular In value. Tbe foreign stock offered has been of Indifferent quality, and has sold at low prices. From Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and N rthamptonshlre, we received about 1,900 head ; from other parts of England, about 240, various breeds: from Aberdeen, 84 6 « oU aaa erosass; and front Ireland, about 350 beasts and 280 cow*. The sheep trade has ruled heavy In sympathy, and prices have declined 2d to 4d. per 81b. For ths best Downs and half- breda Cs. fid. to 0s. bd. per 81b. has been accepted. Oflves have bet 11 dull as dewier. Pigs have been abldat drooping prices. THE FALMOUTH AND PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. cJLM. IFF LET Parishes of Cuiy and Mawgan, MOST DESIRABLE FAEMS TO] BY TENDEB, WITH immediate ttos'esiion, . either toge- ther or separately, for n teAi of seven, fourteen, or twenty- one years, frjH the 29th of September, 1872. M The farms consist of the nXll- known Corn and Dairy Lands, e& lied . Bonjtlioii Barton, Situate as nbpvc, within fire miles of the ex- cellent markif^ Mi of Hflston; lately occo- pied by A^ LJpse^ i Toph^ m, who has given up possessiqai thn Michaclmas. One piwertyto be lef; is a compact Farm, of fire enclosures of AraSle and Pasture Land, containing hbont 100 acres, with a residence, orchard and buildiuVfe, Another excelled Farm' of nine enclosures measuring about' 153 acres, with farm house, and convenient outbuildings suitable for such an occupal' And a thf- d excellent Farm of thirteen en- closures, measuring about 215 acres, with farm house ana convenient outbuildings. To rielr the properties apply at Miss LTLB'S, BonythOTi Mansion, where a plan, of the pro- perty nmy be seen, and the detailed particulars of lettiag inspected. ner particulars may be had on application to JOHK TATLOB, Esq., 7, Gray's Inn Square, . London ; or to Mr. THOMAS COEFIBIJ), Land Agent, Falmouth ; to either ot whom tenders for the entirety or any single farm may be sent on or before the 1st of November. The proprietor is not bound to aocept the highest or any tender. ¥ To Engine Fitters. TITERS wanted, at Huihams and Brown's Foundry, Exeter. JOHN BURTON, Auctioneer, Valuer, AND Commission Agent, 46. MARKET STREET, FALMOUTH. The House for Tea. THE Gunpowder Tea Warehouse. REGISTERED TRADE MARK Black Green or Mixed the Finest Spring Crop. J. II. HEAD, , Tea Dealer & Grocer, High Street, Falmouth. Are yon troubled with a Cough ? rTlHEN lose no time in applying for J_ SOLOMON'S Pectoral Cough Mixture, Which is one of the best preparations sold for the cure of Coughs, Colds, Influenza, Shortness of Breath, < tc., and for the releif of Asthma and Bronchitis. It is adapted for persons of all ages, and is • old in Bottles, at 7|( L, Is. lid., and 2B. 9d. each, The middle- size Bottle is generally suffi- cient to cure an ordinary Cough, or to give abundant satisfaction in more extreme cases. Prepared only by W. H. SOLOMON, Dispensing Chemist, 40, Market Street, Falmouth. Try MARTIN'S NEW SEASON'S tig AS SPLENDID QUALITY 2s. per Pound. The PEOPLE^ Grocer, & c., lower Market 8t., and Welt St., PBNRYN. G L ENFIELD ORP A Tp NTT is the only kind used in OiAJ^ UH, Hcr Majesty's laundry If there are any ladies who have not yet used the GLEN FIELD STARCH they are respectfully solicited to give it a trial, and carefully follow out the directions printed on every package, and if this is done, They will say, like the Queen's Laundress, it is the finest Starch they ever used. When you ask for Glenfield Starch see that you get it, Aa inferior kinds are often substituted for the sake of extra profits. Beware therefore of spurious imitations. I jMIttHu, Polytechnic Hall, Falmouth. Monday & Tuesday, October 28 & 29. FAREWELL TOUR OF THE ORKAT ORIGINAL CHfclATY ^' TEltS. SOLE PROPRIETOR ! Mr. ARCHIE MORGAN. ACTING MANAGER Mr. WILL ORKINS. THE COMPANY CONSISTS OF 11 Artistes and Gentlemen,. Each Artiste selected for his individual merit and unequalled excellence. The Elite of Ethiopian Minstrelsy- Doors open at/ 7.30. ; commence at 8 o'clock. Front Seata, 2B. / Second Seats, Is. ; Third Seats, 6d. ; Family Titfkets to admit Five to Front Seats, 7a. 64. Plan add Tickets at Richards's Library, and at the doors. Cornwall Home For Destitute Little Girls. Supplement Bazaar. rIE COMMITTEE of the BAZAAR held at RosEHiLi^ on the 1st of August last, have decided o^ iolding an unreserved Sale, at the Polvtechjjrfc Hall, on Thursday, the 7th of November / exX, of all the Articles not disposed of on tharc> ccasion. Doors Open at Two o'clock. A MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT will be provided in the Evening. Tea, Coffee, and other Refreshments. Admission, 6d- 12mo. cloth limp. Price 1 « . 6d. ( postage 2d.) lyTINING AND QUARRYING: A FIRST BOOK OF. Wbh the Sciences con- nected therewith- ForAtse in Primary Schools and Self Instructyxfy By J. H. 30LLINS, F. G. S., Lectqra to line Miners' Association of Cornwall and Dfevrfn ; author of " A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon,' < fcc., & c. With numerous Illustrations and' copious Indei and Glossary. London: LOCKWOOD & CO., 7, Stationers Hall Court, E. C. " PERSONS desirous of a " WAITER " for ^ Evening Parties may bo supplied by refer- ring to 1 JOHN VIVIAN, Wine and Spirit Stores, Market Strand, Or to Mr. ALLEN, Florence Place. Wanted. fUKIOH CLERK WANTED. I Apply to GENN A IfALDBB, Solicitors, Falmouth. Wanted A Y. OUNG PER* ON, of good education, to teach a family ) f children, from six years of age to thirteen, alb out five hours daily. Apply " Western Morning News " Agent, Penryn. Wanted. AGENTLEMAN practising Shorthand, offers liberal remuneration to any respec- table youth able to fill the offico of reader. Address A. W. G., Green Bank, Falmouth. FALMOUTH JtfVIOiY Union will, at their held on the 7th Novem- VACCINATOR, for THE QW next mi _ ber next, elect npi Town and iudock. Applications for the appointment will be recofred at my office until the 6th proximo. / ' W. J. GENN, Clerk. Unic^ Office, Falmouth, 25th October, 1872. TIME OF HIGH WATER AT FALMOUTH AND PENRYN QUAYS. MORNISG. EVENING. SATURDAY October 26 11 0 11 - 13 SUNDAY 27 ... 1 50 MONDAY 28 2 32 2 50 TupsDAY 20 2 57 3 10 WEDNESDAY 30 3 38 8 55 THURSDAY 31 I 11 4 28 FRID/ Y Nov. 1 i 41 5 1 tfalmoutji & feittyir fees. SATURDAY. OCT. 2( 3, IS72. WITH A SUPPLEMENT. Try MARTIN'S NEW . SEASON'S . FINEST i QUALITY, 2s. 6d. per Pound. The PEOPLO~ Grocer, & c., Lower Market St., and West St., P E N R T N . FOR Jp'QOJ) PRINTING, in the best style of workmanship, with the gruatest expedi- tion, at the most moderate changes, apply at the office of this Papor. FALMOUTH. THE CHAPEL AT EArLE'S RETREAT. — Mr. J. Studdon will preach here to- morrow afternoon, at 3 ; and the Rev. W. Fuller Gooch on Tuesday evening next, at 7. APPOINTMENT. — KIMBERLEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL.— The Rev. H. B. Waterfield, B. A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, and curate designate of Flushing, has accepted the classical mastership of this school. Mr. Waterfield is well known as a most able and indefatigable teacher. THE BALLOT.— At the last meeting of the Town Council, Messrs. E. Banks, H. Fox, R. C. Richards, W. Selley, and Halligey werfe appointed as a committee to assist the Mayor in making ar- rangements for conducting the municipal election under the Ballot Act. PENNY READINGS.— The first of the winter series of Seamen's Bethel penny readings Was given on Tuesday last, in the Bethel, under the presidency of Mr. H. V. Bailey. The audience, which was large, received the readings and recitations with much satisfaction, and applauded the able singing of the choir by whom several pieces wero tastefully reudered. THE MAYOEALTY.— It appears to be the almost unanimous wish of the Falmouth Town Council that Mr. R. C. Richards, bookseller, & c., should accept the office of chief magistrate of the borough for the ensuing year. Mr. Richards has proved himself a man of much public spirit, com- bined with great zeal and energy, in all that relates to the prosperity of Falmouth ; and should he See his way clear to accept the responsible office of mayor, we feel assured the honour and welfare of the inhabitants will be in safe keeping. RECOGNITION SEBVICES.— A series ot services is announced to be held in Webber Street Chapel on Wednesday next, in connexion with the " recogni- tion" of the p 13 to rate of the Rev. W. Fuller Gooch over the Baptist Church of this town. During the yet short period of his residence in Falmouth Mr. Gooch has won a very general esteem. As a preacher he is eminently impressive ; and in the delivery of his sermons his heart is evidently as actively engaged as his head, the result being that he secures the warm sympathies of his hearers along with their attention and interest.— We have no doubt the services on Wednesday next will be highly interesting and encouraging. THE CONVALESCENT HOME.— We are happy in being able to announce that the convalescent home at Penjerrick is now open. This institution had long been a favorite project of Miss Fox, of Penjerrick, and her deceased sister, Mias Caroline Fox, these ladies having been much impressed with the value of such a refuge for persons recovering from illness. The building is situate neai' Penjer- rick lodge, on a commanding 6ite, and h. as been erected under the directions of Miss Fox, by Mr. Roberts. It is intended to receive women and children who have had no infectious illness and to whom change of air is recommended, and informa- tion as to admission may be obtained on application by post to the matron. BOROUGH POLICE — Decisive Step? are beii taken by the magistrates with a view to repress tfie social evil in this town. At the Townhall, on Monday, Elizabeth Symons was charged before the Mayor ( Mr. W. H. Lean ), Mr, Jacob Olver, Mr. T. Webber, and Capt. Tucker, with keeping a disorderly house in Allen's Yard, and was fined ( including coBta) £ 5, or two months' iinpriaonmeut. William Paine, 80 years of age, was charged with keeping a similar house in Francis's Yard, Webber Street, but the case was adjourned in order that the actual tenant might be discovered.— Henry Johnson was lined £ 5 for keeping a brothel in Allen's Yard, and Caroline May, in whose company the defendant was found, was charged with a similar offence. She had twice previously been fined £ 5 for keeping a brothel, but was shewn tliat she had transferred the house to John- son. Bertha Hawthorne, aged 19 years, and Anna Maria Gillard, were charged with wandering tho streets as prostitutes, and behaving in a riotous manner, and were each sent to prison for a month. SHIPPING CASE.— Eleven seamen belonging to the ship Glendower, of Livorpool, 1342 tons, bound to Savannah, in ballast, Were charged before the borough magistrates on Monday, with disdbey- ingtho lawful orders of the master. They shipped at Hull, on tho 3rd inst., and on the 16th, jvhen off the Start Point, refused to do duty, on the ground that the forccastle was not fit to be used. They were 25 all told onboard, and the vessel was com- pelled to put into Falmouth. Mr. Thomas, Lloyds' surveyor, who had examined the ship, stated that the forecastle was in an exceedingly bad state, aud unfit to sleep in. He thought the men were justi- fied in refusing to go on, as it could not be repaired at sea. The men promised if the forecastle wero repaired to the satisfaction of Mr. Thomas, to pro- ceed to sea, and it was stated that this should be done.— Mr. Wilson Fox appeared for- the owners, and Mr. W. Jenkins represented the men, IMPORTANT TO OWNERS OF VeSSELS LYING IN HARBOURS.— A claim for damage to a b6at, occasioned at tho time of the late Regatta in Fal mouth Harbour, was heard at tho Truro County Court on Saturday last, before Mr. M. Bore, judge, and Capt. Libby, R. N., & Capt. Hunkin assessors. Mr. W. Jenkins appeared for the Marquis of Ailsea, the plaintiff, and Mr. Nalder for Mr. Putland, the defendant. It appears that on tho 5th Sept. tho Lady Evelyn, belonging to tho Marquis of Ailsea, lay in Falmouth harbour, with two boat3 astern. In the afternoon of that day tho Enid, belonging to Mr. Putland, came into tho harbour,- the wind at the time blowing a gale, and in going under the stern of tho Lady Evelyn, although tho creW hailed the latter vessel to haul up her boats, she came into collision with one of them, damaging the same to the amount of £ 12. Mr. Jenkins contended that there was nothing to prevent tho Enid seeing the Lady Evelyn aud passing at a distance ; and that immediately tho crew of tho latter had the remotest idea that there would be a collision they did every, thing they could to prevent it. Supposing, for argument's sake, that having a boat astern in har- bour was illegal, he submitted, that although there might be negligence on the part of tho plaiutiff, if a collision might have been avoided by care on the part of the defendant, then he was liable.— Mr. Nalder, for the defence, submitted that tho Lady Evelyn was bound to haul up her boats on being hailed so as to allow a ship to pass under hor stern; that tho boats were an obstruction and impediment to the navigation of the harbour ; and that tile Enid would have run risk by going closer to the shoro.— Capt. Saulez, R. N., deposed that it was the bounden duty of vessels with boats astern to have a watch on dock, and to bo ready to move their boats for a passing vessol to clear, oven if they were not hailed to do so.— Other witnesses also deposed that iu harbour they had visited boats were hauled up without hailing. His Honor saicl the non- observance of the rnle to haul in the boat by the Lady Evelyn made the Enid not guilty of negligence. The issue which ha. l originally come before tho court was quite altered by < the evidence iu for the defendant. As it was proved that tho Lady Evelyn ought to have hauled up her boat without being hailed the verdict would bo for the defendant. ALLeGeD MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS.— The United States barque, Topgallant, Capt. G. M. Phillips, from Rangoon, with rice for Falmouth, for orders, arrived at this port on Monday, having on board, in irons, a seaman named John Henry Crank, aged 21 years. The prisoner is charged with mur- dering another seaman, called John Rogers, aged 20 years, on the 24th June last. Oh Thursday after- noon last tho prisoner was brought before Capt. Tucker, borough magistrate, when Mr. Tilly applied to have the case sent on to America, under the Extradition Treaty, for trial in that country. The depositions had been taken before Alfred Fox, Esq., the consul at this port, and were read in court. From the statements of the master, the mate, and three seamen, it appeared that on the 24th June the prisoner and the deceased had been fighting. When dis< iovprcd, they were separated, and the deceased went to his bunk, and fell sick. He complained of beiiig kicked by Crank. On; the captain going to the forecastle to see him, he found him very ill, blood flowing from his mouth and nose. The captain had him removed to a spare room on board, and gave him medicine, but notwithstanding all the care and attention paid to him, he died a painful death three days after. In the deposition of the captain no said "' it was his opinion that he1 died from the injuries he received in the fight with Crank." It was also stated- in the depositions that on the 24th August Crank was ordered by tho mate to sweep the deck, but he refused, and chased tho mate with a knife in his hand, but the captain • knocked him down, took away tho knife from him,' and had him put in irons. He also said that he in- tended to " kill some one before he reached Eng- land. He would ' knife' tho captain or any other man that put his hand on him." The magistrate ordered Mr. Superintendent Julyan to take charge o¥ the prisoner in order that the necessary prepara- tion might be made to send him on to America to take his trial. The prisoner stated that he is the son of a person named Crank ; who was working,; three years ago, when he ( prisoner) left home, in the Keyham Factory, as boiler- maker, & c., and who resided'iri Morice Town. He ( prisoner) then sailed in a brigantine for Swansea, but about t. elve months ago he . was in Cardiff, and had not enough money to get home. He therefore shipped for this voyage to Rangoon and back. The crime being committed on board of an American ship it is necessary that the case should'be tried in that country, although both the deceased and the accused are Englishmen, the former hailing fr6m Liverpool, and commonly known. xm board as " Liverpool Jack.'-' letters to the editor THE FALMOUTH DISPENSARY. SIR,— My attention has been called to a letter in your last issue, purporting to be written by a sub- scriber to the " Falmouth Public Dispensary." Permit me to statd in reply that the annual meeting of the court of governors was held, pursuant to notice, at the Society's rooms^ on the 27th ultirho, and that by tho rules of the institution all who subscribe ten shillings per annum, or upwards, are ipso / ado members of the governing body.— I am, Sir, your obedient servant, ONE OF THE HON. SECRETARIES OF THE DISPENSARY. Falmouth, Oct. 25th, 1872. BIRTHS, At Waterloo Road, Falmouth, on Tuesday last, the wife of Mr. E. J. Chanter, master of the Falmouth National School*, a daughter. At Carclew, on Saturday last, the wife of Col. Arthur Tremayne, a son. MARRIAGES. At the Register Office, Falmouth, on - Thursday last, Mr. John B. Kendall, mariner, of Flushing, to Miss Susan TruScott, of Tregenvor, Budock. At PondiCherry, Sept. 16, FrederiCK Charles Bull- more Esq., C. E Carnatic Railway, youngest son ofF, C. Bullmore, Esq., of' Falmouth, to Angele, eldest daughter' of the late Angelo de Babick, of Pondicherry DEATHS. At Penryn, on Wednesday last, Mary, relict of tlje, late Mr. John Searle, aged 70 years. COUNTY NEWS. Damage at iSt. Mawes ix Saturday: morning a gale from the south east brought on a heavy sea which destroyed a portion of the quay head, which, it is calculated, will eost about £ 200 to replace. SteAmboat \ between Penzance and Scilly.— The steamboat Guide will ply between Puiizauce and the Scilly Isles to replace the Little Western, recently wrecked. Tl » e owners, the Dartmouth Steam Packet Company, will receive £ 75 per month, half of any salvage, and all expenses paid. water spout at Portloe.— On Friday afternoon the inhabitants wdre alarmed by the fishermen stating that there was a tremendous waterspout coming in from the south. Fortunately the wind shifted south- west, and the waterspout was blown a little uf this place. As soon as the spout touched - the Land inside the Deadman it broke, and immense quantities of water were seen to fly over the rocks and hills.. LAssaulting a Mother.- j- On Tuesday, Thomas Pascoe, a miner, living at Trevenen,. Wendron, was apprehended by Sergeant Paddock for assaulting his motHer, Margaret Pascoe. An altercation took pla e between defendant and his mother in consequence of the mother, who is a widow, persisting in keeping company with a man many years her junior, and of whom the son did not approve. He was taken be fa ; e Captain Daniell, at Helston, and bound over to ke. p tho peace for six months. Alarming Fire at Redruth.— A very alarming fire Ibflrst' from the Gas- works of Messrs. Reed n- i i Lanyon, Redruth, on Monday night. One of t'la pipes connected with tho works exploded, and almo > t immediately after the roof of the house in which coa s the gas- holder, and fortunately the high way (• i which the debis fell intervened between the gas- wor . s and the. jther property, the wind blowing the flames directly away from the gas- works over the road People were in great consternation lest tho gas- hold should burst, and not a few who lived in tho vicinity moved to a distance in consequence.' Scores of person also turned off their metres anil others waited for a blow mx After a w|| 6, however,- tfie fiye abated, am? the water having been turned down from Pudu- an- drea Mine, iwhich lies above tho town, the flames were mastered by the scores of men who came to offer their assistance. Firtis at Redruth aro rather frequent ; and yet very liberal offers towards the support of a lire engine have in times past been offered by various insurance offices, and refused, Perhaps now the need may receive greater attention. '' A Visit to Eppss Cocoa Manufactory. — Through the kindness of Messrs. Epps, I recently had au op- portunity of seeing the many complicated and varied processes tho Cacao beau passes through ere it is sold for public use, and, being both interested and highly pleased with wliat I saw during jny visit to the man- ufactory, I thought a brief account of the Cacao, and the way jt is manufactured by Messrs. I3| ips, to lit it for a wholesome and nutritions beverage, might be of interest to the readers of Lund an t Water." — See article in Land and Watcv, Octobur 14. . ikja* — Epps 3 (. ii- fri. iJrate/ ul atvJf^ Jtrhng by a ii'irough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutri- tion ami !> v a careful application of the fine proper- H- 3 of Vdl- selected CO, a, Mr. EppS has provided our breakfast tables with a dehcately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors'bills.' Civil Service Gazciic. Made simply with boiling water, or milk. Each packet is labelled—" James EppB and Co., Homoeopathic Chemists, London."— Also makers of Eppa'a Cacaoine, a very thin beverage for • vening use. • Manufacture of Cocoa, Oocoaine, < t Chocolate.— ' We will iow ^ ive an account ot the process adopted jy Messrs. James Epps and Co., manufacturers of dietetic articles, at their . works in the Euaton Road, London."- See article in part 19 of Caudl'e Household Guide. Ekow. v'aBHONCHIALTROCHES, for thecureof Cooghs Colds, Hoarseness Bronchitis, Asthma, Catarrh, or any jreness of the throat, are now imported mjimui wuS country at Is. lirl ncr h the pleat , n . ening the voice known in the world. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher fays : " I have often recommended them to friends who were public speakers, and in many cases they have proved extremely serviceable." The genuine have the words " Brown's Bronchial Troches" on the Government Stamp around each box. Sold by all mediciiie vendors. London Depot, 493 Oxford Street. VALL- ABLE DISCOVEBY FOR THE HAIR !— A very nicely S; rfum'ed' hair dre33ing, called " The Mexican Hair cnwer, 1' now being sold by most chefoists and Per- fumers at 3s. i! d per bottle, is fast superseding all " Hair Restorer's"— for tfjjcUt Jioiitirdy restore in every case, Grey or IVh tic hair to its original colour, by a few appli- cations, without dyciftj it, 6r. leaving the disagreeable smell of iiost " Restorers.'' It makes the hair charm- ingly beautiful, as wellas promoting the growth on bald spots, where the hair glands are not decayed. Certifi- ' cate from l) r. Veramann on every bottle, with full particulars. Ask for" THE MEXICAN HAIR RB- X EWE it," prepared by H. C.' GALLUP; 493, Oxford Street London. - FRAGRANT FLORILTN?. - For the TSETH and BBKATH. A few drops of this liquid on a wet tooth brush pro- duces iv delightful foam, which cleanses the Teeth from all impurities, strengthens and hardens the gums, pre- vents tartar, aud arrests the progress of decay. It gives to the Teeth a peculiar and beautiful whiteness aud imparts a delightful fragrance to the Breath. It removes all . unpleasant odour arising from decayed teeth, a disordered stomach, or tobacco smoke. The Fragrant Floriline is purely vegetable and equally adapted to old and youug. It is the greatest toilet discovery of the age. Sold in large bottles and elegant Cases at 2s. Gd., by all Chemists and Perfumers. H. C GALLUP, Proprietor. 493, Oxford Street. London. IT is a recognised fact, that Bragg'A Vegetable Charcoal Biscuits is one of the most invaluable remedies for indigestion, flatulency, acidity, foul breath, & c. The following is Dr., HassaH's report on Bragg's Carbon or Charcoal Biscuits :—" I have, on more than one occasion, subjected to analysis Bragg's pure Vegetable Charcoal, also his Charcoal Biscuits, and I have always found them to be most carefully prepared; the charcoal and other materials used in manufacture beiu^ of the purest and best description, and form the moat agreeable medium hitherto devised for the administration of that most valuable remedial substance, Vegetable Charcoal. Signed, ARTHUR HILL HASSALL, M. D., Author of ' Food and its Adulterations,'' Adulteration Detected,' and " Sold by all Chemists. other works." The New Adulteration Act. — Any person now selling- adulterated articles is __ _ penalty of £ 50 for the first offence, and" six months' imprisonment, with hard labour, for the Becond. Berwick's Baking Powder is warranted pure and free from ( dum and other injurious ingredients found in most cheap Baking Powders, therefore may be sold Without fear by all dealers. ( New inetal pocket Vesta Box, with patent spring Cover.—^ Bryant and May have recently introduced 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 comy into very general use— being of metal instead; of card, and retailed, filled with vesta*, at one penny. Any Tobacconist, Grocer, Chemist or Chandler will supply it. Caution. — In calling the attention of the Trade to a recept decision in the House of Lords, in the case of " Wotheiypoon v. Currie," whereby an exclusive right to the use of the w<^ rd " Glenfield" in connection with Starchismdisputably 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 to ay have bten induced to b\ iy it, that to 8. UV them from total lo> 7- w- 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. br iken up and sold for JP< u>€ StarcJi, but it will atthefiauie time be . the ui': uu~ of rendering the Article useless for further deception. Any. information that will lead to conviction will be rewarded. R. WoTHtBSTOON k Co. . Mas. WqrsL^ v's SOOTHING SYRUP^ FOR CHILDREN* ! Shoitld- aJ wjiys be Uosd when Children are cutting teeth ; it reliuYefc the little sufferers at once, it produces natur- al qtiiet sleep by relieving tlvvchild from pain, and the little cherub awakes " as bright as a button." It ia perfectly harmL-^ s, and very pleasant to taste. It soothe^ the child, it ooftens thu gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best Iknbwiltwiedy for dysentery and diarrhoea, whether HrfMn: » froru teething <' t- other causes. Mrs. Winslow's " Southing Syrup is sold by thousands of Medicine deal- ers in all parts > t lae world at Is. lid per bottle and Millions of Mothers can mz'uy to its virtue.— Manu- factory, 408 Oxford Street, London. THREE QUESTIONS. Iiiscrtzd by ' the Reo. J. IK. Carter, Vicar of Christ ChurchStrafford, London, E. Ther>> are throe very remarkable questions in the glorious Eighth chapter of Romans. The first question to which I rofor 13 in the -' 3rd verse. " Who shall lay anything to the ohargo of Cod's elect P" Paul stands forth like a herald, and he looks up to the holy angels, and down to the accusing devils, and ronnd about tho scowling world, and into conscience, and he asks, Who can ac us • one whom Clod has forgiven, and Christ has washed? It is God who justifieth. The Holy God has declared b. lievors clean every whit. The seoond ques- tion is in the 34th. vera © . " Who is bo that condemn, eth Paul looks round all the judges of tho world, all who are skilled in law nud equity ; ho looks upward to the holy angols, whose superhuman sight pierces deep and far ^ nto the righteous government of God; he looks up to God., the judge of all, win must do right, whose way4 are equal and perfect righteousness, aud he asks, Who shall condemn? It is Christ that dieth. Christ hat paid the uttermost farthing: so that every judge must ^ rj/ dut, There is now no condemnation. The third question is iu the 35th verso: " Who shall separ- ate IJS . from tha. love of Ohcist?" Again he looks ronnd 011 ill creatod worlds, ho looks at the might of tho mightiest archingel, tho satimio power of legions of devils, th'o rage ot a God- defying world, tho united forces - of all created thing* ; aud, whou he sees sinners folded in the arms of Jesus, I10 crim " Who shall separ- ate us- from theslovo of Christ? " Not all tho forces of ten thousand1 - worlds combined, for Jesus is greater than all. Wo aro more than conquerors through him that loved us. " Tho lovo of Christ passoth know- ledge." It is liko the bli^ o sky, iuto which you may seo cloarly, bnt tho real fastness ot whioh yon cannot mea- Bura. It is like the deep, deep soa, into whose bosom you ortii look a little way, but its depths aro unfatho- n- able. It lias a breadth without a bouud, length without end,' height without top, depth without bottom. If holy P. iul said this, who was so deeply taugbt in ditine things, who had been in the third heaven, and seen tho gl^' fi ' d faca of Jes. i;, how much moro may wj, pair an 1 » v ik sinners lojk iuto tint lovo and say : " It p. n- i.' th kuowlodgj." Ujader, do you know any- thing of Jesu'< love ? U1 .' Ou lovo dim who did so much for yon ? Hem'mo r, if you despise and reject this I6V0 y'ou must b • h- st ct- rnally, you must be a? nt to hell. . Tho Path ? r, t'i ? on, tho Holy Ghost desiro not your ijuio, but yuui-.^. CMiat and eternal saU vatiou, lint the ' can only - ivu you in the way which they have a;> pointid ; aud which . vay is made known to n. s in the Bible. Contributions or si mips to pay for these insertions in. this and Fiiiy other 11 .. j .1., i m ( which are supposed toh ive two 11,1 > lion reader* wetklv ) will be thankfully rccaivod by tho liov. J. W. Carter, 7, Avcnuc- road, Bow, London. E. THE FALMOUTH AND PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. SAT'T. IUT, OCT. 56, isr. Grnrral. ( Srarral. READ HBRE, AXD SEE THE GREAT BENEFITS DERIVED FROM A 1 « - ljf> ARTICLE. Alleoek'a Porous PUjten hare wh* a la the grat « at pain and all other remediea had iM Pbyaidanaaod aargnoaM of ali « chool « recommead tk « rc. A doctor » id the other day.—" I do not know vhefber Alloock'i Plartera contain all the rirtnea yon aaeribe to them, bat thia I do know: no plaater or " application baa « rrer prca my patient* roch yreat jtO' We poMiah a few caaea of corea, ibBwing hair wonderfal tirtaee. Farther eridenoe of tbeir value to suffering humanity " ' my one callia* at the principal B BONCHITI8. Henrj D. Brandretb, Eaq., Liverpool. 106, Hampton- street, Birmingham, Nor. 27,1871 • Dear Sir,— I bare for aome months paat been n the nabit of oaing Allcoek'e Poroaa Plaatera tprocured from the eetabliahment of Meaara. nape and Son, 13, Great Jlampton- ftrect, of this town ) when saffenn? from bronchitis and aernre pain* in the aide, and bare on every occaaion found immediate relief, whereas I had previously consulted two medical men withoat deriving the least benefit. I can with confidence recommend them to any one iaffering from the same complaint.— Yours respect loll T GEOROL STYLES. [ NFLAMMATION OF THE LUNG8. s " Henry D. Brandreth, 57, Great Charlotte- • treet, Liverpool. ** Deaf Sir,— We beg to enolose another teeti- monial as to the efficacy of Alloock's Porous Plasters. James Radcliffe, Staraford- street, Mosely, says ho had been oonfinod to his bed five weeks snflerinR from inflammation of the lungs. He coughed oontinaally, with great expectoration and difficulty of breathing, which brought him so low that he was unablo to rise in bed without • npport. He applied one ol your plasters and found relief in fifteen minutee, after which he • ays the cough stopped and the expectoration ceased. He is now quite reoovorod. The above is exactly his own statement o me.— Yours respectfully. " JOHN B10KLE. ^ 7 " Pro W. BOSTOOK, " 24, Stamfordistroet, Ashton- under. Lyne M November 24,1871" CI ATI C A- Heywood, Ootober 9,1871. Henry D. Brandretb, 57, Great Charlotte- j street, Liverpool. . Dear 8ir.— Please to send me another six doten of Ailcock s Plasters and two dozen Brand- | reth's Pill's, Is. ljd. The Plasters seem to prodnoe wonderful resnlts. There is scarcely a I day passes but some one is telling me of the euros they are makinR. Rheumatism in various | ports of the body disappears as if by magio. Only on 8unday last Mr. Jacob Uoywood, Albert- ; terrace, Starkey- street, Heywood, informed cue ! that he had been troubled with sciatica for three I years i so bad was it the last twelve months of that time that he was unable to follow his em- ployment. Ho bad tried many doctoro, 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. Be aid ho had no faith in them, but he would try them, for ho was stuck fast j they oould not mako his pain much worse, and it would only be a little more money sent after the rest. So he bought two ; one he plooed on is thigh, apd the other on his back, and a week after he was ready for his work, it is now six months ago, and he has had no return of his pains.— Yours truly, W. BECKETT- R HEUMATI3M OF THE WRIST. Henry D. Brandretb, Esq., 67, Groat Char- lotte- street, Liverpool, 36, Crown- street Liverpool, Nov. 21st, 1871. Dear Sir,— Three month* since I could not us" my right hand, owing to rheumatism in it and in my wrist, and over ten weeks I was in great pain— unable to find any relief. After trying many remedies, I was at last persuadod 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 n blessing to the afflicted. I have positive information of their boing of great bonofit iu bron- chitis and asthma. It will give me pleasure to answer any communication concerning them.— Yours truly, THOMAS DAVIES. A ULCOCK'S POROUS BLASTERS arc sold by all Druggiata, at la I. id oach, with full directions for use, or in any siie to suit- The yard Plaster is specially recommended tor families and physicians. One yard equals 18 plasters. Price 14s per yard, 7a 6d per half yard, or 4 « per quarter. PRINCIPAL AOBNCT FOR GREAT BRITIAM ( Wholosale aud llotail ) : 67, GREAToiiAHLorr^ sr., LIYEBPOOL. B.— A Plaster sent to any part of tho country for L5 First- class Bookbiudiog. PEESONS wishing to avail themselves to the opportunity of sending in the parcel now making up for transmission to a first- cla « s Bookbinding Establishment, should forward books and numbers which they wish to have bound, to tho Printing Offices on the Quay, as early as possible. Charges, moderate— quality of work, the bost " styles, modern aud elegant. FEED. H. EAJiLE. W. H. PELLOW, Baker, Confectioner, and Tea Dealer, XO. 3, A- KWEN'ACK STBEET. Pickles, Sauces, Marmalades, Jams, & c. WORCESTER SAUCE SIXPESCE PEE BOTTLE. TARAXACUM OB DANDELION COr, rEE. Prepared upon an improved prtnetj- a', Jrom the pure frtth Dandelion Root. THIS Coffees, the valuable qualities of which arc now bo universally appreciated, can be highly recommended, and is far preferable to all other Coffees. Being carefully manufactured by T. B. PERCY, he can offer an article far superior to any- thing of the kind yet introduced to the public, being remarkable for its strength and quality. D AUDELION COFFEE. Especially recommended to Invalids as an article of diet. DANDELION COFFEE. For weak digestion. D ANJDEi. I_ Oif COFFEE. For Nervoua and Dyspeptic affec- tions. DANDELION COFFEE. For Flatulency . D ANDELION COFFEE. For Distention, and Biliary obstruc- tions. D AND ELION COFFEE. Is extremely pleasant to the taste. DANDELION COFFEE. Public Speakers and Singers will find it to be a very pleasant beverage after their exertions ; it assists diges- tion, and stimulates the operations of the Stomach. D ANDELION COFFEE. Is easily prepared. D D ANDELION COFFEE. DIRECTIONS FOB USE. Upon one table- spoontul jsour half a pint of boiling water ; let it infuse by the fire for ten minutes, then add sugar and water aa agreeable. ANDELION COFFEE. MANUFACTURED BY T. B PERCY, Chemist, ( Member of tM Pharmaceutical Society of Great BrUian. ) TRURO. Branch Establishment, NEWQUAY. DANDELION COFFEE. Is sold in Tins, at Is. 6d. each. DANDELION COFFEE. Can be procured trom Chemists, Grocers, Italian Warehousemen, and Confectioners. D ANDELIQTN COFFEE, Dealers wishing to sell this Coffee should apply at once for terms to the • Proprietor at Truro. ESPECIAL CAUTION. Ask for PEUCY'S DANDELION COFFEE and accept no other. The Blood! The Blood!! The. Blood!! CLARKE'S BLOOD MIXTURE, FOK CLEANSINaand CLEARING the BLOOD from ALL IMPURITIES, whether arising from youthfttl'iudiBOretion or any other cause can- not be too highly Tecommended. It Cures Old Sores Cures Ulcerated Sores iu the Neck Cures Ulcerated Sore Legs Cures Blackheads, or Pimples oil Face Cures Scurvey Sores Cures Cancerous Ulcers Cures Blood aud Skin Diseases Cures Glandular Swellings Clears the Blood from all Impure Matter from whatever cause arising. As this Mixture ia pleasant to the taste, and war- ranted free from mercury— which all pilU and mos t medicines sold for the above diseases contain— the Proprietor solicits sufferers to give it a trial to test its value. Thousands of Testimonials from all Parts. Sold iu Bottles 29. each, and in Cases containing 6 Bottles, 10s. each, sufficient to effect a permanent cur$ iu longstanding caaea, by all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors ; or sent to any address on receipt of 24 stamps or 120 stamps, by F. J. CLARKE. Chemist, High Bridge, LINCOLN. WliOlesal' A'ttnU BARCLAY & SONS, LONDON, AND ALL THE WHOLESALE HOUSE S. 3ST O T I C IE Cheap ami Good Printing at the Offices of this Paper. The Right flpn. Earl Ruwcll has graciouslv favoured J. T. Davenport with thr following " Extract of a dispatch from Mr. Webb, H. B. M's Consul at Manilla, dated September 17, 1S « :— 44 • The remedy most efficacious in iUcffccts ( in Epidemic Cholera) has been fcind to be Chlorodync, and "' with a « ti » 11 quantity given to me by Dr. Burke I have saved several lives.'" CAUTIO N, C HLORODYNE. Vke- Chancellor Sir W. P. Wood stated that Dr. Collis Browneundoubtedly the inventor of Chlorodyne: *> i « t the story of the defendant. Freeman, was deliberately untrue, which, he n- eretted tosav, had been / worn to. Eminent Hospital Phvsiciana of London stated that Dr. J. Collis Browne vr. is the discoverer of Chlorodvne , that they prescribe it largely: and mean no other than Dr. Browne's.-- See 44 Times," July 13, 1S64. The ptthlie are therefore cautioned against using any other than DB. J. COIililS BBOWNE'S CHIiOBODYNE. 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MI bMtracuoce » oppU* a. OfMldWeaUM. 1Hl 0 " K* ; in'l < ii>' 1.1 i'Ulfi ri. NO • t the Office* of this Piper. rtr, i ' ari'h '. a IU SATURDAY, OCT. 26, 1072. THE FALMOUTH & PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES SATURDAY, OCT. 2G, 18T2. Copies of % gag. IBjj an Occasional London Correspondent.) [ Hie remarks under this head are to be regarded as the or- faeaslou of independent opinion, from the pen of a gentleman fa whom WQ have the greatest confidence, but for whieh wo pererthtless do not hold ourselvei responsible.] We are now in what may be called the platform sea- adon, the period when members of Parliament either find | or make an excuse for coming before their constituents, jor when the latter find some moans or other of drawing tout their representatives— in some instances making fthe members give an account of their stewardship ( to Rise a new phrase^; in others being only too happy to ( hear their representatives speak on public topics. I [ think the country at large may be congratulated on this supplementary or platform seeison, for the said [ public thus have opportunities of reading speeches such cas the orators could never give in the House of Com- Qnons. It is a remarkable fact that there are some 500 members of that House who very seldom join in its debates, except in quite a fragmentary and casual way. Look at the Parliamentary reports in The Times — which gives them at greater length than any other paper— and you will find that some 50 to 60 ' gentlemen are very frequent speakers; that perhaps you can with difficulty find another 100 who occasionally speak; and that about 500scarcely everspeak at all. That this is not from want of ability we now have very pleasant proof, and I- ihink we owe a debt of gratitude to many of these gentlemen who have come forward, at a comparatively • dead political season, and have given us something to think, talk, and write about. Long may Britain retain her unrivalled superiority in platform oratory and " after- dinner speechifying," which is, after alL a Tory pleasant national feature. The Government is having, and seems likely to have a good deal of legal patronage. There have been al- , ready several important changes on the bench, and ; there will probably very Boon be others. No less than tfour more judges are said, upon high authority, to be [ likely to retire— Mr. Justice Byles, Lord Penzance, • Baron Martin, and Baron Channel!. Our judges are ^ notoriously long- lived, but they generally are raised to I the dignity of the bench so late in life that it can never ( surprise us to hear of the probable retirement of a ljudge ; but for four of their lordships about the same [ time to intimate their intention to resign, or at all • events, not to deny the soft impeachment, is a rather ^ remarkable coincidence. The Government may be re- garded as rather fortunate in having such an amount jof patronage at their disposal, especially as the retire- ment of any one judge usually involves other subordi- nate changes. In spite of occasional grumbling at the working of the telegraph department of the Post Office, it must be admitted that on the whole this department works admirably for the benefit and convenience of the public. But still one would like to see a reform carried out that we have been long looking for, and which indeed was long since promised, though no time for 4he performance was specified. I allude to uniform Bixpenny telegrams not exceeding 20 words. I have heard that we shall not have much longer to wait for a commencement of this system, and that the plan will be adopted with the New Year. That the public will gain by this is certain, and I believe the Post Office will not lose, and indeed that the department will in the end be the gainer. That the system even aB it now exists is highly appreciated by the public is shown by the fact that the messages forwarded from postal telegraph stations during last week numbered 319,995, being 51,275 more than the corresponding, w^ k of 1871. The uniform sixpenny telegrams will indirectly as well as directly benefit tbe public,- for " there must be more offices, more clerks, and more messengera, as tbe new system becomes developed. The numerous railway accidents that have recently occurred are of a character that cannot but cause con- siderable misgiving in the public mind. A pointsman neglecting to alter the points, a shunter being away - from his poBt at a critical time, an axle- tree breaking, • or railway sleepers, and rails being in an imperfect • condition— such are some of the alleged causes of some * J these railway casualties. Without pretending to • decide where lies the blame in cases which are now undergoing official inquiry, it is pretty certain that, speaking generally, railway servants having too much to do is a prolific source of mishaps, more or lees serious, in railway traffic. If this be the case, con- sidering the enormous amounts that railway oompanies have to pay in compensation and for injury to rolling stock, is not this a penny wise and pound foolish policy? . Vienna is so charming a city in itself and its surround- ings that when next year the attraction of an Inter- national Exhibition on a large scale is added it is likely to become second only in its attractiveness, owing to its distance from us to what Paris was in 1867 during the period of her world- renowned Exposition Univer- selle. The forthcoming exhibition in the Austrian capital is being promoted by many of the most in- fluential persons in our own country— with the Prince of Wales, as President of the Commissioners, at thei head. A meeting of these gentlemen has just been held at Marlborough House, and it is found that all the space that had been allotted to Great Britain had been applied for. We, too, shall next year have our Inter- national Exhibition, the third of the annual series, but I suspect that it will be rather a poor affair compared to that at Vienna. It is a common remark that our International Exhibitions in this country come too fast, and that people naturally get tired of them. If the remark is not altogether true now, it will become so in process of time. But there will be one feature of next year's display which will be of peculiar interest — the display of food, drink and drugs, which will teach us what to eat, drink, and avoid, and make us very uncomfortable. The Gloucestershire Chamber of Agriculture has passed a resolution, affirming the need of legislative enactment to secure to outgoing tenant- farmers compensation for unexhausted improvements, and that landlords also should be compensated for deteriora- tion or dilapidation. The action of this Chamber is important as taken in connection with many some- what similar declarations on the part, if my memory serves me, of other Chambers of Agriculture, and certainly on the part of many influential speakers, during the present recess, notably Lord Derby not long since. The impression begins to prevail that Go- vernment will next session essay to deal with this part of the great land question, a question which many cir- cumstances combine to show us is coming to the front. During next session, also, that troublous question of the Game Laws will almost inevitably be again brought before the Legislature. On such questions as these we most of us have strong opinions — and some of us without knowing much about them; and nothing is more remarkable than the diver- gence of opinion « ,.• the subject. But it is almost uni- versally admitted that some alteration of existing lawB is needed, while the resolution just alluded to shows us that such alteration must not be of a one sided character, but made in the interest both of landlords and of tenant- farmers. I observe that some gentlemen connected with the Great Eastern Kail way have, in conjunction with ( Captain Tyler, thy Government Bail way Inspector, been making arrangements for an adequate tramway for the conveyance of fish from the sea- shore and river- side at Yarmouth. I wish I could see a similar move- ment at our end of the Great Eastern. A tramway from Colombia Market to the terminus of that rail- way has long ibeen talked of, and the Corporation of London are supposed to be considering the subject— or nursing it perhaps. The matter is one of con- siderable importance to the eastern counties and to the v? hole metropolis. " There are as good fish in the sea as ever were got out of it," and per- haps as many; at all events there is a practically inexhaustible supply, and in London alone there is an enormous demand. Fish is still terribly deai, and the truth is that there is in London a combination to keep up the price— which, I suspect, is the true reason why this much- desired tramway is not made. The fish merchants and fishermen of the eastern counties and some influential Londoners might well unite in a little wholesome agitation on the subject With the oontinued high price of food, it is a matter which concerns the general public. We have all heard enough and too much of the horrors of sea- sickness. Unpleasant as that subject is, a fea- sible proposal for mitigating this ill that " fiesh is heir to" is naturally agreeable. And there is IJO doubt that we shall ere long have a remedy for the mal de mcr, Mr. ZL Bessemer, whose name is eo well known in connection with a superior kind of steel, and Mr. E. J. Heed, formerly the Chief Constructor of the Navy, are carrying out plans with this object. Two vessels are now being designed by the latter to carry out the in- vention of the former. A correspondent of The Times describes his visit to the working model of a vessel of this kind; he says it looked like a disc cut out of the middle of a vessel; it was set in motion by a steam- engine, and rolled about to represent a] vessel at sea. " I found the greatest difficulty," says the writer, " in standing upright, and was glad to clutch at a support until I could put on my sea legs. I then passed into a saloon. Here the motion entirely ceased; it was as steady as a seat in a railway carriage. The change was like magic." There is no doubt that the working of the model exactly represents what will be the working of the vessel, say in the Channel, where it will first come into use, or at sea. The twogentlemen named know perfectly well what they are about, and many practical engineers and seamen have admitted the feasibility of the plans. We may there- fore pleasurably look forward to these plans becoming acocomplished facts in doe time. What a vast change this will produce I As to the comfort or discomfort of a voyage with or without this invention, I need not expatiate on that; for we could all dilate on that point. But if this invention effect what it proposes, it really may have an important influence on our com mercial relations with other countries, resulting from the increased intercommunication that will be an im- mediate result \ There must really be many people in the world who verify Pope's aphorism, who " do good by stealth and blush to find it fame." There have been from the commencement of the year no less than forty- two anonymous donations to hospitals, &. C., of £ 1,000 each, the benevolent donors merely signing their initials; that is, we will Bay, an anonymous gift of £ 1,000 per week. Besides this thei e was an anonymous gift of £ 10,000. Some of the nstitutions thus benefited could scarcely have held on at all but for these timely gifts. Such bounteous generosity, combined with such retiring modesty, makes one proud of being an Kpjjl lawman, The discussion on the employment of the " cat" for garottera continues, and the opponents of this punish- ment are decidedly getting the worst of it It is pretty generally admitted that flogging is the one punishment of all others that these gentry dread, and this in itself affords quite sufficient reason for retaining it. I should like to hear, howevar, what the habi- tually criminal class have to say on the matter. I warrant that they would to a man be opposed to the employment of the - lash; and, if so, no stronger reason for employing it under proper conditions could be ne^ dfti At a . time when the working classes generally are earning too much money, and when most thoughtfnl persons consider that there are symptoms of reaction, the action of a society with the telling title of the Provident Knowledge Society is worth reference. It is publishing a series of papers on subjects which ought particularly to interest working men, and affect the happiness of their homes— for example, how to buy pensions by small weekly payments; how to insure one's life by weekly payments; how to start penny banks; how to collect weekly savings where you work, and have them paid by the Post Office: how every man may be his own pawnbroker ( a droll idea this}: bow domestic servants may always have a place to fall JjackcupoB ; and so on. Perhaps in some cases more is aimed at than can be accomplished, but at any rate there is no disputing- the importance of these topics or the good intentions of the society towards the industrial olas% M. COLONEL T0MLINE AND MR. LOWE. Colonel Tomline, MP., has issued the following ad- dress, in the form of a handbill, to the householders of Great Grimsby:— " Gentlemen,— I have won theifirit round. Mr. Lowe has written to the Marylebone Board of Guardians expressing bis regret that there should be a great dearth of silver, and that © very effort ia being made at-, the Hint to coin silver. He has also ordered twenty million shillings of a private firm at Birmingham. You will recollect that he denied the scarcity of silver coin; that he said be did not want any himself, refuted information, and answered question* in the House of Commons Inaccurately. I re- mind you of this becauso I have fought this round single- handed, and I wantvour help for two mpre rounds. My next point 1B this : The silver coin is debased 9} per cent. This is most unfair to working men. For all foreign pro- duce— tea, coffee, tobacco— they pay OJ per cent, more than they ought to pay, became the forelan owner of merchandise will only accept our silver coin according' to the quantity of silver in It, careless of tbe name we call it. If silver coin were as honest as gold coin, for a shilling the purchaser would receive yj per cent, more tea, coffee, and other foreign produce. Help me to obtain on ondebased shilling, and insist on under- standing why it Is Oenled to you. Tbe credit of the nption it involved In the present syitem. I have just in- vested ten pounds In ( h^ National Apbt. In tbe Three per Cents. My half- yeariy dividend wfll lie three debased shillings. This Is repudiation us bad as any proceedings ot Mexico or Pennsylvania. The debt was incurred with OJ per cent, more silver in the • billing, and if the Committee of the Stock Exchange were impartial, quotations of English Government Securities would not be permitted. If the same law were applied to large as to small dividends, and 91 per per cent, were deducted from the twenty- six millions of the annual interest of the National Debt, £ 2, iOB, OCO would flow into the Kschequer, and twopence would be taken off the In- come- tax." PRINCE NAPOLEON AND HIS EXPULSION. Prince Napoleon ha* written a letter from Prangins, addressed to the Procureur Gdndral, in which he de- mands legal redress against the Minister of the Interior, the Prefect of Police, the Director of the Cabinet of the Prefect of the Police, and M Clement Police Commissary, wh<-> m he declares to be guilty of violating his personal liberty, an offence punishable by Article 114 of the Penal Cyde. The Prince points to his character a- a French flitiz^, and shows that he Is not under the ban of nny taw of exile, that ho is in full enjoyment of bis civil and politieid rights, and is a member of the Council General of Corsica. He came to France to arrange for the education of his sons, and was provided with a regular passport The Prince adds that he yiinly de^ ianded from those who arrested hitu the production of their warrants or any statement of the crime or offence wherewith he was charged. Vainly also did he request t > be taken before a civil or military Judge. If the present step has no result, the Princo declare* that he will 66ek tor redress beiore the proper tribunals. PisMIramis fnMigetttt, HOME, FOREIGN, A2TD COLONIAL. THE LAST DAYS OP THE HONEYMOON.— Bride: No, but look here, really Fred, seriously. You've had enough of the Seaside by this time ; and Clara says there are all kinds of Gaieties going on just now at home. There's the Mayor's Ball, and the Garrison Theatricals, and somebody's Centenary, too, going to be celebrated.— Bridegroom : Oh, bother the Ball and Theatricals ; and as to Somebody's Centenary — can't wo go to that tbe next time it comes round !— Judy. CLOSE OF A STRIKE.— Tho strike of Liver- pool dock labourers, in consequence of the refusal of the employers to comply with their demand that all foremen should be members of a certain sociefly has re- sulted in a complete victory for the masters, the men having withdrawn their demand, and presented them- selves on Saturday for work on the old terms. The majority of the masters, however, refused to allow them to resume duty unless they renounced their connection with the society altogether ; but subsequently Mr. Wm. Simpson, a gentleman who has interested himself a good deal in the struggles between labour and capital, waited upon come of the large shipowners, a few of whom consented to take on the men as usual. It is doubtful whether the remainder of the employers will consent to let the men return to week. EVIL EXAMPLES.— A vast amount of tile drunkenness of this country is caused, I believe, through the want of proper home comforts, and the ignorance and slovenliness of the workmen's wives. Another reason is that whilst apprentices they hear the workmen converse upon the jollification and sprees they have had in public- houses, and it being natural for youths to imitate men's actions, the apprentices, when they earn a little money for themselves, generally agree to meet in a public- house, and whilst trying to enjoy themselves in the manner they have heard the workmen speak of, they entangle themselves in a net which, although fascinating at first, will eventually encompass and rain them, for ultimately drinking becomes to them a habit they cannot abandon, and the consequence iB that their families, or whoever depend upon their earnings for subsistence, are brought to utter destitution and misery ;—'' tis thus One sickly sheep infects the flock And poisons all the rest. — Village Political" COMIC EPISODE ON A RAILWAY.— One of the most comic episodes in railway travelling it has ever been my fortune to witness, writes a correspondent, occurred the other day. A gentleman, evidently a son of the Great Vaterland, had installed himself in a coupe- lit, doffed his staid black frockcoat and truncated dram- pipe hat, and donned a dressing- gown of many colours and a smoking- cap of brilliant hue, when sud- denly recognising an acquaintance in the coup of the Marseilles train, standing stationary alongside his own, the gentleman of the dressing-^ own opened the door of his compartment, and, stepping across the line, got upon the steps of his friend's carriage, there com- menced such a vociferous greeting ana handshaking tnd ja- ja- ing that the train had started for Marseilles, and had got some few yards on its journey, before the motion attracted their attention. \\ fcen at last the owner of the dressing- gown became conscious of his position, he bid a final adieu to his friend, and pre- pared to descend to terra firma ; but alas ! the folds of his gorgeous raiment embarrassed him sorely. Counsel from twenty different voices in a dozen different lan- guages was shouted to him in a dozen different keys. The train was gathering speed, and Mein Here, in a state ol nervous dejection, was holding on by one hand, and waving one leg to- and fro. and the other arm round and round like a windmill, when the train dis- appeared in the neighbouring tunneL The point of the joke is perhaps the doubt as to whethenhe was smashed or not. THE BAGPIPES IN BRITISH GUIANA.— The bagpipes are not appreciated in Georgetown, British Guiana, or, at any rate, by the policemen of that colonial town. The Royal Gazette, published there, gives a long account of the arrest and trial of an en- thusiastic Scotch sailor, for having " endangered the lives of passengers, contrary to law," by a too ex- uberant musicalperformance in the streets on the night of the 7th September. The ignorant officer who arrested the poor sailor declared in court that he heard " a loud instrument blowing," and, never having seen such an instrument before, he imagined that the sailor was endeavouring to- disturb the public, and accordingly arrested him. The sailor, on being asked what was his defence, replied that he had been over the world, and his chief amusement when he came ashore was his native bagpipes : MI. 1 that he did not know he was doing wrong in piaving a tune oat « f doors, Had the policeman asked him he would ha vp stopped.— The making the arrest, to which the policeman rejoined, " He was Mowing it very hard, nr." Notwithstand- ing, however, the Magistrate saw do . ground for com- mittal, and discharged the Scotchman, who received back his bagpipes with the p- eatest delight. | f A SINGULAR-" TAKE."— A fishing' and pilot boat, of Guernsey; was off the north coast of that island this wtek in quest of shipping, and fell in with a beam which bad evidently been In the water for some time, it being covered with marine deposit. Be- neath it was a large number of fish, which in the tropics are known as " old wives." So numerous were they, that by the process of gaffing 112, averaging from 61b. to 71b. each, were drawn on board. They were afterwards packed in hampers and sent to on English market. They are described as resembling a whiting as to- their skin, though they are much broader, and have a head resembling that of the gurnard. How PANAMA HATS ABB MAD a.— The prooeaa Is as follows :— The ( eaves of the Pandamus, or screw pine, are gathered before they unfold, the ribs and coarser veins, removed, and the rest reduced, to, shreds. After having been put in the sun fog'ti'day, " afiB tied into a knot, the straw ia immersed In boiling water until it becomes white. It is th^ ti hung ur ' v~ place, and bleached for two or three days. J commences at t^ e crown and finishes at Che hats are made on a block placqd on the knae&, ana re- quire to be constantly pressed ' with thtf* Draut. The ooarser hat may be finished in two or three days, but the finest may require as many months. ACCIDENT AT A CIRCUS.— AO alanaing acci- dent occurred on Monday night at Mr. Hengler's circus, at Sheffield. The structure is of wood, and was only opened on Saturday week. On Monday night the place was crowded, and during BO me acrobatic per- formances a gallery which ran acrostf the passage from the stables to the arena suddenly gave way, and from thirty to forty persons wete precipitated to the ground, a distance of about fourteen feet. A panic BeJzed the remainder of the spectators, and a great many rushed from the building. Mi, Hengler and his company rendered prompt assistance to the unfortunate people who were ptruggling and screaming amopg the beams' and boarding of the broken gallery. In a short time they were all rescued. After some time order was restored and the performances were proceeded with. Seven persons were taken to the Generah- Infirmary, and a similar number fo the publio hospital. Richard Shaw has received serious Injuries to the back; George Booth, compound dislocation of the ankle joint > Thomas AHSEFC, fracture of both legB; Thomas Woodhouse, injury to the hip: and Angelina Gamble, concussion of the spine. The full extent of the injuries sustained by Some of the other persona who were hurt has not been ascertained. Miss Emery,, one of the performers, was much shaken and crushed. A HUNGRY LUNCHEON PARTY.— LaBt Friday, at one o'clock ( says the Liverpool Albion), about 900 street Arabs partook of a " luncheon " in the Common Hall, Haekins Hey, having assembled there In answer to Invitations distributed amongst them half an hour before. The invitation- cards bore the following words i—'" Come and have something to eat to- day, Friday, Common Hail. Hacking Hey." The cards were given to children found selling matches or news- papers, or who were idling about in the streets imme- diately adjoining the Town Hall. It was intended by the founders of the feast that no child should be in- vited who was over fourteen years of age, and none who wore Bhoes or stockings ; but by some means or other a great many of thiB class managed to get in. The company was a most amusing one, and the little urchins ate and drank the sandwiches, buns, and milk provided for them with an avidity which showed the Keenness of their appetites. Beyond the mere charitable object of giving the youngsters a feed, there was a practioal purpose, however, in view, namely, to ascer- tain and record the names, ages, residences, occupa- tions, & c., of the lads, and to send these returns to the School Board. There were 110 among them of school age; only four or five were orphans: and ac- cording to the statements of the majority, their parents were well able tc provide for them. J3UBI° ENDED ANIMATION.— A most wonderful inftanco of reanimation ( sayB the Toronto Globe), is now exciting the attention of the people of Quebec city. Thfl Mercury, to which we are indebted for the particulars, says:—" A young lady of this city, Mdlle. B- e. aged 16, and who was on the point of being mirriea, was lately seized with a severe attack of typhoid fever, and on Tuesday evening sank so low as to* have been considered dead. According to custom tht room was put in funeral order, and the undertaker Beat for, when, lo J just as he was drawing his measure frfm his pocket to calculate the length of her coffin, to hii utter amazement the supposed dead girl sat up erect inter bed. With great presence of mind he threw a handkerchief over her eyea to prevent her seekig the chinge her bedroom had undergone, till the parents rethoved the extra lights and hangings around; soon afterwards the girl asked for food of which she par- took more heartily than before^ and she is since dojng JINSCKIPTION FOB STUDY DOORS.—" No admia- sitm, even on business,"— Punch. THE KINO OF THE BAGMEN J— A gentleman who rejoiced in the title of " King of the Bagmen" ha* just departed this life, after a long and rather prosperous reign. He arrived at the purple in a manner which the Americans would call " snort," and filled his throne on the elective principles. The deceased " larch began life by travelling for a large house at deaux. Many years ago he suddenly quitted his lble dwelling in the Faabourg St. Denis, and in- led himself in the Faubonrg St. Germain, where thsrcholera was then raging and carrying off the no- bility of the quarter. The " King" used to wander it the streets, and directly he found a house where ke, marquis, or count had departed this life, he wofcld go home and write a lettsr to the dead man, to thej effect that, ia compliance with his instructions, he the honour to inform him that the wine he had Ted had arrived in Paris, & o. The heirs never ob- jected to receive the liquor, and to console themselves for it heir loss, and in two months Casimir disposed of £ 1Cj000 wartih- of wine, and was elected king of the IINATION IN LIBERIA.— The Volta brings over the following item of news :— few days before the steamer arrived at Monrovia, a irdiy outrage was oommltted on Mr. Anderson, one of the] Commissioners who came to England about twelve modths since to negotiate the L berian Loan, and who was a particular friend of tho late unfortunate President Roberts, who was accused of high treason and imprisoned, but who, » K" it endeavouring to escape from gaol, was drowned in iptlngt o rasoh one of the African mail steamers. It ra that Mr. Anderson and a person named Sharp, a sugar planter, MM engaged in some legal proceei- i. and the case was decided in favour of Mr. Anderson. for [ Anderson outside the court- house at Monrovia. the latter gentleman caino out of the court- house, and was aboit descending the step*, 8harp pulled out a revolver and fired at Anderson, inflicting a fearful wound in the head, andj completely blowing away a portion of the Jaw. The —"• sin, In returning the revolver to his belt, accidentally ided himself, one of the chambers exploding, the charge tratlDg the lower p » rt of the back. A correspondent hi ng about the nSidr says:—" It is strange that no steps taken in the matter, either by the bystanders or by the " law officials, to arrest Sharpe, but such occurrences ligence had succumbed to the Injuries inflicted on him by Sharp ; but In reference to the latter there was no newt, and the general opinion was that ha had escaped, and was still at NOTICE TO TRESPASSERS.— Whilst the Law is in course of being Finished inside of a Gaol, a black flag is- usually hoisted above the penal edifice. This serves as a sufficient notice to all those whom it may concern. But during the infliction of secondary cor- poral punishment there is no signal to notify the process going on to outsiders, Much of the deterrent effect it ought to have thus fails to- be produced. In future let thia deficiency be supplied. Hoist a flag, also, over the prison in which a criminal is undergoing the cat- o'- nine- tails. There let it float in the breeze for so long as the continuance of his flogging. For duo distinc- tion's sake it should not be a black flag ; would be more suitable if black and bine. Better still would be a piece of striped bunting; and, by way of a delicate compliment to our American kinsmen, the Stare might be Conjoined with the Stripes. For doa't the Yankees whip Creation?— Punck. THOSE PRINTERS !— The following old quo- tation might have been sacred from the printers varia- tions 2— " Whom the gods love die young." Thla was, however, th » issue of the second- hand thought of the author— Whom the gods love, die.— Young. THE TRAUPMANN TRAGEDY.— A man has anr- Magistrate thought the officer was scarcely justified if* ^ rendered himself to the magistrates at Brussels, who a. *„ —* v.. : J . . . i . i i• - states that he was an accomplice of Traupmann in the murder of the Kinck family. Two more accomplices, whom he would make known, had dug the graves. Gustavo Kinck had been murdered a day after the rest of the family, which was the reason that his body was found in a separate place. Kinck, the father, had been murdered by Traupmann alone. He also declares that he was an officer under the Commune, and had taken port in the shooting of the hoBtacee, amongst whom were the Archbishop of Paris and the President Bon jean. A medical examination has resulted in the opinion that the person is of sound mind. This event had created a treat sensation in Brussels. THE TEST !— Four seamen came t » the door of a certain Member of Parliament ( at least they re- presented themselves as seamen)— ana said they were m great distress, having been shipwrecked off Hull. " I went to speak with them, as my sympathies are, and I hope always will be, with seamen. As soon as I saw tbem, I saw that one was a seaman ; but, as we say in Lancashire, I saw with half an eye the other three were hail fellows, well met, picked up on the road. I said, * I am very sorry to hear of your acci dent. What vessel were you wrecked in V They said the Elizabeth. I told the seaman to stand where ho was; I told the first of the other three men to ^ go ten or fifteen yards to the right; the Becond to re tiro ten or fifteen yards to the left; and the third man to stand off in the front. Well, they could not tell what I was after, and I went quickly up to one and said, ' I am very sorry to hear of the Elizabiih being lost. What was the captaint name ?' ' Jones,' was. the reply. I went to the next, told him I sin- cerity regretted the accident, and asked the name of the captain of the Elizabeth. ' Captain Brown, BIT.' I went to another and said, ' My good friend, I am exceedingly distressed on your account. What was the name of tho captain?' ' Captain Smith, sir.' I said, ' Come here, men. You are a pretty set of fel- lows here to go and sail In the ship Elizabeth, and you have three captains. You might well be lost, and deserve it too." DEATH OP A VETERAN.— We have to record the death of Lieut- CoL C. E. West, late ol the 3rd Regiment of Guards, on the 17th inst., at 8> Lower Saadgate- road, Folkestone, at the age of 83. In 1804 he entered the army from the Royal Military College, Marlow, and obtained an Ensign s commission in the 3cd Regiment of Guards. He was posted to Lleut.- CoL, West's company, in January, 1804, and accom- panied the regiment on the expedition to Ger- many, under the command of Lord Cathcart. He was present during the whole of the cam- paign. On the return of the army to England he ' embarked with the expedition to Denmark, and was present at the siege of Copenhagen. On his re- turn to England he embarked, with his regiment, in tho exj> edition to Portugal and Spain, and after the battle of Talavora he obtained hia promotion to the rank of a Captain and Lieutenant in the 3rd Guards. He was selected to take charge of the despatches to England, and ordered to embark on board the frigate Filla, commanded by the Hon. Captain Rodney . and proceeded without delay with the despatches to Eng- land. He immediately afterwards returned to Portugal and rejoined his battalion at Albuera, in camp. He moved with the army in advance upon the French army at Salamanca. He was present at that battle and at the siege of Burgos, and at the battles of Yittoria and St. Sebastian. Ho was afterwards at Bayonne, where he waa severely wounded, during the sortie, by a musket bullet in the arm, which was much shattered. He embark< d with his regiment and returned to England promoted to the rank of Lieut- Colonel, with the command of a company in tho 3rd Guards, and Immediately proceeded with the regiment to join the army at Brussels, preparatory to the battle of Waterloo. He was present at Quatre Bras and at Waterloo, where he again received a severe wound, which disabled and retained him for a long time in the hospital. He retired from the service by leave, with the highest reputation for honourable oonduct and the courage he had displayed In the great battlQR in which he had taken part, • CIAI^ LLS KATY^ MEM.— ANGLO- FRENCH OOKMERCIL — The Raw Material may offer material for a ltiw.— Punch. THE AXBERI MEMORIAL CHAPEL, WINDSOR CASTIIE.— A number of artists from the Paris atelier of Baron Triqueti have arrived at the Castlo for the pur- pose of superintending the placing of the mem rial tomb to the late Prince Consort. The place argued for this rich and very beautiful piece of sculpii^ e fronts the east end of the chapeL The b ase is foimtd of massive and highly polished slabs of black and gold, black and white, and Sicilian marbles. Delicately- cut pilasters, bases, capitals, and arches of Sicilian umrbje fonn niches around the tomb, the panels bung of red marble. Altogether there are eight niches, three on each side and one at each end of the me- morial White marble statuettes of female figure repre-, senting Charity, Truth, Justice, Hope, Swence JZ will occupy the niches, the name of each figure," in'gold letters, being placed upon the pedestal. Two of the figures have shields, upon which, engraved in gold letters, is tb ® inscription—" I have fought the good hght; I have finished my course.— 2 Tim. 4. 7." The comers of the tomb will be supported by statues of angels. The recumbent effigy of the Prince Consort is not expected to reach Windsor Castle before April. Upon its arrival it will be placed on the top of the tomh. Marble seats have been placed along the north and south walls, but the pavement has yet to be laid. The fixing of the various costly sculptures has been executed by Measra. Pool, cathedral masons, of West- minster. MAY AND DECEMBER.— At thin present junc- tion Mra Mala prop ia greatly interested in a marriage which is about to take place between two of her moat intimate friends. The only drawback to her satisfac- tion ia, that she is afraid there is too great a dispa- ragement of age.— Punch., GALLANT RESCUE.— We hava to record the very gallant conduct of a young Irish gentleman, third officer on board a steamship in American waters, be- tween New York and Port Richmond, Philadelphia, on the Delaware, upon the afternoon of the, 4th of October ( says a Philadelphia paper);. Ttye captaia's daughter, a young lady of IB years, waa apaa jngor on board, and while leaning over . the after- part of the ship, the sea being rather rwgh, a sudden lurch of tfye vessel threw her overboard. This accident being seen bv Mr. Stephen J. Ca3sanr third officer, he instantly plunged after her, and, being an expert swimmer, suc- ceeded in grasping her, after sinking the first time. The ship was instantly stopped, when the first officer and some sailors were lowered in a boat, and succeeded, after much difficulty, in rescuing them from eo perilous and dangerous an adventure, the more wonderful as sharks were seen to follow the vessel that day, and were noticed in the water when the boat was towed to their aid. Mr. Caesan is . quite a young man, not 20 years old, from the Worcester training ship, Thames;" Lon- don, and has made several voyages to Ind%. . BLACK SEA CURRENTS.— A strange pheno- menon has, it seems, been discovered by her Majesty's surveying ship Shearwater, which vessel, having ac- complished her task for this season, has lately returned to Gallipoli. The labours of the surveying party on board have, says the Dardanelles correspondent of the Levant Herald, been crowned with satisfactory re- sults, and one highly interesting fact has been ascer- tained of which the existence was never before sur- mised. It was found that the proverbially rapid current which runs from north to south both in the Dardanelles and in the Bosphorus is only superficial, for at the depth of 20 fathoms the surveying purty discovered in the course of their soundings that there exists an under- current running with prodigious fore ® into the Black Sea. To test the strength of this under- current a special apparatus was constructed and attached to the ship's boats, when, astonishing to re- late, the boats were in many places driven along against the upper- current with a velocity greater than that of the steam launch belonging to the SheavTcater. THE PENALTIES OP GRBATNESS !— A Paris paper tells the following story itpropoi of the penalties of greatness, and how one may occasionally avoid pay- ing them A very well known physician in Paris could not show his nose out of doors without being every minute accosted by some one. " Ah f doctor, how glad I am to see you. All this morning I have felt . . . What do you suppose it can be f " To such an extent was the poor man plagued that he de- termined at all hazard* to rid himself of the torment A few days since, in a very public place, he beard as usual, " Ah, doctor, how glad, & c., & c. " Good gracious," he replied, " this is a serkra? business; I must see your tongue; put it well out please.'' An( l there in the open street, the man obeyed. The doctor studied it for some time. " Very good," said he at length, " now shut your eyes." Again the patient obeyed, whereupon the doctor went on hie way, leaving his tormentor standing in this ridiculous position in the midst of an amused crowd. FROM OUR SENSITIVE CONTRIBUTOR.— There are certain most agreeable amusements in the world which can hardly be indulged in by men of certain callingB, without conveying to the mind a disagreeable idea, ] For instance, who, without a shudder, can enter- tain the notion of a Dentist playing cricket and detected in the horrid act of Drawing a Stump Pwneh. NAPOLEONIC RELICS.— An old and esteemed Liverpool lady, Miss Isabella Mather, who waa well known for unostentatious charity, has just died in her 80th year, and by her death a large number of inter- esting and valuable miniatnree will be added to the town museum. These miniatures were formerly the property of the ex- Emperor of the French— then plain Louis Napoleon— having been bought from him by the brother of Miss Mather when h » was in pecuniary difficulties, before his accession to power. The minia- tures represent different members of his family, includ- ing the parents of Napoleon the First and his celebrate^ marshals, and after the Emperor's declaration he en- deavoured, but in vain, to induce Mr. Mather to part with them. The deceased lad)' was one of the Inst re- Kesentatives of an old Puritan family, who were pro- bly among the original members of the first Dis- senting chapel In Lancashire. —. A SKATING " RINK " FOE LONDON.— A corre- spondent of a London contemporary says, that » n an- ticipation of the approaching winter, and with a view of obviating as far as possible the numerous accidents and deaths from drowning which yearly occur, owing* to the great depth of water at most of the jjlaces acces- sible to the metropolitan skaters, a society i « in contra of formation which will number amongBt its members- most of the leading supporters of the variom athletic and swimming dubs, for the purpose of establishing & . " Rink " Club. It is proposed to rent apiece of gronnd . of about 4 acres in extent, and having excavated tho same to a depth of about 2 teet to lay on a supply of water from the main. As this " l( ink" can thus nightly be flushed with water, the ice will always be in good condition, and death from drowning ( owing to its shallowness) be rendered impossible. A charge of two- peace a day will be made, and after paying incidental expenses, the balance will be handed over to the Royal Humane Society. BY WIRE.— Mra. Malaprop says wonders will never cease. She hears that there has been a letter n the paper about sending " money by telegram ;" so ? be supposes the next thing will be that people will send the clothes to the wash, and the dinner to the bakehouse, and the children to school bj the eocentric telegraph,— Punch. t, )|( J THE LICENSING ACT AND THE INCREASE OP DRUNKENNESS IN LIVERPOOL.— On Monday, the Liver- pool coroner, who presided in the " Di- uBkards Court," in the course of the morning took occasion to allude tq the great increaso of drunkenness in ^ jiyerpgdJ gpee the Licensing Act came into existence. Sir. A » pmall observed that the list of drunkards- bropgl^ fe. the various bridewells between Saturday night and Mon- day morning amounted to the number pfi 15$. This condition of things was very disappointing, though he would be very Borry indeed that the orade& cea of drunkenness as seen that day were owin - to thu : lAofc of preventive operations under the now adt j and hi still hoped that time would show that the measure worlkdn^ good work for the community, as he believed' it waa calculated to do. Several young people of both sexes, of an extremejy early age, were placed in the dock, charged with being drunk, while not a few Waff. fen, with infants exposed to the inclemency of the Ww. ther and to the rough treatment by the drunken^ es* of t- irif parents, were In tho same pogltinii. This, he though occurring every Monday morning1,' was A Bad feature in the social- lifi of. Liverpool,. Uiij r Greijj, the head constable, concurred in tbe disappoint- -...(. uv.. ^ f. i . .. .- mtnt felt bv Mr. Aspinall at tho incBrasi * uea3, but be ventured to hfpe th? t wlum l - ja Licensing Act had a fair aSa^ rens& TtfWe TftWrTO SWrafs^ ^ smMk LOSS OP A LARGE PASSENGER STEAMER. A deplorable catastrophe, involving loss o! lite and the founderingof a magnificent steam- vessel, occurred in the River Thames on Saturday afternoon. It ap- pears that the Balavier. paddle passenger boat, the finest and most commodious of the steamers of the Netherlands Steam Packet Company, left Black wall soon after noon, with passengers and a valuable cairo for Rotterdam and the Rhine. On arriving m Barking Beach, near the tramping station of the Southern Outfall Sewer, the large Turkish screw man- of- war came up the river. The scWfr. a fine vessel of some LSOO tons burden, hM been sent over by the Turkish Government to England to be fitted with new engines and boilers, and had gone down the river from Mill wall Docks the day before to try the speed of her engines at the measured miles in Long Reach and on the MapHn Sands. She carried the Turkish ensign, and, favoured by the tide, was steaming up through Barking Reach, the river being unusually free from other craft, when, either from the fact of steering with large screw steamers being difficult at flood tide, or from a mis- understanding on board the two vessels as to each other's intentions, a fearful collision ensued. The Turkish man- of- war nenetrated the Batavier eight feet, Btriking with such force that every one on board the two steamers sprang to their feet, and rushed on deck. I The passengers and crew of the Balavier, whichwAa shipping water very fast, immediately saw their perilous position, and the appalling cry of " We are goingi down ! was heard on all sides. The consternation afld alarm Is described as inWflJm,. some shrieking, some falling on their knees in prayer, terror being depicted on every face, and all expecting speedy death. The engine fires were immediately ex- tinguished by the inflowing waters, and it was evi- dent from the first that all attempts to save the steamer and cargo would bo fruitless. The boats of the two steamers, were instantly lowered. The women and children were blaced in the first boat, those left in the Batavicr anxiously conjecturing, as the water got higher and higher, whether they cctald be saved before she went down. They were, however, all rescued in a frfe minutes, a tug coming up materially expediting their escape. The sinking ship was abandoned as the watey came sweeping over her deck, and the passengers witnessed the solepm and awful scene of tne splendid steamer going down, and of the waters closing over her. After foundering; the escaping air in the darned ve'ifee* bubbled UP, and a quantity of jute and whatever'vfy ® buoyant floated from the deck and came up from below,, and in a short time the river was streWed for two miles with broken timbers and floating merchandise j from the wreck, and were picked up by watermen. " j | The disaster threw a complete gloom over the dis- trict, though it was a source of congratulation that^ though the ship and merchandise were lost the pas- sengers, and crew were saved.- Nearly all lost the whole of their luggage, and some Dutch Jews lost all their earthly possessions, one of them losing a large sum of money ne was taking over to Holland. Operations were almost immediately commenced to* raise the sunken vessel or to remove her neater ohore. LANDLORD AND TENANT. At the quarterly meeting of the Devonshire dhfjntje* of Commerce on Friday an important discussion was held on the relation of landlord and tenant. A re- solution in favour of landlords giving outgoing tenants compensation for" unexhausted improvements" and manures was proposed by the Rev W. H. Karslake, i After several speakers had stated their views, the meeting was addressed by Sir Thomas Acland, M. P.. who considered the subject dn important one, and showed the interest he felt in it by mentioning that he came from the other end of Cornwall on purpose to take part in tie discussion. Having done so, howeVer, he confessed himself gravely disappointed. As a land- lord he was sorry to find that the whole work of the Chamber Bince its formation had been in the interest of landowners. The one question which occupied them Beemed to haVe been the sup- posed pressure off property, and but very little had been said as yet about the interests of agriculture. ^ A member referred the speaker to Mr. Daw's lecture.) '" He admitted that Mr. Daw's lecture was one of the best things the meetings of the Chamber had prcdueW, but ^ maintained that, as a general rule, their aiteussirins b& 8 been confln ed to the interests of the landlord, and they had done very little yet tn the interestaof the tenant farmer. He was obliged to the Chamberof Agriculture for the zeal shown on be- half of oppressed landlords by Petitioning Parliament to take off the burden of taxation from their land, and, in various other ways, but it was ratner singular that now their own interests, were being Considered, more of, the members were not present. He came there as a member of Parliament in the hope of ascertaining the wishes of the tenant fanper, but he found that very few of that class were present. He had also hoped to meet some of the eminent land surveyors of whioh Devonshire might justly be proud, but none were then,, and he felt deeply disappointed. He pointed otrt that there was a little vagueness in the resolution sub- mitted. He understood what was meant by '^ unex- hausted improvements." They ought to have a distinct idea of what they were talking about. ( Hear.)' . He knew very well what was meant by the gradual rise in the value'of' land, and he was afraid agood many tenants knew more than they liked about that, and that was due, not to an abstract idea of the nature of the soil, but to the progress of commercial enterprise, and the increased demand for land. It was that whioh raised the value of land, and the number of young men who wanted to get' farms, and who were willing to give anything for a place where they could settle down, was intolerable. But wae all that increased value of land to be brought back and paid for by the landlord or incoming tenant ? Was it to be laid down by the law that it was to be bought back by the landlord . when the lease had expired? Was the landlord to. pay for the growth in the value of land which the tenant hod nothing to do with ? That • was a very difficult ques- tion, and if the Chamber would grapple with it practically, and say what they meant, they would be doing a great deal of good, but it was not by passing vague resolutions that they would do anything useful. With regard to the Irish Land Bill, the leas said about that the better. ( A Voice.- Yes.) But a Land Bill had been passed for one part of the kingdom, and a bill may be passed for another part, and it ia not well to forget the discussion on such matters. ( Hear.) In the discussion upon the Irish Bill they could not help see- ing that the question of the rent of land was an im- portant item in considering the nature of improve" menta. It was absurd to pass vague resolutions dealing with all farms on the same footing, because in one case the landlord . might do a great deal and in the other nothing at alL They ought to go, ipftre into detail. He did not seek to gain popularity by talking about tenant right, his earnest desire was to help tie tenant farmer to come to a reasonable settle- ment. For the last thirty years he had been endeavour- ing to frame an agreement upon which men couhl work together. He began it in the lifetime^ his father, who was good enough to allow him to try a^ d place the relations between himself and his tenants on a more defined footing in order that his tenants mjgftt have a feeling of security, but it v no means an easy matter. The question, as he 1_ .— extremely difficult one, and he thought it was ex- tremely likely that Parliament would be called upon to legislate. Believing that, he sllonld be very careful not to commit himself in any way, because hp thought it the duty of members of, Parliament to wait until they saw what the country really wanted and heard tie discuBsiona on the matter before coming to a definite opinion. ' THE LARGEST HT THE WORLD.— Inatrumen- j tal Music is said to attain to the highest perfection in ! the " Organ Mountains. "— Punch. ! AN ILLUSION DISPELLED.— In a recent letter from Tucson, Governor A. K P. Safford, of Nevada, I writes:— i " A year and a half ago I learned to a certainty that dla. monds had been found either in Arizona or near the line. I The Information I received was confidential, and I knew it ' to be true. I with three others then commenced the work I of flndine the place. We followed rumours, winks, and nods, with about u much earnestness u Japhst looked for his father. Finally, on the Nava/ oe Reservation, we thought we had found it; but as rubles were much more easily obtained than diamonds, we contented ourselves with gathering rubles. We collected the value of a million or : two of each, and concluded wo had enouch to make our- selves comfortable and our friends also. We took thttn to San Francisco and sent them to Boston. They proved to be garnets, and of no value; and tho beauttfal drtams of ' schools and colleges we would build np, and poor people we would make happy, all vanished, and we found ourselves as before, straggling to make the ends meet. DOti- felTfcS AMD SNAKE- BITES. In oomu * tk> n with this subject, which fa cw of general interest, the following communications have Seen sent to The Times;— Tberels no cure for hydrophobia. On IMs pobt all m* ilad • MB . greed. The best prophylactic t^ tmoiiU im- mediate and total excision of the P « « "" f • this, forcible suction will remove somaof bandage should at the same time be applied above the part. lUxSln cannot be safely performed, lunar caustic shoald to freely used. Amputation of the limb aborethe plaa> of taiOT toabecn recommended by 31r Thomas Wateon, who Sa^ Xl^ S0. biU^ msd^. T rabid animal ut- ou ny arm or tat, and to ® bite was of such a kind thai the whole wond could not be incised, nay reason would tcarh mo to desire, and I hope I should havefortt- to eurfurr, amputee ® of the limb " So mac* for hydrophobia. With respect to snake bites, ike treat- maniVlopted br Professor Halford, of Melbourne, has un- d<£ Wdiy prove* successful In nany cases In which it has ben applied not only by Ltt. HaUord, but also by other mem- ben of the medical profession la Australia. Tocaxry out the treatment, a solution of ammonia, of the strength of one nart of the strongest Vffam emmonue to two parts of dis- tilled water, and an ordinary hypodermic syringe are re- Sred. The ammonia Is thrown directly, but gradually, into blood fey puncturing nay superficial vein, and may be repeat* d SJ Its beneSclal operation ceasea. In the Aus- tralian Medical Journal tea January, 1870, La contained a tabular statement of 10 cases of snako- blto treated In this manner. In every cam except one, and that a doubtful on^ the recovery was complete. Several of tfcs patients are said to have been comatoao and rapidly sinking. It has boon sug- gested that instead of Injecting the liquor Into the veUis— an operation only safe In skilled hands— a few drops, from 15 to M, In a wine- glass full of water should be given In- ternally. Numerous cases illustrating thecfflocyofrro- fessor Halford's remedy have been recorded In the British and ToUnJal medicU papers, particulars « i which may be found £ 7ho Dal/ YearlfAb^ t <* J Ou Medical Scuncti. vols. 40, 52, and U. On the other hand, It should be mentioned that Professor Fairer, of Calcutta, who has paid considerable attention to this snfejc- ct, in speaking of this plan of treatmont, states 10 tho Indian Annals of Medical Science, W O. 27, that It seems more rational than most suggestions that have been mado, but he regrets eireedlngly that in his own experiments it has proved of no avail. The reason, he adds, maybe in tne greater vlrulenco of the Indian Thanatophldla. The results of Dr. Fayrer- s numerous experiments Into the chMpeters ol • tho poisonous snakes of India, and the poMlbility of dis- covering an antidote to their bite, tend to show that little can De done to counteract or neutralise the action of tne poison. It U to bo hoped that, with such accomplished and persevering Investigators as Prifessors an antidote may toon be discovered to this terrible bane, which, it is computed, carries off 20,000 persons annually " » Hindustan alone.— I have the honour to be, w. DOMETT STOSE, M. D., Fellow of th « Royal College of Surgeons, 19, Oxiord- terrace, Hyde Park, Oct 17. Having read the letters In Tin Timw on this subject, t wish to mention an Instance In my pwn knowledge, when a boy. which Is, 1 believe, the moat remarkable for i he length of time which elapsed before the disease showed itself, after the animal was bitten, and after the actual cautery having been applied within a very short time. A cow was always kept at TsttemlTs, on the old pre- mises at Hyde- psrk- oorner, and In the daytime was often in the Ring, which was surrounded by garden wills. A dog, said to bo mad, ran down the yard from Gros- venor- place Into the Ring, was seen to bite the cow in the heel and then ran away, and I never heard what became of It Tho cow was taken very soon aftor being bitten Into the blacksmith's forge at the bottom of the yard, a hot iron Wps applied to ths wound, and it was thought there was an end ol all danger. The cow was soon after sept to my father's farm at Dawley, another being sent to London In its place, and the cow was turned out with the others, and very little more was thought about It; but the man who looked alter her was told to mention If he ever saw any peculiar symp- toms or anything In her manner different from the others. At the end of about 11 months, when the matter was almost forgotten, ho reported that the cow was what he called " queer in her manner, wandering about solitary, and not feeding." My father thought It was Impossible this could arlso from the bite, but ordered the cow to be shut up In the cowhouse and securely fastened, and It was fortunate he did so, as the next day she was raving mad. Nono of the men liked to go near her, and my father shot the cow himsplf and had her buried In tho orchard. A few, days afterward an eminent member of the veterinary profession came down fiom London, requested to have her exhumed, cnt the leg off and took It away with him, saying It was the most ex traordinary caso he had ever heard of. I think it was the lato Mr. John Field, but am not sure, as I was not at home at tho time, but I glvo you the facts as they occurred. I cannot for a moment agree with Mr. Grantley Berkeley, that because no remedy ever has been discovered none ever will. Shakespeare makes Ariel say that he can put a girdle about the earth In forty minutes. Science can now accom- K" sh what the poet foreshadowed, and science will, I be- ve, find a cure for this horrible malady. By all means let evorj thing bo tried. I have read ( I think In a French paper) of a euro having been effected by constant hot baths. This mlaht easily bo tried. Let us try everything, and tpnst In skill and sclonco to conquer disease as chloroform has con- quered pain— Yours truly, Albert- gate, Oct. 17. E. TatTEBSALL. With reference to letters in The Times of yesterday on the subject of remedies for the bites of venomous snakes, I beg to state that, upwards of 40 years ago, when employed on the Quartermaster- General's Staff in Ceylon, on two occasions I cured men who were bitten by Tic Proloncos ( supposed to bo the most deadly poisonous of the snakes oi that Island) by simply cauterizing the punctures with my knife, heaping a charge of powder from my flask, and blow- ing It up In each case. I repeated the operation several times. I was at work in the field at the time; other nieans, suoh as thoso referred to by your correspondents, . were not within my reach, and I adopted tho Impromptu expedient 1 have described, as the only one I could think of, little hoping at the time that It would save the pdor fellow's lives. On returning to camp after my day's work, to my great Joy I found my first patient suffering only from the sore which I had made In hla foot. In two days ho was at work again. The second case occurred only a few days later. Tho snake, a magnificent specimen of the TicFolongo was brought to mo with the man it had bitten. I pursued the same course with the man and sent him to camp ; in the evening I found him walking about, add he was at work the following day. I have before communicated this to the public through the Press both in England and in Ceylon ; If you think It worth repeating, tho information is at your service.— Yours, & c., T. SKIN HER, late Commissioner of Bath, Oct. 17. Bubllo Works, Ceylon. MORMON IMMIGRANTS. The steamship Minnesota brought 600 recruits, single men and single women ; EngliBh from the mining districts, Welsh from the mountains, and Germans from the Rhine Valley ( writes, the New York Herald.) Each nationality was in charge of the apostle who had preached especially in either country, and the three leaders in the oonversion of souls will conduct the neophytes to the promised land. In appearance they are a soedy, ignorant lot. The men have evidently been chosen with a view to the development of the mining resources of Utah or for the defence of the place, and the women to become the helpmeets of the men, and mothers of future generations of Mormons. The men are mostly large, powerful fellows, with brawny bodies and coarse, unintelligent features, just the men to embrace the faith of the Latter- day Saints, and maintain it against all opposition, whether it came in the shape of reasoning or physical force. The women are nearly all under 25, and had evidently been selected by some aged eaint who had an eye for souls in fresh, young bodies. There was a noticeable lack of the gaunt, elderly females who are supposed to form th » staple for conversion. That considerable ioresight had been displayed in the gathering of the 200 men and 300 young women is evidenced in the fact that during the voyage no sickness occurred, though of course, the ship's officers contributed to this happy result. The men did not care to speak of the faitn they, had em- braced, and when a coy maiden was asked if she knew that she was liable to be the oonsort of a man with m dozen other wives she maintained her modesty in the diplomatic reply:—" It's na prapper ta ax me, an I • Ml na tell ye." She was a blushing girl of 21, and there being some anxiety to know how these young females reconciled purity with polygamy, the question was pressed :—" You would snrely rather be the one wife of a man in your own country ? " " I'm me ain mis- trees, and it's nobody's beesness." He reply was dis couragingly independent, and, moreover, ad the Mor- m in girl moved away, a knot of her brawny country- men had gathered with lowering looks, and prudence counselled silence. It was evident that they bad all been cautioned against intruders before the arrival in New York, in order that they might not be made ashamed of their new- found faith or disenchanted with their promised land. They all seemed to know that there was something awkward in tho condition they were about to bring upon themselves, and were disin- clined to speak of it. The Emperor of Germany has lately conferred the Order of the Iron Cross on Mrs Alsager, the English lady who was nursing In the hospitals of SaarbrQck from the commencement ol the war 1S70, to January, 1871, a false re- Srt of her death having prevented the liupertor of the capitals there ( Or. KUpper) from sending her namo In fcr the decoration at the time when It was first awarded- CHICAGO AS PHCENIX. Tfee toDowfiig extracts arc from a very Interesting sketch . by " An Occasional Correspondent" at the Daily Nem, writing from Chicago, the lat Instant:— j " Hyax, sir," said my companion, pointing rotmd a ! Ireary waste, " was one of the handsomest parts of our j city. A real elegant park, stretching away to the j Lake, and Grounded by houses of some of our most prominent citizens, men worth their two million dol- lars." And the aty was Chicago, and the lake was Mlrfijgmn, Leas than a year ago, for the anniversary is not tmtil the Othinst, occurred the great fire in which pro- perty worth neatly two hundred and fifty millions of dollars was destroyed, and upwards of one hundred thousand persons were reduced to beggary. And by the spring oi next year there will stand on the sites completely cleared by tho conflagration a city of palaces to which, in extent and grandeur, the former Chicago could not for an instant be compared. To give, at one glance, an idea of what is doing, has been, and will be done in the way of rebuilding the city, I may mention that between the 15th of last April, when the frost disappeared and the masons commenced to work, and the lst of next December ( takinz the past aa the baeis of calculations for the future), excluding Sundays, counting 200 working dayB, and each day of eight hours, there will be completed one brick, stone, or iron building twenty- five feet in frontage, and from fpur to six stories high— buildings to which we have in London no equivalent, save in some of the newly- erected City warehouses— for each hour of that time. This estimate, I am assured, does not include tho numerous stone, brjck, iron, and wooden buildings which since the fire have been erected outside the burnt district,: and which alone equal the ordinary number of buildings annually erected in Chicago in the ante- conflagration days. No need of statistics, however, to convince ytraiself of the marvellous energy of these denizens of ithe metropolis of the West, for yon <? an Bee it by looking from your hotel window, orbetter still by stepping into the street. The street I Yes, . that is - the name still applied to this chasm between the lines where hpusea formerly stood, and where in renewed splendour they are again being greeted > / this .- chasm, which is almost blocked up on either flide fcr its whole length with huge blocks of marble and granite piled one on the other, with pools of mortar and molten 43phalte, with window- frames and door- jambs leaning helplejsly agaipst the buildingB of which they are to form portions, with labourers . ot all countries „ and of all tongues plying their trades ( and objurgating, each other and the passers- by. But narrow spa<? e is left for traffiq, and of this mt^ i is absorbed by the up and down lines of tramways on which, tne street pars,' crammed to repletion', ,< and with their fore and hind platforms swarming with passengers clustering together like beek are run- ning. Rocim. nqw for the waggbqa.^ f- the V. 01" press" companies,' Adams'B, the.^ Merchants' Union, or the. cTn} ted States, piled twelve feet high with baggage, r come thundering v along, their drivers maddened'at having lost five mjn^ tee ^ aitirjg while the. ' slow swihg.- bridge parted amnder, to give passage to; the snooting little tug, belching- iprSi smoke of such blacknesd as only " soft" coal'cap produce, and the lumber- vessel which it haa in tow. Koom for tie opmi- buses, the trotting- waggons, with { hear thin- sppked wheels and^ eir fleet blinkerieas horsee j room fOF the really elegant'equipages in which beauty reclincs— and Chicago can boast of peerless beauty, costumed, hotted,- and chigno'ned after the latest fashion— and which are driven by shining- faced negroes in liveries and tall hata surrounded by vStvet bands. .,. « •. ... Twp or thrqe newly- erected splendid I" stores " have been opened, Jbut the majority are as yet roofless, and all the, business of the great hotels is carried on in temporary quarters. ; The Chicago Tribune, the grave and dignified leader of thought in the West, crams its clerks into - an ordinary shop, and conducts its editorial business in something little better than a loft, while the Chicago Times, the only rival to the New York Herald, in sparkling audacity; houses itself in a little wooden " shanty," and for a banner on its outward wall, hangs out a board painted in black and white character. Both Times and Tribune have splendid granite buildings in course " of erection, but they- will not be ready for habitation until the spring, at which time will comd' from aky- paripur? and attics, from lofta and lean- to's, from third and fourth- floors, from basements, and cellars, and back- yards, the lawyers, the brokers, the bankers, the doctors, the authors, tne artists; and all the professional people who have been compelled to put up with any sort of accommodation they could get, and to be thanaful for it. Brains do not require much stowage- room, certainly not so much as " dry goods," so the first buildings completed have been the stores, and the lawyer's chambers, the physician's consulting room, the author's library, the artist's studio, must wait till work is scarcer, and labour is more plentiful. The architecture of the new city, so far as it can be judged at'present, is principally noticeable " forL its massivehess, its grandeur, and the variety of the material used In its composition. ' Vermont marble, New Hampshire granite, Ohio sandstone, Lake Su- perior brownstobe^ all these are used in " the erection of new Chicago, witk an indefinite number of other varie- ties from neighbouring States, and some from Transat- lantic quarries. It is allowed on all sides that Chicago's destruction has been her gain from an architectural point of view, and it is found that, in the erectioil of business buildings, the Various owners have in nearly every instance shown then: anticipation of greater trade by adding increased height and breadth to their houses. Throughout the city, too, the new buildings are one or more stories higher than those which were destroyed. ... There is probably nothing which a reasonable man could want; which cannot now be obtained in the city ; but only listen to the Chicagoese as they chatter about the future. Their bridges are now hideous and wooden, but their river shall soon be spanned by viaducts which the Thames or the Seine would burn to own. Their'Lincoln- park _ is pretty ( it is, indeed, most beau- tiful with itB charming conglomeration of water, wood, and verdure), but wait until it is increased by the ad- dition of the'cemetery, from which the bodies are already being removed. The drive by the Lake, which has no eye boundary, and on the shores of which the waves break as on the sea beach,, is delightful; but wait until we have our Boulevards (" Bully- vards,'' is the Chicago pronunciation) stretching round our city 25 miles long 1 Making allowance for all ex- aggeration— and the people of the West are given to " blowing "-— there is no doubt that the future Chi- cago will be a magnificent city, though possibly not to be compared in interest to the wide area, here half- built, there wholly devastated, over which I have to- day been wandering. • , , Finally, let me place upon record the delight of the Inhabitants of Chicago as they see their city rising in renewed beauty and grandeur around them. " The fire has done you good rather than harm," I observed to the hotel clerk. " Good 1" he replied, with a chuckle, " I guess the people at St. Louis are just now making up their minds when they'll burn their village down, to try and get a chance of coming up to us." A TALE OP THE SEA? The American papers have published the following very extraordinary story Mr. James Dugan, who arrived in New York from Sydney, Cape Breton, on the 3rd iuBt., gives the fol- lowing account of a wrecked brig, which the schooner Lancaster, in which Mr. ' Dugan was passenger, came up with and boarded, on Thursday, the 19th September. Whi'e at breakfast, on board the Lancaster, the second mate, Mi-. Prior, hurried into the babin, and addressing himself to the captain, Baid—" There's an abandon edhuu adrift off the starboard quarter; her spars are gone, and she looks to have been a brigor brigantine." The captain gave orders to bear away for the wreck, and at midday the schooner Lancaster was broadside to the abandoned vesaeL It was a well- shaped, strongly- built hull, but the bulwarks and stanchions had been badly dealt with by the elements, and the whole was much weather- beaten. An hour after noon the wind had so subsided as to admit the lowering of a boat, in which Capt Martin and Mr. Rutlidge, the mate, two seamen, and Mr. James Dugan put out for the wreck. On board- ing it, a dismal sight presented itself. Splintered spars, entangled in canvas and rigging gear, and the planks of a boat torn asunder by the wind and sea, were scattered around in sad confusion. Below a heap of motley riggings, and broken by the weight of a spar which lay across it, where the bones of a human being— a skeleton. The skull and riba had been crushed almost level with the deck. Shreds of canvas trousers and a Guernsey frock were found among and near the bones. Further search revealed five other skeletons. A slight covering of crisped flesh remained on four of the skeletons, shoeing that they had died more recently than the other two. Many of the utensils of the galley were found, but not a single remaining pot or veasel of any nature con- tained the least particle of food. This discovery seemed to satisfy the captain that all on board had perished from hunger; The spectacle on board the sepulchral hull was appalling. The hardy sailors themselves seemed to sicken at the revolting dH- closure. It was ascertained that the vessel had been rigged a brig: The hull bore no name on its stern- post. On the bowsprit the word GlenaJvon wis barely legible. In the forecastle, which was almost filled with water, a most unearthly stench was dis- covered, and only two men could be found to enter and remain long enough inside to report what they had ' Been there. There were two corpses on tho floor, and one stretched across si " bunk." The wheel- house had been carried away, and the fastenings of the rudder broken. This was the work of some tremendous sea. The foremast had been cut away to save the vessel from foundering. The jib- boom was gone, and the entire craft was the most complete wreck Captain Martin had seen or heard of in his nautical etperienbe W nearly forty years. Entering the cabin a foul odour was discovered, but not intense enough to forbid a thorough investigation. Towards the end of the steps leading down to the cabin a fetid pool of water was seen, ttnd the men had to wade through it in orderto reach every portion of the cabin. Between a stationary table and a couch, the head of a corpse protruded from a berth in the wall, and, when brought on; deck. it waa found to be in a state of decay. A buttoned jacket of good material, blue pantaloons, a flannel shirt- marked " T. F.," and one boot covered the corpse. The chronometer in the cabin pointed to half- past four O'clock, and on the stationary table was an open bible, turned downwards, a revolver with two chambers loaded, and a bottle containing a piece of paper, upon which was written: " Jesus, guldp this to some helper. Merciful God, don't let us perish!" The words were detached, and a hiatus 9< « urred between $ v « ry two or three of them, whiah showed that the writer must have been either in tho lowest stage of debility,. of driven to madness by hunger. In the captain's state- room hla corpse was • fottoij lying bent, op the floor, as though h¥' had fallen froth1 weakness, wTiile struggling, with faint hope, to save himself' andlhen. On His bed Were scattered books, papers, & c.', hut one sheet attracted particular ' Attention. It was tinted / u. .„.... « ! - lii. - . • Martinique, May30,1872. i Dear- Kate,— T Will post this letter here, to assure you of; my well- being: but do not attempt to hazard an answer to thiaport, as yon villi not And ma here a week hence. I have kept all my strong promises,; to you in spite of s thousand bad advices from my cqmredet I drink a little beer, but that is all Tour precious" photograph is a little silent angel— at last I, think so, and I read your letters over a hundred and « hundred times again. You say in yours, dated from Liverpool, that the old man was altoge- ther turned In my favour when he heard of my having passed the Board. Nov' mind and keep him so until I get home again^ when everything will be comfortable and Jolly. Write to Hal's address in St. John, New Brunswick, f w should it not reach me there, Hal,' at least', will know where I am. Wishing you good health and cheerfulness and good fortune, my own darling Kate, I am for ever your own Bobert." The ship's regular papers were not found open but Captain Martin took in charge a neat writing deskjqund in the captain's trunk and locked. There was a slate on the table iq the cabin, which, table was covered by guards; such as are used at meals in stormy weather. The slate, intended for taking down the log in rough, contained only blurred figures and illegible writing. The captain's trunk contained numerous letters, which Capt. Martin intends to give up'to^ the authorities at Sydney. Towards three o'cloc£ a .( lead calm prevailed, and the boat's company thaswgnt on board the dismal wreck rowed back to procure something to eat and drink. At seven p. m. the calm continuing, Captain Martin proposed to set out for, the ill- fated vessel again, to perform the sorrow- ful eeryices of a buiial at sea. For coffins a quantity of pldcanvas waa brought, and rude bags were quickly formed out of that material. At half- past eight o'clock, the pale moon shining softly over th at lonely sepulchre of the Bea, along board waslaid upon a sound portion of the bul- warks, and two bags, to which weights were tied, were laid down, and rattled as they fell. A lamp waa held by aeailor on each side of the temporary hearse, and after Captain Martin had read the usual service, the plank was lifted upward, whereupon the coffin bags and skeletons slid into the sex Captain Martin has procured. every poseible clue, all of which he will give to the authorities at Halifax or Sydney," feo that the true history of the Glenalvon may be learned. In quoting the above, the Liverpool Albion says— " Inquiries made by us in Liverpool have failed to elicit any information bearing upon the foregoing narrative." MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY IN LONDON. A melancholy and fatal occurrence " has Just been brought to light. It-. appears that on Thursday inlast week, a! respectably- dressed lady and gentleman took apartments m- a house in Golden- square, stating they had arrived from the Continent, and required tl^ e room' for a week only. They slept there oh Thursday night, • had their breakfast in the bo^ se on Frfday piorning, dined at a restaurant in Regent- street, and returned home at ten o'clock, p. m. Nothing waa afterwards beard or seen of them until eleven o'clock on Satur- day morning, when Mrs. Cunningham, the landlady, went upBtairs to clean the rooms,, and on coming to the door of the apartments of her new lodgers she was much startled to find it locked, and the key tied to the handle outside. On entering the room she saw the lady seated in an arm chair, with a rail- way rug partly over her face, and the gentleman stretched on the floor tightly clenching what afterwatda proved to be a Bible in his hands; She instantly gave an alarm, when medical aid was called n, and he dis- covered that the bodies had been dead some time, and a phial labelled strychnine was found on the table. There was also by its side, apparently n a man's hand- writing, a note in English, to the following effect :— " you will flndr£ S on the table, which I have left to bury us with; let it be done as qnletly as possible: one pound Is td be given to Mrs. Cunningham for her kindness to us, and also what remains in the trunks besides." On searching the bodies no papers of any description which will lead to their identity have been found, but from the appearance of the grate in the room there ia no doubt a number of papers were destroyed before the terrible act was committed. The man appears to have been about 45 years of age, and the woman 50. The Daily Telegraph, in remarking upon the tragic affair, says ir- The double suicide must have been planned and carried out with a deliberaton altogether marvellous. A heap of blackened asheB in the grate showed how every vestige of ' writing, every clue to identity, had been carefully destroyed; an unsigned note on the table stated that the fave or six pounds lying beside it were to be expended in burying the bodies, and in compensating the landlady ; and the man had bound arOuhd' his javra and over his head a leathern strap, the _ woman a pocket- handkerchief. As yet there ia. no clue to the identification of. the suicides, and probably none will ever be found. It seems unlikely that any wild romance or paesion overpowering all restraints of reason and all love for life, could have entered into the prbsaic existence of two people in mature middle age, although the improb- ability would diminish appreciably if'it turned out, as seems to be Buspepted, that they were French by nation- ality. What is most striking abont the incident is the care taken to remove all trace by which the former life or the friends of the miserable pair cotald be indicated. Even the most determined suicides have generally some wish to justify their mad act— some lingering notion that they may by final words of explanation or apology stand a little better with the world they are, leaving— some instinctive deeire that their clay shall not be without the kindly offices of friendship or of familv. But these hapless people in Golden- 3quare literally " made a solitude " for themselves before they died; and the manner of their death may suggest darker thoughts about the life that led up to such an ending that might be justified if we knew the truth, which is in all likelihood destined to be buried for ever n a nameless and shameful grave. A Santos paper reports thafca young man of 18 yeora of ago, when about to give the winning stroke at a game of billiards, with a playful " Good bye, my dear fellow, till next time," fell dead before tho cue touched the balL He was tie son of a wealthy planter of 8. Paulo. Sir George Carrier received on Monday, by telegram from Manitoba, Information of the arrival there on the 20th Inst, of the expedition which some time since left Canada, 200 strong, under the command of Xleutenant- Colon. 1 O. Smith. The party took about three weeks to effect their passage by the Dawson route from the head of Lake Superior, and arrived at their destination without casualties. They were despatched from Canada In order to relieve an expe- dition sent a year ago. MISSING EXPLORERS. Ca connection * l£ h Mr. Stanley's great achievement fit discovering Dr. Livingstone, Urn Philadelphia Public Ledger writes :— it. Stanley, having fairly established his claim to have discovered the whereabouts of Livingstone has added a chapter to the melancholy but interesting history of lost explorers. The list of them Is longer than might be supposed, including in it the names of those whose fate has never been ascertained, of those the manner of whose death is known, or con- jectured with probability, and of those who have temporarily disappeared from observation, among which last Dr. Livingstone may happily now be classed. Romance and mystery shroud the memories of those who have disappeared " leaving not a wreck behind." There is Lric, the good Christian bishop of Greenland, who in the year 1121 started for this oontinent to convert the red men, but how long he remained among them, or whether he ever got there, is unknown to this day. Then there is Prince Madoc, the son of Owen Gwyneth, King of Wales, who in the year 1170 went to sea in search of adventures, and iB said to have reached the shores of this continent, and to have left some of his people hera He went back to Wales for more colonists, and again started with 10 ships full, but neither he nor his ships were ever heard of afterwards, and there are now no traces of his colony. In 1502 the Portuguese navigator Gasper Corteral, who had already explored the coast of Labrador, set out on a second exploration of that country, but not returning as soon as waa expected his brother sailed in search of him ; no account, however, of either of them ever reached Portugal. In 1549 the Sieur de Roberval, a wealthy Frenchman, who had been invested by Henry II. of France, with the empty titlet of lieutenant- general, lord and viceroy of all the islands and countries then discovered, either by the French or the English, and who had sailed up the St. Lawrence and built two forts near Quebec, started on a voyage of dis- cover}' and was never heard of again. In 1596 Captain Richard Chancellor, an English navigator, set out to explore the Arctic Ocean, but never returned. Many years afterwards the remainB of two English ships were found on the coast of Spitsbergen, but it is not certain that they were those of Chancellor. A similar uncer- tainty attaches to the fate of the French navigator. La P^ rouae, who, in 1774, left France on an exploring 6x- pedition in the North Pacific, in command of two ships, La Boussole and VAstrolabe-, he never returned Expeditions were Bent in search of him, but no traces of him were found until 1788, when another French- man ( M. de Lessepa), landing on the coast of Kamtschatka, discovered some articles which had belonged to the missing ships; hence it was con- jectured that. they had been wrecked in the neighbour- hood. The fate of Leichardt, the Australian ex- plorer, is Still unknown. He started on his explora- tion in 1848, since which time nothing has been heard of him. o The fate of most other lost explorers has been ascer- tained sooner or later after their death. Without dwelling upon the mythic instances of the Irish mis- sionary Ion, wbo came o^ er to Massachusetts in the year 1049, and waa murdered there by savages, or one of the Italian brothers Nicola and Antonio Zeno, who in 1380 did the same thing and met with the same fate, the liBt beginning with the Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon is long enough. He waa the explorer of Florida, and gave that state the name she bears, but he fell in a conflict with the natives. Francisco Fernardez de Cordova, another Spaniard, attempted the exploration of Yucatan, in 1517, but received a wound there, of which he died on his return to Cuba. The great Portuguese navigator, Ferdinand Magellan for, more properly, Magelhaens), the first European who sailed round the world and gave the Pacific Ocean the name it bears, was killed in a fight with the natives of the Philippine Islands in 1520. Pamplio de Narvuaz, commander of a Spanish expedition in search of a wealthy empire somewhere in North America, was driven out to sea by a storm from the Bay of Apall*- chee and drowned. This waa in the year 1528. Four- teen years afterwards the famous Spanish nobleman, Fernando de Soto, after countless adventures, died on the banks of the Mississippi " To cohceal his death from the natives his body, wrapped in a mantie and placed in a rustic coffin, in the stillness of midnight and in the presence of a few faithful followers, was silently sunk in the middle of the stream." In 1583 Sir Humphrey Gilbert sailed from England with the design of founding a colony on this continent, but his ship was wrecked, and all on board perished. This brings us to more modern times. In 1779 the illustrious English n » vigator. Captain James Cook, was killed by the natives of Hawaii, while he was en- gaged in the humane attempt to stop his men from firing on them!. In 1805 the famous Scotch traveller, Munqo Park, having explored the Niger and reached Timbuctoo, was attacked by the natives near this mys- terious city, and in endeavouring to escape by swimming he and all his companions were drowned. This fact was ascertained by a native guide three months after- wards, but it was hot known in England until five years later. In 1816; John Williams, an English missionary to the New Hebrides, was killed and eaten by the natives. . In 1822, the three Englishmen, Denham, Audney, and 1 Clapperton, with othere, explored the north of Africa, by way of Tripoli, the Great Desert of Sahara, and the king- dom of Bornu. Audney died of disease and privation. The others returned home, but Clapperton, a few months afterwards, died while exploringthe Niger, and his faith- ful follower, Richard Lander, perished by the hands of the natives. Major Alexander G. Laing met with a like fatfe ih 1826. In ,1845 Sir John Franklin started on his fatal Arctic voyage, and he and all his com- panions were lost; his fate waa not ascertained until 1859. • The lamented missionary Allan Gardner died of starvation on Picton Island in 1851. The German Asiatic traveller Adolph Schlagenweit was murdered in 1857 by a native chieftain. The bodies of Burke and Wills, and four other explorers were found in the wilds of Australia in 1S6L With them our present list closes, but it is oot exhausted. THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR/ The, anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar waa celebrated in London, on Monday evening, by the members of the Naval Club, at Willis's Rooms, Eling- street, St. James's. A numerous party assembled. Admiral Sir George R. Sartorious, K. C. B., Admiral of the United Kingdom, presiding. Among the officers present were Admiral John Appleby, Admiral Stanley, Vice- Admiral Sir W. H. Hall, K. C. B., Vice- Admiral Sir E. Pellew Halstead, Vice- Admiral E. Layton, Vice- Admiral C. F. Robinson, Vice- Admiral G. Giffard, Rear- Admiral Sir W. R. Mends, C. B., and Rear- Admiral Charles Edmunds. The following are the names of the still surviving officers who were engaged in the battle:— Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Ross Sartorius, K. C. B., was mid- shipman in the Tonnant; Admiral G. W. H. D'Aeth was mate in the BcUerophon, Admiral the Earl of Earmont was midshipman in the Orion, Admiral W, Walpole was midshipman in the Colossus, Admiral Sir George A. Westphal was mate in the' Victory, Admiral Robert Paittan was midshipman in the Bclltrophon, Ad- miral John Lysons, was midshipman in the Victory, Admiral Robert C. M'Crea was midshipman in the Sw'fUure, Vice- Admiral Joseph Gape was midshipman in the Ajax* Captain W. Carleton was midshipman in the Colossus. Captain Gilbert Kennicott was midship- man in the Royal Sovereign, Captain H. Parker waa midshipman in the Belleisle, Captain Spencer Smyth waa midshipman in the Defiance, Commander J. H. Sanders was mate of the Swiftsure, Commander Alexander Gala way was midshipman in the Thunderer, Commander F. Harris was midshipman of the Tcmcr raire, Commander Charles Wolrige was midshipman in tho Minotaur, Commander Sir T. W. Holburne waa midshipman in th a Orion, Commander John Adamson was midshipman in the Britannia, Commander W. Vicary waa midshipman in the AchUle, Lieutenant- Colonel J. Fynmore, Royal Marines, waa midshipman in the Africa, First Lieutenant T. J. W. Tane. Royal Marines, held the same rank in the Leviathan, Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals Peter Suther was sur- geon in the Surifuurc. The diamond discoveries of Arizonia are having a bad effect on some of the brains that Infest that region. A man has become crazy because he found a piece of quarts that ho believed to be worth 6,000 000 dollars. It was the site of a quartz pot— a very good measure Indeed for a diamr nd. A great triumph of the British dairy- maid took place the other day when the Japanese Embassy paid a visit to the home farm of Lord Blantyre, at Freeiand. At tho time the steam thrashing machine was In full operation, and the Embassy appeared particularly Interested In Its working, especially as to the separation of the straw from the grain. When one of Mr. Barr's dairy- maids msde her appearance— a robust, healthy, and fully developed specimen of her claw — several of the Ambassadors were quite taken aback, and when asked if they had anything Ilk* that in Japan, shook their hefcds despondlngly and appeared highly astonianad THtE FALMOUTH & PENR5TN WEEKLY TIMES, SATURDAY OCT 26, 1872 SHOES. ( From the New York Times.) Among the- commoditiea of which the price, . accord- ing to general public estimation, ought to be much lower than it ia, are boots and shoes. But the public, we fear, are not likely to see the gratification of their desires in this respect. The inexorable law of sup" 1" and demand is at present adverse to- any great tion in the cost of leather. Many of the sources from which large supplies of hides formerly came, are almost entirely cut off. On the other hand, the increase of wealth in all civilised nations has considerably diminished the proportion of the population who go barefoot a great part of the year. The result is inevitable. There may be temporary fluctuations in the market; but we' do not see any way in which the mni » ri* l out of which the useful articles of apparel in question are manufactured is permanently to fall in a wealthy man, the item of shoe- leather is not a very serious one in his expenses. The portion of twenty thousand dollars a year which a family can conveniently expend in this way is comparatively a small one. But it is far otherwise with the great of the people. A plain nyEhanic. for instance, with a wife and half a dozen children, finds the operation of providing leather- casings to protect and adorn sixteen human feet an extremely heavy burden upon his industry. With many suchmon, this article consumes not less than a tenth, or even an eighth of all they can earn. With persons of still more limited means, the tax upon their resources is proportionally still greater. To a day labourer it is more than to a mechanic, and to a poor Be wing woman more than to either. There is a great opening for the ingenuity of in- ventors in contriving something to take the place of the present material for boots and shoes. Apart from its very great expense, leather is by no means exactly the substance that is needed. It is hard, heavy, and not at all handsome. It will not, unless so thick as to be clumsy, keep out wet and dampness. It makes a noise like a hammer when the wearer is walking, and too often adds to this sound a squeak like that of an excited and unhaDpy pig. It cannot easily be made to fit the foot, and an aggregate amount of ai occasioned by this circumstance is such as no 01 oept a man of exceedingly iard heart or sympathy, yet been an tough toes, can contemplate without a shi " iy. But, with all " * i anything discover well. India- rubber is to most persons very _ _ of its defects, there has never discovered that will answer the pmr- , " 1 ,* st persons objectionable for constant wear, and there is no other known material which, unless inside the house or in very dryweather outside of it, can be used at alL The genius of inventors has, in the past half century, overcome many difficulties which fifty years ago would have appeared infinitely greater than that of providing ' a better material than leather for shoes. It is not a little surprising, when we reflect upon the matter, that while there has been such wonderful improvement in the convenience of riding, there should nave been SQ little in that of walking. It would naturally seem as if e generation that travels in Pullman cars would when employing their own natural means of locomo- tion, tread the earth in something better than the leather shoes of their grandfather We commend this subject to our young men of genius. There is a fortune for somebody in it. Fifty years hance, we are fully persuaded, men will no more think of walking in Mather than we now think of lighting our streets with whale- oiL It is becoming very certain that either tome substi- tute for leather must be invented, or a great many people of the class who have hitherto considered shoes neoesBary to their respectability will, before long, be obliged to go barefoot. At the present rate of the diminution of the supply and increase of the demand, this dilemma cannot be many years distant Perhaps the difficulty may be boldly met by the institution of a custom in fashionable society of dispensing altogether with any artificial covering for the feet. Such an idea was suggested in Paris a few years ago, but did not seem to abtain general favour. Who kno ws but that it may, at some future time, be again advanced, and meet with greater success ? Observe, however, that we . do not recommend it— especially for man, whose feet r nasty things to look at LIFE AT AJACCIO. are rather n following Is an extract from the letter of the Standard's Own Correspondent at Ajaccio, the birth- place of Bona- parte:— Of course no one can remain in Ajaccio for any length of hours without paying a visit to the house in winch Napoleon Bonaparte was born. Like other great institutions it does not open for the asking; Not only is it necessary that the divinity that hedges it in should be propitiated with the usual peace offering, but ahe most also be of opinion herself that it is time to begin her day's work. So it came to pass that all anxious as — being in Corscia— of course, I spects at the sacred shrine, I was till the afternoon the pleasure ] . started with. Nor even then did the course of true ~ i, for on the way there my I was to pay my re- i compelled to put off I had hoped to have Republican friend, he who knew not the Empress vum^ o and her soldiers' hospital, joined me with two like unto himself, and I had not only to keep own character without blemish as an enthusiastic " dynasty, but, obvic er for them as well. my own character withot admirer of the Imperial d , obviously more i well. The house is situated, as indeed is every object of ttraction in Ajaccio— no small matter in a town where hare are no cabs— close by the orincipal street It arms one side of a email square, the Place Letitia, the < remaining three being occupied by the house and its belongings of the worthy janitrix. Outside there is nothing m its look to attract attention, being as it is perfectly plain, after the fashion of most other middle- class houses in the town, with barred windows, and a door in the centre, and if it were not for the inscrip- tion overhead, and the train of thought induced by the name of the square a stranger would not probably give it a second look; Once inside, however, we are made to feel by every gesture of the ianitrix that we are on sacred ground. It is true that the work of renovation has been carried out as effectually there as with the Irishman's coat and that neither ceiling, floor, nor walls are as they originally were. But what of that ? The house is nevertheless the birth- place of Napoleon, and a criticism of details is held out of place. Madame X-' s devotion to the house and the family Is really remarkable. I have only seen it equalled by that of the porter at the Chateau Cham- bord for Henri Y. She is proud to call the house her own, and whatever blood relationship she can claim with the Imperial family, she invariably speaks of the various members of it as " my grandmother," '" my'uncle," and " my cousin." Three sets of apartments are shown to visitors as containing the objects of interest in the house— the firat, second, and ground floors. The first floor is the piice de rait lance, for there it was that " my grandmother " lived, and there she brought Napoleon into the world. The good old lady's voice is positively hushed with reverence as she ushers us Into what is really a fine suite of rooms. There is in it a dining- room, the bed- room. with the frame- work of the bed still in it, for a bit of which, we are told, an English mi- lord had once offered unsuccessfully a fabulous sum ; a gallery, leading on to a pleasant- enough sunny terrace, a boudoir, a reception- room of singularly good pro- portions, a study, and again a bed- room. All the rooms have their, ceilings and walls painted in fresco of a pattern resembling that to be met with in the servants' apartments at an English hotel; the ohimney- pieces are mostly of native marble, solid, and • lightly ornamented; ana the furniture, such as there ft of it, Is antique, beinp veritably what was in » y the Bonapart family, but hardly— with the ex- Ion of two curious settles"— calls for remark. e by oeption of — . — The second floor, in shape, furniture, and decoration, bears strong resemblances to th « first, and inasmuch as it was occupied by other and lees distinguished mem- bers of the lamily cannot lay claim of itself to great his- torical interest In fact, of the whole house it may as well be confessed that after the first feeling of enthusiasm was over I found some difficulty in keeping up to the 1 pitch expected by Madame X., who being with reason suspicious of my fellow visitors devoted all her atten- tions to me. The kitchen on the ground floor was neither more nor less than an empty cellar, without possible interest and we were only taken down to it that an opportunity might be found of presenting me- an a tribute to my nationality— with one of the veri- table tiles which, when Napoleon's room had been renovated, had been token from the floor and stored away in a cellar below. Madame X, had possibly laid in a large fresh assortment, and was anxious to make a beginning with their distribution, so I could not possibly resist her entreaties, and have placed the tilt- wiih great care in mv valise, to remain there till to make way for some other article of momentarily greater interest --— his house itself. In the outskirts of the town, on the road leading to the mountains, past what is destined to be the English quarter, foul- or five gigantic boulders carelessly heaped together in the middle of a thickset grove of cactuses and myrtle form a natural grotto, cool, sequestered, shady; and here, according to reportthe boy Napoleon used to spend hiB leisure tune. Whatever truth there may be in the local tradition, no better place for meditation could be jound. Away from the noise of the streets, on a Coreican mountain side, with the deep blue sea of the gulf dimpling in the sunshine below, and purple tints glistening beyond it on hazy peaks in the distance, if sentiment is impossible, at least material enjoyment for the senses is unlimited..... Sunday was gala day, and as it was market day as well the town and country folks were elrown off to advantage. In the morning the female portion of the community went to church en masse, and the sombre old cathedral looked a different building undM- the influence of their clean, gaudy dresses. They are coquettish as Spaniards, these Corsican dames. Dirty and untidy they m& y be all the week, as becdmes the veritable beasts of huraen they Sre; but on Sundays and high days they blossom forth in full- grown magnificence. A bright particokrared nillr handkerchief on their heads in place of a bonnet is de rigucur, and the art with which it is tied on must take years of labour to master. Towards after- noon the streets began to fill with holiday makers. Fruit and qheese shops turned themselves inside out and emptied their contents, the more to attract atten- tion, on the pavement in front; wine shope stuck a new bush over their doors; whole families squatted on their haunches in every doorway ; bright black eyes looked languishingly down through acacia trees from the half- opened shutters of the first- floor wii gallants hung about the corners in groups, anc windows _ „—, or strolled about in line; and meantime on foot and in quaint equipages, the country folk oame pouring in. I had heard of the customs of the country, and looked forward to a personal introduction to them with some trepidation. The women I had seen so far were in working attire, bareleggged from the knee downwards; and knowing that they were in the habit, on horseback, of nding astride, I was not auito certain at first whether, with a due regard for my character, I ought not knowing which way they would come, to behave after the manner of the people of Coventry in Lady Godiva's time. Nothing, however, as it turned out could be more proper than the whole proceed- ing. Women rode in, plenty of them, barelegged and astride, some in front of their male belor some by themselves, and after a few had gone thought of novelty wore off. That they should this fashion Beemed the most natural thing in the world. The chief object of the men seemed to be to copy Don Quixote, and in their uncouth garments, quaint hats, leggings, and spurs, with a gun over one shoulder, a goatskin bundle over the other, a gourd for water hanging round their necks, and a sort of con- temptuous look about their faces, they must be con- Eitulated on the success of their imitation. It would ve been easily recognisable, even without the cum- brous old- fashioned saddle and trappings of the jogg- ing mules on which they rode. What amusement they could find, any of them, in coming to town at all it is hard to conceive. Some few went shopping, and some few others brought articles with them for sale, but the bulk tied up their horses and sat themselves in front of wine round the dingy tables of the wineshops, as they might have done in their native village. A more uninteresting way of spending a bright sunny afternoon can hardly be conceived. But chacim a ton gout. TtfE MONT CENIS TUNNEL ACCIDENT. With regard to the recent accident in the Mont Cenla Tnnnel, the following is an extract from the letter of a lady who was one of the passenger* :— Milan, October 13.— Sir,— Before I say anything more about Paris I must tell you of the frightful accident that happened to us in the Mont Cenis Tunned tills day week. They say every, one must experience some accident or another if they travel often by ra£ L Our day came at last We were face to face with death, and death of the most frightful kind. We left lane at four o'clock last Sunday afternoon, and after en minutes' ride in the tram we arrived at the mouth of the celebrated Italian Pass, the Mont Cenis Tunnel, which is 1,500ft. above the town ofModane, and the train gets to it by a zkzag kind of way. If all goes right the express gets through the tunnel in 40 minutes. Now, we had got nearly half through when, without the least warning, except a terrific noise and an awful crash, which sent us flying from our seats, our train stopped. We were so stunned for the first minute that none of us knew anything, but the shrieks of our fellow- passengers awakened us to the sense of our danger. In about five minutes our coupi was filled with smoke, and we were in total darrnesa. The horror we experienced I cannot tell you, for no one can imagine it even who has not gone through it Our train had run into a goods train in the very centre of this horrid ' inferno,' The heat was like an oven. Three of the carriages were smashed to splinters, and several passengers were mortally wounded. The body of one engineer has not yet been found. Well, we stuck in this horrible place, without light almost without air, and without help, for five hours. Our engine had and this caused the smoke. At last six engines irought into the tunnel to drag us out After the second hour had passed the employ is seemed to lose their heads, and when the engines came we were sent flying backwards and forwards, every moment believing we should be dashed to pieces. All the passengers got together, and we fairly shrieked to God to deliver us from such a horrible death. We wrote our names on slips of paper in case we should die in the tunneL At last we got off, and were taken back to Modane, the same place we started from. When we arrived at the station, such a scene I shall never forget Some women were in convulsions ; men were weeping; some had to be carried from the coupi; my sister ana I both fainted when we nut our feet on sate ground. We had keptup wonderfullyin tbe tunnel, and no harm had hap- pened to us except some cuts in the face from splinters of glass. Our nerves are weaker than a baby's, and I do not think we shall regain our healths for months ; but we are thankful to have been saved. The mismanage- ment that night was shameful, and I hope the world may know the facts as they really occurred. We have read several accounts in the papers, but they misrep- resent the disaster altogether, and they dare not say how frightful it was. If we had not, happily, been in such good health we might have sustained an irre- parable injury. Some of the ladies are injured so that they cannot be moved for a month." HORACE GREELEY'S EARLY DAYS. ( From Ft oxer's Magatini.) When a boy in his fourteenth year, Mr. Greeley re- solved to drink no distilled liquors. This was in 1824. about seven years after the formation of the firat Total Abstinence Society in America, of which, however, young Horace knew nothing. He established a teetotal society, of which he seems to have been the only member, at Weethaven, Vermont, and it was so repug- nant to the habits of that community, that some of them deemed it a proper treatment of his aberration to hold his arms and pour liquor down his throat. He was moval not cured by this means, however, but after his re- ' to Pc '• ' ' * T- . v ed" in „ ...... formed in that town. Thia society encountered a fierce • cujatedai buu uicauo, uuncci, uub cuursr inn ID* ' oultney as a printers apprentice, he assisted " in organising the first Temperance^ Society ° WU Mboi, umi ucca Duirjovwu IAJ au autopsy, nuiuu developed a cake of ice weighing several pounds, that had gradually formed and increased in his stomach, as a result of his fanatical devotion to cold water ! The experience of a firat cigar soon led young Greeley to make an equally rigorous renunciation of tobacco. And, with an appetite for peculiarities now fairly awakened, he naturally became a vegetarian. He listened to the lectures of the great Apostle of Vege- tables, Sylvester Graham, and entered a boarding- house where tea, coffee, all kinds of liquors except water, and all meat diet were held in abhorence. " My wife, whose acquaintance I made at the Graham House, and who wan long a more faithful, consistent disciple of Graham than I was, in our years of extreme poverty, kept her house in strict accordance with her convic- tions: never even deigning an explanation to her friends and relatives, who from time to time visited and temporarily sojourned with us; and, as polite- ness usually reprised complaint or inquiry on their part, their first experiences of a regimen which dis- hordly be observed without a smile. Usually one o! ay, or at most two, of beans and potatoes, boiled rioA puddings, bread and butter, with no condiment but salt . and never a pickle, was as much as they could abide - so, bidding her a kind adieu, each in turn de- parted, to seek elsewhere a more congenial hospitality." It should be remarked that Mr. Greeley subsequently fell away from the Grahamist practise, and has fop t like others, but he stills holds — ible diet is best. When he first began the ext' ' .... he felt i tion or ... „ if I could not lift so much, jump so high, and fast, as when I ate meat After a time this lowering scarcely any ache of any sort; my health was stub- bornly good, and any cut or flesh wound healed more easily and rapidly than formerly." In the month of August 1831, Horace Greeley found his way to New York. He was then a raw country youthj tall, slender, pale, with no fortune save the summer clothing on his back, ten dollars in money, and so much knowledge of the art of printing as might be obtained by appren- ticeship in- the small office of a rural newspaper. He ' nds a boarding- house where the charge is but two dollars and a half per week. To find employment is a more difficult task. However, after a number of failures, he finds a bit of work simply because no other win u m—' « » to earn in this way enough to pay for his board and lodging, and sometimes even so much as five or six dollars a week. He remained at this or other rHmrml work in New York during all the dreary cholera sum- mer which devastated that city in 1832. The story of his life in ork during those years is one of continual embarrassment and hardship. He entered into various newspaper projects, which tailed, and left him in what he considers the worst evil he has ever suffered— debt Once he seemed about to achieve some success with the New Yorker, which. — 4 > or printers, he had in conjunction with other coniu _ established^ and which he chiefly" edited," but the » per was burned out Twice he suffered heavy losses r fire. The ability which had been displayed on the ew Yorker had, however, attracted the attention of Mr. Thurlow Weed, the distinguished politician of Albany, and he fixed upon Mr. Greeley as the proper person to edit a newspaper which was to be started in the interest of the Whigs in general and Mr. William H. Seward in particular. ' MAD DOGS.'" usefulness :• The subject of rabies or hydrophobia, the so- called madness of dogs and other animals, is, perhaps, the to the degree of interest which it excites. While other diseases that have their origin among the brute crea- tion affect the human race chiefly by occasioning loss of property, and only seldom, as m the instance of glanders and a few similar maladies, are liable to be inoculated upon man with fatal consequences, the case of rabies is, m this respect, entirely different From time immemorial to the present day it haB frequently been communicated to mankind; and it entails, whenever this happens, a death so agonizing and miserable that even at a recent period, the persons affected have been smothered by their kindred for the purpose of abbreviating their sufferings. Although not absolutely common in this country, deaths from hydrophobia are far more frequent tW) many would suppose. In the year 1866 no less than 36 were recorded, and many have occurred during the course of the last few months. The literature of the subject has hitherto been scanty, and the history of really scientific research concerning it is still almost a blank. Mr. Fleming has, therefore, ren- dered good service by the preparation of the very valuable and interesting volume before us. in which he has brought together almost everything that has been made certainly known by past investigation or expe- rience, and has thus furnished a starting- point tor future inquiry. Around rabies, as around many other formidable diseases, errors and superstitions have clustered thickly; and some of these, which Mr. Fleming has made it hiB business to endeavour to dis- pel, are of such a nature a to induce false security in the presence of real dange., or to occasion fear where no danger exists. For practitioners in veterinary medicine, and for those who own or breed dogs in large numbers, nearly al parte of the volume are of equal interest; but for the general public those passages are tbe most important in which rabies in its early stages is described, and by the help qf which the disease might in most cases, be recognised, even by unskilled observers, before the arrival of the time at which mis- chief to other* would be likely to occur. Mr. Fleming tells us, in the firat place, as Youatt and others have done before, that the common name ' helming _ c Grantley Berkeley and others. The mad dog has no fear of water and suffers no convulsions from its ap- proach. In some forms of rabies, in which paralysis of the muscles of the lower jaw has destroyed the power to lap, the poor creatures will plunge the muzzle up to the eyes into water in vain endeavours to drink; and, in any case, the behaviour of a dog, with reference to water, seems to furnish no, cri- terion whatever of its state. As described by Mr. Fleming, the disease is a veritable canine insanity, in its manifestations to those forms of which are attended by what are " ~ * is to r by technically called hallucinations— that is to say a belief in the existence of objects ef sense which mere creations of the disordered brain. The mad- man who is the Bubiect of hallucination sees sights and hears voices which are urueen and unheard by' others, and these sights and voices constantly impel him to acts of frenzy. In tbe same way, the mad dog will rush at and assail imaginary enemies ; and his state further resembles some forms of human derange- ment in the perverted appetite that leads him to tear and devour matters wholly unlikfe hiB ordinary food, and in the insensibility to pain which renders him apparantly unconscious of even serious bodily injuries. To these conditions are added the poisonous character of the saliva, and the rapid tendency to death. But the essential and primary characteristic is the insanity, and any departure from the ordinary temper and character of a dog should always he loolced upon with grave suspicion. Mr. Fleming Bays:— " Tbe first perceptible or initial ay mptoma of rabies In the dog are related to ita habit*. A change la observed in the animal's aspect, behaviour, and external characterlatlca. The habit* of tbe creature are anomaloua and atrange. II becomes dull, gloomy, and taciturn, aeeka to Isolate Itself, and chooses solitude and obscurity, hiding In out- of- tber way places, or retiring below chain or other plecea of fur- niture ; whereas, in health It may have been lively, good- natured, and sociable. But in lta retirement it cannot rest : it is uneasy and fidgety, and betrava an unmistakable atate of malaise; no sooner has it lain d< wn and gathered itself together In the uaual fashion of a dog reposing than all at once It Jumps up in an agitated manner, walka hither and thither several times, again Uea down and assumes a sleep- ing attitude, but haa only maintained it for a few minutes when it la once more moving about, ' seeking rest and finding none.' .... Not unfrequently there are a few moments when the creature appears more lively than usual, and displays an extraordinary amount of aflectlon. Some, times In pet doga there la orinced a disposition to gather up small objects, such aa straws, thread, bits of wood, & o., which are industriously picked up and carried away. A also observed in many Instances; even tbe cold nose of another dog will be favoured with tbla mark of attention; and It la not uncommon to observe an Inclination to lick other animals. . . . The symptoms gradually become more marked, the restlessness and agitation inoreaae. . . and with thia rest- lessness there la manifested a curious group of symptoms due to some defect or aberration In mind, vlalon, hearing, or feeling, which causes the animal to Indulge in strange move- ments aa If it were affected by some imaginary influences, or aubject to hallucinations Ita brain Is In a morbid condl tion, and it* mind evidently haunttd by phantoms and horrid fancies. When not excited by any external cause, and its movement* are observed in alienee, the poor orefcture will remain for a briof period perfectly still and attentive, aa if watching something, or following the movements of aome creature on tbe wall; then suddenly It will dart forward and bite at the vacant air. aa if it were pursuing aome annoy- ing object, or aa if It tried in vain to aelze a fly. At another tlmo It throws ItieH yelling and furious agalnsc the wall, aa if It heard threatening noise* on the other side, or * Rabies and Hydrophobia: their History, Nature, Causes, Symptoms, and Prevention. By George Fleming, F. It G. S., M. ll. L, President of the Central VuteriDary Medical Society, Veterinary Surgeon, Boyal Engineera, & c. • with eight Illustrations, 8vo., pp. 106. Chapman and Hall. ^ m'M^ m beforehand it must chaae and injure fortunate beast Is stfll docile andiSbSLl^* To'iSMf out of Its pitiful trenky It la only necenan that It Xfnld phantom vanishes at once, and the dog runs to receive the ment* and regard.* ^^ oiten excitea I Md the propensity to „ « oUcx to.* » « the folly developed stage of the disease. Mr. M lemmg suggMte that this wandering may arise from some dim consciousness, on the part of the dog, of his own mental aberraHon, and from his fear lest he should assail and injure his master and former friends. The practical lesson taught by the whole description is the necessity of taking note of any sudden change in the disposition a dog. and of placmg it m fecure confinement when- ever such a change occurs, so that rabies, if impending, may involve no. danger either to mankind or to other The mbject of tie prevention of rabiefc, both by the prajeffeeding and management of dogs, and by police and fiscal regulations for controlling their numbers, is v ' tJPlI. " W* of " lon « and carefully written chapter? from which we have not space to quote with any freedom that would do justice to its merita The disease, when established, tends rapidly and certainly to a fatal issue, and there would have been little to say on the subject of —- » —" —^ « - --- » " Fleming felt himse sparing hand, the „ uo varloua remeoiee that have from tune to time boen paraded before the publis, and to show that many deaths have been due to what he considers the utterly un- founded reliance that has been placed upon them. The Birling " remedy," which has lately been the Object of correspondence in our columns, fares no better than the rest; and an instance is given in which death Trom hydrophobia followed its employment in the case of a man who refused to submit the bite he nX. v^ frJ. Pro. Per treatment The great pro- bability that many of those who are bitten by mad dogs Jf ® not actually inoculated with the posionous secre- tion, which may easily be wiped off | the teeth by the Intervention of clothing, and the possibility that some of those inoculated may not be susceptible of the diroase, are circumstances which render it extremely difficult to speak with certainty about the value of any plan which may be suggested or employed. But the history of medicine, and the facte known with regard the belief that phobia will at ,, • .. ., , ^ human subject tte chief hope should be to find some means of obviat- fag the tendency to death, and of guiding the malady to a favourable termination. The so- called cures in MAnak may be regarded, with a very near approach to certainty as havmp occurred in cased which were not hydrophobia at all; and the instances in which the disease is said to have been prevented by any meanB must be multiplied a hundredfold before they would posse ® value as evidence. There is, however, high probability in favour of the belief that the poison of the disease is not immediately absorbed into the system, and that it may, for a short time, be mechani- cally removed from the wound by suction or wash- ing, or may be destroyed by caustics. An instance is recorded in which several persons who were assem- bled near the bank of a river were bitten by a rabid wolf. Some of them plunged into the water and swam across to make their escape, while others remained be- phobia. Mr. Fleming states that month suction im- mediately after the receipt of a wound is the firat and ttort Jnp( ••"- most important measure; that a ligature should also be placed round the injured limb, between the wound and the body; that the wound ahould be freely squeezed and washed, as well as sucked, and that it should be effectually cauterized as soon as the requisite appliances and the skill to use them properly can be obtained. In dealing with these questions, as through- out the whole book, the author has Bhown himself master of the difficult subject he has undertaken to treat and we can cordially recommend his volume to all those whom its subject- matter concerns. CONSUMPTION AND CANCER. Professor Andrews, of the Chicago Medical Colle has ( sayB the New York Tribune), been classifying t medical facte contained in the United States Ceni Reports of 1860 and 1870, and from these he finds that consumption and cancer are two diseases which are similarly affected by and prevail in the same regions, and that the two laws govtkning their prevalence are as follows:— First these two diseases are abundant near the sea, and diminish as you recede from it; and secondly, at equal distances from the sea they prevail most at the north, and diminish as you go south. From this it follows that the best resort for a consump- tive or cancer patient is some point which is at the same time as far south and as far from the sea as pos- sible. Such a place ia New Mexico, where the deaths from consumption are only three per cent, or Arbunm where they are five per cent; while in New England, which is colder and aeagrit, they are twenty- five per cent Entirely in accordance with this rule, but con- trary to the popular opinion, Minnesota ia a worse place than any other State. According to this theory, the midland counties would be the best resort for Eng- lish patients afflicted with consumption or canqpr, and if any faith could be placed in statistics it would be interesting to know how far Professor Andrews's view is borne out by ear own census returns. OLD HATS. fFrom Chamber fa Journal.) Among the hats of the later middle ages, two stand conspicuously forth. The cardinal's red was known everywhere within the compass of a legatees journey- ings, or a nuncio's jurisdiction. The hat of state of the archducal House of Austria had merely a local interest; but then it was as dear to Auatrians aa the Iron Crown to Lombardy. or the diadem of Stephen to the Hungarians. With them, the head of tlft Haps- burghs— Emperor of the Romans and King of, the Germans as ne might have been proclaimed at Worms — was simply Archduke— their own Archduke. He did not wear a crown when he appeared as their ruler; he wore a hat And that glorified hat to this very hour, is carefully guarded and jealously locked up in the innermost chamber of a townhall as strong as a fortress; and the nine keys of the chest that holdB the treasure are intrusted to nine councillors, who may never, without prodigioua fuss, publicity, and cere- mony, extract the Bacred beaver from its honourable durance. The hat which Geissler, Austrian bav liff in a Swiss valley, is fabled to have set upon a pole to receive nomage from the sturdy dales- men, and which drew , forth for us the pretty story of Tell and the apple, must surely have been a pale reflex of the tremendous hat of Geissler's arch- ducal master. The steeple- crowned hat of Queen st^ pfo- erowried Elizabeth's titne really has a weird look. Queen It has come. as an article of feminine attire, , to be attributed to witches. The witch of the earlier half of the seven- th cdhtury itaight as well havs equipped herself to to some midnight festival without ner broomstiok and black cat. as without one of tbe pointed hats which had been in high fashion when the Armada threatened our shores. Yet these hats,- lingered in use among rustic females long after the court had discarded ana the poets ridiculed them. We see in the vignettes of Izaai Walton's " Angle ® "— executed in the reign of James IL— the deathless milkmaid and her Quaint mother in these portentous hats, with long and broad strings hanging down. Queen Anne beheld, not only as the scholastic rhymor declared- Newton high enthroned Amongst the heavenly holt; but also, what was perhaps more interesting to the Girl of the Period, the advent of hats for ladies' wear, not very diwrim'ilar to the " Dolly Vardea " hat of our own day, and which held their ground pretty firmly through the centujy, until they were extinguished by the gigantic bonnets that were worn whan George III. was struggling against the obtrusive Corsican, and Queen Charlotte as yet but a middle- aged princess. Steeple hats, as regarded masculine wear, came to be a badp. e of faction. The men of buff and iron, they of the falling bands and sad- oolouied raiment and terrible trenchant rapiers, wore them in battle and in council. 71' he members of that High Court of Justice that doomed the king to block and axo— Bradshaw and Lud- low, and the other irregular judges— thrust down their steeple hats more firmly over their frowning brows as one by one they signed the sentence of death. On the other nan( L the cavaliers, who rode after Rupert and who scoffed at the stiff ugliness of Puritan attira, wore a hat perhaps prettier and more picturesque than any that has boen invented since that day. Moderate as to brim, elegant of shape, and set off by its <,, £ t? PpedIIhat which had suited the round face of bluff King Harry and which is now considered the natural appanage of Her Majesty's beef- eatera. The three- cornered hat, of which Louis XIV. was the patron, enjoyed a long popularity, although it under- went, in the course of a hundred years or so, as many changes as the renowned knife of that sentimental Bailor who, after having the instrument thrice rebladed, and once fitted with a new handle, regarded it as a " keepsake" still. The fierce little hat of Marl, borough's day, with its Ramilliea cock, its broad lace, and the dainty snow- white edging of tiny downy feathers, was net by any means twin- brother to the ungainly head- gear which, in times not very remote, the naval veterans of Greenwich Hospital put on aa part of their uniform; and this, again, differed much from the " opera hat" ofj our great- grandsires, the chapeaubras of the French : a slim contrivance that was made to be worn raider tbe arm rather than on tho head, and which never Memed quite in its right . place when it was perched on fflfe frizzled and powdered locks of its owner. SYMPATHY. Sympathy is a virtue about which there is nothing heroic. If it is seen on a battle- field it is not met with among the generals and their glory, bat it is found with the surgeons and their science. U we look for it m the a virtue that, like most • id as the world speaks. It is directly opposed to pound of flesh" principle. It tempers justice v lercy; indeed, I am afraid i£ is even glad that jus , d » es not pay— I speaft :— « ^ - o tho — , r ^ with mercy; indeed, I am afraid if is even glad that justice ia blind, BO that it may sometimes- weigfa down the scales with mercy. It is not aristocratic ; it dares to live either with poor or rich, but mainly I fisd, perhaps because there are more of them and thefer days are shorter, with the poor. It shows itself in a variety of ways. The eye, the lip, the voice, the hancL are ita messengera and exponents, but chiefly— as it ought surely to be— I think the hand. And now I may just remark that I have often wondered how the South Sea islanders feel or expreea sympathy in any of its de- grees when they, if I may put it so, shake haida by rubbing noses— as it is thus we are told they greet one another. My private opinion is that the process with them is a mere farce, a parody on our highly esteemed civilized habit, an unintentional insult to some cold- blooded Englishmen,_ who go through the national ceremony a hundred times a day without meaning any- thing by it A nose can feel and feel for, but it cannot S » sp another; it cannot possibly evince by delicate gra- tdons of pressure the strength or weakness of its owner's affection. It may be Roman, and indicate firm- ness ; or Grecian, and indicate delicate taste : or snub, and indicate inordinate vanity; or png, and indicate general nastinesa; or cogitative, and indicate an easy tem- perament combined with a good appetite; bat in- none of these diversities can it convey to another, even by nibbing, the appreciation of kindness received'or its intention to do a kindness. We can speak of a generous hand, but who ever heard of a generous nose T Wo sing of going down the hill of life hand in hand together, but we simply couldn't do it noee in nese; So I set it down at once, and I mean to stand by what I say^ that this Polynesian nose- rubbing business is a Far otherwise is it with the grasp of the hand. It is as various and Variable as the expression of tho human face. It can say in its pressure what the lip cannot utter, charged as our whole being is at times with love beyond, not pressure, but expression, with Eity that hides itself in a tear, with hope that trembles i its hiding- place, with joy that almost bursts tho beating heart; we cannot at such times fully convey cur love, our hope, our fear, except in the sympathetio grip of the hand. The eye looks love, and pity, and every good and every evil thought; the lips touching other hps send a swift message of innocent love, of hearty feUowship, of passionate fondness, ay, and of Judas with his thirty piecesvof silver— for still people do sell one another with a kiss,— but neither eye nor lip can convey the depth of earnest sympathy that may be told in a grasp of the hand. As there is a cause for every- thing, so it is not difficult to find the root from which sympathy springs. Is it not strange that every virtue and all noblenes in our nature grows out of, and is the direct result of suffering, and that the tribute paid to virtue and nobleness is the simple but earnest expression of human sympathy with self- denial, hard work, endurance, and faithful devotion ? So that sympathy really is not only the expression of affection for the suffering, but also of genuine appreciation of tho good that grows out ef suffering. It makes itself known in the quiet ministering of the sister of mercy tending the poor and needy, in the widow's mite, given with self- denying prayerful love, in the benevolence that bestows its energies to the furtherance of the sciences that tend to increase the general well- being of the world; in the little unobstruaive gravestone, oT^ van with " sacred to the memory of " one who has a village life, and whose village was his world ; and in the marble magnificence of the tomb that tells of a life lived for others, of a genius born for all mankind, of a soul that belongs for evermore to all the world. Such is sympathy. — British Controversialist. PENN WANDERING IN GERMANY. ( From '' Li/ a of William Penn.' By W. H. Dixon.) Duysburg, a Calvinistic city, lay in the territory of the Elector of Brandenburg. On their arrival ithey sought out Dr. Miistricht and delivered their letter. He told them they were very fortunate in the time. of their visit aa, it being Sunday, the young Countess would have left her father's castle and crossed the river to Mulheim, where she would, as usual, spend the day at a clergyman's house. He cautioned them, however, not to make themselves public, as much for the young lady's sake as for their own— her father, a loarae ana rigorous person, being already much dis- jleased with her. Thus warned, they set out for tfulheim. On their way they met with Heinrich Schmidt a schoolmaster, who told them the Countess had returned. To him they gave the letter from Dr. Ma^ tricht. In an hour he came to say the Countess would be glad to see them, but knew not where, as her father kept so strict a hand over her. She thought it would be best for them to cross the water and go to the house of her friend the clergyman. While they were talking, the Graf with his attendants came from the castle, and seeing persons in a foreign drees standing near his gate, sent one of his retinue to inquire who they were, what they wanted, and whither they were going. Before the Graf received, his answers, he walked up and" questioned them in. Penn replied that they Were Englishmen from . and were going no further than to his own, town of Mulheim; on hearing whioh answer, one of the Graf's gentlemen walked up to the strangers with a frown on hiB face, and asked them if they mew be- fore whom they stood; and if they had not yet learned how to deport themselves before noblemen and in. tho presence of princes? Penn answered, he wao not aware of any disrespect " Then why don'tyoxtake off your hats?" said one. " Is it respectful tc. stand covered in the presence of the sovereign of tha- ooun try? " The Quakers took no notice of his gestxre, but replied that they uncovered to none but God. " Well, then," said the Graf, " get out of my dominions ; you shall not go to my town." Penn tried to reason with the offended Graf von Falkenstein, who eallad his men and bade them lead these Englishmen out of his estates. It was duak; they were alone in a strange land; for after conducting them to a thick forest th » soldiers returned to the castle and left them to find their own way back. This forest waa three miiea in length, and the roads being unknown, to them, and the night dark, they wandered in and out At length they came into an open country, and were soon below a city walL What city? It was ten o'clock; the gates were shut In vain they hailed; no sentinel replied. Tho town had no suburbs; not a single house or building stood beyond the ditch. They lay down in an open field, in search of such repose as they might find on tho marshy ground of the Lower Shine. At three in the morning they got up, stiff with cold, and walked about till five, comforting each other with tbe assurance that a great day for Germany was at hand, " several places in that country being almost ripe far the harvest." After the cathedral clock struck five the gates were opened, and the outcasts gained the shelter of their inn. Miistricht was surprised with fear, the common disease of this country," says Penn, when he heard of the affair with Graf von Falkenstein. Ho asked minutely what had passed, and was relieved to find they had not named the Countess. For themselves he thought they had escaped pretty well, as the Graf usually umused him- self by ( setting his dogs to worry persona who were found loitering near his castle gates.
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