iilninntft k Smnpi AND GENERAL ADVERTISER. PUBLISHED, EVEBY SATURDAY MORNING, BY FRED. H. EARLE, OFFICES ON THE QUAY, FALMOUTH. NUMBER 591 FALMOUTH: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1872. PRICE ONE PENNY. gales inj Suctum, Penhalveor, East Stithians- ME. CORFEBLD will Sell br PUBLIC AUCTION, at the abore F » m, cm txrnitj next, 12th November, at Two o'clock, the following prime Surplus Farm Stock, Thereon, the property of Mr. William Martin, comprising— 3 prime Dairy Cows, well- ieasoned in Calf 1 splendid Devon Heifer and Calf 8 Fat and Feeding Bullocks 6 superior Heifers in Calf 1 cross- bred Bull, 12 months and advantage 2 ricks of well- saved Hay, about 20 tons About 15 tons of Oaten Straw 100 bushels Black Oats And 3 acres Swede Turnips, a very superior crop For further particulars apply to the AUCTIONEER, Falmouth. Dated 2nd Nov., 1872. , Treliever, Mabe, ADJOINING PENBYN. MB. CORFTELD will Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, at the above Farm, on Thursday next, 14th November, at 1 o'clock, the following Prime Farm Stock, Thereon, the properly of Messrs. Dunstan and Goodman, defining farming, Comprising 2 prime Dairy Cows, expeetpg early to calve 3 Store SCOTS 2 YearlihgV/\ 4 fat Fife. 8 Slips \ 6 Farrows - 2 Labour Howes A quantity of Poultry i About 30 tons of Mangolds About 80 lace of Turnips and Cabbage A stack of prime Hay Implements, Dairy Utensils, and Effects in a great variety. Foa further partioularsfapply to the AUCTIfiNEEB, Falmouth Dated Nov. 6th, 1872. PRELIMINARY NOTICE- Mr. CORFIELD l4gs to notify that, on the 17th of Decemler next, he will submit to Public Competition! at the Polytechnic Hall, Falmouth, the residu « j of the valuable Stock- in- Trade, of Wines, Spirits, & c., as a clearance sale of Mr. G. B. Zuppelli in convenient lots, c insisting of upwards of 200 doz. of prime P > rt, Sherry, and Madeira, Wines. 150 cases of Cognac Brandy, Champagne, and Hollands. Also about 100 ( 2 galls.) jars if Brandy. Whiskey, Bum Plymouth G n, < tc. Ac. See subsequent adv ertismenti. Dated Auction Offices, Nov. 8, 1872. Re Richard Pursuant to the ield Sowell, deceased. grits bg IrotitriL HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, AND EFFECTS FOB POSITIVE SALE. MB. CORFIELD wiU Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, on Tnjfeday, the 19th day of November instant, the fold Furniture earle, deceased, Union ig of several Bed- Mattrasses, Bedding, ' ables, Washstands and an<^ Carpeting, lobbp and other Drawer, Earthenware, Glass, with the whole of the Kitchin requisites in a great variety, & c. < 45" Sale at Twelve at Noon. On view the morning of the day of sale after Ten o'clock. Dated Auction Offices, November 6th, 1872. N. B. The valuable Freehold Messuages or Dwelling Houses in which the Furniture is to be sold J together with the orchards, & c., belonging thereto, will be submitted to Public Auction, / on Tuesday, the 10th December next, a^ Powell's Kings Arms Hotel, Penryn. See subsequent advertisements. Gyllyngvase, Parish of Falmouth. M S atute 22 and 23 Vic., c. 35 intituled " An Ac to further amend the law of property and to thieve trustees," NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Persona having any CLAIMS OR DEMANDS against theEetatoof RIOHARD BAMFIELD SOWELL, of Penryn, in the/ county of Cornwall, Draper, de • ccasod, who died fm the 22nd dayof Sept., 1872, and whose will was tfroved on the 23rd day of October, 1872, in the Bodmin District Registry of Her Majesty's Court of Probate, by the Reverend Charles R. Sowell, of the parish of St. Gorran, in the county of Cornwall, aforesaid, Clerk, the exe- cutor therein named, are requested to send particu- lars of their DEBTS, CLAIMS or DEMANDS to Mr. THOMAS UORFTKLD, Falmouth, on or before the 2nd of Dec., A872, at the expiration of which time the said Executor will proceed to administer the Estate and » distribute the Assets, of the said Richard Bamfield Sowell, among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the Claims o » ly of which the said Executor ehall then have had notice ; and for the Estate and Assets so administered, the said Executor frill not be liable to any person of whose Debt, Clliim, or Demand ho have not then had notice. I / Signed, ICHARLES R. SOWELL, Sole Executor. Dated 1st day of November, 1872. \ LL PERSONS INDEBTED to the said Estate J\. j> f the late Richard Sowell, aforesaid, deceased, are requested to pay the amounts of their respective debts owing to the Estate of the said deceased, to Mr. Thomas Corfield, at his Offices, Falmouth, or to the Accountant, at the place of Business, Penryn, on or before the 2nd day of De- cember next, either of whose receipts will be a full discharge for the same. Dated 1st day of November, 1S72. LIVE AND DEAD STOCK B. BOBEBT8 will SEEL BY PUBLIC AUCTION, on Monday, 18th Nov., 1872, at Two o'clock, at Gyllynvase Dairy Farm, in the Parish of Fal- moutl^ the property of Mr. John Edwards ( declining business ), the whole of "$ is Vi Live and Stock, Comprising— 6 Superior Jferaey Dairy/ Cows in calf 1 ditto J \ Heifer and Calf 1 valuable- MarA gooa in harness or saddle, free from vic^ i 7 years old a 2 sets of Harness,^ on^ nearly new About 2 aores of Mangold Wurtzels About 4 tons of prime Hay, well saved A Stack of excellent/ Oats 1 good light Cart 2 Ploughs and a J^ Stone Roller and Milk Pans and U1 Several Beachesyhnd Boxes N. B.— The Auctioneer needs only say that Mr. Edwards is well jknown for his superior- Milch Cows, which will be found very choice. For further particulars apply to the AUCTIONEEB, At his Offices, Arwenack Street, Falmouth. Dated 7th Nov., 1872. lot of other useful Dairy Wanted. business. A] Buil arte APPRENTICES0tL Ship Building1 WANTED, ThiirS » » APPRF j Stout Lads, as y to H. 8. T&! Falmouth. / ETHOWAN, Ship To Engine Fitters. FITTERS wanted, at Huihams and Brown's Foundry, Exeter. Commission Agent Required. AGENTLEMAN of good business exper- ience, who wishes to add an important commission for Miscellaneous Goods to his other engagements, is required for Falmouth and district. He must possess undoubted business capabilities and first- rate references, and be able to give security. A good Office is indispensable. Address : HOYLAND k Co., Little Cherry Street, Birmingham. Falmouth United District Sewerage Works- To BUILDERS, CONTRACTORS, A OTHERS. rpHE Falmouth United District Sewerage - L Board are desirous of receiving TEN- DEBS for the CONSTRUCTION of certain WORKS, comprising the Excavating Foun- dations, providingand fixing Sheet Piling, making Concreto^ Foundations, and erecting Masonry Walls therein, at the Market Strand Outfall, acco^ dingyf^ plans and specifications which may beUeA flt/ tHe Office of the United District Seweragb Board, Falmouth; or the Engineer, Mr. Euiw^ d Ellis, Exeter, of whom every information/ For carrying out the said works can be obtained. Tenders marked " Sewerage Works," are to be sent to me on or before the 2nd day of December next. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. By order of the Board, W. WABN, Clerk. Dated Falmouth United District Sewerage Board Office, 2oth Oct., 1872. iT NOW LANDING, At the Stores, North Quay, Falmouth, EX SHIP " JEUNE EMILE," CAPT. PINTO, A CARGO OF SUPERIOR BELGIAN POTATOES J WHITE, first quality BLUE, „ ONIONS, prime quality ... £ 5 0a. per Ton. £ 5 15s. £ 4 0s. „ APPLY TO Messrs. VAN WEENEN AND CO., Faluionth. N. B.— ANY QUANTITY LESS THAN FIVE CWT. WILL BE CHARGED AT SIX SHILLINGS PER CWT. JOH1T LOWRY BEGS TO INFORM HIS CUStTOI BEST NEWPORT COAL, BEST CARDIFF CO BEST NEWCASTLE DAL 32/- per ton delivered. 32/- 34/- STORES, NORTH QUA^, FALMOU TH— or Ordure left at J. L.' a Residence, Norfolk Road, will receive immediate attention. Falmouth, 8th November, 1872. FALMOUTH WORKING MEW'S CLUB. Established 1866 for the Improvement and Recreation of Working Men- BOOMS- BBLL'S OOXTH- T. The Committee have much pleasure in announcing that they have arranged for an Ai& TEUF* nmtmi Under Distinguished Patronage, fEXT, NOV. 11. DERMENTIONED Ladies antl Geutlemeij/ have kindly consented to assist: Mrs. J. ROBERTS, Jui/ Mrs. T. ROWE. Miss TILLIE ROGERS. Miss JEWELL. Miss DUCKHAM Miss VOS. Mr. J. H. COGGINS. / Mr J. G. COX. Mr. KISTLER, from Redruth. Mr. BISHOP, Bjfedmaster H. M. S. " Ganges." Mr. CHANTER r LOWRY Mr MARTIN By kind permission of Capt. TINKLAE, E. N.. The BOYS AND BAND OF H. M. S. " GANGES " will take part. V; M^ NDAC1 I As the Club is not self- supporting, the Committee invite the attendance of the Friends of the Working Men. Tickets to be had at Messrs. LATTE & Co.' s. Particulars in small Bills. W. H. LEAN, President. W. H. TREGONING, Secretary. E. C. CARNE, Vice- President. WM. ROWE, Treasurer. LONDON HOUSE Millinery Bonnets, Hats, Flowers, Fancy Feathers, Felt and Straw Hats, Fur and Cloth Jackets Polonaises, Cardinals, Satin and other Fancy Skirts, the new Shades in French Merinos, Striped and Plain Velveteen Silks, and other Dress Fabrics, Trimmings, & c. With the increasing demand for Costumes, a large and choice selection has boon made in Waterproof Tweeds, Poplinettes, Wool and Silk Reps, Serges,. Satin Laches, Diagonal Cloths, Ac. Baby Linen and Ladies' Under Clothing. A Large Stock of Woollens and Manchester Goods, at last season's prices. AN EARLY INSPECTION WILL OBLIGE. ( Stitttal, 12mo. cloth limp. Price U. 6d. ( postage 2d.) lyriNING AND QUARRYING: A FIRST ^ BOOK OF. With the Sciences con nected therewith. For use in Primary Schools and Self Instruction. By J. H. COLLINS, F. G. S., Lecturer to the Miners' Association of Cornwall and Devon ; author of " A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon,', & c., Ac. With numerous Illustrations and opious Index and Glossary* London: LOCKWOOD & CO., 7, Stationers. Hall Court, B. C. Try MARTIN'S NEW SEASON'S AS FINEST QUALITY, 2s. 6d. per Pound. The PEOPLE^ Groeer, & c., Lower Market St., and WeBt St., PENEYN. The SCOTTISH EQUITABLE LIFE AS8URANCE SOCIETY. Established in 1831. POSITION OF THE SOCIETY at 1st Mar., ' 872. Existing Assurances, including Bonus Additions £ 6,892,581 Annual Revenue— From Premiums £ 180,831 From Interest 79,634 260,365 Accumulated Fund 1,952,711 The Funds are invested in first- class securi- ties. The particulars of the Investments and the Balance Sheet will be found in last report. NEW BUSINESS, 1872. New Assurances effected during the year ... £ 376, 588 Annual Premiums thereon 11,576 The Scottish Equitable being a Mutual Office, the Policy- holders reoeive the WHOLE profits ; at the same time they are expressly FBEKD FBOM PEBSONAL LIABILITY. The Profits are divided every Five Years, and are allocated not only on the sums original- ly aseured, but also on the previously vested Bonus Additions. Bonuses are also paid for ihe period between the date of the last division and the date of death. TOTAL VESTED ADDITIONS TO POLICIES. £ 1,706,164. A Policy for £ 1000 effected in 1832 now amounts to £ 1909 18 3 A Policy for £ 1000 effected in 1837 now amounts to 1741 15 2 And proportionately in subsequent years. NEXT DIVISION OF PROFITS, lsr OF MARCH, 1873. Reports, Proposals and every information may be obtained at the Head Office, or any of the Agencies. GEORGE TODD, Managfr. WILLIAM FINLAY, Secretary-. Head Office— 26, 8t. Andrew 8q., Edinburgh. AGENTS :— Falmouth— W. Phillips, West Cornwall Bank. Camborne— J. H. Budge, merchant. Helston— Ralph Michell and Son, draper. Redruth— Edwin Cock and Son, merchants. St. Keverne— George Appleton, surgeon. Tregony— Charles J. Bennetts, surgeon. To Builders and Others. rpHE FALMOUTH GAj/ cOJH'ANY ure J- prepared to receiire/ TEXDERS for the Erection M ii/ himiiej Stack, On their Works, ac « > rding to Plans and Speci- fications, which m^ y be seen at the Company's Offices, Church Street, Falmouth. Tenders endorsed " Tender for Chimney Stack,'' to be/ ont to the Office not later than Monday, thfllth November next. Tho Company do not bind themselves to accept the lowest or any tender. Dated Falmouth, 31st Oct., 1871. The House for Tea. THE liuii|> owder Tea Warehouse. REGISTERED TRADE MARK Black Green or Mixed the Finest Spring Crop. J. II. HEAD, Tea Dealer & Grocer, High Street. Falmouth. THti FENIAN DEMONSTRATION IN HYDE PARK. Last Sunday, the combined Irish Home Rulers, English Republicans, and the knots of persons cal- ling themselves " the Inter& ationists " and " Ad- vanced Radicals " held their long- threatened demon- | Btration in Hyde Park, London, to " demand the release of the Fenian prisoners." The Times ( from whose columns we take this report) remarks, that the gathering was useful in " demonstrating" to the British public, who came forth to watch the proceed- ings, the 6orry character of the organizations which thus place themselves in the uosition of defying the law, outraging decency, and destroying the property of the people, as they themselves term the Parks. The day was beautifully fine, and before the or- ganisers had arrived at the Park, tbe tame appointed being after the publiohoD. ses had closed for the after- noon, there were crowds, of curious people anxious to Bee what the police wc, uld do in case of an open de- fiance of tbo law. Tt\ » se crowds increased as the time went on, and were made up of classes altogether dis- tinct from the members of the combined organisations, for any one could p'Vck out the ahopkeeping class es- the respectable artisan^, and the domestic servants, all - of whom, though curious enough to witness the scene, Weire painfully studious to keep themselves unmixed with the dirty and noisy specimens of their own flesh and blood who - came trooping into the Park headed by bands and banners. The banners were of the usnal nondescript character. Most of them wfere of green, mounted with caps of liberty, and thp, inscriptions they bore in tinsel letters ware God s'ave Ireland," ** God save the Coun- . fay," and " God save the people." Tlje demonstrators were made up of various classes. In addition to the usual small mob of out- at- elbows, dirty- pipe smoking youths seen in all theae agitations, was a crowd of Irish, nearly all of the bricklayer labouring class, and there was a tolerably full sprinkling of the true English " rough," who did not conceal from those about that he " wan good for any game." ; The . bands led over to the " Reformers' Trees," some of the following climbing into the trees, while others formed round onaof the^ eata, which was made into a platform, a Mr. Chaddock being ^ invested with the dignity of presiding. Mr. George Odger occupied another seat southward. The resolutions to be proposed were:— Resolved,— That the rirat and dearest right of man Is the . right to resist injustice and oppression; and those men who, ' In whatever age or nation, have been foremost in resisting tyranny are among the great benefactors of the hnman race, have won from history tts highest tributes of applause, and made examples which will at all risks be Imitated among men for all time to come. That the political prisoners are men of this type, who stepped forward from th « ranks of their countrymen to protest against, and resist at the peril of their lives, the most galling system of oppression known among the civilized nations of the present day. That Mr. Gladstone, the Prime Minister, was the foremost man in England, four yean ago, to justify the Fenians, and accept office upon the avowed platform of redressing the grievances whioh drove them to revolt; and It appean to this meeting a saddening Inconsistency on his part to hold those patriots In dungeons in opposition to fte oft- declared sentiments of million* of people In Ireland and elsewhere, and In conflict • with the public opinion which raised him to power." " Resolved,— That this meeting expresses its unbounded abhorrence of the practice of degrading political prisoners to the '• I"" of felons, enforcing upon them the horrors of the Blent system, and otherwise subjecting them to a cruel and vindictive rigime, repugnant to every human instinct, and disgraceful to our vaunted civilisation. That the said treat- ment of Fenian prisoners, considered in conjunction with j the Algerine- like rule of the Government in Ireland, and the treatment of so- called rebels in Jamaica and India, combine to exhibit the true spirit of British policy, and contrasts most strikingly and unfavourably with that of the United States of America after the suppression of a protracted and sanguinary civil war. This meeting therefore demands the immediate and unconditional release of all the said prisoners, as also the repeal of the Parliamentary enactments by which inch odious treatment is sanctioned.'' " Resolved,— That should our demands be not conceded this meeting pledges itself to form an Amnesty Association lor the purpose of promoting and holding meetings through- out Great Britiin, In conjunction with the Irish Amnesty Association, and continue active operation until the whole of the Fenian prisoners ( civil and military) shall be set at liberty ; and, moreover, we call upon the working men of England to oppose any candidate for Parliament who shall refuse to pledge himself to release those Ill- treated men, and also to repeal tie ur comtltutional laws that now prevail In Ireland, which grievously afflict the unfortunate people of that misgoverned country." Whatever expectations were formed that the police would interfere with the meeting were disappointed, for the police walked about in threes and fours, and, with the greatest forbearance, submitting to hootings and jeere. Mr. Odger addressed those who gathered around his platform. He 6aid that every one present would be convinced that he was doing a good work in helping forward the movement which that " glorious demon- stration " represented. The meeting was not held to promulgate discord, or to interfere with other people** opinions, but to express emphatically the view that the keeping in gaol of a number of " truthful, patriotic, ana devoted Irishmen" was unjust, and should not continue. It had been too long the practice for certain persons in this country to heap ridicoleon the Irish nation. ( A Voice,—' They can't do it." — Laughter.) This coarse had been extremely detri- mental to the harmony and good will which should eubsist among the peoples of these islands. ( Cheers.) It was a Tnnin object of the meeting in the park to- day to declare on the part of the English people, that the > retention in prison of the Irish political prisoners was a blot on the name of England; but it could also be declared, at the eame time, that Ireland was mis- governed. ( Cheers.) What were these men in gaol lor ? Why, because they loved their country too well, and they would not be worthy of the name of Irish- men if they had not declared against the Government which had ruled their country so badly for ages. ( Cheers.) There were people who would hug their chains, fearful that the rattling of their bonds would disturb their taskmakers; but tbe Irish, whatever' other faults they had, did not endorse the bad govern- ment they had lived under, and they had always said it was bad, and should be set aside. The Irish had shown, by their manly conduct, that they would not endure the state of government which they knew to be a bane to the interests of Ireland, and they were ready, when favourable opportunities presented themselves, to demand the freedom of their coun- trv. England had given freedom to the colonies, and was it to be supposed that Ireland was not to have the same freedom? ( Hear.) It was a shame for men to eay that Ireland should not govern herself, or that if she had the power she would misuse it. Well, in En; land the power had been misused and abused, and it was too bad to tell Ireland what she would do when the English even could not govern themselves. (" Hear," and " Ohl") Let Ireland have the power, and if then she asked England to take back the power, then it would be a clear gain to this country. To make Ireland a confederated part of England would be to relieve this country of a great deal of useless legislation, and leave the House of Commons freer to discuss those questions which were necessary to the well- being of the nation. England had tried for 700 years to govern Ire- land, and there was no such black history as that rule; and it was now time to let the Irish govern them- selves. The prisoners were in gaol for asserting the right of Ireland for Home Government. Now, if the French, the Germans, or the Americans got the • upper hand of England and ruled the English as the English ruled in Ireland, would not every Englishman be a rebel? Certainly he would, and therefore justice should be paid to the feelings of the Irish who felt for their country and tried to make her free. The men in prison were the " best blood of Ireland." There were low and mongrel Irish as there were English ; but theae traitors could go together^ and he. for one, would sing a requiem over them. The English must Join with the Irish and demand tlje release of these Kisoners, and it was not only a disgrace to keep them prison, but it was a disgrace that they should be there at all He concluded by declaring that no stone should be left unturned tp. effect the release of the prisoners. • , , The next speaker was a Mr. Ryan, who echoed the sentiments of his chairman^ and moved a resolution concurring in what was proposed at the other " plat- form." He appeared to regard the breaking of tho oath of allegiance by the soldier Fenians as patriotic and commendable. The seconder was a Mr. Wales, who spoke in a similar strain. _ , The motion was then carried, and after tfao usual vote of thanks to the chairman, the throng dispersed. At the other platform, where the crowd was denser, and, especially in the immediate circle of the speakers, more exuberantly violent in language, tho uddresses were couched in terms curious for their candour, but the loaders, if they had any judgment at all, must have heard snffi- Ient to convince them that optsldeof tha few hundreds they brought with them there was Do sympathy wbatevei with their sentiments. When- ever, as was frequent, 3ome outrageous expression wm mace use of and roused a cheer from the " inner circle1* ofthis verymixed gathering, itwaBfollowedbya" burr" of contempt from the outer classes. The prisoners were, described as men who were in gaolbecause they " as- Bocikted themselves together in the endeavour to eman- cipate Ireland politically and socially," and the speaker Biud he was proud of the men whose " undying devo- tion to the cause " which was " yet to be won " would never be forgotten. It was declared that the English working classes were in favour of a Republic being established in Ireland, and when an unmistakable sound of dissent arose the speaker said the " respectable work- ing classes " were, and he added it would be a glorious day for the English and Irish working classes when tho barrier was broken down and the " common tryant of the neoples " was overthrown. It was said that nothing would be got out of England by begging ; but what was wanted must be got by those who wanted to achieve the " qauge of liberty," " doing it as men." Another orator said that the demonstration had met to defy Mr, Gladstone, and to show hint that they were united to demand the release of the noble men who had shofni themselves ready to fight for their country. The same speaker pointed trium- phantly to the fact that they had defied Mr. Gladstone's ( government in the matter of holding the meeting, for he said the Govenment had interdicted the meeting, but the meeting had nevertheless been held. He trusted that not another summer's sun would rise before these men would be in a land of liberty, and the flag of Eng- land, that " emblem of oppression, would bd trodden in the dust. The next speaker urged that the best form of Home Government would be a Republic, that the prisoners must be released, and that then '' we must go in to overturn this Government" With the vote of thanks to the chairman the tfarongB broke upt Numbers followed the flags, but some of the roughs lingered, and were hugely delighted by- the* in- dignity cast upon a newly- erected board, the last work of the First Commissioner, prohibiting the delivery of addresses. The charm of the board was that the nega- tives throughout had been erased, and the notice, in place of prohibiting meetings, read so as. to sanction EXCEPTIONAL WEATHER. The following communication, sent to The Times for i publication, will interest many of our readers :— We fcre having Just now what may be termed " exceptional ! weather," continued heavy falls of rain causing deluging | floods of a very destructive character. Many persons who do i not understand what Is the origin of meteorological pheno- j mens inter excess of rain from very loadenuate causes— as extensive land draining, clearing of forests by tho cutting down of timber, cultivation, & o. works and operations of this characterdo modify local climates during ordinary seasons and . periods. Draining land, by removing stagnantsurface and sub- soli water, raises the temperature in proportion as excess oi evaporation is prevented. Catting down large forests may have a complicated eflect, as thick forest prevents subsoil and surface evaporation by shutting of! the rays of the son, but growing timber is a very powerful evaporator. For every pound of woody fibre formed several hundreds of pounds of water must be evaporated; every blade of grass, While growing, is, however also a water evaporator. Water is therefore, a necessary dement to gzowlijc vegetation, tho most minute or the m<$ t gigantic; witlfcut soil th< fre U no prot& tlng vegetation:; Hake the growth ot permanent grasses impos- sible, as bineath the copper smoke of tha Vale of Swansea, and all vegetable soil vanishes. The wide arid deserts of tho earth become and remain desert*/ or lack of atmospheric moisture and subsoil water. Meteorology cannot be explained briefly ; an enumeration of the leading elements may, however, be short and simple. The sun furnishes the heat, the salt ocean the water, and the atmosphere the laboratory. If tho heat of the sun annually varies ( as no doubt it does within certain limits) evaporation from the ocean must vary, and condensation from the atmosphere must also vary. It may be stated broadly that fresh water, upon the surface or bsneath the surface, over the entire globe, can have no other origin than the huge salt ocean, which coven more than three- fifths of the earth. Evaporation Is unceasing from the equator to the poles ; snow- capped mountains, glaciers, and icebergs are evapor- ating, and daring the deluging monsoon uoplcal falls of rain there Is excessive re- evaporatlon. Much of the water evaporated falls over the ocean, but the laad, and especially mountain peaks and ranges, are the glgintic condensers ; here the ever- moving atmosphere precipitates any excess of moisture it may contain In snow, hall, dew or rain. Spriog, lakes, and rivers, however gigantic, owe their orgin to the Imperceptible lilting of water lrom the salt ocean in pur ® , transparent vapour. The subtle phenomena of " latent heat" in transparent vapour need not be further touched upon, though It li thU " latent heat" which is largely concerned in, not only the most simple, bnt also in the grandest exhibitions of nature as hall, snow, wind, thunder, lightning, dew, and rain. Evaporation being constant, and In area as the entire sur- face of the earth, condensation In its most active form only occurs on portions of • the dry land, and there not equally, but in excesses, not only In any one year, but, as in the days of Jostph, in a series of years. The water eva- porated from 10,000 square miles may bu precipitated In rain over 1,000 square miles, so that for the time 9,000 square miles must be without rain. - Ono thousand, one million, or any imaginable area may be supposed, and the fall of rain may In continuance be even' as i> ne hundred, ono thousand, or any other number of timfcs In eioess; it is only required to impress these leading fac| s on tho memory. A wet year over the entire surface of the earth or a dry season Is equally impossible. If there is more heat frjm the son in one year than In another year, there must be more evaporation and more condensation ; but then comparatively small areas of the earth's surface will receive the excesses. An excep- tionally wet season over Europe will assuredly have, or bo contrasted by, an exceptionally dry season over some other equivalent area. This is so, and-. must : stt Excesses In nature beget excesses The cohdenslntf and Eberatioff of - latent heat works literally with% aw powtr to causo excess up to exhaustion. The heavy and continued fall of rain over Italy Is qnlvex- ceptlonal as regards this season, such flooding* have oMtaf' before, and will, Inevitably, occnr again ; and these rWts statesmen, engineers, azi ionHuriiiltti, and others ought to understand. It Is f dLgrace to a Government to neglect public works which would. If executed, prevent wide- spread catastrophe. It is a disgrace to an engineer to plan and construct embankments, viaducts, roads, and bridges, which the first violent flood sweeps away. Excesses ought to have been provided for, as these ex- cesses are part of the order of nature, and cannot be pre- vented. Wan cannot reduce the heat of the sun, he cannot lessen the area of the ocean, neither can he direct or modify the wild turmoil of the atmoiphere In tho tornado or mon- soon violence; but he can autlclpate the worst, from the past; and, with/ nil knowledge of tho power of the ( elements and his own weakness, prepare and worJC accordingly.— I have the honour to be, & c., „ „ ,, _ JioBEUT BAWLESSON, C. B., Civil Engineer. London, Oct. 3L DRUNKEN LIBERALITY. A curious question has arisen in the law courts at Washington as to the liability of a eentleman, married when in a state of intoxication, and who having, as he alleges, conveyed hia property away to his wife under similar circumstance, now Keeks to recover it. When the case first came on in the Equity Court it was referred to a jury to determine the facts- first, what was the condition of theplaintjff at the time of executing the instrument ? and secondly, was undue influence used to procure the execution of the 8aid inatrumeot? The jury found for the plaintiff in both ihtse particulars, whereupon the Dis- trictSupreme Court has- setaiida the deed. An appeal to the United States' Supreme Court has been taken, so that the question is Btul pending, and it is to hoped that the trouble he has incurred will be a lesson to this gentleman in future either to abstain from the exces- sive use of stimulants or to be mote careful in his oups, for, although marriage is by aoml esteemed an excuse for drunkenness, drunkenness can hardly be con- sidered an excuse for marriage or any other good deed ( remark* the Pall Mall Gazette), and narrate the following In illustration :— Some few years ago a RepUemrra who had boon dining, " not wisely, but too « ei » ," hi th<? course of the evening drew a check for a large amount, and, having signed It, poked It, by means uf a stick. I.. to a b * placed ut. tUe gates of a charitable Institution to rtcelvfl, the donations of imssera by. When he regained his sobri « fy tho nest morning h<> re- membered with horror hi. Hwtlltf of the previous night, and addressed a moving appeal; to tho managers of tho in- stitution in question to restore bloi fiio amount of the cUcck which be found had beencasaod qerore he had time to drcrs himself and drink ope bottle of sod i- water. As it was found that the unfoitunatu man ha 1 a' Mutely left himself penni- less, the managers, it is b IK vetf, ku. dly allowed him a small sum to carry him on until) tl. e next quarto;, but tho shock was too much for Mm, and after1 a lew days of intense mental agony he fell Into a state of totul abstinence, from which he nsver rallied. NEW THKATKE.— An American paper states that Mr. Fechter is trying some very novel experi- ments in the construction of his new theatre in New York. The stage will stretch forward into the centre of the house. Its back will bo in the t- hapo of a quarter dome, with tho concavity turned towards tho audi- ence. This will be painted blue, so p. R to have as natural a sky as possible. By an ingenious device, cloud shadows will be made to pasi across it, when the scene Is laid in the open air. ' Ibo usual place of the orchestra will be tilled with fngrant flowers and: Btreumof running v. a'. or. Tlio'bund w-' U payun< f; tho stage. Careful acoustic arrangements insure their being heard, although they will be wholly unseen. THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN, The exertions which the Princesses of the Royal Family of Great Britain, especially those which Princess Louise and Princess Victoria, the Crown Princess of the German Empire have made for the pro motion of the important social movements of the pre- sent day have frequently received due acknowledg- ment by the newspaper Press. The results of the benevolent exertions, on a more limited scale, of another English Princess— Princess Alice, consort of Prince Louis of Hesse— have perhaps received less notice. A welcome opportunity for such a no- tice is now afforded us ( The Times) by the meeting which has lately been held at Darmstadt of the Fraucn- tag, a meeting of delegates from the German Female Educational and Industrial Association. Ten years have now elapsed since the Princess came among the German people. She came to her . npw. copntry imbued with all tho sympathising aspirations that animated the noblest minds of a country where the struggles con- nected with modern social developments created the greatest stir. She was well- grounded in the views of those'clear and practical minds by which ' Eoyhind offers so admirable a contrast to the Utopian theories of French political economists. She came with the will to use the high position which Bhe was called upon to occupy for the good of her fellow- creatures, but also with clear and unprejudiced views, and with the con- viction that the suffering and oppressed classes cannot be elevated by works of mercy and charity, but only by arousing in them the desire and pleasure of work- ing, by drawing them on to work, and by opening up to them fresh fields for their industrial occupation. This is the most important point in the improvement of the position of women; it is also important to com- bat the prejudices which exist in the more educated classes against manual labour, and to cause it to be universally felt that all labour is honourable. With this view the " Alice Bazaar," an institution for the eale of female handiwork, under the superin- tendence of a committee of ladies, was established in 1862. The foundation of this institution by the German Female Industrial Association."— an Associa- tion which owes itsr origin directly to the Princess- had been attended With the utmost success, aoH no similar undertaking of this nature which has as yet been established in Germany has produced such satis- factory results. Three- fourths of the articles exposed for sale at the bazaar have been ordered beforehand, so that, to further dpvelope the bazaar, it is not so much orders for goods as additional exhibitions that are re- quired. The majority of the workers belong to the better classes, and this institution has been the means of affording a comfortable income1 to many " ladles at Darmstadt and its neighbourhood. Another association founded by the Princess pur- sues the same objects as the German Female Indus- trial Association, but works in a different sphere. This is the association for Nursing the Sick and Providing for Orphfos. . This society, in addition to devoting its attention to the care and education of orphans, has also for its object the education of professional nurses, who receive a certain fixed remuneration. By this mean* a new outlet is afforded for the industrial efforts of the female portion of our population, fhile; Jjtthe same time, the assistance rendered to the medical profession cannot be too highly estimated. Inltead of t& e rough uneductttecL persons who had hitherto been Intrusted with the care Uf' the sick,} the doctors found at their disposal, in 1869, in consequence ofthe foundation of this well- organized institution, a staff of experienced and thoroughly well- educated nurses. In the follow- ing year an opportunity offered by which the society was thoroughly tested. During the period- from the 19th of October, 1870, to the ; 15th of June, 1871, no less than 926 sick and wounded soldiers wire nursed by the Alice Association on 2- 5,^ 88 nursing days. The readiness with which the Princess always seconds every effort for the improvement of the condition women induced the leading members to hold tbe first meeting of the German Female Industrial Association at Darmstadt— a meeting the influence of which will' extend far beyond the borders, not only of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, but throughout all Germany. Alias Carpenter, iliasF. Hill, and Miss Wmkworih were present as representatives of England. This meeting of women was an evidence not only of the efforts made for the universal establishment of similar beneficient institutions of ^ English origin, but also1 a proof of the readiness of Germany to second the efforts of England; and Professor flolzenderff especially alluded to the great services which Miss Carpenter had rendered, not only to the suffering women of England, bnt also to those who were confined in Indian prisons. Princess Louis of Hesse received very numerdus proofs- of the sympathy of the lady delegates, one ' of whom— Frau Wiibt- nfield, of Hamburg— suid that her Royal Highness had carried into practice what had hitherto been regarded as a mere ideal of improving the Suffering lot of mankind. The following principles were unanimously agreed to by all those who took part in the debates An im- portant reform is required Kn female education ; the female sex must be made more free and independent; end the higher and midQle classes must receive a more comprehensive education if the female sex is ever to be raised from the position in which we regret to find it at present. These reforms must be commenced with the earliest education of children, and the efforts made in tfil^ dir^ tion dflTrobeYand his " kindergarten" met with unfcrers. ilapproval It wasuniv « r « klly iiolved, as regards the education " of the elder girls, that tfiey must i^ Mve, notonry a better preparation for domestic life ( a poty which was especially insisted on by iVau Simon from Dresden, and Fraulein Louise Biirhner from D- irmsUtft), but it was aL*> necessary to pay grekter attention to the mental development of an interest in the practical problems of life. With respect to this point, the information afforded by Miss Winkworth of the exertions of the Union for the Education of Women in England was received with universal ap- proval A girl who has been well educated is, when married, fitted to be a trustworthy and active assist- ant to her husband ; or should she not marry she will be able to support herself honourably, and thus by her efforts contribute to the welfare of the State. Em- ployment as telegraphists and,- in certain branches of the railway and postal service, together with office and counting- hougft were suggested as occupations more especially suited for women. The delegates agreed to a vote of thanks to the German Parliament fcr the attention which > had already been bestowed on the petitions which had been addressed to it, and recom- mended other Governments to follow the example of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, which employed women in its Statistical Department. In conclusion, it was agreed that the future indus- trial education of women should not be confined to any single country, but must be internationally adopted. A proposition of Misa Carpenter for the establishment of an International Union for the Industrial Education of Women was unanimously adopted. The Presidency of tho Union was offered to Princess Louise of Hesse* as the gracious patroness of all efforts for the improve- ment of the condition of women. Mies Florence Nightingale, Miss Magaret Carpenter, Miss Susanna Winkworth, Miss Florence Hill, and Miss Mere- wether were nominated correspondents of the- eociety, and these names afford an assurance that this newly- established society will earnestly undertake the solu- tion of the problem which they have set before them. THE LICENSING ACT IN LIVERPOOL. Two massineetings, convened by placards, were an- nounced to be held in front of St. George's Hall, Liverpool, on Sunday, for the purpose of protesting against the closing of publicities at nine q'clock on Sunday night. The hours mimed for the meeting were three o'clock in the afternoon apd nine o'clock in the evening. The principal promoters of tho meeting were understood to be working men. For some days past the town was placarded with a'request from the Mayor that persons would not assemble at the place of meeting. It was, however, announced in the news- papers that the authorities would allow the thffie o'clock meeting to be held, but not the one at nine o'clock, on account of danger to the publio peace. At three o'clock a meeting was held of about 20,000 people, composed largely of working men. Some working men got up on forms, and a resolution con- demnatory of the action of the magistrates in adopting the nine o'clock hour of closing was oarried. The pro- ceedings were only audible to a pmall cirole of persons, apd the Burging of the crowd and the utterly inadequate arrangements of the platform prevented other reso- lutions being submitted. An immense orowd remained on tho ground for about an hour, and they were then quietly dispersed by the police, who were In attendance in largo force in St. George's Hall. Tho police pre- dated the assembling of the people at nine o'clock, but nnalnc4jt equally hrge uarifcernf perronp tiiKi the streets near the " hall, and it was after eleven c'docfc before the congregations of persons were dispersed by patrols of police* EXPLANATION BWMR BAX^ EK. Lfflt Friday aftcmoou Mr.,- Baxter, M. P., Secretary 0 tlie Treasury, addressed a crowded meeting of his Onmitueite in the Town- hall, Bervie. His address vas chiefly occupied with some details of the chances vhich the Liberal Gqvernment had introduced with he view of reduciilg the expenditure cf'the country, He mentioned particularly his own experiences at 3ie Admlridty, and fearlessly asserted that the con- ientration of the purchaso system into one depart- ment had been a complete success, the head being responsible to him, and he again being responsible, to the Admiralty and the House of Commons. ( Ap- plause.) After, alluding to some discoveries which he had made as to the reckless manner in which stores were purchased, particularly noticing tho canvas re- quired by the Coast Guard service, Mr. Baxter said that the Government, ins'te ad of dealing with Off Jews, as formerly, now received samples and tenders from re- speotable merchants. ' ( Applause. He had no doubt whatever that by the reductionin- salaries there would ultimately be a saving to the country o,£ £ 180,000 pe^ annum, and in proof of thid he stated tbht toany clerks Who werfc nominally in receipt of £ 15( 1 per annum* actually obtained by the operation of , the tipping system no less than £ 1,000. They w. ere all aware of the efforts tohitih had to be put forth in order to put f stop to' the frauds which were perpet^ ted on the Go- vernment, and such a feeling was manifested against him that the police authoritiei Tfift- Avaifned him tbbfe careful in walking out at night, and frequently he felt compelled to sesk the protectionofthqjtwlioe.' He was not there to say that the Government naif committed ntr mistakes, but considering what they haa done their blunders were few and trivial, and the, discoveries of their opponents had proved mares'- nests. ( Laughter and applause.) Alluding to the discontent prevailing in Ireland, he said it was his opinion that it was due to disappointed political agitators, who, in consequence of the passing of beneficent measures for the sister country, found themselves in the position of Othello— their oc- cupation was gone. ( Applause.) At the close^ a vbte of confidence was passed In Mr. Baxter. ' , ; In the evening the hon. gentleman met the electors of Forfar in the Beid HalL Trovost Why te presided, and thefte was again a large attendance^. I iMr. iBaxter commenced by referring to the memorial of tfoe city of Glasgow to have the management of their post- office freed altogether from the control of the General Post Office In Edinburgh. He thought such a Mpifest'WM exceedingly reasonable, and, moreover, it. gave the Government the opportunity of saving from £ 5,000 to £ 10,000 a year, being the salaries of a number of' officials kept at the General'Post'Office iri'Edinburgh. He had been much abused for what he had done in this respect: but " it was bis feeling that If I powerS" m tekSpMb^& iStSoWSlLfcSi direct with the General Post Office _ in London, they should also have the same prijrilege in regard to postal. communication. Rival deputations had WalWd on the' Treasury representatives; but the case of Glasgow wasi unanswerable, and now the application had been sano' tioned. Mr. Baxter then Went on to refer to the de- sirability of having tolls abolished generally, although this should not be done at the expense of either counties or burghs. He had been asked, regarding' the game laws, whether he had inserted clauses in the' leases of his tenants binding them to preserve game. He wasforid of shooting; but he thought game preser-, vation was carried to an absnrd ejetent, and would bring shooting intq disrepute. He_ could say^ however,' tenaift^ fljpia ® ^ Se ' JM witl/ C^ Verby, that the question Muld not be settled but by an agreement between landlord and tenant, by bringing publici opinion to be^ r - Qfl, - flfp, question of preservatiqn of enormous quantities or game for battues, which was not the sport of their fore? fathers. ( Loud applause.) There was a great outary against the public being shut opt from fishing for trout on many of the streams of Scotland, and it appeared t$ him monstrous that this should be the case, and h6 hoped public opinion would be brought disti^ tly to bear against those who had been so injudicious as. to pass restrictions of the kind. ( Loud applaud.) ' Mi Baxter afterwards adverted to the difficulties wbic i had attended the Admiralty reforms. He said £ h > firm of Baxter, Brothers, and Co. had beeb fined heavil r for non delivery of duck/ and w6uld, in all probability, have applied for a remission of . the fine, but h i uncle felt that, being related to a member of tl 9 Government, it was better ' that he < 1 should lof o the money. ( Applause.) It wa9 his pdrpose to te 1 them the real duck storvj ( laughter), as, he had r • trained from mentioning ft in: the Hdfase of Commons out of compassion for Sir John Hay who was so muc l in the mire. ( Applause.) WJien he went to the A - miralty he found that officers In receipt of £ 2, £ 3, £ 4 a week had the absolute power' of receiving dr rejecting goods as they thought proper, and on re- presenting to Mr. Childere that it would be impossible" for him to cany W the business Without an alteration of this system, a'change resulted. An order was issued stating.- that any contractor who, felt himself aggrieved could apply to the Financial Secretary, and than a competent person in the" trade wduld decide tpe matter. ( Applause.) The first to appeal, under this new rule was a firm in Dundee, not Baxtir, Brothers, and Ca, but their rivals in the duck trade. They complained of their duck being improperly re- jected, and that they . had been fined a large sum with- out repsoq. The superintendent said, " Whom shall Wei employ as arbiter?" I ea* d,, " L will do; Vfnijas good a judge of duck 03 any tnan In Londoh." ( Laugh- ter and applause.) He went to Deptford. examined Shi' goods, found them exoellent, accepted them, and re- mitted the fine. ( Applause.) . Baxter,. Brothers, sind Co.,, a pretty wide- awako firm, heard of the'rejection, and got goods made over again, and the consequence of his decision was that the rivals of Baxter, Brothers, and Go,, had their goods accepted, while Baxter, Brothers, and Co. had a large qunntity of goods thrown on thetir handB. ( Loud applause.) The hon. member then touched shortly' u^ on the condition' p| the' Gibraltar biscuits. The naval bfficers signed a leport to the effect that 120,0001b. of biscuits were becoming unfit for food, and were full of maggots and moths. Had the advice off these gentlemen been fallowed, th, e biscuits would have been sold for dogs1 meat. They satisfied themselves' on the evidence of Mr. Frean that the arrangements at Deptford, where the n$ vy bread is made, were ex cell Ant, vand that noportion ofthe bread in store pressnted the symptoms reported fijom Gibraltar. One of the heads of one of the Admiraltyde- j partments was Bent to Gibraltar^ and he, with the as- sistance of practical men, had the biscuits examined. The result was that while moths and maggots were found on the outside of some of the casks, the hiscuits themselves wera good. The bread was accordingly is- sued, and when the vesseLVin whfch it was eaten came' home four months afterwards/ a fresh inspection Was made, and it was found to be perfectly good and. fit for use. ( Applause.) Then, the question was, where the maggots and moths fiction? No. The officers who had gone to Gibraltar found them in the store- house and in the receptacles for the bread, and perhaps it would be difficult to believe the statement, but it , waa quite true that these repositories had never peftti properly cleansed for four years. They were liteiplly alive with the destroyers of bread. The energetic acts of his successor and of the First Lord prevented a great scandal; but what could they have done hod this careless and improper survey > been; re- ported from Hongkong or Valparaiso. ( ApplailBe.) Mr. Baxter, in conclusion, said that he hoped bo fore he met his constituents again they would be able to see further progress in tho advancement of those great measures which tended to peace, retrenchment,) and reform ( Loud applause.) Before the meeting sopanated a vote of confidence in Mr. Baxter was cordially poised. In the evening Mr. Baxter met his constituents at For- far, when he said he hoped Government would sge its way to bring iri a Bill for the abolition of tolls through- out Scotland. He also deprecated the night sittings of Parliament, remarking that these could opty be conbidered benefited in so far as the House formed a lounge for lawyers and merchants after the labours of the day. Mr. Baxter's other remarks on public Ques- tions were similar to those delivered by him elsewhere. A serious dispute has arisen between the employers and tho workmen In the engineering trndo of GiaiRowi By an arrangement come to in the spring, an Immediate reduc- tion in tho hours from 57 to 64 per week was granted, f » nd a further shortenlnR ol the time to 51 hours wns to tako effect on the 1st inst. The men had privately arranged to tal o the extra half- hour's leisure at tho close ol the working da:, apq to chango the dinner- hour, bnt to this tho omployew o > Ject, as it does not suit the arrangements ol the works. Tli > ton- si- q ibuce is that so » etal hundred engineers camq i it on suite ob jfcWa>, tui< l the - UtfuU ,". « a further e; int- U- i » * ted by a rnisnnderstandlnp which has arisen as to wdothor the same wages will be paid tor the 51 hoars os lor the 64 hours mek.- Scotsman. IRON- CLAP SHlrS. In connection with this subject, which has already been so widely discussed, the following communication has been Bent to The Times for publication :— I have read the letter ot Mr. E. J. Eeed, the late Chlel Constructor of the Navy, in The Times ol the 21st, and as It Is the forerunner of a cry for moie, and more heavily- armoured ships, it may be well to say a word on the other Bide of the question. . Mr. Reed claims as a merit on the part of his administra- tion that " In seven years the strength cf armour was multi- plied sevenfold," and he blames Mr. Gosohen lor not follow- ing out " this great principle of progress," which, U it means anything, signifies that we are to go on increasing the weight of armour on the sides of oriFships? " He alarms the public by telling them that " inNorth. Germany the pijlicy of building Up a powerful navy, of Iran- clsda is being , punned moro vigorously tljah evpi" 4hd " la Bassla they hare actually furpassed us, both In the power of actual ships and in the use of new methods of construction." It is true he qualifies his praiso of their new methods by expressing a doubt '• whether we ongh* to Rojso flkr as they. hfya,< » one In broadening our ships," but he ii quite certain thkt the Peter the Great, " a more powerful ship than any we possess," is peri scily . capable o^ steaming into English porta." ., Ihe fact is qiat the Continental Powers are simply cotiylW In an exaggerated form wh& t was done by'MtJBeedas Chlet Constructor. We laere^ sed the weight ofrour armow and shortened our ships from year to year. They build ships still more heavily armoured and still sh orter ill proportion to their tonnage. And they are dc4ag this without previously ascertaining whether we inaynot hava already reached, or even surpassed, the Haiti of Useful flefenslT^ strength of handiness and of safety. Before we are blamed for not going hea^ y'- Smonre^ sSps c&^ afepriSdlia^ otuftTsbTjroin all weathers, can thread an intricate channel without Imminent risk of grounding; that thw. sbortships. which of course require a relatively greater amount of fuel Imddr steam, are at least as easily mana$ » JaB; thelr t^ edecessorshnder d » nvas; ithat the turret- ships which are being multiplied abroad In , imitation of our OUUtora kn not more dangerous, if struck, to those who have to workithelr guns than their armament is at all likely to be a swift; though leSs powerful antagonist All these questionshave received np solution from the opera- tions of our pelghbours, while the experience of heavily armoured shlp3 acquired in- our owniBerVica is" such as to leave them in the greatest doubt. With the exception pf increased resistance td'penetratliW of their Sides, and of those alone, and ability to carry very heavy. guns, everything, else Is in doubt. It is notorious that many, If riot most of 1 them, neither afford so steady a platform as to enable their gtms to be fought with all, the accuracy which could ba desired, nor are even so free fron oscillation ai to prevent their decks being penetrated at a comparatively depressed angle of fire, while Mr. Reed'a, short, heavily- armoured ships, whether with of'without !* lb s^ ewS aifd ( balancbd. rudders, have yet to, provethen? selxe^ efficient under canvas.. Such being the case, and I think it can hardly be disputed,, 1 think Mr. Goschen is acting m< 5re- wisely, in'pnrsOlrig W* J actual policy of ascertalng by sufficient trials which" are th » most efficient ships that we . possess lor each of the different? classes of service which they may be called upon to" perform,, proceeding very cautiously in the meantime in tho construc- tion of large seago& ig'Vessels, but acting vigorously in all that relates to the defence of our harbours, than if he were, to enter Into r& ral/ y with: lqrelgp.- PpweR ta tbi} constructicff of marine monsters, and, as Mr. Baea'would desire, deepen- ing and widening our docks- to receive them, with tho nihilhood of tigfr being u^^ ofjO^^ jvl^ exceD^ thosa economically and far more efficiently. Wben our neighbours them efficiently abroad, it will be no easy, teik- to tmeveab their grounding in the tortuous channels of their, own har- bours, and in the shallow and treacheaw-' waters which, snrround their iofflta.— I am, &;., ' ItL: SA1TOEL30N. , Yacht Brilliant, Carthagena, Oct. 28. THE LATE LAD? BECHER ( MISS O'NEILL). The Times pays the following well- earned'tribute1 to th » memory of Lady Becher:— _ ^ • Even veteran playgoers may possibly haye, passed by almost without notice the brief statement « ) ntifalea in our obituary column on Saturday to. the affpdt that Lady Becher, whose name was so familiay, to London, and Dublin circles more than half a cVutury agA as> Miss O'Neill, had paid the debt otTO^ SpttWri seat in the extreme south- west ppuer. df faelafl^ nafotheage> of 80 years. But po it ia> persons outuve their reputation, and become forgotten'While still living in the- flesh. Elizabeth G'Naill pamfl , ftf Irish, extraction, being the eldest daughter of a certain Mr. John O'Neil, who travelled about' Ireland'as thii leaden of a bahd of « t « lliug- players,/ and afterwards became* manager of more than one provincial theatre. It is worthy of note . that his faunily, including his wife, whose maiden name was Fetherstone, arid at all events two daughters and three Sons,' all trod the boards at the. same time. Elizabeth, however,, was . the one ty whom nature had imparted the largest ' share 61 theatrical talent, and at a very early age ahamarirJxcr tixstattempt as an actress at a theatre in Drogheda, where she played the part ofXiwrEdwawd's littU> th* Duk* of York, to her fath^ sDuke of Gloucester, taiiichaMIII. In this part Bhe made a marvellous success, and ehe in- creased'her reputation by Sustaining, various parts at the Dundalk and other theatres ; but her first import- ant performances were at Belfast and Dublin, whero ihe had to sustain at a very abort notice the character of ZorUda in Timour the Tartar. In this too she made a still more decided success, and became for, a time tho A^ h^^ le, however*^' in ( tfop* fdr Miss O'Neill,, who iri Dublin gained' freeh laurels in'the characters of. I^ ady Teazle, Portia, Blanche of Devon, & c., in which her wonderful command > of expression iti all its variety soon made her something more than/ popular. Hir acting of the partof Adelaide in th^, play, of that name, written by the late Mr. R. L. Shell, first mado the fame of Miss O'Neill widely known itf London, where She made h& r dibicton the 6thof Q# oher, l § 14,, ot Co^ fc Garden, undertheau^ pice3of JohnKemb} e, aj Juliet In thisshe made a^ eatef hit, to use the professional term, 1 than any ac tressof her day haddone. .'' TTSJtnthe curtain fell," writes one who was present on the occation, " and the comedy " of the M& rl- y Wiiitt vf Windsor was announced for the next evening, there rvras a universal cry for the repetition of Jtojncoanp Jyfiet, | which was accordingly substituted, in compliance with tho loudly expressed wish of an audience crowded up to the'very celling." — Fromrthat day forth - Miss- O'Neill became one of the leading favourites of the London ttage.' and it was whispereSiby nJanyjof her admirers that she would ultimately disturb Mrs. Siddons in her possession of the tragic thfOne. But here they wero mistakeni; it was mot j& ely ttiat the " l) o. ve" Q'Neill, a$ she was called by her friends. Would enter upon an equal cdriteht With an'*' eagle'* of tho stamp of Mrs. Siddons ; - and, tt> do hw ju^ icp, it must be owned that Mya O'Neill enjoyed the reputation of being one who alway^ wished to hWoid actingthora^ era for which she felt herself, unfitted from youth, her rpapneff. and her want of physical, force— such as Lady Macbeth and Queen Katharine, bharactere better suited to octrees of'the Siddons typa But tho Belvedera of Misi O'Neill comprised probably tho moat perfect combination of youth, beauty, and in- tellect which the English stage has exhibited sine ® the early days of Mrs. Siddons. The melting power of. tenderness was always' her peculiar. attribute, and that which called forth the glowing admiration of her audience, and hence sWfodnd herself especially at home in the character. Her reign'in London, however, was brief, being limited to, five years ; as at( the end or that tipiec in December, j{? l9,, atthe age of 27, elia gave her hand to Mr. ( afterwards'Sir) William Wrixoa Bicher, M. P. for the borough of • Mallow, an Itish gentleman of, fortune, and an acconpplish^ d theatrical amateur » the ceremony Jwhig " performed at Kufana by the Dean of Os& r^ v ni ••' During her brief reign on the. stage she had mado money enough to secure a provis^ pp for her fathe^ and other relatives, and a contemporary account adds that the whole of her earriiri^ were settled on her family. Lady1 Becher had spent the last 22 years of her hfe in widowhood, retired froip the world, and residing for the, most part in the remote district w whichj sh ® breathed her laBt. By'her union with Sir Wfll. am Beoher she had a family of three sons and , two daughters, and her eldest son is the present baronet The remains of Lady Becher were interred last Friday in the family vault, ad. Caitlelmartyr church- yard. The funeral cortege was moro than a mile m length. The chief mourners were Sir Hehry'Wrixon Bechor, Bart, Mr. John Wrixon Bocher, and Mr. William Wrixon Becher, the three sons of the deceased. The tenantry of Sir H. W. Bech'er, to die number of 200, walked four afcmast The windows of the Bally- hass National Sijhool, in which the deceased lady took a deep interest, were draped In black, and a black streamer was suspended from the roof. At a meeting at Rouen of the commercial community for the relief of the Alsatians and Lorraine emigrants JL Pouyor- Qnertler appealed for subscriptions, and said that more than 200,000 of these emigrants were in the frontier towns. The late Minister of Finance said that he had seen tht Wijic.' i ol the JCCRpIed and they all told him t^' V aioMf\< the vcuuig oi fcm » £* ouuu • » « rUt< l tu. d attacks on the Prussians would lead tnem to mako reprisals xa the uuubltantt. " VANE V. VANE." The object rah ( heard before Vice- Chancellor Sir R w—- ia^ Koied by " Sir Frederick Henry Var J& Bart. ( heretofore commonly called Frederick Henry Vane)," agaiut " HenryBalph Vane theretofore commonly called Sir Henry Ralph Vane, Bart.)" and others. was to obtain a declaration that the plaintiff, as the eldest son of Sir Frederick Fletcher Vane, deceased^ Is entitled to the family estate* in Cumberland ana Westmoreland, and to hare an account taken of the rents and profits received by the defend-, ant, with an order for payment to the plaintiff of what should be found due. The case made by the bill tra?, that Sir Frank Fletcher Vane, the father ol the plaintiff, before his marriage cohabited with, and nad three children by, Miss Hannah Bower-: tank, the lady whom he subsequently married,' the first of such children having been born in 1754 and the second in 1795. It was upon the legiti- macy of the third of these children that the question turned. The plaintiff alleged that pending arrange- ment for his father's marriage with Miss Bowerbank, she was prematurely confined of a third child, a son, and that the marriage did not in fact take place until nearly three weeta after her confinement— viz., on March 9,1797. The child thus born, as the plaintiff alleged about three weeks before tht> marriage on tha 9: h of March, was baptized by the name of Francis Fletcher Vane at 8t. George's, Bloomsbury, on the 19th of April. 1797, and in the entry of his baptism he was stated to have been bom on the 29th of March, 1797. As to this entry, it was alleged by the plaintiff that the register had been tampered with and that: the date of the birth ( was added some time after the* original entry. The bill then stated that Sir Frederick! Fletcher Vane brought up Francis Fletcher Vane, thd child thus borne as hia legitimate heir. After the marriage two other children were bom— i. e., a daughte^ and the plaintiff, who was bom on May 10, 1807. T ran rift Kletfiher Vanft married in 1823. and UDOn the death of hi* father in 1832 assumed the title and thd family estates. He died in 1842, and the defendant Sir Henry Ralph Vane, who was his eldest son, and consequently the nephew of the plaintiff, succeeded him. Lady Vane, the widow of Sir Frederic Fletche* Vane, did not die until 1866, and the plaintiff ac- counted for the length ol time which had elapsed be* fore he attempted to asaert his rights by the state- ment that from the year 1826, when at the age of 19 he obtained a commission m the 12th Lancers^ down to the year 1866 he had only been for a few days at a time at the family place ltt Cumberland, and that in that year he for the first time became aware through inquiries made, in consequence of some remarks let fall by the widow of Sir Francis and of a subsequent conversation with th^ widow of Sir Frederick before her death, that there was any doubt as to the legitimacy of his elder brother. The plaintiff further charged that the illegitimacy of bir Francis was not only known to Sir Frederick and his wife, but also was disclosed by Sir Frederick to Sir Francis, and was known by Sir Francis's wife and her father, and was fraudulently concealed from the plain- tiff To this bilj two demurrers have been put m, one by Sir Henry Ralph Vane, and the other by his mother, the widow of Sir Francis ; and, as is the practice upon demurrer-, the allegations of the bill were for the sake of argument, and for the sake of argument only, ad- mitted to be true. '' „ ~ U Sir R Baggallay; Q; 0., Mr. Rrnon, Q. C., imi Mr. A G. Marten, in support of the demurrer, arguep that even supposing the plaintiff's case to be true ( which they denied), the defendant, ae an innocent Bolder, could not after a lapse of 30 years be dis- turbed in his possession. Hia title could not be put lower than no title at all, and he could not have been ousted if he had been a mere squatter. To entitle the plaintiff to come after such a lapse of time there must not only be concealed fraud, but fraud BO concealed that bv reasonable diligence it could not be discovered. There was here no such fraud as to take the cue out of the Statute of Limitations. According to the bill Lady Vane had frequently spoken of the circum- stances, and the case being such as, according to the plaintiff's own showing, should put him on inquiry, he had not used that reasonable diligence which was necessary to save his rights. The present baronet, however, was, under the settlements made on his father's marriage, a purchaser for valuable considera- tion without notice, for he was only twelve years old in 1842, when hid father died, and it was admitted he was no party to the alleged fraud. The Solicitor- General, Mr. Glasse, Q. C., and Mr. Smart, for the bill, contended that the plaintiff had not been guilty of negligence, and that the defendant's argument amounted to this, that the plaintiff, imme- diately on the death of his father, ought to have gone to his mother and asked for proof of his elder brother's legitimacy. Such a proposition was per- fectly monstrous. His father and mother had , by their acts asserted the legitimacy of Francis, and was it to be Baid that in believing his father and mother the plaintiff had shown want of due diligence, I especially when the acts of the parents were followed by legal acts? Again, the law was that the children could not take advantage of the marriage consideration [ unless the mother could, and here, according to the , Statute of Limitations, the mother of the defendant could not have pleaded that the settlement made on her marriage constituted a purchase for valuable con- sideration, because she was aware of the fraud at the time of their execution. The arguments occupied the whole of Monday, and the hearing of the case was resumed on Tuesday morning. j The Vice- Chancellor said this was an extraordinary and very painful case, and it had been very fully and ably argued on both sides. He could not help feeling regret that the case had been brought on by de- murrer instead of coming to a hearing upon its merits, for it was one which affected the honour and interests of a family of high position in life, and the income of the estate in question was between £ 10,000 and £ 20,000 a year. " Upon the facts as stated in the bill, and for the purposes of the demurrer, he must take them to be true. It appears that at the death of his father in 1832 the plaintiff was inutter ignorance of his father having nad any illegitimate children at all, and had no reason to suppose that his brother Francis was illeg itimate. Another circumstance which threw - tha. plaintiff off big. guard was that in Francis married Lady Diana Beauclerk, and the father and son having joined in a recovery barring the « ntail, the estates were re- settled, and in 1828tiwhen the plaintiff attained 21, he found Francis actual tenant in possession under the settlement of 1823. Francis died in 1842, and then the right of the plaintiff to the possession of the estates accrued— that is, 30 years before the filing of this bill. If his case depended on' • on the general law he was under no disability, and would not be barred by the statute, unlets he came • within the 26th section of the statute. Now what was that section ? The statute, after directing that 40 years should be the utmost limit within which the pos- session of land could be recovered, provided by sec. 26 that in cases of " concealed fraud " the right of a person to bring a suit for the recovery of any lands should accrie at the time at which such fraud should or, with " reasonable diligence," might have been first known or discovered. The plaintiff must, therefore, ahow that there was not only a fraud, but a concealed fraud. Had there, then, been fraud T According to i the allegation in the bill a more direct fraud could not • be imagined. The father and mother both palmed off 1 their son Francis as legitimate, and Francis himself • was perfectly aware tint he had no title whatever to the estates. It must also be treated as true, though it might turn out on further investigation not to be the i fact, that Lady Diana Vane was aware of her husband's illegitimacy at the time the settlement was made. There being, then, a fraud, was it a concealed fraud ? Now. considering that the fraud had been committed, and that the fact was known to the father, mother, and brother, he came to the conclusion that there was a concealed fraud; but the main question was— could the fraud have been discovered with reasonable dili- gence ? If so. the plaintiff was too late. It was said that he might have discovered it when he came of age. But, surely, it could not be said that he had shown a want of diligence in not asking his father and mother the date of theirmarriace. He was clearly entitled to accept as true the representations daily and nourly made by his father and mother that his brother was legitimate. He did not know that his father had had any illegiti- mate children, and, therefore, he had no motive for m. ikinc anv inouiries on the subject It also ap- peared that he did not know of the entry m the re- gister till 1866. The whole of the facts stated in the bill must be taken as the result of inquiries made in 1866. Then, it was said that the defendant was, by virtue of the settlement made in 1823, a purchaser for valuable consideration, and that he therefore came with the provfeio contained in the 26th section of the statute, that no lands could be recovered against a purchaser for value who was ignorant of the fraud, Now, the law « u settled that in thecas* of smsniagi settlement the wife was purchaser for herself and hei usue : but here, as the wife had a*> ce of the fraud, he could not treat her and her child, the defendant, at pordnKTO for value without notice. Upon all tho « grounds, therefore, the demurrers must be overruled, • o that the parties mi^ ht have the opportunity ol bribing the whole case before the Court upon iti MB. FBOUDE'S MEW BOOK. Under the tide of " The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century," Messrs. Longmans j issued the first of two volumes which are to[ contain | Mr. Fronde's great acU < Taccusation against the Irian people, and vindication of the Englian deakngB towards ^ DwJSnVon STSmcteristics of the Irish which— ! as exemplified in the conversion of the original Gor- man invaders into Celtic Barons- give to the Irish Celts " on their own soil a. power- greater tiian any other known family of mankind of assimdating toose who venture among them to their ownim^ Mr. Fronde breaks into an eloquent and flattering while . yet severe appreciation of the Irish character:— I Lteht- hearted, humorous, and Imaginative, susceptible threshthTmttre range ol feeling, from tho profoundest Sthoi totho mort playful Jert, If they po « e » some real thev oosseu the counterfeits of a hundred more ^ rn^ V^ tS^- p- sionUe in their patriotism to their religion, passionately courageous pu- Sonately loyal and affectionate. they; wbjrttbout the man » - ness which will give strength and solidity to the . entlment^ part of their depositions ; while the surface and wis so seductive and aoVtontog that only experience ol its tnatablllty ^ Sut the charm The Incompleteness ol charwter i. con- Slcuoui to aD that they do and We don » - to theto hlatoiy. to Sair practical hablti to their art. and to their literature. Their crricil melodies are exquisite, their epic poetry is rid cu- orSt ta the live, ol their salnk there is a wild, II fantastic, splendour: but the, bare no aectdar hUtory lor aa a nation, they have done nothing which posterity will not be anxious to forget; and if they have never produced a tolerable drar^ a, it U becaus. lmaglnaUon > cannot outstrip reality, in the annals of ten cenjuries there la not a character, male or female, to be found belonring to them with sufficient hardness ol texture to be carved Into dramatic outline Their temperaments ! are singularly Impressionable, yet the impression is to- Suable oftaklng ahape. They have little architecture of thtlr owjTaid thVlorma Introduced from England I have been robbed of their prace. Ihelr houses from , - Twi- M. tick - rf. the most hideous to the world. No lines of beauty soften anywhere tho forbidding harshness of their provincial towns ; no climbing row or creeper dresses the naked walls ol farmhouse or cottage Thesun never shone on a lovelier country as nature made it. They have pared its foreatt to the stump, till It ahlvera In damp and desolation The perceptions of taste which belong to the hlghor orders of understanding are as completely absent as tnithfulnessof spirit la absent, or cleanliness of person and habit The Irish are the spendthrift sister of the Arlan race. Yet there la, notwithstanding, a fascination about them to their old land and to the sad and strange associations of their singular destiny. They hava a power of attraction which no one who has felt It can withstand. Brave to rashness. yet so In- firm ol purpose, that unless they are led by others their bravery la useless to them; patriots yet with a his- tory which they must trick with falsehood to render It tolerable even to themselves; Imaginative and poetical, yet unable to boast of one abide national wort: e> 1 art. attached ardently to their country, yet so cultivating^ that they are the byeword ol Europe: they appeal to sym- pathy to their very weakness; and they posaM and have always possessed some qualities and moral worth of which It is impossible to over- estimate, and which are rare to the tholcestraces ol mankind. Amidst their weaknesses their confident boastings and Imperfect performances, the Irish have shown themselves at aU times, and In ail places, capable ol the most loyal devotion to any one who will lead and command them They have not been speclaUy attached to chiefs of their own race. Wherever and to whomsoever they have found courage and capacity, they have been ready with heart and hand to give their services; and whether at home In sacrificing their lives lor their chlels or as soldiers to the French or English armies, or as we now know then to the form ol the modern police, there U no duty, however dangeroM and difficult, from which they have been found to flinch, no temptation however cruel which temptsi them toto unfaith- fulness. Loyalty of this kind, though cftUed contemptuously a virtue ol barbarism, Is a virtue which 11 civilisation attempts to dispense with It, may cause to ltB absence the ruin ol civilisation. 01 all men the most Ukely to appreciate It were the Norman barons ; for personal fidelity of man to man lay at the heart ol the fendal organisation. But never- theless to Ireland it was their temptation as well as their strength. PROFESSOR TYNDALL IN AMERICA. I The Boston ( U. S.) Advertiser, ol the 25th ult., writes This evening Professor Tyndall brings to a close bis ' series of lectures on light at the Lowell Institute. It j is safe to say that no course of lectures on any subject ' has ever been given in Boston upon which the i favoured ticket- holders have given their attendance with more eagerness and punctuality, none that | has ever been followed with greater attention or a more earnest desire to master the subject, and none in which the lecturer could point to greater success in making himself fully understood. This by no means proves that the people at large, or even the audiences of the last two weeks at the Lowell Institute, are specially interested in science generally or in the lawB of light in particular. It merely proves that the fame of Professor Tyndall having awakened their curiosity to see and hear him, he was able to make the subject so fascinating to them that they were will- ing to wait patiently for his appearance each evening, to concentrate their thoughts and exert their minds to the utmost in order to follow him into the moat abstruse problems of physical science in a loyal effort to master them • We most sincerely regret the ter- mination of this course of lectures. Were we to argue that it would be better for Professor Tyndall to remain in Boston and complete the excellent work which we think he has begun, it might be retorted that, on the same principle, he would have done wisely to have remained in London, where his work is not done. We must be thankful for what we have had in the present course, and trust that it will not be by any means the last. If other cities give Professor Tyndall larger audiences it will only be because more spaciouB halls contain them. He will certainly find no place where he will be more thoroughly appreciated, and none where his Bpeedy return will be looked for with more eagerness. THE POPE BEFORE THE QUEEN. The BiBhop of Salford has written the following in reply to the attacks on the Mayors of Manchester and Salford for being present at the banquetwhen The Pope" was proposed before " The Queen,' :— " i perceive that a little mlsunder. tanaing nas arisen ui some quarters owing to the health ol the Pope havtog been proposed before that of the Queen at the dejeuner which took place on the occasion ol my consecration. I also notice with surprise that the weekly print asserU that Pa- nose d " The Health of our Holy Sovereign ( nc) Pope Plus TI The archbishop did not use that expression, nor would any CathoUo out of Italy use it. The terma " Sovereign Pontiff" and " Holy Father * are understood by eveirbody. I regret that the Mayors of Manchester and Salfort should have been subjected to attacka owing to their having been my gueats. I suppose no Englishman would expect me, bccause I am an Englishman to de- part from the old Catholio principle which Is embedded In our Constitution, that the spiritual has precedence over the temporal, or to do otherwise than to propose the health of the only spiritual head I recognise. The Mayor of Manchester fullv understood thl. He has not mentioned what L how- ever, may mention, that, ritttoK next to him, I explained that " The Health of the Pope" was regarded by us as a purely religious act, and that I hoped he would consider It simply as rach. Ho replied that he perfectly understood this ; that though a Protestant, and not agreeing with our religion, he fully respected the liberty ol our relfgioua conricUons, and hoped I ahould do what 1 thought right My object to inviting these high functionaries to a breakfast waa to give a public testimony ol my respects to the civil order, ana I regret that any one person ahould have been found to endeavour to pass a suspicion upon the loralty ol those whose loyalty and honour are beyond suspicion, and are I known to all. On the 15th inst. a banquet is to take place at Mel- bourne to celebration of the completion ol the Australian telegraph. We learn by telegraph from Melbourne that fresh cases ol kidnapping South Sea Tslanders have been reported there. | Marshal Bazaine's trial will, it is expected, take place about the beginning ol next January. Two hundred and forty persona have been examined, Including the Marshal tilm. Bit Under the head of " Conscience Money," the Chan- cellor ol the Exchequer acknowledges the receipt ol Bank ol England notes lor £ 400 from " J. P.," on account ol ln- come- tax. On Tuesday the ballot came into service at the Sootch municipal elections for the first time. Tho contests were very orderly. London continues to be remarkably healthy. The death- rate waa only 21 last week; all the other large towns In the kingdom, except Bristol 17. Norwich 19, and Ports- mouth 20, ranging from 22 to 29 per 1,000. Scarlet lever and whooping cough are the most serious epidemic diseases. There were IU taUl rtrwt accidents. CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS. m> « wT « trees so tall in Miawuri, that it bies two men and a boy to look to the top ol them. Ctee looks till he gets tired, and another commence- where be lett ofl. It may seem strange, but it is true, that amanm fcew York, perfectly uneducated to art, took half- a- doxen Eiqnisite portraits In Iks than half- an- hcur. We must add that he himself waa soon afterwards taken for the theft. ' CVcago has a shooting gallery for the exclusive use of ladles, among whom there is a growing resUessneaa to be- ccme proficient with rifle and pistol. The divorce courts, kwlft as they are, are too alow for them. Lawrence, the State capital, which is on the dried- np Kan « is Elver, sneertogly saya of all the new towns on the Missouri, that the boats that ply between th « n are so dangerous that the fare la collected to Instalments every five minutes throughout the trip. A Chinese widow in California being found fanning the tomb of her diseased husband, and being asked the cause ol so singular a mode of showing her grief, accounted lor it by saying that he had made her promise not to marry again while the mortar of hia tomb remained damp: and as it dried but slowly, ahe aaw no harm to aiding the operation A n » w and profitable branch of business, it is said, has been Invented and put into practice to Georgia. There is an enterprising man to Whitfield county who sprinkles salt on the railroad to allure cattle upon the track. The animals are killed by the trains, and the railroad company has to pay lor them The owner has the beel and hide lor his profit. On a recent trip of one of the Illinois river packets — a light draught one, as there were only two leet deep of water to the diannel- the passengers were startled by the cry ol " Man overbosrd I" The steamer waa stopped, MQ i preparations were made to save him, when he was exclaiming. , Goahead with your darned old steamboat 1 IH walk be- hind you." Levenworth claims to be so healthy that when it lately became necessary to " inaugurate " « » e new graveyard " they had to ahoota man on purpose." On the o'her hand, a Nebraska man, when asked whether all the Kansas ' people were lairly honest, said, " Don't know about honest but they do aay as how the folk around take to their atone lencea every night." Don Piatt, writing from the White Sulphur Springs to the Washington Capital, « ays-" The paternal author o^ the belle here, it is said, the other day shortly after his re- turn to the Springs, was approached by a jouth who re- quested a few minutes' conversation in private, and began, • 1 was requested to aee you, sir, by your lovely daughter. Our attachment ' ' Young man,' Intemiptedtheparent briskly, ' I don't know what that girl of mlue Is about. You are the fourth gentleman who has approached me on tha subject. I have given my consent to the others, and I give II to you. God bleas you." AMERICAN MURDER JOKES.— Here is another murder Joke. At a late funeral the undertaker arranged tor toe husband and mother- to- law to ride to the aune carriage. " Must L" said the broken- hearted man, " must I ride witn that awful womanT" " I think you will have to " answered the undertaker. " Well, if I must, I must," said the stricken man ; " but to ride with her destroys all my pleasure on the occasion." EPITOME OF NEWS, BRITISH AND FOREIGN. The New York clubs are adopting the European custom. of putting their aevants toto gorgeous liveries. I The Pall ifott Gazette suggests that garottere should be punished by tremendous ahocks of a galvanic battery. The Duke of Rainzares, husband of Queen Christiana of Spain, has left Paris for Switzerland, where he U going to buy an estate. Engineers are now occupied in the Place VendCme taking steps for erecting scaffolding for the reconstruction of the column. • mT1le S ™ 1^ and Princess of Wales arrived at Elvedon Hall, Thetford, on Monday evening^ on a visit for a lew days to the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh. On Saturday the list of cases in the Divorce Court Was Issued. The total Is 261, of which thirteen are standing Juries! 7 COnBent- 01010 21810 te lleard 187 Me to be without Saturday a guard of a goods train was crossing the Great Westera Railway, near the Bridgend station, when he was knocked down by a passenger train and killed Imme- diately. The deceased was a native of Gloucester. The Frenchmen resident in New York have formed a society for the relief ol refugees from Alsace and Lorraine many ol whom have come, and are now coming, to this country. They are gathering a fund for this object. On account of the dissatisfaction caused by the per- mission given to six publicans at Brighten to keep open one hour longer than the rest— three of the houses being near the theatre— the privilege has been revoked. Early on Monday morning, the large drapery ware- I house of Messrs. Nathaniel Evans and Co., at Limerick : was burned to the ground. The entire street waa en' I dangered. The report that Mr. Edmund De La Poer, M. P., had " ret& ed from the world" and was about to enter a religious order In Rome, Is confirmed. Mr. De La Poer" s re- tlroment will cause a vacancy to Watertord county. Some one, who has been writing about Royalty lately, says that Queen Victoria's horses were worth £ 10 000 : Kaiser William's £ 13,000 ; the Austrian Emperor's nearly £ 30,000; King Leopold's £ 18,000; and the Sultan a £ 100,000. The young Emperor of China was married on the 16th ol October. Beyond the procession ol conducting the bride to the Emperor's palace at Pekin there was no cere- mony ol any kind on the occasion. The Emperor will assume regal power In February next. A riot is reported from a coal mining district in tho department ol Gard, France. A band ol 160 men havtog at- tacked an octroi station, and wounded several gendarmes, tho Utter used their firearms. Two ol the rioters were killed, and one wounded. A strike has arisen in the building trade at Belfast, to consequence of a resolution ol the employers that on and alter the 1st ol November the workmen should be paid by the hour Instead ol a fixed sum per week as hitherto. The workmen have held a meeting, and resolved to stand out lor the old system. At the Lancashire District Quarterly Co- operative Conference on Saturday, a resolution was adopted to favour of forming a national co- operative union. It was stated that there are to England and Scotland about 400,000 re- gistered members of co- operative societies, with a capital ol £ 3,000,000, and a turnover " of four times that amount The advices from Berlin state that, contrary to all expectation, the constitution of new companies still goes on, and that fresh concoctions are advertised dally. There was another rise to mining shares last week, some advancing 16 to 20 per cent. Landed property continues to great demand at the most extravagant prices. To give Berlin still moro the appearance of a great capital, it la proposed to make a railway traversing the city above the houses. A few days ago the Rev. Erskine Neale, vicar of Exmtog, Suffolk, met, according to annual custom, his allot- ment tenants. The poor fellows said their " potato crop had proved a total failure;" but, nevertheless, one and all came cheerfully forward quite prepared, then and there, to pay their rent. The vicar returned it to them to fulL He remarked no abatement seemed to him to meet the seventy ol the case ; and therefore he declined to receive a single shilling ol rent- solar, at any rate, as the potato patches were concerned. He stipulated that next year thoy should change their crop, and towards this he promised the cost cl seed, wheat, barley, oata, or beans, whichever they might prefer. A meat supper and " home- brewed" loUowed as the finale of the affal Judgment has been given in the Court of Session, Edinburgh, to a curious divorce case. The pursuer was a shipmaster, who. after hia marriage to 1866, went to Austra- lia. During hia absence hia wife, who had received money from him, married another man, who, four months ago, also 1 left her and went to Australia. The first husband returned this year, and raised the action for a divorce, which was re- acted on the ground that the decree waa not sought till more than ten years after he, the first husband knew ol the second marriage. The Lord Ordinary waa satisfied that the pursuer was following hia regular calling, and could not, without serious injury, have returned to this country. He, I therefore, made the decree. A numerously- attended council meeting of the Central Chamber ol Agricultural was held to London, on Tuesday at the Salisbury Hotel. The report of the Local Taxation Committee alluded at considerable length to the result of the efforta made by 81r Massey Lopes and othcra to Keep thla question before the attention of the public ; and, with respect to the probable proposals of the Government next session, it waa stated that County Financial Boards, as an administrative reform, would have the cordial support ol the Committee. The question ol security ol tenure was also discussed, and a general opinion was expressed that where such aecurity was not given by lease or agreement, the out- going tenant should be entitled by law to compensation for tho unexhausted value ol hia Improvements, while at the same time the landlord ahould be paid lor dilapidations and deterioration by delault of the tenant. In expression of public sympathy with Sir Bartle Fit re's mission to Zanzibar, a very Influential meeting was held at the Mansion House, to London, on Monday. The Bishop ol Winchester, who waa ono of the speakers, eloquently ex- posed the cruelties perpetrated by the East African slave- traders, who make the country explored by Livingstone the basis of their operations, and urged tho necessity of England putting a little friendly pressure on the Sultan of Zanzibar. Sir. Stanley waa convinced that the suavity of Sir Bartle Frere eminently fitted him for the delicate and difficult duty he would have to discharge, but he was clearly ol opinion that tho British Foreign Minister need not hesitate to use very decisive measures to suppress the nefarious traffic. 8ir Bartle Frere spoke of the desirability of the political mea- sures ol the Government having the co- operation ol com- mercial men. Bishop Clanghton, Bishop Ryan, Lord Har- rowby. Lord Lawrence, Mr. Otway. M. P., the Iter. Dr. Moflatt, Mr. kifirman Hodgson, M. P., also spoke, and , resolutions were adopted to sympathy with the objort ol the meeting. sssrsa * tx& ttz s- iL^ j; ^ JS5TJL "'' pool - ' or merchant ihip^ ^ ebiitopol btli^ grandmother as a genutoTunow his aged ceUent tody came tf KdSSL. When thit « " parent ^ ' ue de<* Pti<> n was soon ap In the last nine months the total of silver and gold exported was £ 22,3* 1.933, against £ 19. S95,193 to the correa- pondlng period of the preceding year. The largest amount went this year to Germany, and tho n « t iwgat amoimt to Egypt. The export to Germany amounted to^ £ 6,027,265. It waa only on Monday last, that the Leicester School Board, which has been to existence nearly two years, appointed a committee lor the purpose of Imning bye- laws. Mo schools have yet been erected by the board, butprovlalon lor 6,000 children is contemplated. At the half- yearly meeting of the National Agricul- tural Union at Leamington, on Monday, a message ol cordial aympathy was received from Archbishop Manning, and £ 60 E the Trade Council ol London. It waa decided to bold a mass meeting to London next month, to promote the emi- gration scheme. _ A labouring man and his wife have been burned to death to thelrresldence to an alley off the Shank- hill- road Belfast. They were seen to enter their home on Saturday * l « ht to an intoxicated state, and both wore found dead on the neighbours breaking open the door next morning. The Japanese ambassador, accompanied by Sir Harry Parkes, visited Coventry on Saturday. He was received by the mayor, and after visiting the various factories, churches, and St. Mary's Hall, lunched at the Chamber of Commerce. In rwrpondlng to the toast of his health the ambassador said he would try and aetid more and better silk. A strike of miners has just taken place in Comber- land lor a very singular cause. A young man was' dismissed lor using abislve language, and tho men have turned out because the colliery owner, retosed their requestthathe offender ahould be reinstated. The men belong to the Minora Union. Intelligence has been received from Boulogne of tho death of a French fisherman, named Coppto, from Injuries received to the Kelvedon railway accident. The deceased man was en his way home, and although ho was supposed not to be seriously Injured, the shock to the system caused death a lew hours alter he reached France. He leaves a widow and three children. There is a story going the rounds that M Tluer a tailor sent him a dressing- gown some Inches too long. Madame Thiers, her sister, and a lady friend were present at the trying- on. and noted the number of Inches necessary to shorten It. AU three ladles, severally and unknown to each other, effected the alteration, and when the Head of the State next essayed It ho lound it had been improved toto a Jacket. An agrarian outrage is reportd from Ballintemple, near Lengford. A faiuur named Farrell, residing there, waa sitting on Wednesday night at his own fireside, in company with another man, when two men entered the house, pre- aented firearms, and made Farrell go down on his knees, and promise to give up immediately a farm which he had recently taken from Mr Cusack. The men fired shots as they were leaving the house. Farrell states that he Is unable to Identify the men. , On Saturday night, Major Beaumont MP., speaking at Southampton, eald that the Royal Engtoeera were not adequate to numbera to perform the dutlea required of them. He spoke highly ol the Volunteer service, and said the Volunteers ought not to be asked for more than their time; Government ahould grant enough to relieve them of their pecuniary responsibilities, demanding of them to return a lair standard of efficiency. Army organisation had not re- ceived a satisfactory solution by the recent bill. The Correctional Tribunal of the Seine has just given judgment to the case of the duel between M. Ordinaire, deputy, and JL CavallC, a writer on the Patrie. An article to that Journal, and which proveked the en counter, related to the Bordone affair and General Gari- baldi's staff during the war. M. Ordinaire, being named, took offence and sent a challenge, which led to hU receiving a slight wound. The court condemned M. Cavalle to six days7Imprisonment and 600L fine, and each ol the seconds to pay 1001. A newspaper correspondent in Italy, writing from Ferrara ou the 30th ult., gives a melancholy picture of the Inundated districts Trees lie flat on the ground, rooted up by the force of the Hoods. The meadows and fields are strewn with sand and stones. One- third ol the houses lacing the river i at Casalmagglore are entirely covered by the water. Those which are not destroyed are abandoned. The wealthy have fled the neighbourhood ; the pror wander about, trusting to charity lor their subsistence. No such Inundation of the | Po, says the correspondent, has been seen during the present ! century. , The Dundee Courier says:- " On Sunday, the Queen, accompanied by Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice, attended Divine service to the parish church, Crathle. The Rev Dr Burns, of Glasgow, preached an eloquent sermon from Revelations, chap. 22. v. 28, ' Surely I come quickly ; even so come Lord Jesus ' The church was well filled. The Klght Hon. W. E. Forster has left the Castle, and Lord Charles Fltzroy has arrived Prince Leopold has recovered so lar as to be able to walk a little, but Is jet very lamo It Is under- stood the Queen will leave Balmoral on the 21st Inst." A few days Bince a lady, well known in the literary annals of Germany, died ut an advanced age at Weimar. Ottllle von Goethe, the widow of Goethe's only son, and herself a writer ol uncommon ability, departed this life on the 26th of October. In the days of her father- to- law she used to do the honours ol the house, and presided at many a social gathering marked by the presence of the moat eminent authors and poUtlelana of the age. Goethe, It U well known, loved her as a daughter, and admired her aa a poet and a litterateur, and at the time when she edited the SlitternaelU lieituruj ( Midnight Gazette), used to speak of her as one ol the ablest critics ol the age. She retained the vigour ol her mental powers until her death. During the week ending Saturday last 5; 363 births and 3,163 deaths were registered to I/> ndon and twenty other large cities and towns ol the United Kingdom The mor- tality from all causes to these towns was at the rate of 22 deaths annually to every 1,000persons estimated to bo living. In the metropolis, 2,291 births and 1,306 deaths were re- gistered, the former having been 34, and the Utter 230, below the average. Fourteen persons died from small- pox, 12 from measles, 21 from scarlet lever, 2 from diphtheria, 28 from whooping- cough, 24 from dltferent forma of fever, and 18 from diarrhea. These 119 deaths were no less than 198 below the corrected average number from the same seven diseases lu the corresponding week of the last ten yeaia. There has been great excitement at Kidderminster at the municipal elections, and to the streets there was as much commotion as at one of the old- fashioned parliamentary elections. Several persona were tllused by the roughs In the streets. A considerable number ol " Illlteratea polled. The election waa fought out as a party question, and ended In the return of four Liberals aud two Conservatives. Al- though there was so much excitement to tho streets, the poUlng Itself went on quietly, and was In marked contrast to what has beeu seen at former municipal elections to the town. There was a largo and representative gathering at the Mansion House, London, on Monday, to protest against the evils o! the existing African slave trade. The Lord Mayor presided. Resolutions were unanimously carried de- claring the suppression ol the traffic an Imperative duty on Great Britalu, asking all who desired to promote the aboll- i tloq of the trade to make Its enormities as widely known as I possible, pledging the meetlug to use all constitutional means lor the attalnmeut of that eud, and suggesting the preparation of petitions to Parliament. Amounst the speakers were tho Bishop ol Winchester, Mr. K. U. Hodgson, M. P.. Mr. H. M Stanley. Bishop Claughton, the EMI ol Harrowby. Mr Otway. M P.. Sir Bartle Frere, Bishop Kyan, Lord Lawrence, and the Rev. Mr. Moffat. Another great Frenchman has died— the great cal- culator, liabuict Ho was not always lortunatc, however, to his predictions. It was Dr. Lardner who expressed his readi- ness to eat the boilers ol the first steamer that crossed the Atlantic— a diet to which even an ostrich might have ob- jected, despite its proverbial appetite for iron. The doctor also staked his reputation as a taoatu to a commuieo ui wu House of Commons that uo raUway train could ever be pro- pellod faster than teu miles In an hour, and that the slightest curve would tofalBbly throw It oil the rails. M. Babtoet also stsked his reputation that no telegram would ever be transmitted under tho Allauttcto America Ho did not offer, like the aforesaid Dionyslus, to eat the cablo which might falsity his predictions, but was very angry with tho Great Eastern tor presuming to uucoll the long rope under the yeasty waves. A fresh conflict between Church and State has arisen to Switzerland. Some time ago a Jesuit Kather, named Allet. lwas appointed curt of Loufcche, in the Valals Accord- ing to the Swiss Constitution, however, the members of the Order ol tho Jesuits are torbldden to exercise any functions either to the sc hoola or the churches. The Federal Council has accordingly requested the State Council ol Valals to refuse Its ratification to the appointment The appointment is meanwhile defended by the Bishop to whose dioc « « LouC- che is situated, who maintains that M. Allet has beeo admitted among tho clergy ol that diocese, and Is now unde- eplscopal jurisdiction. At the Clerkenwell Police Court, in London, a re- , apectabu- attired woman applied to the sitting magistrate under the following circumstances :- She stated that on Friday week her son, who la about eleven yeara of age and ol rather delicate constitution, was at school at lallngton, when he was fetched away by another boy residing to the neighbourhood, and neither of them had been heard of since. Tho police had been comme. ulcated with, but they couM not obtain any tidings ol tb. e mining lads. She waa to great distress of cslud, and was very anxious for the magistrate toasilst her In giving publicity to the lact of her loss, as by that means she hoped to regain her child. The magistrate said he had no doup't tno press would tafco net ice of bar annllcatloiV Cholera W 0X1 the increase in East Prussia. Medical men are being by the Government to suco> ur the thinly- Inhabited districts of Gumbinnen, Schweti, and Kultn. It is stated thv't a Birmingham manufacturer has gircn £., 000 for tho purpose of fonudtnc health claws In connection with the Birmingham and Midland Institute— the result ol Canon Klngv'ej'a recent lecture. At Ashton- under- Lynt', on Sunday night, a torch- light procession of about 10, POO people t>> ot place and al me time seriously threatened tho peace of the town, fa consequence al tho dosing of the publlohouses at ntoe^ o'clock. The Journal de Paris gives the following fv; ur « fort the French army during the coming year. loUl cffectlve.- lorce 454 170 mem ol who 2: 2.041 are Infantry, Sft044 cavalrr, 61,303 artillery. & 000 " equipages milltaires," S. 170 gt amies, and 14,604 miscellaneous. The Manchester Courier says that tho Manchester free libraries have proved highly nocasafuL The nnmber of Umes that persons have availed themselves of the hbrariea dSSg toe ^ 1871- 72 was 1,264,683, agjtost 2,112,900 the prerioas yei. The accessions amount to 14^ 87 volunws. On Tuesday evening Mr. H. M. Stanley delivered a lecture to St. James's IU11, London, on h\ » ihrtni to Central Africa and his remlniirenccs ol Dr. Llvtogstono. Ihe haH was filled, and Mr. Stanley waa very warmly re- celved. A subieription is being raised of thernf- lerera from the terrific Inundations » blchhare almost every part of the reutasula. and especially tho lxnn- bard and EmlUan Provinces bordering on the Po It Is said that the sDbscrlption list la hosded by aome Italian mo chants, who have pat down their names for £ 100 each. During the seven months from April 1 to November 2 tho Exchequer rewlpta amounted to £ 40.133,18^ aa oom- pared with £ 37.632.918 In the corresponding period of last year. The expenditure baa been £ 43,3ol. 777. On Saturday last the balanco to the Bank ol England waa rather more than three millions sterling. On Monday there was a debate of some length in the Manchester Chamber ol Commerce on tho new Treaty with France. Ifo one defended It, and more than ono speaker urged that tho Instrument would nover havor? act- red the approval ol Mr. Cobden, who understood from the French Government, twelvo years ago, that the policy of that I country would be directed towards a gradual extinction ol the duties now proposed to be chargcd. to the cabinet works ol Mr Adam . mif,,., It broke out once tho residence of Lord BalmpHrwT7"^ 17 0, d house, ^ Ms JsjBsrsfjs- • w^ itt^ 0,;" 0"^ » ', n- mMkt a ™ wmmm Mr. Junic SiT AllCct,.. S ™ ?! f, • » OM found that E77rotT, 1.3 Si„ VJ £". P° i<> n 647 lor Mr. wJ^ lRfSJSHp" " T." "" lomer. TU, u tho irrt mTuSSi'JJKWV " The fronting of privileged licences to pnbUo- homw In the neighbourhood ol tho metropolian theatre, forced theral. JectoI. depnt. Uon to Colonel Hender « m m dav The CommUiloner conle, « ed thst the lane of Ui. ie nrMlettei waa a moet Invldlou* duty, and ono . nrrounded ffih XcX He engmted that U the the* ™ .. r. to close somewhat earlier there would be no oceMlon for en, extension of time to an, pubUchooae whaterer, . nd hoei. JTesKd his belle! that bj this means tho H. W, ol aU eon-, corned would be met. Mr. Mitchell, Ajaistant- Mnster Shipwright, of Her Malesty- s dockyard at Keyham, has received from the En*- neror of Germany a handsome telescope of white metal, bur an Inscription, In recognition of the services he r. nilerod to the Bremen steamer Bali imvre. whcnrunlntoand damaged S . SpaSSh steamer, on the 23rd of May laet The Moicop. was accompanied by a letter from the German Cnarg6 d'AHaires both helni transmitted through Lord Granrtllj. A similar presentation has been made by the Emperor to gommaudoi E. St. J. Garforth, Irupectlng OUcerof Cout- guard at Hastings, for service, on the same occasion. I Mr. Darwin has produced, in enpport ol hi, theory ol evolution, and in necessary corroboration of hU • Bxeejut 0/ Man," hli eagerly expected wort on the expression ; t emotions In men and animals. Ihe wort is an elaborate d^ ESo? the theory. In opposition to Sir Chuli. Bell's « to- brated e. say. that the habit ol expressing onr feelings by certain muscular movements, though now rendered Innate. had been In some manner acquired ; or, to, other wordj that the nervous and muscular speclallratlon by which paN tlcular emotions are Indicated is the n » uH of habit. In- herited peculiarity, end natural development- the principle ol selection, as exhibited In the Individual. MARK- LAME. — MoitPAT. At Mark- lane today the tone of tho market has beer, flmier Iherappiyol English wheat has been only modoJ SS." Bn^ ™ l^ u ^ ded but lln. sam£ « Eve commanded full prieea Inferior , orts ar. still Imp* jS tovSi There hsa been a large supply of foreign o^ oBerWlth a more active demand, prices have held an. tendimcv Barley hae been in moderate supply. SnV^ tffg SbeerE JejTest at full prlcet GrlndlM sSrtTeS unchanged. M^ tfis been quiet, a? UtS M. STThe market has beeu well snpphed with outu ¥ K tSdetoi been quiet, on former terms. Maize has bra. disposed of at late rates. Bean. » d MJ. have boo. d^ L Flour has Mid at about prevlon, quotation* Quietness has been the feature ol the grain trade at, Muk- lane today. The supply of English ' moderate, foreign X. t h » s Been to Mr " Jglj, gg samples have changed hands to a moderate extent at inu priSSs Other kinds tn dnl There has been a moderat. ESV of buley on oiler. Business has not been « SdSlce, have'been without chuge ratei. Oats have been disposed of at Monday s quotations Maize hu been unaltered. MECEOPOUTAS CATTLE MAEKET.- MOTOAT. More steadiness has been apparent to too attle Bade to- day the short supphe. Mid cooler weather tending to pro- mote firmness. Foreign beests have beenjpoorly represented both to respect to number and qnallty. end heve beea disposed of at Irregular values. From our own graBje districts the receipts have been modereto imd eornn well- conditioned . tick hu been oHered. « Hlh an to- oroved demand, prices have bad ui upward tendency. Ed toe bertScots have sold at 6s. Si to M. lM. pjrUk Som Lincolnshire. Leicestershire, and Northamptonshtoe w « received about 1,800. from other pert, ol Euglitod about SM, from Aberdeeo 8, md from Irehod aboul m Ejfg sheep have been very scarce and have made Irom 6a. M. to SlSd. per 81b., for choice Down, and hall- breda A m^ o- Ste rapply ol foreign lis been on sale, and 6s. Cd pir Sit. ha. been paid for bc? t breeda. Calve, have found buyer, at about late rates Hgs have been without alteration. Per 81b. to sink the oflaL MOHNING. 10 57 LAMPS. GAS FITTINGS. STOVES. • SQIA- DIE OLVEI^, iNmnshing aud General It'onmong'er, Cutler, Gas Fitter, Plumber and Manufacturer, Strand, Falmouth, " Has received a new a « softm6nt of Lamps, Gas Fittiugs, & e.,,& c., direct from the manufacturers, ami offers to Llio public the'largest stock aud greatest variety of . Ranges, Grates,- Stoves, Ponders, Fire Irons, Trays, Tea Urns, Beds, Mats, Brushes, Maps, Umbrella Stands, Warranted Pocket and'JT^ blc Cutlery. Agent for " Weirds " 55s. Serving'Machine, Best Electro Silver SIJOOUS, Forks, Tea alid Coffee Services, Cruets, Cake. Baskets, Biscuit Boxes, Dessert Knives, < fcc. Washing anft Mangling llaehines. Coal Scoops, Coal Sifters, Fjre Balls, Fire Baskets, Fire Lighters, a la'cg'e [ assortment of " Coal Vases very Cheap, Colza aud other Oilsi Ca/. eliue Pari ilia, & c. Paint s Oils, Yarnishes, Colours, and general Stores. Pumps, Closots, aud all kiiids of Repairs execute d AND FENRYN WEKKLY TIMES. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1872. FALMOUTH. ^ Tim CHAPEL AT EARLE'S RETUEAT. — The Rev. Jenkin Jones will preach here to- morrow afternoon, at 3 ; and Mr. P. H. Gutheridge, jun., oil'Tuesday evening next, at 7. WorKING MEN'S CONCERT.—- Tlie concert on Monday next offers an attractive programme, and the promoters look forward t « the generous mpport of tlie gentry and public of the neighborhood. ELECTION OF MAYOR.— The Borough lias been some days trying to find a mayor, since the refusal of Mr. R. C. Richards to take tlio office. • Seven or eight members of the Corporation have had it pressed on them in succession, hilt the honor does not seem to he at all desired, for they all make excuse and decline it. At length, it is stated, Mr. W. Selley, has accepted a nomination to the apparently to he avoided dignity. The election takes place to- day. SUNDAY EVENING LECTURES.— We under- stand that the Rev. Jenkin Jones has commenced, at the Independent Chapel, a series of Sunday evening lectures, entitled " Sketches from Genesis," outlines of which have appeared from month to month in the " Homilist," io which Mr. Jones is a. contributor.— We have no doubt that these lectures will fully maiutain the interest aud excellence that alone secured the admission of the outlines to this high- class periodical. A BARQUE ABANDONED AND TEN MEN DROWNED.— The German barque Dracc, from Santa Auna for this port, with a cargo of mahogany, ex- perienced very heavy weather on the voyage home. On the 19th of October in a gale of wind she became waterlogged, and on the 28th, when in 43- 21 N. 1711 w7, she encountered another gale, and received so much damage that she was obliged to be abandoned. Ten of the crow were drowned, hut tho master and one man was rescued by the Dutch schooner Anna Saunders, last from Bremen, which vessel arrived here on Saturday, and landed tlie two saved. THE ALLEGED MURDER ON THE HIGH SKAS. - On Saturday last, Johu Henry Crank, a seaman on board the American ship " Top Gallant," was brought ' up from Falmouth in custody of Chief Inspector Clarke, of Scotland- yard, and charged before Sir Thomas Henry, at Bow- street, with the murder of John Rodgers, a seaman in the same vessel The vice- consul of the United States was present. The depositions were read over, but it was found that the prisoner could not be surrendered to the American < Jovermneut, because the evidence was only held to'sustaiu a charge of manslaughter, and that* ofTeUce is not included in the extradition treaty, although it includes murder, piracy, robbery, arson, forgery, & c. Tho prisoner was remanded to give time for further inquiries. ELECTION OF VACCINATION OFFICER.— At the usual fortnightly meeting of the Board of Guardians held on Thursday last, M. H. Williams, Esq., in the chair, Dr. A.. B. Harris was elected vaccination officer for the Falmouth district, vice Mr. F. C. Bullmore resigned. Dr. W. K. Bullmore, son of the retiring officer, was also an applicant. He w. is proposed by Mr. J. Olver, and seconded by Mr. Thomas Webber. Dr. Harris was proposed by Mr. T. Mead, and seconded by Capt. Norway, R. N. On the voting taking place they came out equal, seven each, but the chairman gave the casting vote iu favor of Dr. Harris. Five or six did not votq. SUBSCRIPTION FOR WESTLAKE, THE ENGINE DriVer.— We arc glad to hear that Mr. Squire, of the Falmouth Observatory, is collecting Shi/ liiuj Subscription for presentation to Samuel Westlake, the engine- driver, to whose cool self- possession aud bravery it is mainly due that a fearful collisit was prevented on the Cornwall railway, between St. Austle aud Par, on the 29th ult., the particu- lars of which will bo fresh iu the minds of our readers, Much praise is also due to the stoker of the passenger train, and to the driver and stoker pf the goods' train ; and should the subscriptions amount to more than £ 5, it is proposed to give them a fair proportion of tlie surplus. A sub- scription list will be on the table at the Public Library, anil Mrs. Edgcumbe will gladly tak charge of any contributions. •• RESIGNATION OF THE FIRE BRIGADE.— The Fire Brigade met at the Town- hall on Monday . There, were present — Capt. Olver. chair- man, Lieut. Latchmore, Lieut Jacob, Dr. Bullmore, and' ' 22 " members, only one being absent. — Capt. Olver said he thought he should have heard no more of the action of the joint committee in try ing to control tlie. funds of the brigade, but on his return from Nottingham he found that the follow- ing resolution had been passed by the joint com- linttee and sent by their secretary, Mr. Worsdell, to all the fire insurance offices in London doing business at Falmouth :—" That the secretary and the joint committee write the various insurance offices, and enquire if the moneys paid by them to the Falmouth Fire Brigade for the purchase of engines were so paid with the understanding that the brigade, more especiallyas to its financial matters, Was under the supervision and control of the joint " committee representing the local authorities." Capt. Olver continued that ho considered this last act of the committee was scandalous, as it was cal- culated to prejudice the brigade in tho eyes of the insurance officeS. The inhabitants of Falmouth knew the case, and with them tho brigade were right, but to write thus to London was quite a slur on them. He blamed the town committee most, from whom the brigade received £ 4 yearly. After such a scandalous action ho should resign. Lieuten- ants Latchmore and Jacob fully concurred, and said they should resign also. Capt. Olver asked the members their opinion, when all but one, Mr. W. C. Squire, tendered their resignations. Mr. Tiernay, chief officer of the Coastguard, and Mr. Roberts, district insurance agent, were present. Tho former said these was not a better brigade in the kingdom than that of Falmouth. Tlie latter said the insur- ant- offices were with the brigade. Dr. Bullmore. thought the joint committee wanted tho entire . control of tlie funds. He said they had worked well for four years, aud the brigade will not submit to such control. Upwards of £ 60 in appliance^, in the engine- house belonged tp the brigAde. The brigade, with both engines horsed, then' proceeded to the residence of Mr. John Hallamore, chairman^ of the Parish Local Board. Captain Olver told him the brigade was obliged to resign after the action of the joint committee. On Saturday they would give it up. Mr. Hallamore said he was not a member of the joint committee, but he thought the difficulty, might bo arnuiged. The brigade then proceeded to Mr. Worsdell's, then to tho Manor Houso ( Mr. Skinner's), then to tho Mayor's, then to Mr. Lanyon, at Budock, as representing the whole of the author- ities at Falmouth. Captain Olver told them of the action the brigade had decided to follow. Mr. Skinner praised the course tho brigade had taken, and was not a bit surprised. Mr. Lean expressed his regret. If tliiB one, he said, breaks up, no other can be formed, and he hoped the brigade would r0, consider its decision, Mr. Lanyon also enlogiaed tho brigade, but justified the act of the committee. EAST KIRRIER PETTY SESSIONS.— These sessions were held at the Town Hall, Penryn, on Wednesday last, before) Col. Tremayne, Capt. Kins- man, .' Mr. E. Beauchamp Tucker, and Mr. M. H. Williams. — Richard Pascoe, Constantine, Margaret Rashleigh, Constantine. Silas Downing. Mawnan, and William Bath, Stithians, were charged with allowing their donkeys to stray on the highway, and were fined—, Pascoe, Is, ami costs ; Downing, fis. and costs; Rashleigh ' in. ( id and costs; and W. Bath, lid. aud costs. These cases were proved by P. C'.' s Warne and Cock.— Thomas Gillard, of Gwennap, was charged by P. C. Doney, with being drunk at Budock, on the f> th Oct., fined " is. ami costs. William Howe, of Falmouth, innkeeper, was brought up in custody, charged under a warrant with neglecting to appear to a numinous on the ' 23th ult., charging him with being drunk and riotous at Falmouth, on the 2nd of September last; fined 40s. and costs. — Henry Pearce, of Perran- ar- worthal, chain maker, at Perranwharf foundry, was summoned at the last petty sessions, by P. C. Beare for being drunk and riotous at Perranwharf, on the ui'dxt of the 31st of August last. The de- fendant then asked to have the case adjourned in order that he might summon Mr. Dabb, the cashier at the Perranwharf foundry, who he said would prove that he was neither drunk nor riotous. The case was accordingly adjourned. The defendant now appeared, and had three witnesses to support him ; Mr. Jenkins, of Penryn, also defended. The police had been equally busy in supporting the charge, and had summoned two wituesses— William Henry Harvey, carpenter, and Elizabeth Emma Andrew, shopkeeper; the latter, however, was unable to appear through illness. The evidence was very contradictory. P. C. Beare declared that ho found the man drunk at the Norway- inn, from which he was expelled about 10 o'clock at night, and he then became noisy and riotous. Harvey corroborated this. On the other hand, Mr. F. W. Dabb said he saw the defendant in the road near his ( Dabb's ) house about the same time at night, and had some business conversation with| him, when he found him quite sober. Richard Richards, alias Shakespeare, corroborated this, but the Bench considered the case proved, and fined Pearce 5s. and costs—£ 1 lis. altogether. local yocts. PENRYN. THE NEW MAYOR.— The election of a Mayor for tho ensuing year takes place to day. Up to tlie time of going to press Mr. Johe Reed RoWe is spokbn of as likely to have the honor conferral on him. 1 Mr. Rowe being known fts an cner^ fotie and liberal minded gentleman his election i. « mnsiilored very desirable iu viuH of the vi . it of the lloval Cornwall Agricultural Society next yc. ir. ( in the other hand, Mr. Daw, who has very ably discharged the duties of the office during the past year, is spoken of for re- election. SAMUEL WESTLAKE, THE RAILWAY ENGINE- DRIVER. Gone is the age of knighthood, Tho palfry and the squire ; And he who would revive it But overstrains his lyre. Yet there are real heroes, Their fellow men to chcer, Without the shining corselet, Without the pointed spear. Where moral darkness reigneth, Where young feet turn astray, Where age and want are weepiug, With kind hands there are they. And in the ( with of danger They boldly stand to save, Through raging lire and water, Their comrades from the grave. Where Cornwall's rocks are rising, Where Scotland's mountains stand, By many a rolling river, In man v a distant land, Tin: true- lmro hero dwelleth, Whti seeks his country's weal— Not in the soldier's glitter, Not in the warrior's steeL Hark! hark ! the stcamdiorsecomcth, With WESTLAKE for its guide, And o'er the road of iron It stalks with matchless pride ; When down upon them rusheth A heavy train a- liead, Like an unbridled monster, With terror in his tread. He hiauched not at the proxpeut, He leaped not from his stand ; The mighty moviug engine Obeyed his master hand. And backward turned in triumph, Still followed by the foe. Which rushed ahmg the incline " With sounds of instant woe. Still WESTLAKE faced the danger, And coolly keut hjn oLuir, . Forcing the mail train backwards, Till he out- ran the rfliase, Anil uafelv reached the station i' - « J With all his charge complete, I '. Who tln- ongud around the driver : . UI • With thanks and jrfaises meet. , * If the brave WKSTLAKL- wavered, B> it for a moment's space, . Wt,,. BnfiWs the fearful issue ' Of Jjl/ at jingoverned race ? , Ev « ; h wjifle I write, I marvel , At such a deed of love, WJiich surely is recorded In lines of light above. How thrills the heart to hear it ! In vales where cowslips grow, The tale shall be repeated As autumns come ami go"; 1 For oft of SAMUEL WESTLAKE Beside the hearth we'll boast, Who is a greater hero Than if he slew a host. J. HARRIS. NOTE. - The incident here recorded, by which tho mail train and passengers were saved through rtie braveiy of a noble man, took place on the Cornwall Railway, near Par Station, October21), 1872. See the Falmouth and Penryn Weekly Time* of last week.— ft will be seen in another column tluit Mr. L. Squire, of tho Observatory, is making a shilling subscription, and hopes to raise ju Falmouth at least five pounds to pre- sent to Westlake and others having the care of the trains on this memorable occasion. Manufacture of Cocw, Coconinjkr Chocolate. - We will now give an account ot tho process adopted by Messrs.- Tames Epps and ('..,, manufacturers » f dietetic article, at their works in the Ens ton R< iad, Londoii."- See article in part If of <'< tn? ir* Hxincliol'l j|' u'ule.. lircakfatl - Epp** Cocoo.— Cftiiufal and co, nforliaa ' l> y a thorough knowledge of the natural law s which govern the operations of digestion and nutri- tion and bv a careful application of the fine proper- ies of well- selected cocna, Mr. Epps has provide. I > ur breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors'bills.' Civil Servlcc Guicltc. . Made simply' with boiling water, or milk. Each packet is hd> elled-'*. Fame- » 13| ips ad Co., Honueo|> athic Chemists, London."- Also lakers of Epps's Cacaoine, a very thin beverage for evening UKU. ] '. HOWN'B BRONCHIAI/ TKOCHES, for the cure of Coughs Cohls, Hoarseness, Bronchitis, Asthma, Catarrh, or any irritation or soreness of the throat, are now irai> orted and sold in this country at Is. l} d per box, put up the form of a " lozenge." It is the most convenient, pleasant* safe and sure remedy forolearing and strength ening the voice known in the world. The Rer. fl.- nry Ward Beecher says: " I have often recommended thcin to friends who were public speakers, ami 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 medicine vendors. - Loudon Depot, 493 Oxford Street. VALUABLE DISCOVERT FOR THE HAIR !— A very nicely perfumed hair dressing, called " The Mexican Hair Renewer," now being sold by most chemists and Per- fumers at 3s. fxl per bottle, is fast superseding all " Hair Restorers"— for it will positivtly restore in ever// C< M « \ Cfrt'i or White hair to its original colour, by a few appli- cations, without dyeing it, or leaving the disagreeable smell of most " Restorers." It makes the hair charm- ingly beautiful, as well as promoting the growth on bald spots, where the hair glands are not decayed. Certifi- cate from Dr. Versmann on every bottle, with full particulars. Ask for" THE MEXICAN HAIR RE- XEWER," prepared by H. C. GALLOP, 493, Oxford Street London. FRAGRANT FLORILINE.- For the TEETH and BREATH. A few drops of this liquid on a wet tooth brash pro- . duces a 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, aud equally adapted to old and youug. It ia the greatest toilet discovery of the age. Sold in large bottles and elegant cases at 2s. 6d., by all Chemists and Perfumers. H. C GALLUP, Proprietor. Oxford Street, London. IT is a recognised fact, that Bragg's Vegetable Charcoal Biscuits is one of the most invaluable remedies for indigestion, flatulency, acidity, foul breath, Sc. The following is Dr. Hassall's report on Bragg's Carbon or Charcoal Biscuits :—" I nave, on more than one occasion, subjected to analysis Bragg's pure Vegetable Charcoal, also his Charcoal Biscuits, and 1 have always found them to he most carefully prepared; the charcoal and other materials used in manufacture being of the purest and best description, and form the most agreeable medium hithurto devised for the administration of that most valuable remedial substance, Vcgetible Charcoal. Signed, ARTHUR HILL H. VSSALL, M. D., Author of ' Food and its Adulterations,' ' Adulteration Detected,' and ither works." Sold by all Chemists. Th)' Nrtr A'/ uMenilion Art. — Any person now selling adulterated articles is liable to a penalty of ; E- J0 for the first offence, and -. I V months' imjH- isonment, with hard labour, for the second. Berwick's Baking Powder is warrauted pure and free from alum and ot/ ur injurious in'iralien found in most cheap Baking Powders, therefore may. lie sold without fear by . ill dealers. Ntw metal pocket Vesta Box, with patent spriiuj Cover.— Bryant aud 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 wdl soon come into very general use— being of metal instead of card, and retailed, filled with vestas, at one penny. Any Tobacconist, Grocer; Chemist or Cliaudler will supply it Caution.— In calliug tho attention of the Trad e to a recent decision in the House of Lrnls, iu the ai^- „ f " Wotherspoou c. C'urrie," whereby an exclusive rf-' ht to the use of the word " Glentield" in connecti on with Starch is indisputably established, we wouldaL'. o intimate • that this decision renders the sale of the starch Ina, ic by the defendant illegal, and will subject; the seller of it to a Penalty of .€ 10,000. Wc beg to intimate to those who may have been iuduccil to buy it that to save them from total loss we will allow 20' per ewt for it, at the Glenfield Starch Works. Paisley* in ex- change for thei genuine Article, at the current price. This will entail a loss uj> ou ourselves, as tlie packets • will IHJ brokenaip and sold for Wtuto Starrh, but it will at the same time lie the means of rendering the Aiticlc useless for further deception. Any information that will - lead to conviction will be rewarded: ' R. WETHERSpooN & Co. Mrs. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP- for Chilijkkn ! Shonld- always beitsed when Children are cutting teeth ; it relieves the little Sufferers at once, it produce natur- al quiet sleep by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes " as bright as a button." It is perfectly harmless, aud very pleasant to taste. It soothes the child, it softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for dysentery and diarrhoea, whether arising from teething or • ither causes. Mrs. Window's Soothin" Syrup is sold by thousands of Medicine deal- ers iii au parts of the World at Is. ljd per bottle and Millions of Mothers can testify to its virtue.— Manu- factory, 468 Oxford Street, London. $ ivtj? s, atvb £) c; ith';. BIRTHS, At Church Street, Falmouth, on the 27th Ult., the wife of Mr. Samuel Dunning, butcher, of a daughter. M - A- rt- RI^ VG- KS. At Falmouth Church, on Sunday last, by the Rev C. N. Mann, vicar of St Issey. Mr. Thomas Ball Brimacombe, painter, to Miss Elizabeth Jane Roberts, both of Falmouth. At the Register Office, Falmouth, on Monday last, Mr. George Ellsworth, master mariner, to Miss Susan Rashleigh, both of Falmouth. At Pike's Hill Chapel, Falmouth; on Tuesday last, by the Rev. W. Calvert, Mr. Richard Vivian, of Trecombe, farmer, t9 Mrs. Emily Penlerick, of Besane, both of Constantine. DEATHS. At High Street, Falmouth, on Sunday last, Louisa widow of the late Mr. John Praed, tailor, aged 50 years. At Ventnor, Isle of wight, recently, Samuel Henry, youngest child of the late Mr. john F. Dyson, of Penryn, aged 12 years, At Kingston, Jamaica, on the Gth October John Stona, Esq., late of Penryn. John COUNTY NEWS. " A Visit to epps's Cocoa Manufactory. — Through the kindness of Messrs. Epps, I recently had jyn op- portunity of seeing the many complicated and varied processes the Cacao bean passes through ere it is sold for public use, and, Iwing both interested and highly pleased with what I saw iluring my visit to the man- ufactory. 1 thought a brief account of the Cacao, and the way it is manufactured by Messrs. Kpps, to lit it for a wholesome and nutritious beverage, might : lie' of interest to the leaders of Land and Wtlltr. j' - See article in Land and Water, October 14. SABBi. TR REST OR MUSEUM RECREATION- Inserted by the Rev. J. W. Carter, Vicar of Christ Church, Stratford, London, £ 7, Wo are living in days when men are trying to do away with the saoredness of the Sabbath Day. Fol- lowing the example of France and other popish and infidel continental cities, the teadeuey in our large cities is to make the Sabhjtha day of worldly pleasure. Many persons, either from a mistaken benevolence or a depraved taste, aanotlou this tendenoy. But the pten for suoh a u* e, or rather abuse of the Sabbath is founded ia false philosophy. Take the most plausible and popular plea for making the Sabbath a holiday: " The poor man has no other day for reoreatiou, for visiting museums, for going into tne oouotry." This statement in the first plseo is false. There is now the nine lioura movement, the Saturday half- holiday, the Bank holiday, aud many other periods of cossatiou from work. \ Vliat the labouring men wants is a hotter, diviner inner life, and then will follow a hotter outward life, a better home, with better food and better conveniences, and mor « t of God's bleEsed air and sunshine in both heart homo. No 6tream can rise higher than its fountain. And the fountain of a man's life is within, not without him. How ia tho poor man to obtain, this bottc* Foun- tain and inward higher force? By visiting mnsonmp. by rollicking on the grass with hia ohildfeq, and string' mg for them wraiths of beautiful daisies and pretty dandelions on Hie Lord's Day? >? o, this will not do it. What be wants is somotbing for the soul: great und quickening thoughts of God and immortality, olheaveD, of Christ's lovo and sacrifice for sinnors. Thoughts that will expand, and ennoble, and inspire the wholo heart and the whole man,; suoh as will parify and eiovatp the alfeotiona, and awakon now desires, and new onergies, aud new hopes, impolling him iu u heaven- ward direction. Working men, you thank God that you have one day's blessed rest in tho week from yoor hard labour. Bowaroof those who wish to rob you of this rest. Aud yon will suroly be rohlW o£ it gradually if you once allow tho thin edge of vxedgo to be used in desecrating God's day by ojumvug plaoes of amuse- ment. Ask tho pabU^ a^ a, ^ he icuibruy porters, the omnibus, tram, and cr, b. drivo ™ what they think o; Sunday work, w^ at ^ liej think of those pleasurc- je.' kers who compel ti\ em to work on this sweet day oi' rest, and their almost United testimony will bo that it robs tbwn, o, f pe^ ce, onjoyn^ civt, aud rest j thiit Sunday labour ie bid for bodyx mind and soul; aud that its slavery k almost unboarable. There uro quite cnoiw.' U cruet chains which poor Humanity has to wearv ' fake c. irs* not to help to forgj another which it cannot bear with- out injury to all us p irts, socially, wwaUy, spiritually. Contributions or stamps to ;< iy for tlie » o insortione iu this and Fifty qdiep u^ yspapers ( which arosupposed to have two ; r, Ulta » wto weekly ) will bo thankfully Wivj^ he Uov. J. \ Y. Carter, Avenue- roa^ 1HE FALMOUTH glusiiMS iimauiicenirati I'aiuionlli Fire Brigade. A\ T, a Meeting of the Brigade, held in tho Town Hall, on Friday evening, tho St! i iirstant, Lieut: Latchmore in the chair, the following ' Resolutions were unanimously passed:— it haying been. represented to the . Officers of the Brigade'that its dissolution would be prejudicial to the public interest, Resolved " that the resolution passed at the last meeting, respecting the resignation of the Brigade, be and is hereby rescinded, and the notice thereof be given to the Secretary of the Joint Committee and the Local Authorities." Resolved " that in anticipation of this Brigade shortly obtaining a Firo Lngine, with appliances, it is for the interest of the Public and tho Fire Insurance Offices that the Brigade sever all cpri- Uection with the " Joint Committee," it having been found practically impossible to work with satisfaction under a Joint Committee composed of three distinct Boards." Resolvejd j'that this meptiug. use every endeavor to procure'the necessary funds for obtaining a Fire Engine constructed on the most improved ; a3d modern principle, at the earliest possible the protection of property and omtil the purdlase of sucji Engihb* this Brigade hold itsolfiu- readiness rto - giv. c every, assistance for tBtt fttppieseion of a Firfe on being- ajipbed to by the authorities." ' ' " J Y/ estern Provident Association. Are you troubled with a Ciugh ? 11ITF. X lose no time in appl^- ing for SOLOMON'S Pectoral Ooiigfi Mixture, " Which is one of the best preparations sold for the cure of Coughs, Colds, Inlluenza, Shortness of Breath, & c., and for tho relief of Asthma and Bronchitis. It is adapted for persons of all ages, and sold in Bottles, at 7jd., Is. ljd.. and 2s. 9d. each, The middle- size Bottle is generally suffi- cient to cure au ordinary Cougli, or givo , abundant satisfaction in more extreme coses. Prepared onl. v by W. H . SOLOMOS, Dispensing Chemist, 40, Xarket Street, Falmouth. W. H. PELL0W, siaker, Cuufectioiier, and Tea Dealer, NO. 0, AliWKNACK STBliET. Pickles, Sauces, Marmalades, lams, & e. W0 KC! E S T E R SAUCE SIXPE. NOii l'Eii iiOTTLE. lions eonducted in tpim or reasonable terms. All uceounts iettled same day as Sale. To Persons removing' and others who may have H9)) ii$ e! ioirf Fiuaitiirc And Furnishing Qaods ' of any description for TTIOE securing Sicjr Pa}' not exceeding 20s. disposal in towk country, a lair second- hand JD .•• per week, and sum at- death of Member Price- paid imimMftitely in Cash for the same; and his Wife from £- 3 to £ 200. by applying ; it 5lA. l£ ICS'S, Auction and i PfiBsiDEMf liAKL FOltTESCUE. I Furniture Sale Booms, 21, High Street, Numerous Noblem*,, « ,,<! U- nilt „ uji of- the We+ Ucn | . / Falmouth. Cdunlx^ are Vi.,-/>„„./,•„<. owt Trust- of th. ; Sales and Yaluatio frrifly na. r , Ujcfun. L are xhrert'd. < c0Untry ofc reasorn i he Jiauagcment LB 0y tbc members tnuuiselvcs" ] at the Head- ol1i' (; and Branches. Present ANNUAL INCl^ IE i « about i' 6,000. | '£ lit invested saving- are nearly £- 10,000, and are j yearly increncing, | The Contributions art the b'eiietits.; Mcmbe beyjJnd'. and irc- liabh time. The ' Tables were prepared by Actnarjr, and . the/ whole affairs of tlic investigated, b.,' Iiiiti every seven year- Branches are estaljlished in most of the towns of the Western Counties, and in London, Bristol and Portsmouth. Where'there are vacancies Branches will be formed on application. . . Prospectuses, Reports, and all further informa- tion may be obtained of the Secretary,. Mr. MORTIMER, 14, Bedford Circus, Exeter. Or of the l » ' cal . Secretaries iu this district:— i' Ai/ MouTli— Mr. J. .1. Skinner, Manor Office. P^ K^ VN'. E - Mr. J. Caldwell, builder. Tiy iAO— Mr. J. C. Ji, Crewes, Ferris Town. LiaKtAi: i^-. Mr. N. . Hare, ; Jmi., Biirrel Sti ' .* st that • ' ill sciinre ' c- iir no expenses whatever j io duties, fines,' or loss of i an eminent i Socicty are I TIME 01' 1UGII WATEB AT FALMOUTH " ENRYN QUAYS. AND PENR" 3 • Nrtw SATUKDAT SI' "> DAY .... JIOSDAX. TUESDAY I'J WEDNESDAY 13 THUUSDAY 14 FRIDAT .*. 15' plmaut^ & Petkhj ® intes. SATURDAY,. NOV. 9, 1H73. llKi. i: i- rn - Mr. W. NidiUllh, . liui., Rose HilL HEIXT « V>- Mr. K. Alltlionv, Savings Bank. ST. l, vi> Mr.* - F. - A. i'.' nbci tl. y, lloyld Square. ST; AI. VUEU, Mr. J. J> yjj& Mount Charles., BOSELAKD— Mr. ( V.- Ji.' Webb, C.- nni, , - " • - - ... - Orampomul. Wanted. [ HSIOli- CLK1IK ( H'ASlfejt). ' Apply to GI'. NN & NALDEH, Solieitors, Falmouth. QL Ef^ FI ELD QTTl T_) f ^ OL is the,- only hind used in - A- XLL, jfcr Mnjesty's laundry .' ilf then/ are arty ladies wJio have not yH u o, l the tiLLN'FIELD STARCH - they lire l- ebpectfully.- solictted to give it a trial^ jwd carefully follow out the direction* printed on every packagc, , andjif this is dope, Thdy will Hay, tiie'Qrteen's l/ aundress, It is the linest Starch'£ hcy~ eVerused: When you ask for Glenfield Starcli see that you get it, Aa inferior kinds are oitcn substil. i, ied for thr sake of extra profits. Beware therefore of spurious imitations. OUR readers will not require to be told tliat an uirplr; i « : intne.-< s lias existed for sonic time between ! the ". Joint Committee and the Falmouth Fire Brigade After doing arduous and successful ser- vice again and again in tho presence of the enemy , — fire ; after having perfected its drill and disci- pline, and brought all its appliances into a most satisfactory state of efficiency and completeness ; I which, with the manly and straightforward conduct of its affairs, had placed it at the head- of all similar organizations iu the county, aud made the I townspeople generally regard it with pride and Iconfidence— the Brigade has at length been driven to unanimous resignation. The Joint Committee has resorted to a procedure, which, if it had been between man and man, would speedily have placed the offender in a court of law, and which, as far as at present can be scon, although directed against a public body,. appears to lie without justification^ AVe know that one ' of the largest tire offices to whom the joint Committee addressed its obnoxious letter, views it as an " improper interference" with the Brigade, and we have no doubt that other offices will ( if they have not already done so) similarly condemn the action that has left Falmouth defenceless. It is high time for the inhabitants generally to express their sentiments on this matter; and we shall be glad to sec a public meeting called in order to afford them a fitting op- portunity. —. Just before going to press we have the resolutions ( which appear in another colninu ) of a meeting of the Brigade held last evening- urifortunately received too Jatc to afford time for comment. ARK FITTED WITH New and Important Improvements, AND ALLE THOROUGHLY GOOD IN PRINCIPLE AND WORKMANSHIP. i, s* P R 1 C E S V E R Ir M ODE R A T E. " Ca AGENT NATHANIEL FOX, IRONMONGER, FALMOUTH. - r THE FALMOUTH AND PENR'NY WEEKLY TIMES. SATURDAY. NOV. V. 1I7J. General. fieneral. Immense Success! 9d. Tins can now be had- TARAXACUM HEAD HE UK, AMI SRE THE CHEAT I BENEFITS DERIVED' J7110M A Is. Ui,. AliTHlK. All cock's Poroua J'ladtcrj IUTO relieved snfferers when in the griytest pain and all otlicr remedies bad ailed. PbysjcLins ••. od snrueonj of all schools recommend llicm. A doctor said the other day :—" I do not know whether AIICOC'K'S l'lusicrgodBlfliii ull the virtues you ascribe ! o them, bat tin's 1 do know: no plaster or local application lias ever piven my palicnts such great • oinl'orL" Wo publish a few cases of cares, lowing heir wonderful virtue*. Farther evidence of their value to Buffering humanity I! l » ; • I. 1 > is, •. .' lii my ono calling at the principal gone/. UDX'Cli ITIS. D DANDELION COFFEE. / reparttl upon < m im/ troKvl principal, from the pure fresh Dandelion ]!• » •>. rpHlS Coffee, the valuable qualities of which arc X now tso universally appreciated, can be highly rcconnneiiilcl, and is far preferable t< i all other Coffees. Bciiig carefully manufactured by T. B. PERCY, he can offer an article far superior to any- thing of the kiud yet introduced to the public, being remarkable for its strength and quality. Especially recommended to Invalids as an article of diet, and particidarly to those who suffer from weak Digestion* Nervous and Dyspeptic Affections, Flatulency, Distension, and Billiary Obstructions, in all cases of which it will be found invaluable, at the same time extremely pleasant to the taste. Public Speakers and Singers will fim i i. » be a very pleasant beverage after their exertions ; it assists digestion, and stimulates the operations of the Stomach. MANUFACTURED BY Henry D. Brundrebli, Esq., Liverpool. 10", Hampton- street, Birmingham, Nov. 27,18/ 1. Dear Sir,— I have lor some months past been • n the nabit ot using Allcock's Porous Plasters { procured from the establishment of Messrs. . Snape aud Son, 13, Great Hampton- street, of ibis town ) when Baffitring frdrn bronchitis and i severe pains in the ^ ide, and have on every I occasion found immediate relief, whereas I had ' previously consulted two medical men without deriving the least benefit. I can with confidence recommend them to any ono suffering from the Bame complaint.— Yours respectfullv GEORUL CJTYLES. INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. s " Henry D. Brandreth, 57, Great Charlotte- si reet, Liverpool. " Dear Sir,— We beg to enclose another testi- monial na to the effieacy of Allcock's Porous Plaster?. James Radcliffe, Stamford. street, Mosely, says be had been confined to his bed five weeks buttering from inflammation of the lungs. He couched continually, with great expectoration and difficulty of breathing, which brought him so low that lie wis unable to riso in bed without support. He applied one ol your plasters, and found relief in fifteen minutes, after which he pays the cough stopped and the expectoration leased. He is now quite recovered. The above is exactly his own statement; o me.— Yoiirs respectfully, " JOHN B10KLEJ. " Pro W. BOSTOCfC, " 21, SUmfofd .' Street, Asbtou. under- Lyne November 24,1S71-" 1 CI ATI C A. T. B PERCY, Chemist, ( Member of the Pharmaceutical Society [ of Great Britain. ) TRURO. Branch Establishment NEWQUAY. Sold only in Tin*, at 9 </., < L la. Gd. each, by Chemists, Grocers, Confectioners, aiul Italian Warehousemen. St' Hoy wood, October 9. IS? L. Henry D. Brandreth, 57, Great Charlotte- ' ot, Liverpool. PERCY'S CELEBRATED PECTORAL BALSAM. TT is the best Remedy over discovered for curing Coughs, COMF, Shortness of Breath, Asthma, Spitting of Blood, Brochitis, Spasms, Influenza, Consumption, Pains in the Chest, and other Pul- monary Complaints. It has a pleasant taste, and may be taken by persons of all ages. IMPORTANT TO PURCHASERS. Let Purchasers ask for PERCY'S CELEBRATED PECTORAL BALSAM, and, having obtained it, they will not be disappointed in their expectations as to its merits. Be cautious against bfcing put off with some other Medicine which dealers may recommend, solely on the ground of having more profit thereon. Prepared only at the Medical Hall, Victoria Place, Truro, by T. B. PERCY, the Sole Proprietor and In- ventor. Sold in battles qt ls. IV/., 2s. !!</., and 4s. 6rf. each, duly included. *** A saving of 2s. Md. is effected by purchasing the large Bottles, as each bottle contains six of the small one. SOLI) BY ALL MEDICINE VENDORS. IS IT POSSIBLE THAT a tender- hearted, kind, and loving mother can look on, day after day, unconcernedly, and see Mlcock's Plasters and two dozen Brand- j her darling - the pet of the family circle— pine away Ud. The Plasters seem to through the baneful effects of the well- known pest of "" " -•-- children— Worms! or can she witness the frequent convulsive tits occasioned by the same direful enemy, and not try the never- failing remedy for their total of Allcock' I'di'JPPRiRiPPPWPIPRpppiB produce wonderful results. There is scarcely any passes hut soma one is telling ine of tho cares they are making. Rheumatism in various p. als of the body disappears as if by magic. Only | destruction, and extermination, and which maybe on Sunday last Mr. Jacob I ley wood, Albert- i taken with the greatest safety bv the youngest child tcrraco, Slarkoy- street, Heywood, informed DIG | living ? Never! It is impossible ! Then try atj once that he had been troubled with sciatica for three , COLLIE'S CELEBRATED years; so bad was it the last twelve mouths of thai lime that he was unable to follow his em- ployment. He had triod many doctore, been to Mn( lock, and spent £ 2 on a largely- advertised . electric- cliajn belt, but all to no purpose. Some . one at last persuaded him to try your Plasters, lie aid ho had no faith in tliem, but he would i •• try them, for ho was stuck fa^ L; they could not I ' make his pain much worse, aud it would only be M little more money sent atter the rest. So he ' bought two ; one he placed ou is thigh, aud the other on his baclc, and a week after ho was ready for his work. It is now sis montlis ago, aud he lias had no return of his pains.— Yours trulV, W. BECKETT- | WORM POWDERS, Prepared only by T. B. PERCY, at the MEDICAL HALL, TRURO, and Sold by all Chemists and Druggists. In Park,** at 7\ d. < nid Is. 1 id. nidi. Free ! » / post for 8 "?" 14 Stum] i*. AUKNT— Mr. BASSETT, 1, tM ; • • 11 Falmou th FOR GOOD PRINTING, in the best style ot workmanship, with tho greatest expedi- tion, at the most moderate charges, apply at the olficp if this Paper. fJLEANLINESS.- W. G. NIXEY's Refinefl V IS LACK I. KAD gold everywiiei'o by all Hhppfcecp? r-. CLEANLINESS.- W. G. NIXEY s Refined V 11 LACK LEAD tor pollshlnfr ." love-, Ac.. equal to burnblied steel, without mute or ant: NIXEY's Refined BLACK LEAD. * •• Clcaolliicv.-."— The propt..;' i I.. IO i Tios ••., i- nl> llo agnlust bclilK Imposed upon by oiiprindpk. i ti er.- iiicii, . iio, xrith a vicu- ot'ilurwlrg sreaier profit., ftru muiiufaciurinj uid vending SPURIOUS IMITATIONS of the above article. ASK roit- W. O. KIX BIT'S BLAOK LEAD, 4KD 611 THAT TOB HAVK IT. 13 Soho Soiurt, London. W- J^ H E U M AT I S M OF THE AY R I S T: llenrv D. Bmndretb, Keq. J O/, Great Char- lottc- sueel, Liverpool, : JG, Crnwu- rireol Liver; ool, Nov. ' JlstJ 1S7I. Dear Sir,— Three mouiba si'UCU I c'citld1 not use ray I'ighi hand, owini; Lo rheuniuli « M in it uud in my U'liet, and ever ten • wcclce I was iuj great- pain— unable to lind any relief. After ( trying many, remedies, 1 was, at last persuaded' U) try 1 Alicoek'. s I'otous Plaslcrs. 1 bouiid cue Iroulid my wrist; in threo days I. li'ad great relief, and in a week's time was perfectly cured Your plasters ;; IV- a BLESSING] to , the ' atllicted. 1 havo positive rnformation ot their being of ^ O^ TBONETIF iu bron- chitis and asthma. It will give rne pleasure to answer uny comintiuication . iporiceruing them. - Yours truly, 1 - •.. . • THO- MAS- DAYIE3. A LLOOCK.' S Pb'ROUS PI, ASTERS A arc sold by all Druggists, at Is l.\ d each, with *• lull Jircx.- H. MiM lor use, or in auy size to suit" The yard Plaster is specially recommended ior la mi lies mid physician?. One yard eqajilff 13 ,, la£ ters. Price 14s per yard, 7a per half y., r A, or - Is per quarter. Pp. vr, " A- L AGBKcr voR GRKAT BRITIAM 1 ui.\ ci » Wll0leiule auJ Retail ) : * p. i: t of tho cojntry for lo L Plaster : cnt to stamps r First- ciass Bookbh.*' • liug. T> iniSPJS* S wishing to avail themselves . JL tlve opportuuity of sending in tlie parcc. mow making up lor transmission to a Erst- class Bookbinding I'^ stitblishinent, should forward oooks and numbers which they wisli to have J on£ ec> oound, to the Printing Offices oil the Quay, as surly as possible. Charges, moderate— quality ^ of work, the best •- styles, modern and elegant. I BARCLAY & S0- nLS' AND ALL THE — I - -- - v bK HOUSE S. The Blood! Tae Blood!! The Bloo. l!! CLARKE'S P, LOOD MIXTURE, IT^ GR CLE AXSIXC and CLEARING the BLOOD ] from ALL IMPURITIES, whether arising from youthful indiscretion or auy otlxcr cause can- not he too- highly recommended. 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THE ORIGINAL AND ONLY GENUINE. CHLORODYNE is admitted t> ytho l* r . ^ inntolietbomostwamlerrnl and valuable remedy over diseorcreil. CHLOB- ODYiSTE U . e best retn • • V a for Coufrbsj Consumption, Bronchitis, Astlimn. CHLORODYNE • Uiallycbc. - < .. am'- tsthosctooortenratoUllsu.- ues— Diptlicria, Fever, Croup, Ague. CHLORODYNE Ac » like a chnrr.' IU Dr. Veen, aud is the only specificIa'a> olera aud Dysentery. CHLORODYNE *• ' V • I. •• .•• - i- sof Bpilciisy, Uyeteria, PalpiUtioptaU Spasms. CHLORODYNE - .•-•: iT, rajeiimr. ti « m.- Gout, CaK « » r, rooUi8flbo, 3Icnii. gitls,* c. ,. 1 .... . ..,.,. ,-,.•• i- oi Mount Cl'. trles; Dinemi}. JUIj Pcrpoilusr IB ® ] „ T , r, . _ . ' . .1 . ure < » t I) r. J. c. illis Krovvno's ddnrodyiii? i ' Lord Francis Cony TIC: an. - ,.„. ... 1,- h-., boltl.- i AEUT « U- oo. Mr. Davenport, and hus tonr, n it, a mc • ' • 1 ^^ r^' ell commuuic. • 1 to . he Col o « ; V'. ysici mj, th? t - from her Majesty's Consul .-• M r.!',, to r. ic ei « t x^ t » i. otci. a « • » •• , j 19 and that tho ONLY remedy of auy sea- vneo Ws c r. Oi. OD^. K ,-',- r13 CAU " to -: WVITK « r J'rt* •• LIAXITIO. VFR.^ CiCTiov— Yico- Cbanrellor Si • -- • ?' 1 V"""'.? V ' CHLOBODYNE : tb « t the ^ ury 01 the Li » "•• » --••• been- worn to.— See ZW.-, ISth July . .. • Sold in Bowles at Is lld.^ i'- l U U< 1 and U.- > • • • • -• ' '. • '. • . ",. ' "' " CHJiOKODYNK" ou ibe Government Siamji. ov-.' « •!..• • f. 1 • " 1" • • • Sou llurovACXuusJ. T. DAVBNPOliT, Hi, Grc - - : - LonJou he received a dispatch . s beeu vajrinis fearfully, 1: /,.. • ri I D •• uberlSW. Central Sirammcemeuti , I01I> BtBTON, Auctioneer, Valuer, AMI Commission Agent, lb, MAliKET STltEET, FALMOUTH. Genteel Houses to/ 80I1I in ( Mielis Let or toad. witli immediate possession, two\ ele^ autly- dciiifaed » nd commodious DWELLINGS ( ncvrly- built), in Obelisk Road, coinmiyWrog the lincnt riews in Falmouth. Each H/ use Comprises 2 Parlor*, 2 Kitchens, 5 Bedrooms,\ W. C., and a small Cellar; with a Garden in fro\ t and convenient Courtlage at the/ hack. A. pply to Mp JAMES MITCHELL, Builder, Falmouth. FltTH SEASON. Try MARTIN'S NEW SEASON'S Hf'ft?! M 4S A JK^ jflkK!? SPLENDID QUALITY 2s. per Pound. The PEOPLE'S Grocer, & e.,! To be Brawn December 17th, 1872. Artists' Own Art Union, I/ nJer ( Ae Sanction of Her Majuly's wml B. Privy Council. ONE SHILLING PEK SHARE. IST PHIZE—" WaitiniT for tlir M istor," ( Sher- wood Forest), by G. ArmBcld, £ 80. 2ND Do.—" The Sunbeam," by Kate Gray, £ 60. Lon er Market St., and West St , PENRYN. I 3, Adelaide flare, Loivlon Bridge. ii. U. WILLIAMS, Secretary. AGENTS WANTED SAFE & PROFITABLE INVESTMENT. THE General Mutual Permanent Land, Building and Investment Society, CHIBF OFFICE:— 14, BEDFORD ROW, LONDON, W. C. ROBERT NICHOLAS FOWLEr! Esq., M. P., Cornhill. E. C. JOHN FREEMAN, Esq.. J. P., Woodlane House, Falmouth. ALDERMAN THOMAS S. OWDEN, Bishopagate, E. C. per cent, for' 1871 ( including Bouua, 2J per cent.) paid to holders ol completed Sharps of twelve months' standing, and placed to the credit of Subscription Shares. .6 per cent, per annum paid on Deposit Loans of £ 100 and upwards, for sums depositod for not less than twelve months. 5 per cent, per annum paid on ordinary Deposits, withdrawable on short notice. Interest paid by Dividend Warrants half- yearly. Profits divided annually, and paid by Bonus Warrants. SHARES, value £ 10, £ 25 and £ 50, bearing interest at tho rate of £- 3 per cent., and participa- ting in profits declared, may be realized by single payments or monthly subscription* extending over a term of years. ENDOWMENTS for Children not forfeitable in event of death. Females and Married Women can join the society as Depositors or Members, and their Investments arc specially protected under the " Married Women's Property Act, 1870.'' For Prospectuses and Report of Annual Mcctiug, apply to • THOMAS CORF1ELD, the County Surveyor, Arwenick Street, Falmouth. CHARLES PHILLIPS, the Agent, Killi- rew Street, Falmouth. Or to the Secretary, CHARLES BIXrO. N, H, Bedford Row, Loudon. ADVANCES promptly made upon security of Freehold or Leasehold Property, repayable by monthly or quarterly instalments for fifteen years or . less, by which means property may b'. i acquired by payments slightly exceeding the rental value. NO BALLOT or Sale of- Appropriations.- The Monthly Repayments include, all Law Charges of Mortgage, Litcrcst, and Expenses. No deductions at time of luaLuig the Advance or heavy Fines on Redemption. Survey Fee and registration, £ l : js. <: d. ou applications uf £ 500 and under. or BIST QUALITY. BERINGER & SONS, GOLDSMITHS, SILVERSMITHS, JEWELLERS, OPTICIANI, KIM AND IXOLtlllVB . OCT.. FALMOUTH. The exaot prices oharged as at Kappin and Wobb's Show Booms * x London and Sheffield Factories DINNER AND TEA 8ERVIOE8. SPOONS AND FOBKS. TABLE OUTLERY OF TH35 FENBBT QUALITT. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES POST FREE OB application At the abort address, oa TO 76, 77 * 78 OXFORD STREET, ALSO A. T MANSION HOUSE BUILDINGS, L0ND0M. SHEFFIELD F « OTOH - THE ROYAL CUTLERY WORKS. LOUDON FAOTOFIY - WUISLEY STREET ELECTRO WOEU Irtitw. Cicnrral Assiirancc CompiiRj. LIFK— FlllK— LOANS. EsTliiLlsitF. D 18: T7. CAPIT. L, € l, IX) iVAIi>. cid- f ogicr- 62, ki. hi iriLUAM tr/ tatr. W. VWI. V. PRtlGUESS OF THT COMPANY. Sew 1868 I8fi! l 18/ 11 871 New I'ollde* insuwl. AssuHiu". 813 1 r. nniim. . £ ;, 21III . 10,155 11. CIA ll MSI . A—. tv ZMi. nMI toljuii . JI. VI^ S . A* A, » » » € 851,! I23 . . 778 . 896,0) 3 no... 3Uw « a. .898 ... 333,570 BOSUS VKAli. rpHK currant linnu. )•• riuii rloiea uu the December next. Persons awuriajA prior t* that Jatfl on participating tables will aKara i* the division of profiu. GEORGE SCOTT FREEMAN, SwratarJ. Branch Ofice— Arwenaclt Street, Pairsoatfc. JOUN ROBERTS, JUS., District Manager for Caravall. TTHOUSANDS are at thia moment rojoicing n » er the beautiful heaja of Hair reatore,! to tlie « by uaiiiK NEWMANE'S HAIR nROWIJte POMADE, which was never known to fail ia pre- lucing hair. Prico Id. and 2s. 6d. p REY HAIR RESTORED to its original color j \ T Greyness prevented and the growth of tfce Hair promoted by using NEWMANE'S HAIR LOTION. This is at once the CHEATEST and Burr HAIK RESTOEER out, as it has stood the t « t and w pronounced superior to the higher- priced Load** preparations, FREE from DANGEROUS POI- SONS, and certain in its actios. Try one aShillisg Bottle and be convinced of its efficacy. Bottles Is and 2a. 6d. each. SCURF or DANDRUFF instantly removed hr NEWMANE'S HAIR WASH. The BeetaiU Cheapest Hair Cleaner extant. In Bottles at 64. and Is. Sold in Falmouth by W. F. Newman, chemist Market Street. H OW TO FASCINATE anil pain th. respect, admiration, and undying lora and affection you wish. Messrs. Henry, lata of Liberty Street, New York, purchased this secret for ono hundred dollars. I frill « en4 il to any nddress for sis stamps. J. HU5HY, Wolls Koad, Sydenham, London. BiiEKCH- LO. VDKHS. SKCOXD II'A^ U. BltEECIl- LOADEItS. FROM £ 10 40s. BKEECF- LOADJvRS. Hocon r FOR can II. CATALOOU'K AND PRIUR f. l* T STAMPS. K. WHISTI. KIi. 11. STliANh, LnNhoN. B BORWICK'S ORWICK'S 8AKINQ POWOEB Q- M Hrfsl, Hum, IMS; ( Md KaM, Afe r w Am, mtina IIIMI HI MM BAKING B ORWIOK'S 8AKINQ POWDER muss dolimous Brsad without Ysasfc. BORWICK'S BAKINO POWDER POWDER BORWICK'S BAKINO POWDCS aold ara^ wW., IlliiadU Pa.- i. ia, ul « < L, la, 2 » W. aM la Pataot ha ml,, mmi mgt aar. to aak far aad aw tk. 1 awa f* k BOBWICK'S GOLD MEDAL BAKIXO roWDKfc. THE CHEAPEST PACKAGE OF TEA lit EIIGIANB. A(" II\;;< I: C. MMIV. . i.- nsinlii- m u. » . f^ r « « ii » i « ( I.. 1L- SC ' Iri. r^ i. t. fftrrja- e rr* » to * nrr » ilwar M+ mm aurlLettovrii i; i Kii^ lsmt. od of 4 u, hy PHILLIPS & CO. TEA MERCHANTS, 8 KINS WIILUM ST. Crrr. T-°* nrtW ' —* r wy. RoaUy Good and Truly Choap Tta. STRONG to Fine Blrok Tos, 1* 4- 1, la 04, la ]• SS sar lb.; 10B worth * eiit carriajre free to » NR railway atMisa or market town in Kogi. vid or Wales, oa rteeipi of « 8s fcy PHILLIPS I CO. TEA MERCHANTS, % KIM WILLIAM 8T. Ei Prime Coffae Is Id, 1B 4d, la 8< L • Pries Liat Prsa. PHUaLIPS k CO. have no k^ obm, and no eflnassUsa say Hooss in Worcester, Swsnata or Wltaay. IT700N0MY IN CKAPI MODRKIKO. Jj OKB FOLD of UT * KIOHAKDBOITI I M . KBW PATENT ALBERT O& APS I a At VHIcr sa TWO ffOLDB tf tts sM asks. QfANDA. iD BANK. CMITISH SOUTH AFftlQA, LKITEI, J UleniRnl.,. lavTf IRF- inlJs. r. l- at.. . IT. IN- M*. URAFT* <•• the T)!. lini. tlll. t1n? ila a 11,1 1 r. tvnaln Mt. ni'. I TWELVE CARTES do VISITE, 2a S4| X Six. la M. caru Miirnd u » laclMa, Ml htlM ft. Sal aarta with atxapa. Pwfart • M A « N K T T N 1- 1. • VTBW OtJBATIVg APPLLVNCRd A | W> OJC of VJLVU- Xl TRATIOH8, pint fr « , on app) lo « L| un u OAHLOIV nail ( « . 63 NOBTH WOOLWICH BOAD, LOXDOI. Or of say CLomiat sod Druggisi in Uia gjpfir^ pONYCAlf KIA. QES » L Victoria Uron^ liiiniB. T. rtrr d » « cri|. tlon | jOnet; p « , y IIU; o ( ui- tn R Great Queen Suwt.' V. O. . - ^ CirrUt". '. __ r ... - _ tlirta, Ltfndmua, BniatlijTi-.: f . jlateiTd Vl. w^. rU n. i- 1 I' » ik D>-- pii< ii » inii f. » - ji » » -- « •• " " —' lra » l « ia. J. StnnLALUA 11S Eoitoa Ao^ O. LVUJ. HL. T OSS of HAIR, he.— All defects of the hair, esaaat haldne « s or rrrr h » l', « in happflf b » niirfM > » Twnj-% treatment. The l'Uo Poml- r. for lb- ramotal llpoU.. V. V. The DEPTtATOnT IX> TH> S tnr i- rm » r antl » KKAIUC411 mm aooxssa, c » ma » - p » ia.- c. TIE!.!. jrH r. rpalSlraat, Laa /^ IHEAP. ( HHCK flii- l Gi) « > i » I'MMINO \ J at the OIECM of this I'sppt. h- /•',,.''!'/• „.•„, ii "•/•// /•,;, , I„. I /'-/./;./, / KKKLKUII- K HOUAI^ I I'. K'I^ r'- lfu,,, at , V. . » ' « /. / » ,..- /'/..,-,, th> Pur' h "/' Pnl. no, HI,, „ t / J* Ofui- nil Printing Ojjic,* ,.„ U, m- < iu„' j, in thr Pwrish, on S. I ' PLPDA y, . N O V. II. 1^ 7' I JUDSON' 8 DYES— 18 Colors, « d. tack. RIBBONS, WOOL, SILE, VIATHIK^ Ownpleie'. y Dyad Is 10 aalaakaa wftboni aoilist tbs bill. PiB bartr- Mloca lappbrl. Of tM O imWSa. THE FALMOUTH & PENBYN WEEK v •") TIMES- SATURDAY, NOV. 9, 1872 . of % gay. fBy an Occasional London CorrcsponctehT.) [ The remarks under this hesd are to be regarded as tho ex- brcssion of independent opinion, trorn the pen of a gentleman IT -' hom vrz liavo the greatest confidence, but lor which wo novortheletf do not hold uurselvci responsible.] ( I However people may ^ gjurfible at " the defects of our laws or at their administration, it is pretty cleat that their administrators are held in great public esteem. This was pleasantly manifested by the popular gather- ing about Westminster Hall on the first day of Mfchael- mas term. The judges on that occasion were anything " but " a terrible show," and they constituted in fact a very pleasant spectacle, while it was evident " that they commanded the respect and esteem of the people. The crowd in Westminster Hall on this occasion, was unusually great, the chiefr cause - ' of the attraction being the desire to see the ne^ Lord Chancellor, Lord Selborne, and the new judge, Mr. i : * justice D enman, both of whom were heartily cheere d, as • was also Sir Alexander Cockburn, while all the Judges received marks of popular approval. Such public re- " cognition of our high legal functionaries shows a healthy • state of popular opinion, and it shows our judges that • " though the people have no voice in their election, bublio opinion can still be brought to bear on their appoint- it In common with most . other people, I presume, I was under the impression that the Parks' Regulation Act prohibited the holding of any meeting in liyde- park, unless, two days before such meeting, notioewere given to the Office ofJWorks of the intention to hold the meeting, together with a notice of the resolutions that were to be proposed, and that then, permission r being given, speeches would be made only within a . certain boundary. But it would seem that this Act has not yet come into force. At any rate there was a monster demonstration in Hyde- park last Sunday, and the regulations, or intended regula- tions were completely defied. At a certain spot fai the park has been placed a stene pedestal, and here is the following notice: " No publio ad- • dresses may be delivered except within forty yards of the notice- board on which this rule is inscribed." The speeches, however, were actually delivered some 100 or 150 yardB from this spot, and such speeches ! . Let the reader judge whether they did not contain treason. Be this as it may it is a great pity that any ^ gislation should have been decided ; on or any regulations made if both are thus to be treated with contempt. These Sunday demonstrations are a sad feature of our social life. They cannot be necessary, and they certainly are not conducive to public order on the Sabbath. If this Parks Regulation Act has not yet come into force, the sooner it does the better for the interests of the general pribllc. As to the political significance of this demonstration I cannot think that it is deserving of that respect which at the first right it seems to demand owing to the immense numbers who were present. It is said there were about 30,000 people there. Can anybody reasonably believe that even the majority of these sympathised with the object of the leading demonstrators I Whatever opinions may be held with regard to the political influence of the Ballot, there must be a pretty general agreement on one important paint, that its operation secures public order. The accounts of the municipal elections throughout the country prove this ancontestibly, and the various boroughs presented quite a contrast in this respect as compared with previous years. The public are to be congratulated on this • - phase of the Ballot, whatevfiti> olitical effect the Ballot may have in special eases. I cannot but express the - opinion, however, that it is a great pity for either • f , • Liberals or Conservatives to resort to the " card trick," which ought to be regarded as bpneath^ he dignity of aa election. In very few instances, it seems, is this process to be relied on ; in many cast* it bap proved a mm indiorona failure ; and the sooner the system is abolished either by Parliament or local authorities the better. In spite of the pretty general employment of the working classes, emigration goes on apace. The monthly returns of the emigration from Liverpool have, jut been issued, and from these it appears that during the month of October 19,119 emigrants left that port. • being an increase of 4,622 over the corresponding month last year. The total emigration from Liverpool this • year, as far as it has gone, is 178,450, being 25,623 more than during the corresponding portion of last year. Of course a large proportion of these are foreigners, but there is no doubt that on the whole oar working classes and labourers have left us in larger numbers this year than usual. This is partly owing - to the efforts made by contractors and others to indnce navvies and labouring men to go to Australia and New Zealand for railway and other work. The other day I saw perched on the knifeboard of an omnibus, in one of our crowded thoroughfares, some half a dozen navvies, one of whom carried a flag on which waa£ n- j scribed " to New Zealand." They were fine, stalwart fellows, any one of whom could almost have done what Mik> was fabled to have done— fell an ox with a blow , • from his fist A friend who was with me said this was' a melancholy sight, to Bee a number of able- bo4iedf powerful, healthy men having to leave their native' country to seek work abroad. I don't think soj and. - certainly the men looked anything but melancholy and moreover they were going under a written contra^ to provide them work at high wages. Of conne the labour of these men is valuable, and this class of labourers has done mnch for ns in forming our railways, 4c.; but still there are plenty more of _ them left, and the wojjt ftf the Herculean navvy is not likely to stand stOI" for want of bands. Emigration among another and a very different class of men is likely to take place on a larger scale. I read that the National Agricultural Union and a number of the friends of the agricultural labourer " are " making preparations for an immediate, practical,' and attractive scheme for locating at least half a million of the cream of our agricultural population in British colonies,'' This, indeed, is a monster scheme, p"^ I take the statement with a grain of salt, but at any rate there seems no reason to doubt that a large number of agri- cultural labourers will In some way or other be aided to emigrate, and the circumstance is not to be regretted, as the position and prospects both of the labourer* who emigrate and those who stay behind will thus be improved. The Metropolitan Board of Works intend to fcpply to Parliament for powers to free from toll all the London bridges. Very good and very sensible, only it is to be hoped that the country generally is not to be asked to pay for this local improvement. If such be the idea, it will find no support from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has definitely utated his Idea to be that national funds should be nsed for national pur* poses, leaving local reforms to be carried out with local money. * The Secretary of State for War has sanctioned the • se of playing cards in the recreation rooms of soldiers, U an experiment with the view of weaning the men from resorting to publis- houses. Opinions very muah differ as to the desirability of card- playing under any circumstances, but if it is bad anywhere it certainly is bad in the puhlichouses, and I, for one, am inclined to ( think that Mr. Cardwell has thus acted wisely. It is Scarcely likely that in his official capacity he would peoomiiiend card- playing, but as he knowE that the soldiers will play, he thinks they had better do so under conditions which are as little likely OB possible to promote disorder. In connection with this subject, I may mention that in one of the working msn's clubs in London, promoted specially by the clergy of St. Alban's, Holborn, these gentlemen somo eighteen months ago introduced cards with exactly the same view as that taken by Mr. Cardwell, and some time since they issued a report in which they Btated that ( I quote from memory) no disorder , or evil result had occurred. So that, as the Vicar of Wakefield used to say, there iB very much, gentlemen, to be said on both The Gresham Lectures are now being delivered at Gfesham College, Basinghall- street, according to the terms of bequest left by Sir Thomas Gresham, founder of the Royal Exhange. He left a considerable sum of money for seven professors to lecture annually on " the seven liberal sciences, the lectures to be delivered in Latin and English. The terms of his legacy appear to be rigidly adhered to, except— why I know not— that the lecture on music is not delivered in Latin. But this is really tho only popular lecture, and while this is, largely attended, the other lectures are de. Iivired to very scanty audiences. Is it not a pity that any lectures at all should be delivered in Latin ? Very very few people— peihaps not above one in fifty even amongBt University men— can understand off- hand a lecture read in that language. Three centuries ago, when glorious Queen Bess reigned over this country, Latin was the language of the learned, but Umpora mutant ur, & c., and I think it would be well if good Sir Thomas Gresham's bequest were adapted to the wants of the time. I observe that the collections on " Hospital Sunday" in Birmingham amounted to upwards of £ 3,000. The midland metropolis is to be congratulated on her liberality to the rick and infirm, and it is a great pity that other towns do not imitate her example. Why should there not be a " hospital Sunday" in London? We have numerous institutions of this kind supported entirely by voluntary contributions, and I am sure that thousands of charitable individuals would be delighted to have the opportunity of aiding them by contributing money on some stated Sunday after services at our churches and chapels. There is a strange vitality in Bome old customs. A day or two ago one of the most curious of remaining ceremonies was performed at the office of the Queen's Remembrancer, in the City. On behalf of the said City proclamation was made, " Tenants or occupiers of a piece of waste ground called the Moors, in the county of Salop, come forth and do your service;" but nobody came forth of course; and then the City Solici- tor took, first a hatchet and then a bill- hook, and chopped two miniature bundles of faggots. And then and there proclamation having- been made relative to a piece of ground in the parish of St. Clement Danes, London, the City Solicitor handed over six horee shoes and counted sixty- one nails. Very ridiculous all this, but I suppose it is legally necessary. I wonder what would happen if it were indubitably proved that Mr. City Solicitor had made made a mistake and handed over Bixty- one nails to the Remembrancer 1 Pew men have had more untruths told about them than has Mr. Spurgeon. The last specimen of this is in an American journal which tells us that the popular preacher has announced his intention of delivering a lecture to which rich men alone are to be admitted, and that none possessing less than £ 40,000 will be allowed to hear it. I need scarcely say that there is not an atom of truth in the statement, which seems to have been suggested to the unscrupulous fabricator by an anecdote related of the Rev. Rowland Hill. Just before the plates were handed round for a collection, the eccentric minister elaborately expressed a hope that no one would put anything in the plate who could not pay his or her debts— whereupon everybody gave something ! A movement has been set on foot in London, and is being carried out already on rather a large scale, which is very likely to be adopted in Bome country towns. In many trades, - or rather shops, it has been found very difficult to carry out the early closing movement on Saturday, and the new plan is to close the shop at eight o'clock instead bf nine on all other evenings. The system at all events is worthy of consideration. A C0STERM0NGERS' FESTIVAL. In London, on Monday night, the costermongen of St. Luke's, to whom a concession has just been made by a majority of vestrymen of that parish giving to this in- dustrious class of the aommunity the right to pitch their stalls and barroWB in Whitecross- street on Sundays, held what they termed a " festival in honour of their recent victory," under the direction of Mr. William Catlin. Notwithstanding the drenching rain that set in and continued during the evening, upwards of one hundred and fifty men, women, and children assembled in Whitecross street, and proceeded in procession, headed by a> band of music, to the Mission Hall, Cow- cross, a distance of about a mile. They were greeted upon arrival by the loud cheers ' of their brother costers, who lined the approaches to the hall. Upon entering the building, wet to the skin. Mr. Catlin expressed a hope that tbey would " make •'' themselves at home." Seats and tables were rangedon either ride of the room, in tbe centre was a large magio lantern, and on the platform at tbe end were seated several of the vestrymen who had fought the fight of the costers, and by whose influence the boasted victory had been brought about. At the back- of these gentlemen, on- thespread sheet upon which the shadows of the magic figures were subsequently thrown, were pinned a couple of newly- printed bills. The one signed by the Costermongers' Defence Committee stated " that on and after the 18th of December no business would be done on any barrow or stall in Whitecross- street after half- past ten o'clock on Sunday mornings," the other bill announced the fact " that the shops would be closed at eleven o'clock on Sunday mornings according to promise given to the vestry by the tradesmen of Whrfecross- etreet." It was tho work of not many minutes to be seated, although a large number of both pen and women advisedly divested themselves of their jackets and shawls before settling down to the enjoyment of their feast. The feast itself was not of a very sump- tuous character. It consisted simply of tea, bread and butter, and plum cake. The circumstances, however, under which this repast was served being rather un- usual, the guests, influenced, no doubt, by the novelty of the occasion, did all they could in the time allowed for this part of the entertainment to testify their un- qualified appreciation of the fare. Indeed, so enthu- siastic were theyjn the cause, that Mr. Catlin deemed it expedient to mount a table in the centre of the room and call ppon them to " stop," informing them at the same time that they had " put away " 501b. of the best plum cake, which was valued at one shilling per pound, 1601b. of bread ( he knew not how much butter), and 50 gallons of tea. He thought that everybody ought to have had enough ; at the same time, he ob- served that those who had not were at liberty to go up into the gallery, and there have a " mortal gorge." Before the feast was served this same authority, ad- dressing the meeting, said—" Tea's already, chaps. You won't be kept not five minutes, bat before It's served I know you will Hko to sing a word of praise to God." Every individual instantly roso, and sang the first verse of a hymn in a manner that proved many of theqa to be by no means unacquainted with churcn muufG/ y 2 At the conclusion of this opening ceremony, Mr. Catlin said, " That Vi t, as Shakespeare sayB, ' All's well that tnds welL' Now here's tea," and simultaneous with this announcement three or four stalwart costers, with their ehixt sleeves tucked up to their armpits, entered thejojff carrying cans of tea and plates of cake, to which, as alrya'iy mentioned, the guests de- voted their exclusive attention, which was only diverted bf the rifflefe- Interruption of their chair- man. At tho conclusion of tho tea, while the cups and saucers were being cleared away, Mr. Catlin, in reply to a broad- shouldered youth, who complained that he had had only " one piece of cake," ageir quoted Shakespeare. He said, " No matter, my chap, ' all's well that ends well.'" The young coster, however, appeared to think that the tea had not ended so well as far as he was concerned, and at once resorted to his short pipe as a solace for his shortcomings. The business of tne evening then com- menced by the addresses of Mr. Bilby, Mr. Brook, and Mr. Pedder, the vestrymen of St. Luke's, who had interested themselves in the cause. An exhibition, a diorama of scenes of the metropolis, then took place, which WSB followed by several songs, with pianoforte accompaniment, and the meeting, which was very orderly throughout, separated. AN M. P. ON MECHANICS' INSTI- TUTIONS. Mr. Ulingworth, MP. for I o_ at the annual distribution of prizes at the £ ithwaite Mechanics' Institution, near Huddersfield, on Satur- day evening, said that Mecbanio' Institutions had not had the influence which their founders anticipated. Owing to various causes, tho very protracted hours of labour, very great deficiency of elementary education, and peculiar condition of society in the past, it had been impossible to educate the mass of the people in youth so as to qualify them for that higher instruction which it was desired to give them in future. He believed Mechanics' Institutions Were destined to do even more good than their founders ever expected, but before that day there was a great deal of hard work to be done. Was he not justified in saying when there was still further reduction in the hours of labour— and he predicted the eight hours day movement— and more leisure was placed at the disposal of the working classes, and there was a thorough system of Parliamentary education, Me- chanic's Institutions would then discharge their proper functions? Hitherto they had been perverted ( from their right use. They had simply been elementary schools. But as soon as Sunday schools became insti- tutions where religion was taught in its highest sense, and elementary education was given at proper sohools during the week, Mechanics' Institutions would gain their true positions as high centres of culture. Ig norance would soon become as great a degradation in the lower as drunkenness had done in the higher classes of society. The working man would BOOB be tiught that. There was no means of elevating the mkss of the people but by plodding efforts and association to positions of increased culture, increased independence, and increased power. By the aid of Mechanics' Insti- tutions, in the first place, a man could raise himself from tbe lowest to the highest position in the affairs of State, and what those institutions had done in the past was but a faint glimmer of what they would accomplish in the future. Mr. Carter, MP. for Leeds, recommended the es- tablishment in every village like Slaithwaite of pub- lic schools, and the levying of a school- rate; the establishment of a free library and reading- room, and the levying of a library rate. That system had been attended with immense success in Leeds, and it was being adopted at Bradford. He was not so san- guine as regarded the future of Mechanics' Institu- tions, for he looked for the day, and trusted it was not far distant, when there would be middle schools supported by Government in which young men belong- ing to the working and middle classes could be pre- pared to go straight to the Universities. Such schools would supply a deplorable gap in our educational machinery, and enable the children of the working classes to get a better education than they did at present. MODERN ENGLISH FARE. Too much of a good thing, we know, I* sometimes to be had ; More often, In this world of woe, Too much ol one that* s bad. Toujouriperdrix will cloy, they say; Yet make a shift could I To dine off partridge every day; Bat can't stand humble pie. That, of oil dishes, I like least: I cram It; bat I find That far Is that continual feast From a contented mind.— Punch. lltisxxIIaiTtcms fnMItgetra, HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. A HINT TO THE SLEEPLESS!— Henry Ward Beecher somotimes finds it difficult to get sleep, and after proving the inefficiency of various prescriptions of the milder order— that - Is, such as can be adminis- tered without calling the restless patient out of bed, he proceeds as follows:—" I walk nto the bath- room and turn on a little water, just enough to put my feet and ankles into, and it is very rare indeed that the obstinacy of my system resists that This operation brings the blood down to the feet, and 1 can always get to sleep. If I cannot, I turn on a little more water and sit down in it. THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH AND Sm JOHN COLERIDGE.— With reference to the controversy between the Duke of Marlborough and Sir John Coleridge, the former writes :— " The Attorney General lays, ** The duke denies that hit estates have ever been granted by the State. " What I denied was that the " vast estates " to which he allnded in his speech In connection with my cottage property had ever been so granted I beg to refer him to S and 4 Anne, cap. 6. an act to enable the Queen, by letters patent, to grant to the Dake of Marlborough the Honour and Manor at Wood- stock and Hundred of Wootton. He wUl there see the iden tical lands granted, with their names and admeasurements, and will be able to form his own opinion what proportion are no cottages whatever upen tbe landsln question. The Attorney General, if he cares to peruse this act, will perhaps be candid enough to admit that he has been Indulging In tho tame strain of rhetoric to which he has already pleaded guilty. HAIR- BREADT^ ESCAPE.— The ladies' car of an express train on the Paducah and Elizabeth town Railroad, in Kentucky, was thrown from the track on the night of the 13th of October, and tumbled down an embankment - lOTtr. in height. Two persons were killed and fourteen injured. One lady in the car bad her hair caught iff a wheel in such a manner that it had to be cut off close to the head before she could be released. A child in her arms was un- injured. A NOVEL APPLICATION TO A LONDON MA- GISTRATE.— At the Clerkenwell police court an English woman, applied to the sitting magistrate under the following circumstances : Sbe stated thawer daughter was now, and had for some time been, residing in Offenbach, in Germany, and had received an offer of marriage from a German tradesman. As sho was only 19 years of age, she understood that nho could not be legally married without she received the consent of her mother, and' therefore she had written to ask her to send her consent, and to get that consent signed in the presence of a magistrate. She was quite willing to give her consent, as she thought it would be u good thing for her daughter; and therefore it was that she applied to his worship for him to put liis eipnature to her consent. It was necessary that her consent ehould be given at once, as the marriage was fixed to take place on the 9th inst.; and when it bad taken placo they intended going to tbe capital The magistrate said he could not assist the applicant, and she then withdrew. ECONOMY AND COAL !— Householders who aro anxious to economize their coal will do well to try a plan suggested by a correspondent of the Edinburgh Courant, which, assuming it to prove effectual, should at once practically reduce coals to a third of their present price ( remarks the Pall Mall Gazette). Looking over an old volume, he says he found the following valuable piece of information :—" By expending ono penny you can render one ton of coals equal to three tons. One pennyworth of tar- wator will satu- rate a tnb of coals with treble its original quantity of. bitumen, the principal source of their heat and light, and of course render one such tub of three times more value than when it was unsaturated." Any householder who finds this experiment answer will, if he to wise, preserve a profound silence on the Bubiect, for he may rest assured that if the secret gets wind the coal owners will at once treble the price of coal, and the colliers will all strike for three times the amount of th « b present wages. CHICAGO.— It appears that when Chicago was burning there was abundance of water below it Artesian wells are being opened in that city, 21 having already been bored, and in no instance has a failure to obtain a plentiful supply 0f water occurred. A well at Kenwood, justsouth of Chicago, 1,255ft deep, andBJin. in diameter at the bottom, yields 650 gallons per minute. It cost about 6,000 dols. A well in the busi- ness centre cf Chicago is 1,600ft deep, yields 525 gallons per minute, and cost 7,000 dols. The usual depth oI the wells is from 1,200ft. to 1,300ft, and the average cost is 6,000 dols. for a 5iin. well, 1,200ft deep, and 5,000 dols. for a 4iin. bore to the same depth. The surface pressure of the water varies from 221b. to 351b. to the square inch, and the latter pressure is sufficient to throw a stream to the height of 100ft The deepest well in Chicago is in the South Park, where the bore, 3Jin. in diameter, has been carried down 1,640ft The comparative smallness of the fibw from this well Is adduced as an argument in favour of larger borings. THE COST OP LIVING.— Mr. Spencelagh was re- elected High Constable of Chatham, last week, and at the banquet in the evening Mr. A. J. Otway, MP., responding to the toast of " The Borough Membere," referred to the dearness of provisions, and asked why it was the English as a nation were the worst and most expensively fed people in the world. In answering this auestion he asserted that the wives of English householders did not take the trouble to master their busi- ness properly. A French middle class family would live infinitely better than a similar one in England at two- thirds of the cost, owing to the English ignorance of the art of cookery, and the scandalous waste of articles which might be used to good purposes. This matter was getting very serious to the country. INCUMBENTS' RESIGNATION ACT.— The Rev. Canon Kennaway? vicar of Chipping Campden, Glocestershire, having represented to the Lord Bishop of the diocese that he was incapacitated for the due per- formance of his duties, his lordship issued a Commis- sion under the Incumbents' ^ Resignation Act, 187L The Commissioners were Archdeacon Sir George Prevost, the Rev. Canon Hutchinson, the Rev. G. D. Bourne, Mr. E. Holland, and Colonel NoeL The first meeting under the Commission was held at Chipping Campden on Thursday. Witnesses were examined on oath to [ prove the state of health of the vicar, the amount of the income and outgoings of the vicarage, due service of the formal documents, and other matters. It appeared from the evidence taken that the vicar was incapacitated by mental and bodily infirmity for the due performance of his duties, that the gross income of the benifice was £ 850, net income £ 765. The Commissioners unanimously resolved to make a return to the effect that the proposed resignation was ex- pedient and recommended a pension of £ 170 per annum. _ The proceedings were the first instituted under this Act in the Archdeaconry of Glocester. A HORRIBLE SUPERSTITION.— The Provi- dence Herald, of September 5, says :— " The village of Peacedale was thrown Into excitement town, near the South Ferry, are subject to consumption, several members of the family having died of tbe disease ; and one member of the family Is now quite low with it. At the urgent request of the sick man, the father, assisted by Charles Harrington, of North Kingston, repaired to the burying ground, located one mile north of Peacedale, and, after building a fire, first dug up the grave of his son, who had been burled twelve years, for the purpose of taking out his heart and liver, which were to be placed In the fire and consumed, in order to carry out the old superstition that the consumptive dead draw nourishment from the living. But as the body was entirely reduced to ashes, except a few bones. It was shortly covered up, and the body ol a daughter, who had been dead seven years, was taken out of the grave beside her brother. This body was found to be nearly wasted away, except the vital parts, the liver and heart, which were In a perfect state of preservation. The coffin was nearly perfect, while the son's coffin was nearly demolished. After the heart and liver had been taken out, they were placed In the fire and consumed, the ashes only being put back In the grave. The fire was then put out, and the two men departed to their re- spective homes. Only a few spectators were present to wit- ness the horrible scene. It seems that this Is not the first tlmo that graves have been dug up where consumption was preva- lent In the family, and the vital parts burned In order to save the living. Afewyears ago the same was done In the village of Moorsfield, and also In the town of North Kingston. AN IRISH " WAKE!"— A shocking occurrence arising out of the barbarous practice of " waking " the dead, has just occurred in Dublin. A child named Sharpe having died of bronchitis, its parents had a wake in accordance with the usual practice of the lower classes, which, though strongly discountenanced by the Roman Catholic clergy, is still persisted in, because it affords an occasion for dissipation. The company retired at eleven o'clock at night, and at daybreak next morning, an alarm of fire having been raised, the room in which the dead child lay was broken open, and it was found that both the father and mother were suffocated and the corpse of the infant was burnt to a cinder!— An inquest was held on tho bodies, and it was proved that the unfortunate creatures had quarrelled about the place of sepulture of the child they were waking, the man being a Pro- testant and the woman a Catholic. Both were drunk. The verdict was, " Death by Suffocation." A COLLIERY ON FIRE.— The work of filling theDarfield Main Colliery with water is proceeding in a very satisfactory manner, there having been no ex plosions so far, and the prospects as to opening out are more encouraging, although the clearing of the work- ings. under the most favourable conditions, will be a work of time. This will be apparent when it is stated that there are about 70 acres of " goave " or open space where the coal has been taken from it, and it has been calculated that it will require about 42 days to draw the water out, supposing 2,000 tons to be raised every 24 hours. Some temporary head- gearing has been erected, that formerly in use haying been all but destroyed by the fire, and preparations are being made for opening the shafts for the purpose of seeing what damage they have received towards the top, and re- pairing it In the course of a few days it is expected that the water will have advanced to the height fixed upon by those in charge of the colliery, ana shortly afterwards the necessary steps will be taken to draw it out Sanguine expectations are entertained that the early part of next year will see the colliery on'ce more in full operation. THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT.— The trial of the Claimant on the indictments removed from the Cen- tral Criminal Court into the Court of Queen's Bench iB set down for the sittings after the ensuing term in Middlesex, appointed to commence on the 26th of November. Notices have been issued by the Solicitor to the Treasury on the three indictments, and a special application will be made to the Court as to the hearing of the indictments, which must occupy a considerable time. The indictment for per- jury, in which there will be a special jury, will be first taken. The indictments are entitled " Tho Queen r. Castro, otherwise Orton, & c." In the action in the Common Pleas, " Tichborne v. Lushingtom" the onus was on the Claimant to establish his alleged right, but on the forthcoming trial the onus probandi will be on the prosecution. The case has been removed to the Crown Office, but will be taken at the Nisi Prius Bit- tings. GEOGRAPHY ON ' CHANGE.— Portly Stockjobber [ gloomily): " Those Bonds are down again! It appears the Americans have taken Umbrage " Stumpy Ditto: " The Deuce they have! Whereabouts is that! " I!— Punch. SMART ADVERTISING.— A few days ago the in- habitants of a country town were filled with conjecture ot the following sign painted in large capitals on the front of a house recently fitted up and repaired :— " Mrs. Brown, Dealer in all sorts of Ladies." All was consternation. Inquiry was instantly set on foot as to who this Sirs. Brown might be, but no one could telL She was a stranger in the town. The second week after the mystery was unravelled. The house painter returned to finish his work, and concluded by adding— ' and Gentleman's Wearing Apparel." THE LIGHTING OF TOWNS.— One aide of Moorgate- street London, is at tbe present time being subjected to an experiment in the wav of street lighting. One side of tho street is lighted with the old lamps, aad the other with the catroptric lamp, in which the principle of a reflector, catching and strengthening the fight > 8 applied very ingeniously and effectively by means of strips of glass covered on one side with a silvered substance. The invention can bo applied to the old lamps, the upper parts of which are displaced by a frame in which the strios of glass are arranged, like an ordinary glass ventilator, but so covered in that they do not get dust covered or liable to breakage. Tho inventor is Mr. Skelton, of Essex- street, Strand, and he calculates that one- third of the light is uselessly expended in the common lamps. The two rows of lamps in Moorgate- street, the old and new, presen t a remarkable difference, each of the new lamps, though with the samo flame in it as the old, showing as if thore were two fliunea A SHORT WAT WITH NUNS !— The Bhuddiat nunneries at Wuchang have been suppressed, and tne parents of the girls notified that if not claimed and taken home the ex- nuns will be handed over to any eligible parties desiring 3 Atzo are numerous ap- plications for them. * TRUE CONJUGAL IMPARTIALITY — a I can as- sine you, Sarah, that I'm not at all the " Hjrt of Woman who can't see a Man's Faults because she happens to be Married to him. On the contrary, I'm quite convinced that if dear Bobert were not abtolutcty fault- less, as I must say he is, I should be the very first Person to find it out" JI!!— Punch. A SOLDIER'S YARN.— A party of American soldiers were sitting together, talking of their adven- tures during tbe war, and, as s generally the case, some pretty hard yams were toHL The conversation finally turned on promotions, when a tall Teuton broko forth with : " HI tell yoa something about that, boys. When I joined the cavalry I hadn't been long in this country, and didn't understand much English. We were sent np In the Valley, and at the battle of Winchester we were ordered to charge a battery. Well, tbe captain gave the order to charge, and away we went in line style. The John- nies opened on us with grape and canister. Many a horse tumbled oyer, and plenty of saddles were emptied. That didn't make any difference ; we went straight ahead. Suddenly the captain gave the order to retreat The whole company turned and went back, except me. You see I didn't understand the order, so I kept on and charged right among them: and by Jove, I captured the whole battery and brought it in myself. Now, I'll tell yon how it. turned out The next day the captain was a major, the first lieutenant was made a captain, and .** " Well, what did they do for you ?" inquired a listener. " Why, they put me in the guard- house because I wouldn't tell a lie." THE EUROPEAN ARBITRATION.— At the sitting on Saturday Lord Westbury had before him the ap- plication of certain annuitants in tbe European. Mr. Chitty argued that they were entitled to interest on such instalments as became due after, as well as those accrued due before, the date of the winding- up order. His lordship decided three points in favourof the annui- tants- ( 1) that they are entitled to interest on the instal- ment which became due before the date of the order ; ( 2) to no interest on the instalment due after that date ; ( 3) the annuities to be valued as at thedateof the winding- up order. Mr. Bomer then applied, on the part of Mr. Wallberg and the other policyholders, represented by Mr. Southgate. who paid their premiums into a " sus- pense account, on the faith of Vice- Chancellor Malins's order, that they might have the value of those pre- miums returned if it should be decided that the valua- tion of their policies was to be taken as at tbe date of the winding- up order. Lord Westbury said the policy- holders must elect at once without waiting for his de- cision on that point; but on Mr. Bomer arguing that he could not elect offhand for a number of persons with different interests, his lordship allowed a few days to decide between having their premiums returned and being admitted to prove the value of their policies. POOR FELLOW !— A gentleman gave a letter of introduction to a student of music about to visit Leipsic, who wished to put himself under the instruc- tion of Professor , a famous teacher of music in the latter city. Upon the student's return home, the gentleman asked, " How did you like Professor ?" —" Oh, wonderfully! He gave me fine lessons ; but he is a very singular man. He kept praying all the time he was teaching me."—" Praying! Why, what do you mean?''—" Well, while I was playing, he clasped his hands, lifted his eyes to the ceiling, and kept saying. " ' Good Lord, what sin have I committed to deserve this punishment ?'" HAPPY UNIVERSITIES?— They have " Select" Preachers at Oxford and Cambridge. Would that it were so all over !— Punch. THE WORKING OP THE BALLOT.— It is eaid of the Ballot in Harrington's Oceana, that its use " is full of perplexity and abstruseness in writing, but of despatch and facility in practice." This remark, made by one of its earliest English advocates two hundred years ago, has been singularly verified by the results already obtained under the Ballot Act 1872, observes The Times, and continues :— Apart from all the broader objections, moral or political. voted against It In Parliament chiefly because they doubted the possibility of getting so cumbrous a machinery to work. Not one person out often could be made to understand that point at which the old question " For whom do you vote I" used to be addressed to the voter, who now receives a ballot- paper Instead. The Parliamentary elections which have been held during the Reoess. and still more, the Municipal elections which have been held within the last few days, have completely dispelled the prejudice against the Ballot founded on Its supposed compleiity. As a corrective ol bribery, as a safeguard against Intimidation, and a security for secrecy, It must still be regarded as an ex- periment In this country ; but as a convenient mode of collecting votes without tumult or disorder— and this Is nearly all that Mr. Baxter claimed for It— few will deny that It has proved highly successful. It was tried under every disadvantage at Preston, where the " card trick" practised by the Conservative party enabled them to make periodical returns of the poll; yet the proceedings are acknowledged to have been lesi noisy and more peaceable than at former elections. The same testi- mony was given by those who watched Its operation at Pon- tetract, and it la decisively confirmed by the much larger experience gained In recent contests for Municipal offices. We are Informed that In " Cornwall the first elections under the Ballot Act for Municipal honours have been conducted In the most orderly and satisfactory manner. No difficulty whatever was found by tbe presiding Aldermen In carrjlng out the provisions of the Act, and there was none of the confusion and very little of the excitement which prevailed at these contests under the old system " The report from Glocester Is very slnilar, and, whereas In Cornwall the number of persons voting was about the average, taking one borough with another, at Gloccster, " The abstentions were fewer than at the last election." In the great Northern boroughs the elections are stated to have been unusually quiet, and, notwithstanding a remark- able activity on the part of the publicans, there appears to have been " an entire absence of drunkenness.- At Wolverhampton, at Rochester, and at Southampton, where there were fierce party struggles, a like Improvement was observed in the behaviour of electors, and from Kiddermin- ster alone do we hear of " as much commotion as at one of the old fashioned Parliamentary elections "— which, how- ever, It must be admitted. Is saying a good deal. HERRINGS AND MACKEREL IN A TANK.— Con- siderable difficulty has always been experienced in taming many of the fish sufficiently to enable them to be kept in tanks. The mackerel has never yet been kept long in a tank. In the Brighton Aquarium, however, by reason of the very large sizo of the tanks and by a system of artificial darkness at first, the mackerel has been tamed and acclimatised. The darkness is produced simply by supplying the thickened water fresh from the sea and by spreading a curtain over the tank which the fish are confined in at first and by gradually moving them in the cleaner water and withdrawing the curtain until they will swim about without showing any alarm at the sight of the visitors. Two mackerel have Deen in the aquarium for more than two months ; they are healthy, shy, feed well, and are Eowing rapidly. Lately, a small shoal of herrings ve been added to the collection, and they form a very attractive spectacle. The grace and beauty of their motions and the wondrous shine of their silver scales are most remarkable. Very few people have ever had the opportunity of seeing herrings alive in a taik, and certainly never is an aquarium. A GREENGROCER'S WATCH.— A Turnip.— Punch, THE MINERS AND THE FRANCHISE.— On Satur- day night the miners of Hilda Colliery, S& u'. h Shields, had a great demonstration in celebration of their hav- ing obtained the franchise. The miners, headed by a band and banners, paraded South Shields, afterwards proceeded to the Mechanics' Institution, where the meeting was held, presided over by Mr. Stevenson, borough member, who congratulated them on obtain- ing the franchise, but regretted the miners of Northmn- berland at, Morpeth had not been successful. He hoped by next year the difficulties respecting pitmen s qualifications would be cleared awav, and they would be enfranchised. He spoke at length on the Miner, Regulation Bill, looking upon it aa a most ad- vantageous measure for pitmen.. It would tend to the adoption of the best means for improving ventikti > n ano otherwise of mines, and he hoped there wouM be a diminution of dreadful accidents m mines. He w s ? lad that boys under twelve would be prevented work- Intr in mines, and that men would be paid for coals by wtight instead of measure. Dr. Trotter the repre- sentative of the Morpeth Central Franchise Com- mittee, also spoke, and said an organisation had been formed at Bedlington for obtaining manhood suffrage. He moved that the miners of Hilda Colliery memo- rialise Government to amend the People's Reorienta- tion Act so that household suffrage be a reality. ThU wae carried, and the meeting concluded. 1 THE CHELSEA SUICIDES. On Monday, $£ the Westminster Police- court, Paul Julius Hal, 21, a native ot Berlin. ni chirked with killing Her- mann >' agel, at 21, Langton- street, Chelsea, on the 21st ol Anguitiart. Mr. Poland, instructed by Mr. Wontner, jam, one of the Treasury solicitors, appeared for the prosecu- tion : Mr. Edward Meyer. Chancellor of the Consulate- General of the G « rman Empire in London, watched the case. The prisoner was not represented, but Mr. Albert, the interpreter, was instructed by the Magis- trate to look alter the interests of the prisoner tod explain the statements of counsel, which are not usually translated to tie prisoner. It may be recollected that the prisoner and Her- mann Nagel left Germany together, and, after wasting their money in riotoos living, weve reduced to a state of poverty. They were left together by some women in a house in Langton- street, and pistol shots were heard. When the door was broken open, Nagel was found dead OR. the floor, and the prisoner, apparently dead aloo, close to him. Nagel was shot through the heart, Kid the prisoner, having been wounded too, was removed to the hospital. Being well enough to leave on Saturday, he was apprehended by the police and taken to the police station at Milman's- row, Chelsea, where he was charged with the murder of his associate, on the presumption that either he had fired the shots, or that they having agreed to commit suicide, the survivor was guilty of the murder of the other. This principle of law was laid down many years ago and acted upon as recently as 1838. One Allison and wife having taken laudanum, the man, who survived, was found guilty of the murder of the woman. The prisoner was not placed in the dock on the original charge, but Mr. Poland said he had to apply to the Magistrate for a warrant against a young man, named Paul Julius Mai, forthewilfulmniderof one Hermann NageL The police were called in at the time of the murder and found that the man Mai was very severely wounded himself, and they took him to the hospital in order that he might there be cured of the serious wound inflicted upon nimselJf. An inquiry was held in the nature of a coroner's inquisition touching the death of Her- mann Nagel, and the jury, after going into the matter at great length, found a verdict of " Wilful murder " against Paul Julius Mai, a warrant against whom was now asked for. The recognizances were returned to the Central Criminal Court with the deposi- tions of the witnesses, and the coroner issued his warrant for the apprehension of the prisoner and his removal to Newgate. In accordance with the verdict of the jury the police, who then had no legal assis- tance. preferred a bill of indictment against Paul Mai for the murder of Nagel on the coroner'B inquisition, and the grand jury returned a true bill. At that time the prisoner was in St. George's Hospital, where he had remained till Saturday, the police meanwhile taking care and watching him for the purpose of bring- ing him to justice, and on Saturday last the police took him into custody at the hospital, and charged him in the ordinary way with - murder. It was thought that the evidence should be commenced de novo and taken in the hearing of the accused that he might know what he had to answer and have an opportuniay of cross- examining the witnesses. Mr. Poland said, in con- tinuation, he must call attention to the provisions of Jervis's Act, 11 and 12 Vict., cap 42, sec. 3, and thought it right to state that after the finding of the grand jury, Mr. Avory, the Clerk of the Arraigns, upon being applied to, gave the required certificate. In answer to the Magistrate. Mr. Poland went on to say that at the time the indictment was preferred the prisoner was in the hospital, and the police were there to see he did not go at large ; the certificate was dated October 22, and he had it before him, and in the face of that he did not see how hia worship could do otherwise than act under the provisions of JERVIB'S Act— issue the warrant and commit the prisoner forth- with. One, of course, would feel that although there was a full inquiry before the coroner, the prisoner was not present and knew nothing about it, and it waa always thought that a man should have an opportu- nity of hearing what he had to answer, and have an opportunity of cross- examining the witnesses. He in a great measure thought so too; still he must re- peat, he could not, in the face of that certificate and clause of the Act, do other than ask for a warrant for the apprehension of the prisoner, and upon his being identified with the person against whom the bill was found, then ask that he should be committed to the next session of the Central Criminal Court to take his trial on the original charge. He had gone into the matter very carefully. The learned counsel then made a cursory reference to the 17th section of Jervis'a Act, which enacts that the justices before committal shall take the depositions of the witnesses in the presence and hearing of the accused person, but said he could not see how that could possibly apply to this case ; he Rhould give the prisoner a copy of the evidence given before the coroner, and also furnish him with such further evidence as he proposed to call, so that he would have every opportunity of preparing his defence. All that now remained was to ask the magistrate to issue his warrant and commit the prisoner under the 3d section of the Act. The Magistrate said he was of opinion that he was bound to accede to the application of the learned counsel, without any general observations affording the prisoner an opportunity of examining the witnesses. It was simply his duty to issue the warrant and com- mit the prisoner, without it being incumbent upon him to go into any question prior to the finding of the grand jury and having relation to the merits of the case anterior to the finding. He was not justified in deviating from the course laid down, althongh it might appear a hardship that the prisoner was not allowed to near the evidence taken against him. Upon pro- duction of the certificate of the Clerk of the Arraigns, and the identification of the person charged, he should commit him, without further inquiry. Inspector Gill then produced the certificate of the finding of the grand jury, and The Magistrate issued his warrant for the apprehen- sion of Paul Julius Mai for the wilful murder of Her- mann NageL In a few minutes the prisoner was placed in the dock: he is quite a stripling, and appears but seven- teen. He was very calm and self- possessed throughout the whole of the proceedings, only once exhibiting any anxiety. When the inspector got up into the witness- box he wanted to know why Mr. Gill was the prosecutor, but was quiet when told by the interpreter it was only a matter of form; hi objected also to be sent to Newgate in his present state of health, and said he was not fit to leavo the hospital. John Gill, inspector of tho T Division of Police, said he identified the prisoner, aud had just appre- hended him on tho warrant. The prisoner was dis- charged on Saturday from St. George's Hospital. Witness was present when the coroner's jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against the prisoner for the murder of Herman Nagel, and witnesses were bound over to prose .• ute'at the Old Bailey, at the Sep- tember Session; the indictment waa preferred, and a true bill found against the prisoner. Witness had ap- plied to Mr. Avorv, the Clerk of the Arraign^, for a certificate of the finding of the grand jury, and pro- duced it. The prisoner wa3 the person mentioned in the certificate. The warrant was interpreted to the prisoner by Mr. Albert, the interpreter. Mr. Albert having interpreted the evidence of Mr. Gill, Prisoner said he had no question to ask, except that he wanted to know why Mr. Gill should accuse him of such an offence. Mr. Albert said he had great difficulty in making the prisoner understand the charge. He then explained that Mr. Gill was simply a nominal prosecutor, and the prisoner was apparently eatiffied. The Magistrate said the evidence of identity waa sufficient, and he should commit the prisoner. Upon this being explained to him prisoner said he was too ill to go to prison. Mr. Poland eaid every attention would be paid him. He was then committed to take hia trial at the Old BaSey. U pen being removed from the dock to tho reserve room be completely broke down, and, borying his face in hia hands, said he had not a friend in tbi* country, and hia father even had not come over to see him. He became more calm, however, when Mr. Albert explaiupd- what wi uld be done with him, and he was satisfied " that he would have justice. Hr was removed to NeWgate in a cab under the care of Mr. GiU. The Treaty of Commerce with France was signed onTrrsdny bj Lrd Uru vUJe. on bcoalt I her BH; nnnIc Majesty, mid Uy M. Ulrica Vr>, MfV a' « jUln » » uI hriaoe st London, and 11. Ozenre, on BehaH of'tSe i'iid- dent of the Frcnch Eepuhlla, A KNOTTY POINT TO DECIDE. In tta Boll's Court, the cause of " Lyall v. LyaU" has been decided, and Is a case of interest to trustees and the public generally. The petition presented in this cause raised an im- portant question under tho Succession Duty Act— namely, whether the property of persons domiciled abroad, if vested in English trustees, is liable to succes- sion duty. By the settlement dated in May, 1850, made on the marriage of Mr. Lyall, a domiciled resi- dent at Sydney, a sum of £ 1,047 Consols, and the proceeds of a policy for £ 2,000 on Mr. Lyall a life were vested in a set of English trustees upon trust for Mrs. Lyall in tbc event of her surviving her husband, and after her death upon trait for their children, _ aad Mr. Lyall covenanted to pay to the trustees within three years frem the date of the settlement a further sum of £ 1,000 to be held by them upon the same trusts. Mr. Lyall died at Sydney in April, 1853, and Mrs. Lyall died three months afterwards, leaving an only child, the petitioner, who is also a domiciled resident at Sydney." The suit - was instituted for the purpose of administering the trusts of the settlement, and Mr. Lyall'a ton having petitioned that the fund stand- ing to tie credit of the cause might be paid. out to him as the person entitled thereto, a claim to succession duty was raised by the Commissioners of Inland Re- venue on the portion of the fund representing the money secured by the policy and the sum covenanted to be paid by Mr. Lyall, it being admitted that the Consols invested at the date of the settlement were liable to succession duty. The case was argued before the vacation by Sir Richard Baggallay, Q. C., and Mr. Hemming for the petitioner : and the Solicitor- General and Mr. W. W. Karslake for tho Commissioners of Inland Revenue; Mr. E. G. White was for the trustees. The Master of the Rolls, in the course of an elaborate judgment, said that the distinction between the law as to succession duty and the law as to legacy duty in cases of foreign domicile appeared on principle to be extremely thin. The House of Lords had decided that legacy duty was not payable on personal property be- queathed by a testator domioiled abroad, and why should succession duty be payable under similar circum stances? He had accordingly held in " Callanane v. Campbell," L. B. Eq., 378, that upon the death of an annuitant under the will of a testator domiciled abroad, no succession duty waa payable on the funds which were set apart to meet the annuity, and which then fell into bis residuary estate. How- everf the HOUBO of Lords reversed that decision in April last, laying down the general principle that where a person, whether an alien or a British subject, succeeds to property vested in British trustees, he is liable to pay succession duty, whether the settlement be made by an alien or a British subject, and whether the settlement be made by deed or wilL Upon a, consideration of the authorities, it appeared to him that the question was left in anunsatisfactoryposi- tion ; still he was bound'by the decision of the House of Lords above referred to, and must hold that suc- cession duty must be deducted in payment out of the fond. A SCENE AT THE VATICAN. ( From Tuesday'* Times.) Letters from Rome describe a curious scene said to have occurred at the Vatican on Sunday last. It waa deemed desirable by certain zealots who surrounded the Pope to give Cardinal Cullen a high opinion of the attachment of the Roman people to the temporal power. The society for the Promotion of Catholic Interests took the matter in hand and got together a vast number of persons belonging to the lower orders. It is said that as many aa 5,000 were collected, and that a large portion of them were paid for their assistance. The guidance of this motley army was undertaken by Don Pietro Aldobrandini, Prince of Sarsiha, who was charged to read to the Pope an address, which an Italian paper says it dares not print, since to do so would be to transgress the laws and incur immediate seizure. The_ Pope replied by a speech, in which he explained that it is one thing to be now in Rome and another thing to remain there always. To this speech succeeded a tumult such as the halls of the Vatican can rarely before have witnessed. The building rang with shouts of " Viva U PapaEd/ f^ " Viva il nostro Sovrano /" and to these! succeeded others of " Death to Victor Emmanuel 1" These latter cries, uttered in the presence of Christ's vicegerent upon earth, immensely scandalised the more moderate of the persons present, and the Pope himself seems to have understood that the commonest limits of decorum had been overstepped, and that the dig- nity of the Tiara waa gravely compromised by a scandal he seemed to countenance. The furious cries of " Death to the King" continuing, he felt that things had been allowed to go too far. and making sign to the fanatical assemblage to be silent, he again spoke, and said that their weapons must not be the sword and artillery, but prayer and good examples. The whole demonstration was of a nature to shock rather than to edify the person for whose special benefit it is alleged to have been got up, and wha is said to have been most unfavourably impressed by the cha- racter of the assemblage ana the violence of the lan- guage used. ' 0GAN and WIFE v. the SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY." This was an action to recover damages for personal Injuries suffered by the Jemale plaintiff; but at the trial in Sussex, bifore Mr. Baron Martin, a nonsuit was entered. Mr. Serjeant Parry now moved for a rule for a new trial, and stated the following facts :— The plaintiff and his wife on Whit Monday went by excursion train from London to Hastings. About seven o'clock they went to the Hastings Station to return. The platform was densely crowded, and there were no officials' of the company to keep order. About five trains were to come up, and the first and second trains filled' without the plaintiff getting into either ol them. The third train arrived with consi- derable dash and speed, and the female plaintiff was by the crowd pushed down and fell between the train and the platform. She was a good deal injured, but fortunately a child that she had in her arms was not hurt. The question was whether, under these circum- stances, the learned judge was right in holding that no action would lie. His lordship expressed his own opinion in thin way— People who wentby these excursion trains were perfectly aware that large crowds would assemble, and they were bound to take care of themselves. He had himself beenshoved down on a platform when going to the Derby, but it waa his own fault, for he had no business there. ( Laughter.) At the present day if a man went to a railway station and got his nose scratched he thought that he had a right of action against the company. The learned serjeant sub- mitted that it was negligence on the part of the company to allow a much larger number of pas- sengers on the platform than could go by the approaching train, and especially BO, as they had no - ervanta of their own there to enforce order. The Lord Chief Justice: Would you have them place the people in lobbies and rooms to wait, as on foreign railways ? Mr. Serjeant Parry: A very good system. The Lord Chief Justice: You are the first English- man that I have ever heard approve Of it. ( A laugh.) | Mr. Serjeant Parry : Perhaps if I were there I should not do to. ( Laughter.) He submitted that : the company should allow only sufficient for one train on the platform at a time. | Mr. Justice Brett : Then there would be actions for persona beinginjucfed in consequence of being shutout from the platform. The Lord Chief Justifce : A platform might be per- fectly safe for a certain number of orderly people, whilst it would be perfectly insufficient for the same number of disorderly people, who would press upon the train. | Mr. Justice Grove thought that the foreign system of the queue was a good one, though perhaps it was a little overdone. The Lord Chief Justice, after some further discus- sion, said that the point was undoubtedly one of con- siderable importance, and there would therefore be a rule. Rule granted. STORM IN SICILY.— A Malta Correspondent, writing under date of Valetta, the 29th ult., says :— " Intelligence from Messina says that during the night of the 21th- 2£ th inst, at about ten o'clock, there was continuum lightning from the south- west, with rain in large drops at Intervals, followed by a most violent gust ol wind, which up- rooted everything in Its course— houses, trees, vineyards— also killing men and animals. Thirty- two victims have to be ^' plored, tuwlpx. several wounded, in the vlciqify of .' — ; Js tStlzsL £ » ve t^ rijc imdir tiia nUns. Jt supposed that In other town* In the province similar CONVICTION UNDER THE SCHOOL ACT. At one of the London police courts, a working man ^ Pas charged on a summons with neglecting to send his son, aged eleven and a- half years, to schooL Mr. Sydney Gedge, solicitor to the London School Board, who attended to prosecute, said the defendant waa sum- moned on the 20th of September, when he sent hia wife, and the case was adjourned. He afterwards attended and said he would send the boy to school, and the case was again adjourned for three weeks. At the re- hearing he asserted that the boy was over thirteen years of age, and not amenable to the Act. Thereupon the summons fell to the ground, but the regis- ter of the birth showed that the boy was eleven- and- a- half years old. Defendant eaid the boy was now at BchooL The Magistrate said it was a very bad case. The defendant had evidently done all he could to evado the law, even to the extent of telling a deliberate falsehood about the boy's age. He shouH fine him 53., or seven days. He was liable to be again summoned if he neglected hia duty. He went to the House of Correction in default of payment The Magistrate said he hoped thi3 Act would soon be repealed, and some provision made for examining defendants upon oath. At present he could not hear the defendant or his wife, and could not ask them questions. Mr. Gedge hoped so too, especially as Buch power was given under the Factory and other Acts. A SCHOOL BOARD AND PENNY SCHOOLS. At the meeting of the Liverpool School Board, on Monday, the discussion was resumed upon the resolu- tion that a temporary schpol, constructed either of wood or iron, should be provided, to accommodate from 600 to 700 children, and the fee for admission to which Bhould be Id. for children of all ages. Mr. Still, the Vice- Chairman of the Board, strongly advocated the necessity of such a school, which, he said, waa designed, not for the children of the pauper or criminal classes, but for those of the honest poor, who were unable to pay the higher fee, but whose feense of self- reliance and independence it was most im- portant to keep up, and this could only be properly done by the fee Doing a low one, and within their means of payment. In December last year there waa a deficiency of accommodation for more than 22,000 children in the town, and since that time there had not been laid even the foundation of a single additional school to meet that deficiency. Other members also spoke in favour of the resolu- tion, which was ultimately adopted by a large majority. THE NATIONAL ' EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE. At Birmingham, on - Tuesday, the fourth annnal meeting of the National Education League took place, under the presidency of Mr. George Dixon, M. P., who, in the course of his opening address, dwelt principally upon the good results of the Prussian pjan of com- pulsory education, and forcibly contrasted them with the voluntary and denominational system, where poverty was a barrier to every effort after educational improvement. One of - the resolutions carried was to the effect that Mr. Dixon be requested to move in the House of Commons that any amendment ef the Act of 1870, to be acceptable, must provide for the general election of School Boards, compulsory attendance, and the unconditional repeal of the 25th clause. BREACH OF PROMISE- DAMAGES £ 200. In the Court of Common Pleas, at Westminster, the cause of " Tournay u. Ktngsnorth" hai been heard, and was an action for breach of promise ol marriage. T{ ie plaintiff is a young woman abont twenty years of age, the daughter of a fanner residing near Chilham and Chartham, In Kent. The defendant is a young man twenty- seven years old, the son of another fanner also living in that neighbourhood. Mr. Day, in his opening speech for the plaintiff, said there was a great mass of correspondence, but, as he was not sympathetic, he would not read more than two of the letters. It appeared that the defendant had at first addressed the plaintiff as her Royal Highness Princess Alice of Perry Farm, and bad given her an engaged ring and hia portrait, but had at last declined to marry her on the ground that he had a father, on whom he depended for his means, and who objected to the engagement. Miss Tournay wis called, and proved aprxmd facie case. Tjvo letters were read, in one of which the de- fendant gave her an account of hiB purchasing some beef for a pudding, signing himself " Your loving Harrisin the otherhe declined to continue the corres- pondence, and stated that he wanted means to marry. The action " ivas practically undefended ; but Mr. Biron, in mitigation of damages, urged that the breach of pro- mise complained of had been occasioned by the inju- dicious and precipitate conduct of the father of the young lady, who nad threatened an action and con- sulted an attorney too soon after the quarrel. The learned counsel made a most humorous speech, and called the defendant, who stated that he had no means of his own, that he managed a farm for his father, who gave him £ 30 a year, his food, and a horse to ride, and who bad threatened to withdraw all his support j from him if he persisted in marrying Miss Tournay. The jury returned a verdict for - the plaintiff— Da- mages, £ 200. MR. FR0UDE and the IRISH QUESTION. New York papera to hand contain full reports of Mr. Froude's third lecture on " The Relations between England and Ireland." Mr. Froude took up his story from the year 1611, and enlarged upon Cromwell's rule In Ireland, after which he dealt with the Revolution and Ireland wider the Georges. He concluded as follows;— It is said that no one in this present age can realize what hardships and sufferings these oppressed people o Ireland have undergone in times past, and judging from what we know of the reign of tyranny there 10 J years ago, we can hardly say that it would be difficult to imagine su,< j)) outrageo. ua proceedings on the part of England, looking at; her as BHE is to- day. It is now becoming common for people to think that corruption ia very essential to, good, government ( laughter), and looking at it from the standing point of late customs, I should say it was. ( Laughter, i At least it seems as if this peculiar phase ornqlitical life was creeping into every kind of government. And now the the matter is reduced to this proposition :— We must either have liberality and cast out corruption,, or have corruption and cast out Uberty." ( Prolonged applause.) DEATHS FROM HYDROPHOBIA. On Saturday; Mr. Molesworth, coroner, held an in- queBt at Oldham, on the body of a boy, aged four years, named Michael Coyne, who died on the 1st instant, from hydrophobia. In the afternoon of the 31st August last, the deceased was playing on Ash ton- road, when a dog, which showed symptoms of being in a rabid state, bit him severely on the left cheek. In the course of three weeks the • wound healed. On. Monday last, deceased complained of a pain in his left ear and temples, and on the follow- ing days before, his death he had a strong aversion to liquids, especially cold water, frothed at the' mouth, and attempted to bi^ e his attendants. A verdict that deceased had died from hydrophobia wasfreturned. In reference toa correspondence whichhas been capped on in the daily press, respecting a cure for hydrophobia, the coroner said he believed it was a generally ad- mitted doctrine by the medical profession that when the symptoms of hydrophobia had set in, there was no known cure. The question had been thoroughly ventilated by scientific men, particularly by the French, who for many years had tried ex-" penments, and although there had been many cases where the disease was communicated there waa no care. A gentleman in the South of England had stated that- he had discovered a cure ; but they must always look with suspicion upon a man who asserts he has discovered a cure of such vast importance, and who keeps it a secret for pecuniary purposes. Before the Government gave this gentlemen any money for his invention ho was bound to prove distinctly what he asserted— namely, that the medicine would have tiie effect which he contended it had. If tho medicine is a certain cure, it could easily be demonstrated by experiments similar to those tried in Paris. On the 7th of October, Albert Thackeray, aged ten, son of the Headingley Church schoolmaster, was pat- ting a large dog, when the animal bit him on the fore- head and cheek. He boy showed no symptoms of ill- ness until the 27th, and on that day he was returning home from Sunday- school when a dog barked and ran towards him. Immediately he exhibited signs of ill- ness^ Arrived at home, he complained of headache, chilliness, ic., and gradually became " worse, exhlbitipg * he ? yc : t . miof hyd~ v h^ faimtil Tr. uwd.'* r,' WLtu he ' JiticL An i^ juest was* held on Monday, and the * « > § waaorderwltcrbi destroyed, - - . THE LATE MR. MAGUIRE, M. P. The Freeman's Journal commenting upon the death of Mr. Magnlre, M. P., says:— " It is some weeks since we announced the serious indisposition of Mr. Maguire. But though his illness, induced in the first place by excessive mental labour, and agravated by a temperament whoBe rest waa action, necessitated his retirement, it was hoped that a temporary quietude would restore him to perfect health. By advice of hiB physician, Dr. Scriven, of Stephen'a- green, who was consulted at an earlv stage of | his malady, and attended him to its fatal conclusion, he ! sought repose and rehabilitation at Dr. Barter's Sanato- 1 rium, at St Anne's, Blarney. The primary effects of hia new abode were beneficial, but a grave change super- vened, and at length symptoms so alarming presented themselves that his physician declared his only chance of recovery lay in the most absolute rest, and a complete isolation from even the neighbourhood of business or exertion of the slightest character. Upon the re- commendation of Mr. Scriven, the illustrious patient was removed to Dublin, where he arrived as stated, on Monday afternoon in last week, and where Dr. Adams, of this city, was summoned to aid in the crisis. We understand that the first examination of both the physicians in attendance convinced them of the nopeless nature of tho case, and nothing re- mained but to exert the tenderest ministrations of science in rendering easy the descent into the valley of the shadow. The patient progressed as might be expected, and appeared somewhat better on Thursday, when he was visited by hia distin- guished relative the Master of the Rolls. On Friday morning, however, he was seized with a sudden attack, from which he never rallied; and, fortified by the rites of that Church of which he was so eloquent and earnest a defender, he departed this life at eight o'dock on Friday evening, in the presence of his wife and daughter, at the age of 57 years. We presume to ob- trude no ill- timed consolation for grief which must be Bacred ; but we feel that it must soothe the sorrows of bereaved survivors and the sadness of innumerable friends to know that his last hours were without pain, and his death, in truth, a Christian's euthanasy." Mr. John Francis Maguire was the son of a merchant in Cork. His earlier years were passed in his father's establishment; but in 1843 he was called to the Irish Bar. He did not devote himself to his profession, having entered the career of journalism, and started a newspaper advocating temperance, under the auspices of Father Matthew. In 1848 Mr. Maguire unsuccess- fully contested Dungarvan with Mr. Shiel, and was again defeated as a candidate for that borough in 1851 ; but was returned for it in 1852, ana re tained hia seat till the general election of 1865, when he was elected for Cork city, which he ever afterwarda represented to the moment of his death. He was chosen Mayor of Cork four times. He was proprietor of and some time editor of the Cork Examiner. Mr. Maguire is known aa the author of several works, viz., the " Pontificate of Pius IX.." " The Life of Father Matthew," " The Irish in America," and a novel entitled " The Next Genera- tion," which portrayed a state of things likely to exist when the principle of " Woman's Rights" waa fully established. In politics Mr. Maguire waa an Inde- pendent Liberal; but above all he was an Irish and a Roman Catholic member. Not very long ago he adopted Home Rule politics. He was BO well known a figure in the House of Commons that it is impossible but that he will be missed there. The funeral of Mr. Maguire, which took place in the Mathew Cemetery, Cork, on Tuesday, _ gave rise to the most imposing demonstration ever witnessed in that city. All the shops were closed, and business was entirely suspended. The Mayor amd Corporation, the Harbour Commissioners, and other public bodies, the Trades Association to the number of seven or eight thousand, drapers'assistants, the constabulary wear* ing side arms, the charitable associations and childrerf of the schools, and a great concourse of mournera from every town in the southern counties, appeared in the procession. The pall was borne by eieht gentlemen, including Mr. Downing, MP., Mr. Murphy, M. P., the High Sheriff, & c. SPUTTERINGS FROM " JUDY'S" PEN. WHEN IS Mr. Grace, the cricketer, like a demagogue T— " When he hits hard at Lord's. MEMO.— It takes three springs to make a leap year. BEAD Apparel for a " Leg"— A knee- cap. A MIGRATOR! Bird— A travelling crane. " BJusn Jloney— Nurse's wages. ' CoNtaNTMENT Is the true philosopher's stone: neither have yet been discovered. THE most careful of buyers most needs make a mess over a purchase of new boots, for the . llrst one he tries on he is sure to put his foat in it, THE Beight of Impertinence — Asking a Jew what his Christian name is. WHAT do you expect to see reflected in your innamorata'i eyes 1 Yourself— if she is a good looking lass. TRIUMPH of Mechanical Skill—" Calculating Tables" and " Intelligent Farms." " OH. the field ni lay," as the betting man said when knocked down flat by the gentleman whom he had welched. LOOSE Habits— Dressing- gowns. SPIRIT of the Press— A printer's deviL SOME tradesmen not only take pleasure in what they serve you in, but are also glad to serve you out with their little account afterwards. THE Worst Tax of all— Attaets of gout. POPULAR SAVINGS -" Tab- he, or not tub- he I" as the man said to his shower- bath. ANOTHER ONE.—" To' dye, to sleep,"* as the young lady said as she dismissed her maid for the night. GENERALLY Speaking.— Women. Music by Handle.— A street organ. QUKRT.— Need a vendor of chess- men be a pawn- broker t WHY IS a henpecked husband like an opora hatF— Because he's very big when he's out, but immediately shut np when he gets homo. - Judy. A POLISH EXILE. The soul of that man is, indeed, dead who feels no emotion on bending MB step3 homeward even after a few weeks' absence at the seaside. Apart from senti- ment, the mere idea of the little hillock of unopened letters awaiting his arrival on the hall- table, consisting of applications for gas- rates, water- rates, poor- rates, and various little reminders of a more or less un- pleasant nature, is enough to make his heart beat quicker as he passes the threshold of hi3 dwelling; but, if a return home under ordinary circumstances gives rise to mingled emotions, what must be the sensations of one who returns home after forty years' absence ? They may, to use a common expression, be more easily imagined than described ( remarks the Pall Mall Gazette) but some information on the subject could be given by Sadyk Pasha ( General Michael Czaykowfcki), commander of the corps of the Turkish a> my known as the Christian Cossacks, who, according to the Levant Herald, has been am- nestied by the Russian Government, and is about to return to Poland. In the brilliant Polish insurrection of 1831 young Czaykowski, then 23 years of age, took an enthusiastic part, and has been an exile ever since its suppression, ln l833. He took military service in Turkey in 1810, and waa raised to the rank of ferik ( general of division), under the title of Sadyk Pasha, in the year 1S50. His name has since been chiefly iden- tified with the Corps of Christian Cossacks, which he organiz- d, and wilh which he did good service ia the earlier stages of the Crimean war, in the successful operations » gainst the Russian army on the Danube. Now, after 40 years of b^. uishment, he is free to return to Poland. Sadyk Pasha has published several useful treatises oh Turkish military matters ; but he has also a high reputation as a Polish poet and romance writer, which is not confined to bis native country alone, where he shares popular admiration with the poet Mickrewicz, many of his works, Buch as Cossack Tales, IVOTIyhora, and the Hetman of the Ukraine, having been translated into English, French, and German.— Pall Mall Gazette, It is stated by the Paris Lil> trU that smuggling has greatly lncreaied In thenorthol Fiance, and that the Govern- ment is taking measure* against It. A telegram from Calcutta announces that from the first outbreak of cholera this year to Oct. 25th there have been 823 cases and 629 deaths In Bengal amcng European soldiers and their wives and children. The disease was still lingering, but its Intensity had decreased. " A woman of notoriety in Rutherfordton, N. C.. has been fined by theMiyor o' that Ilk for the dreadful otfence of calling the Marshal ' Old Pewter Enttons' It was felt that if such disrespect for dignitaries was permitted, the liberties, prosperity, and posiibly the very exUtenfo of the United State* ( so c-. lled) would be seriously threatened. So the button* oi the X. C. Eambitf wcro uVt. u„ cd, ud ti^ t par- ticular part of the COOL try, at least, Is * ale."— Sen York Tribune. A " SUBSTITUTE ° FOB ftAPTISM. j In London, last Sunday, a larg^ congregation filled St George's Hall, Langham piace^ atablE lanrer than that usually present at the Rev. Charles Voysey's service— the increase being apparently due to the puluio announcement that " the service of the dedication and benediction of children would be performed lor the first time, being a substitute for the ancient cere- mony of baptism.' r At the left sido of the reading, desk stood a highly reepectable- looking young couple, and on their left a friend held in her arms a fine male infant, apparently some mouths old. Godfather or godmother there were none, and the party stood and knelt by themselves somewhat apart from the emmants of the front reserved seats. All eyea were naturally turned span them, but the parents did not cease to ray the utmost attention to their devotions. When the usual hymns were sung and prayers Baid, the Rev. C. Voysey descended from the platform or stage, and taking hia place in front of the parents of the child, commenced the " Order of Service for the Dedication and Benedic- tion of Children," composed by himself, and performed on Sunday for the first time. It should be stated that it was after the reading of the Second Lesson that the " service" waa commenced. The latter began with an exhortation, in which occurred the following pas- sages — " The father and mother of this child now present desire us to join with them In giving thanks to the Lord and giver of life for Bis precious gift to him ; for all Bis mercy in supporting them under their anxieties, and for granting a happy issue out of muoh pain and sorrow. They have brought this child Into the congregation of those who love the Lord and trust him, that we may with one accord make our prayen on his behalf, that he may grow up in health of mind, body, and estate, and be a blessing to his family, to his country, and to the world at large. . . . By this our solemn service, we would, as It were, dedicate and consecrate this Infant's soul and body to the service of God." Then followed prayers for the parents and child, with responses from the choir. After the pinging of a hymn, Mr. " Voysey turned to the father and mother and asked, " What is the name of this child." The father answered, but tlw name was inaudible. The congregation stood all this time and here the " order of service" prescribes that " the minister shall take the child in his arms " and say cer- tain worda " in the name of the congregation. Ac- cordingly, Mr. Voyaey took the infant, and resting it on his left arm, said:— " We receive this ohlld ( naming him) at tho hands of his father and mother, and here with one accord solemnly de- dicate him to the service of Almighty God our Heavenly Father. . . May God hear our prayer, and make this ohlld a brave soldier of truth and of every righteous cause." The whole congregation responded " Amen," the little fellow crying very loudly the while. The " Benediction" came next. Mr. VoyBey, ad- dressing the infant by his newly acquired name, said:— " We give thee welcome in the name of the Lord. Uia Lord bless thee and keep thee, the Lord mercifully encom- pass thy life with Joy and peace. The eyea of the Lord be ever upon thee to give thee courage under temptation, and to cheer thy heart In the day of thy sorrow," Ac. At the conclusion of the " Welcome," the congrega- tion said " Amen," and then Mr. Voyaey gave bask the child to its parents. The ceremony ended by the singing of " Glory to God in the Highest," followed by a hymn of praise and thanksgiving from the revised " Prayer Book." The Bervices of the day were then proceeded with. THE LAW OF THE ROAD. In the Court of Qneen's Bench, the cause of " Bansome a Smith," has been tried. The plaintiff, who ia about 14, waa knocked down by the defendant's cart in consequence of the alleged carelessness of the latter. The plaintiff was playing with some other boys at the side of the road opposite Dulwich College, when the defendant drove along, and as the cart was passing the plaintiff he was struek by the shaft on the head and received considerable in- juries. The defence was that at the time of the acci- dent the defendant was driving slowly and called out to the boys to warn them, and that the accident occurred through the plaintiff's own carelessness. Hie part of the road in question was private, belonging to the College, and the boys were in the habit of playing on either side of it. Mr. Justice Hannen, in summing up the case to the jury, said that this case well illustrated the impression which existed in the minds of many people that the roadway was intended solely for the use of vehicles, and that those who chose to walk in the road did so at their peril; the law, on the contrary, being that foot- people were as much entitled to use the road for the purpose of passing along or across it aa those who were driving, and that, althongh the former were bound to take reasonable care that they were not run over, the latter were also bound to take like care that they did not drive over any one— the degree of care varying with the circumstances of the case, greater care being necessary in propor- tion to the increase of danger. His Lordship also observed that, although in civil causes, if the plaintiff contributed to an accident by his own negligence, the law imposed no liability on the defendant, yet that it would be well for all drivers to know that contributory negligence on the part of the plaintiff wa3 of no avaU in criminal casea to relieve the defendant of the conse- quences of his carelessness,. and that his view of the law was that in a criminal indictment against the driver of a vehicle for causing the death of a person, the fact of such person having himself been carelesa would not in any way decrease the liability of the negligent driver. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, but were unable to agree upon the amount of damages, which were ultimately settled by the parties in the action at £ 50. TO A JILT. So fair thou art, I hardly deem thee human, But thou hast left me, so I know thou'rt woman.— Judy. BIRTH OF A YOUNG HIPPOPOTAMUS AT THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Mr. Frank Buckiand, writing to Land and Water, says f— " I am delighted ; to be able to issue a bulletin that, the ' Little Stranger' has at last arrived. Mr. Bartlett, resident tuperintendent of tho Zoological Gardens, has been good enough to inform me that this interesting event took place thia morning, NovemW 5th, at 7.15 a. m. Both mother andchildaredoingwefl. This— the third baby of our old friend Madame Hippo— is born with more sense than its late brother and sister, for it does not as yet require the services of the wet nurses— the goats— who have been in attendance for some days past. It will be recollected that the last two young hippopotami would not take their proper nourishment. The little animal born today, foe whom the name of ' Guy Fawkes' has therefore been proposed, has discovered, and readily makes use of, its mother's milk. The little thing generally lies sleep- ing by the side of its gigantic mamma, but sometimes it geta up and takes a tour of inspection round ita den, when ita family likeness can be immediately perceived. Every now and then the mother rolls her great eyes, listens attentively with her horse- like ears, and grunts loudly with a deep organ- Jike note ; the young one instantly answers in the same note, but in an infantine key. Ita colour appears to be that ol a policed mahogany dining- room table, it ia about three feet six inches long, and its weight about one hundred pounda. Eleven hippopotami have been bom in Europe, six at Amsterdam, two at Paris, and thre « in England, but hitherto they have died in their in- fancy. Immense care is therefore taken of the new precious infant. The hippopotamus house is kept perfectly quiet, and evei^ y precaution is taken by Mr. Bartlett— to wnom the greatest credit is due for his able management and endless care in this matter- to prevent the mother being in any way disturbed by people moving about, doora opened, & c.— for if she were once put out, the poor old thinp, who looks ex- hausted ana anxious, would probably, in her alarm, get np, ruth about, and possibly not suckle her child, or else trample by accident upon it. The public, there- fore, I understand, cannot possibly be admitted to see the young one until the doctors pronounce that it la quite Bate to do so. They will, in the meantime, I am sure wish this little Hippo ' long life and a merry one.' P. S.— Only one of the eleven hippopotami has yet been reared. It was exhibited at the Crystal Palace, but waa unfortunately burnt there— having been pur- chased for shipment to New York for £ 1,000." It ia announced that during th- current w. - k'lhn French Gorarnment will pay a" further contrlbnttou of 200,000,000 frana toward* the dituhuge ot the indemnity, THE FALMOUTH & PENBYN WEEKLY TIMES. SATURDAY, NOV. 9, 1872 PRIMITIVE BUILDERS. ( From AU the Year Round ) It is not often or sufficiently considered how closely died, in their lint principles, are the arts as practised by even tha most barbarous races inhabiting thiB earth, with those which are the pride of the most civi- lified nations. It may be explained that this is doe to the obvious truth that all arts, to whatever perfection they may haTe been developed, must have had their origin in the rude ideas of uncultivated times, and this is probably true ; but the explanation, though a good • ne so far as it goes, does not go far enough. We nave to seek the complete elucidation of so remarkable a fact in human instinct adapting itself not merely to hu- man wants, but also to the available materials at hand. Thus, in stony countries, timber structures are rare, while in forest regions, naturally, wood is employed in building. In hot latitudes, roofs are flat: in rainy climates, they are doping; in cold, as thick as they can be made. We perceive these characteristics in nearly every part of the world. Again with respect to floors. The savage who lives in a swamp, or within reach of a river or an overflow, elevates his dwelling on posts; he who inhabits a dry place is content with beating the earth hard; while ne whose home is ex- posed to the attacks of wild beasts, perches his cabin amid the branches of a tree. These rules, of course, are not universal; yet they are sufficiently general for the purpose. And it is onrious to observe that, in the construction of their abodes, the simplest people upon this globe are governed by a common- sense reference to circum- stances ; the fisherman planting his house as near as possible to his boat; the tiller of the soil in spots most favoured by the sun ; the hunter on the edge of the wood or prairie. Instinct taught the warlike New Zealander to erect his village in the most inaccessible position, as it did the Red Indian in the most remote. The same innate sagacity told the Bedouins of Arabia and the Tartars of tie Great Desert that it was in vain for them to dream of founding a permanent settle- ment ; they must follow the seasons with their flocks and herds, and stay in one neighbourhood only while its pastures are unexhausted. The necessity of frequent journeys dictated, moreover, the choice of materials. They could not be heavy, solid, or on elastic, but light, pliable, and in a portable form; hence the tent and wigwam, the use of skins and woven tissues, of slender bamboo, palm, and withy frames. In some of the less- known islands of the East a spends all the summer in his canoe, on the sea, or the waters of streams, and in the winter, hauling his craft up a little creek, covers it in and converts it into a floating cottage, wnerein, for a few months, he and his family enjoy a sleepy leisure. Where earth- quakes are frequent, the savage is careful not to con- struct his habitation in too ponderous a style ; firstly, in order that its sudden overthrow may not crush him; secondly, that it may be worth little, and be easily replaoea. Thus, we perceive a subtle meaning in thee* apparently spontaneous and accidental varieties of edifice in which these tribes of mankind, Belf- taught in the strictest sense of the term, or rather taught by nattre, shelter themselves. Numerous definitions have been given of man ; one them might be that he is essentially a house- build- ing creature, though not alone in that respect, as the ojiimftl kingdom testifies by a thousand illustrations, from that of the beaver to that of the bee. Scarcely any tribe has ever been found, in the worst of wilder- nemos, entirely homeless. Even the most miser ibid of beings, the aboriginal of Australia, sleeps beneath a oanopy of woven branches; and the very Dorko of Northern Africa, though he has not wit enough to fasten two boughs together, scoops for himself a cavern in the side of the hilL The open sky, by the common consent of humanity, was never intended to suffice as a roof, nor would it, except for a time, no matter how healthy the climate, or how genial. Consequently, the inventive faculties of our species have, from ages immemorial, been en- gaged in devising methods for the creation of more or leea comfortable homes. Of course among savages, there are not fewer distinctions as to aptitude and re- sources than among civilised communities. This one simply understands now to raise a wall of clay, rammed hard, and roofed over with rough wood; while the ether comprehends the value of regular door and win- dow- frames. Mr. Mnnster, whose recently published work on Patagonia describes a vast interior territory never before trodden by the European foot, gives some most interesting, and even surprising particu- lars upon this subject. He was astonished to find, not only extensive structures, capable of accommodating several hundreds of persons, but ex- cellent carpentry, the work of rude tools, planned and finished as if by the European hand. The doors were not hinged, it is true, nor were the windows glazed; bat both might have been adapted to those proposes ' without the, slightest difficulty: more than this, so accurate wasthe fitting parts, that nails were unneces- ' aary, and the Whole edifice, in the course of an hour or two, might be made portable.. .. A carious circumstance is that savage races, though they frequently bake clay for the manufac- tqte of household utensils, havdvnever put it through " MMis process in order to make bricks. If they want an earthen wall, they raise it in • a mass upon a wooden or wattled frame, and rely upon com- pression, as well as the heat of the sun, to insure . durability. But this depends very much upon the cha- Fracfcekistics of the region they inhabit. The fixed tribes inhabiting the oases, or scattered expanses of wood and verdure in the Great Sarhara, have little else to do than to bend a circle of palm branches to a head, tie " the tops together, plaster over the skeleton with a mixture of sand and mud, ttui the house is complete, since chimneys are mat necessary, and the earthern floor is always diy. Tar otherwise with the people of countries in which periodical rains N occur, as in the hill districts of India, where, and, indeed, on the plains also, long as we have been established in that region, as its masters and civilise re, there are thousands • pon thousands of villages which no Englishman has ever seen. They do not allow the season of deluge to take them by surprise. On the contrary, selecting the gentlest slopes, and those lees exposed to the concen- trated rush of a torrent, they drive their foundations • f piles deep into the earth, so that no sudden gather- iagof the waters, unless it be of extraordinary vio- lence, shall shake them. These piles, - or posts, rise high enough to support the roof. But, twin with each, so to speak, is another solid post, only two or three feet high, and from one of these to_ another are laid rough plankings, covered over with a species of baaket- work, to form the flooring. Before this Is placed, however, the ground below care- fair smoothed, hardened, and furrowed with little channels, so that when the inundation • Mies, instead of being obstructed, it is actually aided on ita way, and all danger to the structure above is pre- vented. This is a remarkable example of ingenuity taught by experience. On the other hand, . there are oountries which, rarely visited by an excess* of water, are exposed to tremendous periodical winds. Without any bmt the rude science which has been acquired by • becrvation, or which has been transmitted to him Irom his forefathers, the savage builder lookB for a shel- tered spot and, if he be the denizen of a wood, is care- ful to avoid that side on which the great trees, torn up by tropical gnats, may be expected to fall, for, except in the region of whirlwinds, they invariably, season after season, fall in one direction, a circumstance noticed by mnmerons travellers. . . . hooks, and other articles, which enter into the very essence of barbarian existence. Consequently, he thinks it wasteful to lock up a material so precious^ by burying it in posts planks, and beams. In the most elaborate of his structures, therefore, such as those of Patagonia, he employs pegs of wood, which again, are more easily removed. But a rude method of dove- tailing is exceedingly common, and still more so are lashings of flexible bamboo, or strong grass, or interweavings of rustlings, to hold the slight framework together. Often, he depends upon the mere weight of his ma- terials to keep them in their places ; and, when this is insufficient, he steadies his roof by heaping it with stones. Again, | as we have seen, he binds the parts together with strongly adhesive clay, occasionally mixed with sand, since, though the savage has no notion of a brick, he now and then exhibits his idea of mortar. By everyone of these signs the traveller can tell, upon entering into a territory new to him, what manner of people inhabit it even without seeing the people at all. Supposing the country to have been swept clean o its population, leaving its human habitations intact, an intelligent and practised eye, without the slightest previous information, could determine whether the climate was hot, cold, or temperate, dry or damp, apt to engender reptiles or insects, liable to storms, or balmy in all seasons, over- run by periodical floods, or for ever tropically arid ; whether the inhabitants had been peaceful or war- like, simple- minded or suspicious, innocent or bloodthirsty — for there are many indications on this point scarcely less emphatic than the scalps in the red man's wigwam ; whether they were fishermen, hunters, or husband- men; whether they had been poor or prosperous, since the difference between misery and comfort is never more distinctly marked than upon the house in which a family lives; and whether they were completely primitive, or had been tampered with by the little finger of civilisation— which is about the only finger usually stretched out to them. And is this peculiar to the savage? So far from it that it is true of every community in the world. We may judge of the population anywhere, in London as in Abyssinia, by the nature and condition of its abodes. There is not lees to be judged from a hovel in Bethnal- green than from a mud- hut in the valley of the Upper Nile. So that there is some affinity, after all, between the laws of lifA in every land. Another point deserving notice is that, though we have, for the sake of generalization, and of convenience, employed the term architecture in relation to this topic, we have been compelled to restrict our observa- tions, for the most part, to wooden and clay structures; for the savage rarely piles one stone above another. In- deed your true savage is never found inhabiting a rocky region. He is a creature of the woods and prairies. There are barbarians, of the most brutal character, it is true, who swarm where the earth is atony and barren; but they do not avail themselves of the material lying at their feet; they are the dwellers in tents, who change the place of their location with every fluctua- tion of the season. A stone village, tenanted by pure savages, is a thing unheard of. In fact, a tribe of Bechuanas, or Charlotte Islanders, or even New Zea- landers, set down in Arabia Petrea. and bidden to build themselves homes there, would, even if food were forthcoming, infallibly perish, to the last man, within the course of a single year. No; they must have trees, and water, and a soft soil, and game and fish, and vegetable snbstancea, to supply the apparatus of their home, or they wither away like grass during a drought All the marbles of Greece, ready quarried, would be worthless to the builder of baaket- work cottages in the valley of^ he Upper Amazon. The New Zealander fights among rocks, but he never uses them except as a cover against the enemy's fire ; his house and his fortifications are invariably constructed of timber. Even where stone has been used by the savage, it has never been in the construction of his home ; but always in the rearing of his altar or his temple. Had he the disposition to build in this material, he has not the tools ; he could not afford the time ; he has, generally, to earn, each day, sustenance for himself and his family ; or, still worse, to do that and lay by for the barren season. Moreover, house- building, in the primitive regions we speak of, is as much an affair of women's and chil- dren V industry, as of men's, or even more. The foundations once driven into the earth— where there are such foundations, as often there are not— the running up of the suparstrnctures, especially in a warm and dry climate, is a comparatively light task, involving only the putting together of slender frames, the weaving of mats, the sewing together of leaves— equivalent to tiles or slates, over many a broad space of this earth— the finding of palm poles, and the fabrication of wattled screens. It has struck some travellers as singular that these fra- gile habitations, thus composed, are not continually destroyed by fire ; but a conflagration in a true savage village is the rarest event m the world because whatsover fires are necessary, are kindled in the open air, away from the house— a practice which it is im- possible to recommend for imitation among ourselves, much as we may admire the simple safety of the plan. Upon the whole, howevert there can be little doubt but that theee firstborn children of the earth, if so we may believe them to be, did intuitively discover, or, to use a familiar expression, hit upon, exactly the archi- tecture which was suited to their several needs, whether they roamed the Arctic snows or the Tartar pasturages, drove the elk through the American forest, or idled upon yam and banana feasts in the rich isles of the Pacific. And a race which can do this, no matter whether through mere instinct, or otherwiae, may not be so utterly savage after all. THE PERPLEXED HOUSEKEEPER. ( From the New York Timet.) The perplexed housekeeper of olden time was Pene- lope. But her perplexities were caused by her suitors. The modern Penelope can manage her suitors easily enough ; for if she can do nothing else with them, she can shoot them, sure of being held guiltless of their death. Her perplexity is caused by her servants. Of this trouble Homer's noble example of womanly constancy and housewifely discretion seems to have known no- thing. This difference between the ancient and the modern housekeeper is significant and worthy of con- sideration. Whence does it arise? We think that it will be found to be the consequence of the two facts that the ancient Penelope had her servants con- stantly and directly under her eye, and that her modern representative avoids such supervision as much as possible. We would not ignore the difference in manners and customs, and in all the conditions of life, which has been made by the lapse of ages and the changes wrought by modem civilization. The lady of to- day cannot be as much among her servants as the petty qneen of old was : and, on the other hand, there ft no need that she should be. But we still - must say, notwithstanding this admission, notwitlu standing the protests of some of our fair readers, that the facts Dear us out in our judgment that no inconsiderable part of the troubles of housekeeping, of which we hear BO much, may be traced to the neglect, the incompetence, or the indifference of house- keepers^ For, if a house is to be kept in any kind of order, system, or comfort, there must be a housekeeper. Now, in how many houses of our people of middling means is there a real housekeeper ? In how many of them is there a woman, no matter what her potation in the family, who feels that if anything goes wrong, whether it be the cooking or serving of a dinner, the care of a bed- chamber, or any other matter that contributes to the comfort of the household and the diminution of its expenses, she is personally responsible? We fear that the number is very much smaller than it should be. Ladies now are not less intelligent, and many of them not at all more inclined to idleness, than those of former generations. But do they bring their intelligence and their industry to bear upon this important matter of keeping bouse, or do they regard that as some- thing beneath them, a vexations matter, in which they prefer to concern themselves as little as possible ? In- stead of taking pride in keeping house well, do they not rather desire to get rid of the trouble of housekeep- ing ? Let the husbands answer; nay, let the ladies themselves come into the confessional. If the mistress of a household is rich enough to enjoy a capable housekeeper, who Is responsible to her for the manage- ment of all household affaire, whom she can call to account for everv instance of irregularity, waste, and discomfort— well; but if she cannot employ such a person, she must aesume her duties— all of them— her- self, or soon the condition of things told of in " Romeo and Juliet" will come about, and the cook will be cursed in the kitchen and everything will be in ex- tremity. It will not do to be content with giving orders. Housekeeping does not consent in giving orders, but in seeing that proper orders are faithfully and efficiently executed. women 01 some leisure and culture, know how, in the first place, to give proper orders, and In the next, know whether such orders have been well and faithfully exe- cuted ?-- texcept by the results, when it is too late to remedy any errore. How many mistresses of house- holds in which there is an expenditure of from five to fifteen thousand dollars a year, if the dinner is badly cooked or badly served, or the linen is badly washed, or the bed- chambers are neglected, regard themselves as personally responsible for the neglect ? Do they not, most of them, rather content themselves entirely by saying that they cannot tell what the matter is, that they ordered BO and BO to be done, and end by blaming the stupidity and neglect of the servants? One of our fair correspondents, who, by the way, signed herself " Penelope," and who we are quite willing to believe deserves the name that she assumed, mentioned her having gone into the kitchen to give directions about making cake, and her discovery that the quantity produced by the cook was not what should have come from the material furnished. How many of our young_ mistresses of households are suffi- ciently proficient in the business of housekeeping to know how much of any article of cookery should be returned from a certain quantity of materials ? We do not hesitate to say that there are very few. Now, the business which employs the time ana attention of such ladies may be something very fine and very good in its way, but it is not housekeeping. AncL as if to complicate their perplexities and aggra- vate their troubles, mistresses of households, accord ing to confessions made in these columns— confessions of faot well known to every master of a household— are so careless about the characters of servants that, on the one hand, they cannot trust each other's re- commendations," and, on the other, they cannot cen- sure an incapable or a dishonest servant without being almost sure that she will leave them at once, sure that she can go to another and better place. Now, we bring no charge against any particular housekeeper ; but it is manifest, from this very admitted and well- known condition of things, that at least one great part of the perplexity of the whole body of honae keepers arises from the neglect and incompetence of housekeepers as a body. If housekeepers, as a rule, would steadily refuse to take a servant who could not show a fair character for obedience, competence and honesty, and if, as a rule, they would give " recom- mendations" perfectly trustworthy, then idle, slat- ternly. and dishonest servants could not get places for the asking. The ladies themselves sustain us in our judgment, and have shown that, as a body, they them- selves are responsible for no little of their own per- Elexity, and that, in this respect at least, the remedy in their own hands. THE DAY OF THE DEAD. The following vary Interesting sketch of French character la from a Correspondent ot the Daily Tcltgraph, writing from Paris, under date the 2nd init; and whilst it gives the reader an Idea . of the Intermingling of devotion and frivolity between sunrise and sunset. It also remlnda the reader of the veneration and regard which the French manifest for thoie who have fought life's battle, and are sleeping in the embrace of Death:- All Saints' Day is one of the four great festivals of the year in the Roman Catholic Church. In Paris it is even more: it is a general holiday, devoted in part to lamentation, and also in part to rejoicing. In this respect, indeed, it bears a certain resemblance to Good Friday in England, and to an Irish wake. On the most solemn fast- day in the year, the desires of the Londoner are divided between an impressive service in a ritualistic church and an outing at the Crystal Palace— just as a Parisian has to choose between High Mass in his Sunday best, and a steeplechase near Versailles. The Frenchman, however, more eclectio than the stranger outre Manche, contrives to blend duty and pleasure In a fashion which can never be imi- tated in England, and after doing his matutinal de- votions at church, devotes his afternoon to h sport. Almost all the shops on the fashionable boulevards were closed yesterday, and the churches were crammed. As far as my recollection serves me, I believe that the only place of business open between the Boulevard dee Italiens and the Madeleine was the Office des Theatres, where you were privileged to purchase a seat for any play in Paris at from three to six times its legi- timate price. The classic edifice that looks down the Rue Roy& le, however, was crowded, and a constant stream of idlers passed in and out under the ugly scaffolding which hides all the pure beauty of Ionic columns and ecclesiaatico- Grecian pedi » ment In the dull November forenoon the painted frescoes on the walls, and the profane apocalypse of Napoleon above the high altar, looked faded and dingy; and I fancied that the interior generally had lost much of its former at- tractiveness and charm. The service, however, was efficiently, if not unexceptionably, performed. The choir organ carefully sustained the fairly good singing at the altar, while the voluntary on the great organ above the doorway played during the elevation of th « host, revealed the co- operation of a thoughtful and ex- perienced musician. The baas and tenor solos in the hymn " O salutaris hostia " were sung with that warmth of expression which never fails in its effect on a French audience ; while the whole of the Masa— Haydn's in B flat— delightfully fresh and melodious from the opening " Kyrie " to the last note, was well rendered. The congregation were, for the most part, singularly in- different to the service, and many sat down with the air of people who had come to enjoy a fair musical performance for the aum of three sous. I cannot help imagining that a great change has lately oome over the French people in their negligence of all ceremony in their outward treatment of religions observances, no less than of social ties. When a funeral passes in the street it is the exception rather than the role for the passers- by to take off their hats— iust as it is now un- usual for a stranger to meet with any conventional civility on the part of a Frenchman to whoa* consi- deration he has not some special personal claim. From the Madeline to the St Lazare Station is but a short distance, and a few miles on the much- fre- quented line of railway to Versailles brings the Bporting traveller to a station whence he can easily proceed to the racecourse of Porchefon- taine. The day was not particularly favourable for an afternoon picnic, but a good many people nevertheles encamped on the natural circus selected for the dangerous sport The reunion-( Tauiomnc at Porchefontaine is famous for the " Grand Inter- national "- not the political society of that much dreaded title, but the less dangerous steeplechase handi- cap, open to all nations, though in reality subscribed to only by England, Belgium, and France. This great event— the most interesting of the kind of thiB n' in the neighbourhood of Paris— had excited a good of sDeculation during the past week. Baron Finot's horse Marin was the favourite down to the moment of starting, and carried with him a fair, amount of the public money. Twelve equine candidates came up to the post and got away on tolerably equal terms, but shortly after the start four of the horses bolted, and omongBt them the Duke of Hamilton's Double Event, who had many backers. The horse, after'making- a dash on his own ac- count, was eventually got back » to tho - course, but not soon enough to have any effect on the race. This was the only miBhap in a long run of 3,000 metres, and- the struggle for victory was gallantly kept up, the Baron de Rochetaille's Thabor. " who managed to " keep the ltad, winning at last by a length. The Duke of Hamilton's Molly Bawn was second, and Chancelier third. To Thabor belongs the sign at credit of having won " the International Steeplechase two years in succession. The three other events on the card were flat races, and brought out large fields. The Duke of Hamilton pulled off the Prix de Bagneux with Rose- Pompon, after a dead haat with M. Del litre's Aven- turier. The prolongation of the sports brought about by the second running lead to a singular sight; the carriages on the course having to light up their lamps before venturing on their homeward journey through the deepening gloom of a dull day. The real jours da marts in Paris is to day ; and in Site of the dreadful weathor, the dense population of e cities of the dead has been increased by a large living contingent To devote some part of this one day in the year to commune with the departed, to say a prayer above the remains of the beloved, at least to place a wreath of immortelles upon the tomb, is a duty which few Frenchmen, however flippant, would care to shirk. Accordingly the rare intervals of sunshine have been utilized to thiB purpose, and at Pfcre la Chaise, the most thickly- peopled necropolis of Paris, a queue some twenty feet wide had to be formed right across tho spacious place in front of the central entrance. The " tail" was kept by sergents de viUe, and muontedsoldiers helped to maintain order. The approach to the cemetery, from the famous Prison dela Roqnette, was marked not ao much by the sable- dressed crowd as by a crowd of itinerant merchants, whose ghaatiy trad* oonauted exclusively in tho sale ol How many housekeepers In New York and its vici- nity, who do not confew to forty years, and who are " t i i ' T • : vi; T imiikortelleB, with nearly every possible variety of ap- propriate inscription. There was something almost revolting in the eagerness with which the hawkers thrust mto your face a wreath marked " A ma mfcre," ana1 shrieked out, " Voilk, Monsieur ; pre- nez done; voilk votre affaire 1" Even at the shop doors w » omen would address you, " Qu'estce vous voulez, IL^ nsieur? Donnez- vous la peine d'en- trer; nous vendors & trfes- bon march< 5." But these ghastly trades were not the only ones to be Been. There were booths for the manufacture and sale of cakes and gingerbread; tables on which " sweeties " were temptingly displayed; windov » full of magical contrivances by which, for the sum of two sous, you might 8 © cure a portrait of your sweetheart; and clusters of balloons, which the vendor loudly offered at the price of ten centimss. And so. through wreaths of crape- covered beads, lettered A ma femme;* through figures of pain d? Spice to eat, and plaster statues of angels to place on Saves; amid foul tobacco- smoke, ribald jests from ys, and still coarser invectives from their female associates— you push your way through the noisy, jostling, laughing crowd into the precincts of the City of the Dead. There you find traces at once of the active thoughtfulness which lies at the bot- tom— often very far down— of the strange, in- explicable, seemingly frivolous French character for almost every tomb has a number of fresldy- de- posited tokens of fond_ and faithful memories. There is scarcely a grave which does not shine out with some new garland or wreath, with a white statuette, or, more _ — stuck children's flags, of the French tricolour; and below is a chaplet with the inscription, in black, " A mon mari, mort pour la patrie." It is the grave of some all but unknown soldier killed in the late war; but the tricolour and the dedication have at- tracted a crowd that completely blocks up the avenue, and there is reality enough in the feeling evoked to make a man near me fall senseless to the ground. There is a little hubbub, the military- looking police are called, the man is lifted up to all appear- ance lifeless, arid'carried to a little house of refuge near the gates. In the central avenue there is another crowd around a new- looking tomb, dedicated to " Ernest Baroche, Chef de Bataillon de la Seine. tu£ au Bom- get. le 30 Oct., 1870," and decorated with an immortelle wreath bearing the touching legend, " Au hdros du Bourget, hommage d'un blesBiS. Almost opposite is the monument of Alfred de Musset— overshadowed by the " pale willow," under which, as we are reminded by the lines inscribed on his tomb, he desired to repose, SUMMER HEATS. In connexion with the extraordinary heat which has prevailed this year over a large area of the earth's sur- face— the United Kingdom constituting almost the only exception— the Scientific American has recently collected some interesting facts relative to the extreme summer temperature of different parts of the world. Probably the hottest country is one which most people would imagine to possess a moderately cool and pleasant temperature— namely, Thibet Constituting, as it does, a vast and elevated plateau of table- land, and situated between the * 30th and 38th parallels of north latitude, one migh have thought that its inhabitants must have been more comfortable in summer than the natives of the Bteaming plains of Bengal or of the sun- baked deserts of Northern Africa. On the contrary, the unfortunate Thibetans suffer from an extreme summer temperature, which is stated to rise to the aJmoat Incredible heat of 150 deg. in the shade. It is not known by what de- vices the natives escape the effects of this frightful temperature. Their condition must be greatly aggra- vated by the fact that the night temperature, even in the hottest seasons, often sinks as low as the freezing point In Senegal and in the West Tndiryn Island of Guadeloupe, the summer temperature often reaches 130 deg. This is, perhaps, as high a temperature as any Europeans are habitually exposed to, both regions being commonly visited for commercial purposed, and the latter being largely inhabited by white mem In Persia the temperature rises to 125 deg., and appears to be the cause of most destructive epidemics. At Calcutta and throughout the delta of the Ganges the mercury rises to 120 deg., and a similar tempe- rature is attained in Central America. In the jungles of Afghanistan, in the deserts of Africa, and along the Abyssinian coast, the maximum temperature is 110 deg.— a temperature not abso- lutely fatal to the existence of white men, but almost completely destructive of all healthy activity. It ia a curious circumstance that the same high temperature is reached in some of the inland valleys of California, though the average of the State is much lower than thiB. In Cape Colony, the African diamond diggings, and in parts of the territory of Utah, the midsummer heat is 105 deg. Next comes Greece, with 104 deg., and the deserts of Arabia, with 103 deg. Next to Arabia— extraordinary as it may appear— comes Mont- real with a Bummer heat of 103 deg. The States of New York follows with 102 deg., but the other north- ern States do not exceed 98 deg.; Spain, Lower India, China, Jamaica, and the Southern States of the Union average 100 deg. : Mauritius registers 96 deg., and Sierra Leore in Africa— so terribly fatal to Europeans — has not a higher summer temperature than 94 deg. For France, Denmark, and Belgium at St Petersburg in Russia, at Shanghai in China, in Burmah, the Sandwich Islands, Bnenoa Ayres, and Trinidad, the average is stated as 90 deg. In Nova Scotia and the Azores the maximum Is 87 deg. Great Britain, Siam, and Peru do not exceed 85 deg.; while Portugal, Pekin in China, and Natal in South Africa have an extreme temperature of 80 deg. In Siberia the summer heat is as comparatively high aB 77 deg., whereas in Western and Southern Australia as in parts of Scotland, it is only 75 deg. In Italy, Venezuela, and- Madeira 73 deg is the maximum. In Prussia and New Zealand the ther- mometer rarely rises over 70 deg., and In Switzerland and Hungary not over 66 deg. In Bavaria, Sweden, Tasmania, and Moscow in Russia, 65 deg. is the maxi- mum, while 55 deg. is the summer heat of Patagonia and the Falkland Islands ; and the midsummer heat of the greater portion of the Arctic regions is only 50 deg. In Southern Iceland, lastly, the summer temperature is sometimes as high as 45 aeg.; while Nova Zembla has an extreme midsummer heat of 34 deg.— two de- grees above the freezing point of water. to him. He has for many years ncTI.' e to care for but himself ; no one's comfort or convenience to study but his own. This generates selfishness, which in time becomes chronic Further, every service which is rendered him being paid for in some way or other, he deems himself privileged to snap and snarl if things are not exactly to Lis liking. This induces the belief, on his part, that hi* comfort is pa- ramount to everybody else's, and should on all occa- sions receive the first and most careful consideration. Thus he loses his equanimity if people— even those who are not beholden to him in any way— display a disregard of his likes and dislikes. He grumbles, for instance, when they invade his territory and leave his doors open; and growls still more bitterly when those around him make a noise. In short, he becomes fidgety, irritable, and intensely selfish: and yet, though this is the case, he is placed in such a helpless position j Perf° rce allow himself to be plundered, and bullied, and played upon generally by moBt of those with whom he comes in close and familiar con- tact TJere is much that is distinctive about an old bachelor. An ancient individual himself he differs, in a marked degree, from other aged men. In the matter of dress, he is at once more particular, and more apparently negligent; though this apparent negligence may arise from the fact that he has nobody who will take any trouble whatever in reference to him. Gene- rally, he wraps himself up in a manner which at once bespeaks the very great solicitude he entertains on his owp behalf; and the thought of " catching a cold " is a bi\ gbear which frequently haunts his mind, and tenAl to make his life miserable. Nervousness and qusrulous- ness are among his distinguished characteristics ; and a hatred of all " little noises" is another strikine idiosyncrasy. Thus, though he may profess, and really f « fel a love for children, he likes them to be near him only when they are quiet, and is apt to speak testily to thoughtless youngsters who are indulg- ing in riotous proceedings. Many a young life is ren- dered one of intense anxiety and caution by the close '— Hy 0f an old bachelor, and not a f E innocent mirth are checked by'. It is n\^ t surprising that, undei stances, the old' bachelor is avoided to a greater or lesser extent and regaroed in the light of an infliction. Though indisposed* to relinquish his privileges, it is aggravating to notice this is the case ; and he is often grieved to find that be is alnfoal/ Incapable of securing the real love of anyon'e. He hates himself because of his foibles and crochets, but it jJ£ too late in the day for him to reform, and so he coi/ iiuies to cherish them, and indulge in eccentricities of diew, manner, speech, and in many instances, thought Though there are many old bachelors, comparatively few of them die unmarried. When least expected, they contract matrimonial alliance?, thereby disappointing numerous nephews, nieces, and protigSa, who have been confidently expecting that they would come in for their property. The marriage bf an old bachelor is regarded by many of these people in the light of a per- sonal injury ; and the chances are that he alienates, or and yellow leaf— has no right t in such a manner, it being his imperative duty to remain single, and look after the interests of those who have sacrificed so much on his behalf. The chances are, that his marriage is one of convenience more than actual love, both on his part and that of his wife. She, perhaps, takes him because he is wealthy, and can provide her with a first- rate establishment; he, probably, marries her because he feels insuffer- ably lonely, and wishes to have a home of his own, where, if he cannot do everything exactly as he likes, he is certain of meeting with a real welcome. He becomes tired, no doubt, of living with others, who? if expediency demand they should do so, will not hesitate about casting him adrift Whether such marriages, as a rule, turn out completely satis- factory is doubtful. As already hinted, the old bachelor generally becomeB unfitted for domestic life; and, though, perhaps, after a hard struggle, aided by his wife, he tones down some of his more glaring defects, it is questionable whether he ever altogether undoes the evil work of years. This, at any rate, is certain— if his anion proves fruitful, he must con- tinually be haunted by the consciousness that he cannot, in the ordinary course of events, hope to live to Bee his children grown- up and in a fair way of managing for themselves. A NIGHT VISIT TO STAMB0UL DURING RAHAZAN. The sun was already set when we tripped, as need requires, into the rocking caique which was to shoot us to StambouL Below, the waters of the Golden Horn shone like a burnished mirror; above and around the network of mast and rigging stood out blackly pencilled on the silver- gilt evening sky, whilst many a lamp, set in itB bracelet of fire, beamed faintly from each soaring minaret Water as well as air seemed in a flame ; every pulse of the oar struck out a phosphoric flash, and showered tears of light while we skimmed the gleaming surface ; and the mosques' dazzling necklaces showed larger and brighter in the fast- falling darkness. But no sooner had we left the magic water than romance gave way to reality ; light waved in mid air and dancd and sparkled in the stream ; but no utilitarian gas- lamp proffered its homely aid up the pitch- dark streets - ^ - — ' Could hung far away c strung beads, filled their several places in sacred sentence or warlike emblem ; or had we, bowing to the law. carried each his own guide in paper or linen, we should not have stumbled so painfully among dogs, alive and dead, and over such a pavement of rats and cats as is wont to cushion the foot of the wan- derer in these venerable streets. But stay I a sudden glare of lamps bursts upon us; a pompous carnage, escorted by horsemen, at once jolts and hides a Pasha ; then a blacker darkness follows his retinue. By- and- shops, helps " us on our rugged way; and for awmle we linger among groups that are quaffing smoke and coffee and cold water, and find ourselves in freedom upon the Atweidan— the Hippodrome of old. Here the beaded bands of light which had drawn our gaze from a distance are burning iust above our heads, and peep in and out of the bougha of plane- trees, which sway to and fro within the sacred precincts ; below, a blue light dim as a glow- worm, discovers a Saracenic clois- ter. . The chant is begun; we enter the mosque; it is • that of Sultan Ahmed. First we pufc^ off our shoes from off our feet Not venturing to pass beneath the central dome, we content ourselves with gazing up from a modest corner atrits broad span. that gathers within it the light> of countleBS lamps. Now we listen to the plaintive harmony as. it swellB or sinks/- nowithe grave'worshippers, in orderlyrowB bow. together, and together rise and again prostrate themselves on the pavement simultaneously ^ regardless of ( the frolicsome children that, sport around their unbroken ranks ) 3 butterflies about strawberry beds. But there. h lit tj time for contemplation; the ghiaours, scarcely sheltered within the dark shadows of that dee p arcade, have been espied; we must go, in spite of the eloquence of. my companion, who, by atrheto- rical mention o{ " dogsn and." courtesy," had the evening before prevailed over even Mahometan pre- judice; accordingly we take our leave " With our J shoes and are soon trying to decipher thestrange devices that bridge the- space between minaret and minaret Here hangB, as we fancy, a key, the symbol of Islam; there a mortar is seen, Issuing a shell steadily and noise- lessly against a castle of lamps,' that as consistently holds its ground; on this side and on that ciphers float and holy texts run, though backwards.; and we may confront them only where there image bedizens the sheet offthe Golden Horn below. We may imagine ourselves in the garden with Aladdin; stars above and stars beneath, lampoon the mosques, lanterns in our hands. Yet the waters look dark- and deep ( for the moon Js not up), except where a flash and _ phosphoric gleam betray the substance of an undistinguished shadow. Once more we skim the smooth surface of the estuary, till minarets, now distant wink from Stamboul to Scutari; a mountain bagpipe wakes the northern sympathies of my comrade, while it shakes the frames of rude dancers on a deck hard by. We touch Tophaneh Wharf.— Mission Life, The horse disease is rapidly abating in New York, but haa greatly increased in Philadelphia and the South and West Irish Criminal Statistics fcr 1871 are of the most reassuring character. Serious crimes of all kinds were fewer than they have been since 1884, and, thanks to the woiklog of the Land Act agrarian outrages have fallen to leu that one- twentieth of the number of 1= 69, and, what Is equally satisfactory, are no longer the acts of wild revenge by evicted uncompensated tenants, but offences arUlng out of disputes about rates, qneatioua of title, and the like. . m. OLD BACHELORS. ( From the • Liberal Rtbieuo.) What more miserable object can there be than an old bachelor ? And who attracts BO. much disagreeable attention from those who behold him; People in general do not know whether to compassionate or con-' demn the poor fellow, and so « they adopt a compromise and laugh at him. There can be no. doubt about this fact— that the life of the old bachelor is a . sorry . one. If he is poor, ho is snubbed by mankind rin general;, if he is rich, he is pampered and petted, but ft is ren- dered evident at the same time, that as a whole people are only making much of him in the hope that he will remember them in his will He is considered, by numerous nephews and nieces, and a large circle of acquaintances, as a legitimate object for plunder; and never are such better pleased than when they have compelled Mm to disgorge some of his Wealth. As a rule, he has to"- take up his residence with people. who allow him to remain with them on suffer- ance only; and the general Impression appears to be that he is a species of social reprobate, who ought to be made as miserable as possible. Many persona make a point of ppenly jeering at him when they do not desire to obtain anything from hiuu while others pet and coax him when there^ ia anything to be gained thereby. But, whenever hois pampered, he must be painfully aware that it is not so- much for himself as for that filthy lucre which he Is reputed to possess, and this knowledge, if he be a man of any sentiment, must be peculiarly galling. Those who, in his younger days, really loved the old bachelor, die off, become scattered over the world, or create new ties for themselves. He creates few, if any, of these new ties. A man, by marriage, most frequently unites himself with a young and rising generation, and his children remain at- tached to him until he dies, and treasure his memory long after he has passed away. That is what in the very nature of things, the old bachelor cannot do ; if he wishes to secure the affection of a rising generation, he muat ingratiate himself with the children of other men, and, at the best haa to content himself with a second- rate love, and thia love, aecond- rate though it be, ia difficult of attainment He may boy the sem- blance of it; but no one can know better than he doea when he has purchased the shadow for the substance. Besides, a long life of bachelordom developes a number of objectionable characteristics whioh are calculated to Indues people to pl* o « themMlTM in antagonism But, of all savage tribes— to use the word savage in ite conventional sense, as meaning primeval, and unin- fluenced by association with Europeans— the South Sea Islanders nave excelled as domestic builders. We do not speak of them as they have been since the mis- sionaries became their teachers, and altered their cos- tomes ; we refer to the time when they led their own free island life, and when their only occupations were the gatherings— not the cultivation, for it was not naeded— of food, the fabrication of ornaments— not clothing— for their bodies, and the construction of their simple dwellings. Anything more elegant, light, and artistic, better adapted to its purpose and the climate, or more in union with the nature surrounding it, than the Otaheitan cottage, as it stood among the palms, before civilisation had sailed that way, it would be im- possible to conceive. Latticed, hung with matblinds, floored and roofed for coolness, always exquisitely aitnated, perfect in outline, fragile as a hut of rashes, yet in its interior fresh as marble, it was precisely what the luxurious islander, among those happy forests, wanted— and this is a consideration not always attended to even In countries which have been steeped to the Hps in civilisation for the last thousand years or One fact of interest should be noticed in connexion with this subject The savage, though he may possess irea, seldom, if ever, employs it in the construction of his dwelling- house. He deems iron too valuable for such an application. It is supremely useful to him in tb « JDJAoiooture of arms, axes, kniyes, harpoons, fiah