almnntli k NUMBER 594. AND GENERAL ADVERTISER. PUBLISHED, EVERY 8ATTTRDAY MORNING, BY FRED. H. EARLE, OFFICES ON THE QUAY, FALMOUTH. FALMOUTH: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1872. PRICE ONE PENNY. gaits in$ Stortunt, JV Sale wiB tok phtt at Hatf- paM Tm> ( a/ U, lit arrival y 2.5 dm train J, a** Mat 1W at If tern at ammmvxd in Pottm For the Benefit of the Concerned, Select Cargo at POTATOES for Sale. MONDAY next, NOT. 18th/ 1878. " VT B. COEPIELD will Sell Ibj fcBLIC AUCTION, on the sbor J ds;% the North Quay, Falmouth, about 9f Tons orrery Priar French Pi Inchiding Kidney!, ax " Gem.'/ Capt. Joyee. Further particulars obtained on application to WM. HEOAlf AND SONS, Lloyd's Agents. Dated Falmouth, Nor. 14th, As71. PRELIMINARY NOTICE. A ERANORMENTS are now making for J\. the WETTING, with immediate possession, two of moat important and desirable old* established HOTELS in the county of Cornwall. To Treat apply to the Editor of the " West Briton," Truro. Detailed particulars will appear in due course. Dated NOT. 15th, 1872. WEDNESDAY Next, ftov. 20,1872. MR. MARKS is instructed to SELL BT PUBLIC AUJTION, at his Sale Booms, High Street, Falmouth, on the shore day, fhe following I n redeemed Pledges, ProX the Office of Mr. H. Owens, LddgMe Hill, Falmouth May, 1870, Nor. 1870, No. 33. Jan., 1871, No. 6. F*., 1871, No. 68. Marsh. 1871, Nos. It, 56, 38. April, 1871, Noa. 17, 18, 38, T. May, 1871. No. 89, June, 1871, Noe. 8, 67. July, 1871, No. 1. Aug., 1871, No. 68. 8ij>„ 1871, No. 66- Oct.. 1871, No. 5. Also, a quantity of Piece Goods, in Linen and Woollen Drapery, Indies' and Gentlemen's Wearing Apparel, Bedding, Ac. At the same time will be sold a quantity of useful Household Furniture, Ptother Beds, Laoking Glassw, Urge Secretary Drawer*, mod other articles, a portion having twra taken under execution. The whole with- out reserve. Sale at Two in the afternoon an d Seven in the evening. Further particulars of the AUCTIONEER, High Street, Falmouth. § dks in? gratum. Gyflyngvase, Parish of LOT AND DEAD S' . th. MB. EOBERT8 will SELL BY PUBLIC AUCTION, on Monday* Wth Nor., 1873, at Two o'clock/ at Gyllynrase Dairy Farm, in the/ Parish of Fal- mouth, the property of Mr. John Edwards ( declining business ), the whole of his Viable Live and Dead Stock, 6 Superior Jersey Dajiy Cows in calf 1 ditto \ Heifer and Calf 1 valuabfcJ'Mare, good in harness or saddle, free m> m vice, 7 years old 2 sets of Harnus/ one nearly new About 2 acres d£ Mangold Wurtaels About 4 tons ofVrime Hay, well saved A Stack of exeunt Oats 1 good light yart 2 Ploughs and a Harrow Stone Holler and Frame Milk Pans and a lot ot other useful Dairy Several Beaches and Boxes N. B/— The Auctioneer needs only say that Mr. Edwards is well Renown for his snperior- ! ilch Cows, which will be fbund very choice. Vor farther particulars apply to the AUCTIONEER, At his Offices, Arwenack Street, Falmouth. Dated 7th NOT., 1873. © ttttral. Falmouth Co- Operative and Industrial Society ( Limited). WANTED, a LAD, about 16 years of age. as an APPRENTICE to the Grocery Business. Apply at the Store, Market Street. Try MARTIN'S NEW SEASON'S TXCIJliS FINEST QUALITY, 2s. 6d. per Pound. The PEOPuFs~ Grocer, & c., Lower Market St., and West St., P E'N R Y N . The House for Tea. THE Gunpowder Tea Warehouse. REGISTERED TRADE MARK Black Green or Mixed the Finest Spring Crop. J. H. HEAD, Tea Dealer & Grocer, High Street, Falmouth. Are yon troubled with a Cough ? rpHEN lose no tinie in i^ hiliK for Pectoral tough Mixture, Which is one of the best preparations sold for the oure of Coughs, Colds, Influenza, Shortness of Breath, & c., and for the relief of Asthma and Bronohitis. » It is adapted for persons of all ages, and sold in Bottles, at 7i< L, Is. l| d., and 2s. 9d- each, The middle- size Bottle is generally suffi- cient to cure an ordinary Cough, or give abundant satisfaction in more extreme cases. PreparedonlvbyW. H. SOLOMON, Dispensing Chemist,! 40, Market Street, Falmouth. We H. BELLOW, Baker, Confectioner, and Tea Dealer, NO. 8, ARWENJACK STREET. Pickles, Sauces, Martaalades, Jams, & c, WORCESTER SAUCE SIXPENCE PER BOTTLE. BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. JAMES GIBBS AND COMPANY, SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF THE AMMONIA- FIXED GUANO, THE CHEAPEST AND BEST MANURE IN OSE. Consumers are warned that none is genuine unless the tags bear the Trade Mark, and are secured with a Leaden Seal. Also Manufacturer* ol " PATENT AKMONLATED PHOSPHATE," especially adapted for Wheat Barley and Hope ; and of BONE, BLOOD, and SPECIAL MANURES of tfrst- rAte quality . PARTICULARS OF JAMES GIBBS AND COMPANY, WORKS: VICTORIA DOCKS. OFFICBS : 16, MARK LANE, LONDON, E. C.. or their authorised Agents WEST OF ENSLAND MANURE COMPANY, PKNRYN. MACHINE & PRESS CHEAP AND GOOD PRINTING. - POSTERS If yro want bold and aiprassivo Go to SABLE'S PRINTING OFFICES. If TOT want oltar and striking HAND- BILLS So to EARLE S PRINTING OFFICES. If you want neat and attraetto CIRCULARS Go to EARLE' 3 PRINTING OFFICES. If 7m wast tasty and appropriate BILL- HEADS Goto KARLK S PRINTING OFFICES. If yon want stylish and taking - CARDS Goto KARLB' 3 PRINTING OFFICES. D yea want any kind of PRINTING Goto EAKLB'S PRINTING OFFICES. LAMPS. GAS FITTINGS. STOVES. STiADE QXi'VSgg,, Furnishing and General Ironmonger, Cutler, Qas Fitter, Plumber and Manufacturer, Strand, Falmouth, Has received a new assortment of Lamps, Gas Fittings, Ac., Ac., direct from the manufacturers and offers to the public the largest stock and greatest rarietr of Ranges, Grates, Stores, Fenders, Fin Irons, Tray*, Tea Urns, Beds, Mats, Brushes, Mspj, Umbrella stands. Warranted Pocket and Table Cutlery. Agent for • Weir's " 96s. Sewing Machine, Beat Electro Sihrer Spoons, Forks, Ten and Coffee Serriee*. Cruets, Cake Baskets, Biscuit Boxes, Dessert Knives, Ac. Washing and W. w^ ing Machinw. Coal Scoops. Coal Sifters, Fire Balls, Fire Basket*, Fire Lighten, a large assortment of Coal Vases very Cheap, Colza and other Oils, Cazeliae Paraffin, < fcc. Paints Oils, Tarnishes, Colours, and general Stores. Pomps, Closets, and all kinds of Repairs executed fSusiness $ tot its. Joseph Beringer and Sons, Watchmakers, Jewellers, Photographers, & c,, Menetge St., Heiston, and Market St., Falmouth, ( LATE JOHNS), BEG to return thoir sincere thanks to th © gontry, pnbUc, and friends, f6r tho kind support and patronage they hare received, and wotdd solicit a call and recommendation to their choice apd well- selected STOCKS ; ani also would acquaint thoir customer* that in Afeneapc Street, HeUton, they have REMOVED to a more commodious Shop and Promises directly opposite to the ono in which they have car- ried on their business for so many years. The Stocks are renewed with Gold and Silver Watch. — Chains, colored, bright and A . i........•.•... ntuune. unaxicw, JJI Sleeve Links in Gold, Silver, Jet, Coral, Plated Gold fnd Gut. A superior assortment qf Electro- plated Goods. Spkctades to suit a'l sights. Marine, Opera, and Field Glasses. Musical Instruments. Pianos and Harmoniums kept in Stock. Works of Art in tlu Cornish. Serpentine. Photographic Views of bolh neighborhoods. The Glas^ Honso at Helaton is built in private grounds, in a beautiful garden, and has every convenience to insure prat- clans work. Tho bost- built House in the Wait of England. Agents for MAP PIN & WEBB'S celebrated Silver and Electroplate Warehouse, London. Licensed to buy Old Gold and Sihxr. Repairs executed with despatch. hes, Clocks of all descriptions, specialities iu Marine Timeniocos, Gold Alberta and it Mid Aljuminium Necklets, Bracelets, Brooches, Lockots, Ponuants, Scarf Pins, Studa, NOW LANDING, At the Stores, North Quay, Falmouth, EX SHIP « • JEUNE EMILE," CAPT. PINTO, A CARGO OF SUPERIOR BELGIAN POTATOES WHITE, first quality J BLUE, ONIONS, prime quality £ 5 0a. per Ton. £ 5I5S. £ 4 OB. APPLY TO Messrs. VAN WE& NEN AND € 0., Falmouth. N. B.— ANY QUANTITY LESS THAN BTVB CWT. WILL BE CHARGED AT SIX SHILLINGS PEE CWT. Tho BRITANNIA Look Siitob ABB FITTSD'WJ rji New and Important Improvements, AMD AUK THOROUGHLY GOOD in PRINCIPLE AND WORKMANSHIP. nrP^ JtlCSg V B R T MODISH A rj. i AGENT NATHANIEL POX, IRONMONGER, FALMOUTH. STEPHENS PHOTOG- 42, HIGH STR SIDDONS, I AxPJBLEflS, [ BT, FALI^ FTR- Likenesses from the « malU( st tqjjw largest size, plain and finished^ Vwon, Water' ® r Oil Color, Landscapes Mansiods. Ships^ Sea / iewa, and Groups, WO^ KS OE^ ABT^ COPIED. had the honor of being tho first person to take the likeneu of anj of a Roral Family by the Photographic proces, ; Pint Class Silrer and Bronze Modal « in awarded hinf1> y the Boyal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, ho being tho only Medallist ss do Visite taken in the Coonty. Mr. SIDDONS has also claims in the production of tho Negatives and Enlargements for which the only Modal has been awarded by that Society for that class of Photographic Work. Mr. STEP: member hare been for Cartes de Falmonth United District Sewerage Works. Part of a House to Let. TO BE LET, with immediste possession, a PART OF A HOUSE ( consisting of a Floor of Three Rooms 1, in iAnsdowne Road ( lately called Obelisk Road), Falmouth. The Honae is healtbilg and pleasantly situa- ted in close proximity to the Quay. Docks, and Railway. Apply at the Offices of this Paper. N. WESTCOTT, Cargo Clerk and Cental Mercantile Accountant, II, WITBILOO RD., FALMOUTH. Ship's Arerage, Victualling and Wages' Accounts calculated, and Surreys Neatly Copied, j Vessels' Half- yearly Returns to Shipping Master made out. Tradesmen's Book, kept by the Year. Deeds Engrossed and Made Up. in the newest London style at the shortwt notice. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, AND EFFECTS FOB HbsiTIVE SALE. MR. CORPIELD WII Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, on Tuepday, the 18th day of November instant, the I Useful Household Furniture And Effects of Mr. Seirle, deceased, Union Terrace, 4um consi/ ting of several Bed- steads, Foster Beds,/ Mattrasaes, Bedding, mahogaVfymd deal Tables, Washstands and Ware, CJiVoK and Carpeting, lobby and other DraweAEarflienware/ Glass, with the whole of the Kfkhin reqtUBhfei in a great variety, Ac. AST Sale at twelve at Noon. On view the morniijg of the day of « ale after Ten o'clock. Dated Auction Offices, November 6th, 18^ 2. N. B. The valuable Freehold Messuages or Dwelling Houses in which the Furniture is to be sold, togethefr with the orchards, tee., belonging thereto, will be submitted to Publio Auction, on Tuesflay, the 10th December next, at Powell's Hrngs Arms Hotel, Penryn. See subsequent advertisements. Gearance Sale pf Remaining Portion of the Stock < k Wines, Spirits, & c. t Of Signor Zuppeli, Arwenack St., Falmouth. MB. CORFIETD begs to notify that, on the iU- 17th of D/ cember next, he will submit to Publio Competition, at tho Polytechnic Hall, Falmouth, the rfsiduo of the valuable Stock- in- Trade, of Winfc, Spirits, & f., { as ancles ran cAale) of Mr. G. B. ZuppeDi, in convenient lots, consisting of upwards or 800 do*, of pripie Port, Sherry, and Madeira, Wines. 150 cases of Cognac Brandy, Champagne, and Hollands. Also about 100 ( 2 galls.) jars of Brandy, Whiskey, Bum Plymouth Gin, Ac. Ac. Also a large Quantity of BONDED GOODS, various See subsequent advertisments. Dated Auction Offices, Nov. 8, 1878. To BUILDERS, CONTRACTORS, * OTHERS. THE Falmouth United District Sewerage Board are desirous of receiving TBN- DSES for the CONSTfiUCTIOa of certain WORKS, comprising the Excavating Foun- dations, providing and fixing Sheet Piling, Tnitlring ConcretV^ pundations, and erecting Masonry Wtier^ in, at the Market Strand Outfall, accoraLrf^ to plans and specifications which may beleed at ihjifO& ce of the United District Sewerag* Boird, Falmouth; or the Engineer, Mr. Edward 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 belore the 2nd day of December next. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. By order of the Board, W. WARN, Clerk. Dated Falmouth United District Sewerage Board Office, 25th Oct., 1872. THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON AND HIS DUTIES. The Turus In enumerating the varied and Important duties , devolving on the lord Mayor of London, writes :— The office of the Lord Mayor of London is not onej of hononr only, bnt involves a large number of corre-' Sanding duties. It is true, we believe, that the Lord ayor baa an allowance of £ 8,000 to meet the expenses of Ins mayoralty, bnt these are believed usually to amount to some £ 3,000 or © 4,000 more. In fact, " it would bedifficult," as Mr. Charles Knight remarks in hiB London, * 1 lookingon it as a whole, to find a more laborious and reaponsiblesituatioru'Tor example, the Lord Mayor - has to preside at thesittingsof theOourtof Aldermen in their Court, at the meetings of the Court of Common Council, and at the Common HalL According to the same authority he is Judge of the Court of Hustings ( which, However^ does not make any great demands upen his time), Chief Commissioner of the Central Criminal Court ( which he officially visitq twice during | each session), and presides over the London Sessions 1 held at the Guildhall. He used also to be a Jus- tee of the Peace for Southwark, where he opened the Sessions and subsequently presided; but of thia < Juty he has ( if late years l> een relieved by other arrange- ments. He is Escheator- General in London and South, wark, whenever there is anything escheatable, a matter now not of very frequent occurrence. He is Chfef Conservator of the Thames, an office winch in- volves the holding of some eight courts in the year, and occasionally a ninth. He has to sign daily hosts of affidavits to notarial documents which may be required : here or for transmission to the colonies ; to attend, when necessary, at Committees of the Municipal Body, and the meetings of the Sewage Commissioners, of which body he is an ex- officio chief. Then, passing on to matters of a m ore gen eral n ature, in which the city is concerned, or in which it may ba presumed to feel an intereet, the Lord Mayor is ex pected to take the initiative or, at aQ events, the lead, in these, and in consequence he is obliged to be con- tinually in correspondence with members of the Govern- ment ; he presides aloo at many, if not most, public meetings held in the City proper; and distinguished fo- reigners, whomay happen to visitthe metropolis, have ap acknowledged claim on hiB attention, and, what is more, on his hospitality- He- is an ex- o^ ct^ member of Her Majesty's Privy Council during his tenxpe ot office; and he attends its meetings on the accession of a new Sovereign, when he is the only surviving mem- - ber of. that august body, the office of_ the otW Priiry Councillors ceasing together with the denfise of the i King. , 2 ' Then, as if . his time were not sufficiently ^ occupied with the business of the city and Corporation & aid the various interests which naturally grow out oFit, Othe* institutions— educational, charitable, and religious— of various characters, look to him for official, if not per « sonaJ assistance; for instance, he is,, or was tOIrfecently; a Governor ot Greenwich Hospital; he is a Governor of King's College, rf Christ's Hospital, of St. Bar- tholomew's^ Guy's and St. Thomas's Hospitals; and. a trustee ( along with the Archbishop ofKJanterbury and the Bishop of London) of St^ Paul's Cathedral; he is president or patron of very many other public founda- tions. ... . . And, lastly, he sits regularly in his own justice- room at the Mansion House for some three hours or more daily to administer the law, sometimes, also, sitting privately to adjust differences as an arbitrator. Very naturally the personal state of the head'bf BO important a body as the City of London has always been an object of great care and solicitude on the part of the citizens. Hence the list of officers, forming what we may almost call the court of his household; his " sword- bearer," his " mace- bearer," and his " marahaL" The only strange thing is that, with such a household to keep up and such a sum to expend the good citizens of London never thought of giving the Lord Mayor an official residence until nearly the middle of the last century, up to which time the Mayors had to content themselves With their own private houses, or with the loan of the hall of those* City eompanies of which they might severally happen to be members. The present Mansion House, built by Dance, took 15 yeare in its erection, and was not completed until 1751, under the Mayor- alty of Sir Crisp Gascoyne. As lately as the corona- tion of TTing Georee IV., the Lord Mayor of London acted as Chief Butler, receiving a gold cup as his fee on the occasion ; and even till a more recent date, his household included other officers besidi- s those already named, but which now are obsolete— namely, his " serjeant- carvers,' " serjeanta of chambers," and his " esquires." MR. STANLEY'S BOOK. In a portly and handsome boofc- of about- 700 t> ctavo pages, under the title " How I Found Livingstone," Messrs. Low and Co. have issued Mr. Henry M. Stanley's relation of his journey through Central Africa in search of the great traveller. It is, however, no more than justice to Mr. Stanley to Bay that for an already oft- told tale, his narrative, in its present form, is marvellously fresh and free from traces of having been told before in letter and speech and lecture. The Times, in commencing their review on the " book, says that " ' Hwm I Found Livingstone' is a big, thick book, emblazoned on the tnfown cover with black and gold representations of Lake Tanganyika, and of the meeting between Livingstone and his discoverer. As we look at it, and take it in hand, and feel the weight of it, we admire the more the surprising energy of its writer, for it was only in the first days of August that Mr. Stanley arrived fn England. Since then it setms to us as though his name has been in the paper several times each week as attending a dinner, making a speech, or delivering a lecture; yet now with the first d- tys of November, he gives us this bulky volumqof The^ intensely personal character'of Mr. Stanley's narrative, which asroredly is the feature that will first strike every, reader, may perhaps lie moat pleasantly - illustrated by the - following extract, which throws a a certain side- light on the author's own history, and indicates one of the many perils that beset his path to the triumphant termination of" his labour at Ujiji on the 10th of November, 1871 :— On the 7th of July, about two p. m., I was sitting on the bur rani as usual; I felt listless and languid, and a drow- siness came over me. I did not tall - asleep. but the power of my limbs seemed to fall me. Yet the brain was btuy; all my life seemed passing In review before me ; when these retrospective scenes became serjoos, I looked Berlins j when they were sorrowful, T wept MtMlcally; when they were Joyous, I laughed loudly. Reminiscences of yet a young life's battles and ha^ d, struggles came surging Into the mind in quick succession; evesta of Hoy< hood, of youth, and manhood; perils, travels, scenes, Joys, and sorrows ; loves and hates; friendships and indif- ferences. My mind followed the various and rapid transition of my life's passages ; It drew the lengthy, erratic, sinuous lines of travel my footsteps had pasted over. If I had drawn them on the sandy floor, what enigmatical problems they had been to those around me, and what plain, readable, Intelligent histories they had been to met The loveliest feature of all to me was the form of a noble and true man who called me son. Of my life In the great pine forests of Arkansas and In Missouri I retain the most vivid Impressions. The dreaming days I passed under the siKhlng pines on the Ouachita's snores; the new clearing, the bicK: k- hou » e, our faithful black servant, the forest deer, and the exuberant life I led, were all well remembered. And I remember how one day, after we had come to live near the • Mississippi, I floated down, down, hundreds of miles, with a wild fraternity of knurly giants, the boatmen of the Mississippi, and how a dear old man welcomed me bade, as if from the prave. I remembered also my travels on foot through sunny hpiln, and France with numberless adventures In Aela Minor, among Kurdish nomads. I remembered the battle- fields of America and the stormy scenes of rampant) '• far. I remembered gold mines, and broad pralrlea, Indian councils, and much experience in the new western lands. I remembered tlie shock it gave mo to bear after my return from a barbarous country of the calamity that had overtaken the fond man whom I called father, and the hot, fitful life Uiat followed It. Btop Dear me; Is it the 21st of July Yes, Bhavr Informed me that It was the 21st of Jdly after I recovsred from my terrible attack oi fever.; tjw true date was the 141 h of July, but I was not aware that I had Jumped a vtoek, until I met Dr. Livingstone. Mr. Stanley's book may be pronounced thoroughly interesting and valuable. His feat was so rucce » wful in its results, and was besides so admirably well managed in every detail, that it must stand out in all time coming aa exceptional in the records of African travel. A NEW CLAIMANT.— In the Court of Session, Edinburgh, an action has been raised by William Su- phen John Fnltomat present residing in Edinburgh, against Archibald William Montgomerie, Earl of Exlinton, to have himself declared heir to the Eglinton estates. The pursuer was formerly in the 8th Hiwars, aud served in the Crimea. On Friday he presented a Velitlon to the Court to be admitted to the benefit of the poor- roll. It was remitted to the Sheriff to inquire into the circumstances of the case, and to take the usual preliminary etepe. GREAT FIBE AT BOSTON, U. S. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 10. A fire began at Boston about half- past seven oc Saturday evening in a large granite- buiidirig at the corner of Summer and Kings tone- streets. It began in an engine- room in the basement, spread . rapidly up tha elevator, and soon appeared from th ® roof. An alarm was promptly sounded from the fire department on tha ground. By this time the roof was id flames. Tha engines were all working before any other store caught. This is in the heart of the business portion of BcatonJ where there are large buildings, chitfly granite. The wind was calm at the beginning, but it soon blew a gale from the west and north- west. Tho granite crumbled, and the buildings being filled with goods this caused the flames to spread rapidly. The fire exteuded north- west and south- east along Summer- street, also from that street in a north- easterly direction. B< J four o'clock in the morning 22 blocks were destroyed, the burnt district at that time covering about sixty! acres, bounded by Summer street on the 60uth- wesp, Big Broad- street on the south- east, Pearl- street on the north- east, Milk- street on the north, and Washing- ton- street on the north- west. The intervening area, filled with costly buildings and goods had then been destroyed. On Summer- street the line of fire then extended over one- third of a mile from the Bay front at Broad- street to within one block lof Boston- common. From this line tha burnt dis- ^ trict extended north- east about a quarter of a mile in this area, where the fire destroyed Winthrop- square, Franklin- square, Beebes- block, Franklin, DevonsMre, Federal, High Kingston. Atkinson, Wil liams, Lincoln- arch, Otip, Chauncey, Hawley, and tho neighbouring streets. Beebes- block was valued at two millions, and the total loss is estimated at one hundred millions. The Boston fire department was crippled by tbe epidemic among the horses, this also preventing to a great extent the removal of the goods. Aid was summoned from Worcester, Providence, New York, Fall River, Lowell, Lynn; and other towns, arid was promptly sent. The firemen seemed unable to do much, and a thorough panic " exiflted. 1 All the railways coming into Boston ran fast trains, bringing firemen from the neighbouring cities,' mariy companies arrived before three this morning. The police being unable to maintain order, the United Sites' troops and Marines stationed there were ordered on duty. Extensive plundering went on during the cori- fusion; 200 thieves, some of, them being women, were jKrr « ted. The loss of life was heavy, gut it was im- possible to tell the number accurately. No building Beemed fireproof, all Buccumbjng. AJ seVen diis morn- ing tlie fire was still spreading port h of the ( boundary § ivenabove. It had passed jffong Devonshire^ fcnd Con- gress- streets to Water- street, crossing northward and burning on towards State street. The Post- office was then announced in danger; the building adjoining was burning. The banks and other establishments in State- street, were moving valuables to'a place of Bafety. Buildings iu several places have been blown tip to stop the progress of the fire. The old brick church ^ as re- ported in danger. At nipe this morning build- ings were being blown up in Congress- Btreet and rear, this to some extent staying the flames. North of this warning had been given and every- body was preparing for the worst, and was moving out. The telegram sent rame from Boston And Providence Railway station, half Sjriiilq wtat of burnt district: comrilunicatiori with the northern' section of the city was imperfect. At noon a telegram came that I the reports were contradictory, but it was believed the fire was under control. I. ts spread was checked- it a I quarter past one. The teleonun confirmed the reports ! of the fire being under control. The tfltal loss is an- nounced at 200. Q00.000 dobu with a probability of eJf- ! ceedirig. ifc .- FURTHER DETAILS OF. THE CALAMtT^.' BfrsfO!?, Nov. 10. Midnight. Tho conflagration has at last stopped, after lasting"" fof twenty hours and destroying seventy acres of • buildings. The loss is estimated at not exceeding 100.000,000 dollars, and the wpoL leather^ and dry goods trades are said to be the beaviefct- toeers: Troops, have been stationed to guard the property. Several* lives have been lost, and many persons have b£ en in- jured. BOSTON, Nov. 11, Morning. The fire broke out shortly after midnight, And al- though now raging violently, it is believed that} it will be got under. a, y- 0 Chicago and other cities have proffered aid, mid re- lief meetings haye been called everywhere. .'/"•' . BOSTOH, Nov. 11, am. The second fire was oauw'd. by explosions if gas, and it has destroyed six « faxge . stores. The pames, however, have again been ( jheckejL The interior of the Exchange sudthe Post- office are destroyed, and Trinity Churoh iaJ* l| a mass of ruins. NEW YORK, Moid ay Morning, No . II. - Great excitement exists in this city respecting the terrible fire at Boston. The, frill details now received enlarge our sense of the calamity. It appears that the fire broke out at . half- past 6even on Saturday night in the. ttortj of Tebbets, B Id win, and Davis, whnleBale dry gports dealers at the corner of Summer and Kingstoqe Streets, n ar the side of Edward Everett's old btfme. - Tbe fire engines had to be drawn by 1i mil,^ Hi'limUjflyfrMliri f porses. The flames made great headway during tbe delay. Hardly a breath of wijid waajLiirring when he ijire broke out, but soon aftSWraMs it rosa to a gale f* otn the north- west. Tie flames 8 wept froqj story story, and from- block to block, tbe - Mansard rocjs £ i » 6 catching fire, and the efforts of the firemen were un- available. At two o'clock vetterday the fire was re- ported * to have been sch^ ked after lasting e ghteen The burned district is bounded by Summer, I ederal, Bread, Central Water, ^ aAfrigfn and B sdford- fftreeta. The area includes aTargF- part of the Fifth Wardi—^ probably two or three square miles The damage Is estimated at two hundred and fifty allliqn- " dollara. The district consists of some of th< finest business blocks jn Boston. It is the - Centre of the wholesaled^ goodsIrad,. Among the prominent hnildine- s gutted are tqe mer- cantile library, the old. post- ffice building, the new post office now coristrdctffig, the old south cbur h, the | cathedral block near Winthrop- squaee, the Tra iscript newspaper briilding, th& ' HurtCor. t etid Erie E lilroad I dep6t, and many of the'fiuest and costliest structures I in the best hnfiineas part of the city. _ „ BOSTOH, N( 7. 12. Nine hundred and thirty business housas an firms are burnt out, also CO: priynte dwellinga, 21 ba$ k*, 46 insurance companies, and 27 newspaper officeB. Relief is coming from everywhere. Chicago yesterdaV Bent £ 20,000. The business panic w'disappearing. , Several firms in, England, hfvyjug branch establish- ments in Boston, are serious losprs by the fire. The losses to be met by various English insurance offices from tho fire at Boston will, it is estimated, amount to about £ 950,000. , ;, r p— J ' Boston has several times been the scene of destruc- tive fires, but probably has never been virited by one of such magnitude as that which has now ocourred. The first great fire took place in 165- 1. but no particu- lars of its ravages have bsteh handed dowri. In, Nov., 1676, 46 houses, a church, and other buildings were de- stroyed by fire, and bu". for rain falling the whole city would probably havij lken burnt down. A lire brigade was then organized, none having . previously exibWl, and its eor^ ioea were soon put into requisition. In-, 1679 anothep, cqDflagrati'in consumed § 0. hou^ H and 70 warehouses, the loss being & titMt£ d at £ 2( 10,000. A Berious fire took place in 1711. One* hundred build- ings were destroyed, including the fiisfc church erected in the city. Several persons,, tpp, were killed, and others % vound> d by the blowing( of houses. On March 20, 1760, what is known as th'o " Great; Fire " occurred. 3: 9 birtldlpes w> re destroyed, the totaJ IOBB being estimated at £ 100^ 000. • ' " On Mr. Alderman Lrisfc trikfng his'seat 6n th^ bench at tho Guildhall, London, on Toeedxy morning MR. i3Ii. rtlo Informed him that there was not a dingle ulKht churte from the vhole of the Guildhall dlsUlct, which ooroprlne. i tour out of the six dlvUIon » Into, which tho city It divided. HI* wor- ship w2s then presented with a pair of white kid gloves. The President of the Cambridge tTnivereity Boat Club onnoanced on Monday night thut ho hail recilvej a challenge from Oxford to row tho uiual ek^ t oSr » aco at tbe eDd of the next Lent Term. It wua resolved by accla- mation to acccpt tho challcngo, and the President and Secro. tary are bodily engaged In selecting crews for the trial eights. SOCIAL SCIENCE IN ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.! Thei Rev. Canon Gregory ddivered, on Tuesday evening, , the third of his series' of lectures on." The' Bond of Soojety, Past and Present, Physical, Social,"' and Moral,'" to a congregation of men assembled under the.' dome pf St. Paul's Cathedral, , , . . | Canon Gregory said he proposed to oonalder the, Motives On ' Wilch.^ o must ridy tor the right dUchargo Of thOBe social | duties of which he had Broken in tho proceeding fee- ] turo, for upon the motives from which they procoded the . eventual character of our rela'lons to others, and of our I actions in the world, must ncceesarlly depend. The moral I bonds of society were fashioned c ut of those motives, and [ th* se motives represented the principles of right and I wrppg- under the iuflaenoe of which we acted, and by the operation of which we sought to fulfil what we believed to bo the end of our bebig, tho cause for which we came into the World. TheWWore two such eftda. on one or ! other of which every human life was being fashioned : the one was self, the other was God. Tho former might be ac- ! ccpted consciously or Unconsciously, the manner of acting under Its inspiration might bo wise or unwise; might manifest Itself In the justification of the impulse of the moment, or In the development of f « r reaching plans Ol tho debpftst sagacity; might be governed by appetite;. Or have learned to auhduo every prompting of tente ; might he ' sheltered unfler, £ he cloak of philosophy, or be dignified with the name of a religion. The principle or motive evolved from the latter mlcht be real or unreal, true or untrue lo Its aspirations and Reliefs; and so far as its power over tho hum ah IOUI was concerned, It might exist In Very dlflereUt measures or degrees. In denouncing the cosrscr forms of selfishness ail wers united. They wero but vices. With Its higher development the case was altogether different. Every system of materialistic phHosophy must practically make self, as manifested In individual men, Its centre. Every scheme of political government that took policy for its guide must really depend upon the nelBsh instinct in man for securing the result at which it aimed. Every Individual who curbed his passions or appetites because theyinterfored with Bome deeply cherished dosire ; who regula^ d his actions with a view to future advantaae, whd toiled hard to gain wealtlL honour, or tho cptlQcauQi^ of some ambitious aim— wisdt, and morelor tho general good, than did less thought- ful and for- seeing persons. Did tills principle of action furnish amoral bond sufficiently strong juid availing for the preservation of society T That it . wielded a prodigious power was undenUble. Much might • he sifid la favour of Its being the governing force in the world. Wo all instinctively appeal^ to eeltigh motives In others, which proved ihelr power over ourselves. There was a natural and evidently designed power to this Influence of self ; it was obviously Intended by the groat Creator to be a strong emotive forcFwtlh lis The question was not whether it wa#- or was not powerful, but whether It should be all- powerful and supreme, or be subordinated Btaictly and In all things to a higher will, to a principle or rule of conduct given by an external authority THAT WAS ( supreme and un- erring. It was against the siiflMeiicy of materialism, whether as a philosophy, a religion, or an inrtinct, to bind society ptrmanently together that he contended. • However enlightened self- lntefest' mffSt" U » , " theso was nothing to secure Its permanence. Jn this case, at all events, ttiSre could be oo doubt that experienc « ifconflrmed reYoUfc tlon. Who that knew the men and women of . England as thoy'% teri>' lu fact, not' SS - flfhat ' It was1 possible | o imagine them to be In theory, i could • doubt that with thtfmaas en- lightened self- interest would be powerles* Indeed ? The pre- sent would outweigh the future: *' Let useatand drink to- day, ,11 Jredfc to- morrow," would be the cry,. To risk, the future at society upon such a bond as this was surely to prepare for Its certain eyentualrnin. Wheneverapctoty h « i , beeq penetrated with the Idea that there was no real moral tnOUve. bUt this, It had bees prepared for dissolution, which had ooma more or leas rapljUy, according to drpunutanceS., ,, * [ The materialistic philosophy ottbfl, Encyolppiodlsts pre- pared the way for the French Revolution by lmplsintlng the idea that a man's own personal Interests were the only 1 things to be considered: aQd by diminishing the Influence . Of motives drawn from the convictldA of there befcig an un- « en filler and Judge, they prepared the minds of the people to consider whether they ' would" be content with things At they were,' Of Seek for a revolution. Happily, this principle hod nevei; taken the like pwsesslou ottho people pf this couutry. As a nation we had hitherto held that the Implanting of some religious principle was desirable for the general good. Until the year 1S70 the State madelt a funda- mental condition of all its educational grants ' that in the schools assisted religion should b « taught.' It was to the action oi these schools that the peopte themselves not ln- freqff3hfTy toTd theitf tKtit they were Indebted for what they - knew of rlglpt principle and moral reotltudo. J tcould not be too widely known fhat'parents of Uie poorer passes generally taught thtLr . children very Utile rc « pcckm » . eltluT moral or reuglous duty They expected all to be aone at school; If It had acc « mplbhed all that their promoters designed. But while only a few pupils, comparatively speaking, had accepted tha highest blta » uigoffered them, all had DeenUughtto believe In lht> power and providence of God and. In a future state of rewards itnd puuUhmenls. Early aud ' deeply Implanted belief In these truths bad preserved us from those rlota and seditious outbreaks which were, BO common a generation • loco, / To thli we were largely Indebted for tbe strength .. « t . that moral bond} by whioh iho cation- was now hap- pily kept together In spite of the manifold conten- ^ tlona between, classes which bad recently been rife among us. It r> m » lnf4 to J* seeti- Jiow far thia state of things would continue when another generation had tested the working ol the- priaoiple of the Education Act of 1S70 that directed " no grant to ba made In respect of any in- struction In religious subjects," and discouraged the teach- ing of such subjects by limiting the time within which they might lie tadfcht; and when the School Boards had wielded tht- ir vast powers of rating to establish rival schools for the . liijury or destruction of thoseaehools to whiob tbo oountry was so deeply indebted for what they had accomplished. A SCEHIjl An amusrmg Bcene toot place the other day at Turin upon the Corso del Re. A gfetitlentian ofc about forty: was walking quietly along with a young ai^ d pretty little woman,' who hunt Jondlf on the ann that he tendefly preised to- bin heart, while she ga& d on4him with loving eyes. The affectionate' ( JoUple thad just r^ afihsd the garden of the Villa, La Maminrai when another fall and handsome woman presented herself before them, producing the effect of BtoquysRhoa^., She ordered the first lady to Jet, go the ann of the gen'tlttaian/ and ' t* yield him hp 16 her. ' TThW'the gentleman would not allow, and toTd thtS tftlMaay to go about her bufcines% as he . hiul ^ othjag to say to her. But - ehe insisted, -^ and'to' show lho « #. falfo thia assertion was, she, boldly . claimed . Ww ao her hus. baaid. . Be on the ot^. hand that hp JM the hubband 6f the first little lady, who on her side said nothing, but clasped more tightly etjll the arm 2] Jier. protector. Meantime the - loving oouple retiaeed- their steps towards the Piazza Carlo, followed by the tall lady, who overwhelmed them with insults and appellations too shocking to be repeated, and by a crowd of people who appeared to be highly amuBed by the scene. This lasted till on reaching the Via La- grange the tall lady seized the little one by the arm, tore her from the side of the disputed lover, and m her turn told her to go about her business. This time eha did not waitffor the invitation to be repeated, and slipped away while her rival seized triumphantly upon the arm ahe had so bravely conquered. The spectators then began to laugh at the discomfited Don Juan. He became angry, and supported by his companion Bides with Tau^ htrr. It la difficult to know how the gut 110 woulj linvu ended had not; u„ t then aiay^ Moua person rnfria hia . powrM C-, and taking them baft \' y 1 he ami made them fet' into a carriage that dro* e off, followed by the mockery of., tha WWTd. ; 1 1 THE H0HSB DISTEMPER IN AMERICA By t'lff a/ v otmt of on obaerver whojiafl recentlyc^ rng from New York, we ( the I'U'i) » re conliriiiedin our unorwaion that the diaeaae amr. nt; TiorBW- in Araerioa i, tlentlml with the wtU known liflmiizaordjJtjmET, of horaciln thl. ' » iintry. Three hnraea 4MWHW alfeoted with the epizoodp hate Jwt tern landM'l;. Liverpool from . New York, and wo are informed ttjat two of tbe three are in good health, tho other hwonte n alight cough. It appeara that the animal. U! anjfe. ted the usual ayroptoma— loss of appeHt., naaal d" oh « rg » , cough, and a< ue thro. t— at the commencement oi tne disease, but Apidl » improved under aimple treatment, and at the termination of the voyage two ol them h » d quite recovered. Ii. iloenra exuti, we understand among hor « e » in Liverpool._ » ud certainly also in London, although not to any remarkalle extent. Cases of the di. eaao came under our notice mtrnl to trace Its origin to the importation of horses trom America. The Iri- h Government^<-, 1 afl o* der oa November 5. prohibiting " the laiulfnghit aby-- port to Ireland. of a " horao, mare, gelding, foal, ftlly, aas ' mule, or jennet from, at which at auy time afl# r the 30ill day of Sej. t-. ober bos been in, any part ot America " No legidative action has been tsJten by our Government in the matter, nor, under cumBtances, doe^ it appear to be necessary tomtertera with the very limits! importatiofr of_ American horses into this country. Influenza, like epizootics in general, only spreads rapidly and extensively, when the con- ditions are favourable; the occurrence of a few caeas nvery spring and autumn excites no attention. ' AKCTIC WHALERS. V%; B I The news received upon the arrival of the bark Florence, Captain Williams, is far from cheering. We have more di « aiters In tho KorthTPftcillo to chronicle ( writes theSaft Francisco AIMU Captain Williams has furnished tho follow- ing report :— " AngUBt 19, in the Arctio Ocean, the bark Helen Snow ( Macomber) andb& rk Boacoe ( Lewi » ) were stove by the ice and became total losses. The bark Sea Breeze ( Wicks) when last seen, August 22, was on her beam- ends, with flags of distress set It is supposed she is lost. The vessels which were abandoned Sep- tember 14, 1871, are all a total loss, with the exception of the birkf Minerva and what wreck- stuff was saved by Captain Williams, On the 2nd of September, 1872, the bark Seneca was started from shore by the bark Florence, and towed 20 hottra. The captain had rigged a rudder on her, but was obliged to let her go on account of a strong south- west gale and ice setting in. Captain Williams was compelled to standjhalf- hour tacks during the night, in order to save his own vessel, the Florence,- ice being on one side . and- lpnd on tha other, and it was with greafc. atffifcully. tM she was saved. The Scneca afterward became a . total loss." The first officer of the Roscoe reports:—" Arctic Ocean," AuEuBt 19, in lnff 714 deg. Ni, Jong, lb* deg. W., the Dirk Roscoe, while at anchor, was crushed by the ice. The captain held a consultation witn the officers, wiljh whom he decided to abandon the " hip, and all hands went on board the Live Oak, of ' New Bedford, CajStain Whelden.. The bark Bfiicot sank at two p. m. on1 the 20th.' On this day the ice opened a little, no that thai Bhips got to clear water, but- it, aoon. clo? ed . again. Wind lightifrom the south- west, with pqualls. f> n the 21st all came out except the bark. Helen SUMO, which was jammed in the ice, add AU'hope of saving1 h^ r was given up^ and she was abandoned an the 22nd. Captain Macomber, of the" J9r4en \- Snovi with his crew\ arrived among the ships on the 25th. On the 23rd of August four qoat'a crews left the bark Jsrtt Oak, Captain Lewis, and one. boat's. crew remaining on, board with . Captain. Whel- den. I, with my boatfa crew, went oti boatd'thejbark James Allen, where, , we remained until, the 28th, when we spoke to the whaling bark Florence, ofl San Francisco. Capt T. W. WiUiaffls, th^ en 4b36tftA leave for San' Francisco, who'kindly gave us a passagje." MEMS. FOR " MY LORDS."' imss ff*> w , y* H uiiitiif lw in) I imodk J J OJTE gun that will pierce, mind, wprth, jmynumoer Which will not, antfan lron'- clad vessel encumber. 1 •'!'' Too small to be hit, with one gun, one gunboat i } May be more than a, / patch for the. best ship afloat. 1 The smaller the boat, and the bigger the gun, . ' The more damage she'lfSd, ^^ l^ fi. Vibi'n Am. :. In one Uttle boat, handi, theniselves tety feW, • > Might send bo the bottom aife* hlt> 9 whole crew. 1 .> The lightest ot boat*. youmuit see,! Outweighs any, the heaviest, ship she can slnE J — Puhah. I. A USEFUL ACCOMPLISHMENT. • • •• 11 , - • Villi* • fro') daliU ! ^^ e following sensible lette^ apj^ ea^ ( to Timet totl Would you have the kindness to give in your column^, so widely circulating among educated and influential, people, publicity to the fallowing Idea, which, as fart as my reading of lat6 of the'" public Press; goesy doe? not receive^ that attention waich I think it deserves among persons interesting themselves in educational' efforts for ouE. ppbrer . chases ? I sCfer to the teaching of the'girla 1A our elementary schools' how to cook simple things. ' ' In these dayB of dejay living and outcry for a bettejf, and a more generally diffused education amon our ge^ raUy'songhTto mkke t^ gwls m our scSooIb 1 etter, cooks, and BO ultimately better wives. It is sa d by Bomeone that any fpol " dab'make money, but it's only a wise man cankeep it. Yes,. bnt making a six > ence » go as far as it can be made to go is saving a part' which " otherwise wotfld ' be loot. Why not, hen, now, when so many school buildings are being . fin- j larged and erncted— especially in rate schools, • rhere it could- be much more easily done as regardja ex- j pense,— have small kitchens attached, into which to send different detachments oi girls, every day, or twbt or three tirales a WAek, in' tniivto laarn to cook simple things, under the tea- hing. of some woman who was when in sSrW » ' and' iA' 6dw " a good cook, and who would for a smaU- rearonerafion rfadly teach 7 Some ladie^ too> haying time and. ability, might be found glad- to attend to superintend and encourage. Lady governors of endowed schools and lady members of School Boards might, some of them, be of much The objection woi^ be raised, nb. doubt,— Who is to be at the cost of buymg the materials? This would be certainly in the beginning an expense. Then, again, perhaps It migh'Cbe asked, what would you do with the things when cooked? Sell them, I should say. You would soon find a market, I think, and as the ex- periment proved succe- sful it would in time actually become a source . of income to the school. I know how1 a large agricultural village" where this fexp^ rinient waa tried in the national schools. Unmarried Ubofiert at flrbt, and at last some married ones had their. Avictuals cooked in the scho< tf kitchens at a <$ ost— a penny a m^ fel I tUnkJi^ walp— which they could afford, and which ^ hey were pleased to pay, and ^ h^ h ^ BrtiriuUerativ^ to the school funds. The e^ pen- meht # ould propably be evm more sucoesafol in town schools. ) ft"'! If our yfluug poorer female, population wore taught l in our. schools hqvyfc). keep, ^ honie clean, how to cook a' comfortable and savoury meal; they would . be educated to become in after life much more helpjneets ihantaany ql the in grow up under the present system oi Ten wl educaTOfl? ana ^. uli with decent dwillngs !< jvW their heads,' ptoVe « thorns elves much poore fo^ mid- ablti Antagonists to. the'- puhlichow ® :; more so than any prohibitory liquor laws.— I amjtc., W. H. liicHABDSQN.^ late Vicar of Grays, Essex. DRESS AND FASHIONS. The following short critique from the Pall MaU Gazette, may interest many readers ol both sexos :— An American paper, in an article on dresa and fashions, scores one tv man in the little game nowi fn progress between h& p and womauf<£ tl^ ptake of social supremacy. ManHias,' it appears, invented an im- provement in a field of labour generally supposed, td be completely above the range of his intelligence. ' It appears that for reasons best known to herself wpman has lately elaborated an adjunct to dress in the shape ' of " tiimmings," which,, like the machines lii Erewhon, are tyranuismg over their inventors, and necessitating an absurd expenditure of time iaipl labour. The dress being - provided, How'shall we trim it? is the question. ' There are ruffle^ and puffings, bialsiilds, and ruches, and flounces and box- plaits, and kilt plaits. " Very, true," says our Ame- rican authority, Y'but either takes laige quantities of material, and none but the most experienced can'forrji Buch'" trinimihg8 neatly and divested of the clumsy homemade work- occupytog days and dayB of la^ ou^ Therefore, fn& n who, notwithstanding the cries of the suffrage heroines, is woman's beat gift, comea to the rescue, and soothes tho aching. back and weary fingers with ' national dress trimming.'" If he continues to behave) in thiq conciliatory manner, he may perhaps enjoy a fresh spell of toleration ; in tho meantime he had bettejf seriously consider whether he is quite up to helping w^ nkvn out" of every scrape she gets into by chooairfg inconvenient fashions. REFRESHING' sitmittu-' we put it to ArcH- deacon Dinison himself whether he would not look upon it as a venial offence if a conscientious, ^ ight?. minded man, after reading steadily through tho Thirty- Nino Articles, were to take Forty Winks.— SCIENCE IND ART" FOR wintor " course of lectures at South Kensington Mu » eum, Lo'n- J don. jfor the instruction of women in science and art was opened on' Monday by Professor Duncan. ' The course is to consist of three series— the firat by; Pro- femor Dnncan, on " CoHHiogony and the World; as a Planet:" tho sccond by Professor Carey Foster, on ^ Physics,* and the third by Professor Butterford, on " Physiology." On Monday there was a largo- attend- ance of ladle*, showing that the interest taken in these lectures, so far from abating, is rather tin the increase. On Monday Professor Duncan, in beginning his series of lectures, explained the general rc- iults of scientific discovery during tho laat £ 0 or 50 yeare as bearing npon the great theory of the universe. THE ROYAL GOLDEN WEDDING. Dr^ B, Nov. 9. The Emperor and Empress of GermaaJPiTived here at three o'clock this afternoon, and were receive i by the Eling, Queen Dowager, the Princes and Princesses of Saxony, and many other Princely personages. The meeting between their Imperial Majesties and the King and Royal Family of Saxony was most cordial. Great enthusiasm prevailed at the station and along the route to the Castle, an immense crowd having assembled. At five o'clock the King and Queen of Saxony entertained their guests at a family dinner, all the Princes in Dresden being present November 10. The Golden Wedding of the King and Queen of Saxony was celebrated to- day. The city was profusely decorated^ ftud early this morning all the church bells were Irung .' in hbnour of the event. The reli< ious ceremony of blessing the Royal pair was celebrated in | the Royal Castle, whither the King and Queen were Eeded by a brilliant bridal- procession, and Allowed he Emperor and Empress of Germany, the mem- of the' Royal Family, including the Austrian Archduke Charles Louis, Charles Theodore,^ Prince of Bavaria, the Grand Dukes of Meckleabnrg, t8e Duke of Anbalt, the Count of Flanders, and Prince Christian of Augustenburg. ThrKlng and QtW^ n $ f, Saxony met the Emperor and Empress of Germany under a canopy erected before the altar. The " Imperial Crown Prince of • Germany stood immediately behind the Royal couple, and he was succeeded by the Protestant Princes, while the CatholicPrinces stood on the left of the altar. Bishdp ForwOrk, assisted by eight clergymen, gave the Benediction. In an addrew from the altar, he alluded tafke honoured presence of theiEmperor and Empress (^• ermany and other illustrious guests, and reminded tlRe present of the1 gWrious militAry1 leadership of the King and Queen, ',' Do you promise,, in the sight of . God, to remain true till the end of your days to the indissoluble tie entered into 50 years ago, end^. with • congugal unity, and mutual help, - to aerw6' G « a until God ye doth part? The King and Queen answered in a loud voide. " Yea." Thereupon the priestly bless- I'fitf was bestoWfed! 1 The ' wHMe $ Jrty proS? deI to the Court Church, where a Te Deum was sung amid rifle firing tpd/ aaltfoes p^ arfillery.' / DEA^ STANLEY ON ENGLAND'S V* ATWATyTflfiFifi siMf^ bw^^ fejM?^ Whened absence, and, al^ ough the eerywe com- lAaices the'early hour of too b'ctook; a Ad - the morn- ing was bitterly. eoldv the building was crowded. In thev course of an able sermon tbe dean found oocasion to' refOT' to ' th'e great natxtral ^ warirf- whfch sur- rounded the kingdom • the JeWs in - Palestine, and said that the valley • of the rjowion, tho deepest fissure that exists on the face . of th^ earth, v^ ta& on^ d^ fts^ w^^ ystOT^ us ^ hen, . turning to our ". island home,? be cgnfeitijed y " Let us, too, thSnkfor'iufcselves, as we read thewordsof the Paalqaist, how mudi of our teposa,-/> f our wealtih, and pf our comfort depend on tbe phypTpal features, pf our own counffy.- tO'which, after our Bumcjer or autumn wanderings, we return bome. and^ ip which our duty and. our happiness, lie., Think gf/ tjhe yasf;. jfa^ isures which God has laid up in those deep places of our land which have been' the sefcirtf of iWmuoh of'ofir1 power — those mines of . which ^ eM. thf fi^ i^ f our homes, our manufactories, and our steamships, with their : wila and / iflame, whereby % e traverse the globe. Think also of that ' s^ ver. styeakA of sea, thofce irtri- bourid'ctiAstd whicn given U3 our iso- lated position, our rugged firmnes^ i- our, impregnable independence. Tlndern& ath the waters of the narrow • channeli - scientific' explorers'tell u8, Wie^ still may be discerned tha - loresta. which- in former ages united the forests of England with the forest< of the adjacent con- tinbnt. Whit1 a ^ arvSll^' provjdence, 1 hardly less than the passage of the Rtd Sea, was the gWatminown convulsion of nature which overwhelmed that green valley with the salt yratyra of a raging sea, and rent asunder the chalky cliffs on either, side siad left our island like a gallimt ship to fight its waV kline with its own inanlnr character through ' the tmnuItJ'Vif the world." . I „ tr. A RAILWAY ACCIDENT CASE. The cauBe of < rSwan bo rough and Wife v. the Metropolitan Railway Company " was" before the Court of Queen's Bench on Monday. The faction, it will perhaps be remembered, was tried before Mr. Justice Hannen at . the last Middlesex sit- tings, when the, jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £ 1,000 for personal injuries of a serious charicter received by the plaintiff's Wife, who is known ' in theatrical circles aa Mfas Bufton, in a collision that took place on the defendant's line near South . Kenangton station on the 2nd , of Adgust, 187L She was thrown/ on ( he floor of the Carriage, and was in- sensible for some time. She was dut across the fore- head, h^ 1 knee was hurt, and; she wa3 much shaken. She warf unable' to moVfe about''^ it^' th'ai: fefce and grace she . wAs capable of doing ' prtvtoHfl^ uttd her memory was ao^ Spared , t; hat she waa> tm^ b)^ gra5p and study her parts as before the accident. 1 he de- fendant had paid £ 1,200 into court in'order to stay ex- ecutiqn and moved to reduce the damagea. , •,, i Mr. Chambers, Q. C.. now ifjpved, for a rule nisi for a new trial, on the ground that the damages were exceaiive, or why'. the daihages sHo^ lff'ttot be materially reduced. He amongst other matters, too, much stress was laid on the cut, across theladyfe forehead. • • The Lord Chief Justice said a formidable scar across her forehead waa1-! cfJculat^ d toiftSw^• ihefcappearance on the st^ ge when playmg . youthful' nartifrA good- lookflifrlidf w » uld consider aucl* aLthi^ 6r> 8& lniging to her appearance, much more BO an actress. Mr. Chambers said there was too much conjecture an. d ^ nttfti^ e in&' o^ uced into it' 6a to$ er being dis- . The Lord cfcf Justice Baidi it, wpa jigt ; a njatter of M OF . • . M = . Mr. Justice Blackburn said it wall a. senotufthfng for att unmarried lady to have a'^ Cat SWoss' her', forehead, ttMurfi perhaps less BO to a married lfcdy-^( lah£ bter}— but that it was a more serious injury taaiy< Bctr< a9 in hw profesrion. It was ? lpubtful if. inA » shoct she would be do good an aotres^ as 6be, was before, and that ought to be taken into - Accoubt - fi' ' Messing damages, - rii- - » » m i. aliclftG Mr. Chambers said the defendants felt. they could not yield to that sentimental kind pf verdict that was often given by-^ Oriis- Unjustly with reference to the actual damage sustained, and most injurious to " those who had through an accident,^ to pay such '^ Tbf Lord dWief Jusiice^ dd^ here was no ground for disturbing the verdict. It appeared, that in all pro- brtbihty thiri kdy wttdld be dlfquSliBW from1 dcAcising her profession. far years' frcto the time of the ^ C^ nt At that time the^ was earning £ 8^ per week, and thfer^ Was ^ tvid conclusion that her talent was developing, itself from flay to day, from which fche would speedily acquiltea lBgher salary. In accidents of this kind, where there were fair grounds fed'thinking that'suffertra had lost in a pecuniary point? of viefv, itjwaa but fair that they shotdd have the heneat of tho doubt. Here was , a lady eminent in h « * prWeSflMi, and imprcWhSt1 diuly, with every phispodt'of earning a large addiUenal iiicome. She was cot ofl firOm' that for two ywrtj and it was well known that when a person lef^ a profession for so lone fc time that he did not resume his occupation in thesatae position as when he Wtoff/' ' It was" riot too much to say that this1 lady mrcht have gone on and been in the receipt of £ 1,500 per annum at the end of two years if the acdd. nt b^ vlnot ffW^ jJ- ' drcmnstanceA comrfdfered, bodily suff. n^, judical attendance, and BO forth, he did not thmfc that the damages were excessive. Tha pther learned judges concurred, i Rule refused. Pptatoes are now said to be so scarce Mid- dear throughout Ireland that the coremore of tho Tnriom'cOunty yaolj have been directed by the luipector General " to » ub- itltuto for them in the diet ol the prUonen a ration, broad Ihree times a week. FIB13 IK LOHD& n. On SunXy, one of the largest firea that have ojxurred In London for many years past broke out at the Uty Flour Milla, in Upper Thames- etreet, and caused an Immense destruction of property, respecting the value Of which almca: fabulous statements are afloat The bnOdn- i? was of itgelf, perhaw, as conspicuous as any that could be seen on eiu. ir bank of the Thames, and it* low will for the time obhteMta • land- mark of the metropolis. It waa— and ite shelL which is all that ia now left of it, still ia- situated a few yard* east of Blackfriara- bridge. From its extra- ordinary height it towered above all the other wharves and building in the neighbourhood, and it had no lert than some 400 windows in and around it. There were seven stories to it, each cf them being divided into warehouses and machine rooms, and the quantity of grain that waa continually kept in it was extremely large. It had a river frontage of toft. m length, and one of like size in Upper Thames- street, and between the laf- r street and the river frontage waa a distance of 250ft, all occupied by the mill. There was also a long creek at the weatern side of it from which barges might be laden. The building was erected in 1852, and belonged to Messrs. J. and J. Ha iley, an eminent firm of millers. The fire, which doubUesa had been smouldering many hours previously, was discovered by a City policeman shortly before seven o'clock in the morniDg. tie ran immediately to the chief station of the Metropobtan Fire Brigade in Watling- street and raised an alam. This waa at four minutes to Beven o clock. In the meantime information of the fire had been given, Mia 30 ei pines in all, and upwards of 200 firemen, under the dueetioa of the four superintendents, were soon in attendance ready for work. The floats also appeared in due time, aad got as near to the burning premises as the condition of the tide at the time would allow. A capital supply of water was obtained but the fire, m spite of every effort that the skill erf the firemen enabled them to make, spread tn- adualUv throughout the eLtire upper part of the building. The floors, one by one, gave way with a tremendous crash, throwing the entire weight of the contents on those beneath. Although, being daylight no reflection of the flames was visible, yet aa the fire became known the bridges and all the Ptreets in the neighbourhood were densely crowded. On the river also the floating engines were Burrounded by skiffs, and other small craft, all filled with spectators. The land engines played from every conceivable point round the bnUding. Firemen stood on the roofs of high premises abut- ing upon the mills, and thence managed to pour into the windows Mid apertures of the building tons upon tons of water, but • tilt it was a longtime before any impression could be made in the burning mass. The roof fell early in the dav. The damage to adjacent premises waa consider- able, arising mostly from water. _ When darkness set in the reflection of the fire was visible for somei dis- tance, and the immense shell of the building with its numerous windows was lit np by the flames raging within it. A large body of firemen were told off to play upon the ruins all night long. The building is said to have been " fireproof." About three o'clock in the afternoon some fireihen had obtained access by means of the escapes to ! the third floor of the building, and were plying their hose, when a portion of the floor above them suddenly gave way. It waa thought that all the men so situated managed to escape, but on mustering them later in the day and calling the roll, it was found that one of them, named Guernfley, who was known to be in that part of the building, was missing. It was therefore supposed that he wan buried in the ruins. In addition to the supposed death of the fireman Guernsey, two other members of the brigade were severely injured by the ' I falling floors, and . were taken to. St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and many others were cut and bruised. Duripg the whole of Monday the operations of the Fire Brigade were continued with the greatest actiyity, and the remarkable sight which the fire presented drew together an enormous crowd upon Blackfriars- bndge and id the immediate neighbourhood all through the • flay, but in the evening especially, when the flames wi'. hin the huge structure were visible. The traffic in that part of Upper Thames- street was entirely stopped for fear of a dieaster, in consequence of the dangerous - state of the walls which had cracked most alarmingly during the progress vf the fire. About noon on Monday a part of one of the upper floors fell with a load crash, earning the sparks to fly in every direction, and sending up a volume of snflo- cating smoke, which nearly overpowered the firemen. The ftate of the walla was examined during the day by one of the City district surveyors, ana if found practicable they will be shored up, though in case of impending danger, they will probably be at once de- stroyed. Jn the course of the night some men working on one of the floating engines were thrown into the river by the slipping of a plank, but tbey were fortunately res- cued, and, beyond the sudden immersion, sustained no injury from the accident There is, unhappily, the strongeet reason to believe that the missing fireman. Guernsey, has perished among the ruins. He and another man were working side by side on one of the floors when the floor above them sud- denly gave way. His companion, as it happened, got out of danger, but he paw nothing of Guernsey after the crash, and although several gangB of firemen went about in every direction shouting his name they jot no answer. The fire was spreading so rapidly that there was no time for them to clear away the ruins in which they suppose he was buried. It waa said that he may possibly have rushed to some other part Of the building, and waa unable, by reason of the fire all round him, to make his escape, but this is evidently imp'BsSble, for no one could have lived in the midst of the flames which raged all through Sunday and Mon- - day. Everything that has transpired leads to the belief that he has been killed. The firemen who were injured by the falling girders and beams are going on favour- ably. - The building is said to have been built in accordance with a plan brought ferward in the year of the Great Exhibition, by which it was thought that a fire if it bwke out^ ht be strictly confined to that part m which it originated. The floors sprang chiefly from mwsive pillare of stone resting on foundations of the utmost solidity, and each story was supported by mm ' t strength. The lofty chlmnev- shaft ^ ch reL^ unSd has a foundation of i own independent of the building itself. Themachinerym the mills was extremely Suable, and. the stores con- tained some thousand quarters of grain. Everything in the five upper floors has perished in the hre. Wednesday Morning. Though three entire days have elapsed since the outbreak of the destructive tire at the City Flour Milk, to uSS- Thames street it was still burning last night SdKnot likely to be extinguished, for a day or two mori During almost the whole of this time two- thirds 3 the Ixxndon Fire Brigade have been at working eantly in trying to nuench it and engine M^ parted on every side of the immense budding. Through- out Monday night four floating enpM. and> four land steamers -- in^ iU continuetoflit about parts of the building, but theprincipal feat of the fire is the enormous motrnd of fallen grain and flooring in its very autre, that oart being, as a matter of course, the most m- SceJbS from the different positions of the firemem Tbewindowa of the mill are latticed J3S Dari Tuesday afternoon Captain Shaw of ^ OTf^ £ windows, of themi^ toadjoining wareh^ the » t flames, uius uums might have been other- w. which they workea inan * eiterior. S3gSffiEwsSa JESS?- the budding . ^ fiffBKS sitefromwie of the upper stories is M^ tobeamort SnguWone. BeneatS b a see^ ^ ^^^ luting on the second floor, and extending the wnoie Wth of the building, and above andsiW the nrfna of fire floors^ which have been dMMged » severely by the fir*, and which in s me places are still Nothing can yet be seen, even from the inside, of th » body of the fireman Guernsey, though part of the hoee at which he waa at work is observable among the d£ brit It is impossible as yet to touch the burning material with a view to a search being made, though that tssk will be commenced at the very earliest op- portunity. The wounded men are going on favourably, and it is hoped that they have not sustained any severe internal injuries. The cracked walls are still very threatening; but as may be imagined, it is a moat difficult matter to suggest any means by which they can be rendered safe, for to shore them up securely would take a long time and be a work which very few people would feel inclined to undertake. Another serious problem is how the ruins of the upper floors are to be got at for the purpose of removal. The salvage will, as was thought, be large, and, to a certain extent of value; but a great deal of the grain has been unavoidably washed away into the river with the immense quantity of water used to extinguish the fire. It is fortunate that the fire has been absolutely, con- fined to the mills, seeing that some of the adjoining wharves are stored with most inflammable and danger- ous goods, and if they had once become alight there is no knowing where the disaster would have stopped. HOW TO CHECK FIRES. The following remarks from the Pall Mall Gaulle may • ngffost to many that watchfulness and great care are perhaps the best protection from Are :— The great fire in Upper Thames- street administers abroad hint to London that, although it has escaped the fate of Boston and Chicago, it stands in the uncom- fortable position of being at the mercy of an agent far beyond the control of any means or appliances we possess for its arrest The bulldingsdestroyedon Sunday are said to have been fireproof; there seems to have been no lacfc of water, and all that the exertions ot the firemen could do was done to check the advance of the flames, which, nevertheless, asserted their mastery, and only gave over the contest when thay had re- duced to a ruin the vast pile of buildings they attacked. The truth is that fire to be dealt with properly should be strangled in its infancy. A small jug of water properly applied at the right moment would have pre- vented the conflagration which an hour later all the fire- engines in London could not subdue. It may be said that the fire waa not discovered until it had ob- tained ruch a hold on the building that its progress could not be checked, but the answer to this is that the fire should have been discovered. Such a large establishment as the City Flour Mills should be kept under constant supervision by day and bv night. As well might it be asserted, if London Had been in flames, that the fire in Thames- street had not been ob- served until it had spread to adjoining streets. As one room in the City Mills was to the rest of the budding, so was the budding itaelf to the rest of London. J. he fire waa first discovered from without by a glare at one of the windows, whereas it ought to have been dis- covered inside before it had time to show lteelf outside. I MISSION FOE MEN AND BROTHERS. .( From Punch.) Goiso, all of Love and Mercy, On a mission, Pabllc dear. Nought to profit Mammon's purse he Goeth, lo SIB BABTLE FRERE R Tla a statesman valuable. Envoy whom you send afar " Mongst your fierce and formidable Flesh and blood to Zanzibar. In their fellow- m6n they traffic; He departs to atop that trade ; And will need a tongue seraphic Heathen hearers to persuade. May his words convey conviction To their softened hearts of stone I May he win them by mere diction; By the strength of speech alone! To bur sable Kind In duty • We, beloved, ne'er must lack, Irrespectively of beauty, Notwithstanding they are black. But the cost of keeping niggers In their skins free wilds to rove, O reduce the lowest figures ! Ah, ' t were best done all for love I Too, too little for black Brothers, Though we try with all our might, Can we care, or e'en for others Who are in our midst, ana white. Of you all, sweet friends, whichever For a dog s losi, though so sod. He could cry, with best endeavour Could lament a human Cad? You It may, but should not, startle, If, as posilbly they will, Circumstances shall SIR BARTLB Foroe to run us up abllL May jast . Rulers place all under That new load incurred for Blacks; Further still one class not plunder By an Increased Income- tax. THE LORD MAYOR OP LONDON AND ' THE INCOME TAX. On Monday, a deputation from the National Cham- ber of Trade, and composed of Mr. Attenboroueh, chairman of the London Anti- Income Tax Com- , mittee; Mr. Jones, a liveryman of London ; Mr. Seaton, President of the Hull Chamber of Commerce ; Mr. Morrison, Secretary of the National Chamber of Trade; Mr, Pepler, Dr. Longhurst, and Mr. Gotto, waited upon the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion- house, London, to ask him to preside at a public meeting in the City in relation to the incidence of the income tax on fluctuating incomes and on property in the course of realisation and with a view to its adjustment, or rather its entire removal. The deputation was intro- duced by Sir Thomas Chambers, M. P., and Sir Robert Carden. Mr. Attenborough Baid the Committee of the National Chamber of Trade, which he represented, were anxious that the citizens of London should have an opportunity of protesting against the further con- tinuance of the income tax. He was one of a deputa- tion which had met other local societies at Birming- ham, where a most enthusiastic resolution had been passed on the subject and a strong desire expressed that the lead in the movement should be taken by the citizens of London. The National Chamber of Trade had assurances from almost every important town io England of the immense interest this question waa exciting at present, and promises of support both from members of Parliament and influential commercial men. He reminded the Lord Mayor that they were the first deputation to him since his accession to office, and said he thought on that ground they might have a little extra claim for favourable consideration on him. Mr. Jones said a requisition had been signed by a numerous body of liverymen and citizens, and he thought it was such a document as would justify his ordship in convening a meeting. Mr. Seaton, of Hull, referred to a most enthusiastic meeting which had been held there on Friday last, and suggested that as Wilberforce, when member for Hull, led theway forthe emancipation of the blacks, the Lord Mayor by assisting this movement might con- duce to the emancipation of the whites. Mr. Gotto, another member of the deputation, ex- plained that their object was that the taxation should tall on realised property, but not on property in course of realisation. Sir Robert Carden. also stated that the intention waa not to interfere with income arising from real property. In the result the Lord Mayor said that although he was willing to preside at a public meeting of his fellow- citizens, he wished it to be understood that he would go there without expressing any opinion aa to 1 the objects of the promoters. The deputation expressed themselves satisfied and withdrew. ^ A newspaper correspondent in New York says that continues to be felt tn that dtr, owing g* the epSIemlc among the hor^ r More ttjn half the afreet can and omnibuses hsve been withdrawn, and the taSL rteamere leave with short cargoes because it Is tm- to convey goods fro- n the, warehouse, tol teen are being used in the city to draw hexry dreys, and the « £ bt bjtUno^ lty attracts crowd, of lalere. Fortunately. SS* lis bee* ItUl. mortality among the hone, and a ml- d- rV mt they z^ nereUy recover from the ol » - OSU S^ S SverTuiflaemv- W which they Q^ fidfib * OVERWORK ON RAILWAYS. The Bishop of Manchester was present at of railway servants at Manchester, m connexion with the City Mission, and in the course of bu address to the men made a remark upon their houre of said he had asked Mr. Tootal, one of the directors of the London and North- Weetern Badway, bow long the company expected one engWnver to OgniM engine Without rat; and. Mr. Tootal had answered that two hours was the time. The BiAop thought however, that the safety of a rnlway train deeded upon pointsmen even more than upon dnvere, ana u he were perched up in a cabin with about 2o pointo in front of him, he waa afraid he would be the same pootion as the pointsman at Muddleby Junction, of whom a cartoon appeared in Punch a short time ago. Seeing, therefore, that the work of a points- man was so difficult, he considered that four hours was as long a time as a pointsman, while at work, couia CaS. 8BMWoft one of the directors of the London and North- Western Eadway, begged leave to say that, if his lordship was put into a signal- box to work tne points, having the power of abstraction that he had, he would kill half the passengers in the country. Sir. Bancroft held that no man capable of abstraction was fit for a pointsman. Those particular radway officials must have but one id « a and one object ine I companies, therefore, selected, to work the points, a particular class of men who were capable of pur- suing their work longer than any oth- r men what- ever would be. The London and North- Western Com- pany, he was proud to say, made it a pomt that their servants should have an opportunity of attending a plaee of worship at least once a Sabbath, and had passed a solemn resolution that the radway should not be worked on Sabbaths more than was really demanded by the necessities of the public. The directors be- lieved their arrangements were as nearly perfect aa they could be ; and when accidents occurred they sub- mitted to be abused, saying they had done their best CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS. The Rochester Democrat gave an eighteen- year- old canary bird a column obituary. A paper advertises for a " girl for cooking." They are better raw. The charming girls of Peoria are reported to hate • et the forest and themselves on firo by smoking cigarettes at a pic- nlo. Here ia a gem, alleged to have been found in the letter of a young lover:—*' Dearest love: I have swallowed the postsge stamp which was on your letter, becahse I knew that your lips had touched It" A couple were recently married in Terre Haute, Indiana, after fourteen years" courtship, during which they had each written and received two letters pur week, or a total of two thousand nine hundred and twelve ! The other day there appeared upon the placard of a paper an announcement ot 1 " Fatal Cases of Drowning." We hope that when any cases of drowning that are not fatal occur they will be carefully reported. A young lady, on being asked by a feminine ac- Ioaintance whether she had any original poetry In her I bum, replied, " No ; but some of my Irlends favoured me whh original spelling." " I wonder whither those clouds are going," said a poetic contributor to a magazine pensively, as she pointed with her delicate finger to the heavy masses that floated In the sky outside the editor's window. " I think they are going to thunder," said the editor. A young lady, who haa just returned to America from Europe, advises her friends not to go there. " unless Cu are sure that you know enough to appreciate the antles of Europe. It lends such a charm W> Italy to re- member that & nvmg these groves of olive the Immortal Beethoven sculptured the Medlcean Venus and Shakspeare composed the sublime poem of *' Paradise Lost I" I fed very queer!" waa the remark of a " corpse " In Chicago, with whom a party of friends were sitting up. This little devialton from the general conduct of corpses made the sfttels- up feel very queer too, and they capered out of there, leaving the Individual, supposed gone to better society than that w^ ich was sitting up with him, to recover at ltlsure. Abraham Lincoln, the lato President of the United States, was credited with a number of " Smart things," the basis of which, however, did not rest upon faot. When told of them he Liughed and said, " The papers make me smarter than I am ; I have said none of these things, with one evi ception. I did say, when I had the small- pox, * Now let the oflice seehera come, lor at last I have something I can give to all or them."" WEIGHT IN GOLD.— The woman who is " worth her weight in gold " Is not such a great match after alL The average feminine avofrdupois would only balanee about seven tbousuid pounds. " ONE WOBD MORE."— A clerk in the Dead Letter Office, oi an inquiring mind, was curious to And out how mauy letters were written without a postscript. One day last week he found that out of 6,85^ letters written by females, only 376 were without postscripts. Some of the other letters contained three postscripts. " WEAINTGOOD FRIENDS GENERALLY."— North Carolina aiucu the close of the war seems to be acquiring an unenviable reputation for lawlessness and crime. As a spe- cimen ot the way In which the peaceable avocations of life are carried on in the " Old State," we give the following in- cidfnt as we find It reported:—" Do you wish to « ell that cow?" asked one neighbour of another, as the latter was driving heme one of his stray kine. " No, not by a good deal.'' was the reply. " Well. I guess I'll tako her then." ' That means one of us. I take it," said the owner of the cow, drawing a pistoL " Well. It does," coolly replied the other, also drawing a revolver. Shots were Instantly exohanged, and th6 firing was kept up until the pistol chambers were exhausted. Each man was slightly wounded, and one went Into his house and the other drove his cow homo. The tra- veller who witnessed the unexpected affray had the curiosity to ask the cow drivor what occasioned it " O nothing I tickler," was the reply, " weaint good friends generally, l and so we jes let drive whenever we gits an excuse." • SPUTTERINGS FROM " JUDY'S" PEN. K^ vw PEOVERB.— Man proposes, but wman often rejects • WITBN shall we three meat again ? "— Never, most llkoly, unltss the prices go down. A YOOKQ Yachtsman writes to ask what ia the propor Be- Ison for pitching his boat. Take it out the next rough day and manage it yourself; the wind wl'l soon pitch it over for you. . A SPORTING Friend says that he does not understand why tho weather cannot hold up, seeing that the wind is driven with such a strong rain. I WARNING TO LOVERS — Edwin pleads guilty to having kissed ' ANTEUna in the cornfield: the corn, she says, was " shocked." WHY IS a prima donna like a Jeweller ?— Because she may be called a dealer in precious ( B) tones. NOT to have too many egos In one basket, Is a good old proverb ; but It savours cf chicken haxard, as sure as dggs is eggs. - On, that mine enemy would write a book." Yos," we aild, " and have It published on commission :" in which eve his acquaintance with the prophets would be small, you know. A NEGRO lately died In Fleet Street. The neighbours salj he was a blackamoor. JUDY contends that he was not a blacky more, but a blacky less. A CAPTTVATIN'C one of JUDY'S acqualntanco has just told her youog man, who Is backward in coming forward, that she wont be kept- a waiting any longer. GEOGRAPHICAL CON.— If tho world 13 round, how on earth can it come to an end 7 MEN OF MARK— Garottcrs who havo had the " cat." PUBLIC Characters— Barmaids. GAKDEXIHO MEM.— NOW IS the time to loos out your Christmas Annuals. ETRAKOE !— The heaviest speeches don't always have tho greatest weight. Ip Heaven helps those who help themselves, how well thieves must get along. WHAT IS the difference between a forward minx and a shot rabbit T— One's over- hold, and the other's bowled over. WHY IS a certain place near the Lakes like beer got on tick f— Because if a Borrowdale ( borrowed ale). — Judy. EPITOME OF HEWS, ERITISH AND FOREIGN. The death of Thomas Lolly, the American artist, i announce J. He was ninety years of age. A Paris Correspondent eays that M. Gr£ vy was al- most unanimously re- elected President of the French Assembly on Tuesday, and that the former Vlce- Preddeatj were also re- elected, the Left withdrawing the candidates it had brought forward. During the week ending Saturday last, 5,585 births and 3 070 deaths were registered In London and twenty olher large cities and towns ol the United Kingdom. The mortality from all causes in th& e towns waa at the rate of 22 deaths annually to every thousand estimated to ha living. In the metropolis 2 462 births and 1,118 desths were recUtcred. the former havtnc been 121 above, and the latter 3^ 9 below the average. Fifteen persons died from small pox, 11 trua measles, 14 from scarlet fever. 3 from dlptherla, 25 fro n whooping- cough, 23 from diffeieut forms of fever, and 10 from ( iiarrhcea. The deaths from theie seven dta." « were In the aggregate no leu than 1S2 below the cor rected average number in the corresponding wack. ol the last ten years. London has probably never been so Ino froa the prevalence of zymotic disease u it is now. Of 156 prisoners booked At thf Liverpool police- stations between Sunday evenlcg and Monday morning, 130 were drui k. The dead body of an unknown gentleman was found on Monday among some tom » stones in Kensil Green Ceme- tery. A pistol Lay near his head. It has been determined to form an agricultural association In Cambridgeshire, to resist strikes, and to de* y tho effort* of professional agitators. Several hundred labourers, with their families, on Tuesday, left the London Docks for New Zealand. Others proceeded to Iiverpool, en route lot BrsriL Fifteen years ago an influential London contempo- rary pronounced a seven per cent, rate to be " as disastrous in its effects as earthquake, pestilence, famine, flood, confla- gration, and shipwreck. The Northumberland Coal Owners' Association have advanced the price of ( mall coal from 25s. to 30s. per chal- dron. Very recently the price of unscreened coal was re- duced. A man named Michael Collis, who waa discharged from a lnnatlt asylum on Sunday night, shortly afterwards set fire to a quantity of furze In the neighbourhood ol Llmericlc, and placing himself in the midst, was roasted to death. Thomas Challoner, a oollier, was found dead on Mon- day on a cinder heap at Earl Granville's deep pit, Uanley. It Is supposed that he had lain down for the sake of warmth and was suffocated by the fumes. " A marriage, which makes a'great sensation at this moment. Is that of a lady who was Princess de la Moskowa by her father, and Duchess de Pcrslgny by her husband. In a few days she will only be the wife ol a simple advocate at Cairo."— Court Journal. A tramp who had been refused alms at a house near Bodedern, tn the Isle of Anglesea, the other evening, made a violent attack upon tha maid- servant and her master, an old g ntlsman newly 80 years ol age, the instrument used being a bricklayer's hammer. Cardinal Calien, in a pastoral letter which was read on Sunday in Ireland, remarks that there is reason to hope that the Government will accede to the wishes of the Irish Roman Catholics " education in accordance with their re- llgious principles." By a telegram from Copenhagen, we leam that Mr. Edward Whymper, well known for his feats of Alpine climb- ing has returned from a second Journey of exploration in North Greenland, bringing with him a rich collection of curiosities, including some remarkable specimens of fossil- lied wood. " Mr. Bessemer will be blessed in many languages, by Englishmen and foreigners, without distinction of age or sex if he manages to abolish sea- sickness through his lngo- nlou » idea ol a ship within a ship, the Inner movements counteracting the outer, and producing a central calm. — Daily Telegraph. According to the New Free Press the cholera epidemic | In Hungary has been severe. In Pesth alone there had been j 64 deaths out of 224 cases since the 18th nit, and In the | week ending the 2nd Inst, there were 47 new cases. Last i Sunday's returns showed a further progressive Increase. The | disease has appeared at Vienna. It is stated that large numbers of iron and steel masters In Sheffield are combining to bring about a reduction In the price of coals. They have threatened to stop their factories half time by locking out their men. If they are compelled to do so, 14,000 workmen will be partially thrown out of employment. At a meeting which has recently been held of the French Conservatives, or party of the Bight, it was resolved o support Prince Napoleon when his case oomes before the House, not from any personal sympathy with the Prince, but lor political reasons. From April 1st to the 9th instant the Treasury re- ceipts amounted to £ 41,2S7,890. as compared with £ 35,691,918 in the corresponding period of last year. The expenditure has been £ 41,661,777. On Saturday last the balance In the Bank of England exceeded three millions and a half sterling. A French provincial paper declares that M Thiers has been unofficially made aqualnted with a letter from Prince Bismarck to a German functionary. In which it Is stated that Prussia is favourable to the establishment of a Republic In France, hellevina that a Monarchy would be the signal for a civil war, but that she would change her attitude were the Radicals to come into power. In Fans recently, an inventor ot ooota witn wnicn to walk on the water made a publio experiment, when, fays the account, the boots Indeed floated; but the inventor, with his head under water, seemed to be carrying on a con- versation with the flshe<, which would probably have ended with his suffocation If a boat had not picked him up. In London, on Monday evening, a public meeting was held at the Workmen's Club In Smlthfleld, to prdtest against the demolition of the houses of the poorer classes, and to demand the erection of more suitable dwellings. 81r John Bennett occupied the chair. The object of the gather- ing met with general concurrence, and it was resolved to send a deputation to the Lord Mayor on the subject. Tbe opening meeting of the Royal Geographical Society's Session was held on Monday evening at the London Uuiveralty. The ohalr was occupied by Sir Henry Bawllnson, the president, who. In hts address, spoke of Mr. Stanley's Journey to Lake Tanganyika as the most Important ' geo- graphical achievement of the year, and one fully deserving the Society's medal. One of the novel street sights of London just now is a new double hansom running on two wheels, but furnished inside with double scats for four persons. Just as in the old four wheeler. The body of the car is balanced on the same principle as the ordinary hansom to relieve the horse from the weight, and throw it almost wholly on the wheels, while Jehu is perched np overhead as per regulation. The wheels are- very small, and ore fixed rather under than out- ide the vehicle. On Tuesday the Prussian Parliament waa opened by the Minister ot War, who read the speech from the Throne. The 8peecb, In referring to the Counties Biform Bill, recently refected by the Upper House, announced that the measure had been somewhat modified, but that Its essen- tial provisions were the same, and that the Government was firmly resolved to qairy It by all the constitutional means at its dlsp saL In the Upper House Count Stolbcrg, a sup- porter ot the Government, was elected President by 70 votes out of 85. The Bishop of Manchester has been riving advice to young working men at Bradshaw, near Bolton. Speak- ing at the luncheon which followed tha consecration of a new church there, he said working men generally had ad- vantages now of making themselves comfortable that they had never had before— at least, not in his memory. A young man earning £ 2 a week, 11 he had no burden upon him, could put by £ 1 a week. That could surely be done if an ngrlculcnral labourer could live on 15s. a week and bring up four or five children as well. And the man who did that lor one year would be Justified in asking the prettiest, the truest, and the nattiest girl in the parish to have him for her lo. The Daily News Correspondent in Kome says that the sufferers by the late inundations in Italy need help to an extent that neither the Government nor private generosity •# 111 be able to provide ; It has accordingly been suggested that a sum of a-> out twenty millions of francs, collected some years ago for tho purpose of paying off the National Debt by public subscription, should be given to the de- vastated districts. The proposal has been approved by the newspapers of all shades ot political opinion, and tho Gazzetla tfltofiohss followed It un by recommending that the amount assigned to the Pope, which is lying idle because he has hitherto refused to accept it, should be devoted to the same purpose. i Speaking at Southampton, on Sunday, Bishop Wil- berforce, taking up a reference to the anti- slavery efforts of his ancestor, said he felt that his connection with th » t name was a perilous inheritance, but at the same time the posses- sion of it in a free couutry like this should be a greatmoral stimulus to any thinking man— In the morning the bishop preached to the local volunteers, and pointed out thefa was nothing sinful or contrary to the Divine Wordln am an being a soldier. That a w » r mluht be a righteous one he held to be supported both by the Old and New Testament. Mr. Hibbert, MP., secretary to the Local Govern- ment Board, was present at the first anniversary of the Chadderton Liberal . Registration Society, on Saturday even- ing The hon gentleman said that he expected that one of tho principal measures to be brought forward in the next session of Parliament would relate to local government and taxation The time had, he thought, came for the estab- lishment in counties of a system ol financial government by county boards, and for the assessments In the various unions to be made on a uniform plan. An application was made at Rolls Chambers, on Monday, to the Chief Clerk, on behalf of the Bight Hon. W. E Gladstone and Lord do Tabley, aa trustees under the wffl of the late Duke of Newcastle, that a sum of £ 46,000, the proceeds of the sale by private contract of themanrionln Charlton House- terrace, should be ordered to be Invested In Consols and allowed to accumulate. The Chief Clerk made the order asked for, but remarkei that he wished now he had ordered the property to be sold by pmbllo auction in- stead of by private contract. The Princess Mary of Cambridge ( Duchess of Teck) has written a graceful letter to Lord Skelmersdale in ac- knowledgement ol the cordiality with which she was re- ceived on her recent visit to Lancashire. Her Koyal High- ness says, after thanking the Mayor ot Liverpool lor the re- ception which she met with la that town :—" 1 can never forget the welcome Lancashire has given me and my husband; and I nev^ r felt more proud and happy to be an English Princess than on this occasion, when 1 once again had before me s » striking a proof of the loyalty aBd deep- rooted attach- ment that exist lor the Queea and the Royal house. I need • carcely assure you that I shall not fail to let the Queen kaow how enthusiastically loyal Lancashire Is." In an article on tbe marriage oi the Emperor of China, some curious facts are n^ entioned For example. It k stated that the nntnber of wive* and concubines is so arranged as to form a series in geoaetrical progression, with three ss its common ratio. Thus, by law the Emperor Is compelled to take unto himself, besides the Empress, three ladles as petitUs ftwnts of the first degree— these have already been selectcU Ur his Imperial Majesty— cine of the second degree, twenty- nveu ol the third degree, and nine times nine ccncoMnes. With equal predMon th » variola duties of these ladles are minutely laid dov/ n, and not much more latitude as to the choice of his companions » pp « ar to be allowed to the Emperor after his mrj- rU^. e than In the original sekction of tha members ol hi*" household. Foot- warmers are now supplied to all third- class passeu^ cn upon the Great Northern RiUway. The snow- drift at Balmoral on Sunday and tho greater part of Monday was all but blinding, and tho snow now lies at considerable depth. An explosion of fire- damp, by which thirty- eight persons were killed and three wounded, has taken place at tho Monceaux Mines, tn Prance. In consequence of the high price of eoal, the direc- tors ot the Crlef Gas Company have advanced the prioe ol gas from tis. 8d. to 7a. 6d. per 1,000 cuble feet. Several Japanese saDon shipwrecked on Formosa Island were eaten by the natives. The King ot the Loo Choos has sent an embassy to Jeddo for aid to avenge their death. Mr. John Bright excused himself attending the Mayor's banquet at Birmingham on, Saturday night, on the ground that his state ot health • till rendered it necessary to avoid publio dinners and speeches. A new coal bed has, it is said, been discovered in a field at Greystones, near Sheffield. Tho coal Is situated about seventeen yards from tho surface, tmd the bed 1s about torn feet thick. Prince Christian of Holstein arrived at Dresden on Sunday with an autograph lotter from Queen Victoria con- gratulating the King and Queen of Saxony upon the fiftieth anniversary cf their wedding. A telegram from Constantinople mentions that tho Levant Herald has been suspended by the Turkish Govern ment for two months, for publishing what is described as an Ironical article on the deficient water supply ol that city. Last Saturday a fatal accident occurred in the Orkneys by which a mall boat was upset aud two men drowned. Only two mall bags were reoovered. The men were brothers, belonging to the Island of Walls, and wore un- married. A fire in a colliery near Wigan, which waa supposed to have been extinguished two years alnco, roeolving a fresh supply of air by a tall of the root, burst forth again on Friday night, and caused the deaths of four men by suffoov tlon, seriously injuring a fifth. Mr, Stanley left Liverpool on Saturday, in the Cunard Steamship Cuba, for America. [ Mr. Stanley will find plenty of honour* awaiting him when he reacheD his native soil: and among others it Is stated that all newspapers cor- respondents at Washington purpose giving him a grand banquet on his arrival In that city.] Ail old criminal named SeOer baa just died in the Swiss penitentiary ol Aargau, who acknowledges having boon themurdererof a Jew, whose death, until this confession, re- mained a secret The son of the murderer hold the victim while he killed him with a bill- book. For some time pre- vious to his death the wretched msa dreamed continually ol tho executioner of Aarburg. A melancholy accident occurred on the River Tyne at Newcastle on Sunday afternoon. A yacht with five men in it was sailing across the river when a sudden gust of wind arose and the yacht capsized, filled, and sank In a moment. Two ol the men sworn to shore, two others wore drowned, and the fifth man. who waa an expert swimmer, got en- tangled in the rigging and went down with the yacht. The Post Office of Victoria, Australia, having riven notice to the General Post Office that articles of Jowelry re- ceived in that colony are chargeable with Customs' duties, the Postmaster- General thinks it necessary to make this regulation known to the public, and to stato that any letters or packets containing such articles sent through tho post are liable, with their contents, to be forfeited. " Pray, sir, of what profession are you?" asked an eminent Q. C, recently on olrcuit of a witness who had ooma prepared to prove a faot, and who was deemed not very re- spectable. " Sir, I am a shoemaker aad wine merchant.' " A what, sir?" said the learned ooun* eL " A wine mer- chant and shoemaker." " Then," said the counsel, " I may describe you as a sherry cobbler." The Court of Exchequer haa decided that to call a rrting man a " welaherb Is not slander In a legal sense. In course of the argument In the case, the Judges indirectly signified their willingness to accept tho authority of tho " Slang Dictionary " fbr the definition of the obnoxious word lor the use of which an action had been hneoght. In honour of the birthday of the Prince of Walea, and In commemoration ol his Royal Highness'* recovery from the illness last year, the Princess of Wales has presented to Sandringham Church a new loetern, iuscrioed, " To tha glory of God. A Thankoffering, 14th December, 1871.— Alexandra, ' I was tn trouble; 1 lailitt upvn the Lord, and He heard me.'— Psalm oxx, v. L" The Mayor of Castillon, in the Gironde, has been suspended for two months, for declaring the cries ol " Vive l'Empereur!" as legal as the cries of " Vive la BtpnbUque I" It appears that some electors In the Town Hall Shouted " Vive la Rfipubliquo 1" and others having re'olned " Tiro l- Empfireur r tho Mayor declined to Interfeft, alleging tho above reason. " The people of Bombay haye had the happiness of new coloured windows for their Cathedral, but the workmen had fixed them inside out, to the great amusement and, perhaps, horror of people conversant with what is slgnlilod ny the soft many- coloured light falling on the worshippers. When the error was discovered, means of course were taken to repair it, and tho Viceroy will find the windows with their ri£ ht sides out.''— Correspondent of The Timet. The Prince of Wales has acknowledged the warm greeting which he received at Newcastle in a patriotic reply, which, passing the mere customary formalities, expresses the Prince's pleasure In miiing with the classes who contri- bute to England's prosperity, and hts desire to Identify him- self with her institutions, and labour in common with his fellow- countrymen to hand them down unimpaired to pos- terity. " French capitalists in connection with French leading politicians have Just established at St. Petersburg a dally paper in tho French language entitled La Ntva. The object in view Is to foment the plan of a Russo- French alliance, all discouragements notwithstanding. As there are a good many people In Buss LA favourable to such a scheme, the paper cannot be said to be altogether purpose- less, even though the reigning Emperor prefers good re- lations with Germany."— Correspondent of The limes. THE MARKETS. MARK- LANK— M05DAT. Tbe grain trade at Mark- lane today has been characterised by quietness, notwithstanding the eold weather. The supply of English wheat has been only moderate, but it has been • uffieient for requirements. In all qualities sales have pro- gressed slowly, at about last Monday's eurreney. As regards Foreign wheat, there has been i lair supply on offer. Transactions have been restricted, at previous quotations. The market has been moderately rappUed wlth barley With a quiet trade prices havo been unaltered. Malt has sold at late rates. Oats have been in fair supply andI quiet reooest. at the rates of the previous week. Mairo has sold slowly, on former terms. Beans and peas haretieen m- altered in value, with a slow domand. Flour haa been dealt In euletly, at previous quotations. MARK- LANE— WKDHBSDAT. me grain trade has opened with a quiet appearance The supply of English wheat has been only moderate, but there has been a fair show ol foreign, at about Monday's cur- rency. Tho market has teen moderately Supplied with barley. The trade, although quiet, has been Arm, at previous currencies. Malt has sold ailate prices. For oats there has beeu a moderate inquiry, and Monday's prices have been supported. Malzo has been quiet, and without chango. Beans and peas have been disposed of at previous prtces. IfETBOPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.— M05DAT. . There has been no feature of Importance In the cattle trade to- day The supplies of stocks have been rather large, and the demand has not been active: but the cold weather has strengthened values. Amongst tho foreign beast supply were about 100 Dutch, and about .20 Spanl- h. The quality was Indifferent, and the prloes were Irregular. From our own grazing districts there was a fair show, and with a toler- ably firm Inquiry the best breeds made 6s. lOd. to 6s. per 81b. From Leicestershire wcreoelvedaboutl, 630, fromLtiic'. lnshlre 49 from other parts of England about 600, from Scotland 28, and from Ireland 201 beasts and 800 cows. A moderate supply of sheep was In the pens. Tho demand was rather I ( lower than on Monday last, but at about the rates then I current The best Downs and half- breds havo sold at 6s 10< L to 7s. per 81b. Prime small calves have been steady. Other qualities have been quiet. Pigs hav » sold at late rates. Per 81b. to sink the offaL THE FALMOUTH AND PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES. SmraL JAPANESE. Polytechnic Hall, Falmouth. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 21st, 22nd, 23rd November. Day Performance Bt 3 p. m. on Saturday, 23rd. TANNAKKK'S, The only Original JAPANESE TROUPE Twelve Males and Females, Who hare appeared at the Crystal Palacej also at the Paris Exhibition. Tommy, the Wolf, Little All Eight, a Lady Bope and Wire Walker, Tub & Door Spinner, Screen and Umbrella Spinning, and 101 other Novel Feats never attempted by any other Performers. Price 3s., 2a., Is. ; also 6d. Commencing at 8 o'clock. N. B.— The Proprietor begs to state that this is the first visit ; and is quite different to anything that may have visited your town before. SEE BILLS AND CIRCULARS. Cornwall Home For Destitute LWtle Girls. THE ANNUAL MEETING of this Insti- tution wilVjie held / t the Town Hall ( by permission of theNMayor), on Friday evening next, 22nd inst., at 2/ oclock. Colonel Tremaynojhas kindly consented to preside, and sevenQ.' Clergymen and Friends will take part in yxe meeting. K. FRANCIS, Hon. Sec. Falmouth, Nov. 16,' l872. Wanted. APERSON to supply Shipping with Clothing, and a Person to supply Boots and Shoes. Apply at the Offices of this Paper. Wanted. JUNTOS CLEBK WANTED. Apply to GENN i N AIDER, Solicitors, Falmouth. To Engine Fitters. FITTERS wanted, at Huxhams and Brown's Foundry, Exeter. Shipowners, Merchants, Etc., Trading either to and from LONDON AND FOREIGN PARTS. AGENTLEMAN, aged 24, energetic and of business habits, is open to act as LONDON AGENT to the above. Passengers booked, Goods received and forwarded, and other Business carried through. Excellent references. Address: Mr. Pontifex, Poste Restante, Commercial Road, Lindport, Hants. The SCOTTISH EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Established in 1831. Established 1866/ for th'e/ lmprcfvemenfc and Recreation of Working Men. To Persons removing and others who may have Housetwld Furniture POSITION OP THE SOCIETY at 1st Mar., 1872. Existing Assurances, including Bonus Additions £ 6,892,581 Annual Revenue— From Premiums £ 180,831 From Interest 79,534 260,365 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 BU8INESS, 1872. New Assurances effected during the year ... £ 376, 588 Annual Premiums thereon 11,576 The Scottish Equitable being a Mutual Offi ce, the Policy- holders receive the WHOLE profits ; at the same time they are expressly FREBD FROM PERSONAL 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 YEBTED ADDITIONS TO POLICIES. £ 1,706,164. A Policy for £ 1000 effected in 1832 now amounts to £ 1909 18 A Policy for £ 1000 effected In 1837 now amounts to 1741 15 2 And proportionately in subsequent years. NEXT DIVISION OF PROFITS, 1ST of MARCH, 1873. Reports, Proposals and every information may be obtained at the Head Office, or any of the Agencies. GEORGE TODD, Manager. WILLIAM FINLAY, Secretary Head Office— 26, St. Andrew Sq., Edinburgh, AGENTS :— jFalmouth— W. Phillips, West Cornwall Bank. / Cattiiorne— J. H. Budge, merchant. SeltUm— Ralph Michell and Son, draper. Redruth— Edwin Cock and Son, merchants, • St. Keverne— George Appleton, surgeon. . TrcQony— Charles J. Bennetts, surgeon. ( Kercetal, FALMOUTH / Working Men'; Club. And Furnishing Wods of any description for disposal in toVn fcr country, a fair second- hand Price paid immediately in Cash for the same, by applying at S. MARKS'S, Auction and Furniture Sale Rooms, 21, High Street, ./ Falmouth. Sales and yaluations conduoted in town or country on reasonable terms. All accounts settled same day as Sale. G L ENFIELD orp A T~> piTT is the only kind used in ° - 1- Majesty^ iaundry 13 If there are any ladies who have not yet used the GLENFIELD STARCH they are respectfully solicited to give it a trial, and carefully follow out the directions printed on every package, and if this is done,' They will say, like the Queen's Laundress, It is the finest Starch they ever used. When you ask for Glenfleld Starch see that you get it, As inferior kinds are often substituted for the sake of extra profits. Beware therefore of spurious imitations. BENSON 8 Watches, Clocks, Gold Jewellery. SILVER AND ELECTRO- PLATE. Prnzii MIDAIR— LONDON, DUBLIN ft PARIS. WATCHES Of all kind. I, at 2 to 200 guinea*. LEVER, VERTICAL, HORIZONTAL, DirPLEX, CHRONOMETER, CHRONOGRAPH, KEYLESS, CENTRE SECONDS, REPEATERS, INDIAN, kc. Gold JEWELLERY Thf latest fashions. BRACELETS, BROOCHES, RINGS, EARRINGS, STUDS, NECKLACES, PINS, LOCKETS, CHAINS, CROSSES, Sc. CLOCKS Of all hinds, at 2 to 1000 guineas. CHURCH, TURRET. CARRIAGE. CHIME, DINING » DRAWING ROOM. HALL, LIBRARY, SHOP, BRACKET, « tc. Silver and Electro PLATE All the new desig DINNER SERVICES TEA & BREAKFAS. SERVICES CRUETS, BASKETS, INKSTANDS, FORKS CLARET JUGS, SPOONS, Ac. UluBtrated Catalogue of Watches, Clocks, Jewellery & c., post free for 2 stamps. Watches, Clocks, Jewellery and Plate sent to all parte of the world. Silver and Electro Plate Catalogue post free 2d. Watches repaired by skilled workmen. Old Silver Jewellery, Watches, & c., exchanged. Merchants Shippers, and Clubs supplied. Steam Factory and City Show Rooms— LUDGATE HILL & OLD BOND STREET, LONDON. TIME OF HIGH WATER AT FALMOUTH AND PENRYN QUAYS. MOHNINO. KTEN1NU. Saturday Nov. 16 5 17 5 34 Sunday 17 5 53 6 11 MONDAY 18 C 29 Ml! TUESDAY 19 7 1 7 21 WEDNESDAY 20 7 < 0 8 0 THOBSDAY 21 8 21 8 42 FRIDAY 20 9 8 9 29 SATURDAY, NOV, 10. 1B72. FALMOUTH. THE CHAPEL AT EARLE'S RETREAT- — Mr. W. H. Bond will preach here to- morrow afternoon, at 3 ; and Mr. M. Barratt on Tuesday evening next, » t 7 | SAD SHIPPING DISASTER.— News was received here - on Thursday last that the Hiawatha, of this port, owned by Messrs. Handcock & Co., had struck on the Goodwin Sands, and is a total wreck. One man only was saved, the remainder of the crew, numbering 14, were drowned. The Hiawatha was bound from Bremerhaven to Falmouth. THE JAPANESE.— The Troupe of Japanese, announced to visit the town during the coming week, appear to have created quite a sensation wherever they have performed. We scarcely recollect ever seeing the " opinions of the press ' so generally and so warmly eulogising any enter- tainment as that given by Tannaker's Troupe of native Japanese. PILOTAGE EARNINGS.— A return has just been issued, showing the number of vessels, English and foreign, piloted, and the amount received for such pilotage in 1871, at the various porta of tho United Kingdom. The return from Falmouth is as follows : Vessels piloted inwards, 3282 ; amount received, £ 8,769 10s. Piloted outwards, 2648 vessels; amount received, £ 5,345 8s. 6d. Total pilotage received, £ 14,114 18s. 6d. CORNWALL HOME FOE DESTITUTE GIRLS.— We have great pleasure in announcing that the Supplementary Bazaar which was held on the 7th inst., on behalf of this institution, proved most successful. The sale commenced at two o'clock ancl throughout the day the attendance was good. In the evening the proceedings were interspersed with music and singing, whon some friends rendered very efficient service, which added in no small degree to the enjoyment of those present. The children be- longing to the Home also sung some pieces very sweetly and effectively. An auction was held at the close of the evening, when the articles remain- ing on the stalls were quickly disposed of. The nett proceeds amounted to £ 40 7s. 8d. WOBKING MEN'S CLUB.— An amateur con- cert in aid of the funds of the Working Men's Club was given to a crowded audience in the Polytechnic Hall, on Monday last. The programme was well arranged, and was fully carried out. Mrs. T. Rowe and Miss Vos sang a charming duet very effectively, and were deservedly encored. These ladies, Miss Rogers and Miss Jewell, each sang a song in a man- ner well meriting the loud encores of the delighted listeners. Messrs. Lowry, Bishop, Chanter, and Martin, rendered a glee, and the former three a trio extremely well, ana Mr. J. G. Cox in a humorous ditty did credit to the entertainment. Mr. Kistler, of Redruth, sang two songs, after each of which the loud applause of the audience testified their un- bounded satisfaction and compelled him to reappear. The boys' brass band belonging to H. M. S. '' Ganges " was in attendance ana played at inter- vals, under tho able leadership of Mr. Bishop. Two of the boys also sang a song each in excellent style. Mrs. J. Roberts, jun., and Miss Duckham as pianists, accompanied the vocalists. The perfor- mance was quite a success, and added fresh laurels to the fame of the well- known amateurs. TOWN COUNCIL.— At the meeting of the Cor- poration on Saturday, Mr. William Selley, on the motion of Mr. R. C. Richards, seconded by Mr. T. B. Rundell, was unanimously elected mayor. The retiring mayor, Mr. W. H. Lean, received a unani- mous vote of thanks, which he suitably acknow- ledged.— An adjourned meeting of the Council was held on Monday, the Mayor ( Mr. Selley) presiding. The Finance Committee's report shewed that the expenses in connection with the election on the 1st instant amounted to £ 25 lis. 6d, the cheques drawn amounted to £ 141, and the banker's account was overdrawn by £ 738.— A rate of £ 100 was made, and the overseers were requested to pay £ 50 of the old balance during the ensuing quarter. The report was adopted.— Mr. Genn, town clerk, read a letter which he had received from the Town Clerk of Truro, who wrote that the Truro Town Council heard with surprise some few months since that en- croachments had beon made by the Falmouth authorities on the ancient limits of the port of Truro, and that bound- stones had been placed by them on both sides of the river very considerably within such limits. The writer said he was instructed by the Town Council to call upon the Town Council of Falmouth at once to remove the boundary stones which, without the sanction of, any notiao to the authorities of Truro, they have thought fit to erect within the ancient boundaries of the port of Truro.— Messrs. Worsdell, R. C. Richards, Selley, and Scott, were appointed a com- mittee to inquire into and report on the subject.— Mr. Worsdell referred to the appointment of a committee some time since relative to an extension of the borough jurisdiction. Since the committee had reported, Acts of Parliament had been obtained for the establishment of a Harbour Board and a United District Sewerage Board ; a Fire Brigade Joint Committee had also been formed. Consider- ing the nature of the report, he thought it would be advisable to still further inquire into the subject, and he moved that the Mayor and Messrs. Alder- man Thomas Webber, N. Fox, W. H. Loan, R. C. Richards, and Dunning, bo appointed a committee to do so. Mr. Banks seconded the motion, and it was unanimously carried. The same committee was also requested to report upon the police question. NARROW ESCAPE OF AN AMERICAN PASSENGER STEAMER.— The National Steamship Company's iron screw steamship, Helvetia, was towed into the harbour on Tuesday evening. The Helvetia, Capt, Griggs, left New York, Oct. 23rd, for London, with six cabin and 43 steerage passengers, a crew of 120, and over 4,000 tons of cargo, principally flour, cheese and grain. In the Atlantic she encountered some heavy weather, but all went well until off Portland at noon on Friday, when in moderate weather a crank bearing of her forward engine sud- denly gave way, her engines were thrown out of gear, and she was disabled. Two days and nights the steamer lay helpless in the Channel whilst the engineering staff fruitlessly endeavoured either to get tho other engine to work alone, or to disconnect the propeller. The weather was severe, and no vessel could be spoken. The Helvetia, meanwhile, had drifted up Channel as far as the Isle of Wight, but a northerly gale coming on blew her over to the French coast, and all Sunday night all on board ex- pected to drift on shore, lights being plainly visible within ten miles. When drifting past Cherbourg the Helvetia threw up rockets, which apparently were not seen, the night being dark and tempestu- ous. Fortunately, the wind shifted, ' and the dis- connecting of the propeller having been accomplished, the crew managed to keep the head of the vessel off land, and during Monday she neared the English shore. Early on Tuesday morning tho Eddystone was in sight, and a fishing- boat was spokeu, and landed the ship's purser, who communicated with the Admiral Superintendent, of Devonport Dockyard, and a powerful Bteam- tug with a party of sailors was on the point of starting when news arrived of the Helvetia having been got into Falmouth. The Ethel, screw steamer, from Newcastle for Gibralter, with coal, at one time communicated with the Helvetia, and broke three hawsers in trying to tow her, but tho broken ropes fouled her own screw, and eventually she steamed away. In trying to get one hawser on board the two vessels swung together, crushing a lifeboat between them, killing one sailor, and badly injuring two others. The Helvetia was towed into Falmouth by four steamers. The first, the Dolphin, of this port, took her in tow about four miles from St. Anthony's Light- house ; and tho Pendragon and the Pendennis, of Falmouth, afterwards arrived ; and lastly the Anglia, a London steam- tug, which was lying at Falmouth waiting to tow a vessel to another port. The passengers were disembarked at Falmouth to proceed to London by train. The Helvetia will probably be towed to London. PENRYN. ELECTION OF MAYOB.— A Council Meeting was held on Saturday last, for the election of Mayor. Tho retiring- mayor, Mr. Dawe, before leaving the chair, returned thanks fpr tho kindness and courtesy shown him during the past year. Mr. Alderman Stephens proposed, and Mr. Alderman in seconded, Mr. Alderman John Reed Rowe as a fit and proper person to fill the office of Mayor for the ensuing year, —^ Thirteen voted for, and two declined voting. Mr. Rowe was, therefore, de- clared duly elected, and returned thanks for the honor conferred on him for the third time. It would be a very eventful year, as the Cornwall Agricultural Association's show would be heli- at Penryn. On the motion of Mr. Trenery, thiftiks were voted to the late mayor. The various officers were then appointed, viz: Seargeants- at- mace— Ambrose Rogers, John Robins. Surveyors of weights and measures— Jonas Abram and Henry Edwards ( policeman), without salary. Town crier— John Davey. Watch Committee— All the council. Water Course Committee — Messrs. Trenery, Freeman, Mead, and J. H. Stephens. Lighting Committee— same as last year. Property Committee— All the council. Fire Engine Com- mittee— Messrs. Thomas, J. H. Stephens, Lavin, and Cox. Finance Committee — Messrs. Mead, Freeman, S. Stephens, and Lavin. Gaolers— The police officers. RIFLE vOLUNTEErS. — PBESENTATION OF PRIZES.— The presentation of prizes to the success- ful shooters of the 21st Rifle Volunteers took place at the Town- hall on Tuesday last. The hall was crowded, and the proceedings were of the most en- thusiastic character. Captain G. Jenkins, com- mandant, commenced by addressing the corps. It was with great pleasure he met them there that evening, in such numbers. Miss Norah Lavin had kindly consented to present the prizes, and as " one Volunteer is worth a dozen pressed men" he hoped they would join with him in cordially thanking her. The past year had been a very harmonious and agreeable one for the company. The entire strength of the corps has been 66. After giving other details of the corps, Capt. Jenkins concluded by saying— We Should from time to time take a retrospective view of the past, that in the future we might aim at a higher degree of efficiency. The corps has now been in existence thirteen years, and our townsmen have never failed in their interest in our movements, as the large attendance of ladies and gentlemen present plainly demonstrate. The prizes were then very gracefully presented by Miss Lavin, amidst the hearty applause of those assembled. On the challenge- cup being presented, Captain Jenkins said it had been won by a reoruit, who by steady efforts had secured what he called the " blue ribbon" of the corps, and he showed himself with his brother worthy followers of their father, who was himself an old volunteer. This remark was received by those present with much applause. They were not content to carry off tho best prizes from their own corps, but had gone to distant towns and sought to secure and bring home better prizes. Those that have been successful have paid attention to drill, and have been regular and atten- tive in attendance. In conclusion he was Bure that they would join with him in cordially thanking Miss Lavin for her presence and assistance op. that occasion.— Mr. M. J. Lavin, in returning thanks for his daughter, suggested one or two alterations in tho prize shooting for next year, which had the entire approval of the officers of the corps, and which will be adopted at future meetings. The prizes presented were as follows :— Class A. Private H. Lavin, £ 2 ; Bandmaster Thomas, 30t., Private C. Lavin, 25s.; Sergeant Share, 22s. 6d.; Private Head, 20s.; Private Jose, mackintosh ; Private Young, concertina; Private Rapson, 12s. 6d. Private James, binocular ; Private R. Downs, 10s.; Private Taylder, 7s. 6d< ; Private Andrews, 5s. ; Private Tresidder, 5s. ; Corporal Rogers, box of cigars ; Private Abraham, 5s.; Private Pearce, Smith, and P. Edwards, 2s. 6d. each ; Sergeant Ashton, box of sweets. Class B.— 1, Private C. Lavin, challenge cup and £ 1 5s.; 2, Sergeant Ashton, £ 110a. BIRTHs, At the Elms, Redruth, the wife of Charles Tweedy, Esq., of a daughter. At 31, Polygon View, Manchester, on the 7th inst., the wife of H. A. Matthews, Esq., surgeon- dentist, of a son. DeATHs. At the Royal Cornwall Infirmary, Truro, on the 5th instant, Mr. Cashbert S. Winn, of Constantine, aged 31 years. At Trevethan- terrace, Falmouth, on Tuesday last, Elizabeth, widow of Mr. Stephen Spargo, aged 94 years. At Bombay, on the 14th nit., Mr. William Henry Osier, aged 31 years, son of the late Mr. E. Osier, for many years the editor of the Royal Cornwall Gazette, Truro. At Woodhill, Hatfield, after a long and suffering illness, The Honorable Mrs. Rashleigh, widow of the late William Rashleigh, Esquire, of Menabilly and Point Neptune. COUNTY NEWS. — At a meeting of tho Truro corporation, held on Saturday last, Mr. Edward Heard, one of the pro- prietors of the West Briton, was unanimously elected Mayor of Truro for the ensuing year. — A miner, named John Robins, aged 27, belonging to Chacewater, after treating and drinking in various public- houses, at Truro, on Saturday night, and being very drunk, was last seen leaning against a lamp- post, about half- past 11 o'clock. The next morning his dead body was found in the river near the quay. - The India- rubber, Gutta Percha, and Telegraph Works Company's steamer " Dacia " left Silvertown on Thursday with a submarine cable, to be laid direct from Spain ( Bilbao) to the Lizard Point. — It is rumoured that St. Ives is at last to have a railway, and that the Associated Companies being the required Surveyors time busily prepared to guarantee 44 per cent, on capital, there is no difficulty as to funds. with their attendants have been for some engaged in the town and neighbourhood. - There died at White Hay. in the parish of Withiel, on Tuesday last, Miss Elizabeth Sweet, at the age of 109 years. She was the third and last surviving child of W. and M. Sweet, was in the enjoyment of good health and retained all her faculties up to within the past few months. Drowning of a Mother and hex Infant.— A very tragical affair occurred at St. Just on Thursday morning last. Mrs. Mary Hosking, wife of a miner, got up, with her infant, about 6 a. m., leaving her husband in bed. who again fell asleep. At about 7 he awoke, and missing the noise of a water- wheel which worked some mine stamps at the end of his house, he arose, and upon going to ascertain tho cause was horrified to find the bodies of his wife and child in the water, the former in the wheel- pit, her body stopping the wheel, and tho latter a few feet further down the stream. How they got there is unknown. It migli b have beon by the deceased woman's own act, or she might have noticed something wrong with the stamp.) ana in ascertaining the cause have fallen in. Melancholy Accident at St. Austell.— A very deplorable accident took place near St. Austell, o: i Sunday last, resulting in the death of an eatimab'i lady, the wife of Mr. Edward Coode, of Moor- cottage. It appears that Mr. and Mrs. Coodo had attende 1 Divine Service at St. Mewan, some four miles from St. Austoll, and were returning home in a four- wheel dog- cart, drawn by a horse that had hitherto been fre from all vice. On descending an exceedingly atee. hill leading to the town, however, the animal becam very restive, and after going a short way at a shar, trot broke into a gallop, and notwithstanding that th break was applied to the wheels, proceeded at a furious pace down the hill. In turning a comer the groom, who was riding behind, was swung off his seat into the hedge, and at the bottom of the hill, where there are four turnings, tho animal, in Bpite of the endeavours of Mr. Coode, swerved to the right. The vohicle immediately overturned, and both its occu- pants were thrown into the road. Tho head of the unfortunate lady came into violent contact with a granite wall which runs between the road and the river; she was removed to a neighbouring house, and within a fewmiuutes she died. Mr. Coode escaped with a broken arm, and tHfl groom was uninjured! An inquest was h6ld ori Monday, and a verdict of " Accidental death," was returned. The deceased lady was the only daughter of the late General Carlyon, of Tregrehan, and has left a large family to mourn W los^. Manufacture qf Cocqo, Cocoaine, < fc Chocolate.— ' We will now give an account Qt $ 1) 9 prgpe^ adopted by Messrs, Jan^ es lipps and Go., manufacturers of dietetic articles, at their works in the Euston Road, London."- See article in part 19 of CATTEWS Household I Oiiide. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16,1872. I Visit to Eppss Cocoa Manufcqftfy. — Through the kindness of Messrs. Epps, I recent, had an op- portunity of seeing the many complic » f- Jt and varied processes the Cacao bean passes through ere it is sold f° r public use, and, being both intererted and highly pleased with what I saw during my visit to the man- ufactory, I thought a brief account of the Cacao, and the way it is manufactured by Messrs. Epps, to fit it for a wholesome and nutritious beverage, might be of interest to the readers of Land and Water."— Sea article in Land and Water, October 14. tt Brcakfdi. - Epps's Cocoa.— Grateful and comforting By a thorough knowledge of the natural lawa which govern tho operations of digestion and nutri- tion and by a careful application of the fine proper- ies of well- selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors'bills.' Civil Service Gazette. Made simply with boiling water, or milk. Each packetis labelled--" James Epps and Co., Homoeopathic Chemists, London."— Also makers of Epps's Cacaoine, a very thin beverage for evening use. BROWN'S BRONCHIALTROCHES, for the cure of Coughs Colds, Hoarseness, Bronchitis, Asthma, Catarrh, or any irritation or soreness of the throat, are now imported and sold in this country at Is. Ud per box, put up the form of a " lozenge." It is the most convenient, pleasant, safe and sure remedy for clearing and strength ening the voice known in the world. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher says: " I have often recommended them to friends who were public speakers, and in many cases they have proved extremely serviceable." The genuine have the words " Brown's Bronchial Troches" on the Government Stamp around each box. Sold by all medicine vendors. — London Depot, 493 Oxford Street. VALUABLE DISCOVERY FOR THE HAIR!— A very nicely perfumed hair dressing, called " The Mexican Hair Renewer," now being sold by most chemists and Per- fumers at3s. 6d per bottle, is fast superseding all " Hair Restorers"— for it will positively restart in every case. Grey or White hair to its original colour, by a few appli- cations, without dyeing it, or leaving tne 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 RK- NEWEB," prepared by H C. GALLOP, 493, Oxford Street London. FRAOBANT 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, and arrests the progress of decay. It gives to the Teeth a peculiar and beautiful whiteness and imparts a delightful fragrance to the Breath. It removes all unpleasant odour arising from decayed teeth, a disordered stomach, or tobacco smoke. The Fragrant Floriline is" purely vegetable, and equally adapted to old and young. It is the greatest toilet discovery of the age. Sold in large bottles and elegant cases at 2s. 6d., by all Chemists and Perfumers. H C GALLUP, Proprietor. 493, Oxford Street, London. IT is a recognised fact, that Bragg' 3 Vegetable Charcoal Biscuits is one of the most invaluable remedies for indigestion, flatulency, acidity, foul breath, & c. The following is Dr. Has sail's report on Bragg's Carbon or Charcoal Biscuits :—" I have, on more than one occasion, subjected to analysis Bragg's pure Vegetable Charcoal, also his Charcoal Biscuits, and I have always found them to be most carefully prepared; the charcoal and other materials used in manufacture being of the purest and best description, and form the most agreeable medium hitherto devised for the administration of that most valuable remedial substance, Vegetable Charcoal. Signed. ARTHUR HILL H ASS ALL, M. D., Author of ' Food and its Adulterations,'' Adulteration Detected,' and other works." Sold by all Chemists. The New Adulteration Act. — Any person now selling adulterated articles is liable to a penalty of £ 50 for the first offence, and six months' imprisonment, with hard labour, for the second. Borwick's Baking Powder is warranted pure and free from alum and other injurious ingredients found in most cheap Baking Powders, therefore may be sold - without fear by all dealers. New metal pocket Vesta Box, with patent spring Cover.— Pryant and May have recently introduced very useful little Pocket Ve3ta Box, with a most in- genious and simple spring cover; it is a novelty in every way, and will soon come into very general use— being of metal instead of card, and retailed, filled with vestas, at one penny. Any Tobacconist, Grocer, Chemist or Chandler will supply it. Caution. — In calling the attention of tho Trade to a recent decision in the House of Lords, in the case of ' ' Wotherspoon v. Currie," whereby an exclusive right to the use of the word " Glenfield" in connection with Starch is indisputably established, wo would also intimate that this decision renders the sale of the starch made by the defendant illegal, and will subject the seller of it to a Penalty of £ 10,000. We beg to intimate to those who may have been induced to buy it, that to save them from total loss we will allow 20/ per cwt. for it, at the Glenfield Starch Works, Paisley, in ex- change for the genuine Article, at the current price. This will entail a loss upon ourselves, as the packets will be broken up and sold for Waste Starch, but it will at the same time be the means of rendering the Article useless for further deception. Any information that will lead to conviction will be rewarded. R WOTHERSPOON & Co. MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP FOR CHILDREN 1 Should- always beused when Children are cutting teeth ; it relieves the little sufferers at once," it produces natur- al nuiet sleep by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes " as bright as a button." It is perfectly harmless, and 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 diarrhcea. whether arising from teething or ijther causes. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup is sold by thousands of Medicine deal- ers in all parts of the world at Is. ljd per bottle and Millions of Mothers can testify to its virtue.— Manu- factory, 468 Oxford Street, London. Inserted by the Rev. J. W. Carter, Vicar of Christ Church, Stratford, London, E. The Scriptures are the reflection of eternal light, perfect truth. Yo who would renovate the world, turn your eves to that fountain of salvation, whence hnman happiness alone can flow. Ye despairing ones, who lament 60 bitterly the sorrows and trials you endure, it is not true that theri.' is no happiness under the sun, and that God has taken back to heaven tho lovely child of peace, and that man most sit down in despair. The sorrows and mists of earth are as9naged and scattered, whence the channel of faith is opened up, with a ful- ness that is inexhaustible, into the heart and life. O thou Bible! Where is the darkness which thy light will not dispel ? Where is the emptiness whioh thy tree of life will not satisfy ? Where is tho thirst whioh thy living streams will not quenoh? Whero the moan, tains which cannot bo ascended when we have with aa thy rod and staff? O word of God ! sent from heaven, who can estimate the fulness of that service of love which thoa hast wrought for us ? We sink under tho load of our sins; Thou showest to ns the sentenoe of condemnation torn asunder, and nailed to the Saviour's oroBS. We tremble at and fear the assaults of the devil: thousayest: " The Lion of tho Tribe of Jadah huth conqured; take courage, take courage." We are loft alone; thou directeat us to a friendly bosom, whore all tears are wiped away, oven that of Jesus. The path of our pilgrimage is dull and gloomy; thou giveat us the wings of hopo, so that we fly away over this worlds mountains. Tho day of our life is coming to a olo? e, the evening is drawing nigh; thou openoat to us the window that looketh into heaven, and, behold, wo see in the distance the glorions lights of our own eternal hoase and home. O Word of life! treasure of salvation ! Without equal, whiah makes our poverty rich, our weakness strong, gilding with heavenly light the shades of our earthjy pilgrimage, 1 let us daily read thy ' 1 ' ... ui'Or ma, tif l? i '' 1 * " oauiou pages, —- r . „ . sustaining fruthB.' aud obtfy thy heavenly commands. Tho Bible isgreatin origin, thought, promise, be4utyl purpose, power, and results. It " hanga as by a golden cord from the throne'of tho Highest, and a) l heaven'g ljgjiti life, love, pnd s. veeUiess come down into it for us, Contributions op stamps tQ pay { gr those insertion! in thia aoti Fifty other povyap^ nera ( * hjch are auppoaed to have two million readers weekly ) vill bo thankfully received by the Riv. J. W. Carter, 7, Avenue- road, Bow, London. E. lot us ever moditate on thy glorious, life. / ROOMS^ ELrS CO URT. THE COMAUTTEEbeg to tender their best thanas Ito th ® Ladies and Gentlemen who so kindly Wa^ iy efficiently took part in the Coneert on the yth inst. They also feel mupx obliged to their numer- ous friends for the / iberal patronage bestowed, which tended to nmke the Concert a complete success. / W. M. TREGONING, Secretary. Falmouth, 13th/ Nov., 1872. THE FALMOUTH AND PENKNY WEEKLY TIMES. SATI'RDAY, NOV. 16,1873. BEAD HERE, AND SEE THE GREAT BENEFITS DERIVED FROM A Is. 1| D. ARTICLE. Allcock'e POTOOJ Plwtsra hare ROLIERED BoffereTB wb « n in tba greatest pain and all other remedies had ailed. Pbj « ician « and sarjpwns of all schools recompjead lb « n. A doctor said the other day:—" I do notknow whether Allcock's Piaster* contain all the virtues yon ucribe to them, bat this I do know: no plaster or local application has erer ( riven my patients such great •" ornfbrt." Wo pnblish a few cases of cares, showing heir wonderful virtue*. Farther evidenoe of their value to suffering humanity 11 hi dernrastnted to aoy one calling at the principal geney. B RONCHITIS. Henry D. Brandreth, Esq., Liverpool. 105, Uampton- atreet, Birmingham, Nov. 27,1871. Dear 8ir,— I have for some months past been . n the oabit of using Allcock's Porona Plasters ( procured from tho establishment of Messrs. 8nape and Son, 13, Great Hampton- street, of this town ) when saffering from bronchitis and severe pains in tho side, and have on every occasion fonnd immediate relief, whereas I had previously consulted two medioal men without deriving the least benefit. I can with confidence recommend them to any one suffering from the same complaint.— Yours respectlullv GEOBGL STYLES. [ NFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. SrnetaL " Henry D. Brandreth, 57, Great Charlotte- street, Liverpool. " Dear Sir,— We beg to enclose another testi- monial as to tho effieacy of Allcock's Porous Plasters. James Rudoliffe, Stamford, street, Mosely, says he had been confined to his bed five weeks suffering from inflammation of the lungs. He coughed continually, with great expectoration and difficulty of breathing, which brought him so low that ho was unable to rise in bed without support. Ho applied one oi your plasters, and fonnd relief in fifteen minutes, after which he says the oough stopped and the expectoration raased. He is now quite recovered. The above is exactly his own statement, o me.— Yours respoctfully, " JOHN B10KLB. " Pro W. BOSTOCJK, " 24, Stamford: street, Aahton- undor- Lyae " November 24,1871." sc Hey wood, October 9,1871. Hennr D. Brandreth, 57, Great Charlotte- • treet, Liverpool. Dear Sir.— Please to send me another six dozen of All cock s Plasters and two dozen Brand- reth's Pill's, Is. l* d. The Plasters seem to produce wonderful results. There is scarcely a day passes but some one is telling me of the cores they are making. Rheumatism in various parts of the body disappears as if by magic. Only on Sunday last Mr. Jacob Heywood, Albert- terrace, Starkey- street, Hey wood, informed me that he had been troubled with sciatica for three years j so bad was it the last twelve months of that time that he was unable to follow his em- ployment. He had tried many doc to re, been to Matlock, and spent £ 2 on a largely- advertised electric- chaita belt, but all to no purpose. Some one at last persuaded him to try your Plasters. B e aid he had no faith in them, bat he would try them, for he was stuok fast; they oould not make his pain much worse, and it would only be a little more mouey sent after the rest. So he bought two; one he placed on is thigh, and the other on his baok, and a week after he was ready for his work. It is now six months ago, and he has had no return of his pains.— Yours truly, W. BEOKETT- RHEUMATISM OF THE WRIST. Benry D. Brandretb, Esq., 57, Great Chor- lolte- street, Liverpool, jpr-. 86, Crown- street Liverpool, Nov. 21st, 1871. Dear £>' ir,— Three months since I could not use my right hand, owing to rheumatism in it and in my wrist, and ovor ton weeks 1 was in great pain— unable to find any relief. After trying many remedies, I was at last persuaded to try Allcock's Porous Plasters. 1 bound. ono round my wrist; in three days I had great relief, and in a week's timo was perfectly cured Your plasters are a blessing to the afnioted. I have positive information of thoir being of great benefit in bron- chitis and asthma. It will give mc pleasure to answer any communication concerning thorn.— Yours truly, THOMAS DAVIES. Immense Success! 9d. Tins can now be had- TARAXACUM DANDELION COFFEE. Prepared upon an improved principal, from the Tpure fresh Dandelion Root. HIS Coffee, the valuable ( jualities of which arc now so universally appreciated, can be highly recommended, and is far preferable to all other Coffees. Being carefully manufactured by T. B. PERCY, he can offer an article far superior to any- thing of the kind yet introduced to the public, being remarkable for its strength and quality. Especially recommended to Invalids as an article of diet, and particularly to those who suffer from weak Digestion, Nervous and Dyspeptic Affections, Flatulency, Distension, and Bfliiary Obstructions, in all cases of which it will be fonnd invaluable, at the same time extremely pleasant to the taste. Public Speakers and Singers will find it to be a very pleasant beverage after their exertions ; it assists digestion, and stimulates the L-^.. aaons of the Stomach* MANUFACTURED BY T. B PERCY, Chemist, „ ( Member of the Pharmaceutical Society J of Great Britain. ) TRURO. Branch Establishment NEWQUAY. Sold only in Tins, at <{• 1*. 6d. each, by Chemists, Grocers, Confectioner*, and Italian Warehousemen. PERCY'S CELEBRATED PECTORAL BALSAM. IT is the best Remedy over discovered for curing Coughs, Colds, Shortness of Breath, Asthma, Spitting of Blood, Brochitis, Spasms, Influenza, Consumption, Pains in the C'hest, 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 being 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 bottlts at la. \\ d., 2s. 9d., and is. 6d. each, duty included. A saving of 2s. 3d. is effected by purchasing the large Bottles, as each bottle contains six of the small one. SOLD BY ALL MEDICINE VENDORS. IS IT POSSIBLE rAT a tender- hearted, kind, and loving mother can look on, day after day, unconcernedly, and see her darling— the pet of the family circle— pine away through the baneful effects of the well- known pest of children— Worms ! or can she witness the frequent convulsive fits occasioned by the same direful enemy, and not try the never- failing remedy for their total destruction, and extermination, and which may be taken with the greatest safety by the youngest child living ? Never I It is impossible! Then try at once COLLIE'S CELEBRATED WORM POWDERS, Prepared only by T. B. PERCY, at the MEDICAL HALL, TRORO, and Sold by all Chemists and Druggists. In Packets at 7% d. and Is. lji. each. Free by post for 8 or 14 Stamps. AOBNT— Mr. BASSETT, 1, Market Strand, Falmouth. FOR GOOD PRINTING, ill the best style of workmanship, with the greatest expedi- tion, at the most moderate charges, apply at tho office of this Paper. fJLEANLINESS.- W. 0. NIXEY's Refinefl \ J BLACK LEAD ( old everywhere by all Shopkecpvi... / CLEANLINESS.— W. G. NIXEY's Refined \ J BLACK LEAD for polishing uteres. Ac., equal lo buraiihed A. LLCOC K'" S POROUS PLASTERS are sold by all Druggists, at Is l£ d each, with full directions for use, or in any siae to suit1 Tho yard Plaster is specially recommended for families and physicians. One yard equals 18 plasters. Price 14s per yard, 7s 6d per half yard, or 4s per quarter. PRINCIPAL AOENCT roa GREAT Bam AX ( Wholesale aud Retail ) : 67, ORB AT CHAliLOrrd SI'., LIVERPOOL. B.— A Plaster sent to any part of the oonutry for 15 stamps. First- class Buokluuiling. TyBBSONS wishing to avail themselves to 1 the opportunity^ of sending in the parcel now mldcing up for transmission to a tirst- ola « s Bookbinding Establishment, should forward Dooks and numbers which they wish to have Dound, to the Printing Offices on tho t^ uay, aa early as possible. Chafges, moderate— quality of work, the best - styles, modern and elegant. FEED. H. Is ABLE. WG. NIXETi Refined BLACK LEAD. • " CleanUiitin."— The proprietor BRG* to CAUTION tho publio • gainst being Imposed qpon by unprincipled tradesmen, who, with • RLRVR of deriving malar profit, are manufacturing and Tending SPURIOUS IMITATIONBOR T£ e above article. ASK FOB W. O. N1XEI- S BLACK LEAD, AMD III THAT TOD • ATI IT. USobofkrcara, London, W. The Blood! Tiie Blood!! The Blood!! CLARKE'S BLOOD MIXTURE, ZOR CLEANSING and CLEARING the BLOOD from ALL IMPURITIES, whether arising a youthful indiscretion or any other cau^ e can- not be too highly recoinmendcd. It Cures Old Sores Cures Ulcerated Sores in the N ck Cures Ulcerated Sore Legs Cures Blackheads, or Pimples on Face Cures Scurvey Sores * Cures Cancerous Ulcers Cures Blood and Skin Diseases Cures Glandular Swellings Clears the Blood from all Impure Matter from whatever cause arising. 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JUDSON'S DYES — 18 Colcrs, fld ouch. " RIBBONS, WOOL, SILK, PEAXlTtliB, IX OQBi6let « ly Dyed in 10 mlcai « » wlthont Kjihoz th « hx.""*. W tzu^ oetxaa arppUad- CK J . y^ mUio. niHJ? A!\ Ov ICK nnd GOOD \ J at tli? 0£ ccs of this Paper. > G • Falmc nd Pal of Fa. Quag, , Pari, h on the SATURDAY% AOV. THE FALMOUTH & PENEYN WE EK\ .1 TtMES. SATURDAY, NOV. 10, 1872. So pits iif % gag. ( By in Occasional London Correspondent.) ITlic remarks- under this liead aro to be regarded as tho ex- pression of independent opinion, from the pen of a gentleman in whom w* Iiavo the greatest confidence, but for which wo nevertheless ilo not hold ourselver responsible.] The public naturally look to the great annual civic banquet at Guildhall as an occasion when Ministers will break the silence they have long maintained, and give us their views of the tute of the country and its relations to foreign nations. We cannot expect that they will favour us with a programme of what they intend doing or tryiug to do during the following ses- sion and if any one of us are sanguine enough to ex- pect such a thing we are deservedly. disappointed. Occasionally, however, some member of the Govern- ment, somewhat exhilarated perhaps by good wine and good company, lets fall a few words which aro regarded as indicative of some contemplated measure to be introduced by Ministers. If anticipations of any such revelations were indulged in previous to the Guildhall banquet this year, they certainly have not been realised. Ministers were discreetly reticient as to their plans, and chiefly confined them- selves to a retrospect on a glance at our present posi- tion. The most communicative of the ministerial orators was Mr. Goschen, and he gave us just a glimmer of the future, and not altogether an agreeable one, when he hinted at a large outlay on our naval defences. He considers it necessary for the Government to " watch and equal the efforts of other nations, however costly it may be to ourselves, and he confidently relies on a generous country. Perhaps the most thoughtful ministerial speech was that of Lord Selborne, the new Lord Chancellor, who paid a graceful and generous tribute to his predecessor, and exhibited " the standard of his mo3t pure and noble character * as a high example for himself, while his powerful arguments in favour of the House of Lords as an institution must considerably influence public opinion. The absence of Mr. Gladstone is much to be regretted, but we can well understand how necessary it was on the Lord Mayor assuring us that perfect rest was desirable, and on Lord Granville's assurance that Ministers are the most hard- working set of men he has ever known. As to the Foreign Secretary, he was graceful and genial of course, and managed to pay compliments directly and indirectly to the fair sex, while of more importance to the public was his valuable infor- mal in with regard to the new French Treaty— infor- mation that must have been perfectly fresh to the great majority of his audience. One little incident of the banquet, for a knowledge of which we are indebted to Lord Granville, will be very agreeable to the public. Whan the Lord Chancellor alluded to the facility with which the country could " pay the bill" arising; out of the Geneva award, the Chancellor of the Exchequer gave three distinct cheera, In default of any parti- cular information from Mr. Lowe himself, this little episode in the festivities of the evening is of pleasant augury. And, after thus alluding to some of the dis- tinguished guests, a word for the host is but fair. The new Lord Mayor, Sir Sydney Waterlow, acquitted himself well. He speaks well and to the purpose, with complete self- command, and with no unneces- sary verbiage. He will very appropriately preside at the next anniversary festival of the Printers Pension Corporation. He is, or rather was, himself a practical printer, having gone through all the de- partments of the trade. The Attorney- General by his recent speeches has in- creased the intere. which is now pretty generally felt in the coming se: ' a. There can be no reasonable doubt that that B. - rion will be at least of average im. portancc. and pre' blyit will be more than usually important, not OL for the characters of the legisla- tion that will be ; ; cmpted but as being perhaps the last session of tL resent Parliament. The question of Irish education will inevitably come on for present consideration, and how exciting that subject will necessarily be I need not point out. And then Sir J. D. Coleridge indicates a whole cluster of questions connected with the land— including tenure, transfer, entail and primogeniture, mortmain and the game laws— and another cluster of questions connected with taxation, full of complications and difficulties ; besides which there is a law reform, to be undertaken by the Lord Chancellor and the Attorney- General. That all these questions will be grappled with next session no one can fairly anticipate, but at any rate there is every prospect of the Parliamentary campaign of 1873 bfdng an active and exciting one. The mission to Eastern Africa, with Sir Bartle Frere at its head, commends itself to tbo whole country, and a nation that will pay twenty millions sterling to put down slavery in the West Indialslands will not grudge a mere fleabite of an indemnity to the Sultan of Zan zibar if it is necessary to pay anything— which is by no means certain— to that small potentate. The horrors of the East African traffic in our fellow creatures have been vividly painted by Dr. Livingstone and Mr. Stanley, and when we read, as most of us must have read, the earnest appeal of the distinguished explorer, calling on Great Britain to put down this trade, the response must have been confidently relied on. The good wishes of his countrymen go with Sir Bartle Frere, and a debt of gratitude is also owing to Mc. Stanley for his powerful denunciations of this accursed trade— an epithet, by the way, which the Bishop of Winchester appropriately employed. Here must have been some very important reasons for the Bank directors meeting on Saturday last, when the Stock Exchange was shut and there was literally nothing doing in the City, and raising the rate of dis- count to 7 per cent. The rate has now been raised six times since last July, and it iB remarkable that it has never stood so high as it now does since 1866,, a year remarkable for the great financial crisis. The action of the Bank is, however, generally approved of, and there is no doubt that it will exercise a beneficial influence on the cause of business. England is the staunchest supporter of the principle oi international arbitration, and in this character she best studies the interests of humanity, and speeds the time when nations shall learn war no more; but it is to be hoped that she will not always lose by her benificence. John Bull baa been already called on to eat Geneva humble- pie and Berlin humble- pie and it will be very annoying if ere long he be called on to eat, with what appetite he may, humble- pie made in Paris. It is announced that M. Thiers has been chosen arbitrator between Great Britain and Portugal for the settlement of the long- pending " colonial ques- tion " disputed by these countries. I venture to say that not one person in a thousand could give a very definite idea of wh it this colonial question is, but moet of as hope that England will be found to be in the right; otharwise the decisions with regard to the American Indirect claims, the San Juan boundary, and the Anglo- Portuguese difficulty will arouse doubts and misgivings, however unfounded they may be, as to the principle of international arbitration. Is it not rather f trange, bythe- way, that M. Thiers should be chosen arbitrator ? One would have thought that ho had quite , enough on his hands in regulating the Btormy affairs of his own country. All who have studied the new Commercial Treaty with France, if such it may be called, for nearly " all the cciprocdty is on one aide," must rue from that study with sorrow that M. Thiers and his colleagues should have felt it necessary to take such a retrograde step. Fiance wants money badly, we all know, and she is now tryiug to obtain it by imposing duties on foreign products that were formerly free, and by raising duties that previously existed. It is to be feared that this a suicidal policy, and that France ere long will discover it to bo so— in. which case, however, we may hope for reform, even before the four years have passed away during which it is supposed to be in operation. But that British commerce will suffer to a greater or less extent, so long as this treaty lasts, is pretty certain. This is clear from the fact that innumerable articles— in the metal, hardware, pottery, cotton, and chemical- product trades, for example— are now subjected either to a new or an increased duty. It is a long time yet to Saturday. April 5, 1873, but still the University Boat Race on the Thames is looked forward to with such universal interest that it is pleasant to know that Oxford has just challenged Cambridge, and that this world- renowned contest will probably take place on that day. Nine times succes- sively, from 1860 to 1869, dark blue gained the victory, and carried away figuratively the blue riband of the Thames ; and three times successively, during the last three years, light blue have been the victors. This manly contest appears each succeeding year to excite more and more interest, mainly owing to the well- known fact that it is a thoroughly honourable affair. If the crowds who assemble in the streets on Lord- Mayor's day were exclusively composed of Londoners, the crushing and crowding would not be very compli- mentary to the great metropolis, but we console our- selves with the thought that a great many people who go out to see the Bight are provincial visitors who happen to find themselves here on that day, for no one in his senses would come up to London to see the procession, even with the added attractions of illumi- nation in the evening, it being the Prince of Wales' birthday. There really is nothing to Bee. The glories" of the Lord Mayor's Show, if there ever were any glories connected with it, have departed, and r it is a mere common- sense and ordinary affair. It however keeps up its attractiveness, as the immense throngs on the present occasion attest. For my own part I would abolish the affair altogether as a useless and idle ceremony, impeding traffic and injuring trade. But others would make it forsooth a Bank holii& y, and even The Ttmes, in its City article, coincides with this view. Certainly when the day falls on a Saturday it is commercially a dies non. The London grocers, Italian warehousemen, & c., are endeavouring to stem the tide, not of discovery, but of co- operation. They have had a preliminary meeting to protest against co- operative stores generally, and especially the connection of Civil Servants of the Crown with them ; and an effort will be made to ob- tain a Parliamentary commission to inquire how far gentlemen engaged in Government departments are also engaged in the co- operative stores, and what salaries they receive. No one can be surprised at this movement Any one who has paid attention to the subject must be aware that these co- operative stores tend materially to reduce the profits of tradesmen; but then how can this be helped ? It is free trade ; and if tradesmen suffer, the pnblic on the whole profit by the reduction of prices. And I am at a loss to see how Parliament or Government can interfere with the way in which the Civil Servants spend their own time and their own money. Some of the wholesale tobacco- merchants have raised the price of the Beductive weed. Almost everything else is going up, and why not tobacco ? The demand for it is continually on the increase in spite of all the counter- blasts against its qs?, and as it is certainly not a necessary, even supposing that it is a luxury, a small increase of price cannot reasonably be grumbled at Beer is also being raised in price, and the same remarks will apply to it It is somewhat alarming, however, to find the prices of necessaries continue so high in many cases, and even advance in others. There iB very little doubt that the approaching winter will be a trying and severe one, and all the prudence of economy of the working class will be urgently needed. What enormous sums and what splendid compli- ments are paid to the Marquise de Caux, better known as Mdlle. Adelina Patti! It appears that when she appeared in Mos cow, as the heroine of " Traviata," she was called before the curtain no less than thirty times; that bouquets to the value of £ 100 were thrown at her feet and that one bouquet was so large that " it took two men to carry it across the stage." ( I wonder how this was thrown— by machinery perhaps!) I have also just read a statement relative to the lady's evenings on the operatic stage,— a statement dealing with Buch large figures that I will not quote them ; and it may well be added that this transcends any former remuneration. Well, the lady deserves it, I suppose. " The worth of a thing is what it will bring," and if the fair songstress's notes can be changed for gold of a greater amount than ever known to be brought before, why not? THE HYDE- PARK PROSECUTIONS. A large meeting of ' 1 the lovers of liberty and freedom of speech " took place on Sunday morning on Clerken- well- green, London, to supp-' rt the fund now being raised to defray the expenses of the prosecuted speakers who took part in tho Ionian Amnesty demonstration in Hyde- park on Sunday, the 3rd instant. Mr. Osborne, who occupied the chair on a waggon drawn up in the centre of the Green, contended that the meeting in H> ( Je- park was held for a good and legal purpose, and was conducted throughout in a peaceable and orderly manner. Its promoters could not be held responsible for wHat was done by roughs, any more than could the City authorities for tho rowdyism of Lord Mayor's day. He maintained it was the duty of the Government to iollow the example of America in dealing with Fenian prisoners. After the civil war even Jeff. Davis's life was given back to him, and ageneral amnesty proclaimed, and as Englishmen they had a right to demand that these political prisoners who had now been in confinement over five veais should be set free. ( Cheers.) That request could be made without its manifesting sympathy for the offence of the prisoners or fupport of Feniauism, and it was in this spirit the addr.- saes were given in Hyde- park. Why then should the speakers be prosecuted? At the close of last session Mr. Ayrton declared the Parks Regulations could not come into operation until they had. lain for 40 days upon the table of the House of Commons; but it now appeared that declaration was only a dodge to get rid of some troublesome amend- ments to bin bill, and that Mr. Ayrton never had any intention of laying the rules on the table before put- ting them in force. ( Hear, hear.) Government had forbidden the holding of political meetings in public- houses ; large halls were not to be obtained except at very considerable expense, and even then the pro- prietors hesitated to let them ; and if the people could not meet in the Parka, where else could they assemble ? ( Hear, hear.) The. right of meeting, therefore, must bo defended to tine lust, and with that object two emi- nent counBi- 1 had been retained on behalf of the pro- secuted Hyde- park speakers, and the object of the Sreeent great metting wan to assist in raising money to efray the legal and other expenses of the defence before the Marlborough street police magistrate, and if necessary, in the courts above. ( Cheers.) Mr. Hennessy proposed the first resolution— " That this meeting, fee ling onvinced that the conduct of tho people whj went to the Park on 8unday last war In the Interest of frerdom and humanity, do clears the prosecution by the Government of the speakers to be a pleco of class tyranny, and prejudleal to the best Interest of tho nation." Political discontent in Ireland, he said, might have I settled down had these Fenian prisoners been released, and the_ ruling class in the course it was pursuing was only doing that which led to the old French Revolu- tion. He hoped it would be warned in time. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. Brighty seconded the resolution, recalling the incidents of the reform gatherings in Hyde- park and Trafalgar- square, and the unsuccessful efforts of the Government to prohibit the holding of such meetings. The existing Government had settled two great questions, and done nothing but disgrace itself ever since. ( Cheera.) Mr. J. De Morgan, from Cork, and Mr. CLeary, two of the Hyde- park speakers, naving supported the resolution, Mr. Geo. Brooke, said he was anxious to get the Fenians out of prison, but thought holding these Sun- day meetings was not the way to do it The more the Government was pressed when technically in the right, the leas prospect was there of winning over the great middle class, and these Sunday meetings were so distasteful to Churchmen, Roman Catholics, and Nonconformists alike, that there was much danger of their gradually coming to think Mr. Gladstone Perfectly justified in refusing to release the prisoners. ( Oh, oh.) Mr. C. Bradlaugh, who was greeted with cheers, said he appeared there at some inconvenience to declare his sense of the thorough legality of the meeting which had taken place in Hyde park. What an anomalous state of things it would be if a man were imprisoned under regulations requiring the sanction of Parliament, which Parliament, when the time arrived for doing so, might refuse to sanction ; and yet that was precisely what it was proposed to do in this oase ; but in Ins opinion the people had a perfect right to meet in the Park until the delay had elapsed within which Parlia- ment, if it so thought fit could veto these regulations. ( Cheers.) He did not go to the Park last Sunday be- cause he intended going when the regulations had been approved ; but he preferred breaking the law legally— ( laughter)— and he should go to assert the illegality of the recent Act so long as tne Bill of Rights remained in force. ( Cheers.) The resolution was carried unanimously, Mr. C. Murray moved, " That as the prosecution of the speakers Is to them a question of legal and other expense*, this meeting call* upon all friends of human progress to subscribe to the defence fund; all communications to be addressed to Mr. Thomas Moony, hon secretary Patriotic Soclety. C'trken well- green, and money orders made payable to Mr. Thomas Elliott, Post- office, St. Mar tin's- lane." Mr. Sinclair, who said he was a released Fenian Erisoner, seconded the resolution, which was auppprted y Mr. M'Donald, one of the defendants, on the point or sailing for the United States, but not till after the adjudication, and like the first, it was caried unani- mously. A collection was afterwards made, and the proceed- ings which were free from any unusual display of en- thusiasm, closed in the customary manner. The Irish contingent was accompanied to the Green by a brass band, having walked in procession from Clare- market Mr. Odger, it was announced, was served with a summons at his residence. High street, Bloomsbury, late on Saturday night On Monday morning, Messrs. Odger, J. Clarke, W. H Pottle, Peter O'Leary, Conham, A. D. Butler, S. Bayley, J. P. McDonnell, Chaddock, Fennell, T. Mooney, and J. D. Morgan, were summoned to appear at the Marlborough- atreet Police- court, on the charge of having on Sunday week infringed the rules for the regulation of the parks on the occasion of the late Amnesty Demonstration in Hyde- park. The defendants were escorted, procession- wise, from Cltrkenwell- green to Marlborough- Btreet where they were received with cheers by a; large number of their friends who had collected around the court- house at an early hour to give them a reception. Mr. Poland appeared on behalf of the Crown; and Messrs. Green and Hallett for the defendants. Mr. Green, on the first case being called, applied to tho Magistrate for an adjournment. The same offence, he observed, was alleged against all the defencUnts but many of the summonses hivi only been served that the morning of the day of hearing. Other summonses had been served no earlier fhan last Saturday, and the earliest days of service were the previous Wednesday or Thursday. He ( Mr. Green) had not received his instructions till late on Saturday. He understood tbat there would be no objection on the part of the Crown to this application. Mr. Poland, on behalf of the prosecution, stated tbat he was there, if necessary, to go on with the cases ; but, after the observation^ that had fallen from his friend, he did not think it Would becomd him to resist the application for an adjournment The summonses had been issued . on Monday, and since then the police had used all due diligence in seating to dferve them. After a few observations on the pjyrt of Mr. Hallett and Mr. Odger in support of t} ie application. The Magistrate adjourned the hearing of the Cases to two o'clock the following Monday. , His worship re- minded those present however, that in the meantime there was to be no breach of the law. On the newB of the adjournment reaching the street a loud shout of applause was raised by the crowds in waiting, and Mr. Odger and the other " patriots " as they appeared were loudly cheered. tisallanmts Intelligent*, HOMLE, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. PARLIAMENT OUT OF SESSION-.— The Right Honourable Gentleman said. it had been asked what, if we were to persevere in the policVof concession in- stanced by submitting the Alabama Claims and the San Juan Question to arbitration, for the maintenance of peace at any prioe, would be the use of continuing to go to the expense of building iron- clads'upon iron- clads, and multiplying rams, torpedos, and all the other costly munitions of war? The use was that, when the limits oftall potable concession Bhill have been reached by our having yielded everyttyipg de- manded of us, those armaments will enable us to de- fend our shores in the « jyent of invasion, after all— Punch, A REMARKABLE ENGINEERING FEAT,— The most remarkable engineering feat now in process is the crossing of the Andes by the Lima and Oroya Railroad, Tbo mountain chain will ba crossed at an altitude of 15,000 feet by a tnnnel 3,000 feet in length. The gradients are the steepest known on any ordinary railway. The workmen employed are Cholbs Indians, the only operatives who can endure, for a prolonged period, the rarefied atmosphere at this great elevation. THE DIFFICULTIES OF GOVERNING FNDIA.— Mr. Lfiing, in his evidence before the Select Committee on Eaat India Finance, recently printed, relates the follow- ing anecdote of Lord Canning 1— " I know that Lord Canulng's view was strongly against dlwJt taxation for India, and that he only sanctioned the proposal for an Income tax very reluctantly from the ex- treme lln& nclal necessity of the time. I know that when I was able to show to him that we were in a pohltlonto repeal the tncomo tax upon the lowor ctos of'fricomes, which we , did lu l § M,' and to abstain froni imposing the licence tax, he was perfectly delighted, and received the announcement with tho greatest possible ploasure. One expression I re- collect his using to me, which made a very great Impression on my mind ; when he was referring to the evil of unpopular taxation In India, he suld. ' Dinger for danger, I would rather risk governing India with an army of only 40,000 Europeans than I would risk having to Impose unpopular taxation.'" LOOKING AT THE " RIGHT" AND " LEFT."— The Journal de Bruxellet has the following estimate of the composition of the French National Assembly, and the strength numerically of the various parties that compose it. First of all, there is the Extreme Right, whioh includes about Bixty members, under tho presidency of M le Marquis de Franclieu. The Moderate Right under tho presidency of M. de Larcy. counts 120 members; and the Right Centre, presided over by M. Saint Maro Girardin, with MM. Batbie, de Broglie, and d'Audiffret Pasquier as vice- presi- dents, contains about 100 members. Turning to the other ride of tho Chamber, we have the Left Centre which at first included 140 members, but which has been fiince strengthened by a number of new " adhe- sions " It is uoder tne presidency of General Chanzy, The Moderate Left, presided over by M. Albert Grdvy also counts 140 members. Then there is the Extreme Left, composed of the Radicals and the members of the Republican Union, to tbo numher of about fifty, and presided over by M. le Colonel Denfert. The total strength of the Left, according to these estimates, will be above 330, while that of the Right will scarcely be 300. A TUTOR FOR THE YOUNG PRINCES OF WALES. - The Rev. J. N. Dalton, M. A., of Clare College, Cambridge, has been appointed tutor to the young Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales. Air Dal km qraduated B. A- in 1S63, when he obtained a third class in the classical tripod. In the following year he obtained a first- class in theological honours a CroeBe Scholarship, and a Scholefield prize. NAPOLEONIC RELICS.— The Liverpool Town Council have appointed two members to receive ai. d take charge of a valuable collection of miniatures ai i other relics of the Napoleon family, which the late Mr. John Mather has bequeathed to the town. These interesting memorials came into Mr. Mather's posses- sion shortly before the accession of Napoleon III., who, after he came into power, offered Mr. Mather a considerable sum for the restoration of the relics, but Mr. Mather refused to part tvith them. It is intended that the collection should be deposited in the free public museum at Liverpool, but a suggestion has been made tbat before this is done it should be sent to London, and allowed to remain on view there for a short time. DINNER FOR THE " H "- LESS.— Good Edu- cational Course for an Uneducated Cockney,— An aifcA- bone.— Punch. THE LATE MR. G. F. Moss.—( From the Daily Telegraph of Tuesday):— The mortal remains of the late Mr. George Frederick Moss were yesterday consigned to the grave in Norwood, Cemetery, " in the presence of a large concourse of sorrowing relative* and friends. The deceased gentleman was for many years Intimately associated with the business connections of this Journal His long experience and hl$ h qualifications make his loss herein severely felt; while his amiable disposition, warm nature, and fldflity to all the duties of friendship and social life, leave a still deeper sentiment in the hearts of tho » e who knew him welL Affectionate and gentle in the home circle, he was most hospitable as a neighbour and thoroughly popular In his county— Kent— as a yachtsman and in the hunting- Held, His racing yawl, the Julia, is dis- tinguished in maritime annals as the winner of many Im- portant ocean prizes ; and, wherever the name of her owner was known, It may be safely said that esteem and respect accompanied it, ns that of one who was in no ordinary degree good, true, and kind- hearted. THE YOUNG HIPPOPOTAMUS. — Mr. Frank Buckland reports, in Land and Water, that on Friday afternoon the baby hippopotamus, Guy Fawkes, and its mother were both doing exceedingly well. The mother is terribly savage, shows her terrific strength, and roars and bellowB tremendously if she is in tho least put out She has not OBly great power of ob- servation— knowing one keeper from another— but also memory, for Mr. Bartlett thinks that she recollects her last two babies were taken from her, and therefore she seems always in a state of alarm lest her third young one, should also be surreptitiously taken from Her maternal care. But she seems— though ever watch- ful— to be in excellent spirits, and the baby aucks con- tinously, eo th^ t the authorities have the greatest hopes that it will live and thrive now that it has taken to its natural foqd. , MORAL FOR MILLIONNAIRSS. — Boundles » benevolence necessitates boundless avarice. To do no end of good you must get no end of money. It re- quires very muoh indeed to make one's self ai happy aa one oould wish, but to render others so too, an infinity.— Punch. A BIT OF ACTOBIOGRAPH Y.— I was obliged to write too young, when I knew only half truths, and was eager to set them forth by what I thought fine words. People u& ed to rail me a good writer then ; now they say I cant write at all, because, for instance, if I think anybody's house is on fire, I only Bay, " Sir, your house is on fare ;" whereas formerly I used to say, " Sir, the abode in which you probably passed tl^ e de- lightful days of youth is in a state of inflammation," and everybody used to. like the effect of the two p's in " probably passed?" and of the two d's in " delightful days."— Mr. Buskin in lors Clamgera. THE BURNING OF THE " MISSOURI. "— The New York lYmts gives further particulars of the Atlantic mail steamer Missouri, stating that— " 8he was burnt at sea In a gale on the 22d of October, about 25 miles from Abaco, en route for Havannah, vid Nassau, New Providence. Twelvo persons were saved. The Ore was discovered about 9 a. m. in the pantry, and suddenly burst out in volumes of flames amidships, spreading rapidly over the ship. The boats were launched immediately, and all but one were swamped at once. Those remaining on board were compelled, on account of tho flames, to jump Into tho sea. Those saved landed in one of the boats In Abaco about 6 p. m. on the evening of the22d, and were taken from there In a small schooner to Nassau. It was a terrible sight for those In the boat to see those In the water clinging to the swamped boats and begging for assistance. There were about ten ladles on b « ard. It is not known whether any of the missing have since been picked up. It is said the captain used every. eflott to save the lives of the passengers, working bravoly himself with the hose. Three of the saved passengers are now here. The oHgln of the Are Is unknown. Two of the boats of the illfated i/ mouri were burnt along- side the vessel, and there Is no probability that any of the others ever reached the shore, it Is probable that not a single life would have been saved had It not been for James Calmer, a resident of Eleathera, and a. passenger on board. A new boat had been pnrehsssd In New York and placed on deck, but as the weather hsd bcen boisterous she had not been secured either by gripes or chocks. When It was known that the vessel would go down Calmer, with a few others, launohed this boat, holding fast- the painter. When he Jumped overboard and swam to the boat eleven others followed, and even then had it not been for Calmer, who was acquainted with the management of a boat, and took charge and piloted her " safely through the surf, she would have been lost with the others. THE CHACE. — Mrs. Malaprop, who is a staunch upholder of the Establishment, has been greatly shocked to hear that in some parts of the country they hunt with packs of Beadles! She wonders what the Bishops and Congregation are about, to allow such extraordinary proceedings.— Punch. A TURKISH BETROTHAL.— AN English lady, who was present sends an account of the betrothal of Khalil Pasha with the Princess Nazbl, daughter of Mustapha Fnzil, whioh took place at Constan- tinople on October 24th. She Bays that the bride was dressed with exquisite taste in a blue satin robe, covered with English point lace. On her neck was a diamond necklace of great value, and on her head a diadem of the same precious stones. Her superb mass of b'ght hair and her languishing black eyes made her one of the love- liest brides imaginable. Attendants spread on the floor rich Cashmere shawls, and the Princess appeared and advanced to her mother, whose hands she kissed. While thafceeremony was being per- formed, eunuchs threw in the air " numerous gold coins, which were picked up by the slaves either as memorials or gratification". That form iB the expres- sion of the hope that the future spouse may always be fortunate. We were then introduced into another room, where some Arab musicians were concealed behind a curtain. They played and sang at the same time. After having listened to those strange strains for half an hour, and eaten a spoonful of sweetmeats, we passed into another apartment, where a sumptuous repast awaited UB. Alter dinner we all met in another room, where cofleo was served by a white slave, who superin- tended a buffet covered with a velvet cloth embroidered with gold and enriched with diamonds, emeralds, and other precious stones, on whioh was placed the coffee in cups of Sevres, with saucers of gold and jewels, the commoneat of whioh was worth £ 100. These were handed round with cigarettes for those ladies who liked to smoke. Then four white female dancers were brought in to amuse the company. Afterwards a neck- lace with a medallion, ornamented with large brilb'ants, which must have cost a fortune, was brought in to be admired by the persons present This was the be- trothal present made by the future husband to his in- tended wife. TERRIBLE FALL FROM A BURNING BALLOON.— The American papers to hand by the steamer Scotia contain accounts of a frightful accident which occurred at Dekalb, Illinois, on the 26th ultimo. It appears that a Mr. Dennis ton, an aeronaut, wht> had advertise! that Mr. Louis Denham would make an ascension that afternoon, was inflating his monster balloon, " City of New York," and bad nearly completed the process, when smoke was observed to be escaping from the top of the balloon. Quickly the shout went up " The balloon bon fire!" and as the peoplo near by oegan to retreat the horses were also dnvea from the scene to escape all danger. Scarcely had the flames burst out wluu the balloon Bhot away, carrying with it Mr. Michael M'Mann, who was assisting in the work of in- flation. Being near the basket as it started off, be became entangled, an- d banging with one foot inside the bwket, bis hanfa holding to the ropes, he thus ascended for upwards, of 1001 eat, and regained a position in the basket; but. it again hung sideways, and in another minute M" Mann was hanging to the ropes at a height of upwards of 300 feet Now his strength gavo way, and he let/ go. He descended to the earth nearly in a standing position, until when near terra firina he fell backward., striking the ground with his back with such force as to produce a concussion heard for some ; diatano< w ilia doath waa instantaneous, ". HOSPITAL SUADA*,: IN BIRMINGHAM.— The periodical collection fe local charities, wbu li are this jwar devoted to thl" » nd8 of the firming!, aui Queen's Hospital, has reachXfci total of £ 5,000, which ia the largest sum j et realised forthi? cbarity, ^ pt not quite so large as toe amo nt of thefir « t annual collec- tion in 1S50. which w- is devoted tq the ,' GoiH- rul Hos- pital. In the . fourteen years since th^ institution of " Hospital Sunday" the sum realised in thia way for local charitable purposes hua been' nearfy'J&& C00, of which rather more than £ 20,000 has gone tothe'Qiitcn'a Hospital. THE CONTROL HORSES.— The Army and Navy Gazette remarks:— The anticipations in which we foDdly Indulged that the ^ 7ar Office and the Tresiury would not suffer niacb io a on the sale of hsrses purchased for the Autumn Mai. ffuvres have, we learn with rejrret, proved fallacious. The average price has bten much aflectad by tbo poor condition'of eome of ther lots, and Sir H. StorkJ will be lucky if he has to admit a los3 of only & Z0 000. In fact, ho will not be ablo to toft his department go off so Hghfly, and the country will have to pay £ 40,000, probably, fortL„ horse transport at Salisbury Plain. It was a mistake to set out with a bid of £ 40 a horse. They could have got hundreds at £ 30, and jufljcious pavilry colonels have sometimes, not very long ago. niofiiftod tlielr regiments for considerably less all round. It is ertJent tho present system is bad, and even hirtno horses, bad as it Is. would be better. A CLEVER TRIOR.— The following trick ia said to have been played upon a couple of Geneva trades- men the other day by a man of gentlemanly appear- ance. He entered a confectioner's shop and ordered 85 small pasties. He then went into a ready- made clothia establishment and chose an overall, price 75 francs, asking for a young man to accompany him to his hotel, when he would pay him. The overall was Sacked up and the yonn^ man followed the stranger. n passing the confectioner's the latter opened tha door and said:—" Give him 75, not 85- T" then, ad- dressing the young man, he said:—" Give me the parcel; you have no need to come any further ; . the gentleman there will pay you the money." The packet was given up, the stranger, disappeared, and thejyonng man and the confectioner were left to discover that they had been duped. A SKETCH OF YON MOLTKE.— The following pen- and- ink photograph of Moltke is'curious: - " While goinit to church I noticed ne . r me a new uniform of m general officer, some one w. io at fi& t lmcrertei me as the youngest, blondest, aiiu sienderes: general offi. er I ever saw, and I tried to divine how promotion could ha* e been BO rapid in an army where everything Is regular. I looked again, and the quick, elastlt, step, the slender, almost womanly waist, contra* ted strangely with his rink, which I now noticed to be that of full general. On looking into his fsce, I waa slill more surprised to recognise General Von Holtke. We continued on the remaining hQudred yards to the. chapel- door together. He Is a man of fow word*, of a singularly youthful eipression of couhtename and eye : and although one knows that he is swenty years of age, and heavy time- lines mark his face, it is hard to shake off the Idea that he is a boy, He has a light and nearly transparent com- plexion, a clear blue eye, flaien hair, white eyebrows, and no beard. He speaks goo l English, and on calling at his room, I found him very affable and full of sagacity and accu- rate knowledge. In his room were a few chairs, a desk, on which was displayed a map of France, and not another scrap of anything to bo seen." PROFESSOR TYNDALL ON ENGLAND AND AME- RICA.— Professor l'yndall closed his lectures at Boston with a speech from which we copy ^ eee words :— " During my stay here I have hoard the " old country' men- tioned again and again. You c. nnot abolish your ante- cedents. Out of England's loins yon have come Tour • aocstry Is stamped upon your faces, your laws, your poli- tics, and your characters. De Toe<, uevJlle, sympathising with Democratic Institutions, cays, regarding England ana America : ' 1 refuse to regard theje people as two. One is the outgrowth, of the other." Atrocious Ignorance of each other Is at the bottom of all our diff fences. I trust that hereafter each nation will respect the individuality of the other, whQe thoroughly maintaining its o^ n/* THE BIRTHDAY OF, THE , PRINCE OF WALES. — At many of tje large towns of England, as well as, of course, at London, Windsor, and Sandringham, and the naval and military stations, jthe thirty- second anniversary of the Prince of Wales's birthday was duly celebrated last Saturday. At Sandringham, the Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Prince Albert Victor and George, and attended by the Duke o( St Alban's and Lieut- CoL Ellis, made a tour of inspection of the gardens and farm premises. The pleasure grounds, gardens, and plantations have, suice the last residence of the Prince and Princess at Sandringham, been greatly improved. After luncheon theEoyal party drove out the Pnnce of Wales in a single pony car, the Princeaa driving four- in- hand. Upon their return' to Sandring- ham House their Koyal Highnesses proceeded to the mews in the park, where, in one of the spacious coach- houses, a substantial dinner of old E. glish fare waa served to the' cottagers and workpeople on the estate, to the number of about 160. During the visit their Royal Highnesses' health was proposed and drunk with great enthusiasm, and the Prince, in acknow- ledgment, expressed hia continued remembrance of the kind sympathy evinced all about him during his severe illness last winter. At nightfall a gigantic bonfire was lighted up on the loltieat point of Sandringham Heights, in the vicinity of the newly- built Swiss Cot- tage, and was witnessed with great delight by the young Princes. The glare waa visible for many miles round. THE DEATH FROM EATING MUSSELS.— At Liverpool an inquest has been held upon the body of Thomas Haynes, aged 31, a night foreman at a brewery. Late on Saturday night the deceased and his brother partook of some mussels, which they had purchased. Deceased then went to sleep, but shortly afterwards he became ill, and had to be conveyed home. A doctor was called in, but he died early on Sunday morning. Dr. Telford stated that be was called, to see the de- ceased at half- past four on Sunday morning. .' He was suffering from nausea and vomiting, and complained of constriction about the neck and dryness of the throat which, on examination, he found to be very vas- cular and congeeted. The deceased also complained of pain in the back and neck. His left kg was cold and partially paralysed. He told him ( th& do Jtor) that he had taken a few raw and cooked mussels. Witness treated him, but he died shortly before five o'clock in the morning. He was of opinion that depoased dial from eating mussels. In reply to the corpner, Dr. Telford said doctors differed as to what was the poison- ous part of a mussel, eome being of opinion that it was the liver, and others thatib. was theJitatt The wife of a fishmonger stated that three men and a boy ate at her shop 4s. 6d. worth of raw mutsels from the same bulk as those ftom which1 the" deceased waa poisoned. The Coroner : How many would that be? Witness: I sold them at eight a penny. The Coroner : That would be about 400. Witness: Yea; and they did not hurt them. The jury found that dea^ i had re- sulted from the poisonous dfcecta of, mussel a. STREET CARS.— At the moment when 30 many horses aro disabled by epidemio disease, American papers notice a new machine for propelling streetcars. It is thus described,:—" The action oh foui- ' eranks of two 8ft. lovers, worked by two men,' caused two power wheels to revolve that are connected together > by cop that work in the links of a chain and hold the crankH on opposite centres to each other j thus they become fulcrums for the long levers to keep them in motion. Tho axle of the car is connected to the crank uhaft by means of an endless chain, and thus the car is moved. The power gained is very great, and it is said that two men can run the car with ease. Tho Nets Orleans Times, referring to it says :— " On Monday night a start was made from the corner of Tchoupitoulas and Thalia- streets, and a run of some distance down was made, the car moving along very smoothly, but rather slowly. This last was owing to the stinncxs and hard working of the machinery. It is said that with machinery thoroughly adjusted, two men who occupy tho driver's seat can propel the car faster than it can be drawn by a mule. It is calculated tbat by the use of three men to each a*, a Kvvhw of at least two dollars a day can be made*,' five mUea being done away • with, besides the expense of shoeing and doctoring thorn. Another trial, it- is expected, wp be made shortly." THE LAND FOR MAKING MONEY.-- Money can be made in no time in Texas. Tho iollowtog is given as an instance :— The Adams brother*,' j^ one father settled twelve miles west of San Anton^ ti ISol and commeneed with two hundred head^.^ ock cattle, followed his buei- ws when'he dird, . anHLAJw ( October, 1872) offer their entire Btock for sale; Bixty- eight thou- sand head of cattle, all their own mark and brand, within ninety davs after signing < xmtfl » ct, at five doll are specie per head, and to give the . purchaser all there may be over, which they belmve Will be fully ten thousand head. This excess is > ffered : J an induce- ment to buy ! Bat this is nothiilg to' MBflJaine9 Lowe, who commenced stock- raising in 1856 with onlv ten cows and calves, owned one negro man; whom be hired out for ona cow and calf per month. Hu uow owns the patriarchal estate of 50,000 head of ito; k cattle, 5,000 head of bullocks, and haa hran< tod this, year 15,003head of ut> 8 THE FALMOUTH & PENEYN WEEKLY TIMES i vihr* t- oo. aad Sit inadequately rets^ nw a J w- diLiag many tons, the inertia of which alone wt all kid its stability. The Society of Arts, era on the alert to stimulate invention aal to promote scientific progress, some time since offered i" 3 gold medal for the best desjn for a steamer in which tbe horrors of the Cbanntl passage abon'd be reduced to a ataiaua, if not altogether abolished. To this Society, therefore, Mr. Bes^ mer's invention became an object of direct interest, which led to Mr. Bessemer inviting the Ccnndl to witness the workirg of hs model. The invitation w33 readily aco ptcd, and a number of gentlemen from the & ic; ety met on Saturday at Mr. Brs= » mer" « residence and inspected the arrar^ e- ment Among them were gentlemen of eminenco aa practical mechanicians, and others equally eminent in navai matter?. After a careful inve- ti- pation of the model, the opinion was un.* ciioou « that the principle was sound and that it would work out suoce » fully in practice. Peifect as it now appears it may vet prove capable of even further development. Mr. Bw* mer himself, with the spirit of a true artist * t » t<?.- that he by no means believes he ha* reached perfection in the invention. Even now he sees his way to an automatic governing arrangement by which the services of the steernnan may be dispensed with, although he recommends the employment of a steers- man in the first instanc;: and he frankly admit* that some other brain than his own may pu- « h on the work he baa initiated to a higher point than he has attained. Be this as it may, Mr. Bessemer haa done very much towards th<- station of a very perplexing problem, if indeed, he has not actually solved it, and he deserves every credit for the spirited manner in which he has set to work to determine a question, not only of na- tional, but of international importance. THE AMERICAN SEAL LOCK. PRICE OF MEAT. MARRIAGE OF M. ROCHEFORT. A Pari* oorreipondent of tho Qlobt, dcicrlblng tho mar- riage on Thursday, In last week, ot M. liochefort, writes:— " Few romances of fiction have imagined for their climax an incident so pathetic as the mania Henri Rochefort. with all the circumstances which, in fact, surrounded it yesterday. Several years ago, when tbe man now condemned to detention for life was the young Comte do Roche fort Luijiy, he wooed and won Marie Anastaaie Kinnuld, the daughter of an cmployi in the Ministry of Finance. They were at the time almost boy and girl— he, I think, 20, and she 16— and did not find it necessaiy to consecrate their affection by any other ceremony than those vowa of constancy which usually prove of very transient force. It was not so, however, in this case. By suc- cessive " tages the Comte de Rochefort let himself bo carried awi. y by hia virulent wit and his eager desire for notoriety until he becamo famous for satires which were certainly out of all keeping with an ancient title, and be widely dropped his rank. It is poor work at- tacking a fallen man, and I will not inquire now whether some of his extravagant articles, which, how- ever meant could but fall like oil upon tbe fire of fiercer men's passions, were not equally unworthy of the plain citizen Henri Rochefort claimed to be. The natural result of such a career haa been at one time exile, at another Implication in the horrors committed by those who were or had been his followers, and finally the condition of a prisoner for the re3t of his life. " During all his changes of fortnne, except the last, Mdlle. Renauld has remained with him. At Brussels, when he was in exile, at Paris during the siege, they were together, and they have only been partod lately owing to her illness. This ia at. present bo dangerous that in all probability death must como soon. She could not meot this calmly without remedying for her children, 03 French law enables her to do, the mistake made years ago. There were difficulties in the way. She could not be moved from her bed, and her lover had ceased to have tno right, or at least the power, to control his own actions. However, these obstaclea have been overcome, and the prisoner was permitted yesterday to come, strongly guarded at every step, to make the dying woman in the Convent of the Augus- tine at Versailles at last, his wife. By this the chil- dren, a daughter and two sons, become legitimate. No wondtr that people have talked of little else the last two days. Curiosity was naturally excited to know each detail of this strange conclusion to a singular story; but the matter was bo well and quietly managed that very few inquisitive spectators could get in where their presence would h% ve been most unacceptable. " Roche fort had been brought to the Maison d'Arrdt of Versailles on Monday night, and thence his marriage procession started yesterday morning. It consisted of one largo hired carriage convoying the bridegroom and three police- agents ( dressed in plain clothes); it loft the prison at a very early hour, and had for escort a very strong guard of gardiene de. la paix, who also surrounded in force the Maison de Sant^ attached to the Convent of the ^ ugustinee. Here, on the second story, was No. 3— a little room, opening, as all such do in places of confinement, from a great publio corridor, and in thislay thebridfc. As the poor paralyzed woman could not of course, be moved to the mairio or to the church tor either the civil or religious cere- mony. M; Rameau, the maire, had come to her bed- side. The marriage instrument was read by him, while M. Rochefort stood by tho bride, holding her hand. It was then signed by both, though the effort drew from her a cry of pain, and witnessed by Franfois Victor Hugo,' Ernest Blum, Jean Destrien, and the eloquent barrister, Albert Joly. This was sufficient to givo legal validity to the marriage and status to the chil- dren ; but Mdlle Renauld ( a? the Rappd states half apologetically) had begged for a religious ceremony also, and Rochefort could not refuse a request which will probably be her last. The blessing of the Church was, therefore, bestowed on the pair by the AbW Follet, chaplain of prisons. After this M. and Madame Rochefort were released from surveillance for a short half- hour and left absolutely alone. At the expiration of tins time they parted, and at eleven o'clock of their 1 bridal morning, their wedded life ended for ever. The i.^ tfth bridegroom, with" the same precautions, was conducted back to hi3 temporary prison, his conductors, by the rapid pace at which they, took the carnage, appearing to grudga the favour ehciwn; and last night he was carried in a prisoners* van to his place of permanent confinement in the He de R&" EARLY OR VERY LATE POTATOES v. THE DISEASE. The following hints, from The Qtfrdtr, may be useful to some ol our readers :— Three tacta seem pretty firmly established concern- ing the potato disease. The first is, that the earliest varieties are sate. All potatoes harvested or ripe before July will be out of the way before the disoase comes. It was so this season, and, in fact, in all former seasons, as lar 031 can remember. One of the most important questions, then, for cultivators ia the turning of their attention to earlier varieties, and the treatment of the present ear lies in such a manner 03 to make them form tubers sooner. A good deal remains to be done in both directions. . The treacherous frosts of April and even May are much against the prospects of earlier sorts. From, f? ay the 20th of May to the 14th of July, i3 not a long time for the crop to be matured. Still a good deal may be done by the Potato in seven or eght weeks, pro- vided we have helped it hitherto. This help can be rendered by sundry earthingj- up of the stem during the early period of growth. The earth renders tho covered portions frost proof, and it is astonishing how soon the upper part of these stems recovers if the base 13 thus strengthened and kept safe. Then aa to forming tubers early, careful storage and greening of the sets Sornate this in a wonderful degree. A seed Potato that has been ' stored, freely _ ,.. expo8€ d to the air, in a temperature ranging from 35 d= g-. to 45 degs., neither higher nor lower, and aa near tbe medium of 40 degs. as possible, and planted with its first a boots entire, will ripen its tubers at least a month or six weeks rooner than potatoes stored in the ordi- nary way, and picked once or more bifore planting. This is a fact of immense practical importance in the production of early potatoes, inasmuch as tbe disease visits u* at a time more or less fixed, ran zing from the middle of July to the end of August. Tne second fact ia that the gre « n or late crops are comparatively, if not absolutely, safe. It follows, therefore, that by planting late potatoes late, « ay at the end of April or beginning of May, or by rai ing later varis: i= a, we might obtain a lile crop of some potatoes after the disease had pax » ed away. The thirl and last fact is that gresninz the seeds is one of the simplest tnrana of atamp-' ng cut the disease. D. T. FISH. THE FRENCH TREATY. At the lord Mayor's banquet In London, on Saturday evening. Earl Granville, responding to tho toast ol " Her Miijesty's Ministers," in tho coune Ol his speech eald :— There is one other subject to which it ia impossible . or me, standing, as I do in tho very centre of tho world of comm- rco, not to allude. I mean the treaty with France, which I hod thohonourofsigning only threedaya ago with a distinguished diplomatist, whom I am happy to see hero on this occasion. ( Cheers.) I believe tho history of that treaty to bo this. That great man, Cobden, negotiated a treaty in 1860 which waa ex- ceptional in it* character. It had one great practical object, in which it entirely succeeded, it enabled tho Govvrnment of France not to introduce free trade, but to abandon prohibitive duties, and to introduce those relaxations of restrictions on commerce which enabled franco to set an example to other Continental nations — of a relaxation which haa been eminently Mic- cewful, nnd which has been followed in those coun- tries which were formerly strong for the vested inte- r< sta of protection, but which aro now as strong for the vested interests of free trade. Last year the Executive Government of Franco proposed to us to make modifications in that Treaty; but wo were unable to do so. The proposals which were made to us were those to which it was impossible for ua to agree. Tho French Government, exercising their perfect right, denounced that Treaty, and, acting according to their right. we bad no reason to oomplain. This timo proposals have been made in a different form and in a different way. In the first place, it is not merely a proposal of the Executive Government— it ia a pro- posal of the Government to which the sanction baa been given by the whole of Franco through their repre- sentatives in the National Assembly. In the second place, the proposals were of a totally different kind. Instead of proposing additional duties of pi . rue 20, somo 30, or in some cases 80 por cent, ad- ditional duty, they were limited to additi *> al duties varying between 2 and 3 per cent, and In — J case ex- ceeding 5 per cent. Wo felt ourselves bound by the declarations we bad previously made to the French Government We stated wo should not embark in a retrograde policy, but if you bring forward proposals of a purely fiscal character or where protection ordy intervenes to tbo slightest possible degree, wo should be desirous to meet you in the exceptional circum- stances in which France ia at this moment placed. We therefore entered upon these negotiations; and what is theresult; I am sorry to say that I waa in Parlia- ment thirty. gcven yeara ago, but it enabled ma to get somenotions at- ainstmy own party in favour of freetrn de. I have never been an apostate from the doctrine, and I ! should have been reluctantto affix my humble signature to a Treaty which was contrary to thoae principles; and I believe tho principle and substance of the , Treaty between France and England are strictly in i accordance with free trade The permanent portions of j that Treaty are simply these— that, without making any conces- ion to cither country an advantage ia ' conferred on b- th by the permanent engagement to ke" p one another in the position of the most favoured nafcors; and also we are both to receive from one another's hands national treatment as regards ships and cargoes. There are exceptions 1o the permanent portions of the Treaty, and they are amply these. We make these conces- ione— and, as far aa I am aware, the? e ore the only concessions we do make— that for four month*— the only portion of time daring which we can protect ourselves at all by our Treaty right— we ast'e to the additional duties, email a^ they are, which I have mentioned to you. And further, during the tune that these treaties exist wi* h other Powers, we allow that deviation fiom the favoured nation treatment to the extent of those limited duties during the tix-? when, if there wa* no treaty at all, they might an:' unt to differential dntfea. I wDl not triable you with th.- details of other questions which we have" taken t ie meaaa of dealing with between the French Government and curaelvea on commercial ma'. tera. I brieve that when the Treaty b examined and considered L. this great commercial city it wCl a- eet with their approbation. A fcm a before the Vermont Legidatere to rental • Se Iiw lor pnnfcfttsg Mapfceay. THE CRYPT OP ST. PAUL'S. Although it ia not true of St. Paul's, any more than of London, that its underground portions aro quite as wonderful those obovo ground, yet oven tho Crypt of St. Paul's contains much that i- interesting; and our reidere will be glad to know that it ia already be tuning to share in that process of renovation to which the rest of the cathedral is being gradually sub jected ( remarks The Tim a). Tho Dean and Chapter, indeed, havo resolved to lighten tho wholo extent of it, and with that view thoy are steadily removing tho heavy woodwork which nearly blocks up tho small win- down on a level with tho ground outside, substituting for it thin but strong iron e.- ohes, which alllow the light to enter more freely. Tbo venerable duit and •<>•> t which havo accumulated on tbe walls and window- « illfl, posribly for nearly two centuries, havo also been to a great extent removed; and some idea may bo formed of this when wo say that aljout 60 toas of soot, dirt, and dihris of plaster havo already been carted away ont of tho basement of th" * acred edifice. Tho walls, too, pro being cleaned throughout, and tho restoration of the monument* ia being proceeded with, the creates', caro being taken that nothin^ shall be mutilated or destroyed. Some of the fragments of monuments which survived the great fire and the hands of tho workmen em- ployed und'. r Sir Christopher Wren hare been repaired, re- arranged in something lik* order, and laid decently on slabs against tho walls. Tho pavement at present is de ddedly tho won- 1 portion of the Crypt; but thin will before long be taken np and rabid throughout on a uniform plan and pattern. Among the graves in the Crypt under the east end .'.{<• lea of the Cathedral aro tbore of Sir Christopher Wren hlm'elf; Barry, the painter; Sir Joshua ftey- r. olds. Benjamin West, Opie, Furell. Turner, Mir Thorn aa I^ wrence, Dean Mflmon, Canon MelvilL Archdeacon Hale, Prefcsor Cockerell, Mylne, and Henr. K Indeed, so many of our artuts and arehl- eti lie h<' 7<- that the southern ntolo ha* coma to be called " Paintcre' Corner." Under the central dftrne, ai our r> vl- r. i are aware, li'; the bodies of Nel- zon and Wellington— th « - latter in n magnificent sar- ' c. phajfua made out of a fickle block of black Cornish porphery, which waa finished only six or seven years while the former reats in, or rather tinder, ano- 1 ther tarcophagns, whi - h though smaller In size, sor- frx; • ite neighbour in Interest as having ben origi- nal! y prepared by Cardinal Wol. x- y for nimielf, and pLv.'- l by him with that vi<- w in S- George's Chapel at Windsor. Not far from Welling n lies Sir Thomas Picton, whose body wa- i removed hither a few years ce from Bayawater: and near to Lord Nelson rest his brother : siwinlx, Lords Northexk and Collingwood. A printed fh- t rela'ii- g to the Crypt, which was [ li/ itwl in 1655, with the - i: nature of tbe then clerk of the works, Mr. John Tiiliwn, sh'/ ws that the general depth of the foundations below the surface of the churchyard w 22? t., and in a-. any places even 35ft » ; toat the " fair, large, and slately vauHs" beneath the church are 16ft </. n. bivh from the gronnd to tbe crown of the arch ; tf. it each of the yj-.* X pUn which eu- rta'rn the osr. tral lomo itaads upon l, 3^ 0ft. ol f a d, r^ verfici- 1 rr,' i-: u.- e, at^ I er/. h Ie- » er oae upon ; while the whole s^ sce of groom] occupied by thrae piera and covered by tho dome itself is Dearly three- quarters of an acre. The Story of the Life atA Early Adrenterea of Mr. '- 7 !• I r a.": > t<. tjx. Uwi,!. ltlstiW, rtewsof i-. i tt7t?. t- lao » aadaia » l, wUhpcataUs ' A hit xr/, tVr snd T^^ idfft'i^- fTi THE MaLBLB0R0UGH ESTATES. Ia o- mnectlan wfihtbls » - bJ » - rt whl- h hM recently been btf f the pdbUe, tb « SotuUort Journal writes :— There i* a popular Impression, shared apparently by noles* aperwm than tbe Attorney- General, that the Boko of Marlborough holds his estMes at Woodstock by a s « mre title than that by which, tap, the Duke of Bedford holds his e- t » tes at Woburn. Every- one. kn'. ws tb » "; Woodsteck was originally granted to th'- famous Duke of Marlborough in Q'leen Anne's rcWn, and many Velfeve that n « t oidy is tho property inalienable, but thaton f. ilare of tbe Duke of Marl- borough in the ChorchOl line the property reverts to the Crown, or, as somo prefer t- i put it, to the nation. In fact, however, th" stttute 3 and 1 Anne, cap. 6, et in ted the manor of WoOd- tock and tho hundred of Wooton to the Duke, bis heirs and nsdgns, render- ing to Her Majesty and her successors on the 2nd of Aumi't yearly " one standard of colours with three flowers de luce painted thereon," which tribute for tbe current year m » y be s » cn at this moment by ih" visitor to Windsor Castle. The preamble is notable for reciting that the grant is not to be taken as a pre ' lent for the reward of " less merit," which may be r » - vl either as a genuine proUht against state munificence, or aa an elaborate compliment quite in tho spirit ol the time. The Duke bad thus an ordinary estate of f- « * im > l- in the pro]* rty, but h « - having no E" n « , it wii « . by 5 and 0 Anne, cap. 3. settled strictly on his daughters and th* heirs of their b^ ies. That statute contained a clause forbidding the barring of the ent ifl, which restriction still rematnk} since tho Fines and Recoveries Act ( 3 and 1, WiL IV.. cap. 7i, sea 18) ! « expressed " not to extei. d to persons restrained from barring entails by any Act" The peculiarity in the Woodstock title, therefore, besides the picturesque revival of tho ancient tenure by grand scr- j- anty, ii that the ultimate revervion on failure of th- issue of tho Great Duke's daughters c.\ n alon- bo aliened, the Crown having no greater in- terest than it has in overy estite in the country, utiles j, Indeed, there may be a forfeiture on failure to present tbe staudurd of colours with the three flowers do life painted thereon on tho 2nd of August. Tho present Duke is in precisely tho same position as wm every tenant in tail before " Taltarum'a Case," which in Edward IV.' s reign introduce! the fiction of recoveries. Thepirallel cjuc is tho e- tate of tho Dnke of Wellington, at Strathfieldsuye. the history of which is the oonverao to that of Woodstock. By 53 Geo. III., cap. 4. an estate was directed to be purchased out of the Consolidated Fund and to be fettled to the use of " tho Marquis of Wellington and the heirs malo of his body, and t" such other person Ut whom tho titlo shall descend, and in default to tho heirs of his body." This would have left an ultimate remainder in the Crown, but by 53 Geo. III., can. 133, that remainder is Itself limited to tho heirs of the marquis, and made devisable by him. Thus, It will Ikj pecn that" the nation " ha* no more claim upon the property of cither of the •<• illustrious families than upon the estates of tho landowner whoso ancestors were entirely undis- tinguished. MR. W. P. PRICE AND BISHOP ELLICOTT. Mr. W. P. Price and Bishop Ellicott were present at thi> annual dinner of tho Gloucestershire Root, Fruit, and Grain Society, held in Gloucester, on Saturday. Bishop Ellicott, in responding to the toast of " Tho Bishop and Clergy of the Diocese," referred to the spec h which he mado at the agricultural dinner in AuRii. it, and flaid tho remarks bo then mado with reference to tho agitators hod been alluded to most un- fairly by many men of position, who ought to have known bettor. One learned gentleman connected with tho city of Exeter, had recently thought proper to mako some very strong allusions to him. With reference to tho remarks which that gentleman made, the Bishop phould like to say that when a man connected with the Government of tho country, at a very critical period, jiermitU'd himself to talk about" burning brows and itcbi-' i,' p* lms," ho really ought not to tax other people with folly. When a man ev<- n of his own craft and calling so mismanage a grave c- we as to mako one of tho interested parties a kind of hero, by tho use of strong and even offensive language, and obtained for him a kind of sympathy, such a gentleman as that bad far better look to matters at home— look to his own reputation, and leave dukes and bishops alone. As to tho labour que- tion, he could only eav he believed that during the p^ t summer many of the labourers had been led away by those who professed to be their true friends, and had not felt a proper grati- tude to those who employed them. But he ventured to hope that tho employers would not act with any ill- feoling towards tho men when they returned in tho winter to ask for employment, and that they would think m t merely of the labourers themselves, but of tht ir wives and families. If that was done it would create a better feeling between all parties, and the kindncn thus shown to tho labourers would not be lost, but would in time bo amply repaid. Mr. W. P. Price, in responding for " The Members for the County and Boroughs." alo referred at some length to the labour question. He alluded to the attack wiiicb was mad" upon him as chairman of the Midland Railway Company by Mr. Bass with reference to the wages paid te the company's servants, and said his answer to that gentlemau was that the question was not one of sentiment but must be settled on commer- cial principles. But the agitation thus raised apr< ad t » « very other branch of industry, along with it c. im » tho rise in prices in everything, and then it reached the acricultural labourers. Mem- bera • f Parliament, Ministers of Sute, the country paper*, and even the great Times, which was very hard upon him, took the question up and dis- eased it. but one and all had ultimately to come to the conclusion that what he bad said wx< quite true, that the question must be settled by the law of supply an i deman 1— must be looked at in a commercial point of view, and not as a matter of sentiment That tho ti. ultural labourers sh uld be brttrr paid he heartily believed, and if they were they wul l b - better men. But agricultural Labourvr* were not the onlv men who wc re underpaid; many of the cleivy rec ived miserably l- » w « Vip. nd?, and in some of the otfiees in the army and r.., ry the radiri1 j. i « id in-^' fici= nt It teemed to him, however, that many of the working men were receiving too much money or ebo did not know Iww properly to Q » it Only a d » y or two ago a con- tra - tor ior tie Midland Railway Company, who TO etmpl- oj lag upwards of a thou- a" 1 men, tuld him that tnough the men received from 3*. tU to4 « . 21 per dav they wtre constantly in the h » bit of asking for ' Subs'* in advance of thtir wace*, which " subs' were not eiiwifl in curreas coin of thf reahe but in - « o many quarts of b « r ; aid this statement had sinoe been corroborated bv auoier large contradar. Mr. Price also allciedto the qoestexi ci oMagt accom- ra tioa. and exrwss d him. « e! f infarocr of iaprowd coua^ es for the labouring classs. MR. BEECHER ON HORSE- RACING. THE BESSEMER SHIP riALOOK. ways throuerh the Channel, embankments maue acroes it from o- aci to coast, a bridge to connect the two shons, and steam packets of special construction with improved harbourage. Tunnels, tubes, embankments, and bridges, however, are prac'. icaDy things of the fax future, both on account of the enormous capital they involve— about 20 millions of money— and the time their construction would occupy. For the present, therefore, engineers are © ontoduring how they can best meet the immediate nece> atie< and urgent require- ments of the oik. This it is admitted can be done in no better way than by improving the bnild of the vessels plying Detween the two countries, and to that point attention is at present being chiefly directed. Among other men of scientific attainments who havo endeavoured to solve the problem of the Channel passage ia Mr. Henry Beuemtr, whose name will always be associated with one of the moot important improvements ever made in the manufacture of steel. His method of dealing with the question, however, differs from all others that have been proposed in that motion, instead of being reduced to a minimum by means of exceptionally long and broad vessels, is absolutely destroyed by a purely mechanical arrange- ment placed within the ship ana perfectly under com- The germ of Mr. Bossemer's principle ' ies in the ship's compass and in the suspended cabin lamp; in fact, it haa often been Buggrsted that cat* in furniture should bo similarly aasiK- nded, and the idea appears feadble, although really it ia not practicable— at least, it would not prevent sea- sickness— for the reason that, although an article of furniture so suspended would enable its occupant to maintain a horiz ntal position, it would still follow every vertical motion of tuo vessel. But there ia in every ve.- sel when pitching or rolling a neutral axis, or point of no motion, and it occurred to MR. Bessemer in thinking out the matter that by suspending a saloon at a point coincident with this axis he would attain tho desired end. Tho idea pro- mised well, it needed but one condition to be complied with in practice to insure Its success in preventing sea- ackne- a; that condition waa that the equilibrium of tho saloon should not be disturbed, or, in other words, that the load should be equally distributed at starting and that no change in ita disposition Bhould bo made during tho parage. This, of course, meant that no passenger should move from his seat, much less prome- nade the upper deck, a condition which of itsvlf would be fatal to tuo adoption of tho system. There was also tho apprehension that disturbance might arise from the oscillation to which a pendulous body suspended : from a body in motion was liable. So that idea wa3 abandoned, but not before Mr. Beesemer had designed a vessel with a sns|> ended circular Baloon, JiO feot in diameter and 25 feet high, retained in a horizontal position by means of a heavy counter- balance weight. Pursuing the subject still further, it occurred to Air. Bessemer that if ho could not prevent motion by hia method of suspension, he could, at any rate, arrest it at tbe moment it was set up. To this end he has designed a saloon, 70 feet in length. 30 feet in width, and 20 feet in height, carrying on the top a promenade deck at a height of seven feet above the ordinary deck of the vessel. The points of suspension of this saloon will be in a lino with the keel of the vessel, and coincident with the neutral axis of the ship when rolling. Tho saloon will be well lighted and ventilated, and will be fitted at each end with four principal rooms for ladies and four for gentlemen, which, aa well aa the promenade deck, will bo accessible at all times by means of a broad staircase free from all motion. Tho governing principle of thia suspended saloon consists of a set of powerlul hydraulic apparatus connected with the underside ol tho flooring, and so arranged that aa the vessel rolls to either aide tho pre « aure or resistance afforded by the water is instantly brought into play and utilized in checking the motion. There ia no doubt that this arrangement could bo made automatic, the present Mr. Bessemer controls the apparatus by a pair of very sensitive equilibrium valvea actuated by a hand lever. At this lover standB a steersman, who, with a curved spirit level before him, watches the slightest indication of rolling in the vessel, and in an instant suppresses the least tendency of tho saloon to follow the motion of the ehip. It will be seen that, so far, the rolling action of the vessel haa been provided against. It may therefore bo asked how the effects of pitching are met? In the cir- cular saloon proposed by Mr. Bessemer both motions were provided ngainBt; in the present ealoontho effects of rolling only can ba prevented^ The difficulty of pitching, however, ia overcome by increasing the length of tho vessel to such an extent an to insure longitudinal stability. The principle of the saloon, in fact, ia to be carried out in a steamship which haa been specially designed by Mr. E. J. Reed, C. B., for the channel passage. This vessel will be 350ft. long, with 45ft. deck beam, and 65ft. over her paddle boxes, and which, when fully loaded, will draw but 7ft. 6in. of water, thus enabling her to meet the requirements of tho present shallow harbourage on either side of the channeL The saloon will be placed in the centre of the vessel, a position now generally occupied by the engines, which will be placed fore and aft and will drive two pain of paddle- wheels, as the small draught of tho veael will not admit of tho use of a screw. She will be popelled by engines of 750- horee power nominal, indicating up to 4,600- horse power, and ia expected to attain a speed of 20 miles an hour, which expectation her small immersed area of midship section fully* ! justifies. Thevesselswillbedouble- ended, so as to enable them to enter and fuit existing harbours, and at each end will bo a well- appointed cabin for second- class pas- sengers. At each extremity these ships will have a very low freeboard, so that they may cut through tn « waves instead of rising to thom. This, combined with their great length, peculiar shape, and the distribution of the ; weights they will carry, will render the pitching motion bo slight as to be scarcely appreciable in a saloon situated midway of the length of the vessel. To an engineer the results of the principle pro- pounded by Mr. Bessemer are self- evident; there are, however, others to whom tney cannot, of course, be made so clear on paper. In order, therefore, to de- monstrate to all the feasibility of his scheme, Mr. Bessemer has constructed a largo working model in the grounds of his residence. M » i..- i it can hardly be called either, inasmuch as it is larger than tbe midship section of one of the Citizen steamboats. The orrangtm ^ nt con- sists of a 20ft. length, the hull of a vesl- el of 20fc. beam, sunk in a brick pit, and carried on a longitu- dinal axis. Similarly suspended within the representa- tive ship is a cabin measuring 16 ft. by 10 ft," beneath the floor of which is the hydraulic arrangement for ar- resting motion, or, in other words, for locking the cabin. A small square hole in the floor admits the body of the stem- man, who sits in front of a double- handled lever working horizontally, and having just beyond it a curve- d spirit level surmounted by a gra- duated scale and a pointer. In the centre ctf the scale ia the zero point, and so long as the cabin preserves a true Is vol the pointer st_ nis at zero. . Directly, however, the slightest deviation from the hori- zontal occurs the pointer will stand either to the richt or left of zero, according to the direc- tion of the roll of the cabin. The object of the 5texi? man is, of course, to keep the pointer exactly at r- ro, and this he easily acccmplL- hasby ^ lightly moving the handle eithsr cne way or the other as may be necessary. An fm- nutir- g motion is given to the hull through a crank shaft worked through toothed gearing by arrsH ecrin « placed outside the hull. This notion amounts to 14 dec. each way. representing a total roll cf 2S dag., the number of epilations b- ing ten per minute. It need hardly be pointed ont that both the extent and frequency of the roll are ouch in excess of the average in practice, but notwithstanding this the caiin does nr t indicate a deviation cf mc » than from 1 toli degree from the bczirar. tai. It is, morecva, to fcwK—? in mind that the light struefcre farming tie eatss is very readily inSzesced by the • lightest D* rirg the election at Wolverhampton the ballot- boxes employed were secured by an American Inven- ti n. tae Patent S- al Lck. which was several times mentioned in ocr columns in the u mer in connexion with the robberies from the luggage of continental rail- w- » y traveller* that were then so much complained of. Tbe seal lock is one in wh'ch the key- hole admits of being completely covered by a sliding metal plate, which when pushed fully into its place is retained there bv a catih. In this plate there iaa small h. de, through which the catch may be pressed back by a pin attached to the kry. an: t le plate can then be drawn down so that the keyhole is exposed. The plate is c > untersunk to receive the " which is a small square pirce cf s'ass, held in position, when the plate is pushed heme,~ by the grooves in which it slides. Tho Sf- al, tberef re, covers the hole through which alone the spring catch is accesdble, and this cannot be re- leased until the st a\ is broken. So loag as no seal is inserted the lock remains an ordinary lock, fit for all ordinary purposes. When th-> security given by tho pitent is desired, a seal is dropped into the place pre- pared for its reception before the sliding pi ite is closed. When this has been done no one, neither the owner nor any other person, can apply the key until after the seal has bom destroyed. So long as the eeal ia intact there is ab- olnte certainty that the lock has not been tampered with. T e seal itself is a piece of common window fifoss, marked on tho back with a letter and number, and also with various irregular dot-* and splashes, in a sort ot chocolate colour. These marks are backed up by a white ground, and the whole is burnt in, so as to be- come part of the glass, and indelible. Each seal Is about half or five- eighths of an inch square, and a large sheet ia nwdo at once, tbe separate seals being afterwaids cut out with a diamond. The lettering and numbering are conducted on the same principle as on Bank of England notes, so that no duplicate of a seal will ever be made; and tho dots and splashes are accidental in shape and position, being sprinkled on at haphazard. Before tho seals are cut tho entire sheet is photographed, and the printed I photograph is perforated like a sheet of pewtage- Btamps. The p'ireha « er of tho seals ia supplied also with photographic fac- iimUcs, fio that he can send ono of the^ e, and not ouly tho letter and number, to any ' person whoso busine- s it may bo to verify the security l of a package. For example, Roods consigned to a j distance mitrht bo sent in a box with a sealed lock, and | a photograph of the seal miijht bo enclosed to the con- I signee with the invoice. Tho consignee, on producing hia photograph, would satisfy himself tbat the lock had not been opened, and the carrier would bo relieved from the possibility of claims for the losa or abstraction of gooda which the package had never contained. The essence of the security which tho seal afforda ifl, therefore, a certainty that no koy haa been inserted into the lock during a given time. The principle may be applied to a lock of any kind, any strength, or any quality. What it does is to render the key- hedo in- violable, or, at least, to show that it has been inviolate. Of course, the seal is easily broken, a amort tap being sufficient for the purpose; and it ia protected on tbifl account in the padlocks manufactured by the patentees by a strong cover which fa » tend down with a spring catch. When tho seal ia broken no proof is afforded that the lock has b en opened; but, aa long as tho seal is entire, th- re ia positive proof that the look has not been opened. In the United States the seal lock is extensively em- ployed for many public and private purposes. It is used by somo of the chief railway companies for the protection of their parcel vans, by the ^ Custom- house for goods bonded or in transit, by returning officers for tho ballot- boxes, and by private persona for securing important matters which it iB necessary to intrust to the custody of others. A box of deeds or papers left with a banker or lawyer, and a plato chest or wine collar left with servants in tho obsence of the pro- prietor may servo as illustrations of such uaea. For deed boxes the arrangements for affixing tho aeal are particularly neat, not to say ornamental, in their chap racter. The value of tho seal lock dependa_ entirely, oa a matter of course, on good workmanship, and on tho impossibility of releasing tho spring of the sliding plate in any other than tho way intended by tho maker. If tho plate worked loosely in ita grooves, there might be means of getting at the catch in soma illicit manner, or it might be possible to file or drill away some channel for the same purpose^ But tho most that can bo said of thia possibility is that the owner muat satisfy himself that tho motal work of tho , ock is uninjured, OH well as that tho seal is unbroken. th » rot ths present high price « ( cat, L* n. i c- wl W*! tr writ?* j— Why Is meat still so horribly expensive! The tinned beef and mutton from abroad .'> v.< n.* t appear to have effected any anpreciab e amelioration in tbe condition of the trade, although, cf course, it may bo, perhaps, th » t th- » increased con- nmptkm <\ f these meats has prevents! the cost of tho lej of mutton from becoming prohibitory to uny but tbo wealthy. This is a view of the qu<- s: ion which space and th-' inexorable condition of editors will not salow us further to dis- cuss. Fodder is plentiful, our stock of fche* p and cattle, according to our Isst agricultural returns, is npu'ly mcrea- ing, and Ireland is awaking to a of her position as one of the main arteries of our meat market. On the other hand, toot and mouth dis- evf has played tho deuce with the herds in some dis- trict*, and increaT- 1 expenses, with augmented wagos also, may bo put forth as a reason why meat is not cheap. There must also bo considered the contingent effect ot increased vraces saved by arti-- an « , which doubtless swells to no inconsiderahl* extent the d. mand for fresh butcher's meat; and there are also the exceptional but ntvevary restrictions on th- importation of foreign cattle. Therefore, it is to feared the supply of meat for 5. ime time t « o > me cannot be in otcrw of the de- mand. It is af- the present barely equal to it, and hence we may fin bthe rea « on why freih butchers meat still remains eo expensive & comm. - dity. Tho rinderpest or cattle plague at present is an nscut whoso oowcr ore infinitesimal for evil, a safe and impassable cordon being drawn round the neighbourhood* in which It exists ; but that it does exist in our midst is a fact now too universally known to be disguised, and is too fre- quently urged as a Convenient ai> d plausible reaton by retail Dutehere for the high price of butcher's meat. But it is only by anticipation ot its destructive pro- pensities that its existence at present can have any in- fluence on the moat market. As a sign of the times, or rather, perhaps, as a rwult of national prosperity, using tho term in an universal sense, it is curioiH to noto the increasing demand for, and const quent high price of meat of the prim est qualities, and tho decrea « uig value and slack- ening demand for meat of second- rate quality. Prime beef and mutton is nearly as dear as it waa last year, whereas second quality lU'- at is decidedly cheaper, ergo, we may say purchasers of inferior moat are not BO nu- merous— a sure « ign of increased national prosperity, or else of the gradually increasing favour in which tinned meat is held as a substitute for butcher's meat of second quality. A perusal of the following comparisons of the pricesof stock Bold in the Metropolitan Meat Market on Monday, October tho 30th 1871, and Monday, October the 28th, 1872, will exemplify the statement that tho de- mand for inferior meat baa declined, while, at tho samo time, the prices of primeft qualities nro also slightly lower than they w. ro last year ; and, taking Into con- sideration the more favournblo conditions of the Sresent Reason, it may bo inferred that tho increasing emand for meat of tho priniest quality haa prevented prices from falling to any considerable extent:— In 1871— Second quality beast*, 5s. to 5a. - Id. per 81h. to sink the offal; primo largo oxen, f>:<. Gd. to 6s. 8d. ditto ; prime Soota, 5.'. 8d. to Rs. 10d. ditto ; eccond- Sualitv sheep, G. « . 2cL to G « . ditto ; primo Southdown, lOd. to 7c. ditto. In 1872— St- cond- qiiolity boaits, 4a. 4d. to - Is. 8d. per 8lb. to sink tho offal ; prime largo oxen, 6a. 2d. to 6s. 4d. ditto ; primo Scot*, 5 » . OtL to 6*. 8d. ditto ; second quality sheep, 4s. 8d. to 5s. 4d. ditto ; primo Southdown, 6s. Gd. to G->. 8d. dltt. From tho abovo statistics we might very naturally conclude that meat of all kinds should bo cheaper than it was last year. Why this is not tho ca? o wo must leave to meat salesmen and butohors to explain. Certain it ia that wholesale prices all round aro lower. LIGHTHOUSE DUES. A deputation waited on Saturday upon tho Chan- cellor of the Exchequer on tho subject of Ughthouso dues. It represented shipowners nnd merchantn from most of the principal ports, and Its contention was that this country, liko others, ought to provide from Imperial revenue for tho erection and maintenance of those lighta the benefita of which Were folt by pacing obinoas much aa by those entering our harbours, on whom alono theburdenB now fell. It won ataocontended thntthoducs at now levied wero excessively extravagant. Mr. Lowe, in reply, said ho was thoroughly acquainted with tho Biibject, having bad it before him repeatedly when at tho Board ot Trade. He did not consider any comparison could bo drawn aa to coast nnd com- merce between thia nnd other nations, nnd tho latter, if thoy did not char go for li « ht dues, laid it on handsomely as to goods. As regorded British com- merce he hedd that tho consnm- T really paid the dues, and that thoir existence was rather a protection than an hindrance to tho shipping interest, Tho right hon. g. jntlemnn said tho property of tho mfmorioliutH, although it might bo valued at eloven millions, waa tho only property in tho kingdom which did not pay stamp duty: and if tluy got off tho " ap- pearance of paying" liKhfc duea thoy would probably hnvo to pay tho Btnmp duty. Tho Chancellor wound up by saying that, although thia wan not very agreo- ablo to tho deputation, ho had not left them in doubt what ho thought. THE FALMOUTH & PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES* SATURDAY, NOV. 16, 1872. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. ( From the Illustrated London Hews.) Letters of administration of the effects of Maria Man gin Brown, late of No. 28, Hertford- street, May- fair, who died on the 21st of December, 1871, a widow, without child or parent, brother or sister, uncle or aunt, nephew or neice, cousin- germ& n or any known relative, and intestate, has just been granted to Mr. Grey, the solicitor for the affairs of Her Majesty's Treasury, for the use of Her Majesty, the per- sonal property being sworn under £ 250,000. By the death of this lady, without leaving a will and without relations, this large property, nearly a quarter of a milliion, falls to the Crown. The will, dated July 6, 1870, of the Hon. and Eev. Delaval Loftus, Lord Hastings, of Melton Constable, Norfolk, who died on September 28, was proved, on the 29th ult, by the Hon. George Watson Milles, the surviving executor, the personal property being sworn under £ 39,000. There is an express direction in the will that neither hatbands nor scarves should be given or worn, or gloves given, at the funeraL The de- ceased peer has given all his household furniture, plate, jewelry, and personal effects to his widow, and he confirms the settlement made ou their marriage; the power of appointment given to him by such settlement is exercised in favour of all his children equally. The testator's eldest son, Bernard Edward, succeeding to the family estates, the residue of his property is left equally between his children other than his said eldest son. The will, with four codicils, of Mr. Thomas Cha- loner Bisse Challoner, of Portnall- park. Egham, was proved, on the 28th ult., by the Right Hon. Alexander Nelson, Viscount Bridpori, and Mr. William Gooch Spicer, the executors. The personalty is sworn under £ 120,000. The testator bequeaths to his sister in- law, Mrs. Grace Fane de Sails, £ 1,000; to each of his executors, £ 500; to Captain Evelyn Parratt, £ 300; to his goddaughter Adelaide, £ 100, and to several of his friends mourning rings and brooches; to his friend Mrs. Sarah Dallimore, a leasehold house at Padding ton and the interest of £ 8,666 13s. 4d. fe ihs * unda for life, and a legacy of £ 200; there are slsr bequests to his butler and other ser- vants. The testator's mansion- house, and estate, called Portnall- park, are devised successively to his brother- in- law, the Rev. Henry Jerome Pane de Salis and his wife, the said Grace Fane de Salis, and their son, Rodolph de Salis, for life, with remainder to the issue of the said Rodolph de Salis in tail male; all his furni- ture, plate, and jewellery are made heirlooms, and annexed to the said mansion- house and estate; his horses and carriages, live and dead farming stock, wines and spirits, < fcc., are given absolutely to the said Rev. H J. Fane de Salis. The residue of testator's property, real and personal, is given to his executors upon trust, so that the income thereof may be enjoyed by the tenant for life of his said mansion- house and estate at Portnall- park. The will of Lieu tenant- General Sir Isaac Campbell Coffin, ELC. S. L. who died October 6, at St. John's Park, Blackheatb, was proved on the 25th ult., under £ 14,000, by his widow, Dame Catherine Eliza Coffin, his brother- in- law, ( George Hutchinson Shepherd), and his son- in- law ( W. M Stewart), the executors. The widow gets the household furniture, a legacy of £ 1,000, and the income of one- third of the residue for life ; and, subject thereto, the whole of tostators's property is given to or for the benefit of, his five children and their children. The will, with three codicils, of General Sir Patrick Montgomerie, K. C. B., B. A., who died on October 5, at No. 10, Elvaston- place, South Kensington, was proved, on the 26th nit., by the relict, William Hen- rietta Montgomerie, and Bladen West Black and Sir George Balfour, KC. B., the executors, under £ 16,000. The deceased General has left to each of his executors £ 100, and to his servant, John Bankes, £ 100, all free of duty ; to his widow he leaves a pecuniary legacy of £ 1,000, his household furniture, and the income of the residue for life; at her death the residue is to go among his brothers and sisters in such manner as she shall appoint. The will of William Lloyd Edwards, of No. 1, Daw- son- place, Bayrwater, was proved, on the 17th ult., by John Scantleb". y and John Humphrey Hunter, the acting executo. , under £ 60,000. The testator gives to his widow bis inraiture, a legacy of £ 100, and an annuity of £ Sfl ; to each of his executors £ 300; and to each of his - children £ 50 ; the residue of his pro- perty is given i onanist for accumulation, and during this period eac A the children is to receive an annuity. " Ultimately the property is to go between his children and their issue. The will of thelate Albany William Fonblanque was proved by Mr. George Bryan, the acting executor, on the 28 tk ult., under £ 3,000. The will of Don Josd de las Casaa, late of Bilbao, Spain, has been proved in London under £ 18,000. CHINESE GAMBLING. ( From the Saturday Review ) A carious account recently appeared in The Times of the Chinese passion for gambling. . . . The method pursued by the writer is to prove that they are not only gamblers, but gamblera of a specially imbecile type ; and we are left to infer that a people who can be guilty of the follies which he exposes nave no right to be regarded as equals, if indeed they can claim any rights whatever which conflict with the interests of Europeans. We must notice in the first place that, in spite of certain British prejudices, gambling is licensed at Hong- Kong, as it was till lately at Baden and Homburg. The attempt to suppress it is said to have caused such a fearful state of things that the licensing system had to be adopted as the leas of two evils ; besides which, it brings in a good deal of money. The passion, indeed, is said to be so widely spread that we may easily be- lieve that suppression would be difficult The traveller at Hong- Kong may everywhere Bee groups of dirty and half- naked men playing at a very simple game. One man cuts open an orange and the others guees the number of pips ; those who make the best guesses winning the money. In other places a variety of pitch- and- toss, which involves the use df dice, seems to be popular. There is nothing, we must admit, which strikes us as specially horrible in the re- velations thus far. The traveller in England may see groups of men in the neighbourhood of any village, especially on a Sunday mornirg, indulging in pitch- and- toes without the refinement of dice. Guessing at the number of pips in an orange is doubtless an inarti- ficial mode of gambling- but very respectable Britons have been known to stake large sums of money on the number of pips printed on a piece of paper ; and the difference aoes not of necessity imply that we are on a higher moral or intellectual leveL These unprincipled Chinese, however, play at a game called Fan tan. The mode of play is charmingly simple. Each player stakes what sum he pleases. The croupier of the gambling- house counts out all the coins handed to him in fours; the remainder from the last batch must be of course 3, 2, 1, or 0. If the player has named the number which actually occurs, he wins three times his stake, the bank- however de- ducting seven per cent ; if another number turns up, he loses. The game is so attractive that the houses in which it is practised pay over 200,000 dollars ct year for licences. We are still at a loss, it may be. to know why this should be worse than roulette or rouge- et- noir. To bet on the number of coins in a heap is not intrinsically worse than to bet on the colour of cards in a pack. This case, however, is alleged to prove rattier the stupidity than the villany of the Chinese. Any judicious European might, it is suggested, make winning a certainty. All that he has to do is steadily to back a given number. If he loiies the first time, he is to double his steke ; if he loses the next time, to double again, and so on. He must ultimately win, and his winnings will then be sufficient to recoup all his losses. The theory is a very common one at Euro pean gambling tables, but it is open to one or two alight objections. We are not told whether the Chinese gambling- houses limit the stake whigh may be played, in which case the plan of course breaks down. But even if they theoretically admit unlimited etaken, we should fancy that the ragged and disreputable vagabonds who are said to patronise these houses are apt to have a very definite limit to the producible amount of cash. A geometrical progression has a very uncomfortable way of increasing, and by the time the gambler had lost ten times he wou'd have to put down more than a thousand time* his original stake. If he lost twenty times running, he would have on the next throw to put down more than a million times the original stake. Perhaps this prevents the general adoption of the plan amongst half nak.- d plajerH. The writer, however, is subject to another superstition, which indeed seems be almost ineradicable from ordinary minds. He - s that the experiened gambler always backs the ber. Why should he do that? Because, sayB the writer, if 0, 1, and 2 have already turned up, the " laws of chance " prove it to be even betting that 3 will turn up next time. It would be curious to know how many men have been ruined by faith in this theory in one form or other. The laws of chance, according to all mathematicians, are precisely the reverse; the odds that 3 will not be the next number after 0. 1, and 2 have occurred are precisely the same as before they occurred. The perplexity which has bewildered innumerable gamblers results from an incapacity to reconcile the two pro- positions that the odds against a coin coming down heads twenty times running are enormous, and that, after it has come down heads nineteen times, it iB an even chance whether it comes heads or tales next time. Yet, as can easily be shown, one proposition follows necessarily from the other. The writer declares that it is proved by observation that any given number will occur once in every twenty- one times. If so, assuming fair play, he would believe that, after it had been absent the first twenty times, its presence on the next trial would be a certainty. ... It is odd that this superstition, which rests on a fal- lacy not altogether unnatural, is balanced by a parallel and contradictory one. All gamblers believe more or less in runs of luck. They hold, that is to say, that if hearts are trumps frequently, they get into a habit of being trumps, or, in other words, that because the phenomenon has occurred once, it will occur again; whilst the very same people hold, in other cases, that because it has occurred once it will not occur again. Without attempting, however, to explain the alphabet of the theory of chance, which for some readers is superfluous and upon others would be entirely thrown away, it is enough to observe that this sagacious European is in fact ridiculing the Chinese for not being taken in by a fallacy which has imposed upon him. The other instances of Chinese stupidity and de- pravity are remarkable. In the first place, they have State lotteries conducted on a peculiar principle. A man buys a card marked with certain characters, and scratches out such as he pleases. The characters are then publicly drawn, and if those which come first are identical with those which the player has left upon his card, he wins proportionally. There is one difficulty , which is not quite explained— namely, how the officials satisfy themselves that the player has eliminated the characters before the announcement of the result of the drawing. We presume that there must be some safeguard, otherwise we must give some credit to the Chinese for an amount of honesty truly astonish- ing. Meanwhile, we may remark that this is the kind of lottery that till recently was maintained in the Papal States, showing that the poor Chinese are not without the countenance of an authority revered by many Europeans. It is to be said, however, that gambling in most of these varieties iB regarded as dis- reputable by respectable people in China. Yet we are assured that many rich young men are apt to indulge in it on the sly at an early age and_ frequently rum themselves and have to mortgage their whole estates. That is indeed a lamentable circumstance. This fact would, however, be more surprisingif such thingB never happened in wiser countries. We seem to re- member cases in which young Englishmen have con trived to get rid of a good deal of money hy betting upon horse- races in our own day: and many genera- tions have not yet passed since Charles Fox and his friends considered it a gentleman- like accomplishment to stake numerous sums on the variety of Fan- tan which was then fashionable. There is, however, one kind of gambling in China to which we can at present produce no exact parallel. It seems that a great deal of money changes hands upon the result of the competitive examinations. The system has not been popularized in England long enough to encourage this variety of speculation; yet it is possible that our gamblers may not overlook so admirable a field for winning and losing money. The only difficulty we can see is that it is at present easier for persons of gambling propen- sities to form a judgment of the points of a horse than of those of a Senior Wrangler. _ No_ doubt the difficulty might be surmounted ; and in time we shall perhaps hear that So- and- so, who was favourite for next year's Tripos, has been got at, and we shall read in our sporting papers the reports of the touts who are keeping an eye on the stables of the trainers or, to speak properly, the pupil rooms of the crammers. This is the one part of the competitive system which we have not yet adopted from the Celestial" Empire. The story, however, is told us in this case with another view. It seems that when the names of the winners were re- ported by the electric telegraph, the Ignorant heathen refused to put much faith in the announcement; and when the ordinary post brought news in confir- mation, they were inclined to believe that there was some magic in the telegraph. We know better, but people who believe in rapping spirits should perhaps not be too proud of their intellectual superiority. H we do not believe that the messages of the telegraph employ witchcraft in the operations, we account for much smaller miracles by the same agency. If we must choose, the Chinese seem to have most excuse of the two. On the whole, we can fully believe that these poor heathen are much more given to gambling than is good for them. Very likely the practice is much more pre- valent in Hong Kong than m London. The specula- tions at Tatter^ all's and on the Stock Exchange may be surpassed by the half- naked gambler* who play Fan- tan in a Chinese helL Yet, granting all this, we ^ o not see why the prevalence of the practice should ^ rove that the Chinese are essentially greater fools than Englishmen. . . . GROWING OLD. ( from the Queen.) Not like a tiger at a bound, nor yet like a confessed foe met honestly in the open, and conquering by fair means in a fair fight ; but like a thief in the night, silent, stealthy, unperceived, creeping on by unmarked degree.', and at each step carrying a point and gaining an advantage, comes old Age, that dreadful enemy to men, that pitiless harbinger of disease and death. And, however gallant our resistance may be, however reso- lute our intention of withstanding to the last, and dying victorious over age if conquered by death, we are overcome in the end Year by year we lose ground steadily when once the Rubicon is passed and the war between our youth and time has begun ; and we never get it back. The first grey hair is the first flag of triumph which the enemy unfurls; the first undeniable wrinkle is the first breach made in the outworks, irreparable and ever widening; and nothing can bring down the first or build up the second again. Crafty appliances may conceal the damage done, but they do not change the fact. Not a fortune spent in the costliest hair dyes ever made by chemist and barber in concert, can restore the lost gold, or turn those silver trea « es back to their original blackness. They can make a good pretence, just as the lacker can make base metal look like fine gold. But the reality re- mains the same. The core of your fine gold is, in spite of polish and colour, only base metal; the ola atre is not cheated of the substantiality of bis victory because dyes and paints fashion out a youthful vizard, which in the beginning of things can make the false appear the true. Underneath the glassy flattery of the dye are the silver streaks from which age has banished the colour of youth ; underneath th « fair surface made up of paint and powder lies the reality of seams and puckers, which are the finger- marks of time— of crow's feet trodden thick about the eyes, of furrows ploughed deep across the brow, and channels cut and scored round about the lips. Age can afford to laugh at my lady's clever devices for his disguise. They arrest nothing, if they seem to stop all, and only delay the moment of public surrender by a few months at the best. Those rouge pots and crystal vials of blanc de perle do not constitute the bloom of youth, though they say they do; and what is more, tney soon show that they are of art, not nature. They are like the crossed straws laid across the road to arrest the pro- gress of the witch, and which never did arrest it. They only make a feint of holding the way, while the witch steals on quietly and irresistibly, as a mist steals over the mountain side, as darkness creeps across the face of the earth when the sun has gone down. As time goes on, the enemy becomes too strong even for the braveat pretences of art and science to mask his works. Dye becomes patent; rouge and blanc de perle deceive no one but the wearer thereof; pads and stays, puffings and pinchings, are of no more effect in giving roundness to the " ruckle of bones" to which that ungallant Time has reduced Hebe, or in keeping down the monstrous load of flesh which the former sylph now carries, panting, than the galvanic battery bas power to make the dead bird fly and seek its mate. Ruddle on the cheeks does not give the lost lustre of youth to the dim and swollen eyes ; enamel, though laid on with a trowel, does not brace up the loose fletih nor give back the Boft roundness of the E, throat, nur pare off the superfluity of skin that from the broadening jowL No artificial support ring swiftness to the tottering steps or atraight- ness to the failing knees. Year by year the enemy waxes stronger, and the pretence work grows more transparent; till at last the supreme moment comes, when the flag has to be struck, and the surrender formally made— when the former belle, the old- time beau, has perforce to confess to the march of time, and the ravages committed on the way. Some, however, fight on to the end, and never sur- render, even when beaten on all points. They go to the grave, trodden down by Old Age, only dying be- cause the machine is fairly worn out, but convinced that their youthful disguise was never seen through and that the enemy haB been held at bay to the last— in appearance. But what miserable creatures those are who go on with their pretence work to the end ! They are more like marionettes than human beings, and forego all the advantages of one state, while losing all the beauty of the other. Neither young in fact nor old in dignity, they are nowhere in the ranks of humanity. The youthful laugh at them, and will have none of them ; and they will not join the corps of the aged, where they belong. They put themselves to absolute torture to Keep up the semblance of the state they have lost, but they ao not keep it up : and the torture goes for nothing,; . gave to the increase of the ridicule they cultivate BO diligently. One meets them about the world, and one shudders involuntarily as one watches them. Living lessons are they to the young, who, however, think, in the plenitude of their strength and the pride of their beauty, that they can never come to be as old as these miserable ante- diluvians ! Or, if such a miracle could be worked, then that they will be wiser, not to speak of brighter and better preserved; and that they will be always more beautiful, because more natural. And not even when they begin with iuBt that dash of white and red for night wear to conceal the traces of the day'B fatigue, with just that trial- bottle of auricomus fluid to brighten up the dulling gold — not even then will they be persuaded that they have enlisted in the army of the make- believes, that they are bent ou foiling the forces of time by pretence works— that they will be of those who refuse to grow old even at the command of half a century of decadence. But it is not in the loss of mere physical beauty that the ravages of time and the approach of age are most felt and bewailed. If eyes lose their brightness they also lose their sharpness, and blink and wink in the twib'ght, as the grandmother's used to blink and wink so many years ago. They cannot see to read small print as they used, nor to mend pens, nor to thread needles, nor to do fine work of any kind. To be sure, it is all the fault of the printers and needle makers, and all the rest of them. They are all in a conspiracy not to make thingB so good and clear as they used to be in the days when the poor blinking orbs were fresh and bright. And voices are changed too. No one speaks as of old. What has come to the present generation that it mutters and mumbles as it does? Why cannot it speak out as distinctly as we spoke when we were young ? Our father used to scold us, we remember, for mumbling. We did not mumble, and he was deaf. But that is quite different from thingB as they are now. We are not deaf ; and the present race of talkers do mumble. And surely hills are steeper and miles longer than formerly. They never Beemed to be so difficult. Or have we become strangely delicate in these latter times ? We used to be strong and active a few years ago. We cannot understand the change that is creep- ing over us, and fear that we are settling doWn into a state of dire disease. So we are ; the most dire disease of all, the most unconquerable ; and that for wMch no remedy has yet been found— the disease of grow- ing old. We are faint often ; weary alwayB; our nights are sleepless; our days hang heavily on our withered hands ; our food has lost its flavour, and the daintiest dishes of our cordon bleu can prepare are tasteless, while the rough meats of our youth^- oh, how delicious they were 1 All pleasures pall on us; we have seen everything before, and nothing is as good now as it used to be ; our emotions will not come at our bidding, our fancy is dead, and our imagination is laid in the same grave. We do not love as we used; and the present passes by us like a dream. LONDON CHESS ROOMS. A writer in the Liverpool Albion glvei the following sketch of the London Chees Rooms, which will Interest readers who Indulge In the Instructive and harmless recreation of " A Game at Chess " :— We purpose from time to time giving an account of the various chess rooms of London, BO that those of our readers who have occasion to visit the metropolis may know where they will be able to recreate themselvee at their favourite game, and may also, through our means, find themselves among scenes and personages not altogether unfamllar to them. We shall in this article give an account of Pursaell'a, which favourite resort of City cheBS- playera iB situate in Corn- hill, the entrance to the chess room being in Finch- lane. Purssells has for many years been the chief chess- playing place in the City; there merchants, stockbrokers, solicitors, clerks, and other slaves of Mammon take refuge during that grateful interval of repose, the dinner or luncheon hour. There and then they give a practical refutation to that foolish old Bay- ing that " you cannot do two things at a time.'.' A chess- player can alwayB combine inward refreshment with recreation of the mind. Here our disagreeable friend Snarley suggests that to some it may be only recreation of the fingers ; but he is a miserable pessi- mist, so we will not pay any attention to what he says. The quality of the chess- playing at Purssell's must be considered as undoubtedly good. It is the habitual resort of many strong players of the City of London Chess Club, and, in fact, may be said to act as a feed- ing institution to the lattsr. That there are various degrees of strength Is, of course, equally true of this as of any other temple of Caissa. There are players who annoy us by their weakness, and others who amuse us thereby. Some to whom long experience has not brought skill, whom practice has not and never will make perfect; others who were at the foot of the ladder a few months since, but ate now seen swiftly ascending rung by rung, There are also some, alas 1 who having' made rapid strides towards excellence may now be observed marching steadily in the wrong, that iB to say, in Jhe retrograde direction, often it may be from uncon- trollable causes f but more psually it is to be feared from idleness, or the influence of less wholesome amusements. However occasioned, it is certainly a melancholy sight to see a good knight player sink into and below the rook clasB, or an earat fine pawn and move player reduced to accept the odds of a knight. Altogether you may take it that at Pursseirs thete is every variety of strength, but that the average is - certainly good. Now let UB take a Burvey of the room. Observe that old fellow with whitey- grey hair and rosy countenance. He is one of the chief attractions of the place, Around him there is now, and iB always, an appreciative audi- ence. Their smiles are ready, and their ears are hungry for the jokes and quaint observations they know are sure to come. " I am here," he says, as he vigorously dashes his queen down the board. '' Check," saya his adversary, a pale- complexioned young Teuton, with an impassive countenance. " Move my George," says the old fellow, alluding as is supposed to one of the deceased Gnelphs, and placing the negro monarch in an assumed safe position. " Check again," says the other. " O. U. T." Bays Black, adding, " Now it will be old Michael Malicko." The aforesaid Michael, whoever he ia, whether spirit of darknesB or otherwise, is in- variably invoked by our old friend as the genius of the winning move ; but does not always come when he is called. On this occasion, however, there seems to be something in it. White, always imperturbable, alwayB silent, and withal a rapid player, looks a moment, sees he must sacrifice his queen for a rook, and doeB BO with- out a murmur. The game progresses. " Chocolate," the old gentleman says in his turn, and intimating thereby that MB opponent's king is in check. A bishop must be sacrificed; no matter, the thing is done at once and nothing said. Talk about the Spartan boy and hiB fox? why, he was a humbug com- pared with our impassive Teuton. Here the spectators become aware that the old nobleman— for such he might be if the title usually accredited to him be evidence— is oblivious of an impeuding stale- mate. This affords an enjoyable excitement— quivering ond anxiety all round; but the son of Germania, ever silent and unmoved, looks calmly on. If the Sphynx of the desert could see hiB flesh and blood rival he would certainly hide his diminished head beneath the EgyptiBn sands. " I'll have your knight," says Black. He has it, and immediately an uproarious guffaw in- forms him of the fruitless result of all his labours. He does not take long seeing how matters stand. It is undoubtedly stale mate; and observing, " That s the style Mary sat on," the old boy commences another game. Let ua hope that " Michael Malicko " will not again play him such a trick. ObBerve another player who is, what he calls, " doing a bit of Morphy," saying which he offers his queen for sacrifice in apparently the most idiotic manner. His opponent, a native of Grecia's classic soil, who is re- ceiving a knight, but has almost outgrown such odds, looks hard and looks long ; takes out a cigarette, lights it, and then apain looks hard and long. Why should not this suicida 1 queen be taken ? The cigarette, upon being appealed to. sees no reason to the contrary, and the daring intruder is accordingly captured. There is a murmer of anxious wonder among the onlookers. What is going to happen? Will a mate be given? Not at all; only a harmless pawn taken. Cigarette again invoked, but not able to throw any light upon the subject. The smoker considering that there cannot be much the matter, prepares for victory, and moves accordingly ; whereupon his opponent's bishop walks down the board. Cigarette not consulted on this occasion ; that ecclesiastical dignitary cannot do any- thing^ that's quite clear ; any move will do, and one of them is made. The reply is qnickly given, the bishop is sacrificed, and in a couple of moves more two pawns have reached the Beventh square. Both must queen— all is over. The doer of " the bit of Morphy" is Black- burne ; he who can give the odds of his eyes to a dozen strong chess- players simultaneously, and a sound thrashing to boot. See that gentleman with the fresh face and particu- larly bright eye. What pleasure he takes in the game; every move ia to him a separate joy. He is quite rest- less with felicity, and his words are the words of the merry. It quite does you good to look at him. Then there is that French gentleman who though, we be- lieve, many years resident in England, has never mastered the Anglo- Saxon tongue. " What a non- sense/" ( great and prolonged emphasis on the last syllable) he exclaims as he sadly surveyB the effect of that last unwise move of his. " What I did there!" he self- accusingly adds. Behold that ill- matched couple in the corner, one an elderly medical gentleman whose years have already exceeded the allotted term of man's existence ; but he is nevertheless by no means a bad player, and has an enthusiasm for the game which will never die out on this side of the grave. " FTia spectacles came right over the extreme point of his nose and, violating the law of gravitation, appear to rest upon nothing. The spoils of the evening's camp are ranged on a narrow slip of the marble table in front of him, from which he is continually knocking them down. Note bis imploring manlier of keeping hold of the piece he has just moved, bidding it as it were a last fond farewell in case of it coming to grief among the_ Philistines. Of a very different tempera- ment ia his opponent, nothing the matter with his nerves. A stout, powerfully- builtmon, with a loud roar- ing'voice heard all over the room, and manners some- what of the roughest: not a bad- hearted fellow is he though, for all that. '' Out yer go," he roars, attacking his opponent's queen, and looking round the while with a face beaming like a well- polished wanning pan, " Can't yer see it," he adds ; " If yer can't in a minute you won t in a month." Here we must conclude. Other characters we could describe, but our space forbids. The reader can him- self make acquaintance with them if, upon his next visit to the metropolis, he have time to verify our des- cription of Purssell's. UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS FOR WOMEN. Referring to the candidates from amongst the " fair sex," at the Cambridge University examination, the Daily Tele- graph writes :— University examinations for women are making very distinct progress, as the new report of the Cambridge Syndicate fully proves. The examinations were held in June, and at seven centres— Cambridge, Chelten- ham, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Plymouth, and Rugby— onehundredandthirty- two candidates actually went through the test— an increase of twenty- three on the number examined last year. Some of the general remarks of the examiners are somewhat surprising; as for instance, that " none of the candidates showed any great knowledge of Divinity." Re- ligious feeling is so widely spread amongst women that we are surprised at this neglect of what might be supposed to be a favourite study. " In English History the answers to the papers were decidedly good." The report as to English Lan- guage and Literature is also gratifying; out of 119 papers only fifteen were unsatisfactory; the others were very credible, and eleven were excel- lent." " Of these 11, four papers were of very great merit in all respects— for knowledge of facts, for cleir and vigorous expression, for real independent thought- fulness." The examiners add that some papers were marked by " irrelevance," and others by " self- distrust." In " English composition" the " average quality of the essays" was good ; but, as a caution, " some of the candidates need to be reminded that theological common- places and pious reflections do not serve to eke out an imperfect knowledge of a subject to which they are irrelevant." The papers sent up in Latin were, it is reported, on the whole very fair. " They all showed a real knowledge of the ele- ments of the language." These are the moat favour- able passages of the report; but there are some bitters behind There was " considerable gram- matical inaccuracy" in the Greek: in French literature there was not unnaturally " lament- able ignorance;" in mathematics only two can- didates appeared, and neither could pass ; there were only seven aspirants for logic, and of these three failed ; and in political economy there were only ten who presented themselves for examination. In draw- ing and the history of art " the number of candidates was too small to warrant general observations," and there were only four candidates in music ! Thus, the women who desire Univeraity distinctions are evidently not very partial to divinity lectures, or those arts and accomplishments over which the majority of the sex spend so much time. One thing is still wanting to these examinations— a public list of names. Why should wo not know the names of the two clever girls who especially delighted the examiners by their essays on agricultural strikes and the conditions of a free Go- vernment? Both the papers, it is said, showed " re- markable knowledge and judgment"— qualities not too common in the literature of the day. In connection with the above subject, the following lettera have been sent to The Times for publication:— Will you allow me a few words in answer to an article in The Times of Saturday on the Cambridge Examinations for Women ? That article must have struck such a note of discouragement and sadneaa in many minds that only by an address through the same widely- read columnB can I hope to correct the painful impression. The facts stated are undeni- able ; but the inference from those facts I venture to combat It is too true that the number of women who avail themselves of the advantages offered to them is lamentably small; true that society cares little or not at all whether they work or not; and true, probably, that, as you aver, " mothers and daughters know very well what they are about," and have accurately gauged the tastes and characters of the generality of men, when, aiming at the " practical purpose " of marriage, they reBt content with " frivolous and superficial education." For those to whom this tone is satisfactory everything is thus explained, and no more need be said. A few more vain experiments, they think, will be tried, and then " the Universities will see that they provided a very ambitious scheme and a very elaborate apparatus for a very humble work." But we who are not satisfied with this state of opinion or things must look a little closer, and notice other facts which offer a better explanation of the ap- parent failure. We remember that we are at the earliest stage of a laborious reform, which would be different from every other reform the world has yet seen could it be accom- pliahed at once. That small numbers of women present themselves for examination is doubtless owing in great measure to indifference; but where has ft ever been found that the ignorant were not indif- ferent to knowledge? When we can rouse them to wish to cast off their ignorance we feel that half the battle is won. Again, it must be remembered that, in the case of yonng women, it iB not their own indif- ference only which we have to contend against, but that of parents, who belong to the generation which is generally content with the old Btate of things; and their indifference takes the form of refusing money for books or assistance or attendance at the centres of ex- amination. Sufficient allowance is never made for difficulties of this nature thrown in the way of young women wishing to study; when it ia seen that the certificate has a distinct money value, more encourage- ment will doubtless be given to those, at any rate, who mean to become ' teachers. With regard to the actual candidates, it is assumed throughout the article that they select Group A as the easiest, and probably beet suited to their limited feminine aspirations ; but the fact is that Group A must be passed before any other is taken up : and this I first atop ia ao laborious to the greater number of the ill- taught girls who attei& t it that they cannot get be- yond. You say you " A^ Link there must be one woman in England cap^ j of passing an easy mathematical examination. When all England shall have been searched in vain, we may join in the astonishment caused by the failure, and be mora ready to grant, as proved, the further assertion, that " the nation that intellectual acquirements exists unseen and unknown among women, and only wait an opportunity to display themselves, must be abandoned. At present it happens that only 132 young women £ rom different parts of England have come up to test . their ability, and, having spent such power as they ha d over a necessary preliminary task, they had none left . for further efforts. Deficiency of previous training * vould probably account f jr the failure, and the real friends of education may com- fort themselves with the thought that they have not failed utterly ; that the months spent in preparing for that examination have taught them what they never knew before - how to read & book, and what is meant by mastering a Bubject The mental training gained by that experience is worth more than years of such smattering as goes to make up a " decent education," and beyond which it would be " vain to expect" the women of England to reach. I do not enter at all into the question of women's capacity or taste for severer studies; though, if I had time to refer to the students of Girton College, or to the examinations passed in London and in Edinburgh by some of the pupils of our best aihools, a different and more hopeful conclusion might bs drawn than that presented in this article ; but I adhere to the mere facta before us, and to the natural explanation of them. I repeat that, in the present state of opinion and of teach- ing, the failure, such as it is, should not discourage ua. We work for the future, and must be lone in seeing results. If we may venture to hope that another generation of women will show fair aptitude for higher studies, and power to acquire that ready command of faculty which enables the disciplined mind rapidly to follow new ideas and to grasp the truths they present, we who are labouring now to im- prove education ahould be well content If, in ad- dition to this, they ahould show love of knowledge, and appreciation of the true human uses of mental cultivation, they will, if this writer may be trusted, have far outstripped thejnen of to- day, who rarely, aa he thinks, are urged to intellectual exertion, excepu by the stimulus of gain or reward. Lastly, I must protest against the inverted order in which the objects of education are here presented, an order which in itself would account for the low state of opinion which has made women's educa- tion what it is. If " the first and most important object " be to " gain a living in the world," women who have not to gain a living require none. If the cultivation of the mind be for the sake of giving plea- sure and " taking a graceful part in society," then women whom society does not admire for intellectual cultivation might well dispense with it But it has far other and higher purposes, and therefore cannot be placed in the second rank, as your article ia content to plaoe it As " life ia more than meat," so is thCultivation of what constitutes the true life of the human being above the means by which his earthly existence iato be made smooth and pleasant Let all that belongs to that higher life— reason, conscience, imagination— be duly cultivated, and the training of special aptitude ® for bread- winning occupations will fall naturally in the second place; while the more or less prospect of worldly success or fame will no longer be the measure of the education to be given. Its need will be seen for every position where there is a duty to be performed or influence to be exercised for good or for evil. In such a view it would be as impossible to give women a mere " decent edocation" because it is suffi- cient to please men, as it would be to educate men to please the tastes or fancies of women ; both would be trained to walk together in the fellowship of the ser- vants'of God, spreading the influence of that noble service through whatever sphere of social useful nees may be allotted to them here below. 18, Cadogan- place. EHILT ^ E. SHIBEEFP. May I be permitted to. remind those of your readers who are interested in the efforts now made to encourage the higher education of women of two considerations suggested by the Report of the Cambridge Syndicate, which appear to have been overlooked in your article on the subject in The Times of Saturday ? 1. The report shows that only 132 women in all Eng- land availed themselves last year of the examination arranged for the use of women by the University of Cambridge, and that of this small number a con- siderable proportion faded altogether, while but very few distinguished themselves in any but the more elementary subjects of a liberal education. It would be difficult, I imagine, to receive a report more calcu- lated to stimulate the energy and zeal of those who care for the higher education of women. The leaders in this movement, so far from lending any support tothe motion which you so justly decry— viz,, that great in- tellectual acquirements Axist unseen and unknown among women, have constantly asserted that the secondary education of girls is for the most part misera- bly superficial anti,— inaccurate, and that anything equivalent to the highest University education ia al- most unknown. ~ » Had not the Report of the^ Cambridge Syndicate con- firmed this opinion it might nave been difficult for Mrs. William Grey, Miss Daviea, and their friends to con- tinue to plead for better schoola, trained teachers, a longer course of atudy, a share in the national educational endowments, and for a College in which high educational training shall be possible to those who desire it. It would have been difficult to ask for these changes had there been any room to suppose them unnecessary or superfluous. 2. The report is specially calculated to encourage those who desire to see something of the true Collegiate system extended to women. The promoters of Hitchin College^ have constantly urged that syatematic and liberal intellectual training is all but impossible after girlhood, amid the distractions and incessant inter- ruptions of ordinary home life, and they have ad- vocated the extension to women of that interme- diate stage between school and the responsibilities of mature life which does so much towards pro- moting intellectual activity among men. If the Re- port had shown that women who desire a sound and liberal education can get it aa readily by remainihg at home and attending various courses of lectures as they can by spending a considerable part of time for three or four years in a College, where atudy is the business, instead of the interruption, of . life, it would have been more difficult than it is now to feel clear aa to the wisdom of supporting a project scarcely as yet in accord with popular sentiment When we Bee, however, that the 132 women who thia year have afforded a test of the advantages of the non- Collegiate system, and who, after doing, we may assume, all that could be expected of them under the countless hin- drances of home life and indifferent teaching, have achieved no greater measure of success than that de- scribed in the Report, we may, I think, draw from these facts a sound argument in favour of allowing women to make UBO of the aid which the Collegiate system ia admitted to afford to students of the other 86X. Nor need any one be discouraged by the assertion that it" will be " vain to expect serioua study from ordinary women." Any disposition to look for unex- ceptionally brilliant results from the work of ordinary mortals, be they men or women, is quickly removed by experience ; but there seems to be no sufficient rea- son for supposing that a liberal education would do lees to improve an ordinary young woman than it does for her ordinary brother, or that, in an equally humble and plodding way, she should show herself less capable of appreciating it— I am, & c., . ELIZABETH GARRETT ANDERSON. November 9. A telegram from Nagasgki save that the treasure tank of the steamer ^ nwricahas been reached and openel ( there was only < dght loot of water over it) and tho gold ami silver contained In It waa found fused Into a solid mast! On tho morning of September 21, at 7.20, tho in- habitants. native und foreign, of Shanghai and ita environs were startled by the occurrence of the ucuaual phenomenon of an earthquake. It appeared to combine vibratory and an oscillating motion, and caused beds, gaseliers, and all simi- lar objects to shake with a n'> lse tha£ startled andlerrlflu- those near them. It lasted from six to ten seconds Strangers in Austria cannot fail to have observed the courteous manner In which officers salute each other Counts fleinlnger and Qulnquerea had lately a - » k> lent dls cnsslon as to who should salute the oth » - r flrrt, and th< v determlned to settle the matUr by lighting a dueL Tl. i result was perhaps more dtiflnlle than they antlclpa'ert Count Quin^ uerez fell dead with bis head nearly severe-' from his body, and his opponent has since died of his wouud- These frequent duels In tho army « ha Government bav vainly endeavoured to suppress. Unfortunately, In th country, the sword Is the only appeal ot honour, and shoul a man have the moral courage to refuse to assist at tb' murder of hla fellow or hia own destruction, ho Is for evti tabooed!