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:RIAL PARLIAMENT. -^y". the Karl of Malmesbury Ilr»cllf,cumfaBPeB bl the candidature o t0 the throne of Spain, a«ke< hn«o *>, 5 ^orei2ti Affairs could give thei: J at the Present great danger of i tions ? averted, and when he was informet "le „-»'d he received a telegram on Tuesdaj C-* first Informed him of what had beer Provisional Government of Spain. Next day I. de Lavalette, the French Ambassador, whc ) determination of the Emperor's Govern. submit to the project being carried out. He ssaderthat the announcement had taken the r and himself by surprise, and that he wished opinion on the su-j-.ct. He expressed re- ng language had been used at the outset by ut of the Emperor, but admitted the existence public feeling in France on the question. He )ur without dictation, and without interfering iity of other countries, to press upon the of Europe the necessity of examining this istion under all its phases. It was impossible ) any opinion as to what might be the effect Is, but he trusted In the n oderation of the .tesmen of Sutops to avert so great ? calamity rd ds Redcliffe, in calling attention to the Jets of English and Italian subjects in Greece, bute to the memory of Lord Clarendon and which he had conducted these negotiations, le execution of some of the brigands am! the iw, he thought that all that could have been ard to the perpetrators had either been done or of execution. He traced the history and causes in Greece, and then passing to the f Greece, ex amined the duty of the Protcct- •ardsit._ The present state of thirds could ) must either interfere effectively or withdraw there was no reason to believe that, the other ers would refuse to co-operate with ns. He loving an address expressing horror of the late necessity of punishing the guilty parties, might be, and the duty of the Protecting press brigandage ia Greece, and remove its le, after a feeling allusion to the Minister who [dressed their lordships on this subject, said mistake to mix up the massacre of English e general question (r the state of Greece and Protecting Powers The latter must be con- itt with these Powers, and the Govert-ment so to consider it, but he declined to go into on the present occasion. In regard to sh lives on the other hand, the duty primarily luntry. The Government had insisted on a full quirv, and he eulogized the conduct of the legal he Government to be present at the investl- xpressed an tmphstic opinion that Lord th had be?n accelerated by his indignation at his sympathy for the victims and their his determination to exact the fullest re- Msjesty's Government knew their fliuty In I he begged Lord Stratford de ICedcliffe not to hlch would weaken him instead of strengthen- I the eyes of Europe. from Lord Carnarvon, regretted that Lord Clarendon's life had not im plet e these negotiations; but having lost his jesty could not have placed the seals of the better hands. It would be better not to fetter )y thu resolution, but to leave him in the full discretion. lIe strongly denounced thecon- eek Government in sending brigands and the insurrection In Crete, in violation of the hile they refused to graut an amnesty to the athon, on the plea that they could not vio- ition to save the lives of these Englishmen. rernment could do at present was to insist on tete inquiry into the causes of brigandage in l de Redciiffe, after the assurances of Lord ated his readiness to withdraw his motion, Ips adjourned. )f Commons, the Birmingham Water Bill was e, and passed and the Dagenham (lhames) ad a second time. gave notloe of his intention to move a new luoatlon Bill, giving power to the Education issolve any school board which fails to secure dance of children at school. ;ked the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs as any foundation for the report which had tain Spanish journals, that England had f favourable to the selection of a membar of herizi liern to fill the throne of Spain." here is no foundation whatever for the re- Lutt asked the First Lord of the Treasury ies'y "s Government was aware that thePrince euzollorn-Sigmaringen had been accepted mt of Spain as a candidate for the throne of d the Government of the King of Prussia signified its approval of such candidature: e, as publicly alleged, that the Government of .he French has declared that the election by )le of the Prince Leopold as King of Spain ded by it as an act inconsistent with the and, whether her Majesty's Government it highly important to exert all the in- country with Foreign Powers to prevent any ) of the European peace. t: On Tuesday evening laet her Majesty's their nosmall surprise, received their first in- 3 subject. That, intelligence was to the effect jold of llohei Z 'llem-Sigmariugen had been Government if Spain as a candidate for that country. It" ai also to the cffect iment 01 the Emucrcr of the French had le accession of this prince to the Spanish t ba to'era'ed by them, but would be looked (quiring resort to extreme measures. Her ument are not aware that the Prussian is committed itself or bound itfelf to this cancidaturo Her Majesty's Government will exercise, any it fluence they may a regard to the dignity Illld self-respect of w er, for the purpose of preventing any event id deplorable as that of a great European bloo ishid arising out of circuma'aucas of (hear, hear.) on wei.t inio Committee cn the Education ause C5, which reiates to the attendance of ol On the last occasion the committee, by sfused to substitute general for permissive Mr J. Lowther, supported by Mr. Fawcett, amendment striking permissive compulsion e altogether. It was resisted by Mr. W E. committee, on a division, again affirmed the nissive compulsion by 274 to 119. ,ther clauies hud been discussed, the Com- ouried. Meie formally advanced a stage, and the 1. nf Commons, July J2, the House proceeded mendments macio by the House of Lords in ill. nts down to Clause a were agreed to On relates to the scale of compensation for clis- lought that so-,e statement should be made ent ns to the course they intended to take the pniencments. s said that the Government would gene- le Lords' amendments. Tho principal ex- be as follows :—Ti ey would propose to hose amendment which nil; cterl the scple They proposed to disagrea to the amend- cerned the term of lease, which was put in teinative to the scale. They would agree ctance to the amendment relating to the ages, and also the amendment in respect •egistration of improvements. They pro- tree to the amendment to Clause 6, hat was and what was not to be considered by the landlord. They proposed to amend > in the Lords' amendments. Thoso were on3 necessary for him to detail. They pro- to the amendment which restored the term velve to six months, and also to the amend- :3, with respect to the law of distress and ding to the amendments, with the exceptions moved that the amendment reducing the lensation in subse ction 1 of Clause 3 be dis- greed with the amendment. nversation, the House dlvidel :-For diaa- e Lords' Amendment, 146; against, 55; ma- endment was therefore disagreed fjom and endments connected with it were aW dis- hout a division. ) to the 3rd clause, which disentitles the nsation if he has part of the holdiug in 11 moved an addition, the object of which from the operation of the proviso holdings or the growing cf po'atoes or other green icing properly manured. well that Mr. Samuelson would nctprfsshis lid leave the whole matter in the hands of the supported tht motion. e could not undertake to disagree to the ocluced by the Lords, or to lisk the passing oy introducing unnecessary alterations int o he general feeling of the House was in favour m's proposition the Government would not lilton supported the amendment; and the ent, with Mr. Samuelson's addition, was moved to agreo with the Lords' amendment t from the clause the provisi allowing land buildiusr of labourers' cottages. ;rettcd the decision to which the Government hoped they would yet be induced to restore lis respect, to its original form, a said the subject was a very important one, o made the nuhject of separate and special Ie provisions originally inserted in the bill on as an interference with the rights of tha if retained they would become a serious ob- ssing of the bill. Under these circumstances thought the best course would be to accept idments. g-etied that the amendment had been intro- miting to leava the matter in the bands of ported the Lords' amendment, but thought should be given to the labourers by special irther discussion, In which Mr. Maguire, Col. iagwell, end Sir J. Esmond took part, Vided :—For agreeing with the Lords.' amend- inst, 29; majority, 367. uendment was therefore nereed to. re moved that the Lords' amendment re- a of the lease under which a tenant may not ition under the section from 31 to 21 years be aid the amendment of the Lords appeared to arely justified. Twenty-one years was the in England and Scotland, and it must be per- under all the circumstances for Ireland. To 3 bill to grant a thirty-one years' lease would of afTuirs highly undesirable for them to le should therefore take the opinion of the a Lords' amendmeuts. the numbers were-For disagreeing to the 62 against, ]86 majority, 76. The Lords' is therefore disacrppH t."
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-0" UV. M. EDMOND ABOUT ON THE "CRISIS" IN SPAIN. M. Edmond About, a man of far higher calibre than any of the recent converts to the Empire, breaks a lance with the Government in the following article of the Soir May I be mistaken But it seema to me that we arc now beginning to p.y very dearly our collective abdication in 1851 and 1852. A people may imagine itself in clover when it has relieved itself from the trouble of managing its own affairs, and when it has coufi led its destinies to tho hands of a bold and able man. The Constitution leaves to this man the power of commanding the land and sea forces, declaring war and makiiid treaties of peace and alliance. What an ex- cellent pretext for humble individuals to spare themselves Jre 'ro'jt)le of thinking about public matters, and laying inem? dives out to mak<< as much money as possible in their own private occupations. But let ns suppose that the master elected by the people baa more imagination than genius that he has the appetite of a conqueror without the firmness and the settled purpose necessary to success that he reckons too much upon his atar, and expects from luck and the mistakes of others the results which he cught deliberately to prepare for himself. -Let us suppose that he lives from hand to inouth, tempting fortune instead of making himself master of it. Always ad- <lraw'r'8 back, and oscillating between the possible and the impossible, and what Is more seiious, between the Just and the unjust; now a champion of Right, and to-mor- *om a fhampion of Slate necessity n Revolutionist or a Re h..i?n 3U8t.as it m»y happen, ah.1 ever roariy to make a *11/L his principles for tho aako of expediency, it is not at tho^^i1881 l"1'' ono ^ne d ly 33 millions of men may reuse •Xtbedae^tew^Le83thelr di8Satl8faCtion in a 1 Frenchmen, my good friends, only think of the great things which you have doae by procuration within thelast 20 rears. On your behall your governors have dreamed for you the conquest of the world, and universal monarchy, or at least the supremacy of Europe, with tpe extension oiyour frontiers. In 1849, when you were nominaUy Republicans, you violently put down the Itoman Republic you fought In Italy for th"t divine tight which you have suppressed in Paris; you restored the Pope. who does not thank you, and pays you with all sorts of affronts. At Sebastopol you hu- miliated but did not weaken itussia; you sacrificed a hun- dred thousand men and spent a milliard of money, with no other result than to draw down upon you the hatred and rancour of a powerful nation. It is true that Turkey owes you a debt of gratitude for having postponed the solution cf the great Eastern problem but wretched Turkey would be of no use to you in case ot war. In Lambardy you weakened Austria, aggrandized Victor Emmanuel, and favoured the fusion of Bmall, harmless States with a great Powtr. And now you have been clever enough to alienate that Power which owes eveything to you by keeping it out of its capital After haViBg grouped a real nation around the small King of Sardinia, you have forced that Re galantuomo to be your enemy. You have sought adventures in China and Mexico. The great American Republic was from its beginning the friend and ally of France. You constrained it to forget that it owed its existence to you. In the war of the secession, when you should have sympathised with the cause of the North, you shut your ears to true principles. Your interests as you understood them led you to side with the South, but you had not the courage or the sincerity to act upon your own opinion. You only gave to the slavery party a hesitating and sterilo support. The Union was r,stored in fpite of you, and its first movement was to make you evacu- ate Mexico. In Germany ycu tried surreptitiously to weaken Austria by Prussia, and Prussia hy Austria. Your diploma- tists, who are supposed to be the pick and choice of human ability, warranted S'lcceS8. After a lang and ruinous war, the Austrians, your secret allies, who, you had calculated, would be the victors, were beaten, and the Prussians, your enemies, became masters of Germany. Prussia allied herself with Italy, and your only compensation is the alliance of Aus'ria, who, thanks to you. is reduced to the last degree of impotency. Such, my dear French people, is the result cf your campaigns alllt your negociations. Peace and war have heen almost equally fatal to you. And yau may be very sure that, on the first opportunity, Prussia, Russia, America, and Italy will he ready to comhlne to payoff old scores. This election of a King of Spain may be as good an excuee as any other.
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. Mr. J. S. Mechi, of Tiptree-hall, Kelvedon, writes :— The very acceptable rains of the past week have pro- duced satisfactory results. The barleys on the light hot sails, which appeared to b3 dry and dead, put forth some now root fibres within 12 hours of the ftrst rain, and seem deter- mined to perfect the ears and kernels, although there is little straw and the n'g is dead Beans, peas, and all other crops are also much improved by the change. The wheat ears aie especially good. Last year peas were almost entirely destroyed by green fly. which also infested every wheat year in our county. This year not one is to be seen, The bean crops with us are aIm Lee from insect on our heavy lands. Harvest will be early In this county, and will commence probably in about 14 days. Altogether, the prospect Is mere cheery. Some heavy ground rains weuId help the pastures, which are still brown and parched. lioot crops now promise more favourably, although some- what late.
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The Mark-lmul Express publishes the following agri- cultural notes from its correspondents: — From Warwickshire Harvest is fast approaching, and IIn average crop of wheat ij anticioated by some." From Suffolk We have had a few fine refreshing showers, which bave done great goad where the crops were not too parched up." Again from the inferior of the county 1 he country has been greatly refreshed by gentle rains and heavy showers." On Friday a correspondent from Lincolnshire stated :—" The weather the last few days has been very genia1. Wheat is filling well, and thus far promises to be of good quality straw unusually short: ears tolerably good. About the first week in August cutting will be general. Barley, although much improved, cannot be an average crop, and It is in most cases exhibiting an uneven growth." From Cambridgeshire:—"A good deal of rain fell early in this week, very heavy on Taasdty eveniag, by which some of our heavy crops were lodged, but in the absence of wind they were not twisted, and by this time they are on their legs again. The rain will tend to fill the kernel; and our wheat crop, as a whole, still promises a splenrild result. With a continuance of such brilliant sunshine as we have had since Tuesday, harvest will be upon us very quickly in all probability it will be in full swing by the end of this month. Peas will be reaped next week, and oats on Monday, the 18:h."
H DID IT INDEED!"
H DID IT INDEED!" If inanimate objects had feelings, and could express them, what cynical observations and roara of laughter would often proceed from the furniture of departed celebrities (remarks the Pall Mall Gazette). A great man dies, and some dilapidated old chair, which if be had lived would probably have been cast into the dust- hole and carted away with other rubbish, finds itself suddenly en verted into an article of fabulous value. Instead of being called a chair it is re-bsptized as a memorial;" an auctioneer, who with difficulty can conceal his emotion, holds it up before an admiring audience, End after an exciting competition for the honour of possesbing it, it n knocked down for more guineas than the pence i1; is worth. When we read that ?„t the sale of the late Mr. Dickens's property a Chinese gong, ordinary price in a shop JB3, sold for 31 guineas, it is difficult to understand that form of admiration which revels in the sound of a gong because it ores belonged t) a great man whose fame does not require the clash of cymbals to preserve its memory. A common inkstand," it is said fetched 11^ euineas, and a Dresden double falt- cellar sold for 18.^ guineas. If these articles were bought by strangers, the prices seem heavy to pay for the pleasure of pointing to them and saying, This inbtand" or "That saltcellar once belonged to Dick- ens," and hearing for reply the words, "Did it indeed!" We can only conclude that the fame of their departed owner has increased their intrinsic Va'ue by some mysterious process in obedience to that unknown law of nature which spiritualists allega to exist, and which has of late years given a strange importance to tables, chairs, and other articles of domestic furniture* It will be a sad day for great men when their household pro- perty gains an intelligence it has not hitherto displayed, and learns that the estimation in which it is held will be greatly increased by the death of its possessor.
A SHOCKING AFFAIR at MELBOURNE.
A SHOCKING AFFAIR at MELBOURNE. Great excitement seeHas to have been caused at Melbourne by the attempt to assassinate 1\lr. G. P. Smith, late Attorney-General in Mr. M'Cullock's former administration. On the 17th of May Mn Smith was in Victoria-street at about four in the after- noon, on his way from the Supreme Court, where he had been professionally engaged during the day, to the Legislative Assembly, when Mr. Gerald Henry Supple presented a revolver at his bead and fired. The first shot missed, and Mr. Smith fled, pursued by Mr. Supple, who fired again twice, wounding Mr. Smith in the left arm by the third shot. At this moment Mr. John Esseven Walshe appeared on the scene, and knocked Mr. Supple upon which that gentleman while on tha ground shot Mr. Walshe through the booy. Mr. Walshe was taken to the hospital, where he died on the second day after his admission. Mr. Supple was disarmed and taken into Custody, and Mr. Smith had a bullet extracted from his arm. There seems to ha^o been no particular reason for Mr. Supples Conduct, except that he had been seven years ago a contributor to the Age when that news- paper was edited by Mr. Smith, and that Mr. Smith and he held opposite views on Irish politics. He is de- scribed as a man of very strong feelings, and dangerous when irritated. Of this there can be little doubt, for it seems that about nine years ago he threatened to shoot a gentleman with whom he was offended, and since be has been arrested he has mentioned the names of other persons on whom he proposed to wreak his vengeance. Poor Mr. Walshe originally came from Sllgo, in Ireland he was a publican, and had been a detective he has left a wife and six children, for whom Govern- ment has announced that Parliament will be asked to vote a sum of money efforts are also being made to raise subscriptions for them. His remains were buried on the 20th inst. in the Melbourne Cemetery. It was thought probable that several members of the Legis- lative Assembly would be present. They did not, however attend but Mr. T. Smith followed "in a buggy," and seemed much affected.
THUNDERSTORM AND FLOODS IN…
THUNDERSTORM AND FLOODS IN LANCASHIRE, On Saturday r fternoon, the borthtern and eastern divisions of Lancashire wei-e visited by a most serious thunderstormy accompanied with an extraordinary fall of rain. In the neighbourhood of Lancaster and Morecambe the storm was very furious, rain fell in complete torrents, and there was a general alarm. But the most serious visitation Was in the eastern section of the county, between Haslingdeh and Barnley. The guard of a train pacing through the district at the time when the storm was I racing has given the following particulars "After leaving Accrington at 2 42 in the afternoon, by the train for Soweiby Bridge, rain began to fall, and came down in torrents till we reached Townky, and on arriving there the road waa inundated, the water reaching the footboards of the carriages. Be- tween Townley acd Portsmouth the adjoining fields were about two yards deep with water, and nearly every house in the immediate district was flooded. The valley from Portsmouth to Todmorden was inundated, and it is feared that a bridge belonging the line below the latter station will fall. The line was blocked in several places, and the traffic was suspended for_several hours." Great excitement prevails in the district, and it is feared that when a full survey is made the conse- quences will be more seriotis than is at present known. Many of the small villages in East Lancashire were flooded, and it is feared that much damage has been done in some of them, A correspondent gives the following account of the cause of the flood :-— The storm occurred between two and three o'clock, con- sisting of thunder, lightning, and heavy rain, but the princi- pal cause of the devastation was the tremendous quantity of water which flowed down from the hills. This was caused by the descent of a cloud of water on Flower Scar, a moor overlooking the valleys, into which the water rushed in a huge stream, carrying with it every obstacle. Flower Scar is the summit of a range of hills which separate Bacup from Tormoden, and on the Todmorden side slopes down into the two valleys above mentioned. The descent of this cloud of water must bave occurred åbJut two o'clock, for soon after that time the inhabitants of Todmorden were alarmed at the sudden rising of the rivers from the two valleys, both of which in a few minutes overflowed their banks, and put the lower part of the town completely underwater." The money value of the property destroyed by the thunderstorms is roughly estimated at £100,000.
CAN A PEER OF THE REALM BE…
CAN A PEER OF THE REALM BE MADE A BANKRUPT? ?S?9e of Lords gave judgment last week on the *1. Bwcaatle's case, establishing the point that a P V1H real? joying the privileges of Parlia- ment and a non-trader is subject to an adjudication in bankruptcy under the Act of 1861. The words of the 69th action of that Act, by which the distinction between traders and non-traders was abolished, and which enacted that all debtors, whether trader or not. shall be subject to the provisions of that Act are posi- tive and express, and it rested upon the Duke's coun- sel to show that peers of the realm as such were ex- cepted from its pcope. Their lordships were of opinion that it was the express intention of the Legislature to include them. Previously to the passing of the Act of 1861 peers of the realm enjoyed, even when traders, their usual privilege from arrest, and the 4th Geo. III., c. 33, was passed in order to enable creditors of such peers to make them bankrupts without arrest. As the statute of 1861 abolished the distinction between traders and non-traders, it was obviously in- tended that (non-trading peers should be capable of being adjudicated bankrupts in the same way as trading peers, the privilege of both classes from arrest being still preserved.
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Referring to this important decision, the Daily News re- marks :— Equality in the eye of the law goes far to obviate the inequalities inseparable from wealth, birth, and high station. Had the plea of the Duke of Newcastle prevailed, a retrogade step would have been taken, and the privilege of his order would have been asserted m a Very offensive way. Happily the law of the land has proved explicit Md satisfactory. When the case came before the Hou>e of Lords two days ago, judgment was at once given against the Duke of Newcastle. The Law Lords were so ptrfectly satisfied that they dis- pensed with an argument from those who held that the plea of privilege was untenable. They unanimously ruled that not even a Duke can evade the operation of the Bankruptcy Act. Perhaps the discredit which will now attach to those who become bankrupts through unjustifiable recklessness will make other titled spendthrifts pause before they involve themselves in liabilities of which they can get rid only by passing through the ignominious ordeal of bankruptcy. It is gratifying to b arn authoritatively that the scales of justice are not loaded for the benefit of the Peer who cannot pay his debts.
HONOUR WELL BESTOWED.
HONOUR WELL BESTOWED. Among the symbols of na'ianal recognition w hich M de Lesseps has received since his arrival in England it may safely be affirmed that no one of them has con- veyed to him a more significant appreciation of his efforts in the progress of civilsiation than the presen- tation which was formally made to him last week by the Pricce of Wales. It may not be superfluous to remind the general reader that the Society of Arts yearly offers a gold medal—the blue riband, so to speak, of the institution— to the man who is considered most deserving of the honour by the Council of the Association. On the last occasion but one when it was bestowed Baron Leibig wa3 the recipient, and it may be said that even that great man who has been worthily succeeded by the illustrious engineer who, having combatted for years with prejudice, finally achieved a scientific victory the results of which the future historian will reckon amongst the wonders of the world. The medal, with which, it may be observed, the name of the late Prince Consort is associated, is gener- ally conveyed privately to the distinguished man to whom it has been adjudged and on Friday, when the presentation was m*de by the Prince of Wales, the ceremony was appropriately simple and un- ostentatious. The Council of the Society, introduced by Lord Henry Lei-nox, M.P., assembled at Marl- borough House at three o'clock, andsborly after his Royal Highness bestowed on M. de Lesseps the Albert Gold Medal'' for services rendered to arts, manufactures, and commerce by the realisation of the Suez Canal," having prefaced the act of presentation by a brief and earnest address. In acknowledging the honour conferred upon him M. de Lesseps alluded to the hospitable manner in which he had been received in England, and referred especially to the courtesy and kindness he had expe- rienced at the hands of the Prince of Wales. M. de Lesseps was warmly congratulated by the members of the Council, after which the interesting proceedings terminated.
EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF POISONING.
EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF POISONING. An extraordinary case has been investigated by Dr. L%ukester and a jury at the Brookfield" Tavern, Highgate, London. Lieut..Colonel Pownall, who served in India during the mutiny, died on the 10th (Jf August last. at his residence, 6, Middleton-place, Stoke Newington, after suffering for ten months from an aneurism of the carotid artery. A medical certifi- cate was given that death was catned by the rupture of this aneurism, and he was buried at Highgate Cemetery. Two sisters of the deceased, however, who, during his illness, had frequently asserted that he was being poisoned by his wite-, communicated some time after his intermeiit with the Coroner, demanding in inquest. A correspondence took place, and towards the end of laQt month an order was given for the ex- humation and analysis of the body. The body was aken from the lead coffin in which it was buried, and Dr. Rodgers removed certain portions of the body for malysis. The sisters of the deceased subsequently attended at the cemetery, to see that the right body lad been exhumed. At the inquest Mr. Straight, jairister, instructed by MesFrs. Walters and Gush, •epresented the widow of deceased; and Mr. Alhop ippeared for the tisters, who had demanded the in- juest. It was stated, but not in evidence, that de- ceased was nephew of Mr. Pownall, the magistrate. The j ury proceeded to the catacombs of the cemetery, vhere the remains lay. The act was merely forma!, is the body had been in the vaults eleven months, and rery little could be gained from its appearance by the ury. Upon the return into court Dr. Lankester :alled Miss Martha Pownall, who said—I am sister to the de- based, Lieutenant-Colonel Pownall. llive at 10 Victoria- ilace, Stoke Newlngton-road. My brother was fifty-three lears of age when he died. Ite was a cal0nel in the army, JUt had retired on a pension. He died on the 10th of Vngust last. t was with him at his death. He had been 111 or ten months. He suffered from swelling of the throat, whkh was called an aneurism, and sickness. The swelling ;railually grew to an enormous extent, and gave him great igony, especially after his wife gave him anything. To use lis own expression, he used to say it made his throat burn ike hell," when she gaVe him anything When the "hind" nurse gave him all) thing it did not affect him in the least. [ perceived tbat myself. 1 say the "kind" nurse, because ihere was one who I believe was an accomplice. His wife if ten gave him champagne, and instead of exhilarating him it had a dreadful effect. ]t had the same effect upon me, *nd took away all my appetite and atret gih. I nsed to ask lim what made him so sick, and I afked very suspiciously what made things have such an effect uoon him, but I was Immediately silenced and ordered out by the wife and the lister Gosling, who we consider was one of the accom- plices. Nurse KidcliffsJ was the kind nurse, bnt she was ient away. Nune Go-llug was sent away about seVen nonths before my brother died, but then nhe was caned jack l y the wife a few dajs before his death. She was ient away in the first instance because my brother hated the light of her. Mrs. Pownall, a cousin, sisters Lucy and Sarah, md myself were present. There was also a brother-in-law. me ical man was present. The wife seemed to me to be tlving him chloroform. We were turned out of the room for minute, and when we came back he was breathing most lard, and was convulsed. This was at two o clock ih the after- noon of the day he died. Sisttr Gosling was continually living him some brown liquid with a spoon cut of a small <lass saucer. It appeared to bo taking his senses away. I think it was morphia. It was kept by his side, and when- ever he wished to say anything to us a teaspoouiul was put In his mouth He wished to say something particularly be- fore he died. Hs called to my sister Sirah 20 times. Mrs. Pownall to his side and held down his a™° It was so irerv convulsed 1 suppose she thought it would raise sus- picious. He died atten o'clock at night. The tumour burst 10 days before his death. Itawjt affer it t There was a cut in it about the length oi my finger It was covered with plaister. I stooped over my brother and asked hIm how his tumour cane to burst, and he was *'xPLg u?d mswer me when the wife immediately g"^dA J™8 nrdered to leave. before his death the colonel said to me, or My wife has poisoned me." Coroner: That really is not evidence. Mr. Straight: I wish it all to go down. We «e extremely obliged to you for allowing this inquiry to take place, and sou may be sure it will not end here. „„ Examination continued by Mr. Allsop On one occasion as [ entered the room I saw the wife administering aouiethiug to the deceased She had her hand on the tumour, and was eaying, "Are you going to finish it ? By the Corona" The stuff fhe was giving him was brown. It looked like poison, and the next day my brother said, "My wife has poisoned me. By Mr Allsop For a length of time my brother could not eat ordinary food, and he lived upon fruit from the garden. His wife gathered him a plate of cherries, of which he gave me two to eat. He said they were cankers in his moutn. When I got home I was taken very ill—I had profuse vomit- ing, purging; and intense agony, and I was ill for a menen after tblit. I believe the cherries were poisoned. I sent for Dr. Forman, who attended my brother, and when he saw my symptoms he asked if I had had a dose, and I said, Oil, that I had drunk that myself," meaning the stuff that was given to my brother by his wife. Dr. Forman said,' If you had. It wuu'd have poisoned you He confirmed my state- ment that poison was being given. He also said he had been questioning th5 wife about it, and she said, What ohj«ct should 1 have in poisoning him, when I am getting £500 a year ?" He said he thought this very sharp. My brother had all his meals alone, aud whatever he leit the servant was ordered to throw away. He told me he vomited all he ate. My brother was in his coffin by ten o'clock in the morning followinghia death, and we were not allowed to see his body. The cook bays he was quite black. Coroner: That is nothing wonderful in August. Witness: It was most cruel that the sisters were not allowed to see the body. Cross-examined by Mr. StraightMy brother lived with me until the time of his marriage. He was in receipt at a pension of £,170 a year. He then went to live in the same house as Mn Pownall's mother, at 6, Middleton-place I distinctly state that I believe nuree Gosling to have been an accomplice in poisoning him. My brother thought so too, and repeatedly said, "That woman will be the death of hie and when she was brought back a few days before his death he screamed. The cook told me so. I never asked the servants for the medicine bottles, but Kate gave me some, and said that when my brother, took what was in them he was seized with great pain. It being thought desirable by the Coroner and the jury that the medical evidence should be taken at this stags, Air. Straight waived his right to continue the cross-examination of Miss Pownall. Mr. E B. Forman, L.B.C.P., M.B.O.?., wa& thfen 8worn. He *aid~I attended Colonel Pownall from ten months bsfoi'e his death up to the time that he died. He had an aneurism of the carotid artery. Besides myself. Dr. Fuller, j> ^eorge's Hospital; Sir William Fergusson, Mr. Paget, and Mr. Hilton saw him. They wefce called in oh several oc- casions. There was no difference of opinion amongst them. The advisability of an operation was discussed. The colonel was certain to die if left to himself, but there was ground to hope that he would be cured if ail operation wfire performed. However he objected to it, and we did not think the chance sufficiently good to throw our professional opinion into the recommendation. I often law Mrs Pownall, and I was never led to suppose that she was poisoning her husband. I never thought of such a thmg uutil the suggestion was imported into my mind by the sisters of the deceased. When I was told he was being poisoned my vigilance increased tenfold, and I made special Inquiries as to tests for each poison. Tbinkinfe from the nature ef the people that the matter might come before a cjurt of law, I looked for symptoms of roison, and saw nothing which I could not account for hv the natural course of the disease. The aneurism hurst gradually. The course of it was this Bv the extreme Vigilance of Mrs. Pownall. the nurse, and myself, WG ,were,, f^le to delay the bursting and nroloug hia We beyond the expectations ot any of the medic »1 men who saw him. A nurse was always with him in his sleeniucr. amusement, or exercise, to attend to him. The attention was so great to prevent any exertion that the •lrin of the aneurism was allowed to advance to such a state of thinness without bursting that even at last death did not Result from the tearing of the sac, but a spec of blood ap- ers alive ten days by injections AlthonP^ce Mr Hilton considered it a particuiarly success^a for hls life was prolonged beyend wh^. ted by the sisters of del [Some interruptions threatened to order them out of ceased, and the Coroner th 11 t wag not flctuaiiv court if they did not remain silent 1 present at the moment of death, slightly convulsed, several tiinej during the day. He w» Jlgiong c > but he had nothing worth the name of convulsions, cer tainly not such as would result from poiso 8- By Mr Straight: I had been attending, tolonex^ownaU before his illness, and prior to his was DOisoninz anything in Mrs Pownall to indicate that she I him. I think the length of time he l ved wlth so fearful » disease proved the kindness and attention of his wi imay say frem my expsrience that I never saw a wife so devotedly attached to her husband's interests, and so ready to uo any- thing for his benefit as Mrs. Pownall. The number of medical men called in shows the desire she had of doing all that was possible. They were called in at her request, and against the desire of the family. Had I not objected to it, she would have paid Mr Syme to come all the way from Edinburgh, because he was famed f-r treatment of aneurisms. Nurse G03ling was brought from, the institution for training nurses. I do not know what originally caused the swelling in the neck. I believe he was out in the Indian Mutiny. I sent him to Rams- gate for about two months. The nurse was desired to carry lint wherever he went, in case the aneurism burst. Miss Pownall first suggested that her brother was being poisoned about six weeks before his death. If I said anything to Miss Pownall about having "had a dose" after she had eaten the cherries, it was in what is vulgarly called chaff The reason I did this was that everyone who went to the colonel's house and partook of refreshment was said by Miss Pownall to have heen"do"ed." I know as a matter of family history that when in India the colonel was condemned to be hanged, and he has been weak and frightened since. The sickness would be caused by the pressure on a particular nerve which passed down the vessel that was diseased. I attended the Misses Pownall. Miss Pownnlldid not suffer from poisoned cherries She suffered from gastric derangement the result of improve food. She did not say at ythiue about cherries at the tima of her sickness. They were an afterthoti :ht. By Air Atlsop The colonel did tell me once that he had talked the matter over with his sister Sarah, and he believed he was roisoned by his wife. He said bis sister had led him to believe he was poisoned. I said, How c<n you say you are poisoned, when you have no symptoms of it?'' I have informed Mrs. Pownall of the different steps in this case, and I have been active in it because I am concerned in it If the colonel wfn really poisoned, I must have been very iool:sh not to discover it, or I must have been an accomphce. Professor Julian E. D Rodgers, M. R.CS., and L.S.A, srd In accordance v/ith your order, I proceeded to ttn Crmstery at Highgate on the 21tu June, and made a post- mortem examination of the body of the late Lieut. Colonel Thomas Pownall. I have carefully analysed the stomach and contents, and the various portions of the viscera already mentio: ed, with a most decided negative result I have not discovered a trace of any poison, ei'her mineral or organic, whatever. In the absence of any trace of poison being discovered, even by the most minute and certain modes of procedure, I have no hesitation in expressing my opinion that the death of the deceased was not occasioned by poiton, but that the immediate cause cf death was the carotid aneurism. Dr. Rodgers added, that Mr. Lucy was present, when the body was exhumed. The reason he did not remove the brain and heart was that poi- son would not be found iu them ui less it was also found in the organs he examined In Palmer's case, althoueh n poison was found in Cook's body, it was owing to the imper- fect tests employed by Professor Taylor, who had since ex- cluded them from his work, and recommended those that were suggested by the defence at the time. Tne organs for analysis in Colonel Pownall's case were put into ajar (which witness held) oy his assistant. The Coroner having summoned up, the jury con- sulted for a few moment?, and found a verdict "That death was causcd by the rupture of the aneurism of the carotid artery, and arose from natural causes." The Coroner heartily concurred in the verdict, and said that Mrs. Pownall was thoroughly cleared from all imputation. Mr. Straight said that so far from Mrs. Pownall deriving any benefit by the death of her husband, her income was reduced from £470 per annum to £L70, and she was left with JE300 debts to pay.
CHARACTERISTIC TRAITS.
CHARACTERISTIC TRAITS. Among the numerous autograph letters which belonged to the late antiquary, Mr. Manners, and which were recently sold in London, at Messrs. Sotheby's, there were norae which were highly amusing through the little touches they contained of the dispo- sition and character of the writers (says the Athcencum). James Barry, the painter, of course complains < f the brutal persecutions purposely set a going to distract him but this was disease. A tax-paper return made by Orator Hunt is more characteristic in the lines which ha appended to it: "1 have kept neither servant, horse, dog, or any other taxable article, since the 25 Apl., 1820; and may the Devil take all Swindling Inspectors and rascally Tax-gatherers I hope to see some of the rogue3 Hung In exactly opposite spirit is a letter from Lady Hunting- don, who tells a complaining correspondent that we should take the evils of life as a little bit of bad road to Canaan." Wesley had a terrible rough bit of this bad road in his rather termagant wife. One of his letters to this sorry helpmate t*ays "Oh, Molly, throw the fire out of your bosom. Shun. as ye would a serpent, those that s'ir it up." Southey, in 1809, says of the Mrs. Clark* and Duke of York scandal: There are strong reasons for supposing the accusation has been set on foot by the Prince of Wales. If." says the author of "Wat Tyler," "I were in the habit of drinking wine, which, pbtgue on the taxes is not the case, I should drink Wardel's health Southev Was theu a Liberal, but he was not half so advanced in liberality as the Earl Stanhope, who, torwardirg a bank-Lote t) a young Etonian iu need, wrote "When- ever any of you Aristocrats apply again to me for sub- scriptions, I will apply to yi u for some sans-culottc subtcripiion in reiura. This is thoroughly charac er istic of the peer, who, in revolutionary times, doffed hi3 title, erased his arms from his carriage, and tried to make a handicraftsman of his son In a letter of Peter Pindar's we find the writ-r saying, IVke my word for it, Northcote, thou mayesfc, if thou pleasest, be as great a man ps Sir Joshua to wh'ch we can fancy Northcote replying in the very wor^t and strongest of Erglish. One of the m si chnrac'eristic of these letters is fro-n Walter Scott to Sou^hey, in 1825. Afbr exprpssing his ignorance of Lockhari's cJnnection with the Quarterly. Scott writes—and it is so charmingly like Scott: "I would as s^on buffet with the s'ow fl ikes which are falling on my windowsat this moment, as I would try to contradict idle rumours, and combat unfounded imaginations." To turn from characteristic individuil sentiments to characteristic national facts, we conclude by noting that a paper, signed by Nathaniel Caw, Bishop of Durham (he wa., if we remember rightly, the fust bishop a'ter the reforma- tion who was of noble birth) states that '"The number of Persons that have be°n Touched for the (Kiner i-) Evill, and soe many Med 'alls deliwr'd for that Ute from July 21 to Dec. 23, 1682, was 3,535.
A HIPPOPOTAMUS IN THE SEINE.
A HIPPOPOTAMUS IN THE SEINE. La Liherte mentions that a curious spectacle, fol- lowed by a panic, which has happily had no injurious consequences, attracted a considerable crowd on Thurs- day n'nht, in last week, to the baiks of the Seine, and the bridges near the Jardin des Plantes. In consequence of the long drought the reservoirs and basins of the Jardin OCi Plantes contain only a little stagnant water, qnile insufficient for the needs of somi of its guests. It therefore has beeime necessary to allow the hippopotamus to bathe daily in the Seine. A car drawn by two horses conducts the amphibious beast to the river bank, and with a strong chain attached to his neck he is allowed to enjoy his pastime without being able to evade the watcnfulness of his keepers. Ou Thursday, however, the hippopotamus, strengthened no doubt by his daily exercise, succeeded, by a vigorous effort, in breaking one of the rings of his chain and gained his liberty, frightening all the bathers in the vicinity, who hurried back to the shore. The playful African then paid a visit to a parsengrr steamer which was jnst starting, and whose crew re- ceived him with loud shouts,but without taking notice of them he left the steamer and went to a small washing- barge, which he lifted up and shook, to the great terror of the women on board. He finished his promenade by an excursion to the Etablishment de Bains at the Pont d'Auaterlitz, which was deserted in the twinkling of an eye. Meanwhile, some 50 boats had been sent in pursuit. Many of his keepers even took to the water as he had done, but they could get no hold on his slippery hide, and when one of them managed to climb upon him he disengaged himself by taking a dive. At last, after more than an houri!! labour, they succeeded in se z'ng the end of the chain, which was made fast to a strong line, and the hippo- potamus was soon restored to his usual domicile.
GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR THE…
GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. ftrom the Gardener's Magazine.) (An excellent weekly journal, containing much valuable information for amateur and professional gardeners.] KITCHEN GARDEN. There is very little difference between the work of this and last week. The routine of planting out. the crops of Broccoli, Savoys, and other winter stuff must he carried on steadily, as the ground is got ready for their reception and the weather is suitable for planting. If there are any quarters occupied with early Potatoes intended for present consumption, and the space is wanted for planting with Broccoli or anything of that eort, take them up, aud either pit them or store them in a ehed, and well cover' with mats to keep the air from them The potatoes will receive no injury, and it will libe- rate the ground a month or so sooner than would otherwise be the case, a matter of some importince so far as the green crop is concerned. Of course, it would not be wise to disturb potatoes only half- grown better plant between the rows than do that. It is very certain that it is of little use to plant out Brussels Sprouts, Scotch Kale, or Savoys, with t) e expectation that they will do justice to the cultivator, or give a profitable return for the space occupied, if planted much after this time. Autumn-sown Onions, Shalots, and Garlic are row ripening off; and must be taken up before they begin to make a second gfowth. The iirat few showers after the bulbs are matured will start the roots into action, and a lot of comparatively useless bulbs will be the result. After pull- ing them up, let them lie on the ground for a day or two, and then spread them out under cover to get thoroughly dry, and finally store in a cool dry place. The Celery planted out must not be neglected, for it is next to impossible to give it too much water; diluted house-sewage 113 the best. It should be allowed to attain considerable dimensions before earthing up, and in dry weather have a thorough soaking of water the day previous. Sow Endive, Lettuce, Radish, a id fnull Salading for succession. Top Vegetable Marrows and Tomatoes, and water in dry weather if they appear at a stan dstill; but if planted as we advised little water will be necessary. FLOWER GARDEN. "Where it is intended to save seerl. of such things as Polyan- thuses, Pansies, Delphiniums, &c the plants Bhould be looked over frequently, and those seel-pods that a' e Sufficiently matured to ripen off without shrivelling should be gathered and laid on pieces of papcr in a dry place. This presautlon Is especlalJy necessary In reffrence to the Delphiniums. A very simple way to deal with them is to fill a small flawer-pot with moist sand, and then cut and luscrt the old flower-spikes in it directly the lower seed-vessels begin to ripen, and let them remain there until the whole of the seed is ripened. To prevent a lass ot seed, it will be necessary to stand the pot over a piece ("If paper to catch it as it drops out. Sow seed of Myosotis, Silene, and other early-flowering plants for spring bedding. The simplest plan is to sow the seed thinly in rows, from twelve to fifteen inches apart, and then a slight thinning out will render unnecessary any transplanting and the labour attached to it. It Is not 80 much the mere act of transplanting as the labour in the shape of watering required to keep the plants alive afterwards Water Roses where the time can be spared with manure, water, and frequently wash the heads with the garden engine to keep the foliaure free from green fly, to ensure a fine autumn bloom Get the budding of these finished off as quickly as circumstances will permit. Stop Chrysanthemums in the open borders, and put a few stakes to the tall-growers to keep them from getting broken about Continue to regulate the growth, and peg the young shoots of Petunias and Verbenas in their proper places. When once the beds are covered, a greater freedom of growth can ba allowed. FORCING. Pir.es.—See last week for these, and proceed brlfkly with the repotting of anything that requires a shift. When it is necessary to use a little Are at nigtit and the first thing in the morning, merely warm the pipes in the morning, and stop the fires early if there are any signs of its being a warm BU "r,y day When a strong fire is kept up until the sunhasacquirea its full power, the interior of the pi's and houses become so hot that extra ventilation is necessary to keep down Tne temperature, and the plants are consequently exposed to ine drying influences of the hot pipes and an extra supply ot ary external air at the same time. When this from anycacse happens, throw a few extra cans of water on the patns to make up for the extra humidity extracted from the air. in guarding against an undue luxuriance, through too mucn shade and atmospheric moisture and too little air, the otner extreme must be avoided, or the plants will present a brown starved appearance, which is nearly as bad, and always in- dicative of improper management. Vmes —Air should be giveu early in the morning to these in all stages, so that any moisture on the foliage can be dried up before the sun can act upon it. Very little air is necessary to accomplish this keeping the house closed until the sue is shining with full force upon it is sure to end in injury to the foliage, more or less, in proportion to the length of time which elapses before the ventilators are opened. Muscat: must have a mean of 80 dega. now, but of course those that an ripe must be kept cool, and the house well aired the same as the other grapes. Ptaches and Nectarines.—Take the lights off those houses from which the crops are gathered. It is a mistake to build houses for these fruits with fixed roofs. Instead of being able to remove the sashes and leave the labour of syringing the foliage and watering the borders to the rains just now, the cultivator is bound to do this himself, and perform labour thit he would had no necessity to do had the houses been built properly in the first instance. Good crops of fruit are undoubtedly gathered every year in bouses with fixed roofs, but It Is only by extra trouble that it can be done. and even then it Is seldom we see such fine healthy wood as on trees that are exposed fully to all atmospheric influences PLANT HOUSES. Greenhouse -Ericas, to have justice dono to tnem, ouiht not to be put entirely out of doors. Cold pits, with thelights tilted back and front, or entirely removed excepting rluriqr heavy rains, are the proper places for the-m A very simple plan to protect them can be carried out by drivIng a few posts in the gi -und, nailing a few crns6.pieces to theni, and layii g Sllme lights thereon. This will protect from wet, and at the same time eipose them freely to the air. Old lights will do provided they are water-tight; but those that will Cfiu=e a drip en any of the plants must not be used, as that will Via worse than no covering at aIL Liliums and other bullous plants intended for autumn-lfoweiing, and now grow- ing freely muit have frequent supplies of moderately strong raanure-watc-r. ORCHID HOUSE. The general col'ection may be kept in psr'ect health now fire-heat, by shutting up early and sprinkling the fl >or ef the house to cause a humid atmosphere. Do not sha'H overmuch—generally from ten till three will be quite suflIuent from this time till shading is dispensed with alto- gether. Small specimens cf S'anhopeas should be now shifted into large baskets, in which they can push their flowers downward?. The best material to fin the baskets with is chopped mos?, and the teugh felt-like fibre of good peat, with all the soil removed. The baskets should be shallow. After shifting, keep them well supplied with atmo- spheiic Illolsture, but only moderately moist at the root., S¡J6clmens that do not rfquire a shift, are to be encouraged to grow as soon 9:s they have done flowering, In or.!er to assist the completion of their pseudo-bulbs, and then they must be reduced to a state of rest by gradually withholding water, or to have but little until they again begin to grow. All the Stanhopeas will grow in either house.
LA MODE.-SUMMER TOILETTES.
LA MODE.-SUMMER TOILETTES. (From the Pall Mall Gazette.) Parisian modistes and coutourieres are resting after their manifold creations, or studying new surprises for the coming autumn. Prevalent among our present summer toilettes are robes of rich light blue and white, tbe colours of Sornette, the winner of the G-rand Priz3 Stakes but besides these we have robes of rose colour, miuve, pale green, a new shade of turquoise blue, pale salmon, and gold colour, the more brilliant of them being considerately enough occasionally slightly veiled with white lace or muslin paletots, while others are contrasted with pardessus of an unbleached material -very much in vogue ju.t now-having- either imer- tions and borders of guipure d hi own brown-holland tinge of colour, or else being trimmed with silk fringe. This light neutral bro vn tint b ing found to contrast well with most shades of colour, these pardessus are worn in cnnj unction with j upes of the rich light blue just described, as well as mauve, rose colour, bright lavender grey, Havannah browi., and even various brilliant shades of green. When neither muslin paletot nor unbleached par- dessus forms part of the toilttte the robe is generally elaborately trimmed with ruches and bands of white lace. The under jupe i < invariably flounced, frequently a Frou-frou—that if, with an infinite number of narrow flounces placed close together and reaching almost to the knee, while such a thing as a robe a traine is rarelv seen. Sashes are worn but sparingly, and as the Parisienne regards the Bois de Boulogne both as Paris and la campagne at the same time hats are perhaps as numuous as bonnet8, and even tbe ma- j irity of the latter are of the favourite Watteau type —a little shepherdess straw hat with the rim pre-sed against the sides of the head, and trimmed alike with ribbons and lace, feathers and fljwers, the first and the last trailing over the hair behind, which is worn either ia long curls or hanging down, con- fined within a net, and with a couple of veils, the longer one fa: ornament, the srnalJer one for use. There is now no further need of the "suivtz-moi" for hair, ribbons and sprays of flowers decorate the back of the head. One elegant toilette is composed of a redingote Maria Leczinska of sky-blue poult de soie, caught up over a blue and white btriped jupe and trimmed with white lace ruches, veiled with i.arrow bands of blask lice. At the point where the vehement closes on the breast is a laca bow, of butterfly shape, formed of Valenciennes and insertions of black lace. In the cbapea i, of rice straw, trimm-d with puffs of black and white lace, a graceful waving blue ostrich feather is worn. Another toilette i, composed of a robe Ponpadour du dernier gahnt, the under j ape of Bengal rose-colour taffeta, and the upper jupe, which is ra:sed with pink bow?, being, together with the corsige, of a pale rose tint, embroidered over with bouquets of flowers. The chapeau of Italian straw is wreathed with roses of variou-j colours. A j npe of blue and white striped taffeta trimmed with rich flounces en biais, is veiled with a long tunic of crepe de Chine over- laid with a white passementerie and bored with s-i'k fringe. Tae corsage is en suite. The chapeau of blue crepe de Chine has the scarf veil twisted in and out bands of white-velvet, a small tuft of blue and white feathers is posed at the top, and clusters of forget-me- nots trail over the eoiffare behind. A jupe Frou-frou of rose-coloured taffeta entirely covered with ruches and pinked flounces if worn in connection with a short jupe of embroidered white muslin trimmei with Valenciennes, and a small paletol of the name veiling a ro»e colour corsage; the shapeau trimmed with white lace, has a large bow of rose-colour ribbon at the back, the long ends of which fall over the coiffure disposed behind in ringlets. Another jupe a Frou-frou is in turquo:se blue taffeta, and with it is worn a paletot in pale straw-colour g:-z de Ohamb^ry, trimmed with a deep guipure. The straw hat has lace puffs cf the sami shade, ?nd is trimmed in addition with turquoise blue scarf veil, and feather to match a spray of rose-leaves, ending in a brdliantdeep red rose, entwines itself among the hair. Turquoise blue rob js are just nON largely in the as- cendant.. One made a deux jupes is elaborately flounced and trimmed with silk fringe, the tall black beaver h'Ü worn with this costume being relieved with a long intertwining scirf veil, and small plume of ostrich feathers, bothof the approved turquoise shide. Among blue costumes recently no'iced in the Bois was one of poult de soie, which had the upper jupe— open all the way up, both in front and behind-to- gether with the open pointed corsage trimmed with a bro id white lace edging. The sleeves tightened in just below the elbow, where they were trimmed with a lace baud, were very full and open at the wrists, and ornamented with small lace flounces. The under jupe of striped blue and white taffeta had several flounces en biais. The chapeau of blue crfepe de Chine was trimmed with clusters of maiden-blush rosebuds, bows withlougenda falling behind, and a white lace veil. With a blue robe a deux jupes bouffants, and trimmed like the last with white lace--the extremely open pointed corsage showing not the slightest vestige of a chemisette—a rice-straw hat, encircled with long blue gauze veil, and having a delicate blue feathery tuft posed at the side, was worn; the small white veil which shaded the face being fastened among the hair behind. Over another blue robe, which had the jupe elaborately flounced with deep ruches and chicoree headings, a maize-colour pardessus, with satin stripe of the same shade, was worn. This vê tement, made open at the corsage to show a high blue bodice, was bordered by a ruche and a rich silk fringe. E!Y"8 of barley entwined in a wreath of ivy leaves formed the trimming of the straw chapeau, which had blue gauze scarf strings and long ends of blue nbbon float- ing behind. By far the handsomest however, of the blue toilettes was one in two shades of foulard, having five flounces of alternate shades of colour at the bottom of the under jupe, each flounce being separated by a black lace insertion. The upper jupe, open in front, was likewise trimmed with small flounces of the two shades of blue, divided by strings of bright garnet colour silk balls, headed by a narrow band or b.ack lace. Two basques trimmed to match fell over tne skirt behind, and the corsage, high at the back andV shaped in front, was ornamented with a ruche and a black-lace edging, having rows of little balls between the two the open sleeves were flounced at the bottom with both foulard and lace. The chapeau Watteau of rice straw had a blue velvet band in front and a velvet bow on the top, the long ends of which fell down behind. Clusters of large garnet-colour berries, with puffs of black lace, completed the trimming. Among the toilettes into the composition of which lace or muslin paletots entered was one of mauve poult de soie trimmed with numerous pinked flounces, the low square-cut corsage with simple shoulder straps in lieu ot sleeves being veiled by the most transparent of white muslin paletots, opening to a point in front and trimmed with deep lace of leaf shape pattern. The mauve chapeau, veiled with white lace, was trimmed with a small white ostrich feather, a wreath o; mauve tulips, which drooped among the hair, a white silkgauze veil and mauve satin strings; white gloves, and a mauve paras-ol with deep white lace border and lace frill round the ferule completed this elegant toilette. A robe of pink taffeta with a couple of deep ruched flounces was worn in conuection with an embroidered white muslin paletot, open in the front, and trimmed alike Hot the neck, skirts, and sleeves with handsome lace revers. The white straw chapeau, ornamented with puffs ofblick lace, had for trimming a bunch of pink roses among clusters of small black grapes and faded vine leaves. With a pale preen silk robe, the skirt of which was trimmed with a white muslin flounce, a similar paletot was worn. 1 he black velvet nut encircled with the inevitable scarf veil, had clusters of field flowers of every hue posed in front upon the crown and falling behind among long narrow blades of^rass, over a mass of hair confined in an invisible nCA few other toilettes may be cited.at random. Fir*t a lemon colour satin robe k deux jupes, trimmed L»c, ii. pieeve-, uei ornamented the liwer part of the up to "he elbow. With this costume a pale blue taffeta sash was worn. rhe chapeau of Italian straw was trimmed with a blue feather and clusters of laburnum blossoms entwined among the blue scarf veil. A robe a deux jupes of maiden-blush-rose tint, which had both skirts trimmed with plaited flounces headed with a narrow ruche chicoree, wis completed by a coquettish-looking little jacket trimmed to correspond, ard entirely open in front to "how a long pink satin vest buttoning close up to the neck. The chapeau of rice straw had a pink velvet front with strings to match, a white Veil, and clusters of almond blossoms and leaves falling among the curls behind. With a pale fawn colour robs shot with gold, and trimmed at the bottom of the skirt with plaited flounces, a light blue satin slevelees tunic bordered with deep fringe was worn. The chapeau 01 blue cicpe de chine was trimmed with a blue ostrich feather anti a couple of maiden-blush roses, which hat long ribbon streamers floating behind. A costume oi the favourite unbleached toilet de soie had the undei jupe trimmed with a flounce surmounted by a whit< muslin ruche, above which were placed two bands 0: black velvet, bordered with a narrow white guipure The upper jupe, open in front and sloping away at th< sides, was trimmed with muslin ruches and bands of blacl velvet edged with white guipure, arranged transversely and almost meeting as they reached the waist, wher< they lost themselves behind a couple of large black velvei bows, which at the same time secured the two ends o a scarf-sash in toile de soie, which, bordered wi j guipure, fell negligently over the skirt behind. corsage, ornamented with a bertha, was trimmed to match, the front of the robe and the sleeves, which were slightly puffed at the top, being trimmed en suite below the elbow. A more vaporous style of toilette was in pale grey muslin, trimmed with folds of white muslin edged with Valenciennes lace. Robes of a similar character bad narrow bands of black velvet, forming part of their trimming the grey crepe de chine chapeau being ornamented with a white aigrette, a few puffs of white lace, and a sprig of jessa- mine drooping over the scarf veil behind.
SCOTCH and IRISH REPRESENTATIVE…
SCOTCH and IRISH REPRESENTATIVE PEERAGE. The Scotch and Irish representative peerage was the subject of a question in the House of_ Commons on Monday evening, when the Prime Minister admitted that the present system was unsatisfactory, and that the matter deserved the attention of the Government. There ar- twenty-eight Irish representative peers who are elected for life, and in the lifetime of the late Earl of Derby tfce nominations to the vacancies were invariably controlled by that nobleman. The Scotch rej'nserititive peers are sixteen in number, elected with tacb new Parliament. Fifteen of them are Conservatives, and the Earl of Airlie is the only Liberal in the list. The nomine t:ons are practically in the hands of the Duke of Buccleuch. In the ses- sion of 1868, Lord Hollo, then a Scotch representative pjer, voted for the Suspensory Bill, and at the election of the new Parliament in the following November, he was opposed by the Earl of K'rliie. The votes were, however, equal, and another elt c i m was ordered. Lord Rollo was made a peer of the United Kinaà, m, and the Earl of Kellie was retumei untpi o'ed. ;0, The process was a very simple one. The Duke of Buc- cleuch paid. "I vote for the Ei:l <f Kellie." The E-ivl of Kellie replied, "I vote for myself." And the noble earl was thus returned as a member of the House of Lords.
EPITOME OF NEWS, BRITISH AND…
EPITOME OF NEWS, BRITISH AND FOREIGN. On Saturday the Emperor Napoleon received a letter, by which the King of Prussia notifies to his Majesty the birth of a daughter of the Prince and Princess Royal. Belgian art has t-uffered a very severe Jos.. Gmtwe Simoneau, the celeoraõeri painter in water colours, died on Monday. He was just fixty years of age. Mr. Joshua Appleyard, of Clare-hall, Halifax, has presented to the Crosley Orphan Home of that town the munificent sum of £ 10,000. As strikes" are the fashion now-a davp, why do not the soldiers of France and Prussia strike and decline to fight with each other ? Accords? to Dr. Cayley, the gold-fi l is of Khotan are practically inexbausiiole, and gold is obtained Lom them without any great labour or difficulty. It appears from the quarterly statement of the Irish Refjis'rar General that the Irish population fell In number by 1,120 in the first quarter of the present year. While two men were trying to get into an orchard in the suburbs of Cork, the other night., they were shot by the man in charge, but neither (f them was irjured mortally. A new mode of stealing sheep is reported from Kingussie, in Invernessshire. The other night a shot was heard by some persons on the watch, and shortly after two persons-a father and son-were apprehended with a gu-i and the carcass of a lamb newly killed. The New York Germans have organisf d nn associa- tion of fat men. It numbers already ninety members, whose untted weights amount to about 21,000 pound", the average weight of the members being about seventeen stone. In a letter to a gentleman in Liverpool, Mr. Bruce has intimated that the Government have given up all thought of legislating on the subject of public-house licences during the present session. The Ironworkers of South Staffordshire are agitatilJg for an advance of wages. They held two large op-n-air meetings on Monday, and resolved that a< the tra^e tad im- proved they were entitled to an extra shilling per ton. A pledge was given to agitate until the advance is obtained. The Home Office ha.s issued an order to have the re- mains of Thomson, the Fenian convict who lately died at Portland, exhumed, and forwardei to hIS frie;:ds for inter- ment in Ireland, on condition that no demonstration be made. The Irish Church Commission have decidel that curates of "proprietary churches" do not, under the Act, lose their claim to an aunuity by having had their salaries Its permanent curates paid heretofore by their incumbents and not out of rent-charge. On Saturday Mr. SimpRon, greengrocer, Bradford, deemed it expedient to shoot a pony, which manifested unequivocal indications of hydrophobia. It bit almost everything, including its own legs at,d chest., and one or two persons had veiy narrow escapts from beina bittca by it. It is not known how the malady had been received. The Tines of Monday morning was .ouihor'-ed to state that Mr. E J Rted, C B has resigned the offije of Chitf Constructor of the Navy, and tbat his resignation has been accepted. The statement th it Sir. Keed will join the tirm of Sir Joseph Whitworth and Co. is also endorsed by The Times. The full extent of the resul's of the firedamp ex. plosion at the Silverdale Colliery in North Staffordjhire is now known. Nineteen bodies httve been brought to bank." and it adds greatly to the distressing character of the acci- dent to find that most of them exhibit traces of intense suf- fe iog. All over Europe the coup of Marshall Prim has pro- duced a most ominous vibration From every foreign capital, telegrams pour in, rt fleeting the views which Prussia, France, Austria, Italy, Russia, and Spain hold with regard to the new questions suddenly stirred bj the candi lature of the Prince 01 Hvheiizoilem for the Spanish CrowD. The only pun that President Grant ever m ,dJ was the followingA. talkative waiter recently s-iid to him- We have potatoes, parsley, olJiom, tomatoes, asparagus, beets, spring chickens, strawberries "Stop, stop, stop!" exclaimed the President, "let us have peas He is so pleased with this that he willnevlor make another. At the Buckingham fair oa Monday, the prica cf wool ranged tr^m 32s. to 3C,s per tod. B'st cof" in milk fetched from £20 to jE22 ea Jh heifers, from £ 1S to 419 each store beasts, from zE12 to£14 each Qrualler beasts and weaned calves, from 42 to £5 each fat beasts from 5s. to 5=. 2 j per stone of 81b. Toere was a lull fair of fat aud lean sheep, and trade was brisk. It is well known that workfr3 iu lead factories are apt in course of time to suffer from lead poisoning in fact, a constant series of patients proceed from the lead factories to the hospitals of London. In France the evl effects of the mineral were usually prevented by giving the workpeop'e a draught containing dilute sulphuric Pcid, but it has now been discovered that regular potations of milk have au equally good effect. The Board of Trade have sent jE200 to Sir Harry Parkes, for distribution among the Japanese who recently rendered humane service to the crew and passengers of the British steamer Ocean Q'teen, and to Captain Graham, the sole survivor from the wreck of the British brig Eliza Corry, which vessels were los, on the coast of Japan in December and January last. A shrewd observer has a'sserttd that a woman is best dressed when you cannot remember what sbe wore. Judging from the various descriptions published in the newspapers, the costume of Lord Derby's bride must have been excellent According to some the colour was silver grey, others aver it was mauve, others again say it was light, blue, and some e describe it as lilac Evidently the writers were too mucn dazzled to remember distinctly what the colour was. A distressing accident has occurred at Aberdovey, a well-known watering place. A party of five) oung lad es were bathing, and two of them-MIss Lavelle and Miss Ellen Edwards-who remained in the water for some time after the others came out, got out of their depth. Loud cries for assistance were raised, and a police-constable who was on the bnach plunged into the sea and succeeded iu rescuing Miss Elwards. The other young lady w&s drowned. The Times protest against p:geon shooting at Hur- liDgham "as having uglier features than that of cruelty to animals. Sweepstakes at Hurlingham have become the rage. Fashion follows them in its senseless way. The highest is £450, Vast numbers of idlers go regularly to 'the Park,' and the result has been that betting has shewn its ugly face in that enclosure, and has become a prominent feature of the proceedings. In this way what was bad in its origin has become worse as it went on." The Select Committee of the Lords on the Married Women's Property Bill sat on Monday, and the Record re- marks it is now hoped that the measure has been so re- modelled by Lord Cairns and other law lords as to remove all the substantial objections to it made by Lord Penzance and Lord Westbury, as well as those of Lord Shaftesbury, who warmly advocated the principle of the bill so far as relates to the earnings of women. The sale of pictures, water-colour drawings, and objects of art, the property of Charles Dickens, on Saturday last, was one of the most remarkable events of the kind which have occurred at thelamous mart of Coristie, Manson, and Woods, King-street, London The amounts realised for almost every article which came under the hammer were perfectly fabulous, hut it was evident that many of the pur- chases made were bid for as souvenirs, and had scarcely any reference to the intrinsic value of the articles sold. A young woman, Miss Clipson, aged 22 years, who manages a refreshment house for her mother at Barnes, came by her death on Saturday through the dangerous practice of reading in bed. Miss Clipson had closed the establishment and retired to bed, taking with her a novel which she read for some time. It is surmised that she fell asleep and that the candle Ignited the bed clothing, but in any case so fearfully burned all over the body was the poor girl that flu died within four hours of the discovery of her fearful condition. At the Drogheda Assizes, Richard Bullcock and Bridget his wife have been indicted for having on the 6th of April sent athreatening letter to Mr. Laing, of Messrs VV hit- worth's factory, in that town. There was a second count charging them with having indirectly caused the said let'er to be received. Laing was foreman in the Mes?rs. hit- worth's factory, and there had been a quarrel between him and the male prisoner as to an increase of wages. There was no legal evidence of handwriting, and the judge therefore directed the discharge of the male prisoner. The wife was also acquitted. u An application has been made to the JJu13lin Court of Queen's Bench, on bshalf of Mr Taylor, captain in the County Diwn Militia, for a writ of habeas enrpvs to bring into court his daughter, Julia Valentine TayU r, >-gtd eleven years It apDears that Mrs. Taylor had found it utcessary to leave her husbiud, and that she t, ok with her thr< e cnib ren, tho issue of the marri-Ilge, and then instituted a suit for divorce. Mr. Taylor subsequently got possession of the girl who was the subject of the present proceeding, but Mrs. Taylor managed tosecuiethe child's return. The decision was that there should not be any rule on the motion for de. liverii g up the child, but t'nere should be an undertaking that she should not be removed out of the jurisdiction of the Court. A robbery of rather a novel character was com- mitted at Leicester on Saturday. A man dressed as a hotel waiter went to the shop of Mr. Jeffrey, confectioner, Gallows- tree-gate, opposite the Lamb and Lion" Hotel, and asked if they could let him have what silver they had for gold. Mr. Jeffrey counted him out twenty pounds In silver, which the man took up, saying it was for the proprietor of the hotel, aed he would bring the gold across. The mau was seen to run across to the hotel and enter it by the commercial entrance, but it appears that he merely passed into the kitchen, and after asking the servants what time dinner would be ready went away with the money. He has not since been heard oil As Mr. Reed, M.P., is about to move a resolution in the House of Commons deprecating the employment of letter-carriers and other Post Office servants throughout the country on the Sunday, the Working Men's Lord s Day Rest Association have circulated a form of petition which they desire may be sent for presentation on or before the 23rd inst. The petition simply prays the House to pass Mr. Reed s resolution. In a circular explanatory of tneir the association urge that now the Government aU up the telegraphs, and reduced the couid be met cases of real emergency, sickness, or the Sunday far more rapidly by telegraph than by P° > post is totally unnecessary. ator8 of the river An action against the cargo of grain laden on Thames to recover the valu through the negligence of board a vessel lost, as wa been in the 0ourt of the harbour master, o{ the ve6Saj was her settling Queen's ,eI1 up0n the edge of one of tbe huge down as the tme which somenowhad y itcragged ,nrrlD/t-n°eTd uP on ore side, and which te.t two S in'her bottom through which the water entered, sinking the »nd spoiliDg the cargo. The owner of the ship had already sued aud recovered £ 5,000. The action was referred to aroitrat on, aud such was the award of the arbitrator. The present action was brought by Mr Johnstone, the owner oi the cargo-f>,OOO qr". if grain. The detente wat a denial of any negligence, and after a very long trial the jury found lor the defendants. Leeches caught in the Murray River are beiuj shipped from Australia to England. The lunatics of Lambeth cost that parish £12,000 during the past year 1"—South London Courier. The denizen of a house in the suburbs of Lpndo advertises A hornen for sale," meaning, that he 18 Wl&lful to dispose of an "awning." Mr Thomas Carlyle has gODe to Dumfries to see 1 friends and recruit his health, which has been indiffere; for some time past. r A voung actor of Berlin has ki led himself befor* manage tor fear of the life, from jealousy he should leau woman ho adored when he had married her The Ju 'ge of the County Court at Bolton has de- cided that c'ickst clubs are not recognisable in law, and ca. not sue or be sued. It is said that the telegram from Bombay, announe- ing the approaching visit of the Prince and rnllcess o. Wales to India. is without foundation. An „tr»,did »*<* <* • strangled itself. „ ,n, 1 The aunttal meeting' of the rhe show of in- Socie' t.?s opened at Oxford, on MoD^e are 406 gta'.u pleni' i is the largest ever known- wlvch mprise 7,851 article?. 5 fC An American paper says :— Wanteu a. ° an ed: T who can please everybody. Also fl K J t le can ai r se the paper so as to allow every man t • ment head the column." The Duke of Norfolk has subacribfdJElO, 000 to tlb Cath ic Education Crisis Fund;" Lord Howard has £ 5 000 ud other sums of different amounts making up £ 2->,0 towarr j the fund of £ 50,000 which it is desired to raise. It irauepired, in a will case which came before t v' M-s^er of the RO)13 hst week, that the whereabouts o M-iris Theresa Longworth (otherwise Mrs. Yelverton) is un- known. „ AnlUinoiBPn bas become the fifth husband of a ±1,11_-».««■ tffeot it would have on him, as womsn inst to see v>bat tnecii ,i had heard that her first husband rf.n 0^tyh'« fourth drown hung himself, the third shot himself, aad the fourth drowns Tfis' said that Mr, Pender's entertainment Ho ^the Prince of Wales, in honour of the eomp^ Swiiiiant the ex- telegraph to India, was as costly as it was brilliant, the ex pense being not less than £3,000 zh the igtreetp, A lady was one day walking through te wPj(.^ePh^ when the tray of a butcher's boy came ln exclaime and soiled her dress. The deuce take the r y, trav the lady angrily. A h, but the deuce 0an t ta replied the boy, with the greatest coolness. Dr. Kirk report? from Zmzibar that there have been less than thirteen or fourteen thoussind, J > about a fifth at tbe population, carried ofl by the late chol epidemic. At the time of writing (May there were vtr, few cases indeed." „ An official report from Virs Admiral Kellett, Loni- m.ndinc in Chief in China, ha*? been ^rwaraed to t,,0 Admiralty, containing the details °f 1the wre Majesty's gun boat Slaney. Fifty-two ,iMeers and men WeTeI lost, and nine only (five of whom were Chinese) were saved. One of the most interesting and picttire,,que fights ever known came off last Saturday at Ainero presence of her Majesty and a brilliant suite. of AY ales appeared at the head of his regiment, the ju.n Hussars, ami tho "march past is described as perfect. Such a panic on the London Stock Exchange as bai not been equalled since the "Black been tbe first, practic il consequence of Marshal Prim a^i i- dacious scheme for the Spanish Succession. <7 Foreign Stoeks were knocked about -L evervtM. Consols themselves went down considerably a ) <- betokened theutis^st despondency and distrust. The following is vouched for, and of course stampeo to render it legally true:-A literary ? a 'riend to read him hia manuscript, and ^hen he hc,^ from the family that his friend was; in great danger oM; life and might not live an hour, he looked at his .y and said, I should like so much to have his advics it win not take twenty minutes to read." A publican, named Liptrop, of Wigan, has c-ui- mitted suicifie in a shocking manner. For the past t" years the deceised had given way to drink, and latterly j" was necessary to watch his movements. On Monday morning, however, he eluded tne vigilance of his watchers, Ii: drowned himself by forcing ni3 head into a woiking hair.. of beer. The persons attending tc lie deceased followw.i him shortly after, but he was then quite dead. The annuil Volunteer encampment r-t Wimbledon is now presenting its ordinary aspect of bustle an combined with perfect order and cirect purpose o Uctij, The arrangements are sad to have been improvedJn respects, and the muster and the work done are expect^ be greatly superior to tbo»e of preview JeaJ?; r'J p,: '"n divine service was performed in the camp, the l^ev. Buckle officiating. All tbe labourers at Youghal crtntimie on sri^<. and the bakers had also struck, and siic"«erie(l talj0; an advance. It is thought that the Hre aireii.' wiil follow their example, whilst the cab^-driv on strike The German tailors who were broug-^ Tailor;. thi misters, and who Bvibssantntb j j „tthe u Society, werJ sent to London ou Saturday at the exp_. thA church bavin" been recently reopened after decor, tion on t'e congregation leaving eachoneMcmenat toe door a circular, rue upholsterer presented thercm his c pliments to the pew-owner, and hoped for an order to tur- rish his pew, as the upholsterer bad been honoured with ib. contract for furnishii.g the church. Tms is business with a vengeance, and 1870 hA added a new feature to j*iti- neas. Fielding relates that Jonathan Wild ou the scatfcld the moment before execution picked the pocket of the chap- lain who was exhorting him lo rep .ntance. and abstracter therefrom a corkscrew. This Instance of Wild's greatness hardiym. re striking than that which occurred at Kingst' petty sessions, the ether day, when a youth who was in cn tody on the charge of stealing a tankard, while wait.ni; < his cs'etobe calied on, picked the pocket of an ex-mspccuu of police, and stole his handkerchief. Miss Rye having selected 50 orphan children fr 10 the Liverpool Imiustritl Schools and SO from the Orm^l'j Union, will tail with them for Catiaia tins wetk. Missile has iut received from Cauala moit satisfactory^reports e. to the last corps of young emigrants she took out, 39 been apprenticed to resp ctable persons ano 11 aO"p e both official and private circle. in Liverpool the emigr<.no>. system for poor orphan children organized by Bliss Rj û 1,1 highly appreciated and as for hereof, all in coa-n with berarelcudin praise ot her cs'innrai seuee, ge. o philanthropy, aud ihrewd business liab;is. Notwithstanding the hot weather the attendances- Westminster Abbey on Sunday evening was very »a numbers of persons being uaab e to obtain admission, t'- announcement that the Dean of Chichester inten ed to pre -i i > a Temperance Sermon liaving bad the (tfect of attrscto e- numerous members of the National Temperance Le .gue arm other teetotal organisations. The lessens were read Stanley. Tbe prescher selected his text from Numbers x..x.. v. 13, Six cities shall je have for refuge" He alluded t > temperance societies as havens of refuge for the intemperat and dwelt earnestly on the importance of the clergy tornii. i: parochial organisations with the view of bringing ttmp«in';a itflueLC3 to bear on Individuals. It seems that the supply of relics of Washington in America equals the demand nevertlu les?, prie s are fain- supported. The ladies of the country having bought t Mount Vernon Estate, the Mount Vernon Association, of which Mrs. Ann Pamela Cunningham is agent, with to pur- chase lrcm thertpresentatives of the Washington fan i ? manv interesting objects once belonging to the Father 01 tL:, country, which are required to adorn the old mansion, 1 h = lVzF!,izigl,on family kindly consent to negotiate. One ( them offers a clock, which Frederick the Gieat gave n a^ ii gion, for 5,COO dollars another has a sword, which he w ;i! part witb for a consideration somebody else has a snufi-b x and other articles which are to be bought "The Inir" have a portrait of Washington on which may bj purchased for the moderate price of 5,000 dollars.
THE MARKETS.
THE MARKETS. M ARK-L AK E. —MOND AY. Qu'etness has been the feature of the grain trade duiii the week. The warlike news from the Continent has re: dered holders of wheat less anxious to sell, but the mno favourable aspect of agiicultural affairs has checked any ten- dency to activity in the demand. Spring corn has bee;.< quiet. The imports of foreign and colonial produce tut London last week comprised 34,235 qrs. of wheat, 6 760 ùt barley, 40,382 of oats, 1,235 of beans, 3,362 of peas, 3 0 o: tares, 3,170 of linseed, 5,i-S2 of rapeseen. 83 of SULe, 6,5S3 barrels and 890 sacks of flour. Very few of English wheat have been on sale. Notwithstanding the prospect of war, the trade has been very quiet an<. t- actual amount of business concluded has been limited. Mil".™ have purchased a few parcels, at previous quotations. A, regards foreign wheat the supplies have been model" Snles have progressed slowly, at about laterates TJlesupp v barley has been moderate. The trade has been quiet, 'iin. prices have been maintained. Malt has been dull at la' n rates. Oats have changed hands to a moderate extent, am; prices have been supported. Beans and peas have steady, on former terms. Flour has been quiet, at about ht6 rates. Maize has been steady. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.—MONDAY The total import of foreign stock into London last we k amounted to 15,027 head. In the corresponding week iJ" 13^9 we received 10 617 in 1S38, 10,191; in 1867, 10,476; an in 1866, 22,815 head. The trade has been quiet to day. n'd although, owing to the inferiority of the stock, the gene; tendency of prices has been downwards, no failof importa"c has taken place. As regards beasts the supplies from ou own grazing districts have been short, but those from abroxi have been about an average. With but ftw exceptions th" quality has been indifferent. The few prime breeds offered have realised 5s. 41., but this quotation ha* been exceptional, and the value (,f other qualities ha* ruled easier. From Lincolnshire, Leicester; hire, t.wi Northamptonshire we received about 950 IIhorthorno, &c. from other purts of England, about 600 vari. r.s breeds; and from Scotland, 19 Scots and crosses. The market has been fitrly supplied with sheep. The quiry has been restricted, aud the quotations have had a drooping tendency. The best Downs and half-breds hm < sold at 55 2d. to 5s. 41. per 81b. Lambs have been in linnit request, at 63. 41. to 6s. Sd. per 81b. Calves have chan; c i hauds quietly, and pigs have sold heavily. Per 81b. to sink the offal. s. d 8. d. s. d s. Infer, coarse beasts 3 0 3 8 Prime Southdown 6 0 5 4 Second quality. 4 0 4 4 Large coarse calves 310 4 1" Prime large oxen.. 4 6 4 10 Prime small 5 0 5 6 Prime Scots, &c 5 0 5 4 Large hogs 4 6 5 4 Infer, coarre sheep 3 0 3 4 Neat small porkers 5 4 5 8 Second quality 3 8 4 4 Suckling calves.22 0 26 Fr. coarte woolled 4 6 5 0 Qr. old tt(,re pigs..20 0 26 0 Lambs, 6 s. 4d. to 6s. 8d. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET.—MONDAY. The supplies of meat have been large. The trade has been very dull, and prices had a drooping tendency. Per 81b. by the carcase. 8- d. s d d- »• d Inferior beef 3 0 3 4 Inferior mutton 8 0 3 4 Middling ditto 8 6 3 8 Middling di.to. 3 erf s Prime large ditto 4 0 4 4 Prime ditto n Piime small ditto.. 4 4 4 8 Large pork d 8 4 Veal 4 04 4 Small pork 4 4 4 b Lamb, 4s. 8d. to 5s. 4d. iiuro. Frem the plantations the accounts are .till• ««gn«Ue. and prospects are^ecid^|ferSateS l°he trade has been dull, the supplies have teen modera M]d and prices have, had a dKent,, ^6 to £ S; Sussex, t ffi via ^Bavarians, £ 6 6s. to £ 9; French, £ 0 t., Ie'- American^* 5s. to £ 6 and Yearlings, £ 110#. t, X-3 15s. per cwt. WOOL. At the public sales of colonial wool the attendance ol buyers lanscotitinued good. Biddings have been animated, and Cape snow-white qualities have been rather dearer. English wool has been firm on former terms. Current prices of English wool:—Fleeces: Southdown hoggets, Is. to Is. OJd.; half-bred ditto, Is. 2d. to Is 3d.; Kent fleeces. Is. 2d to Is 2d.; Southdown ewes and wether*, Is. to Is. OJd Leicester ditto, Is. Id. to Is. ljd. Sorts Clothing, Is. to Is. 4id. combing, lid. to Is. 3Jd. FISH. Herrings, pickled, 30s. to 38s.; ditto red, 20s. ts 25s pet- barrel bloaters, 4s. to 5s. 6i.; kippers, 5». to 6s. per box turbots, 8s. 6d. to 16s. brill, 3s. 6d. to 8s each plaice, 10s t, 16s. trawl haddocks, 10s. to 15s. per box soles, Is. 6d to 4s. perpalr whitings, 81 to 10s. 6d. per basket trout, Is. 4, te Is 5d. eels. lB. to Is. Id. per pound mackerel, 2s. to 3s p- r dozen smoked haddocks (large), 20s. to 40s ditto (sm"i ), 10s. to 2b -ir barrel: red mullets, 59. to 8s Iotwters, 9* to 15*3err; 93. to 12* per dozen ,,at've. "T £ 10 commo^ 'i. to 40s. per bushel; salmon, Is. to 1.. sa. par pound. POTATOES. There has been a fair supply of new potatoes on saV. The trade has been quiet. English Shaws ha*e sold at 1 s. C l. to 8s. 6d., and French at 6s. 6d. to 7s. 6d. per cwt. TALLOW. The market has been qui,t. Y.C., spot, 45s. per cwt Town tallow. 41s. 9d. nett cash.