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1m Janbat1 (Jomspnittt. ( We d6Sm.it right to state that we do not at all times identify 'ASSrtvfts with our correspondent's opiniona.) There has been no debate of great importance in Parliament since the introduction of the navy esti- mates, if we except the debate on the defences of Ca- nada, on Monday night, in which, as a matter of course, Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Disraeli, and Mr. Bright, had their Bay. A number of little subjects, introduced by members-who seldom have the opportunity of address- ing the House on large matters, have occupied the attention of the Commons for the past two or three days. One of these small subjects, worth mentioning, is the enlargement of the Government offices in Downing-street. Some little discussion took place I when the measure was introduced by Mr. Cowper, which showed how little some new members understood of the forms of the House. The Hon. Mr. Lygon, a young member who has been more than once talked down by Mr. Gladstone, took exception to the mode in which the bill was brought in. Lord Palmerston, however, to'whose knowledge of the forms of the House every member must defer, soon explained to Mr. Lygon in what manner certain bills differ from others, and that the mode adopted by Mr. Cowper was the correct one for the purpose. The young member rashly asked 1 the Speaker to give an opinion upon the bill,—rather a singular request when it is considered that the bill was only just introduced, and had not even been read a first time. These Government offices, by-the-bye, certainly require some improvement, for Downing- street juat now looks in a most dilapidated and seedy state. Mr. Williams, whose zeal in the cause of economic Government has frequently brought upon him the ridicule of quasi comic periodicals, is about to retire from the representation of Lambeth. That the mantle of the late Joseph Hume descended on Mr. Williams I do not believe, but at all events he has been exceed- ingly useful and painstaking in endeavouring to reduce public expenditure. His constituency do not, I believe, altogether approve of this zeal when carried too far, but now that the veteran member is about to retire, they will certainly find some little difficulty in getting as good a man to fill his place. I hear that Mr. Alderman J. C. Lawrence, brother of the ex-Lord Mayor, will issue an address as a Liberal candidate, and the Conservatives talk of starting one to oppose him. Mr. Lawrence owns a great deal of property in Lambeth, and is very likely to be returned. I hear a rumour to the effect, that in the event of Lord Amberly getting into Parliament, he will intro- duce a Reform Bill—not thi3 session, perhaps, but, if not this session, next. What truth there may be in the report, I will not pretend to determine but if it be true, it will curiously verify the lines which Moore, some 45 years ago, wrote to Lord John Eussell:— "Like the bows of that laurel, by Delphi's decree, Set apart for tbe Fane and its service divine, So the branches that spring from the old Russell tres Are by Liberty claimed for the use of her shrine." Always supposing, of course, that the goddess of liberty is presumed to identify herself with parliamen. tary reform. A proposition is being mooted here to have a grand international peace celebration — a kind of Anglo- French demonstration to rejoice over the 50 years international peace which England and France have enjoyed with each other. Whether the proposal will come to anything remains to be seen; but there certainly is no reason why we should not have such a commemoration. Peace hath its victories as well as war," and the blessings of peace between England and France are incalculable. We used to call the French our natural enemies, but now, with Anglo-French treaties, an Emperor who is heartily in favour of continued peace, and two peoples who have so much inter-communication, we might well call them our natural friends. From letters I have received, I think it highly probable that such a demonstration would find favour in Paris, and Paris, they say, is France. I am glad, by the way, that since the Duke of Wellington's death we have had no more Waterloo celebrations. We may look with ever so much pride upon assemblies of veteran warriors at such gorgeous banquets as those which every 18th of June used to be held at Apsley House, but they could really do no good and, doubtless, they produced some ill-feeling on the part of our Gallic neighbours. For my own part I should like to see the Metropolitan Board of Works change the name of Waterloo Bridge and Waterloo Place—but that parbaps is Utopian. But at all events why not have a peace commemoration like that which is talked of? It would promote good feel- ing, especially if there were to be excursions organised between France and England, and simultaneous banquets and rejoicings. Some of the market gardeners in the suburbs of London are memorialising the Home Secretary to induce him to procure such an alteration in the Public Houses Closing Act as may enable the men who bring fruit and vegetables to market to procure refreshments at public houses during the prohibited hours—from one to four in the morning; but I do not see how any such favouritism can be granted. It may be rather hard upon men who come into London so early, especially during winter, not to be able to have the shelter that public houses afford, and such refreshments as the people absurdly called "licenced victuallers" usually supply; but the benefits which the Act has con- ferred in the metropolis are too great thus to be tampered with. Every enactment produces hard- ships somewhere, but Parliament can but study the general good. Since the night-houses have been closed our streets have been quieter, there has been less drunkenness, and scenes of profligacy are less fre- quent. Could not the market gardeners and their men form a club ? If the Carlton or the Reform members can have their wine or their bottled beer between one and four in the morning, why cannot the gardeners have their club room for the refreshment of body as well as mind ? I see that last year there were no less than 999 cases where tradesmen in London were convicted of giving false weight or measure to their customers. It seems & pity that the inspectors could not make up the thousand, for there must be many cases of fraud which only require looking after. It seems to me that these convictions are practically valueless. The publica- tion of the name and address of the offending trades- men is the only thing they fear; and it so happens that, either by "arrangement" with the reporter, or from his negligence, or from the indisposition of the editors to give long lists of petty tradesmen, these names are not published. As to the small fines that are levied, the tradesmen merely look upon them as small expenses—it is a disbursement of petty cash," and they are compensated for this over and over again by increased profits arising from dishonest trading. As it is the poor who suffer, however, from tbii dis- honesty, I think that very severe penalties ought to be inflicted in such cases. It is very hard that the poor washerwoman, who pays at the rate of 303. a ton for coals, should have 21b. short out of her half-hun- dred weight, or that the labouring man should only have 5Alb. of potatoes when he pays for 6ib. And yet this sort of thing is being carried on, all day and every day, all over the metropolis. The middle classes can protect themselves by their weighing-machines (though they seldom do so, in consequence of the innumerable "rows" that they produce wi.h the tradesmen), but the poor have a right to the protection of rigid laws rigidly enforced. The workman's train on the Metropolitan exten- aion of the London Chatham and Dover Rail- way has already become a great boon to mechanics, &c., employed in London and Ilvirg within reach of this circuitous branch. For one shil- ling a week, a workman can be carried several miles a day to and from his work and his home. It would be well if other lines were to adopt the same plan. Every day something of the kind be- comes more imperatively called for than ever. Our poorer classes of houses are in several neighbourhoods, rapidly disappearing, to make way for large commercial establishments, railways, &c. The new courts of police, for instance, will displace some hundreds of poor dwellings, and no provision is made for their re- placement elsewhere, or for better buildings. I am surprised that some of the railway companies do not build workmen's villages on their lines, or at all events, a few large blocks of dwellings, each adapted for several working families, with arrangements for cheap fares, as in the case just mentioned. It would pay the companies, and be a great boon to the working classes. It ia rumoured that Mr. Brirdey Richards, the popular composer of the national song God Bless the Prince of Wales," is to be knighted. Mr. Richards has certainly done much towards popularising a taste for music, as having both composed and arranged many melodies which are now familiar as household words; but it is very probable that had be never written the song just alluded to, even the honour of his knighthood would not have been public. Perhaps, after all, it may turn out as much without foundation as was the canard which prematurely conferred on Mr. Tennyson the honour of baronetcy.
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. In the House of Lora. on March 13 Lord Clarendon intro- duced the Public Schools Bill, whlch was read a first time, •n4Lth? T°n.d/ ,}Dg flxeAfor the 27*h of March. JUfmn ^rhI^0V* .second reading of the British Cafftaria Bill, The object of the measure is to empower tha Legialature of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, or the British CaSrarla. to that colony the military district of Lord Lyveden approved the Bill, as It corrected the error originally committed when Britilh Caffraria was erected into a Crown colony. Lord Taunton-also supported the BUl, though he did not admit the principle that 110 eolony is to be defended at the expense of the Imperial Government. The Bill was read a second time. 00 the motion of L0rd Clanricarde, the Election Petitions Act (1848) Amendment Bül was read a second time, and their Lordsbips adjourned. rll the Hou e d Commons, In reply to Mr. J. White, The Choneeror 01 the Exchequer said he proposed to make t-j, financial statement on the tint convenient day after EEter, which would probably be Thursday, the 27th of April. 00 the oroer forgoing into a Committeet>f Supply, Mr. S. Fitzgerald called attention to the report of Colonel Jervois wHh reference to the defences of Canada, and asked for inform a ion ith reference thereto. Mr. w. Forster, observing that if we were to undertake to put thewh"le fro "I tier of Canada in a condltiou of complete th- fxoen8e would be almost fabulous, said the quesrion waq whether, in the present relations between this c-untry aJ: d Canada, we ought not to call upon th* c >lony to look to her oira resources, and spend her own money m her OWD deferce it she desired the c mnexton should con- tinue. But the real question was whether there was suffi- cient reason for increasing her means of defence at 11.11. Mr. Cardwell ss.id he could 3SWfe the Hùuse, without reserve, that onr relations with thy United States continued to be perfectly friendly. But, whatever might be the pros- pect of our future r" latjon3 with their Government, it was not upon the forbearauci of other countries that reliance was placed, hut Upon our own inherent strength. Those who went to war with Canada went to war wHh England. The Government WHe prepared to do their part in the defence of Canada, bnt it was tiieir opinion, and they had strorgly expressed, it, that the n ain dtfence of the colony sbould be found in the spirit and energy of the people, 1\I,d he hew the satisfaction ot stating that efforts, which might have been made easier, were now makng in the colony with the best possihle spirit. He replied seriatim to the in- quiries of Mr. Mr. Disraeli, after paying a tribute to the manner in which the Federal Government had conducted tbelr rela- tions with this country under crcuais auces of greav difficulty, avowed h's upiuion that we were in DO immediate danger of cominR into collision with that Government, be- cause he believed tbat tbe people „f the United State were a people, and were not likely to engage in another stiuggie with a foreign Power, There WHe otheT reasons (which he explained) that induces him to adopt thb opinion. )1r, Lowe Hid he should confine hlmcelf to the simple question, what this country ought to do and was bound to do. Suppose we were actually at war with the United States, CoJonel Jervois stated that our troops would be (1b;iged to flee to their ships, and therefore we should make fort¡ficatioLg, But it we bad fortifications the troops would be driven into them. There *as no conceivable dis- parity of numbers which the Americans might not bri1Jg to overwhelm them, No fortificatious could be held against this force aic1ed hy medern artilery, so that if our troops were driven into the fortifications it wo aid he impossihle fOf them: 0 escape. TDe question was, what shculd f e done if Canada was the batule-ground lU ca?e of war. The most effectual course in such an event would b9 to cOlJcentrate a force upon s< me othtr point. lib cøncJu3inD, therefore, was that it would be unwise to retain any force worth speak- ing of in Canada. Then, if we 8hould not keep troops there in ti me of war, why in time of peace? "VVe had better let Canll.daknow the truth, and not buoy her up with f tlse ex. pectations, whi1e we provoked America with a standing menace. Tbe wisest course would be at once to withdraw our After observations by Sir J. Fergusson Mr. J. Whits, and others. Mr. Bright saln the question was at once Important and delicate. The difficulty was that we had an extensive colony jving adjacent to the United States, and, if there Be a war party in the States, toat ciroumstacce affGrded a strong ,temptation to en'er into a war with Eng and, It was pH" fectly wen known that there was no power whatever in the rDited Kingdom to deft-r d succeàsfully Canada a¡¡:ainst the United States. Would Canada sttack the Srates ? CertalnJy not. "Would the S'ates attack Canada ? He believed clearly Dot, with a view to its forcible annexation to the UnioD. No person in England was for going to war with the rnited States. Was the United States for war with thli country ? The relations between the two countries had for some time been growiug more and more amicable. Then if Canada was not for war, nor 1 ngland, nor the United 3tates, whence was it to come? He suggested that there might be some anxiety in this country, wme prick of conscience anout the manner in WhiCh the American Government had been treated, and be referred to various transactions calculated, in his opinion, to create irritation and exasperation in the United States. What, he asked, wouLt the people of this cuuDtry have said if thty had suffered as the people ot America had suffered from the Alabmna ? It mlgot be said that theseihings wonld tend to pruvoke a desire lor veigeance and increase the chances of war. lhis was, he said, tll the last degree improbable. There were millions of men In Lancashire wh.) bad had no kind of sympathy with the views he condemned, and there were securities for peace in America it. elf, He believed thtore waa a war party in the United States-the Irish party, hut tbis was the only war party, and the r<,al power in the States was with another class. The root of aU these un- fortunate circumstances was, he said. a feeling of jealousy entertained in this country towards the Amuican lJat1on- a feeling which would not overthrow the decrees of nature. Lord Palmerdon denied that there existed m this country a jealousy of America. No douht, during the contest now Iwing on in that connt.ry, thpre was a feeling 01 Irritation In both North and South t1:at this country, a third party, tad not eSDotlsed th*ir came; bEt he believed that among the great hulk of the peop'e of the United States there was a good feeling towards thh country, and that when the pre- sent contest was over that natural feeliDg wouid prtvail over any temporary irritatinll But this was no reason why we should not place our colonies in America in a state of de- fence, He could not agree with Mr. Lowe, and 1t was not the intention of the Government to follow his advice. He added in conclusion, that the relations of the two Govern- ments were perfedly friendly.. The dehate upon this subject here terminated. Mr. Hennessy pnt a question to :\11", NewJegate with re- ference to a matter growing out of his correspondence wlth Dr, Ullathorne, to which Mr..Kewdegate gave a detailed reDly. Some remarks were made by the O'Don(>ghue, and the Iloute 'heu went into Committee 01 Supply pro forma, and afterwards into a Committee of Ways and Means, when a resolution granting supply was agreed to. The other orders of the day were disposed of, and after dome further business the House adjourned. In tbe House of Lords on March 14th, The British Kaffraria Bill passed through committee. The EiectJon Petitions Act (1848) Amendment Bill passed through committee. Tbe Marq.is of Westmeath called attention to the papers presented in tte case of Mary Ryan. He said that tbe order made was fnr the production of all the ¡apen referring to the case, but he had reason to believe that some 01 them had been improperly withheld. He related tbe circumstances already made public of the psssage of Mary Ryan from Lon- don to Brussels, and said that he could prove the case wall a conspiracy got up by a gentleman calling hiINelf the Vicar General of Westminster. To this b-e called Earl Russell's particular attention- Earl Russe l said the law officers of the Crown had been consulted, and they were of o¡.iulon that the forcible re- moval of any person out of the country was an Illegal act, It was a practice unkno"n to the law and open to great abuse. With regard to tbe case of Miry Ryan, her Majesty's Minister at BrmseJs had irquired into it and reporte,1 that she was at prest nt pn inmate cf a very well conducted asylum at Bruges, and that she was surterlng under an acute attack of mania, which at one time threatenf d her We. As her parents were dead, and as it appeared that abe was at present well cartd for, it waa not considered ad visible to remove tlH. The Earl of Malmesbury thought there was no doubt that Mary Ryan was insane, but th",t was no justification fvr the indifference with wbich the case had been trea'ed hy the Home Secretary. It was not impossible that persons like the superi r of a convent were ignorant, owing to their seclusion from tbe world, of the law but It was the duty of the Secretary of State to teach them what the law really was, The subject then dropped, and the House adjourned. In the Houge of Commons on the order of the second reading 01' he Lancashire ann Yorkshire and Great Eastern Junction Railway Bill, Lord Gilway, on the part of many landowner?, opposed the furthu progress of the bill. A committee 01 the Houle had ùecided npon certain extensions of the Great Northern and It wfuld be unfair to allow a competing scheme until that which bad been allowed by the commi' tee had been fu Iy tested. He mond as an amend- ment that the bill be read a second time this day six months. Mr. Cheetham advoc,te.1 the bill, which would bring the East and West Riding of Yorkshire into direct c'1mmunlc?,- tion with the Eastern Counties by means of the Eastern Counties Railway. All the promoters wished was that their case should be heard, At least a dozen of gentlemen rose j 0 speak amidst loud cries of Divide, and an animated discussion tock place, and after some remarks from Lord Bury and other members tha Home divided, when ttlere were fa, tbe second reading 121; ajlairst it, 162; m8jority, 41. The Bill was therefore rejected. Mr. J. Ewart asked the Secretary cf State for the Home Department whether any order had been issued for the in, discriminate seizure of South American beef when exposed for ssl," to the public either In London or Liverpoo'. Sir G, Grey said no (rders had heen issued on this subject, and at present he bad no information as to the reasons wby this beef should be geized. Mr. Di1mer asked the Secretary to the Admiralty if Captain Colei's C'lpoJa bas been tested by firing at it with any heavier guns than those used in the experiments, namely, 40.pounder Armstrong on boud the Trusty } Lord C. Paget said no experimeirshad been tried. Sir Kelly moved for a select committee to inquire into the claim of bis Highness Prince Azeem Jah to the title and dfgnity of the Nawab of tbe C¡¡rnatic, under a treaty en- tered into in 1801 oetween the East India Company and his Highness Prince Azeem ul Dowlah. The hJu. and Jearned gentleman gave a lengthened, very detl lIed, and nQt over mte eóting account of tile circumstances of the case, which have bten so often before the public. Mr. Smollett urged that afGer the number of occasion3 on whieb thiô question had heen bronght before the House it would now be better to refer the whole affair to a cCJm- mittee. The Nawab did Dot, however, come to them as a beggar, but a. a supplicant, respectfully Claiming a right to receive justice. The Solicitor-General replied generally on the whole case, and pointed out the treachery which had been tile charac- tfristic ot the Nawabs as a class both before and aftEr the signature of the treaty of 1801, ard prior to the mutiny. The pretended rght f Azeem ,J <ih was itself even founded on a cession of powers, which cou'd not be restored at ih's distance of time 10 the successors of the cedin" parties, who had also themselves rleclared that thoy held their property at the op.ti('I1 of the povernmeiit of England. Be could see no practical purpose in tbe appolotment of a committee to inquire into a "mock sovereignty," considering also that It woulrl be setting a wrong precedent for future co: duct. Mr. Hennessy followed, atd was succeeded by )11', Duolop, who advoca ed the establishment of a sort of special Court to determine the righta of native Princes generally, :;11' Charles 'Yood addressed the House, and explained why Government bad r,ot pursued the course toward the Jsawab which Sir 1< Kelly would desire Colonel Dickson briefly spoke, and also Co'onel Sykes The motion was negatived, cn division, by 53 to 33 voie? Several bills were advanced a .t¡, ge, and the other husiness on the paper having beeu disposed of, the House adjourned In the House of Commons, on March 15, the Notices of MotlOns stood thus :— Sir J. Sheller-Bill to abolhh the ton taken for foot passengers parsing over or on Chels a-bridge. Mr. Peel.—-Copy of report of Board of Inland REvenue to the Lords of the Treasury, dated the 28Y1 day of February 1865 regarding the rate of the spirit duty. Vise >unt Bury -On second reading of Railway Construction Facilities Act (1864) AmendmentBill.to move that it be read a second time upon this day six months.
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itisttHmttnU5 fiMipct. HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. RAPID PROGRESS OF AS AMERICAN CI!Y. Memphis is the most important and most flourishing Clty on the Mississippi river bttween St. Loms and rvew Orleans. Thirty years ago Memphis was an unimportant village, but; began to exhibit signs of tuture greatness about the year 1845 and in 1?60 contained 30.000 inhabitants. Its location is 750 miles above ISew Orleans, 420 below St. Louis, and 209 miles north-west from Nashville. The bluft on which it stands is elevated 47 feet above the highest flood, while a base of sandstone projects into the stream and forms a convenient landing. PUGILISM IN SCOTLAND. -This week the Prize Ring appeared in onr midst (writes the correspondent of the Morning Star). On Tuesday, a little before six o'clock, a steam tug left Leith with some hundred and fifty disreputable specimens of humanity on board, landed near Aberdour-a. beautifully wooded village near the sea, in the neighbourhood of which Mr. Thomas Carlyle resided for a month or six weeks seve. ral months ago-and in the quietest place they could find drove in their stakes aud stretched their cords. After a referee was chosen, and" corners tossed for. two mummy-like figures began to peel," and in due time into the ring stepped Thomas McKelvay, twenty seven years of age, five feet six and a half inches in height, and Robert Edward, aged thirty-two, and in height five feet four inches. These worthies, after having amicably shaken hands, began, to the vast de- light and edification of the on-lookers, to devote them- selves to the adornment of each other's countenances, and such an adept in this agreeable art did McKel- vay prove that in some quarter of an bour he had blackened Edward's face, made it stand out in swollen knobs, closed up his left eye, and otherwise greatly distinguished himself-his own face escaping the while almost untouched. The fight was for 251, a side, and it is paid that the defeated gladiator had bu* rec nHy risen from a sick bed. When the steam tug was on its return passage to Leith McKelvay took round his hat and raised some 81, for the man he had an hour before so cruelly used. Down in the north here the visits of the P. R. are as rare as those of the caperca'Jzie and most earnestly do we desire a better ignorance of it and its conoernings. MATTHMVS AMD THE EEWARDS.- The question of the rewards oifered for the apprehension of .Fr>Jnz Muller has at last been brought to an issue. The question of the legitimate claimant has for a long time been upon the tapir. On the one hand it. was argued that Matthews alone was entitled to them and on the other it was stated that Mr. Death and Mr. Rnpgch would share in them. It is now d^c-'ded that the whole of the amount, namely 3007., will go to Matthews, or rather to the assignees in bankruptcy for the benefit of his creditors. On Tuesday a govern- ment cheque for 10m. in favour of Matthews was received by Mr. Beard, and in all probability Messrs. Robarts and the North London Railway Company will follow suit, and forward their respective rewards without further delay. Matthews is no longer in prison, and his creditors, it is said, are disposed to act very leniently towards him. ANTICIPATING HIS FATE 1-In the lodgings of Rowland, one of the men charged with being con- terned in the recent burglary in Mark-lane, London, the following extraordinary document was found, and afterwards read by the counsel for the prosecution in the preliminary examination at the Mansion House :— Convict Diet.—The following is the new scale of diet for aU c -.nvicts employed on public works:—Sunday,' 50z of cheese, 28,z. bread, lpint cocoa. lpint gruel; Monday, 5",z, mutton, and its own liquor, flavoured with onions and thickened with any bre>id left from previous day, 111. potatoes, 28 oz bread, 1 pintcocoi, 1 p;nt gruel; Tuesday, 1 pint soup made from 70z sh!n:>f btet, 4oz. fresh veget- ab'es, 2 z pearl barley flavoured with onions, lib. potato s, 28 z. I read. 1 pint gruel, 1 pint cocoa; Wednesday, 50z mutton same as Monday, llb, potatoes, 280z bread, 1 pint co.^oa, 1 rdnt gruel: Thursday, lib. suet pudding, lib. potatoes, 28 tz bread, 1 pint cocoa, I pint gruel; Friday, 50z beef, 1 pint beef liquor, fUvoured as on Tuesday, lib. potatoes, 28oz hread, 1 pint cocoa, 1 pint gruel: Saturday, 5oz. beet, 1 pint beef liquor, flivourtd liS on Friday, lib, potatoes, 28,7., bread, 1 pint cocoi, 1 pint gruel. Each allowance of meat is weighed after heing cooked, antl must be free from ùone. The potatoes are good. A SHOCKING DEATH.—On Saturday night a mac named Hart was killed in a most horrifying manner in the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company's tunnel under the Western Heights, Dover. The poor fellow, who had before lost a leg by accident on the South-Eastern Railway, has for some time past oiled the points in this tunnel; and while so engaged on S iturday evening, the London express train entered the tunnel, and, as at the same instant the up-train entered at the other end. it is presumed the man «aa bewildered, for he was knocked down by the express train, and the engine and all the carriages passed over him. On being discovered, the body was found to 5e horribly mutilated, being completely cut asunder. boriz mtally at the lower part, so that death ciust have been instantaneous. IMPORTS OF 1864.-In the year 1864 the import of cotton into the United Kingdom rose to the value of 78.203,729*. the import of wool and woollen rags aJso increased greatly, and amounted to 15,998.427*. while flax of the value of 5.323.053* cune in, and raw silk of the value of 6,350,2411, the last comparatively a low figure :— The import of wheat, wheat meal, and fbur was of the value of 13,505,4262, and of barley, oats, Indian corn, &c., 6 203 2202. but in 18C2 the values were 28 500,8941. and 8,167,7882. The import In 1864 of white wine reached the large amount of 3,574,0572. of red wine the import was 1,423 S272. Of rnm the import was 4S4 9722.; of brandy it reached 1,505.3822 Tc à of the value of 9 438,7602. came to our shores; coffee, 3 615,7592 sugar, mulasses, and candy no less than 16,457,6912. Ttie imports of batter amounted to 5 652 7042. of ch ese 2,176,2482. of bacon, 1,911,2912. The import of gutnoamotn-ted to 1,463,0122. of tobacco and cigars, 3,360,4902 of timber am wood s*wn and split 6,OiO,3412 of other timber and wood, 4,936 1762. l'he import of paper for printing and writing rose to 392,8402 the import of rags fell to 472,440l, but that ot esparto and other vegetable fibre reached to 212 4942. REMEMBERING OLD TIMES !—The Emperor of the French has sent a magnificent chalice in gold to the priest of the small church of Hoboken, near New York, where his Majesty lived as a private gentleman during his stay in America. The parochial duties were performed by a good old priest, Father Cauvin. Hobo. ken has j-rown from a tiny village to a town of import- ance, and Louis Napoleon Bonaparte has become Napoleon III. The latter, however, has not forgotten old times, and has sent this splendid so'Uvenir to the old priest, in memory of past kindnesses. A HIGHLAND MIRACLE. — Most people who know Strathspey intimately are aware of a tradition being current among the Men of Duthil" from time immemorial that there once was an unparalleled inter- position of Providence in causing the waters of the Spey to separate, affording a passage on dry ground to those who carriEd the mortal remains of a certain woman" to their last resting-place; and to com- memoratethis wondeiful event, the "men," by the request of one of their number, now deceased, are about to prect a stone near the place where a passage wag effected, bearing tho following wonderful inscrip- tion, which (says a correspondent) Ilhad the pleasure of reading to-day on the stone in English and Gaelic. The following is the English version :— Erected at the request of the late Will am Grant, Sl- ck, for a memorial of signal manifestation of Divine power in dividi g 'his water, and causing a passage while the remains ot a certain woman were carried over on dry ground. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN BAVARIA.—The Court of Appeal of Deux-Ponts (Bavarian Palatinate) has just decided a case of considerable interest to German Protestants. A lady, of the Catholic persuasion, died there a short time ago, leaving her husband, by her will, sole arbiter of the religious education to be given to their four children. The father, being a Protestant, of course decided upon educating the children in his own religion, to which the Catholic co-guardian, at the instigation of the Catholic clergy, objected, bring ing the case before the tribunals. The above Court of Appeal has deeded against the complainant, laying down the principle that tribunals are not competent to take cognisance of any dispute relating to the religious education of children, even in the case of the existence of written agreements between the parties. This de- cision has excited great interest throughout Germany. THE AGE OF ROMANCE HAS PASSED AWAY !—The other day in Paris a young student endeavoured to do what has often been done with applause, approval, and success before. A poor young girl was scraping a violin for a sou or two, when a young student mounted a bench, took the violin, and, being a beautiful player, soon got a shower of coins in his cap for the poor girl. The people were pleased at his playing, at his eccentricity, and his kindness—not so a sergent-ae- ville, who came up and took the young man into custody for his unauthorised conduct, and the violon" for a day was the reward of his violin-playing. HUNTING v. DANCING. — "A Sportswoman" writes as follows to the Pall Mall Gazette :— Paterfamilias" has given us a most deplorable pictureof ourselves as we appear after a run but lpt me ask him, are there not many amusements besides fox-huntiDg in which red faces, torn dresses, aud lank hair," may be seen ? What does he say to a crowded ball-ro m at a.m.? There has been crushing, crammii g, tearing, fuming, perspiring, to a far greater txtent than in any huat ug ileld. Such red faces Such rough hair Such tattered garments Such lacerated arms A lady's dress in the hunting field is really one of the most modest in the world. Even if S,1e falls, there is noreve'ation more insertetthan a few inches of aneat Wel- lington hoot, or a cloae-flttine trouser. Again, has Pa'er- faxriillas" ever beheld a run after a crack sensational preacher at a craek sensational chapel ? I have, and know that it beats fox hunting into fits. The lady who was with me had her hair torn down, her bonnet crushed, her shawl carried away her crinoline (thank goodness there's none in the hunt- ing lield) destroyed, and her temper—let me drop a veil upon it discreetly. I regret to say that on the occasion we all for- got to repeat our praters. "The squeadiug was so tremen- dJ^'U* as Jlrs. Gamp would say,! don't ca'e a bit what "Paterfamilias" ejaculates upon the subject. I am quite sure (as I have been to:d a hundred times) that alady never look- better than when her hair is a little rough, and her cheeks a little red from exercise. A woman with natural refinement will never lose it in a fox chase, or any other innocent sport. Why, was not Duma the pation of the chase ? A HINT TO FRUIT GROWERS.—M. Hardy, principal director of the Imperial kitchen gardens of Versailles, publishes a simple plan by which the fruitofthe "Bon Chretien, St. Germain, and Doyenne" pear trees is secured from disease and external injury. It equally applies to other species of pears, but has been tried with peculiar success in the case of these superior kinds. It merely consists in surrounding the fruit from the time that the flower petals fall with a coronet of paper open at the top, which must not be removed till the fruit has attained its full maturity. The result of adhering to this simple plan is a perfect and fuUy developed pear. THE REASONS FOR AN ALLOWANCE.—Some of the London weekly papers advocate the increased public allowance to thePrinceof Wales which bas long been spoken of. The London Review goes ao far as to propose that Parliament, and not Government, should take the initiative in the matter. Its jreasous are that the duties thrown upon the Prince by the seclusion of the Queen entail a large annual outlay that the Queen and Prince Albert displayed a singular and unprece- dented moderation in fixing the income of the Heir- apparent and that the enormous incomes of our great territorial nobility render it impossible for the Royal Family of England to vie with them in splendour and princely magnificence, as they are at present cir- cumstanced. SOMETHING ABOUT ANTS.—A gentleman sends the following anecdote in illustration of the habits of ants:— some whether ants do carry off grain and »V,t L the fobowing incident will show that they do it'7^ntP^hflrC«» ra.vleextent" At the side of my house snace WM "asking floor, or rather tbe paved been In th.6^ te™Pora.rlly Into one, a pole having driven round and rrmnrf ^hich horses were attached, and driven round and round to trample out the corn A nile of wheat was left here unthreshed fora few dava Tn thomnn time the ants committed depredations npon "it, and on one' of their nests being op-ned, two good-sized tm cansfull of grain were found deposited in it. n uil01 ROYAL VISIT TO BROMPTON HOSPITAJT^- Her Majesty on Tuesday morning surprised the in- mates of the Consumption Hospital, Brompton, by a visit. Her Majesty walked through the four "galleries" called respectively the "Victoria," the "Albert," the "Foulis," and the Jenny Lind," entering many of the wards, speaking to several of the patients who were confined to their beds, and bestowing upon all kindly smiles and sympathizing looks. Her M&jesty then vlSlted. the chapel (which was built by the chairman, Sir Henry Foulis), entered the vestry, and inspected the library; after which she expressed a wish tc see tbe kitchens, with which, as well as with the larder and the steam apparatus for cooking and for raising the lifts for the patients and the provisions, the Queen appeared much interested. Her Majesty wrote her name in the visitors' book, and examined the vellum scroll con- taining the signatures of the lamented Prince Consort and of the distinguished visitors who were present at the laying of the foundation stone of the new building by his Royal Highness, on the 11th of June, 1844. During her somewhat lengthened visit the Queen narrowly inspected all the arrangements, and by her numerous questions manifested much interest in the charity, which has long been honoured by the Royal support and patronage. In addition to repeated and emphatic expressions of satisfaction, her Majesty was graciously pleased, on leaving, to signify her entire approval of everything she had seen. To the patients, of whom ther j He 210, the Royal visit was an occasion of intense gratification and interest. Among those honoured by special notice was one of the gallant sur- vivors of the famous Balaklava charge. This poor soldier was an inmate of the hospital for the third time since his discharge from the army having on each occasion been sufficiently restored to health to earn his livelihood, THE IRON TRADE IN FRANCE.—The ironworks in Paris are at present actively employed in construct- ing steam engines for the various railway companies which are extending their lines. It is calculated that 300 locomotives are required for the 650 miles of rail- way comoleted last year. An equal number will be required for the lines to be opened during the present ye*r. There are further numerous orders coming from foreign countries which will give constant employment to all the hands employed at the trade. Among the foreign orders at present being executed in Paris are a large dredging boat and eight vertical steam engines for Eaypt; a screw of 250 horse power for the King of Greece's yacht; a cast iron hou?e for Turkey five pumps, with two horizontal engines to each of 20-horse power, for the Roman States 20 regulators for Spanish railways a mill, with 10 pair of stone*, and a hori- zontal engine of 25-horse power, for Denmark 10 similar machines for St. Petersburg together with various other machines for sawing and planing. In consequence of these large orders one establishment employs 1,200 men, who are working extra time, to- gether with 300 who work all night. A STOKM-STAID SCOTCH WOOER.—During the late severe snow-storm, many unparalleled incidents cocnrred in the North, consisting of blockaded railways, covered-over dwellings and shut-up roads, accounts of which were duly recorded by the newspapers, and will be remembered for many a day by old arid younsr. But although the weather has been unusually cold, tempestuous, and uncongenial for a considerable time, it is cheering to know that in some localities the heart of man has not been altogether bereft of that endear- ment towards the "lilies of creation" which very pro- perly incites the object of their affection, as the following will show :— Near the outskirts of famed S Irath borde there is a young lady presently resintng, whose fascinating appearance has for some time kindled the flame of love in the heart of one of fertile Strathdeveron's sons. Iu the loc ility referred to, when t'le late storm raged in its greatest fury, the young gentiemm piloted his way through the blinding drift to the domicile of the admired fair ons. Safely arrived, the news went round, and, while discoursing inside with deliberate calmness and delight, the storm outside began raging far more tempestuously than ^ver, and when early dawn came, our youthful hero Intended making his exit from the dwel- ling of his b( loved, but in consequence of the unprecedented fall of snow during the night, combined with the continued diifting, be was obliged to surrender and take shelter under the root of the young lady's guarnian. Tne stoi m continued for several days and nigh's almost without abatement, and thus prevented the enamoured you).g swaiu's intended de- parture from the home of his lady-love until five whole days had passed—a warning to all who would a-wouing gn," to consult some authority ere they venture out in kuch weather even on such an errand. SOLDIERS' TRADES,—A return prepared at the Horse Guards shows the number of non-commissioned an<i men in every regiment at home or in the Mediterranean stations who learnt some trade before enlisting, and of the number who have worked at their trade since they entered the armv. The largest num- bers are of the trade of shoemakers, of whom there were 3.279 enlisted, and 1,11)7 have practised their trade since enlisting. The smiths are not far behind them, ^.732 ■of these having enlisted, and 1,083 after- wards practised their trade. It is tbe si^n of the times that 2,756 weavers are among the enli»ted men only three of them have practised their trade since en- tering the army. SINGULAR DEALINGS WITH BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES. On Thursday a resident of Bath proceeded to Frome for the purpose of obtaining cash for a 400i. cheque. His paper was honoured, and he obtained n and 20 ten-pound notes. The notes he rolled up and placed in his breeches pocket, and re- turned in a second-class carriage. At Bath he left the carriage, and in the due course the train continued its journey to Bristol. Between Bath and Keynsham a passenger found a roll of notes which he treated as "flash" notes, and distributed some of them to his fellow-passengers, retaining a large number of them himself. At Keynsham the circumstance came to the knowledge of the station-master there, and he came on by the train. Meanwhile the Bathonian missed the notes from his pocket and communicated with the Bath station-master, who telegraphed to Bristol. Upon the train arriving at Sherbourne station inquiries were made and five of the notes were recovered. The person who found the notes could not be discovered. Subsequently the notes were taken to Bath, and it was ascertained that three of the notes had been restored there thus SOl. out of the 200i. were recovered. TBMPERANCE IN THE ARMY.—A large meeting of soldiers has been held at Windsor, presided over by the Rev. II. Hawtrey (chaplain to her Majesty's house- hold troops), and addressed by the vicar of Windsor, the Mayor of Windsor, the Rev. S. Hawtrey (mathe- matical master at Eton), the Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, and several soldiers. The vicar having asked for one hand to beheld lip as an example to the rest. that of a sergeant was at once raised with a. hearty I will." It was immediately followed by the hands of several other sergeants, including the sergeant-or of the regiment, and, after being invited to come up to the platform and give their names, whlCh they dId, amidst the loud cheers of their comrades, a general rise took place in the body of the room, and the men trooped up in numbers, inmany instances accompanied by their wives, to follow the example which had been set them. Upwards of 100 names were enrolled after the meeting and in the barrack-rooms, and about forty were added during the two or three following day p. THE LATE DDKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND.—AT the last meeting of the committee of the National Lifeboat Institution, Thomas Baring, Esq.. M P., in the chair, the following vote ° of condolence was unanimously passed to the widow of its late valued president:— That this Committee, in recording the lamented decease of their President, Admiral His Grace Algernon Duke of Nor- thumberland, K.G., who for so long a peiiod h>d cordially and iinc.a-inoly co-opeiaUd with th m in currying out the great and j<hilai.thropic octets of the R >y»l National liftboat In-ititu'ion are bound by eveiy principle of duty and respect, to place on their n inutes the large debt of gratitude which the L fehoat Cause owes to their late President. It will ever be remem- bered that his munificence in 1852 brought into practical u<e tne se f-righting lifeboat, whi<;h is now placed in large numbers around the coasts of the United Kingdom, and which has contributed during the past twelve years to the savings ot thousands of lives from shipwrecks, not only on our Own shores, but also on those of nuny foreign countries And that the kindly interest which Hi* Grace uniformly evtneed in the welf .re of the Institution, has tended grea ly to bring about the large amount of public support and sympathy now so gei erously extended to the Society. mat this Corrimittee re»pectfully tender their sincere sympathy and condolence to his sorrowful widow, Eleanor, Duchess of N rthumberlmd, witn their earnest prayer that ltmay please the Almighty to sustain her in her sad bereavement. EXTRAORDINARY THEATKICAL PERFORMANCES. Since the day when a hundred dwarfs were united in marriage, with extraordinary pomp and solemnity, at the Court of Russia, there can have been few more curious sights than that which has lately taken place in one of the theatres at Turin. Twenty "natural Italian hunchbacks," as they were styled in the play- bills, have been acting tragedy, and performing grotesque dances before the Turineee public at the Tatro d'Angennes. Such an exhibition of human misery is not perhaps in the best taste, but the hunchbacks were delighted with the results of their speculation, and havo. since transferred their strange spectacle to Milan, where it is said they have just accepted an engagement for Paris. The tragedy was tolerated at Turin, but was ruthlessly hissed/ off the boards at Milan, as too absurd for a serious performance, and not absurd enough for a burlesque. But the dancc was pronounced a great success. A ROYAL ARTISAN.—The Emperor of the French has made some alterations in the arrangements of his private apartments at Compiegne; among others he has chosen for his bedroom the state cabinet of Louis XV., in which was signed the first treaty by which Corsica was ceded to France. A copper meridian is inserted in the floor of this apartment, which the Emperor takes great pains to have preserved. The meridian was executed by Louis XVI. durine his re- sidence at Compiegne in the yeara 1780, 1781, and 1782. His precisely similar to the one existing in the pttits appartemcnts of the palace at Versailles, in the room designated as the Salon de Pendules. Louis XVf. was unfortunately a more expert mechanic than politician, and possessed a portable forge which he transported from Compiegneto Versailles where it was discovered more than forty years after his death by the son of his regicide cousin. In 1833 Louis Philippe was walking over the upper story of the palace, attended by his architect, M. Nepveu, in order to inspect the works which were in the course of execution and to plan further alterations, when the King expressed a wish to visit the mansardes, where he remembered more than once when a child haviDg escaped from his governess, and enjoyed stolen games of romps with the King's pages. M. Nepveu explained that the garrets were to be thrown into one long gallery, and opening a low door showed Louis Philippe an old foree which was to be knocked away the next day. "Miserable!" ex- claimed the King, "Vous dechireune page d'histoire as he recognised the identical spot where he had so often seen Louis XVI. in the dress of an artisan, working at his locks, and even found the cinders of the last fire ever lighted for the mere recreation of the doomed victim of the crimes of bis ancestors. MR. ROEBUCK CRITICISED.—-The only thing worth notice in the debate on Friday night was a speech from Mr. Roebuck on New Zealand (says a writer in the Morning Star). Take the man to pieces take away those imposing attitudes, that pointing with the finger, rhetoric—the outside, in fact—and there is nothing left but the silly platitudes of which any man maygather a bushel the next time he travelsin arailway carriage. They are just the weak common-ptacesof unthinking people served up hot with Roebuckian pepper. Mr. Cave (I think it was, slightly rebuked the foolish nonsense Mr. Roebuck talked about the Maories, by reminding him that all that he had said about their utter inferiority to civilised races might have been said a hundred years back about the High- landers of Scotland. Members generally in the House appeared to think this something of an answer, I ob- served but the honourable member for Sheffield, cased in thickest armour-plate of self-complacency, seemed proof against all argument, and merely tossed his head a trifle and smiled, as much as to signify his contempt for anybody who could dream of the possi- bility of a reply being made to anything Mr. Roebuck, member for the British nation, might choose to utter. THE WHITE SLAVE TRADE — The "Trieste Gazette gives some astounding statistics in reference to the woite slave trade in the Levant. It appear that the number of Circassian children of Christian parents annually exported from Constantinople and other Turkish ports to the Egyptian port of Alex- andria amounts to more than 10,000. The boys are sold to their Egyptian masters at from 3.000 to 4,500 piastres each; the girls at from 10,000 to 13,000 piastres a piece. The trade is stated to be carried on openly under the eyes of the Turkish Government, which does not more a finger to suppress it. A WONDERFUL STORY. — Jeremiah M'Meilly, constable of Mountfield, Tyrone, Ireland, vouches for the authenticity of a moat wonderful story. Peter Crony and his wife, who live in a little cabin out there, he says, adopted an orphan child, to whom some invisible being or beings took objection. No sooner was the child taken into the house t^an the cat went out of it, and in the coi rse of a few days returned, covered with a new kind of vermin, which grew and multiplied ex- ceedingly, until the house was swarming with creatures as large as potatoes and covered with wo >1. [Merely remarking that these creatures may possibly turn in time to sheep, we pass on to a still more wonderful part of the story.] In the presence of a crowd of villagers, all of whom can attest the fact," some in- visible being took it into its head to pelt the whole family, and particularly the little girl, whom we are told it once knocked into a pan of water, with turf The catastrophe is thus related by the veracious con stable Peter—that is Peter Crony—brought in a quantity of turf for the Sabbath's use, piling them opposite the kitchen fire, where the persons named ab >ve were sitting. Suddenly, and in the presence of all, the turf was all thrown at Peter, striking him about the breast. Peter, in retaliation, flung every one of them back from whenea they cam", exclaiming, he would no-: be banished from his home. After these occurrences, Peter's wife and little girl wentt > bed, but the latter kept constantly shouting that they—meaning aqt embryo sheep, we presume—were biting her. On ■examination, five pins, three inches long, were found in the bed, some of them having penetrated the flesh of the little girl." A COMPARISON BETWIXT TWO POLITICIANS.— Mr. Newdegate is solid, serious, careful, painstaking, and discreet, (says a writer in the Illustrated Times). He is very earnest, and when speaking upon the in- roads of Popery says strong things but he is, however, never personal, never oftemllve-is always a gentlemen, in short. And so it has come to pass that he always secures a hearing, however unpopular and unpalatable his subject may be to the House and all the members, even bis Roman Catholic opponents, respect him. On the other hand, Mr. Whalley is wild, erratic, hurried, loose-tongued, and exceedingly indiscreet, and him nobody cares to hear. But Whalley's feeling on this subject appears to be a mere craze. At this point, then, and at no other, these two men meet. It is worthy of remark, though, that there is obviously little concert oetween the two. They are never seen together; they do not call each other "honourable friend ;"and it is suspected that, whilst Whalley would be glad to make an alliance, offensive and defensive, with Newdegate, Newdeg.ite fights shy of Whalley. Nor is this wonderful, for on every point, as we have shown, except one, these two are wide as the poles asunder and how can two walk together except they be agreed ? STARVATION IN WKALTHY LONDON.—On Satur- day, an inquest was held at Bethnal-green, respect- ing the death of a child, aged three days. John Chappel, deposed that he was a shcemaker. Deceased was his child. It was born on the 4th inst. and dieil on the 7th. The mother was not able to suckle it. Witness was out of employment for nearly tbe whole winter, and during the last two months the family were nearly starving. The mother was a binder by trade but binding was tow done by machine and she earned nothing. She used to be for 15 days together without meat before the child was born. The Coroner asked the witness why he did not go into the workhouse rather than subsist in starvation in such a miserable room. Witness said tbat his wife had a great objection to the workhouse, and he did not wish to loose a chance of 8s. a week if work turned up He had another child, four years old. Mr. Brotherton, surgeon, paid he was called in and found the deceased de..tl. It was the most emaciated child he ever saw. The post mortem examination showed a total absenoe of fat, and the intestines were so attenuated that they appeared like those of a chicken rather than those of a human being, Tbe cause of death was congenital atrophy from the^starvation of the mother. The jury found a verdict, that deceased died from congenital atrophy, caused hy the want of food and nourishment on the part of the mother." The Coroner and jury raised a subscription for the mother, who had bad scarcely any food the whole day. TRIAL FOR BIGAMY.—At the Stafford Assizes, \Villiam Weaver was indicted for feloniously marryiog with Mary Drmkwater on the 10th of October, 1861, at St. s Church, Wolverbampton, his former wife, Eliza. N eaver, being then alive. On the 29th of October, 1849, the prisoner was married to ElizJ. More, at Tiptop* He was described as of Holyhead, come- dian. They separated after a short time, and aocording to the prisoner s statement, he had not seen her for ten years before he married the second time. Oa the 10th of October, 1RG!, he was again married at Wolver- hampton, to Mary Drinkwater. The prisoner's state- ment was, that haying separated from his first wife by reason of discovering her in an act of infidelity with a former lover of hers, be went about the country lead- ing a loose hfe as a comedian, and for two years before bis second marriage was living in adultery and drunkenness. He then became converted from his t-inful liftook the teetotaller's pledge, and consulted witn a friend as to the propriety of marrying. Th« friend told him that as he had not seen his wife for ten years he might marry again, and acting upon that advice he did so. His lordship said he had carefully considered the evidence in the case. The prisoner's defence was that be had not seen his wife for seven years, and did not know that she was alive. This, however, did not appear in evidence. He even denied all knowledge of her when confronted with her, and he wda married in a false name. There was one material circumstance in the case, however. That was, that the woman to whom the prisoner was married a second time, and who was generally in such cases considered as the injured party, did not complain. Under these circumstances he did not think it was a case calling for a severe sentence. He had been al- ^rettdy in prison some time, and the sentence of the Court was that he be kept to hard labour for three calendar months. AN Ipisii GENTLKMAN !—A curious presentment ca^e came on for trial recently at the Kilkenny Assizes, before Mr. Baron Hughes. A man named Patrick Doyle, who, it appears, has lived for a long time by levying a kind of black mail through threaten- ing and cursing the people, was presented hy the grand jury as a vagrant, under the statutes of Queen Anne and George II f. The statute of Queen Anne enacts "all loose, idle vagrants, and such as pretend to be Irish gentleman, and will not work, &c., but wander about, demanrtmg victuals and" coshering" from house to house, shall, on the presentment of the grand jury, be sent to goal, and there remain until they shall be sent on board Her Majesty's fleet, or to some of Her Majesty's plantations in America, unless they find sufficient security to be of good behaviour." The jury found that Doyle "was an Irish gentleman, and would not work," and he was sentenced to find two securities in 10l, each for his good behaviour for seven years, or be imprisoned for that period. NOTHING VENTURE, NOTHING HAVE !—A story is current of the success of one of the most spirited speculations in the annals of blockade-running, and by which it is flaid itR originatoril have realised Pr<'h^s to the amount of 100 000?. Ir, is stated that a well-known army clothier of Limerick had 60,000 suits ofmihtary outfits manufactured. A steamer oossess- mg all the qualities necessary for blockade-running was purchased for 400001., and the clothing put on board, j Ptam Burgoyn^, a dashinsr sailor, son of the late Sir "9 n~PrS°}'ne, was appointed captain of the craft, with 1,000?. a month, and with instructions that if he succeeded in landing his cargo in Wilmington he should have 5 per cent, as his share of the profits, and on arriving at Liverpool wi*h a cargo of cotton he should be rewarded with 2^ per cent. additional on the latter transaction. Everything was got ri-ady with as much despatch and as little noise as possible, and about the middle of last month the vessel steamed out of Limerick port on her hazardous expedition. As she Beared her destination the Federals were bombarding Wilmington, and in the thick of the fray Captain Burgoyne slipped in unnoticed, unshipped his military stores, put all board a cargo of cotton, and a telegram from Liverpool has announced her arrival at that port without so much as receiving a shot from the Federals. AERIAL LOCOMOTION,- A prize of 5,000 francs has been placed at the disposal of the French Society for the encouragement of Aerial Locomotion, by appara- tuses heavier than air. This was announced at a late meeting of tbe Society by M. Landelle, vice-president, in his ^report on the operations of 18GI. Several experimental apparatuses have already been con- structed, among which we may mention that of M. de Groof, but which, owing to the defective execution of some '«f its parts, is not yet in working order. An interesting experiment was made at Gravelles the other day. The members of t. e society who undertook it obtained some good results from a rudimentary apparatus wjn(?s made of feathers, accord- ing to M. Menusier's method. By striking the air with these wings, the experimentalists succeeded in raising themselves a few inches from the ground, a fact which partly confirms the story about the Viennese watch- maker, Deghen, and also the theory of those who maintain that demonstrative results may be obtained by the direct application of human strength alone.
AMERICAN "SENSATIONS."
AMERICAN "SENSATIONS." The New York correspondent of a London daily con- temporary furnishes the followiug humourous anecdates of the oil "lords" of America ■ Our newspapers occasionally chronicle some of the queer doings of the nouveaux riches. Many of these anecdotes are coined oy imaginative scrioblers, but some of the facts are far more surprising than the fancies. A petroleum millionaire recently walked up Broadway for the purpose of buying kid gloves. De- termined to make a '"sensation he purchased at no place less than twenty pairs, his sole object seeming to be to secure as many colours as possible. He had hired a man to carry his purchases, and when he thought he had enough-how many is not stated he amuseu him- self by giving them away to the seediest and dirtiest of people in the street. As a consequence he was soon surrounded by a vociferous crowd ot ragamuffins, eager to participate in his favours kid gloves, worth (here) three dollars a pair, were not to be despised by those who could easily turn them into ready money. The result after the whole affair was, that the mob was dispersed by the police, and the petrohoinaniae marchedotI 10 the station-house, where he paid a sub- stantial fine with the air of a nabob, and then walked away satisfied. BUYING A CAPACITY A friend who has spent some weeks in the Pennsyl- vania oil region, relates one or two very amusing incidents of the manner in which some of the ignorant farmers, suddenly grown rich, conduct themselves. A person rejoicing in the euphonious cognomen of Tarr, is the proprietor of some of the richest oil land in Vernango county. One year ago this Tarr was not the possessor of 5,000 dolJara to-day he is worth" a million and a half. He has not only sold portions of his land at fabulous prices, but he has, also, an interest in all wells on his property. Tarr has one daughter, a buxom Pennsylvania damsel, whose ideas of social enjoyment never before rose above a country apple paving bee," and whose education was confined to th.. care of cattle and the cooking of a farmer's dinner. "When Tarr grew rich, he determined to give his dahter an eddication." "Langwidges" he did'nt care much about, but moosic,"he thought, would embrace all things. So the daughter was gent to Wheeling, West Vir- —t1 "-hi ——, ginia, to receive a musical education. The services I an accomplished professor were secured, and the buxom Pensylvanienne seated herself before the piano. She drummed and thrummed, the teacher entreated, and wept and scolded, but at the expiration of some months the young lady knew no more than when she began to torture the keys. She sent for her father to take her home. The old gentleman came, much ex- asperated at the result of his ambition to give his daughter a "finished education." He was pleased to charge the failure to the account of the teacher, whom he summoned to his presence, and interrogated in this Hain't yer got nopiannies?" "Yes, sir." tHain't yer got no moosic-books ?" "Plenty." Hain't yer got time enuff?" "All that is neces- sary." "Well, then, what do you want?" "Mr. Tarr, I am sorry to say that your daughter lacks capacity," Capassity—capassity ? why" (and here the old gentleman used a very expressive word), "why don't yer buy hex one? I've got money enuff 1" KEEPING GUARD OVER A STACK" OF GREENBACKS Another story is related of ajman named Funk, also a heavy proprietor of oil lands. When oil was "struck" on Funk's farm, certain capitalists approached him for the purpose of purchasing a portion of his property. He d..manded2.00000 dollars for the few acres re- quired, and a bargain was immediately consummated. But here an unforseen difficulty presented itself. Funk kn* w nothing of cheques or drafts, of the principles of exchange, &c., and demanded the money down" in greenbacks. The capitalists worked like heroes to secure the same. They scraped all the small banks in the neighbourhood, and finally succeeded in getting the sum. Either through design or circum- stance the amount was up made of notes of small de- nominations, and when gathered into one pile the heap resembled a small hay-rick. Poor Funk was in misery. I What to do with his money he did not know. At last he scraped it up, put it into a barrel, and hired four men to guard it. These protectors" he armed with muskets and rusty old pistols, and stationed them in a log hut, marshalling them about the precious barrel, which stood in the centre of the floor. Then the fortunate possessor of a stack" of green- backs retired to his disturbed slumbers. But the faithful warders whom he had left in charge of his riches had smuggled into the cabin a plentiful supply of apple-whiskey, in order to fortify themselves against the perils of the night. The result was that they speedily got drunk and in the orgie which followed the previous paper was scattered over the floor in every direction. When Funk opened the door in the morn- ing his first vision was of the four worthies reclining on an artincialmeadow of greenbacks, locked in drunken slumber. The^ old gentleman hastily collected his demoralised property, and, placing it in a wagon, drove ac furious speed to the most neighbouring bank, where he deposited it, having learned, it is presumed, a valuable lesson in finance,
A RIBBON OATH.
A RIBBON OATH. If any of your readers are curious to know the exact terms of a liibbon oath, tha subjoined will appease their thirst for information (writes a Dublin corre- spondent). The original of the oath was found in the possession of Patrick Masterson, who was convicted of Bibbonism, at Longford, the other day—on the evidence of an approver of course—and sentenced to five years' penal servitude. Hearken to the oath .— I A B., with the sign of the cross, promise and declare that I will uphold all things dedicated to our holy apostle St. Patrick, the patron of Ireland. 1. That in town or country I will give the preference of dealing to our own interest, so as circumstances may admit. 2. That I won c allow any ptr on of su pilous bad character into our cimpany, 3. That I will not drink at any of our meetings so as to endanger the names of any person in the society. 4. That I wiil attend when called upon, and comply withal things lawful 5. That I won't stand by and fee any of our brothers struck or grumsly spoken of without apprehending the cause 6. That. I won't give this to SIIY person with- out being aatorisr d by authority. 7. That I won't give this to any person without a test. 8 That I will a low the light arm to he dislocate.) from the body before I prosecute or give iu any informatlom, A set of passwords, which, as the informer ex- plained, are changed periodically, had also been found on the prisoner. These passwords, as copied from the prisoner's book, establish the fact that Ribbonmen have some original ideas as to grammar and ortho- graphy Napolians playes seems to change. English statesmen thiukes stranpf. The Frenchmen will british F"rce subdue in memory of Nay and Waterloo. The nights are disagree- able so is the Congress. To keep cool. I always dun s@. May Boneshead soues ( f Erin come borne with sord in hand to free the /and and sink the English fleet, The question arises, Who or what is Boneshead ? And it must remain a question, for no answer arises to correspond. The adverb "grumpy," which occurs in the oath, is also a poser of the moat invincible character.
SALE of the WINES and SPIRITS…
SALE of the WINES and SPIRITS of an ECCENTRIC CHARACTER. There was an important sale ot old wines and old spiiits at Carlisle, when the contents of the cellars of the hte Mr G. BLimire, barrister-at-law of No 1, Adam street, Adeipht, London, and of Carlisle, were brought to the hammer, and realised above 1,70( I:— Some extraordinary circumstances connected with Mr. Blathire gave the sale a peculiar interest. He was a man of very eccentric habits, having lived in almost complete seclusion in his chambers in London for many years; no one was allowed to enter his apartment, his meals being prepared by his house- keeper, left in an ante. room by her, and afterwards taken in hy Mr. Blamire and other communications were made in the same way. One day in September, 18G3, the housekeeper, on goin^ up as usual, received no response when she knocked at the door, and, becoming alarmed, she opened the door and discovered her master sitting in his chair, dead. Papers, valuables, book», and artICles of wearing apparltl were found strewn about the room n great confusion, covered with dust nearly an inch thick, the accumulation of years. There was no bed in the room, the deceased having been in the habit of sleeping in his cba He was possessed of considerable property in Cum- berland and elsewhere. In the year 1834, upon the death of his father, Dr. Blamire, of Carlisle, the cellar which had belonged to the doctor, was inherited by his son, who had all the wines and spirits packed in wooden bins, in an arched vault beneath a public court in Carlisle. In 1842 the place was reopened, the wooden bins were replaced by stone, and the vault was again walled up. There the store remained till the death of Dr. Blamire rendered this sale necessary. Some portions of the stock sold on Friday had been walled up in a room in a house in another part of the city. The sale attracted many connoisseurs of the district, and agents and dealers from London, Man- chester, Newcast.le-on- 1 yne, and elsewhere and the prices realised are said to be unprecedented. Six dozen of 1820 port, described in the catalogue as the finest and most perfect in the lot, were bought by the Town-cleik of Carlisle at 3ol. a dozen Mr. Fowler, of London, acting as agent for one of his customers, bongi t six and a half dozen 1811 Port, at twenty-five guineas a dozen; eight dozen 1820 Port, at, 27l. a dozen and eight dozen of the same vintage, in ano- ther lot, at 16Z. a. dozen. There were several other lots of 1820 Port sold Four dozen, at 13l. a dozen three dozen, at 13L 10s. three dozen, at 14Z. 14s, and eight dozen, at YIl. Three and a quarter dozen of Port, of the vintage 1814 or 1811, sold for 81. a dozen: and six and a quarter dozen, at 10Z. 1o" and 10l. West India Madeira sold at 31. 5s., 3l 103" 4i., and 51. a dozen. Sherry, described as of "Amon- tillado character," GI. 15s. two (bzen white and a quarter dozen red Lacliryma Christi, at 75a dozen Fast India Sherry sold at 81. 15s. a dozen six dozen East India Maderia, 9l, 10s. and lOt. 10s. a dozen. The spirits sold for relatively huh prices. There wa* a large quantity of rum, a portion of which was 144 years old, 26s. and 27s. a bottle; and one small lot of three bottles realised 60s. a bottle; Antigua rum sold at 26-i. a bottle arrack, at lis. a bottle Hollands gin, 16s. 6d. thirteen magnums of rum at 62s. 6d. each old whiskey, 7s. 61., 15s., and 20" a bottle.
IEPITOME OF NEW £ .
EPITOME OF NEW £ BRITISH AND FCKEIGN. The prisoners who are in custody on the charge of the great rohbHifs in London, were again brought before the Lord Mayor on Tuesday-all hut the wife of Hurley, who hash-en delivered of a chi'd in Newgate since the last examination.. Several witnesses were examined, and at the close the Lord Mayor apain remanded them, lefusing bail, which wa. again applied for on behalf of the women. At Sheffield, William Charlesworth, a publican, has been committefi for trial, charged with a'tempting to murder, model' circumstances of great bru'ality, a woman named Rupht n, with whom he harl cohabited for twenty-five ye ^rs. Their son, aged ten, gave evidence of the brutal conduct of his fat her. Alexandre Dumas has written a'" Life of Csesar." in which his opinIons on various subject's ara in direct op- podtlon to tho,e of the Emperor of the French. A Kilkenny paper says :—" Hayes, the murderer of Mr. HI ad rl ell, died a few days ago on the mouutatns of SHevenamon He wandered about for the last few years, no one wishu g to act the policeman, but, owing to want and wretchedness, hunted from place to place, he at lust fell a viatim to privation. He was buried a few days since at 3 o'clock in the morning, to avoid detection." MrR. Horace St. John having presented General Garibaldi with a copv of her "Life of Masaniello," has re-eivfd the following aclmow¡. rlgment from Cupreri:— "G acinus Signor* St .John,—Thanks for your bo >lr, which I am reading with detp interest'; and thanks, above all, for your generous sympathy with th6 cause of my country.— Yours, while I live, G. Garibaldi." A contemporary observes that the parallel between Julius Cæsar and Napoleon Buonaparte, drawn by the Emperor of the French, is not PO s riking "S the d'ffnrence between them, for Ctesar conquered Britain and Napoleon didn't! The new magazine brought out by the name of the Swrord and Trowel" is profanely called in Paternoster Row the "Soap and Towel." The Paris Charivari has a picture of a pair of horses sbyina-at the entrance to an hotel in which a horse-flesh banquet was recently given. The Parisians are introducing steel ornaments for ladies in lieu of gold, and have arrived at a wonderful degree of pefection in the manufacture. One of the great things that a spiritualist of renown does recently, in proof of bis power, is to make apokerstand on its poking end on a brick. In London, an old man was eating some beef in an eating-house, when a piece, weighing nearly two ounces, stuck in his throat, and caused immediate death. A statue of Napoleon I., in white marb'e' by the late Duke de Morny, has just been placed in the library of the Legislative Chamber. t The Kelso Chronicle says that on the c. gIPSY palace" at Yetholm was ^^Vn who tion, and was t ought for 20/. by a ^ntleman no loier.as to present it to Helen Blyth, tha ,Trm,e royal family, and rival of Etty for the gipsy tftrone The following paragraphhJsbeg„™reat(,j "10108 ladles forfeIt tbelr A friendly conference between reform-rs of the middle and reformers of the wo.kmg c'ass was held in Lon- don on Saturday. S ver^jl memht-rs of I' w!i;unKlltl were presenr, and among them Mr bright who, while n t askii.g the workhg men to g've UfJllelr teeling in favour of man- hood suffrage, spoke in support of household suffrage as the most likely to command the support of the present electoral body. The working men generally were willing to accept whatever they could get, but expressed their determination not to rest satisfied with anything short ot manhood suffrage, protected by the ballot. The Rev. John Davis, the highly-resnected Ordinary of Newgate, London, died suddenly on Tuesday morniDg. It appears that the rev. gentleuiau was seizad with illness in an omnibus while on his way to the prison in the discharge of iiis daily duties, and on the vehicle reaching Its desti- nation Mr. Davis was found to be dead. The King of Italy has signed a decree granting a full amnesty for all political offences, and for all persons who were compromised in the Aspromonte affair. A series of sketches, entitled" Qua-i Photographs," is now in course of publication in the Court Circular. The author is Mr.) ohnAstle, editor of the Cheltenham Times. Four sketches have already appeared. A man, who bore a number of aliases, has been charged "t Liverpool with being concerned in the great jewellery robbery which took place in that borough a few weeks since. The prisoner had been chased through the south of England, and was eventually secured at Southamp- ton with a lot of jewellery on him, which has been identified. It is a curious fact that none of the papers agree as to the character of the disease' which carried off M. de ) Morny, Some say It wall anœmia, others cancer of the stomach, others again that it was a liver complaint compli- cated with a bronchial affection and gastr&lgia. "Agentleman, 26, wantsan amiable and accomplished ? wife, good looking, and one who would make him happy money no object. As this advertisement is bona fide, com- munications will be considered as strictly private. Corres- pondents must enclose carte, which wUI be returned if not considered satisfactory. Address Harold, Post-office, Brig- F bouse, near Norman ton.—Advertisement in Manchester Examiner. It is said that the brilliant and successful new novel Shattered Idols," is from the pen of a peeress, whose very recent bereavement has occasioned the withdrawal of her name from the second edition, just published, which other- wise was to have been acknowledged by the authoress. It is stated that certain wealthy Englishmen intend to offer to purchase of the Italian Government three-fourths of the island of Caprera—one fourth of which belongs to Garibaldi-in order to present it to the illustrious General. The value of the property is estimated at from bixty to eighty thousand lire (about 2,0002. or 3,0001) Sabbatarianism in the Navy ought to be looked upon as an innovation. We therefore record, on the authority of the United Service Gazette, that the Commander-m Chief, who enjoys his cigar as much as' anybody, we believe, has issued anotderforbidoing smoking on the Mediterranean station on Sunday.—[Wny on that particular station?] Captain J. R. Macdonnel informs Volunteers that the testimonial to Colonel M'Murdo is going on satisfac- torily. An ox belonging to a farmer near Periguex in France, has bet n killed by eating a small quantity of tobacco which was being conveyed to the storehouse. A startling case of destitution was made known in Liverpool last week A poor rag picker was found dead in her cellar, and neither food, Redding, nor furniture could be seen in her miserable habitation The evidence given at the inquest showed tbat the poor creature had not tasted food for tome days before her death. It ia said that Napoleon reads with great interest all articles published in the European press on the subject of his work. The French representatives abroad have been instructed to send to Paris all the comments and paragraphs relating to thebook. The Paris journals announce that a real piece of the cross and the irown ef thorns from the Crucifixion will be exhibited every Friday during Lent at Notre Dame. A shocking case of starvation is reported from Lon- don. Captain James Athill, of the Royal Navy, died some few months since, leaving his wife deitltute at the age of '1 fifty. Haying furniture, the lady endeavoured to get a living by letting lodgings, but was so unsuccessful that what few articles she had went bit by bit until there was nothing left either to sell or pawn. A day or two ago she was found dead in her house, and a post mortem examina- tion revealed the fact that she had died from sheer starvation. Something new in fraud has just been developed in London. A man attlred as a railway porter takes to a gentleman's town house » parcel, endorsed, "immediate, by special messenger," produces a forged railway bill, pur- porting to show that the parcel comes from the gentleman's country seat, and having received the charges named in the bill, walks away. The parcel is then opened, and is found to contain a few bricks. One of these amateur porters, bow- T; t*le trick on once too often. He was arrested at btr Hugh Cairns s on Friday, and is now In custody on several distinct charges, begging letter writing amongst the num- ber The income of tha Duchy of Lancaster in 1861 was 40,0122. the salaries and other expenditure 13,73il. and the sum of 26,000<. was paid over for her Majes'y's use. The income of th" Duchy of Cornwall for 1864 amounted to 6S.411J., the salaries and other expenses to 15,699i. and the sum of 50.000Z. was paid over for the use of the Prince of Wales. The Bishop of Malta has prohibited marriage be. tween Itoman Catholics and Protestauts until the latter has for six months abjured his reJigion. The report comes that the Bishop of Gibraltar has returned the compliment by for- bidding mixed marriages until the Roman Catholic has been tux months a Protestant. It is reported tbat her Majesty will go to Balmoral during the month of May, t8 make a sojourn of two or three weeks. Mr. Haussmann, the Prefect of the Seine, has re- solved upon g ving tne name of "Julius Ctesar" to one of the streets ot Paris I No military or naval officer or uncovenanted servant is to be appointed to any new Indian office in civil employ- ment after fifty-five years of age. [IV e should think not.] A guidwife, when gutting a large cod fish one day towards the fnd of last week, at Largo, made a singular discovery. What at first seemed to be a gold watch was discoverd in its stomach, but which on closer scrutiny proved, to be a round sbapeu 'bacco box, ful) of the finest cut weed, and on the lid of which, rudely engraven, was Hans Zenglar." No fewer than eleven persons were killed by vehicles in the streets of London the week before last. It is not at all improbable that we shall hear either of the total abolition of the wine duties, or their reduction to such a nominal sum that it wiil be tantamount to an abolition as much as the one shilling per quarter duty on corn is the abolttion of duty on that article. A late case of refusal to admit the corpse of a child, hapthed bý a Wesleyan minister, into the village church of Boughton, in the tJÏocese of Norwich, has been settled by an order from the bishop that in future such refusal should not be repeated. The Prince of Wales was in the House of Commons on Monday night, during the speeches of Mr. Seymour Fitz- gerald and Mr. Forster. He occupied a seat in the Peers' Gallery. In London, a weman has been charged with throw- ing lur infant on to a fire. It appears that whilst in a state of intoxication she went into the pat lour of a public-house- and threw her child on the fire. It rolled off, alld was in stantly taken up by some persons who were present. It was very thuch cut and burnt, and is now in hospital. The woman seemed to have no regiet for what she had done. An American paper estimates that 20.000,000 human beings have lived and died slaves III the United f; atex from the time the latter became a nation to the pre- sent tim", The King of Italy has granted an amnesty to all persons charged with political offences, and with a con- ti avention of the press law, and to those who were connected with the Aspromonte affair. A stag, of the red deer species, gave the hounds a most txtraordinary lun in the East R'dicg of Yorkshire on Wednesday in last week. He fan fifty mires in five hours and five minutes, alld was finally taken alive at Kunbourne Holme. The Prince and Princess of Wales gave a ball on Friday night, the 10tn, at Marlborough House, in celebration of the second a tin versary of their Royal Highnesses' marriage. At the Armagh Assizes three men have been found guilty of the ahduc!ÏI1n ot a young W1man named .R0se Morgan, who had a small property, with a view of forcing her to marry one of them, but the po'ice and her friends came in time to the rescue. The principal offender was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment, and the other two to 12 months. Some of the French papers credit the Prince of Wales with anonymous authorship of scientific works. The Davenport Brothers were in the House of Com- mons the oi her nicht. There was no knotty point before the House, and the M.P.'< bestowed on the spiritual brothers as much attention as they rece ved from them. The Daven- ports, it is said, have netted above 5,0001, by about two hundred seances. The price of golden-coloured hair in Paris is 125 francs an ounce, so much is that hair esteemed and coveted by lailiei. It is growing dearer and rarer every day, and It is said will soon be sold at 125 francs the carrot," or more orrectly the carat. At the sale of some ancient armour, in London, a r 111 tilting suit, cap-apied, with plume, the nn H .v'zor havirg a grotesque nose and moustache, the n ? s.'e(^» a rare t\pe of the time of Richard the Third, ana of which there is no complete speciajen in the Tower collection, brought 82Z. 10.. General M'Clellan is at present in Rome. "The enteral," says the Roman correspondent of the Times, "has certainly no expectation of a speedy termination of the war which is now devesting bis unhappy country." Mr. Angell, who won the Grand Liverpool Steeple- chase. is reported to have netted 20,0002 and Mr. Coventry a Cousin of the present Knl of Coventry, formerly in the Guards, who rode the winner, has won 6,0001. The new novel by M. Berthet, called Le Jure" relates the history of a murder which is commuted by a man who is subsequently called upon to judge an innocent person charged with it. [Sensational, rather 1] The man Burke, a dissolute fellow, who murdered his wife at Preston, a few weeks since, by beating in her skull with a bedpost., was tried at Vmcaster Assizes on Fii- day, found guilty, and sentenced to death. Daring the trial he maintained an astountiingly cool and impudent de- meanour, hut when sentence was passed, fainted, and had to be carried from the dock. His defence was that he was raving drunk at the time he committed the murder. ( A fine polish is now given to linen thread by a simple process. After the thread is reeled in skeins a stout workman takes a bunch as thick as his arm and catches it upon an iron hook; then, passing a stiff'stick through the opposite end of the loop, he twists the thread tightly with all his muht. Immediately untwisting it, he catches it in ano'her part upon the hook and gives it another twist. A few repetitions of this process impart to the thread a most bsautiful, smooth, silken finish. A young seaman named Heonessy was brought before the Southampton magistrates on FrMay. on a charge of murder on ,th" higH seas. It seems that while on board the Isabella Ridley, hound from Havre t.o Peruambuco, he quarrelled with a French seaman, whom he deliberately stabbed to the heart in cool blood some five hours after all semblance of disagreement b&tvecn them had passed a way He was remanded in order that the evidence against him might be completed. Miss Theresa Longworth has been defeated in her application to the Court «f S<s?,io1!. Ior„^ reference of her whole casetoMaj r Yelverton s oatn■ ihti Court were not una imons, but the majority were a„iin^t Miss Longworth. An application to ciISr_?J'lt0n wa, „e ,ton was also declined, and M^f°^JSrstood thJJ0^1 COst3" Th° Scotsman says that it Is V' Mlss Longworth i..tends to appeal against the dec sion of the Scotch Court of Session, so that the case may again come before the House of Lords. One of the latest advertising novelties is the follow- ing Two or three gent emen wanted, gifted with eloquence and with power and nerve to debate caoab^ of advocating at Company s public meetings the view, of tK who as shareholders are anxious to rest and wLnkf.?i » rcCs:loVTawyers0arPWhOSeiin 6resfs^^t'e'ugmeerf Un- warranted and unprofttabTe^penditure8" fUrther Un" e,S^fc,i0r has Siven notice of a bill for oanies this aifi m?rlsonment'or debt; but he accom- the e'ffpnt th»^ratl°n ln the law with another enactment, t) hv a hanfeJ at)y Property that may afterwards be acquired Sunrt £ P Wh P^8 a 8malltr dividend than 5s. in the r who farts to obtain the assent by his discharge f lioii't t s creditors ia point of value,.shall remain name for his past debts. T adverti8ement of a curious nature appears in a London morning paper the other day:—"A you'g single gentleman of fortune, wishing to extend his circle of friends In town, is desirous of meeting with ladies willing, on peing sat sfied of his position and respectability, to in- troduce him to elite London society." The elite may be warned to keep a watch on stray comers. The inquiry into the drowning of the cadets trained on bo-trrl the Worcester was resumed at the Erith Pier Hotel on Monday. S veral of the boys who were iu the barge when she capsized were examimci, as weil as some water- men who witnessed the accloent, and helped to rescue the survivors, Ihe captain ùf the ship, snd the sailor who had chaige of the boat; hut not Olie of them was able so much as to suggest a probable cause for the capsizing of the boat at the time and in the manner sh* did. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death. It is sad to state that with the exception of the boy who was brought ashore dead at the time of the accident none of the bodies have been re- covered,