The Aberystwith Observer

PASSING EVENTS, RUMOURS, &c. A deputation from the Cotton Supply Association waited upon the Sultan at Buckingham Palace, on Monday, to urge UDon him the importance ol extending the cultivation of cotton in the Ottoman empire, at the same time congratula- ting him upon what had already been done in that direction. it was stated in an address that was presented to his Majesty on thp occasion, that while the quantity of cotton imported from the Turkish dominions m 1862 was only 41,212 cwt., in 1865 it had reached upwards of 223,000 cwtwithout taking CiccounUhat which had been exported toother coun- tries. _———————

The resident magistrate in Belfast, Mr. 0 Donnell, has complimented the people of that town upon tne peaceable manner in which the twelfth of July passed over. The heaviest sentence he had inflicted on any person arrested on that occasion was two months' imprisonment for an assault, and altogether the cases that had come before him, many ot them of a trifling nature, only amounted in number to thirty-eight. It was highly creditable to the uuiiwit&Pts, he said, "that on a day fraught with so much excitement, and when large bodies of the population had assembled together, that such was the fact." In 1865 he sat, along with another magistrate, from eleven in the morning until half- past seven in the evening, disposing of cases arising out of the anniversary. In 1866 the same thing occurred but this year he had left the bench as early as two o'clock in the day.

The Augsburg Gazette had the other day an amusing squib. It printed what purported to be a circular despatch from Prince Gortschakoff, declaring that the condition of Ireland was a European question. The circular was a direct imitation of some of those which the British Government sent out some years ago as to Poland. Everyone who read the circular in the Augabtirg Gazette must have seen that it was a squib: but, nevertheless, the Journal of 8t. Peters- buxf, gravely declares that the despatch is a pure inven- tion.

The Norwegians jealously keep to themselves, and apart from the Swedish Government the control of their army and fleet, and fit out vessels after their own heart. They have just completed a monitor called The Scorpion, which is now 011 its way to Stockholm. It carries in a turret two Arm- strong guns, which throw 3501b. shot with a charge of 441b. of powder. The guns weigh 74,0001b. Notwithstanding this, the machinery for working them is so excellent that they can be manoeuvred by one man alone. The side, of the iron tur- ret are eleven inches thick, and are lined inside with horse- hair mattresses. The monitor is worked by engines of lliO- horse power and is manned by eighty men, twenty of whom attend to the engines and twenty man the guns. The cost of the monitor and her equipment has been 50,000l.

In the House of Commons, the other evening, Mr. Roebuck gave his version of the squabble between himself and Mr. Connolly, which had led to the exclusion of the latter from the board-room of the Royal Commission on Trade Unions. After declaring at a public meeting his abhorrence of the dark deeds which have been done at Sheffield, Connolly went on to ask, But what can you expect from a town which re- turns Mr. Roebuck?" Mr. Roebuck reported this observa- tion to his brother Commissioners, told them he would never consent to sit in the same room with a man who had asked such a question, and left them to decide between two things —whether they would exclude Connolly, or whether he him- self should withdraw. "They excluded Mr. Connolly," said the hon. learned gentleman, "and I remained." The House received Mr. Roebuck's statement with shouts of laughter.

Among the witnesses examined at the adjourned inquest npon the Warrington railway collision on Friday was Colonel Yolland, the Government inspector, who, says the Manches- ter Guaraian, stated that when an accident occurred at the same place five years ago, Captain Tyler enquired into the circumstances, and presented to the London and North- Western Company a report which specified many recommen- dations as to the safer working of the traffic at the junction. Had they been adopted the recent collision could not have occurred; yet not only had they been neglected, but alterations had been made which made the junction worse than before.

The Turin Gazette Teeently published an article, encour- aging the attempts against Rome in the name of the national sentiment. General Garibaldi has just addressed to that journal a letter, in which he shows more and more his resolution of assisting in the enfranchisement ot the Eternal City Without Rome," he says, "there is no repose, no prospfclity, no Italy possible. The Roman insurrection will certainly take place where a rising of the people com- mences is known, but where it will finish is a thing impossible to predict."

THE VICEROY OF EGYPT AT THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW. On Monday the Viceroy of Egypt left London to visit the Royal Agricultural Society's Exhibition at Bury St, Edmund's. Bis Highness is great in ploughs and harrows, and does all that a ruier in íolich a country can do to ensure there being corn in Egypt." He had, therefore, doubtless great pleasure in seeing ",4at marvels of mechanical ingenuity the clod- qomp^ile^ pf this cloudy clime are driven to employ not only in the pi:ùj>e,,5¡; cf culture, but in the pre- paration of food for stock and the esjqnQiriisatioj). of human labour. Owing to the lingering presence of the rinderpest in this country no stock was exhibited, and tlie therefore, was, unfortunately, somewhat shorn of its fair ordinary proportions. The Daily News gives the following account of the Viceroy's visit to the Exhibition :— dwelling jfj tents may be pleasant in warm dry weather, but the reverse viioii fglls and drives in perpetual plenty. It only required bad weather to complete tne disad- vantages to be contended against by the society this year, Wr- have bad weather to-day without stint. The summer showers of »und:;y were succeeded by a magnificent moon- tight, that gave promise of lll1ohi1)lJ to-day: but. after "TTiidnight the wind shifted into a cold quarts, aEd the rau) bega., tp fall with depressing perseverance. Resolving to brave tile worst the inhabitants of the town were busy soon after daylight in adding to the pretty decorations that were lrady to be seen, cheering each otimf in their hammering and snipping by a feigned belief that the rain was merely the pride of the morning." The show yard was a deplo- rably desolated place at thu opening; desolated because of tho "tow visitors dreary because nearly everything was covered up and closed in cheerless because of the cold rain that drove into your fate turn which way you would and additionally uninviting on account of the universal mud and slush. The judges, with their waterproof garments, might be at their duties and unhappy-looking labourers literally clad ir- sackcloth were at the pens looking after their charge. But the Other visitors were men specially interested in the exhihition—breeders, owners, officials, or persons of influence connected with the society. Oruinary people did not probably feel inclined to pay as. for the en- joyment in prospect. excursion trains came in one after another with lines of empty carriages, the caos and omnibuses that had been brought to Bury to share in the golden harvest that everybody hoped to reap, stood in the rain, with horses and drivers the very picture of despair. T4is is no doubt an unlucky opening day, :+TIl! it will entail heavy l^ss pOH many who had provided extensively for the occasion. The great event of the day, if not of the week, has been the visit of the Viceroy of Egypt. The townspeople up to the last moment could not be dissuaded from befieving that the Viceroy voijUl bring with him a gorgeous retinue, includ- ing the Sultan and ill" fripce of Wales. The authorities had been apprised that the visit was to be as private as pos- iùle, and no special preparations were accordingly made for his reception at the railway station. The station-master added a few evergreens to the other decorations, and placed some red cloth upon the ground from the spot where the carriage would halt to the entrance door. There were only thirty or forty persons in the station at the time of his Highness's aiiiya!, and not more than 100 outside. The train came in a little before twelve o'clock, and the Mayor of Bury (who singularly enough happens to be a very success- ful fí}¡:l]1erj, the corporation, and some of the railway direc- tors, themselves before the royal saloon carriage to receive their disttnguiaheG visitor, who was accompanied by one oriental attendant and two or tjjree English gentlemen. Jlis Highness was introduced to the mayor and to .Sir E. i^ezTiJoii; whose carriage waited without. Hats were taken off by the spectators on the platform, and his Highness ac- knowledged his re&tptio^ with his usually dignified and rapid salutation. He at once walked cut of the station, and Sir E. Kerrison's carriage dashed off through the mua at a Mczd that was considered very unnecessary by the small groups in iiis street who had been waiting an hour to see him. His Highness, iu passing, to°k » ° at the line show of umbrellas that ihicdfciio apl^oachto the station, while the spectators, whose ideas of an Eastern Siwre doubtless associated witn baihanc pgarl and cold ^allowed thp Viceroy to pass without sending a ^le cheer Xr him. It was inw-odibla tp them th^t the dressed gentleman in what seemed to them to be f ttlcoimoT moking-cap could be the much-talked-of visitor By and bys an elderly gentleman, with military moustache, in a splendid suite cf blue and gold, and wearing a broad rap and heavy epaulettes) appeared viih a shaft, thick gold varf4 in his hand. He hastily clambered upon a cob that was arrayed a showy blue saddle cloth, and can- tered off after the carriage* cor,t?,ining the Viceroy and the mayor and corporation. The strangers prasicnt r-heered him heartily, little thinking that the gentleman was the chipf constable a naval captain), and not the descendant of the Pharaohs. If the day hud Uijen fine the Viceroy WQUld have seep an abundance of flags, and liowe»», r. neople, but the flags now clung to their poles, and the carriage windows were too dimmed with wet to allow the inmates to be grati- fied by seeing the floral decarUipn<j or their authors. Sir E. Kermon's carriage drove into the show-gtoar.d amidst the firing of cannon and some little cheering. The Viceroy must have" arrived without due announcement, for when the carriage stopped at the iittjc tent opposite the entrance where his highness was to paf-take of refreshment, a workman was just beginning to lay åqWfl a piece of red cloth upon the pathway. The carriage drove up Ül q, twinkling, and while the secretary was hurrying up from his o^ice, and the carpet-layer still on his hands and kne,e. the Viceroy got out of the carriage, and had to panse for a moniisr.t or two until the laying of tho red cloth was hastily completed. Ili; Highness was received by thE chief members of the society's council, and conducted into the tent to luncheon. 4- few gentlemen were admitted, the curtain was drawn, and the feast proceeded, while the wind rose and the rain beat the drenched canvas more than ever. A pole had been erected in front of this tent with the intention of hoisting the Egyptian flag before his Highness arrived. The intention was not, how- ever, carried out, and during the luncheon, the spectators, who crowded outside the barrier around the tent, reared again and again with laughter at the efforts of a labourer to climb up a slippery pole and fit the rope in its proper place. The work was eventually done, and when his Highness re-appearad the crescent and the star were flutter- ing violently in the storm. The Viceroy, his interpreter, the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, and SirE. Kerrison, seated themselves in the carriage, and commenced their inspection of the show-yard. Earl Cathcart, on horseback, directed the movements of the coachman, having evidently drawn up 3 programme of the chief things to be inspected. Mr. Torr, an active member of the counCIl of the society, acoompaniedjand assisted the noble earl. About 4 hundred general followers with umbrellas trudged through the thick mud close behind the carriage, and the mayor and two or three other gentlemen came after in a second carriage. A workman waited upon the Viceroy's carriage with a cloth covered board about a yard square for his highness to stand upon, but during his visit he did not once leave the carriage. The first halt was at Crowe's large portable 7-horse power thrashing machine, with engine. This implement numbers amongst many other advantages the power of moving from stack to stack and being at work in five minutes from the time it stops. The ponderous machine was set in motion by its tuo engme drivers and was manao-pd so as to turn almost in its own length. The stand of Morton 4J; Co. (Liverpool; was next visited, and thp Viceroy from the carriage window looked at the specimens of galva- n7sfd wfre fencfnglnd gate work. His chief object, however, in stopping here was to inspect the improvements shown for cotton ginning. It has been proved oy successful^experiments that Egypt can produce cotton nearly equal to Sea-iBland, and the cultivation of tl»o fibre is looked to both by cotton spinners here and cultivators and political economists there, as the future hope of the country. This, no doubt, was wny the Viceroy paid special attention to Messrs. Moiton s mooei of an iron building for ginning or manufacturing cotton, he original of which was recently sent to the West Indies. Some highly-finished light land ploughs at Messrs. Boby s stand next cillimed notice, and then a remarkable machine, manufactured by Marsden, of Leeds, for crushing stones or ore. It was set in motion, and the Viceroy witnessed with surprise the almost instantaneous breaking up of small boulders into fragments no larger than a bean. The Viceroy asked several questions in French through Lord Shrewsbury, and the answers at this, as atsubseaueht halting places, were PJomptly written down by the interpreter. Uis highness was so interested in this implement that he soiled his yellow kids by handling the crushed fragments. The carriage drove on to Howard's stand, where an agent who could talk French explained the use of various implements direct to his high- ness, who questioned and cross-questioned him upon the merits of a new patent one-horse sheaf-delivery reaper, which, with a. man and horse, will cut down a field of corn and leave it in compact sheaves ready for the binders. A passing glance at Warner and Sons' chain pwnp, to be used for irrigation of dredging purposes, brought the Viceroy to a stand where Messrs. Husgrave had a model of a superb horse-boic erected. This was minutely inspected, the various contrivances oi the manger and floor being at the Viceroy's request, tested on the spot. A description of the invention in French was handed to the Viceroy as he passed on. Dur- ing these visits the agents of several minor manufacturers, with a keen eye to business, rushed at the carriage and thrust in trade circulars and cards—one bold workman ac- tually insisting upon the Viceroy noticing a bucketful of chaft which he held at the open windo' The party next drove to the horse-ring, and the carriage was halted oppoiits jfie leaping bars. Ihe band of the Su'f- folk Militia, in a tent near, struck up the Egyptian hymn, ivrl there was a little cheermg i'ojn under the umbrellas The K horses were all ordered out of Uwv Peas, and were lalked Lotted! and cantered in front of the carnage. The moveable bar vi-s also adjusted, and the hunters repeated their leaps. The old r^cer Scottish Chief was much no- ticed by the Viceroy the anuu.-l's reputation having prob- ably something to do with the maitou a tention he re eivctL With this «xceotion the Viceroy did not upp*u. t° care as much about the horses as the machinery. This opudo'i y*- strengthened when in a fpw minutes, after looking at tne beautifully fleeced sheep ana Judeouslv-fatted P.'S3, ,ie returned orajn to the implement departments this time selecting the machinery in motion. The carriage proceeded at n slow walking pae«, 3nd every stand was noticed. il#in- some and Situs's stand of miscellaneous patents, Barford s enormous roi^d-rollers, Turner and Eardons thrashing machinf brh every description of corn without break- ing the straw, and Aveling and Porter's agricultural locomo- tive, were severally examined as his Highness drove down the ground on his way out. The last visit was to Howard's steam ploughs, in a field about a quarter of a mile off. The carriages 011 leaving this Went at once to the station, where the special train was ready. The Mayor thanked the Viceroy fpr the honour he had done the town, and expressed his hope that England and Egypt would long extend their commercial and agricultural relations to the advantage of both. The Viceroy, through his interpreter, said he had been extremely interested with his visit, and only regretted that the unfavourable weather had prevented him from enjoying the show as he could have wished. The Mayor called for three cheers for the Viceroy as the train started for London. Mr. Milner Gibson was amongst the gentlemen on the platform. There were but little signs of improvement in the show ground during the afternoon. The rain ceased occasionally, but the number of visitors was not much added to A few ladies, in a painfully drag-led state, braved the weather for a time, but could not remain long. The horses have been the chief point of interest to the majority of those who have ventured to the exhibition. Some little disappointment is felt on account of the slight competition in one or two classes, and the inferiority of others. The thorough-bred3 and hunters are not remarkable as classes for either their quality or quantity—a rather surprising circumstance con- sidering the splendid hunting country which the district of the show includes. Of these horsesitis generally considered there is nothing better than a fair average show. Roadsters and carriage horses are so good that one is led to regret there are not more of them to look at, and the same remark will apply to ponies. The great strength of the horse department is in the Suffolks. They are a superb collection ot chestnuts, such as is seldom seen on one ground, and the trials in the fine ring appropriated for the purpose were worth witnessing, if only to note the improvement that has taken place in the celebrated Suffolk punches. The horses are not quite so punchy as they were twenty years ago, but they still preserve their main points. Passing to the sheep we come to a succession of classes of uniform excellence. The downy portions of Suffolk are almost the Paradise of sheep farmers, and if this district did not furnish admirable sheep it would have been something to wonder at, but not expect. Leicesters, Cotswolds, Lincolns, Oxfordshires, Southdowns, Shropshires, and Suffolks are about equally represented, and represented so well that the judges were puzzled to decide between the competitors. Pigs were good, ugly, and numerous, but the dairy produce was hardly worth bringing. There were but nine entries of butter, and one of cheese. Lady Caroline Kerrison's name was amongst the nine who tried for the prizes for 61b. of fresh butter, and she obtained the first prize. Poultry of all classes were of the best descrip tion, and in no decreasing quantity, but the judges decland the cheese to be beneath mention. The miscellaneous articles that find their way into the implement catalogue increase every year in variety amI in number. Machines made to shell peas and slice cucumbers, family mangles and washing machines, patent gate posts, and cow-house fittings, water carts and cheese presses, clothes wringers and garden chairs, mowing machines and grinding mills, tanned leather and sausage machines, silk- worms and screw jacks, were added to the standard imple- ments of husbandry arranged over the greater portion of the ground.

GREAT FIRE IN LIVERPOOL. On Sunday morning the premises of Messrs. Evans and Son, wholesale and export druggists and manu- facturing cliymisfcs, 56, Hanover-street, and Seel-street, Liverpool, were destroyed by fire. The range of buildings occupied by Messrs. Evans is four stories high and of considerable extent, and the whole of the premises were thickly stored with drugs and cliymicals, and even on the roof were placed a large number of bottle ■ of vitriol and other chymicals. In various parts of the building were quantities of paraffin, naptha, and other explosive compounds. An alarm was given, and in a short time twelve branches of fire-engines were brought to play on the fire, but it soon became evident that the upper part at least of the premises must go. Fortunately, there was an ample supply of water, or the wreck would even have been more complete than it is. The men, knowing that there were many explosive materials on the premises, cannot lie too much com- mended for the steadiness with which they stuck to their work. There were several slight explosions, and the fire received constant accessions of fuel, which rendered it mDxt difficult to keep it in check. On the other hand, as the lire reached first one drug and then another, the spectators, and indeed the inhabitants of the district to leeward, for a long distance, Wóire in turn saluted with the moat agreeahle of odours and the most detectable of stinks. The effects on the firemen were equally comical. One had received a complete coating of beeswax, while another was ra;diant in an incrustation of many colours. We regret to state, however, that it was not all comedy. One poor fellow, Fireman Kennedy, got under a falling stream of some burning liquid, which ran down his neck and right side, and burnt him severely. He was taken to the Southern Hospital, where his burns were dressed, At nine o'clock the roof fell in, carrying with it parts of the upper and second floors. The front office, in which were the books and papers, was saved from the fire, and the books were secured. The large contents of the cellar, too, escaped the fire, although the damage froÍn water will no doubt be great. The firemen of both brigades and the police exerted themselves manfully. By eleven o'clock the fire was completely subdued. The damage is estimated at 15,0001., but Messrs. Evans are insured for the full amount in the Phoenix and Queen offices.

MURDER AT LANCASTER. On Saturday an inquest was held at the County Lunatic Asylum, Lancaster, upon the body of Abraham Nuttall, aged forty-six years, who met his death at the hands of a lunatic. Deceased, who was a weaver by trade, was a native of Spotland, near Rochdale, and had been an inmate of the asylum for several years. He was a very quiet and harmless patient, and had never been known to offer any pro- vocation towards his fellow patients. A few mornings ago he was sitting in a water closet, in company with n. patient named James Dillon, when Thomas Cardwell, another patient, walked in, and struck Nuttali a vio- lent blow on the head with a basin, fracturing his skull. Cardwell then commenced kicking him about the chest, when Dillon interfered. An attendant, hearing a crash, went to Nuttall's rescue, and secured Cardwell. iSTuttall died from his injuries on Friday night. Cardwell had been an inmate about eight months. It seems that within the last six weeks he had frequently attempted to attack other patients. The usual precautions had been taken with him by night, but he had been allowed to mix with other inmates by day under the care of attendants. He is a stonemason, and belongs to Kirkdale. The jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against Cardwell, who will remain at the asylum until the coroner has communicated with the Home Secretary.

THE TRIAL OF BEREZOWSKI. In conformity with an order of the Indictment Chamber of the Imperial Court, dated the 4th inst., Antoine Berezowski was brought up on Monday for trial at the Assize Court of the Seine, in Paris, accused of having attempted to assassinate the Emperor cl Russia on the Gth of June last, Ths case for the pvoaecntlon was conducted on behalf of the Government by Procureur-General da Marnas, and that for the defence by M. Emanuel Arago. Twenty-four witnesses were summoned for the prose- cution. and some few persons were called to rebut the accusation. The pistol with which the attempt was perpetrated was laid upon the table of the court, It is a double- barrel, tho ltf harrel being shattered and split down the centre. The proceedings commenced with the reading of the following apt of ii'diptment■ Upon the Gth of June last a grand review was held by the Emperor at the race-grout d of Longchamps in honour of the foreign Sovereigns then at Paris. At half-past four p.m., immediately after the fipal ma- n^iuvres, lfi Majesty entered an upon carriage to return to the Tuileries. He was seated on the left-hand side, at the back of the vehicle; the Emperor of Russia occupied the seat on the right, the two Grand Dukes were placed in the front. Upon arriving in front of the Cascade the cortege passed into the Alice de la Vierge, to the right, on account of the block existing in the avenue upon the left, and fol- lowed it as far as the Chenpn des Resetyoirs. Believed of the obstacles which had hitherto retarded its progress, the carriage began to drive more rapidly, when M. Itainbeaux, Equerry to the Emperor, who rode at the door by His Ma- jesty's feide, suddenly perceived upon his left a person hold- ing bl th his hands ahove the shoulders of his neighbours. By a sudden inspiration, yet without suspecting evil designs, he pushed his horse rapidly forward. At the same instant a lopd report wp.s heard. Two pistol-shots were simultaneously fired at the hope rial carriage. But Providence had defeated this attempt. The projectile that issued from the right barrel had struck M. Rainbeaux's horse in the head, a llttle below the left eye, and had been arrested there, after having penetrated to a depth of six centimetres into the bony processes. The pifetol having burst through overcharge, the other projectile had remained in the left barrel. It was a lump of lead, cylindrical in form, about nineteen milimetres long, and weighing sixteen grammes. The delinquent, hurt m the hand by the fragments of his weapon, was immediately seized, but energetic and prolonged efforts were required to save him from the fury of the crowd, which, mingling cries for vengeance with repete shouts of "Vioo I'Empe-reur!" desired to do summary Justlce on the spot. lsuriiig tnis time the person aFesed iieerned tp have lost consciousness. When he recovered speech in the carriage conveyinghim to the Prefecture of Police, he stated that his name was Antoine Berezowski, a Pole, and that he had been a refugee in France since 1865, Investigation ha shown that, notwithstanding the oppo- sition of his father, ff teacher of the piao in itussia, and without any personal causes of dissatisfaction, Berezowski entered the ranks of the Polish insurrection in lSG3. He figured there scarcely more than a few weeks, after which he retired to Ga}icia, where he lived about a year. When that province was placed in a state of siege by tha Austrian Go- vernment he passed into Germany, then to Belgium, and at the beginning of 1S65 came to Paris, asking hospitality and assistance from France. An application he made some time afterward^ to the Russian Embassy for a passport seems to show that he desired to return to his oountry. It is not exactly known why this project failed, but the accused con- tinued to reside in Paris, alternating between employment as a working engineer in various workshops and being a pupil at the Jaufrot Institution, living a self-contained life, holding aloof from his comrades, even from his country- men, greedily devouring books calculated to intensify the sentiments to which he was about soon to give himself up. Since the 13th of August, 1866, he had been employed by the firm of Gouin, where he had already worked at two different periods, when, towards the close of April, the report spread that the Emperor Alexander would soon visit France. Crimi- nal intentions, no doupt, agitated the rrpnd of tho accused at this period. On the 30th of April he left tlw house of Gouin, alleging illness, and passed the month of May in com- plete inactivity.. On the 27th of M$y he paid a visit to Mouy, in the de- partment Oise, the object of -i -cn lias remained unexplained. But he returned to Paris on first of J tine, and was at the Northern Railway station upon the annal of the Czar. Berezowski only saw in the confidence of the Sovereign who intrusted himself to the loyalty of the population a means of satisfying his scheme of vengeance, ana mprply sought a favourable opportunity to carry it into effect. He was with this object in the neighbourhood of the Opera on the night of June 4, waiting far the egress of their Majesties, and perfidiously mingling with the groups most vociferous in their shouts. He followed the cortege at a run to the Elysee Palace, uttering cries of Vive l'Empereur and more and more ascertaining the facility he might have in approaching thp carriage of the Czar. He fixed upon the day of the Review, ordered to be lipid uppn the (stii. for the execution of the attempt upon which he had resolved. The allowance of 35f. which he received monthly from the administration, and which he had not neglected to draw upen -Tune 3, furnished him, with another small sum he obtained elsewhere, with the necessary resources to procure the instruments for the crime. Towards two p.m. upon the 5th he bought from the gun- smith Brunovillf, for Sf., the double-barrelled pistol which was found at his feet m the Bois de Boulogne, and he pro- cured at tll" came time five bullets and a box of caps. In the evening he purchased powder at another shop, and look,ed in several journals for the information it was neces- sary he should have about the Revievy of the morrow. Early upon the 6th he occupied himself in making pro- joctilp, di|Jerent to the bullets that had been sold him, which he thought top smalj for the boj-e of his pistol; he cast two slugs and rammed them upon the charge of powder by forcing them dovn. with a steel tool. Thus armed, he left about ten o'clock, after breakfast, to take the train at the RatignoIIes which would convey him to the Bois de Bou- logne. Before entering the station he stopped at a wine merchant's, a countryman, drank a glass ot Vermout, and left a paletot to be taken charge of, in the pocket of which a work upon Poland was found, containing the oath of Kilenski, upon a page turned down. Upon reaching Longchamps he saw the Sovereigns before the front of the troops without being able to get near them. But the block which must inevitably occur at the close of the Review could not fail to furnish him with the oppor- tunity he sought, and, posting himself upon one of the slopes that surround the Grand Cascade, he would be able to follow with his eye tiie movements of the Imperial car- riage, and repair rapidly in the direction where he should see it advance. It was there, in fact, that he set himself upon the watch. From this point he perceived the carriage conveying the two Emperors enter at a walk into the Allee de la Vierge. He rushed in that dfrection, cutting by the shortest route across the wood, thinly scattered at this point of the Alice de la Vierge, and the road to the reservoirs. Hidden, then, behind the inquisitive spectators, he sup- ported his arm upon the shoulder of one of their number, the Sieur Bonneau, and holding his pistol with both hands pressed both triggers at cnce. He would have made at least one victim, without the providential interposition of the fact that caused his execrable attempt to fail. It has been possible, in fact, to verify by the height of the wound inflicted horizontally upon M. Rainbaux's horse, and by the position the animal occupied relative to Berezowski, that if the slug which struck it had not been thus stopped in its course it would have reached the breast of one of the two Sovereigns; and one cali not refiect without a shudder upon the injury the second slug might have caused_ when one thinks of the angle that would have been taken, in the ordi- nary course, by the direction of the two projectiles. Berezowski has admitted all the facts relating to the preparations for and the execution of lii3 crime. He has merely endeavoured to maintain, without being absolutely refuted by evidence, that he only wished to hit the Czar limiting himself to giving the Emperor and France a warn- ing. WIth regard to the Czar he has expressed himself in the most violent terms, declaring that he has done nothing but his duty in fulfilling a vow he made to himself at the age of 1(5. War, he asserts, has not ceased to exist between Russia and Poland this gave him rights he has not exceeded, and which he regrets not to have satisfied. If the act were to do again, he would be ready to do it. He is only guilty he has added, towards France, whose hospitality he has betrayed by not respecting the Sovereign who was also her guest. The crime committed by Berezowski has excited a feeling of horror throughout France, and has revolted every honest and generous heart in this country. All are eager to see it severely stigmatized by the verdict of the jury. Antoine Berezowski is therefore accused of having com- mitted an attempt at homicide with premeditation upon the person of the Emperor Alexander in the Bois de Boulogne upon the Gth of June, 1S67, which attempt, shown by a com- mencement at execution, has only failed in it3 effect through circumstances independent of the will of its author. This crime is provided for by Articles 2 and 302 of the Penal Code. After the reading of the indictment the counsel for the defence desired the Court to take note that when Berezowski was brought to the Prefecture of Police all the witnesses now to be heard for the prosecution had been questioned in the Russian language by M. Souwaroff, the Director of the Russian police. The Procureur-General then made his speech in sup- port of the case against the prisoner. The jury found Berezowski guilty of an attempt at homicide with extenuating circumstances, and he was sentenced to transportation for life.

THE TRICKS OF LONDON. At the Middldsex Sessions, in London, on Tuesday, Charles Smith, aged twenty-two, a fashionably-dressed young man, described as a seaman, and well educated, was indicted for obtaining the sum of :U. 4s. from Thomas Daley with intent to defraud also from William Christy 21. 10s. and from Henry PJeliards, two coats and other articles, and the sum of 21. 15s., with the same intent. 'The prisoner pleaded guilty. A policeman who gave evidence said that the cases mentioned in the indictments were only three out of a large number against the prisoner. He had victimized nearly the whole of London by representing himself as the mate of a ship which was going to sail in two or three days, and producing a forged advance note required clothes or boots for a portion of it, and the rest in cash, at the same time pressing the tradesmen to take Is. 6d. in the pound for cashing it. Having secured the clothes and change the tradesman saw no more of him, and on inquiring for the ship, none of the name could be found in the dorks. Some of his victims were poor people, who were obliged to borrow the change to give him, and were now compelled to pawn all their furniture to repay the loan. He had carried the game an very success- fully for some considerable time, and had only been detected by one tradesman notioing that the filling in of the body of the note and the signature of the captain were in the same handwriting. The police were then communicated with, and a trap laid for him, which he fell into, and he (the witness) took him into custody. The Assistant-Judge said he would stop such a system of swindling poor tradesmen for some consider- able time by sentencing the prisoner to five years' penal servitude. „

NOT GIVING THNOUGH TO EAT! There has been a good deal of dissatisfaction ex- pressed at the meagre entertainment given by the corporation of the city of London to the Belgian Volunteers, and on the subject "An English Offier" thus writes to The Times 0 Your remarks on the Guildhall entertainment are not only strictly true, but amount to a positive act of kindness to the entertainers, who I know were most anxious that all should go well. The following hasty particulars may assist in fitting the cap to the right head, for it is high time the dis- credit attaching to our larger entertainments should pass away. I sat with other English officers in the centre of the second long table (iu block 2), on the left hand after entering the Guildhall itself. Nearly the whole of dinner the waiter in charge absented himself, and when at last brought back by an indignant appeal to one of the courteous stewards, he failed in doing anything or getting anything, saying he could get no wine from those in charge, and he emphasized this by at last bringing part of a bottle, as he said, from the head table. So much for hearsay now for fact. Setting aside ilowers and glass, so much of the table as contained about five of us sitting abreast had on it by way of viands a piece of cold beef. a small piece of cold fish, a small salad (without pretence of dressing), and a basket of cherries. The Belgian officer I especially attended to wai obliged to content him- self with a plate of cold beef with some mint sauce over it (no mustard being obtainable, though loudly enquired for:, and. this washed down, after our champagne supply wá exhausted, with a wineIassflll, .f Dl,hJin stout, Weatt apologized, and gladly went dinnerless to feed our frionds at all.

1 is cd r antous INTELLIGENCE, HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. A CHEERFUL CONTEST !—A few years AGO, in a village in Chester County, Pennsylvania, the Metho- dists and Presbyterians each built a church at about the same time. Soon a rivalry arone between them, especially among the juvenile portion of the congrega- tions. On one occasion the Methodist party got the best of au axgument in this way :—" Ah I guess we beat you now." "How?" Why, weve got six buried in our graveyard, and you've only four and there's old Mr. Cooper is going to die soon, and he'll make seven! IMMORALITY 1:< SOUTH SCOTLAND-—A curious discussion has been raised in Scotland about the im- morality of the border towns. Hawick, Galashiels, and Jedburgh are, according to the clergy of these places, more like cities of the plain than a Scotch Goshen. Yet, says the Scotsiaai, there is no lack of spiritual instruction. Jedburgh in this respect ig blessed beyond almost any other place iu t^e l/Jiited Kingdom. Its 3,000 inhabitants have ven churches, seven ministers, besides a hrg ijttvif of elders, deacons, schoolmasters, and pupil taachers. Moreover, says our conU'u>onuy, they seem to be full of faith and gOv4 works, but, alas, all in vain. It ventures humbly to suggest that a little less Judaism and more Ot the spirit of Christianity would do Jedburgh fe00 AMERICAN PRIZE WINNERS AT PARIS. he large number of uw&rds giyen in the American section of the International Exhibition has been attracting considerable attention to it within tho last few daysL Out of 524 exhibitors, 262 hsvve received awards, u these there were 4 grand prices, 10 decorations, 17 gold medals, over GO silver medals, and the rest bronze and honourable mentions. The excellence of some oi the American wines, especially the Catawba wines oi Werk, has occasioned home surprise. THE WET SHEET SYSTEM,—An inquest has been held on the body of George Wilmott, a patient in the county of Gloucester Lunatic Asylum, who had died suddenly under peculiar circumstances. Samuel Davies (head attendant) deposed to the deceased com- ing from Keynsham union. ■ He was noisy and tr.lk, tive, was placed in a ward with other paWnts, had a warm bath, and the day after the dpctor (Mr. fidlar) ordered Davies to "the wet sheet system de- scribed by him as follows :—" To strip the patient and wrap hini up in a sheet wet with cold water from the feet to the chm, the sheet goes round the body twice, then we place ft sheet of macintosh over the wet sheet, and over that two blankets." Witness went on to say that after this operation poor Wilmott was pas^ii w he was placed in wet sheets at nine; at night, and so remained till one. He was (,'aite sensible when placed between the sheets, but became insensible between twelve and one. At one the appliances were removed at half-past three the poor wretch died. Witness swore that they had previously had ft person die from wet sheets much in the same way. He did not notice any bruisea on the body there might have been some. Dr. Tollar, the medical officer, said it was by his orders deceased was put in the wet sheets he was suf- fering from acute mania. He thought softening of the brain was the cause of death. The sheet system (he added) is used in many asylums. The jury returned a verdict "Died by the visitation of God and natural causes." GETTING USED To- THEM !—" Arkansas is a. state without a fault," said a native. "Excepting mosquitoes," exclaimed one from another state. Wall stranger, except for them for it ar' a fact they are e normous, and do push themselves in rather trouble- some. But they never stick twice in the same place and give them a faip change for a few months, and you will get as much above noticing them as an alligator. But mosquitoes is natur', and I never find fault with her. If they ar' large Arkansas is large, her varmints ar' large, her trees ar' large, her rivers ar' large and a small njosquito would be of no more use than preaching in a cane-brake." ON THE SCAFFOLD !—A cripple boy, named Gotlieb Williams, was recently executed in Philadel- phia for the murder of a lady who bad offered him charity. When he stood on the scaffold the chaplain came forward and said that when Gotlieb was brought to the prison he knew nothing of God or religion, but that he was now an intelligent and sincere Christian. He wanted to prove this, he said, by catechising the boy whose life was about to end. So, rfayng himself in front of the culprit, bp,ok in h-nd, the rev. gentle- man _begnn—Upon whom do'you rely for salvation? Gotlieb: Jesus Christ. Clerrryman; What text of Scripture gives you hope and consolation at this tip^e ? Gotlieb God so loved the world that hs gave His Son to die for us. Clergyman How many persons are there in the Godhead?" Here the executioner said all was ready, and the clergyman, greatly to his disgust, had to close his examination of his interesting convert. The boy was placed on the trap-a, Til an held him up as he could not stnd-and the poor "boy was swung oil." GREAT SWIMMING RACE.—The one thousand yards' swimming match for a stake of between Henry Gurr (champion of England) auu David Pamplin, was decided on Monday morning in the Serpentine, London, and, despite the dreary state of the weather, several thousand spectators assembled on both banks, and lined the course throughout. The betting (of which there was very little done) was 5 and 6 to 4 on Gurr, who had the north station. At 33 min. past7 they divedtogetherattheword"Go!" and upon rising to the surface they were perfectly level, swimming face to face, with a light breeze of wind in their favour. In this position they continued for about 100 yards, when little Gurr drew about a yard in front with his wonderful left arm work, and 2 to 1 was freely offered on his chance. Pamplin, however, was not yet stalled off, for spurting to the front he led at the first boat-house (after they had twice reversed posi- tions) by a foot, amidst the most enthusiastic shouts. After passing the boat-house, Gurr again planed his way to the front with his powerful strokes, and at the Royal Humane Society's receiving-house, led by about two yards in 7 minutes 32 seconds, a clear proof of the tremendous pace at which they had been swimming. Pamplin continued gliding along the water in his wonderfully clean style, and made vigorous at- tempts to overhaul his opponent, who, however, con- tinued to increase the gap between them, and within 100 yards of the gaol, Pamplin, who was fully 20 yards in the rear, gave up, and was assisted into one of the boats, Gurr finishing the distance comparatively fresh in 1G min. 44 sees., which is, we believe, the fastest time on record. DR. MARY WALKER.—This lady is at present in Paris, and has paid several visits to the principal hospitals. The students received her very respectfully —"naturally avoiding," one journal observes, "the rough behaviour of the medical students of London." The rough behaviour in London, however, was, it should be remembered, confined to noisy demonstra- tions at public meetings. Some of the Paris papers also express a little surprise at the wonder created in London by Dr. Mary Walker's costume. They observe that there is nothing really unfeminine about it, and that it is for the most part an ordinary feminine dress, except that below the Ehort skirt is seen a dark panialon reaching to the boot. A FORMIDABLE TASK.—TO view the Paris Exhibition it is necessary to devote on an average five minutes to the glass case of each exhibitor. These number, it is stated, 45,000; it would, therefore, take 223,000 minutes, making 3,750 hours, or 15G days G hours that is, 5 months, G days, and 6 hours, reckon- ing 24 hours for each day. But as the interior of the palace can only be visited from ten o'clock in the morning till six in the evening, there are only eight hours at the visitor's disposal instead of 24. One would, therefore, be occupied in the inspection 15 months, 20 days, 2 hours, supposing that he entered the building every day at ten o'clock and did not leave it until six. From this calculation it will be obvious that it is by no means possible to examine the whole of the Exhibition during the period of its dura- tion. RIGHTLY PUNISHED.—At the Warwick assizes on Monday two ferocious-looking young men were indicted for robbing Wm. Hughes of a watch and chain with violence at Birmingham on February 23. Mr. Hughes was accosted by the prisoners at mid- night. One of the prisoners seized him from behind by the throat, and thrust his knuckles into his throat. They "muddcd" the face of Hughes, who struggled manfully, and twice threw one of the prisoners. While Hughes was down one of the prisoners kicked him over the eyes, rendering him insensible, having previously stolen his watch and chain. In consequence of the injuries he sustained Hughes was under medical treatment three months.—Mr. Baron Pio-ott, in sen- tencing the prisoners, said his only doubt was whether he was not bound to sentence both prisoners to bo well flogged but he would not apply the punishment, not being quite-certain that the injuries the prosecutor re- ceived were attributable to the prisoners* gratuitous violence. One of the prisoners was sentenced to five years penal servitude, and tho other (who had been previously convicted), to seven years' penal servitude. THE REV. MORLKY PUXSIION.—The Bristol Daily Post says that it now appears certain that the Rev. Morley Punshon will undertake an early voyage to Canada, A request has been forwarded by the Canadian Wesley an Conference to that of the parent body in this country for the appointment of Mr. Punshon as the president of the former conference at its annual gathering in the coming year. It is also rumoured that Mr. Punshon will visit the United States, and that he will attend (probably as the repre- sentative of the British Wesleyan Church) the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which is every fourth year. This latter dutv, it will be remembered, was last sustained by the Rev. W. L. lhornton, M.A., whose decease took place within a short time after his return. There can be no question that the talented Wesleyan preacher and orator will meet with a most enthusiastic reception beyond the Atlantic. His printed sermons and lectures have there circulated very largely, and have earned for him a reputation which his projected visit cannot fail to enhance. There are many who will heartily wish him a safe voyage and a happy and successful tour, and that his extensive journeyinga may tend to the re- establishment of his health. CURIOUS PROSECUTION IN FRANCE.—A photo- grapher, named Le Balleur-Villiers, lias been tried in the Correctional Court, in -Paris, for the rather modern misdemeanour (created by a statute of Ib4!J) of publicly excusing an act which the law holds to be a crime. On June 7 the defendant was one of a group of persons assembled in the Rue Laffitte, in front of the bill posted by the Prefect of Police de- nouncing Berezowski's attempt upon the life of the Emperor of Russia. A person in the crowd read out the contents of the placard, and when he came to the concluding words, The assassin is in custody," Le Balleur-Villiers exclaimed, Say rather the avenger" [Justicier]. The court was of opinion that the ex- pression, which it described as one of concentrated energy, came within the statute, and sentenced the photographer to three months* imprisonment and a fine of 200f.—On the same day the case was called on of M. Casse, arrested with several others for having cried "Long live Poland!" on the evening that the Czar went to tho opera. On the production by his counsel, M. Floquet, of a medical certificate, ah owing that M. Casse was not well enough to appear, his trial was put off for a week. AN UNFORTUNATE SIMIX,E.XN a copy of the United States Gazette, published in 1779, we find an account of a flag-presentation which may edify that large portion of population who have latterly participate,1 in little affairs of that sort. On the day after ylio battle of Fort Moultrie, in 1779, Mrs. Elliott yj-esented to Colonel Moultrie's Second South Carolina Regiment a banner. Surrounded by the beauty and fashion of the day, the Colonel stepped forth, and, re- ceiving the flag from Mrs. E., acknowledged it in a very appropriate and eloquent speech. In closing, he turned suddenly to his men, and said My gallant companions, you see the reward of courage and forti- tude You have fought and have conquered, and the brave fellows who fell in the carnage of yesterday iye now in heaven riding in their chariots like the Very devil!" THE DRINK AGAIN !—At the ChsiMhall police- court, in London, Eliza TibVy-, (I. goodlooking, but drunken, dissipated, {ja;d violent woman, has been charged with caused the death of her infant about four yionGhs' old. It appeared that lato one nÜ!h vhe prisoner went into her room and threw her infant on the bed with other children. She was so drunk that she fell on the floor, and was unable to rise. The prisoner's husband called in a police-constable to know what was best tc. be done with her. They were unable to rouse her-, and eventually decided on letting her where she was. In the middle of the night sho roused up and went to bed, but not being sober she laid upon the child and smothered it. In the morning the child was discovered dead. An inquest was held,$nd the jury returned a verdict of man- slaughter against the prisoner.—She was accordingly committed for trial on the charge of manslaughter by the police-magistrate, TIIE SPIRIT OF BARGAINING !—Alluding to the habits of the fishing population of the north of Scot- land. and the well-known system of "haggling" practised by the Highlanders when making their purchases in Stornoway the following anecdote Is gi\en, showing that this way of doing business is not Sw™ J?W3- When the Perth and Inverness tnmpd'^fV3 °Pened some of tho natives accus- tbeir armi,'8 doing buaine&s would often make l J rri the little stations at the north, -n-ague as the following would nwl <V^1V(r- V^\at ia the to— ? » Ticket li ""J e^*ce-' "What?" "Two fI11d elghtpence. Two and eightpence! Hoch. never; 111 Rive you two shmin'sf" "There is no reduction. a. he fare is two and ei^ht it two and tuppence, and it's a hargaW* "I tell you the fare is two and eiahtpeuce." only thirty miles." It cloeaixH, matter what it is. That's the fare." you two and threepence." "It won't da" "Two and fourpence, then." 1,1 No, nor two and fourpence." At two and sixpence the man, perhaps, would make a. dead stand, and finding the clerk inexorablo, would aetually go away and wait till the next train, to return then with his offer of the two and sixpence, in hopes of finding the clerk morf accom- modating. CHOLERA PROSPECTS. The British Medical Journal has the following :— The bills of mortality will be anxiously scanned for the next few weeks. Whenever the first three weeks of July have passed without the first warnings of cholera being ap- parent in the bills, we have hitherto remained free from any epidemic during the year in England. Having commenced the orltical period in safety, we may hope to pass through it. CAPTURE OF A FENIAN LEADER.—A capture was made on Saturday of another leader in the Fenian movement, known aa General Fariola. He is an Italian by birth, and was lately a general in the Foderal army. Sincc then he has beea one of the principal leaders in the Fenian movement. He is an intimate friend of Stephens. On Saturday he was taken on a warrant issued by the Irish Government. The capture was ejected by Inspector Williamson and Sergeant Clarke, of Scotland-yard, aathe prisoner was walking along Oxford-street, London, He been on the Continent keeping out of the way for more than three months. He was intimate with General Alpin, who was apprehended a short time ago. He was also intimate with Colonel Kellev, who is still at large, and with other Fenian leaders. He is to be sent to Dublin to be tried before a special commission. ROYALTY IN PARIS.—A corres)pcrf\t\$ttt writes the following :— We expect more Shiga Queens. Truth to tell, we are tired of thgm. 'fe next arrivals will be the King and Queop af Portugal, who will come to us from Geneva with thùDuke of Coimbra. The Queen of Prussia is staying at the Prussian Embassy incoginta. Her Majesty -.vent to tho Exhibition the other day wearing dctp lhnurning for the hrother of him whom her h\iab«nd conquered twelve months ago. We are assumed that the Emperor and Empress of A.usfps; viil arrive on the 28th of August, and will mt here tle King and Queen of Denmark, and tIl0 olJ ing of Bavaria, grandfather of the reigning n\Q.\1:4r.;ili. A YOUNG LADY DROWNED.—On Friday even- ing an inoues'. was held at Christchurch, Hampshire, on the borly of a young lady, seventeen years of the daughter of Mr. Robert Paris, of SopJeyt who was accidentally drowned while bathing On Mude- ford Beach. It appeared that tho deceased and an elder sister went to the above-named place. to bathe, as thgy were in the constant habit of doing, when the former, having gone beyond the usual bathing ground, was suddenly seen to make signs pi being in danger. The bathing attendant, perceiv- ing that the young lady had goy.e of her depth, requested her to float, as she was a good swimmer. The deceased must have been aware of her danger, and lost her self-possession, for she made no attempt to float. She Bank, and being carried out rapidly by the current, was beyond the reach of help. The elder sister was completely paralysed, and ran considerable risk of losing her own life. The body of the unfor- tunate young lady was recovered in about half an hour, and every means were used to restore animation, but without effect. The beach, from the shifting nature of the sands, was stated to be decidedly dangerous, i The juryretumed a verdict of "Accidentally drowned." ILLEGITIMACY IN SCOTLAND.—The Keoistrar- General for Scotland mentions in his tenth detailed annual report that in 1864 the illegitimate births in Scotland were 9'9 in every 100 births. In the north- eastern divisions they were 15'5 per cent. A ten years' average shows that 9'1 per cent. of the children were illegitimate in Scotland. According to the numbers of births registered as illegitimate in England, only 6'4 per cent. were illegitimate in that country during the same period. It seems that illegitimacy is on the increase in Scotland, as during 1856 and 1857 only 8-5 per cent. of the births were illegitimate. How WILL IT BE DECIDED 1-A curious case is occupying one of the Paris law courts. It is an action in which the son and daughter of Georges Sand sue their father, M. Dudevant, in respect to certain pro- perty which he wishes to sell. M. Dudevant was the illegitimate son of the Baron Dudevant. The Baroness Dudevant having no children of her own, took a strong liking to her husband's illegitimate son. In one will she divided her property into two portions, one of which she left to M. Dudevant and the other to his two children, the son and daughter of himself and his wife Georges Sand. When he and his wife separated, the Baroness Dudevant, it is supposed, to mark her disapproval of the children being left under the guard- ianship of their mother, altered her will, and left all the property to M. Dudevant. Practically, it is this will which is disputed by the children. The decision is postponed. THE EX-EMPRESS CHARLOTTE.—The Memorial Diplomatique has.the following :— We receive the most afflicting news from Miramar. The Empress Charlotte, separated about a year ago from her husband, deprived during more than three months of all direct intelligence, and after having become a prey since the departure of the French troops to the keenest emotions and most poignant anxieties, has just fallen into a moral pros- tration of the most alarming character. Her Majesty no longer seems to have any consciousness of what is passing around her, and remains plunged in a gloomy reverie, from which Dr. Illek has not for a moment been able to rouse her, not even when he announced the event which wounds her so cruelly in her dearest affections. The complete indifference with which the unfortunate Princess received that redoubtable blow but too well justifies the fear that science will now be powerless to save that flue intellect.

EPITOME OF NEWS, BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Lieutenant Brown, who was so severely injured by falling down a well at Ooningsburgh Castle about three weeks ago, is still improving, and there is now but little doubt of his ultimate recovery, although he will be a cripple for life. A cb11reh, a puhlic halJ, awl a school-room attaclicd, intended to be a memorial of the abolition of slavery ill A mcrica, and of thc public services of the late l'resident I,incoln, are now being ereded in 1,l1Ildon. A Methodist minister in Missouri wanted to get rid of his invalid wife in order to marry her sister accordingly he dragged her from her bed, and made her stand at the bottom of an old we! that failing to kill the woman he succeeded in poisoning her, and preached a funeral sermon over her corpse. In the opinion of the Saturday Review, it is idle to think that the Lords will either reject or mutilate the Reform measure. According to the Secretary to the Treasury, the dog- tax is likely to yield a good sum. Up to the end of last month licenses have been taken out for 095,(S2-1 dogs, as against 394,837 dogs on which the tax was paid in the year ending 31st of March, 1SC6. In Scotland the number of dogs taxed has increased from 36,365 to 80,060. The proprietors of The Times have, we understand, presented each of the members of their numerous staff with a fortnight's salary to defray the expenses of a trip to Paris. During a violent storm the other day the electric fluid fell upon a man named David, who was fishing in his boat, near Kogerville, in the neighbourhood of Hardeur. He was struck on the head and killed instantaneously, his boat going down at the same time. A lad who was with him es- caped by swimming. The waters of the Vistula have risen from 5 to 20 feet above tho usual level, and have overflown their banks. The inundation has caused considerably damage, both to houses and timber. His Imperial Majesty the Sultan has been pleased to confer upon his Excellency Muslims Bey, Turkish Ambas- sador, the rank of iluchir, with the title of Pasha. An egg, in perfect preservation, is reported to have been found 28 feet under the earth at a brewery in Albany. At Springfield, Mass., recently, a boy six years old stole 95 dollars from his mother, and disposed of"it anions his playmates, lo punish him for the theft, his mothe? tied him hand and foot to a post, and kept him naked, out of doors, in snn and storm, every day for a week. Not con- tent with such brutal treatment, she kept him for a fortnight tied in a similar way to a bed.post in the house It is said that an order has been given to Mr. Leutze to paint for the Capital at Washington a picture representing the cession of Kussian America to the United States. The principal figures in it are to be those of Messrs. Seward, Bodiscoj mId Sumner. The grain crops in South Carolina are reported to be so large that there is difficulty in harvesting them. The Dumfries Courier, referring to the south of Scotland, says the hiring fairs for harvest work sh-ow, upon the whole, a slight rise in wages. The scarcity of female servants is notable, and must ho regarded as satisfactory— indicating an indispositiou Oll the part of females to labour in the fields. This may be taken as a sign of a rise ill the condition of the rural population. The papers in Kansas express much alarm for tho crops in that State on account of the army of grasshoppers. Great crowds, consisting mainly of ladies, assemble round the Lyons silk manufacturers' cases. The objects of special attraction are two dresses, manufactured for the great Paris linendrapers the Pauvre Jacques, which have been selected by the Empress. One of these dresses has a stone grey ground, with a broad blue satin stripe on it. The other is a brocaded dress, with bunches of flowers on a black ground. It is reported in Paris that M. Louis Blanc ia pre- paring a collection of the private papers of the Emperor Maximilian for publication. At Prague, recently, an American, apparently insane, created a disturbance, and was sent to a madhouse After his release he said that he pretended insanity so that he might obtain an inside view of the celebrated asylum to which he was snt. The New York Commercial Advertiser says that in the duties assigned io females in the Treasury Department, they are much more expert than men, and accomplish more, for half the money, than could be done by masculine fingers. There aN), too, among the female employes, rapid and correct uoofc.keepers. A rhododendron, it ia stated, grows in. a garden in the town of Danielsonville, Connecticut, which is 10ft. high and as many feet in diameter, and bears 20,000 llowera. An engine-tenter of Sheffield, who applied by letter for a situation at the County Asylum, Rainlull, near Prescott, has received from the advertisers an answer in the following words We do not feel disposed to entertain any applica- tion from Sheffield at the present time." The skeleton of a small dog was du up at Portland, Me., the other day, which had upon the neck a collar of pure gold. The Salt Lake Vedette publishes a rumour that Orson Hyde and Amos Lyman, both high in the Mormon Church, have. lately been preaching against polygamy and special revelations. James Hallam, one of the Sheffield murderers, has left the country, being afraid of the vengeance of his col- leagues for blowing upon them. He is the only one of the number who has shown any evidence of remorse. At Shinrone, in Ireland, last Thursday evening, forty-three lambs were killed by lightning out of a flock of tWv-two, belonging to Mr, Smith, of Ballyinoua House. They were in a knot WHtera tree. The Turkish monarch has mado a present to the Emperor K^olfeon o* the extremely handsome horse-a light grey—which lie rode au review in the Champs Ely&toa, David Taylor, well known as "the poet of St. L illians," near Stirling, has been accidentally drowned wlrilst bathing. The seven-year locusts have already appeared in New Jersey in large numbers. Mr. J. S. Mill's speech-m Parliament on Whman Suffrage has been stereotyped by the American Equal Rights Association, and is oeing circulated through that country in vast q uan titiüS, A Liverpool fishdealer has been fined 10/. and costs for exposing 8,000 unwholesome herrings for sale. The mail matter shipped to Hurope in three of the steam ships which left New York, June 8, amounted to 46,401 packages. Moveable chapels are su^o-csted in a letter to the English Independent. One, in particular, said to have cost 80* will accommodate 120 people. It9 removal and re-erec- tion cost 101. It has in two or three cases been the piecuisor of permanent meeting houses. On Sunday in the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Nicholas, Liverpool, a communication from Bishop Goss was read. Alluding, though not by name, to the announced visit of Murphy, the Protestant lecturer, to Birkenhead, he re- commended all his peoplo not to take any notice ot Jum, not to go to any of the meetings or even t<T the localities whore the lectures were being delivered; 'and indeed to abstain from taking any notice in any shape of such proceedings. The Turkish Government has gi^^ appoint- ment of governor in Salenica, Smyrna, the Dardanelles, and Janina to Christians. The Moniteur de la Mcurtlie relates that the great bell of the steeple of Saint-Epvre, at Nancy, and the smaller one of the clock, have just been taken down, and that the operation has afforded the means of determining the date of their casting. On the former there is an inscription in Roman capitals to the effect that it was made and placed in position under Charles III. m the year lulu 1 he larger of the clock- bells is of later date, having aoen cast at Nancy in 1751. In the vicinity of Snake River, Colorado, five feet of snow fell on May ou. The Cincinnati Boárd of Health are after the butchers sharply, and have forbidden the killing or dressing of any animals within the city, or the sale of any vegetables, excepting green peas in the pod and green corn in the inner husks, which have not been previously divested of all parts not used for human food. A society has been formed at Munich for the collec- tion of cigar ends. An appeal is to be addressed to all smokers in Bavaria to give their cigar ends to the society instead of throwing them away, it being intended to apply the proceeds arising from their sale to the clothing of poor ordWyen. It is calculated that upwards of a year may be obtained by this means. The quaint old wooden-fronted house near the palace of the Bishops of Hereford, where "Nell Gwynne" was horn and lived, has been entirely swept away. Everv visitor to Hereford wsed to call to see it, but it has pravoo obnoxious aa ecclesiastical dignitary, and has in consequence entirely demolished. The house; pretty, filled in with quaint old wooden pdes, alio in King Charles's time, facing as it did a pleaSal), Will\: sloping down to the river, it Ulust have been coming home. A curious charge was made against the Lord Mayor of Loiuion, on Saturday, at a meeting oi the Court of Com- mon Council. Messrs Richardayn lId M 'George, two of the deputation from the Corpc*raikui to Paris at the distribution of prizes in the {iUv*.ya,ti<uia! Exhibition, taxed the Lord Mayor, who wast at the head of the deputation, with a want of Covrtv'Sy towards the members of the Court who ac^caft- PftiHed hiiii there, and to the Lord Provost of Kdm^argti and the Lord Mayor of Dublin. Lord Mayor Gabriel ma.ile a, dig- nified and satisfactory reply, which cSe^tUially disposed of the injured dignity of the two deputies- For several years regatta has ^bec-.yi neld in the autumn upon T*d*-m Tarn, a sniall -Aice near Jirampton, Cumberland, and the boat-races laye attracted annually the leading oarsmen of the Tyne. 11ns year the committee have \»eeii obliged to abandon the aquatic sports for a somevv' at remarkable reason. It appears that a weed J;¡:n in America as the liabbington Weed has taken rxjuteisiou of thp tarn, spreading with great rapiditv, av. "u such luxuriance as to make boating in light boats dangerous if not impossible Ihe committee are endeavouring to discover some means of remedying tlie evil, but as yet have foiyid The Government Contemplate fortifying the consta- bulary sf-at'nns in Ireland, and have called upon the land- lords II. tiio .t\ :IJn t;) assist t:HnL We are informed that it i" six montiis'L ment to refuse to take Australian sovereigns as 20s. A cavalry man at Hounslow was overheard plaining to a group of companions that the review had be put off on account of "Prince Macmillan being hanged in Jamaica. Maine will this year disburse about 80,000 dols. of the 125,000 dols. appropriated by Legislature last winter, as pensions to disabled soldiers and sailors. There are 2,500 pensioners in the State. In Litchfield, Conn., a Captain Salmon Buel cele- brated his hundredth birthday by attending the Congrega- tional church, the congregation rising as he came in, and the choir singing "Old Hundred The cost of the entertainment to the Sultan in London will cause a charge on the revenues of India of 10,000J. A new boulevard in Cincinnatti is to cost 1,000,000 dollars. In a fashionable New York boarding-house, recently, a young merchant, named Alfred King, shot his reputed Wife, when in bed, and then sent a ball through his own heart. No cause was assigned for the deed, but it transpired that the pair were not man and wife, as their friends supposed. The Prussian papers are criticising adversely the recent speech of Earl Derby on the Luxembourg guarantee. One paper asks" who will in future attach any importance to a treaty with England, knowing that she will only respect the treaty so long as it is convenient to her?" A correspondent of theiVew Orleans Picayune writes from New Mexico that the Indians have adopted the fashion of skinning their captives alive. Only two beasts were suffering from rinderpest in the kingdom of the Netherlands during the week ending with July G. It is said that Maximilian stood godfather to the last-born child of his traitor friend Lopez and Bazaine, become his nephew by marriage, was commissioned to be the bearer of a magnificent service of gold plate, given by the Emperor as cocheler, or God's gilt," on the occasion. An excursion party, numbering 25 working men, from Copenhagen, has arrived in Paris to visit the Exhibition. This trip was organised by M. Wolfhagen, vice-president of the Danish Commission. A young Norwegian in Wisconsin is seven feet ten inches in height. The Portland and Kennebec Railroad, which has been in operation twenty years, has declared its first dividend, three per cent. Silver bricks are thrown on the stage to favourite actresses in evada. Lymington, in Hants, has ceased to be a salt-pro- ducing place. Salteries have been in existence there for nearly 900 years. At the commencement of the present century upwards of 5,000 tons were produced there in one year. A conspiracy is said to have been discovered in Madrid against the Queen's life. The proprietors of the Richmond daily papers have decided that no more work shall be done in their oiliccs on Sundays. The Great Eastern Railway Company are about to* increase their rates for goods trailic. The touching account of Maximilian's last hours', published in the Paris Pigaro and which was copied into nearly all the English newspapers, and drew tears from many a fair reader of that most amusing and cleverly-writteni paper, is now generally acknowledged as a chef d'cuuvre ot sensationalism, admirably done, and, on the whole a piece of writing which does infinite credit to the descriptive powers of the statf. Fuad Pacha, in the name of the Sultan, handed before his departure for England, to the Prefect of the Seine' a sum of GO.OOOfr. for the poor of Paris. He also left 40,000fr. as a gratification to the servants at the ElysSe. The Sultan travels without his harem—nay, without even a single wife but he has in his train a personage who-e function is unique. This is a butcher. By the Mahomedan law a true believer must not eat meat which has been, slaughtered by Christians, since they do not invoke the' Deity while killing cattle.for food. So the Sultan's attendant- is both a butcher and a priest The inhabitants of Paris must appear in the eyea. af the sovereigns and princes who visit the French eapita,1 tOo have among them a very considerable number of llel1\\léa1tS,. since those illustrious personages are besieged with applica- tions for pecuniary assistance, under all sorts of pretences and for sums of money from 20f. to 100,000f. A matrimonial broker in New York has sued for 250 dols. for effecting a marriage. According to the last Amcricaxi census there are 230,000 bachelors west of the Mississippi river lihe rJ nan.les of ^evv York are beginning to. 'S h('reaftl- to be known as Paulding, and lubbj hook has become Innwood. The evidence takon before the Impeachment C<>an>- mittee at Washington amounts to a volume of 800 pases-. This committee met at Washington on June 25. In Mississippi there are 225 Masonic lodges, whose returns have been received. The initiations reported are 1,215; passings reported, 1,113; raisings reported, 1,0S7 admissions reported, 721; demissions reported, 993; totaS number of Master Masons, members of lodges, reported, 9,013. Two young ladies have been court-martiaJledi in Florida for putting flowers on Confederate graves, A Western paper tlls us of a German in Chioio-n, who wears a beard leaching below his knees k nearly six feet logl, He is a good deal tShfid £ walkh £ lest he should step on a^^allydoe,»otCwStS do with it cert al nl v ?Wi*he mkM!e heI?llt' and though budn, ™ S n k;Ulg' )<is f:lCQ cannot be calloH a dark evil lhf/yUstages of a high forehead, piercing from hv n i well-formpi mouth and nose are detracted from bj a pale, sallow complexion, and a somewhat care- worn expression of countenance, which gives him a much oldei look than ho otherwise would have. His age is really only thirty-seven, but fifty would be the unanimous verdict brought against him "—Morning Star. On Saturday a young man named Edwin Croft,, residing at Earlsheaton, was in the carriage of a train whiclu arrived at Dewsbury Station, but instead of getting out on the right side he opened the door next the six-foot anvt stepped out, intending to reach the station door the mMw quickly. At this moment a train came up on the upline, and he was run over, an arm and a leg being cut off. The unfor- tunatemail died on Monday. During the severe thunderstorm on Thursday, a labourist; man, named Corbet, employed by the Rev. Mr. Orr, at Clonmel was struck by lightning and killed.—At a ianil near lurriff, Aberdeenshire, on Wednesday, a number of servants engaged in one of the fields got so fri<>hteneiJ that they started to run home. Eight of them were struck down by the lightning, and one lad named Gabriel, about seventeen years of age, was afterwards found to be dead. On Sunday the Sultan's youngest son spent some hours at the Zoological Gardens, in Regent's Park, London, which were also visIted by the Pacha of Egypt, as well s by a large number of Belgian volunteers, who were admitted free, and thus had an opportunity of seeing not only the "easts and beastesaes," but the Eastern "lions." rector £ a^r(^y evening the Rev. C. Cobb, M_.A., class Alho.lt mcl,'urch' Kent> was presented with the flrst- of "Lii,,t s,.lnedal by 0{ lwr Majesty "in recognition lugger Courri^l!"n "'e occasiollo £ the wreck of the French Dymehiirch, on Sunday, Jan. warded by his being presents?m!>V £ "Previously re- lational Lifeboat'InstUuUo,? guUl medal of the wreck of the lugger in the midst o! „ •' swam out \° tho ceeded in saving the lif« of the r^^u>Sx?torm',and suc" remaining on board. cajvUm, the only person A Commander, who has. been r years in the survey of the Vfsh Coast, las examfnedlasi week before the Select Conyaittee on the Fisheries of !r*i™ i He stated that the quantity of fish iu the sea was so vast unlimited, that all tie art of man directed to its capture would have no ;\ppreciable effect in diminishing the quan- tity. Indeed/ added the gallant officer, if you were to. take every ftdi yon could catch out of it, I don't think there would he one lesis in it!" ? cnnyKon, the Poet Laureate, has purclr-lge(\ „ small estate, called Greenhill, near Blackdown-hill, 11? slemerp A more romantically-lovely and retired sp .t cm ?,carcelv if* conceived. It has been said that Mr. Tennyson has been annoyed by snobbish visitors to the Isle of \r/ight intrrnlimi on ,113 privacy. Here, it is to be hoped, >ie inav eniov th« peaceful communing with nature which '4 congenial to th, poet's soul, lie intends to erect on th/3 pronely a house, so that probably lie will become I 'UnZne fc resident. le,"i It is stated that the frequent and late rains o.f tl) present season have bred in the vicinity of Now fjc, Commorient, blue-black r>ugs, about a quarter of a long, whose appctit" 1"1' green things is terri'hi'i'f l»v,U.ia. They go through everything, from tV„ 1''e to plants to the largest trees, and are drivin« f-,r <lehcat« gardeners distracted with their ravages, larniers and The harvest has commence,1 in If,, southern provinces of the empire, and a"ld m die Hcpnt, The weather is exceedingly fi^?*V/e n' a«m- Trosier Xeitung states that during the last fVu The siderable orders for grain had arrived from Fn^' con- the agents sent by the corn merchants to Huno-a1 '*au"' quence had already bought up more than t« y°"Sc; inetzen—iiear 1 y four million bushels The C milhoii of been making large purchases, chieilv in TT, IRE,;CH HAV0 time past. angary, for some On Saturday night the Vicernv e -v ± Her Majesty's Theatre, where lie oC °^ -°f ^S?ted Some tune after the opera had be- ple<l t'lu Ro>'al lj°x. asserted their preferential right t £ U" ? Party arnveil who was actually turned out of it, r „Y ?IlJ. tlle Viceroy with his party in the box of 1/ r"fY1„Cnm! to take refugfc to be his Highness's good .u<ey>.wll'\seems destined country. Semus during his visit to this A letter from Sa' nf rv_ • particulars respect j™ a France, gives some military establis' I 1 ,m?;de b>' the Sultan to that were got up 'or^l 'StetePlechases in the English sty seemed crea' i-?!, • entertainment of his Majesty, who without S' IT;lt0rWe boldness with which the riders, aides d V'rnips" ,too,k the difficult leaps. One of his own the 10 had not long left the school, joined in i .arimis exercises, and distinguished himself by his ad- U5.GSS and intrepidity. "Valentine Williams, a well-known character in Herefordshire, eighty-tbreo years of age, who got his livino- hy selling birch brooms, has been knocked down on the Here lord, Hay, and Brecon Railway. The poor creature died whiJp. being conveyed to the Hereford infirmary. ms h 1v refused admittance to the dead house of that nlace it then taken to tho workhouse, where a like "efusa'l and the body wasat last carried to the police station, whew it remained till removed by the friends of the deceased. The exhibitors of French shawls are makinff t>om- plaints onevory side because the gold medal awarded >o th £ ir industry has been given to the Paris Chamber ,,f rv The silk manufacturers of Lyons a?eTta? ihfiirtrold medal w.lt. Jj"ons,are also comp'aining that met-ce instead of A £ 1Ven the L>ns Chamber of Com- the lhiesof thl th?m- But the grumbling is all along ^le Peaceful army of international industry." tfco L' lns correspondent states that the condition of t impress Charlotte of Mexico though very deplorable not Quite so hopeless as has been represented. She }. /Q « nxea idea that she is to be poisoned, and nothing can J01' a moment, remove that impression from her mind times she is perfectly unreasonable, and at others calm; and in this latter state writes letters whiK). Y. "simply beautiful." lCA l' Two enterprising London shoe-blacks, locator! neath one of the portals of the Ludgate-hill Railwav havs made their art a luxury to those whose pe 'ui i they operate upon. They seat their patient in a comf>,M° k?3 arm-chair, hand him the day s newspaper place ? upon two elevated blocks, and each devot^Sfe.et one boot, brushes away with a vigour that leems to ;Sy that he means to "outshine" his cc^mnion Inp)y for all this, civility included, is on& penny charge It is said that the notori late M.P. for Lambeth, is vaniiP^ ■am RouPell» the manifest change in lm inn™ Sinking, and there is a, by many that he bor^ kii« 11 wil1 be remembered able stolidity a^ifhr. > a5i<* co"viction with remark- liberated frwa a feeling that he would ba Whether he has ll i- course of a short period, whpilier contimiA i i sappointed in that expectation, or oudcrmiued m, ii.1C f?ri^tlnn, drownei1 his sp rits and last to ha-ija i! llea'th, his adamantine spirit appears at s }¡¡ne g:ven way, whICh will 1)robsbly tenuinatehis care!?r I\t an early age. An attempt has been made to blow up the theatre v. r ,e^r' The ,eKvsoiitative of Mr. Pulton, the lessee visited the place i\t o'glit o'clock, and saw that everything was safe. Two hours afterwards a little girl Who lives in. the attached to the theatre noticed a light inside the- pit dv.w;. She gave an alar and the police, with sorm. persons connected with the tlieatre, arrived. It was the)- discovered that the gas had been turned on in n.11 narts oC the house, and two burners at the pit and box entrances lit Had this continued two hours longer a terrible exnlosiora must have occuvrod. The keys of the doors at the hov entrance, which were hung just inside, Were missing, ami they laust have been stolen while the pit door was ooen in the day. Tha deed must have been perpetrated to som» «•>»,« weU acquainted with the premises. soaw one