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THE DROYLSDEN MURDER.
THE DROYLSDEN MURDER. At the Manchester Assizes, Timothy Faherty has been In- dicted for the wilful murder of Mary Uanmer, at Droylsden, near Ashton-under-Lyne, on the 25th day of December, 1867. It appeared in evidence that the prisoner and the deceased woman were both natives or Ireland, and that they had been friends a considerable time. They had both lodged in the house of a Mrs. Broadrick at Droylsden, but the prisoner, after a stay there of four months, left a few weeks before Christmas-day, and went to live at a short distance. He, however, con- tinued to visit the Broadricks, and Mary Hanmer (the deceased). To the latter he endeavoured to pay court, but she was disinclined to receive his addresses, and he repeatedly said to his friends that he felt degraded in coming down so low as to ask one who, atter having promised, denied him." On Christmas-eve the pri- soner came to Mrs. Broadricks, where he saw her, her daughter Bridget, and Mary Hanmer. He asked the latter to go on the following day to Gorton-brook Monastery to chapel. She declined unless Mrs. Broadrick was going. He said I would bring ye home." She answered, I'd well be coming home with a young man at four o'clock in the morning," and refused. The prisoner then took his leave. He came again the following day (Christmas- day), about three o'clock, when he found Mary Hanmer and Bridget at home. He told the former that he was going to Ireland, and asked if she had any commands. Mary replied she had sent hers to her mother, but he might bring her respects to the green fields and the shamrock of Ireland." Bridget Broadrick, wearied with being up the whole of the night before-, attending the midnight mass, went up to bed. She heard while upstairs the voice of Mary Hanmer, whom she had left in the back kitchen, exclaim, Get out with you, what do you come after me for ?" This was to the prisoner, whom Bridget had left in the front kitchen. After this she undressed, got into bed, and fell asleep. She could not say how long she had been so,when she heard, through her sleep," a noise which awoke her. She listened, when sounds of a scuffle came and cries of Oh, don't, Tim oh, don't, Tim." Presently footsteps came up the stairs to her door. A voice moaned out Bridget The door opened and Mary Hanmer, with her hair down and blood stream- ing from her head, staggered into the room saying, I'm killed The prisoner followed directly with a poker in his hand, and crying, I'll kill you, I'll kill you struck her with it on the head, felling her to the ground but he inflicted four or five more wounds on the head and neck. The witness, terrified, made for the door. As she passed the prisoner clutched at the hair of her head, but she broke from him, and threw herself down the stairs into the arms of a neigh- bour named Thomas Brown, who arrived, summoned by the cries of Murder On entering the room he found the prisoner nursing on ^his knee the dying woman, calling her My girl," My Mary," "I've killed her, Brown; she was my girl, I loved her and I'll die for her; then, addressing the woman, Didn't I tell you, Mary ? She never spoke afterwards, and died within half an hour. Mr. J ones, for the prisoner, made a strong appeal to the jury, basing his argument upon the absence of all evidence. of what had taken place between the two after Bridget had gone upstairs, arid suggested the probability of a sudden quarrel which infuriated the prisoner, and suggested a verdict of manslaughter. The learned Judge summed up, explaining the law to the jury, and pointed out the absence of the slightest provocation to reduce the crime from one of murder. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The learned Judge addressed the prisoner in feeling and appropriate terms, and pronounced upon him the awful sentence of death with the usual form.
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@ur frakit dflrasjjmttat. ^VTe. deem it right to state that we do not at all ^imei: Identify ourselves with our CUITe: pendent's opinions.] A Court, a drawing-room, two levies, and drawing- rooms and courts arranged for, have done something towards making aristocratic London more lively than has been its wont of late years. The drawing-room, which her Majesty held last week, has been the first she has held since the death of the Prince Consort, in 1861, and the fact is sufficiently suggestive to allude te. It would appear to indicate that there is after all a prospect of her Majesty once again taking her place at the head of Court festivities and rejoicings, but it is not easy to refer to any other facts which give strength to this hope. It is, however, gratifying to be able to add that both the Queen and the Princess of Wales, who were the observed of all observers, looked well at the last drawing-room, which was a very brilliant affair. There was a very large attendance of foreign ambassadors and English nobility; 72 ladies were pre- sented, and upwards of 100 others, who had the privilege of the entree, availed themselves of it. The Queen, it is said, will pay a visit to Cambridge during the season, to inaugurate a statue of the Prince Consort, which has been subscribed for by members of the Senate. The rumour, considering the alleged purpose of the visit, is likely enough to be true, and I only exprea* the general feeling in adding that it could be wished that her Majesty would mix more among her loyal and faithful subjects, independently of cir- cumstances connected with the memory of one whom the nation loved, and whose loss it deeply regrets. It is is said, too, that her Majesty intends to patronise a fete which id to be held when the spring has more advanced, in favour of the Female School of Art, but I have nowhere seen it stated that she intends to be present and her personally presiding at the drawing- room is as yet the only encouraging fact for those who hope for the abandonment of that seclusion which has so long been kept up by our good Queen. The Government now at the head of affairs is notoriously in a minority, and it is not so strong in debating power as its well-wishers might desire, but there is no indication at present of the Opposition making an effort to turn them out. The success of the Scotch Reform Bill, notwithstanding a few alterations in committee, is pretty well assured, for it is not likely that the House of Lords will undo the work of the House of Commons and there is every probability also that Government will carry their cor- responding bill for Ireland. The general policy of Ministers towards Ireland has met, and will meet with serious opposition from their traditional opponents but it is not thought probable that this opposition will, under any circumstances, lead to a change of Ministry. But, as the French say, Qui vivra t'crra. Meanwhile it is consolatory to think that one irritating subject- exciting, both religiously and politically—is in a fair way of settlement. Mr. Gladstone's Compulsory Church Kates Abolition Bill, which passed through the Commons by such a majority, that the Lords are scarcely likely to throw it out, only effects a com- promise, it is true, but it is such a compromise that, if the bill become law, will multiply agitation on the subject. Speaking only my individual opinion, I hope the Lords will not, as many advise and hope will be the case, refer the bill to a select committee, but will pass the measure as it stands; so that those who con- scientiously object to church-rates, will no longer be compelled to pay them. The supplementary civil service estimates, which have just been issued, are very instructive, and not particularly cheering. It in. not pleasant to find that, in addition to the large sum already voted, £11,000 will be required for the expenses of the Fenian prose- cutions at Manchester and elsewhere. We shafi never know what Fenianism has cost this country and Ire- land, directly and indirectly, but it must be enormouf; and yet Fenianism, during its three years, at least, of active organisation, has never effected one triumph it has done not one thing to boast of and now it -4a not one whit nearer the accomplishment of its insane objects than when it first burst out. We have to pay a good many extra thousands also for the increased cost of maintaining prisoners in county gaols. This suggests the thought whether it would not be well to make punishment shorter and sharper in certain cases. Instead of twelve months' imprisonment, for instant, what do you say, reader, to three months and a sound flogging. Perhaps it would have a more deterrent effect, and certainly it would be far less costly. The extra money required for refonnatories and industrial schools will be well laid out. If we had more of these institutions we should have less need of prisons. The Post-office savings' banks are progressing most satisfactorily and are aiding the increased tendency of the working classes to put by money for a rainy day. No less than ten of the ordinary savings' banks have been absorbed by the Post-office institutions since Lst November, and the more rapidly the process of absorp- tion goes on the better. A savings' bank only opened a couple of hours, or three or four hours a week (some of them are, or were, only opened once a fortnight) is not at all adapted to the wants of the working community. The Post-office savings' banks are all that could be desired in this respect, but there is one thing which retards their success. That well-known Post-office missive coming to a man's house whenever he puts by any money acts as a tell-tale, and tells every one in the house that "he is saving money." In many cases this acts as a deterrent. With the old savings' banks he could put by money and no one was any the wiser, but now he proclaims the fact as it were on the housetops. If any mode of remedying this little defect in a good system could be arrived at, post- office savings' banks would be used to a considerably greater extent even than they now are. The Mayor of Dover is ably advocating a Whit Monday review in that town. Without enumerating his arguments I may add that they are forcible, and likely to lead to the result proposed, if volunteer officers and others will examine them. By the way, why should we not have two great volunteer reviews every year ? Or, if there is to be but one, why not have this one on Whit Monday ? Easter Monday is too early, the weather twice out of three times being unfavour- able! I read that there is" a proposal to give to the Prince Imperial the titular appellation of NapoleonIV. to familiarize the French people with the name prepara- 'I. tory to its owner coming to the throne, but to this I am inclined, like Goldsmith's Mr. Burchell, to cry "Fudge!" The idea is as unprecedented as it is absurd. Whoever heard of father and son thus being titled during the lifetime of both? "Titular appella- tion is only a fine name for title, and how would this itle be conferred ? Supposing this were done, what an absurdity would be the result. It would be absurd enough to give the Prince of Wales the titular appellation" of Edward VII., which will be his title if he ever come to the throne of England, but even this would not be so ridiculous as having a Napoleon the Third and Fourth at the same time. Far more probable was another rumour about the Napoleon family—that Monsigneur Lucien Bonaparte, grand- son of Lucien, who was brother of the first Napoleon, was to be made Cardinal, which really has taken place. This sedate studious man is only thirty-eight years of age, and he would be a very young Cardinal. On dit that he is aiming at the triple mitre of the Pope. Sceptre and crown must tumble down," and the Pope's mitre must in due course fall—to a successor. If that successor is Lucien Bonaparte, it cannot but add to the fame which clings to the renowned name of Bonaparte, or rather Buonaparte, a name which has certainly occupied a buonapavte of the pages of history. By the way, the Lucien Buonaparte just mentioned must not be confounded with that of Prince Lucien Bonaparte, as he is commonly called. Prince Louis I,ucien Bonaparte is the second son of Lucien, brother of Napoleon 1. He was born in Worcestershire in 1813. After the revolution of 1848, he entered France, and took some share in politics. He was made a senator in 1852, with the title of Prince, and three years afterwards he was made an officer of the Legion of Honour; but since that time he has resided in England, and taken no part in the politics of France. He now lives in London, and devotes his time to the study of languages and dialects. He has the finest private collection of linguistic and dialetical works in the world. Some thousands of volumes, for instance, are entirely in Welsh, whilst every known book relating to our county dialects may be found in his library. His collection of books on the Blang and cant idioms of the various countries is most extra- ordinary and a fact which will astonish most people is that his repertory of books and pamphlets having reference to London slang and cant alone number more than two hundred A curious passion this. Everything, they say, has its uses but most readers will be of opinion that there must be many of these productions which it would have been well to have collected only to destroy. The dispute between the Metropolitan Board of %.Vi/iks and the Metropolitan District Railway having i ",en happily arranged by arbitration, so far as the bames Embankment is concerned, another portion f the embankment (that at Whitefriars) is to be undertaken "with all convenient dispatch which ieai.8 no doubt that several years will be spent > ver it. That part of this gigantic undertaking which retches from Westminster Bridge to the Temple is early finished, and presents a noble appearance; but J t will scarcely be believed that it will be some three ears from this time before the roadway is made fit !-<r the public, although the very object of the iiihynkment was to relieve the traffic of one of j .ondon'a main arteries. That which would effect Una great object more than anything else would be the j 1 erection of three more bridges—below London Bridge, between Southwark and Blackfriars, and between Blackfriars and Waterloo. Reverting to the embank- ment, perhaps it is partly owing to the clearing away of the masses of odorous mud along the banks of the Thames that London was found to be more healthy in 18G7 than it has been any year since 1860. Another cause is the partial purification of the river and the main-drainage system and a third cause is the removal of a large number of rookeries for new streets, &c., resulting in the building of improved houses. Unhappily the latter reform has only been carried out to a small extent, but we shall go on better if Mr. M'Cullagh Torren's bill for improving the dwellings of the labouring classes pass both Houses, and it has been read a second time in the House of Commons.
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Iltisdfoicaus HOME, FOREIGN, AND CQL01IitiT A FORGIVING WOMAN. —Galignani, a Paris paper, has the following A marriase, which forms the happy denouement of a do- mestic drama. has just taken place at Monaca. A young man, named Duranti, wail some time back arrested for at- tempting to murder Madeleine C irbone, a young woman to whom he was engaged, alld on whom he had in a moment of jealousy, inflicted three wounds with a knife He was tried for the crime. but 1L1deleine, who ha,1 not been seriously in- jured, implored with tears the indulgence of the judges, and he escaned with a sentence of only fonr months' imprison- ment. The young womm had not only forgiven her assailant, but had never ceased to love him. She was not sattbfled with the mild condemnation passed on him through her; intercession, but she appealed directly to the Prince for a remission of the punishment, and the Sovereign touched I with her constancy, granted a free pardon. The marriage took place immediately after. SINGULAR BEQUEST.—A wealthy man has re- cently died in Paris, leaving all his wealth to his nephew, on condition that he would have the de- ceased interred at one o'clock in the morning, an arrangement contrary to the city regulations for funerals hence the matter has been brought before the courts. It is not long since a very well-known character died, enjoining by will to be interred, if he died during the summer, at six o'clock in the morning, and at eight if in winter. He died during winter, and 4uO invitations were issued to his "intimate friends" to attend the funeral. Only twenty-nine came, all of whom signed their names in a register. Eight days afterwards, these twenty-nine faithful till death, re- ceived a letter to call on the deceased's lawyer. They did so, and each received, according to the will, £320 if a lady, and £200 if a gentleman. The testator fur- ther directed that the names of those who received his bequests should be published in the journals, to punish those who would not put themselves out of their way to rise so early in the morning to attend his funeral. DAMAGES FOR A RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday, at the Stafford Assizes, an action was brought bv Mr. Buxton, bleacher, Fazeley, against the North Eastern Railway Company, for damages on account of injuries sustained by an accident on de- fendants' line. The plaintiff, who is sixty-two years of age, claimed damages for business losses, &c. The accident occurred on August 23, and arose from some stray bullocks being run into by a train in which the plaintiff was riding. Evidence as to the effects of the accident upon his health having been given the jury awarded him £800. Mr. Buxton had recovered com- pensation in 1863 for a similar occurrence. SHOCKING PARRICIDE.—A man named Grosse- ment, twenty-six years of age. and his mother, sixty- two years of age, have just been tried at the Aube Court of A ssizes, for the murder of the father of the former and the husband of the latter. The old man had made over his property to his son, thereby reducing himself to the- condition of an incumbrance, and frequently exDeriencing the ill-treatment of the pri- soners. In November deceased was found murdered in a wood, and an investigation showed that hia son had driven.tbe prongs of a pitchfork into his head and then attempted to burn the body. The charge of com- plicity was not pressed against the female prisoner, but the son was found guilty and sentenced to hard labour forjife. EXTRAORDINARY MUNIFICENCE.—A corres- pondent writes to the Manchester Guardian :— The rumour is, I believe, perfectly well founded that a munificent friend to popular improvement has offered to give a stern erf £ 100,000 to be devoted to the purpose of pro- motmg education. For the present the donor re- fusea-to havestny announcement made of his name but he has tatfen counsel of some of the persons best qualified to advise^hi* as to the most useful mode of allocating his splendid gift among the communities that are, by their ntimbers andiBieir activity, most likely to turn it to good ac- count. 0-wej}'s College, it is probable, will come in for its share a portion will be, I am told, set apart for Birming- ham, and another for Glasgow. If I am not misinformed, this new benefactor of the industry and invention of the working classes contemplates rather the endowment of scholarships and exhibitions than sinking liis money in stone and mortar. FAITH IN A "WISE WOMAN'S" POWERS.—At the Lincoln Assizes on Friday, Sarah Ann Digby was indicted for feloniously administering poison to Mary Ann Smith, her mistress, with intent to murder. Mrs. Smith had missed a £5 note, and had threatened to discover the thief by an application to a supernatural detective, viz., "the wise woman of Peterborough." Prisoner seems to have had the most entire faith in the* powers of the wise woman, and, it was alleged, with a view to preventing her mistress from going to Peter- borough, administered arsenic to her in broth, bread and milk, and tea. The £5 note, too, was returned through the post. Tie jury found the prisoner Guilty, and she was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS.—The Pontifical Almanack for 1868 has just appeared. It states that the Sacred College, when complete, is composed of six Cardinal-Bishop?, 50 Cardinal-Priests, and 16 Cardinal- Deacons. At this moment there are 23 hats vacant, and two have already been conferred in petto by Pins IX. Out of the 49 existing Princes of the Church 12 received the purple from Gregory XVI., and the others from the reigning Pontiff, who has Been 84 members of the Sacred College depart from this world since his accession. Mgr. Bonaparte will be the youngest Cardinal. The eldest is the Archbishop of Toledo, born in 1781. The senior (as to creation) has worn the hat 36 years. In the Catholic Church there are 865 Patriarchal Archiepiscopal, or Episcopal actual sees, and 229 in partibus. The countries where the hierarchy is not yet regularly established form 193 Vicariats, 5 Delegations, and 22 Prefectures, governed by missionary prelates. The Italian peninsula alon« counts 235 dioceses, and supplies nearly one-half of all the Cardinals. THE HORRORS OF FAMINE !—Heartrending accounts continue to be received of the famine in Algeria. The following appalling story is told by the Echo d' Or an :— So historical famine has presented to the saddened eyes of humanity so horrible a spectacle as that which is at this moment to be observed among the Arabs. Two days ago a native woman, in the neighoourhnod of Misserghin, killed her daughter twelve years of age, and gave the flesh to her other children and partook of it herself The legal authorities, hearing of the circumstance, at once proceeded to the spot; anti on entering the hut occupied by these cannibals, learned that the heart, the liver, and the interior portions of the corpse were eaten, hecause they would not keep. The mother was occupied in salting the flesh, cut up into pieces, exactly as is done with purk. The Invalide Busse gives the following picture of the frightful situation of Finland, where the population is desolated by famine :— Every day" writes the clergyman of the parish, "more than fifty peasants present themselves at my house com- pletely exhaustel by hunger, imploring bread for them- selves and their families, who for some time have been living on moss, hay, and the bark of the fir. This frightful famine is far from being local, as the whole of this province is suffer- ing under it. The last resources are exhausted, and the vupnlation ha3 no other alternative than to eat hay and straw or die of starvation.' HER MAJESTY'S DRAWING-RoOM. At the drawing-room on Friday, in last week, the Queen wore a black moire antique dress with train trimmed with crape and jet, and a diadem of opals and diamonds over a long white crape lisse veil. Her Majesty also wore a necklace and brooch of opals and diamonds, the Riband and Star of the Order of the Garter, and the Orders of Victoria and Albert and Louise of Prussia. The Princess of Wales wore a petticoat of white silk, with bouffants of tulle veiled in silver and fastened with knots of black and gold edged with silver fringe; a tunique Marie Antoinette, and corsage of white poult de soie trimmed with silver and volant of fine Brussels lace a train of black poult de soie edged with gold and silver fringe head-dress—diamonds, feathers, and veil ornaments—pearls and diamonds, the Victoria and Albert Order, the Order of Catherine of Prussia, and the Danish Order. Princess Christian wore a train of white moire antique trimmed with Honiton lace, a petticoat of white silk trimmed with tulle and Honiton lace and bunches of white roses head-dress— diadem and feathers ornaments—necklace and stomacher of diamonds; orders Victoria and Albert, and Portuguese. Princess Louise wore a train of white satin, with petti- coat of tulle over silk, handsomely trimmed with roulies of satin and fringe head-dress—velvet bands ornamented with diamonds, feathers, and veil; orna- ments—diamonds, Victoria Order and Order of St. Isabel. SOMETHING LIKE A BILL OF FARE !—The following is a copy of the bill of fare for a banquet given to the poor of Melbourne on the arrival of Prince Alfred in that city :— One bullock, roasted whole; 1 baron of beef, 22 rounds beef, 5cwt. roasting beef, 12 sheep, 100 legs raulton, 44 lambs, 2 fat pigs, 3 cwt. pork, 56 lbs. bacon, 14 hams, 50 ox tongues, preserved meat, 284 lbs. German sausage, 7,6001hs. potatoes, 600 dinner loaves, 1 bag and 1 cwt. of rice, 1 dozen tins sardines. 2 bags oysters, 1 cwt Murray cod, 9 dozen pickles, sauces, and curry, mustard, vinegar, pepper, salt, spices, 40 large plum puddings, 33 large tarts, 60 dozen assorted pastry, l box raisins, 4 bags sugar, 1 jar, and 3 dozen jams, 81J lbs. fresh butter, cheese, 2 half-chests tea, 50 lbs coffee, (JOO gallons colonial wine, 4 cases colonial wine, 4 cases champagne, 6 cases claret, 2 cases port, 20 hogsheads ale, :>i dozen stout, 2 dozen Bavarian beer, cordials, 3,432 bnns, 1,050 quarts milk, 3 casks biscuits, 1 tin ditto, 3 tins lollies, U case fruits, 3 hogsheads ginger beer, 19 gallons raspberry vinegar, 6 gallons ginger wine ENGLISH THIEVES IN FRANCE.—Thirteen men fif ,wotl)en'aU English, seven of the former and six of the latter, have been brought up at the Tribunal of Correctional 1 olice in Paris, on a charge of forming part of a band of pickpockets said to have been organized and brought over by a woman named Wilkinson, well-known to the London police. Several of the accused had been watched by French detectives at the railway stations and other frequented places and one man named Murray, when arrested after attempting to abstract a roll of bank-notes from a lady's muff, threw his cloak over the policeman's head and ran off, knocking down a man who attempted to arrest him. He was, however, followed and recap- tured. Five of the prisoners were acquitted in con- sequence of their complicity not being sufficiently proved. The woman Wilkinson was sentenced to two years' imprisonment and the others to thirteen months of the same punishment, with the exception of one man, who got off with six months. The condemned were likewise placed for two years after the expiration of their punishment under the surveillance of the police. SHOCKING STREET ACCIDENT.—On Saturday ] an inquest was held at the London Hospital, relative 1 to the death of a. boy, named Jam«s Murphy, aged four < years. The deceased was the son of a working man, living at Mile-end, and on the previous Tuesday after- noon he was sent out to play in the street. Shortly after he was seen crushed in between the spokes of a van wheel, and as the wheel revolved he was fright- fully jammed between it and the body of the van. The passers by called out to the driver of the van to stop, which he did instantly. Great difficulty was expe- rienced in extricating the poor boy, the spokes of the wheel had to be cut, and the operation lasted a quarter of an hour. He was taken apparently dead to the London Hospital, where he expired in the course of a few minutes. It was supposed that he got on to the back of the van to have a ride, and falling off met with his death. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death. THE ARROWS OF ABYSSINIAN "WARRIORS.— A gentleman named Leach, of Alexandria, has for- warded to the Museum of the Hartley Institution some specimens of arrows used by Abyssinian warriors. They are above three feet long. The sticks are made of vine branches and other tough woods. The heads are of iron. Some of the heads are of the ordinary lance shape-others are shaped like a flattened fish's head, and are barbed. One of the heads is an ugly weapon consisting of a sharp iron spike about six inches long with a twisted serrated edge. Some of the heads are inserted into the sticks others are fastened vr-ry securely with a cord made of the skin of some animal, which is twisted round the stick when wet. Mr. Leach writes word that the Abyssinian spear is five feet six inches loag, and is a formidable-looking W ;apon. As AMUSING INCIDENT.—The Court Journal tells the following little story :— Baron Rothschil(1, a few days ago, took the idea to visit the importallt works at presellt being executed in the neigh- bourhood of the Luxembourg. Leaving hh carriage, he traversed the gardens on foot, and soon arrived at the back of the Pantheon, a district full of old curiosity shops. The Baron beirJg au amateur in such things, he discovered on a parcel of hooks a barometer, finely sculptured, but with the gilding worn df. He asked the price, and was told "ten francs." That is not dear," replied the Biron, who after- wards declared he had lately paid as many guineas for a worse object of art. "It is worth forty francs. Bring it to my house, Rue Lafltte, to-morrow, and I will pay you." But I don't know you," replied the shopwoman. Well, I am 1f..Rothschild." The woman had never heard of him, and an acquaintance of hers having passed, the Baron asked him, "Did he not know M. Rothschild?" Yes, certainly; all the world does also." "Well," continued the Baron, "this woman will not give me credit for forty francs." It was ultimately agreed that the Baron might take away the instrument, the neighbour giving security to the shopwoman, and calling next oay on the Baron for payment. The secu- rity was duly discharged, and rewarded with £20. FIERCE ASSAULT ON A POLICEMAN.—On Mon- day, three men were taken before the magistrates at Wolverhampton charged with intending to murder a policeman of that borough named Lomasney. The accused are named Richard Stephens. James Pitt, and John Nixon, all of whom lead a kind of nomadic life alternating between the making of besoms and poach- ing. Late on Saturday night they assailed the officer with cries of "Your a Fenian!" Later in the evening they attacked him with stones, one of which weighed "upwards of 21h., and was tied in a handker- chief as a sling. The officer was found lying insensible, surrounded with a large quantity of blood, which had flowed chiefly from a severe wound on the temple, and by his side the large stone and handkerchief as de- scribed. The weapon seems to have been hurled against the poor man's.head with so much force as to have broken the stone in two. There was blood upon the handkerchief and the stone. The surgeon to the police said that Lomasney was lying in a very dan- gerous state, and the symptoms were becoming more dangerous rapidly. In addition to the injuries to the head one of his ribs was fractured. A STRANGE PROPOSAL.—A schoolmaster in some village in the south of France has memorialized the Senate to induce the Emperor to take the little Prince Imperial into partnership as Emperor, and bestow on him the title of Napoleon IV. The petitioner remarked that time, or the inexorable laws of human nature, brings about vacancies of the throne (des successions au trône) which expose peoples and dynasties to perils which history has had but too often to record it is, therefore, a matter of prudence to prevent such perils by effecting an association—a continuity of the supreme power—without awaiting the period, always unknown, of these critical moments. Public order and the blessings of monarehial institu- tions would be equally promoted by this combination. The Senate thought that this petition was not unconstitutional, but that the Emperor alone could decide on the merit of the suggestion, and therefore dismissed the prayer of the loyal schoolmaster by the order of the day. BURMESE THEATRICALS.—The Rangoon Times gives a description of Burmese theatricals. The theatre consists of a long elevated stage, with foot lights in front, and a curtain of red or white cloth spread out at the back. The real performers stand behind the curtain, and are invisible to the audience. They in- troduce on the stage through an aperture a series of wooden or bamboo figures, painted and dressed up to resemble kings, queens, princes, nobles, courtiers all manner of birds, from the royal peacock down to the little humming bird: all sorts of beasts, as lions, tigers, monkeys, dogs, cats, apes, asses, and elephants; fishes of various kinds, and then different fanciful figures to look like gnats, or spirits, dragons, centaurs, flying horses and flying elephants, and every ima- ginable thing which is supposed to figure or perform a part in the great theatre at the invisible world. FEMALE EDUCATION IN INDIA.—If female education in England receives our hearty support, has not the BaIne cause in India. an equal claim on us? Here is a circular from Miss Carpenter on the sub- jec': "At a recent visit to Bristol, Judge Manockjee Cursetjee stated that a site having been granted by government for building a large hall for the promotion of female education, he had undertaken to raise 50,000 rupees, or £ 5,000 for this purpose. The hall would be called the Albert Hall,' and would be adapted for a girls'school, called the Alexandra Institution,' and for the establishment of a female normal training school. He proposes to hold a grand bazaar in Bom- bay, at the end of March or early in April, and states that the work of English ladies, contributed for the purpose, will be much valued. Any articles usually sent to an English bazaar will be acceptable also books, drawings, chromo-lithographs, and photo- graphs." TRADES' UNION ARGUMENTS.—A moulder from the south of Scotland, who had been out of work for six months, on union principles, recently gave notice that he "would no longer starve his family," but would seek employment on the master's terms. He engaged with an Aberdeen tradesman the other day. In the evening he was found by a union picket, aiji offered drink and money to retrace his steps and bre&k his en- gagement and when they found that he would not do as they desired, he was knocked down by a blow on the face, cut severely across the nose, his front teeth loosened, and kicked severely on the arms and side. AN ACCIDENT IN THE HUNTING FIELD.— The death of General Mildmay Fane, Colonel of the 54th Regiment, from an accident in the hunting field, is announced. While hunting on Thursday, in last week, in the neighbourhood of Fulbeck Hall, his seat in Lincolnshire, his horse fell, throwing him on his forehead, aad, after being raised, the General was found dead, his neck having been broken. The late General was the fifth son of the Hon. Henry Fane, second son of the eighth Earl of Westmoreland. He was born in Sept., 1794, and was unmarried. He entered the army in his sixteenth year as ensign, and served in the Peninsula from December, 1812, to March, 1814, and also the campaign of 1815, including the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo, at the former of which he was severely wounded. In August, 1855, he was ap- pointed colonel of the 96t,h Foot, from which he was removed December 20, 1860, to the colonelcy of the 54th Regiment, which becomes vacant by his death. THE EXPENSES OF AN AUTO-DA-FE. — A singular petition has been presented to the Italian Chamber of Deputies. On April 6, 1724, only a cen- tury and a half ago, an Augustin monk, Romualdo, and a Benedictine nun, named Gertrude, were burnt to death in the square of San Erasmo, the largest in Palermo, in presence of a most brilliant assemblage of functionaries, clergy, inquisitors, etc., with the arch- bishop of the place at their head. The crime of these unfortunate persons was heresy. As to the terrible tribunal which ordered, after a captivity of twenty years, this execution, it was the same holy office. At present, M. Castiglia, belonging to the family of Sister Gertrude, asks the Chamber to support him in obtaining from the Minister of Finance a discharge from the payment of an annual sum, claimed by the 'I authorities for the expenses of the judicial murder to which their ancestress fell a victim. The mere fact of the event having taken place in Sicily, where so many strange memorials of clerical history still subsist, has moved public opinion, and the Castiglia petition has been formally referred to the minister. Letters state that there is reason to suppose that the Treasury will renounce levying the sum in question. A PHONETIC ENTHUSIAST.—At Sheffield, on Monday, James May, a bone button manufacturer, of Pondhill, appeared to answer four summonses taken out against him by the Chief Constable. The offence with which he was charged was a breach of the 64th section of the Town Improvement Clauses Act, by painting the names of several streets in the phonetic system of spelling. The defendant had the names of several streets painted in the phonetic system on pieced of black board, and five or six of them which had been taken down by order of the Chief Constable were pro- duced in court. The Mayor inflicted a fine of 10s. and 4s. costs in each of the four cases. THE FORTUNE OF A FORTUNE TELLER.—At Leeds Elizabeth Furness has been charged with cheat- ing Mary Hardy of 10s. 6d., and wearing apparel valued at j35. It appeared that the prisoner had visited the house where the prosecutrix was employed as a servant, and undertook to tell her her fortune. Hardy asked her to procure for her a young husband. 1 he prisoner, of course, agreed but, before she could rule the planets, it was necessary that they should be propitiated by the payment to her of a half-sovereign and a quantity of clothing. These were given to her but some time after, as the prosecutrix found she had received no benefit, and did not receive back her pro- perty as she had expected, she gave information to the police, and the prisoner was apprehended. The magistrate committed her for three months to the House of Correction. THE MINERS' STRIKE.—On Monday a nu- merous meeting of miners was held on Hunsiet-mcor, Leeds, to consider the proposed reduction in the wages of the men of the Adwalton, Gildersome, Birstal, Morley, Ossett, and Dewsbury districts. There were several thousands present, and a good deal of indignation was expressed that the employers should have stated that the men had had four advances, equal to 25 per cent., since November, 18t>5. This was denied; and it was said that though the men in 1861 got an advance of 10 per cent., twelve months afterwards they had it taken off, and a strike" turning out a failure they lost other 20 per cent. also. Colliers now, it was said, were just about in the same position as in 1861, and if the 10 per cent, reduction now pending in the Drigh- lington district be carried out the men receiving 5s. lid. per day will only receive 4s. 6d. A resolution was passed to support the lodges now on strike," but the question as to whether there should be a turn out in the Drighlington district was referred to a delegate meeting. That meeting immediately proceeded to business, and it was understood that the result would je an offer on the part of the men to accept a reduction }f 5 per cent, [
THE TODMORDEN TRAGEDY.
THE TODMORDEN TRAGEDY. SENTENCED TO DEATH. At the Manchester assizes, on Friday, Miles Weatherhill was placed at the bar charged with the wilful murder of Jane Smith, at Todmorden, on the 2nd of March. It appeared from the speech of the learned Counsel, and from the evidence subsequently called that the prisoner was a young man, twenty-three years old, living with his mother and sisters in Todmorden, who had formerly been a Methodist, but had latterly attended the church in which the Rev. Mr. Plow, the vicar of Todmorden, officiated. He also had taught in the Sunday schools attached to the church, and became acquainted with Mr. Plow, and had for the last two years courted a young woman named Sarah Elizabeth Bell, who had been for three years in service in the family. Two years ago, when Sarah Bell was only sixteen years of age, the prisoner called on Mr. Plow and asked to be allowed to keep company with her, and it appeared that at first Mr. Plow was inclined to grant him per- mission, but subsequently, on talking it over with his wife, he refused it on the ground that the girl was too young, and he disliked a long courtship in his house. It appeared from the deposition of Mr. Plow, which was read in the course of the trial (hi3 death having occurred on Thursday from the violence he had received), that the interview in which this refusal was given was a fiiendly one, Mr. Plow complimenting the prisoner on the openness he had shown in the matter, but subsequently they met clanc^stinely, and this coming to the ears of the master and mistress, through the information of the deceased woman, Jane Smith. who was also a servant in the familv, Sarah Bell was dismissed from her place on the 1,t of November. This led to feelings of enmity on the part of the prisoner to Mr. and Mrs. Plow and the deceased, for the girl, to whom he was evidently deeply attached, was remeved from Todmorden to Newhy Whiske, near Thirsk, »here her mother lived, which rendered both her am-) the prisoner very unhappy, and it became his object either to get the girl back into a district within his reach or else to re- aliate on those who had caused the separation. The follow- ing letters received by the girl from the prisoner, and read in the course of the trial, throw light on the state of his feelings on the matter :— Todmorden, Nov. 7. My dear, dear Sarah,—1 am now at Todmorden once more, but with a very sad heart. You know how we left each other, and you may guess how I have been since. Oh, Sarah, my true love, how I do so long to see you. I should so like to hear that swebt voice of yours once more. I have hearkened to it many an hour in yond yard and back door, but them times has gone, gone, I am sorry to say for ever. I wish I had stayed a bit longer, as you wanted me, for I only worked four hours on Wednesday. In the after- noon I took a solitary walk. I wish you were at Todmorden again. I then should be happy once more, but now I am miserable we are parted and what is it for? Not for any disgraceful action either of us has done. No, it is for l¡ein.1t too honourable and upright in our dealings. Sarah, it makes my blood hoi] to think of the wrong they have done. to you. I will never forgive them, they have ruined our harp ness. Oh, Sarah that I could have died in your arms, I should have been thankful. I am now grieving for the loss of the girl I love. I have not seen any of them at the Parsonage yet, so I can't say anything about them. You must not write to me this week unless you are sure I shall get the letter by Saturday night or Sunday morning. I will write again in a few days or a week, and then you can answer my letter. I remain, yours ever truly, MILES WEATHERHILL." Todmorden, Nov. 11. "My dear Sarah Elizabeth,—You must excuse me for writing so much, but this will be the last time for a bit. I have had such a row with master and niistrets. I heaid she had given you a character, so I asked her about it, and she put in it what JOu told me she would. It was yesterday noon when I saw her, and she said she thought there was not much wrong in it; but I told her there was a very deal of wrong in it, and then I turned round and would nor, talk to her any longer. In the afternoon I saw master. He called ot me and we had a regular row. He called us anything but Chiistians, and he spoke of you as not being a re.pectable girl. He mafle my blood boil, and I will have my revtOnge for the girl I love, unless YOIl can come to Todmorden, or within a mile or two of it. It would plague them worse your coming than me having my revenge. If yoU have not engaged with that place come somewhere near here. Write as soon as possible, and let me know whether you can Come or not. If you will I will pay your expenses. From yours ever, "MILES WEATHERHILL "Todmorden, Nov. 19, 1867. "My Love,—I often wonder whether you have got that place or not, or whether you have got a place at all. If you have not got one yet, come back to Todmorden. Corne, if it be only to plague Plows. I am sure you may get a situation here if you only try. I will pay your expenses. You know people that would speak for you if you would only write to them. How happy we should be if you could get a place here. I am sure you will not meet with another that would keep you in the house as Plows did. Then we could have our walks, and it would so plague them. They are, I under- stand, going to have a cook 011 Tuesday. This is coming from near the place where Jane, tne traitor, comes from. You know that I cannot come where you are, but you can come where I am, and if YOU love me you will come. Come, Sarah, come, and don't let us be parted, for it is hard to be parted from the one I love. If YGU wail poorly it would be a different thing; but you are well and healthy, and so let us enjoy our youth in spite of all the Plowses. What is the use of you getting a place so far away from the one you say you love? Letter courting JS not like courting personally. We should not have had any occasion to be parted at all bad Plow been a gentleman. He and his wife and the traitor has spoiled our happiness, and unless that bappiness can be renewed they shall rue it, fdr I wIll open Jane's secret to all Todmorden. I will not be the only one to suffer. No. the traitor shall suffer a little. I cannot forgive them for doing as they have done towarda us. We acted honourably and it was not right of them to do as they have. I hope you will answer this letter before Sunday at the very latest, and let me know all particulars. I think I shall go and see the Fenians bring at Manchester on Saturday, but I have not m.ade up my mind. yet. So no more at present, hoping you will never forget Miles, your true lover." The girl did not get a place near Todmorden. as the prisoner wished, but went into service at the Friends' Retreat, near York, and on Sunday, the 1st of March, the prisoner visited her there. They took a walk together, and when they parled in the evening Sarah Bell said that he uttered the exclama- tion in a low tone Revenge I" On the evening of Monday, the 2nd of March, he returned to Todmorden, and bought some powder, shot, and caps at a gunsmith's there at about eight o'clock. Later on he met a companion named Lord on the County-bridge there, and said, among other things, he "could be a happy man if yon lass was at Todmorden." Mr. Plsw came home about half past nine that night, and had had his supper and rung- the bell for prayers. His attention was attracted by a noise in the kitchen, ann. going there, he found that the door into the yard was tied with a string on the outside, so as to prevent its being opened." He went out by the front door and found the prisoner in the yard, who at ouce carne up to him aod suaJlped a pistol at his head. The cap only went off, and the prisoner then attacked him with a hatchet, with which he wounded him fearfully all over the head and face. Mr. plow called out to he let into the hou-e by the back door, and Jane Smith cut the string which fastened it and the two men struggled in. The women servants in the house, Jane Smith, Elizabeth Spink, and Mary Hodgson, tried to pull the prisoner off, and he then turned upon Jane Smith and attacked her with the hatchet, which Mary Hodgson eventually wrested from him Mr. Plow escaped with the pistol he had seized from the prisoner in his hand to the parish clerk's house, a short distance off, and Jane Smith got into the dining room and tried to shut the door. The prisoner followed her in, however, and she went on her knees and was heard to pray Mercy," but he said "Where's my Sarah?" and fired a pistol at her, which sent two bullets through her head, and she was instantaneously killed. She was found afterwards lying in a pool of blood. with one arm nearly severed, and the hatchet lying underneath her. The prisoner then went upstairs to the room in which Mrs. PLow, who had recently been confined, was lying in bed, and where the monthly nurse was in attendance. The latter put her back against the door and ^tied to keep him out: but he was too strong for her, and pushed his way into the room. He turned down the bedclothes and tired a pistol into the bed, making a hole in the clothes but not wounding Mrs Plow and he then attacked her with a poker, inflicting brutal in- juries, hnd, among others, breaking her nose. By this time the alarm had spread, and the prisoner was taken in the bedroom. When brought downstairs he was perfectly calm, and smiled when Elizabeth Spink said to him, "Do you know you have killed my niaster ?" He said to Mary Hodg- son, when she charged him with killing Jane Smith, that he had seen her, and it would be a warning to Mary to tell no more tales." To another witness he said, "If it had not been for those pistols there would have been two more deaths and to the policeman who took him he told what Jane Smith said to him-" Please, don't." He said. "Where's my Sarah ?" and let the pistol off, and it went" crack." In all, four pistols were found, loaded, and the prisoner was wearing the belt which held them and there were also the hatchet and poker used on Mr. and Mrs. Plow. Before the magistrates he made the following statement:— I wish to say a few words. It will all amount to nothing, it will matter noueht. When I began to keep company with Sarah at first I thought I would act as an honourable man. One niyht I waited or Mr. Plow coming out of the church. I told him I wanted a favour of him, and hoped he would grant it me. He said, 'What is it?' I said, I want to keep company with Sarah.' He asked me, "How long have yau been after her?' I said, 'I have had my eye on the girl ever since the first time she came He said that was quite natural. I asked him if he would grant me that favour. He sa'd, Oh, no, I could not think of such a thing.' I said, 1 thought I would come and ask you in a right way. I little thought you would deny me. I told him I did not like coming whistling up and down the back yard, and that my intentions were good. He said. Yes; I have always taken you to he a respectable man.' He said that Sarah was a good girl. He then said he would talk to his wife about the affair before he would give me a decided answer, aud would see me again before long. I made it in my way to see him a day or two after. He said they had talked the matter over, and they could not give their consent, but they were very well pleased for the honourable way in which I had acted, but could not allow me to come to the house. I asked that she might come out if he would not allow me to go. I found it was no lise, he would not give me the privilege I asked for so I was determined to go and did go until Jane told about us keeping company together. Then there was a stop put to it right then. Since then I have been on my way to ruin and ever will be. I will die like a dog. But, after all, I am glad Mr. and Mrs. Plow is not dead. I hope they will forgive me." Upon this case for the prosecution Mr. Torr (for the pri- soner) asked the jury to say that the very atrocity and manner of the deed cariied evidence of ITJsanity with them. The prisoner went provided with a belt full of pistols and a hatchet in a sort of theatrical way to kill one poor girl, and after the deed was done he hacked his victim with a h itchet, I for there was little doubt that the injuries to the arm were done alter death. There are cases In which the crime itself is sufficient to indicate insanity, and it was the learned counsel's outy to submit to the jury that this was one. His lordship, however, in summing up, invited the atten- tion of the jury to the danger to society of such a doctrine, and said he failed to see in the case anything whi«h could obviate a verdict of guilty being given. The jury almost immediately returned a verdict of Guilty, and the Judge, having assumed the black cap, said It would have been a deplorable thing if the jury had yielded to the arguments advanced in your favour and acQUitted you on the ground of insanity. I see no tittle of evidence or anything to show that your mind was ever affected by any other thing but bad and vindictive feelings. You have been most righteously found guilty of a murder which in its accompani- ment is almost unparalleled in the history of crIme. It almost looks like a murder on the part of a wild savage, rather than that of a person nurtured in civilised life. How many may he the victims of your outrage we know not. V\ e know two already have died, and a third is now in peril. For that crime you must die you have forfeited your life to the law of your country, but you will be dealt with not as you dealt witn your victims. You will have time and oppor- tunity for repentance, and I pray of you to take advantage of the aid that will be afforded to you to find grace of heart and sincere repentance before you are banisheu into eternity. The prisoner was then sentenced in the usual form, the judue concluding :—And I can only add it with sincerity, may the Lord have mercy upon you The prisoner was then removed from the dock, hav- ing never throughout the whole proceedings displayed the slightest emotion.
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The mother of the convict, since sentence was passed upon him, has made a statement which throws light upon the state of mind of Weatherhill immediately before the crime was committed. She says that, when he entered the house on his return from York, he exclaimed,' "Have they been have they been?" and, suddenly recollecting himself, said no more. WeatherhiiI then went out, but returned shortly, inquiring, "Have they been; have you seen anybody? "as though, having made up his mind to the deed, he felt his criminality, and was in momentary expectation of being apprehended. On Monday morning a letter was received from the convict by his mother and sister, in which he addresses them as follows :— "My dear mother and sister,—It must be very painful to you to know tnat 1 am in a prison, and what is worse, con- demned to die. Well, you must bear It as wen as you can. You will be allowed to see me once or twice more in my cell; then you must bid me farewell for ever. Undoubtedly it is now, and will be, a very great trouble to you when r am gone for ever from you; but you must remember we may aU meet again in heaven if we ollly repent of our sins. Yon must try and love Cllrist, which I think you do already, and have done for some time, but you can love him more yet. 1 (You see I can give other people advice, and tell how they should do, but when the mischief 11 I cannot take advice, I and as I ought to do myself.) You will be sorry when you hear I have not repented of my sins, but I will try my best to meet you both and S :rali in heaven. You must not think it hard of me because I write to Sirah more than you, you must know I look upon that good girl as my wife, though she is not, but I think she would be if I was only free. I think that you will have found it out before now that she is a good girL Ah, she's too good for me. 1 will draw to a close, and hope we may all meet in heaven.—From yours, dear mother and sister, affectionately, "MILES WEATHERHILL." The following- letter was also received on Monday morning from Weatherhill by a friend:- "D oar friend,—I thought I would write a few lines to you, as you have been so kind. I suppose you know that I have been found guilty, and that I shall have to be hung. It is an awful and shameful death to die, but I have deserved it, and there is no chance left..1 wish I could uddo this shock- ing crime. I was very sorry when I heard that Mr. Plow and the babe was dead. Oh! I hope there will be no more die, it is so terrible to think of. I wish he had given me the privilege of keeping company with Sarah. I would not have cared for going into the house if he had only let her have her Sunday out, but he would not; and, oh, what it has come to. If he had given me the chance what a different man I should have been. I should have been a teacher in a Sunday-school, a communicant of the church, and if I had once more taken of that holy feast it would have been a heavenly feast to my soul, for I would not have taken that holy communion in mockery, or at a cloak to make people think I was good. No I should have taken an interest in doing what good I could for the school and church, and in the long run he would have found mela useful man. And what a comfort I should have been to my po >r mother and sister, and how happy my Sarah and me would have been. We did not want to get married jllst then (but I would have married her before she left Todmorden had she been willing). No, I wanted to get a better trade and make a little more money than I had. fhen I would have married her, and been happy with her, but, when she left Todmorden, there was a turning point in me Yes, I turned wild, I cared little what I did, I spent all my money, I saw nothing but poverty and despair, and now I am condemned to nie. Ah, I was a changed man when she left; ah, I am sorry to say, changed for the worse. I shall I soon be parted from her for ever in this world, but I will try to meet her in heaven; but there is only poor signs yet of me, for my heart is quite hardened, but I will try to dip a true penitent. See you live for another and better world, for Christ has died to save all, and may we all meet asrain in heaven.—From yours sincerely, "MILES WEATHERHILL." "P. S.—You can do as you like with this letter. I will find no fault with yon. You can let everybody look, it you want, for I am not ashamed. to own that I love her. Publish it if you like."
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The town of Todmorden was yesterday thronged (says the Manchester Guardian of Monday) by crowds of visitors, who inspected the scene of the recent tragedy with an inteiest that seemed never to tire The crimes that were committed at the quiet parsonage have given to the town a notoriety of which its inhabitants would fain be rid. To those amongst the people of Todmorden who were acquainted with the con- vict Miles Weatherhill, the sudden outbursts of passion which induced him to commit the crime was beyond measure sur- prising. Weatherhill was gay and cheerful, fond of the society of young men of his own age, but possessing an edu- cation above the average of persons of his condition. When his work as a weaver was done, he was often to be found in the news and reading rooms in the town, taking a great in- terest in the progress mot only of local but also of national affairs, and possessing sufficient knowlsdge to enable him to maintain his ground in controversies with persons far above him in position and education. Weatherhill is the only son of a wi,lowed mother, who has a daughter of nearly the same age. The daughter is seriously affected in mind by the posi- tion of her brother; but Mrs. Weatherhill is said to be firmly impressed with the belief that her unhappy son is more sinned against than sinning, and that his life will be spared. Since Weatherhill's committal he has been visited by the Rev. Dr. Molesworth, Rochdale (the stepfather of Mrs. Plew), and the Rev. R. BUkelock, who has assisted the late Mr. Plow at Todmorden. The convict showed not the least signs of sincere repentance for his crime but he charged Mr. Blakelock with a message to his young companions, which that gentleman delivered from the pulpit on Sunday.
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On Sunday morning the Rev. R. Blakelock preached in the parish church. The parsonage closely adjoins the church; and all the congregation, ou their way to service, would pass the house, in which all the blinds were closely drawn and deep stillness reigned. Opposite to the eastern entrance of the church was the scarce-closed grave of Jane Smith, and next to it, within ten yards of the parsonage, was an open grave which was to receive the remains of the late vicar. Thepulpit was draped with black, and on the reading desk was a covering of black silk, and a wreath of flowers. The Rev R Blakelock preached from the text, For so Hegiveth His beloved sleep" (cxxvii. Psalml. In the evening there was a very large congregation. The sermon was preached by the Rev. H. A. Plow, father of the murdered clergyman. Before the sermon was delivered, tae prayers of the congregation were earnestly requested on be- halt of the culprit, Miles Weatherhill, now lying under sentence of death," and for Sirs. Plow, "now in great dis- tress of mind and body." The Rev. H. A. Plow preached from Revelation xiv. 13. The preacher warned his hearers against depending upon the efficacy of what were called death-bed repentances. He said he did not presume to limit the mercies of the Eternal, who might, if He saw fit, pardon at the last moment the blackest sinner that ever lived. He prayed that God would pardon the sinner who had deprived him of one of the best sons that ever father had. God grant that that hardened sinner, at the last hour, as he ascended the scaffold, might have words of peace spoken to him by Him who pardoned the penitent thief upon the cross. None could pray more fervently than he did that the Saviour who died for sinners would support the murderer in his last hour. He had found in his dead sou's desk an "almanack of daily work," in which the labours of each day were marked out. Only one hour in the week was placed against the word recreation The members of his late son's household knew that that almanack was no sham. He (the preacher) could not dwell upon the horrible fact that a minister of the Lord had been stricken down in such a manner, in the midst of his work; but he thought that the authorities of the town would surely do well to appoint a day of humiliation for that event, the news of which had been sent to the farthest limits of tho kingdom, and would go forth to all the world, to which the infidel abroad might point triumphantly and say, "There is your grand Christianity, there is your propagation of the Gospel, there is your Protestantism. Y uu have committed there upon a priest of the Lord one of the most diabolical murders ever known to be com- mitted." God would visit the crime upon them in some way or other, unless some public manifestation were shown-and none had yet been shown-of the foul deed that had happened in the town. It might have happened anywhere else: but the sin was the same. The deceased had prayed for his murderer, and those who had opposed him in his work in the parish. Those who had. so opposed him had committed a great and dire sin. The deceased had often written to him to complain of the diffi- culty and the opposition he met with under the garb of reli- gion. Let not his successor, whoever he might be, be so opposed. The deceased was the piide of his (tlie preacher's) age, the strength of his position, and the glory of his worldly life. He had had the supreme felicity of educating him from infancy until lIe went to Cambridge. His labours in his previous incumbencies had commanded the a(iniiia- tion of all who knew him, as the letters which he (the preacher) received every day from former parishioners of his son's abundantly testified. In conclusion, the rev. preacher earnestly exhorted all who had been engaged with his son in parochial work to continue in it with unabated zeal. The sermon, which occupied an hour and a quarter in delivery, was heard with great attention. The preacher only broke down once, when he was speaking of the death-bed which he had so lately attended. During Sunday and Monday numbers called at the vicarage to take a last look at the corpse of Mr. Plow, which was laid in a massive oak coffin, on the lid of which was a cross ex- tending the full length and width. Painted on the lid, in red letters, are the words, "Anthony John Plow, priest, who fell asleep in Jesus," &c.
THE FORMAL IMPEACHMENT OF…
THE FORMAL IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON. The American papers furnish the following account of the formal impeachment of President Johnson:- At one o'clock the managers appeared, followed by the members of the house, the latter ranging them- selves outside the bar of the Senate. The managers having taken the seats provided for them in the follow- ing order—Mr. Bingham on the right, Messrs. Boutwell, Stevens, Logan, Wilson, Williams, and Butler the Speaker of the house was invited to a seat beside the President pro ton., and was escorted to his seat by Mr. Grimes. Silence having been restored, the Chairman of the Committee (Mr. Bingham) said Mr. President,—The managers on the part of the House of Representatives, by order of the house, are ready at the bar of the Senate to present articles of impeachment for the maintenance of the impeachment preferred against Andrew Johnson, President of the United States. The President pro tern.—The Serjeant-at-Arms will make proclamation. The Serjeant-at-Arms.—Hear ye hear ye hear ye All peroontt are commanded to keep silence, on pain of imprisonment, while the House of Representatives is exhibiting to the Senate of the United States articles of impeachment against Andrew Johnson, President of the United States. Mr. Bingham then read the articles of impeachment the managers also standing, with the exception of Mrf Stevens. At a quarter to two o'clock the reading of the articles was concluded, and the managers and other members of the house retired. Chief Justice Chase in a communication to the Senate says:—"Under the constitution, in case of a .y j vacancy in the office of President, the Vice-President succeeds and it was doubtless thought prudent and befitting that the next in succession should not preside in a proceeding through which a vacancy might be created. It was not doubted that the Senate, while sitting in its ordinary capacity, must necessarily re- ceive from the House of Representatives some notice of its intention to impeach the President at its bar. But it does not seem to me an unwarrantable opinion, in view of this constitutional provision, that the or- ganisation of the Senate as the Court of Impeachment under the Constitution, should precede the actual an- nouncement of the impeachment on the part of the House and it may perhaps be thought still less un- warranted opinion, that articles of impeachment should only be presented to a Court of Impeachment; that no other summons or other process should be presented to a Court of Impeachment, that no summons or other process should issue except from the organised court; and that rules for the government of the proceedings of such a court should be framed only by the court itself. I have found myself unable to come to any other conclusions than these. I can assign no reason fo requiring the Senate to organise as a court, under any other than its ordinary presiding officer, for the later proceedings upon an impeachment of the President, which does not seem to me to apply equally to the earlier."
MR. DICKENS AS A PEDESTRIAN.
MR. DICKENS AS A PEDESTRIAN. It has been whispered during the past month that a twelve-mile walking match would come off during Mr. Dickens's present visit to Boston, between an English friend of his and a well known Bostonian (says the Boston Advertiser of March 4.) No one could tell precisely the day, and it was kept very quiet till last Saturday morning, when rumour got wind that some time during that day it would come off. The great novelist, it is well known, is a superb pedestrian, being good for thirty miles "on end" any day. He has frequently during his visit to America taken very long walks with his friend Mr. J. T. Fields, and the two, we understand accomplished several pedestrian feats together in England. There is no healthier exercise than walking, and it was resolved that a pedestrian twelve-mile contest should be tried on the mill-dam road towards Newton, in which Mr. Dolby and Mr. Osgood should be the principals, and Mr. Dickens and Mr. fields should be the umpires, tho two latter gentlemen also to walk the whole twelve miles with their respective men. The articles, we understand, were drawn up by the great author and subscribed by all four of the gentleman. Whoever had happened to be passing over the mill-dam on Saturday last about twelve o'clock would have met walking over the ground at a tremendous pace the four pedestrians, appropriately costumed for the exercise and the blustering state of the weather. We have no parti- culars of the walk out and in, but we learn that the first six miles were accomplished in one hour and twenty-three minutes, and the return six miles were finished by Mr. Osgood in one hour and twenty five minutes, he winning the match by exactly seven minutes. The distance walked over we should judge to exceed twelve miles, and it was pretty tall pedes- trianism to accomplish the whole in two hours and forty-eight minutes. Both men, accompanied by the umpires, walked the whole distance. Mr. Dickens gave an elegant dinner at the Parker-house the same evening to signalise the occasion, at which were pre- sent, we understand, some of the leading literary men of our city and vicinity. Several ladies graced the festival. Walking is a manly and healthy exercise, and we hope this event will do good, and send more people over our beautiful roads on their own legs.
EPITOME OF NEWS,
EPITOME OF NEWS, BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Another case of treason-felony has turned up at Bow-stre«t Police-court, in London. On Monday a man named Peter Mohan, or Morgan, was charged with ad- ministering the Fenian oath to some soldiers at Woolwich, and pen-uiding eight Artillerymen and two of the Military Train to desert in Hiceinoer, 1865, in order to go to Ireland and assist in the Fenian outbreak. prisoner was re- manded. One of the results of the new law on the press will be the appearance of thirty six new political papers in the provinces and three or four in Paris. A flock of ewes and lambs strayed on the Great Western Railway near Castle Carey, in Somersetshire, a few days ago. A train dashed in amongst them, and killed one and injured a great many. A gold medal is offered by the Cobden Club as a reward for the best essay "On the best way of developing improved political and commcrcial regions bet ween Great Britain and the United States of America." The essays are to be sent in before January lst next. A telegram dated Suez, March 12, says that accord- ing to private letters received there from the head. quarters of the English army in Abyssinia, a reconnaissance was about to start for Lake Ashangi. The Emperor Napoleon is said to be engaged in cor- recting the proof-sheets of a manifesto, the object of which is to prove the progressive steps towards liberty taken by the imperial govemmtnt from the date of its creation up to the 19th of January of last year. The telegraphing of the debate on the Alabama question to .0i ew York cost £ 3,750. A serious riot occurred on the 5th of March at Madeira, in consequence of the arrival of a candidate for the Portuguese Cortes. The troops opened lire upon the people, who refused to disperse until the candidate went on board the ship that brought him from Lisbon. A movement is now being made for the improvement of veterinary education in Scotland. Four hundred thousand francs have been granted from the French civil list for the construction of a new theatre at the Palace of Compicgne. Tuesday being the festival of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, special services were held in all the Roman Catholic churches of the metropolis. A Munich letter states that during the last week the King of Bavaria has repeatedly had a violent spitting of blood, and that his medical men are greatly alarmed. A pl(,t has been discovered in Mexico to assassinate Juarez and rob the national treasury. In Westminster 2,000 summonses have been issued for rates in arrear, owing to the repeal of the compounding AP.t. On Saturday the dead body of a man, name un- known, was found on the Metropolitan Railway. He had been run over by one of the trains. The American Attorney-General has resigned, in order that he may not be disqualified from defending Pre- sident Johnson at the impeachment trial. The German exodus to the United State* is likely to take a Southern direction. There are already 1,40!) berths taken at Bremen for the steamer* that are bound for Baltimore. Prince Charles of Roumania has just ordered four magnificent alliums containing views of the most picturesque sites in Moldavia and Wallachia. They are intended as presents to the Emperors Napoleon and Alexander 11., King William of Prussia, and the Count de Flandre. A despatch from Athens, dated March 7, received via Trieste, says —" Russian vessels arrived here yesterday with upwards of 1,000 refugees from Candia. Sickness pre- vails amongst the numerous Cretans who are now in Athens. Many persons have perished in C iiidia from cold and hunger. The Greek steamer Crete continues her journeys to and from tne island. Insignificant encounters continue to taKe place hetween the Turkish troops and the insnrg»nts. The steamer Patrie, belonging to the Hellsnic Steam Navigation Company, has been lost near the Island of Zea. All the crew and part of the cargo were saved." On the occasion of the anniversary of the birth of the Prince Imperial the minor punishments inflicted for breaches of discipline on board the liet61 and in the ports of France have been remitted. On the recommendation of the Minister of Marine, sixty-four persons belonging to the fleet now in prison have experienced the clemency of the Em- peror. Of these, thirty-one have been released from the remainder of their punishment, and the thirty-three others have obtained a reduction of their sentences. On Monday a crowded meeting of Liverpool rate- payers was held, when resolutions protesting against the present very heavy rates, and urging the corporation to practise the strictest economy in its expenditure, was agreed to. The Berlin correspondent of The Times says that the King of Bavaria meditates abdication. His Majesty is ardently devoted to the fine arts, and too honourable to be indifferent to the possibility of the public business snneling from his musical predilections. It is thought he would have taken such a step before this, had he not been deterred by the consideration that Bavaria, while his grandfather was alive, would then have had to maintain three kings. If his intentio). is carried out, the throne will devolve on his brother Otho, a young man of twenty, who has hitherto paid no attention to politics. The Union, of Nantes, says: "In all our great manufacturing countries the revival of work is manifested ia a very striking manner, and our town in particular, so renowned for its maritime constructions, is about to be actively employed. Twelve large ships fer long voyages are announced for building in three of our principal dock- yards. From another quarter news comes of the purchase of the dockyards oi Penhouet, at St. Nazaire, by the Creuzot establishment, and that four large ships are to be built for the American trade." According to a return just published it appears that the total quantity of British spirits exported from Ireland to England during the year ending 31st December, 1867, amounted to 1,115,766 gallons. Of this quantity the duty had been paid on 907,593 gallons, amounting to £453,6116101. and there was in bond 208,373, the duty leviable thereon being £ 101,186 10s. The quantity exported from England to Ireland during the same period was 34,661 gallons, on 3,375 of which outy, amounting to £ 1,637 10s., had been actually paid, leaving in bond 31,286 gallons, the duty leviable on which was £ 15,643. The body of a young gentleman, twenty-three years of age, named Dairymple, was discovered on the Upperbhore- ham-road, near Brighton, on Sunday morning, under condi- tions that leave little douot that he had committea suicide. He was found lying on his back dead, alJd ,ln ,la hand was grasped a seven chamber revolver. All tne chambers had been discharged, and there were seven bullet wounds in the dead man's chest. His money, gold watch, trinkets, and other roperty, were undisturoea. Portions of some letters which had been torn up were scattered near. An inquest was held on the body on Monday. It was proveu that the deceased had been for some time in a depressed state of mind and subject to delusions, and the jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity. The Western Morning News has received intelli- gence from Mr. Grose, of Plymouth, and Mr. Cornish, of Devonport, of a fearful wreck. These gentlemen, who are naval engineers, were on their way with others to j»in the Octavia in the Red Sea. Shortly after leaving Aden tne transport in which they had embarked, and the name ot which is not stated, went on a reef in a gale. After being twelve hours on the wieck seven persons saved themselves ] in a boat. The remainder of the crew and passengers, about sixty in number, are believed to have been drowned. l']le i Arabs stripped the survivors of everything- ir. Gro.se walked sixiy-flve miles naked beneath a burning sun to Aden. A steamer was at once sent to the scene of the ] wreck. Major-General George King died on the 11th inst., ■ at Bradford Abbas, Dorsetshire. The gallant officer had reached his fifty-filth year, and had seen thirty years' active service. His services m India were particularly dis- tinguished, and his commissions, since that of lieutenant, were gained for services in the field. He served throughout the campaigns in Afghanistan, from 1838 to 1842 inclusive, and also in the Crimea from June 30, 1855, and was at the siege and fall of Sabastopol. lie again served in India during the Sepoy war, and commanded the left wing of the 13th Light Infantry in the operations under Colonel Kelly, in < Tii-hoot and the Terai, including the actions at Bootwah on ] the 25th and 28th of March, 1869. He retired a lew JMTS f bask on lull pay, with the rank of major-gen«ral, i It is said that the Emperor Napoleon will pay a vMt to Rouen in the spring, in order to be present at the pies of the agricultural competition, which will last frem the 23rd to the Slat of May. We are authorised to state that the Government has issued a circular, giving effect to the improvement in the dietaries in Irish prisons recommended by the commissioners whose report on the subject has recently been presented to Parliament."— British Medical Journal. The condemned man, named George Nuttall, who has been under sentence of death in the Lancaster Prison, was on Saturday respited. It will be remembered that the prisoner was convicted for stabbing a man in the streets, supposed to be in a drunken row. The Marquis of Donegall has expressed his approval of the rules drawn up for the guidance of the Irish team of twenty, which is to compete in the rifle contest at Wim- bledon. The noble marquis mentions that he intends to the champion of the twenty with a badge as Champion of Ireland." Mr. Dickens intends to return from America in the month wkich is to sail homewards on the 22nd ol next Th8 Imperial Review has "reason to believe that on the occasion of the Prince of Wales's visit to Ireland an e granted to some of those who are now under- going terms of imprisonment for political offences." Archbishop Manning requested all the clergy of his dIOcese to dIrect ,the attemion of their congregations last f. drunkenness, and to invite denatures to petitions in favour of Mr. J. A. Smith's Sunday Closing Bill. Four of the Jackwell prisoners were liberated on Saturday, and sent to Cork, en route to America. Another Fenian prisoner, an American, was liberated at the same time. The Nazione of Florence has the following :—" The committee to superintend the (6tes about to he given in this city by the municipality to Prince Humbert and his bride, has decided that the present to be offered to the Princess Margherita shall be a rich ornament for the head, in bril- liants, with a lily in the centre, and surrounded with pearls. This gift will be of the value of 50,000 lrancs." Barnum's Museum, in Broadway, New York, has been destroyed by fire. The giraffe, while efforts were making to rescue the animals, fell against the doorway and effectually prevented egress. Tbe rest of the animals, with the exception of a few who were rescued by the Mercer-street door, were burned up. The fire extended to the Prescott- house, and created great confusion among the boarders. "It is not probable that the Princess of Wales will visit the continent again this summer, as an increase in the family of the Prince and Princess of Wales is expected in a few months."—Court Journal. "Mr. Wight, on entry to the farm of Laxdale, g >t a day's ploughing from his neighbours, and to add to the token of respect the farmers all held their own ploughs. They were well supplied with creature comforts durm^tiie day, and were entertained to dinner afterwards.Avr Advertiser. A correspondent of the Dublin Bxprtss states that the recent discovery of pikes under the altar at Kilteely has caused a great sensstion, and that the Rnman. Catholic clergy are determined to sift the matter to the bottom, bei:.g impressed with the belief that the deposit was the work of an informer. Mr. John Cannoday, of Limeriek, who had bem confined in Mountjoy prison, under the Lord Lieutenant's warrant for a seditious speech delivered at the ns ¡cIL funeral in Limerick, has been released on entering into his own recognisances for £100 to be of good behaviour for three years. The ISTuddea correspondent of the Grambarta Pro- kashika reports that a man in the village of Kuraulapoor, in order to preserve his race, married his daughter of fix months old to a man of twenty-five years of age. She is now a widow at a year and a half." The Queen, accompanied by some members of the Royal Family, intends to visit Germany in the autumn Court J .urn(Jl. Three doctors were engaged seven hours in enbalm. ing the body of ex-King Ludwig of Bavaria. Incessant tele- grams from Munich directed every detail of the process. The Emperor Napoleon gave orders to yield to the ex-klllg the honours due to a reigning sovereign. Captain Jerome Bonaparte, of the Jot battalion < f the Algerian sharpshooters, has been appointed orderly offi- cer to the Emperor. According to the Mimorial JjLpl«mcUiqu* the Prus- sian officers accompanying the Abyssinian expedition have quitted the English army, and palsing over the mountains of Tigré, have proceeded towards Axum, with the object of joining the forces of King Theodore. The Illustrated London News states that the late Miss Ann Lockwood, ot Bletchwood, Surrey, whose will ] as just been proved in London under £40,000. has left to t'.e Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge the sum of ;1,;28,000 funded property. By a recent ord 'r of King William of Prussia, the Countess de Bismarck and the Counten Itedern, wife of the First Chamb-rlain to his Majesty, will in future take rai.k with ihe wives of ambassadors, and net after ladies belong- icg to princely houses, the heads of which are Prussian sub- jects, such as are the Countess de Katabor, the Prmces3 tie Hohenlohe, &cc. The threatened strike of colliers in South Lanca- shire has really commenced. In the Wigan oi.trict, of 13.1.00 men 10,000 are out, arid m the St. Helen's district nearly every man is on strike, bringing the total number who have ceast-d work up to ltj 000. Ihe men are willing to accept a redac- tion or 10 per cent, in their wages; but the masters m.t upon the full reduction of 15 per cent, of which they h d given notice. 3 "There is good reason to believe that the report given in a telegram from St. Petersburg, the other day, that the Emperor Napoleon will pay a visit to the Emperor of Russia next summer, is without foundation."—Pall Mail Gazette. A specimen of the wolf fish was caught off the I^e of Wight last week. The wolf fish is a strong and voracious and pugnacious creature. It has a hideous appearance, and swims with great rapidity. It is one of the rarest fishes in the south of the British Islands. It is often caught in the German Ocean. On Saturday afternoon an accident occurred at the Trent station 01 the Midland RaIlway to 3 little boy n3mtù Thomas Selhy. lie was travelling with his parents, when by some nesrlect the door of the carriage was left unfastened and, whilst the train was slightly in motion, he fell out. The little fellow was severely injured. HII was removed to the hospital. A destructive fire took place in the central and most important part of Truro on Saturday. Three large ware- houses and their valuable contents were totally destroyed one belonging to a grocer, another to a draper, and a third f'' ironmonger, all carrying on wholesale and retail houses S6S" The fire spread rapidly to shops and dwelling- ,r'f. Trade have awarded a sum of £ 8 to ^ioTrlnne dVsul°Vor%l0 £ ging to the bar of the Imrt Rio Gran o Sul, for taking off the crew of the British brigantine (JUU from their vessel, which was stranded near the bar on the 3rd June last. Lieutenant Edwards, of the Belooches, while elephant hunting in Abyssinia, had a marvellously narrow escape with his life from an elephant near the Sooroo Pass The brute actually got hold of him, and was only prevented from trampling or goring him to death by the steepness of the ground. A shot from Major Beville turned It just in time to save the life of Lieutenant Edwards but he is said to have been so seriously injured as to necessitate kis bem" invalided. pT-H,ev.te»rR ^rom Mr. Holmes, the representative of the useu!n ln Abyssinia, report (says the Athenceum) has procuredI1" *he, arch*»ologica1 operations. Mr. Hoime3 •3KI ASS J Patrick Hose, who some eight years ago murdered a lady of rank in Ireland for property, andfor™hnmthe British Government offered £75U reward, waa arreted >1,1 committed to gaol in Cincinnati a few days ago, and yester- day he attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat whh a case knife. He is in a crtical condition, and will pro- bably die."—Neu York Ileratd, Feb. 28. The Houlton (Me.) Timet says there recently passed through that town a team of four boys, attached to a sled on which was their aged and infirm father, who was lame and unable to walk, while behind tiudged the old woman," ap- parently hale and hearty. They were from Michigan and bound to Calais. The Naples journals record the death there of a man named Carlo Felice at the age of 105 years he had a family of twenty sons, ODe of whom is at present eighty- three years old. A few months back the deceased centenarian visited Mount Vesuvius to witness the eruption. At Fall River, in America, the largest manufac- turing town of Massachusetts, the cotton spinners and weavers have turned out on strike. Some time ago their w>t¡.!es were reduced 15 to 20 per cent. they asked that one- half this be restored to them, which was refused, and hence the strike, which throws 5,000 operatives and half a million spindles out of employment. There have of late been heavy storms of sleet and snow throughout America, blocking up the railways and causing a general interterence with business. An unpre- cedented amount of snow has fallen this winter, and in some localities snow has lain upon the ground for 80 days con- tinuously. A large ship belonging to the port of Liverpool came up the Thames on Sunday afternoon with a lot of scurvy on hoard. Four of the victims were taken into the Drcaanovght hospital ship, two being hoisted, and the other two crawling with assistance up to the medical deck. The lace trade at Nottingham is now in a con- dition of activity unexampled within the last eight years, ivery available machine is in motion, but hands are scarce. Young girls who have been only a few months at the busi- ness I'Cceive, it is said, in many cales, as much as 20s. a week. The French papers make a sad mess of the Abys- sinian affair. The France talks of Admiral Rits-iaii," who had sent a message to the hostile army-meaning, we sup- pose, Mr. Rassam. Menelt-k is spoken of as the chief of the advanced guard of the expeditionary force. On the 4th instant, Mr. William Evans, Tymawr, of Beddgelert, Wales, succeeded in landing a splenuid trout of the great and unprecedented weight of 22Jlbs. It was one vard four inches in length, and twenty-one inches in girth, and in splendid condition. It was caught in the Glasllyn, about two miles below Aberglasllyn Bridge. Al- though ttaeth trout." as they are called, have been taken and are taken every year of a large size, yet tins is acknow- ledged by the oldest persons to be the largest they have ever seen taken by rod or net. The London and County Bank at Winchester was entered early on Sunday morning by thieves, who evidently knew the premises. The bank manager was awakened by his wife, who thought she heard a noise, but he attributed it to the ram and wind, until his bed-room door was opened, a-nd a I;an(l bearing a lighted candle. He cried out Who s mere 7 when the candle was at once extinguished. An alarm was raised, but no thieves were found. The bur- glars. however, carried off several articles belonging to the household, and even took a fourpenny-plece from a servant's purse, leaving behind an old stocking, which had probably enveloped a boot. Only three weeks have passed (says the South London Press) since we gave a black list of forty tradesmen tined for having in their possession unjust Weights, scales, or measures yet we have now to record the conviction of fifty- seven others. The list comprises eight licensed victuallers and beer retailers, eleven coal and potato dealers, two general dealers, nine grocers and cheesemongers, five bakers, four "butchers, two fruiterers and greengrocers, eight chandlers, one fishmonger, two marine store dealers, one corn chandler, one oilman, one rick cloth maker, one leather manufacturer, and one plumber. The total amount of fines was £76 17s. 6d. A Paris correspondent of the Nord writes The colony of blench dealers, residing in Cairo, is in a state of consternation, The Viceroy, who employed them to equip his troops as well as to furnish and decorate his palaces, has found their charges too heavy and has withdrawn his cus- »! Fi'eiich Government always animated by irientlly sentiments towards the Viceroy, has undertaken to get tbe orders executed in France and to superintend the payment 3S well for the military matters as for civil. there were 4C0 French dealers in the Egyptian capital, and one-half of them aave already returned to France." On Friday night an inquest, was held in London on the tJOtly of Mr. Fearu, '1 clergy man, who 011 the prevIOUs Tuesday was suddenly sèÍzed wIth apoplexy in a cab, and who died (hortly after his admission to Charing-cross Hospital. Mr. Fearn hired the cab early on Tuesday morning near the Marble Arch, and ordered the driver to take him to the tiaym rket. rhe man drove on to Suffolk-street, Pall Mall, and not being pulled up, he stopped and got down, and found his fare uearly insensiole, and quite incapable of speech. The jury returned a verdict of natural death from apoplexy. The Imperial Commission for the Universal Exhi- bition has notified to the guaranteeing subscribers that the imount which they deposited will be returned to them, with interest, at the rate (If 5 per cent., on the period extending from the 2uth of July, 1865, the date when the lists were 3losed. The money will be payable at the Credit Foncier, m and after the 20th inst. The commission, having com- pleted the sale of the building and all the materials, will e shortly in a position to state what share otpronts will be iiYisible uader the terms ot the law ot the 8th ol July, 1865.