The Aberystwith Observer

"THE YOUNG MAN OF THE DAY." havJb many others which div^r i, to the Daily Telefiraph, show how PersI"S1rTe 38 to tha ca,l«e <!t' the follies persisted in by the ''Young Man of the Day ral mai' of the day" is in my opinion, the natu- Povertv -uo v"nous causea. the principal of which is liviiK' ii n i mean this is, that almost everybody ineuiTiPa' I-'eabove their meam, nd every penny of their are l ^uii in this keeping up appearances, they echn ii 2'/ ,pra'tic,l!1> p°01'- Tiiku a l,°y fi-"11 flvm life" n.-« V has learned just enough of what "fast '•is f niiotrS m'lkt! alluring to him. He comes home to there? 1' fancl wllat. in four case3 out of five, does he tind doiiKr'timi- i1 y 'kini? the greatest possible appearance, is mTmh l- .U ost to make everybody believe their inoome spent in t!;l.,Ke}' than it really is. Of course, the money how an.l keeping up appearauces must be saved scme- faniilv ia L<"lsecluentl.v the inner, the domestic life of the upon niai i ,a ponifol'tal)le one. The young fellow looks and tw i 8 a continual struggle against poverty, situation's "g aiii^sements at home, when he gets a to ten nt'KnAM themIor. himself, and doing his best lo Keep up with his companions, becomes the selfish young man of the day." Therefore, I should that if parents hved within their incomes, and devoted mow of their time and money to the amusennnt and instruction of their home circle, they would do a trreat deal towards free- JJ'S society from the arrogant, low-minded, and vicious young men of the day."—I am, Sir, yours, &c., GK ORGIUS.

their^ir itlle 011112 men oE the day" are truly proving their s.8 by endeavouring to tnrow all the blame of Jam mo? tco"n'^3 upon the shoulders of the fair sex. Now with the I?! lvei social evil did not originate "the man ,,fSt'iU"u «°t fair to expect them to reform whom tole- t U:iy- I am one of seven sisters, none of Period conseonotV. of dress adopted by "the girls of the awfully sinw 1 e"tjy our brother's friends put us down as gaudily-dreasel "ni f c?niPa,iy we are negtected for the says, havtfsnini.H f.ast young ladies, who, as "Joe" the dav" ce«P + "S lnthem-" Let tlle "yon'ig men of Pe iod'" i„,i c„ ;dl their attention to "girls of the ■women an.i society of the quiet, lady-like youug of in sp'i IVf ? soon the absurdities of costume complained reform rn,i°i J'ou»g ladies will die a natural death but ancient ,lle Kentlemen's work. Let the chivalry of daT'' ay,s aSai" see the li^ht, tUen would the men oUl e have fal?" .ISC0ver that, notwithstanding some ofe» oi the onto IIlto error, there are plenty of sensible Ji\\ i ca-ted, and amiable girls quite willing to clianr.? .Mell"edu" an,t make a home comfortable upon £ 150 or fwJ r "amo■ -1 am, sir, yours truly, r £ 2u? P''r «imum INCOGNITA.

Although 1 certainly do not spend »„,i, sum on frivolous amusements a" "T ,.1 a disproportionate 1 smoke moderately, go to music h. ii°m aPPears to do, yet billiards now and then yet fiir n occ^sionally, and play or other "young men of the /i.. lat I do not think that I than the young men of flftv « as a body, are any worse quoted as the good old limL .r3 ago—in what are so often 1 lsongs the present t a-° no'/ think that the music- any worse than the nunti n though they may be, are that were the "correctsA1Vna,'le often abominable songs generation or two i,a,.i. ,ln? at the free-and-easies of a luiiver.si] ck I hardiy think that the present drinking which used V1K*iS Peniicious as tha excessive the character of nil e ,MShion and, with regard to halig and casinos t Wouietl wh° frequent our modern music- those wlio frenn«!r t SJi1?Pose they are pretty much the same as cases, the thesf- 1 gln Pi<lacea, gardens, and, in many evil—the ir»mi>r V e I1'1116 while one great source oif done awav i table—which used to exist is now entirely ul»on the '-Therefore I think It is hardly fair to look gome of odern young man as the degenerate being that disinrli, y°ur correspondents try to make him out. His the ladi t0 marry is. in opinion, more the fault of gone i v th?mselves than his own, because, while in times k'lowllviS was -a lea' *ie'P a man > and> ^rom her comfit of/lomeslic matters, one who could ruake a home tisele,r?'J\e' in °.ur time the *irl of the period is so totally °f exnenoi extraYagant that a wife is now more a source man wi 1, tlian.fa,'1y.h"1R else', and "ot to be thought of by a u with a limited in«ome. —1 am, Sir, yours, Ac PROGRESS.

whtt?iWays has been- and Probably wiu b# a vexed question gon« h » generation is worse than the one that has for a ore- Amongst other things, dress always comes in girls n share of ridicule. To-day the clinging dresses of j?ly„ e abused for allowing too much to be guessed at. Jiothir/'t"1 a £ ° hoops were condemned for leaving "weati V- tie Kne'sed at. To-day, men are abused for with tight trou.-ers; five years aRO, they were charged loassimilating their dress to woman by wearing '■iriru ^lle real cause of the rise of so-called inBih. tbe Pei'iod" is probably to be lound and evov,? whilst the jiiic; of provisions, clothes, extent tiiy "?ce8iM"y of life has increased to a frightful inmLhA v 110 corresponding increase m the salariesof "f m-irrvincr UnS T6"' 'herefure, flndUig there is no chance ■W'oinpn +Fv?6 consolation in dissipation. Young >v idv il m CaUi8' gJ!nmch the game road. The th"v f,y, Par5ly t0 bli fou,ld !u th« ha"da of employers. If ^at the 8a^ar'.es cierks ia the same proportion °f thp o owu ]ncomes increase, the evii, with one portion 'he t, at 'ea»t, would die a natural deith For atn si, ''ort'°": tke remedy remains yet to be found. I on, yours truly. AMICUS PLATO, SED MAGIS VERITAS.

DEATH OF THE PRINCE ROYAL OF BELGIUM. a On Thursday night in last week death robbed the tiv t 86 0t ^eJolum of a beloved son, and prospec- nhi? i g' aDd as the freClUent interchanges of friend- IjJ. ma<ie us .o friendly with the chivalrous and ''Ut B "!ai18' the following reference to this recent, Hot V visitation, by a Liondon correspondent, will oe uninteresting to our readers :— suifprtr.a long and lingering agony, borne by the little ^vlurh a more tliau child-like fortitude and patience, of thp'f"" j ^lave consoled, if it had not sharpened, the grief of scarp1! a-nt* devo,od watchers through the weary hours i'elgium,1j 'errupted anguish, the Prince Leopold of from his'suffei*fpa,eiit to the Crown, was at length released night. Kndearea\JJy the mercy of Heayen on Thursday sitiuii, his pretty nja a11 hy his happy and gentle dispo- liis <ipening childh0'uis dui'ig tne few lirst years of hig his wasting and p^otand fetill more endeared dur- hes» of a nature doomed*01*11 sick"ess by the sweet- l»itiniely death of this royal fade 1,1 it3 blossom, the hearts and hopes alike of his iny Tiu fal1 heavily on the 1(,yal and affectionate nation. •1Vu?,umsi parents and of a ■;ir"ly tried of late hy death, Rnd rmal house has been ""ath, y,,t nn roval house has ev^ ctl°"8 worse than &enla better" deserved the ^8f to human the mystery of our niorUi <U8U^ ',f u"f world. l>ei-hd"«« .of our mortal expectations Hlu^ichUthe thebt?8'our human estimate ot the severities late ? Whence of the Supreme Disposer ute and Wt'e th^ lhis calamity had lieeu fevT and faint a3 r''theri h'onientary gleams oi hope phySiCiai]g hlinv/Emitted than indulged, the M'W stnWes as B ] su^ last strike the nearest and the defies tddeniy at l>fct'I,ElJr°Pe will unite in heartfelt sympathy with the Parents and the s< rrowing people. HaPP J f°r he T, ,lu this bereavement will be felt liy all the tini i' 1 '• as a P'ivate and personal grief even more tflan a P,llc and national loss. f0l lanlv's to the foresiglited and unfailing wisdom of the oiw the dynasty, and of the freest and most prosper- le t on the Continent of Europe, the Belgian throne sleikpn Pi°n foutJ(,ati°ns too broad and too permanent to b» f auy.Pers°nal incident, however melancholy and 1 » ll !u'e"' .Tl18 Pe(>P'e are in full pos- 'i i)a'rliamentarvS»Cil,it,ies ()f a C01lstitutii'nal monarchy and il,i £ t^™n?v^°Veri,meut- T1,e free '"dilutions with tilde IVnw ™|,ni1'Jl,ffd are i'laecessible to the vieissi- in h'ia' t*" ca}lnot be the loss of this young Prince, M?,1™111,50' something llH)V0 th.^ a ^enonal cW. i iy ° thb r' ,yi\ ,0llse.iu'd to the Italian nation. His nth ieaves no male heir in the direct line, and as yet no cir 1 he' ln,lhe colUtwal line, of tlte royal succession Ac- dirJ'f1?- 0 the C011=UU.U101)- default of ma e heirs in the Ur,tL, 'he cesiioii to tuo pre»Bni K-hig would devolve iesup 1S 'roiher, the t'onite de t ,andrM, and to his male th itVin lhe or,leI' of primoge..iture. It is to be regretted 'iar v EucceoS'on is luniteJ to tne male line: the mo- as 0f eul ]»'iuciple u at le;i»t a* sale in tlie h-indj of a Que. n Pri,i,a .og in a c«>iistitnti"n:il coan'ry, wheio the y i-iai "Thb'^k- la,l"'terial responsibility, tigiiitie i In the ni.ixnn coiiSCi C:U1 d" *'° wrong," so .veil understood a..d so 't'her"llousiy mai.itaititd a.. i., Jjelgitmi. 18 u°thing in this melancholy event that should *'the uaUy feiu"Ior tlle llUuro of the mtioualindepenclonce lnfdt)ln- That in the keeping oi the Kelgian • ana we believe they have Warnt valuo it too well to give it up without a struggle worthy of their ancestors. The present Kmperor of the French has always professed the most sincere and cordial respect for the neutrality of Belgium, and for the solemn treaties which assure it He I has invariably treated the royal family of Belgium with j marked respect and the most friendly regards Thatlrst Kii.u' Leopold believed in the Emperor's goodwill towards his h use and kL gdom, while he conttmplated with reason- ^bl'- apprt hei.^ion the eont ngencii S of a eetieral war Liberal Trance has good reason to care for the independence of a State in which it has so often found a refuge from proscrip- tion, and a second coantry for the martyrs and confessors of liberty.

The Independance Beige, after giving an account of the prince royal's death, says During the last three days the Queen never quitted the bedside of her son, nor even changed her clothes. When the final act was over, and there was no fur her room to doubt the terrible reality, the King threw himselt into an arm chair and gave vent to the most heartrending grief. The medical attendants gathered round him and insisted on his Majesty being immediately helped to bed. As to the Queen, we dare not intrude on the sacred character of her grief by any attempt at description in words, lhe young princesses, sisters of the deceased, were taken in the morning from i^aektii to the palace of Brusse s, where they are to reside provisionally. In the capital all the theatres closed their doois, and the concert of the Conservatoire, advertised for Sunday was indefinitely postponed. Mven the performance at Uie-Moniia10, in aid of the Trench Benevolent Society was put ott. i uneral chimes were tolled from all the churches at an early hour on Friday morning, and the craft moored in tne basin of the port lowered their flags half-mast high, in sign of mourning.

^e 2-'Igian papers are filled with sad little souvenirs of the dead Prince, which bear testimony to a sweet and patient nature in the sufferer. One journal—after stating that for many days the iioyal boy had known his end to l4e approach- lng--glves an instance in which he corrected one of his doctors for expressing hope, and remarked, I am sure that I aIrl going to die." On New Year's-day the young patient beckoned his father, the King, to him, and asked for ever so much money—six thousand francs." What do you want it for, my boy?" the King asked. I want it," was the reply, ''to divide between the two kind sisters who have nursed me like angels. II

Tne Times says the question has arisen whether by the death of the Duke of Brabant, Belgium is not threatened with an eventual v c incy of the throne and wh"ther this event will not greatly favour those designs of annexation which France has long been suspected of entertaining. Nay, conjecture has travelled so far as to discuss the rumour of a projected matiimonial alliance between the Prince Imperial of Fiance and the Princess Royal of Belgium —between a boy of twelve and a girl of ten years of age— as bearing on the possible realisation of plans which the lapse of years may develop. We ought to dismiss such silly reports as the mere dreams of diseased brains Could even the extinction of the Coburg line be confi- dently speculated upon, it ehould he borne in mind that Belgium is a c0nstitutiolJal kingdom, and if it is ever to be absorbed it must be either with its own consent or by a deed of open violence, the chances of whkh should not enter into the calculations of a legal and peace- ful policy As to the disposition of the Belgian people with respect to France, 1:0 shadow of doubt can be entertained. From the manufacturer most earnestly bent on profits, from the Uitramontine Cathohc most abjectly submissive to the priestly yoke, as well as from the patriot most jealous of his constitutional liberties, the same generous cry has gone forth —" We are and we wieh to remain Belgians."

The King aRd Queen of the Belgians have no other issue than two princesses, one about eleven years of age and the other a child of four. The king is 33 years old, and has been married 17 years to his royal consort, an Austrian archduchess nearly of his own age. As the. Belgian crown is transmitted in accordance with the Salic law, the heir apparent is the king's own brother, the Count of Flanders, now in his 32nd year, who has only been married twenty-one months, and who has as yet no offspring.

The funeral of the Prince Royal took place on Monday morning. The King and the Count of Flanders were present at the solemn ceremony. There was an immense concourse of spectators, who evinced the deepest sympathy and sorrow The funeral service was performed by the Archbishop of M alines.

THE BISHOP OF CARLISLE ON RITUALISM. The Bishop of Carlisle has addressed a letter to the I Archdeacon of Westmoreland upon the course to be pursued hy the clergy in consequence of the decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the iSt. Alban's case, His Lordship says :— In the first place let me say how important it is that all the clergy should rememher that they are memhers of a corporate body, and that, therefore, it is not morally competent for every mall, independently and of his OWlIlUere motion, to" do tnat which is right in his own eyes." Tiiey should also re- collect that the body of which they are thus members is episcopal in its constitution, and that, accordingly, the in- structions of the Prayer-bookexpiicitly pros. ribe consultation with the Bishop in canes of perplexity with regard to ritual. s ln the second place, let me remind my brethren that all the points upon which their anxie'ies may lie roused are within the scope of the Ritual Commission; and that hat Commission is doubtless devoting its attention to such of them as have not already been the subject of report, and may be expected before long to complete its work by report- ing upon them also..Surely, e ven if all these questions were now as open as some would seem to think, it is a matter of wisdom to watt till the Ritual Commission has so spo\{en, and authoritative action has been taken thereon, adhering still to that practice of 300 years which has hitherto, on the principle "mo* pro h'ge," been the rule of the Church. And there is the more reason for thIs, because, thirdly, though it is boldly assumed and eagerly urged that the recent judgment renders the wearing of the mediaeval Test- ments obligatory, it is by no means clear that such h the case. The opinion originally given by Sir Hugh Cairns (the. \?te T°rd Chancellor), .Sir Roundell Palmer, and the present Mr. Justice Haunen is as distinctly adverse to the use of the vestments as it is to that of the other ceremonies or orna- nients now condemned. That opinion has not, it is true, as yet been tested in this particular by a legal suit. This, how- ever, llllar, is UuW to be d'me. Meanwhile, it is as well to act upon tlvi presumption that in this respect also it will stand, andljuÙta nun uwvere. Xor SIIOU1,[ it by forgotten that the Ritual Commission, in its first report, pronounced tlllfavdurably to the use of the sacillcial vestments, as ill ,ts second report it did with refirellce to the ceremonies and ornaments pronounced illegal by the late judgment. Such are the cuunsels which I would, as the expression of my sympathy with any brethren who may bo in perplexity, suggest on the present occasion. He that believeth bhall not make haste." Meanwhile let us earnestly pray tha- wisdom and courage be given to the Church's rulers in tlli, hour of our Church's great need; and also that tlie spiiit, not of fear, but of power, and of love, ami or a sound mind may be bestowed upon all our Church's ministers, that so, in patience possessing our souls, we all may, according to this week's beautiful collect, both perceive and know M hat things we ought to do, and also may have grace ano power laithfully to fultll the same, through Jesus Christ, our Lord."

THE NORWICH MURDER. William Sheward, the man charged on his own con- fession with the murder of his first wife, Martha Sheward, at Norwich, in 1851, was again brought up for examination on Monday. Mr. Mendham, town clerk, again appeared for the prose cution, and Mr. Stanley, solicitor, for the prisoner. Mrs. Hannah Hum lIeposed-I am a widow, and live at Wymondham, Norfolk. I do not know the prisoner Sheward. He married my sister, whose maiden name was Martha Francis. I never visited them in Norwich but once, when I went to sje my sisier in St. Giles's: tnat was twenty years ago. A relation ot mine named Fisher died sixteen years ago. A relation ot mine named Fisher died sixteen years gince. She left our family some money. I cannot say how much. I got my share from ilr. ( ann, a solicitor, of Wymondham. Mr. Cann has since died. The prisoner, Sheward, never came to me to make inquiries about my sister, nor (lid he ever write to me, I do not know what he- came of my sister's share of the%egacy. I never heard that it was paid to her Cross-examined.—I and the prisoner never troubled each other. John Francis, deposed—1 am now an inmate of the Nor- wich workhouse. I know the prisoner, Sheward he married my sister, Martha Francis, abl/nt 17 or 18 yeare ago, I lived at Lynn, and used to get my living by sellilig fish, About 16 years ago an aunt of mine named Fisher died; she was my mothees sister. I did not see the prisoner or his wife at that tilLe. Sheward never applied to me to know where my sister was I went some time after my aunt's death to Sheward's house 1 went in consequence of something which my sister, the late Mis. Xunn, eaid to me. Isaw Sheward aud told him, Mr. Cann, the solicitor, will settle with us to- morrow, if my sister will come," This referred to my sister's legacy. Sheward told me he would tell his wife about it when he saw her, Sheward did not tell me then that his wife had leH him. I did not know anything about her having left him, I was not living at Norwich at the time. Mrs. Rachel Fox, a widow, IItated-I live in Alexander- road, Heigliam. I anra daughter of Vlrs. Hewitt, who was examined here the .other day, and nie< e of the prisoner's first wife. I visited them when they lived in St. Giles's, but not afterwards. I afterwards saw Sheward in King-street. His present wife w..s living with him there. It must be thirteen years ago, if not more. I have been tilers several times since 1 lost my husband not a great e.eal before. My husband died last February. Sheward has never asked me questions about his first wife, my aunt. I asked him a ques- tion about her m Kinjr-street, about three years ago. I asked him if he could t, I) in anything about my aunt. I cannot recollect whatanswtrlie made tome. Cross-examined 1 asked him the question late in the evening when we were at supper. The present Mrs. Sheward was in the room at tne time. I asked Mrs. Sheward if she was the person who went to the pawnbroker's shop in St Giles's. Mrs. Slieward said, Never in my life." This was all in the hearing of the priso' er. I never said that my aunt was a mucky w ench. The prisoner never told me not to speak disrespecttulky of my aunt. Thomas Alfred Francis, of Thorpe St. Andrew, deposed— My father was brother to the prisoner's first wife. I know Sheward, the prisoner. My mother died in the latterend of November, 1851. On that occasion I saw sheward in a clothes shop, opposite St. Clement's Church. I told him my mother was dead, and I wished htm, If he thought proper to come to the funeral. He said it did not suit him I asked him it my aunt could come, and he told mehe was sure 1!Ir.e could not. I did not know at the time that it was said that she had left him. He did not tell me she had left him. I re- n ember Mrs. Fi her's death. Sheward never applied to me about his wife, or to my father, to my knowledge, about his wIfe. William Bank, a labourer, of Wymondham, Norfolk, stated—I know the prisoner Sheward. I married his fir.it wife's twin-sister, Mary Francis. His first wife's maiden name was Martha Francis. The twins were born March 2'J, 1797, and were baptised Mauh 80, 1797, as appears by a cer- tificate fr"m the vicar of Wymondham, now produced. I lived after my marriage at Wymondham, and subsequently in St James, Norwich. When the prisoner and his first wife came to Norwich from Greenwich they came to my house in St. James's. The prisoner married his first wife at Greenwich, Oct. 2S, 1820, as appears hy a certificate produced. They stayed at my house in St. James's about a quarter of a year. After that they lived in Ber-street, White Lion-street, and St. Giles's, Norwich. My wife and Mrs. Shewapd were very fond of one another. After the prisoner and his wife had left St Giles's, I and my wife came to Norwich, as my wife could not rest. We went to a house in St. Martin's Palace-plain, oppo- site the Bishop's-wall. My wife went into the house to see hI r sister, Mrs. Sheward; she was in the houseaconpleot hours. I did not go into the house. We cune to Norwich again afte" this and went to Sheward's house ill King-street I came to N rwich because my wife could not re?t. I saw Sheward, and I and my wife were talking with him some time in his house. I did not hear what my wife said to him, j "1 I told him that we had come on purpose to know what she R io01"6 o £ ilrs- Sheward, and what were tho last words train to h!m- lIe said he walked with her to the railway to some saId to ller' "If you won't write to me, you'll write ( answer toOfhlour sleters." He also said that she said in I afterwards hhh "1\0; "ever." When we were at dinner cut me a piece of ',d trembled very much, and he could not mv wife lle had invited us to dinner. I said J cut, a Dierp1"?' that's the matter with Mr. Sheward? h6 -ui avitjlied to me or "leatt his hand shakes so » Sheward i' 1 in Iondou before ^h Wite :i,lout his wife. Airs. Sheward ,ITer i v wife some of h»n\arried a"d w»3 in the habit of sending my » « some of ber Udt off el nhes, wnich fitted mv Teef, which were very small. d 8 shoes also »"ed '»? » cross-examined -\Vhen I came from Wymondham with my wife we had n»t l>e'1.. £ frs. sheward, or irom Mr sheward either. My v^ t)artl;d ,rtd from somebody that .sheward and his wife had par Itt was m consequence of this that I asked Sheward Wlfe'a last words to him. My wife never heard fioin hei sister Wiienlspoke to Sheward about liis wife having leit him he appealed to be out of spirits He left off talking about her, ana appeared to be disposed to talk about anything else but her. Mrs. hmily Colsey deposed—I am the mother of the late Mr. Fiank Colsey. I live now in St. John-street, Deieham- road, Norwich. My husband died in 1853. In 1852 iny late son I,v, d in King-street, f know the present Mrs Sheward she lived with my son in King-street as nursemaid. I never saw stleward at my son's house, hut l heard ihat she and Sheward were acquainted. She left my son's 8erVlce in 18f>3 it was before July, 1853 sha left to be married. Sh8 told me herself she wasgoiu¡.( to be married to Sheward. Two gentlemen who were staying ia the house wished her happiness and made her a. small present There was a per- son named Ifargaret Mills who lived with me at the time and who went to sleep with my sou's nursemaid at night. Margaret Mills deposed—I live in St. Martin's-at-Oak, and am a single woman. In 1851 and 1852 I worked for Mrs. Colsey, who lived on St. Andrew's-plain. Mrs. Colsey's son, Mr. F. Colsey, lived in King-street, and the present Mrs Sheward lived with Mr. Colsey as nursemaid. One Sun ay af ernoon I went with li?r to a publichoiise called the Shakespeare, in St George's. It was then kept by a man named Huggins. I took tea at the Shakespeare with Mr. Sheward and his present wife. 1 had seen them together about that time. She left Mr. Colsey's to be married, and afterwards I saw her and Mr. Sheward at Mr. Ilugeins's. I did not think they were married, although she said so. I slept with l1Qr about six months at ;\Ir, Colsey's. Henry Parfitt, of Rising Sun-lane, Norwich, deposed,—I am aplumber and glazier I have a brother-in-law named Ilugirins. lIe formerly kept the Shakespeare in St Georges, lie is now in Australia, to the best of my knowledge. I know he kept the Shakespeare in 1853, but whether he lived there in 1852 I cannot positively state. I was in the habit of yjsiting him at the Shakespeare two or three times a week, generally of 3n evening. I know Sheward. I do not know whether he lodged there, but I have seen himthere repeatedly. [ have seen the present Mrs. Sheward also there frequently. O. one occasion she asked me who Sheward was, and I told her he was foremau at Chrjstie's, a pawnbroker's It was in I the evening when she said this, Sheward had passed from one room to the other, and Fhe then asked who he was. I don't know that she saw him plainly. I don't know whether she went to him after this. I saw them together frequently afterwards at the Shakespeare, and I subsequently heard they were going to be married. 1 heard about it from my brother in-law. I was at the Shakespeare after they were suppnsed to he married. There we] e a few people present, and I remember going upstairs and having a glass of some- thing. I saw Shewaid and the woman frequently afterwards at the Shakespeare. To the belt of my knowledge they were living together ali man nnd wife, My brother-in-law sailed for Australia September 21, 1853 he had left the Shakespeare about three weeks previously. Sheward and the woman lived at the Shakespeare nearly up to September, 1853. The next time I saw Mr. Sheward he was living in King-street. Cross-examined.—It was in March or April, 1853, that the womau asked me who the person was who passed. I Illean who Sheward was. This was almost the first time I had seen toe woman. He passed her within a yard or so Sheward passed the woman as a stranger. The woman did not leave me for the purp03e of joining Sheward. I stopped ahout a quarter of an hOllr, and left her there I saw Sheward in the house again three or four days afterwards. I cannot recollect whether the present Mrs. Sheward was at the Shakespeare again with Sheward. 1 olid not often speak t,) the prisoner Sheward. Mrs. Elizabeth Gaze, widow of the late Mr. Matthew Gaze, deposed-I live in King-street. I know Sheward, the prisoner. He lived in a house belonging to my husband, nearl, oppesite to ours, in King-street. He first came to liv¡;-1;here at Michaelmas, 1853. He left the hou c about a month before last Christmas. I know the present Mrs. Sheward; she lived with Sheward, in King-street, from 1853 tu 1868, to the best of my knowledge. Mr. :\1- ndham stated that he must apply at this stage for a further dema d, as one witness had not attended, and must be summoned, while another had not yet risen from childbed. The prisoner was accordingly further remanded. The bench has consented to an application made by Mr. Stanley that a medical man may be permitted to inspect the remains on behalf of the prisoner.

THE BALLOT TEST AT MANCHESTER. A somewhat elaborate experiment was tried on Fri day and Saturday, in last week, at Manchester. The Liberal party in that city have satisfied themselves that Mr. Birley, the Conservative member elected in November, is disqualified from taking his seat in Par- liament on account of an interest he is said to have as a partnerinsome contracts with Her Majesty's Govern- ment. Whether this conclusion be sound or not can- not positively be asserted; but ia any case they have resolved to be, prepared for the event should Mr. Birley be unseated, and accordingly on Friday and Saturday a Ballot was held in which all the electors of Manchester who voted for a Liberal candidate at the last election were invited to take part. The object of the ballot was to discover whether Mr. Milner Gibson or Mr, Ernest Jones commanded the larger number of Liberal votes, and at the close of the process on Satur- day it was found that Mr. Jones had completely dis- tanced his rival, having received 7,282 votes against 4,133 given to Mr. Milner Gibson. This preliminary test had, it will be at once seen, a double object. It was to determine whether Mr. Milner Gibson or Mr. Jones was preferred by the Manchester Liberals, but still more to show by example that an election could be held by Ballot, This latter object was the great end the managers had in view. The mode adopted in conducting the Ballot, may, without exaggeration, under present circum- stances, be said to have the highest interest. Itis thus described :— The voter entered the polling place for St. Luke's W«rd, at the Chorlton Town-liill, a spacious chamber on the second tloor, where there were two polling places, one marked .st Luke's," and the other All Saints." The voter at once pre- sented himself at the entrance of the p lling place for St Lnke's war,1, which was only separate. I from thät side of the room by a low wicket. An officer who keeps the wicket ad- mitted him, and walking up to a table, behind which sat a gentleman corresponding to a deputy returning officer, and two assistants, he produced a voting paper properly filled up. One of the assistant poll-clerks referred to the poll-book or register, alld tilldingthe JI"me and numbers to correspC>lll!, ánd seeing no reason to doubt his identity, the deputy returning officer presented him with a coloured envelope and a voting card, of which the following is a copy •— Test Ballot, 18o9—United Liberal Party. Test Ballot, 18o9—United Liberal Party. Representation of Manchester. "ERNEST JONES (printed in green ink). "T. MILNER GIBSON (printed in red ink). "Strike out the name of the candidate for whom you no not vote, Then put the carå in the envelupe anù place it in the ballot-box. No card must be taken out of the ballot-room." The card was about large enough to fill an ordinary full- sized letter envelope, and was plainly but legibly printe Tlie voter, being furnished with t'lis card, wa.-T admitted by all o1tlcer, through a wicket beyond, intI) tile ballot-loom, which is only partitioned olf by a rail under three feet high, and where he is still within sight IIf all in the place, hut illto which no one is allowed to follow him ? there he advanced to one of f.-mr recessed tables, and standing with his back to the retn i-i ling officer and every one else, and fuither screened by tl-.e partitions of his recess," he took up a pencil with WhICh be obliterated oue of the names from the card. He then inserted the card into the envc'npe, and returning to .vards the place where the returnin officer sat, he cropped the envelope with its enclosure into th" lllouth of th*1 ballot- box, which is a box of considerable dimensions. He made his exit through a wicket leading out behind the returning officer's seat, ¡VI the next voter entered the ballot-room, j;. It will he understood from this description that the voter is perfectly in vi''w of ",11 persons in the p >lling-pl,ic^ ;r<.m tirlit to last, and all that he does, except the vote he actnaly records while erasing tne name fiom his voting card, is open to observation. A dexterous person nrght possibly substi- tute another card in tlia envelope in place of the one given him, or insert others along with it; but as all the cards have a private stamp on them (in lieu of tlie returning officer's initials, which would be substituted at an ordinary emotion), the fraud would be detected on opening the ballot-box, and the attempt would vitiate the elector's own vote. Some speculation has been indulged in among those interested in the experiment as to the effictcy of the various checks to meet this slender chance of carrying away a ballot-card surreptitiously, as a pattern from which others might be forged. It is difficult to imagine how any one could elude all the present precautions against the suggested abuse, but, perhaps, the ad ption of a water mark on the card and the envelope might be recommended. Even ai it is no voter can present himself twice, for the officer would know by his hook that the man had been before, and no man can drop into the ballot-box under the policeman's eye two enrel 'pes instead of one. The voting in all cases, it is almost needless to mention, is the same, and there is great simplieity about it from beginning to end. there is great simplieity about it from beginning to end. The time occupied in taking ea«h vote is less than by the present system, beeause the "deputy returning officer" is done with each voter al soon as he is identified, and, o course, no clerks have to be employed, or official time taken up, to register votes, When the elector gives in his voting paper it is placed on a tHe after examination, and at the close oi the day's poll this tile will have to be secured under lock and key, as also will all the unused voting cards. Each returning officer or poll-clerk is supplied with about as many cards as there are voters in the district over which he pre- sides, and great vigilance is exercised to keep any of them from getting into wrong hands.

SHOCKING DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY. A sad and fatal accident has occurred to Miss Lean, a young lady only nineteen years old, and living at Cliftonville, Brighton. Ueceased was niece to Mrs. King, an aged and infirm lady, the widow of a magis- trate, and lived with her. On Thursday evening she was in Mrs. King's bedroom, reading to her, previous to the old lady retiring for the night. She had on at the time a dress made of very light material, and was standing with her back to the fire, which was very near. She was in the act of turning round, when by some means her dress ignited. On finding that her clothes were burning, deceased immediately sprang into the old lady's bed, and endeavoured by covering herself with the bed :lothesto extinguish the flames. Mrs. King was sitting in a chair by the bedside, but her weak and almost helpless condition was so increased by what had happened that she was unable to render the least assistance. Deceased not succeeding in putting out the tire got out of bed, ran several times round the bedroom, and thence into the drawing-room, scream- ing frantically all the time. Her cries alarmed the other persons in the house, and soon brought assistance, in the drawing-room she was met by the butler and footman, but by this time she was completely en- veloped in flames. Both the butler and footman seized hold of her, but she left their grasp, apparently not knowing what she was about, and ran into the con- servatory, which adjoins the drawing-room. She was followed there, and after some difficulty the flames were put out. Deceased was then found to be burnt in a shocking manner. Two medical men were im- mediately sent for, and were quickly in attendance but notwithstanding all was done that their skill could suggest, deceased died on Sunday morning, after in- tense suffering. An inquest was held, when a verdict of "Accidental death" was returned.

THE RITUALISTS AND THE PRIVY COUNCIL JUDGMENT. The monition following the recent judgment of the Privy Council in "Martin v. ?\1ackonochie" having been served, the time has come for the defendant and all who have rendered themselves obnoxious to the law as now interpreted to decide upon their future line of conduct. Accordingly, the worshippers at St. Alban's, Holborn, London, on Sunday, received an address by the perpetual curate ot St. Alban's to his parishioners, stating his view of the circumstances arising out of the judgment, and of his duty thereon. Mr. Mackunocliie'a address begins :— My dear parishioners and friends,-I mmt lay wmething to you to-day about the wrong—the most oppressive wrung- which has been done to us. I am not going to say hard things about those who hne done this wrong, It is very easy for tho:e who have strong prejudices, with not much knowledge and with little love, to do a great wrong and flatter themselves that they are asserting a great truth. I doubt not that it is so now. Still, there stands the wrong. In thQ face of English justice-the almost absurd impartiality of which is, to its honour, a bye-word ova the whole world -i], judgment has been pronounced, which dues not declare law, hut overrides, on the showing of il sown arguments, even statute law, in order to make a law sg linst us." I say against us. Xo doubt the judgment was me ait hy those who began the suit to he agalllat our bles¡¡e,1 Lord in that which is dearest to Him—the Sacrament of His Divine Love but by the good providencs of our God lIpon us, the counsel of Aliit iphel has been turned to foolishness, and the blow has fallen upon us. Mr. Mackonochie then proceeded to explain why he proposes to obey a judgment which is so illegal. The church a.nd state are in alliance. The state courts have made decisions on church matter?. This leaves the law of the latter just where it was, although within its own province-i, e" for civil purposes-the decisioll 01 the state court is of furce, The law of the ehurch sanctioned the pract;ces which have heen attacked before the suit began; it sanctious them st 11. Tliev are just as much (lur heritage anti our right as Kuglish catholics now as they were ûlJÛ years ago. We thought that they were also our right as Enlllish citizens, by the law of the state. We are told that thoy are not. We are convinced that the decision is eimply oppressive, and so, most likely, are a large number of our countrymen, who care nothing about the things them- selves but we obey. The practices forbidden are part in- deed of the right of the church but they are not nec#ssary for the validity of her ordinancies. They are, no doubt, most closely connected with the" dignity of that Holy Sacrament," but do not constitute its essence. If there be a priest, and bread and wine, in a garret or cellar, there may be the blessed Sacrament. The Chris'ian church has seen a priest pinioned to the ground celebrate the divine mysteries with his own breast for his altar, with his prison garments for vestments, and in the absence of all other adjuncts. The" church law permits and claims as its right that which a harsh and novel interpretation of the state law has now forbidden. We are contented to forego for a while our rights as church- men, rather than seem to disobey as citizens. Mr. Mackonochie then went over the several points ruled against him, complaining most of the prohibition to use lighted candles during the celebration of the Communion, and then proceeds :— Now the injustice which you and I feel in all this is that we should be interfered with in so unprovoked a manner. We have never sought to force any unwilling protestant to cou/e to our services. In no case, as far as I know, has any attempt been made to force protestants to do what the Prayer-book tells them to do. All round London are hosts of churches in which the Rubric is broken: no daily service no saints' day service no notice given of festival or fast; no Litany on Wednesday or Friday; the Athanasian Creed omitted the Holy Communion not administered to each severally the marriage service mutilated the Sacrament of Holy Baptism sold for is. Gd., by authority of the Diocesan Register; and, worse than all the miserable profanation most unwittingly, I believe, in most cases, perhaps in all, but not less truly so) ot evening communions. Then bishops—perhaps even the Archbishop of York—habitually offending, not only in re- gard of these or some of these instances, but also by administer- ing the rite of confirmation to candidates by the dozen. Nearly all these, as well as countless less or greater matters, are violations of plain rubrical directions, and are the greatest passible abominations to us. but we have never stirred a finger to interfere, nor do we mean to do so. If half the parishioners of those parishes who are groaning and pming for better things were to press their grievances, it is hard to see how any court could refuse to enforce com- pliance with express rules. But these "aggrieved parishioners find other vent for their sorrows, and either endure in patience, or seek elsewhere for a church in which to pray; while their "painful minister" is taking his ease at home, or working in self-chosen ways. hy, then, you are all asking, should we be disturbed, when we do not wish to disturb others? I cannot tell you, unless I have given the answer already in the fact that the church triumphs through weakness. Mr. Mackonochie then stated the manner in which the ceremonial will in future be modified at St. Alban's. When the decision of the Court of Arches was delivered, he discontinued the ceremonial mixing of the water with the wine, and all use of incense. He was aware that in regard of incense, he was doing more than the judgment required but finding the old use forbidden, he preferred this course to any other, in order that he might have time to consider in what other way he could best use it without running counter to the judgment. He has now come to the conclusion that the best plan will be fthat the church should be ensed on the days when there is to be a high celebra- tion, before each of the services beginning at 7, 8, 9, and 10.30, and also before evensong. As regards the posture of the priest during the celebration, he will stand throughout, the consecration prayer. This of course does not affect the congregation. The candles will not be lighted. He takes this opportuniry of stating that he hila just had a present made him of seven lamps for the sanctuary. He has long wished to have them, since he saw them in some churches where they have been used for many years. It is true that they are of Eastern rather than Western authority; but they so strikingly re- mind us of the seven lamps of fire in the Revelation, burning before the throne, and which are "the Seven Spirits of God," that this objection at once falls to the ground. Moreover, they cannot be in any way mis- taken for a violation of the judgment: inasmuch as they are not themselves ornaments in the technical "euse and their use is not ceremonial, as they will burn continually, night and day. In yielding obedience to a judgment, however unfair, it is right and manly to yield entirely. He wishes, therefore, that they should clearly understand that these lamps are no kind of substitution for the two lights on the Communion- table," nor any way meant as an evasion of the judg- ment. But his dear friends will see that there is much for them to do. In the first place, they must continue the three prayers which he asked them to say at the beginning of their troubles the collect for third Sunday in Lent (for protection) the collect for Quin- quagesima (for charity) and a third (for their opponents). 0 merciful God, who hast made all men, and hatest nothing that Thou hast made, nor wouldest the death of a sinner, but ra'her that he should be converted and live, have mercy upon all those who seek to withstand Thy truth, or to rob Thy worship of its beauty. ) ake from them all ignorance, hardness of heart, and contempt of Thy word, and so fill them with the knowledge of Thee and of Thy love, that they may be saved among the residue of Thy people through Jesus Christ our Lord." Amen. After which they will say the Lord's Prayer, combining the intentions of the three collects. Further they are to increase their own acts of reverence, and to take more care than ever that they are free from ostentation and from self-pleasing. Mr. Mackonochie further said :— I do not want grotesque attitudes, or prostrations, but to se > yon careful never to cross the church when the hlessed sacrament is present without genufLctil1g, and never to genuflect when it is not there If yon come up the nave for communion, to see you very quietly and reverently genuflect Oil leavillg your seat, on entering the chancel, and again on leaving the altar. To see the sign of the cross made in like manner, before receiving the Holv Communion in each kind, and before leaving the altar, also at the end of the c-'et-ds, and I, G\nry be to God on histli," at the absolution and b e-smg, and at the" Glory be to TilPe, 0 God," before the iJo.-pel, on the foieliead, lips, and breast, But above all, rc-member that these outward things must be the shining forth of the inward light, or they will be simply mockeries. Our Lord has all .wed His enemies to insnlt Him by putting out the symbolical lights just as, in His pass on he deigned to suffer, uot only the great torments of scourge, and cross, and crown of thorns, Ullt also the smiting on the face, the spitting, and many other such lesser affronts. Mr. Mackonochie's final exhortation is :— God has called you to take part in the great work of giving back to the Church of England that. "Worship in Spirit and in Trutu of which more than two centuries of cold unloving Protestantism have robbed her. You will need patience— patience with your opponents, lest you lose f.ove—patience witl1 your friends, lest you hreak up your forccs-patlenc9 ab> vc all with yourselves, l,;st YJU joie hpart you must be p ,tie:,t at home :111<1 patient m soe'ety patient in discussion and patient lunier abuse—but, with all your patience, bold, out-tp ken, determined, for your cause is the cause of God a id of His Christ. You may live to see only defeat do not mind it, your lives, and your deaths too, in the midst of defeat, will have done their work for God, and those who come after will find the remarks which y >u shall have left for good upon the Bnilding of that Heavenly cIty which is the Bride of the Lamb. At the end of the sermon and the offertory, during the collection of which a sequence" or some versicle was sung, the "high celebration" proceeded, the whole, or nearly the whole, of the congregation re- maining in their places. The exhortation beginning "Dearly beloved in the Lord" was omitted; and pauses were left in the prayer for the Church Militant to enable the congregation to pray more especially for all Bishops," "for all them who are in trouble, (sorrow, need, sickness, or any other ad- versity," and "for all God's servants departed this life in His faith and fear." The absolution was given hy Mr. Mackonochie in due form with the sign of the cross but with the Prayer of Consecration the service relapsed into dumb show. Mr. Mackonochie stood with his back to the congregation, throughout, and instead of rising the paten and chalice on high above his head, he raised them to about the level of his mouth, and although he conformed literally and strictly to the monition with which he had been served as to the priest not kneeling after the consecration, yet he made at inter- vals some five or six genuflexions, to which his attendant deacon and sub-deacon contrived to add one, or possibly two, more on their own account. Whether he mixed water with the wine in the chalice the writer of this does not know, as the chancel is deep and the congregation are too far off to see such minutiae but we gather from an address to his parishioners which Mr. Mackonochie has published that it he did so at all he did not do it ceremonially." Having communicated himself, he proceeded to administer the sacred elements; about 12 or 15 men, and perhaps twice as many of what the Roman service book calls the devout female sex," communicated also, while the organ played as before, and other versicles were sung. As the bread, or rather the wafer, and the wine were administered to each person, Mr. Mackonochie and his deacon made the sign of the cross, and the service ended in the usual manner, except that while the officiating clergy were "reverently" consuming, according to the Rubric, the unconsecrated bread and wine, some more versicles were sung by the choir. The congregation included apparently a very large number ef the upper class of tradesmen. Here and there were a bonnet and a dress unmistakQably from Tyburnia or Belgravia but it is clear that the services at St. Alban's are found to be attractive to great num- bers of the middle class, and apparently they are more popular with the men than even with the women. At all events on Sunday there were more men than women among the worshippers. Among them were country clergymen and country gentlemen, and more than one member of Parliament; while at the bottom of the church sat the celebrated Father Ignatius in his monastic dress. If any remark should be made as to the paucity of aotual communicants in a well-filled church which must hold some thousand persons, it should be remem- bered that there are at St. Alban's two or three early celebrations," at which it is more than probable that some of the mid-day congregation had communicated already.

ST. PETER'S CHURCH, ST. GEORGE'S-IN-THE-EA.ST. Every one of the observances condemned, 110^ onjy ),y t]ie Judicial Committee of Privy Council, but by Sir Robert Phillimore, the Dean of Arches, whose court many of the less ardent Ritualistii admit to be III SOIne sense a Church court, was practised last Sunday^ morning at the church of St, Peter, St. George's-in-the-Last, and some other practices were added which have never been observed in Ritualist churches hitherto, although a very diligent student may, perhaps, find them based upon recommendations in Dr, y G. Lee's Diiectorium Auglicanum (says the correspondent of a London paper). St. Peters is a new district of that far- famed parish of St. George s-m-the-East where Ritualism led to riots many years ago. Since then the Rev. Bryan King, who was the lector at that tune, has gone, and ill tlie old parish church which was formerly the scene of such bitter strife are now to be found only a dozen or two of worshippers, Sunday after Sunday, taking part in the most chilling and cheerless of services. The Ritualism which tried to make its home there in years gone by has found a congenial sphere in a new church, dedi- cated to St. Peter, erected m Old Gravel-lane, within a few yards of the junction of the parish with that of Wappiug; and so far from their being any opposition or protests, the church is filled every Sunday (and at week-day services, too) with persons who seem heartily to appreciate forms and ceremonies of which the old preachers at St. George's were the feeblest type. The Rev. C F. Lowder, the incumbent, who stated the other day at the great Ritualist meeting at Freemasons' Hall that he would on no consideration put out his altar lights in obedience to the judgment of the Judicial Com- mittee in the case of "Martin v. M ackonochie has adhered strictly to his threat, and last Sunday's services were perhaps more elaborately Ritualistic than those of any other church in London. Mr. Lowder, who in the official documents con- nected with the church is styled "The Father Superior," was absent on account of ilj-health, but his duties w< re well sustained by the Rev. F. K, Statham, Theological Associate of Kind's College, London, and the Rev. Mr. Anstiss. There were plain matins at 10.30, and these lasted, as usual, until a little past eleven, when the clergy and choir retired, and the main body of what afterwards formed the congregation entered. When aU were seated the notes of the organ indicated another service, anù a procession entered the church from the north sioe of the altar, not moving, how- ever, along the aises of the church, but turning at once sharp round to the altar steps, the altar itself being raised au immense height. Prior to the entrance of the procession an acolyte had lighted six large candles on the high altar, and two smaller ones on the credence or re-table. Thehead of the procession was a young man carrying incense in a swinging censer, the next the bearer of a large silver cross. They were vested in red cos'acks with short surplices, and accompanied hy two little boys habited in the same way. They were followed by twenty choristers in surplices, and then came the bearer of another large silver cross, which he held on high, heralding Mr. Anstiss, who was to be the celebrant, awl who wore purple Eucharistic vestments, and a biretta, after the fashion of Roman Catholic priests. As the celebrating priest ascended the altar steps cloudi of incense rose on aU sides, and it was difficult to ascertain what was going on. Presently, however, it was seen that the priest himself was swinging the censer, and that he was in- censing the altar, books, choristers, and everything around him. There was nothing else very remarkable about the service until the priest came to the Epistle of the day, which he read on the south side of the altar, a little boy standing before him with the book uplifted and resting on his head. The Gospel was read in the same extraordinary way from the north side of the altar. Then came the consecration prayer, whichisnowthecrucial test, and in this respect certainly the service of St. Peter's was very extraordinary indeed. As the celebrant stood before the alrar, the two little boys advanced to the credellce or re- table, and each taking one of the candles which had been placed upon it, walked down two or three steps of the altar, knelt behind the priest, and held up the two small candles, while the six larger ones were burring on the high altar before him, On the celehrant coming to the part of the prayer which provides for the obsecration of the bread, he elevated the patin, and then knelt down. While in this position the church beU tolled. At the conclusion of the prayer providing for the consecration of the wine, he lifted the cup then he knelt down, and again the church bell tolled. Then the little boys replaced their small candles on the re-table. Although the church was well filled, and all stayed during the admin stration, none of the choir appeared to go up to partake ol the Holy Communion, and from the body of the church only two very poor, feeble old men—not a single waman-a circumstances which was perhaps scarcely ever known in a IUtualistic church before. Tne service was brought to a close in the usual way. The sermon was preached by Mr. Statham, from the words Elf St, Matthew's Gospel, N any are called, but few are chosen;" hut there was nothing in it to call for any remark, except perhaps, its great earnestness and its evident sincerity. It was announced that on Monday, heing the "Feast of the Conyersiou of St, Paul," there would be a plain cele- bration of tile Holy Eucharist at seyen o'clock a m" and a choral celebration at eight a.m. A notice was also fiiven — but not publicly—that an appeal was made for the red silk dulmatia and tunicle now in use in the Feasts of all Holy Martyrs, &c. It was added that the non-resident church- warden promised the Mother Superioress that he would col. lect suflident money from amongst his friends to pay for the two vestments, but he has failed to do so."

At St. Jude's, Moorfields, Sheffield, on Sunday morning, two candles, placed upon the communion table, were lighted. They continued lighted during the performance of the com- munion service, after which the incumbent stepped forward and spoke to the following effect:—"I, John Edward Johnson, priest and Vicar of this church, in compliance with a recent decision, will now extinguish the candles which have usually been allowed to burn at this place. I do so under solemn protest, believing them to be emblematic of the twofold nature of Christ." Mr. Johnson then extinguished both lights, after which the curate ascended the pulpit, and having kissed a cross worked upon a violet-coloured band or scarf, and placed it round his neck, preached the sermon.

A PAINFUL MATTER. In the Court of Queen's Bench, the cause of "ex parte Frewen, in the matter of one John Pattison, a medical practitioner," has been brought forward, and was an application on the part of Mr. Charles Hay Frewen, of Oakham (at one time a member of Parlia- ment, and at the last election a candidate) against one Dr. John Pattison, lately of 26, Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square, London, for a criminal information on account of certain letters and publications by him directed against Mr. Frewen, and alleged to be libellous and tending to a breach of the peace. The matter, which was of rather a peculiar nature, had arisen thus:— From the affidavits it appeared that in the latter part of the year 1866 Ðr, Pattison was called in to attend Mrs. Frewen, who was suffering from cancer, and he attended her until the 9th of February, 1807, when she died. Dr. Pattison had already received the sum of 150 guineas for his attend- ance, but he chimed It further sum of 100 guineas, which was refused. In May, 1867, an action was commenced to recover that sum, as the balance of a claim of 250 guineas, but that action had not been prosecuted. Various letters, however, had been sent since by Dr. Pattison to Mr. Frewen, couched in terms extremely offensive, and casting upon him the reproach of shabby and disrepu- table conduct in disputing the demand made upon him In one of these letters, moreover, in October, 1M3S, Dr, Patti- son sent an account of the case of Mrs. Frewen, which he hinted that he intended to IHlhlish in a professional journal, entering into very painful details of the sufferings ot the de- ceased lady. 1\11', Fiewen had, in the meantime, referred the doctor to his attorneys, awl in order to free himself from the annoyance, he hatl returned the latter lettersthrough the dead-letter office. Upon this the defendant hatl sent them open, so that any one could read them, and in his last letter threatened that he should have the next written upon card- board and sent to )11', Frewen's club. The Hon. George Denman, Q.C. (with him the Hon. Alfred Thesiger), on an affidavit of these state- ments, moved on behalf of Mr. Frewen for a rule for a criminal information against Dr. Pattison. The learned counsel said he had a difficulty in reading the statements of the case which the defendant had threatened to publish, entering as it did into all the painful details of that most painful disease under which the deceased lady had suffered. But there was, he submitted, amply enough in the expressions used by the defendant towards ,Mr. Frewen to justify this application. They imputed to him the most shabby conduct in disputing this demand, although Mr. Frewen had already intimated that he was ready to meet it in any proper way. The language used towards him by the defendant was of the most offensive character, and he had actually sent his latter letters open, ;;0 that anyone coull1 rea, 1 them, and he threatened that the next would be written on card- board and sent to Mr. Frewen's club. The Lord Chief Justice.—You have stated quite enough, l\lr. Denman, to entitle you to the rule. Rule nisi for a criminal information against Dr. Pattison.

A HARD CASE. In the Court of Queen's Bench, ex parte Walker in a matter of the Mayor and Corporation of London, has been brought forward. and was an application which had arisen out of the great burglary and robbery of watches andjeweiry at the shop of Mr. Walker, on Cornliill, in the night between Saturday, the 4th, and Monday, the 6th of February, 1865. On that occasion 383 watches and a number of gold chains were stolen. The burglars were apprehended, triad, and convicted, and in the box of one of them 54 watches and chains were found, and in the box of another of them, named Casely, a sum of jE270 was found in rotes and money, which he stated was the produce of the robbery. On the 12th of April the burglars were tried and con- victed, and Mr. Walker applied to the Recorder for the restitution of the property and the money the proceeds of the property stolen. The Recorder, how- ever, declined to make the order, and referred the pro- secutor to the Treasury. The police, however, had handed over the money and the property to the city authorities, and to them the prosecutor accordingly addressed himself. In October, 1865, Mr. Walker petitioned the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, and was invited to attend ameetingof the Law, Parliamentary, and City Lands Committee, and he ac- cordinglyattended but no conclusion wascome to. Vari- cordinglyattended but no conclusion wascome to. Vari- ous other meetings and discussions had been held, but still no conclusion was come to until, at last, in 1867, the Court of Common Council cancelled the reference of the matter to the committee, and in the result Mr. Walker had received no part of his property. It ap- peared that the Corporation had actually been advised that, under certain ancient charters, giving them the right to felons'goods," they were entitled to retain the property of Mr. Walker, and this notwithstanding the enactments on the subject in favour of the right to restitution, ending with the very recent enactment in the statute 24th and 25th of Victoria, cap. 96, sec. 100. Sir J. D. Coleridge, Solicitor-General, now moved on behalf of Mr. Walker for a writ of restitution directed to the Mayor and Corporation of London, directing them to return to him the property and pro- ceeds of the property of his which had been recovered from the burglars. There had been, he said, a long course of discussions and communications, which had led to no result—except this, indeed, that Mr. Walker could not get back his property. The Corporation had somehow been led to take up the strange notion that they were entitled to this property as felons' goods," although it had never ceased to be his, and the robbers had been prosecuted to conviction, so that by the common law and the statutes he was clearly entitled to it. The property had never become the property of the robbers it remained the property of the true owner who had been robbed, and the recent statute contained an express provision on the subject that restitution should be made. The Court without any hesitation granted a rule nisi for writ of restitution.

PARSON BROWNLOW'S PLATFORM! Parson Brownlow, the well-known Governor of Tennessee, having been greatly badgered of late by office-seekers, has issued a proclamation on the sub- ject which is so characteristic of him that we quote it. It appears in his newspaper, the Knoxville (Tennesse) Whig:— To Whom it may Concern. "I am daily called upon, either in person or by letter, to sign petitions asking offices from the Federal Government, and also wishing me to write letters to Republican Senators uruing the confirmation of men nominated for office by Pre- sideut Johnson. I respectfully decline doing either, and shall take no part in the scramble for office under the pre- sent national Administration. After General Grant is inau- gurated I propose to take a hand, openly and above board, 3nd, once fOI all, allow me to say that I believe the Repub- licani who supported Grant and Colfax are entitled to the offices and should have them and I think the Seymour and Blair men should have more modesty than to ask for office. If, however, largely in the majority às the RepuLJlicans are, they shall find they have not men qualified to fill the offices, then let them call upon the Seymour Democratic party to furnish such material. Cntil that call is made, I submit 'liat ltIodesty would dictate that the adherents of that party should stand back. This is my platform. I have taken my stand upon it. 1 hope I am now understood, and that 1 will not be subjected W further annoyance from this source. W. G. BROWNLOW. Knoxville, Tennessee, Dec 2D.

ELECTION EXPENSES. The election accounts of Mr. Torrens,M.P.,and Mr. Fowler, M. P., the sitting members for Cambridge, have just appeared; they amount to £1,316. the unsuccessful Conservative candidates, Mr. Powell and Mr. Gorst, expended £1,878. Mr. Walpole, M.P., obtained unopposed re-election for the University of Cambridge for £..>4, and Mr. Beresford Hope, M.P., !or£3:t Lord Stanley's election at Lynn cost him £;)65, while the Hon. R. Bourke, M.P., who stood with him, expended £428. According to returns just issued, Mr. Young, the successful Liberal candidate for Helston, expended JE526 lns., and the Hon. T. C. Bruce, Conservative, £47510s. Mr. Lopes, the Conservative member for Launces- ton, who was unopposed, got off for £161. The expenses incurred by Mr. Magniac, the Liberal member for St. Ives, whose opponent, Mr. Paull, withdrew the day before the nomination, are stated tobe.6558. The expense incurred by the different candidates in the late contest for the representation of Dundee was as follows :—Mr. Armitstead, £4,;330; Sir John Ogilvy, £ii33; Mr. Guthrie, £4,022; Mr. Scott, £517-total ;1,;9,402, The number of votes polled was 21,032. f- The abstract of the election expenses of Thirsk and Malton has been published. At Thirsk, Sir William Payne Gallwey, the successful Conservative candidate, spent B532 14s. 9d., against an expenditure by Mr. Harcourt Jobnstone of JS635 5s. yd. Of the latter sum, B422 is put down for agents' professional charges, against £17;) in the first case. At Malton, where there was no contest, Mr. Fitzwilliam spent J2103 4s. 2d. The total expenses of the Glocester eleccion were £2,463 16s. 6.1. The successful candidates expended— Mr. Price, S635 17s., and Mr. Monk, JB671 16s. 2d. total, £1,307 13s. 2d. and the unsuccessful candi- dates (Major Brennan and Mr. Lees) are returned at £1,156 3s. 4d. At Leeds the expenses of Mr. Baines and Mr. Carter, the associated Liberal candidates, amount to £932 17s. 3.^d. These expenses have been entirely met by their supporters, and 50 per cent. of the larger subscriptions which had been promised it is not ne- cessary to collect. The expenses of the Conservative candidates, Mr. Wheelhouse and the Hon. A. Duncombe, appear to have be-n £1.969 Is. 51. Sir A. F^irbairn, the un- successful Liberal candidate, appears to have been at an expense of £1 949 5s. 6d. The statements of the expenditure of the two candi- dates for Hartlepool have been published. Those of the Liberal candidate, Mr. Thomas Richardson, being £ 851 14s. 7-id.. and those of the sitting member, Mr. Ralph Ward Jackson, M.P.. reach £ 1,948 8s. 4d. Lord George Hamilton's expenses in contesting Middlesex amounted to £9.285 2s. 3d.—JE356ofwhich, however, is disputed. The accounts of the several agents of the sixteen polling places exceed £ 4,891, irrespective of £420 under the head of "agents and printing and advertising figures for £1,511 14s. 6d. Dr. Lush's election for the city of Salisbury cost him £280 6s. 6d., and Mr. Hamilton's expenditure amounted to £418 0s. lOd. Mr. Granville Richard Ryder's outlay exceeded that of either of the success- ful candidates, the total being returned at i;581 18s. 6d. The expenses of Mr. Dodson and Lord Edward Cavendish, the Liberal candidates at the East Sussex election, where the former was successful and the latter unsuccessful, are returned at £K,8GS 8s. 2d. The unopposed return of Colonel Barttelot for West Sussex cost him £182 6s. od. and of the Hon. H. Wyndham, for the same constituency, £ 160 lis. 9d. At Hertford, according to the returns just issued, Mr. Dimsdale, M.P., expended £41816f! and Mr. Gibbs, the unsuccessful candidate, £188 16s. 7d. In the new borough of Wednesbury the expenses of Mr. Brogden, the successful candidate, are returned at £ 4,625, exclusive of agency costs, which are not yet made up. Mr. Walker's expenses (one of the un- successful candidates) are returned at JE6,480, of which is for professional and other agents. At Walsall Mr. Charles Foster's expenses were £149. At Dudley Mr. Sheridan expended 1:335. At Lichfield Colonel Dyott's disbursements amounted to £2,617, exclusive of the returning officer's charges. Major Anson's expenses are returned at £540. At Coventry Messrs. Eaton and Hill expended JE1,412, which includes £613 for "hire of rooms." Messrs. Carter and Jackson expended £1,141. A Liverpool paper says that the expenses of the Right Hon. W. Massey and Mr. William Rathbone at the late election for that borough will amount to between £5,000 and £6,000, and that the expenses of Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Grenfell, in South-west Lancashire, will reach £11,500.

A KNOTTY POINT!! In the Equity Court ill London, last week, a curious point of law was raised in the suit of Charlton v, the Earl of Durham," which disclosed some remarkable circumstances, showing the responsibility and power of executors. Under the will of a testator, Thomas Glaholm, who died in January, 1849, his five children became entitled to his residuary estate in equal shares. By this will two executors were appointed, named Charlton and Wilson, and the will gave permission to the executors to continue any portion of the residuary estate on the then existing securities. Part of the estate consisted of a debt for £5.000 at 4 per cent. interest, secured by the bond of certain persons who were trustees for the Earl of Durham. On the 5th of September, 1849, Lord Durham attained twenty-one, and being desirous of relieving his trustees of their responsibility, he offered, in the course of the same year, to exchange for the existing bond a new bond, in which he himself would become bound to Charlton and Wilson. This offer was accepted and a new bond for £5,000 was executed by Lord Durham in exchange for the old. In this instrument (which was deposited at a bank of which Wilson was the cashier) Charlton and Wilson, the obligees, were described as executors of Glaholm. Interest was regularly paid to Wilson, who gave receipts for himself and his co-executor; and on the 26th of February, 1859, one moiety of the £5,000 was paid off. In 1862, Lord Durham, through his agent Morton, was induced to pay off the remain- ing £2,500 of the debt, on a receipt purporting to be the receipt of Charlton and W ilson both, but which, in fact, was a forgery by Wilson, so far as Charlton's name was concerned. Wilson had appropriated the money and is now undergoing penal servitude for the crime. Upon the occasion of this payment, the bond was cancelled. This bill was filed by Charlton and the beneficiaries under the will, to obtain payment of the £2,500 over again from Lord Durham. The plaintiffs' contention was that they were not to suifer through the fraud which, through negligence had been practised upon Lord Durham's agent and, moreover, that Lord Durham, through his agent, was fixed with notice of the trusts of the money, inasmuch as the solicitor employed to draw up the new bond Was the solicitor of the executors under the will. They argued also that a receipt by one of two trustees, though a good discharge at law, would not in equity release the party paying for a claim by the other trustee, he not having authorised the payment. The defence was that these persons were not trustees, but executors, and that the receipt by one was sufficient to bind both also that, it being undisputed that the bond was discharged at law, there was no circum- stance imthe case upon which to found an application for the interference of the Court of Chancery. The case had been argued three successive days, and, in giving judgment, The Vice-Chancellor observed that he scarcely knew what to say to the argument that the Earl of Durham had not been discharged by this payment. The money had reached the hand of the party entitled to receive it, and legal discharge had been given, and the bond had been cancelled. But it was said that Lord Dur- ham was fixed with notice of the trusts of the will. His Honour was not disposed to hold for the first time that the obligor of a money bond, who goes to the solicitor of the obligees and pays that solicitor his charges for filling up the bond, was fixed with notice of the trusts of the money. But here it so hap- pened that the bond had been given before the will was proved and the money was not resid- uary estate at that time. Then it was further said that the substitution by the executors of this for the original bond was not a proper investment of the testator's estate, and was a breach of trust. It was certainly possible that if an executor took the bond of one in substitution for the bond of two, and a loss ensued, he might be liable for a devastavit, but it could scarcely be a breach of trust. This court had in many instances gone to the verge of justice, and the verge of its jurisdiction, in helping cestuis que trust against trustees who had honestly dealt with the trust funds, and his Honour certainly was not disposed to extend this doctrine one atom beyond what the Court of Appeal rendered binding and incumbent on him. His Honour thought that the earl had been fully dis- charged both in a court of law and in this court; and the bill must be dismissed and with costs; as no ground could be discovered for departing from the general rule.

MURDEROUS OUTRAGE IN SARAWAK, There has lately occurred an fineute in Sarawak which, says the Straits Tinn, tends to show how all Europeans there live with their lives in their hands, and know not when they may he called upon to face sudden death. The following are authentic particulars furnished by the Sarawak govern- ment ;— On the 28th November, the Mukah fort, under charge of the resident, Mr. Rodway, was surprised by a party of six convicts (one Chinaman and five Malays) who were under sentence of imprisonment for trivial offences. The resident and Mr. Sinclair were walking on the beach, distant about a mile from the fort at the time the attack took place, and on their return found the fort in the hands of these miscreants who had killed the sentry, loaded the arms, fastened the doors, and we regret to state that the Chinaman among them most brutally murdered Mr. Bain, who was lying sick in the resident's apartments. Before assistance could arrive, however, the rascals made off at night after holding the fort for a few hours. The inhabitants pursued them, killed four (including the murderer of Air. Bain) out of the six, recovered the treasure, about 1,000 dols., and everything was in order again with arms complete. The two living run- aways are being pursued in all directions, and will, in all probability, be brought in, dead or alive, in a day or two. The Chinaman, it appears, was in debt to Mr. Bain, and on a previous occasion, while being sued, had used threatening language to the deceased. Mr. Bain (late engineer of the Borneo Company) had engaged for some time in mercantile affairs in the Uj a river, distant 15 miles from Mukah, and was unusually popular with the native community.

DR. VAUGHANAND THE BISHOPS AND CLERGY. At a banquet given by the Mayor of Doncaster, last week, the Rev. C. J. Vaughan, in responding to the toast, "The Archbishop and Clergy of the Dio- cese, and Ministers of other Denominations," among other remarks, said :— These are difficult days for a bishop to administer the duties of his lng-i office at once with fidelity and acceptance. Much is required of him now which was not required in days gone by. It is very much the fashion in these days to blame bishops for all they do not do, and then to blame them for all they attempt to do. The country will not trust the bishops with power, yet the country is ready to blame the bishops foi not keeping things in order. These are hard con- ditions, and 1 think the man is deserving of some praise and some gratitude from the Church who is willing, in such times, to put himself into a position of so much responsi- bility and so little gratitude. It is too much the fashion, even with the clergy—I regret and blush to say it to repu- diate the authority of the bishops whenever it touches them- selves, and to appeal from the bishop, that is, to some shadowy, misty phantom, to which they give, I believe, the name of Catholic antiquity; something which they can alwavs elude when it goes against them, and which they can always j.lcad when it serves their purpose. Gentlemen, I have spoken of the difficulties of the epis- copal ohice I do not think the office of a parish clergyman is, in these days, one of the easiest. He, too, has many, very many, difficulties to contend with. The axiom—which has become in our days almost a truism, and which, 1 am almost a-hamed to repeat, as though it could possibly need enforce- ment—that the Church is not the clergy, is one which has a very imperfect acceptance among the clergy, and still less, I think among the laity of the present day. There are among the former those who seem willing to arrogate to themselves the title of Church, but I utterly repudiate for myself, and I am quite sure that 1 am speaiing for my brethren around me, any such monstrous llypothcsis as that. And I veIl- ture to say, with all respect to the present company, that the laity are far more to blame than we for this unfortunate con- fm-ion of terms between the Church and the clergy. It is too much the habit of the laity to treat the clergy as if they were not only the ministers and officers üf the congregation, but as if they were set to bear all the burdens, all the duties-I had almost said, all the sins of the people as if they had taken upon themselves the office, not only of setting a good ex- ample, but even of appropriating and engrossing im their own persons all the graces and all the virtues which should adorn the Christian character. I consider that such thoughts as these do a great dishonor to that Church which is. in other words, the whole congregation of faithful people dispersed throughout the whole world. The Church is not the clergy. The Church is the whole congregation of Christian people wheresoever to be found aud by whatsoever special name described. In this point of view, therefore, I ven- ture tocomplainoftheideathatthereare many graces and vir- tues which it is the duty of a clergyman to cultivate and which it is not the duty of a layman to emulate. If there is anything binding upon a clerg) man to be or to do, that thing is equally binding upon a Christian layman. There is no such difference made between the one and the other in the Word of God as can justify the distinction to which I have re- ferred.

THE WILD BEASTS OF THE SEA. The following very interesting notes on the rapacious habits of bottle-noses, porpoises, seals, otters, coal-fish, cod, sea cats, and sea dogs, are written by A Fisherman," who dates from" The East Neuk of Fife." lie says :— Mr. Drew, of Nairn, has, no doubt much to the satis- faction of the Nairn fishermen, endeavoured to move government on their behalf to clear the sea for ever of those monster whales but we on this coast have a great respect for them, because, when we see them, we know the herrings are on the coast. Query—Do they not drive the herrings from the ice to our coast ? (for our fathers said they came from the Arctic regions); and if so, they require to be protected. As for the porpoises, the way to catch them is to put a net into the sea in the lii:e they travel in, and when they comeagainst it theym ike no effort to break it. but bang by the teeth as dead till they are taki n, They are not like the seal, for he goes down below the net, and if it is too near the ground, he comes to the top and gets overit. The seal is a desperate fisherman. He eats all kinds of fish, but prefers salmon. You can see him often raised out of the water with a large salmon in his hand at dinner, defying his enemies. No doubt every seal on this coast eats, on the lowest calculation, i:50 worth of salmon in a season. Then we have the otter, both in the river and in the sea. He also prefers salmon, and will kill them, devouring about a pound for break- fast, leaving the rest to waste. When he cannot get salmon in the sea he prefers dabs. We have also the coal fish, which infests our bays, particularly when the young salmon are leaving the rivers, and they destroy them in thousands. I have seen as many as twelve large ones in their stomachs; this in addition to the great number of other fish they consume. But the great enemy to the fisherman is the cod he is not a cannibal, he does not feed upon his own species. You seldom get one, however, that has not a haddock in his stomach, sometimes two, large enough to serve a numerous family for dinner. There is besides the sea cat, with her long teeth. But the greatest enemy the fisherman has is the sea dog. Some- times when the fisherman begins to haul his line, he finds that there is plenty of fish but by the time he has hauled half a line he gets nothing but heads of haddocks—the dogs on the coast having eaten the fish off the line. I have known as much as £5 worth of this fine fish, belonging to one boat, destroyed in a morning. When they come amongst boats fishing herrings the destruction of fish and of nets may be reckoned not only by hundreds but by thousands annually. The turbot, one of our finest fish, takes haddocks and small cod and trout, and many others too numerous to mention. The haddock resembles the salmon tribe. These do not eat fish if either one or the other should do so they would suffer from it—it is unnatural to them. Can anyone propose a remedy for this wholesale destruction of the finny tribe? The Fishery Board would, no doubt, be the proper party—having always at their command a large staff for all purposes. The gunboats that come to protect our herring fishing could each have a harpoon gun, with a good stock of lines. What a fine thing it would be to see a wliale going off with a gunboat at twenty knots an hour

A GENTLE HINT! "Florence," writing the following to the Daily Tet.graph, makes a very sensible suggestion, which readers of the opposite sex should take note of:— As St. Valentine's Day will soon be here, it may not be inappropriate to say a few words on the subject of valentines. Why cannot people send something sensible to each other if they want to be remembered ? I believe in Rimmel's scent, French kid gloves, &c., but not in hearts and darts, smiles and wiles, views of impossible churches, with creatures in bright blue coats leading simpering idiots towards them frequently by moonlight too, which we all know is not the canoni- cal hour for the perpetration of matrimony. This of course only applies to the common class of valentines there are many that are exceedingly pretty, and even artistic in their execution. But of what use even these, except to please the eye for a short time ? How much better to send something as a memento of affection that could be applied to a useful purpose, and thus continually bring the sender into remembrance. But then I am not a girl of the period," hut quiet, and domesticated, with a strong appreciation of the useful.

THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION OF WOMEN. There is a very important point, which has alto- gether escaped the attention of the women educators of our day, and that is the relation whic I exists be- tween a vigorous and healthy mind on the one, and body on the other hand. A weakly frame and a highly- cultivated mind may go together, but the latter is mostly effeminate, and the ultimate ill-effects of the conjunction are seen in the degenerate character of the offspring. This applies as well to the case of women as of men. In the recent discussions that have taken place relative to the education of women this independence of healthy mind and healthy body has been entirely missed. If the culture of the mind be forced without due attention to the body, espe- cially in the "weaker" sex, the body by disuse becomes degenerate, and the body at length partici- pates in one general decay. '1 here are exceptions to every rule; but if we are in the future to pro- duce a race of blue-stockings only at the ex- I. pense of a satisfactory physical training, then the sooner the maiden is forbidden to become the wife and then the mother the better for as the mother is so, in great degree, is the offspring—a highly developed mind in a neglected body predicts effeminacy in the offspring. What is needed is an equal ap- preciation of the necessity of educating the body as well as mind. "Disuse leads to decay," as well with muscle as with mind. If therefore, we desire to improve the mental acquirements on a sound basis, we should be careful to secure the more general introduction into our schools and seminaries of the proper use of gym- nastics of all kinds. By this means we may do much to improve even the physique of the next generation, to lessen the number of thin and narrow chests, of weak spines and the like, which abound among the women of our own day, and give to the rising gene- ration a sounder framework, and, therefore, a better chance of possessing a mens sana in corporc sano.

The operation of the Factory Act is strongly resisted at Exeter. In four cases penalties of £ 2 and upwards have been imposed. ODe of the defendants produced the indenture of the lad whom he had kept employed beyond the specifiEd hour on Saturday-two o'clock. This he did to show that the indenture stipulated for a certain number of hours' work, which had not been exceeded. The magistrates, however, paid no attention to the indenture, remarking that it had been superseded hy the Factory Act. lhe defendant had only one apprentice in his employ, and he contended it was to the lad's benent to be employed in the evenings. A complaint against the right of the inspector to remain what time he likes in the factories has been sent to the Home Secretary. The Home Secretary was elected on Monday with- out opposition tor Renfrewshire. The right hon, gentleman, in returning thanks, after replying to the objection that he was not a pure Scotchman, dealt with several qllestions of imperial importance. He particularly referred to the Irish Church controversy, and to education, and expressed a hope that when the public expected a great deal from the different heads of departments, patience would be exercised. If the present cabinet remained in office a few years, its members would have the satisfaction of knowing that the country was then in a much better condition than when they came into power.—[It is a curious fact, that by the Reform Act of IS0S seven seats were transferred from England to Scotland, and that Mr. Bruce is the seventh Englishman who has been elected by the Scottish constituencies to the new Parlia- ment.]

THE MARKETS. M ARK-LANE. —M ONDAY. The demand for most kinds of produce continued inactive to day, but as regards prices the market was firmer. From Essex and Kent the receipts of wheat were limited but the quality of the produce was rather better Factors were firm in their demands, and both red and white parcels were held at an advance of from Is. to 2s. per (jr. Very few trans- actions, however, took place. Fair supplies of foreign wheat were on sale. The business doing was restricted, but the quota- tions asked were Is per qr. higher than on Monday last. Float- ing cargoes of wheat were dealt in to a moderate extent, at full quotations. Other articles afloat were rather quiet. With barley the market was moderately supplied. The de- mand was inactive, at previous quotations. Malt was dull on former terms. For oats there was an improved inquiry, and good sound corn was quite as dear. The show was small. Beans were in limited request, at late rates. In consequence of the large arrival of Canadian, white Peas ere Is. per quarter lower, and other sorts were drooping in value. The flour trade was quiet, at about stationary prices. Lmseed and rapeseed were firm. Agricultural seeds were steady in price. Cakes moved off slowly. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.—MONDAY. There was a heavy arrival of foreign beasts, many of them being of second-rate quality. Trade ruled quiet, and prices* on the whole, were rather easier. From our own grazing districts about an average number ef beasts came forward, and we noticed some excellent arrivals on the stauds. Trade was rather less active than on Monday last, and that day's quotations were with difficulty sup- ported. The top price for best Scots and crosses was 5s. 4d. to 5s. Cd per 81b. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgsliire, we received about 930 Scots, Ac. from other parts of England. (;60 of various breeds from Scotland, 310 Scots and crosses: and from Ireland, about 340 oxen, Ac. The number of sheep in the pens was rathtr short, but the animals generally were in good condition. The demand was steady for all breeds, and really choice half-breds and Southdowns rMlised an occa- sional advaIJc6 of 2d. per 81b., the-highest quotation being 5s. 6d. to 5s. 8d. per Sib. The calf trade was steady, and prime small amnuls changed hands at full currencies. In the value of pigs no alteration took place, but the demand was not active HOPS. No change of importance has taken place in the markets. Fine parcds are scarce, aud for such full prkús are paid, Medium qualities have been purchased to a fair extent, but other deseriptionsliaveniovedoff slowly. Mid an,1 East Kents, 21. 10s. to 71. 15s. Weald of Kents, 21. Os. to 41. 10s.; Sussex, 11. Os. to (t. Os.; Farnhams, 41. Oi. to 51. 15s. Country, 41. Os, to 51. Os, Bavarians, 21. 10s. to 41. 6s. Belgians, 21. Os. to 31. Os. Yearlings, 3l, Os. to 41. Os. WOOL. Colonial w001 has heen in moderate request, at previous quo tatioiis. As regards English wool, fine qualities have met a fair sale, at full currencies; otherwise the market has been rather quiet. — Current prices of English wool :— Fleeces. — Southdown hoggets, ]s, t,d. to Is. 4d. half-breds. Is. 4<1. to Is. f^d.; Kent fleeces. Is. 4jd. to Is. 5td.; Southdown ewes and wethers. Is. 2J4; to Is. 3!d. Leicester ditto, Is. 3d. to Is. 3!d per lb. Sorts.—Clothing, Is. 2d. to Is. 7d. comb- ing, Is. Od. to Is. C £ d. per lb. POTATOES. The supplies of potatoes on sale at these markets are large and more than equal to the demand. Business in all descrip- tions has been restricted, at ahout late rates, English Regents, tiOs. to 130s. Flukes, 80s. to 150s. Scotch Regents, 60s. to 130s.; Rocks, Os. o SOs.; French, 40s. to SQIs per ton.