The Aberystwith Observer

WIFE MUKDER THROUGH JEALOUSY. On Sunday morning considerable excitement was created in Warwick by the rumour that Charles Chap- man, aged 27, residing in that town, had drowned his wife in the Warwick and Napton Canal, near to Lea- mington. It appears that on Saturday evening, about eight o'clock, Chapman accompanied his wife to Leamington, about two miles from Warwick, for the purpose of purchasing her a pair of boots. They then seemed to be on good terms, and nothing further was heard of them until Sunday morning, when Chapman went to the Warwick police-station with his father and the former, addressing Police-constables Satchwell and Fletcher, said,—" I have come to give myself up for murdering my wife." The officers thought the man had been drinking, but he repeated the statement, and the father said he believed the statement was true, as his eon had been to his house and was wet through when he arrived. He had, however, since changed his clothes. The officers at last en- tered the charge, and the prisoner then said if they would go to the side of the canal, near to Leam-bridge, and drag they_ would find his wife's body. He had drowned her in the bridge hole, a deep part of the canal. All the prisoner appeared so positive in bis statement, the officer placed him in a cell, and went with the drags to the place be mentioned. After drag- ging the canal for about an hour, they found his wife's body in about the place he had indicated. Her dress was very much torn, and round her body was a rope, as if hw husband had tried to tie her arms together. On the bank were evidences of a severe struggle, and the officers found one of the prisoner's coat-sleeves on the embankment, as if his wife had torn it off while struggling with him. Her apron and also three pence were found on the path, and, from the appearance, it is evident the murdered woman fought hard for her life. The deceased is the mother of three children, the youngest of whom is four months old. The alleged cause of the murder is jealousy, the prisoner asserting that while he was absent at work in Birmingham, a few months ago, his wife was familiar with other men. The murdered woman was only twenty years of age, and was much respected. On Monday, the prisoner was brought before the magistrates at Warwick, charged with the wilful mur- der of his wife, Ann Chapman, on Saturday night last, by pushing her into the Warwick and Napton CanaL The prisoner is about twenty-seven years of age, of middle height, dark complexion, and swarthy skin; but there is nothing absolutely repulsive or brutal in the expression of his face. He appeared remarkably self-possessed when placed in the dock, though evi- dently conscious of hia position. Police-constable Satchwell deposed that, as already stated, the pri-oner went to the Warwick police- station at an early hour on Sipiday morning and gave himself into custody on the present charge. He also deposed to having fouid the body of the deceased in the canal, and the precise Fpot where the prisoner stated he had thrown her into the water, and that there wera marks on the towing-path of a severe struggle having occuired. Mr. Superintendent Hicknng deposed that, after the body of the deceased had been found in the canal, the prisoner, who hc.d been detained in custody, made the following statement, after having been reoiiivied that the charge was a serious one, and cautioned that any statement he might make would be given in evidence against him. The prisoner's confession, which he had signed with his mark, after it had been read over to him, was as follows :— Last (Saturday) night I went home about six o'clock, and gave my money to her mother. We lived with her. I stayed at home until I went oat with my wife. I told her we would go to Leamington and look round there. We started a little after nine o'clock. I called at Page's, near ii6*^ a of a!e! that was all I had all tne night. W e looked in the .*hop windows and went on to the Lmscote-cuS-bridge. I said Come on this way. She said she did not like to go by the water side. She sald she was all of a tremble. I said, What makes you ;\e: wl?at have you to tremble for ?' I ss, id, if she would go nirt w c, slt*e,we c°ild get out at the Leam-bridge, on to the old 'Yalwick-roaci. We were talking as we went along the sai/i .ir was sure lhe last child was not mine. She cpivnd ou sca™P ^ne of them are yonrs. I have de- bridpB r^f k°°i i,s-' Wam We got under the Leam- in shf. ion 1 n *r 'a'°*the water. As she was going could n'i+ « 1116 and pulled me into the water. I t»st hold nf if10?1 lle-r for a lon £ while, she kept so awav from Vioi o a<* '^e to have drowned me. I got mind to dlo^n h cut of the water- I made up rnv ™ en av'Bv fmm if befPre I went out of the house. I have last camB hni!?.i,OI?e, ^hree months together. When I pattern for v^n ? T *eV'tlle last UP aQd said, 'Rere'a a and not mine Sh ? her the chlld was Cllarle8 Harris's had a recular ioh t-6 hed and called m" an old fool. I ber to March ^'rmingbam Gas Works from Octo- week13, Iful anVofceU^6™11 yearS" 1 6Very signed th«P«^f<'tn^tIlt Sickling said the prisoner K and nf^lement after bad been read over to since ren(.afHji,ODe or two Vf,rbal alterations. He had wife the first time'hfhf/^h 4° dr°T hi3 then remanded. a chance* The accused was

nn^Morft?^^eld on the body of the deceased, diet of VVilfn?ril0on' the jury returned a ver- Coroner made out^w aga,in,8t thf? aCCUSed'and the prisoner to the countygao! the commitment of

A GOOD FRIDAY PILGRIMAGE. nf fimeStprevfli^ £ TfuQ whi°b is lost in the obscurity iS r.S r neighbourhood of Guildford of HAllon Good Sf t(^\ Mi\rtha'8 (^Martyr's) via vouths and m — Thither, from all the country 'Lives and f,n^ulen8' °ld folks and children betake Khea^if iT"p^ in ^hered to^ther on °*e of ^e most br^h which ciU>rey'in ful1 of an old Norman green Imrr;mit of the hill, onTFriSU^s?»Srt5°<i K*el wer°,h°,d M uallal 2-ZSS XTVO°W«0= jUiSS* s r?.rs X in DI1l00^ of th« bill was crowded with Sned'to attain their favounte amusement, Others who were too old u .ru?. enjoyment. e them to eimV, or whose inclinations did not prompt tbemt^8uchactlve exerdge ^ded the hm f3 Lav from anv b, °burch, which stand# alone, the Opportunity of en & where they had i j- a of a pplrndid panorama, in- neUar Haslemere where °! C°ln-? hfmself » new abode and i.Poet Lau,reate ha3 bmlt ..d some of the 'b ^.whence may be expected to ™ e^rv indLirPpiest efforta o £ his muse. °«nt that the ni'i°U- wbi°b presented itself it was apparent wasthe pilgrimage to St. Martha's what- t Vef" nf the present », .c^ commends itself to the St o?,\tr°hV;,d-1' ^eiy to ik aa lone an tif u to 1TJcrease in popular estimation as 1 the ereen hill lasts to attract the Worshipper oi natural]I beauty, or to furnish the mere tunity for a pleasant holy^0 excuse and the °PPor"

RIGHT HANDEDNESS. If asked *.he human body seems chiefly affected by adva ing clViilsati0Ii j wouUbe inclined to ^lamals Sht ^and- At first sight the four- handed mama^nnght be thought to have an ad- vantage an,j j, °Ur. bands are employed both for prehe^ or £ ra;i8 f^otlon> while in the man there la one pa t2ie an » e^°b> man's two hands are worth more *Pe« four. As man rises from «he rudest stag. ^u^h as digging roots, hunting, and tending cattle, to arcs which are hiehlv mechanical tbe right j^jeft^tlT ^re special and serviceable organ that the>1 0 ^atthe loss of it to an engraver, a !r Vrn much more EpPared to the loss of the Jeft> would ba a much re serious affair than it would be to a drcver, who could clutch his stick 0r gesticulate to his dog_ Admin-^ with the one hand as tbe •.•'y.f rooo that, physiologically tboro is a s ig on for the preference of the right hand, aU our toolg and fashions lend them- seives to ^courage its furt^ dexterity. Screws, gimblets, Tonia° the supinating motion of the rightband. loolsof the scissor kind are also made for gD j 'nan^ I have seen a print- cutter s guage made for a left-handed person fetch a very low pnee when it came to ba sold. The slant in wilting, f the hair in boys, the manner ia which buttons and hooks are placed on'clothes, and the system of writing from left to right, all seem re- lated to right-handedness In drawing, the pupil L recommended to,begm at the uppermost corner on the left band side, where the ornament is of a small and re- peating character, so as to avoid fingering the part already olmatter I kn«w was able to detect left-banded boys, when they used the pen with the l ft against orders, by the writing either being straight or sloped the wrong way. Most boys know that it is easier to draw a profile with the face looking towards the left band; yet on looking over the hiero- glyphs in the British Museum the faces will be generally found towards the right, The normal way of writing the hieroglyphs is from right to left, though frequent instances occur of their being written from left to right. I bslieve there is a constitutional reason for the ^re- ference given to the right hand, but I also believe that habit has strengthened nature's tendency, and that as the touch of the hereditary Hindoo weaver has become proverbially fine, so the aptitude of the right hard over the left is greater, with advancing civilisation, than in a state utterly savage. At that period of a child's life when creeping seems a more natural mode of progression than walking, there is no apparent dexterity in the right hand more than in the left, and when man was almost utterly without arts, I can believe his state to have been ambidexter or ambisinister. The elephant is known to employ one tusk more than another in rooting, &c., and when I asked Sir Samuel Baker which tusk went by the name of the servant," he informed me that it was the right tubk generally, but the exceptions to the rule were far more numerous than was the phenomenon of left-handed- ness with human beings. We have no reliable statistics of the proportion of left-handed persons to right in ancient or in savage nations. If Judges xx. 15, lG, is to have any weight, ir the matter, the proportion of left-handed in the trile uf Duiijiimiu nfcitiWH to have batiii gremtr than m tliu [jrwunt tf&y. Left-handednegs is very/mysterious; it seems quite against physiological deduction* and the whole ten- dency of arts and fashion. Prof. Buchanan, of Gks- goiv, who wrote an able memoir on right-handeduet-s in 1862, thinks that, lett-haud dness may be due to transposition of the vis:era, and tells me tbaS his friend Dr. Airken found such a case. But surely transposition cf the viscera must be far rar r than obstinate left-handedneas. In cases of left-handei persons which I have examined, the limbs of the lert side were proportionally larger, just as those of the right side are in normal cases. I have also found that left-handedneas is hereditary.—J. S. in Nature.

LABOUR AND HEALTH. We (Pall Mall Gazette) would again direct the atten- tion of those who take an interest in the well-being, both moral and physical, of the British soldier to the happy results that have been obtained in India from employing him in the execution of certain engineering works, such as road-making and the like. The follow- ing figures speak for themselves, more especially when it is remembered that the working parties chiefly con- sisted of men who had been suffering from maladies of various sorts, and who had been sent to the hills for the re-establishment of their health. The average number of men employed during each six months has been 4 640, the average under hospital treatment being but 3 per cent. The death rate was 8'18 per 1,000; but in this were included those who were accidentally killed and those who were not sent to the hills until all probability of recovery from long-con- tinues illness was past. The true average de&th-rate per annum was but 4 3 per 1,000-11. minimum of mor- tality never previously approximated to in India, and hardly ever reached even in more healthy climes. No casualties occurred from cholera, heat, asphyxia. diarrhoea, or liver complaint, while but three men died from fever and one from dysentery. Now, would it not ba possible to devise some system of military labour here in England which, without entering into competition with the free labourer, might bring about results similar to those so happily attained in India? Surely a Scheme of the sort might be organized by which soldieTg would be so employed that tsheir bodily health would be improved, their minds made more content, and their strength and energy utibzed to the advantage of the commonwealth as well as of themselves. Enforced idleness is equally as bad for the body as for the mind, and of this we have far too much in our present system of military discipline. If, instead of the present dreary routine of deadly dull drill, from which no one can escape during the whole course of his service, be he as perfect a machine when in the ranks as can be imagined—if, instead of this, we set him to some work which would interest his mind while it exercised his body, he would surely become a better man and a better soldier. To those military philanthropists who desire to benefit in a last- ing manner the British soldier, we recommend this problem- How to provide remunerative employment for the soldiery in England without interfering with the free-labour market ?

HOPING FOR THE BEST. We may entertain a reasonable hope that for some years to come the problem to be annually considered by the ChanceHorof the Exchequer will be what shall be done with his surplus. It is true that the conduct of an littipire so vast as our own is necessarily subject to many chances. Mr. Lowe referred to some of them when he brought in his Budget. The indiscretion of a SUK°!i ^e half-a-dozen glasses of wine too much drunk by somebody in a responsible situation, the merest accident, may involve us in trouble from which there is no refuge except in enormous outlay." Nor does this review by any means exhaust the dan- gers to which we are necessarily subject (remarks The Times). It is not merely tbe indiscretion of an official of our own, the indiscretion of an official of another Power may bring down upon us moxt serious calamities. It was the French Consul at Tahiti more than Mr. Prichard who almost set France atad England at war five-and-twenty years since. An over-zealous Yankee captain in the Bay of Fundy, a misunderstanding, brought on no one knows how, with a few hundred trappers in Rupert's Land, the jaalousy of a half- savage autocrat at some fancied affront, the offioious- nesa of a provincial Mayor in some unknown part of the Continent, may produce a flame not easily allayed. But, in 8pite of all these ehane"8, We are entitltd to hope that we are at the beginning of a prosperous period.

SEA MONSTERS. We take the following from the Pall Mall Gazette:— Sir,—It has already been guessed that the "delicate monster lately seen in the American teas may have been a species of sepia. It is tolerably well ascertained that a øepiæ of enormous sizs exist; but authentic notices of such monsters are rare. I copy the following account from a memorandum supplied by Mr. Holdswoitto, the l&te Governor of Dartmouth Castle, to Colonel Hamilton smIth, tbe well- known and well-remembeiod naturalist. So far as 1 know it has never yet appeared in print :— I remember to have heard my mother's father say that, when engaged in the Newfoundland trade about fifty years ago or rather more, one of his ships was flshmg on the banks, when something appeared on the waterof very great size. As it did not seem to be alive it was examined in the boat, and secured by ropes. Then, the sea being calm, it was dragged alongside, and on close examination the men made out that it was a squid, and that they had Rot hold of the head. They lowered the runners, aud carried the fall to the windlass, and, having secured the runners to ropes round the head, hove it as far as they cauld above water. They had many empty casks on board '°1r. Pur- poses of the voyage, and these they soon filled by cut- ting off portions off the fish, but whether they used it for bait or for oil I do not remember. They also cut off one of its feelers to the bill Of the size of the latter I ani not quite certain; but it is so large in proportion to that of common squids, that no doubt could be entertained of the magnitude of the creature to which it belonged. The feeler, when brought home, having been dried (Ill which operation in the hot summer days no doubt it was very much contracted), measured thirty-six (36) feet. This feeler was sent to the coffee-room, or, properly speaking, llews- room, at Totnes, where it hung round the walls for a long time. It was afterwards removed to a house in the country, from which it was never brought back. It probably decayed and was thrown away. "I have heard of squids having been washed on shore 'as large as feather-beds;' but the size of this monster can only be guessed at. (Signed) A. H. HOLDSWORTH. "Dartmouth, January 20, 1832" A MS. note of Colonel H. Smith's records that the entire crew of a frigate (commanded by Captain Filmore) were assembled together on the body of an enormous Fepia, thrown up on a low sandy shore in the West Indies. Unfortunately, the date and exact place are not given. A drawing of this creature—little more than a rounded mass of a greyish blue colour—was made by the Colonel from Captain iilmore's description. In the Sailor's Magazine and Naval Miscellany supple- ment to Vol. VI[, p. 520, Dec. 1826) is a very curious notice of a colossal sepia, supplied by the Rev. J. F. England, a Weslejan minister. Crediton, April 16. EICHAKD JOHN Kisa.

"RATTING" IN FRANCE. Our lively neighbours" at Paris are really becoming Anglo-maniacs that we quite expect to hear of their en- deavouringshortlyto import London fogs tothe banks of the Seine, and to replace M. Cfaevreau by Sir John Thwaites. Not content with introducing horse-racing and pigeon-shooting into France, they have lately opened a rat-killing establishment in the Champs Elyseea, where MM. les petits crexti are enabled to see rats s'ain with the greatest ekill and rapidity by small boule territrs." As umal they have improved on English ideas in Paris, and the pit in which the un- fortunate rats are put to de^Jh is surrounded by mirrors so arranged that the victims are enabled to see the last of themselves before giving up the ghost. On Thursday the Prince Imperial honoured the the newly-opened institution with a visit, and ex- exressed great delight at tbe exploits of a small English terrier named Coquette, which destroyed twenty- eight rats in a minute* But, in spite of the Imperial patronage, the Societe Protectrice des Animaux attempted on Saturday to stop the much admired ratting sports. Having appealed to the Mirister of Justice, they were referred by him to the Prefect of Police, who gravely informed the deputation that there were a great many million rats in Paris, that the said rats did an immense deal of damage in the sewers, &c., and that really killing such noxious animals was a very meritorious act. And with this answer the Sùciété Protectrice was obliged to content itself. As, however, all the rats used for the delight of the Parisian public are first caught in the sewers and thence brought in traps to the Champs Elysdes to await their hte, it might have been thought that it would have been simpler to have knocked them on the head at once without the intervention of the boule. terriers.

PRINCE ALFRED IN INDIA. Prince Alfred, says the Bombay Gazette, after a pleasant two days' sail, reached Beynore on March 21, where he found the Governor of Madras waiting for him. By next mrraing they and their suites had been transported along the railway to Madras, and on arrival there an imposing procession was formed. At present we have only the telegraphic announcement of the arrival. Here in Bombay the natives seem to regret there was no such procession. Their idea i-? that the Prince should have sat on a howdah on an elephant's bick, and moved slowly along so as to be leisurely inspected by all and sundry. They take exception also to the extreme plainness of his attire when he appeared in public. One of the native papers criticises him for making no presents to the native chiefs, but it appears this was written under a misapprehension. Here, as elsewhere, no valuable presents were re- ceived. Sir Neville Chamberlain himself examined the articles offered with the object of returning those that were costly, and keeping such as would be interesting though inexpensive souvenirs of the country, and return presents of a fitting character seem to have been made. From a published list we quote the following :—To the Gaskwar his Royal Highness presented a handsome and very valuable gold hunting watch and chain, with the royal cypher surmounted by a crown set in diamonds on the back. To the Rao ni Kutch was presented a splendid double-barrelled gun, nude by Holland, of New Bond-street. The barrels Miegold dlt, and are to bear a suitable imcrl.ition. Mf»;r Ali Moorad Khan received a simi'ar rifle, one of R^iiiy's, with an inscripti on and the RIyal arms or it. To the Nawab of Cambay will be sent a splendid sword, specially mace for pre^eutat'oa. The Rajah of Kolapore receives a fine telescope; the Nawab of Moonaghur, a stereoscope with plates Holkar, a mag- nificent clock; Drangdra, a revolver beautifully ornamented, with carved ivory handles; Sanglee, a brace of revolvers by Purday; and the Rajah of Soanth, a handsome double-barrelled Lancaster rifle."

IMPORTANT TO INTENDING EMIGRANTS. The Mayor of Montreal, in openiTlgthe council of that city on the 14'ih of March, referred to the emigration movement in the following terms ;— Extenpive preparations are now in progress in the British Isles and other European countries for sending out to this country a large number of emigrants during the coming season. It is to be hoped that so^ e system will be adopted in embarking these people wliloh will ensure classilication and Mouer aiii anii a-.recriou W t'n t ;ey reach these shores, and that the Dominion Parliament, whose duty it is to deal with this matter, will perfect such arrangements M will prevent these people from being a burden instead of a bi«ssiug to oil" community on arrival here. During the pa.st two J vars this city has been sorely tritd by the frequent arrival <f large numbtrs of these poor people without any apparent means with which to pro- ceeii further, aud frequently (alluding to continental emigrants) without the power of expiessing or under- standing one word of any language spoken in this country. The emigrant agent had no funds, and tbe authorities whope duty it was to deal with the matter, seemed deaf to all appeal, and had it not been for the benevolent exertions of private individuals many of tbese.poor creatures might have perished from want and disease."

DEATH FROM CHLOROFORM, An inquest has been held at the University College Hospital, L'1nùon, respecting the death ot John Josiah Pye, aged fifteen, who'died in the operating theatre of the above- mentioned institution after the administration of chloroform. Mrs. Pye, mother ft the deceaeed, said her sou bad been ill some time. He was brought to the University Hospital last Saturday week, having a diseased knee. She was told that the only chance of saving his life was by having the leg taken off. She gave her consent, and on Wedms lav last an hour after the operation, she was informed of his death. Mr. Christopher Heath, F.R.C.S., and surgeon in the hospital, deposed to admitting the deceased. In. dependently of the leg, the boy was in a bad state altogether. He was very scrofulous, and both hands were much swelled. He had been treated at the Middlesex and other hospitals at various times for diseased bone at the right knee joint. As had been stated, the only chance of saving his life was by the re- moval of the leg. Having been given some wine, he was taken into the operating theatre on Wednesday, and chloroform W88 given in the usual way. The leg was removed with very little loss of blood, and while the operation was being completed the deceased gave two or three sighs, and the pulse ceased to beat. Tlle Coroner: Why did you not apply the chloro- form locally, instead of internally, by the spray ?— Witness: In large operations it was not sufficiently efficacious. The Coroner Do you think the chloroform killed this boy ?—Witness I hardly think so. I think the cauge of death was exhaustion. Tne Coroner Will you swear that it was not from the effects of the chloroform ? Witness I will not. Mr. Rigdale, physician's assistant, said he had very frequently given chloroform to the patients, and did so to the deceased. He used Clover's apparatus. He had ceased about two minutes, when the patient turned pale and vomited, and the pulse felL a s^or' consultation, returned a ver- chloroform an accidental cause, after taking

EMPLOYMENT FOR PRISONERS. Wakefield prison (the only one in England with steam-power) is a hive of industry, but, as in many other gaols, too much oonfined to mat-making. Leeds eaol exemplifies a great variety of occupation. So do Holloway prison, Coldbath-fields prison, and some others. At Coldbath-fieids, printing and book-bind- ing, carpentry and blacksmith work, are included among the employment. At Swansea gaol the pri- soners weave their own blanketing, cloth and Welsh flacneL At Pentonville convict prison about 10.000 pairs of boots and shoes were made last year. The manufacture of dowlais for exportation has recently been introduced with satisfactory results." In the prisons ot balford. Bedford, Taunton, Durham. Devon- port, Newcastle, York, Stafford, Bristol, Cardiff, &c., the expenses are kept low by employing prisoners at the masonry, carpentry, and other useful work required within the walls. At Devonport the expenses per head are £17 per annum as compared with £26 at Exeter. At Salford the cost is even less. Several hundred separate ledger accounts with private purchasers of prison goods (mats, &c.) indicate the great attention devoted at Salford to efforts to turn the prisoners' occupation to some at.vantage for the ratepayers and for themselves. The official report of Sussex county gaol at Petworth states that the factory profits (bandloom weaving and making ship's fenders), after deducting instructors' wages, are £100." (with about 100 prisoners). Shrews- bury prison report says :—" The classification of prisoners, and substituting remunerative for penal Jabour, according to their conduct after three months, has been attended with excellent results." (At this prison out of 1,600 committals, the averages of sen- tences is one month.) The average cost per prisoner of all English gaols is;E37, the average earnings £2 10s., less than 2d. per day. In many prisons the cost is £40, jE50, JE60, or upwards, rising to B104 at Dover gaoL

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS. New York school children now carry loaded revolvers or self-protection." The man who brought eighty-seven ladies to a ball in Birmingham, Pennsylvania, received the prize—a gold watch. There are thirty murderesses in the Michigan beautiful^' many of whom are said to be positively A New York drayman owns a horse so thin that a knot is tied in his tail to prevent his body from slipping through the collar. A youthful belle named Fanny Joy has just married. She was a thing of beauty, but had ne desire to remain a Joy for ever. Some ungenerous biped baJ a patent medicine to make a fellow rise early in the morning. A six months' old baby can beat it wholly. The Yankee papers are asking their readers to re- peat the following reply And she stood in the arbour welconring him in." A lady excused her extreme love for diamonds and other precious stones by saying, They are the only bright things on earth which never fade." Chickens are taken at the box-office at Brigham Young's theatre, and change is made with eggs. Of course the drama witnessed is Fowl Play. A young lady in Philadelphia advertises that she will give SO 000 dollars to any respectable young man who will marry her. An Indiana paper reports that a young lady in that State was recently licensed to marry two gentlemen, and adds that she made only one happy. The paper does not state which one that was, but it must have been the one she did not marry. A Quakeress said recently to a friend, in reference to the Quaker formula of marrlftge It is true I did not pro- mise to obey when I was married, but I might as well, for I had to do it." One of the reigning belles of New York was heard to remark that tbe did not think it compensated one to go to parties and ue introduced to a lot of small boys who should be accompanied by their nurses, aa they did not know how to behave at the supper table. One of the Boston preachers says I have great hopes of a wicked man slender hopee of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a pre-eminent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold wicked man One of the modern specimens of fast ladies who wish to be men, in some respects, has been reading law. She is now in agonising doubts as to her being a wife. She says, marriage is the greatest lottery in life," and as lotteries aie illegal" the inference is harrowing. The young women of Lewistown, New York, have formed a society pledging themselves not to kiss any man who uses tobacco, and the young men have formed a society pledging themselves not to look at a young woman who wears false hair. As a consequence marriage licences are not in aotive demand. The presentation of a diamond ring to a Cincinnati actress, the other day, gave a gifted reporter of that city the opportunity for thil remarkable outburst: "It was a ki1Hng tribute from an humble admirer of the noble drama to a brilliant beacon upon the shot tower of histrionic genius." An American paper gives the following reply to an imaginary correspondent" There is no stated rule for writing love-letters. You should write on foolscap paper, and bear on as soft as you can, using words of such burning love that they will sizzle on the point of the pen. It is also advisable to sling in a hunch of pathos occasionally, such as Dearest Augustus, I love you with a love larger than an elephant's; I think of you every day, and by-and-bye, when ttie days grow longer, I shall think of you twice a day.' It is also well to put an ink-blot in the corner, with the obser- vation, Darling, I kissed this spot,' or, 'I have a sigh in this vicinity.

EPITOME OF NEWS, BRITISH AND FOREIGN. The subscriptions for the familyof Secretary Stantcn now amount to 150,000 dols. Thirty-two War Office clerks have applied for the retirement offered by the Secretary of State. Ten steamers leave Liverpool this week for the CDited States and Cmada, and it is expected that from the Mersey there will sail between 6,000 and 7,000 emigrants. It is authoritatively stated that Mr. John Bright will not attend to his parliamentary duties this session. He is now at Llandudno. The Belgian journals announce the death, at Brus- sels, of Charles de Beriot, the celebrated violinist, at the age of sixty-eight. It is a singular coincidence that at least four of the London morning papers used the same phraseology in writing of the Cambridge victory in the University boat-race—" At last the spell is broken A Corsican paper, UAvenir de Corse, publishes a letter from Prince Pierre Bonaparte, in which the writer ex- presses his gratitude for the expressions of sympathy he has received from numerous correspondents. "Railways are the favourite investment of the day. The sale by the Great Northern Company of £92,055 of their new ordinary stock, by tender, produced offers for £ 805,680 The prices ranged from £117 per cent. to par. A few only who tendered at. the highest prices got any allotment."— Railway News. In excavatirg on the site of the new buildings for the Post-office in London, a number of antiquities have been .found-piece3 of old pottery, metal, &c. The most interest- ing, however, is a Roman queen. the first that has yet been discovered complete in this country, the dipper and lower stones being found in situ, and in no way injured beyond a few dentf. The Choir pays that Mdlle. Marie Tayan, a young I lady violinist, will shortly make her debut in London. The first puty of emigrants sent out under the auspices of the Richmond Working Men's Emigration Society left England, on Sunday, by the ship Medway, for Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Howitt a-e about to leave England for a year in Switzerland and Italy. Mr. Howitt Is engaged on a volume of Quaker History and Biography. Mr. Stacey, the landlord of the inn which was burnt at Cardiff the o'her day, has died. This is the fifth death resulting from the sad calamity. At all tbe Roman Catholic chapels in Dublin, on Sunday, petitions against the inspection of convents pro- posed by Mr. Newdegate's motion were numerously signed. The city of Moscow has 399 public schools, attended by 15,0?9 children of both sexes, being one child for every 85 inhabitants. Dean Stanley, it is said, has a remarkable work in the press, in which he gives an account of, and comments upon, the ecclesiastical events of the last twenty years. At Salford, last week, a female vagrant tore all her clothes off while in the pol:ce-sta.tion, and was taken before the magistrates covered wi,h a blanket only. It J3 f-aid that a baronetcy is to be conferred upon Vr. Din>el Adolphus L=>.na-e, In consideration of the services fcudu'LLt by him in iiL,aia iu llm -ma CilML ^Vnruiw u ,m ym:>, was fomd mur- uered at Orakau, Auckland Province, New Zealand on January 13. lie hid been tomahawked. A-ist-vr (.ntra.'e la; talcii place in Mea-h, men wi.li blftckene^ hee, rave threatened a widow and her son with death if they do nOL leave their farm. The North Eastern Correspondence says that th" Crown Prince of Prussia is sutfimm: from the preliminary sjmpti ins of disease of tho liver, and will go to Carlsoua to take tile waters there A pamphlet of an alarming character is exposed for sale at a bookseller's in Paternoster-row. It is entitled Reasons why the World must Inevitably and Speedily be Destroyed bg Fire BAt h branches of tbe Legislature of Iowa have passed a resolution for a womr.n's suffrage amendment to the State Constitution. It m'nt he agreed to by the next Legislature and ratifies by the people in 1872 before it can be of effect. The Journal de Purines states that a workman set fire to the forest of Petre, a short distance from Vitré, when nearly 900 acres of wood were burnt down. The man was arreste J. On Good Friday, Sarah Pay died in Canterbury in the 104th year of her age. The deceased was born it Chartham, a village in Keut, in the early part of 1767, and has been in receipt cf parochial relief for Upwards of 50 years. A facetious suggestion has has been offered in Paris to the effect that no citizen should be allowed to vote on the plebiscite unless he should qualify by properly spelling and pronouncing the word. A correspendent of the Indian Daily News writes to that paper to say that he has seen in Cuttack a native chuprassie who measures a little over two feet in height. He is twenty-six years old, weighs 301b., and is pronounced by medical men to be perfectly proportioned. Early last Saturday morning a collision took place near Liverpool between a passenger and a coal train, owing to a misapprehension of signals on the part of the driver of the latter. Several passengers were injured, and the rolling stock suffered considerable damage. On Sunday night a little girl, five years old, named Margaret Burns, was maltreated by a man unknown, on a stair in Glasgow, in so dreadful a manner that she died next day. The supposed murderer is a man about 30 years of age, but the description given of him is very vague. Intelligence has been received in Dundee of the suc- cess of the seal fishery. Nine Dundee vessels have taken 740 tons of oil, value £30,000; seven Peterhead vessels, 238 tons; besides foreign and other sailing vessels. The catch is in advance of the usual time. It has been decided that the Lancashire memorial of the late Lord Derby shall take the form of a number of scholarships at Oxford, to be held by Lancashire men, with- out any restriction as to creed:" The fund at present amounts to about £8,000. The Russian Medical Archiv, in a paper on prosti- tution, states the number of licensed houses as amounting in bt. Petersburg alone to 710, with 4,320 prostitutes. Besides this, there are 5,177 women of a similar class living in their own homes, and 5,915 street women. There is a joker in Keswick who might visit Yankee- land and hold his own in that line. He lately placarded the following announcement" Extensive sale of live stock, comprising not less than one hundred and forty thousand head, and an unlimited right of pasturage." It turned out that the gentleman was in the bee line, and had several hives of them to dispose of. The progress of one of the most interesting of the Western States of the American Republic-viz. Illinois—is reflected in the receipts of the Illinois Central Riilroad 10 1862 the revenue of that undertaking was 3 445 827 dols in E63. 4,571,028 dolf. in 1864. 6,329,447 dollsrs'- in 1865' 7.181,208 dots. in 1866, 6,546,741 dols. in 1867.' 7100992 dols. in 1868, 7,827,629 dols. and in lS6d, 8,823,482 dols! In London, on Sunday, at South-place Chanel Finsbnry, the Indian religious reformer, Baboo Keshub Chunder Sen, preached before a densely crowded congrega- tion, among whom were several Oriental residents in London He took his text from the First Epistle of John, chap. iv., verse 16, God is love, and h e that dweUeth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." A vulgar mason, who had become rich by the recent demolition in Paris, was anxious to marry his only son to one of the daughters of a marquis. I wish you would let my son marry one of your girls," said he. Certainly," said the marquis, which does he want; the girl that waits in the kitchen, or the girl that washes ?" The steam flour mill belonging to Mrs. Hole, Carlton-on-Trent, seven miles north of Newark, and in the occupancy of Mr. Bannister, was for the third time on Sunday burnt down. It is reported that the property is wholly or partially insured, and that the damage done will amount to about £2,000. On Friday last the ratification of the Suffrage Amendment Act was celebrated at Washington by the en- franchised coloured citizens. There was a torchlight pro- cession, and the darkies paid a visit to President Grant, who addressed them in his usual brief manner, exhorting them to prove by their conduct their worthiness of their new privi- leges. The emigration from Liverpool during the next two or tnree months promises to exceed that of any previous Jear, and judging irom the number of steamers which have hem placed OIl the btrih tor Nova Scotia, the United States, and Canada, the emigration offices of the different steamship companies must hat e a busy time oi it. An overseer in the Public Works Department at X allpore, India, recently brought au action for breach of promise of marriage against a Mrs. Craddock, formerly Miss Cook, of Dublin. A verdict for the plaintiff was given, and damages, which were paid by the lady's husband, Mr. Crad- dock, were assessed at 491 rupees. A match at cricket between eleven pensioners with one arm against eleven pensioners with one leg took place at the Duke of Edinburgh Cricket Ground, Brixton, on Monday. The comparative novelty of the game attracted a large con- course of spectators Much amusement was afforded by the mishaps and downfalls of the players. The game was decided in favour of the one-legged men by twenty-eight runs. An official statement, published on Monday, an- nounces that since the opening of the Suez Canal in Novem- ber last 131 ships have passed through it, and that the receipts from transit dues have been 558,262 francs. The traffic con- tinues to show a steady increase. During March, 53 vessels passed through the Canal; from the 1st to the 8th of the present month the number has been 23. The total receipts since the opening amount to 1,529.338f. ( £ 61,173 ) St. Petersburg has fewer insane inhabitants in pro- portion to its population than any other European capital. One to every 1,043 is the ratio while in London it is one in every 200; in Paris, 1 in every 222 and in Milan, 1 in every 244. The absence of mental excitement from the high pres- sure competition of Western Europe is ascribed by Russian physicians as the cause of this low lunacy-rate. • The trial of Lezurier, the eccentric miser, who re- centlyassailed the Emperor Napoleon with cries of To Cayenne at a review of the Imperial Guard, was concluded last Saturday. The accused attributed his indiscretion to a temporary aberration of intellect, but the Court refused to admit the excuse, and sentenced him to a month's imprison- ment and 1,000 fr. fine. M. Raapail has written a letter to the Washer- women Mutual Aid Society, at Lyons, in which he tells the citizenesses that he will accept the position they ask him to take, of honorary member of their society, if they will Dem°cratic and Republican opinions. With the letter M. Raspail encloses a post-office erder lor 25 francs. A well-known fashionable boot and shoe maker in Paris has formed an interesting collection of boots and shoes worn by his illustrious patrons for many years. These are arranged on shelves affixed to the walls of a vast salon To each pair is affixed the wearer's name, and they vary in size from the diminutive slipper of Cinderella to the seven- leagued boots of the giant of the nursery legends. In a paper addressed to the Academy of Sciences, MM. Mille and Durand Claye discuss the advantages that might accrue to agriculture were the filth of Paris properly employed. All the organic matter which infects the Seine, and is ultimately washed into the sea, annually represents 1,500,000 tons of manure. At present, by a very simple system, between 5,000 and 6,000 cubic metres of the foul waters of the Clichy collector are daily raised and let flow to the beginning of the plain of Geneviiliers, where they con- stantly fertilise about 40 hectares (105 acres) of otherwise unprofitable land. M. Henri Rochefort's confinement in Ste. Pelagie has certainly not damaged his talent as a writer of political Equibs. Advocating abstention the other day when writing on the subject of the coming appeal to the people, he advised his friends to allow the Emperor to wash his plebiscitum at home and In the Marseillaise he says that his Majesty re- minds him of a sick man painting his face before looking in the glass." He cannot imagine why Napoleon III. should try and get the people to vote except to delude himself with the idea of his popularity in the country. A sharp shock of earthquake occurred at San Fran- cieco on the 2nd of April. Its duration was six seconds; the direction, from south-east to north-west, and the motion vortical. There was no damage to life, limb, or property, but there was intense excitement for a few momenta All animals were terribly frightened. The City Hall, where the Courts were in session, the Merchants' Exchange, the Mer- cantile Library, the Custom-house and other large buildings were instantly vacated, and a panic was created at the hotels. The streets swarmed with people in a moment. It was raining at the time. Before the shock the barometer was observed to fall very rapidly. A telegram from Athens mentions that one of the party recently captured by brigands at Marathon has been set at liberty, in order that he may obtain the ransom of 10,000 livres, which is demanded for himself and his com- panions. In the fisst telegrams announcing the occurrence, it was stated that a son of the Duke of Manchester was one of the party. The Duke himself writes to say that this is a mistake, as neither of his sons Is in Greece. It is now said that Lord Munpaster is the English nobleman who has fallen into the brigands' hands. About seven o'clock last Saturday morning a lady, eighty-four years of age, was brutally murdered in the Rue du Tapis Vert, Marseilles. The lady, who belongs to a family engaged in mercantile pursuits in the town, was seized as she was going out of the bouse, and kicked to death. Her cries brought in the neighbours, who immediately secured the murderer and lodged him in the custody of the police. He sai l, in explanation of his crime, that he believed the old lady was a witch, and that he was suffering from her spells, Of the whole number of births in the month of October in the province of Novgorod, Russia, and the greater part of Northern, Central, and Bistern RUssla-S6 per cent, do not survive. The proportion ef deaths rises auriniz the winter till, in April, 61 per cent of the children born die In May the proportion falls to 50 per cent. In June it rises again to 69 per {Jl'^es tne enormous figure of 75 per cent. Even tbis is surpassea in August, when 76 per cent of the p^Wchndren tn ? i!16 latter mr'mh the women have to leave their children to labour m the fields. Sime years ago a Lazy Man's Society was organised in Philadelphia, and one of the articles required that no man belonging to the society should ever be in a hurry. If he violated this article he was to stand treat to the other members. A ow it happened on a time that the village doctor W5?Jnt ThVlDg PuSt haste through the streets to visit a ,i members ot the society saw him and chuckled °y? ,e fde,a of a treat, and on his return reminded him ° J ILUIN8- and violation of the rules. Not at all saw the doctor, determined not to be done "the truth h my horse was determined to go, and I felt too lazy to ston him." They did not catch him that time. At Eimbeck, in Hanover, the Catholic cure pro. tested, in writing, against the soldiers being exercised on ffite days. The following is the answer he received: Military service on holidays, as well as during the week days, is the principal duty of the soldier. According to the uses aud customs of the Prussian army, the requirements of the service take precedence over the divine office." The reply was signed by the supreme military commander. The priest afterwards having chosen as the text for his sermon the passage in the Gospel: Render therefore unto Ctesar the things which are Csssar's, and unto God the things that are God's," he was sent away from his parish, because the choice of the verse was considered as an excitation to dis- obedience.. The Marquis of Bath ia seriously ill at his residenoe in Berkeley-square, London. This year's harvest in Ireland is expected to be a most favourable one. During the past week 27 wrecks have been reported, making for the present year a total of 599. Two men have been committed for trial at the Tipperary assizes on a charge of using seditious expressions. The advertisements in the first number of The Mys'ery of Edwin Drood are said to have brought £600. Mr. Spurgeon described Mr. Magregor of the Rob Roy, the .ther evening, as one who can serve his God," and at the same time" paddle hil own canoe." It is expected that the accouchment of her Royal Highness Princess Christian will take place during next month. Three peers are a.t present engaged in preaching in various parts of the country—Lord Radstock, Lord Farn- ham, and Lord Teynham. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has acknowledged the receipt of £2 from" Recalculation," on account of in- come-tax. The first examination for women was held in the University of Dublin last week, when twenty-three candi- dates presented themselves. .Last week, air. Harris. Rurgeon. of -Klham. near LanteiDiiry, whüe visit'ng his patiei-ts on horseback, was thrown from his seat and killed instantaneously. M. Gu z it is verv unwell, and bas kept his room for snme days. No immediate danger is apprehended but, consider- he the vei.erahie statesman's age, his iriends are naturally anx:ous about him. T :e corporation of Rochester has acquired from the Elrl of Jersey a leape of the Castle and adj icent grounds of ti;e ancieut CIty, and iurends to expend about £ 2,000 in lay- ing out the litier as a public recreation ground. A pa an, styling himself "Prdessor Allen, vegetable chemist, lecturer or. medical botany, anatomy, etc., has been sentenced in Glasgow to sixty days' imprisonment, for ra- presenting himself to be a duly qualified practitioner. According to the Budget, the income-tax for the year commencing on the G:h of 4pril is 4d. in the pound, and the Act to ensure the collection in due time," as declared by the preamble, was passed ou the 125"h ult. The Swedenborgians, English and American, have raised upwards of £ 3,o00 towards photo-lithographing Swedenborg's manuscripts, preserved in the library of the Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. The Sporting Gazette hears that Sir Edwin Land- seer's large picture of Voltigeur, upon which he has been to long engaged, will form one of the principal attractions at the forthcoming Exhibition of the Royal Academy. An annotfbeement is going the round of the French press that the Emperor Napoleon intends to send a canvas- sing letter by post to every one of the ten millions of electors about to be called upon to vote for the Plebiscitum. Another of the Pope's household has gone mad. This new sufferer is Monseignor Casale, Participant of the Privy Chamber; that is, one of those officers who are in perpetual attendance on the Holy Father. On Saturday, at midnight, the fishing lugger General Lee, of Lowestoft, Captain Capps, master, struck upon the North Rocks, near Sennen Cove, Land's End, during a dense fog. The crew of nine were safely assisted on shore by the coastguard. "A lady correspondent is in a state of great excite- ment. She wants to know whatever is going to happen next, now that ritualism has penetrated even the walla of W estminster ?" Pressing her for further explanations, the in- forms us that she understands the Chancellor of the Exche- quer has got a "surplice."—Court Journal. It is said that in consequence of a violentaltercation which took place the other day between the Grand Duke Constantine and General Fleury, the French Ambassador had demanded his passports. The Czar, however, interfered, asked General Fleury not to make known the details of the quarrel, and insisted on his brother apologizing. Advertising will shortlv become more than ever one of the necessities of life. Witness the following" Wanted," cut from the Jersey Times:—" Wanted, on Tuesday evening next, a handsome, tall, and highly respectable unmarried gentleman, to escort a young lady to an entertainment.— Address, inclosing carte, Constance, Post Office, St. Heliers.* Mdme. V odovosov has just delivered at St. Peters- burg, a lecture on the education of children. This, says the Visit, is the first time in Russia that a lady has spoken or delivered an address in public. Mdme. Yodovosov was very nervous, but her lecture is said to have been good, and the subject for a lady of strong mind was entirely new. A parliamentary return issued on Saturday sheww that in the year ending the 30th of September last 362,465 cwt. of hops were imported into the United Kingdom 3,820 cwt. of foreign hops exported; and 14,266 cwt. of British hops exported. Last week the Glasgow Herald alluded to the finding of a gold wedding risg in a cow's stomach. The ring has since been claimed by Mrs. James Mather, Eaglesham, who, five years since missed her ring one day after she had been feeding the chaffer, a machine for preparing hay and straw for the boiler. It is supposed the cow had swallowed the ring about that time, and that during the five years follow- ing it remained in the animal's stomach. A fearful catastrophe occurred a few days since, in the works of the Linen Manufacturing Company at St. Oilles, in the environs of Brussels, by the explosion of a boiler in the drying house. Nearly twenty men or women were killed or frightfully scalded by the steam, and eight had already died at the moment of the last accounts. The factory was at the same time set on fire, but the flames did not extend beyond the building in which they had commenced, but which was entirely destroyed. A sub-committee of the Manchester Education run Committee have published a report on the amendments pro- posed on the Elementary Education Bill Introduced into the House of Commons by her Majesty's Government. The re- port indicates the phrases and words in the various alauses which should be made to the contents of the measure. Great care has manifestly been exercised in the drawing up of the document, which conta1m, in addition to the matter described, lucid explanations of the meaning of the various, clauses. The brig loboatia, which arrived at New York ma March 25, from Pernambnch, has the following entry in her log:—" March 22, at 6 p.m., passed through a large quantity of wreck stuff, consisting of panel works, desk houses, <fcc., which appeared to have been not long in the water. Also passed a boat bottom up; the boat was varnished. The wreck stuff extended for a distance of two miles." Regret is expressed that the captain did not make an eff ort to secure the boat or obúain some other proof of identity. A respectably dressed woman applied to one of the London m8ginrate" on Siturdr.y to assist her in the recovery of her little boy. She had leased her child to a travelling showman for £ 12 a year, on conditioll that the boy wrote to her once a nunta when the caravan was in the provinces^ which she understoood was not to be of ten. The showman, however, had not fulfilled his engagements, and the mother now wishej to know whether she could demand the restora- tion of the chi'd. The magistrate stated that, under the cir- cumstances, he could give her no assistance. A Bermonasey waterman made a singular statement before a London magistrate on Saturday. He said that while rowing up the river that morning he caught an alligator, and no sooner had the beast been conveyed ashore thaa two young men carried it off to Mr. Jamrach's establishment in Itatcliff Highway. The proprietor of that plate of entertain- ment refused to part with the alligator, which was about four feet in length. The applicant was inform6d that he waa entitled to a summons if Mr. Jamrach persisted in detaining the creature. At a recent examination of the Windsor Infant School, a little boy was asked to explain his idea of "bearing. false witness against your neighbour." After hesitating, he; said it was "telling tales," on which the examiner said* That's not exactly an answer. What do you say 1" ad- dressing a little girl. She immediately replied, It waa whenjiobody did nothing, and somebody went and told ot it." Quite right," said the examiner, amidst irrepressible roars of laughter, in which he could not help joining. Further investigation has led to the opinion that the recently discovered Roman amphitheatre at Paris was. built in the reign of the Emperor Adrian, the adopted son. of Trajan. It seems to have been in use down to a compara- tively recent period. King Chilperic had games performed within its wats for the amusement of hil subjects, anel Alexander Neckham. an English professor at Paris, gave a description of it in 1180. For a long time it had been made a pertect quarry of, and part of its mateiials were used in the construction of the walls of the Cite of Paris. The educated classes of Paris are loudly demanding that this splendid relic of the ancient Lutece shall be preserved, and if possible restored at any cost. "A Liberal Clergyman" in a letter to the Spec- tator suggests that if Lord Russell's plan be carried out, of a chapter of the Bible being read before school to impart a religious odour to the business of the day, it would be de- sirable to read it in the original Hebrew or Greek. The reasons for this are obvious. 1. The direct moral effect upon the children would be the same as if it were read in English. 2. The indirect moral effect would be far greater, from the greatly increased sense of awe and mystery. 2. All need of a conscience clause would be entirely done away with."—Pall Mall Gazette. The Queen has just lost another of her most value personal friends and attached servants in the person of the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, whose death happened at Hagley- park, her son's seat, near Stourbridge, Worcestershire, in the eighty-third year of her age. Her ladyship was by birth lAdr Sarah Spencer, eldest daughter of George John, second Earit Spencer, by Lady Lavinia Bingham, daughter of Charles* first Earl of Lucan, and was born on the 28th of July 178Z. She married, on the 4th of March, 1813, William Henry, third Lord Lyttelton, but was left a widow in April, 1837. He Ladyship was for many years governess to the children of her Majesty, and was an especial favourite with the Prin- cesses, both as children and as they have severally grown up to womanhood. Her Ladyship was sister of Joan Charles,, third Earl Spencer, better known by his former title of Lord Althorp, and of the late Captain the Hon. Sir Robert Caven- dish Spencer, K.C.H., the late Lady Geøqe Quin, and of th* late Hon. and Rev. George Spencer, the "Father Ignatius" of the Passionist Order in the Roman Catholic Church. She was the mother of four other children—two sons and two daughters—besides the present Lord Lyttelton.

THE MARKETS. MARK-LANE.—MOKTbAY Fresh up to Mark-lane this morning the receipts of wheat from Essex and Kent were only moderate. Owing to the holidays the attendance was thin, and the trade was oniat. at previous quotations. With foreign wheat the market wu fairly supplied. Very little business was doine in anv de- scription, and prices were nominally without variation Moderate supplies of barley were on sale; although not active, the demsnd was firm, and prices irai* well maintained. Malt was quiet, but firm in value The supply of oats was ess extensive only a i^e £ te biS £ ness waBcoYlu^but the transactions eff ec^dw^Tat S. full rates ot laBtwoek. geang were pric# and realised full currenciet!, but the trade waa by no meana brisk. Owing to the supplies maize commanded more atáeBtioD.. and the quotations hatt an upward tendency. :r.tour w.. quiet, at stationary currencies. n METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.—MoSDAY. siinnii?.5 ?vthe cooler weather, and to the less extensive supplies, the cattle trade has been firmer TherJ T?D last week's reductioa has been recorarad here has been a decided falling off in the receipts of beasts, but the quality has been good. The demand has been steady, at enhanced quotations, the best .Scots and crosses selling at 4s. 6(L to 5s. per 81b. As regards sheep, the market has been less freely supplied. There has been an increased amount of activity in the inquiry for all breeds, at an advance of quite 2d. per 8lb. The best Downs and half-breds have sold at 4s. 8i. to 4s. IOd., and in some instances 5,. per SIlt. Our quotations now refer to. clipped sheep. There has been a g )fd sile for lambs to-day and 8s. per 81b. has been readily obtained. Calves have beeoi steady in value and inquiry. Pigs have been firm. WOOL. Owing to the holidays the business doing in th « wool market has been very moderate. Tne tone, howler has continued healthy, and the value of both colonial a^ EnirlUh. produce has been well maintained. Current pric^ of Kmriula wool:—Fleeces: South Down hoggets, is. 0*(L ta 1.1?? half-bred ditto, Is. 3d. to Is. 4d. Kent fleeces, is Sd tn 3Jd.: South Down ewes and wethers, Is. to is lid ter ditto, Is. 2Jd. to Is. 3Jd. Sorts Clothin* ii tni, iu oembing, lid. to Is. SJd. *• POTATOES. Only moderate supplies of potatoes ha e been on >.l.. the markets. The trade has been st^dy at owo^tSi^ English Shaws, 1003. to 120s,; Regents, 100s. te 120s. • Scotch Regents, 100s. to 120s. Rocks, 9Ds. p6T «OXU per ton. HOPS. Veiy Httle business has been doing in the hop market. Ttm SUP £ Vtv ^tV,tn,0t been extensive, and there hai b £ nY grSi nominally »- i i and East Kents, £ 7 to £ 22 rg« t0 £ 8; Sussex, £ 6 12s. to £ M 18s • BsVsirisni £ 6 6s to £ 9 French, £ 6 to £ C 10s. AnuwW. Ju6ktoSB'- Yearlings, £ 1 los. to £ 8 15a. per cwt. FISH. Salmon, Is. 3d. to Is. 6d. trout, Is. 4d- to i* M. mackerel, 2SL 6d. to 4s. per dozen; smoked haddocks, 18s. to 37s. 6d. per barrel; lobsters, Is, to 2s. 6d.; crabs, lTto aT«d! each; native oysters, £ 10; commons, 16a, to 86a per hnallitl