The Pembrokeshire Herald and General Advertiser

MORE BISHOPS. I TO THE EDITOR OF THE "WRSTERN MAIL." SIP.,—Daring the past week there bas been a corre- spondence in the Times on the subject of' More Bishops,' and on Thursday last a leader on the same question. I should he slad if you would Allow me a few words in your valuable paper on thesubject, Now. I think every working clergyman feels that there is nothing which would tI r^w more lite and energy into his parochial work than the presence of hi? bishop from time to time in his purish. And surely, sir, this is not too much to auk, for it is plainly the duty of the bishop to know something of the labours of his clergy in his own diocese; and I am not saying too much when I affirm that many are utterly ignorant of the religious work of half of them. Yet whv is this? It may be that they are over-worked ,• If so, it is a strong argument for the increase of the episcopatei But there is ar,other reason, and that is that some 01 otir bishops do not do as much as they might in this repeat; they have time to attend Levees and State concerts time to be present at Court and the House of Lord" and 'bus their time is taken up; and they have little or no time for their real work, visit- ing the clergy and the parishes of their dioceses, which, from their very name, it is their dnty to super ntend. I do not for a moment say that all bishops thus neglect their diocese", but that many keep too much away from them, and that from those who are personally present in their dioceses we learn this, that it is indeed a great blessing to our Church to have an itinerating as distin- guished from an "arm-chair" bishop. I heartily agree with "PrMbyter" in hie letter in Thursday's Timuln thinking ti at what we want in this jt?e is a bishop, to preach from time to time in our pulpits more than to write books and speak in the House of Lords, to preside at onr meetings, to direct our diocesan institutions, to harmonise the cierey in consultation, and to overlook with bis own eyes the religious work of his diooese, to be less in London, more in his own sphere of labour; and I think, sIr, in spite of the Times'* article, that to do this efficiently we should have more bishops, but, above all things, that our present bishops should give themselves wholly to the work. And if this is not to keep a strong general control over the work of the Church," I use the words of jtbe Times'* article, I know not what is. And surely, in this wort there is room for the bishops to bring to bear all "influence of sound learn nz, mature judgment, and wide views," and to do this efficiently we need the very highest class of raen for our bishops, men who will set a good example to the cieray of the Church of England in this critical time, and show that whilst lawyers, doctors, barristers, and all professional men have to work bard if they wish to be successful, there is no longer a necessity that because a man is a clergyman therefore he must do little or nothing. —I am, sir, yours truly, JOHN BOWBN ROWLAND?. Hubberston Rectory, January 1st, 187J* M ♦ i

THE CONSERVATIVE LEADED." The Globe accepts Lord Derby as the future leader of the Conservative party as an arranged matter. Speaking of the chances which the old year produced, and those which the new year will bring, our contemporary re- marksContrary to widespread anticipation and ex- pre»si< nsof mistrust in quarter, where strong flJithlJlight have heen looked for, Cunservatism has not died or even put on (symptoms of exhaustion and decay. The passirg of the great Reform Bill of 1867 was not the flash of an expiring flame, hut the develop-nent of a new life with fresh energy and enlarged capacity for action. With the new life of Conservatism came the new leader, a man acknowledged even by bis opponents to be of surpassing power, unfailing resources, and mature judgment, he became our dictator for the critical epoco, our general for the new campaign. Mr Disraeli received the leader- ship of the Conservatives from the late Lord Derby, the noble champion of that age which po^ses-ed some of the defects as well as the virtues of chivalry, at the eventful moment when the new vitality of the party was bursting into action. The present Earl of Derby has many quali- ties which render him, perhaps. even more capable than was his gallant father, of combating efftctually the spirit ot revolution which the Radical propaganda is endeavour- ing to force upon the nation. Working as be will, thoroughly in harmony with our present chief, he will assist Mr Disraeli in showing the country at large the difference between prrjudice and principle-between the principle of loyalty and order, which would gladly help on every constitutional development of national growth, but cannot at a blow divest t<elf of all love for our ancient institutions, our ancient rights, and our national religion—and the prejudice which would obstruct all, even salutary, reform. The London correspondent of the Leeds Mercury says the Conservative leadership is still an open question. Lord Salisbury will not join with Mr Disraeli. It Is possible Lord Cairns will hold office for a few months, as many of the peers are opposed to the Earl of Derby. But in the end the choice will lie between Lord Derby and one ot the Dukes, who are not the least docile mem- bers of Mr Disraeli's team. It is difficult to understand how there can be any hesitation in t1,-6 choice—always 8 ipposing it to be true that Lord Derfiy has signified his w ilingness to accept the leaderihip if it is offered him.

MUTINY IN THE CHASNHL.—Thirtpen out of fourtees seamen have been punished by the Deal magistrates for mutiny on board an emigrant vessel named the Mary- borough, bound from London for Brisbane with emi. grants. The vessel encountered violent storms in the North Sea after the 16th ult, and on the 22nd, when off the North Foreland, the whole of the men refused to do duty, and alleged that they were sick. It was pointed out to them that the ship was in a dangerous condition, and they were asked to get to get her into a safe place, but tbey refused and at last the passengers assisted, and brought the vessel up in the Downs. On the way the men were aitaiti asked to assist, and refused. The pas- sengers were obliged to go aloft to set the sails. When brought tefore the magistrates at Deal the men com- plained that they had been overwoiked. One man. iiamed Jermain, said be bad paid £5 as a passenger, and had aereed to work as an assistant cook. He was dis- missed, but the others were each sentenced to twelve weeks' hard labour. CJTARGK OF CEUBLTT AT A ME*AGKRIK.—MY .Tames Yd O. Ulld-, proprietor of the Edmund.s (late \V om b" eil's) Menagerie, now stationed in Liverpool, was summoned before the magi«tratei of that town on Tuesday, at the instance of the Society for the Prevention of Crueltv to Animals, toanewer a charge of having caused a rabbit to he cruelly ill treated and tortured on the lIth ult. The case was brought forward for the purpose of trying the question, whether the defendant, as the proprietor of a menagerie, was justified in feeding serpents with live animals. It appeared that on the day in question an exhibition of shocking character was witnessed—tbe tortures to wbich a large serpent subjected a rabbet which had been put into its cage as food. For the pur- pose of the Act it was necessary to prove that the rabbit WII8 a tame or domesticated animal, hut tbe evidence on this point was not conclusive, and the case was therefore d^oaiased, the magistrate remarking that even if proof of the rabhit being tame was clear, he was not satisfied whether cruelty under such circumstpnces was contem- plated by the Act. DEATH OF ABMIRAL SiR WATKIX OWE.V PELL KST. —Ar other gallant and distinguished veternn officer of th*- Foyal Navy tia« passed awav, in the eighty-third year of hi, age. Sir VV.Vkin expired on the 26th ult, at his residence iti (irtenwich Ho pita). This officer entered the navy in April, 1791, on board his Majesty's ship Loile, 30. and in the io iowing year lost his ieg in assist- ingatthfeaitureo) the French frigate Pallas, 38. He a''erw»rd» served as midshipman in the Acasta, Veteran, Vanguard, Pompee, and Virginie, and was made a lieu- t. iant of that ship, commanded the boats, and in com- pany with those of the Alceste, 38 (under Lieutenant Stewart), captured seven Spanish tartans under the ba teri** of Rota, and in the presence of a flotilla sent out from Cadiz for their protection. His next exploit was the capture by the boats of the Mercury in 1809 of the enetian gun boat La Leda, of one 24-poundfr and six pwivels. in the harbour of Rovigno, under a heavy fire of great cuns and musketry, and described thus in the dis- patch of Capt Duncan-.—"More bravery 1 do not think was ever displayed than by tbe officers, seamen and marines employed on this occasion. They were com- manded and led on in the most gallant manner by the first lieutenant, Waikin Owen Pell, who received two severe wounds in boarding, and has before lost a leg in the service of his CouOlry, Sept. 1809, in command or the boats of the Mercury, Lieutenant Pell gallantly carried bv boarding, off the harbour of Barletta, the French schooner of war La Pugliese, pierced for ten guns but carrying only five 6-pounders and two 18V' Again Captain Duncan, in his report to the commander-in- chief, eulogizes "the judgment and marked gallantry .iispiBy^d by his first lieutenant." For these services Lcutenant fell was presented with a sword from the fatrioiio Society, and ölSO one from h's captain, the late Sir Henry Duncan ]n 1810 Lieutenant Pell was pro- moted to the rank of commander, and shortly afterwards appointed to the command of the Thunder, bomb, and t. ok part in all tbe op rations for the defence of Cadiz tlnd Tarifa, when besieged by Marsbal Victor Return- ing to England at the end of 1*13 to be paid off, Com- piler Pell so disguised the Thundi r in passing ilp the C-nnel as to induce the French privateer la Neptune, 01 16 stuns to attack the bomb. the crew were driven buck, boarded in return, and captnred. For this service be received post rank. Sir Watkin oommanded the JSienai, 14, froln 1814 to 1811 on the coasts of Ireland and N >rth America, and in 1833 he commissioned the Forte 44, and poceeded to Jamaica as commodore, and was employed in the West Indies until 1837—a period ren- d> ed important by the emancipation ot the slaves. In J.viO, as captain of the Howe, 120, he proceeded to the Mediterranean during the Syrian question. He was subsequent v appointed Captain Superintendent of lKptford Yard, and removed to Pembroke Yard, which he resigned on appointment to Green vich Hospital. The late Nir Walkin Pell not only received the thanks of the Admiralty lor hia services in the defence (I Cadiz and Tar la, but the praise of the late Duke of Wellington in a letter addressed to Lord Melville, at ihe Admiralty; ..nd notwithstanding such a long course of services, with tue exception of the knightwood he received fin the accession to the Throrie of our Most Gracious Qieen, this officer pax^s to his rest without a single decoration from his coo try. in reward of the same, not even the simple C.ii.! alihough u" had lost a leg, and bad his right arm and baud perforated with seven musket t>a'ls, ji. jving that be at least had tieen under fire' But he will lone he remembered by the naval service as a kind hearted and araia officer. The late gallant ad, miral was caze:ted in 1809-8 9-11 and 13; and received a pension tor the loss of hia leg. By bj" demise a vacaocy occurs on the aotive list 01 flag officers, under tbe Order iu Council 01 tne 10th February, 18G6, witn a pens-ion oi £1.)0 a year from the funds of Gle uwich hospital. »»A'°DetlN ^NvaNTION8-— That great invention the Chronojraph," which times all the jrincipal events ot tcie da), aud has revolutionized anl superseded the clumsy old fashioned" Stop.watch," seems likely to be eclipsed in fame bv that anil greater and mote useful in. vention the "Keyhss Watch" The fact of no ke} bei ig required r. n lets these Watches indispensable lc thl the nervous, and invalids. The euormous Bttfn "r fln,t even by post lo all par's of tae world is a convinc n4 proof of taeir gre^t utility. The piices at wiKoh tbey are ™Ji range from 5 to 1C0 guineas luuu-auas ot them are manufactured br Mr J. W BSIMOX, of Old B nd Street, and of the Steam Fac'torv. Ludaatb Hill, London, who sends post fr<>e tor 2d a moso nfce«»tir.g historical pamphlet upon watchmaking.

THE BIRTH OF WILLIAM. In the dewy hush of a swart December eve, while the dying glories of the orient sun were purpling the snowy hills, two travellers were seen descending an and plain which skirted tbe vine-clad heights of H»warden. On a sudden, as they looked towards the craeey fastness, a blazing meteor sbot from its central tower and lit the azure vault with radiant inc-ndescence. All nature marked the signal and rejoiced, for it told to a waiting world that its William was born into it. The lightning pealed, the thunders hurtled through the murky em- pyrean, and amid the elemental strife were heard the twittenne of song-birds and the Joyous chorusing of the nymphs of the glade and the dryads of the fount, the stars danced in their courses. tho ftreams babbled in glao laughter as they trickled seaward, and the sprites and houris of the glen sl, eked their shining chignons in rapture ineffable. The news sped from north to south, from fat: to west, from pole to pole, and all humanity heard with exulting heart of the hirth of Wil'iam. Hf was a fine-grown, forward child. and took notice wonder- fully. From the cradle wherein he lay that December flight, a pink and scarce-breathing atom, he has risen to become Chief Minister of an empire which stretches over 875,609.327 412,958 3 97 square inches of territorv, and is inhabited by sonic 224.000,000 souls, not to speak of babies yet unborn. And berei having outlined the origin and chmacterioofthts colossal child and colossal man, we might leave bim it) peace until Death has silenced the inane babblings of fulsome toadies, bul that the largest circulation in fhe world p'Rces within ^Our power to make him supremely ridiculous in bis lifetime. It is well that the people should know somewhat of the inner life and personal surroundings of iheir WilliaHrt, and what pen so richly qualified to do them such service as that of his own Bellowgrapherl William Ewart Glad stone, be it known, stands five feet nine in his shoes, and is much glvfen to the wearing of Bluchers. His eyes are a tender blue, which kindles alike to the emotions of a most susceptible nature, either ih the steely coruscations which bespeak a noble wrath; or itt the HOlt etfolgeMe reflecting a beaming beneficence. His hair is not mlicb to speak of, but It may be interesting to krioW that he uses the Nikourene approved by Major Brown, bt Brighton. He is slight and frail in appearance, but is in reality a perfect athlete. being in the constant habit of putting on the gloves with some of the most redoubtable b xers of the dsy. He describes himself as "good any day for a forty miles walk," and is ready to back himseif to walk a thousand miles in a thousand hours, fair toe and heel, against all the world Nevertheless his physi- cal strength is far inferior to the stupendous force of his mind and his capacity for intellectual labour. He has been known, within the space rof four hours, to talk an old woman into a lundic tisjium, to translate five books of the Iliad, and to dictate a hndget^layingon tile lful) all the time. Next to his inftiusiry, hts powers or arranging anli-methodising bis wbrk are most remafkablei His de$k is. a marvel g £ vne/»tnessi%he ,always'knows whereftafi hi^ Tpep ajad ^nk b-^utV all b „s used envelopes And wasti' paper fhto-bis wkste-p.aper basket, and has never been known to fail In crossing his t's and dotting his i's. Among his other ^finable qualities are. his humility and teltdeniit). Never Has an English statesman reproduced in public life so beautiful an example of the gracelul anrl tonching characteristics of Uriah Heep; and tbe self-denial cf the Li'ieral out 01 place. who strove to defeat the Tory Reform Bill, has long since passed into a proverb. Nor can we pass over hit- signal exemplification of that noble virtue, consistency, which is diplayed in his conduct towards the Irish Church. To avow himself at one time its most earnest champion, and at another its implacable enemr," is one of those triumphs of consistency which few states- men can afford to imitate. AN, hen he has disestablished the Church of Eng and, and forced Professor Huxley into the episcopate, his labours in this direction will have attained a glorious consummation. We are aware that Mr Gladstcnp has himself fixed the age of fixty, as the date when a statesman should prepare to withdraw him- .ell from official cares, but if this kindly and «ympathetio notice ot himself and his labours should tend to deepen and prolong bis attachment to public life our purpose will have been fully answered.- Gaily BeUoicgmph.

THE END OF THE TRACPMANN TRIAL, Writing on the evening of Fridav last, the Paris cor- respondent of the Standard says :—The last scene but one in the Traupmann tragedy tock place at 10 o'cloctc last night. I think it utterly unnecessary, after the exhaus tire account of the proceedings which I have laid before vour readers, to trouble vou with the speech of M. Lachaud for the defence The case was not an easv one, and M. Lachaud no doubt did his best; but unfortu- nately hia chief argument, that the prisoner had accom- plices, being utterly unsupported by evidence, and contradicted by Traupmann'sconfessim inN,)vember. did not affird scope for that peculiarly theatrical eloquence for which he is famous. His speech was, therefore, though perhaps as good as cculd he made under the circumstances, not up to M. Lachaud's general average. Next he plesded that Traupmann was suffering from homicidal monomania, and appealed to the consciences of the jury not to convict the prisoner so long as thev had -as he conceived they mUllt have-II. doubt as to whether the mere child at the bar before them had committed single handed the fearful series of crimes the narrative of which had been laid before them in such sickening detail. Traupmann listened very attentively to all that fell from his counsel, and appeared to feel deep emotion at the allusions to bis family, arid especially to his mother, which M. Laohaudmadea point of introduc- ing into his address. At one part of his speech, when he questinned the right of the jury to bring Traupmann to the sCaff >ld, loud murmurs arose in the court. M. Lachaud spoke for nearly four hours. When he sat down the ^residertt hummed up dead against the prisoner. The siimiriing-tfp' took about two hours, during which the prisoner Cjuffitl'y fcorrtpffred himself to sleep! Perhaps he was only pretending tt is not impossible that, after ten hours in a crowded court, ik*d the excitement he must have fen, ?""ever guccesfully I he contrived to avoid any display of it, naCun} should have given way. When the President concluded, tfsked TraupiHFinn if he had anything to add for his deie-ice; the primer rose, bowed, and said, Non, Monsieur te Pi'esi(dent," with the utmost composure. It was nine o'cl'oc.x before the 4-ity retired to their room to consider their verdict. Trle sitting was atis pended the judges withdrew; and the prisoner watj removed to an adjoining apartment. He a'sfetj the r gendarmes in charge of him-" Is that little business at the jury likely to last long?" He was told about an hour. "Why, then, we can have a game of cards! he replied. As the gendarme* seemed rather nonplussed at this, he quietly ad^ed, I know very well that I am going to. be sen'eneed to death — but thaj will not pjevent rhv ertjoying my supper, I can tell voti. And, besides, I appeal to thife Court of Cassatio#, and meartwflile the packet book will be discovered, and I shall have-a new trial." In the coxirt, mean while,; the auditory showed signs of great agination and excitement, which subsided as if bv magic as the bell was rung announcing that the jury had agreed on their verdict. The judges then returned to the court, and resumed their seats. The president cau- tioned the public against anv manifestations of opinion, and called on the foreman of the jury to read the verdict, which was listened to with the utmost silence. You are already aware that the verdict was guil'y on all coun's, and 8nid nothing ab iu' ex'enuating circumstances. The President then ordered the prisoner to be i ronght in. Traupman entered with a firm step, his face, far f: m showing any signs of emotion, appearing cheerful and composed. The verdict was then road to him, and the Public Prosecutor called on the Court to apply Art 302 of the penal code. The President asked TraupmanO had be nothing to say why sentence should not be passed upon him. The prisoner replied, in the most uncon- cerned manner, Nothing whatever." The judges a<!ain retired to their room to deliberate, and, after the lapse of five minutep; came into Oourt again, when the President formally senteuoed him to death. At this there was a burst of applause in the cnurt, The prisoner heard it unmoved. The President added that he had three days to appeal to the Court of Cassa- tion. TtiUpraanti rose, made a salu'ation as if acknowledging a compliment, and turned towards the passage leading to his prison. A murmur, as if of satisfaction that his fate had been sealed, agitated the crowed. The prisoner caught it—he was not too pre- occupied for that-and with a horrid, almost incredible, bravado, he halted at the door, faced the public, and grinned literally a fienish grin, such a contortion as Hugo paints on the face of the latest of big heroes of Deformity. The murderer laid bare his sharp white teeth in his supreme defiance t) socie y, thus suggesting to the last his kindred With the beasts "If u, ey to which he htis been so often compared by those who have studied him. His extraordinrry coolness did not leave him fot an instant as Le regained his cell On arriving at the entrance he was surprised to se6 the director and. an unufal number of guardians, who were waiting to receive him. "Ah f he cried," I am condemned to death I suppose you know it; I was looking out for it myself. But it isn t that that bothers me now, but my supper. I'm precioud hungry-htid nothing to eat since morning." This mocking assumption and self possession-for the fellow at the bottom must have been moved to the depths of his nature—was listened to in silenrei Traupmann was conducted into his cell, and there the Governor of the goal quietly told him he must take off his clothes to put on the convict's dress. All riht," he coolly answered, and proceeded to strip naked as direct, d, casting himself on the bed in this state. He was handed the prison shirt of coarse linen and ordered to put it on. The attendants had forgotten to unbutton the waistbands, but Traupmann, as if instinctively, undid the fastenings with his teeth. After he had put on the trousers of brown stuff and the jacket, he said, 'That's enough; I'm hot." But the camisole de force, a sort of outer garb of the straight waistcoat pattern to prevent the wearer from doing harm to himself or other", remained. With some rtliictinoe he assumed this latter garment; he com- plained that he c mId not eat comfortably with it, an 1, I presume, the idea struck him he could no longer kill thought by card playing. When the toilette was finished, for the first time he betrayed an impatience, desiring to be left undisiured, and throwing himself on his bed with his face to the wall Evidently he wa3 beginning to realise his awful position at last. What the effect of some three weeks' repressive rigimen on this spirit may be it would be idle to speculate we can only hope for the best, and feel thankful that society his acquitted itself of a duty to the dead. Before rdegallng this monster of crime to Monsieur de Paris I'he local Calcraft), to whom be nov belongs of rignt. an observation will net bo out of place as t > the vain glorious passion for notoriety which seems to possess him. On the first evening of the trial, he remarked to his fellow prisoners that he knew there were journalists regarding him when he had entered the court, and said to himself, "Traupmann, mind yourself." And last night again, he smilingly said to a Garde de Paris, i hefe 11 be a jolly lilt of talk over the in Paris to night. I bet there's many a one will be glad to hear it's all up with me. Pshaw! What do I care ?" Now, me uppermost feehng with a man who speaks in this wav is that of dying game," and leaving a reputation behind him in the annals of crime. He f. els that he is "about as well known now as Alexander Dumas, as he of.ce dropped the vaúnt, and bai a name to keep up, and I am inclined to think he will keep it up to tne bitter end. Like the doomed one of le Dernier Jour d'ún Uondamine, his thoughts are not likely to be of God, or liii victims. He may shudder as the planking of the guillotine rises before him, but he will rt-collect that j lurnalillts will be there, and mind himself." An evil passion for notoriety this, it, my opin ion eclipsts the fa trill, ar tone of Erastotrattus, who bnrnt down the temple of Ephesus, to be known. On Friday, Traupmann took the necessary steps for appealing to the Court of Cassation. He has resumed, in some degree; his former cheerful demeanour, but is unable altogether to conceal his flense of hia serious position. On Wednesday evening, a well dressed lady presented herself at the Palace of Justice, and obtained an inter- view with the Secretary of M. Berillon. Bursting into tears, she insisted upon being immediately arrested; stating that she was an acojmplice of Traupmann in the most horrible crimes, and had carried on a system of poisoning in various bouse., She refused to state her name, and said she had forgotten her address, and knew nothing about her fam ly. She was removed to a lunatic asylum.

POPISH LOYALTY.—The Dowager Marchioness of Q leens.'erry has seat £10 to Ireland to help in the raturn of Mr John Martin for Longford. This is the ssme loyal lady who sent £ 100 for the comfort of the families of the martyrs or murderers of Brett the police- man, saying that they would be at once tediived into Heaven. No purgatory clearly. THE BANKRUPTCY ACT, 1869. — SETTING TUB PRISONERS t REE.— fhe ntw Act f. r abolishing imprison- ment for debt came into force on Saturday, Shortly after mid day the keeper of VVhitecroas street released ninety four debtors trom custody. Only forty one remain on county court commitments, penalties, and orders for payment by magistrates. Oite person, named Bunacles, had been in gaol for tweuty seven years. He went out on Saturday staring about him in amaze- ment. The Nonconformists, it appears, complain that the Dissenteis' Marriage Act places their ministers in a position of inferiorty to the Established clergy with respect to the solemnization of matrimony. The Daily .Ye1.cs asks with some pertinency Do those who object to the presence of the registrar at marriages in chapels desire that their ministers themselves should be made .eap .nsihio to the State for the proper performance of their duty ? MODERN CUSYOMS.—Presentations and testimonials are largely on the increase this modern custom appears to extend to almost every houseaold, fur no auspicious event is allowed to p.sa without its being marked by some pleasing souvenir; Birthdays, Christenings, Mar- riages, the seasons of the year, such as Christmas, New Year, &c. invariably receive special commemoration, I he attention ot 1 re of the great L '/lÙ' Manufaclurers, Mr J. W. BE.VSON, of 2.5, Old Bond Street, and of the City S earn Factory, Ludgate Hill, t-as beendifected t this subject. With the view of giving more artisiic effect to this custom nf society, he has published a mos interesting Illustrated Historical Pamphlet upon Watche aud Clocks, also une upon arnsuc G"lu Jewellery, Silve- and Electroplate; all are profusely iliusualed wut. oa ice designs, and aie sent post free for each, thus bringing within the reach of those who live even th >usands ot miles away from Londoa, one of ttje largest and most arti-tic collections which can be been in ativ part of tHewoild; and, it necessary, derails aiepu- parel .0 ilJU.¡¡I:r,¡t'lany special Base,

THE ATLANTIC YAC3T RACE. We congratulate readers of newspapers in t iis country and America on the tact that the preliminary corres- pondence on the proposed Atlantic Yacht Knee is at At end, and with a resnlt. The race will tfke place on th 4th of July, from Old Kinsale Head, Ireland, to New York. The owner of the CtlTl"rh, ms is manifest in h letters, was anxious to start from Cowes, but the nwnei of the Dauntless was obdurate, and it became eviden- that, if Mr Aqhhnry did not conoede every point, thf American gentlemnn wou'd again decline the contest For our own parI, All we have said on previouq occasion1, we ùo not regard Quch a race ItB 1. sitisfactory means 0' testing the relative merits of English and American yachts. We would much prefer such contests as tho" in which we were unmistakably beaten by the yacht America in vears g. ne by; but, as the Amaricans show so determined a pi eference for these prolonged and tiP. certain courses, we rre giad to see that an entire con- cession to every wish has been tna<?e in order that the proposition may be carried intn actnat effect. It is satis- factory, however, to know that there is every prospect of matches of a more decisive and reliable character taking place on the other sido of the Atlantic bc'w^en the Cambria and Am'T'cxn yachts, under such condi- tions as will leave no doubt as to the respective merit" of the yachts of each nation. We do not await the result with any degree of anxiety, and would givr pre- ference to no English ycht before the Cambria to mak syCh an essay as she is about to undertake. We will tpare our readers any remarks upon the wearying corres- pondence which we and our contemporaries have pub- lished relating to the challenge* and upon the probable ebances and results of the contests. The whole sut.jpct has been before us perpetually for more than tweive months, and a complete rest of six months is absolutely necessary to give to it zest and freshness. We cao oniyeay, without fear of any charge of undue partiality, that, so fur as we canjufige. Mr Ar.hbury has ftefrfffed in a straightforward manner throughout this a'fflj^t iiYfeflWirtable correspondence, and exhibited a steady desire to hstve firther and more satisfactory contents with I rm^atlantifi f&c.fit* thrift a single race across the occsn to New York.—The Fie{rf;

THE FACULTY AND THE VVKLSH FASTI\O Gna.ifee British Medical Journal, in a note on the Welsh fasting girl, «avsr—' It ougllt injustice t.0 he made known that the medical gentlemen in London, who w re en rapport With the committee in Wales, kept writing cla;ly to the focal wrrgeorns to guard ae-aipst any symptoms of ex. haustfoYi ifl tir.'? g»rl, and to administer nourish- ment. nolens iMfrii*. *ff<M)d 1 there be any appearance of a serious change in her c'dTldhi(JIi" ALARMING .ACCIDENT is' Ttf* JJt'ntIjh* Lor/i Portman ViieJ; With an alarming '"accident wly.lst huntin'su on Tlinrt«ay., 'The meet was Inear the ^o^n tyouse,) B!*ndfqra St-Mary .The Western G*z».ttean<t airing* Fost sa^s that after tl'r>'»wing off, he.hunting party were crossing sOlDe tiel ts I\hUII t .1 nn'e fro-o th5 town, and in crossing the lane joining the Blandford and Dprches'er Hod B'andford an 1 Pooln turn oik e*, his lordship's horse, In approaching a descent in the tiank by the :side of the road, ma ie a sudden xpritur, striking his lordship's faeo with its head, and throwing hioi violently on the pomin; J of the saddle His lordship wa, at once conv yed to his home, and the family surgeon, Mr Bracot, sent tor, who nt once toun 1 it uece sary to perform an operation. Dr Paget, of London, was also telegraphed for, who on arriving, considered the operation a most suecesstul one. For some time his lordship's life was deapa rbd of; but he is now progressing favourably. A Hambupgh letter, in the Unite sal of Brussels publishes an extraordinary lale 01 a lynx. One of those ani ■ als, roT9 the forests of Lithuania, escaped at the end of last summer from Andrea's menagerie, which whs being exhibited in the above-named city A reward of fifty thaiers wa* offered to any one that should bring back the fugitive alive or dead, but no person ever claimed the promised recompense. A few nights ba"k a sentinel on one of the b.stions of the port of Kiel observed some strange-looking creature twinj issue from the mouth Of a large piece of cannon, and then return. He informed his officer of the fact, and at daybreak the latter looked into .he gun, and cou d see two Aiming eyes glaring at him from the interior. Some difficulty was experienced in drivins: the animal from its ret.rear, hut on aiinstoch dipped in suiphur being introduced in the touch-hole, it sprang out, and was at once despatched with satires. It proved to be the mis«ing wild beast from Hamburg. The most curious part of the story, however, remains to be to'd. This lynx was not the only occupant or thc piece of cannon, but was imme- (finitely followed by a cat and a litter of three, the produce of tfliri eXlraordinary crossing of species. The cubs, with their mother, have been sent to the Zoological Garden ot the town to be re £ rrct. A FATHRR ROBBED oj £500' pr R19 DAUGHTER'S SWBKTHBART,—At the Sheffield 'Fotfn'-h^flf Friday, a young man named Edwar f Stansflola, eaVifyrty^ oft business as a fish-monger in Sheffield, was charged having received, well knowing them to hft*e been stolen, certain- sums of money belonging to Mr W. Shaper, tobacconist and eating-hou-e keeper The facts of the case wete of a very eatraordinary nature. In 1365 the daughter of Mr Shaper became acquainted with the prisoner, and in a sllcfrt time they became engaged. The lather of the vo mg lady & as very much opoosed to the match, and, in order that he might remove his daughter out of her lover'- way, he sent her to1 schcrol in Cjermany, There She remained for two years, photographs being exchanged and a correspondency being kept up between her and S'ansfieid. On her return inlS67 she at once rtnewed her acquaintance with the prisoner. The father, howevtr. maintained his opposition, arid the courtship had to be carried on clandestinely. The prisoner, on the pietence that he was anxious to be settled in business and to be married, prevailed on the young lady to rob her father's nil. This svstem of robberv continlied for six months, the prisoner being supplied every week with sums ranging from £6 to £ 10. Even these arge sums, however, were not su ficient to Supply his warfts, and he Inauced Miss Shaper to obtain tor him the key Of her father's catht»oJ{, that he m'gb.t obtain a duplicate of it. THe rahe key he supplied her with enabled her to obtalifl free access to the cashbox whenever she pleased. Mr Shaper roisSed rtfoney from time to time from his cashbox, but Wax Unable to detect the thipt, until his daughter, in a fit of jealousy, disclosed tbe system of robbery w!)icli hud been goi.ig on for so many months. Mr Shaper, on examining his hooks, found ihat the deficit w!<9(uUy.e501 The prisoner was at once arrested, und the above fact* having been sworn to by Miss Shap-r, the bench refused to allow bail. THE BHBAOJLBANE PKEKAOB.—DKATH OF LIEUT. DOKVLD CAVX'BKI.l —A iligiiiaoder worthy of his clan was. on Thursday, gathered to his lathers. Lieutenant Donald Campbfellj who hail raised himself by several acts of iii.iv|iidity from the ranks of the 5ith K. g rnent of Foot, into which, while quite a youth( he had entered as a volunteer, died on Menday at the bouse of hi. son- ill-Ia" tne Rev Alexander Brunton, of Blackfriars U. P Church. On the Conclusion of the Peninsular war, the battalion to winch Lieutenant Campbell was attached was disbanded, otherwise the probability is that he would have risen to much h gher rank. AN it was, he contrived to live respectably on a moderate pension, his society oeitig relished on account o! his geniality and general information by all who came in contact with hitlJ in the various localities in the west of Scot land, where from time to time the veteran pitched his tent. In history, particularly in that of the Highlands of Sooila' d. he was thoroughly posted up; and in toe language, literate, and music of the G-\i 1, Laving been an enthusiastic stulent, bl8 accjuirem .iits, were extensive. The result of bis labours in ti.at his fauourite fleid of research he gave to the public, a few vears ago, iri a remarkable volume, which tirougnt him the reputation o a Cfaefic sci.olar and critic; b it wbich, as has often happened w.th even more distinguished author*, bad added litila to h;s inoome. Bv the general public the name of L eutenant Campb II was chiefly known as that of a claimant of the Breadalbine estates and peerage, in virtue of his alleged tinjatdesceni from the eldest son of the first earl. The coronet which he coveted, and to which he h ti ved he had a Valied cla m, however difficult (on account ol tbe lapse of tune) "o prove, he was not deBunedtCi Wear; but the claim, we understand, is likely still to ')e p'roeeuted by a respectable legal rfrm in London; 011 heliltll. ot the lieutenant's brother, Mr John Cainpbdlty of Fort Will'am. GtasgoaJ Citizen. The very extensive disti'levy now being erected af Beitast, with all recent improvements, for the manu- acture of Irish Whiskey, by Me»rs DUNVILLE & Co, who have ga <ied a world-wide celebrity for thei' floe oid In-b Whisky, is to be caned the Royal Irish Distillery; Perhaps sonie lady may, who has never used the GLRNFIELD STABCH, do us the hotioor to read this notice. To such lady we would say, dreimn tof at taining excellence in your laundry without it. Yoti cannot make one trial without being convinced that it is unsurpassed for every purpose for Which Starch is used and to those who are particular in getting up fine Laces, Linen, &o,,it is indispensable—mothingean equal it. In dressing gentlemen's Shirts and Collars it adds a rich deep and clear glaze, resisting the humidity of the atmosphere, and impar; ing an Elasticity comfortable to the wearer, and peculiar to this Starch. We strongly commend it to our lady readers who have not yet used it, and can assure them they will have no cause to regret acting on our council. LUXUKIANT AND BEAUTIFUE HAIR.—Mis S. A. Allen's World's Hair Restorer or Dressing" never fails to quickly restore Gray or Faded Hair to its youth- ful colour and beauty, and with the tirst application a beautiful gloss and delightful fragrance is given to the Hair, it stops Hair frem falling off It presents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growth. It contains neither oil nor dye. In large bottles—Price Sit Shillings. S"ld by all Chemists and Perfumers. For Children's Hair, Mrs Allen's Zylobalsamum far exceeds any nomade or hair oil, and is a delightful Hair Dressing it is a distinct and separate preparat'on from the Restorer, and its use not required without it. De^ot, High Holborp London. 191 THE WONDKRFUL 1NPI.UP.NCB OP MODERN SCIENCE AND ITS RKSULTS IN THE JMPROVlfMENT AND ECONOMY OF DOMESTIC COOKERY.—There is happily no longer any excuse lor cooks sending to taole weak and flavourless SOUP8 or IDRdc dishes without the desired piquancy, find h is to be hoped that those uiipala aVe aam.es the chief ingredients of which were hot water and cayenne pepper (the latler to the ulterdlscallltiture of throat and stoma- L) w lf henceforth be things of the pasi. Liehiit Company's Extract of meat manure, ured under the control o: Baron Liebig the inventor, and warranted perfect and genuioe by him, as perj his certificate and signature on everv package (or joH) is now selling retail at lis l'b. pot; (h Jib 3s 2d £ lb Is 9d 2 oz. One pound of this Extract Otma the meat inaedlent sufficient to produce about 70 pints ot the best beef tea, its present moderate price fully recommends its iriaf to all householders, no. only on iccount of its relaiive cheapness to butcher's meat ('t requires 34 lb of lean fresh beef or at 9<1 oer Ib, 2S8 6d expense, besides great trouble ana bkiII, to make one oound of Liebig Company's Extract), but tor its great convenience and usefulness in possessing that inestimable quality of immutability—keeprig unimpaired as to "renjlth of thvonr for any lengtu time, even after the jar has been opened. The saving, au £ rcat conveuience a must be otto cooks, cannot be overrated. A small idoiiion 01 it to any soup, meat, or game pie, made dish ir fauee, imparls ihe tine^ meat flavour, and tmpioves (lilten ntly cooked dishes, so as to render them quite palatable. The origi nal imenunn of Baron Liebig to 'ing this Exiract ot meat wi oi l the reach of the t'on, hat uow becu completely te.nised.J 72

PROBABLE FFFECT OF THE OPPOSITION TO DR. TEMPLE. Apropos of the protests entered against Dr Temple, •he (iuurdinn s*ys it. is no use disguising It that we are vithin a few eps of n serious schism. If men, says our ontempoeary. mean what thev say, especially if men in 'i gh places and with great responsibilities mean all that >hpy have siid, words have heen spoken and acts (lono vhicb seem to involve vpry grave consequences. When •ight of thp provinC\6 of Canterbury, four of them n the most formal manner under hand and seal, have it the la«t moment signified their solemn protest against I consecration whi"b has every outward and legal •haracter of regularity, and when we are told, in what iR. ve suppose, to be tak"n as a communique, "on the be«t luthority," that "the gravest doubts rest, in the uiinion of many best able to j-idge, u to the canonioity >f Dr. Tempie's consecration, and the validity of the orders whirl] he may confer," that "no lapse of time can make him a rightful bishop." and that "nothing hnf a public and solemn retraction of the essav will enable orthodox bishops to hold communion with him"— ;t is impossible to deny that the foundations have been laid for as dangerous an internal division M ever threatened the unity 0' the English Church since the Reformation. No one would wish to overstate or to make the worst of acts which even opnr, the pos-ibility of finch a catastrophe. No one would wish to hind the tuthors of these protests to what wilt "eem to many, and what many will call for as the natural and inevitable conseqnences of them. But wh n excommunication or refusal of communion shows itself not obscorel) in the background, and the question is o»Anpd about 'he validity I, of the! ofd ;rs which the Bishop of Exeter will probably have to confer in the Course of the next fortnight. It becomes of high importance' thtt we shouM all know where we are. on what ground we '\1'1" ¡""ndlng, what we frionsly and in earnest intend hy otfr words, and whether we have Iroked forward to whRt tbey eommit UI to. Is It too much to ask those (concludr* the Guardian) W'10 can influence the fortunes of the English Churoh whether they are prepare i to carry out w'lat is implied in the protests? and if they are not, was it wise to pre- sent them?

A C&VSV' TOR A RESPITB.—An American paper Staff" $that riafliViiirted I'aekenburg was aenienced to he hanged at fjuftfeV, Pennsylvania, no the 7th inst., for murder, and that the clergy have n«lire(I far a respite, on the ground that it wifl takjp'two or three weeks mce to prepare him. GbKfh^ti GARIBALDI.—A corfels^rid'en' of the MorrC ing Advertiser states that General Gart^&l'^i has been' suffering tor fome 4ays past from ai £ #ttack) of fhetrmatic I fever .which' confine^-him to his bed..The last accounts were more favourable, and not the stightert danger Wart appVehended- He has b?en subject ti violent attacks t f rheurJll\tio feyer .ever since he was iij>Sotjth America. Tha ftrst attack, was caused tfy his remaining jn the waf^r seyer«i hours in the fruitless' attempt to save the Ii ("inf a sailofy who, Singular to sav, was named Maurice Garibal 'i, although he waa no relation whatever of the General. £ )>- EAnFux DP-ATH n A Potfcfs OBIT,.—A pauper, named William Cliffy, 58 years of age", tteloTrging to the Warrington Union Workhonse, met with a fearful death 01 Wednesday evening in one of the b Tout^h police cells. It appears that he absconded the SKmn morn'ri^ from the workhouse with a suit of union clothing, and wrs given into custody during the afternoon. The man Nas lo. k'id up in one of the day cells at the police office, and about eight o'clock in the evening as Constable Harry and Morrison were putting another prisoner into the same coll, they found Cliffe lying in front of the fire, dead, every vnstiae of his clothing having been burnt off, with the exception of one of his shirt sleeves and his boots. There is a fireplace in each of the day cells, which is protected by 1 strong iron grating, the door of which is left open in order that the occupant of the cell might replenish the fire when it gets low. It is supposed t^at Cliffe opened the door of the grating, placed himself partly inside ir, and fell aslpep, and that his clothes wete set on fire by some of the burning embers fall from tbe grate upon him. DEATH FROM FASTING.—Mr Payne, the deputy coroner, held an inquest on Saturday afternoon, at Bethlehem Lunatic Asylum, respecting the death of Mr lienry Catchpool, aged 29. Mr'William Catchpool, of 91, Church Street, Bermondsey, said that the deceased was his brother. He was a clerk, and had been over- worked. H's nervous system had been disturbed, and be suddenly ceased to eat, saying he could live without food. A dootor was at otlce called in, and he ordered that the deceased should never be left allOe. An atten- dant was then engaged, and he used every endeavour to notice him to eat, bit without avail. The doctor ordered Ktjtfids to b« administered to him, and in doing so one of bis fe'etfif vfas kttocksd out. He was then re- moved to the Bethlehem" itfpital, Dr K mpthorn said that the diseased was admitted into the Asylum on Christmas eve. As he refused to take food it was ad- ministered to him. His system had been weakened by a fortnight's abstinence from food. He died on Wed- nesday from syncope and disease of the heart. Other evidence proved that the deceased was a nervous roan, ehid that be suffered from pecuniary difficulties. His insanity bfoffeo out about a f rtnigbt a&o, whan he saw a tradesman's bill that was sent in to his ftmily, and it was then he dei tared that he would never eat again. The Jury returned a verdict itr aooordanee with the medical evidence. Pi,A\r^t; SLAUOBTBR.— A very painful affair occttrrad at Brockmior, a'fetw miles from Dudloy, on Saturday, from the incautious handling of fireams. A youth named Samuel Tonks, sevebfe'dny was over from Bewd. ley on a visit to relatives of his at Btoekmonr, and in the course of the day he took up a gun whfctf stood in the house where he was. Louisa Heath, aged aif. the daughter of Tonka's aunt, came near to him, and in a playful manner he pointed the gun at her, believing it was not loaded He to k a cap from bis pocket, and fixed it on the nipple, thirktng to snap it off at the child, but, to his horror, a frightful resul. followed when he pulled the triggei*. The gum was loaded with sh t, and the muzale being within a short distance of Heath's head, she fell dying at Tonks's feet. The ehild-fa«e and forehead were so d^fij;ured by tr.e shot thaI the counten-: ance scarcely appeared human. The child's mother fS a wido v, and her distress was most poigrtant. Tonics was taken into custody bv the police soon after the melaneholy affiir, but, under the circumstances, there can, of course, be no charge sustained against him. SHOCKING PAKBA tt-^y IN MANCHESTER.—On Thurs- day, at the Manchester Cify Police Court, a man named Thomas Lfghtfoot was chfcrged with cruelly ill treating his brother, Samuel Lightfoott. Superintendent Anderton said J The defendant is charged with cruelty to his brother, who is an imbecile, and is also blind, bv keeping him confined for several years past in the cellar of his house in a neglected and filthy condition. The place was a cellar underneath the shop, 164, Every Street, where the defendant carried on business as a provision dealer. I have ascertained that the father ot deceased left 15s a week for the maintenance of the poor man. It has been paid over to the defendant regularly by the trustee. Saw the defendant in his shop, and told him we were police officers, and that, in consequence of noises having having been heard in the cellar between one and three o'clock that morning, and on other occa- sions, we'. had come to inspect his premises, as we suspected there was Seme one confined in the celiar. He said* Yes, my brother >ive* there. He ha- his fed there." I asked him him how fm'g he had been there ? lie said, Well, I think about six yearV' and, after a pause, he said, "Six years last August." fie took 118 into the cellar. We there saw the man now in anothér fnnta of the court. He was sitting on the aide cf a low bed, close id It fireplace in which there was no fire. The room was generally fefy dirty. There were not m re than afroflt tlto square yards in the centre of thd fl ,or in which a person tfould move about. We removed the poor man in a cab: VThffnf b attempted to move him he was so stiff that he couldf soifcef? put bis feet under him, and he had to be partly carried out of tnJ cellar. When he was got into the cab we took the dtefSndanv into custody. Doctor Thomas Dean, surgeon, stated that he examined the man. tlis body was in a frightful condition. His hair was in a matted state, and his finger and toe nails were like talons. Apparently they had not bMn cut fof yeafs. He visited the cellar in whioh the man Wad found. It wftsf not fit for a human being to live in. It wad very damp, and the floor was covered with filth, and everything dboot it appeared as if no removal had taken place for yliatØ. It wlía fourteen feet sqiiare and about eight or nine fetft high; Seferal witnesses who hail lived in the neighbourhood as lotig as six years ago gfive evidence to the effect that they had heard cries pfoOeeding from the cellar there. The poli-e officer doing duty ort tho beat said he had oftsnf heird a noise proceeding from tte cellar, but he thoafght it was made by a dog. The gentleman who paid oYet the money for the maintenance of the man did notapneat to give evidence, although he had promised to atpnid. A summons wns granted to compel him to attend, and the oaie was reminded till Saturday. The witnesses were bound over to appear at the cessions. GALVANISM.—NATUrba Clli"> ESTORER OF JM- PAUtF.() VIT.4L Kw«UQT.—A Pamphlet on Self-applicable EleciriciiVfrdemuflsiraung ibe most effectual, rational, sod simple galvanic treatment of nervous and rheumatcs pains, tie" t'ty, indigestion, nervousness, sleeoles>ne?s, paralysis, neuralgia, epilepsy, oramp, lunctiona! disorders, &c, as laised exclusively by the use of PrLVER, MACHEK'S Improved PATENT GALVANIC OHAIN BANDS, HKLTS, and POOKliT SliLF-IttiSfOfiABLh: CH AIN BATTERIES, &c. Approved by the Acadetuie de Mtd'ciiie, Paris; the Royal College o' Pbysurians, London, &c. ? suostatitialed by Medical Reports and authenticated Testimonials, including Sir U. Locock, Bait, :\1. D i toilr William Fergusson, Bart., Sir J. H. Martin, M.l).; Dr E. Sieveking, M D Dr iiantlfiefu •I'lties, Pt.ysician to St. Mary's Hospital; 1)r A. Clarue, Piivuetau to the Loudon Hospital. Lais Pamphlet vsent post free) tieats'lwhy" and '• wherefore" tlKt.se Galvanic arrangements have proved most efficacious even in cases wiiero otber Elec'.r'cai appfraius and utd nary medical treatment have been tried 'U VHM\ especially in ailments resulting from warn of vical elec- tricity in the functional 01 gans.—Aopty ,0 j. L. PULYfc. tl- AIACH ER, 2"0, Resent Sueei, London, W. HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS —During every break of wintry weather exertions should be made by the ntfLcted to recover health before untemitting coin and ttyugstortusaetin. i hrt at ailments, cough vvbecz.in.ss, .v-ithmatical affections, shortness of feiea II, morning nausea and accumulations of phlegm can readily be removed by rubbing tois tine derivative O utme t twi^f a day upon the chest and neck. Holloway's Ireatmcllt IS. -trongly recommended wi ll the view of giving iuinv- dute esse, preventing prospective danger and eit-1 tnu permaner.t relief. These ail-important ends bis uintmeut and Pills can accomplish, and will surely pre* ent insidious diseases from fastening on the constitution to display Uiemselves alterwards 111 those disastrous forms that will proba'ily embitter lite till 11"1.1 itself is almost praved tor, j Mr Jones was advised to get his life insured —" Won' do it," said he; "itwouid be my lock to live for evert if I should." A fir tree, 13fl feet high and 71 inches in diameter, has recently been fellod in the woods belonging to the frncry of Zip-h, At Arsra, in Hungary. It has been taken tc Hamburg to be formed into a mast. Loss OF A GOVERNMENT VBSSKL.—Information has he"n received at tLe Admiralty ot tbe loss of a govern- ment lighter, with all hands, early on Friday morning, during a hurricane from the southward and westward off Bariogne, 13 miles past of Cape Clear. The vessel is Kunposed 10 he either the Fanny or Victoria. A box ot hooks, marked H M.S Valiant," hat been washed flshorp. This package formed a part of the vessel's cargo. — Globe A NOVBI. W AT OF OBTAINING A CHRISTMAS HOLI- DAY—At Sheffipld on Tuesday, a hoy, 14 years of age, named Thomas Layden. was charged with having wil- fully damaged some valuhale machinery, the property 01 R;r John Brown and Co (Limited), at the Atlas Works. The prisoner, who was employed at the work" as a "bogey hoy." threw a hammer and Mom" large pieces o1 iron among some cog wheels, and a large quantity 01 machinery was broken and rendered completely useless. Damage was done to the extent, of £200, and a number of men were thrown out of employment. The only reason assigned by the hoy was that he wished to obtain a lew days' extra holidays at Christmas. He was sent to prison for two months. A PRIMITIVE POST OFFICB.—A German paper says that the simplest post office in the world is to be found on the southern extremity of America. For some years past a small barre1 hfs been fastened by an iron chain to the outermost rock of the monntain overhanging the Straits of Magellan, opposite Tierra del Fuego. It is opened by every ship which passes through the Straits, either to place letter! in it or to take letters from it. Thjj post office, therefore, takes car" of itself it is con- fided to the protection of sea!arers, and there is no exampTe' of any breach of trust having occurred. Each ship undertakers the voluntary transmission of the con- tents of the barYe], if their distination is within the limits of its voyage. FORMS FOR TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES—The Post Office authorities have prepared for the use of the public, forms for telegraphic messages to be used when the whole system Of inland telegraphs is acquired hy the Govern- ment on the 2.9'h of next month The form is very fdmplo and complete, and differ* in one or two respects from those hrtfrerto employed bv the companies—the novelties, it m «y be a ided, being decided im proj|ments. principal of these refers Jfftthe arrannemeraffif the wior.is "that make up'ths message. A separate Bpice in lljpeS is allowed to each word^ and the coi r JH^nding dtrtrfg# i.« printed claarfr on tbe margin, so that tffesend T can i-rtrftt a glance how much h" has to pay. and the receiving1 d'fk need be a' no trouble in calculating how triflch he has to charge. Eioli of the forms thus divided into spaces is prepared for a message of fifty words, which is assumed to be suffic'ent, in the great, m ij >rity of insmnees. 4n tho right hand upoer corner of the page a blank space is left for the stamps which will probably he almost exclusively used to cover the charges of trans- mission. A'taebed to the forms are direct ons for the o* the sender, with a tarff or charges, and full information as to the Hrrangemtnt* for porterage, MrrHDEn— K RF,VKT»GR FOR SitnuoTtosr,—The eorres- pendant of the Standard, writing from New York, on the lSth inst, AfiYS: A oresdful tragedy was enacted in (Charlottesville, Virginia, the day before yiSter'iay. An fcnglish nan named Oliver we shot and killed at his own house bv George Ayers, a Vi gmi^n. The provocation to the klliing was the eeduction by Oliver of Ayers'g daughter. The deceased was a physician from Bir- mingham, and was living in Charlottesville as theaffent of an English Immigration Company. He delivered an address at the late agricultural fair at Richmond, and was altogether a prominent man. The offence for which Ayers to k his life was committed some months ago. The murderer gave himself up to tbe officers of justice, and now lies in the gaol at Charlottesville. NATURVLIST AND FABULTST.—1 La Fontaine's Fables have become a classio work, not alone in the native land, but in every oth.er country into whose language they have been translated. L'I Fontaine was a fair poet, and possessed some fine gifts as a writer, but as a na- turalist he was often most completely at fault. M. de Remusat, a shrewd critic, has been at work exposing and correcting the poet's hlunders in the last number of the Rtvue des Deux Mondes. According to M. de Remu- sat, La Fontaine knew nothing of the habits of animals Were it otherwise he would never have committed such mistakes as are plentifully sprinkled through the "Fabtcs." La Fontaine says: —"The grasshopper sinking all the summer long." His critic answers :— The grasshopper cannot sing all the summer long, for the summer lasts a good three months, while the grass- hopper only lives a few weeks." Again, the ignorant fabulist describes the grasshopper complaining that he has not a fly nor a worm to eat. Replies M. de Remusat —"The grasshopper does not eaf flies and worms—he :s a vegetable feeder." More error with regard to the grasshopper, vho is described all asking the ant for a Jilde corn to go on with. The naturalist points out that the ant is eamivorous, and never ate a grain of corn in his life J he keeps none in house, and, consequently, has none to give away to the grasshopper or any other starving insect. With regard to the ant, La Fontaine declares that he will subsist fot three days upon a piece of straw. Wrong, replies M. de Remusat, M. La Fontaine might as well have written that a man might live on bricks and mortar. It is true that ants use » raw, but it is for building purposes, nt t as provender. A THISING OVERSIGHT —The other day a curious accident occurred in one of the most considerable oitiea in France. A gentleman who had held office, was an officer of the Legion d'Honneur, and the possessor of many decorations, &o, died. He had been a Protestant, Huguenot, Calvinist, what you will, and a bachelor. flying lived a solitary life, he kept but one man servanf, Who was a gardener, groom, and valet; and to this person was confided naturally the care of the body. But, then, his grief was overwhelming, and required consolation. This he unfortunately slight in the wine cup and, to be plain, he gat exceedingly drunk. and oontinued so for the short interval which in France is permitted between death and burial. The day of the funeral arrived, the coffin, which contained p leaden one inside, was brought to the house, and the faithful (tomestic ondertook to perform 'he necessirv offices. The friends and rela ives came to follow the d ceased to his last home; also a number of high official-, the prefect, military men, &o, with half a hittali. n of B ildiers, to do honour to the medals and decorations, and to fire a salute over the grave. Last, but not, in his own estimation,, least, came '1 gentleman wh 'f11 "re may designate the local Pope of the Protestants of the district. Being largely gifted with eloquence of a certllin kind, h- iruide two hrn8n¡rlJes of considerable length, one being delivered before the procession set forth, the other over the t'lmh. The salute was or. d. and everything properly performed, but as the wnpany returned, they encoun'ered a r umber of persons, and some half a dozen gamins; the latter cried flllt, Men sieurs, vous aveK ouhlie quclq te chose.' The officials naturally lo iked to see whether any of their mwJal; or coat tails had dropped eff, while the Protestant minister surveyed his canonicals to ascertain what was missing. Not being able to discover anything, they demanded, c, Ce qu'il y avait d' oublier.' The reply was, Mais, Messieurs, e'est le mort." And so it turned out. The coffin which had been buried with military honours was empty, the corose was safely in the bed in which the p lor man had died. The coffin was of course dug up again, and thr^e sergents de Ville were told off to enclose and inter the body safely. The drunken servant hrtd been so overcome by sorrow and wine that bt had entirety fo?i?otten to place his master's body ía sbe coffin provided ftfr the purpose. AN ACCURATR Ci.tfRfS -"In a communication on a farming matter in tbe Agntahural G >z-ite of Saturday last the Rev W. F Radcl ff; has occasion to adduce the evidence of his clerk, Mr Stephen Rogers to whose oharacter for accuracy he thus testifies:—•' S'Ufpbtn is a very accurate man, as I have reason to know. He was my clerk at Rushton. and still performs the aameotnce. i once gave out the wrong second lesson in church, wlierf Stephen popped up his head ami said, sMo voce, but iodd enfptfgb for everybody to hear, You be wrong it ain't "G'latiarfs/' its Fegmns to-day;' The con- gregation did no* exactly taagn. but the muscles o! their faces assumed Manic. compFicatioos,' aDd I loolted as red as a harvest moon SCENH AT THE (ECUMENICAL COUNCIL—AdC&rdiftg to a correspondent pi thu jYew Free Press of Vienna, a scene o' an ex raordinary character has already occurred itl the Conn-il. In one of the sittings, a Croatian Bishop rose to propose that the paragraph in the articles as to tbe dispatch ot business, imposed by the Popff Wttich renders it necessary for every resolution to bo subifliffceri tc a special commission before it can be discussed by the Council should be simply struck out. He brought foiward several weighty arguments in sup- port of his motion, hut Its soon as be began to warm with his speech Cardinal de Luca, who presided, Interrupted him. and on his coa1 nuing bis address rang the bell. violent y. Caninal Siraor, the Primate of Hungary, rose to support bis South Slavonian colleague, bat be, too, was silenced by the Cardinal's bell. On seeing this, Msgnr. Dupanloup, the Bishop Of Orleans seized his hot in great IlIl.r and left tiie hall, followed by several of his countrymen. The tact that three nations were con- cerned ill the matter has made an unpleasant impression on the Vatican. THR WILL OF THE LATE BISHOP OF EXETEK.—The will of the late B'stmp of Exeter has been proveo, and it is sworn nndar £ 00,000. He directs the sum of £10,00<1 to be pa d to the Dean and Chapter of Exeter tor the endowment of a theological college in conjunction with that body. He gives to Ins son Henry £10,000, which deceased had covenanted to pay for certain uses, to ha paid out of certain moneys ,r> "e ) .se! from the insurances in the Equitable, K<>ui{, uliW, ana University offices, tbe residue of the policies to bes sunk in bi; residuary estate. Hsexecutcrs art-to par each of his daughter', Maiy Stephens widow, and S) belia du Boul y, the annuity of £1110 during life, I ho latter free trom marital control; £ 2,0 > to Charlotte Cassandra Cherry, his daughter, wito of Benjunin Cherry, ot B.ickindon, H: rIA, but any advances made inthetitetime of the deceased to be stopped out of ths legacy. The sum as settled hy deed In is65 of £18,5011 is to be divided between bis iotir mair.ed daughters an.t his gom,Charles Edward and John Sco t Phillpott-, in pursuance or lI.ar- riage "ettlemen:s, lie beqnea' lis his re.jl and remduary est..t0 to IH; three soi-s, Wilnaoi John, Henry, and Arthur rhufuit-t Pmilpotts, absolutely three (qnal tourtb —the rc!Ual!11IJc. fourth .h.re 10 he held ¡IY trustees jr Cj orgina Lukin, widow or his lace son, Edward «>,vito8tone PlHlipotts, rector of Lezam, (near Laun- tcston), to enjoy for her life, or during bei widowhood, >vith remainder to her children. In regard to the action of qnurz tmpedit brought a jainst the decea-ed by the Rev Mr Marshall respecting the living of Tregony, against which deceased had appeale.1 to the H'Uni: ot l.ords, and lie Appeal was then pending, trio testator directed that 111 the event of Old dy n:; betoie the suit was terminated, lonsifleritif? the importance to the Church that the poin'e involved suould be decided, the executors wei'6 to prosc- [ eite the suit to a Uijia-ie termination.

THE LONDON MARKET MAt:K LANF, LONDON, MONDAY An crxooM. Jan. 3. t'heni were again large supplies of foreign wheat and oats last week, with plenty of flour and grain. With 4carcely any English wheat exhibited on the Kentish and Essex stands, factors were enabled to place it at Is ibove last Monday's rates. The trade in foreign was of t holiday character, but. full prices were made In the etail sales that took place. Country flour-Norfnlkp, ihough in fmal demand, maintained former valnes, as well as foreign sacks 4rd bartels, notwithstanding the ¡?ood supply. Town rates were unaltered. Maize was tirm. BRrley-malting sorts were fully as dear; middling descriptions were firm, but grinding was dull. The uaii trade was quiet, at late quotations. Notwithstand- inif the good supply of foreign oats, an upward tendency continued, and fully Go advance was realised on all sorts, .BRITISH. Shillings per Or. BkiUiuft pn Or Wheat—Essex and Kent, Oats—English feed 24 J# white, 50 55 Potato 16 30 Ditto, red 47 50 Scotch feed 2S 30 Norfolk, Lincoln, and Ditto potato St Si Yorkshire, red 47 n: Irish feed, white. U 25 Hurley—Malting 3« 4! Ditto, biack 19 -i Distilling 31 37 Beans—Green 96 91 Chevalier *2 Grinding 28 30 Harrow 4 13 r lo 44 Suffolk, pale. 64 7J Maple 44 45 Chevalier QJL Kings tone, Ware, &town ^0,<rLTown;hou^hold <0 H ™ade Household 37 S3 Brown 49 57' Country 4 38 Rye 31 32 Mortal* and Suffolk 33 34

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKrff LONDON, MONDAT, Jan. 3—This being the holiday ma-kei of the year, the supplies of both beasts and sheep were limited, and the trade ruled very quiet. Of foreign stock the arrivals to band were very moderate a. but the demand was irregular, and prices tended down- wards. From our own grasing districts the receipt* were small, and. though there were some excellent animals on the stands, the general character of the market WAS tDterior. A few sales of good Seotch beast* were effected art 5s 8d, but the general top price was not ahcyre os Hd per,81bs I'rom Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, an&Jiorihampi onshiie, we received 620 shorthorns, &oj a'ffit 250 ofvarioos breeds from other parts of Lnxlandt 1 Scots and crosses from Scotland; and ab ut 120 <J|t8 lrom Ireland 1 be number of sheep in ihe peua qps unusually short, though fully equal to tbe demand, AI1 breeds changed li *n ^s slowly, prioes being irregular, and our quotations mutt Oe regarded as altogether numi- nllL I )u, top fljzrire o.1 61 is quite an extreme one, and W te'y rewlised in a few ins tances* Veal met a dull former termi'; and pork was icactive. fIII- Ttr lbs. tc sink the off Coavse and lnienot s. ct. II. d. Primeooarsewoolled t. d. a. beasts 3 4 3 8 sheep 4 8 5 0 Second quality litt» 3 to 4 6 Pr:me South Down Prime large oxen 4 5 4 Hneep 5 2 5 Prime Scots, &c. 4 1 5 C Larse coarse calves 3 8 4 S Coarse and inferior Prime small ditto 4 10 i 1C sheep. 3 4 3 8 Large ho^s 3 6 3 19 Second quality ditto 3 10 4 oj Meal small porkers 3 0 4 8 Lambs, 4* 6d to 5s fid.

BUTTER MARKET, LONDON, MONDAY, Jan. 3—The bnsiness !ran<- acted in Irish butter ig vpry limited, prices nominal wituout change. Foreign sold slowly, prices generally 2s 104- lower. HOP MARKET. LONDON, MONDAY, Jan. S.—Onr market Is oniet. quotations remaining firm at the decline noticeo last, week. The continuance of heavy imports has tended1 to check ibe demand for American and continental oops, but prices nevertheless are maintained, especially tor choice qualities. Yearlings remain in vaoderate request at recent values. POTATO MARKETS. LONDON, MONDAY, Jan. 3.—A fair average supply of potatoes is on bale. The trade has been rather better TALLUW. LONDON, MONDAY, Jan. 3.—The market g fiiiu 468 ÓÙ to 461 91 per cwt for T.C. on the spot, lolvik allow is quoted at 44s net cash.

BREAD, LONDON, MONDAY, Jan. 3.—The prices in the MeliO*- poijs are (per 4ib loaf): VV beaten bread, 7d to nF household bread, õta to 6^1.

SOJTtl WALES RAILWAY TIME TABbd. „ H'.H O A § IJ VIEJ Mil.! Starting from «.«». a. At.. a.m. a.m. p.m. p. 0 New Milford 2 0 8 35 ill 0 5 0 6 2# 4.1 Johnston 8- »0 111 15 6 14 0 "«j 91JHaverfordwest. 2 21 # 0 ill 25 3 24 6 4$ Hi CUrbesw. Road 9 1* ,11 38 — 6 21 N?.rberth Road. » 26 111 54 — 2.1 VVhitland 2 55 9 47 )U a 6 0 T 21 3.2 9t. Clears 3 7 » 69 12 24 4)i Carmarthen Jnc. 3 21 8-50 10 17 12 41 6 25 7 60 Llanelly 3 65 9 40 10 67 1 6 11 1 7 > Swansea 4 30 10 0 111 10 2 15 7 20 9 2d 77 Neath (dep.). 4 33 10 37 ,11 39 2 30 S' 114 Cardiff ••• 43 12 31 12 47 4 5 'J 0 • tidf Newport 6 5 1 SO 1 13 4 30 <>24 .— I t ivlChepstow 6 35 2 35 1 41 0 15 a >1 .••• 171 [' Gloucester (dep.) 7 31 4 0 2 3i 1&2 12 40 I7 £ Chelteaham(arr) 8 30 5 5 2 55 6 20 11 30 '203 Swinda»(<fep*). 9 17 5 55 4 O 8 5 2 lo m •2 |! i, 2,3, 1,1.3, i, U f,~Exp. 1, .,1 biauo s. Ictass. class, class. 1 A 2\ class, c- _I -4_ Mil. Starting from a.m. a.m. p.m. [a.m. a.n. p. 0 Pad i.ngton 16 0 4 SO 9 15 S '0 77 8w;udon(dep.) 8 45 6 50 111 .5 (H f4 121 C'if tenham (flep 6 10 10 15 7 45 12 lo Mail 114 Gloucester (dep.) 6 3,5 ;11 10 S 15 12 30 .„ 1J j0 i41 v Chepstow 7 44 [12 lf> S 5~> 17 I '.9 l58.r Newport 8 0 [12 55 0 25 1 52 2 21 170;.Cardiff 8 5> 1 2'> 9 50 2 20 2 ii 0O8 Neath (dep.) 10 A S 1 111 3 3 3J j' 0I6 Swansea ilO 4s 3 15 [li 3o 4 & 7 45 30 »l) Lune.i; 11 15 4 0 [11 45 4 18 8 2* 4* n44! Carmarthen Jnc. 12 4 4 52 [12 1." 5 3 9 It 5 i,3 rt. Clears 12 27 j 2 :12 31 5 23 » 26 WliiUanu 12 43 5 36 1I2 43 5 36 9 40 5 ;«4" Sarber*V ttaad. 12 57 a 48 5 48 9 53 — 07i> h iarbestot" Koad 1 II 6 2 6 2 ,10 7 — %i. It.werfoi-dweat. 1 22 6 1-J 1 20 6 13 10 l'l h ij „»n ililt'ori.1 Road..„ 1 3H 6 2s 6 2s |t^ 3.} C 41 2i.> sew Milford 1 SO 6 12 1 40 b 42 10 4a fi ■> J— DAY,.— III- THAIN9. U A VS. — '.0 rt S T t!'ol c~T.L7Ti. 2,3, 1,& 2, ,1,2, .i, 1,2,3, 1, if class, class, class. class, ciasx. class. cia»*' From a.m.\ p. m. p. ?», From a.m. a. M.\a.».{ «. • >\ 11 0 5 0 Pad. 10 0 Hi Koad 1111 5 14 Swin. „/• Kp. } H.West. 11 2i 5 25 Ctiei. lit i zb Mai CLu\ ltd 11 36 — Gioti.tt/ 3 2?» 112 0 Nar.Rd+U 49 5 50 Chen.I 4 oi 1 *9 Whit. 12 lib 0 New.j 5 0 '2 -I StCle^M 12 15 Cardiff. 5 17 2 Car.Jnc.il2 37 6 25 NeAttiiel 7 38 3 o1 LlanellyJ 1 21 7 6 ;d,.1 810 45 Swun.rfe! 1 45 7 20 TJanefly 8 33 1 Neath. 2 22 7 51 C'ar.Jne.i 9 20 "> 2' Cardiff. 3 56 9 2 StCiearsf 9 36 — New. 4 28 9 24 Whit 9 52 5 5' Chen. 5 6 9 51 Nar.ltd+ 10 7 f Glou. 4" 6 25 12 40 Clar. Rd IlO 23 Ohsi. ,ir 1& 2\ H.West 10 34 6 Swta.-ic 8 20 2 20 MilRoad 10 50 6 Pad. I! 15 s 3* N. Mil 11 »

MILFORD BRAXCH LINE OF RAILWAY. From Johnston (late Milford Road) 10 Miljo,'(l. st.. IM r Up v ii. in. iu. p..i'. ■>. •»•. o..11. a. r«>. •• <i'' Milfo-d ..dep 8 35 iO 5i 1 15 4 5> 'j l'l 11 0 4 Johnston arr 8 45 11 It) 1 30 5 9 Q 2^ II 10 5 DOWN TltvISS WEKK OA VS. ]»<•■• N '• a. in. a. ai. o.iri. p. in. ;). a:, a. J. II 20 I 40 a 20 6 38 II 20 a # 11 3 > — I 5i 5 35 6 53

PJiUBROKB-AND TKN fiY" AY, DOWN TRAINS—WE IE II b&TS. ft i,z.gov. i, jrov. i,r. (roT.if.so*. i, ",0: 'I f .'O I. —————— —————— — —————————— —-— a.m. a.m. p.m. Pm. p."t WhltTaimi 6 15 9 50 12 50 6 ft Sarbtrtft. li 30 10 5 1 5 6 14 Kilgetty 6 4U 10 21 1 21 1 28 Saundersfoot 6 51 10 26 1 26 6 r2 Tenby dep 7 20 10 35 I 35 6 43 Penally 7 23 10 33 1 3S 6 48 Manorbeer 7 32 10 52 t47 6 57 Lamphey 7 40 HO 1 a6 7 6 Pembroke 745 U 5 2 0 7 10 rembt-QKe Dock arr 7 5.5 11 15 1 2 10 7 21, VP TRAINS—WEEK DAY"- l, £ OV. 1, .i.gov.jl, 4. ov. l,)j;uv.|it rr.o« — 1- a.m. a.m. p. > I p. PenVokeDock de.- 85 10 30 4): 6 ft I PeiiibroKe .dep 8 13 10 38 4 2.' 6 8 8 Lumpiiey 8 17 10 42 4 2'" 6 12 I Maacrbeer S 27 10 52 4 31 '> ti Penal.y 8 55 11 1 4 6 0* Tenby 8 4 "> 11 10 4 52 b 40 Saandersfoot 8 54 11 20 6 50 hilaretty 8a3 1121 5 3 ij! « Traroertli 915 II 42 5 21 7 JO Wot.latd 9 30 11 5; 31 ? '>1

OdOiSitS "'OR Vli"vV,->PAI*E ilts S >i U VfiUl I Sli>i 1.J •S 6.EC1S1VXD BY THE FOLLOWING AG £ >'VS London 51 r, Joseph Clayton, 320, Strand. ft Mr. G. iteynell,42, Chancery-lane „ Jlr .8. Deacon ,15 4, Leaden hall-sire .HamutCKd&Ncphpw, 77, CheapsHie „ Mr \V hue, 33, Fleet-street.. Mr.H.Artam.OjParlianient-st.vrestiJirtS' Mr.»V. Thon-.a*,21,Catherine— treet,Strs«l „ Newton & Co., to, Essex-street, Stranu- „ Mr. Henrv Green, 5,Chancei Lane „ Nir. William I i, Minc^n^ Lan Ac'.ai-is & rrancis,59,Fieet-atieet i-tveet, '0, Comhill Cardigan Mr. Hougher,bookseller. f;gilgul1rd.Ir. T. ;riSth". Aliltord MT.r. Perkins, 3ustonr.-hon« Narberth Pegistr Newport Mr.John H.fnes I'e nbroke Mr. Orinond Pembroke-dock Mr l'.Trewent. Mr Barrett. ch renbv, .MtTtiotnM.oppoMtptheCharctt oØ \nd bv all Post Masters and l.ews Ageutstbrougo f\' a,id iile.l at P< el's CoHee-hoase, aail johuson's iocei, <* street, and Deacon's offee-liouse, 3, Waibrok, I.oon.¡¡; ilriiited and Pabii hed oy (lie I',oi)rie o.s. IL- LLKWELI.IN and 'IHOMAS U'HICHKB 1'AVIRS, at 1,1 Y Offii-3 in 11 is;h-street, in l tie Pai isO of •■sa.nt • í'1 be County of the Town ot Uave>ioi'dvve8<.« J]Ttiilay..Jani}-iry 7; 1879*