The Illustrated Usk Observer and Raglan Herald

LORD MAYNARD S WILL. The will,vwith eix codicils, of Viscount Maynard, -rassworn under ^650,000. The testator's only son, the Hon. Charles Henry Maynard (to whom the family estates were devised); having died before.the,venerable /iscount, add: without male issue, the estates will: pass to the eldest of his two. infant daughters-in-tail. The jewels, watches, trinkets, and ornaments of the person, are to be divided amongst his lordship's three surviving daughters-*the Hon. Charlotte Capel, the wife of the Hon. Adblphus Capel; the Hon. Emma Ires, the widow of .the late Mr. Jeremiah E. Ives, of Beatworth-hall; Hants (who died in May last); and the Hon. JMia. Maynard. To v 1MS said-daughter, the Hon..Charlotte Capel, his lordship leaves an azmriity of ^1,000 for life, and the like annuity to be paid equally between her ehildren from her decease; to his lerdship's'irtTO other surviving daughters above- aamed there, are^nnsdties of each, with like pro- vision for theithusbaixda and children at their respective Sefetha, Thereis also an immediatelegaoy of £3,000 to the -unmarried daughter, the Hon. Julia Maynard, wmch is to be paid freeof duty. To his two aunts, £ H^a and Asm Barnard, the testator leaves an annuity of £ 200 foe their/joint lives and the life of the sur- irivor, &ndto'his brother-in-law, Mr. George Rabett, a like annuity af..£200. To his land steward, Henry Cheffins, his lordship leaves an annuity of £100 in aoknowIedgrmentoE his long and faithful services and in testimony of his esteem, and to his butler, William Grcggs, and his wife, an annuity;of .£50 each. There are also annuities to hia groom and numerous other servants, aU of which areltd-be paid free of duty. By one of ittie codicils- to the will his lordship -explains that it ha&, been his practice to let cottages on his eistates to the labouring poor at reduced rents, and also to let' portions of his land to them for garden allotments, and he expresses his wish that the f»fisessor» for »thg time rbeing of ithe: estates, should

PUNISHMENT OF BEBELLEADEBS. The Ber; Henry Ward 'Beooher, as a representative of his party, writes thus upon the orime and con- sequences of treason:— I do not know of any crime that is greater than the crime of treason against suoh, a, Governuient as imrs andnl hold that every man that has been a principal acior, a voluntary managing head of any sort, m the late rebellion, and has continued to be such to the la^t,, not only. is guilty of treason, but has easEod most abundantly the extreme penalties of the law. And of. all Southern men I do not know of any that I think worse of than Jeff. Davis. Of course I am liable to be blinded; and WI had found that all the South rleyed. him, and the North hated him, I should have <Mid* that we were contrcilled by the in- fluence of opr class; but I found, that he was disliked z)y the Si by the Southern people even, more than by the Northern people. I did not nnd a man that did him reverence,, but'I found a great many men that de- nounced him. They went further, than I could go in diaoroditing hisKbUity, for I think he basshown much aBility, Bilt itseems to me that hohas been the worst maa, the most deliberately bad man that the South aaa produced, Ho has been a man of fanaticism, and of that kind of fanaticism that largely involves the malignant element. I believe there was no injustice, no cruelty, and no scope of cruelty, and no persistence in it, which he-, was not capable of, if sit was the only way to carry his end. He was one of those men that aoolly violate every principle of. morality for the sake ofiHueeeedingin tbeir purposes. And I regara him as tbamaster crhninal. "Now, when he, with all the other chief rebels, are arrested and tried, if it can be shown that he has been connected with the atrocious conspiracyto assassinate President Lincoln, I know of no reason why he should not give Ins from the g&llowg, just as every other marderer does. If when the facts in the case are brought to light it is determined that he has had a handin this Jjefarioua plot I Shallnothavea word to say, and there will not be a word to be said at home or abroad, against his execution. But if he is convicted only of having heacled this rebellion, in other words, if his offence is a political offence, I believe that he abonld be tried for his life, that he should be con- leiasned to death, and that then hia sentence should be commuted to disfranchisement and banishment for she rest of his days. "So f&r as these men are concerned, we should not liacg them for the sake of their reformation. A-nd if we wish to produce a moral impression on the com- muaity, that is already,produced to a degree that no hanging can equal, ,parallel, oraugmeritin the slightest degroe. Then there i3 another consideration. The public feaoiiment of Europe is against political executions, for in Europe political offenders'have.for the^most part been men that have Bought to ameliorate the condition of the masses; and the common people have come to feel that political executions mean the infliction, by a despotic government, of punishment upon men that have attempted to inaugurate greater freedom. F "iYoumay say, 'They do not understand the case.' No, they do not. You may say, Political offences here are not like political offencesinEurope; political irfTcnces under a RiOpnblican government are not like political offences under a monarchical .government. That ia true; but they do not see it,,and cannot at once be made to see it; and the effect of executing the chief traitors in this country will,be.to produce the feeling in Europe that Republics are cruel. The three charges against republics ,are, first, .that they are lawless; second, that they are insecure; and third, that they are cruel. Bat we have shown the world that, instead of being lawless, they are law- worahippers. Wehaveshown through four years of terrific convulsion that property in them is secure. Never, has this been more completely vindicated than in the subscription of forty, millions a day to the national loan upon the heels of a four years' war. And I want my nation to stand np and defeat the third alander that is made against us, that, in the day of our triumph we are cruel, and to say, We .are, not only the most lawiabiding and the moat steadfast people in the world, but we are the most temperate, the most magnanimous, the most: forbearing in. the hour of ourd:tial.' I would withhold capital: punishment from .these offenders, then, not because they dotBjot deserve.capi-i tal ..punishment, but because its infliction is not de- manded, and because it would create an injurious impression in Europe. I say, take a step of modera- tion in the direction of humanity, beoa-use it will be .understood to the advantage of free government iall j ,the,world over." ———— .1

THE, LATE MRTJGKNEL SCANDAL CASE AND THE BISHOP OF OXFORD. Mrs. Barber, the wife of the defendant, has;sent a; letter to the Bishop of Oxford, in which she says: "My Lord, I "make no apology" for thus addressing your lordship, because I take it for granted that you will make all proper allowance for the feeling's of a lady and a wife, which have been deeply wounded by the publication of your lordship's very equivocal and extraordinary letter to Mr. Howes. Equivocal, because, if your lordship really {believes him wholly innocent, and of whose innocence you have not the faintest shadow of a doubt,' why does your lordship allow so excellent a servant of the church to go out oj your diocese when surely some place might be found where his 'real purity of life would be at once appre- ciated,' without transferring him to, the Bishop of London ? Then it is extraordinary as having imputed to my husband and all his witnesses the crime of per- jury, when your lordship knows nothing of him, hag not made any inquiry of him, or taken the trouble to ascer- tain what character he bears. Though he is only a farmer (and therefore belongs to that honest class of Englishmen who are not generally addicted to perjury and slander), I believe your lordship would have lawnd that it would have borne the strictest investigation but it appears that your lordship has taken it for granted that Mr. Howes must be infailiblefbecause he is upheld by those of his, own order, whose interestfit is to profesa to believe that so great a. ssandatoould not be on their cloth. I thank God that your lord- ship's opinion is not concurred in by the generality of people in this neighbourhood, and which they have fully evinced by the generous and -kind assistance they have rendered Mr. Barber in subscribiirg to pay his bill of costs. I' trust to your lordship's Cihristian feeling for a reply which will do Mr.) Barber justice. Mrs. Barber has received the following ueply:—" Ox- ford, 3rd August, 1865.—Madam, —I am instruofcediby the Bishop of in reply to your letter of the 31st July—to state to you that his lordship has not charged Mr. Barber with perjury, and to suggest that Mr. Howls'innocence is as compatible with mistake as with wilful perjury on the part of his accusers. On the other subjeotsof your letter his lordship decline a to enter.-I have the honour to be, madam, your faithful servant, JOHN M. DAVENPORT. 1

SERIOUS CHARGE .AGAINST A BANKER'S CLERK. James Case, a clerk in the bank of Messrs. Preacott, Grote, and Co., of Threadneedle-street, was brought up at the Mansion-house, before the Lord Mayor, on remand, charged with robbing his employers. Mr. Mullens, solicitor to the London f Bankers' Pro- tection Association, conducted'the prosecution. The prisoner had been in the service of Messrs. Prescott, Grote, aid Co., fonnany yea.ra,.a.nd. it was part; of his duty entirely to manage the account kept by the bank with;Messrs. Barned and Co., of Liverpool, whose London correspondents Mosses. Preacott are. He had sometimes to make cash paymantafor Messrs. Barned that did not pass through the Clearing-house, and on those occasions he was accustomed to apply to one of the cashiers in the bank for the necessary amount, and on receiving the money to give him a voucher or debit note, which would be the cashier's authority for making the payment. The voucher would then be passed to a clerk in the bank, who kept the cheque-ledger, and, after being posted there, would be returned to the prisoner in order to betransmit.ted(by him in due course to Barned and Co. It was the prisoner's duty to send daily to Barued andCo. a, state- ment of receipts and payments on their account, and-to send the vouchers to them weekly. On the 22nd of June last the prisoner applied to Mr. Dennisonya cashier in the bank, for < £ 40 in respect of Barned and Co., which Mr. Dennison paid to him. in two ^220 notes,- and for which he received a vouoher from the prisoner. On the 10th of June Mr. Bernard Barton, a cashier in the bank, made a payment, though he could not say to whom, of X30 on account of Barned and Co., for which he received a voucher, which in due course would pass to Mr. Crosier, the cheque-clerk in the bank, as did the voucher received by from the prisoner for the £ 40. Mr. Crosier proved that he debited Messrs. Barned with both those sums on the days named, on the authority of the vouchers he had reeeived, and that in the ordinary course of business the vouchers would afterwards pass to the prisoner to be forwarded to Messrs. Barned. He pro- duced the ledger account of: Messrs. Barned kept by the prisoner, from which it appeared that on that day the prisoner had debited them with ^830, and that the total of that day's payments made for them amounted to = £ 1,8"M,666 13s. 7d. He alad produced the prisoner's account for that day, which had been returned from Messrs. Barned, sand the total of which was precisely the same as that in the ledger. He had compared the prisoner's daily account with the entries in the prisoner's tledger, and they corres- ponded in every respect except that the .£30 was omitted from the former, and the total in the ledger account of that day was cast up < £ 30 short. On the 22nd of June there was an entry in the ledger of ,£40 in the prisoner's handwriting, debited to Bamod and Co., and the total payments made on their account on that day amounted to £9,593 10s. lOd. In the pri- soner's daily account for the 22nd of June, sent to Barned and Co., the £40 did not appear, and his ledger for that day was cast up £ 40 short. At this stage of the inquiry, The Lord Mayor, on the request of the solicitor for the prosecution, again remanded the -prisoner until Monday, the 7th of August, for further evidence, it net being known at present to what- amount he may, hays-robbed his employers.

Fatal Accident to a Lady.-Vthile ,the tramway carriages on the Southport Pier, Manchester, were running from the pier head on Taesday evening, the hindermost carriage left the rails, and ran against the iron and woodwork which separates the tramway from the footpath. There were only two persons on the car- riage at the time, Mrs. Bateman, of Liverpool, and her san-in-law, both of whom received very serious injuries, their logs being crushed and torn between the railings and the carriage on which they were seated. The wood- work was broken up for a considerable distance, and the fostboard of the carriage was-also smashed. The injured parties were conveyed to the Victoria Hotel, where surgical aid was called in, but in the case of Mrs. Bateman such assistance was unavailing, the lady having received frightful injuries to her legs, one of which was ripped open, and on Wednesday afternoon death put an end to her sufferings. Her son-in-law has also received very severe injuries, and is unable to leave his bed. The causa of the accident is at present a mystery. Determined Attempt at Suicide.—A deter- mined attempt at suicide was made the other day by a respectably dressed woman from WeBtminster- bridge. The act was witnessed by many persons, who saw her mount the parapet and precipitate herself from the bridge, and who immediately gave an alarm. The tide was very low at the time, otherwise no aid could have saved her. As it was, however, fortu- nately a steamer came up, and those on board oaaght hold of her clothes, and threw the life-buoy to her, but she did not make any attempt whatever to save herself. She was immediately conveyed to the hospi- tal. She appeared to be about forty-five years of age.

THE RUSSIAN MURRAIN IN THE LONDON DAIRIES. The alarming spread of the Russian murrain, or cattle disease, in London is deservedly attracting the utmost attention at the present moment. The state- ment of Professor Gamgee at the Marylebene Institu- tion, a few evenings since, indicates the prevalence of the disease, the great destruction of cattle it; has oauaod in the dairies and cattle lairs of the ?metro- polis, i and; the still more serious results with which it may be attended unless prompt and proper-steps are taken to prevent its spreading. The professor says that no less than 2,000 head of cattle have died of the disease during the last month. The :introduction of the malady is attributed to the cattle imported from the Continent, and the remedy appears to lie in a strict surveillance of such importations for the future. It is also suggested that, with a view to. preventing cow-keepers and others from selling off their cattle! the.moment the disease: manifests itself, and thus; spreading it far and wide, a society should be formed; for re-imbursing the owners of such cattle, provided they gave early information of the existence of the disease and caused the beasts; to ,be destroyed. Sir Fitzroy Kèlly sends the following extract of a letter received by him from an eminent .physician in London to the editor of a local contemporary:— I do not know whether your .attention, has been; called to the matter by the public papers,, but I ven- ture to tell you privately of the frightful calamity that overhangs us from the introduction of the Rus- sian pestilence or murrain, which, through.the impor- tation of cattle, has.a,t last come .across to, England. It has begun in London dairies, where it: hag killed; 80 per cent. of the,animals attacked, and is eo frightfully contagious that it attacks all. The worst of it is that so soon as the case appears, the cow-keeper sells off his stock, and the animals Bo: sold spread ■ the disease^ in every direction. It is the opinion of many that the importation of foreign cattle has been, a great mistake. Meat is constantly rising in price in consequence of the destruction effected by the disease imported. At this juncture, eITorts are being made to raise a fund for the purposeof stopping this murrain, which will be a worse calamity than the cotton famine. The mode proposed is to buy up all animals in private dairies ,contaminated or suspected, and to; hinder the disease from being siown broadcast throughout the markets of the country; and to make it the interest of the cow-keeper to detain and not disperse infected animals. This matter was before Parliament, and will be again; but, in the meantime, prompt measures should be resorted to,, to, effectually stop the, importa- tion of diseased, cattle." At the last weekly jmeeting of the representative vestry of St. Maryleboae, prior to the adjournment for the holidays, Mr. Churchwarden Poland in the chair, Dr. Whitmore, the medical oiffcer of health, pre- sented a most important and interesting report as to his investigations on the new disease amongst cattle, described as the "cattle plague," as it prevails throughout the extensive and aristocratic district 6f Marylebone, Mr. Greenwell, the vestry clerk, read the report, which stated that, in consequence of the alarming spread of a new disease amongst cattle, which, for want of a better name, was termed the "cattle plague," and^which was now extensively raging in the London dairies, he had felt it his duty to make a special inspection of all the cow-houses in Marylebone, With a, view of ascertaining their present sanitary1 condition, and to lay before the board such informa- tion as it was possible to obtain of the nature and; character of the disease in question, and the extent to which it prevailed. Those investigations, made withinthe last two days, were at least sufficient to show that the disease had made, and was still, making, and in all human probability would continue to make for some time to come, great ravages, not only in Marylebone but in other districts, and that pre- cautionary measures of the most prompt, com- plete, and stringent character would be required to check and ultimately remove it. In October last the number of licensed cowhouses in Mary- lebone was 70; at present they were reduced to 60, 49 of which he had personally inspected, the remaining 11 by the inspector. Amongst them-were the sheds of all the large dairymen, as well as those in which the disease had made its appearance. The 60 cowhouses contained 1,028 cows, the usual number being 1,314, showing a deficiency of 286, of which about twenty had actually died in their respective sheds, and some 150i more were taken away, infected in various stages of the disease. Of the remainder which were healthy some were sent to the fields and farms near London, and some having become fab and ceased to yield milk were, as is the eustom, sold-to butchers. The actual number of I cowhouses in which the disease had existed, or still existed, amounted to seven, three of which belonged to very large proprietors. In one the number of cows usually kept was 90; of these fivo died on the pre- mises, from 30 to 40 were sent away with the malady, and of those remaining seven or eight were. now in- fected. In another belonging to the same owner 24 cows were usually kept, but five only were left, the remainder having been removed, showing more or less symptoms of the disease. The dairyman stated that on June 19 he purchased a fine, healthy- looking cow at the Islington Cattle Market which came from Edmonton. This animal showed symptoms of the disorder seven days after admission, and the disease rapidly spread amongst the other cows. On the 12th of June he purchased two Dutch cows; ,on the 26th July the disease broke out in the shed, and spread with such fearful rapidity that up to the present time the owner estimated his loss at not less than £500. In the cowshed of another dairyman the number usually kept was between- seventy and eighty, the number was now reduced to sixteen. One died on the premises, and of those removed a large proportion were infected. The owner of this place was strongly of opinion that the disease has been introduced by foreign cattle. After citing a number of other similar cases, Dr. Whitmore observed that one of the largest cow pro- prietors, a very intelligent man, informed him that on the 9th of May last a large number of Russian and Hungarian cows was sent to this country and sold at the port at which they were shipped at 2Jd. per pound, and from the information he had obtained he -believed that most of! these animals were infected. With regard to the nature and symptoms of the disease, Dr. Whitmore agreed with Dr. Gamgee. In two cases he had seen there was general dropsy or air in the tissues beneath the skin, more particularly over the region of the kidney; diarrhoea, discharge from eyes and nostrils, at first copious and watery, but gradually assuming a mucous character. Sink- ing in of hind quarter was a marked symptom of the disease in an advanced stage, and the prostration which supervened speedily terminated in death. From all that he had been enabled to gather he (Dr. Whitmore) was strongly of opinion that this disease had been brought to England by foreign cattle, for in no single instance had he found the disease to exist in those cowhouses, the proprietors of which had care- fully avoided replenishing their stock from the London markets. A very important subject for consideration ipresented itself, and one in which he, as medical ■officer of health to that large parish, felt especially concerned, the extent to which this disease might affect the condition or supply of one of the most Jnutritiveand important of all human aliments—viz., milk. He had made careful inquiries whether any of those persons who attended upon the diseased,cows had been in any way affected, but no single instance of the kind had at present come to his knowledge. With regard tø the sanitary condition of the cow- houses, whilst entertaining the opinion that such places in the midst of a crowded population were great abominations and ought to be removed from amongst the dwellings of men, he readily admitted that the vast majority were washed out two or three times a day, and thus kept clean and well ventilated to the fullest extent of the requirements of the Act. In many, however, he regretted to say he found a great want of sanitary regulation, and the cows looked poor and out of health. The crowded state of some of them, and their close proximity to densely populated courts and alleys would compel him, when the proper time arrived, to oppose the renewal of their licences. Professor Simonds on the Cattle Plague. The following letter relating to the cattle plague has been addressed to the Clerk of the Council by Professor Simendsr- Royal Veterinary College, Aug. 3. Sir,—I beg to submit for your consideration the following suggestions, which have for their object the arresting of the cattle plague, whioh, unfortunately, is now prevailing in several parts of the country as well as in the London dairies. Under such circum- stances, it is much to be feared that, unless farmers, atockowners, cattle-dealers, and others, tvhoae inte- rests.,are immediately involved, cordially co-operate in the-endeavour-to ;quickjye?termi»ate the disease1 wherever, it may appear it .may assume a magnitude ^ightly to ,be, regarded ,as a -great national calamity. Eorithia send it,is important thatall persons should know- ".Firstly. That the. disease, specially belongs to the ox,tribe,; ana. that it has never been kaown to attack any other domesticated animal. "Secondly. That it is ,the most jnføctious, as well as the most fatal, of all diseases attacking cattle, and ,that it lies dormant in the system from seven; to ten days, or often longer, before the .animal itgives any indications, of being infected. ^OI- these yeaaons it is imperatively necessary that the following, precautions be observed:—^ "1. Teat;all newly-purchased eattle of every kind rbe, keep apart from others for a,period of not,leis than twelve; to fourteen days. 1. That every cattle owner keep a ^strict watch over his stock, so as to recognise the first indications of the disease, and, as soon as any of these are mani- fested, call to his assistance the professional aid of a veterinary aMgeon. The early symptoms of the disease, are.msnally.a remarkably ddll.and dispirited condition of the animal, which will stand with its head hanging down, ears drawn back, and coat staring, refusing all food, and occasionally shivering. A watery discharge flows from the eyes and nostrils. The skin is hot,,hut .sometimes', chilly, the temperature varying from time to .time. The extremities are cold, the breathing short and quick, being not unfrequentiy accompanied with moaning as an indication of pain. AiSlight cough, ia sometimes present. The inner part of the^upper lip and roof of the mouth is reddened and often .covered with raw-lookingspots. Thebowels are ,occasionally,,constipated, ;andjin most instances diarrhoea soon ,sets ,in, the .e vacuations beiflg slimy and very;frequently.of aidirty yellow colour..The pros tration of (strength: is, gceat, sthe animal, staggering WMn.made.to move. In, milch cows,the, secretion of m»--IS^pIdlydi.miaish€>d,and-.sooii oeases altogether. iafooted ;cattle be instantly removed trom the healthy, andiplaced in sitaationa as far from i?\as. P°3a™Q- -s a further precaution, it wouid be wes^ "0^iaTe the, healthy, washed and, cleansed. "4. That ,no cattle the subjects of. this disease, be al- lowed, to remain, in any meadow or pasture field unless they can be, perfectly isolated from,all other cattle, as well as>kept at.a aistance of not Jess than,a hundred yards from all roads along .which cattle may be driven. animal which is violently: attacked with the disease be killed at once, and buried without delay, and that the skin be placed in somediswecting fluid, before foeijig sent off the premises. -6. That no cattle be allowed to go near to the burial places until ,several,weeks, have elapsed.. 7. That no person who has the charge, of the sick cattle be allowed,to go.near the healthy ones, and that all indirect communication between the, infected and the healthy, be strictly prevented. "•8. That no fodder or straw .which >has been used about, the infected be taken to other animals, or even thrown, into the fold yard or iupon the manure heap until it be first well sprinkled with chloride of lime,or some, other disinfecting powder. When practicable it is desirable that air such fodder and straw should be burnt. "9. Thatall s hedsand stables. in which diseased cattle have beeri located be thoroughly washed, cleansed,, and ventilated, andlikewise disinfected by. whitewashings with _quick lime before any other cattle are placed therein; and that during their occupancy by the diseased ,all mannreand evacuations) be mingled with some disinfecting agent before being taken away. 10. That all railway cattle-trucks, station-pounds, ships used in the cattle trade, wharves, and other places' where cattle are brought together be kept,as-clean as possible by frequent washings, and that disinfectants be used whenever there is reason to believe that they have been occupied by. diseased cattle. 11. That no store stock, milking cows, or cattle of any kind which have ,been exposed to the intluence, of the infection, by being located with the diseased, be sent to any fair ormarket in less time than a :month after such exposure; and that, in all cases in which it is determined to stay the,.pMgress of the disease by killing animals so, exposed, they being at the time believed to be'fit for human food, the animals be sent direct to the slaughterhouse, when, not killed on the -premises of the owner. Trusting-that these meaanraa omy pt-ovo oCeotive for the public good, I am, air, iyour-most obedient servant. JAS. B. SIMONDS. To the Clerk of the Council in Waiting." ^The following suggestion is made by A Consulting M.D. who thinks the<diseaseimay not beincurable :— I would suggest to owners of infeoWJ animalo to try, bofote giving them np, the effect of bisulphite of soda, the medicine with which Professor Polli, of Milan,, has. so inoculated with virulent, .glanders, .a fatal animal poison, here- tofore. When Professor .Gamgee said, at the cattle- keepers' meeting, that wo knew no remedy to affect animal blood poisons, I suspect he had not read Professor Polli's masterly, series of experiments with sulphurous acid salts, showing, in over one hundred cases, that thia acid, thrown into the blood, not only conquers the animal poison which has contami- nated it, but bestows on the healthy system such powers of resistance to zymotic disease that although the poisonous matter of glanders be actually injected into the large veins, it fails to kill, and only causes a short, though often severe illness. Dr. Cummings, of Cork, has been testing the truth of this by giving the medicine to, families living in the midst of an endefaic scarlet fever. Nearly all so protected have escaped infection, and those who took the fever very soon got over it. Dr. Cffinming's report will be found in the volume of Braithwaite's Reports," just published, and Professor Polli's in the same work, two volumes earlier. If I kept cows now, I would begin at once to protect the healthy. The medicine is quite harmless and cheap. Care must be taken not to confound it with common sulphate of soda, or glaubar salts. It is the bisulphite of either soda or potass that has the power.

CITY BATHS, LAUNDRIES, -frc. A fine stack óf" buildings, under the above designa- tion, have been erected through the enterprise of Mr. A. J. Vieweg, a Wood-street warehouseman, in Golden- lane, Barbican, one of the lowest and most neglected districts in London, where they promise to prove a great moral and social blessing. The history of the undertaking is, in brief, this :Mr. Vieweg, of whose generosity and single-Handedness there can be no doubt, originally set to work to carry out, as he thought, an outlay of ^820,000, his idea of combining for the first time under one roof all the requirements of decency, respectability, and moral-and physical well- being. But he found he had spent nearly < £ 40,000. He seeks no profit whatever for this large outlay. But many of his iiifluontial friends, thinking that he should be at least reimbursed for the great excess of actual expenditure over what he felt able and willing to in. cur at the outset, have come forward with the project of a limited liability company for the completion and carrying out of his views. Mr. Vieweg takes .£14,000, in any case, in shares. Out of any further moneys, whether taken in shares or debentures, he is to be paid cash up to .£10,000. But if no shares or deben- tures are taken, he is to take the XlOIOOO in deben- tures. We give a short description of the building. It cost =840,000, covering an area of 11,000 feet. The buildings consist of a basement, ground, and four other floors. On the basement there are two large tepid swimming baths, first and second class, wherein the working man can have the real luxury of a swim after his day's toil. Here, also, is a. large laundry, worked by steam machinery, and containing eighty washing compartments, with every convenience for drying, mangling, and so forth. These, as likewise all the other parts of the edifice, are thoroughly venti- lated. On the ground floor there is the dining hall, 70ft. by 30ft. This is a light and airy room. It is meanly to be conducted on the Glasgow principle. The kitchens, too, are here; when completed they will be fitted with all modern appliances. There are on this floor also 100 private baths, first and second class. Above are four floors, consisting of tenements for families of two rooms each, varying from 15ft. to 16ft. square. These are approached by several flights of fireproof staircases leading from the street. The roof consists of a series of extensive flats for purposes of recreation. A portion of the building has been set apart for a spacious chapel and school, capable of seating 600 or 700 persons. The water is supplied from a well sunk into the chalk under the premises, some 300 feet deep, and worked by a powerful steam- engine. The baths, &c., were publicly opened on Friday lut.

EXTBACTS WMOM "PXTHGH & FUN. A Word to the Mermaids. Aho-o-o-o-oy, there! off o' that ere cable,, can tycr—that's the tway t'other one was wrecked 11!" mermaids abtjanituni having been gavtiei, ,:Meptwne soft&nA .ft MHe,: ??<< thus eaters into particulars;—) Avaat, there, nor awing on that cable, You mischievous maidens, avast! ÀndrUtell you as well as l'm able, Why that rope in the sea hath.beeu cast. 'Tis, a link of electric connection .^Between the 'New World and the Old; Twill strengthen each tie of affection, Give each nation on each firmer hold. SmåH fear of their faming or fighting, WU, a they join hands thus under the sea WMIe an instwt will serve, for the righting Of any wrong heads that may be. All the close ties of commerce 'twill tighten, To enterprise lend a sure aid: Many burdens on industry lighten, And help to miake,freei. Free Trade. Every spark that is cashed thro' that cable ,Ofsfriendship will light a aeWflame, Nor aday paaa bn t, each land- be able Of H-nionfeeah proof to proclaim. Doubt, distrust, envy, hatred, and malice, _AH will vanish;: ,peace, good-will,, appear; So av^st, there, you Polly and Alice, And mind that 'ere cable's kept clear: The country BIottsea-nd the Town Mouse. A mouse who lived in Belgrave-square—and kept, as a.,matteriof course, his own trap-was invited into the country to dine with a pastoral relative. The dinner was wretched: but the lively guest made so many bnUiant repartees, and was so extremely affable, that he made it appear as if he had never enjoyed a meal so much ,m his life._ He returned the invitation, as in duty bound, and in a few days his country friend same to dine in Belgrave-square. Every luxury of the season was put upon the, table; and the rustic visitor, jealous of the elegant and sumptuous manner in which he was treated, could notconoeal his ill temper. Taking advantage of a trifling aobident that occurred during dinner he flew into a great passion; and hurrying back to the country at the top of his speed, he in- stantly altered his will-and cut his cockney entertainer off .with a shilling. MORAL.—The best-kind of cheese to make use of in mouse-traps is a little piece of double Gloster, toasted- Belgrave-square is in the S.W. postal district. The Countryraan and the Viper. A countryman was outa-walking, quite promiscuous- loike, when he tumbled over a viper, which was stiffened by the frost, and perfectly harmless. The countryman like a fool as he was, took up the reptile and carried it home in his bosom; and the viper, having recovered from the effect of the, cold, expressed his gratitude in the only way he ca-uicl express it—by treating his pre- server's family, who were very fond of ardent spirits, to a friendly nip a\\ round. This generous but mis- taken act cost the viper his life; for the countryman, who was a teetotaller, positively asserted that the nips :in question were no better than poison, and forthwith, put .an end to his guest by cutting him in half, and then sewing' him together again, and pre- serving,himin a jar as an entomological specimen- joining him, in fact, m a glass of spirits; whioh was a pretty thing for:a teetotaller to do. MORAL.—This fable is a> caution to anakea. Even the early bird, who, is notorious for picking up worms, never sends, his bill into.the -viper,! because he knows that it won't pay. AN OLD Aim'B'S'.SA-i.ikTi—"We hear," said old Mr. Jokelyn, "a great deal about paying out the Atlantic Telegraph Cable. Hey ? Now, in paying out the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, the Atlantic Telegraph Company, will have paid out a great deal of money; and when all that money has been paid out, let, us hope the speculation will begin to pay money in." LA .SoNNAMBui.' AFRICAINE.—When will Byron's last burlesque be like the principal tenor air in Meyerbeer's new opera Beau PavarMs sorti 'de t M<.(M f When Miss Wilton takes it into the pro- vinces,, and, it is a ",beau parody sorti de JLondres." UNTVEESITT INTELLIGENCE. During the last month of-hot weather, a stout bachelor received, by--a grace of the Senate, tiael F highest honour that can-be paid to a man k««ro ah this "time of year: the degree of eigfbty m the shade was conferred upon him. THE ITALIAN-SPANISH ÅMBASSADOR.- What did Italy aay when Spain recognised her P Ulloa. MOTTO FOR A .PSOPRIETAKT CHAPSIi.—Prdh Pudor.

CAIRO IN THE PESTILENCE. A .correspondent of the Times, writing from Cairo says:— A few-weeks ago there was no-reason to believe that any; great calamity was impending over us. ThefNile was, indeed, very low, the water assuming a o-reenish hue; the murrain among the cattle had brought tainted meat into the market; -the locusts came and swept part of the produce of the land away but atiP theancrease of mortality was trifling. Then' came re- ports that there was great mortality among the pil. grims at Djedda, but Cairo or Kahira cared little for this; pilgrims who die on the road te Mecca are sup- posed to have an immediate entrance into Paradise and, perhaps, this may in some degree account for the fact that, when a pilgrim falls, his fellow travellers leave him to his fate. Well, at last there came a re- port that a vessel had left Alexandria with an unclean bill of health, and therefore subject to quarantine. A few days afterwards there came intelligence of a oer- tain number of deaths every day; then of an increase" then of an exodus such as was never heard of before among the European population. Clerks fled from their desks; rich Jewish, Greek, and Italian merchants offered vast sums of money to expedite the departure of vessels which had only taken part of their cargoes m; and many in flying from death in the erowded city met it in the crowded ship. Cairo still was untouched until one day an English engineer came in from Alexandria, and died of soas- modic cholera in a few hours. Then, strange to sav instead of ravaging among the ill-fed, badlv clothed native population of the city, it shot its first shafts among a batch of about 30 ruddy-faced English engineers and drivers Just landed on the soil ■ five a- six of them were struck down at once: and'what an evidence we have of the brutal spirit of the Moslem population of this city, in the fact that, as each funeral procession wended its way to the resting-place of the dead, various of the wretched Moslems should clap their hands and say, May it so be with you all' May you all go the same way! But, although pious Moslems began to be more fervid in their devotions it soon became evident they were not a privileged race- the pestilence equa pede made its circle of the citv The Moslems prostrated themselves with their faces* towards Mecca, the Franks became more devout the Jewish quarter on the Sabbath-day was as silent as a Scotch village while the Kirk services are going on every one that could muster even a crutch was at the eynagogue. As the English physician resident in Cairo had more on his hands than he could possibly attend to several of the community fell into the hands of the acting English chaplain, who is also a medical man. Among others the weil-known Lieder, for thirty years the faithful witness or faithful servant of the Church Missionary Society, and for upwards of twenty years the gratuitous chaplain of the English residents in Cairo, was taken ill. For several days before he died Cairo, was taken ill. For several days before he died he strangely lost the faculty of speaking English, and vW £ l ,vari0113 of those beautiful German hymns which had been the solace of his earlier ye8»rs« years. But water! water! water! that is the universal want just now in Cairo. When are we to 5Se water to drink ? And as the fire-worshipper watches f °f-til0 ligllfc of the Eastern sky, so do we watch for the rise of the Nile. What has it risen to-day? An inch. Oh dear! by the 10 th of July it ought to have risen several feet. It is the general opinion that the Cholera King will not take his de- parture until the green putrid waters of the almost stagnant Nile are swept away by the rising floods, which are even now coming down from the mountains of Abyssinia, and the more distant fountains of waters which have their rise far away in the yet, perhaps al- together unexplored souroea of the White Nile