The Illustrated Usk Observer and Raglan Herald

THE COURT. THE Qaeen has been visiting her relations in Ger- many, and has journeyed to well-remembered spots jjjhere Prince Albert had dwelt when young. Her Majesty, under the title of the Duchess of Lancaster, desires to travel incognita. THE Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge have been sojourning with the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, at the Chateauof Rumpenheim, near Frankfort. The Royal party and suite attended Divine service on Sunday, at the Eng- ish church in Frankfort. The Rev. J. S. Flood, the chaplain, officiated and preached. The director of the Frankfort Sang-Verein (Choral Society) presided at the organ. Sir A. Malet, Bart., her British Majesty's Minister at Frankfort, was in attendance on their Royal Highnesses. A crowded congregation was pre- sent at the service. THE Court Circular says that her Majesty's autum- nal trip to Balmoral will most likely take place between the 11th and 18th September. The Prince and Princess of Wales, after attending the ceremony at Coburg, will return direct in a Royal yacht to Aber- deen, and proceed to the Castle of Abergeldie. -The Garter Tower, the residence of Colonel Sir T. M. Bid- dulph, the Master of the Household at Windsor Castle, has been undergoing some external repairs during the absence of its usual occupants. PREPARATIONS are being made for the reception of her Majesty and the Royal Family at Windsor Castle on the 8th inat. His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, When at Sandringham, will commence shooting over his estate and property adjoining, altogether to the extent of 13,000 acres, well stocked with hares, pheasants, and partridges. Their Royal Highnesses are expected to remain at Sandringham until February next. SINCE her Majesty's departure from Windsor Castle some extensive alterations have been commenced in the Vandyke and billiard rooms.

POLITICAL GOSSIP. THERE are thirty-six members of the new House of Commons above sixty years of age, and therefore not liable to serve on committees. IN the last session of Parliament The House of Commons took no less than £ 69,649 in fees. 433 biHs were read a second time, and 347 were passed. IT is stated that at the recent Oxford University election, Mr. Hardy had 1,920 promises, of which 1,904 were polled-only a falling of 16. MR. MILL has subscribed .£20 towards Mr. Hughes' electioneering expenses. THE National debt of the United States on the 31st of July was rather more than 550 millions sterling. This the Gavemment is advised strongly by many leading American financiers to pay off at the rate of one per cent. per annum-a proceeding unexpected and highly creditable to the national sense of probity. REGARDING the vacancy of the junior Lord of the Admiralty, the names mentioned as of the lot mast likely to fnrnish the new lord, are those of Mr. C. Buxton, Mr. Stansfeld, who formerly held the place, Mr. Fenwick, and Lord Enfield, of whom we venture to think the last-named as most likely to be the suo- cessful candidate. SIR NARCISSE BELLEAU, Speaker of the Canadian Legislative Assembly, who was knighted by the Prinoe of Wales in 1860, has been appointed Prime Minister of Canada, in the room of Sir Etienne Tache. THE Spanish papers are emphatic in assuring the public that the expected meeting between Qaeen Isabella and the Emperor and Empress of the French will be purely of a friendly nature, and will have no political significance whatever. VISCOUNT PALMERSTON is in excellent health at Brockett-hall, Herts. The noble Viscount and Vis- countess have a select family circle staying with them, including Viscount and Viscountess Sudley, and the Bight Hon. W. F. Cowper and Mrs. Cowper. THE Duke of Somerset has left his official residence at Whitehall for Portsmouth, accompanied by the Whole of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and Rear-Admiral Lord Clarence Paget, C.B., Secretary, Where the Board will remain during the reception of the French fleet. Ai/ rxono e+ofji f.Kn.f. fchft Ponf.ifinal police have discovered that a foreign officer in the service or the Holy See was forging diplomas of Russian deoora- tionu. A hundred such papers in the Russian lan- guage were found in his apartments when arrested. The object was to gain money by disposing of them. THE following clergymen have seats in the House of Lords as lay peers The Rev. E. Hobart, Earl of Buckinghamshire; Rev. W. G. Howard, Earl of Car- lisle; Very Rev. W. J. Brodrick, Viscount Midleton; Rev. W. Nivill, Earl of Abergavenny; Rev. F. T. Wykeham Fiennes, Lord Saye and Sele; Right Rev. R. J. Eden, Lord Auckland Rev. H. W. Powlett, Lord Bayning; Right Rev. T. Plunket, Lord Plunket; and the Rev. A. Curzon, Lord Scarsdale. In the Scottish peerage there is not one clergyman. In the Irish peer- age there are only two clergymen besides Lord Auck- land, who is an Irish as well as an English baron—viz., the Very Rev. H. de Montmorency, Viscount Mont- morres; and Rev. J. Beresford, Marquis of Waterford. The heir presumptive to the title ot Lord Arundell of Wardour is his brother, a Jesuit priest. The heir pre- sumptive to the Irish barony of Ffrench is also in Roman Catholic orders. The heirs to the titles of Sherard, Stuart de Decies, Buckhurst, Haberton, and Hastings are also clergymen.-Guardian.

MOTIVE POWER IN A NEW SHAPE. A few days since a number of gentlemen chiefly con- nected with the Bradford trade as merchants and wool dealers, met by invitation at the warehouse of Mr. T. M. Pearce, Thornton-road, to inspect the opera- tions of a water engine, there used for the purpose of hoisting or craning wool, but equally applicable for working machinery, driving hydraulic presses, &c. The water engine was put down by Messrs. Rans- bottom and Co., of Blackburn. The engine is supplied with water from the Corporation mains on a pressure of 60 or 70lbs. to the square inch. The water enters a. pair of water engines, each of which possesses a pair of cylinders and pistons. The cylinders oscillate upon trunions, and the effect of this oscillation is to reverse the valvular arrangement, thereby causing a continuous rotatory motion which puts bho hoist in action. The engine has been applied with success to printing machines, to a mortar grinding machine, and other apparatus requiring motive power on a large scale. rhe experiments made on this occasion were quite satisfactory. The hoisting of three sheets of wool or ;ops, eaoh weighing about five owt., did not occupy nore than seven minutes, and the quantity of water jonsuined in the process was about 120 gallons. The application of such an engine to craning purposes ap. )eared to be regarded as an important means of ightening the laborious and exhausting toil of the varehouseman, to say nothing of its great value as an iccaptable substitute for the steam engine, in connec- ;ion with which the risk of accidents either from explosion or fire is inseparable. A series of experi- nents followed, and including the sheets raised in the irst experiment, no fewer than fifteen sheets of wool, veighing in the aggregate 3 tons 15 owt., were raised rom the ground floor to the highest storey of the varehouse in the short space of forty-five minutes. Che entire quantity of water consumed was only 570 gallons, the cost of which was about 6td.

A FRIGHTFUL ASSAULT. John Haydon, a labouring man, was charged at Worship, street with feloniously cutting and wounding John Osborne. A certificate from the London Hospital was put in showing that Osborne had been received into it with injuries of such a severe character as to disable him from attending to give evidence. From the testimony of a man named Edward Baylis it appeared that on the preceding night he accompanied Osborne to a house in Cross-street, Bethnal-green, where the prisoner lives, to make inquiries as to an alleged insult committed Uy him upon the wife of Osborne. That on entering Os- borne was the first to go upstairs, and the witness Baylis almost immediately heard cries of pain and alarm; that he himself went up, and observed Haydon inside a room, the door of which was partly closed, cutting at Osborne with a saw. Blood was pouring down the face of the poor fellow, and he rolled down tho face of the poor fellow, and he rolled down on the stair landing insensible. Baylis, who had retreated into an adjoining apartment from fear, then picked the wounded man up, and conveyed him to a doctor, who directed immediate removal to the hos- pital. Three wounds were near the left temple, in each of which a man's finger would lie. Collins, 201, said that he aasiated in taking Osborne to the hospital, at which time he could not speak. Prisoner closely quest :oned Baylis as to whether he bad not seen Osborne striking blows with a poker, which witness positively denied. Priscner declared that he had acted only in self-de- fence, and alleged that.Osbomo to,a forced the room door wbi'o ko nail his wife were in bed, a circumstance tliat so alarmed him as to induce him to use the saw for the purpose of preventing a complete entry being made. It was the only protection he was in posses- sion of, while Osborne had a poker. Baylis, questioned by the magistrate, again and again denied having seen a poker or any weapon in the hands of Osborne; and the prisoner was re- manded.

ASSASSINATION OF PRINOE ALFRED S COOK. The cook (a. Frenchman) was quietly one evening walking in one of the streets at Bonn, when he met same officers, one of whom said, Get out of the way, you boar." Some words then took place, and one of the gentlemen drew his sabre and cut the cook down the head; not satisfied, however, with this, he rushed at his victim, and gouged one of his eyes out with the hilt of his sword. The poor fellow was taken to an hospital with his eye hanging down on his cheek, and died the next day. The Berlin correspondent of the Times says the cook, Herr Ofct by name, was on the point of starting for Coburg, whither he had been or- dered during the stay of her Majesty, when he met some students in a public thoroughfare, and could not agree with them on the important question as to who was to get out of the way and allow the other to pass. The difference led to a quarrel, in the course of which one of the students, being a volunteer in the Prussian army, and having his broad sword dangling by his side, struck the cook a blow on the head. Herr Ott expired a few hours after the blow, and an inquiry will doubtless be instituted by the military authorities. A correspondent in a later number of the Europe says The name of the debased was Ott, and he 4 was passing with some friend through a street near the University, when they were met by a party of young men, one of them in military uniform, and the others students, who bloekedthe way. Obt and his com- pantonscivillyaakodto be allowed to pass, but the young men not only continued to bar the passage, but assailed them with blows. The students were armed with sticks loaded with lead, and the soldier lifted his sword and struck Ofct twice on the head with it. Ott had not even a cane in his hand, and was utterly defenceless. He was taken to the hospital, where his wounds were dressed, and he was then able to go home; but he died next day, as is supposed, from tetanus. The as- sassin is Count von Eulenberg, son of the Home Minister of Prussia; he is twenty years of age, and a volunteer for a year in the HussarsI When he learned that Ott was dead he fled to Berlin. a The inhabitants of Bonn demand that the law should "take its course re- gardless of the rank of the offender, and indicated their feelings by giving poor Ott an imposing public funeral. There was a long procession on foot, and a number of the wealthier citizens sent their carriages,"

EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH & FUN." The:Salutation at Cherbourg. Air—" The Death of Nelson." Recitative. O'er good Bordeaux, at moderate cost possessed, Britannia cracks her filberts with a zest; May those light wines be hers no end of years, And in exchange France takes our ales and beers! Air. 'Twas we, in Cherbourg gay, • That with the Frenchmen lay, ''fe Each heart was jolly then, Amid the fire and smoke. Our ships were iron and oak, And ditto were our men. Our Dacres marked them on the wave; Three cheers their friends our seamen gave, Nor thought of war and booty. The captains had an extra can Of grog served out to every man, And hollaing was a duty. The harmless cannons roar Along the crowded shore- Our Dacres led the way His ship the Edgar named, Long be that Edgar famed! No man got drunk that day; We drank no mare than what we ought. Our brave. allies' good-will we sought, And not their lives and booty. From mouth to mouth the saying ran, This is the way for every man To have to do his duty." No death, nor any wound, From guns that did but sound, A single breast received; No harm on either aide. Hip, hip, hooray! we cried, To see what fun we've lived Hate between French and English past, And French and English friends at last; Free trade for war and booty." So Gladstone ends what Peel began, And England will confess that man 1 Has rather done his duty.

Railway Lines for Music. If whirling along, we want a song, A railway ride to cheer, "(..1 Many a theme besides the steam Will fit for a rhyme appear. We might chant a stave on the roaring knave, And the ding-dong-bell he'll ring, But his bawling out is a ceaseless shout, Of "urn," "ber," "by," or "ing." So let's sing for Fun of the wandering one* All railway landscapes yield, That dreary man with his terrier tan, Seen always crossing a field. The sparrow may seek to sharpen his beak On the perch of the telegraph wire, But he nothing can know of what flashes below, And the knowledge he doesn't desire.. The oows and the sheep their counsel keep, As the train goes puffing along, And there's little to state of the boy on the gate. In sentiment fit for a song! > But certainly be must a hero be, With some mystery uBreveaied- That dreary man with a terrier tan, Who is always crossing A. field.

From our Neuralgic Contributor. BrE,-So you want comic copy do you ? Well! you won't get any from me, I fancy, unless you likt some- I thing of this sort. Why is a bad tooth geierally E called a hollow one P—Because it makes you aolloa. Or I'll send yon a parody, entitled "Begone, dull £ Caries." <; No! I sternly refuse to write while suffering ii this way. Do you know what neuralgia is like P No not you sitting in your comfortable arm-chair in your dfioe. Well, then, I will tell you. It is as if one particular hollow tooth in yonr head were a small furnithed apartment let to a restless lodger, who keeps on let- ting up, pushing his chair back, ..turning round tlree times, and then sitting down again, and driving tin taolzo into (jilt) carpet. After that I suppose you won't want any comic o<py from me, and if you do, you won't got it.—Yours, OLD RALGIA. A MARGATE MARTYR. —Because your trip didnt agree with yon, you need not call on us to throw ID all the nautical poetry that was ever written. Beside the song is "What are the wild waves saying?" no, "playing," so that the allusion to pitch and toss wai not intended. ROMANTIC. composed by Moon light" want freedom. As that respectable female, Mrs. B- but no! we will respect the privacy oi domestic life-as Mrs. B. would say, You've got the cramp in your lines along o' sitting out in a damp evening!" GRUMPY is very angry because we haven't inserted the contributions he has sent us, and won't transmit him large sums of money for them. If he will kindly send us his address, we will take care to avoid the street. A YOUNG HOUSEKEEPER. domestic servant generally requires a month's notice, but you can turn off your gas without any warning. GROWLER complains that the parish authorities or somebody" have laid down gravel to mend the road in front of his house, and the noise is insuffer- able. Well, he had better begin to remove it, and he will find the parish will take it up sharply. A WETERAN says the temperance people are bother- ing him eternally and tea-urnally to take the pledge, because he is so, fond of grog that he often sees du piicates. He had better tell them to pledge him in a foaming cup of wine." INGENIOUS ICHTHYOLOGICAL DISCOVERY. are more than pleased to have it in our exclusive power to state—and the statement will probably allay the fears of many an over-excited, fervid member of the Church-that the much-talked of and much- dreaded Seal of Confession turns out, after all, to be no other than that harmless creature known to all showmen, such as Barnum and the like, as The Talking Fish." GAMMON, IF TRUE. —By accounts from Hampshire 1 we learn that flitches of bacon in that porciferous county now fetch, wholesale, Is. per pound, and that a breeder in the New Forest last week refused a guinea t each for a litter of pigs seven weeks old. It may well be feared, as it is, that bacon in the South of England will soon be 2s. a pound for what can you expect j but preoious bacon when Forest pigs of seven weeks old are guinea-pigs P THE WORST CON. OF THE SEASON. —When you dine with your friend, and you both have Harvey's j Sauce, why is it equivalent to your riding Pillion { with him ? Because he'd Harvey's Sauce (halve his horse) with you. QUITE CONTRARIWISE. —We are told that "like cures like." We wish our clever homoeopaths would invent a much more valuable system to society by which dislikes should cure dislikes." AN ACUTE ANGLER. —The Judicious Hooker. POLITICO-GEOGRAPHICAL. — Members of the Go- vernment say they prefer the Bark of Ben-out to the Bight of Ben-in. A CON. GUN- DP.UM the difference between a soldier who's served his ammunition and a soldier who's served his country P The first'II discharge his musket, the second must-get his discharge 4

A Publican Fined £ 50.—At the Bilston Police- court, before Messrs. J. Perks and H. Ward, a publi- can named Samuel Burton, of Deep-fields, Sedgley was charged with having in his possession two ounces of grains of Paradise, and two ounces of tobacco for the purpose of mixing them with his malt. Mr. Aloorn the supervisor of Excise, stated that on the 11th of May he visited the defendant's house, and on putting his stick into the vat, he found a. quantity of tobacco and grains of Paradise. He forwarded a sample to the analytical chemist at Somerset-house, London. James < Lacey Tynam said he was an analytical chemist, at Somerset-house, and that he had examined the hops i and found a quantity of grains of Paradise and cut < tobacco. Grains of Paradise would give a fictitious < strength to the ale, and it would require less malt, and the tobacco would give the ale a good colour, and would also stupefy the persons who drank of it. The defendant was fined in the mitigated penalty of £50 < and costa. | ') f:!()'.)¡;I¡ '(' 1"1'

FRACAS IN THE DUBLIN EXHIBITION. Captain. John St. George Cuffe, the Canadian com- missioner at the International Exhibition, appeared before Mr. Allen, at the head police-court, Dablin. on Saturday afternoon, to answer the complaint of Mr. John Frederick Iselin, general superintendent of the exhibition, for having assaulted him. Mr. Sidney, Q.C., appeared for the complainant, and Messrs. J. A. Curran and Beytagh for the defendant. After some preliminary remarks and an excited dis- cussion, John Frederick Iselin said: On the 22ud August the defendant came to my office about a quarter to five o'clock in the afternoon. Mr. Wylde, the secretary of the juries, who is also my clerk, was present. He came to me to ask a pass for an extra, attendant in the evenings. I directed Mr. Wylde to write the pass. After this he spoke of the exhibition being open in the evening, and of the expense he was put to in consequence. He added that he had counsel's opinion that he would have an action against the committee I told him that that was a matter which I should bring before the com- mittee, as it might affect them hereafter. Up to this the tone of the conversation was quite quiet; but sud- denly be got into a passion, and accused me of spying after his department, and of making inquisitorial visits to his attendant respecting his losses. I denied this. He repeated it, and when I told him that he must leave the office he refused, and said he would not do so. I said to him again, I must ask you to leave my office." He said he would not. I answered that he should. I repeated again that he must leave, and he answered, "I dare you to put me out." I then rose from my chair and went across the room. As I did so I passed him, and was about to open the doer and look if there was an attendant or a policeman in the neighbourhood. Before I got to the door Captain Cuffe got in front of me raised the stick which he held in his hand, and struck me several times with it on the head, neck, shoulder, and back. As soon as I could think a little for myself I rushed over and caught him by the arm, and a gentle- man who was in the room, but whom I do not know, seized him from behind to prevent him from further assaulting me. A policeman came up and said, "Do you give him in charge ? I said, I do." In a few moments I went to an adjoining room to get my hat and umbrella, as I was going to the country, and on coming out into the corridor I saw Captain Cuffe with the policeman. The latter told me that it would be necessary for me to go to Lad-lane station to prefer the charge. I was not then prepared to do that, and accordingly I said I would proceed by summons. The policeman released Captain Cuffe, who followed me, and said, You are a coward, sir, and I shall drink your blood." He then went out by one turnstile and I went by another, and that is all I saw of him. I did not make any such overtures to any woman in the Exhibition. I told my clerk, Mr. Wilde, to write the pass when Captain Quffe asked for it. He com- plained of the Exhibition being open untill a late hour at night. I did not tell him that that was a lie, nor make use of the word liar." There was one case of profligacy reported by the police. I never was in com- pany with people of loose character in the Exhibition. I did not say to Captain Cuffe that the letter he had written to the committee about his losses showed what sort of fellow he was. The cross-examination of the witness was directed at great length to alleged acts of incivility on his part to Willie Pape, pianist; Messrs. Allison and Son, of London; Mr. Strahan, of Henry-street and Clare- street, Dublin; and other parties. He denied the allegations made against him in each instance. Mr. John James Wilde and Police-constable 87 B »ave corroborative evidence. Mr. Sidney, Q.C., said this closed the case for the prosecution, and called on Mr. Allen to send it for- ivard for trial. Mr. Curran having addressed the magistrate, the atter said the case would be sent for trial to the city lessions. On the application of Mr. Curran Captain Cuffe was tdmitted to bail, himself in < £ 20 and two sureties in £10 eaoh.

OUR MISCELLANY. -+- The Matterhorn. Where Ether dims the Alpine steeps, Beyond the verge where mortals stray; Calm on the Berg young Douglas sleeps, Whence none may bear his corse away. For monarch ne'er had tomb so grand, However potent was his sway; No conqueror led a nobler band Than perished there that fatal day. His grave shall mark the meteor's trail, Its beacon flame the lightning flash; His requiem be the tempest's wail, As whirlwinds with the thunder clash. There stars will ever shed their light; The sun will gild each rising morn; His winding sheet-the glacier bright; His monument—the Matterhorn! S. S. HORNOR, in Sunday Times. Remembered Tones.- I heard a sweeter voice last night Than I have heard for many a day, Attuned to melody as light As zephyr's breath, or fairy lay; It seemed to tell of life's young spring TJnshadowed by the clouds of time, When love, and hope, and everything Went sweetly as a matin chime. Mine ear, perchance, may never more Be captive led by that dear tone- Ne'er run again its numbers o'er In sweet felicity alone; Yet, like the perfume of the May, That lingers tho' the May depart, That gentle song for many a day, Shall wake an echo in my heart." -Daisi,es in the G-m.ss Men-Gossips.- To speak ill of your friend to his face is bad manners; but to asperse him to a party of mutual friends when he is not there is quite the thing." It is really saddening to find how common this practice is in upper-class and middle-class dwell. ings. We once spent the day at the house of a literary man of some distinction, and should have known better. One of the guests was an artist of name and ability who should also have known better; yet the conversation could be compared to nothing so much as to the passing sentence on a gaol-delivery of notorious characters. Author and artist vied with each other in judicial, or rather in extra-judicial, severity. Statesmen, literary men, painters, clergymen, patriots, exiles—all were arraigned and condemned. One was a coxcomb, another a common cheat, a third a hypocrite, a fourth a clever profligate, a fifth a profligate and fool com- ibined, a sixth a snob and sycophant, and so on. A Slashing Article—Editors, like other shrewd men, must live with their eyes and ears open. The following story is told of one who started a paper in an American western town. The town was infested '):1 gamblers, whose presence was a source of annoy- mce to the citizens, who told the editor that if he did :ot come out against them they would not patronise lis paper.^ He replied that he would give them a smasher" next day. Sare enough, his next issue ontained the promised smasher;" and on the fol- bwing morning the redoubtable editor, with scissors ii hand, was seated in his sanctum, when in walked alarge man, with a horsewhip in his hand, who de- randed to know if the editor was in. No, sir," was tie reply; he has stepped out. Take a seat and rad the papers-he will return in a minute." Down at the indignant man of cards, crossed his legs with lis whip between them, and commenced reading a japer. In the meantime the editor quietly vamoosed cown-stairs, and at the landing he met another ex- ated man with a cudgel in his hand, who asked if the ditor was in ? Yes, sir," was the quick response; I you will find him seated upstairs, reading a news- taper." The latter, on entering the room, with a lirious oath, commenced a violent assault upon the brmer, which was resitted with equal ferocity. The fcjht was continued till they had both rolled to the fot of the stairs, and had pounded each other to their hart's content. An Eligible Candidate.—The following is an e:act copy of a letter which has been received as an application to be employed as a river keeper in con- Eiction with the Thames Angling Preservation So. city:—"Sir, Eye Have take the Liberty of Righting tcyou for Eye Have Seen in the Paper there Is sum Kpers wanted And Eye Am Use to the River Oes And Hive Been Brought up With Fishing All for Years Aid can go With Any Person With Nets or Any otier way so that Eye shoald Not Be Lost in Any Way About Fishing And. sir you can Right for my I carater And You can Have 12 years Good csrate r fo: Me And can swim very fair for one that CMlot. Crsi Practis Every Day Sir you Must excuse Me for Eye Have been imployed the Locomotive Works for Eye Never tried for Any Were till Eye seen this iu the Paper And Eye Am Shore that Eve Do for.A keeper or to Look After Game for Eye can Bear Any sort of Game for it Is my indever to Do so And to Jfy Master And Please to send Me What the Wages Are Whispering Galleries. — Whispering gaifetee are curious as being links in the chain of endeavonr lessen distance by artificial contrivances and which, after germinating in men's minds for at least 2,0GC years, have sprung forth in the advanced form of the telegraph. The Romans did a little pioneering work in this direction, by the transmission of sound throiigh. pipes, laid in the old length of Valium, known as the old Roman wall, which, by the way, is a most wondrous curiosity of architecture itself. Mediar/itl whispering galleries appear to have partaken more ef the nature of echoes. In Stuart time the whlspermg. place in Gloucester Cathedral was considered one of the wonders of the land. It is thus mentioned by Edward Phillips, the nephew of Milton A remark. able curiosity in the cathedral of Gloucester, being a waU built so in an arch of the church, that if a mas whispers never so low at one end, another that .lay.? his ear to the other end shall hear each diatinc-t sellable." The whispering-gallery of Sir Christopher Wren, in St. Paul's Cathedral, may be said to be the only well-known example of this type of curiosity. The semi-cupola recesses on old Westmrnster-bridga have gone.—Builder. A Mighty Thick Fog.—A rather Ioquacioua ir; dividual was endeavouring to draw an old man into conversation, but hitherto without much success, the old fellow having sufficient discernment to see that his object was to make a little sport for the passengers at his expense. At length, says loquacious individual "I suppose you consider down East a right smart place; but I guess it would puzzle them to get up qui ts so thick a fog as we are having here this mornwfr) wouldn't it ? "WeB." said the old man, I dov't know about that. I hired one of your Massachusetts chaps to work for me last summer, and one zatdex- foggy mornin' I sent him down to the meadow to lay a few courses of shingle on a new barn I was finiahm off. At dinner-time the fellow came up, and sea he- That's an almighty long barn of yourn'. Sez I, 'Net very long.' Well,' says he,' I've been to work all this forenoon, and haven't got one course laid yelv Well,' sez I, you're a lazy fellow, that's all I've gat to say.' And so after dinner I went down to see what he'd been about, and I'll be thundered if he hadEvt shingled more than a hundred foot right out mi arc fog.The American Joe Mille,.e. The Showman and the Sperrits."—I sed if Bill Tompkins, who was once my partner in the sho w biznisa, was sober, I should like to converse with him a few periods "Is the Sperret of William Tompkins present ? said I of the long hared chaps, and there was three knox on the table. Sez I: "W iilialB, how goze it, Old Sweetness?" "Pretty ruff, oli hosa,1 he replide. Thitt was a pleasant way we had of ai- dressin eech other when he was in the flesh, "Ais- you in the show biziniss, William P sed 1. He sed he was. He sed he and John Bunyan wag travellin with a side ahowin connection with Shakepere, Jeimun and Co.'s circus. He sed old Bun (meaning Mr, Bun- yan) staned up the ai-imila and ground the organ while he tended the door. OooaAhnnalIy Mr. Banyan sang a oornio song. The circus was doin middlin welL Bill Shakspeer had made a grate hit with Old Bob Sitfley, and Ben Jonson was deSlit.in the people with. his trooly grate ax of horsemanship without saddul or bridal. They was rehersin Dixey's Land and expected it would knock the people. Stz I, IVilliam, my luvely friend, can yoa pay me that tbirteen dollora J'OO- owe me ?" He sed no, with one of the moat trernes, jis knox I ever experiunsed. The sircle said he had gone. Air you gone, William r" he asked. H .Reyio ther," he replide, and I knowd it was no use to the subjeck fllrder.-Artemns Ward. Mr. Owen Meredith Again.—In the Co-mmu, Magazine for November, 1860, appeared a poem en- titled Last Words," by Owen Meredith. The verges ended thus:— U Night sleeps. The hoarse wolf howls not near- No dull owl beats the casement, and no rough-bearded star Stares on my mild departure from yon dark window fcac." The Cornhill Magazine for May, 1865 (in an article the Dramatists of the Elizabethan era), contains the:, following quotation from Webster:- No rough-bearded comet Stares on thy mild departure; the dull owl Beats not against thy casement;—the hoarse wo# Scents not thy carrion." How ourious is this coincidence! A poet dies. More than two centuries elapse, and then another poet urimk who repeats the ideas and images of his half-forgotten predecessor in nearly the same order and in preei&vi^r the same language! So far as we are aware geieRes has no data yet awhile on which to explain the pb& nomenon but nobody can fail to see in it an admirable though mysterious provision for handing down from, centary to century the nobler thoughts of the human race. There is, indeed, a more simple explanation, bi t it is one which Mr. Meredith himself would reject wth; scorn, and until he contradicts us who knows best we- must abide by our own view. If he could be persuaded to speak, he would probably oodirm it; and it really be a comfoxt to know that as soon as a great poet is fairly neglected or nearly forgotten, bard is produced who repeats all his good things witk out the bothering old spelling. Then might we. say. indeed, the poet never dies. Owen Meredith certainly- seema to be a genius of this strangely tautological but; most serviceable kind. His claims to such distinction have been urged before; but we do not remember any passage in his works that can be relied on to establish his character with greater security than that we ha.yft quoted above.-Pall Mall Gazette.

SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WOMAN aT MAIDA-BILL. An inquiry was held by Dr. Lankester, at the Pirovt- fn,v.^ P P^dlnot°n, last week, relative to the two years & 7 H,"ggfn3' The deceased was a domestic servant, but being cue of place was living with her mother at 23, Devonshire' street, Westbourne-road. She was keeping' ootn* pany with a young man named John Fawley, and several witnesses detailed the particulars of thE). quarrel which led to her suicide. It appeared from their testimony that on Saturday last the deceased and her lover were in the Green Man public-house in tt, Edgware-road, and that she found a sixpence, Her- friend proposed that she should spend it, but she said, I like a young man to spend money on me, I upon him," As she was leaving the house with the sixpence she accidently knocked Fowley's pipa into his mouth. He boxed her ears, instantly sayin" that she did it on purpose. She eaught hoM of his scarf and twisted it. In his evidence he stated that she nearly strangled him, and o prevent that calamity he knocked her down. Her head and face* were cut open by the fall on the pavement, and her dress and apron were covered with blood. She applied to two police-constables to take her lover into custody but her sister, Alice Higgins, deposed, they said thus as he was her young man she would never a&rmjf against him in the morning, and the best way be for her to summons him. She complained aster- muds that she felt quite lightheaded. She said i;6I" her sister that she should never get over that quarrel and that she would punish Eovvley in another way." On Tuesday night tihe wi..bed her friends good-bye, sajing that she was going out. She left her crinolin.9 outside her mother's door, and went out and hadsc ffi s pnger beer. The next morning her body was focad aoatmg in the Regent's canal at Maida-hiil The Coroner having remarked upon the case, said jhat there was no doubt whatever that the deceased. lad committed suicide, but as no witnesses haiJ seen ler throw herself into the water it would be better-to return an open verdict. The jury accordingly returned a verdict, "Thai the leceased was found drowned in the Regent's e?ai& £ & Maida-hill, but that how she came into thc- wwter <&ere was no evidence to prove."

A Woman Killed by a, Bull On Sunday mora* Di!, last the wife of a respectable farmer namoo d'Causland, living on the main road to Ocnaph near 3ix Mile Cross, county Tyrone, went to a field adioin- EO- the house to look after some cattle. Unforf-u, ititely for the poor woman she wrapped he-self up is luwe sort of covering which she was cot in the habit ,1 doing. Amongst the cattle was a bull, which not mowing the woman m-the strange dress, ran after .ad attacked her with fearful violence killing her >efore any one could render assistance. She has let> Pohind, her a husband and rine young children.