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LITERATURE AND THE ARTS. --
LITERATURE AND THE ARTS. THE first edition of the "North-West Passage," written by Viscount Milton, M.P., and Dr. Cheadle, having been rapidly exhausted, the publishers, Messrs. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, have advertised a second edition of that valuable work, which is now ready. A NEW and superior edition of Cassell's History of England," illustrated with 2,000 wood engravings, is about te be issued on toned paper in weekly and monthly parts. The first number will be out on the 4th of October, and the first part on the 30th of the same month. LONGFELLOW, the poet, ia said to be engaged on a new story in verse, the incidents of which are drawn from the war. The measure is chiefly hexameter, and the poem will possess some of the characteristics of "Evangeline." THE grave has now closed (says the Athenaeum) over the last of a poet's household. The widow of Moore rests by her husband's side. The voice of song had long been silenced in the little bower at Sloperton, where she who once listened lived on the memories of the old sweet echoes:— -In future hours, some bard will say Of her who heard and him who sang the lay, They are gone! They both are gone The papers which have announced the death of Mrs. Moore, early last week, have agreed in mis-stating her age, which they set down at sixty-eight. As she married Moore in 1811, this would imply that she was only fourteen when she married the bard, who was then in his thirty-third year! The difference between their ages was by no means so great. Another, and a graver mistake, is the repetition of the malignant assertion of "the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker," made by him almost before Moore was buried, that the poet was a husband that cared little for his wife! This assertion gave great pain to Mrs. Moore, and was resented by Lord John Russell. The Right Hon. John Wilson Croker," however, only aggravated his unmanly offence by sneering at Moore's widow as Lord John's interesting victim." All this malignity was the frait of well-nursed wrath, which was excited by the fact that fifty years before Moore had. omitted to name Mr. Croker in the notes to Anacreon. Setting aside the terrible affliction of the loss of all their children, the home of Tom Moore and Bessy was a happy one. Because his journal only records his I Sittings abroad, and barely alludes to his home except in notice of some labour there, and thankfulness that he had leisure to perform it ;-because he sang lightly nf Brilliant short pleasure that flashes and dies,— men are apt to forget that the poet was a solid scholar, and that his knowledge of patristic litera- ture was more real than his acquaintance with Fanny of Timmol. It has also been said that Moore seldem or never alludes to his wife in his poetry. He was not publicly uxorious, but all his allusions are in exquisite taste, and a hundred pas- sages in his diary are testimonies to the worth of his admirable wife, and to the high estimation in which he held her. "Then come," he says, in his metrical invitation to Lord Lansdowne to dine at Sloperton- Then come—if a board so untempting hath power To win thee from grandeur, its best shall be thine: And there's one, long the light of the bard's happy bower, Who,smiling, will blend her bright welcome with mine. IT is proposed to purchase by subscription and to preserve, as a memorial cf Chaucer, the Talbot Inn, in the Borough High-street. The testimony of admira- tion thus proposed would be so far imperfect that it would be hard to prove any portion of the structure in question to be so old as the time of Chaucer. THE graceful compliment which we paid to the French people in erecting a monument to Lieutenant Bellot, in the front of Greenwich Hospital, our neigh- bours have returned to us by erecting a monument to Dr. Jenner at Boulogne, which, with appropriate ceremony, has beau juiuuvtjred. May suchoour- tesies continue between us for ever! EXPERIMENTS have been made at Birmingham to try the effect of the magnesium light when attached to a balloon in the air. The experiments were very striking in their effects, the light thrown forth being most brilliant, lighting up the whole heavens, and illuminating the streets, houses, and crowds of people with a distinctness almost equal to day. A JET EXHIBITION has taken place at Whitby. It consisted of works of art exclusively formed in jet, and was held in St. Hilda's-hall. The Marchioness of Normanby opened the exhibition. In all there were forty-one prizes awarded, which will be distributed to the winners by the Marchioness of Normanby at the close of the exhibition. ft ft To mark the recent retirement of Dr. Corrigan from the Presidentship of the King and Queen's College, Dublin, to which office that gentleman had for several successive years been re-elected, a marble statue and a portrait in oils are to be placed in the hall of that institution. The portrait is by Mr. Catterson Smith, President of the Royal Hibernian Academy, and now in the Dublin International Exhibition. The commis- sion fer the st&tue is placed in the hands of Mr. Foley, R.A., who is also engaged on a similar work of Sir Henry Marsh, M.D., for the same institution. AMONG the recent acquisitions to the South Ken- sington Museum are a vast number of articles pre- sented by the Rev. R. Brooke, of Selby. In addition to those previously announced, as derived from the same source, the following may be mentioned as re- presenting whole classes of objects: Medallions, miniatures, bead-work, ornaments for personal use in steel and gold, bijouterie, and suits of clothing-com. prising court- suits, both for ladies and gentlemen, and portions of the same, including lace aprons, embroidery, brocade,mantillas,boddices,waistcoats,skirts,kerchiefs, trimming, epaulettes, sword-belts, swords, sabres, shoe- buckles, buttons, pins, necklaces, and a host of such things, mostly of the eighteenth-century manufacture. The same gentleman has also given many gold and In silver coins, principally of the last and preceding cen- turies, and of Portuguese, English, French, and Irish minting, and, in addition, several books. Other pur- chases and gifts include a boat-shaped incense-holder of rock-crystal, probably Spanish, c. 1540,-A sweet- Nteat box, decorated with chasings in silver and attri- buted to J. Callot, c. 1620,-Plates of enamelled Rho- dian or Persian ware, painted with roses, scrolls, &c., —A portrait of Mrs. Everard, by Gainsborough, pre- sented by W. Freeman, Esq.,—A pax of gilt metal, with champleve enamels, French, c. 1340,-A circular rilievo of the Saviour bearing the cross, gold, repousse, German, c. 1370,-A boxwood box and cover, with a neck and knob of silver chased, the body carved with the events of the Passion, Venetian, 14th century (?),- A bottle of rock-crystal, oval, with scroll foliage cut in relief, Byzantine-Greek, eleventh or twelfth century,-Medicine-chest, covered with green satin embroidered with flowers in white satin and gold thread; the interior fittings consist of six phials of ruby glass, with silver-gilt tops, a two-handled cup, spoon, patula, diminutive spoon and fork, all silver- gilt French, first half of the seventeenth century, said to have belonged to Louis XIII.A pair of lady's shoes, said to have belonged to Queen Charlotte, &c.
A NOVEL JOINT-STOCK COMPANY.
A NOVEL JOINT-STOCK COMPANY. A number of gentlemen who are interested in the elevation of the working classes have commenced a company, called "The Clayton Forge Company," for the manufacture of boiler plates and of bar iron, on the principle of dividing profits with the workmen and the customers. The scheme, shortly described, is as follows :-All profits up to ten per cent. will belong to the shareholders all above ton per cent., after pro. viding for repairs and renewals of plant, is to be divided into three equal portions, the first of which will belong to the shareholders, the second to the workmen, and the third to the customers. The subdivision amongst the workmen are to be in accord- ance with the wages earned by each, and the subdivi- sions amongst the customers according to the pur- chases made by each. Thus the scheme says to the shareholders, We hope to pay you something more than 10 per cent. for your investments;" to the workmen it says, "You shall no longer have reason to complain that your employers get an undue share of the profits, for if they earn more than 10 per cent. you shall share it; and to the customers it says, "Our best exertions shall be at your servioe, and you shall not pay too much for your iron, for if we earn more than ten per oent. you shall have a share of the excess as extra discount." We believo that Messrs. Briggs, the colliery proprietors of Normanton, have already tried the division of profits amongst the workmen with good effect, and there is every reason to believe that the principle will spread not only in that but in other employments. The division amongst customers is a new idea, and is of course intended to secure orders in all states of trade and, we hope and believe, will be found to answer the purpose of the promoters.
DEATH FROM STARVATION.
DEATH FROM STARVATION. Mr. John Humphreys, the coroner for East Middle- sex, recently held an inquiry at the Welling- ton Tavern, Cannon-street, St. George's in the- East, relative to the death of Thomas Henry Huffer, aged two years, who died under the subjoined circumstances:—The evidence went to prove that the parents occupied almost an empty room at No. 11, Chopper's-court, Cannon-street, near Rat- cliff-highway. The father was a fireman on board the steamship Asia, and his wages were.£3 10s. a month. He was generally absent about two months on the voyage, but only allowed his wife and family a small portion of his advance pay. On Wednes- day last the deceased, who was shockingly emaciated, was found dead on a mattrass. The father of the child was called, and he admitted that, although his wife had been ill since last February, he had never allowed her to have a doctor. The Coroner (with much warmth) told the father to leave the court, for he was a disgusting brute, void of common humanity, and a disgrace to society. Mr. Thomas Overton, the coroner's officer, said that when he heard of the death of the child he went up into the r room to make the necessary inquiry, he found that there was nothing in the place but an old bedstead, a chair, and a ricketty table. The mother of the de- ceased child was apparently destitute, and unable from weakness to do anything. He at once made the re- lieving officer acquainted with the urgency of the case, and the children and mother were relieved and seen by the medical officer of the parish. He never saw such a wretched condition of poverty during the whole of his long experience. Elizabeth Huffer, the daughter, said that her mother used to earn a trifle by making slop shirts; but if she worked early and late she could only earn 2a. 3d. a week. Dr. Belcher, the medical officer of the parish of St. George's-in-the-Eaat, said that he found the child dead, and the body terribly emaciated. He had made a post-mortem examination, and found the lungs congested; the other organs were generally healthy. The immediate cause of death was the effusion of serum on the brain produced by ex- haustion from inanition, or the want of sufficient food. The jury returned a verdict to the effect, That the deceased died from effusion on the brain brought on by the want of food and proper nourishment through the negligence of the father."
EXTRACTS FROM " PUNCH " &…
EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH & FUK The Armstrong and Whitworth Guns. We've dogs and cats for mioe and rats, We've gins, and traps, and bane. Caught unawares by means of snares Are stoats and weasels slain. And so we may catch birds of prey, And kill off nasty things That fly or crawl, vile vermin all That plague with teeth or stings. At little price, from rats and mice, The house and barn we free, Rid field and wood of rapine's brood, And beds of bug and flea. But oh, what cost must needs be lost, How many brave men too, Would we keep down the Austrian lown, Or Prussian thief subdue! There's no cheap mean, that can be seen, Which we, while risk we scape, May so employ as to destroy III beasts in human shape. It is too true all we can do To bate the foreign pest Is, stick to drill, and arms that kill Forge better thtn their best. Answers to correspondents. AN ANXIOUS INQUIRER.—We are not in the secret of the repository or the repository of the secret. If you want to know more of the mysterious mansion you had better ring the bell, and then run away and see if anything follows. A REJECTED ONE asks how we can have the heart to decline his contributions. Since he is so anatomi- cally particular, we beg to inform him that, besides the heart, we have the waist-paper basket. A WOULD-BE PEER wishes to know whether he can purchase a title. Of course he can, and a preface and index too, and all for the small charge of one penny. A.pply at our office. Romantic Incident. Scene in a Secluded Glen. Henry; Good bye, dearest Emily, we may never meet again. Give me some love-token, which shall re- call your loved image to my memory- some treasured trifle, which shall remind me always of the happy past. Emily, my heart's idol, pray give me a lock of your beautiful hair ? Emily (deeply affected, and beginning to sob): My darliing Henry, I cannot—dare not give you a lock of my hair. Still, as I cannot refuse anything, here take -take, my best-beloved, this chignon instead. (Ridiculous confusion of Henry at having the article in puestion put into his hands there and then.) Pqntagruelism. Mr. David Salomons, in the Star, recommends that all cows, under medical treatment, should have given to them, several times a day, certain "stimulants, such as strong ale with gruel, or brandy with gruel." Perhaps the strong ale and brandy would not be a bad thing for the poor creatures to revive their animal spirits. We fancy there are hundreds of poor agricul- turists, who, whether ill or not, would not mind being subjected to the same medical treatment;" only, if they were allowed a choice, they might probably prefer the brandy, and the strong ale," without the gruel. A Few Lines for a Cable. By One icho MO.sm't on Board the Great Eastern. Hopes of laying the line should ne'er, I opine, Have sunk with the breakage a-Btarn; Russell should have been able to make a new cable,- He's a good hand at spinning a yarn. THE BRIGAND'S BANKER.—We have it on the authority of Mr. Moena to state, that the only banker the Brigands have is Ransom. PLEASE THE pws.-The boar which won the first Erize at the late Royal Agricultural Show at Car.low as been bought by Baron Rothschild. Considering the Baron's nationality, this purchase is pig-culiar, to say the least. WHY are wooden ships as compared with iron-clads of the female sex? Because they're the weaker vessels. WHY is the most fashionable clothing to be pro- cured in the Blackfriars-road ? Because they always have the New Cut there. COUNTING YOUR CHICKENS.—Among the novelties of the day, according to a contemporary, is a National Poultry Company. If they can combine their poultry with CheapBide, in these days of bad beef, the hen- ergetic promoters may succeed beyond their most sanguine cackle-ations. THE PERQUISITES QUESTION.—The newspapers tell us of a nobleman's steward who died recently pos- sessed of persenal property to an amount which (un- less a steward's salary is considerably larger than we had ever imagined it to be) seems enormous. The whole of his property, we are told, he has bequeathed to his noble employer! It is not for us to say how the steward came by his money, bat the mode in which he has disposed of it certainly looks suspiciously like restitution. [P.S. The paragraph in question turned out to be a mere wooden-legged canard, but that's no reason why we should not have our bO;¿inot upon it. We can rectify it next week.] AN OBLIGATION BOTH WAYS.—The French are fond of saying Noblesse oblige," and so it does occa- sionally as, for instance, when an appreciative noble- man sends us up a haunch of venison, or a basket of salmon, or a nice little hamper filled with every variety of game. In such a case, we must confess, nobility does oblige in a way that is most truly acceptable. CURE FOR THE CATTLE PLAGUE.—It is possible that the disease which is now carrying off the cattle (as a Scotchman says like Rob Roy) might have been arrested if the bull had in the first ipstance been taken t y the home.
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THREATENING LETTER TO HERR…
THREATENING LETTER TO HERR VON BISMARCK. A threatening letter of a violent character has been addressed to Herr Von Bismarck by a political enthusiast signing himself "Rudolph, President of the Iron Bond." It is dated from Frankfort-on-the- Maine, and is as follows :— Herr Minister,-Up to the present time we have let you do as you liked, being of opinion you were at least not so wretched a cur as to condescend to such meanness as huckstering with countries, but the thing must now come to an end. Herr Minister, if you de not instantly see that the Schleswig-Holsteiners obtain their rights and remain undivided, and if you do not give back Lauenburg, we swear to you that, within a fortnight, your head shall no longer occupy its present position. Your whole army of police cannot pro- tect you from our daggers when your head has been drawn by lot. Should the Viennese joker not he would meet the same fate as your excellency, for such trash is of no value. We want neither an enlarged Austria, nor still less an en- larged great power in Prussia. We demand a Parlia- ment, and the independence of every individual country with or without a sovereign. Those princes who will not comply with the will of the people shall be beheaded, and their families banished for ever: those who are wil- ling to remain at the head of affairs as really constitu- tional princes- i. e., to yield to the wish of the German population, shall remain unharmed, and they wilLJje supported in case of necessity; but matters can no longer go on as now. You are the worst and most common fellow hitherto occupying a seat among Ger- man Ministers. This is in brief our will, and you are assuredly doomed to death if the Schleswig-Holateiners and their Duke do not obtain their rights. In case you m¡"y wish to reply, you answer can be fetched from any office in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, so that you have only to put your remarks into the appro- priate box."
OUR MISCELLANY. -+-
OUR MISCELLANY. -+- The Bride and Her Groom.-By POLICEMAN X. From the Standard 0 pleasant is a. parson's life- Beneath no cares to writhe, To spend your trooly rooral days Midst smiling rustics blythe; And drive your Poney oarridge hout Collectin of your Tythe. But hevry rose has got a thorne, Vich him that smells it feels; Though at a. distans hit alone Its pooty looks reweals- And even Parsons has sum cares f Beyond their daily meals. Sometimes his curates goes estray, Or Bishops thwarts his course; Sometimes hit ia a. unpayed Tythe, Sometimes a limpin orse; Sometimes it is his childering dear- So 'twas with Mister + Vich + by name he was, but not I hopes by nature so; Miss Alice was his daughter fair, And she had chose a Bo (The brightest eyes that shoots fourth darts Will sometimes hame them low). Equestering exercise she took Whenever she'd a mind, George Smith, the groomb (haged 18 years), He should have rode behind- But hoft he cum up side by Bide, Miss Alice was so kind! And to tho stablest she would go Her darling nags to view (Vich whilst she kissed their noses warm— As most young ladies do- Preaps, by haccident, she mite Have fondled George's too). Vich wen her father came to find This orrifying fac, I ope he neither swor nor oust (No parson so should ack), But he gave Miss A. a scolding sharp. And Mister George the sack. Ho, fancy these young loviers then, Ow sad their fate did loomb- Pore Alice she was sent upstairs, And ad to keep er roomb; And pity us was the fliction hof That pore young Boy the Groomb. But love at locksmiths laughs, they say. And so (it wosn't right) Sly Alice, wen 'twas dark, displayed A burnin paper light, Attractin George, to whom she vowed, We'll fly this very night." Then she goes and packs her cloze (Vich sum was her mamma's), And down the ivied wall she climbs, Dispizin locks and bars, And to the Rail five miles they walks By lite of moon and stars. Vich Alice then esumed kermand (Has females loves to do), And took his capital away (Vich were just X5 2a. Od.), And bought two tickets for herself And George to Waterloo. Ven Doctors'-commons waked that morn, The coves in aprins white Observed (vich was to them a sweet And soul inspirin sight) Oar Innicents a wanderin round In anxshus puzzled plight. Beneath the Arch those veskits vite, They led the infants in, But R! too soon they turned them out, Whilst lookers-on did grin- Without her Pa they couldn't get A Lisins to begin! Their true love's course untimely ehecked By hobstacles like these, Towards Wands worth-common off they set, And sat beneath the trees, And sor the windmill turnin round, And herd the oacklin geese. Vich rooral sounds inspirin hope, They jo-ins each other's hands, And off they goes, and tells the clerk To publish of their bans, And takes a lodgin in Love-lane In a terras called St. Hans. But soon to that abode of Bliss Inspector Lovelace came (It's hodd that such a man as im Should av a hammerous name), And on a vile phelonious charge He stopped their little game. Pore George te took afore the Beak, j Where Mister + erose, j And swore he steeled his daughter's ieari J And likewise stole her cloze J (Vich she it was as rifled him, As well my reader noze). Brave Alice boldly pled his caws, And did herself avow That she it was that pland their flite Becos there was a Row;" j And that it was a equal flame She redly did allow. | But all er smilin blushin looks They wos of no aveil To save her George from being soon Remanded to the jail, Until so be as be might find Two good substanshal bale. They bore him faintin from her sight And hall is ope be found In thinking with wot faithful love His Alice did abound- That Hangel in a hat and cape And spotted muslin gownd! But, hout on fiokle woman'a ove I A week had scarcely past Hare Alice broke the vowa she swore From life to death should last, And flung away the faithful hoatt That clung to hera so fast. She told him he might Go away She'd "never see im more"— Inspector Lovelace, standing by, It pleased his very core, And off to Ockham Mister + His perjured daughter bore! On Vensday last when George came up, His Alice was not there! To him the Beak who set him freo Spake nothing but Despare— His fend young hopes he thought wos wrecked Upon a quicksand fair. But 0, faint-hearted George mistooll (Like many a other man). Yen Alice bade him Go away 'Twas all a artful plann By soothing Pa, to keep him safe From Lor's tremenjua ban No sooner was the case dismissed, Than Alice, quite elate, Declared that now, till 21, She patiently would wait, And then to George she would return, And be his married mate! 0 sore it grieves the Parson's heart Such desperate words to hear, But hacting like a man of sense He faced his fate severe. (That he would have to yield at last He saw wos very clear.) A wilfull man," said Mister +, We know must hav is way— Hay foresheory, so will girls: No longer no say nay- That she may not her ohoioe repent I earnestly do prey So Friday last, in Wandsworth Churchy There was a wedding gay, And George and Alice one were made By Mr. Gower that day. The belles ring out! the people shout 1 True love has got ita way! R ,wonderful is woman's ways, To pleaaure or to vex I No wonder that they even did A Solemnun perplex. 0 Soosan lovelier than all The loveliest hof thy Sex Be true to me, as I to thee, Thy changeless Sept. 11. PLEASEMAW X A New Gender.—" Of what gender is Thomas f" asked a teacher of a grammar-Glass. Thomas is of the masculine gender," replied his pupil. Of what gender is Susan ?" continued the teacher. II Susan is of the crinoline gender, of course," wae the quick reply. Sleep Working.—Goethe, Celeridge, and other eminent thinkers, state that their waking thoughts ere often reproduced with great vividness during a dre-aiSS, and even in a more elegant and imaginative form. Goethe, in the morning, often wrote dowa thoughts- and phrases which had in this way occurred to him. Coleridge is said to have composed his poem of the Abyssinian Maid" in a dream. Lord Thurlow, when a student, read much at night. Once, at college, being unable to complete a particular line in a Latin com- position, it rested so on his mind that he dreamed of it when he went to bed, completed it in his sleep3 wrote it out next morning, and received many compli- ments for its classical and felicitous turn.. 1)1. Gregory sometimes remembered, when awake, phrases, and illustrations which had occurred to him when asieep, and which he at once adopted in hia lectures on accou-iit; of their peculiar force and fitness. Occasionally, tha work done during sleep is of the humorous kind. A. literary man, at Edinburgh, had one day been much amused by reading Piron'a witty epigram on the French Academy; and in a dreaja, on the following night, he composed a parody or imitation of it, caustic in its satire on a learned sooiety at Edinburgh. In another instance, a gentleman, after reading an ac- count of cruelties practised on Christians by Turks;, dreamed of a scene of the kind, during which a Turk mocked the suffereis with doggrel rhymes; tha rhymes were distinctly remembered after the drea.me. awoke, -Cassell's Fmvily Paper. The Punishments of Soldiera.-Mueh i«>v norance prevails as to the punishments inflicted ca soldiers, and the mode in which military law is adminis tered. The murder of Major DeVere has revealed in un- expected quarters the existence of an idea that any officer can order any soldier to be flogged at a ino merit's notice, and that for trivial offences the obsolete tor- tures of the picket and the wooden saddle are resorted to. It is true that these erroneous impressions would' be at once dispelled by a reference to The Queen s' Regulations," but this book does not usually icrir, part of an ordinary gentleman's library, and its con- tents are not attractive to the general reader. Powets of dealing summarily with Bmall offences are given to officers commanding regiments, but they cannot order one single stripe of corporal punishment. In order let give the commanding officer the power of managing his six or seven hundred men, four weapons are place in his hands: he can stop a man's (pay who has been absent without leave) for five da.ys; ke can impriscTi him with hard labour for seven; send him to drill fcr fourteen; and keep him in prison for seven days mere. Any soldier can appeal to a court-martial against de- privation of pay, but on all other subjects the lk -i» tenant, colonel's decision is final. Men are seldom im- prisoned except for riotous behaviour or insubordimts' conduct, but when they are so treated the punishments is marked upon them for some days by the ek-a-3 shearing of their locks, a disgrace by which even rha most hardened are affected. In former times, the powers of lieutenant-colonels were much moreexfcen- tensive, and there were officers who, according to t h0> phraseology of their biographers, made their regiments hells upon earth; but these heroes are almost qnR3 extinct. Although reference has been made to the Queen's regulations, the true authority for the i:im- prisonment of soldiers is derived from the Mutiny Act passed annually by Parliament. The section in which the awards for specific offences may be seen is headed Crimes and Punishments.—1st. Divine Service;" leav- ing the intelligent reader to draw his own conclusicrs as to whether this is a crime or a punishment; and i a this the minutest directions are given for the guida-ics of members of courts-martial.—PaK Mall Qaseti*. The Ladies and the Lords in 1733.—Oc 3 -z the most humorous sketches says a modern magazine is that describing the attempt made in the year 1738 to exclude the ladies from the gallery of the House c.€ Lords, and the signal and most merited faitur 3 :JT which so ungallant an attempt resulted. The c-s, headed by Lady Huntingdon, the Duchess cf Qa€er 3- bury, Lady Westmoreland, Lady Cobham, Lacy. Archibald Hamilton, Lady CharlotteEdwin, awd others, presented themselves at the door at nine o'cloek hx the morning, and were informed by Sir Wiiiiaia Saunderson that the Chancellor had made an order Saunderson that the Chancellor had made an order against their admittance. The Duchess of Queens- bury, as head of the squadron, pished at the ill-breed in g of a mere lawyer, and desired him to let them upstairs privately. After some modest refusals he swore by < he would not let them in. Her Grace, with a nobis warmth, answered by G— they would come i:i, ia. spite of the Chancellor and the whole House." ii bsc stratagem by which their entrance was at ltngtis secured reflects great credit on their sagacity — These Amazons now showed themaeivfs qualified for the duty even of foot-soldier 3 they stood there till five in the afternoon, withe ite either sustenance or evacuation, every new and thcii. playing volleys of thumps, kicks, and raps against t h,0 door, with so much violence that the speakers i:^ t ho House were scaroely heard. When the Lord; ^vcra not t »> be conquered by this, the two Duohesses (very well apprised of the use of strategem in war) t,
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THE COURT. -+-- THE Court is nominally held at Balmoral, but here, says the correspondent of the Edinburgh Courant, the Queen is distinguished for the absence of every- thing approaching to ostentation or parade. A sub- dued quietness seems to pervade the whole establish- ment, so much so that it is almost difficult to realise the fact that the Queen of England, the sovereign of the mightiest empire that the sun shines upon, is dwelling in the midst of us. Her Majesty is frequent- ly seen walking by the river, accompanied by one of the princesses or a lady in waiting, attended only by a footman, or driving out with a retinue not dis- tinguished from any private lady. It is the exhibition of these simple tastes and habits that has endeared her Majesty so much to the unsophisticated inhabi- tants of Doeside. PREVIOUS to their Royal Highnesses departure for Scotland the Prince and Princess of Wales stayed at Marlborough-house, and proved in the most gratifying manner that everybody was not out of town. They paid a visit to the Crystal Palace, where they lunched. They also went to the Adelphi to see the wonderful acting of Mr. Jefferson. Another day, and upon the last evening before their departure from London, they dined at Gloucester-house with the Duke of Cambridge.. Both were in excellent health. On Friday evening the Princess of Wales, with the infant princes, Albert Victor and George, and the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse and their children, accompanied by the Princess Hilda of Anhalt, left the Euston- square terminus of the North-Western Railway by the 8.40 limitod mail express for Aberdeen, on their way to Abergeldie. Here were two saloon carriages to the train for the Royal party, and two additional carriages for the suite and attendants. There was no crowd or press on the occasion. The general manager and other head officials were present, and the Royal train started on its journey at the exact time. Their Royal Highnesses and suite arrived at Aberdeen about one o'clock on Saturday afternoon. Aftfr a stay of a few minutes, during which the Deeside engines were affixed to the Royal carriages, the parties drove off for Aboyne, to post thence to Abergeldie, which they reached shortly before four o'clock. PRINCE AMADEUS, second son of his Majesty King Victor Emmanuel, arrived in this country on Saturday afternoon, upon a visit to the English Court. Prince Amadeus, who is travelling under the title of Count Pollenzo, was accompanied by his Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio, Count Maffei, and the Marquis de Baldo. The route taken was vid Calais and Dover, where the Royal travellers arrived by the mail boat at half-past three in the afternoon. Mr. S. M. Latham, vice-consul for Italy at that port, received his Royal Highness on landing at the Admiralty Pier; and Mr. E. T. Way, of the South-Eastern Railway Company, escorted the party to a saloon carriage attached to the company's mail express train then upon the pier. Precisely at 3.45 p.m. the train conveying the Royal visitor left Dover for Charing-cross.
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POLITICAL GOSSIP. LORD PALMEBSTON has been visited by his old enemy the gout, and was in consequence unable to attend the Bristol ceremonies. COLONEL HERBERT, M.P., has again been so ill that an eminent physician went from Dublin to see him, but he is rapidly recovering. He has been prayed for in the Roman Catholic cathedral, Killarney. THE Canadian Parliament has declared itself per- fectly satisfied with the result of the mission of the deputation to the English Government. Doubtless most persons are satisfied when they get all they want. IT is a. curious thing, but a fact, to see a masonic lodge established in Rome under the very nose of the police, and doing without fear all that it wishes to do -so well are its affairs kept. The lodge is known under the classic appellation of "Fabrius Maximus." A REPORT has gained circulation that the Emperor of the French is about to decorate the Mayor of Ports- mouth (R. W. Ford, Esq.) with the insignia of the Legion of Honour. It is also rumoured that a monument will be erected on the green to commemorate the meeting of the fleets at Portsmouth. FRIDAY night's Gazette announces the appointment of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, G.C.B., to be admiral of the fleet. Sir Thomas is the father of Mr. Baillie Cochrane, M.P. for Honiton. In consequence of this appointment several ohanges have taken place among the higher ranks of the navy, ending in the promotion of Captain Clifford to the rank of rear admiral. AN extraordinary Parliamentary return was pub- lished on Saturday. It contains, in a tabular form, the length of time ocenpied by the Irish mails between London and Holyhead nearly every day since the beginning of October, 1860. There are over 100 pages of figures, each page containing about twenty columns of numerals. Mr. C. G. ADDISON, the barrister appointed to revise the lists of voters for the western division of Kent, has fixed the following days and places at which courts will be held: Bromley, Monday, Sept. 25; Sevenoaks and Tanbridge, Tuesday, Sept. 26; Tenter- den and Cranbrook, Wednesday, Sept. 27; Tunbridge Wells, Thursday, Sept. 28; Maidstone, Friday, Sept. 29; West Mailing, Saturday, Sept. 30; Rochester, Wednesday, Oct. 4; Gravesend, Thursday, Oot. 5; Dartford, Friday, Oct. 6; Lewisham, Oct. 7; Black- heath, Tuesday, Oct. 10; and Woolwich, Wednesday, Oct. 11. 1. ELECTION EXPENSES.—The official return of the expenses incurred by three out of the five candidates who contested the borough of Greenwich at the recent general election has been published. Mr. Alderman Salomons' election cost him £ 2,105 17s. lid., made up of the following items, viz.:—Hustings expenses, .£79 6s. 6d.; printing, stationery, postage, and adver- tisements, £ 567 6s. 3d.; committee-rooms, X306 189. 4d.; carriagas, .£252 Is. 6d.; clerks, messengers, can- vassers, &c., .£690 5s. 4d.; and agent's fee, .£210. Sir C. Bright's election cost him 432,481 Os. 5d., made up of the following items, viz.: — Canvassers, &c., 41,260 9s. 5d.; committee-rooms, £ 292 18s. 4d.; printing, advertising, &c.} £ 397 12s. 2d.; cabs, &o., £121 12s. 7d.; boards, .£66 6s. 6d.; Miscellaneous expenditure, .£102 19s. lid.; returning officer, .£81 lis. 6d.; sub-agent, .£52 10s. Od.; and agent, £ 105. The candidature of Sir J. H. Maxwell, Baronet, cost him XI,211 6a 2d., com- posed of the following items :—Printing, advertis- ing, stationery, and postages, £ 210 12s. 7d.; bill- stickers, .£18 10s. 6d.; committee-rooms and hire of balls for meetings, .£162 Os. lid.; canvassers, £ 175 16s. 2d.; clerks, .£151 6s.; messengers and ex- presses, .£42 9s. 9d.; fees to agents, -6210; returning officer, .£72 9a.; carriages, .£70 4s. 4d.; check clerks, .£5818f1. 10d.; and sundries, .£38 18s. Id. No return of the expenses of the other candidates, Captain Harris and Mr. Baxter Langley, is given. The elec- tion expenses incurred by Lord G. Manners, M.P., and Viscount Royston, M.P., in securing their election for Cambridgeshire, have just been returned at £ 1,576. The noble lords were returned unopposed in conjunc- tion with Mr. R. Young, M.P.; but preparations were made for a contest until the withdrawal, almost at the eleventh hour, of Mr. H. J. Adeane, the late Liberal member. Agency cost Lord G. Mansers aud Lord Royston £ 732; clerks, XIOS; printers, < £ 273; convey aDces,.8t08; sheriff's charges, < £ 87; while miscellaneous items and the personal ex- penses of Viscount Royston foot up for .£223 more. The expenses of General Peel, M.P., and Mr. T. Baring, M.P., in securing their unopposed re-election for the borough of Huntingdon, have been returned at « £ 352. Of this amount 1.2220 was paid to Mr. E. Maule as agent; while the town-clerk's charges were .£63, and .£59 was paid for printing, stationery, and adver- tising. The trifliag balance remaining was absorbed by criers, the police, and the keeper of the town-hall, j The expenses of Mr. H. Berkeley and Sir S. M. Peto, the successful candidates for Bristol, have been re- turned at £ 4,498 5s. 8d., and those of Mr. T. F. Fre- mantle, the defeated Conservative, at £1,61413s. 6d. For Wells the expenses of Captain Jolliffe were only £44, and those of Captain Hayter X195, including .£100 to Mr. Sheppard for conductisg the election. Mr. Rolfs seat for West Gloucestershire had entailed the moderate outlay of X93 is. 2d.; the Hon. R. DnXon expended jE329 18s. 4d. at Cirencester; and Viscount Andover and Mr. J. Talbot respectively X438 8s. 3d. and £ 457 7s. 8d. at Malmes- bury. The election auditors' returns for Oxfordshire, Oxford city, and Woodbtock have just been issued. Mr. Henley was.re-elected for the modest sum of £ 65 16s. lid., Colonel North for .£68 3s. 8d., and Colonel Fane for .£66 17s. lid. Mr. Cardwell's unop- posed return cost him .£387 13s. 5d., .£210 being pocketed by agents, while Mr. Neate's disbursemente amounted to X120 2s. lOd. Mr. Barnett's contest at Woodstock caused an expenditure of .£363 16s. 4d., while the defeated candidate, Mr. Mitchell Henry, expended .£539 13s. 6Jd. It is rather singular that the conveyance of voters should have cost Mr. Henry X130 Oa. 4id., while Mr. Barnett's outlay for a larger number of voters was only .£5610s. 9d.