Monmouthshire Merlin

of OF IN HIGH LIFE.—Mr. W. Lindsay, son j,; ^ra,\vf0 ^'°lin Lindsay, and nephew of the Earl X> t° and Belcair'es, was on Saturday mar- of Ah Harriet Gordon, daughter of the late t^een, at St. James's Church, Piccadilly. c,f ]> °se in. the church were—The Duke and J'l'/ 'ttiijf '^hercorn, the Marquess and Marchioness tK the Marquess of Lorne, the Countess 6 ^ir Coutts and Lady Lindsay, Mrs. and SlAT 8 Gladstone. (f%> of M F Mr- G-LA^STONE AT LIVERPOOL.—A j Gladstone has just been placed in St. li laU, Livei-pool, at the east side and in proximity to that of the late Earl of °'°st n e work is by Mr. Adams-Acton, and is a I.ooO. The project was set on foot six h°1itici?°' and many of the right hon. gentleman's ie a oPponents have aided in its accomplish- ¡I:¡g of There was a preliminary and private unveil- the statue on Saturday. The right hon. • an is sculptured in a standing attitude, at- 111 the full robes of the Chancellor of Ihe Ex- ^'?er. His right hand is crossed upon his breast, lett holds a scroll, and the features of the are faithfully reproduced. The statue is ^b]1^' from the stand, and is worked in Carrara >OHG|ERG™AN'S WIFE ACCIDENTALLY POISONED. 'irkHln^Uli^ay evening Mr. Weedon, coroner for Jjf,en an in(Ill,;st, in the parish of Wood- d ^Vear, %bocly of Mls- Frances Everett, fifty- «'^Positions ta,vage' w^e of the rector of Shaw. The f • lively jjy i ?,n stated that deceased was of cheer- siOIn tooth acheSj ^la'l lately suffered greatly e took a jji' about two o'clock on Friday j. mistake f0l, lxture Gf chloroform and laudanum ^°?ethev in hp u v°latile, the bottles being close ^Qts' i-Qoifi a ^l room- She rushed to the ser- mistake q them she had taken laudanum althou/,}-. f>°0n afterwards she became insensible to 1 Palmer and Mr. Bunny used every ''li' Thft6 re ^er' slie dt'-d °n Friday about mid- ufhat the returned a verdict to the effect the ceaS('d accidently poisoned herself by i rnixture instead of sal volatile." T°Phe PARAFFIN EXPLOSION.—A fearful ca- ha °CCUrred at Donquin, near Dingle, coast vitig '011 the night of the 5th. Three fishermen lia ^bleH f a.cask of Petroleum at sea that day, tk^* in +i* at night with the members of their fami- e oouse of Crohane, a farmer, to divide ^retly, fearing the coast guard would th'e d• Fe were twelve persons present. Du- ^•^UD. ,/v^si°n a dispute arose, one of the salvors Ted °il at the bottom of the cask was of K sea water, and as a test he applied a itir, '°H Urvn!n^ timber, causing an immediate ex- reduced the house to a mass of blaz- hem two daughters of Crohane, owner j) Se,' -Ellen Long, a married woman, and y^ower, were buried in the debris v cin(lers. Long's husband escaped, h a°k the rescue of his wife, and in g^r his clothes caught fire, and he ^i'ohn Injuries that his recovery is hope- Mt}j ^i"e (J., ^is wife, and Patrick and Catherine ^Ser /If-- burned. Three others escaped tisti}!Sl0li on lUl^es> being near the door when the a. fCllrre<l- The remains of the dead, con- to oW barred bones, were exbwd^d ixaai 0liftday,And interred.

THE MiuS IN FEMALE ATTIRE. The men Boulton and Park, who were remanded at the Bow-street Police Court, on Friday, seem in in their time to have 11 acted many parts." This as- sertion may be taken, not only in its general sense, but also in its literal significance, as will be readilv understood from the particulars which are subjoined. During the months of May and June, 1869, the pri- soner Ernest Boulton, in company with a gentle- man named Pavitt, gave a series of drawing-room entertainments in Colchester, Souihend, Dunmow, Bishop Stortford, Rochford, and various other places, amongst them Romford, where they played under the distinguished patronage of Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard, Bart., and Ladv Lennard, Rev. W. J. Skil- ton, Octavius E. Coope, Esq., E. J. Ind, Esq., and E. Vipau Inti, Esq. The entertainment mo-t usually comprised a short opera, a humourous duologue, and a laughable sketch. In all these the ladies' charac- ters were represented by Ernest Boulton. At the Theatre Koyal, Stock. Jan. 27,1869, Her Majesty's Servants" played (by special request) Mr. H. J. Byron's comedy of "One Hundred Thousand Pounds, the characters Alice and Mrs. Barlow being played respectively by Boulton and Park, who are designa- ted in the programme, Mi -s Ernestine E Iwards and Miss Mabel Foster. An original farce followed, the ladies' characters being, as before, represented by Boulton and Park. The Essex Herald, Feb. 2, in noticing this per- formance, observed "During the piece Miss Ed- wards sang Fading away' with a care and taste that brought down the house, and, on being en- cored, she gave My Pretty Jane.' This shows an instance where Boulton's sex was not detected. Speaking of the drawing-room entertainment at Bishop Stortfoi'd, the press says: "We may add that Mr. Boulton very cleverly personates female characters, and that it is difficult for a spectator to realise the fact that he is a f make-up' for the occa- sion. His song, 'Fading away,' is exceedingly feminine. The following is a ludicrous and somewhat appro- priate extract from one of the newspapers A Lii,u-, Naturae.—Certainly if some one of nature's journeymen had not been at work, 'Mister' Boulton -we hesitate, almost, to write this prefix—would have incontestably been a woman. Let it by no means be understood that there is anything of the social monster' business connected with him. Quite on the contrary, for looking at him with one's pyes both wide open, listening to his extraordinary voice, and criticising, however narrowly, his won- derful feminine appearance and manner, it is really difficult for a moment to believe that he is not a really charming girl." At a performance in Essex a local paper says, The Alice of Mr. Boulton took the audience by surprise in 'make-up,' action, gesture, and con- ception it was a finished picture. He drew down thundering plaudits by his talented acting, and especially by his singing, in an imitation mezzo-soprano voice, 'Fading away,' which was three times re-demanded." In October, 1868, Ernest Boulton assisted Lord Arthur Pelham Clinton, M.P., in a drawing-room entertainment at the Spa Saloon, Scarborough. On this occasion "A Morning Call" was performed, his lordship playing Sir Edward Ardent, and Boul- ton Mrs. Chillington. The Scarborough Gazette de- scribes the latter's appearance as "something wonderful." This entertainment was postponed for a short time on account of Boulton's indisposition, and a copy of the telegram sent to Lord Arthur Clinton, containing this information, was printed and circulated in Scarborough. The prisoner Park does not appear to have taken such a prominenf part in enterprises of this kind only one notice of his performance in a ladies' role has been found— namely, that of Mrs. Barlow, to which reference has been made. Boulton's assumption of ladies' characters has extended over many years, for in one p"ocramme he is announced to play Maria, in The Brigand' -he being only 14 years of age. =====

WIFE MURDER IN LIVERPOOL —At the Liverpool Police Court, on Monday, Robert Chester, a miser- able-looking middle-aged man was brought up charged with having caused the death of his wife on the previous day. It appeared that the prisoner and the deceased lived in Malt-street, Windsor, and that on Sunday afternoon they had been out drink- ing, and when they went home the pr:soner had in his possession a shilling, which his wife attempted to get from him. For that purpose she put her arms around him, a scuffle ensued and the two fell down a long flight of stairs. At the bottom the prisoner commenced kicking his wife, and then left the house. The unfortunate woman died shortly after- wards. The prisoner was remanded pending the coroner's inquest. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. — At about two o'clock on Sunday morning a 'ire brok 1 out in the Rtorhouses belonging to Mr. Hinehliffe, wholesale hay and straw merchant, King's Bench-walk, Wellington street, Borough. The flames originate d in the stables, where ther" were a number of valuable horses, and these were only rescued with difficulty, some of them being seriously scorched. The fire obtained a rapid hold of the storehouses, and from the nature of their contents it at once became evi- dent that no portion of the building could be pre- served. The firemen, therefore, turned their at- tent on mainly to preventing the flames from spreading to the adjacent house-, and in this they were successful. About an hour after the com- mencement of the fire the whole of the building fell in, the front wall and between 40 aid 50 tons of burning hay falling outside into the street. S veral of the firemen who were playing on the front of the building at the time had narrow es- capes from being crushed by the falling mass. COMMITTAL FOR ABDUCTIOX.-Two men, named Patrick Ryan and Kendal O'Brien, have been com- mitted for trial for the abduction of Catherine Hum- phries, the step-daughter of a farmer at Longstone, near Ballycohy.—Mrs. Ryan, mother of the girl, deposed to having seen nearly sixteen persons about the place, and when she ventured to give the alarm ,to her husband three or four of the fellows rushed over, caught hold of him, and afterwards assaulted herself. The abduction was carried out before her face, and when the party left she found a number of stones which they had left behind 1 hem. Ac- cording to the evidence given by Miss Humphries, two boys whom she did not know, entered her room and demanded that she should get up. She did so, and dressed herself hurriedly. They drove her to Doyle's Hotel, in Tipperary, where they stopped until the afternoon of the same day, when the police arrested Ryan and O'Brien and conducted the girl home. A servant girl who tried to rescue Miss Humphries as she was being taken away from the house swore that she was asked by a man who stood guard over her "whether she would like to see her brains." AN ESCAPED LUNATIC.-At the Brentford Petty Sessions, on Saturday, John Henry Jenkins, a well- dressed man, aged about 45, was brought up on re- mand, charged with being found sleeping in an un- finished house in Cambridge Park, Twickenham, and also with being a lunatic at large. The priso- ner was now identified by Stephen Bentliff, an at- tendant at a private lunatic asylum, kept by Dr. Lowry, at West Mailing, who said he had escaped from that establishment last Friday. The prisoner, in answer to the chairman, said he would go back quietly, but denied that he was a lunatic. Some years ago he was under a delusion fancying himself to be Elias, or John the Baptist, but three years ago the Commissioners of Lunacy said that he ought to be discharged. He escaped from the asylum by getting over a wall, and when apprehended was on his way to his friends in Wales. The prisoner fur- ther stated that he had been educated in Jesus College, Cambridge, and that his father, the late Rev. George Jenkins, had been chairman of a bench of magistrates in Cumberland for twenty-five years. The first witness, on being recalled, said that the Commissioners saw the prisoner about four months ago. The asylum was visited by the county ma- gistrates every three months. Thos. Arthur Lowry, M.D., was then called, and he produced the autho- rity under which the prisoner was detained, which was signed by the latter's mother, a lady living in Carmarthen. The prisoner had not been discharged, and was not in a fit state to be so. Sometimes he was more rational than at others. The Chairman, addressing the prisoner, said that, Dr. Lowry hav- ing produced his authority, they were bound to give him up. The prisoner left in charge of Dr. Lowry and his attendant.

MULTUM IN PARVO. — —- The number of wrecks reported during the past week is 30, making for the present year 713. The Queen, Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, i and suite, returned to Windsor from Osborne on Saturday evening. The Earl of Derby has given 8,000 yards of land, having a frontage in Stanley-road, Ku-kdale, as a site for the new Stanley Hospital. Mr. Arthur Sullivan's first lecture on vocal music at the South Kensington Museum brought together more than three hundred and fifty students. Two men, named More and Hunn, were killed at Cambridge, on Saturday, by the falling in of a drain, at the bottom of which they were at work. A fresh protest by laymen against the Ritualistic manual prayers, introduced in the diocese of Dublin, under sanction of Archbishop Trench, is being signed. Lord and Lady Muncaster arrived in town on Saturday from Athens, via Marseilles, and are stay- ing at the house of the Hon. E. Horsman, M.P., Richmond-terrace. The Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam and the Ladies Fitzwilliam have arrived at their residence in Gros- venor-square from Wentworth House, near Rother- ham, for the season. It is stated that nearly 250 persons have been left homeless, all the furniture and stock of their houses and shops being almost totally destroyed, by the recent fire at Broadclist, in Devonshire. The Times has authority to contradict in the most positive terms the statement of the Gaulois that the French Ambassador has demanded a criminal prosecution of M. Gustave Flourens and his associ- ates. The following gentlemen have been elected Trinity College scholars at Cambridge Failes, Clay, H. G. Smith, Shilleto, Rae, Pollard, Romania. Reeves, Lamb, Judd, Meek, Manson, Butcher, and Verrall. A portion of the great organ being built by M r. Willis for the Royal Albert Hall has been removed to South Kensington, and its erection in the hall will commence as soon as the glazing of the roof is completed. The Observer of Sunday last announced that Mr. Bright had retired from the Cabinet, and that Mr. Mundella had been appointed President of the Board of Trade. There is no foundation for either of these announcements.- Times. Mr. James Corke, a Dorsetshire farmer, was on Saturday fined £5 by the local magistrates for not reporting that foot and mouth disease was prevalent on his farm. Seventeen out of a herd of forty-six were found suffering from disease. The Rev. Joshua Hughes, B.D., Bishop Elect of St. Asaph, was confirmed in his election before Sir Travers Twiss, in the church of St. Mary-le-Bow, on Saturday morning, and consecrated in the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, on Sunday forenoon. The Record professes to have good reason to be- lieve that the House of Lords will throw out the Deceased Wife's Sister Marriage Bill, and that, as a compensation, it will pass the Women Disabili- ties Bill, with reference to elective franchise. The tramway from Bow Church to Whitechapel Church was opened on Monday morning. The cars are constructed to carry forty-four persons—twenty two inside and twenty two out. The journey occu- pies about twenty minutes, and the fare is 2d. The Sporting Gazette hears that Colonel Towneley intends to give up breeding, and the whole of his extensive stud, including the stallions Kettledrum, King of Trumps and Breadalbane, will be brought to the hammer at Fairfield in the York August week. There was a lull during last week in the storm of concerts with which London has lately been flooded. On Saturday, however, they recommenced, and will increase in frequency till the end of June. The Crystal Palace season opened by a performance of Elijah." The South London Press says that the Rev. C. Hj Spurgeon has consented to take the chair at a pub- lic demonstration of the working men of London, which will be held in about three weeks, to give an expression of their opinion on the Government Edu- cation Bill. At the Bow-street Police-court on Saturday last, William Heal, manager of the Brick Ground, Dur- sfon, Somersetshire, was committed for trial for per- jury before the House of Commons Committee in April, 1868, in connection with the election proceed- ings at Bridgwater. On Saturday evening, the Duke of Argyle pre- sided over the annual festival of the Artists' Gene- ral Benevolent Institution. The income last year amounted to £ 2,357. A subscription list, represent- lnn a sum of £ 1,583, was announced before the close of the proceedings. We (Globe) have reason to believe that the origin of the annoying series of practical jokes that have recently been played upon Lord St. Leonards have been traced to two of his men servants, and that a butler who has lived with him for many years has been found to be the chief agent in the business. In the Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin, on Mon- day, application was made for a criminal informa- tion against Lord Greville for remitting two thou- sand eight hundred pounds to Father Reynolds for the purposes of Captain Greville's election for Long- ford. The offence imputed is misdemeanour, punish- able by fine and imprisonment. It is stated that the judges who heard the appeal in the case of Mordaunt v. Mordaunt-the Lord Chkf Baron, Lord Penzance, and Mr. Justice Keating— have had several consultations, and that their judg- ments are almost, if not quite prepared. It is ex- pelted, however, that the decision will not be given until the commencement of next term. CHILD MURDER.—A shocking case of child mur- der was perpetrated in Cupar-Fife on Saturday night, by a woman named Ann Maxwell or Gibson a servant in the Tontine Hotel there. She had given birth to a full-grown child during the night, and immediately afterwards deprived it of life by inflicting a frightful wound behind the ear with a table-knife. The statement originally made by the Record, that the Bishop of Bath and Wells had requested that a credence table might be placed in Wells Ca- thedral, is authoritatively denied by the chapter clerk. The Dean and Chapter believe the Record's a portion that the Bishop wished to introduce ere- dence tables into all the churches of the diocese, to be equally untrue. On Saturday, the whole of the remaining works and collection of the late Mr. Thomas Creswick, R.A., the eminent landscape painter, were sold-by auction at Messrs. Christie and Manson's rooms, King-street, St. James's Square. There was a laro-e attendance of art connoisseurs and much interest was evinced in the sale. The whole c,llection realised close upon < £ 8,000. At the annual meeting of the Camden Society the following new members of council were elected —Mr. J. P. Collier, the Dean of Westminster and Sir Albert Woods, garter. The society has lost du- ring the year several valued members; amono- them are the Bishop of Chichester, Lord Folev, Sir C Wentworth Dilke, Lord Taunton, Dr. Todd the Marquis of Westminster, and Sir C. S. Young' garter. °" Unless, before three months elapse, Sir John Pa- kington and those who support him provide £ 10 000 to meet the £ 10,000 offered by Earl Dudley for'the restoration of Worcester Cathedral and for the Clergy Orphans' and Widows' Fund, the Dean and Chapter will, we believe, accept Lord Dudley's ori- ginal offer of £10,000, and discontinue the holding of the Festivals within the Cathedral.—So, at least says the Choir. A New York letter of the 24th ult. says:-The Fenian Congress adjourned on Saturday. General O'Neill was re-elected President, and it is under- stood that a war policy was determined upon. No- thing positive, however, is known of the proceed- ings. The executive Council elected by the Chicago Fenian Congress has issued an address announcing the removal of the central office to Philadelphia, protesting against their treatment in New York, and promising active military operations. The steamer Morocco has left Liverpool in search of the Siberia. At the Dublin Police Court, on Tuesday, a young barrister was sent to gaol for a month, for wrench- J Ing off door knockers on the previous night. t Mr. John Martin, the late National candidate for Longford, arrived at Queenstown on Monday night frorn America, where he had been for some time on a tour. We (Pall Mall Gazette) are able to state that there is no truth in the report that Vice-Admiral Sir Sydney C. Dacres, K.C.B., is about to resign his ] post at the Admiralty, Several deaths from hydrophobia have lately taken place in Nottingham, and an inquest was held on Monday, in that town, on the body of a boy named John Pinder, who died of that dreadful disease. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princesses Louise and Beatrice, arrived at Buckingham Palace from Windsor Castle at six o'clock on Monday even- ing. The Queen held a Drawing-room on Tuesday afternoon. Advices from Vienna state that the statue ot the late Baron Solomon de Rothschild from the chisel of the sculptor Maixner, has just been inaugurated in the vestibule of the Northern Railway terminus in that city, in memory of his having undertaken, in 1836, the construction of that line, the first of those made in Austria. The Earl of Burford, the infant son of the Duke 1 and Duchess of St. Albans, was christened at St. James Palace on Tuesday, Her Majesty standing sponsor in person, and Miss Burdett Coutts being the other godmother. The infant Earl is grandson of the late General Grey, and was born in the house about the time of the General's death. WOMEN COMPELLED TO SERVE AS OVERSEERS.— J In the Bail Court, on Monday, before Mr. Justice Lush, Mr. Manisty, Q.C., applied for a rule calling upon the justices of Montgomeryshire to show cause why a certiorari should not issue directing them to brine up the order for the appointment of Mrs. Gold as an overseer of a parish, in order that it might be quashed. Mrs. Gold was a lady upwards of 60 years of ao-e. She was the widow of Gen. Gold, and was the proprietress of large landedproperty. The justices had appointed Mrs. Gold and three gentlemen to be overseers for the presentyear. Sheapplied for the cer- tiorari on the ground that there were upwards of 50 men in the parish who were competent and qualified to serve the office of overseer. Although a woman was liable to serve, still he submitted that it was only in cases of necessity that the justices would be justified in appointing a woman. The only case he could find was one where the order was confirmed upon the ground that there was a necessity for the appointment.Mr. Justice Lush was of opinion that there ought not to be a rule. It had been long set- tled that a woman might be appointed to the office of overseer, and he doubted whether there was any power in the Court to interfere.-Rule refused. DR. LIVINGSTONE.-At the usual fortnightly meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, on Monday evening, Sir R. Murchison, president, said: I have taken a deep-felt and loving interest in the position in which my very dear friend Livingstone is now left. We have every reason to believe that from the month of May last he has been at Ujiji, on the eastern back of the great Lake Tranganyki, and that there he is fairly stopped. His advances are stopped, his provisions andmeansareexhausted, and most of his attendants are gone, or lost, or dead, though he has got all his documents with him. It therefore became of intense interest to me to know how he was to be relieved, and I am happy to say that, in consequence of a communication that I bad made to the Earl of Clarendon, her Majesty's Government has consented, to my great gratifica- tion, to provide the means for relieving Livingstone from Zanzibar. Dr. Kirk has organised some sup- plies to be sent to him, but, as you know, the cholera broke out, and the caravan was paralysed, and the people lost. However, her Majesty's Govern- ment are now ready to support his claims and sup- ply the money. We are heartily grateful to the Government for having thought geographers worthy of this support. THE BANKRUPTCY OF THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE. -In the London Court of Bankruptcy, on Tuesday, before Mr. Registrar Roche, Mr. Munns applied on behalf of the Duke of Newcastle that the time for his Grace to surrender to the adjudication made against him should be enlarged under the 104th section of the Bankruptcy Law Consolidation Act of 1849. The appeal to the House of Lords would probably not be heard during the present session, and it was asked under the circumstances and as due diligence had been used in prosecuting the appeal, that the time for his Grace to surrender should be enlarged until after the hearing of the appeal. The non-surrender would not interfere in any way with the proceedings in that court, as the estate might be realised and distributed. The Duke had no wish to act with disrespect to the Court; he only desired that his rights under the appeal should be protected Mr. B. Davis, the solicitor to the assigness, saitl that he had no objection to the time limited for sur- render being enlarged upon condition that his Grace would submit to be examined under the ad-' judication.—The Registrar: That would be equiva- lent to a surrender—Mr. Davis apprehended that the Duke might appear on a summons and be ex- ,Lr amined, without actually surrendering to the adju- dieation. The Registrar said that under the old statutes the offence of non-surrender was considered so serious that the bankrupt who failed to surrender was hable to be hanged—(a laugh), but the rigour of the law was afterwards relaxed. There was some difficulty in dealing with a case which, so to speak, might be called a bankruptcy sub modo. After some discussion the application stood over. it ap- pealing that there had been some informality in the service of the notice. A LUDICROUS MISTAKE.-At the Marlborough- street Police Court, on Monday, John Wornell, of No. 5, London-street, artist, an elderly person of respectable appearance, was summoned before Mr. Tyrwhitt for using threatening language to Louisa Hayward, "whereby she goes in bodily fear."—The complainant, a young woman, said she was servant to Mr. Johnson, Blue Posts, Tottenham Court Road. For some time past the defendant was in the habit, °i ker as she went out with her master's children in the perambulator, walking backwards a. rwai'ds before the house, looking up at the window, and whenever he had an opportunity he threatened her with what he would do if she would not return to her home.—Mr. Tyrwhitt: Do you know the defendant ?—Complainant: He is an entire stranger to me.—Defendant: Why, she is my wife!! She has denied her name.—Mr. Tyrwhitt: You must go to Lo d Penzance, I cannot settle such matters. Complainant: Your Worship, I never was married. I am keeping company with a young man, who tries to protect me from the defendant.—The local con- I stable, Middleton, said that about four weeks ago, hearing a great disturbance in Hanway-street, he i went to quell it, when he found the defendant and complainant surrounded by a mob, the defendant accusing the complainant of being his wife. The defendant said he could identify her as his wife— she had two false teeth in the front of hermoufh, and one of the bridesmaids who lived in the neighbourhood would also prove she was his wife. He called on the lady as requested, and she said she was present at the defendant's wedding, and she was positive the complainant was not his wife.—Defendant I say she is. I know her by her two false teeth.—Con- stable I called on complainant and examined her teeth in the presence of defendant. They were all sound, and the defendant apologised, and I thought there was an end of the matter but it appears the defendant haunts the street so that she is afraid to go anywhere.—Defendant The altercation alluded to by the constable was between me and a young man, who threatened to break my ribs and knock my head off if I spoke to his young woman. She is my wife, and that I am prepared to prove. Her sister, Mrs. Shepherd, is in court, and she will prove that I married her.—Mrs. Shepherd here entered the witness-box, and said The defendant married my sister. The young woman in court is not the person. She is a stranger to me.—Defendant What, not the person I married I can identify her, and will undertake to do so.—Mr. Tyrwhitt It is astounding to what lengths a respectable man will go when be has got a crotchet in his head. You are evidently labouring under an hallucination, and as it has been proved that you act towards the young woman so as to put her in bodily fear, I must re- quire you to find bail to keep the peace for six months. The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland left Dublin on Cuesday morning on a northern tour. The Dublin Freemen Commissioners have just -eported to Parliament that corrupt practices ex- :ensively prevailed amongst the freemen electors of :he city of Dublin at the elections of 1857,1S59, and L865, and also to a very considerable extent among :he freemen electors of the City of Dublin at the election of 186S, though not so extensively as at )ther preceding elections. It used to be commonly asserted that the tem- perature of newly-born infants was, on the first two days, lower than that of adults; but M. Andral has recent'y shown that this is not the case, but that it is only for the first hal;-hour after birth, owing, no doubt, to the incomplete action of the respira- tory functions, that the infant's temperature is lower than that of the adult.—Athenceurn. The John Bull understands that the select com- mittee on the Burial Bill will recommend a clause exempting any parish from the operation of the proposed act, if it provides a suitable burying ground for the Nonconformists. The same journal states that if Government decline to have a re- ligious census, the Church authorities will under- take to arrange one for its own members. 11 A comic drama, entitled Polichinelle," by MM. Leon Beauvallet and Marc Leprevost, is the latest novelty at the Dejazet. The old history of Poli- chinelle the drunkard, of the amorous Leandre, and the other characters of the pantomime, is told in verse, satirical, for the most part, and contain- ing a respectable amount of salt." This piece has been in existence for some years, though its production hitherto has been prohibited. The health of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has greatly benefited by his visit to Carls- bad, and according to the opinion of his physicians there is a speedy prospect of his complete recovery. He is expected to return to Berlin in the second half of the present month. Their Royal Highnesses the Princes William and Henry, whose stay at Cannes has been prolonged, will probably return to Potsdam about the same time.-North German Cor- respondent. The Judicature Commission are said to have in preparation a bill for the consolidation of all the statutes relating to county courts. These statutes number nearly twenty, and the complications aris- ing out of the numerous clauses, which repeal other clauses and part of clauses, are sources of so much difficulty in practice that it is altogether unsafe for any but regular county court practitioners to advise on any matter of detail. The rules of practice, the construction of which is a frequent cause of conten- tion, are also to be remodelled. It is improbable. of course, that any consolidating bill can be passed this session.—Solicitors' Journal. IMMENSE ICEBERGS IN THE ATLANTIC.—The ship Nestor, whilst on the outward voyage to the Mauri- tius, had a very narrow escape from being destroyed by an immense iceberg. Capt. Pichaud reports that when inlat. 43 S., long 2 E., the ship passed within four miles of an icefield, about two miles in length and exceedingly lofty; in the course of the day many other icebergs, of various dimensions, were passed, and in the evening an immense berg was suddenly perceived ricrht ahead of the ship. The vessel's course was altered as quickly as possibly, and she lay to all night until daylight next morning, when she bore away to the northward, as the only chance of escaping the numerous icefields and bergs. NEW ZEALAND.—We are enabled, upon authority, to announce that the purport of the latest news re- reived, via San Francisco and Svdney, from Now Zealand is as follows :—Majors Ropata and Kemp, with the native levies, have penetrated into the country of Wriweras, and have taken 350 prisoners, killing over 20 of the rebels, including Hakaria. The chief, Te Kooti escaped. The natives talk of holding mpetings to discuss Lord Granville's des- patch, which has inspired them with hopes of exacting large concessions, including the restora- tion of the Waikato territory and the full recog- nition of the Maori King. The authority of the local Government is much weakened by the de- parture of the troops. The Ministry are anxious that the British Government should inform the Maoris that if the troops are wanted in an emer- gencv they will be sent. This has been com- municated to the Colonial Office through the New Zealand Commissioners.-Standard. A ROMANTIC STORT.—The Figaro relates the fol lowing romantic story The Prince of Schlesvig- Holstein, on his return from a scientific voyage which had lasted for several years, found his library in a state of great disorder. He asked his steward to recommend some one who could re-arrange it, and the latter replied that the only person he was acquainted with was a young lady who acted as com- panion to his wife. This young person, Mdlle. Carmelita Ei-enblatt, is the daughter of a merchant cit Calcutta, who was formerly in wealthy circum- stance", but on his meeting with a reverse of for- tune the children were obliged to earn their own living, and the young lady in question had even appeared on the stage. She accepted the proposals made to her, and on her entering upon her duties the Prince found her so well educated and so in- telligent that he was quite charmed, and at la"t made her an offer of marriage. The union is to take place in a few days, and the bridegroom has applied to the Kine of Prussia for permission to lay asi-^e his princely rank and assume the title of Count de Boer, so that the marriage shall not be a morgan- tic one. A COURTLY LETTER.—Some time since Madlle. Gallmeyer, the Schneider of the Karl Theatre at Vienna, gave several representations at Gotha, and after the last received the following letter from Duke Ernest of Coburg—" In the first place let me offer my kindest regards to our charming actress, and my most sincere good wishes upon her fete day. May you live to celebrate it as often as your friends and admirers can wish Your ante room being-, I have no doubt, filled with the worshippers who have come to congratulate you, permit me to submit to you, in the name of an anonymous deputation of the public, a petition bold enough to beg you to arouse once more our minds from torpor hy your sprightly humour, and di~sipate all captious and aisthetic fancies. Your gaiety, which is so communi- cative, worked wonders yesterday; like the sun in spring-tide, it calls into existence happiness and lightness of heart. You will. I trust, see in this pressing entreaty only the effect of your brilliant acting, and not visit it with the fate which such an indiscretion may merit. Monday would be an ex- cellent day for giving 'Marguerite,' (La. Prom esse pres du Foyer,' and the Cancan Diplomatique.' I await a yes or no, either that I may announce the good news from every steeple in Gotha, or else hang with black the Temple of the Muses. Like all the applicants, I conclude with the customary formula, and remain yours most devotedly, ERNEST." TROUBLES IN A SAN FRANCISCO NUNNERY.—There have been some proceedings at a convent at Rio de Janeiro which seem well worth the attention of Mr. Newdcgate and the Morning Advertiser. The corre- spondent of the New York Herald gives an account of a revolt at the Ajuda Convent. It is, he says, an immense building, every window of which is guard- ed by a chequerwork of two-inch iron bars. The new bishop ordered venetian blinds to be placed outside these windows. The nuns objected, and managed to send their complaints to the First Public Prosecutor. That gentleman paid a visit to the abbess, requested her to assemble the nuns, and then interrogated them in her presence. Many of them complained bitterly of the blinds, which, they said, shut out light and air from them; and four j went further, declaring that they were tired of con- vent I fe, had no vocation for it, and wished to leave. This declaration the Public Prosecutor put in formal writing, and the four nuns signed it. A few days after he paid another visit, accompanied by the reverend gentleman who is officiating for the bishop while the latter is at Rome. The two went through the rooms together, and apparently concluded that the grievance with respect to the blinds was not so bad as had been alleged. The nuns were again assembled, when two of the four nuns who had wished to leave the convent re- tracted their desire, but the other two still de- manded release. This was declined, on the ground that only the Pope could relieve the nuns from con- ventual sequestration. The Public Prosecutor has, however, laid the matter before the Government, who will turn it over to the Council of State for a report, and in about nine months probably it will be decided whether the nuns can constitutionally be retained in the convent against their will. iM REVIEW.—The report of Ltem tenant General the Hon. Sir James Yorke Scarlett upon the late volunteer review at Brighton has been issued from the War Office. It is favourable, the gallant General remarking that great credit was due to all concerned. Accompanying the report is a letter from the Commander in Chief, in which he says:—" I should express my satisfaction at the manner in which the arrangements were carried out by the Hon. Sir James Yorke Scarlett, and by the: Acting Inspector General of the reserve forces, as' well as at the regularity with which the volunteers, appear to have assembled and gone through their; duties, and at the general success of the day's' operations." MELANCHOLY END OF THE MANAGER OF A LIMI-, TED LIABILITY COMPANY.—On Monday the Liver- pool Coroner held an inquest on the body of Roberto Charles Cutting, who was until recently commander T of the Royal Mail steamer Idaho, one of the Guion. Line. He quitted that service for the purpose of becoming managing director of a metal trading Company, a business of which he appears to have not had the slightest knowledge. In this company he had invested the whole of his savings, and he had also induced a large number of his personal friends to become shareholders. The affairs of the company appear not to have gone on satisfactorily and this preyed greatly upon his mind. On Friday evening last he shot himself in his office, Alexan- dra buildings, James street.—The jury returned a verdict to the effect that he destroyed himself whilst labouring under temporary mental derange. ment. THE HEALTH OF PRINCE LEOPOLD.-By speciaJ order of the authorities, the public were not ad", mitted to the terminus at Windsor on Saturday, on the occasion of the arrival of Her Majesty from Osborne, it being desired that it should be accom- plished with as much privacy as possible, in order that His Royal Highness Prince Leopold might not suffer from the excitement of the crowd. His Royal Highness, who had sufficiently recovered from his recent indisposition to be able to endure the fatigue of the journey, had travelled from Gosport in a private saloon carriage, within which an invalid couch had been placed for his use. The greatest care was taken by the officials to prevent the Prince incurring unnecessary fatigue or excitement, and >> His Royal Highness, upon the arrival of the train, was lifted from his seat in the saloon and carried in the arms of one of the Highland "gillies" to the Royal carriage in the station yard. The Queen and Royal family then drove to the Castle, and the' public were allowed to enter the terminus. TRAMWAYS AND OMNIBUSES AT LIVERPOOL.— The case of the Liverpool Tramway Company v. the Liverpool Road and Omnibus Company was brought to a close on Monday before Yice-Chan- cellor Malins. The plaintiffs had obtained an act of parliament in 1868, giving them the exclusive enjoyment of the tramways for eighteen months, after which they were to receive tolls from any vehicle using the tramways. As soon as the tram- ways were laid down the defendants commenced running their carriages on them, and continued to do so up to the present, having put a construction of their own on the act of Parliament. They made new carriages, or adapted the old ones to running on the tramways, by putting the heels underneath instead of at the sides. The terms of the act were prohibitory of the running on the tramways of ordinary carriages" plying for hire. The Vice- Chancellor was clearly of opinion that the defend- ant's omnibusses came within the meaning of the act. He therefore granted the injunction asked for by the plaintiffs to restrain the defendant from using portions of the tramways for the purposes of their omnibusses. It was intimated that His. Honour's decision would be appealed against. A SUNDERLAND SOLICITOR CHARGED WITH SELL- ING SPIRITS WITHOUT A LICENSE.—At the Sunder- land Police Court, on Saturday morning, Mr. Mark Thompson, jun., solicitor, was summoned at the instance of the Excise authorities, on a charge of having sold six gallons of spirits without a license. The charge arose out of the transactions of the de- fendant with the spirits which he and Mr. Ballans obtained from Mr. Schomberg, of Harrogate, under circumstances which came rather prominently before the public in connection with a trial in the police- court on a charge of obtaining goods under false pretences preferred by Mr. Schomberg, but which, was dismissed.—Mr. Robson, who appeared for the defendant, asked for an adjournment for a week. If the matter came before their worships they could not convict except for a certain penalty. The Excise were disposed to take a smaller sum, and if the bench could adjourn the case for a week, he hoped, that smaller sum would be paid, and then there' would be an end to the case.—Mr. Bell, on behalf of the Excise, had no objection to the adjournment, and the bench assented. The full penalty attached to Mr. Thompson's offence, it seems, is £ 500.—J. ■C. Elliott, who was concerned in the same transac- tions, was charged with a similar offence. Mr. Bell prosecuted. The defendant did not appear, and it was stated that he had gone off to America. The sale of twelve gallons of brandy to Mr. John Bell, of Dunning-street, wa; proved, and the bench then inflicted a fine of £ 25—one-fourth of the .£100 penalty.—Newcastle Chronicle. CURIOUS QUESTION UNDER THE GAME LAWS.- In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Saturday, the case of Allen v. Thompson was heard. It was an appeal from the sessions for the North Riding of Yorkshire, held at Leyburn, against a conviction under the Game Act, 1 and 2 William IV. cap. 32. The third section of the act provides that if any person whatsoever shall kill or take any came or use any gun, dog, net, engine, or other instrument for the purpose of killing or taking any game on a Sunday or Christmas day," he shall be liable to cer- tain penalties. The facts found that the appellant had set some snares on a Saturday on ground over which he had liberty to sport, and that he held an Excise licence. It was not found that he had been near the snares on the Sunday; but a person who entered the ground found the snares set and a grouse in one of them, although it was not found that the grouse was caught on Sunday. The main questions were whether it was an offence to set snares on a. week day, and allow them to remain set on a Sun- day, and also whether the snare was an engine" within the meaning of the act. It was contended for the appellant that a snare was not such engine; but principally that where, as in the present case, men had not lifted the snares on the Saturday night, and thus allowed them to remain on the Sunday, but without any personal control on that day having been taken over the snares, there was not a user within the meaning of the act. The Court held that allowing snares to remain set on a Sunday was an offence against the statute, and the conviction was affirmed. SUCCESSFUL APPEAL FROM A COURT MARTIAL.— Recently, Armourer Sergeant Sinton, 42nd Royal Highlanders, was observed by the adjutant in the lines of the 33rd Regiment, at Aldershot, in com- pany with the armourer sergeant of that regiment and wearing his working dress. The adjutant sent to him the bandmaster of the 42nd to inform him that he had taken notice of the irregularity Sirtnn replied, « All right," understanding^ that the band* master was giving him friendly advice, and not placing him in arrest, for the latter continued to walk away. On the following day the adjutant asked Sinton if he was not aware that he had been placed under arrest, and, on Sinton replying in the nega ive, e ordered him to the confinement, of his room, whence he was subsequently marched as a prisoner before the commanding officer, and the fol- owmg charges were read to him :—" First, conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discip- me m having been out of his lines improperly dressed; secondly, breaking his arrest while in ar- rest before being set at liberty by proper authority. He was tried by a regimental court martial, and found guilty on the first charge and not guilty on the second. His punishment was reduction to the ranks and forfeiture of pay amounting to 3s. per day. It appeared that he was not aware that any particu- lar dress was defined for armourer sergeants during working hours, and that when in the lines of the 33rd regiment he was there for the purpose of in- viting Armourer Sergeant Lamb to dine with him according to fraternal custom, the 33rd Regiment having just arrived from Portsmouth. The particu- lars of the case were embodied in a memorial to the Field Marshal Commanding in Chief, who sent an Drder to the commanding officer to reinstate Sinton, who has been reinstated accordingly in his former rank and position, and receives his back pay.