South Wales Daily News

° I SPIRIT OF THE WEEKLY PRESS. THE ROVAL TITLES lHLL. The bill, says the Spectator, lias passed the Commons, and we have no hope in the LonliJ. Nor have we much j hope in the Queen. Able as her Majesty is —abler than her < objects know—experienced as she must be. and ee- voted to her people as she has always shewn herself, she is stIll a woman, liable to be fretted overmuch by the faintest suspicion of inequality anion"' her equals. She must have acquiesced in this bill, and acquiesced from feelingg which argument can scarcely be calculated to reniove- the more M as the veal argument, the danger of impairing the tradition which is the very foundation of her sway, can scarcely be pressed with due respect fairly home to her mind. Yet we would fain hope that hei Majesty, in the week which still remains before the procla- mation is issued which exhausts the Act. will ponder well what is the nature of the precedent her Minister ig setting. Does she wish even one of her titles to be elective? Her title has been confirmed, or let us say, in strict history. even made by Parliament, but the Parliamentary origin of lier throne has been forgotten, and the respect paid to it springs from no statute and no interpretation. So well have history, and opinion, and etiquette worked to- gether for her dignity, that it is fat this moment almost impossible to explain to foreigners in any short form of words that her throne stands above election, and yet is not based, and does not claim to be based, npon the principle of divine right. Is it for her good, as head of a dynasty, as the mother of a line of Kings which might last as long as the lines she represents, to accept at the hands of an accidental majority a dignity which has no root in the past, which visibly springs at best from the right of the sword, which is palpably granted to her, and has not been inherited by her ? What Parliament has made, Parliament can unmake. Is she willing to accept a dignity which, if Parliament ever recalled it, her descen- dants must admit to be fairly within tho right of Parlia- ment to cancel ? If the Queen is Empress of India, must not, asks the Examiner, civil and military appointments to India be gazetted in that name ? Must not appeals from the Indian courts to the Privy Conoeil be reported as being made to the Empress in Council ? If there is any reference to India in the Queen's Speech, which, we see, the Tndu- Pralcash expects as one consequence of the inclusion of India in her title, the Hindu papers will report it as the Empress's speech. Are the Hindu papers to be excluded in consequence from England? Mr. Disraeli's compromise is really too ridiculous our constitutional sovereign, if she is tired of that position, could derive little gratification from a title which she wa# permitted to use everywhere except among her own peculiar people. Foreign diplomatists could never be able to mention her Majesty's name in all its titular dignity without an inward sense, if not an outward sign, of its absurdity. And if our fellow-subjects in India are really anxious to be taken into the bosom of (the British Empire, they are not likely to be conciliated by having a form of loyalty forced upon them which we vehemently resent. It is au awkward, not to say a ludi- crous. business however it is looked at. and affords an amusing illustration of the pretentions incapacity of some of our rulers. Mr. Disraeli has committed as preposterous a blunder as if he had proposed that the House of Peers should be called the House of Cotton Lords everywhere I except in Great Britain, or that, the First Minister of the i British Crown should be dignified with the title of the Great Mogul everywhere except on the Ministerial benches. A SPIRITED FOREIGN POLICY AND THE PERUVIANS. The Foreign Office, says the Saturday Reui«w, has no ob- jieeti™ to any amount of verbal protest, but stops there. 'This is also conspicuous in one of the incidents of the (Talisman case. After capturing the vessel, the Peruvian Government pretended that the crew must wait for trial till the prize court had given its decision; but in the mcanwhile they took the liberty of hoisting their ;own flag and making use of the ship and part jot the crew for the purposes of the* war. Mr. March very properly protested against this out- rage but the only answer was that the Peru- vian Government at the time wanted a ship very badly, and this was the only one it could lay hands on. Lord Derby '"approved" Mr. March's remonstrances, and !then the question was allowed to drop. Yet there can be i no question as to the gross and impudent illegality of the act committed by the Peruvians. Although the Talisman bailors were arrested in September, 1874, it was not till the jfollowing September that Lord Derby "at length,as he i8aid, felt compelled to remonstrate with the Government of Peru' and thus the matter stands. It is said, indeed, ithat the Government has determined to insist on the imme- diate trial of the captain and engineer but if it confinM j itself to the ordinary kind of remonstrance, it is not likely ■to produce much effect. The general impression derived ifrom the correspondence is certainly that there has been a want of vigour in the action of the Foreign Office, which encouraged the Peruvian Government to treat its verbal protests as little more than a matter of form. On the whole, it must be thought that in this case, as in some others, the Ministry has not adhered to the traditional spirit of its party and it is certainly startling to find it exposing itself in this respect to Mr. Gladstone's criticisms. THE GOVERNMENT AND EGYPTIAN FINANCE. The decision of the Government, says the Economist, if we rightly infer it—not to interfere in Egyptian finance -relieves the purchase of Suez Canal shares of some of its very worsi. objections. We are not now committed to an indefinite -throwing of good money after bad we are not about to establish a financial protectorate of Egypt, which must have come to indefinite cash advances, and have ended in our taking the country. We have simply bought certain shares and a certain annuity for JB4,000 0"0. That annuity may not be paid, and the voting power secured by the shares may be very small; but this only amounts to saying that last November we made one very bad bargain. And so we believe we did. But we see the worst of a single bad bargain what we feared was a long series of bad bargains, with an incessant accompaniment of dangerous policy .ind from this we are now delivered. The great advantages, it is true; which were to have arisen from this purchase have wholly vanished. We have in no respect secured the road to India. We have not the least, more right to use, or the least more right to take, the Suez Canal for the safety of India during war—the only matter the nation ever thought of —than we had before. And we have only ten votes among many hundreds in time of peace. We have spent £ 4,000,000 very foolishly; but it is much that this is all our loss, and that no after policy is to enhance our risks and augment our loss. A most satisfactory part of the matter is that the speculators on our Stock Ex- change and elsewhere, who hoped that the English Govern- ment would, as the phrase went, take up Egypt," and so enable them to sell the various securities of that coun- try with which they were overloaded, are now disappointed. The English Government does not mean to take up Egypt." Its securities will have to rest upon their own merits and, therefore, we have now no longer to fear the worst of all interventions for such a nation as ours—a Stock Exchange intervention. GOVERNMENT AND THE TELEGRAPHS. One of the recommendations of the Departmental Com" mittee, says the Saturday Review, is that offices which have not thus far paid their expenses should be suppressed. It is not the business of Treasury officials to estimate the annoyance and irritation which would be caused by the annoyance and irritation which would be caused by the withdrawal of facilities already conceded; but thev might have remembered that a certain time must elapse before the habit of sending messages becomes established in a neighbourhood hitherto unaccustomed to the use of telegraphs. It would be far more advisable to extend the advantages of the telegraphic system to many places which are still distant from oppor- tunities of communication. Lord John Manners has issued a letter containing several severe criticisms on the report of the committee,and the figures which he furnishes completely refute the fallacy of the conclusion that the number of offices should be reduced. In 1872 there were ten onra- munerative stations in London alone in 1875 there was not one. The number of 728 offices which in 1872 were not earning the amount of their expenses was reduced in 1875 to 228. The Postmaster-General is willing to assent to some minor changes which would produce an increase of revenue. He believes, not without reason, that when the Telegraphs Bill was passed there was an understanding that Press messages should be allowed special facilities. He proposes there- fore to retain the charge of a shilling for seventy-five words transmitted by day, or for one hundred words transmitted by night; but he thinks that there ought to be a readjustment of the charge for forwarding by telegraph copies of the same message transmitted to different addresses. By charging full Press rates for such copies he expects to obtain 130,000 a-year, and to gain £ 12,000 by an additional charge for ordinary messages transmitted on Sundays or at night. Even without any addition the net revenue is slowly in- creasing but it must not be expected that the experience of the penny postage will be repeated. Every addition to the number of letters reduces the proportionate cost of the service; and the same result will be produced in working the telegraphs up to the point at which the Etaff is fully employed. On the other hand, every mes- sage is a distinct operation, occupying as much time and labour as any previous message. As the business expands it will be necessary to increase the number of the staff, unless it is already excessive. THE PRINCE OF WALES AND PUBLIC DUTY. The Examiner says --If the Established Church, with all its boasted charity and scholarliness, has any duty to the Crown, it has the duty of telling the Prince of AVales, on his return from lands where ancient races are struggling almost blindly into new civilisations and new faiths, that England expects from him the aims of a man at the head of that larger English society which is confined to no West-end, but includes both rich and poor. We must candidly confess that we have looked in vain for anything like public duty in the Indian tour, and we fancy that we express the feeling of the large body of the nation. We plead guilty to the most barbarous apathy as. to whether his Royal Highness killed or failed to kill a tiger, or as to whether General or .Mr. Somebody was or was not wofully disappointed that loyal devotedness could not track for the Prince a real lair. But if the Prince cares to rule over an educated rather than an ignorant people, and will lend his influence and aid to education,avoiding disputed details if he will make First Lords to feel that he too has an eye on the fleet; if he cares to shew that he is proud of colonies planted by the energies of Englishmen, that he sympathises with the difficulties of Irishmen, and would do something to make Ireland really a source of strength, as it too often is a source of weakness, to the kingdom—that, in short, he takes the interest of the chief of a nation in that nation s affairs-then the nation, too, will take a great interest m his doings, and believe that it is likely some day to have at once a constitutional and a real King. Perhaps, however, it is as well for the monarchy that the Heir- Apparent has as yet shewn no desire to approach that ideal.

GARDEN WORK FOR THE WEEK. KITCHEN GARDEN AND FRAME GROUND.—Beans to fce earthed up; successions to be sown. Sow none but Windsor now, if quality is of any consequence. Broc- coli is to be sown in variety and quantity for use in autumn, winter, and next spring. Cauliflowers may be planted out in southern and western districts, but in cold or damp places it is as yet too early, as if cold weather occurs many will be destroyed, and the rest will be crippled. Plants pretty strong in seed-pans will be greatly benefited by planting them out in frames on a plight heat, or they will do without it if in light rich soil, and carefully managed as to giving air, < £ c. Celery standing out will now begin to bolt; so, to save some as late as possible, take up the remainder of the crop, and lay it in by the heels in a shady corner, or pack it in dry sand in a shed till wanted. Plants in seed-pans in a forward state to be pricked out on a bed over fer- menting material giving a gentle heat the surface soil to be light and rich. In the absence of any source of heat,make a bed of dung and leaf-mould on a hard foundation put a frame over, and prick out the plants in it.—Lettuce to be pricked out from seed pans, as advised for celery and cauliflower. The winter bed may now be thinned out, put- ting the plants on well-manured ground, but leaving some in the bed to supply a few email hearts earlier than those planted out will ùo. Onions.—Sow main crop. Peas.—Sow succession crops, and earth up and stake any that are ready. FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUNDS.— Auriculas to have abundance of air, shade during strong sunshine, and water enough to promete healthy growth and free bloom. Bedding plants to be shifted if needful, but generally speaking the business of importance now is to harden them off by transference to pits, cradles, &c. Some who have to deal with large quantities put them into ^trenches dug as for celery, and lay boards, old lights, or mats over at night Carnations and Pico tees from Seed.—The best mode of raising seedlings is by sowing the seed in pans in April in good sandy soil. Let it be sown half an inch deep. No heat should be used, as it is the cause of their damping off. Too much moisture must not be given, and shading from the midday sup must be afforded. Keep clear from weeds, slugs, and green-fly. They may be planted out about the first week in August, in rows about ten inches apart, in good soil. Water them carefully until they have become established. Chrysanthemums are growing freely, and must be shifted on and stopped as required "without any delay beyond the proper time. It is the securing an early growth that is the key to success in forming fine specimens and obtaining an abundance of bloom. Clear up everywhere and everything that has a touch of untidiness about it. Make all bright and firm with broom and roller.and thin out dead wood from all trees and shrubs. This is a time to edge off lawns and give beds and borders a final pointing over. Evergreens.—This is a capital time to move them, and to plant beds, borders, and edges. If the weather is dry water freely, or, better still, mulch heavily after planting, give no water at the root, but syringe over- head two or three times a day while they are making new growth. Ivy on walls and fences should now be stripped of its loose shoots any gaps to be filled up if possible by nailing in, and the whole to be left as a close feltwork of bare stems. It is a good time to put in cuttings. ltoses to be pruned if notyetdone; nodangernow in any part of Britain, and teal may be pruned with the rest the young shoots are the most valuable, and these must be left a sufficient distance apart to allow light and air to benefit them equally. CONSERVATORY AND GREENHOUSE.—Balsams to be kept growing freely if starved they are spoiled. Let the soil be sweet, light, and rich, with plenty of fibre and thoroughly-decayed manure. Keep the plants near the glass, and let them have plenty of water. Cacti and suc- culents generally- require attention now if they have not yet been dressed up for spring. They require liberal feed- ing, and as long as sunshine is abundant ought to be grown freely, and then bo rested per- fectly, and the result will be they will bloom abundantly. Camellias require careful attention now. As soon as the new growth begins there is an end of bloom, and any un- opened buds that may remain may as well be removed. The temperature for growing plants is 65 deg. by day and 55 deg. by night the atmosphere moist and the position shac y but there must be no coddling. Dahlias may now be struck in quantities with the greatest ease, and they will root quickly. It is a good plan to put the cuttings into pots in which there is a 6mall empty pot in verted,then fill up with light stuff, and put an inch of sand on the top. From thi° they may be removed with nice bundles of roots. (Greenhouse. A general clearance may now be made of all i such plants as can be removed to turf-pits, frames, and other cool receptacles. This will make more room for spring flowers, and give a better chance to pelargoniums and other specimen plants now growing into shape and size. The best shading for plants in flower is tiffany hung inside in large bag-like festoons. Heaths and New Hol- land plants.—Repot as required, using fibry peat and {plenty of drainage. Newly-potted plants to be carefully watered until they begin to mnke new growth, which is always a sign they have taken hold of the new soil. Fuchsias are growing freely and must be shifted as they need it. Over-potting, usually to be avoided, is !not an evil with fuchsias, if they are warm and are not saturated with moisture at the root. Herbaceous calceo- larias will be smothered with green-fly now that the weather is mild unless they are well looked after. The best preventive is to keep them growing freely; and if any need to fumigate, do it promptlj and effectually.—Gardener's Mayazine.

The Morning Post says that the Queen has presented Mr Disraeli with her portrait painted in oil by a German artist. The Rev. E. A. HiK«yard, rector of St. Lawrence, Nor wich, hao been appointed to Christ Church. Bridge-hill Derbyshire. Mr. Hildyard has been known in Norwich as a pronounced Ritualist, but of laie years hie proceedinga have attracted comparatively little attention. He has announced that in his new cure he proposes to conduct Divine service without reference to the Public Worship Regulation Act. The Birmingham Football Club bavingliad its attention called to the reccut deat h of Mr. Wilcox, through an acci- dent which he met wito at Derby whilst playing at foot- ball, have resolved not m future to arrange any match with clubs playing under the Rugby Union rules. Mr. Cordner, contractor, of Silksworth. has found a cave containing a skeleton, supposed to be the remains of a warrior, in a sand hill near Sunderland. The remains, with portions of the stolle cave, a.re now in the possession of Cancn Greenwell, of Durham, who says they were interred fiOOjyears before Christ.

BITS FROM BOOKS. • THE DUKE'S SHOEMAKER AND THE CHAPLAIN.—A story is told of au old Duke of Leeds, we think, in the earlier p;,rt of the reign of George III. One morning he was with his chaplain and his friend, Dr. Monsey, soon after break- fast, in his librnry, when Air. Walkden, of Pall-Mall, his grace's shoemaker, was introduced with a new pair of shoes, which he was to fit on his grace. The shoemaker was a'great favourite of the duke. What have you there, Walkden?" said he to him. The pair of shoes for your grace," he repl" l, "Let me se« them." Tlicy were handed to him accordingly. The chaplain took up one, examined it. with great attention. your price?" asked the CI)Lqplail). Half-a-guinea, sir," said the shoemaker. "Half- a-guinea. what, for a pair of shoes ?" said the chaplain Why, I could go to Cranbourne Alley and buy a better pair of shoes than they ever were or ever will be, for five; and sixpence." He then threw the shoe to the other end of' "Y the room. Wallc^en threw the other after it, saying, As they were fellows they had better go together," at the same time saying to the chaplain, Sir, I can go to a stall inMoorfields and buy a better sermon for twopence than the duke gives you a guinea for." The duke clappell Walk- den on the shoulder, saying, Well done, Walkden, that's capitally said make me half-a-dozen pairs of these shoes directly."—Leisure Hour. THE HBATHEN AND CIVILISATION.—We often marvel why the conversion of the heathen becomes more difficult as time goes on, and yet a moment's reflection will suf- fice to shew us that the reason of the thing is patent enough. When the wild man or the negro gives up his Great Spirit, his fetish, or his idol, and adopts the teach- ing of Christianity, he also adopts the socixl customs and the social standards of what we call civilisation. Where does he find himself in that new scale? At the very lowest point, somewhere between the beggar and the pauper. Ill1 nine cases out of ten we have taken, or beughfc, or tricked Ills land from him we have killed or chased away the wild animals that roamed over it; we have shouldered him out into the remote mountains, or regions unfitted for our pre- sent wants. He learns our knowledge after a. time but that is only as a light held out to shew him how miserable is the position he has accepted—the position of a Christian pariah. He has been told, a hundred times, that this new religion meant brotherly love; that before God colour va- nislied, and race was not known; and if he has believed the teaching, how bitter must be the sense of disappoint- ment with which he learns the real nature of the r6lt he has accepted in the new creed and social state how start- ling the discovery that this beautiful theory of the white rqan's love and brotherhood and charity to all men, means in the hard logic of fact the refusal of a night's shelter under the same roof to him means the actual existence of a barrier between him and the white race, more fatally opposed to fusion, more hostile to reciprocity of thought, mutual friendship, or commonest tie of fellowship, than that which lies between civilised man and the dutnb dog that follows him.-Good Words. REMINISCENCES OF CHARLES LAMB.—To sport with the names of his fellows, indeed, appeared to have been a characteristic amusement with him. Mr. Ogilvie gave these specimens. There was a clerk named Wawd, dis- tinguished for his stupidity, whom he hit off in this coup- let; f What Wawd knows, God knows But God knows what Wawd knows Another, wraed Dodwell, ho celebrated in a charade, of which the first two lines ran thus fl My first is that which infants call their Maker, My second is that which best is let alone-" The rest of it referred to Dodwell's politics, and the poino was not intelligible to me; but that first line- isn't it unmistakably genuine ? Other like quips were repeated, but none that I remember well enough to quote. They were generally founded on some personal peculiarity or foible, and, though never harsh, might sometimes, I should judge, If coming from another source, have been a little trying. Yet in spite of his pleasantries of all sorts, his popularity with his fellow-clerks was unbounded. He allowed the same familiarity that be practised, and they all called him "Charley." As to his kindness and practical benevolence, Ir. Ogilvie declared that it could not be over stated. His sympathies were so easily won that he was often imposed upon, yet he never learned to ba sus- picious. He had been known to wear a coat six months longer, that he might spare a little money to some needy F acquaintance. There was hardly ever a time when he did not have somebody living upon hini. If he was freed from one client, another would soon nriso to take his place. A poor literary aspirant, or vagabond, especially, he could not resist, and he regularly had one or more on his hands. He would even take them to his house, and let them stay there weeks and months together.— Scribner for March. SEA CUCGMBERs.-An ordinary bolothtirip. bears a rough resemblance in external form to a cucumber. Externally we may perceive live rows of peculiar little feet, each fool; presenting the appearance of a tube ending in a little sucker. These rows of feet thus divide the body of the animal longitudinally into five lobes or divisions. At the anterior extremity of the body, we find the mouth surrounded by a circlet of beautiful feathery tentacles or feelers, which are capable of being retracted at will within the body, and which spring from a series of living plates, arranged in the form of a ring within the mouth. The skin of the bady is tough, and of somewhat leathery consistence, and very frequently contains particles of living matter imbedded in its substaBce. The digestion of food in sea-cucumbers is performed by an elaborate system of organs, including a mouth, stomach, and Intestine nnd for the circulation through the body of the nutritive fluid or blood, a distinct system of vessels is developed the heart existing in the form of a tubular ring encircling the gullet. The nervous system exhibits a similar disposition of parts, and exists as a central ring, from which five chief nervou3 cords ori- ginate to supply the various regions of the body. During the course of their development, the sea-cucumbers exhibit several phases which rank among the most interesting parts of their biography. At the moment of its escape from the egg, the young sea-cucumber presents ro likeness or affi- nity to its parent form, but appears as a somewhat worm- like little creature, which swims vigorously about in the water by means of fin. like structures borne on the sides of its body. Soon, and after various changes in form, its body becomes barrel-shaped, and encircled by rings of small vib- ratile filaments known as cilia. By the aid of these fila- ments the little htilothurian swims freely by rotating swiftly upon its own axis and when first discovered, this embryo was believed to be t. distinct animal form (Auricu- laria), its connection with its parent being wholly unsus- pected. Within the barrel-shaped body rudiments of tenta- cles soon begin to be apparent, and the digestive organs become similarly recognisable; whilst by succeeding de- velopments the sucker-like feet and other structures of the adult are formed, and the embryo then assumes the ap- pearance of the full-grown sea-cucumber.—Outsell'SFamily ltlagazine. v. VAGARIES OF THE BRAIN.—Hallucinations and dreams are effects of a disturbed brain, of which our author gives some graphio illustrations. A famous portrait-painter, who was in the habit of painting some three hundred portraits every year, was able to call up the features of his sitters so vividly, that he never required more than half-an-hour for his subject in the flesh, being able, after that short sitting," to fill a vacant ehair with the creature of his brain, and thence transfer it to canvas. This wonderful power eventually resulted in insanity. Another patient, who could place himself before his own eyes, and laugh and argue with his double, became at last so miserable that he shot himself. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, numbers of persons in France and Germany were possessed by a peculiar hallucination known as lycanthropy. Imagining that they had become wolves, they left their homes for the forests, and there leading the lives of wild beasts, became so ferocious as even to devour children. Threo of these were-wlm, as they were called, on the confession of such horrors, were burnt alive at Besan^on, in 1521. Of dreaming, it is perhaps startling to be assured that it is so akin to insanity as to be dis- tinguished from it only by the absence of volition, while in the case of the somnambulist there is not even this point of difference. A story is given of a somnambulist monk, who, dreaming that the prior had killed his mother, went to his superior's bedside, and stabbed the clothes (happily unoccupied) through to the mattress. Sometimes a )>erso» determined to destroy himself will wait months and years for an opportunity of executing the deed in the particular manner be has marked out for himself, and the very in- clination to suicide may be removed by withdrawing the particular objects that would awaken the idea. Thus a man who has tried to drown himself will be under no temptation to out his throat. Example, it is well-known, is a powerful cause of incitement tothe suicidal act. _"e were once told by a physician that a hypochondriacal patient used to visit him invariably the day after reading the report of a suicide in the daily papers, possessed by a morbid fear of imitating the act of which he read. Sir Charles Bell, surgeon of Middlesex Hospital, was one day describing to a barber who was sliaving him, a patient's unsuccessful attempt to cut his own throat; and, on the barber's request, pointed out the anatomy of the neck, shewing how easily the act might have been accomplished. Before the shaving operation was com- pleted, the barber had left the shop, and cut his throat according to Sir Charles Bell's exact instructions. Some- times there is an cpi iemic of suicides, as at Versailles, in 1793, when out of a small population thirteen hundred persons destroyed theumeives in one year or as in the Hutel des Invalides in Paris, when six of the iumates hanged themselves on a certain cross-bar within a fortnight, Very often this disease is hereditary, and at a certain age the members of one family will a.11 in turns evince the suicidal tendency, while even children of very tender years have been knowl) to end their short lives by their own act, from force of example.—Chambers's Jourrud,

Herring fhhing on the Fifcsnire coast, Is now dosed for the season, with a total catch of ,5.0-10 crans. A commence- ment has been made this week of the deep-sea fishing, and very high prices have been realised. Halibut commands 10s. per stone ling, 4s. Ild. to 5s. each cod, 40s. to 608. per score; skate, 3s. to 3s. Gd. cacho We (Standard) are iniormcd that the prospects of an attempt being made to recover the Vanguard have so far progressed that the preliminaries of a aId between the Admiralty and a eivil engineer havt been satisfactorily ar- ranged. Should this contract be finally entered into, it is honed that operations zpav be cmaaweaced not later thai* I

ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS. Mr. E. A. Currie. chairman.of the House Committee of the London Hospital, has received the honour of knight- hood from the Queen at Windsor. The Empress Eugenie and the Prince Imperial have paid a visit to Wilhelmshohe. the seat where the Emperor was connned after the defeat of Sedan. On an estate near Sedprfield, Durham. 32.000 rabbits have been killed by the rabbit catchers daring the past twelvemonths. One of the tenants reaped eight bushels of wheat from an entire ficid last year. A young man giving the name of Barratt. or Soral. has been sentenced to four mouths' imyri,orirent Wl'.il hard labour for having obtained a. considerable sum of money on the pretence that he was an agent for Miss Florence Marryat. He announced a. concert and reading in Wick- low. drew the money from hundreds of people at the door of the liall and then announced, as the reason of Miss Marryat's non-arrival, that. bile was dining with Arch- bishop Trench. An inquest has been lield at the London Hospital on the bodvof a o-entlcman who died from injuries received during hernialcsty's visit to the above hospital on the 7th inst He was awaiting the arrival of the procession when a quarrel arose between two men as to the occupa- tion of an especially good position. and the unfortunate gentleman interfering was thrown down and trampledon, death ensuing three days ago. A verdict of accidental death was recorded. The bronze statue of the Rev. Dr. Cooke has been placed on its pedestal in Belfast in a very quiet manner For. a length of time it has been announced by the, Orangth- men that at the inauguration of the monument there would be a great Orange demonstration. Iso display of any kind was attempted. The statue is on a pedestal of polished granite, and represents the doctor in academic costume. The site of the monument is the junction of Wellington-place with College-square. The Executive of the Foresters Friendly Society have just made the discovery that under the new Friendly Societies Act none of their courts and districts are recog- nised as branches of the ci-Ber. but are simply "ingle societies," holding no allegiancetp the order. The Execu- tive have issued a circular to each court and district, ask- ing them to take immediate steps to become branches of the order. This will involve in the aggregate an expendi- ture of nearly thirty thousand pounds. Some months back the clerks and other junior officials at Chatham Dockyard, as well as the mechanics, labourers, and women employed in the yard, sent petitions to the Admiralty praying for an increase of pay and replies to the petitions have been received, their lordships, with one exception, stating they are unable to accede to the terms of the petition. The oniy increase granted is to the women engaged in the colour loft making flags for the navy, and they are to receive an addition of Id. a day. The American papers make the announcement that the press at which Benjamin Franklin worked in London is about to be exhibited at the forthcoming Centennial Ex- i hibition in Philadelphia. Mr. J. S. Hodson, secretary of the Printers' Pension Corporation, is informed that it is proposed to place Franklin's press side by side with one of the •• Lightning Presses," so that visitors to the exhibition may contrast the printing appliances in use 1;)0 years since with the means necessitated by the demands of modem journalism. In a milk adulteration case, at the Westminster Police- court, Mr. Arnold, the magistrate, has been unable readily to come to a decision, in consequence of the vagueness of the wording of a portion cf the new Food Adulteration Act. By the sixth section of the Act the sale must be to the prejudice of the purchaser. In the case of a sanitary inspector making a pnrchasc with a view to analysis it was clearly not to his prejudice. Mr. Arnold also thought that the section only applied to purposes of consumption. He was, therefore, obliged to take time to consider the point. The Seeftndcrabad paper publishes a list of the present! given to the Prioce of Wales by the Jsizani through Sir fcialar Jung, There are 75 articles on the list, including %0 ewords, daggers, and matchlocks, flower vases, silk cloths, carpets, armour and helmet, and a lot of sundry artichss which must have cost a large sum of money. One of the Calcutta papers lately stated that a list of the present* given to the Prince bv the Nizam had not been published, and it has therefore been deemed advisable to give it iø externa for public informatien. I understand, says the special correspondent of the Leeds Mercury, that Mr. Cave's report on Egyptian fin- ance is of a very unfavourable character. It states that the only means whereby any good can be done in the way of rescuing the Khedive from his unfortunate position it a very large loan. It is believed that the Khedive hai been merely made use of as a stalking horse by the Govern- ment. to get out of an awkward position. It is asserted that if pressure were put upon him by the Ministry he would agree to allow the report to be published. We {Hour) understand that the Sustentation Fund Committee of the English Presbyterian Church find themselves in the position of being able to declare an equal minimum dividend for the first quarter of the current year at the rate of £200 per annum. The do. velopment of this fund has been somewhat remarkable. The first year of its existence, the Church aimed at and paid a dividend of A:150 last year the dividend was J6155, and now the committee are able to declare at the rate of JE200. This is exclusive of the premium to the Widowa and Orphans Fund. We believe this is the first Church in the United Kingdom that has paid its ministers so high a minimum stipend. Those congregations which are able also pay their ministers supplements in addition to this dividend, in sums varying from 1:5 to £ 900. The colonelcy in chief of the 20th Regiment, vacant by the death of General Marcus Beresford, will be fiLed, I hear, says the special correspondent of the Manchester Ouardian, by the transfer to it of Lieutenant-Gtneral Sir Frederick Home, K.C.B.. at present colonel in chief of the 45th, but who served for very many years ill the 20th, commanding it at the Alma and Inkerman. The 45th will receive for its colonel Lieutenant-General Henry Cooper, who held a coramand in i. through the two Kaffir cam- paigns of 1846-7 and 1850-3, and who will leave the 79th Highlanders, of which he is at present colonel, for the purpose of commanding his old corps. To the 79th will be appointed Lieutenant-General Sir Alfred Horsford, G.C.B., military secretary to the Commander-in- Chief, whose brilliant career in the service is too well known to need any recapitulation. By Sir Alfred Hors- j ford s appointment a" distinguished, servioe pension will become vacant.

J. P. LEWIS, has always on Sale SLEEPEES, of a!t Sizes, RAILWAY FENCING, PITWOOD, antI other ENGLISH TIMBER. OFFICE:—4, DOCK CHAMBERS and SAW MILL, nea~ RHYMNKY KAimA^. T-I"-IV- erbtown, Cardiff. 49? JOHFBIDDL E, PAST RY COO it tF AND ORNAMENTAL CONFECTIONER, 14, GOWER-STREET, SWANSEA, Established nearly 41) Years, THE NOTED ROUSE FOR SCHOOL, BRIDE, CHRISTENING, AND BIRTHDAY CAKES. Orders executed on the ihortegt notice, and ferwardefl to nil (»artK. J^OR COUGHS, COLDS, ASTHMA, B RONCRITIS, and NEURALGIA. DR. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S CHLORODYNE. ..Vift;ChIan^e!!?" Sir Wood stated publicly ia Court wi»t Dr J. CJollis Browne wa« undoubtedly the inventor of Chlorodrne, that the whole story of the defendant Freeman deliberately untrue, and he regretted to my it bad been iwoni t-D- -Beg the Ti?4", J UIY 13, 18,4. D,B- J.CoHis Browne's CHLOKODYNE. The Eight Hot). -vr\ Us8e" communicated to the College of Physicians, and J, 1. Davenport, that lie had received information to the effect that the on'y remedy of any service in cholera was Chlorodrn*. -See Lancet," Dec. Ill, D .< C0'8 Browne's CHLORODYNE. Extract from th* Medical Time»," Jan. 12, 1865 — "la prescribed by loores of orthodox practitioners. III course it would not be thus singularly popular did it not supply a want and au. place. DR. J. Collis Browne's CHLORODYNB is the best and moat certain remedy in coughs, colds, asthma, consumption, neuralgia, rheumatism, DR. J. Co!Ue Brogue's CHLORODYNE is a certain cure in cholera, dysentery, diarrhoea, &c. DR. J C'-llis Browne's CHLORODYNE CAUTION. -NoM penu ne without the words Dr. J. Collis Browne's Chlo- odvre on the Government stamp Overwhelming medical tell- timony accompanies each bottle. Sole manufacturer, J. P. DAVENPORT, 33, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury. London, old in bottles. Is 14, 23 9d, 4s 6d, and lis. 3726 People's Edition. Important Medical Works. 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WEBB, PaorR4Rel6 THE COMMERCIAL PLATE GLASS JL COMPANY, 78 & 79, FLEET-STREET, LONDON, E.C., LOOKING GLASS MANUFACTURERS, CARTERS, GILDERS, PICTURE-FRAME MAKERS, DECORATORS, &c., ESTABLISHED UPWARDS OF 100 YEARS, EXHIBITORS OF THE IMMENSE PLATES At THE EXHIBITION OF 1851, FOR WHICH A IRlZE MEDAL WAS AWARDED, Invite the inspection of their new aDd varied STOCK ot CHIMNEY GLASSES, CORNICES, plgg at CONSOLE TABLES, GIRANDOLES, WHATNOTS, FANCY TABLES, TOILET GLASSES, 4sc. A constant succession at the newest degitm at prices 11111 ill Had by any house in the trade. FRAMES MADE TO ANY DESIGN In any kind of wood, gilt or otherwise. CAREFUL AXD PROMPT ATTENTION TO ALL ORDQa. RE-GELDING, RE-SILVERING, by Patent FrNma OIL PAINTINGS SOLD ON COMMISSION, A HANDSOMELY ORNAMENTED RICHLY QlLi 01 EBONIZED AND GOLD FRAJ4E. Rebate Size. Outside Igessureraqvt. trial LO by 40 61 by 52 15 < 65 „ 44 07 „ 5S £ » 16 0 60 72 „ Ot (KS 8 O GILT CORNICES, from Ss. per foot. A FEW SECOND-HAND GLASSES IX STOCK AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. Estimates and Illustrated Catalogues f orwarded upon application Country Purchasers are informed the Insurant* of tbtfe Goods can be effected (against all risks), at the rate of AL to L25, Is. for £50, and 28. for .£100 in val ue. 6a L B o., VARNISH, GREASE, OILS, COLLIERY BRAT- TICE, DOOR CLOTH, AND FLEXIBLE AIR TUBING MANUFACTURERS, STRAND, SWANSEA. 173 TTUJRNITURE VANS'. FURNITURE JD VANS! ROBERT BOND, GENERAL CARRIER AND RAILWAY AGENT Removes Furniture, Pianos, Pictures, Glass. &c., In Vans specially built for that purpose, from House to House, by Road, Rail, or sea, to or from all parts of the Kuigdoiu or the Cua- tineiit. ESTIMATES FREE. FURNITURE WAREHOUSED. 47* For Terms apply at Hf ad Office, Newtown Station, Cardiff. 85JT C Y R U S PRICE AND CO.II PATENT FIRE-PROOF SAFLS, which obtained the OKLY PlilLE MEDAL awarded tor and SPECIAL IMPROVEMENTS. AGENTS CROSS BROS., GENERAL IRONMONGERS. ST. 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All Orders promptly Attended to. 4149 WILLI AM DAVIS, the CardiffCo^Marclwut, respectfully begs to inform his frienos and euMon^ers that he is now prepared to fuppiv good Rhondd* tarjra oaal, AT THE LOWEST mARKfcT PRICES. William Davis further bet'8 to state that iic bopM, by his consttnt enricavoura to meet the wishes of his custotterg, to ensure ad retain that patronage and support, which ho sow respec fully solicits. Pleasa suwl \otjr ordw, and note tne auureas-^WILLlAH I) KVIS, office 91, BUTE-STREET; r<8!dtuce,#9, Jiettteedgtrwt, Roath. 6071 pRESH JfUSH D A I L Y B. W I L T 5 H I R E HIB DOW Re-opened MR T. STEPHENS' SHOP AT 32, DUKE-STREET, CARDIFF And Begs to Inform fbe Public that he supply thMa with FRESH ^JSH Of every description, fr, m the Seaside Daily. AI¡;o he I!hH keep GOOD SUPPLY OF POULTRY. 67 order9 promptly attended to. flggfl THE LATE FIRE IN WINE-STREET. S. BURMAN Hat much pleasurs in informing his Customers and the Poblic generali.v that he hat RE-OPENED HIS SHOP With a newly selected Stock of GOLD and SILVER WATCHES and CHAINS, GOLD JEWELLERY of the Be.-t Quality and Defifi. SILVER and ELECTRO-PLATED GOODS. Regretting the unavoidable delay, and trusting Ibet tt bm caused no inconvenience, he begs to solicit a continuance of tbvir favours. 9. WINE-STREET BRISTOL* ||| ""4:-