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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. T House of Lords, March 8, in answer to Lord Cairns, Lorn Granville stated that it was proposed to adjourn from the 19th ef March to the 5th of April, for the Easter Recess On the motion to read the Oriel College, Oxford, BiH the Earl of Derby s id there were points in it which were important to the Church and the College that should be well considered by a select committee, for it involved a constitu- tional principle and affected the patronage of the Crown. The Bishop of London was very glad the noble earl had called attention to the subject, for there were strong objec tioiiS to some of the proposed alterations-the suggested en- dowment for the provost being especially objectionable. Lord Redesdale had had both parties before him, and though he thought some of the changes proposed were neces- sary, he objected to bills being brought forward to accomplish that which might be done by order in council. that which might be done by order in council. Earl Granville thought the objects of the bill were good. Lord Russell, in pursuance of notice, called attention to the sums voted by Parliament for public education. He was of opinion that, in comparison with what had been done, particularly in Germany and the New England States education was behind-hand in England and Ireland. The plan of grants in aid had not been without result, but an unjust part of the burden was, as demonstrated by Canon Girdlestone, thrown on the parochial clergy in consequence of the unwillingness of the landowners to promote educa- tion. The clergy could not do all, and a large part of the country was without schools. It would be necessary, he believed, for the Government next year to undertake a general seheme. The relief of the rates from other burdens might render it possible to procure some support to schools out of them, but he intimated an opinion that public grants must be loeked to as the main resource; the question of religious education required speedy attention. The TT86 °jL a differed as to this from that of England. MI. ce"t was raised by local subscriptions, ami the State supplied only 40 per cent. but in Ireland the State had to contribute 93 per cent. At all events where private grants formed so small a proportion of the expenditure as in Ireland, the State was entitled to use a wider discretion in the arrangements respect- ing religious teaching. The Roman Catholic Bishops in Ireland had, however, claimed to conduct the religious teaching, even in localities where there was a considerable Protest ant population. The reports of the Board of National .Education in 1866 and 1867 pointed out this evil tendency. .Lord Russell himself considered a system of denominational education in Ireland would gravely increase the want of concord in that island. Lord De Grey defended the Government for having decided not to bring in a general measure of education at a period when it was hopeless to secure proper attention for it. The Duke of Marlborough dwelt on the increasing successful results of the present system. The feeling of the usefulness rnnVv/nniHryfe^0rtS VJ?rowing- He was himself entirely ? °} the good effects of the existing denominational system of education in England, and he deprecated any rash interference with it by the Government. After remarks from Lord Lyveden, Lord Salisbury, Lord Grey, and the Bishop of London, and after some observations by Lord Harrowby, who feared that education, if not properly directed, might increase crime, and by Lord Belper and the Duke of Cleveland, the subieet dropped. After other unimportant business, their lordships ad- journed. r House of Commons, SirS. Northcote asked the First Lerd of the Treasury whether he would state the amount of the property of the Irish Church and the amount of charges that were to be made upon it. Mr. Gladstone said he was quite ready to give every official information in the thape of Parliamentary papers with re- spect to the property of the Ir sh Church and the amount of the charges to be made upon it, but he wished that as regar. s the calculations that he had made the other night and all other estimates should be taken for what they were worth as matters of opinion. From the best information he could obtain, he had made the following estimates:-The estimated amount of the value of the property of the Irish Church, exclusive of the value of the fabrics and sites, were as follows:—The tithe-rent charge was estimated in round numbers at £ 9,000,000; the proceeds of the leased lands and perpetual annuities at £ 4,000,000; the value of the glebe lands and other lands let for short terms not on lease at £ 750,000. These made the total pro- perty of the Irish church, as estimated £16,000,000 in round numbers. With respect to the charges, the life interest of all bishops, cathedral dignitaries, and incumbents a' £ 4>900,000, the life interest of curates at £ «0o,000, the amount of lay compensation, chiefly to clerks sextoris, and others holding freehol(t appointments,at £ 600 000* the value of the advowsons at X300,000, the private endow- ments at £ 500,000, thebuild ing charge on theglibesatZ250,000, and the S'ims required to provide for the grants to the Presbyterian and other colleges and the College of Maynooth at 41 100,000, and the expenses of the commission at £ 20,000 a year tor ten years at 4200,000, making a total of X8,650,000, being a residue of £ 7,350,000. The main business of the evening was the Navy Estimates, and after enquiries and remarks from several hon. members, The House went into Committee of Supply, and Mr. Childers explained the Navy Estimates; and first he stated that tneir total was £ 9,996,000, viz, £ 8,164,000 effec- tive services, £ 1,-515,000 non-effective, and L316,000 trans- port services, which is a reduction of 11,027,000 on last year, and P-1,300,000 from the year 1867-68 These reductions were ivided generally over all the votes, and after the accounts had been corrected there would be a reduction of £ 199,000 for waees, iC73,0(10 victualling departments, £ 127,000 dockyards, £ 57,000 stores, £ 331.009 contracts, and £ 21,000 transports. He stated, that he had succeeded in concentrating all the administrative departments of the Admiralty about White- hall, and the general result ef his changes was a siving of £ 20,000 a year, with DO injustice to any single individual. About £9,000 a year would be saved ia the superintendence of tke dockyards, though there was an increase of 424,000 for wages, and there would be a considerable saving in petty charges for maintenance, &c while the great works at Chatham, Portsmouth, and Malta would be pushed on with increased vigour. Inquiries were also going on into the victualling and hospital departments, which he anticipated would lead to considerable reductions. The mode of dealing with the fleet, he stated, had been to reduce the South American, Pacific, China, Indi m, and African squadronsfrom 80 ships andll,600 men to 64 ships and 8,5u0 men It had been arranged that the Indian Government should pay about E70,000 a year towards the expenses of the vessels kept in the Indian waters; and it wa proposed al- most immediately to send a flying squadron of some of our finest vessels to visit the foreign stations, and to despatch a few of the Coastguard vessels on a cruise. The reduc- tion of men and boys effected in the Estimates was from 66,770 to 61,000, to the credit of which, however, the late Board of Admiralty was chiefly entitled. After showing that at the end of the financial year pretty nearly all the ships now in hand would be co. nieted, he announced that two turret ships, which would be the most powerful afloat, would be laid down at once, one at Pem- broke and one at Chatham. They would be 4,400 tons, double screws, 12! knots speed, plated with 12-inch and 14-inch armour, carrying four 25-ton guns, and costing E286,060 each. Another turret ram-an improved Hotspur-and two or three vessels of the Stanch class compieted the hipbuilding programme of the year; and when it was carried out we should have 47 armoured vessels afloat, with 598 guns and these, with 66 efficient unarmoured ships and a large number of vessels of the old type, which he maintained (without going into close comparisons) would give us a navy stronger than that of any other nation. Mr. Corry vindicated at some length the policy of the late Board, which he showed, before it went out, had prepared for a reductien of 4658.000 on last year's Estimates, leaving » only £ 365,OuO to Mr. Childers' credit. Criticising the pro- gramme of the year, he expressed serious doubts whether the reductions in the Admiralty establishments were wise, and strongly obj- cted to the laying down of the two new turret ships until the Captain and Monarch had been tried at sea. A general approbation of the main features of the Esti- mates was expressed by Mr. Gourley, Colonel Sykes, Sir C. Wingfield, Mr. Brogden and Mr. Graves; and the first three votes—63,300 men and boys, 12,762,353 wages, and £1,172,368 victuals and clothing for the seamen and marines-were agreed to. The House afterwards adjourned. In the House of Lords, March 9, the Duke of Somerset, in putting a question in reference to the papers lately presented to Parliament respecting missionaries in China, referred to the outrage committed on British subjects at Yang-tchou. What the noble duke wanted to know was what right have we to send missionaries into the interior of the country to convert the Chinese? We did not like it even in this country. It was most unjust and unfair to employ our naval forces against the Chinese in support of the missionaries. He did not object to the despatches of either Lord Stanley or Earl Clarendon on the subject, but what he complained of was that they did not go far enough. He contended that our friendly relations with the Chinese Government were pre- judiced by proceedings like that which happened near Nanking. The Government wanted to reduce our naval strength in Chinese waters, but to do that they must reduce the missionaries, for every missionary expedition required a gunboat. They were actually missions of gunboats. He altogether objected to our forcing religion down the throats of the Chinese. He wanted to prevent these missionaries from going to China. It was no use saying let them go at their peril, for in case of a riot or disturbance there would be an appeal to Pekin, leading perhaps to very great diffi- culties between the two Governments. { The Earl of Clarendon thought this question was one of very growing and pressing interest. The presnt state of things was most unsatisfactory. He regretted that mis- sionary ztal often led the missionaries into danger. He thought they ought not to go into countries where no consul resides. The authorities and population of China were ad- verse to these missionary intrusions. The present state of things ought not to be tolerated. The noble earl then read the following instructions which he had given to her Majesty's representative iu China;- I have to Instruct you to explain to her Majesty's Consuls that the special purposes for which her Majesty's ships of war are stationed in the ports of China, and em- ployed on the coasts, are to protect the floating commerce of British subjects against piratical attacks in Chinese waters, to support her Majesty's consuls in maintaining order and discipline among the crews of British vessels in the respective ports, and, in cases of great emergency, to protect the lives and properties of British subjects, if placed In peril by wanton attacks directed against them either OH the part of local authorities or by an uncontrolled popular movement. As regards this last point, her Majesty's consuls must constantly hear in mind that the interference of naval force, either on their represen- tation, or on the part of naval officers acting on their own estimation of facts before them, will alone receive the subse- quent approval of her Majasty's Government, when it is clearly shown that without such interference the lives and properties of British subjects would, in all probability, have been sacrificed; and even in such a case her Majesty's Government will expect to learn that the alternative of receiv- ing them on board ship, and so extri ating them from I threatened danger, was not available. Beyond this the circum- stances of the case must be of a very peculiar nature which would be held by her Majesty's Government to justify a re- course to force. Her Majesty's Governmer.t cannot leave with her Majesty's consuls or naval officers to determine for themselves what redress or reparation for wrong done to British subjects is due, or by what means it should he en- forced. They cannot allow them to determine whether coercion is to be applied by blockade, by reprisals, by land ing armed parties, or by acts of even a more hostile charac- ter. All such proceedings bear more or less the character of acts of war, and her Majesty's Government cannot delegate to her Maj esty's servants in foreign countries the power of involv- ing their own country in war My despatches to which I have referred will have enabled you to point out in unmistakeable terms to her Majesty's consuls the course they are to pursue when an emergency calling for immediate action as the sole means of protecting British life and property has passed away. They must appeal to her Majesty's Minister at Pekin to obtain redress through the action of the Central Govern- ment and he, on his part, if he fails to obtain it, will submit the case for the judgment of of Her Majesty's Govern- ment, with whom alone it rests to decide as to the course to be thereupon pursued." The noble lord added that similar instructions had been given by the Admiralty to the officers of the navy on the China station. In the House of Commons, Sir Thomas Batescn asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland—1. Whether Captain Mackey, the Fenian convict, who is reported to have received an unconditional pardon from her Majesty's present advisers, was the same individual who last year killed a polcie con- stable at Cork, who attacked and set fire to a police barrack at Ballyknockbane and seized the arms of the constabulary belonging to that station, who also attacked and rifled the Martello Tower at Fota in December, 1867, and who was implicated in other outrages at Castle Martyr, Knockadoon, Kilmallock Kflcooley Wood, and elsewhere. 2. Whether the said Captain Mackey had, in 1866, been arrested by order of Lord Kimberley, under a Lord-Lieutenant's warrant, and had been discharged in the month of April following, on his solemnly pledging himself in writing not to return to the United Kingdom. 3. And, finally, whether this man was the criminal, who, for these repeated outrages, was, on the 20th of March last, sentenced by the present Lord Chancellor to twelve years' penal servitude ? Mr. Chichester Fortescue said the statements were sub- stantially correct, with but one exception, and that was that the prisoner Mackey had been discharged (loud laughter). There was not the slightest intention to remit any portion of the sentence (cheers and renewed laughter). Mr. Beckett Denison asked the Under Secretary of State for India whether it was true that the Indian Government had subsidised the Ameer of Affghanistan with money and arms and, if so, whether the subsidy was to be an annual one, and what conditions are attached thereto? Mr. Grant Duff said the late Viceroy gave the Ameer six lacs of rupees, and also promised another six lacs, and pre- sented him with some arms. The word subsidy was not an appropriate one, and there were ne conditions or promise of any annual payment. In reply to Mr. Hadfleld, Mr. Gladstone stated that, on the night of the J3rd, he should move that the House do adjourn until the 31st inst. Mr. Locke King asked leave to bring.jn a bill for the better settling the real estates of intestates. He said, in the case of a man dying without a will, the bill would assimi- late the laws relating to land to the laws relating to personal property. He denied that his ooject was to introduce the law of primogeniture as it prevailed in Fiance. The bill having been seconded, Mr. Stapleton and Mr. Goldney objected to the measure. Mr Beresford-Hope referred to the two divisions which took place on the same subject in 1859 and 1866, when the bill was rejected by very large majorities, and said the prin- cipal opposition then came from some members of the Liberal Government. He believed the bill did not work satisfactorily in countries where it was the law, and he should oppose the bill at its second reading. Mr Walter thought a measure of such importance should be dealt with by the Government. Mr. Hatfield supported the bill. Sir L. Palk strongly objected to the measure. Mr. Gladstone said he understood there was no intention to divide the House. He believed the subject could be dealt with better by the Government, but he could not pledge the Government to deal with the question just at present, as they have so many measures on their hands. He hoped, however, that the House would allow the bill to be brought "kr. Henley hoped the title of the bill would be altered to that of a bill for the confiscation of the 40s. freeholds. Leave was then given to bring in the bill.
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Apropos to the foregoing, it may be remarked, that Mr. Sykes's Bill, tor the Preservation of Sea Birds, now in the House of Commons, proposes to enact penalties not excoedine 20s. (half to the informer, halt to the credit of the county rate), with costs, on any person killing, wounding, or taking any sea bird, or using any instrument for so doing, or having in his control or possession any sea bird recently killed, wounded, or taken, between the 1st of May and the 1st of August, the breeding seasor). But the Bill is not to extend to sea birds taken bond fide for use as food. The offender refusing to give his real name and address to any person requiring it is to be liable to a further penalty not exceeding 40s., with costs. Sea birds are to be deemed to include the different species of gulls, awks, guillemots, cormorants puffins, terns, oyster-catchers, skuas, petrels, gannets, divers, razor- bills, shearwaters and grebes, merganser, eider ducks, and snieldrakes.
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MYSTERIOUS PRESENTIMENT. The following is given publicity to by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Hagley Ibll Admiral Sir Thomas Williams, a straightforward and excellent man, founder of the Royal Naval Female School for the education of naval officers' daughters, was in command of a ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean. His course brought him within sight of the Island of Ascension, at that time uninhabited, and never visited by any ship except for the purpose of collecting turtles, which abound on the coast. The island was barelv described on the horizon, and was not to be noticed at all; but as Sir Thomas looked at it, he was seized by an unaccountable desire to steer towards it. He felt how strange such a wish would appear to his crew, and tried to disregard it-but in vain. His desire became more and more urgent and dis- tressing, and foreseeing that it would soon be more difficult to gratify it, he told his Lieutenant to prepare to put about ship and steer for Ascension. The officer to whom he spoke ventured respectfully to represent that changing their course would greatly delay them—that just at that moment the men were going to their dinner—that, at least, some delay might be allowed. But these arguments seemed to increase Captain William's anxiety, and he gave the word of command, which is never resisted. He saw in the countenances of his officers an expression of wonder and even blame, as strong as is ever shown on an order from the Captain; but he was obeyed—and the ship was steered towards the uninteresting little island. All eyes and spy-glasses were now fixed upon it, and soon something was perceived on the shore. "It is white-it is a flag-it must be a signal!" and when they neared the shore, it was ascertained that sixteen men, wrecked on that coast many days before, and suffering the extremity of hunger, had set up a signal, though almost without a hope of relief. The ship- » wrecked men were taken on board and the voyage completed. Sir Thomas related this anecdote in the simplest and most tranquil manner, in A.D. 1813 (years after the date of its occurrence), to the writer of this accoant."
THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES BILL.
THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES BILL. The Contagious Diseases (Animals) (No. 2) Bill was published on Monday. It is endorsed by Mr. Dodson, Mr. W. E. Forster, and Mr. Secretary Bruce. Its purpose is to amend, consolidate, and make perpetual the Acts for preventing the introduction or spreading of contagious or infectious diseases among cattle and other animals in Great Britain. The Act is not to extend to Ireland. Every local authority is to be em- powered to appoint or remove inspectors. The Privy Council, to whom reports are to be made from time to time, are also to have the power of removing in- spectors and officers. The power to prohibit the landing of foreign animals generally, or in any specified port, or elsewhere than in some specified port or ports, is to rest with the Privy Council. It will also be in the power of the Privy Council to vary re- gulations and to impose quarantine. The punishment for wrongfully landing, in contravention of the orders of the Privy Council, is to be the forfeiture of the ani- mal or animals so landed, and the offender is to be liable to similar penalties to those imposed on persons importing prohibited goods. Inspectors are to pro- ceed to execute their powers and duties on receiving information of the supposed existence of cattle-plague, pleuro-pneumonia, or sheep-pox, and their evidence in all courts of justice is to be conclusive. Refusal of admission to an inspector is to be deemed an offence. The removal of articles from infected places is speci- fically provided against. The exposure for sale of diseased animals and the turning out of diseased animals on inclosed lands are also to be deemed offences and the methods to be employed in the burial of diseased animals, the precautions to be taken for the puritica- tion of sheds, steamboats, railway carriages, &c., are enumerated. Local authorities are to have the power to order an animal to be slaughtered to ascertain the nature of the disease, a scale of compensation being arranged for such cases. The bill also provides for the acquisition of land by local authorities, for the con- veyance of lands and purchase under provisional order, and for the expenses of local authorities it points out the course to be pursued with regard to legal proceedings, and shows what penalties may be inflicted.
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The ACTION AGAINST Mr. SIMS REEVES AT CHELTENHAM. In the Cheltenham County Court on Friday, Mr. Benson, of Bristol, applied for a new trial in the case of Hodson v. Harrison," in which a verdict of f23 had been given at the last sitting of the Court, and in which the question at issue was the ability of Mr. Sims Reeves to appear at a concert given by the de- fendant in Cheltenham, on Dec. 17 last. Mr. Benson founded his application on three grounds First, that the verdict was against the evidence; second, that damages were excessive and, thirdly, that a material witness (Dr. Rumsey) had not appeared on his subpoena. Mr. Marshall, for the plaintiff, resisted the applica- tion, but ultimately his Honour, Mr. Charles Sumner, granted the application, and refused at present to make any order that the costs of the first trial should fall on defendant. Mr. Greene, of the Oxford Circuit, then applied, on behalf of Mr. Sims Reeves, that that gentleman should be relieved from the fine of £10 which had been im- posed on him for non-attendance at the original hear- ing of the case. In making the application, he said Mr. Sims- Reeves had felt it necessary to take this course in consequence of the many misstatements which bad appeared in the papers, and because he was anxious that it should not be thought that he was guilty of wilful disrespect of the Court, or that his absence was due to any other cause than illness. He characterised the statements made by Mr. Gough at the original hearing as unwarrantable, improper, and without foundation, and said there was no ground for saying either that Mr. Sims Reeves was well enough to appear at the concert, or that he had been well enough to appear in the Court in London on the Tuesday previous to the trial. The learned counsel then read, in support of his application, affidavits by Mr. Sims Reeves, Dr. Phillips, of Lancaster-gate, and William Cowlishaw, Mr. Reeves's servant. His Honour thought, as it was important that Mr. Sims Reeves should be present at the new trial, the application had better stand over. In reply to a ques- tion by Mr. Greene, his Honour said he should not require any further application by the learned counsel, and if the action were abandoned, Mr. Reeves would stand in a favourable position with regard to this application. The case was then appointed for rehear- ing on March 19, unless the plaintiff should have early notice that Mr. Sims Reeve's accepted engagements would not suit that date.
PRESERVATION OF SEABIRDS.!
PRESERVATION OF SEABIRDS. The following has been sent to The Timet for publication, and we may remark, that we think the writer's view of the subject is the popular on" In common with other naturalists who take an in- terest in British seafowl I rejoice to find that the atten- tion of Parliament is now to be drawn to them for the purpose of legislating for their protection While agreeing with the promoter of this well-timed and important measure in many of his statements, I am not so sure that pleasure seekers are the chief actors in the work of destruction. Sufficient evidence, I think, has already appeared in your own columns to show that commercial dealers in plumes and natural history agents who traffic in seabird skins and eggs for cabinet specimens are equally to blame for the rapid diminution that has for years been going on among our native seafowl, and if Scotland does not share in the protective enactment these dealers will soon find out and invade every nursery, numerous though they be, between the Mull of Galloway and Cape Wrath on the one hand, and St. Abb's and Duncansby Head on the other. Having made personal visits to most of these romantic haunts of seabirds, I can testify to the impor- tance of their preservation as advocated by Mr. Sykes in his allusion to English localities and as there are at least ten times the number of breeding places in Scotland when compared with those south of the Solway and the Tweed I trust I may be wrong in supposing they are to be altogether ignored. For the information of those who are taking a leading part in the projected measure I may mention that for the last twenty years immense numbers of seafowl of all kinds have been netted and killed in the height of the breeding season on Ailsa Crag. I am not prepared to say that this practice has been for so long a time perpetrated with the full knowledge and sanction of the proprietor, but the tenants of the rock, which in extent ranks next to St. Kilda and Barra Head in the British Islands, have hitherto looked upon the feathers of the birds as the principal source of revenue out of which their rent has to be paid. I have been many times upon the rock, and have seen thousands of kittiwakes, puffins, and guillemots slain by the fowlers. Their practice has been to spread nets over the rocks and broken boulders at nightfall, when the poor birds were either sitting on their eggs or cowering beside their callow brood, and return to them during their morning rounds for the purpose of twisting the necks of the fluttering captives, who had been entangled as they quitted their holes at daybreak, On the occasion of my last visit I observed both eggs and dead young birds in some of the burrows of the puffins, the owners of which had apparently some time before fallen a sacrifice to the tack man's revenue; and I have at other times counted nearly 2,000 carcases in one heap ready for being sent to the main- land. Leaving these facts to speak for themselves in the forthcoming discussion-if, indeed, such a salutary law is to be questioned-I shall still hope that the proposed enactment is to include at least nine-tenths of British breeding places and thus spare some of our grandest headland scenery the unenviable notoriety of so much wanton bloodshed.
SENDING A THREATENING LETTER.
SENDING A THREATENING LETTER. At Worcester, the Rev. 3. J. Merest, rector of Upton Snodsbury, near Worcester, has been indicted for sending on the 6th October ult., a certain letter, demanding money of the Rev. R. M. Workman, of 10, Southampton-street, Strand London, with menaces, and without any reasonable or pro- bable cause. On the prisoner being arraigned, he pleaded not guilty to the charge of felony, and guilty to a misde- meanour in sending letters of the dates of October 3, July 4, and December 22, litiS. The letter of October 3 was signed by the prisoner, and it states I am informed upon undoubted authority that your name is Rawlings, and that you were once curate of Huutsbourn, in Hants, and P.C. of Bardsley, Lancashire. I have eniy to say that, unless the 4465 that I paid you for Branksen be returned, together with the documents that I agreed to when last In your office, and a full explanation given of how the money for the house at Upton and the restoration of the church is invested, it will come betore the public." The letter of July 4 was anonymous, and signed A Friend of the Clergy." It was dated "London," and addressed Rev. Mr. Workman, 10, Southampton- street, Strand." It proceeds :— Your habits in swindling the clergy are pretty well known and talked about, and your late transactions will soon be laid before the public and a stop put to all further dishonest transactiens. It appears that you are in the habit of pur- chasing advowsons with the money of othen, and then ob- talnlng patronage yourself] You have already-had the pleasure of trying the treadmill, and will soon be there again. Before any further disclosures take place I should recommend, for your own sake, that you will refund the money you have obtained through your fraudulent promises, or the full facts will be made public." Mr. Huddleston, addressing his lordship, said he hoped he would sanction the course which he and Mr. Kenealy proposed to take. On the depositions there was not evidence enough to support the charge of felony, but it was impossible to resist the charge of sending a letter such as mentioned in the indicrment for misdemeanour. The circumstances were peculiar. The prisoner had entered into negotiations with the prosecutor, who had managed for him the sale of valuable living", and after certain pecuniary arrange- ments a certain sum was placed in a bank, the prose- cutor and another gentleman being trustees, for the purpose of purchasing for the reverend defendant a living. There was a misconception on the part of both parties with regard to the pecuniary transactions. The prosecutor seemed to expect to derive an advantage from the purchase and sale of the living, and the defen- dant thought that as a trustee he was not so entitled. Disputes consequently arose, and the defendant came to the knowledge of certain matters which he had in a letter to the prosecutor indiscreetly intimated that he was disposed to make public. No one was more sensible of the indiscretion he had been guilty of than the defendant himself, and he had thrown himself on his lordship's consideration by pleading guilty to the charge. The object of the prosecutor was to prevent further annoyance from such letters, and if his lord- ship would sanction the suggestion, it was proposed that the rev. defendant should enter into his own recognisances to come up to receive judgment when called upon. Mr. Kenealy, Q.C., ashcnted to this proposal on the understanding that Mr. Workman having manifested this kindly and Christian feeling towards a brother clergyman, the defendant would act with a similar feeling, and would not renew the annoyance. His Lordship approved of this course, observing that if the annoyance was repeated, the defendant would be liable to be brought up to receive judgment.
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ACTION AGAINST AN INSPECTOR OF NUISANCES. At Worcester, the cause of "Phelps v. Harrison "has been tried, and was an action of trespass brought against the in- spector of nuisances for this city for seizing the carcass of a cow as being unfit for human food, and applying to the justices to condemn the meat. The defendant justified under the Nuisances Removal Acts. The plaintiff was a butcher, occupying a shop in the Shambles. On the 19th of May last he purchased the carcass of a cow slaughtered on that day from a Mr. Chambers, a farmer in the neighbourhood of Worcester. It appeared that the cow had been killed inconse- quence of excessive distension caused bv over-eatine- young clover. The plaintiff gave PA for the carcass of the cow, which had cost Mr. Chambers a short time before the sum of 222. The carcass was brought to the plaintitl's shop the same day, and on the next morning was exposed for sale. At about eleven o'clock the defendant seized the meat as unfit for human food, and caused it to be taken before the magistrates for condemnation. The justices, however, refused to make an order for its destruction. The plaintiff called a veterinary surgeon, who had seen the carcass, and stated that the meat was wholesome and fit for human food. It was proved on behalf of the defendant that he had received information of the death and purchase of the carcass, and that he examined the meat in the plaintiff's shop and discovered that the udder was wanting the appearance of the meat was dark and flabby. Nothing appeared in the case to show that he had acted maliciously, or otherwise than bond fide in discharge of his duty. The learned Judge, in summing up, observed that it was most important to the public health to prevent the sale of unwholesome food, and said that the question for the jury would be whether the defendant honestly believed that the state of the food was such at the time of the seizure as to require his intervention to prevent its sale for human food. The jury found a verdict for the defendant.
- HYDROPHOBIA AT PRESTON.
HYDROPHOBIA AT PRESTON. Two, ^ths having recently occurred in Preston from hydrophobia, the police of that town are now carrying on a vigorous raid against dogs. On Saturday last six of these animals were poisoned with prussic acid in the yard of the police-station. One of them bit a young woman named Tyson, twenty years of age, six weeks before Christmas, and recently, since reading the reports of the dreadful sufferings and deaths of a youth named Weights and the child of a man named Wrigley, who were both bitten by rabid dog about the same time, she has been in a very depressed state of mind. Acting upon the super- stition that if the dog were destroyed the per- son bitten would recover; the owner of the dog, John Blake, gave the animal up to the police. The officers now capture all the dogs they find at large, and such as are not claimed suffer death by prussic acid. Persons who appear to claim their dogs are forthwith summoned by an infraction of the by- law relating to such animals, and are mulct in penalties and costs. Seven persons were thus deealt with on Saturday, and in nearly every case it transpired that the defendant had obtained a dog license only on the day or day after the animal was captured, or the person reported. A singular contest of feeling exists in the town on this subject, some persons maintaining that to confine a dog is to excite the disease and ought to be avoided, while others, considering the safety of the public only, as strenuously insist that the mayor's order should be carried out—that no dogs be suffered to go at large, as it is known that there are many rabid animals in the borough. The question, which two years ago agitated the dog- owning public at Preston, When ia a dog at large T is again likely to be brought before the magistrates.
A DISPUTED WILL.
A DISPUTED WILL. In the Court of Probate and Divorce the cause of Collis v. Collis has been heard, and in which the defendant propounded the will of the late Mr. James Collis, of Cortenwood Farm, in the county of Somer- set, who died on the 5th of June, 1867. The will is opposed by the plaintiff, who is a brother of the testator, on the ground that it was not properly executed. It appeared that the testator had for many years occupied the farm of Cortenwood, in the county of Somerset. He was a widower and had no children. He had several brothers, one of whom died, leaving a young son, and the testator adopted the boy and brought him up. The testator, on finding his health failing, thought of making his will, and accordingly, on the 17th of January, 1867, he sent for a Mr. Brayne, who resided in the village of Corton. and who was the ceneral will maVf/ir- all 4-V. j p O n "&a.A.V.L «•" tlUt:7 wumrj ruuuu. This gentleman drew up the will, and at the time he did so one of the testator's brothers, named Charles, was present. By the will the testator bequeathed the whole of his property and effects to his nephew Charles, the son of his deceased brother, whom he had brought up, and who had lived with him nearly all his life. The proper execution of the will was now dis- futed, and that was the only question for the jury, t appeared that there were three attesting witnesses to the will. One of them was the testator's house- keeper, who signed by a mark. She placed her mark to the will, but having done so in the wrong place, she placed another mark, and both marks now appeared on the face of the document. Mr. Brayne, who drew up the will, and one of the attesting witnesses to it, was called, and detailed the circumstances attending its execution. He saw the testator sign it, and he signed it after him as witness- ing his signature. The testator's brother Charles signed as another attesting witness, and the house- keeper put her mark to the will as another. She, however, put it in the wrong place, and by the desire of witness she placed it in the proper place. He received half-a-crown for drawing up the will. The other attesting witness, Charles Collis, was also called, and gave much the same story as to the execu- tion of the will, with the exception that he said the housekeeper was sent for after he. and Brayne had signed the wilL The twtator's heupekeeper stated that on the day the will was made, her master called her into the room. She saw her master's name and the other two on the will, but she saw none of them written. Several witnesses were then called who proved the testator's handwriting, and who were of opinion that his signature to the will was a genuine one. On the close of the defendant's case, Dr. Spinks opened the case for the plantiff, which simply was that the testator's signature to the will was a forgery. A l of this case he called several witnesses. A labouring man of the name of Davis, who had been for several yeard in the testator's employment, stated that two days after the testator's death his house- keeper told him that there was a will, but that it was not signed. Mr. Chabot, and Mr. Netherclift, experts, gave it as I their opinion that the signature was not in the hand- writing of the deceased. Mr. Charles Pollock, Q.C., addressed the jury on I the part of the defendant. He contended that the evidence of the experts were not to be relied on, while, upon the other hand, they had the evidence of a clerk in the bank in which the testator transacted business. who statedUistmctly that had a cheque been presented at their bank with the testator's signature attached to it similar to his signature to the will he would have at once cashed it. The learned Jucfee then summed up the evidence, and the Jury, afr a few minutes' consideration in the jury-box, a verdict for the defendant in favour of the will. The Court acconiingly pronounced for the will, and condemned the pliintiff in costs, but rtfused to certify for a special jury.
MURDER IN MAIDSTONE.
MURDER IN MAIDSTONE. Early on Sunday morning a shocking murder was committed at Maidstone. Shortly after twelve o'clock the report of a gun was heard on the Ashford-road, and not long afterwards two lads discovered the body of a man withir two yards from the curb, bleeding from the face, aid a bundle lying close to him. They went to Turkey paper-mill, within a few yards of the spot, and told a man named Tovey what they had seen. He. returned with the lads to the body, when they found that the bundle which had been lying by the body was missing. Inspector Hills arrived shortly afterwards and conveyed the body to the "Artichoke Inn," about 15f yards from the spot where it had been fouad. Mr. Firber, surgeon, had been apprised of the fact, but upon lip arrival life was found to be extinct. From an examination of the body it was found that the deceased had been shot through the mouth, the charge taking effect in an upward direction. Several shots were extracted. He was recognised as a young man named John Phinn, tailor, residing with his father At Weavering-street, about a mile from Maid- stone. On Saturday he had been out walking with a young woman to whom he had been paying his ad- dresses, and while walking he left a bundle at the house of a barber named Knight, in Maidstone. After leaving the young woman at her own door. he again called on his way home at the house of Mr. Knight and obtained his bundle. Nothing more was seen of him till his body was discovered as above stated. A por- tion of the contents of the bundle was found near Gidd's Pond. Upon the deceased was found his purse and its contents, also his watch. It would apppear from this that if the object of the crime was robbery, the perpetrator had been defeated by the arriral of the boys.
HOW GENERAL GRANT GOT CAUGHT.
HOW GENERAL GRANT GOT CAUGHT. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times tells the following story :— General Grant learned the folly of cheap recom- mendations during the war by a sad experience. General Hillyer relate. that shortly after the fall of Vicksburg a surgeon of an Illinois regiment, who had won his (Hillyer's) affections by some means, com- plained to him of the unpleasantness of a non-com- batant's position to a raan of peculiarly belligerent disposition like himself, and requested him as a favour to recommend him for some position where he could do a little fighting. Hillyer was delighted at the oppor- tunitv to recommend such a fighting doctor, and at the further suggestion and request of the surgeon pro- mised to get General Grant's approval. And did, too, General Grant saying, I do this Hillyer, on your recommendation you know all about the man ?" The assurance was given, and the signature was appended. Nothing was heard of the matter again until General Grant came East, and was in want of a few general officers. On his application Mr. Stanton sent him, among others, Brigadier-General the former surgeon. Grant soon found he could not drill a regi- ment, and with considerable feeling demanded of Mr. Stanton to know why he had sent him such a man. Mr. Stanton, in reply, showed the recommendation signed U. S. Grant. There could be no reply, and much mortified, Grant turned away. Since that time recommendations have meant more to him than ever.
The RETROSPECT and the PROSFECT.
The RETROSPECT and the PROSFECT. The TimC8, in a leader commenting on the report just is- sued by the Commissioners «f Inland Revenue, says It tells a different story from what we have been ac- customed to of late years. For the year ending March 31, 1868, there was a net increase in the receipts of about £100,000, but as the rate of the income-tax was raised from 4d. to 5d. in the pound, this indicates an actual decrease in the productveness of the revenue. In fact, there is a net decrease in the excise of half a million, and many other sources of income would ex- hibit a falling-off were it not for exceptional causes of recovery. Only one important decrease can be attri- buted to a reduction of taxation. A change on the duty on Marine Insurances involved a loss, under the head of Stamps, of £318000; but this was balanced by a purely accidental increase in the Legacy and Succession Duty of The revenue, in fact, suffered a check in the year 1867, which amounte.1 to much more than to a mere loss of elasticity, and the cause is mainly to be sought in the commercial depres- sion of 1866. In the financial year ending March 31, 1868, the re- turns from Spirits fell off by £345,000, and from Malt by half a million. The real decrease on the Excise would, in fact, be far greater than is apparent were it not for the Dog Licvnces, which were transferred to this head of Revenue from that of Assessed Taxes, and furnishod more than £300,000. The heavy dimi- nution in thte consumption of home-made Spirits and Malt does not, however, represent a total loss to the Revenue. It is in part to be ascribed to depression in trade, and to want of employment for the working classes. So far, of course, it is sheer loss. But th« Commissioners think it is also due to a rise in the price of grain—the staple raw material of the British distiller. This raises the price, and, consequently, lessens the consumption of British Spirits but it favours the importation of foreign Spirits in their place. The diminution in the Excise is, therefore, partly balanced by an increase in the Customs. The loss on Malt is relieved by no such com- pensation, but this also is partly due to the scarcity, and the high price of barley. Maltsters at such times work with great caution, and brewers keep their stock as low as possible. Barley, unfortu- nately, continues to rise in price, and, in spite of a temporary recovery in the malting trade, the Com- missioners are not sanguine of anv continued improve- ment. The experiment of using Malt to feed animals has been so completely abandoned that there was only one house in the United Kingdom in which this branch of the trade was maintained. The conversion ot the assessed tax on dogs into a licence duty has proved singularly successful. In the course of 1868 half a mil- lion more dogs were licensed than were assessed in 1865. The consequence is that, though the duty haa been reduced from 12s. to 58. the amount of duty has only diminished by £9,000, out of a total of £226,000. The change is said to have given the Department an enor- mous amount of trouble, and success has not been obtained without an unuguaj number of prosecutions. But licences may now be obtained at all Money Order Offices, and, as people get accustomed to the tax, the Commissioners look forward to still more satisfactory returns. The Excise officers have the task of collecting agri- cultural statistics for the Board of Trade, and they report that the reluctance of owners and occupiers to give the information required has not much diminished. Many instances have come under the notice of the Commissioners in which, "at the instigation of some great landowner, the farmers have set the officers at defiance. Suchsuspiciousness would be excusable in farmers, but it is unpardonable that great landowners should instigate it. The season of the year when the returns are collected is said to be inconvenient, and as public complaint has lately been made that they are published too late, it would be worth while inquiring whether the time could not be altered. Under the head of Stamps we find that the returns from Fire Insurance have not answered the expecta- tions based on a reduction of the duty. In the first year after the change there was a large increase in the amount of property insured, but the increase in the next year was very little more than was usual under the former rate, bo far as the Commissioners can judge, there will not be a larger amount of property insured in the current Year. f The observations under the head of Income Tax are interesting in more than one particular. There was a satisfactory increase m the amount of property and profits charged to duty. The assessment for the year 1865-6 was 364 millions, and for 1866-7 374 millions. England, Scotland, and Ireland, all exhibit an increase; the highest rate of increase, or 5 per cent., was in Scot- land, and the lowest, or 2 per cent., in England. The assessment on houses shows an increase of a million and a half, the greatest amounts being in Lancashire, Yorkshire, and the metropolitan coun- ties. Railways, mines, ironworks, gasworks, all fur- nish an increase, and the profits from Trades and Professions are charged at four millions more than in 1865. The effects, however, of the disasters of 1866 are distinctly and painfully marked. The City of London is the only district in which the assessments for 1866 exhibit any considerable decrease, but here the falling-off amounts to a million, the total being 23 millions instead of 24. We are told, moreover, that the assessments in the provinces were for the most part made before the failure occurred, so that the satis- factory results we have noticed may be considerably modified in the next returns. As another lamentable indi«ation of commercial distress, nearly 10,000 more persons applied for partial remission of taxat on in 1866 by the allowance granted to incomes under £200 a year. This must indicate grievous and widespread suffering in one of the most needy classes of the community. The Commissioners have obtained remarkable proof of the degree to which the Revenue is defrauded by returns under Schedule D. Whenever houses are pulled down for some public improvement, or when professional privileges are withdrawn, and claims for compensation are preferred, the claimants never fail to state their whole profits, which can thus be com- pared with their returns to the Commissioners. Here are a few results :—One person returned his profits at £250 they were assessed at £400, and so they stood until he had reason to expect that his premises would be required by the Board of Works. Upon this he raised his return to £1,000, and eventually the Dis- trict Commissioners, fixed his assessment at £1,900. Another firm, who returned £2,000 in 1867, were proved to be liable to assessment on £3,311, and their excuse was that their returns were made on the same scale as their competitors in trade. Similarly we read of returns of £1.800 instead of £6,000, of £2,000 instead of £9000, and of £750 instead of £4,900. of £5,000 in- stead of £10,000, and in the cast of larger companies, of £ 2,000 instead of £ 40,000. It is the experience of the Commissioners that these scaidalous frauds are not confined to any particular class, trade, or profession. They find the same practice prevailing among legal practitioners they observe it on all occasions of large demolition of shops and warehouses for public purposes in every variety of trade, in great public companies, and in firms whose business is almost a national concern." The facts in the particular case before them amounted to this That 40 per cent. of the persons assessed had understated their incomes to such an extent that a true return would give an addition of 130 per cent." They believe that this proportion of deficiency prevails throughout the assessments, and the result is that duty was probably t-vaded in no less than 57 millions of income. At the present rate of 6d. in the pound, this would add to the revenue nearly a million and a half, or about the product of a penny on the whole Income Tax. The Commissioners are charitable enough to say that they believe these gross mis-statemextts are in many nstances But, '1U they arise, they prove the immense importance of a vigorous and responsible administration of the Revenue Departments of the Government. There can be little doubt that the assessed taxes are similarly defrauded, and there is no hope of these being more effectually collected until they are transferred from parochial officers to the excise. The Chancellor of the Exchequer admitted the necessity of some such altera- tion, and he quoted a forcible illustration from the present report. A member of the Department asked a parochial assessor why a certain person had not been charged for his horse and carriage. The parochial assessor was the butcher of the village, and he frankly confessed that the gentleman in question was his best customer, and he could not afford to offend him. It must be remembered that such frauds not only involve great loss to the country, but inflict grievous injustice on the smaller taxpayers, and on others whose incomes are taxed by public authority to the last farthing. The Commissioners made a modest apology for some slight increase in certain expenses of their Department. The money, however, seems to have been saved else- where, and, at all events, a few thousand pounds is economically spent if it insures a more stringent and just collection of the Revenue. To judge by the facts adduced in this Report, the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer might do more to increase the Revenue of the country by this means than by the invention of a new tax.
A STRANGE RELIGIOUS SECT.
A STRANGE RELIGIOUS SECT. A religious sect, called the Skopzen, whose peculiar views enjoin the most barbarous practices, has existed in Russia for many years past, but has hitherto suc- ceeded in escaping the vigilance of the police. The doctrine from which it derives its name is the mortifi- cation of the flesh, which it interprets as signifying self-mutilation. The members devote themselves to trade, and are very wealthy. The Government has long been anxious to discover the leaders of this sect, as also the place in which their treasures were hoarded, but all its attempts have been baffled till a few weeks age. Somewhere about the year 1850, Count Perowksy, the Russian Minister of the Interior, endeavoured to penetrate the mystery by the assistance of a clever agent, who adopted the manners of the sect, attended their meetings, and pretended to be one of themselves. One day the agent told the Minister that the opera- tion of mutilation was to be performed that evening on a new convert. It was accordingly arranged that the house should be surrounded by a large body of police, which Wllo8 to appear at a certain signal from the agent; but the signal was never given. A few days afterwards the agent presented himself, looking very ill, and de- clared that he had made a mistake in the day. Shortly afterwards he left St. Petersburg, giving as an expla- nation that his wife had inherited some property in the country. It was not till after his death that the truth was discovered through the confession of the widow. Without his having any idea of the intentions of the Skopzen, it was himself whom they pro- posed to receive into their body as a new member, and they effected their object by force. As soon as it was accomplished, the head of the Skopzen approached him and said I am glad you have become one of us. If you betray us it will not benefit you, and you will fall a victim to our revenge. You receive only a thousand roubles annual salary from the Government, but, if you will be true to us, here are 25,000 roubles down as compensation for your sufferings, and besides this you shall receive 1,000 roubles monthly." The agent knew what sort of people he had to do with, and closed with the bargain at once. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily News now writes that Herr von Harting, the civil governor of Tambow Herr Abasa, the vice-governor and Herr Trischatny, the head of the police, have recently dis- covered the leader of the Skopzen at Morschansk, in the person of a certain rich merchant named Maxim Plotizyn. His house is so large as to occupy almost a whole suburb, and contains a kind of Skopzen nunnery. Nine nuns were residing there at the time, and among them a sister of Plotizyn. The pictures of Seltwanow, Schilow, and other prophets of the sect, were found in one of the rooms. Search was made in the cellars for the treasure, and at first without result, as nothing was found but a large quantity of old clothes and other similar lumber. At last, after passif.g through six vaults, on entering the seventh suspicion was excited by a large stove which stood in one corner, and appeared never to have been properly fitted up for use. On further examination an iron door was discovered behind it, leading to a secret re- ceptacle containing untold wealth. Besides enormous chests full of gold imperials, there were about fifteen millions of silver roubles, and above ten millions in banknotes. The revelations respecting the Skopzen form the great subject of conversation at St. Peters- burgh at present—all the more so as the sect has ex- tensive ramifications, and is believed to have political objects in view.
COURT LIFE AT COMPIEGNE. -
COURT LIFE AT COMPIEGNE. The following description of "Court Life" at Complgne, suggests the thought that sometimes it must be pleas,H.t to be an Emperor or his gueet:- Guests on arriving at the chateau are at once con- ducted to their apartments, comprising ordinarily a sitting-room, bedroom, and dressing-room, furnished comfortably enough, but with no approach to palatial magnificence and over the outer door of which they will observe their names, already inscribed on a little tablet. A printed card hung up specifies the times when the post, which has a special bureau within the palace, comes and goes, and the hours of arrival and departure of the railway trains. Tea and other re- freshments are at once served to each guest by a foot- man, who remains attached to his person throughout the whole of his stay, and waits behind his chair at dinner, in all the refulgence of the green, crimson, and gold imperial livery. If the guest is a single man, the chances are that he will be lodged on the right wing of the palace, where the guard have their quarters, and where it would be inconvenient to ladies to be installed. He will have to pay his homage to the Emperor and Empress imme- diately before dinner on the day of his arrival, and if he wishes to be on thoroughly comfortable terms with himself during his stay, he will do well the next morn- ing to leave his card at the apartments of the prin- cipal officers of the household, chief among whom is General Rollen, a shrewd, bluff, old soldier, whose principle of life has always been regularity and or ler before everything, and whose duty it is to carry L1 a perpetual struggle with the anarchy ever ready to in- vade the imperial household—with its separate tables for the Emperor and his guests, for the governor of the palace, the heads of departments, the principal valets de chambre, the subordinate valets de chambre, the footmen the cooka, the inferior servants, &o. Early breakfast is served to each guest in his own apartments, and at noon the Emperor emerges from his private cabinet, and, in company with the Empress, meets the different visitors assembled in the château in the long gallery, whence they proceed to the breakfast room, where every one has his place at table assigned him, and which he retains throughout his stay. After dijeuner there will be a stag hunt in the forest with the imperial pack, a run with the Marquis de 1'Aigle's boar hounds, or a battue in the preserves, or an excursion in carriages, on horseback, or on foot either to the chateau of Pierrefonds, or to some one of the many other interesting localities with which the forest of Compifegne abounds, with the Empress if not the Em- peror forming one of the party. We may here remark, en passant, that the forest, though vastly inferior in every respect to that of Fon- tainbleau, is no less than thirty miles in circumference, and that it is pierced through by upwards of three hundred and fifty distinct roads, some of which are six miles in length in a straight line; that there are nearly three hundred open spaces, called carrefours," where these roads intersect each other and that no less than seven-and-twenty brooks take their rise within its limits, and as many as sixteen lakes and ponds are scattered over its surface. The oldest trees are to be found in the neighbourhood of the Carrefour des Puits des Chasseurs they are beeches, and more than two hundred and fifty years old, while many of the oaks at the Carrefour de 180 1i, lette have been planted between one hundred and fifty and two hundred years. The forest gives employment to about eight hundred wood-cutters and road makers, whose wages, with that of the forest guards, amount to something like ten thousand pounds per annum. On days when a hunt takes place, the imperial voitures de chasse, chars-k-bancs, and basket-carriages will be found drawn up, toward one o'clock, in the Promenade des Roses," at the foot of the terrace be- fore the garden front of the chateau, on which occa- sions the maitre des equipages of the court gives his orders with all the gravity of a general about going into action. The glossy, punchy-looking steeds have the orthodox little silver bells jingling at their collars and foxes' brushes dangling at their ears while the postilions and outriders, in gorgeous green, scarlet, and gold liveries, leather breeches, tall jack-boots, gold- laced hats, and powdered hair, d catagon, with the Nimrods of the day in Louis Quinze hunting costume, their grand couteau de chasse slung at their hips, and the ladies in silks and satins, furs and velvets, caught up above their knees a. la Camargo, in brilliant-coloured jupons, coquettish-looking gaiters, or tall betasseled light-leather boots, and jaunty little hats trimmed with the plumage of some bird of prey, give one the notion of the opening scene of some elaborately got up ballet. The imperial party descend the terrace steps, and the Empress, accompanied by her lady guest—to-day it is our own charming Princess of Wales—takes her seat in her little basket-carriage, drawn by a pair of remarkably handsome and equally diminutive horses. The Emperor will either drive himself in an open phaeton or else proceed to the rendezvous, with several of his more favoured guests, in one of the numerous chars-a-bancs. Whips crack, bells jingle, couriers, estafettes, and outriders apply their spurs, and the horses' hoofs ring again over the hard-frozen ground, and soon the cortege is lost to sight in the depths of some trim forest avenue. A meet of the imperial hunt is one of the prettiest sights imaginable. Picture to yourself a large open circular space, whence some ten or twelve long avenues diverge and lose themselves in distant vistas, with the sky above mildly, melancholy pale, and some tremb- ling rays of sunshine breaking through the misty clouds. On the green turf, thickly strewn with withere.J autumn leaves, huntsmen, dogs, and horses are assbled. There, in dazzling livery, are the whippers-in and prickers, the piqueursin knee-breeches and braided coats, and large curled horns slung over their shoulders, and the valets-de-chiens, lithe little fellows, standing firmly on their wiry legs, with silver-buckled shoes and white stockings rolled above their knees, each with his eight coupled dogs well in hand. The hounds, of pure English breed, large and powerful build, with deep open chests and heavy jaws, carry their tails aloft in the air; all are marked with a "V. signifying "v^nerie." Near them are some cavaliers of the imperial hunt, the very pink of swelldom—green frock coats laced with gold and silver, scarlet velvet collars embroidered at the facings, and scarlet waistcoats laced to match, buckskin breeches and tall jack-boots, three-cornered laced cocked hats a la Louis Quinze, known as lamp- ions, and with the inevitable large hunting-knife slung in a silver-mounted sheath at their left hip. Inter- spersed among them, in riding-habits of corresponding splendour, elaborate lace neckties, and jaunty three- cornered hats, are some amazons of the Bois de Bou- logne, who have what is called the "button," with other cavaliers sporting the English scarlet swallow- tail, white cords and top-boots, or in ordinary cutaway tweed coats; also a score or more of officers of carabi- tweed coats; also a. score or more of officers of carabi- ear* wad cent-garder Moving in and out this troop of equestrians are numerous grooms holding impatient horses in readiness for members of the imperial party, I whose arrival is momentarily anticipated. Ranged in a half circle, on the opposite side of the cleared, space, are scores of open carriages filled with elegantly- dressed women from the neighbouring chUteaux, in- cluding many young and pretty ones in costumes courtes, with herons' plumes in their coquettish little hats. Outside the line of vehicles, and restrained by both mounted and foot gendarmes from intruding between the wind and all this nobility, are a crowd of villagers, to whom, in these days, more civility is certainly shown than they were accustomed to meet with under the old regime for Louis XVI. whenever he met a fool i' the forest" would invariably take him to task, and bid him go home and mind his business. Alto- gether, the scene is a perfect pell-mell of beauty, splen- dour, and fashion- of elegant toilettes and picturesque uniforms, high-conditioned horses and well-trained dogs, and with just a touch of rusticity discreetly re- tained in the background the whole presenting a picture of dazzling brilliancy, and framed as it were by the surrounding trees in their rich, ruddy, golden autumn garb. Moving silently, yet with a certain restlessness, among those privileged to enter within the circle are several individuals in bourgeois costume, all in black and having stout walking-sticks in their hands and red ribbons in their top button-holes. We are not sur- prised at gendarmes, and everyone, indeed, making way for them, for they are familiar to us of old as agents of the secret police charged with watching over the personal security of the Emperor. While the cort is at Compifegne, they may be observed at the railway station, on the arrival of every train one en- counters^ them, too, of a morning loitering on the Place," in front of the chateau, as though admiring the architect Gabriel's handiwork, passes them later in the day in the avenues of the forest, finds them at the rendezvous within the charmed circle of beauty and fashion, and will be certain to meet them to-morrow at the shooting party, when the "tableau" of dead game is laid out; and either they or some of their brethren will be seated at the table d'hote of the H6tel de la Cloche, a couple of hours afterwards, taking stock of all the guests, and listening with all their ears to the conversation going on. Ihus it is that the sovereign-elect of one knows not how many millions I reign securely upon his splendid throne.
EPITOME OF NEWS, BRITISH AND…
EPITOME OF NEWS, BRITISH AND FOREIGN. A boy in Southbridge, Massachussets, is the reci- pieut of numerous thrashings from his schoolmates, on account of his unfortunate name—Andrew Johnson. The landlord of a public-house at Clapham has been fined £.5 for having sold inferior whiskey in bottles bearing Messrs. Kinahan's label and trade mark. t A Jewish writer in the Cincinnati Israelite argues in favour of making Sunday the day of rest, in conformity with t the custom of other religions. He declares himself to be the "selected spokesman of a respectable and highly intelligent party in his Church. During the last twelve months velocipedes to the value of 40,000 have been exported from Paris. The Princess Christian and her child are doing so well that no more bulletins will be issued. The Queen attended divine service last Sunday morning in the private chapel at Windsor. Dr. Hessey preached the sermon. Earl and Countess Granville and Mr. Lowe dined with her Majesty on Saturday. On Tuesday the Siamese Twins, accompanied by two of their daughters and Mrs. Sims, visited the British Mhseum, and were conducted by the officials to view the various galleries, with which they appeared greatly pleased. On their retirement they expressed their thanks that a private day had been chosen for their visit. A fatal fight has occurred at Huddersfield. Daniel Birchwest, a coachman, while drunk, had a quarrel with two men named Marshall and Spencer, and in the course of it he either fell or was knocked do lVII, and died from the injuries he sustained. The two men are in custody, charged with having caused his d,eath. Mr. Thom, of Dublin, her Majesty's official printer and publisher, has sent to the trustees of the Magee College, Londonderry, a donation of £ 100, of which sum £ 80 is to be applied to general purposes, and the remaining £20 to be t'lken as the first instalment of an exhibition of £ 20 per annum payable for six years, and to be periodically awarded to the most deserving student in the third year of his under- graduate course in the college. Mr. Thorn is a previous contributor of £.600 to the Queen's colleges for prizes and exhibitions. The coroner's jury in the case of John Cooper, who murdered his wife and her father some few weeks ago in Poplar, and whose body was found a few days ago in the Thames, has returned an open verdict of "Found drowned. The Belgian Chamber has passed a Bill by 71 votes against 12, abolishing imprisonment for debt. An amend- ment, maintaining the penalty in the case of newspapers condemned te damages, was rejected. The Tablet states that the expenses of the defendants in the case of Saurin v. Starr will amount to £ 6,000, and if they are not successful in their appeal to the judges in banco they will also be liable for the costs of the plaintiff. Sub- scriptions in their aid are requested. Among the strangers present at the last ball at the Tuileries, Miss Milner Gibson was one of the most admired. Her dress was composed of pale rose-coloured gauze, with roses looping her skirts, and roses in her hair. A number of temperance friends of Mr. George Cruikshank have presented his great picture, The Worship of Bacchus," valued at £3,000, to the nation. It is to be ex- hibited in the South Kensington Museum. Lamartine has been buried, in accordance with his I last wishes, at st. Point, near Maçon, the public funeral which the Government offered having been declined by the family. On the way the hearse was frequently opened to enable the coffin to be seen by the country people, many of whom kissed it. Contrary to the custom in France, no speech was made over the grave, the deceased having requested that none should be delivered. A curiosity of meanness has been exhibited in San Francisco. Dl1rin the settlement of an estate in that city, ou the 24th of January, it was discovered that a brother 01 the deceased had charged the estate four dollars for loss of time while attending the funeral. It is said that Henry Ward Beecher is really very seriously ill. He seems to have injured himself by over- work. His physician says he must have rest, and prescribes a long stay abroad for the recovery of his health. The Emperor, on the propoition of th 1finister of War, has pardoned 490 soldLrs out of 8'27 condemned to Íln- prisonment fur offences, and reduced the term of ue- teution tor the remainder. Miss H. Ludlow, of Bristol, has left annuities of £34, for the use of persons of her own sex in decayed circumstances. The Duke of Wellington has placed Mr. Hepworth: Dixon's named on the roll of the Miudlesex magistrates. The New York World inquires, What are we to do with Mexico?" The New York Daily Tribune suggests, in reply, that she should be let severely alone." The Bangor Chronicle throws a curious light upon one of the items in the list of contributions to the Gladstone Testimonial recently published in a contemporary. The item was, "Collected by Miss Llamoost, of Dixon's Hotel, Carnarvon-Is. 9d.and the Chronicle explains that "Dixon's Hotel" is the county gaol. Wives in the suburbs of Cincinnati are jubilant at the presence of highwaymen. Their husbands do not dare to be out after dark. During the five months of the Police raid aeainst the wandering curs of London, 12,465 dogs were taken to The Dogs' Home," where a gentle quietus was administered to the halt, blind, maimed, and diseased and the rest were either restored to their owners or placed "ith new ones. A Madras paper states that four Europeans in that town-a baker, a railway fireman, and two sailors-have turned Mahomedans, and have been entertained at "an elegant repast by some of the wealthy natives. It is said that after the converts have undergone the rite of circumci- sion, they are to be married to Mahomedan ladies, and silk cloths and white robes are being made for the marriage procession, which is to be conducted through various parts of the town. News reached Exeter on Monday, of the foundering, off Scilly, of the Anna, from Shields. The shooner Arrow, of Brixham, picked up the crew, twenty. two m number, who were relieved by the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society. The Anna was an American vessel, 1,077 tons register, the property of Mr. S. C. Blanchard, of Yarmouth, Maine. She was valued at £12,000, and her cargo at £1,400. On Friday a cow, the property of Mr. Errington, farmer, of South Hetton, introduced into the world a calf of extraordinary proportions. The" little stranger" is a strange animal indeed. It has two heads, four fore legs, two hind legs, and two tails. Judgment was given in the Archbishop's Court on Saturday, in the case of the Rev. Mr. Sedgwick. Mr. Sedgwick's license was revoked by the Bishop of Manchester for alleged Romish practices; hence the appeal to the Archbishop. In consequence of a technical objection which was sustained, it was decided on Saturday that the case could not be brought into the Court but the Archbishop expressed a hope tliat the Bishop of lanchester would, on a further hearing, see his way to restore Mr. Sedgwick to his office as minister of St. Alban's, Manchester. From Japan we learn that the Mikado has given audiences to the French, Dutch, Italian, American, North German, and British representatives. He is described as a languid, worn-out looking boy. About three weeks ago, in the parish of Tarbolton, near Ayr, a farmer named James Merry, was accidentally drowned in an open well in the farmyard. A sister of Mr. Merry's, who resided with him, has, ever since her brother's death, been in a very desponding state of mind, and one morning last week she rose at a very early hour, while the inmates of the house were in bed, and drowned herself in the same well in which her brother's dead body was found. A trial disclosing great immorality in the town of Montauban, has just taken place before the Court of Assizes ef the Tarn-et-Garonne. The prisoners, eight in number, and all females, were charged with procuring abortion. Oue Darned Delpech, or the mistress, as she is now called by the people, was likewise accused of nurderine nine infants, which had been conveyed to her either to place out to nurse or to otherwise dispose of. These she had drowned in a pail of water and buried them in a cellar. With one exception, all the prisoners confessed their guilt. A Bombay paper calls attention to the fact that the 14th Foot is armed with Sniders, but has no Snider am- munition. A French newspaper has come to the conclusion that tlere will be war this spring, and gives as its reason that Marshal Mel will act grant permission for officers and men to marry before the month of July. His Majesty King George V. of Hanover has issued a fresh protest against the law lately passed by the Prussian Diet, for the confiscation of the private property of the Royal Guelphic dynasty. The tenor of this protest is a most dignified one, and takes no notice of the gress insnlts uttered by Count Bismarck, III the course of the dlSCUSSlODS of the Diet, against King George and his councillors. The Fenian, Captain Mackay, who has been liberated with others, 'did not arrive at Cork on Sunday, as was expected, to the great annoyance of his friends in tnax city. The streets were perambulated all day on SuDrtay y orderly mobs, headed by the loudest and most « bands, playing all sorts of popular airs. At three o clock Mrs. Mackay drove to the railway station to meet her husband, and as he did not come, the lady was accepted as the heroine of the day, and ex- hausted itself in noisy demonstrations about her carnage. Numbers of people remained in the streets till three o'clock on Monday morning, on the chance that the Fenian leader might come in by train at that hour. A movement was commenced in Lancashire some time ago having for its object the extinction of the system by which the sale of oeer is at present authorised. That movement has been widely supported, and the balance of opinion has been m favour of making the magistrates the licensing authority for beer-shops as well as for public- houses At the conference of magistrates, on Monday, no formal decision was come to upon this point, the magis- trates present contenting themselves with a resolution which affirms that the power of granting licences for the sale of intoxicating liquors should be vested in "one authority." it was further resolved—four gentlemen dis- senting—that licensed houses should close at an earlier hour than at present, and that the closing hour should be uniform. Mr. Anketell, the station-master at Mullingar, who was shot at his own door on Wednesday night m last week, died on Saturday, and was buried on Monday, in Dublin. The directors and a large number of the company's officials attended the funeral. At the inquest it was deposed that Anketell, when raised after receiving the shot, said he did not know who had fired, but he forgave the ruffian." The verdict was wilful murder against some person unknown. Therg was much unwillingness among the townspeople to serve on the coroner's jury. (Miss Rye intends going 'out again from Liverpool to Canada at the end of Yay with another party of young women. Miss Rye, by her, past successes, 1.l proved that the women, once transported" "W our colonies, can obtain immediate an,d satisfactory employment. An Oregon journal prints notices of births under the head of "Come;" marriages it styles "Fixed to Stay," and death it reports under the- head of Gone It is said that tender mutton chops, with llb. of Huntley and Palmer's biscuits, soft toast and eggs, with blf a pmt of sherry after the contest, comprised the break'ast and supper of at least one of the greyh0unds running at the recent coursing meeting at Beckliampton. London is threatened just now with an inundation of monstrosities. There are the Siamese twins, the fat lady, female acrobats, and now they are promised a young lady who can lImtate the cornet! vide the following advertise- e.nt Imitation of the Cornet.-A Young- Lady, who lmltates the above, would be happy t.) enter into an engage- ment with managers of music-halls and others." The sum of £ 10,000 is set down in the Civil Service Estimates far the trial of election petitions in England, of which £ 4,500 is for hire of court-houses and reception of judges, and £ 2.500 for travelling expenses. The Irish peti tious are estimated to cost £ 2,000. A speculative gentleman wishes ito hire from the Isthmus of Suez Canal Company the banks of their canal for the purpose of posting bills along the whole route. At a Velocipede School, in Cincinnatti, a lad named George Grier was practising, when bhe machine got beyond his control, and ran against the wooden guard round a hatchway in the middle of the fioor. This gave way, and velocipede, rider, and all fell through to the cellar, a depth of four stories. Grier received injuries which it was feared would prove fatal. During the last few days an institution has been established at Liverpool for the purpose of maintaining and educating the orphan children of seamen. It is specially designed to take charge of the girls and boys until they are of a proper age to draught off into the training ships, such as the Indefatigable. A sum of £ 4,000 has already been subscribed. An incorrigible wag who lent a minister a horse, which ran away and threw his clerical rider, thought he should have some credit for his aid in spreading" the gospel. An American father advertises his four daughters in the papers with a view to marriage. This isa step in advance of the custom in the old country. The daughters," alS the advertiser, are between the ages of seventeen and twenty- two." r nder the head of "domestic infelicities," the Terre Halit Jnd. Express reports that a couple were married re- cently in Kansas City Mo. in less than an hour after they first saw each other. A Kew Orleans lawyer was, the other day, defend* ing a case against a railroad company for running over and maimin a child. He gravely told the jl1ry that if they awarded damages the people of New Orleans would eternallr be sending their children in the street to be run over. A Lady, of prepossessing appearance, seeks a Com- pamon smted to her age, 34; is cheerful, domesticated, and ladylike, with expectations." Desirable Offer.—A Gntle- man, 27, of good family connection, having commenced business, wishes to hecome acquainted "ith a Protestant Lady, who h well educated, amiable, and possessed of mans; send carte.-Advertisements in Manchester Exa- mmer. The fiftieth anniversary of the Pope's ordination is to be celebrated on the 14th April with much solemnity. In every direction subscriptions have been organised to offer tc his Holiness suitable presents on the occasion. Without speaking of others, Ius Holiness is to receive from the Com- mission of Hospitals at Rome a missal-stand, surmounte with a statuette of the Immaculate Conception, crowned with diamonds and pearls, the value of the whole being £ 2,000. On Monday John Medcalf, joiner, Bradford, as- aulted his father, Robert Iedcalf, in such a savage and brutal manner that the latter died about noon. At St. Ives, Hunts, two lads named Glover and Stocker, aged respectively nine and twelve years, were brought up charged with IJIaliciously placing upon the up line of rails, a troller, on Sunday. Fortunately one ot the signal-men going in the direction discovered the young urchins in the act of scotching" the wheels, and on coming up with the eldest prisoner, asked him what he had been doing, aud he said only having a game. The charge was withdrawn against the younger boy, and the eldest com- mitted tothe Huntingdon Assizes. An attempt made to form a board of arbitration to settle disputes in the iron trade at Darlington has resulted in a success. The code of rules was submitted 011 :\10nday to a joint conference of the men and their employers, and was adopted. There is already a demand for all incree of wages for the newly-constituted court to settle. A party of twenty men, with their face blackened, attacked the house of Mr. Kerman, in the Killenaule aud Ballinenty police districts, county Tipperary, on Friday nght, and earned off a double-barrelled fowling-piece, 8 pistol, and £ 10 in cash. A lady who was on a visit in the house was struck a severe blow in the face by one of the j Whiteboys. In reply to a question on Monday in the Spanish Cortes, Signor Figuerola said that personally he was in favour of free trade, hut that the Government at present did not intend to introctuce it, but merely to propose certain reforms of the Customs' duties by way of compromise. A new international railway difficulty seems to have arisen in the East of Europe. The journals ot Belgrade are very angry with the Porte for resolving to carry its projected Eastern Railway through Bosnia, and thereby isolating Sema. A great Indian appeal case, that will probably occupy several days-" Neelriste Dele Burmorio r. Beachunder Thakoor "-was opened before the Jndicial Committee of the Privy Council on Monday. It involves the title to property exceeding £ 60,000 a year, and the succession to the throne of the Raj of Tefferali on the Hills. The appellant disputes the right to the possession of the property and the title with a younger brother. At the Worcelilter assizes six persons have been indicted for a riot anti an assault on the Rev. Martin Amphlett on the occasion of the last contested election for the borough of Evesham. No evidence was offered by the prosecution, and a verdict of Not Guilty was taken. This course was taken umler an arrangement, sanctioned by his Lordship, by which the defendants agreed to pay over a sum of £ 50 to Mr. Amphlett to be distributed by him among local charities, antI. apologised to him for the annoyance to which they had subjected him. Lord Milton, M. P., has been obliged to withdraw temporarily from Parliamentary life in consequence of 8- severe attack of inflammation in the eyes, which required him to confine himself to a darkened room. His Lordship il." progressing favourably towards recovery. A fatal gun accident took place on Saturday during the pigeon shooting of the Gun Club at Shepherd's-bush (near London). One of the scouts who surround the grounds to shoot birds escaping from the enclosure, while looking throngh the palings to ascertain whether a pigeon was killed or had escaped, stooped, leaning on his gun, which went off and killed him immediately. Two young students recently fought a duel at Turin. The cause of dispute was very trifling They fought with pistols at twenty paces. Lots having bcen drawn, the lad entitled to fire first discharged his weapon, and sellt a bullet through the other lad's heart. By this tragic event some of the first families in Piedmont havc been overwhelmed with grief. The student who fell is described as a young mall whose talents gave promise of a briiliant career. The Epistle appointed for the service on Sunday, Fcbruary 28, was taken from the same chapter which was read as the second les"on at the evening service, and the Gospel from the second lesson in the mOrIlin service. This will happen only twice again dming the present century, namely, in 1875 and 189i It also occurred in 1864, after a lapse of sixty-eight years, the event previous to the last date taking place in 1796. A strange case recently came before the Scotch Court of Session. The magistrates of Dunbar were bron!1;ht into court by the parish minister to have it declared that they aø representing the burgh, were bound to furnish him" twenty- two loaves of bread and six dozen of wine" annually in the name of communion elements. The defence was that the magistrates were not bound to furnish any specific quantity, but only so much as was required, and the court decided In their favour. Resolutions of the House of Commons are somewhat uncertain in their influence but one, at least, which was passed last May in regard to diplomatic salaries, is destined not to remain a dead letter. The resolution was as follows That, in the opinion of this House, all sums required to defray the expenses of the divlomatic service ought to be annually voted by Parliament, and that estimates of aU such sums ought to be submitted in a form that will admit of their effectual supervision and control by this House." In accordance with this vote, the expemes of the diplomatic service will appear in the estimates of the present year. The marriage of the Right Hon. A. H. Layard, M.P., and llss Guest took place on Tuesday morning at St. George's, Hanover-square, London. The ceremony was performed by the Bon. and Rev. Walter Ponsonby, vicar of Cauford, Dorset, assisted hy the Rev. Cecil Alderson, rector of Holdenby, Northampton. The bride was attired in white satin and Brussels lace, with a wreath of orange blossoms and lace veil, and ornaments of diamond stars, and atknded by four bridesmaids. Mr. Gregory, M.P., acted as "best man," and the bride was given away by her brother, Sir J. B, Guest, Bart.
THE MARKETS.
THE MARKETS. 1tIARK-LA!\E. — MONDAY. At Mark-lane to-day considenble heavinesswas uotlceable in aU departments of the grain trade. and prices gave way in most instances. From Essex awl Kent the receipts of wheat were limited, but the quality of tlL produce was im- proved. There was only a moderate attendance of millers, who confined their operations to immediate consumption, consequently the demand was quite of a hand-to-mouth character. The shortness of the supply, however, checkell the downward movement in the quotations. Full average supplies of foreign wheat were on the stands Sales pro- gressed slowly, and prices had a drooping tendency. Floating cargoes of wheat were neglected, and other descriptions of cargoes afloat were easier to purchase. With barley the market was moderately supplied. The trade wa" heavy, and prices declined Is. to 2s. per qr. Malt commanded but little attention, on lower terms. There was a fair quantity of oats on the stands. Business was much restricted, and the quotatbns were Is. per qr. below those of Monday last. Beans were in limited request, at Is. to 2s. per qr. less n.oney. A corresponding reduction took place in the value of peas, for which the trade was heavy. For fio1;1r the inquiry was restricted, and the tendency of prices was ill favour of buyers. Linseed was 6d. to 1. per qr. lower than on this day se'nnight. Rapeseed was inactive, and agricultural seeds experienced but little demand. Cakes were dull. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.-MoNDAY. With foreign beasts the market was well supplied. Most breeds were in moderate request at late. rates. Foreign sheep came freely to hand, but. the. quahty was hardly so good. Transactions we!6 o a fair extent on former trms. From our own grazin districts the receipts of beasts were on a moderate scale. but the arrivals from Scotland were limited. The trade, on the whole, was firm, and last Monday's quotations were well supported. The general top figure was 5s. 6d., but some rally good animals sold at 5s. 8d. per 81b. The show of Enghsh sheep was about equal to last week, and the demand continued steady for all breeds, at full CUT- rencies. The best Downs and half-breds, in the wool, sold at 6s. 6d and in Some instances, 6s. 8d. per SIb. out of the wool, 5s. 4d. to 5s. 6d. The few lambs on offer were dull of sale, at from 6s. 8d. to ïs. 4d. per 81b. Calves-the show of which was moderate-moved off quietly, on former terms. Prime small pigs were in request; otherwise the trade was heavy. HOPS. Fine parcels of home gr9wth have been in req116st, and for such full prices have been paid. At the same time American hops havli experiellced a fair inquiry, and continental sorts have been more freely dealt In. Quota- tions: Mid aud East Kents, £ 2 10s. to £ 7 7s.; Weald of Kent8 £ 2 to £ 4 10s. Sussex, £ 2 to £ 3 158. Farnhams, £ 3 10s. to £ 6 Country, £ 3 10s. to £ 5 HavariaI1s, £ 2 to £ 3 108. Belgians, £ 2 to £ 3; and yearlings, £ 2 to £ 3 10a. POTATOES. The imports of potatoes have been on a rather lesa exten- sive scale. Xevertheless the quantit offered has been fully equal to the demand. Business has been limited at late prices. Enplish 1t.egents, UUS. to lOos. finises. 61)1 to 12>.s Scotch Regents, 60s to 1201.; Rocks. 508. to 70s.; French 4)1. to 70s. per ton. WOOL The public sales of colonial wool are progressing quietly. There has been a fair attendance of buyers, but a want of animation has characterised biddings throughout. Aus- tralian wool is now 1d. to ljd. per lb. lower than last series, and Cape ia easier in some instances. Privately, the demand for English wool has been inactive, on former terms Current Prices of English Wool.-FleeCts.-Southdowu hoggetts, la. Sd. to lB. 4 half-breds, 111.. SO 18. 6¥1. Kent floeces, la. 4ii. SO 1.. 6Jd.; SouthdoWD eweø and wett>era. 1s. 2Jd. SO U Sid. Lei088ter ditto, la. 8d. W 1a. pr lb. Sort* — Clothing, Is. lei. &0 Is. 7d. combing. 1s. 00. $0 11. Mr lb. v TALLOW. n. mark. has bøn steady, at enhanced Y.C on the epot, Ma od. roWJI. Tallow, «4a. 9d. jMjtcaali.