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rr 0 W IT TALK. BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. #_ Our tenders will ooderstçuul thatwe do not hold ourselves ftfCpOTV* siblefor ow able CoTresfpoTide^Vs opinwas. As each day we hope may bring us news of the Great Eastern and the telegraph cable, it is im- possible to speculate upon the cause of the recent mishap, for even while I am writing a lightning flash from Yalentia may suddenly dissipate and nullify all my conjectures. The subject has, however, been the chief topic of town talk during the last few days; but I hope-that before these lines are in print some definite news may supersede all conjectures. It is generally believed that the Lords Chief Justices of Queen's Bench and Common Pleas will be elevated to the Peerage immediately, for "the purpose of strengthening the legal department in the House of Lords.. Rumonr says that Mr. Baron Martin and some other puishe judge will receive promotion to the vacancies thus created. I may remark that it is only lately that it has been thought proper, when a man has once been raised to a seat on the judicial bench to give him any further promotion. v This method of promoting judges may be strictly constitutional, but it is a question whether it is politic. Once a man is a judge he ought to be in such a position as would prevent even a suspicion of his being anxious to please the Government from any hope of future favour. But if a chief justiceship be I thought to loom in the distance, very unpleasant remarks'may be made by the public when the judge is.trying some case in which Government is interested. Mr. Pope Hennessy is still before the public, denying that he has been defeated in King's County election. Mr. Hennessy asserts that in making up the returns at the conclusion of the poll, two sheets were stuck together, and one of them got passed over uncounted, which if it had been included in the total would have given him a majority. Some London papers state that the Clerk of the Hanaper, to whom all returns of elections are sent in, is investigating the matter. A. committee of the House of Commons is, however, I know, the only tribunal that can alter an election after the returning officer has "declared" the poll; so that Mr. Hen- nessy must rest content with his position as a barrister-at-law until the committee ap- pointed by the House decides his claims to the higher title of M.P. On the whole, I think that all parties would regret the exclusion .from the House of -,t,young man of such abilities as Mr. Hennessy. At the Crystal Palace, last Saturday, I saw the renowned Abd-el-Kader. He and his retinue, who were splendidly attired in garments elabo- rately embroidered and fringed with gold, were most warmly received as they advanced to the dais raised for them to witness the grand display of fountains which took place expressly in their honour. I hear that Mr. Walker, of Cornhill, whose premises were recently robbed of a very large quantity of valuable property, is about com- mencing an action against the maker of his safe, who had guaranteed that it was burglar proof; whereas the robbers succeeded in bursting it open. A gentleman, just returned from France, tells me that he visited the model village at FroteylesVesoul, near Paris, which has been founded by M. Auguste Guyard, and is nearly completed, under the sanc- tion of the Emperor. The idea is to try and cheek- the-tendency towards Parisian centralisa- tion, which is now so strong. The village contains a museum, library, concert-rooms, theatre, and in a miniature form all the conveniences which are supposed to make a large metropolis so attractive. The experiment is an interesting one, and if it be found successful will no doubt be largely imitated in other neighbourhoods, so as to relieve the over- crowding of large cities. Apropos of France, the preliminary arrange- ments for the Paris International Exhibition are being rapidly completed. The most novel feature will be an "Anthropological Department." Of what class of objects it will be composed has not yet been finally determined. The death of Professor Aytoun has caused much regret amongst his numerous friends and admirers in London. His vigorous pen will be missed from the pages of Blackwood; but his fame may safely rest upon his- spirited and eloquent Ballads." Aeronauts are rather at a discount just now. There is an endeavour to introduce novelties, but as a rule they signally fail. Since the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have for- bidden the donkeys, monkeys, &c., to ascend, it has been difficult to find anything sufficiently sensational to suit the public taste. Aerial ma- chines are now being attempted, by which we are eventually to fly through the air. M. Delamere endeavoured to ascend from Cremoriie last week in a machine which a contemporary likened. to twenty elephants massed together—to realise the aspect of which my brain is not capable. The Frenchman, assisted by about twenty men of his own nation, spread his wings and went aloft. He appeared as if he was going on the wings of a weathercock, by which I mean straight in the direction of the wind but all of a sudden, when he had ascended about one hundred yards, there was seen great agitation aloft. Themachinery, which is more complicated than that of the Great Eastern, worked vigorously, and the aerial machine absolutely went a few points out of the way of the wind-first to the right, then to the left, at length down it caty like a plumb-line, and then rebounded in the air again. It was mere humbug whatever may be done in the future, at the present time human beings have certainly not found a way of flying through the air d la Mon- sieur Goose. Z. 1

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