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THE FORESTERS' FETE AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. Unlike the Odd Fellows, who had their fete about three weeks back at the Crystal Palace, the Foresters on Tuesday had a soaking morning. From daybreak till about three in the afternoon the rain came down I incessantly, yet the Foresters, determined not to be baulked of their holiday, thronged down by every pos- sible means of conveyance. Pleasure vans, gigs, carts, and vehicles of that class followed each other rapidly by the road, and the numerous trains were quickly fiHed up. Once arrived at the Palace the company seemed determined not to lose their dance through the rain, and so turned the lobbies into dancing-rooms, and by noon the building was fairly crammed. Later the rain ceased, and then the Foresters, their wives and daughters, soon found their way into the grounds- swings were engaged half-a-dozen deep—kiss in the ring broke out in all parts of the grounds, and the platforms, and indeed the wet grass, was thronged with merry dancers, determined, even under adverse circumstances, to spend a happy day. There were plenty of amusements, too, besides those which are always extemporised on those occasions. There was performed within the palace a capital selection of music by the able orchestral band of the company, under the conductorship of Mr. Manna. Then there was a grand procession from the cricket ground, the members of the order, decked with their full regalia, carrying banners, &c., and accompanied by the Deptford brass band, the bands of the Lambeth Ragged School, the Shoeblacks, Dake of York's school, and the Metropolitan Police, S and D divisions, the memorable Fairlop boat, fully rigged and decorated, being drawn by four grey horses, as the tail of the procession. The several bands already mentioned per- formed in various parts of the building and grounds throughout the day. There was a display of all the great fountains, and many other minor amusements. Nothing could be more creditable than the conduct of the vast assemblage; a universal desire seemed to prevail on the part of every individual to secure the greatest possible comfort of the whole. There were noticeable but a very small number of oases of exces- sive drinking, and, although there were necessarily great crowds, and many could not get into the particular train they desired to go by, there was no more confu- sion than was absolutely unavoidable, and the many thousands who had thronged the Palace were brought to town at a reasonable hour without accident or an- noyance. It is to be hoped that next year the weather will be more agreeable; but the rain at this festival is not likely to prejudice the next, to which this ancient brotherhood look forward with much hope and plea.- euro.

LOSS OF A BARQUE AND OF THIRTEEN HANDS. LIVERPOOL, AUGUST 14. Intelligence reached this port to-day of the foun- dering of the barque, A 1, and the loss of thirteen lives. The following is an extract from a letter from Captain Potter, who was saved from the ill-fated ship:- "Batavia, May, 29, 18&5.—We left Akyab on the 30th March, boundfor Falmouth, England, for orders, and were favoured with fair weather until April 29, when in lat. 10 S., Ion. 88 E., it changed and became boisterous and threatening. The ship was put under snug sail, the barometer falling very fast. At 9.30 a.m., on tho 30th, a cyclone struck the ship, throwing her on her beam ends, blowing away all the sails and some of those even that were furled, together with the jibboom, &c. Every effort was made to get the ship befere the wind but without success, she being entirely unmanageable. She remained in this situation till about noon, when she went down carrying with her 13 of the crew and officers. On coming to fche surface I was fortunate enough to secure a place on the eide of the forward house, together with two seamen, George Wilson and Charles Brown. We remained in this condition until May 6, when we were taken away by the barque Silveroraig of Liverpool, which landed us at Batavia on the 17th. We had no covering but what we stood in, and nothing to eat all this time. -A.

PRINCE ALFRED'S MAJORITY. By order of thoDake of Saxe-Coburg the solemn declaration of his Royal Highness Prince Alfred of England having attained his majority took place in Ehrenburg Castle on the 6th inst. Accompanied by the Prince tke Duke repaired to the Hall of Audience, when State Minister Von Seebac-h was introduced, accompanied by a deputation of the Duoal Ministers. Turning to his Royal Highness, the Minister read the folloingaddress Most Illustrious Prinee,-By the wish and according to the order of his Highness the Duke I have first to cammu. nicate Royal Highness the text of the house law amiconstitùtionalordinance which renders this day of high and serious importance to the Ducal House, and espe- cially to your Eoyal Highness's own person. Art. 86 of the house law ordains "I The Princes and Princesses of the Ducal House shall attain their majority upon completing their twenty-first year." Sec. 11 of the constitution coincides therewith, stating, The period of majority and capability to reign of the Duke, as well as of every Prince belonging to the Ducal House, commences with the completion of the 21st year." This present day therefore confers majority upon your Royal Highness, accompanying it with greater independence and full legal responsibility of action, and I am desired by his Highness the Duke formally and solemnly to declare this fact. Among the rights and duties which now attained majority grants to and imposes upon your Royal Highness is especially to be mentioned the independent representation of agnatic interests in the administration of the Crown lands, and of the remaining entailed family property within the limits laid down by the house law. Your Royal Highness will undoubtedly find cause to acquaint yourself with the state of the law bearing upon this subject, as well as with the actual facts relating thereto. While I, therefore, venture most respectfully to tender to your Royal Highness a copy of the most important laws re- ferring to the matter, I may at the same time add the assurance that it will be a pleasing duty to both depart- "ennj8 of the State Ministry to afford your Royal Highness £ T„?5planation that may appear desirable with the most perfect frankness and candour. • May your Royal Highness deign graciously to receive the smcere congratulations upon the present joyful occasion I of the members of the State Ministry here present. The Pake of Saxe-Coburg, his Royal Highness Prince Alfred, and the Ministers then entered the throne. room, where a grand gala court was held.

A NARROW ESOAPE AMONGST ICE AND SNOW. A correspondent of the Marichester Examiner gives the following instance of a remarkable escape which he once had on the Faulhorn: Some years ago I spent a very pleasant evening with a German student and two Manchester men, and slept at the small inn on the top of the Faulhorn. Next morning my guide proposed that we should vary our route in the descent. We kept considerably to the right of the track by which we had come up, and arrived soon at the edge oM glen filled with snow, lying on a consider- able slope. The surface of the snow was rotten and LIS ro?gh> and we proceeded to cross it apparently y- half-way across there was a smoother w ^L lW?ar,da wide, like a channel over which in onnt lf ha<? trickled and melted the surface of Myguide, with shoes tipped and heeled, Kwf stick7' I*, I veHtared' tPoP do so, assisted & 7 J LiSst. my footing and fell with a thud on the hard ice. Losing mv hold of the 8tif° LSf l +^ce to 8"P downwards. In a few seconds felt that I had no power to stop myself, and that the speed at which I was slipping became augmented at every yard of descent. In this manner I descended perhaps twenty or thirty yards. The guide, who was running para/el with me down the rough snow, had called out to me to turn myself on my side, and on this producing no retarding effect he directed me to throw myself on my face, and to press the points of my shoes mto the ice, and lastly, as I was passing him rapidly, he told me to roll myself to the side. This I proceeded to do with the utmost vigour, and soon came to a landing in the rough snow; having descended, perhaps, another ten or twenty yards. My hands, knees, and clothes wtre brought to considerable grief, but otherwise I was not much the worse of my rude experience. On gaining my feet and shaking myself into order, I proceeded down the rough snow to see where would have been my destination if my progress had not been thus arrested. The smooth channel referred to continued downwards for about two hundred and fifty yards, at the bottom of which was a mass of snow and stones, into which at express speed I should have rushed headlong. The time occupied in the descent may have been ten seconds, daring which time I retained perfect self-possession, heard every word the guide I said, and had apparently plenty of time to thiak on. £ many subjects. Among others I originated and ma- tured the following invention, and offered on the spot a reward of .£100 to any one who would effect its im- mediate application. The invention consisted in pro- viding one's-self with a strongleather belt, to be strapped round the waist, the back of which made of double Ben, should be provided with a sufficient number of strong, sharp spikes about three or four inches long, made of the best tempered steel and firmly riveted. The initial velocity of the body at the moment of falling is nearly nothing, and I can say from experience that if one retains his faculties-and no one should put himself in such positions unless he can calculate upon that-he has plenty of time to turn upon his back, and when in that position the weight of the body would force the spikes into the snow, and at once arrest the descent.

THE CATTLE PLAGUE. Letter from the Lord President of the Council. Council-office, Whitehall, Aug. 5. Sir,—I am directed by the Lord President wf the Council to request that you will have the goodness to move Earl Russell to take into his lordship's con- sideration whether some arrangements cannot at once be made with the Governments of those countries in the north of Europe where the cattle plague exists, to ensure a careful inspection at their outports of all cattle shipped for any port of Great Britain. Without prejudging the question whether the cattle plague has baen imported into this country or not. the Lord President thinks that there are very strong reasons that should induce the exporting coun- tries to take every possible precaution to prevent the export of diseased cattle. There is no doubt that the disease in question exists here, but it is at present confined, compara- tively speaking, to a few places, and it is most desir- able that no new focus of it should be created by the introduction of the disease from abroad. To prohibit importation altogether while so large a portion of the animal food of the people of this country depends upon foreign supply would be highly inexpedient; but such restrictions might have to be placed upon the importation as would tend greatly to cripple the trade. "It is, therefore, the Lord President considers, as much for the interest of foreign Governments as of our own to adopt such measures of inspection, and possibly of detention of cattle at their ports as may give confidence to the buyers here, and to the public in general, by a well-grounded assurance being afforded that every effort is being made by foreign countries to prevent the export of diseased cattle. Moreover, the adoption of such a course by foreign Governments may render it needless to take any ex- treme measures of restriction at our own ports, which though deemed necessary to prevent the introduction and spreading of the disease, might, as stated above, prove exceedingly injurious to the foreign cattle trade.—I am, &c.. "ARTHUR HELPS. The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.' Earl Russell's Dispatch. In consequence of this letter the following commu- nication has be&n addressed to the Governments of the cattle-exporting countries in the north of Europe:— Foreign-office, August 5. My Lord,—I transmit to you herewith a copy of a letter which has been received from the Council-office, urging the expediency of arrangements being made by the Governments of those countries in the north of Europe in which the cattle plague exists, to ensure a careful inspection at their outports of all cattle shipped for any port of Great Britain. "I have to instruct you, in accordance with the terms of this letter, to make a representation to the Government, with a view to inducing tham to adopt such measures as may be best fitted to prevent the export of diseased cattle from their couvtry'to Great,Britaia.-I am, &o., "RUSSELL." Government Instructions. In a supplement to the London Gazette, two orders are published ia reference to the prevailing disease among cattle in the metropolis, and throughout the country. The first of these documents, after reciting the previous Acts passed to prevent the spreading of contagious or infectious diseases among cattle, and stating that it is expedient to make further regula- tions on the subject proceeds as follows:— "Now, therefore, the Lords of her Majesty's Privy Council do hereby, in virtue and in exercise of the power given by the said recited Act, and by the several Acts continuing the same, as aforesaid, order as follows "1. That in this order the word I animal' shall be interpreted to mean any cow, heifer, bull, bullock, ox, or calf. 2. Every inspector appointed or to be appointed under the provisions of the Order in Council of the 24th of July, 1865, shall have the power of entering upon and inspecting any premises in or upon which he has reason to believe that there is any animal labour- ing under such disease, from time to time, as often as he may think necessary. 3. Every person within any district for which an inspector shall have been appointed as aforesaid, upon whose premises there shall be any animal labouring under any such disorder, shall, as far as practicable, keep such animal separate and apart from all other animals, and no person shall, without the licence of such inspector, send to market, or remove from his premises, any such animal, or any animal which has been in the same shed or stable, or has been herded, or been in contact, with any animal labouring under such disorder. "4. E verylanimal within any such district a3 afore- said dying of such disorder, or slaughtered on account thereof, shall be buried, if practicable, on the premises where it has died or been slaughtered, or (if this be not practicable) as near thereto as may be convenient; and if sueh animal be not buried with its skin, its skin shall be disinfected in such manner as the inspector of the district may direct. "5. Every person within any such district, on whose premises there shall be any animal so labouring as aforesaid, shall cleanse and disinfect such prenmaes in such manner as the inspector of such district 4shall direct. 6. E very person offending against this order, shall for every such offence forfeit any sum not exoeeding twenty pounds, which the justices before whom he or she shall be convicted of such offence may think fit to impose." The second order extends the powers exercised by the Privy Council, under the Acts previously cited, to all parts of England and Wales not comprised in the order dated July 24, applicable to the City of London and the Metropolitan district, stating that < 3. If at the date of the publication of this order in the London Gazette there shall be any animal labouring under any such disorder in the possession or custody of any cowkeeper, dairyman, or dairy- woffian, or of any milkman or milkwoman, or vendor or purveyor of milk, or of any dealer in cattle, or farmer, or person in 'possession of cattle, whatso- ever,, within those parts of the United Kingdom to which this order refers, or if at any time here- after, while this present order shall continue in torce and unrevoked, any animal, being in the posses- sion or custody of any such person as aforesaid within the last-mentioned parts of the United Kingdom, shall fl?8e^z or stacked with, or be found labouring or sunering under any such disorder, notice of the existence of such disorder, or of the first appearance of such disorder, in or among the animals belonging to, or in the custody of, any sueh person as aforesaid, S iall immediately thereupon be given by the personi4. whose possession or custody such diseased animals or animal shall be, if.,such person shall reside within any corporate town, to the mayor or other principal officer of the corporation, or, if elsewhere, to the clerk of the justices acting in and for the petty sessional division of the county, or district in the nature of a county in which he resides; and, upon receipt of such notice, or upon any other information which satisfies him or them that such disease has appeared within his or their jurisdiction respectively, it shall be lawful for such mayor or other principal officer, and for the said justices, if he or they shall think fit, from time to time to appoint some veterinary surgeon, or other person duly qualified to be an inspector, for the purpose of carrying into effect the rules and regulations within the corporate town or petty sessional division for which he shall have been ap- pointed, and the same aatiiority may, from time to time, revoke such appointment." The remaining provisions of the order are the same as those embodied in the document given above. The Cattle Plague in Scotland. In consequence of rumours that the Russian cattle plagua, M brokea out in some of the dairies in Edinburgh, Professor Dick and his assistant have visited many of the most important establishments in Edinburgh, and in particular those where it was stated that the disease had occurred. They report that the accounts as to the numbers of deaths taking place had been greatly exaggerated; and that in dairies where fatality has ensued among the eows the symptoms resembled those of pleuro. pneumonia, rather than those of the dreaded Rinderpest. A meeting of farmers was held in the Corn Exchange on Wednesday after- noon, when Professor Dick stated the result of his inspection, and he was requested to examine the stock in town, and report once in every two days to the newspapers as to whether they have plagne or not. It was suggested that a meeting of the Chamber of Agriculture should be held next week to consider the whole question, and advise upon the proper measures to be adopted under the circumstances—a suggestion which will probably be carried out. So far as can yet be ascertained, no infected cattle have reached Soot- land direct; neither have any been received at the great shipping ports of Hull or Hartlepool. From London alone has the disease been communicated. The infected cattle brought into the neighbourhood of Kelso have (or, at least, such of them as remained alive) been returned to London, with instructions to Professor Simonds that he should, if necessary, slaughter them, and report upon the facts which a postmortem examination afforded.

THE STEP-MOTHER OF CONSTANCE KENT., The Edinburgh Daily Ibeview published an account concerning this lady, reflecting upon her character in a manner that was anything but agreeable. We have great pleasure in giving the following contradiction of the truth of the former statement, whioh the same paper has published. It is very sad that scandal- mongers should add to the troubles of a respectable family by stating that which is untrue. The following is the paragraph:— We (the Edinburgh Daily Review) have received from a near relative of Mrs. Kent, residing in Man- chester, a contradiction of the narrative in a recent publication regarding circumstances in the history of the Kent family previous to the tragic event which has caused so much sensation. The accuracy of our correspondent is further vouched for by a respectable firm in the same city; and although, of course, we did not accept our information upon mere rumour, we have no hesitation in believing that the following statement, furnished to us upon the best authority, is correct. We are informed that' Mrs. Kent was never a mill-girl, or in any way connected with a mill. She was born at Tiverton, Devon, and was the daughter of one of the most respectable tradesmen in that town. She was educated from early youth in a first-class school, under the care-of a lady of superior attain. ments. In fact, she received a superior education to qualify her competently to fill the situation of a governess, and such a position she had occupied be- fore her engagement in the family of Mr. Kent. The statement of ill-treatment by her of Mrs. Kent's chil- dren has not even the shadow of truth about it. What Constance Kent instructed her counsel to say was literally the fact—that she had been treated by her stepmother with kind and forbearing love." Mrs. Kent was brought up a/a a. lady, and has always con- ducted herself as such. I must observe that Mrs. Kent's first child was born ten months after her marriage.

THE NEWS BUDGET. Writing from Dictation. The Rev. W. W. Howard, her Majesty's inspector of church schools in Dorset and part of Devon, mentions in his report, lately issued, that in 4L sahoal in which the church catechism was taught by repeating it after the teacher, the Creed was written out by a pupil as follows, when the official inspection was held:—"I believe God father almighty make from and earth amd in Jesus christ is only son our lord who was inseaved by the holy gost, and born the ferch in mery surfed under ponished pity was questy fide dad and berdy and after this fashion to the end. The Queen of the Sandwich Islands.—On Tuesday morning, Emma, Dowager Queen of the Sandwich Islands, was present at Divine service at the parish church of Streatley, near Reading, on the occa- sion of the re-opening of the sacred edifice, after ex- tensive alterations and enlargement. The Lord Bishop of the diocese preached a most eloquent sermon. After the service luncheon took place at the vicarage; and ^he afternoon the queen and suite, with the Bishop • of Oxford, left by the great Western Railway for town. A *subscription -for a patriotic testimonial" to Mazzini has been set on foot throughout all Italy. The following is the text of a letter from Garibaldi in favour of this project"I join with all my heart in a testimonial of gratitude from the Italians to the illustrious citizen whose whole life does not include an hour which has not been devoted to Italy, a pure aspiration for the national cause, an example to us all in the path of liberty, and a glory for the great Italian family." Five Years Dead, and Still Unburied.—A most extraordinary case has just been brought to light at Colyton, Somersetshire. An eccentric char- acter has actually in his possession at this moment the unburied corpse of his mother, who died five years ago. When she died he had a leaden coffin made, with a glass plate let in, so as to show her face. This coffin he deposited in a shed, and from time to time goes there to look upon the face of his mother. The case affords the nearest parallel to the man in London who kept the remains of his two wives in a similar way for many years in a bedroom in his house at Portland-place. Shocking Accident from Gunpowder. — George Emmerson, aged fifteen, of Brabant-lodge, Bayswater, was on Friday playing with a flask of powder belonging to his father, when the flask ex- ploded, and his hand was frightfully shattered. Amputation had to be performed. His face also is terribly disfigured, and his sight destroyed. Little hopes are given of saving his life. A respectably-clad man, apparently about forty-five years of age, precipitated himself into the Thames from Westminster-bridge, and after floating a short distance, sank and was drowned. The body was got out near Whitehall. The deceased had a small sum of money OR his person. His linen is marked R. Hall." Mr. Galfc's Non-explosive Gunpowder.— The invention of Mr. Gale for rendering gunpowder non- explosive has been practically tried in Manchester, under the superintendence of the inventor, and his co- adjutor, Mr. Saunders. The experiments were regarded with great interest by the gentlemen who had been in- vited to be present, and conclusively proved the efficacy of the invention. Collision off Holyhead.-On Friday morning, between four and five o clock, a collision occurred near the Skerries and Holyhead, between the schooner Arte- mus, from Sierra Leone, and the schooner Kerr, from Liverpool to Dublin. The crew of the Kerr took to their boats, and were carried to the port of Cemmaes by a steam tug. The Artemus reached the mouth of the Mersey in safety, when she capsized; but the accident being observed from the shore, the crew were saved in small boats from Liverpool and New Brighton. Emigration Figures.—The annexed figures show the various directions taken by the 208,900 persons who emigrated last year:—United States 147 042- Central and South America, 2,963: Canada 11'7V)' New Brunswick, 396; Nova Scotia and cine'Breton • 438; Newfoundiand 33; Prinee EdwardPIsknd°8 l 343; British Guiana, fw'Jtu T V Irn!fest Indian settlements, m r oo m' 1>267; China, 205; Japan, 4; the Mauritius 23; Western Africa, St. Helen^ Ma- AT?1!' 'Jfc0*' 364; the CaPe of Good Hope, 873; Natal, 527; Mexico, 43; the Falkland Islands, 5; the Sandwich Islands, 15; New South Wales, 4,689; Qupensland, 7,183; Victoria, 13,909; South Australia, 2,842; Western Australia, 299; Tasmania, 50; New Zealand, 11,970. It is a remarkable fact that seven out of every ten persons who emigrate from the United Kingdom thus proceed to the United States. The emigration to the troubled territories of Brother Jonathan was on a larger scale last year than it had been since 1854. On the other hand, the emigration to British North America and the Australian colonies somewhat declined last year. The Factory Act.—Mr. Francis Rawlinson, rope manufacturer, of Lodge-lane, Toxteth-park, was charged before the Liverpool magistrates with having employed women, in his factory after six is the evening, contrary to the Factorial Bagalation A The charge was not disputed, and it was explained that the factory having been on short employment, the women had asked to be allowed to work late at the time in question, and that the manager had allowed them to do so, in ignorance of the provisions of the Act. in five cases the defendant was fined 20s. and costs, and in one case, which was not prosecuted ha was ordered to pay the costs. A £ utpker in Female Clothes.-The pubUc has often heard of the adroitness of ladies of the derm- monde in drawing- money from the male frequenters of the gammg-tables at German watering-places, but few would have ever imagined that the son of a Ba- varian butcher, by assuming the crinoline and other accessories of female toilet, could succeed in passing himself off as a Polish beauty of ancient family and thus trick the admiring dupes out of their money.. This has, however, just been achieved at Wiesbaden by a butcher s son, who managed to gat in a good pe- cuniary harvest, and when his deception was at last accidentally discovered got clear off with his booty. A Proposed New Railway.—A survey has been made by authorised persons for an intended railway between Bradford and Colne, by way of Girlington, in the Thornton-valley, Allerton, Wilsden, Cullingworth- and Howorth, and thense vid Stanbury, Lancashire Moor, Trawden, Lanshaw-bridge, to Colne, where a junction will be made with the EiLSt Lancashire line. The scheme is said to be taken by the Great Northern Company, who will apply in the next session of Par- liament for the necessary authority to carry out the scheme. Charge against a Blackburn Latter Car- rier.—A young man, named John Wade, who has been a letter-carrier for about eiht years, was charged at the Blackburn Town-hall with stealing or delaying the delivery of a large number of letters! On Thurs- day the postmaster had reason to suspect that the man was detaining some letters, and a police-officer was sent to Wade's house, and, on telling him his errand, Wade pulled fifty-three letters out of his pocket. The whole of these letters bore the post. mark of the previous day. Wade, who said that he had delayed, but intended to deliver the letters, was remanded to await the result of a communication from the Past-office authorities. Strike of Miners.—In consequence of a proposed reduction of wages, a strike has taken place among the miners employed at. the Govan collieries. It is alleged that the men in these pits have for some time back been working for lower wages than were paid in other districts; and they now object to a redaction of 6d., which they say would bring them down to 3s. 61. per day. At a meeting held on Tuesday at the Lyceum- rooms, Glasgow, it was stated that nearly the whole of the miners conneoted with the collieries in question said to be from 700 to 800 in number, had removed their graith." £ Bull at a KaiLway station. A bull wa3 on Friday conveyed by Great Western Railway to Reading Station, and as it was evidently in a wild state great care was taken in re- moving it from the truck. Notwithstanding this, .how- ever, it got away and ran furiously along the linaand about the company's premises, knocking down Mr. Wix, the foreman of the goods yard, and unfortu- nately breaking his leg. He was immediately taken to the Berkshire Infirmary, where he is now lying. Wix, who is a steady industrious man, has been in the com- pany's service many years, and this accident wiiiin- capacitate him from work fora very considerable time Singular Cab Accident.—As a fisherman of Alfort was rowing down the Marne a few days ago, he was astonished at seeing, near the spot where that river falls into the Seine, the roof of a hackney-eoach in the middle of the stream. With the help of some boatmen he managed to draw it to the shore, -and found it was the carriage number 1704, belonging to the Imperial Gab Company, with two horses attached, both dead. After a long search the body of he driver, named Brault, was also found. There is reason to suppose that the driver was asleep on hia box and that the horses, taking a wrong turn, fell iX the river and were carried away by the current, which is very strong in that part. The man is believed to have made an attempt to save himself, as his coat md waistcoat were off. Pirates in China Waters.-The ship Formby, of Liverpool, on her late passage from Hongkong to Singapore, was furiously attacked by fourteen piratical iunks, heavily armed, and each manned with about fifty men, fifteen miles south of Cape Linhose, coast of Hainan, on the 31st of May. Some fifty shots were fired at the ship, some cutting through the platiag at the water-line, fortunately on the weather side. With great difficulty the orew succeeded in stopping the holes, the ship being of steel. Their guns were leaded with all kinds ofoomceivable missiles, cutting and damaging the sails and rigging badly. Fortunately the breeze springing up, the English ship managed bv outsailing the pirates, to escape without any of the officers or crew being wounded. ^•re Diseased Meat. Charles Austin, «en„ and Charles Austin, 31m., cowkeepera of Peokham Eye were summoned before the magistrate at the London Guildhall by the Commissioners of Sewers for senfling a quantity of beef to Newgate Market, it being at the time diseased and unfit for the food of man. William Clarke, a sanitary inapeotor, gave evidence as to the meat being exposed for sale, and Mr. Newman, in- spector of meat, deposed to it being unfit for human food. The beast was a milch cow, and Austin said he had given .£18 for it, and that it had dropped off-milk lately, therefore he wanted it killed and taken to market.—Thomas Langford, the butcher who MQad the cow, said he refused to take it to market axtd Bell it in his own name, but he did so in the defendants" name. He did not, ho wever, know that the meat was diseased. The lungs were grown to the side. Mr. Alderman Gibbons fined each of the defendants .410 and costs, or three months. imprisonment. The fines were paid. A Delightful "Sensation.Le. Nerd states that on the evening of Saturday last a lioness at the Antwerp Zoological Garders broke out of its cage through a part which gave way and bounded into the gardens with a load roar. The visitors were seized with a sort of stupor, and remained fixed to the ground where they stood—a circumstance which per- haps saved them, for the lioness, which would pro- bably have been excited by exclamations, beean to promenade the gardens peacefully with a dignified air, trusting, doubtless, to its cubs followine • but thev did not stir. The terror of the crowd continued. The keepers brought pieces of fresh meat and threw them before the lioness, which devoured them eagerlv. 'Sut the question was how to make it re entefthe cage, fdl^f TowT SthS keePera conceived the happy idea of going to the cage and irritating the young Th«36 CneB Would bring the mother to their P f/ ruse succeeded, and the lioness, returning to its cage, was securely shut up. Thus terminated the disagreeable scene, which had continued a quarter of an hour. I Presentation Memorial of the American Rebellion.-The American war began with a, Phot fired on Fort Sumter, where the "old flag "-the iden. tical one which gave place to the Palmetto flag-waa again raised on the 14th of April of the present year, when the Rev. H. Ward Beecher delivered an oration. This, and a sermon on the death of Abraham Lincoln, also by Mr. Beeeber, have just been published by American friends resident in Manchester, as a pre- sentation memorial to working men, dedicated, as a simple token of high esteem, to those working men who, through evil afid good report, and in times of temporal want of no ordinary kind, espoused the cause and supported the principles of emancipated labour everywhere. The oration is preceded bv nre,fatn> notes by Mr. J. H. Estcourt, and followed by the Tn Memoriam verses of Mr. W. C. Bryant. A sketch of Abraham Lincoln, also by Mr. Estcourt, precedes Nov,mber' 1863/ 01 w&S&S,? of the Leicestershire Mur- +1, ra meetinH' of the board of guar- t.he ^aghborough Union, held on Wednes- ay morning, for the purpose of taking into considera- tion the statements contained in the confession of the prisoner Atkins, as to the ill-treatment said to have been received by her whilst an inmate of the Lough- borough Union Workhoa-e, the following resolution was unanimously adopted :— Thifc, after a most care- tul investigation of all the circumstances cf the case,, it is the opinion of this meeting that there is not the slightest truth in, or foundation for, the statements made by the woman Atkins; but that, on the con- trary, during her stay in the workhouse, both she and her child appear to have been treated with great Mad- | Hess, both by the officers and the "annates."