The Brecon Reporter and South Wales General Advertiser

THE COURT. IN consequence of the Ministerial crisis the Queen has returned to Windsor earlier than was anticipated. Her Majesty the Qaeen, with the various members of the Royal family, left Balmoral early on Monday. The railway journey commenced at Aboyne, and from thence via the Deesirfe Railway to Aberdeen. From I this point the Royal route was over the Scottish North Eastern, the train stopping for five minutes at the Bridge of Dan, and then proceeding on to Perth, where the Qaeen took refreshments. After about an hour's stoppage the train pushed on along the Scottish Central Line to Greenhill Junction, where the Caledo- nian Railway commences. Upon this portion of tihe route, at Summit, a stoppage of five minutes was made, the train being afterwards timed to reach Oar- lisle at 11.25 p.m. A short stay was made at Carlisle for refreshments and to perfect the sleeping arrange- ments of the Royal travellers and suite, the journey over the North-Western line being performed in the dead of night and early morning. From Btishbury her Majesty reached Windsor by the Great Western line, stoppages of five minutes in each instance being made at Leamington and Oxford. The Royal progress from Oxford was by way of Dilcot.Walhngford-road, Goring, Reading, and Slough to Windsor, into the terminus of which town the special train ran about 8.45 &.m. Her Majesty and the Royal family thus reached the Castle in time for breakfast. „ PREPARATIONS are actively going forward in the State roams and private chapel of Windsor Castle for the forthcoming marriage of the Princess Helena on the 5th of July. The pulpit, reading-desk, and all the movable seats have been transferred from the chapel to the east end of St. George'e-ball, which are enclosed by a screen which crosses the hall, and where Divine service will be performed until after the marriage. THE children of the Royal family at Hanover, are expected shortly to arrive at the Castle. THE Prince and Princess of Wales, with Prince Albert Victor, left Marl borough- house on Saturday afternoon, soon after two o'clook, for Trentham, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland. Their Royal HighnesseB were attended by the Countess of Macclesfield, Lieut.-General Knollys, and Lieutenant- Colonel Keppel. WE announce, with regret, the death, at the age of ore year and nine months, of his Royal Highness Prince Sigismnnd, fourth child of the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, and grandson of her Majesty the Queen. This event constitutes a new and melan- choly appeal to the loyal sympathies of the whole British people, in whose prayers the Royal mother of the departed infant will, in her grief, be affectionately remembered. In consequence of the sorrow into which the Royal family of England has been plunged by this bereavement, certain State festivities which had been appointed will be necessarily postponed. IT ia said that the King of Hanover has gone to join his army. We fear, says the Court Journal, his pre- sence will not be a valuable acquisition, and add much to the ability of the strategical rno1 ement, as the king is completely blind, but has the mania for desiring to appear to see. At the opera his Majesty uses an opera-glass freely, and doubtless it is due to his desire to be thought able to see that his Majesty has joined the army. However, the Crown treasure has come to England, and that may, perhaps, make a diversion in this direction, and his Majesty may feel the attraction greater due north.

J< POLITICAL GOSSIP. A CURIOUS contribution to Peter's pence is an. Bounced in the Roman Catholic paper Les Yoix du Tyrol. "A young man sends thirty florins. ^Heis dreadfully in debt, but not so much as the Pope." He did not continue the comparison of situations which are considered so similar. j BARON ROTHSCHILD long since removed all the Valuables from his chateau across the Rhine, and this example is now being extensively followed by landlords in Prussia Germanv, Austria, and Italy. ,„_ The Sunday Gazette says the ^merlv is about to be conferred on Mr. John Enms, formerly MTHEE^AdmifaSyhave removed Commander Stevens, of the Ganges training ship at Falmouth, not being apparently satisfied with the state of discipline kept up in the ship. IT is rumoured that Mr. Seward will shortly resign the portfolio of foreign affairs in the United States to Mr. Adams, and will take the latter's place as Minister at the Court of London. THE chief clerk of the privy Council Office, Mr. Harrison, who, in addition to his appointment, helQ 1 the office of deputy clerk of the council, having retired, the registrar of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Mr. Henry Reeve, has been appointed to succeed him as a deputy clerk of the council, retaining his present office of registrar. „ By the death of the Earl of Gainsborough the Government loses an adherent in the House of Lords. The deceased earl was a consistent Whig or Liberal: his successor, although a Roman Catholic, some years ago identified himself with the Conservative party. THE Reyal Naval Reserve appears to wax in popu- larity. Its numbers now stand at 16,988 49 having certificates of competency as masters, 997 as mates; 19 with certificates of service as masters, and 64 as m^DEPUTATION of friends of Mr. Samuel Morley has waited upon him for the purpose of urging upon him the desirability of his allowing them to propose him for the City of London on the retirement of either of the present members, and he has consented to place himself entirely in their hands. # TO11HM» r,f BY an odd coincidence, on looking to the Tellers of the Opposition on the late defeat of Ministers, it seems consonant with the fitness of things that while the first is that of the Lord Dunkellin, the second is that of a Cave—one of the Caves of the House of Commons! Not the Cave of Adullam, how- ever, but of Mr. Stephen Cave, the member for New Shorehem. I HAVE come to beg of you, Monsieur, the Ministre do la Marine, a place for my son," said a handsome and handsomely-dressed Parisian lady. We have nothing vacant, madame, but the command of a frigate." N'importe, I will accept that." "Is your eon capable f" "He is capable of everything; he is a dentist at Lyons." Kissing goes by favour, it would seem, on both sides the Channel. THE following epigram on the Government Reform Bill is attributed to a distinguished member of the University {f Oxford, famous for his ieux d' esprit Upon this bill we stake our all; By it to stand, by it to fall A third course still methmka I see. The bill may lie—and so may we." LORD CARLISLE is to have a statue in Dablm. Lord Eglinton has already got one. J* traditional for the Lord-Lieutenant to be in marble or in bronze. The a & nrn eminently satisfactory in some resp&cts. for P^oves that the office, after all, is not so useless an™a^ less as has been frequently represen • « 0St'06P_ representative of majesty pro tew. has s are tain advantage over majesty itself. ,,nblio sub- few who would command a monument y P. sorption. Any man, therefore,, who ia willing toje sneered at all through his official h^timeoncon,^ tion of being worshipped for ever when he is aea him aspire to the lord-lieutenancy of Ireland. a IT is proposed, says the Court Journal, to ge P tea meeting for ladies to express their views £ is to exercise of franchise rights by women. Mr. should be asked to preside. It is odd with his Ma thusian doctrines, that the worthy M.P. should all at once have become such a pet with the pettiooats. HUE once have become such a pet with the pettiooats. But we presume the ladies who signed the petition and wished it entrusted to Mr. Mill are all of a certain, or rather uncertain, age.. „„ MR- DARBY GRIFFITH intends to move on an early evening for a return of all the Peerages created on the recommendation of Lord Palnieraton, between looy and 1865 inclusive and also of the Peerages created during the tenure of office of the present Government. Lord Palmerston's list during the time specified is as followsHe raised ten Commoners to the Peerage, v;Zt th.g present Lords Annaly, Athlumney, litz- hardinee, Houghton, Llanover, Lyveden, Taunton, and Westbury, Earl Russell, and the late Lord i Herbert • made the Duchess of Sutherland Countess of Cromartie, and the CouutesB of Delawarr Baroness Buckhurst with succession to their youBger sons; summoned' Lords Ebrington and Seymour to the House of Peers in their father's baronies.; gave Lord Brougham a new patent with succession to his brother; advanced Lord Ward to the Earldom of brother; advanced Lord Ward to the Earldom of Dudlev; and made a Scotch peer, Lord Kinnaird, a British baron, with succjession to his brother. He also gave the Duke of Somerset the Earldom of St. Yayar, to enable his son towear a higher oourteey title than that of baron. Lord Russell's creations since ¡ his accession to office in October comprise six barons, a viscount, and an earl.

THE ARTS, LITERATURE, &c. M. WATELOT, formerly a distinguished landscape painter, died in Paris laat week, in his 86th year. AT a, meeting of the Royal Academy, held on Monday evening last, Ba.ron Marochetti and Mr. Richmond were elected full Members. Mr. O'Neil had fourteen votes. On the question which related to the site at Burlington-bouse, it was almost unanimously I decided to decline the offer of the Government and to I withhold further consideration of the subject of re- moval until after the expected debate in the House of Commons, which affects not only the future of the Academy, but that of Barlington house and the National Gallery. As soon as the plans of the pro- posed new buildings at Burlington-houee are ready, the debate in question will take place. MR. GEORGE CRTJIXSHANK is a wonderful man-a man of whom the nation is not so proud as it ought to be. He was born somewhere about 1794. One of his great claims at the present sge is that he was the first to introduce whiskers—our fathers were well-shaven and smooth men. Nature had enriched the young artist and popular caricaturist with hairy appendages, of which even Lord D undreary woiild have been proud, and George Crnikehank let his whiskers grow to the horror of society, and people stared at him in the pit of the opera or in the dress-circle of the theatre. Some people are trying to get up a testimonial for him. At present the movement seems to languish. It will be a pity if the pubHc do not make George Cruikshank a handsome present in his old age. A COLLECTION of drawings of great interest is at present exhibiting at the German Gallery in New Bond-street. It consists of a series of Algerian sketches by Madame Bodichon and Mrs. Lee Bridell. The works of the lady first named are landscapes, those of Mrs. Bridell consist of figure subjects. The landscapes have great interest, the soenes depicted are well chosen, and the wonderful brightness of an j Algerian climate is reproduced with much success. I Two sketches, entitled Solitude" and "A Ravine near Algiers," are of particular beauty. Not less remark- able are the figure subjects of Mrs. Lee Bridell. They are full of force and character. The best among them are Zjora," an Arab girl, with her hair dyed with henna, and an Arab woman communing with the spirit of the dead. Types of Algerian and Moresque beauty, with which few Englishmen are familiar, are produced with great power. The exhibition is full of interest to lovers of art, I WE understand that Archdeacon Hale and the Earl of Derby, who were for a long time the most strongly opposed of all the governors to the removal of the Charterhouse School into the country, have at length withdrawn their opposition with a good grace. The measure is one which the new Public Schools Bill specially empowers the governors to effect. It will be remembered that the Old Carthusians founded last year two prizes, the one for an English essay in memory of Thackeray, and the other for drawing in memory of Leech. The latter prize has just been awarded to Mr. George B. Lashleigh, one of the gown boys in the sixth form, for the best water. colour drawing of the interior of the Charterhouse Chapel. The prize is a handsome large-paper copy of Flaxeaan's Classical Illustrations to Homer, Hesiod, and iEschylus," bound in red morocco. Mr. E. Walford has been requested to adjudge the Thackeray prize, LORD ROMILLY had the satisfaction of opening his new Literary Search Room at the Record Office, in Fetter-lane, on Thursday last. The apartment is well arranged and well lighted; and all fees, except for certified copies of documents, have been abolished. On the very first day the room was crowded with readers. „ A CHEAP edition of Hood's P*ems has just been published. The work of editing has been performed by Samuel Lucas, M A. Wider fame and higher honour to the name can scarooly be the result of this cheap issue, as the best that Hood wrote belongs to the current literature of the country, and is perfectly familiar. A more intimate acquaintance with his genins will, however, be attained by the perusal of these poems, and gratify those who already admire and respect the writings of Hood. Mr. PITRE, one of the employers of the Record office, has just published a volume called The English and their Origin," in which he endeavours to show, and with much learning and a great deal more in. genuity, that the English people possess even at this day a greater proportion of the British or Keltic than of the Anglo-Saxon or Norman elements, and bases his argument on considerations derived from the re- semblance of languages, of physical structure, and of moral or intellectual organisation. But there will be few who will assent to his conclusions, the impetuosity and want of endurance, the impa-tienee under reverses, and readiness to despair, and the intense love of gossip and scandal by which all the Keltic races, although in differing degree, are conspicuous, are surely want- ing in the present day in the staid, resolute, composed character of Englishmen. "THE WORKING MAN," a weekly record and review of social and political affairs, with illustrations, is to be reduced in price to one penny weekly, and will be published on Saturday instead of Wednesday, as here- tofore, commencing with No. 1 of the second volume, on July 7. The proprietors, Messrs. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, in making this announcement^ say that, whilst faithfully recording and reviewing all important affairs of the week, and distributing useful information on all new and important subjects, "The Working Man" will be found an unwearied champion of every movement a-tid institution having for its object the enlightenment, the advancement, and the wen-being of the great masses of mankind. A large map of Europe is announced to be given away with the first number, with a view to render more intelligible the weekly epitome of the progress of the war which will appear in The Working Man."

OPINIONS OF THBS PRESS. The Bank of England and the Rate of Interest. On the whole, perhaps, the Bank of England exer- cised a wise caution in not reducing their rate this week. As soon as full confidence is restored in Lon- don such a redaction would undoubtedly have the best effect in bringing back notes from the country. But a premature reduction might defeat its own end. If the Bank had reduced on Thursday last, and was obliged within a short time hy any untoward event to retrace its steps, credit would be more shaken by the relapse than it was swengbueneu uytae reauonon. We had better wait quietly a little till real credit is revived, and then. we can show that it is so by the appropriate sign. We do not believe that in the pre- sent state of the world money is attracted hither by the high value of money. English credit is impaired, and no rate of interest will now enable us to borrow as easily or as effectually as in ordinary times. The ordinary international currency is BOW deranged. It generally consists of bills, and largely of bi Is on Lon- don. But bills on London afe now suspected; we pay gold and silver where we used to pay blLs, and we re- ceive gold and silver where we used to receive bills. But a high rate of interest has another effect, which at such times as these is needful, though it is always painful. It contracts transactions, diminishes trade, lowers prices; it tends to encourage exports; it tends to diminish imports, and so tends to alter the balance of trade, to bring in bullion, and, what is more important still, to contract the sphere of our com- merce, which was based on good credit, to the smaller space suitable and necessary now that our credit is no longer what it wms.Economist. Italy and Prussia. The day of the istruggle which has arrived for Prussia, has ls0 arrived for us Never did fortune, even in the splendid days of 1859 and 1860, smile on us so benignly. That Power, who then observed a neutrality towards us which was nearlv on the point of changing into hostility, is now our ally, and moves to promote and make those same principles prevail for which we have fought and are going to fight. The past has taught Prussia a lesson. France has asserted^ m tne most solemn way our right and our poai-tion in the balance of power, while England, by the mouth of her most illustrious statesman, has blamed the attitude of Austria in the Italian question. Austria has condemned herself to silence by refusing to take part m the Conference. It ia under these splendid auspices that we com- mence war. They ought to increase our confidence and courage; bat they also make it more and more our duty to act in a manner worthy of such good fortune. -Lo, Perseveragize a Milan ] aper. The Emperor of Austria's Manifesto. I have done everything to preserve the peace and freedom of Germany, but it has been made impossible for me to do so on all sides. This is the gravest mo- ment since I acceded to the Government. I now take to the sword with trnst in God, my good right, my brave army, and the co-operation of my faithful peo- ple." These solemn words, with which the emperor answers the address of the city of Vienna, are in con- sonance with the great gravity of the present moment in the history of the world. Austria can give proof that she has not wished for this war and not sought it. She demanded nothing but a just solution of the Schleswig-Holstein question agreeable to her position in the Diet and the Diet itself. How far she was ready to go in this direction was shown by the treaty of Gas- tein. What concessions were thereby and later offered to Prussia, Austria could be satisfied with, if Prussia had not striven directly after incorporation. But with a sovereign who is of the opinion that the days of Frederick II. have returned, and who believes he has the power of treading in the footsteps of his great ancestor, and with a Minister of this sovereign who, on his appointment as Premier, said" If I remain Minister, we shall have war with Austri,% "-with such a Government any agreement is certainly a difficult affair. Prussia concluded secret treaties with Italy and France at a time when nobody was thinking of war, and reckoned thereon to divide and diminish Germany, in order, by the hHlp of the foreigner, to obtain a victory, which alone she was not groat enough to obtain and the words of his Majesty the Emperor point to this when he says—to maintain peace and freedom had been made impossible on all sides for him. These are significant words, for the Emperor of Austria speaks here quite as a member of the German Confederation, and identifies the fate of Austria with the fate of Germany. The Emperor designates the moment at which he has taken to the sword as the gravest since his accession; and certainly, of all the colossal storms which Austria has had to bear for the last eighteen years, this is the most fearful. She has to conduct two great wars in the North and South, and her position as a great Power to the very foundation is put in question. But this time Austria is not alone. She is supported by a brave army, the largest she has ever put in the field, and the best part of Germany is with her. A single victory over Prussia, and the whole situation turns in our favour.-New Freie Presse: a Vienna paper. Report of the Jamaica Commission. The result is just what we might have expected. There is no severity shown towards Mr. Eyre. The censure awarded is reluctantly given. Sir H. Storks is dealing with a brother governor. The two barristers naturally bear in mind that they are speaking of a man who may soon stand at the bar of the Central Criminal Court. Hence they are properly and studiously cau- tious. The Recorder of London-it is one of the pos- sibilities of the case-may have to preside over a trial, in the Old Bailey, of some of the parties concerned in putting poor Gordon to death. Remembering these features of the case, we are dis- posed to be content with the report. To a certain extent j astice has already been done, in the expulsion of the late governor from his office. As to farther punishments, they are yet open to consideration; but on that point we shall imitate the oaution of the Com- missioners, and shall say nothing.— Morning Ad- vertiser. In respect to the proceedings of the coucts-martial, the Commissioners have declared that although, generally speaking, unobjectionable, yet in some cases the finding of the sentence was not justified by the evidence; in others the evidence admitted was illegal; and in others the sentences were disproportionate to the offences charged. In Gordon's case in particular, they find "that the evidence, oral and documentary, appears to be wholly insufficient to establish the charge on which the prisoner took his trial." His transmission to Morant Bay for the purpose of trial by the military authorities, his trial by court-martial, and his execution by virtue of the sentence of that court, are events which her Majesty's Government cannot but deplore and condemn." In concluding his despatch, the Colonial Secretary states that under all the circumstances her Majesty's Government do not consider themselves justified in restoring Mr. Eyre to his previous office. Perhaps no other course was open to the Government, but none will deny to the late governor the credit of having acted throughout with good faith, and with the single-minded desire of restoring order on what he believed would be a substantial basis. Few men placed in the same position could have avoided some errors of judgment, and it is only errors of that kind which can be laid to Mr. Eyre's charge.-Morning Post. The Poor, in the Workhouses. Is there no nerve or sense of responsibility left in British Ministers or members of the House of Commons ? Day after day the most shocking revela- tions are made of the cruelties perpetrated in the London workhouses and hospitals, and yet no remedy is attempted. An inquiry is now going on at Rother- hithe, where it appears to be possible for a nurse to murder a woman by torture-for that is the simple meaning of the statements about the death of the woman Fairbairn, if they are well founded-without any censure. The case of Whitechapel is just as bad. Mr. Edmund Hart induced Mr. Fariiall to go there without warning, and found patients with bed sores which are never attended to at night, a raving and filthy lunatic in a ward with two sane patients, a man dying of bronohitis and partly paralysed with bare legs and feet resting on the floor, no beer allowed, EO milk except to one patient; the food so insufficient that the people complain of being starved, and three kinds of medicine-a purge, a cough mixture, and a saline mixture—which are served out to everybody indiscriminately. All this while convicts in hospitals have clean beds, good medical attendance, and perfect quiet. The moment the horrors of this place are in- quired 5xto the guardians will begin to defend it, and aak if paupers are to have silver bedsteads and down beds and though Mr. Villiers will neither defend the evils nor talk vulgar rubbish, he will not risk affront- ing the London guardians. It will come to Lynch law if lie is not quicker, and we could almost wish it would. One ducked chairman would be equal to 300 cleaned pfttients.- Slgectotor. .\IIIIIAIRY-mv-' .IIIIIÆt

OUR MISCELLANY. --+- The Language of the Workshop.-It might surprise an English inquirer into nautical philology to learn that much of the language of shipboard was very good Dutch, Low German, and even French. It might shock his national pride to find that the terse phrase- ology over which he had been accustomed to chuckle, as so thoroughly English, was but the echo of the lan- guage of the Havre de Grace, the Vorsetzen at Ham- burg, or was borrowed from the dictionary (if he had one) of Van Tromp. Yet this is the simple truth; and the same common parentage may be traced in much of the ordinary language of the goldsmith's workshop. Although, like water-worn pebbles, the technics), words there in use are now smooth enough English, if we trace their original structure we shall find that in grain they are often German or Frerch.- The Working Man. Swedish Volunteers.-Alilitary drilling is a regular portion of the Sunday duty, it being in no way incompatible with Swedish notions to display allegi- ance to both the heavenly and the earthly ruler on the same day. Volunteer corps are cow formed through- out the length and breadth of the land, in which all of the gentry and the peasantry are enrolled. Gustavus Adolphns enforced prajer and the singing of hymns in the Swedish army, and the volunteers are faithful to the venerated custom. Thus one reads in the papers of volunteer corps having divine service during tneir exercise, with a sermon, on the love of their native land, preached in the open air; or, perhaps, of their inarching to some country church, and there attending divine service. Drilling seems especially to be the consecrated work of the sabbath, perhaps because the onerous labours of the week day cannot afford the necessary leisure. The Osterhanninge riflemen meet on the Sunday afternoon between'the church and the house of the Komminister; and when their drilling duties are over, they march to the little church and sing together, "God bless our King and Fatherland," or some other patriotic verses.—Twelve Months with Frederiha Bremer in Sweden. By Margaret Howitt. A New Explosive.—A few days ago we noticed the fact of the master of the ship St. Joseph, recently arrived at this port, having found a suspicious box on board his vessel, marked "sodium," flung it over- I board, and as soon as the package touched the water an explosion occurred, lifting the sea into an immense column to the stern of the TesseL We infer from t a San Francisco journal that it was a new cbymical | mixture called sodium-amalgam. This material is I j never manufactured in very large quantities, though I it has been advertised for sale in San Francisco, j one firm claiming to have as much as 200 oz. for sale! The amount does not seem l!rge, but when it is under- stood that the explosive power of loz. of sodiotn Is equal to that of about 251b. of gunpowder, oy 2tlb. of nitro-glycerine, it can readily be conceived that even 15oz. or 20oz., exploded in one place, would create immense havoc. And when one farther reflects that even so little a thing as a i-poonful of watsr coming in contact with 200oz. of sodium would o-icasion an explosion equal to that which would be occasioned by the ignition of 5,0001b. of powder, or the concussion of 5001b. of nitro-glycerine, we can form some con- ception of its tremendous destructive Boston Journal. Moral Sentiments in Hovels and on the Stage.—In order to find anything like the moralising of the penny novels in fictions of the higher class we I must go baok to Richardson. He was the first to I make the novel very popular among us, and one of the means by which he tucceeded in making it popular was by a high seasoning of moral reflections, showing what wonderful lessons of virtue were to be learnt from his stories. That high seasoning did its work, although it soon became nauseous to healthy tastes, and is now one of the chief causes why Richardson is little read. Fielding laughed it out of fashion, and fiction of obtrusive morality has never since been writ- ten by first-rate romancers. Nor even in the class of fictions which take with the British workmen is the moralising of precisely the fame kind as that which we find in Richardson. Heis ever bent in giving clear moral lessons—he preaches. That is not what the British workmen now want; they want rather to have the story- well lashed with moral sentiment. It need have no very strict application to the story, if there it is. We are reminded of a well-known anecdote which may illustrate this. There was an inferior actor who had only one speech to deliver in a certain play. The speech was nothing—" The carriage is ready," or something equally commonplace. But the actor was sighing for applause, and he determined to tag to it a moral sentiment, which would of a surety bring down the cheers of the "gods." He fixed upon three lines from the Honeymoon, and delivered himself of the following sentence:— The carriage waits, and, sir, The man that lays his band upon a weman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch, Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward." Macmillan's Magazine. The Captain.— My wife and child they pray for me When the seas are white with foam On the dreadful deep their forms I see, That are bowed for me at home, When the storm is loud, and above the eloud Glows like a fiery dome. I sometimes think that I can hear Their voices in the blast, And turn to see that vision dear, To me o'er all the past. 'Tis but the sail torn in the gale, And the storm-bird, white and ghast. Hark! how the thunder treads the air! Methinks our doom is said; Yet life with those was wondrous fair And cold are the ocean dead. What cheer, my men ? shall we look again On the Downs, or Beachy Head ? My gallant hearts are true as steel, My ship is stout and strong; And not a thing from top to keel, Would play me false or wrong: But the cruel wave is shroud and grave To many a goodly throng. Must it be so f Why, then, farewell; 0 for one parting kies On those young lips that faintly spell A prayer for such as this Methinke 'twould lift from the briny drift To the highest soul in bliss. Farewell, good crew and gallant ship; Yon wave shall wash us down. Deith, thou art cold. to the throat and lip, And blood is on thy crown. True eyes! dear eyes you star the skies 1 What care I though I drown ? —The Quiver. The Common Shore Crab.- In f,:he miniatllre crests of marine vegetation that grow in the rock pools, the crab is perfectly a.t home, scampering about as if he were a crustacean monkey with a decided bent for mischief. Now, to appreciate the character of a orab, you must know moro of him thar is to be learned from scientific works on natural history, or from post- mortem dissections at the snpper-table; and therefore he should be captured and dropped into the can, ctra being of course taken that he is not dismembered or otherwise injured in the process, which is sometimes a difficult task to accomplish. About four years since, I conveyed ashore a crab alive from Broadstairs to London, and fitted up for his accommodation a habi- tation of rocks and seaweed, containing about a. gallon of sea-water. In a few weeks he became so tame that he would feed on shreds of mussel that were offered to him, which he would takefromthe fingers with his claws, like a monkey, to the grei, t delight of the juveniles, who always made a point of being present when Jack was at his breakfast. He gradually became so accustomed to this, that about feeding time in the morning, if he were not supplied with his usual morsel, he would tap at the sides of the gla.-s, and continue making a noise till he received his food. After some time, however, he became shy, and apparently indis- posed, hiding away out of the range of observation and one evening I was informed that poor Jack had breathed his last. He was accordingly removed and received decent burial under a rose bush. lie had won our affection, so we were resolved not to disturb his garden, which contained several specimens of algiB in a healthy condition; but we were startled by hearing the old familiar sound of tapping in the glass. Had there been any precedent, we should certainly have concluded that Jack's ghoat was revisiting his house- aig ghosts that have a domiciliary attachment are said to do. Upon looking in, however, we found him perched upon his favourite piece of stone, tapping away with all his might. The real state of the ease became at once apparent. Finding he had grown too large for his shelly coat, he had taken it off, and that in euch a perfect condition—legs, claws, head, end all— as to deceive us into the belief that his body wa.s inside. He did this on several subsequent occasions, ) grew to four'times his original size, lived in confine- ment upwaris of two years, and died through the I accidental administration of a dose of green paiut. Holiday Hours at the Seaside. .— e

Finding a Needle in a Bundle of Hay."— Acow belongingw Mrs. Kent;. Diana-street, Newcastle, has escaped the danger of the cattle plague to come to its end in a. rather peculiar manner. The ani.mal had died suddenly in an unaccountable way, and en being subjected to a post mortem examination it vas found tbat a darning needle had got era bedded in hiE heart. The needle must have been swallowed wift its food, and. finding its way into the aorta caused mortification. "Drawing the Line" at the Blouse.-TLo Marseilles journal", mention that fears of a disturbance j were excited in that town three days back is conse- quence of the landlord of a. new cafe on the Gsnnt-biere refusing to admit to his establishment pen in the blouse usually worn by the working cles*# Such a regulation exists in the best of those establishments of Paris, but as democratic ideas universally prevail at Marseilles, and the workmen are genera'iy in easy cir- cumstances, the rule could never be ànforcad. The attempt made in the present instance ttcrac-jed an im- mense assemblage of the labouring slasses in lo- cality, and the authorities had to interfere to preserve order. Tb.9 proprietor, iB presenceOL -his dcaioasors.- tion, has withdrawn his unpopular regulation. Wreck in Carmarthen B^y.—During a strong- wind from N.W., a few days' since (says Captain Arengo Cross), intelligence wa3 received that a. ship was on shore on the Cefn Sidm Sands, about seven miles from this lifeboat station. The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat • Institution, named the City of -or, was thereupon at once launched and proceeded to the wreck. On arriving alongside it was found that the crew of seven were making preparations to leave the vessel in tbsir own boat, when the life- boat took them in W and brought them safely to land through a heavy ground sea. The vessel was a three-masted schooner, the Mary Roe, of Quebec, ¡ bound from Liverpool to Causo with salt and coale. 1 She is likely to beccme a total wreck.

35XTBACTS PEOM "PTOaa"$•!7rixn." A New and Original Incident. While sauntering lonely—list Saturday ottty— In Tavisstock-street, Oovect-garden, ivlethought I would wander with NFatafe, and Like Jacques, in the forest of Irden. As soon as I entered, my notice faa contfefl At once on the rosea and lilies. 3fit, when th??e became tirir-g, I took ic- The dear little daffy do It was truly entrancing to them all das: ir.f?, And nodding away at the breezes; And the pleasant emotion conveyed by that nor/ton Comes back to my mind when it pleases. Now you'll think mo a baby, or class* nve, it mry 1;1), With other poetical sillies; ..1 But I feel it a pleasure, sublime beyond To dance with my daffadowndillies. Contentment, A Song for ihe Stock Exchange. Happy the man who lives content On money safe at three per cent.! Invests it not in bubble schemas, Nor e'er of speculation drearaa. Him City panics ne'er yfffigbt, Nor threats of money getting tight; He fears not either Balls or Bears, Or sudden rise er fall of shares. Him neither Chtncery Courts appal, Nor the dread street of H^&ingbal'; His cash is safe, his erMft eortnd, Though banks be breaking all around. No horrid dreams disturb his rest, No anxious fears his peace molest; No writ destroys his appetite, And keeps him. W iktful through the night. Oh, were such happy fortune mino, Serenely tranquil I would dine Nor envy anxious millionnairea, Their dangerous wealth In doubtful sfcaret! The Scoundrels of the Stock Sacher.?^. Scoundrels, that gamble in bank shares By swindling vales cause wreck and n;;r. We call this kind of rascals Bears; A gross reflection upon Bruin. These rogues, who break bank after hia&k, Have their abettors in the City For an unchecked career to thank. Have they not, Stock Exchange r A Round for the Ring. By an M.P. When Goss hits Maee • A cut in the face, Where his proboscis Soft as moss is, This act, by the member badly mauled, Would, could he speak, be rjghdy calle:! In Parliamentary phrase, I s'poee, A Teller on the side of the Noes." Grass Cat. (JIo1.li"nfHI Merriment in a Meadow.) Death is the mower; man's grass in the fteters, Not a living blade to his blade but yields. Swiftly, surely, the scythe will pasa From left to right, By the mower's might; For men may grow, But the mower will mow, And sweepingly give us our coup de r("fX. A Duck of Diamonds. DEAR FUN,-Frank has been telling me that HEME- body has been teHing the House of Commons that ooal- will soon be exhausted. I have thought of a espial substitute. Some gentleman at the Polytechnic said in a lecture I heard, that a diamond waa the sum a thing as coal. There are lots of diamonds, and J am sure the ladies would all give them up for the goo^i-Mt f the country as the ladies at Berlin gavo up their jeweW lary, and were presented with Berlin (or Freno'tL, I forget which) irons in return. Isn't this a capital notion ?—Yours, dear Fun, ever meet lovingly, J3. P.8.-I'm sorry I haven't any diamonds tp icy country. But Harriet has jnst bad a very fcaasasntup, set, earrings, necklace, bracelet, &0., given be.* fin ■ might begin with them. Wasn't that a Pretty Dish A thousand nightingales have, 9-ccorring tc r- ■< r from Vienna, been caught and shipped for Mc- lt the request of the Emperor Maximilian. Is It posslb'e that in Austria "nightingale" is it slang equivaletf. for money, as "canary" was among Up.? It woold seem probable, for the Emperor's character woniii y3* din," 118 to think he cared less ..bc:ut agD? than iH. tcs, and preferred a fill o' money to a philomel. Sing a song of Max' tricks. His pockets to o'erfio- Just a thousand nightingales Shipped to Mexico. When the P-Iiip came over, The birds began to f-ipg, Wasn't that a pretty vie-h For emperor or kirg!

THE SADDLE C:-T THE SIOHT That the Reform Billstops the way The angry Opposition storm, And all the wbi'a, heboid 'tis they The angry Opposition storm, And all the wbilo, heboid 'tia they I Who stop the way of poor Rsform.