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IftktUararos fnMigena, HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. WORTH IMITATING !—The Legislature of the State of New York have recently set the English Parliament a good example by passing an Act for the preservation of the health of animals used for human food, of which the 1st section runs thus :— No railroad company in this State, in the carrying and transportation of cattle, sheep, or swine, shall confine the BaIne in cars for a longer period than twenty-eight conse- cutive hours, unless delayed by storms or other accidental Causes, without unloading for rest, water, and feeding, for a Period of at least ten consecutive hours. In estimating ch confinements, the time the animals have been confined Without such rest on connecting roads from which they are received shall be computed, it being the intention to prevent vueir continuous confinement beyond twenty-eight hours, eXcept upon the contingencies herein stated. NEW CRIMINAL ACT.-Last Saturday the new Act to remove some defects in the administration of 'Jhe criminal law was issued. It was introduced by ■he Recorder of London in the House of Commons. Among the amendments effected, accused persons are to be asked if they desire to call witnesses their de- positions are to be taken, and if bound by recognizance ) to appear on the trial, their expenses may be allowed. Persons dangerously ill may be examined for or against a. Prisoner, and their depositions read. A governor ?? a prison may be required to produce a person in bis custody without a writ of habeas corpus. The Act, jjhich is not to extend to Ireland, will take effect on "le 1st of October. FRIGHTFUL DEATH.—A melancholy accident opened on Thursday, in last week. Some boys were parching for gulls' nests, on the craggy rocks which j^Und the Dorset coast, near East Lulworth. One of •he lads, fifteen years "of age, named Loveless, per- 1 Oelved a nest on the ledge of a rock, and while engaged taking the eggs the stones upon which he stood were Seen to give way, and the poor boy was precipitated a cliff 500 feet in height on to the rocks below. S& inquest has since been held on the body, and a ver- dict of Accidental death was returned. THE AUSTRALIAN PRESS.—If large, handsome, Well-edited newspapers, crowded with advertise- are any indication of advanced and liberal ivilization and of material prosperity, the colonies of I o^tralia and New Zealand cannot be very far behind JP? parent country in these respects. The very first which an English or American colony does, after siting fairly settled, is to publish a newspaper, be it I? eVer so sma^ a scale. Even the little settlement of JfiW Englanders at Jaffa has a weekly paper, though *«ere are not fifty persons to read it, and its entire Intents would scarcely fill a single column of The But the Australian press is almost metropo- *n importance. The daily papers of Melbourne Sydney rival those of London and New York in and appearance, and are not wanting in editorial th • an(l though the topics generally discussed in .^eir columns possess local interest only, yet it is the merest of a cmntry that is rapidly increasing in ealth, population, and international importance. TilE LATE ACCIDENT TO THE ATLANTIC CABLE. seems that throughout the spring the Atlantic Us 011 ^le American shore was beset with an un- bJ1 • anaount of ice disengaged from the Arctic regions A^, Angularly stormy weather, yet so well had the j lantic cables been carried along the deep trough of e lnity Bay that both remained intact, except in one ba ^11 a heftyy storm an iceberg drifted into the rt/and grounded about two miles and a half from the XJu>n at Heart's Content, resting, doubtless, on the cable and eventually crushing it. The Telegraph fj^ti'uction and Maintenance Company were re- peated to test the point at which the injury had cut-red, and to undertake the repair as quickly as § Mr. Latimer Clarke and Mr. Willoughby JUJ the electrical engineers, decided that the injury W occurred only at the point above indicated. The Chiltern was prepared and despatched on the yo. mst. under the command of Captain Edington, assisted in the Atlantic cable-laying expedition of Utirj ^ear> with a proper staff of competent persons ..er the superintendence of Mr. Clifford. The h0,rn went to the spot indicated, and within a few °ha the necessary repairs at a very trivial ™*geto the revenue of the cables. AI ^UFORNIA STYLE !—The Boston Courier has following:— lei *ong since a German was riding along Sansome street, allrhSacramento, when he heard a pistol shot behind him, whizzing of a ball near him, and felt his hat (w ,e- He turnod and saw a man with a revolver in his it 7, aPtl took eft' his hat and found a fresh bullet hole in rep];' PW you shoot at me?" asked the German. "Yes," ftier t^le other r^rty, "that's my horse it was stolen from j Jecently." You must be mistaken," said the German, fthe ?,owne<l the horse for three years." Well," said the taken "w^en come to look at him, I believe I am mis- | rp Excuse me, sir; won't you take a drink J" p* HE NEWLY-DISCOVERED ISLAND IN THE —It is a little remarkable that an island 01-11cl have been discovered on the route between 11 -Francisco and China just as the new line of Ame- Steamers is to be established there. The great Uij a,c^ to tlie establishment of that line is the great t0 Stn of the route—making it necessary for steamers Ij. c.arry so much coal as to have little room for cargo. as;> indeed, been confidently predicted that the pjJ^Prise must fail, from this cause if no other, tobe ] 5 'in d although the early trips of the Pacific gw.1* steamers have dispelled this apprehension to some Coj.6^' sagacious commercial men have by no means cov ere<l the problem as fully solved. But the dis- an island, on the very route followed, •, at can serve as a coaling station, puts the question striVS^ for ever- aff°r<^s> perhaps, the most illustration of that fundamental maxim of | tlie ^ea'- economy, that the supply will always equal I rout anc') to be found on record. As soon as that as 6 Tas to be opened nothing was so much wanted Plied11! J's'a:n(' 'i all(i forthwith the want has been sup- The Pacific Mail Company, it is said, will Wish a coal depdt there at once. DERBYSHIRE COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—An Was held at Langley Mil], in Derbyshire, on itay, on the bodies of three men, named John ■tyfir *>, James Grainger, and Robert Bircumshaw, who recently killed by an explosion of gas at the tt Mtt}nree Colliery, Derbyshire. The evidence showed -p men were at work in the pit in the night-time, L Sud lUr Daked lights and one lamp were burning. I there was aery of "Gas!" and before the I fri»Lf,e^°ws could effect their escape they were so r! y ™jure(i that they died. A fourth man, Stevenson, who was present at the time, but Set a-vvay before the explosion took place, stjtt i whiskers were nearly all singed off. It was CIOQT? ^at the cause_ of the accident was owing to a *ri the pit dividingthe stalls being left open, an Uajv,"Ration of gas being thereby induced. A lad °r>en Charles Carrington said he pushed the door OVf.v, ari1^ forgot to shut it. He had been told, how- dirj night before by a man named Pickard that it tiEb. ?0t matter about leaving the door open, as (W? i ^ould happen." This statement Pickard "iefio ^ut the coroner said he believed the lad's evi- A.ftB an<^ he strongly censured him for his conduct, l-eti, a lengthened investigation, the jury ultimately ^ed a verdict of Death from accidental causes." MB:E. ENGLISH AMBASSADORS IN PARIS.—The ^•ial Diplomatique has the follong 'jOM^ouncement that Lord Lyons will at once replace at thB 2wley in the beginning of July as English Ambassador Hot ^ou.rt of the Tiiileries is premature. Lord Cowley will flxod ? Post until after the solemn distribution of prizes Vrifip'1, the 1st of July, and at which will be present the the TT? ?F W"LES as President of the English Commission of. t>auv Reversal Exhibition. As to Lord Lyon9, he will accom- Sultan to London, and will preserve his character ihe a?sador to the Porte until the return of the Sultan to eHcl en*' -A-t>out the same period the Emperor of the ^ill proceed to some watering place, and will after- Set|t hiVls^ tl'e Camp of Chalons. Lord Lyons will not pre- fflii credentials until the return of his Majesty to Paris, 'en enter formally on his functions. TV 0JETJ WAY OF PETITIONING EOYALTY !—On ^t)cd y evening in last week, as the Emperor -rn was dri.vin? an °Pen carriage down the to ii Elys^es, in Paris, on his return from a visit 1 ^eaovf i Imperial at St. Cloud, and just as he WieU •^LVenue Marigny, an Arab, who had been ^°l(];n° on the spot for some time, started forward »avy UP a large envelope in his hand. The Emperor \fter m and beckoned him forward, but he could not IVo IlinriiDg for some time overtake the carriage. ¡ it th Qf the gendarmes who usually patrol the avenue On "our to keep the way clear, arrested the Arab. ^ai, Sl8n from the Emperor the carriage stopped, the VhatBCaoie toward, and deposited his petition, or fetir&HVer was' *n t'ie Emperor's hands. He then and the carriage drov# on to ttie Tufleries. I s 1Some groups were collected on the spot, hearing that something wrong was the matter. They dispersed when it was known that it was only a petitioner who took this mode of making his wishes known to his Majesty. AMERICAN PICKPOCKETS IN PARIS.—Two men, named Dolander and Gray, the former a native of Halifax, in Canada, and the latter of Albany in the United States, were tried on Saturday, at the Cor- rectional Tribunal, Paris, for picking pockets in the Place du Louvre. The men had been remarked by a police-officer going among the crowds assembled round each omnibus, and Dolander was at length detected with his hand in a person's pocket, while Gray was endeavouring to conceal the movements of his con- federate. The former was at once arrested, but Gray escaped. The police, however, learned the address of the men from a tailor's bill found in Dolander's pocket, and, having set a watch before the house, cap- tured Gray in the evening. He had then a sum of 2,705f. on him. Dolander, when questioned as to his object in hanging about the omnibus station, said that he was only admiring the ladies. The two men were now each condemned to three years' imprisonment and five years' surveillance by the police. LABOURING LORDS.—Six-and-a-half columns of Peers' Debates in Friday's Times Wonders will never cease. Their Lordships are evidently putting on a spurt," thanks to the poking up they have had lately. But mere talk is not the thing wanted from you, my Lords. It is more work. No doubt that will come. The Working-man is so decidedly in the as- cendant just now, that we need not be surprised one of these days to encounter him in force, even in the House of Lords I-Punch. GOOD WALKING.—A young English compositor, named Winch, employed in a printing office in Paris, happening in the course of conversation with some of his comrades to affirm that he could walk eighteen leagues in ten hours, and the statement being ques- tioned, he resolutely undertook to prove the truth of his declaration by performing the feat. Accordingly, a piece of road was carefully measured at Courbevoie, and the young pedestrian actually went over the dis- tance in the time allowed, with two minutes to spare. There was a little betting in the case, but no pre- paratory training whatever-simply forty-seven miles walked in an exceedingly short time. MURDER OF Two GIRLS.—The metropolitan police authorities have just received information of a murder having been committed in Switzerland, and of the supposed presence of the murderer in England. It appears that two young girls, who were left in charge at a roadside inn, near Basle, were murdered on the morning of the 11th instant, and that the murderer, whose object was plunder, had decamped with about 2001. in a leathern belt. The person suspected of havLig committed the crime is supposed to have come to England. He is described as being nineteen years of age, about five feet five inches high, of slender stature, and as having a noticeable scar on his nose. The police at the outports have also been informed of the crime. SUICIDE FROM POVERTY.—On Saturday an in- quest was held at the Royal Free Hospital, in Lon- don, relative to the death of John Perry, aged twenty- four, a tea-urn manufacturer, who died from the effects of poison on Thursday night in last week. Amelia Perry, the wife of the deceased, who appeared with dishevelled hair, owing to her having gone into hysterics through viewing the dead body of her hus- band, said she was fetched on Thursday night, and found her husband dead. He had previously asked her to take poison with him and die together, for he then should be happy. He had been out of work for nine months, and had been in the habit of drinking. She declined taking poison with him, and on Thursday afternoon last, when he was quite sober, he called upon her and asked her to kiss him. She did so twice, and then he said, Good bye, old girl." She believed he destroyed himself through poverty. Verdict, Tem- porary Insanity. COMPOUND RATING.—Being blown up by one's wife, and her sister chiming in!-Punc&. JOURNALISTIC FRATERNITY.—The Liberte (a Paris paper) has the following announcement:— On the first Monday of every month, during the continuance of the Exhibition, the members of the French and foreign press will dine I o-ether in the salons of the Cerclc Inter- national. The first of these dinners is fixed for Monday, the 2nd of July. The cost of the dinner will be ten francs. The writers and correspondents who desire to participate in these dinners are requested to leave their names and ad- dresses at the Carols International. DOG DAYS.—The dog law comes into operation in the middle of this month (says the New York Times). 4,819 dogs were taken into custody under this law last summer in New York, being caught perambulating the streets without a muzzle only 278 were redeemed within the twenty-four hours, and the rest were drowned illthe canine bath-tub at the foot of Twenty- sixth-street, East-river. That the disease called hydrophobia in dogs has no necessary connexion with hot weather is proved by the fact that it is entirely unknown in many countries where the temperature is much warmer than here, and where dogs are far more numerous. One thing, however, is certain—dogs are useless animals in cities, and are a nuisance, inde- pendent of their habit of occasionally running mad; and the best dog law would be one that imposed so high a tax on the owners of curs that few people would care to keep them, and those who did would see to it that the animals did not run at large, muzzled or un- muzzled. A ROYAL FAVOURITE.—The Paris correspon- dent of the Morning Star relates the following of the Czar of Russia Alexander had a favourite, who, if not the sharer of his Imperial couch, slept in his dressing-room, accompanied him wherever he might be during the day, and still more had the entries of the Council Chamber, to which even the Empress has not admittance. This favourite was a splendid deerhound, and was called "My Lord." When the Czar's visit to Paris was decided upon, the question arose whether "My Lord" was to accompany him. The suite made up its mÍld that looking after My Lord" would be more trouble than looking after two Czars, and accordingly hinted that change of air was bad for dogs. Reluctantly enough, Alexander consented to leave" My Lord" at his summer palace. Poor "Aly Lord" died of grief. The telegram that conveyed the news of his demise to the Elysee happened to meet the eye of the Czarewitch, who gave orders that the death of the favourite should by no means be revealed to his father. WHO WOULD BE A KING 1-Speaking of a state dinner given by the Emperor of Austria to the Ambassadors, &c., at the Palace of Buda, The Times says, It was a jour maigre, and besides his Majesty the King was bound by custom to fast the day before his being anointed and crowned." Pardon the anti- quity of the joke, and permit the remark, that his Majesty must have thoroughly realised what the Diet of Hung'ry is. If the day before the Coronation was a jour maigre, the day of the Coronation appears to have been Ilagyar. -Punch. THE GATHERING AT ROME.—"Bishops con- tinue to arrive in great numbers in our city," says the Semaphore of Marseilles. "Never within memory have been seen here so many prelates and priests pro- ceeding to Rome from all points of the globe. The Pausilippe steamer has left for Civita Veccliia, having on board Mgrs. Chalandon, Landriof, and Regnier of Aix, archbishops of Rheims and Cambrai. The latter prelate has succeeded in collecting in his extensive diocese funds for the maintenance of upwards of 200 Pontifical Zouaves." ATTEMPTED MURDER BY A FARMER.—A farmer named Reilly, residing at Lossam, about a mile from Athlone, made an attempt to murder both his wife and mother-in-law on Saturday morning. The circumstances of the case lead to the supposition i/n hf: insane. He rose about twelve o'clock, saddled his horse, and galloped about the country till three, when he returned, entered his wife's bedroom, and attacked her with a large kitchen tengs, which he used so savagely that he fractured her skull in several places, broke her right arm in two places, and also her jaw-bone. He then went to his mother-in- law s bed, and beat her with the tongs until broken in three pieces. She is not expected to live but some hopes are entertained that Mrs. Reilly's life may be saved. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT CONTSBOROUGH CASTLE.-LIeutennt. Brown, a young officer of the 3rd West York Militia, accompanied some ladies, the daughters of Mr. Nicholson, of Doncaster, to Conis- borough Castle, on Saturday afternoon. Of course the keep, as the more historical part of this picturesque ruin, was visited, and Mr. Brown ascended the walls of the keep by the frail, narrow, and always dangerous footway so well known to all who have visited the caswe-a stone ledge a few inches in breadth at the most, with no protection whatever OR the outside, and simply a light iroa hand-railing o* the inside, attached to the fast crumbling masonry of the tower. Mr. Brown slipped and fell down through the dungeon's mouth into the well. In his fall he came in contact with one of the young ladies, and she had a narrow escape of being precipitated with him into the dungeon. The unfortunate gentleman was got up from his perilous position, and removed to the inn at Conis- borough. Medical aid was promptly procured, but Mr. Brown's injuries were of such a nature as to make his recovery hopeless. His back and one of his legs were broken, and he was so seriously injured, that no hopes are entertained of his recovery. PRUSSIA DISSATISFIED !—Prussia is by no means satisfied with the interpretation which Lord Stanley and Lord Derby have given to the Luxem- burg Treaty. The North German Gazette had an article on the subject on Monday, in which it says in effect that the Earl of Derby and Lord Stanley have been humbugging the British Parliament in the speeches they have made. The Berlin paper insists that the guarantee given would involve the active in- terference of England in case of a violation of the neutrality of Luxemburg. A RELIC OF MARIE ANTOINETTE.—A very aged ecclesiastic (says the Moniteur de Soir) presented him self a week ago at the cathedral of Avignon, and asked if an old black chasuble, which he described minutely, was still in existence. The guardian replied affirma- tively, and at his request showed it him. The priest recognized it immediately, and with a sentiment of veneration, inexplicable for the sacristan, approached his lips and kissed it devoutly. Very much puzzled, the sacristan asked what remembrances this old worn- out ecclesiastical article of dress could recall. The priest then told him that this chasuble, which had formerly belonged to himself, the speaker, was made out of the last dress that Marie Antoinette had worn at the Conciergerie. He gave very cireutostantial details, an'l the authorities, haying made the strictest inquiries, believe the authenticity of this recital. SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT A RAILWAY CUTTING. -On Saturday afternoon an accident occurred on the new line of railway which is being made from Sheffield to Chesterfield. Near the Cricket-road, Sheffield, there is a deep cutting which goes under a part of the town, and for some time past a number of men have been actively engaged in making the tunnel. At the mouth of it there was a travelling crab or windlass, which was used to remove large blocks of stone as they came from the tunnel. The rails on which the crab ran were nearly at the top of the cutting, and they were supported by a number of wooden pillars. On Saturday afternoon four men, named Phelps. Davis, Wright, and Thompson, were on the crab, in the act of raising a stone, when one of the supports gave way, and the whole of one side of the rails fell into the cut- ting, a depth of between twenty and thirty yards. All of the men were seriously injured, either by the fall or by portions of the crab falling on them. They were removed to the infirmary, where Phelps died a few hours after his admission. The others are progressing favourably.
EPITOME OF NEWS, BRITISH AND…
EPITOME OF NEWS, BRITISH AND FOREIGN. A splendid new screw steam-yacht, the Sea Horse, has just arrived in Southampton Water, belonging to the Earl of Cardigan. It was built on the Clyde, and cost 12,0002. Ninety-six sheep, belonging to Mr. Burrough, of Douyatt Park Farm, near Chard, were recently hunted by three dogs into a hole, and died of suffocation. They were worth 300Z. The Commerce of Galveston, Texas, it is estimated, will reach 80,000,000 dols. this year. "The types made some funny reports of the an- niversary meetings. One of our city papers printed Dr. Beecher's name Dr. Buchu; and the sentence, 'The song of the Redeemer shall be heard throughout the land,'was made to read, I The song of the red man,' &c.—Boston paper. A wealthy citizen of Berlin has applied to the municipality of that town for a site on which to erect a statue of Francis Drake, as the introducer of the potato into Europe, and offers to subscribe 15,000 thalers (2,2501 ) towards the statue. The trial of Berezowski will be held at the Seine Assizes, on the 12th July. "Some of the leading volunteer officers are anxious to have a review of their force by the Sultan in Hyde Park. They say they can bring 80,000 men into the park, if the War Office pays 10,0001. to cover the cost of the arrange- mentf;Army and Navy Gazette. The Russian journal The Voice states that the Em- peror Napoleon, on taking leave of the Czar expressed a wish in favour of a general European disarmament. The same journal advocates the establishment of a permanent Amphictyonic Council, to which all serious disputes between the governments of Europe should be referred for decision. His Highness the Prince Imperial paid a visit to the Universal Exhibition in Paris, on Monday. During the two hours of the Prince's visit an enormous crowd constantly fallowed his footsteps. Under the heading Paris, June 24, the Moniteur says The Emperor and the Empress received in the course of the day his Royal Highness Prince Arthur of Great Britain and Ireland and his Excellency Earl Cowley, am- bassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of England and Ireland. The Prince was accompanied by two of his officers." A bronze money chest has lately been discovered in the excavations at Pompeii. The figures which are carved in bas-relief on the sides and lid are said to be of extraordi- nary beauty. A Providence (Rhode Island) writer has been visit- ing Chicago, and he gives it a bad character. He says that there the tailors' children go ragged, shoemakers' children barefoot, and though it is the greatest cattle market in the country, Chicago has the meanest beef. A volunteer, named Brett, who bad come from Bristol to attend the recent meeting of the ltifle Association in Edinburgh, was one day last week accidentally killed by the discharge of his own rifle. The Emperor of Austria has amneeted all persons guilty of political offences between March 13 and the amnesty granted on the 15th of December, 1866. "In consideration of his distinguished public services, Aristarchi Bey, ex-Governor of Sainos, now a member of the Grand Council, has received the title of Prince.' This distinction is the first, and as yet only one, of its kind in the Turkish official hierarchy, into the nomenclature of which the new title has been specially adopted for the occasion." -Levant Herald. The reports of the crops from Ireland are extremely promising. Hay is an abundant yield. The potatoes will be later than usual, but the weather leads to expectations of a large return and freedom from disease. Oats have suffered, and will be in many districts the single deficient crop. Wheat looks well, but there is not much ground under it. The green crops in Tipperary and generally throughout Munster are luxuriant. The great prize of four thousand pounds, open at the Paris Exhibition to the competition of institutions, public or private, created with a view to improve the physi- cal or moral condition of the working classes, remains unawarded. Smaller prizes have been awarded to Russia, Holland, Italy, and Spain. France gets nothing, nor does Germany—for political, among other reasons, the French papers say. England, when the prize was announced, did not compete. There is some stir among the Irish judges, says a correspondent, with respect to a question of patronage raised by a clause sought to be introduced by the three chief judges into the Law Courts Officers Bill. The object of the clause being to confine to the Lord Chief Justice (Whiteside) and the two other chief judges (Monahan and Pigot) the exclusive right of appointing the officers conneated with the courts, the puisne judges have had a meeting at the four courts, and have unanimously adopted a resolution protesting against the insertion of any such clause in the bill. A mysterious poisoning case is reported from Bever- ley, in Yorkshire. A youth of sixteen, who lodged with his father, a widower, at the house of a shopkeeper, named Nixon, was taken ill and was nursed by one of Mr. Nixon's nieces. to the course of a few days he died, and, poison being suspected, his body was opened, when it was found that he had been killed by repeated doses of tartar emetic. As to the person who administered the poison there is at present no clue whatever. The lad would have been entitled, when he came of age, to 1,5001., which sum will now go to an uncle at York. The Tennessee papers tell a story of the exploits of a negro who a short time since found a bag of gold in a hollow log. He converted his gold into five-twenties and had over 4,000 dols. He went to New Orleans, worked in a barber's shop, studied evenings, acquired a good knowledge of English and French, and in March last went to Europe as the attendant of an ex-Confederate general, and now turns up as the proprietor of a first-class American restaurant in the Paris Exposition. A farmer in the province of Limburg has hit upon a curious way of deriving profit from horseflesh. He keeps some 2,000 fowls, which are the fattest in the country, owing to the way in which he feeda them. Every week he buys two or three dead horses, which he outs up and boils. The troth is given to his pigs, and they seem to enjoy this novel soup very well, and thrive admirably upon it. The meat that has been used for the broth is hashed and given to the fowls, and what remains of the horses' carcase is sold to the sugar- refiners, who convert it iato lamp-black. The eggs of the fowls he sends over to England, realising six centimes a-piece for tfcera, and the fowls go the Name way when they have done laying eggs. One clothing firm in Boston did a business of over 2,000,000 dols. last year. Among the fHes to be given on the occasion of the visit of the Sultan to Paris is a grand review, to take place at the camp of Chalons. It is said that the sovereign of Tur- key will spend a day at Corsica on his way to France. Much enthusiasm is evinced in the Army at the prospect of the grand review her Majesty has proposed to witness in person in Hyde Park next month. Miss Burdett Coutts has signified her intention to subscribe 100Z. towards building a new quay and enlarging the harbour for the fishermen and pilots at Mousehole. Neither of the English Archbishops voted on Mon- day night in the division on Lord Russell's motion on the Irish Churels. The Archbishop of Dublin voted against the latter clause, which was struck out, as did the Bishops of Bangor, Cork, 4w., Down, &c., Gloucester and Bristol, Lincoln, Llandaff, and Ossory, &c. Thus, only two English and two Welsh prelates took sides in the division. An European congress of veterinary surgeons will be held at Eurich from the 2nd to the 8th of September, 1867. The cattle plague will be the principal subject of discussion." British Medical Journal. An English Volunteer has signed for two years as a Zouave in the Papal service. Of course he will lose pay and promotion in the English volunteer army during the time, and be forgotten when he returns with his honours thick upon him. It has been arranged that the Lord Mayor of London, the Sheriffs, and the Under-Sheriffs, shall pay a State visit to Paris. They will leave London on the 29th inst., so as to reach the French capital on the 1st proximo. The Duke of St. Albans has sent 501, to the Mayor of Nottingham to be expended in treating the poor of the borough, as a recognition of the kind feeling expressed towards himself and the Duchess on the occasion of his marriage. The Czar has presented to Count Bismarck the order of St. Andrew, and to General von Roon the order of Alexandernewski, both set in diamonds. The first annual meeting of the Irish Rifle Associa- tion, for match shooting, commenced at Dublin on Monday. The competitors included several English volunteers and officers in the army. The shooting was considered good, even at the long ranges. The Bishop of Durham has removed the name of the Hon. and Rev. Francis Grey, Rector of Morpeth, from the list of rural deans in his diocese, because he expressed approval of the Bishop of Salisbury's charge. Some days ago he inhibited Dr. Morrell, the Coadjutor Bishop of Edin- burgh, from preaching in his diocese because he used an invocation of the Trinity instead of a collect before his sermon at St. Oswald's Church.Pall Hall Gazette. M. Thiers greatly enraged M. Rouber the other day, in the Salle des Pas Perdus, He said, "Napoleon III. may certainly boast of having brought out two great statesmen." M. Rouber was delighted; he was one, and M. Billault the other. But M. Thiers drily went on, "Bismarck and Cavour." It is reported that a farmer near Erie, Pa, bought several barrels of spoiled sausages for the purpose of using them as manure, and put a link into each hill of corn Before the next day, every dog that lived in a radius of four or five miles of the field had been there digging sausages. The corn came up a little quicker than the farmer antici- pated or wished! Mr. George Cruikshank has just completed for Dr. Sheridan Muspratt a picture called "Mother's Love." The tale that gave the idea to Mr. Cruikshank appeared in Black- wood's Magazine more than forty years ago. It was from the pen of Professor Wilson, and was published under the title of Hannah Lamond's Bairn." Intelligence was received in Liverpool, on Monday, to the effect that the ship Star of the Teign, had been burnt at sea on the 12th of April, in lat. 21 S., Ion. 30. The Star of the' Teign left Liverpool on the 14th February for Guayaquil. The crew was taken off by the Satellite, bound for Callao, but subsequently transferred to the Nicholas Prousseu, and landed at Buenos Ayres on the 6th ef May. Prince and Princess Christian are about to make a trip to Schleswig-Holstein via Brussels and Berlin, in order to visit the Prince's father, the Grand Duke. Their Royal Highnesses will remain abroad for about two months. A former slave of a destitute lady in Baltimore has given his mistress a comfortable home. An immense peach crop is expected in Delaware- perhaps 2,000,000 of baskets. In New York twenty drinking fountains are to be erected by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals. They are of iron, ornamentally designed in three departments—the upper for the public, the middle one for horses, and the lower one for dogs. It is reported that four heavy failures have occurred in Chicago, owing to the decline in corn. The Emperor Napoleon has presented the Viiiver- sity at South Bend, Indiana, with a splendid telescope, valued at 25,000f. It bears the inscription in French:- "Presented by his Imperial Majesty Napoleon III. to the Catholic University of Notre Dame du Lec, Indiana, United States." The Archbishop of York has laid before the House of Lords a bill striking a blow at pew-rents. It provides per- mission and authority for the legal surrender to the Eccle- siastical Commissioners of all rights in pews in district churches where persons are so disposed, so that in future they may-be subject as pews of ancient parish churches. Mr. Wm. Henry Whitbread, of Soutbill-park, Bed- fordshire, died last Friday. The lamented gentleman was in his 73rd year. Queen Mary of Hanover ha.s received peremptory directions from her Ro, al husband to remain on the soil of his former kingdom until sent away by the Prussians. Last week an alarming accident occurred at Copley- hill Junction on the main line of the Great Northern Rail- way Company, Leeds. The engine of a goods train ran off the line, and fell down an almost perpendicular embank- ment thirty feet in depth, dragging eight or nine trucks after it. The driver and firemen were thrown from the engine and so seriously injured that their lives are despaired of. A contemporary, summing the income of Mdlle. Nilsson from various sources, says, "I suppose Mdlle. Christine Nilsson's income whilst in England will be at least 1.200Z. a month, which is half as much again as the Lord Chancellor gets, and three times the income of a puisne judge." An alarming accident occurred a few days back in the Casino, at Marseilles. Two American gymnast's (brothers) named Howard, were going through their performance, hang- ing by their hands to a ladder fixed horizontally near the ceiling, when one of them made a spring, with the intention of clasping the other round the body, but missed his grasp, and fell from an immense height into the orchestra. Although seriously bruised, none of his bones were broken, and he is said to be out ot danger. The clothes of the gentleman whose melancholy death by drowning in a boat off Spithead was reported last week have been identified by his mother, a French lady, named De Bas. It appears that the deceased only arrived at Southsea on the day prior to his death. He left his lodgings at an early hour, tell ng the landlady that he was going to bathe. Up to Sunday afternoon the body had not been picked up, and a reward of 10Z. has been offered for its recovery. An anonymous donor has just forwarded a sum of 16,000f. to M. Asselin, Mayor of Douai, for the foundation of some charitable work at that gentleman's choice. The mayor has decided on investing the money in rente, and applying the interest to the relief of needy families, and giving savings-banks books, with a first deposit, to deserving pupils in the municipal schools. Mr. Read, in the House of Commons, on Monday night, wanted to know why it is unlawful for carters in the country to drive waggons with reins from their carts, whilst it is lawful for carters in London to do so. Mr. Hardy re- plied that such is the state of the law on the subject, but could not explain to Mr. Read why such an absurd law ia suffered to exist. The Minister of Agriculture has addressed a very clever circular to the mayors of France, enjoining them to punish severely all persons caught in the act of netting, trapping, &c., small birds, whose valuable services as destroyers of insects he sets forth, demonstrating by statistics the utility of these humble members of the feathery genus. A salmcn, weighing over 561bs., was taken in a net on the 14th inst., in the Wye, about four miles below Here- ford. A fish of this great weight has never before been taken in that river withiillliving memory. The president, secretary, and other officials of the Operative Tailors Society were brought up at Marlborough- street police-court, in London, on Monday, to answer a charge of conspiring to prevent the master tailors from ob- taining workmen. The chief allegations against the defen- dants were that they had established pickets, and had inter- fered with workpeople employed by certain masters. After hearing a good deal of evidence, the magistrate committed the defendants for trial. The president and the secretary were ordered to find bail. The others were allowed to'go at large on their own recognisances. Mr. JefEerson Davis was lately serenaded at Niagara. He expressed his thanks in the following speech :—" Gentle- men, I thank you sincerely for the honour you have this evening shown me. It shows that true British manhood to which misfortune is always attractive. May peace and pros- perity be for ever the blessing of Canada, for she has been the asylum of many of mv friends, as she is now an asylum for myself. I hope that Canada may for ever remain a part of the British Empire and may God bless you all, and the British flag never cease to wave over you." At the Maidstone police-court, on Monday, Henry Roots, a labourer, was charged on suspicion with having caused the death of a woman unknown, whose body was found in a wood near Stoney Bridge, in Trotterscliffe parish, a short time ago. Evidence was taken at great length, showing that the prisoner was on the road near to the woman, that he went up to her, and that a struggle had taken place near to where the body had been fownd, and some hair similar in colour to the prisoner's had been found at the spot. The evidence, however, was not at all con- clusive as to the guilt of the prisoner, and he was discharged the magistrates remarking that the paliOll had only dona tfceix d*ty in taking tefe COJWM they had d«*a. Cardinal Cullen has passed through London on Ida way to Rome. He intends returning to Ireland not late than the middle of August. The Duke of Devonshire has given an invitation te the Belgian riflemen to visit Chatsworth. Her Majesty's ship Galatea, having Prince Alfred on board, finally left Gibraltar on the 11th instant, on a cruise round the world, and will be absent from England a year. Sir Morgan George Crofton, Bart., was found dead in his bed at his residence at Leamington, on Monday morning. The deceased was the third baronet. He was born in 1788, and was, consequently, 79 years old. He is succeeded by his son, Denis, who was born in 1819. At Bennington, Vermont, recently, there was a trial of speed between a walker and a fast horse of that place, in which a man was to walk a quarter of a mile in less time than the horse trotted one-half a mile. The first heat waa won by the horse, but the man took the next two with case in 1. 23 and 1. 55 It is said that the rejection of the lodger franchise will be moved in the Lords, and that a majority against the clause is expected. The marriage of Prince Paul Demidoff with the Princess Mestcherski has just taken place at Paris, at the Russian Church, with great pomp. The young lady, it is known, had been greatly admired by the Grand Duke, heir to the throne of Russia, before his marriage with the Princess Dagmar, and it is the Emperor Alexander himself, report says, who brought about this union bet ween Prince Demidoff and the Princess. There are eight theatres in New York, and the Tribune says: It is, we think, rather a remarkable fact that at the present time, in the city of New York, there is not a single dramatic performance given which a person of taste and culture can witness with entire satisfaction." The first Catholic convent in Western Massachusetts is being erected at Chicopee. A new fashion has sprung up in Paris. The ladies are taking to drink bitter beer, and they are in raptures about it. To drink pale ale is chic. It is quite the mode now at a refreshment-stall to ask a lady whether she will take a glass of beer or an ice. Beer, monsieur, beer. It is so good, and it is so chic to driuk it." They will alter their minds in London, where it is not chic but nux vomica. A school teacher in a Texas town was grossly insulted by a man, who told her, at the same time, that it she had any friends to avenge the insult she could send them to him. The lady replied that she was able to protect her- self, and, drawing a pistol, shot the man, killing him on the spot. The forgery of bank notes is developing into a trade. London forms the head-quarters of these commercial banditti, and they forge in turn the notes of nearly every country in Europe. They are photographed, and the photography is so perfect that the most practised bank clerk can only discover the fact by a close examination of the paper. This is the weak point of forged notes. As there is only one bank note paper factory in England, it is impossible to get an exact fac-simile of the real article. The other morning, while a railway parcels' van was proceeding along Moorgate-street, in London, a packet of copper rifled pistol cartridges fell out on the street, and several exploded with a loud report, which caused great con- sternation in the neighbourhood. No one was hurt. It is said that the Czar gave 2,0001. to the servants of the ElysCe, in Paris. We regret to state that it has been deemed advisa- ble to postpone for another week the removal of H.R.H. the Princess of Wales to the country, or even the taking of car- riage exercise. This is. happily, not on account of any relapse, but from the difficulty of arranging any apparatus which will prove secure against the danger of a renewal of the inflammation. "-Globe,. A man named Stovey is now living at Milborne Port, near Sherborne, in Dorsetshire, wla, fought at the battle of Waterloo). He is seventy-seven years of age, has had three wives and ten children by each wife. All the children are alive. Stovey's birthday is the 18th of June, Waterloo day. The present intended to be presented to the Empress of the French by the Sultan is a magnificent set of Turkish coffee cups mounted in diamonds of L,000 carats weight. For the Emperor, there are eight beautiful Arab horses. An accident of a most lamentable and heartrending nature took place on Monday, in Liverpool, at the brewery of Air. Lane, Oriel-street. It appears that one of the men named William Carr was engaged at a large mash-tub con- taining boiling hot liquor some five or six feet in depth, when he lost his balance and fell into the scalding liquid. His fellow-workmen hastened to his assistance, and after considerable exertion got him out, but he was so frightfully scalded that he expired shortly after the occurrence. In the new Criminal Act which has justbeen printed, an important amendment has been made in respect to jurors in civil and criminal proceedings. Hitherto only wit- nesses were allowed to make a declaration who, on religious scruples, objected to take an oath, but this is now extended to all jurors in civil and criminal proceedings. The law was amended at the instance of the Recorder of London. There are no female jurors, but the statute declares that such per- son may be permitted "to make his or her" solemn affirma- tion. A sad boating accident has occurred in Kerry. Captain Townsend Blennerhassett, of Killoi-gliii, his ivife, and some of the young members of his family, were cru aiig in a sailboat on the river Luane, when a seaman named CorteUoe fell overboard, and being unable to swim, sank. Captain Blennerhassett plunged in after him, and diving brought him up, and struggled powerfully to sustain him. The lather ol Cortelloe, however, who was steering, in his Agitation at the scene, allowed the yacht to drift away. The two dro wuiag men rose and sank several times and eventually some fishing boats coming up succeeded in taking on board the body of Captain Blennerhassett, but he was found to be dead. The seaman's body has not been recovered.
THE IvIARI{ETS.
THE IvIARI{ETS. MARK-LANE, MONDAY The supply of English wheat on sale here to-day was very moderate. Owing to the fineness of the weather and the good importation of foreign wheat and flour, the trade was very quiet, with signs of depression. No quotable change took place in prices, but a downward movement was de- cidedly apparent. With foreign wheat the market was moderately supplied. The trade was in a most inactive state for all descriptions, and very little business was transacted. The quotations were without material variation, as compared with Monday last. Floating cargoes of grain were in but moderate request, at late prices. The supply of barley on sale was very moderate. For grinding and distilling qualities there was a fair, but by no means active demand, at last Monday's currency. Malt was dull, and being in con- siderable supply was rather pressed for sale. Hence prices had rather a drooping tendency. Oats, of which there was an incrensed supply on offer, were less active. Russian qualities, ex ship, were about 6d. per quarter cheaper other- wise prices exhibited no change. Beans, the supply of which was very moderate, sold slowly, but at full prices'. Peas sup- ported late rates. The market was scantily supplied, yet sales progressed slowly. The demand for flour was ion a sluggish state, at late rates. In the seed market nothing of importance transpired, and no change took place in prices. Cakes were in moderate demand, at late quotations. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. —MONDAY. About an average supply of foreign stock was on sale here to-day, in very middling condition. As regards the primest descriptions of beef and mutton, the trade was steady, at full prices. Inferior qualities, however, sold slowly, at about late rates. The arrivals of beasts fresh up from our own grazing districts were to a very moderate extent but their general quality and condition were tolerably prime. The receipts from Scotland were confined to about 90 head. The attendance of butchers was again limited, and the beef trade was slow. Prices, however, were firm, and, in some instances were rather higher than on Monday last. Prime Scots and crosses realised 5s. 4d. to 5s. 6d. per Sib. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire we received 1,520 Scots, shorthorns, and crosses; from other parts of England, in- cluding Lincolnshire, 7?Q of various breed's and from Scot- land, 91 Seots and crosses. The supply of sheep in the pens was very moderate. The quality of the stock was only middling. For nearly all breeds there was a steady demand, at the full prices of Monday last. Prime Downs and hali- breds realised 5s. 4d. per 81b. Lambs were in good supply but prime descriptions were dearer, and realised 7s. per Sib1 Middling qualities, however, were very dull, and were chiefly disposed of at 6s. 4d. per 81b. The quotation fot lambs remains at 6s. to 7s. per 81b. Calves, the supply 01 which was very moderate, moved off slowly, at late rates —top price 5s Gd. per 81b. There was only a moderate de- mand for pigs, at late rates. POTATOES. The markets are fairly supplied with potatoes, being chiefly new produce, and in fair average condition. The trade, on the whole, is steady, on the following terms. The imports into London last week comprised 9,555 packages from Dunkirk, 55 from Jersey, 511 from Lisbon, and 3,862 from Rotterdam. Yorkshire flukes, 140s. to 180s. ditto Regents, 120s. to 140s. Liucolns, 120s. to 140s. Scotch, 120s. to leos.; foreign, 100s. to 110s. HOPS. The present genial weather is producing a most beneficial effect upon the hop plant, and accounts from the various plantations report steady progress. Fresh attacks of fly have been noticed in some districts, but, on the whole, we consider there is a fair prospect of a full average crop. There is little business passing, as buyers are unwilling to increase their stocks, nevertheless late rates are fully maintained. Mid and East Kent, 71. 10s. to 91. 10s. Weald of Kent, 71. 5s. to Sl. is. Sussex, 71. 5s. to 82 Farnham 81 to 91 log; Yearlings, St. to 61. 10s.; Olds, 2L 10s. to il. WOOL. At the public sales of colonial wsel there has been more competition amongst buyers, and large quantities have chauged hands at the decline already noticed. For English wool there is very little passing, but prices are not quotably lower. The importation into London last week consisted ol 2 bales from Aalborg, 1,407 Algoa Bay, 1 Antwerp, 41 Dun- kirk, 2 Jamaica, 110 Kurrachee, 3,387 Lyttletom, 2,160 Mel- bourn8^S2 Ode^^440^at Petersburg and Crowtadt,