Flintshire Observer Mining Journal and General Advertiser for the Counties of Flint Denbigh

THE FINANCES OF CANADA, The Canadian Minister of Finance on Saturday laid the public accounts before Parliament. They show that the sum of 6,476,000 dols. were paid, during the year ending last June, on the Capital Account, and of this sum 4,443,000 dols. were paid on account of railways, 1,334,000 dols, on account of canals, and 452,030 dols. on account of graving docks. In addi- tion, the sum of 2,700,000 dols. was paid out for sub. aidies to 13 railways, which availed themselves of the aid offered under the Railway Subsidies Act. Loans were granted for the improvement of rivers and harbours to the amount of 3,150,000 dols., bringing the total of the above expenditure up to 12,326,000 dols. The amount of the Public Debt redeemed during the fiscal year was 3 212,000 dols., and i investments on account of Sinking Funds amounted to 1.60(1,000 dols. The deposits in the Govern- ment Savings Banks increased during the year by 4,105,000 dols., making the amount standing to the credit of the depositors in these savings banks 37,174,000 dols. The outcome of the year's trans- action is that the ne', debt at the date given last amounted to 223,160,000 dols., being an increase of 26;000,000 dols., due largely to the expenditure in- curred in the suppression of the Riel rebellion, as also to expenditure tor public works, bonuses to rail- ways, and a payment of 10,000,000 dols. to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company in lieu of its lands. The gross debt amounted to 273,000,000 dols. Against this there are assets valued at 50,000,000 dols. The money order business during the fiscal year amounted to 17,000,000 dole., and the circulation of Dominion notes to 18,000,000 dole. The receipts from the Customs were 19,374,000 dols., and from Excise 5,853.000 dols. The total receipts from all sources was 33,177,000 dols. The receipts from the public works, including the Government railways, were the largest since the Confederation. The total receipts show an increase of 400,000 dols. over the previous year. The expenditure for the year amounted to 39,000,000 dols., being an increase of 6,000,000 dole. over the previous year, the greater part of whinh 111 due to expenditure on account of the North-West rebellion. A falling off of 600,000 dels, in the receipts from Excise and losses in the working of the Inter-Colonial and Prince Edward Island Railwey were the -ther contributory causes of the deficit. Full details of the expenditure will be given when the report of the Auditor General is presented. The address in reply to the speech of the Governor General ba. been adopted without amendment, after a brief debate.

BUTTER ADULTERATION. The aaalyst for the county of Kent has submitted a report to the finanC6 committee of the Court Gf General Sessions, on the subject of the adulteration of butter in which he says that during the past quarter 32 samples were examined, and seven found to be adulterated with foreign fat, with a range of from 20 to 92 per cent., giving a mean rate 54-25 per cent. of adulteration. The analyst added, u The main fact alluded to in my last report continues to hold good, namely, that butter is "largely falsified by the admixture with foreign fat, and not, as was formerly the case, by complete substitution. This is a fraud much more difficult of detection by the analyst, and impossible to the ordinary public." )

A KING WITH A THOUSAND WIVES. The following intelligence concerning Emin Pasha has been brought to Zanzibar by a Somali named Abdullah, who has passed through the Unyoro, Uganda, and Massai countries: "Emin Bey is esta- blished at Wadelai, to the north of the Albert Nvanza, where he has two small steamers, in which he navigates the White Nile and the lake. In November last, or four months later than the date of the news which Dr. Junker received from Emin Pasha, the latter paid a visit to his friend Kabrega, Kiog of Unyoro, six days' journey from Uganda, Emin Pasha was accompanied by 17 officers, of whom 10 were Egyptians, three Greeks, and four negroes, and by Dr. Vita-Hassan. He asked M'wanga, King of Uganda, to receive him and his suite, and the King replied that he was willing to receive him, but without the Egyptians. Emin Pasha consequently went to see the King, accompanied only by Dr. Vita-Hassan and three Greek officers. He remained seventeen days with the King, but when he asked permission to pasa through his territory to reach Tabora (Unyanyembo), whence he could easily have reached the coast and subsequently Zanzibar, ths King refused, and ordered his visitor to return by the way he came, declaring that he desired to have nothing more to do with Europeans. Emin Pasha only undertook the journey to Uganda in the hope of making it the first stage in a journey to the coast. M'wanga, King of Uganda, is a youth of eighteen, who has no less than a thou- sand wives. He assumes sometimes the Turkish, sometimes the Arab costume, but not unfrequeutly reverts to the simplicity of native usages. Emin Pasha's pla-is in this direction being thus frus- trated, he returned immediately to Unyoro, considering himself fortunate in being allowed to escape thus easily. He remained there 11 days with King Kabrega, returning then to Wadelai. King Kabrega, who has throughout been friendly to Emin Pasha, counselled the latter to en- deavour to reach Kabora by way of Karagw6, but owing to the death of Makoko, king of that country, who was friendly to Europeans, and the fact that his successor was inimical to white men. Emin Pasha did not risk the journey and remained at Wadelai. Abdullah further states he met the messengers sent from Zanzibar by the British and Italian Consuls and by the Sultan of Zanzibar to Emin Pasha to inform the latter of Mr. H. M. Stanley's relief expedition, the route via the Congo which it would follow, and other particulars. These messengers were, however, de- tained in Unyanyembo by King Kassikki, who did not appear well disposed in the matter.

HOW BIG GUNS ARE BUILT. Although we have for some time spent something like a million a year on big guns, it cannot, argues the Echo, be said that we have obtainod value for our money, unless the experience gained by recurring failures is valued in the balance-sheet. We make or purchase guns which stand the test, and are passed as satisfactory, but, every now and then, we hear that one has failed, sometimes in such a manner as to cause serious losa of life. The facts are well known- too well known-and there is at last a growing con- viction that the system on which big guns are built here is altogether wrong, and that, probably, the metal itself is not the best that could be used. All modern guns of the heavy type are what is known as built up, as distinguished from solid castings, and it is a consolation to know that in the matter of failures we are no worse off than our neigh- bours and rivals; but considering the free hand which is practically allowed to the Ordnance Department, we ought by this time to have achieved a better result. The Americans have recently voted a considerable sum of money for arming the new vessels which are to be added to the United States navy but the au- thorities are in doubt which system to adopt-the British, the German, or the French, for each has often ended in failure, and it is certain that the construction of big guns is not yet perfected. Steel of different qualities has been tried, because it is at once the cheapest and the strongest metal but in the case of built-up guns, the strains occasioned by firing tend to the destruction of the gun, weakening it by degrees, until ultimately it bursts. The exploding powder heats the interior, and consequently causes the inner tube and the adjacent coils to expand in a greater degree than the outer rings. On cooling and consequent contraction, great resistance is offered by the friction of the coils, and in the course of time the built-up gun is disinte- grated it no longer holds together as one piece, and becomes only so strong as its weakest part. If firing is persisted in the time arrives when the gun bursts. Built-up guns are of necessity very costly, and it becomes a question whether, all things considered, it would not be better to return to cast-iron or cast- steel on the compressed system, and so obtain guns which are at least cheaply made and in which the metal is homogeneous on the parts integral. When aluminium or an aluminium bronze can be had at a cheap rate the days of steel for guns will be numbered, and if a Government department could possibly cut itself adrift from red-tape we might soon be in possession of the very best guns it is possible to make, and that, too, at a moderate expense. It is not unlikely, however, that the Americans will show us the way to do it.

FIVE HUNDRED MILES THROUGH ICE The steamship Germania, Captain Thomas, has arrived at Baltimore, from Newport, England, with tinplate and iron. Her bows are stove in by contact with the ice through which she had to steam for four days, running the gauntlet of icebergs and floes all that time. The logbook contains a chapter of Arctic experience. fhe Germania left Newport on Feb. 25, and on March 5, at eleven o'clock in the morning, she suddenly brought up in ice. Her position then was 48109 north, 46'12 west. The weather was thick and snow was falling heavily. The course was shifted from west by south to south-west by south. At one o'clock p.m. the weather cleared, and the ship was found surrounded with ice. The engines were slowed, and at times stopped to escape collision with the ice, which was crowning thicker and heavier. At 3 p.m. the course was altered to due south, and one hour later the weather got thick, and snow and fog en- veloped the sea. Not a particle of clear waLer was to be seen, and at midnight the Eame conditions pre- vailed. At this time the towering outlines of icebergs, looking ghostly in their parian whiteness, began to loom and threaten a worse barrier to the progress of the vessel. With greatdifficulty could the steamer be steered clear of the frowning monuments of ice that rose high and majestic above the insignificant field ice that covered the sea. Sunday opened with the same con- dition of things, but made more trying by hail and snow pelting down on the iron decks of the Germania. Ice thickening, and no clear water offering as a haven for the vessel, precautions were taken to protect her from the battering of the frigid foes without. At four a.m. more large bergs confronted the steamer, and between and around them were hundreds of smaller ones, which made the work of clearing the more dangerous ones more difficult to do. The course was again changed south south-east and west to avoid collision. Four hours later the carpenter reported the forepeak filling with water, and examination re-vealed that one of the bowplates had been started by the blows from the ice, allowing the water to flow in freely. In three hours the forepeak was full of water to the level of the out- side. The bulkhead gate was carefully closed, and all the crew at once employed getting up timbers to support the bulkhead, and prevent it giving way by the pressure of the water inside. The top- gallant-yard and shifting-boards were cut up for the purpose. Noon on Sunday found the ice thin- ner, but hundreds of small bergs dotted the sea, form- ing an archipelago of small islands. A heavy squall set in from the north-west, and the Germania rolled violently. The water in the forepeak was forced by the ship's motion into the forecastle, filling the berths of the men, saturating their clothes, and driving them out. Captain Thomas distributed them in the cabin, chart, and engine-rooms, and wheel-house. He speaks in high terms of the men -during their trials, made worse by the almost total .destruction of their effects. At 8 p.m. the vessel was again surrounded with ice, without a clear spot to be seen. At 6 a.m. Monday the ice became scattered, but bergs larger than those seen during the two pre- yioucdaya rose up before the mariners. They averaged from two miles loag and one hundred feet high down to a quarter mile long and twenty feet high. From that tncie till Tuesday morning the Germania went ahead fact, but at times had to change her course and ) follow the leads that opeced through the ice. The sea and wind moderated when the Germania had com- pleted her trip of five hundred miles through ice. On March 11 and 12 the Germania was struck by a heavy northerly gale, accompanied by heavy seas. Boat covers, ateam winch pipes, and hatch combings were carried &way or started.

A CLERGYMAN was r". ntly telling a marvellous story, when his little girl said: Now, 'pa, is that really true, or is it just prss^biDg ?

WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will (dated Dec. 13, 1884), with a codicil (dated Oct. 7, 1886), of the Right Hon. Henry Edwyn Chandos, Earl of Chesterfield, J.P., D.L., late of Holme Lacy, Herefordshire, who died on Jan. 21 last, at St. Leonards-on-Sea, was proved at the Here- ford District Registry on the 8th ult. by the Right Hon. Dorothea, Countess of Chesterfield, the widow, and the Right Hon. Edwyn Francis Scudamore Stan- hope, Earl of Chesterfield, the son, the executors, the value of the personal estate amounting to over £ 13,000. The testator bequeaths £ 100 to the Hera- ford Infirmary; an annuity of X350, and a legacy of £ 2500 to his wife; the deer in the park at Holme Lacy, his Mary Queen of Scots cameo, and the silver vase presented to him by the citizens of Hereford, to devolve as heirlooms with the mansion house at Holme Lacy and there are a few other bequests. Portions of L4000 are charged on part of his real estate in favour of each of his fire younger sons. The Holme Lacy estate he devises to the use of his eldest son, the present earl, for life, with remainder to his first and other sons successively according to seniority. The residue of his real and personal estate he gives to his said son, Edwyn Francis Scudamore. He declares that the provision made for his wife and children by his will is in addition to that made for them by settle- ment. The will (dated May 29, 1886), with three codicils (dated May 29 and Dec. 1 following) of Mr. William Brough Phillimore, late of No.7, Hyde-park-gardens, and of Kendalls Hall, Hertfordshire, who died on Feb. 5 last, was proved on the 2nd inst. by Montague Bertie Herbert, Robert Milnes, and Willie Sheldrake, the executor?, the value of the personal estate amount- ing to upwards of S367,000. The testator bequeaths £1000 as an additional endowment for the new church at Radlett, Hertfordshire X300 to the poor of Rad- lett, Cobden-hill, and Folly, Hertfordshire, to be di- vided as his executors may think best; E300 to the Hospital for Consumption, Brompton; £ 200 each to the Ventnor Consumption Hospital. St. George's Hos- pital, Hyd e-pirk- corner; St. Mary's Hospital, Pad- dington; the Royal Hospital for Incurables, Putney University College Hospital, Middlesex Hospital, King's College Hospital, and the Home for Lost Dogs, Battersea; £100 to the National Lifeboat In- stitution X40,000 to his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Phillimore, if she survives him 12 months X1000, and an annuity of X1500, charged on the family Kensington estate, to his cousin Anna Jane Julia We"t; S5000 to Mrs. Charlotte Sheldrake; XIO,000, upon trust, for each of his wife's nephews and nieces-Anna Charlotte Sheldrake, Willie Shel- drake, Henry James Sheldrake, Edward Nodin Shel- drake, and Ernest Sheldrake; £ 2000 and an annuity of £100 to his butler, William Henry Keeping, whom he thanks for his devoted services; and numerous and considerable legacies to relatives, executors, late and present servants, and others. The plate and pic- tures at No. 7, Hyde Park-gardens (with some trifling exceptions) are left to his wife, for life, and then to go as heirlooms with Kendalls; his said residence, with the furniture and the remainder of his effects, to his wife; and a freehold messuage in Bond-street to his cousin Captain William Phillimore, R.A. Ken- dalls and his Hertfordshire estate he gives to his children equally, and in default of children he settles the same on his cousin Sir Walter Phillimore, Bart.; the furniture, pictures, plate, and effects at Kendalls are to go as heirlooms therewith. The Kensington family estates he leaves to his wife, for life, and at her death settles them in the same manner as he has settled his Hertfordshire estates. The residue of his real and personal estate he also leaves, upon trust, for his wife, for life, and then for his children equally; in default of children he settles such residue on his cousin, the Rev. George Phillimore. The will (dated Feb. 11, 1874) and three codicils of Mr. Christopher Bushell, J.P., late of Hinderton, in the county of Chester, who died on Feb. 18 last, were proved on the 1st inst. by Lis sons, Charles J. Bushell and Reginald Bushell, and his sons-in-law, James Rankin, M.P., and G. Harris Lea, the executors, the gross value of the personal estate being upwards of £ 119,750. The testator bequeaths to his wife hi carriages, horses, furniture and household effects, and also certain moneys standing to her credit in his private ledger, and he further provides for her by a rent-charge, for life, out of his Hinderton and New Hall estates, and by the income of a capital sum to be set aside out of his residuary estate. He be- queaths to bis niece Ellen, the wife of the Venerable Archdeacon Gore, the legacy of £1000 free of duty, and to his other niece the income of X1500 for life. His sculpture, pictures, plate, books, &c., he leaves, in trust, for his wife, for life, with remainder to his children as she may appoint, and in default of appointment for his children equally. He gives his wife the option of occupying for her life his mansion home at Hinderton, in the county of Chester, with the stables, gardens, and land held therewith. His New Hall estate, in the county of Chester, he devises to his eldest son, Charles John, for life, and then to his sons Reginald, Alfred, Frederick, and Harold, successively, for life, with remainder to his eldest son in tail. The Hinderton estate (after the decease of his wife), and also his property in Liverpool, and all the residue of his real and personal estate, he leaves to be divided among his said sons and his daughters in equal shares. The will (dated Feb. 6, 1886), with three codicils (dated Oct. 21 and Nov. 25 following), of Mrs. Eliza Maria Beaumont, late of Kenwood-park, Sheffield, who died en Dec. 6 last, was proved at the Wakefield District Registry, on the 15th ult., by Thomas Elliott Beaumont, the husband, Miss Annie Monerieffe Rundle, the sister, the Yen. John Edward Blakeney, D.D., and William Nixon, the executors, the value of the personal estate amounting to upwardsof £ 116,000. The testatrix leaves £100 each to the Church Mis- sionary Society, the British and Foreign Bible Society, the Sheffield General Infirmary, and the Sheffield Public Hospital and Dispensary; legacies of X500 and S20,000, to her husband, and an annuity of £ 2000 and Kenwood-park, with the furniture and effects (except some articles specifically bequeathed to her said sister) to him for life; £ 5000, and a further sum of £ 5000 upon the death of her husband, upon trust, for her god-daughter Maud Amelia Wostenholm Rundle Y,5000, upon trust, for her aunt Mary Elizabeth Kennedy, for life, and then for her three daughters S5000, upon trust, for her uncle George Henry Scott, for life, then as to one moiety as he shall appoint, and as to the other moiety for her brother, George Edward Rundle; an annuity of X350 to her sister, Amelia Scott Rundle; and numerous and considerable legacies to relatives, servants, and others. The testatrix also leaves one or two legacies upon the trusts of certain settlements, and exercises various powers of appoint- ment given to her by settlement, and by the will of her late husband George Wostenholm. The residue of her property, real and personal, she leaves to her brother, George Edward Rundle, and her sister, Annie Moncrieffe Rundle, in equal shares.- Illits- trated London News.

I A CHINESE GAMBLING DEN: A brand new opium joint and Chinese gambling den or subterranean fortress has, says the New York Herald, just been invaded and captured by the police at No. 39, Bowery. The beautiful two-headed lady in the red-painted museum overhead had just finished eating supper with her other mouth when her four ears caught the noise of battering rams, fearful under- ground screams, hoarse shoutings in the street, and the tramp and murmur of a bigger crowd than she could draw. Twenty-five policemen from the Eld- ridge-street Station, Captain Allaire's entire reserve force, commanded by two roundsmen and Sergeant Dahlgren, and under the guidance of Detective Etienne Bayer, had begun an assault upon the dark, heavy door that stopped the descent at the bottom of the cellar steps. A tremendous crowd precipitated itself upon the scene in a moment of time. All surface travel was stopped, and the policemen were forced to use their clubs to save themselves from being crushed between the mob behind and the barred massive gate before. It was Jjust half-past eight o'clock when the assault began, and fully twenty minutes elapsed before this vault-like citadel of crime was takan. The strongest of the citadel of crime was taken. The strongest of the policemen wielded jemmies and clubs and axes upon the main door without accomplishing anything but a tremendous noise. Finally they stopped, and Detec- tive Bayer, who is unfavourably known to every Chinese renegade in the city, raised his voice in demand for surrender, with the remark that he had official warrant for this proceeding. The officers felt that they were on the right trail and recommenced their onslaught, this time upon the comparatively fragile partition on the left-hand side of the cellar steps. Here a ragged bole was soon chopped through the boards and beawo, and, mingled with a dreadful stench that issued therefrom, came a demon chorus of shrieks and poly-syllabic oaths in Chinese. An officer with drawn revolver crawled through and opened the heavy door. Then the I entire force rushed into a black hole, and stum- bled and dodged through crooked and narrow passages until the gas was relighted. Apart from the atmospherical foulness, the apartments thus revealed were clean and new and-to the Oriental mind stupe- fied with opium-luxurious. Turning sharply to the left after entering the cellar there was another door that, when closed, formed a square vestibule. In this vestibule was a heavy beam fitted to a cross-piece at one end that was designed to fall against the outer door, so that no power short of dynamite could force an entrance. The inner was of white oak, over two inches thick, and fitted with excellent workmanship into a strong casing. Inside this also was fortified with a ponderous crossbar on a centre pivot that swung into two wrought iron clamps. Here was a long room, the width of the building, well floored and partitioned off on one side into small apartments, which were furnished with broad wooden benches,uphol- etered with tawdry quilting and blankets for the opium smokers, but not a Chinaman was visible. They were certainly hidden, as there was no escape from this cul de sac. In the farthest corner was discovered a trap- door. This was lifted, and a red glare, a noisome effluvium, a hideous chorus of yells, a belching of yellow smoke, a glimpse of distorted and hideous faces, gave promise of as faithful an imitation to hellee" as the Chinese code of immorality can de- vise. The sallow-visaged, chattering, crazy-quilted horde of pigtails down below offered little resistance to capture. Ihere were policemen enough to go around with the superior officers to spare. This sub- cellar was also fitted out in the rear part with par- titions that betrayed skilled carpenters' work. Every piece of wood and iron had been fitted into place by Chinese artisans. Not a single" Melican man" had been admitted to do this work. All these improve- ments coat somebodyf several thousands of dollars. They had been completed only a few days, and the despair of these ghoulish revellers was abject. During the time lost in gaining eutrance by the police, these gamblers had tried to destroy, in the big stove, the most incriminating evidences of their guilt, but the collection of lottery and opium paraphernalia cap- tured was curious in the extreme. Within two box- like apartments of a construction similar to the offices of the tellers in a bank, with wire screens and windows, were found bundles of "minki" tickets, oblong cards, three inches in length, glazed on the back, and curiously pictured on the front. The tin cash-box contained only 28 cents. Among the con- fiscated articles were four opium pipes of heavy mahogany, and two of bamboo. The latter were three inches thick, and were smoked while filled with water. There were two boxes of black dominoes, one razor, two opium scales and trays, four racks of counters, like the cue-boxes of keno;" opium lamps, ,pipe-cleaners, shears, pipe-stems, a box of opium rags, and several pounds of "second" opium, tho black powder left after the first smoking of the drug.

A FEW NEW DISHES. Roast beef and boiled beef, roast mutton and boiled, varied only by broiled beefsteak and mutton chops, form a rather monotonous meat diet, and yet this has been the staple fare of many a well-to-do family on both sides of the Atlantic for many genera- tions. No doubt mighty hunters have been reared upon it as well as hard-working agriculturists, who have tilled the ground heartily, and rejoiced in reap- ing the harvests with which it rewarded them. But somehow times are changed. People work with their heads rather than with their hands, and they turn from the heavy feedo" of their grandfathers with a desire for lighter, though scarcely less nutritious fare. It is rather trying for housewives who have been brought up on the old lines, but they must learn to adapt themselves to the new order, and will, no doubt, be thankful for hints as to a few new dishes. Veal is just coming in, and it is possible to per- suade the butcher to let one have a few calves tongues. They are usually sold with the head, but some cooks do not use them and. if they did, some families would not eat them. If, however, calves' tongues are difficult to get, sheep's and pig's tongues are not, and, when nicely cooked, it would puzzle the proverbial conjuror to say which was which. Having first procured your tongues, make a good brine by boiling a pint of salt ?n three pints of water, skimming it, and, whan cold, pouring it over half-a- dozen tongues in an earthen pan. Let them stand in a cool p'acefor a week, and then wash each thoroughly from the brine, put them into a stewpan, cover with boiling water, and simmer for three hours. Take them up and plunge into cold water, which facilitates taking off the skin. Cut the meat into very thin slices, garnish with any pretty green stuff, such as parsley, endive, beet, watercress, &c.f and you have a delicious supper or luncheon dish. The remains of a leg of boiled mutton may be made into a rich and delicate mince by being chopped fine, mixed with a teaspoonful of made mustard, a little peppqr and salt, a dash of cayenne, a little flour, a cupful of milk, and a bit of butter the size of a wal- nut. Put all in a stewpan, keep stirring till it just boils, and then serve very hot poured over small squares of fried bread. Now for a dish of scalloped fish. Take cold cod, hake, or turbot, flake it and season with salt and pepper, moisten with a little milk, and stir in a good- sized piece of butter. Put this mixture in small scal- lop-shell tins, and bake a light brown. They look most appetising if served on a white serviette on a rich dark blue dioh. This may seem a trifle, bat life is made up of little things. There is a famous new floury potato called Beauty of Hebron, which steams better than it boils. It is perfection for the following soup, which cannot be called extravagant even by the most economically minded. Boil a quart of milk with a stalk of celery and an onion. Boil six potatoes soft, and mash fine and light. Add the boiling milk, a teaspoonful of butter, and pepper and salt. Rub through a strainer, and serve immediately. Oysters for cooking are not so expensive as to be quite beyond the reach of ordinary middle class people, and a lovely little meal for a delicate person may be made by filling the inside of a fowl with them after removing the beards. Put the fowl into a covered jar, and that jar into a saucepan of water, as is so frequently done with jugged hare. When the water has boiled for an hour and a-half, put enough butter and flour into the jar to thicken the gravy, and send the fowl to the table on a hot dish with the gravy poured over it. Mrs. Rundel, of culinary memory, used to advise her clients to bone a small turkey and also a small fowl, and use the latter as stuffing for the former, filling up all interstices with sausage-meat. The turkey was then to be slowly roasted until thoroughly done through, and the carver's duty was to cut it into slices right across, so that each serving might com- prise turkey, fowl, and satsage-meat. Sweets must not be altogether left out of our cate- gory, and here is a recipe for a very nice cake. Take one teacupful and a-half of sifted sugar and rub it into a cream with half a-teacupful of butter add two tea- cups of flour in which you have thoroughly mixed two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one teaspoonful of essence of lemon, one half teacupful of milk, and lastly, the whites of four eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Beat well together, and bake in a moderate oven.— The Lady.

MR. FRANK VIZETELLY, Extracts from Sir E. Baring's despatches relative to Mr. Frank Vizetelly, who accompanied the expedi- tion to the Soudan as an artist, are forwarded by his son, Mr. Albort Vizetelly. The latter mentions facts which be says, "seem to leave little doubt that his father did survive the massacre of General Hicks' army, and is, together with nine other Europeans, at present held in captivity. Writing from Cairo on the 5th of February, Sir E. Baring states that he bad just had a conversation with Christo Agha, a Greek, who had been in Khartoum during the whole period of the siege. This man stated that there were 10 Europeans detained at Omdurman-Lupton Bey, and seven other men and two sisters. He was," says Sir E. Baring, able to give me a fair description of one of them, who may, I think, not improbably be Mr. Vizetelly." In a despatch, dated Cairo, March 19, Sir E. Baring says that he showed the photograph of Mr. Frank Vizetelly to Christo Agha, who said, that he thought the photograph was that of the Englishman." Sir Evelyn adds: Mr. Albert Vizetelly may rest assured that no effort will be spared to obtain the release of his father and of the other Europeans now detained at Khartoum. But I am very sorry to be obliged to add that, at the moment, I do not see much hope of obtaining their release."

PARADESP is always where love dwells. A POOR, old rheumatic lady said to her physician Oh, doctor clcctor I do suffer 80 much with my hands and feet !~Be patient, dear madam, he sooth- ingly responded, joifd probably suffer a deal more without them.

GARDENING FOR THE WEEK. BEET (advises the Gardener's Magazine) must be sown now, if not done already. Choose soil that has not been recently manured, but which has been deeply dug, and is in a thoroughly pulverised state, the object being to obtain roots of moderate size and regular shape. All the dark-fleshed and short-topped varie- ties are good. Cauliflowers ILay now be planted out. Let the ground be abundantly maaured plant firm; give little water to each if needful. Lettuces of all kinds may now be sown on open borders, the Cos aud quick-growing large kinds of cabbage lettuce being most useful. Onions will be greatly benefited by a sprinkling of soot, which will both quicken the growth and drive away the vermin that usually destroy them. Onions for pickling to be sown on poor ground. Sow thick, and if possible cover the seed with a sprinkling of fine siftings of charred rubbish. Scarlet Runners may be sown on dry sheltered borders, but it is early yet for the main crop. Spinach to be sown again, but not in great quantity, as the later-sown breadths will be liable to become seedy before they are all used. CUCUMBERS in bearing to be kept as nearly as pos- sible at a uniform temperature. Air-giving must be regulated by circumstances, giving air when needed. Fork up the beds, and apply linings if necessary and as air-giving is a pretty safe operation now, the heat may be allowed to rise to rather a high pitch-much higher than would have been safe a month ago, when it was often impossible to give air. Melons must have all the sunshine possible, and to prevent scorching give plenty of air during midday hours on very fine days. Plant successions, taking care to make good beds for them, as with plenty of heat at command a little air may be given night and day in mild weather, and a free strong growth secured. Strawberries must have abundance of light and air, and a decidedly cool temperature by night as compared with the day tem- perature—say, 65 deg. day, 50 deg. to 55 deg. night. Be attentive to thinning the fruit, if quality is a matter of the leapt importance. Remove runners as fast as they are produced. ÅSTERS sown immediately will grow freely from the first, and make as fine plants as the earliest sown, though a week or so later to bloom. But this is the latest period for them, to do anything like justice to these superb annuals. Auriculas require the most airy position possible now, with shade and shelter and covering, as wind, frost, rain, sunshine, and heat are all alike injurious to them. Carnations and Picotees to have as much air as the state of the weather will allow, and not on any account to saffer through lack of water. As soon ai possible place them in their blooming quarters, fully exposed to all weathers. Pansies sown now will bloom well at the end of July, when many herbaceous and annual flowers are over. Choose a shady spot for them. Stocks sown at once will give less trouble than those sown early, and the annual kinds will flower well this season, and the biennials acquire strength to stand the winter. CAMELLIAS not yet started into growth should have assistance, by being kept rather closer and more moist than usual. Cinerarias require abundance of water now if allowed to be dry for any length of time, the lower leaves will turn yellow and fall. Give plenty of air when weather allows, and shade only when the sun is very powerful. Fuchsias require shifting on; keep them warm give plenty of water at the root and overhead let the soil be rich and light, the position rather shady. Never stop and repot at the same time. Pelargoniums showing their trusses will be greatly benefited by weak soot-water or liquid manure. Tie out carefully as required, never neg- lecting this operation, as if the shoots become hard before tying, the operation is apt to snap them. Shade as little as can be helped tho sunshine acting now on the advancing buds will ensure brilliantly-coloured flowers, which will not be the case with the plants that are much shaded during the formation and growth of the buds. HARDENING BEDDING-PLANTS.—This (remarks Mr. E. Hobday, in Gardening Illustrated) should be carried out without any unnecessary check. If the process be a gradual one, no harm will accrue from the full exposure of such plants as Pelargoniums, Verbenas, &c., in the daytime now, if covered up at night. Most of our plants are exposed all day in temporary, open frames, but are covered with straw mats at night. If a cold day intervenes, the covers are only removed for a few hours in the middle of the day. It will, of course, be understood that plants must not be taken from a warm house or pit to the open air all at once. PLANTING GLtDIOLt.- These may still be planted. They thrive amazingly on some soils. A light, sandy loam, slightly enriched, suits them best. They are not generally grown for the conservatory, but they make very effective pot-plants, and will bear gentle forcing. When potted in November, and plunged overhead in a bed of leaves to Btart them, the early- blooming varieties may be had in blossom early in the year. ROSES newly planted should be cut rather hard in to induce the back eyes to break, and lay the founda- tion of healthy, well-balanced bushea in the future. The fact that own-rooted roses are desirable should be kept constantly in mind,and when purchases are made, stipulate, where possiblo, that they be on their own roots, as such plants will live for some time, and show what the rose is capable of doing under good manage- ment. SOWING FLOWER-SEEDS.—The soil works freely now, and seeds sown in it, if not too deeply covered, ger- minate immediately. Sow thinly; if the seeds are good it is a waste to sow so thickly as is commonly done. In sowing Poppies and other small seeds, one seed to the square inch, if it were possible to distribute them evenly, would give plants enough to select from. Anything of a choice nature may be covered with a piece of brown paper, pegged down. This will ensure the speedy germination of every good seed. EVERGREENS.—The present is the best season for planting, and given below are the names of a few kinds of evergreen shrubs specially adapted for the villa garden: Berberis Aauifolium, B. stenopbylla, B. Darwinii, Arbutus Andraehne, Aucuba japonica, A. j. maculata (male), Buxus elegantissima; Broom, white and yellow; Cottoneaster Simoneii, C. micro- phylla, Escallonia macrantha, Garrya elliptica, Hollies, Hodginsi, Golden Queen, and Silver Queen. Tree Ivies in variety Laurustinus, Pernettya mucro- nata Pyracantha, grafted three feet high, has a very ornamental effect; Skimmia japonica. Among com- moner things the Portugal Laurel and common Yew are very useful, and will rapidly grow into handsome specimens. HARDY FOLIAGE-PLANTS.-Colour should at all times be used with judgment. Too much of the Purple Beech or the Silver Maple may become wearisome, and yet both of these trees produce a pleasing effect when used sparingly and tastefully. Ailantu3 glan- dulosa, Catalpa syringicfolia, the Golden Elder, the Purple-leaved Birch, Aralia spinosa, the Liquidambar for its autumn tint, the Tulip-tree, the Maidenhair- tree, and the Silver-leaved Poplar, are among the most striking of the summer-leafing subjects, and should not be absent from well-planted grounds. VIOLYA FOR WINTER.—Tbe open-air violets have this year suffered a good deal from the severity of the weather, especially where the beds are more than one year old. Young plants are the hardiest, and will bear the finest flowers. One of the best violets for winter is the Marie Louise. It is too tender for he open air with us, but it succeeds admirably in rrames. lhose plants which have been flowering in frames or pits may be divided now, and planted out one foot apart each way to become strong for filling frames again next September. For the open air the Czar is one of the best of the Russian section, but it should be replanted annually towards the end of April.

BOSTON BOXING GIRLS. It is not American society girls only, but shop-girls, type-writers, and even mothers of families who take part in the exercise of boxing. A Boston pnperflajs "At a well known dry goods palace in this city the room given up to its female employes for luncheon purposes ia transformed almost every day at the noon hour into a boxing school, where the girls meet in friendly contest, or spend a brief period in pounding a huge football. Such exercise is rendered difficult and to some extent undesirable by the fact that the young women are not properly dressed for the pport. At the regular schools, however, a dress something like a bathing suit is worn. A tightly-blown football, fastened pendant from a hook in the ceiling by a piece of rope, is generally the object of attack, and around this the fair young girls dance like so many Comanche Indians, striking out first with the left, catching the leather sphere squarely in the centre, then on the recoil fending it spinning again with a clever upper-cut or a cross-counter, each time ducking so as to avoid a blow in the face as it comes back to its original position. Consequent upon the little use to which ladies usually put their left hand, they experience considerable trouble in mastering some of the feints, guards, and leads but what they lack in this particular is largely made up in their suppleness of limb, and when once the' obstinate left band' becomes educated, the points made by the female sparrer are more deft, clearer, and more- certain than those usually made by men. The reverse guard and retreat, however, seem to come natural to women but their greatest trouble is in breathing. One minute's exercise will send a young lady to her corner puffing and blowing as if she had run half a mile, and it takes a long time for them to learn how to breathe. The double guard is another thing that comes almost instinctively to a woman. On the whole, they are enthusiastic and persevering, and quick to acquaint themselves with pugilistic points, and, best of all, are very slow to engage in public exhibitions; They take to the Fport for the physical good it does them, and for the development of mind and muscle."

THE HEROES OF DOGALI. The other day, says the Naples correspondent of the .Daily News, in company with a medical friend, I visited the wounded soldiers who last arrived in Naples from Massowah, and who are very comfort- ably lodged and nursed in the military hospital, La Trinita. Three vast saloons, light and airy, are devoted to the heroes of Dogali. Most of those who arrived a few weeks ago are already out of bed, and many have left for their homes. My attention was chiefly attracted to the last arrivals by the Ortipia, who were the most severely wounded, and had been kept at Massowah until a.ble to be moved. They had a bad sea voyage, and suffered much, but are now nearly all going on well, though the majority are still confined to bed, for few of them have les3 than two wounds, and some have even 12. Most of them were very animated, answering questions readily, and showing a great deal of intelligence and knowledge of the nature and progress of their wounds, also describing vividly the terrible scenes of the final hand- to-hand fight. The Ab ssinians jumped from their horses at a distance," we were told by Luigi Zolli, a bright, light-complexioned young man from Forli, who had had one ball extracted from his right. side, and one from his right thigh. Another had passed across and broken the fingers ot his right hand, and he was beside cut across the back of his neck by a scimetar, a wound, now healed, which he received as he lay helpless on the ground. "They had jumped from tbeir horses, which ran abo..t wildly; the drums beat, and the bells used by them as signals sounded continuously; we were almost blinded by the smoke, and our enemies started up on all sides, some creeping towards us on their stomachs. When any fell, others sprang forward they cared nothing for our bullets, they were like wild animals. Many had guns, but they shot wildly. firing at random, as if with shut eyes. If we had been in their place, and they in ours, the battle would have been over in five minutes. But we had held out for four hours. We killed more than a thousand, perhaps three or four thousand, before, to a man, we lay stretched on the field. The Abyssinian women and boys helped their soldiers to carry away their dead and wounded as soon aa they fell, they disappeared we don't know how. No sooner was the fight over, than the women (naked except for a cloth or fringe round their loins, and armed, as were the young boys, with shield and lance), were upon us, tearing off our clothes and boots, and giving the death stroke to many a poor wounded fellow. In order to see if our officers were dead they set fire to bits of our own clothing and applied the burning rags to arms or hearts. The adult Abyssinians had scimetars and guns besides the shield and lance. Sometimes the bUck demons caught our bullets on their shields, and they were flattened upon them. Their own bullets were not of lead, but other metal or small stones. One that wounded me broke into three bits as it entered my flesh. I, with five others, remained three days on the field without food, and, worse, without water, for everything had been taken from us. The rain that fell on the first night was good for our wounds, but we shivered with cold. We tried to keep off those who came to rob us, with stones, and managed to shoot one of them. None of us cried or complained. By nightfall no one was left on the ground but dead or wounded Italians; the AbyssinianB bad totally dis- appeared. We saw a group of comrades still alive at a little distance, and all the rest were dead. We called to each other to ask if no help was coming. Next day we began to crawl slowly in the direction of Monkullo; on the third day we saw some horsemen approaching, and, believing the enemy had returned, gave ourselves up for lost; but they turned out to be Moors, inhabitants of Monkullo, who bound up our wounds, put us on camels, and took us to Monkullo. We were too far gone to eat, but burning with tbrist, and we drank up all the water and wine they had with them. Oh, how we drank! I bad no fever." My medical friend did not believe him. No, 1 had no fever, for one feels it in one's head, and mine was quite clear. When we got near the fort we were nearly shot by our comrades, for they had pointed the cannon at us believing us to be enemies." I afterwards spoke to Faustino Cardone, of Bergamo, one of the last to fall. He bad been sur- rounded by seven or eight Abyssinians with curved scimetars, and had his hand almost cut off, besides three shot wouuds. His hand has since been ampu- tated. When they left him for dead, he stopped the bleeding of his wrist with a styptic he still possessed and was later found by the Italians who came to the battlefield with the ambulance. He had seen one of the two doctors fall, struck by a bullet, as be was attending to a wounded soldier. I found Domenico Savioli, from near Ravenna—the only man of his company at the battle, for he had been sent with the convoy—recovering from six wounds, a sword cut on the left arm and hand being the slowest to heal. He had fallen with the first wound he received, and three Abyssinians rushed upon him and gave him the others, afterwards despoiling him of all his clothee. He pretended to be dead, but later, moving his head a little to one side to avoid the sun in his eyes, he was observed by an Abyssinian, who immediately threw a large stone at him, which, luckily, did not kill him. He, too, crawled away, and reached Monkullo alone. Many a comrade, he is sure, who could walk got lost among the hills for all did not know the road. Giovanni de Cristina, a young fellow from Palermo, bad in bis band a letter from his mother, as we came to his bedside. When the first batch of wounded, reached Naples, the poor woman bad come from Sicily in the hope of finding her son, aud went away disappointed. Now she had heard that he had arrived, and had written. This young man was going on well, but he did not believe it. 11 Beside a bullet in his side/which perforated the left lung, broke and issued at the back,"he had two sword cuts on the left arm, and a lance wound two inches deep in the neck. He was one of the 50 left at the last who formed a circle round their colonel, Do Cristo. foris. He had shot with his revolver two Abys- sinians who were aiming at the colonel, but the next moment Do Cristoforis fell, killed by three balls coming from another side. Then he himself fell, and when the human hyenas who came to mutilate and rob the dead and wounded bad stripped him, they took up his naked body, and literally threw him away, to get at others who lay beneath him. He fell on a heap of stones, and lost his senses. The cold ram at night revived him, and he crawled away, falling at every moment ex- bausted without a drop of blood left in my body," he said. He crept under a bush, and endured alone for three days, watching the real hyenas issuing from their hiding-places, until at last he was found. Then," be said, "I wept. After that I spat blood for 20 days." His large dark blue eyes still looked anxious and dilated, as if his terrible sufferings and the scenes he had gone through still haunted his memory. He was however the only despondent one we saw, and though he thinks his wound will kill him sooner or later, he has no fever and no cough and my medical friend reassured him, telling him his lung was sure to heal entirely. All these men were from the ranks, but near Luigi Zolli lay a corporal, Guiseppe Sterna, kept in his bed by seven wounds, four being cut a and three gun-shot wounds, the worst in the right leg, the ball having entered the foot and been extracted from the thigh; the nerves of his leg were contracted and it was undergoing a process of stretching. "I bad remained unhurt till nearly the last," said the corporal, with 30 or 40 other soldiers. Colonel de Cristoforis, who had dismounted, told me to hold his horse to shield myself; but while doing so, I was hit by a bullet and fell, and was immediately sabred by four or five Abys- sinians. 1 lay for two nights and three days, unable to move. On the third day I was put on a camel and taken to Monkullo by some Basbi-bazouks. Some of my comrades who arrived there at the same time, and had crawled part of the way, had employed four hours in traversing a space of about two hundred yards." Being Sunday, the door of the hospital, as we came away, was quite besieged by a number of young men curious and eager to see the wounded soldiers, but not many succeeded in doing so; for the guards firmly but politely refused admittance to all of the sympa- thising crowd who came without a permit.