The Pontypridd Chronicle and Workman's News

RUNNING THE RAPIDS. Besides the general features, which vary much ac- cording to the geological formations,a rapid is full of important details. Every hidden rock marks the surface in a way that shews the depth of water and the velocity of the current. A rock in a deep slow current figures the quiet surface with delicate lilies and small eddies. In water a little swifter, it makes a round smooth hood of water over its head and small ripples below. In a rapid strong current it makes a foaming crested wave and an eddy setting up stream, and in a steep descent it throws the water into high tumultuous seas. Thus you estimate the nature of the water by signs, forms, and colours of waves and eddies that are quite reli- able guides. But the high wind to-day changes everything. On still waters it rolls up waves that belong to a deep swift channel; on swift clear shoots it makes white capped waves that indicate largo rock" on rocky cour-es it tumbles up the water in cotn;)ete contusion. The rocks thus seem to move ab..ut the stream like sunken monsters seeking piey. So the course is full of surprises. I suddenly lind a huge boulder right ahead, where I believed thtre was clear water. I lie back in imagined safety while running down a uniform shoot, but all at once find a huge rock close to my side. Nevertheless the eye soon becomes accustomed to the change of signs, and estimates the colours and forms on a new scale. But at last I am near the end of the Horse Race. t have not approached the last swift rush of water in the right place in avoiding some heavy seas in mid- channel, I kept too near a large eddy setting-up stream below a rock, and the upward current striking the bow turned the canoe almost about, and so took her out of the course. A glance at the tumultuous breakers and high swells ahead reveals one narrow passage between two boulders. I strike quick and hard, and with the help of good luck dart into the main channel. Here the rush almost takes my breath. For a moment destruction seems perfectly certain. The current is a mass of foaming waves over rocks. But the water is deeper than I thought from its broken and discoloured surface. We rush on through swelia that roll the canoe from one side to the other, wash her decks,and toss us about in the most startling manner. The race was swift, though shprt, and we glide out at last on the still pool below with the elation and gratitude of victors.—Scribner's Monthly.

BITS FROM BOOKS. WHAT A LITTLE THING IS MAN A painstaking German has made the following Ingenious calculation, which shews at once th<? ex- tent of what the Gtlrmans sometimes fondly call "Das Deutsche Meer," and the insignificance, so far as bulk is concerned, of the whole human race at pre- sent alive upon our planet. A German mile contains 25,856 feet (Wurtemburg), consequently a square German mile 6681 million square feet. The superficial area of the Lake of Constance, being 8J, German square miles, contains therefore 5,682 million square feet. There are living upon the surface of our globe, in round numbers, about 1,430 million human beings. Let every man, woman, and child have four square feet of standing room allotted to him, and if the lake were frozen over the whole human family might be assembled on its surface. Should the weight prove too great, and collective humanity be submerged, it would only raise the level of the lake six inches.- The shores and ities of the Boden See. By Samuel James Capper. A VERSATILE INDIVIDUAL. Our host himself was a local celebrity, who, in addi- tion to the business of the tavern, officiated all auctioneer at all sales in the neighbourhood. Once he had been a driver of a stage coach, then a dealer in dry goods, and then a pedlar. Not all his anecdotes are repeatable, but one of them is worth telling for the light it throws upon his versatility. lie wished to purchase a team of horses from one Dean Woodbury, at S and a friend who was with him introduced him as Elder Dawley, to which he was about to object, when his companion whispered to him, "Be quiet, you'll get the team for 20dol. less as a parson than as a layman and, indeed, the deacon was so devoutly considerate of the Church that the purchase was effected on very easy terms. At dinner, however, the elder was called upon foa grace before meat, and although unfamiliar with de- votions of any kind, he was unwilling to expose the fraud to which he had lent himself and he returned thanks with an unction that put him high in the deacon's esteem. It became known that a minister was in the village, and he was invited to console a sick old man, which he did, as he says, to the entire satisfaction of all the relatives. On the following day a, lawyer having failed to appear for him he conducted a case of his own in court; and in the afternoon weilded the hammer at an auction. Later in the evening the fiddler was missing from a dance and he offered himself as a substitute. While he was poring over the music with great attentivene.ss, though he could not read a note, a child of yesterday's invalid happened to look in, and was struck at the sight she saw. Why, ma," she cried as soon as she reached home, "would you believe it?-that old minister who was here yesterday, is a-fiddling away like all-possesed at the d"nce !Harper's Monthly Magazine. APISH DOMESTICITY. Monkeys are born in almost as helpless a condition as are human beings. For the first fortnight after birth, they pass their time in being nursed, in sleeping, and looking about them. At the end of the first fortnight, the little one begins to get about by itself, but always under its mother's watchful care. She frequency attempts to teach it to do for' itself but never forgets her solicitude for its safety, and at the earliest intimation of danger,seizes it in her arms and seeks a place of refuge. When about six weeks old, the baby begins to need more substantial nutriment than milk, and is taught to provide for itself. Its powers are speedily developed; and in a few weeks its agility is most surpris- ing. The mother's fondness for her offspring continues; she devotes all her care to its comfort and education; and should it meet with an untimely end,her grief is so intense as frequently to cause her own death. The care which the females bestow upon their offspring," says Duvancel, is so tender and even refined, that one would be almost tempted to attribute the sentiment to a rational rather than an instinctive process. It is a curious and inter- esting spectacle, which a little precaution has some- times enabled me to witness, to see these females carry their young to the river, wash their faces in spite of their childish outcries, and altogether bestow upon their cleanliness a time and attention that in many cases the children of our own species might igell envy." M. d'Osbonville states that the parents ex- ercise their parental authority over their children in a sort of judicial and strictly impartial form. "The young ones were seen to sport and gambol with (De another in the presence of their mother, who sat ready to give judgment, and punish misdemeanours. When anyone was found guilty of foul-play or mali- cious conduct towards another of the family,thf parent interfered by seizing the young criminal by the tail, which she held fast with one of her paws till she boxed his ears with the other. "-Chambers's Journal. j ASTONISHING THE NATIVES. Signor D'Albertio, the Italian explorer, in his work describing his researches in New Guinea, relates ho.7, having been robbed by the Papuans, he succeeded without bloodshed in so thoroughly frightening the natives that they were glad to make peace with him on any terms. He hoisted a black flag over his house, issued a proclamation that while it was flying no one should approach on pain of death, laid Orsini bombs in every direction, and fired at everyone who passed that way, until they were in a state of complete terror. Two of the leaders, Naimi Kupe and Parama, made overtures of peace and brought to Signor D'Al. bertio a number of the stolen articles. He thus describes the interview: "To impres8 more firmly on their minds how much they bad to fear from me, I treated them to several spectacles. The first was to drive three balls in succession into the trunk of a tree 100metres distant; the second was to let off an Orsini bomb; and the third, after having induced them to break their lances on a blade of iron, to send it to pieces with a ball from my fowling-piece. But the last spectacle was the finest. After having kept the three for some time seated on a great rock in front of the house, I led them to a distance, went into the house, and set fire to a train ot powder connected with a mine bored under the rock on which they had been seated; then I joined them and directed their attention to the spot; while they were looking, the mine exploded. Needless to say how frightened they were; they had neither legs to run away, nor feet to stand, and were hardly able to pray me not to destroy them, and they would recover for me all that I had lost. When they grew calm I conducted them to see the effect of the mine. The rock was broken in a thousand fragments, and scattered great distances, and insteal of the rock on which they had sat they found only a fosse. They looked at each other tremblingly, and again entreated me not to kill them. Naimi asked permission to take away a bit of the fractured iron to frighten his people into a restitution of the stolen good?, and as they de- scended the hill they gathered fragments of the rock." RESULTS OF MISSIONARY WORK IN FIJI. I often wish that some of the cavillers who are for ever sneering at Christian missions could see some- thing of their results in these isles. But first they would have to recall the Fiji of ten years ago, when every man's hand was against his neighbour; and the land had no rest,from barbarous intertribal wars, in which the foe, without respect of age or sex, were looked upon only in the light of so much teef; the prisoners deliberately fattened for the slaughter; dead bodies dug up that had been buried 10 or 12 days, and could only be cooked in the form of pud- dings limbs cut off from living men and women, and tooked and eaten in presence of the victim, who had previously been compelled to dig the oven and cut the firewood for the purpose; and this not only in time of war, when such atrocity might be deemed less inexcusable, but in time of peace, to gratify the caprice or appetite of the moment. Think of the sick buried alive the array of widows who were delibe- rately strangled on the death of any great man; the living victims who were buried beside every post of a chief's new house, and must needs stand clasping it, While the earth was gradually heaped over their devoted heads; or those who were bound hand and foot, and laid on the ground to act as rollers, when a chief launched a new canoe, and thus doomed to a death of excruciating agony;—a time when there was not the slightest security for life or property, and no man knew how quickly his own hour of doom might come; when whole villages were depopulated siuiply to supply their neighbours with fresh me^t! Just think of all this, and of the change that has been wrought, and then just imagine white men who can sneer at missionary work in the way they do. Now you may pass from isle to isle, certain everywhere to find the same cordial reception by kindly men and women. Every village on the 80 inhabited isles has built for itself a tidy church, and a good house for its teacher or native minister, for whom the village also provides food and clothing. Can you realise that there are 900 Wesleyan churches in Ftii, at every one of which the frequent services are crowded by devout congregations; that the schools are well attended and that the first sound which greets your ear at dawn, and the last at night, is that of hymn-singing and most fervent worship, rising from each dwelling at the hour of family prayer What these people may become after much contact with the common run of white men we cannot, of course, tell, though we may unhappily guess. At present they are a body of simple and devout Christians, full of deepest reverence for their teachers and the message they bring, and only anxious to yield all obedience.-At Home in Fiji. By C. F. Gordon Cumming.

Neighbour Jones," said a rigid Church-member, I have been informed that yon often drive your team and even go a-fishing or a hunting on the Sab- bath." "True," replied Jones, "but then on those occasions I always whistle psalm tunes." An exchange says We have received a story entitled, 'A Dark Deed,' which is respectfully declined. The first chapter opens with, 'It is mid- night.' This is all right. It is often midnight-at le;i.st seven times a week—but the author forgot to add, and silence brooded over the city.' This is a fatal oversight. Silence always broods over a city when ic is midnight in works of fiction-but nowhere else. We can't print a story in which silenM doesn't brood at midnight."

—. — -r';9:t". VARIETIES—GRAVE AND GAY. j Waist of Time.-Middle of an hour-glass. Suitable Dower for a Widow.-A wi-dower. An Amendment to the Constitution.—A woode. leg. Hard bake.-Plaoe your pastry in a hot oven and forget all about it. The evening had been convivial. U And now, gen. tlemen." said the chairman, "I'll protose a post." Why are ministers bad mathematicians ?—Because they make the result of joining one and one, one. What were the worst results of the civil war ? cried an orator. "Widows," shouted Jones, who had married one. Hurried passenger When does this 'bus start ? Hibernian driver: Och, shure, same time as the horses Does your wife play eucher ? asked one. "No," replied the other, rubbing his head; but she's death on the poker." A chiel" who is in the habit of taking notes of the ex says that the generality of women who do fancy work don't fancy work. I go through my work," as the needle said to the idle boy. "But not till you are hard pushed," as the idle boy said to the needle. "There, that explains where my clothes-line went to exclaimed an Iowa woman, as she found her husband hanging in the stable. It's about an even thing between man and the orange peel. Sometimes the man throws the orange peel into the gutter, and sometimes the orange peel throws the man into the gutter. Pashence is a good thing for a man to have but when he has got so much ov it that he kan fish all day over the side ov a boat without any bait on his hook lazvn esa is what's the matter with him.—Josh Billinys. A man the other day shook a handkerchief full of nut shells out of a window, and a girl across the way took it for a handkerchief-flirtation proposal, and hllf sued him for breach of promise. Man is nowhere safe. While a concert and ball were in progress in the opera house at Deadwood a few evenings since a heavy wind carried the entia. front of the building out into the street. Suspicion points to the man who blows the trombone. Said a college professor to a notorious laggard, who was once for a wonder promptly in his place at morning prayers, I marked you, sir, as punctual this morning. What is your excuse ? Couldn't sleep, sir," was the reply. A Severe Drought.—In a paper published in Rhode Island in 1862, the following account of a protracted drought is given Our cows are drying up, our pumps are dry, there is no water, and the minister of the Baptist church is dead." "I sells peppermints OD Sunday," remarked a good old lady who kept a candy shop, "because they carries 'em to church and eats 'em, and keeps awake to hear the sermon; but if you waht comfits you must come week days. They're secular commodities." He was a fine-looking man, and he proudly strutted down the side walks with the air of a proprietorship in every movement. "Beg pardon," said a stranger, as he stepped up to him, hat in hand, in utmost humility, "do I have your permission to remain in town over night?" During the trial of a disputed settlement at Leith one of the witnesses was asked, "Do sermons that are delivered and not read edify you the most." He excited the risibility of the court by replying, "I consider that if ministers cannot remember their own sermons, it is perfectly unreasonable to expect their hearers to do so." A prisoner who had been convicted at least a dozen times is placed at the bar. Your Honour, I should like to have my case postponed for a week. My lawyer is sick." "But you were captured with your hand in this gentleman's pocket. What can your counsel savin your defence?" "Precisely, your Honour. That is what I am curious to know." "Young gentlemen," said the Rev. Dr. John Browq to his class of theological students, "ye need three things to make you good ministers—learning, grace, and common-sense. As for the learning, I will try to set you in the way of it as for grace, ye must always, pray for it; but if ye have na brought the common- sense with ye, ye may go about your business." The roaming correspondent of the Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-Eye tells a pleasing story of a self-sacrificing traveller who devoted his energies to the work of devouring everything upon a certain railway station dining counter, and, having at length accomplished the feat, walked away, saying, "There! the next fellow that comes along here will get something fresh." The late John Brougham was well known as a wit, and his replies were always on the spur of the moment. At a banquet in New York he was seated next the coroner Croker. A toast was proposed, and Brougham asked the coroner what he should drink it in. Claret," said the coroner. Claret!" was the repll" That's no drink for a coroner. There's no body m, that- I" A resident who reached home by a noon train, after an absence of two weeks, was met at the station by his eight-year-old son, who loudly welcomed him. "And is every body well. Willie?" asked his father. "The welleat ktnd," replied the boy. And nothing has happened?" "Nothing at all. I've been good, Jennie's been good, and I net aaw ma behave her- self so well as she has this tirnd." The late Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, before he was called to the Bar, had once to examine a witness; I named Phinn, and asked, vV ell, sir, how ey speH your name, with an F or a Ph ? te spell it one way and some another, I believe," >d the man. "Yes; but I presume there is a :¡t way and a wrong way, eh ? Oh, certainty," M)* sented the witness. "Very good," rejoined Cosk-, burn, now certain of his quarry. How do you spell it yourself ?" "Oh, I—I—I don't spell it! I. always make my mark! Cockburn sat down defeated. Old Mose and another darkey were standing in front of the z\ ews office discussing matters and things, when Jim Webster happened to pass. Dar am about; forty regular chicken stealers in Galveston, in- cludin' Jim Webster," remarked the old man. Jim overheard the remark, so he came right up to, Mose and threatened to eliminate him if he did not take it back. "Den dar am forty regular chicken stealers in Galveston, not including Jim Webster. Is yer satisfied now?" Jim said, very much affected, "Uncle Mose, when a man 'pologises, he jess disarms me right dar. Shake, old man. Taint often nowadays dat anybody flatters me as you have jess done." Veracity.—The groundwork of all manly character is veracity. That virtue lies at the. foundation of every- thing solid. How common it is to hear parents say, I have faith in my child so long as he speaks the truth. He may have many faults, but I know he will not deceive me. I build on that confidence." They are right. It is a lawful and just ground to build upon; and that is a beautiful oonfidence. Whatever errors temptation may betray a child into, so long as brave, open truth remains, there is something to depend upon—there is anchor-ground—there is sub- stance at the centre. Men of the world feel so about one another. They can be tolerant and forbearing so long as their erring, brother is true. If we cannot believe what others say to us we cannot act upon it; and, to an immense extent, that is saying that we cannot act at all. When you undertake to benefit a lying man it is like putting your feet into the mire. Husband and Wife.-Husband (travelling). Scene I: Boom in hotel. Spittoons full of cigar stumps. Bourbon whisky. All hands equipped for a night's spree. Husband in a hurry to be off, writing Dearest Susie,—My time is so occupied with busi- ness that I can hardly spare a moment to write to you. Oh! darling, how I miss you! and the only one thing that sustains me during my absence is the thought every moment thus spent is for the benefit of my dear wife and children. Take good care of your- self, my dear. Feed the baby on one cow's milk. Excuse haste, &c."—Wife (at home). Scene II. Parlour. All the gas lit. Thirteen grass widows; Fred, from around the corner, with his violin; Jim, from across the way, with his banjo; Jack, from above, with his guitar; Sam, from below, with his flute; lotaj of other fellows, with their instruments. Dancing and singing; sideboard covered with nuts, fruits, cake, cream, wine, whisky, Sus. Wife in a hurry to dance, writing to her husband: Dear Hubby,-How lonesome I feel in your absence The hours pass tediously. Nobody calls on me, and I am constantly thinking of the time when you will be home, and your cheerful countenance light up the routine of every-day life. My household aaties keep me constantly employed. I am living as economical as possible, knowing that your small income will not admit of frivolous expense. But now, dear, I will say good-bye, or I will be too late for the m; nthly con- cert of prayer. In haste, yours, &c." Some girls in Berlin who were going to church were attacked at the church door by a mouse and driven away. What kind of a church do they have there in Berlin that no young men are stationed at the door to protect the young ladies from mice? At every church we ever attended there is always a guard of young men stationed on each side of the en- trance for this very purpose. Pat Dempsey, on finding his brother laid out on the ground during a row at a recent political gather- ing near Cork, at once jumped into the centre of the crowd, with his shillelagh ready for action, and murder in his eye, crying, Arrah, shew me the man as did it! To him stepped forth an Irish giant, with blood-stained stick in hand, exclaiming, "Shure an' he's here—an' now what'll ye do?" "Shure an' it was a moighty nate blow replied Pat, as he sneaked away in the crowd. A distinguished London dean was not equal to his opportunities when he performed the marriage ceremony for an eminent scientific professor. The dean should have asked the groom, Do you take this anthropoid to be your oo-ordinate, to love with your nerve-centres, to cherish with your whole cel- lular tissue, until a final molecular disturbance shall resolve its organism into its primitive atoms ? A worthy old farmer, who thoroughly detested taxes and tax-gatherers, was once called on by a collector a second time for taxes he had once paid, but for which he had mislain the receipt; and as he told the story to his friend, "Would you believe it, sir, the i? lW kegan to abuse me Well," aaid his friend, what did you do ? Do why I remonstrated with him." "And to what effect?" Well, I don't know to what effect, bat the poker was bent I"

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Any Chemist not having it in Stock will nroAiirn it; x to order; and there is a great saving m buyiag the larger sizes. To prevent confusion when you ask fox LIEBIG'S CHEMICAL FOOD see that yoo get it, as our Agents sell all our Nutritives and Preparations which are numerous. ifemember that LIEBIG'S CHEMICAL FOOD is b medicine sold in bottles and bearing the Govern- ment Staraip. London Agents: Barclay and Sons, 94, Far- ringdon Street; Edwards and Sons, 167, Queeit Victoria Street Newbery and Sons, 37, Newgate Street; Millard and Sons, 40 Charterhouse Square; Banger and Sons, 150 and 252, Oxford Street; Hovenden and Sons, 5, Great Marlborough Street! W., and P3 and 95, City Road; Sutton and Co., 10,. Bow Churchyard; Butler and Crispe, 4, Cheapside 5 Maw, Son, and Thompson, 7 to 12, Aldersgate Street; Lynch and Co., 171A. and 171B, Aldersgate Street; William Mather, Farringdon Road; and J. C. Thompson, 121, New North Road. ORDER OF ANY CHEMIST. LIE BIG & CO, WANDSWORTH ROAD, LONDOM.S W Chemists are oautjoned against tanking or offering lor snle preparations and calling them Chemical Food," As it was decided in th. case of Liebie v Bonily, that we were the originators of the name and had the sole righe to use it. and all persoi a ilelli-ig other articles by this name not only rendet themoetvea liable to an Hction for damayes but adat: to Chancery proceedhfi-a. SHORTHAND, or "MANUAL OF ALETHOGrRAPHY," now ready, price 9d. per pob* SHORTHAND can be easily acquired through this ftlannal, without the aid of a teacher. REVIEWS. "The most suggestive book ever eeen on Shorthand.4 Phonograph** for 18 i/ears. "The longest words can be written with a few dashes of the pen.B. "Superior to any system yet invented.Stipend iary Magistrate. "This improved system of Shorthand ia the result of years of laboriouH study. T. t\iHtain8,Eiq.t Q. C., M. P., London, The Trade supplied by Motors. E. fcTocK", or TBUBNEE, LOKDOK; or MB. J. HBYWOOD, MANCHESTEB or nmy be had by return of post, on enclosing 9d. in stamps to the Author, Rev. James Williams, Albert Place, Pontypridd, Glam. Orders may also be given to any local Bookseller. Method for beginners 6d. The Shorthand Reader 4d. The Reporters Staff 6d. Welsh Edition 9d. To be had of any Bookseller, or direct from the Author. Abstinence, character, distant, standard, want, Prot«>tant,writ<ir. sk !• ^*1! .saJ-0 v» of- »- v -"«m a child, rent, cheats, hat, achieved, yacht, chant, wit. £ &* L 6 I < + li J Z' Cf Im- Ptinted and published by B. Davies, 23 and 24, Mill Street, Pontypridd, in the county of Glamorgan* SATURDAY, May 21, 1881.

It is not always good policy to take some things as read. In a hairdresser's shop at the East-end of London, a bill was exhibited in the window recom- mending a certain patent medicine, with the very dubious headinp Try one box—no other medicine will ever be taken.In a certain apothecary's shop the following printed notice used to be displayed All sorts of dying stuffs sold here." In olden days the burgesses of Grimsby were wont to decide which among them should be mayor, by a very odd process. Having chosen three of their num- her as eligible for the position, they blindfolded them, tied bunches of hay at their backs, and conducted thpII' to the common pound where a calf awaited their coming. He whose bunch of hay was first eaten by the calf was pronounced most worthy of the mayoralty, and installed into oftice accordingly. On the 16th July, 1878, says the Daily Srews, Sir George Balfour asked the Under-Secretary for Foreign Atfairs to explain whether there were any grounds for rumours about changes in the Mahometan territo- ries of Tunis and Tripoli, as respects their transfer to Italy and France. Mr. Bourke replied, No, sir, we have he;.rd no such rumours." It will be observed that this answer was given some time after Lord Salisbury had suggested to M. Waddirgton the assumption by France of authority in Tunis, and had a-sured him that England would view such a pro- ceediug without any jealousy. Dama.ge to the amount of about £30,000 has been caused by a fire which destroyed a large portion of the extensive premises of Messrs. M'Master, Hodgson and Co., druggists and general merchants, Dublin. Tl e inflammable nature of the goods caused the fire, which originated in the rear of the premises, to spread with great rapidity. At one time no less than five of the auj Jniog houses were on fire. Two tons of castor oil had been stored in the top of the building, and the ignition of a portion gave great impetus to the flames and soon brought down the roof with a tremendous crash. A Calcutta telegram states that the Waziri expedi. bion is now closed. Colonel Kennedy's column has arrived at Tank and Colonel Gordon's at Bunny.. The force will be broken up without delay. Nothing of much importance happened during the last few days of the campaign. A few shots were occasionally interchanged with small bodies of tribesmen md one or two sepoys were killed. The principal c1 efs have submitted. The Mahsud country has en surveyed and mapped, and it is hoped that the dis ay of (strength which was made will have the effect of keeping the Waziris quiet for some time. All opposition to the bill authorising the construc- tion by a company of conduits frcm Lancing, on the Sussex coast, to London, for supplying the Metropolis and the intervening districts with sea water has been withdrawn. The period allowed by the bill for the completion of the undertaking is seven years. The principal Metropolitan termini of the pipes will at St. John's-hill, Battersea ;Maclise-road, Hammersmith; and Victoria-street, Westminster. The maximum rate to be charged for the sea water to the owners or occupiers of private houses connecting with the company's mains will be 10s. per 1,000 gallons. It will be remembered, observes a contemporary, that when the Relief of Distress Bill was passed last session, an animated discussion took place on the proposal to schedule various railways that might bene- tit by the Act. It now appears that only a single line of railway is capable of coming under the pro- visions of the Act. This is the Clara and Banagher Railway, a short line running through King's County. An application is now made for a loan of £60,000 on behalf of this railway, but, owing to certain condi- tions in the Act, it is impossible that any other railway undertaken now or hereafter can benefit by this much-debated piece of legislation. A deputation, representing butchers/graziers, and farmers throughout the kingdom, presented a memorial to Earl Spencer on Saturday praying for a relaxation of the present restrictions against the removal of live stock from the Metropolitan Meat Market, so that all onsold cattle could be sent alive into country markets for disposal. Without pledging himself to details, Earl Spencer admitted the desirability of altering the regu- lations, and, under proper licences and regulations, permitting the taking of healthy fat stock from Lon. don to slaughter-houses in other places. The restric' tions should be removed by the 31st inst, The hearing of the case of Joyce v. the Metro- politan Board of Works, in which the plaintiff sought compensation for the improper consumption of wines and spirits by men in the fire brigade, after the fire at the Duke's Theatre, Holborn, London, has just been concluded in the Queen's Bench Division. The jury agreed that the destruction and injury of the soods were caused by felonious acts of men of the brigade, and a majority of them considered that there was negligence on the part of the officers in not check- ing the men. Thia verdict it was agreed to accept, and IndwMBt z. eatmd fa tta^akuktfL