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POLLING FOR A PATRON SAINT. We have from Valparaiso an extraordinary account < f the election of a patron saint to one of the churches there, which Was concluded on the G:h of September. The Mur- curio says the favourite candidate was" the Adorable Saviour of the World," who polled 19,946 votes; "the Most Holy Virgin," 4,132. Sundry odd saints put in a poor show, polling in the aggregate 381 11 9 Votes. After the elic.ion a "Te Dcum" was sung and a serin jU pronounced in celebration of the joyful event.

Election Notes, I From a single column of the Standard-of the 29th ul cull the following choice extracts. The first refers to the apparently harmless announcement that Lord Edward Howard comes before the electors of Preston as a Liberal alone and not as a religionist." He is heavily bound over both by his creed and his alle- giance to his priestly superiors to support every measure which is calculated to injure Protestantism, whether in Ireland or England. A mere Liberal will support Mr Glad- stone in deference to the exigencies of his party. Lord Edward will give his vote from a sense of duty and obligation. It would be immensely to his honour, although it might damage his chances at the election, to confess as much to these simple-minded Wesleyans at Preston, whom his friends propose to swindle out of their votes on the strength of a most disingenuous misrepresentation. The second is extracted from an article on Mr Beesley. It is not pleasant to know that men of this stamp are going about among the working classes tearing up the Bible, and preaching naked unbeliei as the substitute for a living faith. Yet we do not know upon what ground Mr Mill could refuse his letter recommendatory to llr Beesley, if that gentle- man, like Mr Bradlaugh, should come forward as a candidate for a seat in the House of Commons. The article from which the third is taken records the fact that Messrs Forster and Miall have been vis.ting the Irish quarter at Bradford. We will even take it fur granted that assemblages of this character afforded legitimate materials for political meetings, and that Messrs Forster and Miall sacrificed nothing of their dignity and sell-respect iu exhibiting their claims before the denizens of nine pothouses in the Irish quarter" in a single evening. To the Times, however, belongs the responsibility of the startling announcement that these gentlemen, loyal subjects of the Crown as they assume to be, were not only "caterhised by men evidently of Fenian sympathies," but that they gave answ ers which .appeared to afford satisfac- tion." One would like to have this cleared up. We can imagine that Messrs Forster and Miall would go a long way in cursing Protestantism for the delectation of such audiences, but surely they must have drawn the line some- where. What were the answers which won for them tho enthusiastic approval of their Fenian interrogators ? Did they go for repeal of the Union, universal confiscation, an Irish republic, or a Parliament on College-green ? One would like to have the short-hand notes of these agreeable meet- ings in the nine beer houses in the Irish quarter. This is the recognized organ of the Disraelites, the favourite journal of the "Protestant" clergy! And the Standard knows all the time that Mr Forster and Mr Miall are as incapable of the conduct it imputes to them as it is of treating political opponents with cour- tesy. We almost hoped that Shropshire, if it did not do its duty by trying to return all the supporters it could for Mr Gladstone, would, at least, be spared the dis- grace of joining in the malignant howl against him which too many of the Conservatives have raised. Was it too much to hope, in a county like Shropshire, where there is so large a proportion of gentlemen ?" It seems that it was, for General Forester and Mr Benson have been howling." This is how the Bir- mingham, Post describes the scene. Major-General the Right Hon. George Cecil Weld Forester, M.P. for Much Wenlock-we give the gentleman his full titles because ho has little else to distinguish him—has com- posed a couplet on Mr Gladstone. This performance Gen. Forester solemnly delivered to a Wenlock audience the other evening, assuring them that it was his own production, and seemingly taking much pride in it. The couplet ran as follows:— And what does Gladstone want, I say But Pope, and Mass, and Peter's pay." Having recited this idiotic rubbish, General Forester pro- ceeded to announce his belief that Mr Gladstone is a Roman Catholic; and a partizan and companion of Gen. Forester's, a person named Benson, took occasion to supplement this information by mentioning that Mr Gladstone had made a friend of Broadhead." Of course it is not worth while to take serious notice of these silly slanlers; but it is not improper to enquire into the importance of the persons by whom they arc uttered. With Mr Benson we need not trouble the reader-he is obviously a local nobody. General Forester, however, is a person of greater note. He is one of those for- tunate individuals who have risen to high military rank without having seen service. In 1846-as we learn from Dod -he was a major in the Horse Guards." Seven years later he became Lieutenant-Colonel, and in 1803 Major-Gencral. Many men, who have seen service, have waited all their lives wit out reaching even the lowest rank set down in the above list of General Forester's promotions. To complete the re- cord, we may add that General Forester formerly relieved the severity of his military duties by accepting some subor- dinate office about the Court-" Groom of tho Bedchamber 11 we believe is the name of it-and this, of course, if not very dignified, was at least remunerative. We submit that these qualifications, with his poetical talent thrown in, scarcely raise General Forester to a level which entitles him to attack Mr Gladstone We must correct ths Post. Mr Benson should hardly be called a person he is a county magistrate. The Post, however, may be excused it could scarcely sup- pose that a county magistrate would utter a slander as gross as that which Mr Benson flung at Mr Glad- stone. The Standard, at any rate, thinks it no libel on the Conservative party to say that they look kindly upon the influence of great houses in elections. With charming naivete it says- The contest fer the representation of Woodstock has been conducted by the Liberal candidate in a manner which is, to say the least of it, original. We have here a young gen- tleman, the Honourable George Brodrick, who believes that he has a better claim than the Churchills to the possession of the borough, in the neighbourhood of which the Duke of Marlborough is the principal proprietor. The ChureLills, it seems, in the opinion of the Standard, have some claim to the possession of the borough." Further on it says— The descendant of John Churchill has at least the colour of a pretext for trying to mould the opinions of the people of Woodstock. But what claim have the Ilarcourts, the Sidg- wicks, or the Brodricks upon the consideration of this parti- cular borough ? Why should they war against the Duke of Marlborough, and blaspheme freely at landlords at large, when, in fact, they are engaged in intimidating, to the beot of their means, this constituency, to vote, not as they desire to vote, but as Mr Vernon Harcourt has declared that they ought to vote ? No wonder that Conservative landowners who believe in the Standard and the Bible refuse to announce that their tenants may vote as they like. The rector of St. Botolpb, Bishopsgate, made some excellent remarks at a meeting in support of the Liberal candidates for the City last week. He said- He sympathished to some extent with the objection that clergymen ought not to interfere too prominently with political meetings, but he had his rights as a citizen not- withstanding. But in the present crisis he felt hound to come forward as a clergyman, because some of his brethren had used terms towards Mr Gladstone which were not pro- fessional, and he could hardly say were gentlemanly. He would not enter on the question of the Irish Church, because he felt that that church was at this moment virtually dis- established. Say what they would, that church was doomed. The policy of the government was to evade the question of the Irish Church, and to persuade the electors that the Church of England was in danger. But the disestablishment of the Irish Church did not directly affect the Church of England, but it would be a great warning to the English clergy, and tell them that if they did not live in the hearts of the people, they must go too. (Loud cheers.) From Genesis to Revelations the Bible hadjone prominent Nvord- Righteousness-that was, do justice. Dr Temple has been most disgracefully treated by a respectable" Conservative meeting at Rugby. The meeting was called in support of Mr Newdegate, and Dr Temple went there because, on a previous occasion, he had been blamed by Mr Newdegate for not attend- ing a similar gathering to keep the Liberals in order. He stood near the door at first, bat Mr Newdegate beckoned him to the platform; and this is what fol- lowfd- After a while, a small knot of men worked their way up towards the platform, having Dr Temple in their midst. As he was pushed and hustled about, the farmers kept grinning in his face, saluting him with opprobrious names, and yelling wildly, Turn him out!" To the honour of Mr Newdegate, it should be said that he put forth his best en- deavours to protect the doctor from the ruffianly treatment of an infuriated mob, whose brutality was stimulated alike by encouragement from the platform and a part of the meeting. When he had been pushed about for some time, two or three persons, apparently farmers, seized him by the collar, and with great vioience ejected him through the door. This disgraceful assault was enthusiastically applauded by the Conservatives, and it created quite a chuckle on the platform. Mr Xewdegate-I deep'y regret what has occurred. The scene that ensued bailies description. Mr Newdegate pushed his way along the platform, and gave orders for Dr Temple to be brought back into the room. This having been done, Mr Newdegate and the Chairman made the only atone- ment in their power for the dastardly insult offered him by their friends, by shaking him warmly by the hands. The Daily News, commenting on the disgraceful scene, says— Let it be seriously asked of the Conservative party Are clergymen who speak in favour of justice to Ireland to be persistently denied a hearing? Is the spirit of British fair play so deadened in the friends of the Established Church by the fear of losing the endowments of Ireland, that men like Dr Temple are to be punished for any expression of political opinion opposed to theirs? If so, let them remem- ber that when such men are driven from political interest or action, it will not be democracy that has driven them away. The Conservative party have often expressed a fear lest the' extension of the suffrage should lower the tone of politics; but, should it he lowered, the example came from above, not from below. There is a mob-law of genteel mobs a mob- ocracy of educated people; and, if they introduce mob man- ners into politics on their side, it will he they who are to blame if a larger and less cultivated mob introduce theirs on the other.

An official report states that there were 54,000 deaths in Ecuador by the: recent earthquake. Female fashions have reached such a pitch of extravagance that evt-n women are beginning to con- si !or the necessity of reformation. The German ladies have held a Conference at Stuttgart, and come to a solemn resolution that their toilettes must be modified, in order to check inordinate expense and frequent el, s nge of dress. But what particular measures ought to be adopted? In order to solve this question they resolved to orga-ize a Commission composed of all sorts cf artis.s—p&intera, tailors, doctors, and milliners —to suggest new dresses, and the recommendations sorts of inters, tailors, doctors, and milliners —to suggest new dresses, and the recommendations of this representative tody are to be duly published. •" <j'' "t;w. ,").-

Literature of the Month. (SECOND NOTICE.) CHAMBERS'S JOURN.&L.-There is one rather good story in this month's part, which is called the4 Pretty Butcheress,' and occupies eight chapters. Then there is a racy sketch of Blank's Birthplace,' which pokes fun into the class of persons who venerate the Shakespeare relics at Stratford, but who do not read his works. Another paper very humorously describes Madame Tussaud's Wax Works, under the title of • A Very Bad Night,' and there is a thrilling descrip- tion of a bit of foolhardy walking over the roof of a cathedral, under the heading, 'A Climbing Adventure.' BELGRATIA. —A new story is commenced this month, called 4 My Enemy's Daughter,' and Miss Braddon's tale, I Charlotte's Inheritance,' commences Book 8. Amongst the shorter papers there is one headed Thorough in Criticism,' which contains some very sensible advice to critics, though given in rather inflated English. For a really clever essay commend as to Mr Sala's 'Little Hallucination,' in which, out of an old book he picked up for sevenpenee at a stall, he weaves quite an interesting little paper on the very matter-of-fact life in a Harem, which he sets against the poetic descriptions ot Byron and Moore. Mr Lemprere, the author of the book we have alluded to, was a doctor, and had to visit a Harem professionally, and we are told by Mr Sala that- The lights ef rhe hnrem mobbed Mr Lemprere. Everyone seemed soliciteus to find some complaint on which she might eonsult him; and even those who had not ingenuity enough to invent an ailment employed him to feel their pulse. Others pulled his coat, undid his knee-buckles, took out his watch, punched him in the ribs, pinched his checks, and blew the powder from his hair. "Their ideas of deli- cacy," adds the worthy medico, "did not at all correspond with those of eur European ladies, for they exhibited the beauties of their limbs and form with a degree of freedom that in any other country would have been thought indecent, and their conversation was equally unrestrained." Unso- phisticated Lemprere! Why did he not survive to see an English girl of the period," and to read the Saturday Review on that peculiar variety of the enchanting sex ? THE BROADWAY continues Mr Henry Kingsley's Shropshire story, 'Stretton,' and the Rev. Newman Hall's somewhat thin" papers on America. Here is a specimen of what we mean by thin.' Mr Hall had reached the hotel on the American side of the falls of Niagara, and lie says— I restrained myself from rushing at once to the scene I had come so far to behold. No, there was a still greater attraction, for letters from home were awaiting me. Then, my heart relieved by knowing all was well with those I had left behind, I thought that due attention to bodily wants would fit me for my first introduction so I took a bath, changed my attire, breakfasted, and then—with body and mind refreshed—sallied forth to the celebrated View Point. Now there can be no doubt that all this may be very interesting to Mr Hall's family, but do the general readers of the Broadway care to know whether he breakfasted before or after his visit to the falls ? There is a good paper on Goose Clubs (not a bad name for such affairs-in more aspects than one), and a continuation of Mr Hannay's 'Studies on Thackeray.' Altogether the number is good. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE contains several pleasantly written papers. In one on The Elections' the writer strives to be impartial, but rather shews his sympathy with the party of whom no less an authority than Mr Harry Sydney, of Music Hall fame, says is the one in which five out of six of the gentlemen' of England belong." Speaking of Carnarvonshire the writer says— Captain Parry, of Madryn, has thrown down the gauntlet as a Liberal against Lord Penrliyn and h a son,' Mr Douglas Pennant, in what has hitherto been considered one of the most intensely Conservative counties within the four seas- Carnarvonshire, a county where, for nearly seventy years, I believe, the representation has been in the hands of a single family, and no Liberal gentleman has ever shown his face on the hustings. And the writer might have added, with a degree of truth, And where, if tenant farmers had been allowed to follow the dictates of their consciences, a Liberal would have been returned years ago." In the same number we have a Swimming Lesson by a Lady 'A Walk round Clerkenwell;' and an appreciative article on "Falstaff," with a criticism on Mr Mark Lemon's reading of the character. The serial stories of the number are continued. ONCE A WEEK. There is only one picture by F. Eltze this month, and that represents a crowd of ladies, young and old, who ask Why should we not Vote ? In the I Table Talk' we find the following racy bit- What does Mr Matthew Arnold mean by the combination of Sweetness and Light ? Is it Bull's Eyes ? Once a Week also follows suit to Saint Pauls in an article on Provincial Journalism,' which exposes some of our weaknesses, and pats us on our back where we excel. (To be Continued.)

General. Louisa Pyne was recently married to Frank Bodda, the composer. About JE190 will be available for the monument to the memory of Leigh Hunt. The memorial is to take the shape of a bust and pedestal, erected on the poet's grave in Kensal-green cemetery. A Glasgow publisher has issued an edition of Wa- verley in phonetic shorthand, the most singular, per- haps, of the many dresses in which Scott's works have appeared. The Italian papers announce that Prince Thomas of Genoa, nephew of King Victor Emmanuel, is about to be educated at Harrow. The young prince is fourteen years of age. An action is to be brought against the London and North-Western Railway Company to recover the value of the petroleum oil which was lost on the occasion of the Abergele catastrophe, on the 20th of August. The case will be tried in one of the Irish law eourts. The shock of an earthquake is said to have been felt in Ireland last week (though some correspondents doubt it), aud the Daily News contains an article to show that, though Britain has so long been free from dis- astrous earthquakes, We should be misinterpreting the geologic records were we to assume that our pre- sent immunity is to be looked upon as evidence that the steadfastness of Britain will be permanent. the steadfastness of Britain will be permanent. The strike of the operative boot and shoemakers at Liverpool, which has lasted upwards of twenty weeks, and has cost about a thousand pounds, has ended in the men returning to work at the old rate of wages. Future trade disputes are to be settled by the better tribunal of arbitration by a joint committee of work- men and employers. The bricklayers' strike at Liver- pool still continues, and without prospect of settle- ment. A shock of earthquake was felt in several parts of England on the night of the 30th ult., between half- past ten and eleven o'clock. The shock appears to have been experienced most distinctly in the midland districts, the reports from Worcester and Leamington reporting considerable vibratory motion in the ground. It was also felt, though not so markedly, at Waterloo, near Liverpool. Happily it seems to have done no further mischief than alarm the people. Now that the earthquakes have got so near us, we are obliged to a correspondent of the Spectator for dis- interring a number of forgotten facts as to the occur- rence of earthquakes in England in the olden time. Wendover states that in 974 a great earthquake shook all England in 1081 one occurred which was at- tended with heavy bellowing;" and seven years later there was a mickle earth-stirring over all Eng- land." Florence, of Worcester, says that in 1110 "there was a very great earthquake at Shrewsbury. The river Trent was dried up at Nottingham, from morning to the third hour of the day, so that men walked dry-shod through its channel." Shocks more or less severe are reported as having occurred on frequent subsequent occasions and there are legends of whole cities being overthrown, including, accord- ing to the Chronicles of Evesham," the town of Al- cester. A curious charge was preferred at the Lambeth Po- lice Court, last week, against Louisa Roulton, an in- mate of Lambeth Workhouse. The young woman was charged with behaving in a refractory and dis- orderly manner," but literally the head and front of her offjnding was that she would have a chi". non, and wear her hair frizzed, if she liked." Now the law in Lambeth Workhouse is that such pomps and vanities as chignons and frizzed hair shall be suppressed—effectually so, too, beneath close-fitting caps—but when Miss Roulton defiantly proclaimed that she would have a chignon and the re3t of it, her evil example was followed by about forty women, all of whom incontinently threw away the detested cap, and went in for the prevailing fashion in hair. This was the refractory and disorderly" conduct charged against the prisoner, aggravated, however, by the cir- cumstance that she confirmed her declaration on the cap question by an unnecessary profusion of oaths. The magistrate could not see the matter at all in the light in which it was viewed by Pascall, the task- master," who prosecuted, and Louisa was liberated on her own bail until a subsequent day.

Accidents and Offences. Henry Warren, a son of General Warren, pleaded guilty, at the Central Criminal Court, to charges of obtaining goods under false pretences, and was sen- tenced to two years' hard labour. A man named John Thompson has been committed for trial, at the Southampton Assizes, for publishing a certain scandalous, impiots, blasphemous, and pro- fane libel of or concerning the Holy Scriptures and the Christian religion." At Brentford, the other day, a woman hushed her baby to sleep, and laid him upon the bed at a quarter to one o'clock in the afternoon. At half-past four she went upstairs, and discovered that he had fallen out of bed, bnt was hanging by the head between the table and the bedstead, life being extinct. The Irish mail had another narrow escape on the 28th ult. Just before the mail was due at Colwich, a luggRge train ran into a workmen's trolley, blocking the line. There was ticae to signal the mail to stop, and so another disaster was averted. A wife's stratagem wac disclosed in the course of a London police case the other day. She was summoned for threatening her husband, and it transpired that he came home drank one night, and she found in his pocket a letter from a woman. Upon this the wife wrote in her husband's name to the woman, and elicited information which made her jealous. The summons was dismissed. On the 30th ult., a very shocking accident occurred on the South-Eastern Railway, near New Cross station. Two platelayers stepped off the rails on which they were at work to let an up-train pass, when an engine, the approach of which they bad not noticed, down came upon them, and literally cut them to pieces. A shocking murder, followed by the suicide of the murderer, has been committed at Northampton. A shoemaker of that town first cut his wife's throat and then cut his own. The perpetrator of the tragedy lived long enough to be taken to the hospital, and then died almost immediately. A remarkable circumstance was that the sister of the murdered woman arrived on a visit to the family, but jnst too late to see her relative alive. A brutal murder was perpetrated in Liverpool, on the 27th ultimo. The victim was a man named Donovan, who in the early part of the evening had had some words with a companion, whose name is Braithwaite. The difference between the two men seemed to be amicably settled; but an hour or two afterwards, Braithwaite suddenly stabbed Donovan in the breast with a knife, exclaiming, as he did so, I will be even with you." The unfortunate man expired almost im- mediately, and his murderer was taken into custody. A fatal explosion, the cause of which is not clearly explained, took place on the 27th ultimo, at a fireworks shop in Liverpool. Some of the explosive articles, with which the premises were stocked, are supposed to have become accidentally ignited and, the fire being communicated to other articles, a series of explosions occurred, and in a few moments the shop was in a blaze. The owner and his assistants fortunately es- caped without injury, but a young man who entered to make a purchase, just as the accident occurred, was burned to death. The Attorney-General has granted his fiat for a writ of error in the case of Madame Rachel, and application was made to MrKerrtsat week, at the Central Crimi- nal Court for a record of the facts upon which the conviction took place. One point at issue is whether Mr Kerr, as a juige of the City of London Court, has any legal right to dispose of cases at the Old Bailey, and the object of the application was to obtain a record that the trial took place before him at the last session. Mr Kerr saw no objection to such a state- ment being furnished. A shocking murder and suicide were discovered, on the 29th ultimo, at Fenton, Staffordshire. On Wed- nesday night, a labouring man, named Thomas Worth- ington, went to bed at half-past nine, leaving his wife up to finish some household work. He went to sleep, and woke at four o'clock on Thursday morning, and found she had not been to bed. Going down stairs, he came upon the dead bodies of his wife and her youngest child, a girl thirteen months old, with their throats cut, and lying in a pool of blood in the kitchen, where he had left them the night before. The child's head was nearly severed from the body, and a razor covered with blood was found on the floor. A year ago, the death of a child caused great grief to the poor woman, who had ever since been in a very low state, and under the influence of mental infirmity she, no doubt, committed the double crime. She lived on good terms with her husband, who is left with four children. The trial of Farrar and Hnllett, charged with forg- ing the acceptance of the Earl of Dudley to two bills of exchange for E800, was resumed on the 30ch ult., at the Central Criminal Court. It will be remembered that, in order to float the fictitious paper, there was also produced an agreement purporting to be between the Earl and Hullett, that the latter should wiite the music for a new opera, for which he was to receive the sum named. Considerable ingenuity was displayed in the accessories of the fraud, not the least of which was that of fixing on Lord Dudley, well-known as a patron of the lyrical drama, and the owner of Her Majesty's Iheatre. The Earl of Dudley, who had telegraphed en the previous day that he could not reach London in time to appear, was now in attendance and examined. He deposed that the prisoners were both entire strangers to him, and that the acceptance and the agreement were alike forgeries. The jury, after an hour's deliberation, found Farrar guilty, but acquitted Hullett. Sentence was deferred. Now that Rachel has been forced to adopt the infe- rior occupation of oakum picking, the public have lacked a fashionable scandal. Happily for those whose ennui can only be dispelled by a little sensationalism, a prosecution for bigamy, described by the counsel who opened the case as one of the most romantic and astounding ever enquired into," was commenced at the Marlborough-street Police Court, on the 28th ultimo. The prosecutor is Major Lumley, KC.B. In 1847 he married the lady whom he now charges with bigamy, and lived with her until 1864, when a separation and a settlement were enected. bubse- quently it was discovered that the lady had been pre- viously married, in 1836, at St. Heliers, to a French teacher of languages, and it is believed the first hus- band is still alive. It was not denied that the Major is seeking to set aside the settlement which he made upon the lady; and some letters which were read, coupled with his own admissions as to intrigues with other women, place him in anything but a favourable position. The accused has been committed for trial, and admitted to bail on her own recognizances. A horrible tragedy in low life has just taken place in Lincolnshire, near Boston. Richard Biggadike, an agricultural labourer, aged thirty, with a wife and three children, lived in a hut, with only one bed-room. Notwithstanding that, he had two lodgers, one a labourer named Proctor, aged thirty, and the other a fisherman, and all slept in the one room, the two beds which Lecommodated them being only eighteen inches apart. It is not surprising that an improper intimacy sprung up between Mrs Biggadike and Proctor and the husband becoming jealous and troublesome, they seem to have agreed upon murdering him. He wis taken suddenly ill one night after tea, and died in twelve hours, as it was proved at the inquest, of arsenical poisoning. Indeed, Professor Taylor said he had never met with so clear a case. The woman was taken into custody, and made a statement to the effect that she saw Proctor put a white powder into deceased's tea, and, after he was ill, into the medicine sent him by the doctor, upon which Proctor was appre- hended. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against both, and they were committed for trial. A painful enquiry with reference to the death of a young married lady named Thomas, separated for two years from her husband, was held at Chelsea on Wed- nesday. The deceased went to the house of Mr Powell, a surgeon at Chelsea, at seven o'clock, and was shown by the servant into the consulting room. At ten o'clock, Mr Powell sent the servant with a note to a fellow-practitioner named Turner. The note was as follows:- Dear Turner,—She was in the family-way, but not by me. She begged me to procure abortion, and I have tried to do so, when she suddenly fell down, and shortly afterwards, in spite of all my efforts, died. May God have mercy on my sinful soul. I loved her dearly. I shall be far from pursuit ere you get this. I cannot live, and shall take poison you will hear of me in a day or two. Go to Xo. 3, Wellington- square, to say Mrs Thomas is deall in my consulting room. I cannot bear to be hung. You know all the story. May God bless you for your friendship to me. Try and make the best of my dreadful story, but tell the truth to her family. I en- close her carte. Her hair I shall keep with me to the last. This locket she gave me. I am afraid to remain longer.- Your poor friend, POWELL. I should like you to have the practice, and tell her mother I loved and would have made her my wife if I could. Break it gently to my poor old mother. Can you run down to her I I enclose £5, for your expenses. Mr Turner went with a police inspector to the house, and found the woman dead, as the letter had described. Tiw post mortem examination bore out the statements in the letter, and showed that the deceased was suffer- ing from diseased heart. The jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder" against Mr Powell. .1- v

Ecclesiastical. Mr Purchas, of Brighton, has found it necessary to announce that henceforth admission to the services at his church will be by ticket. The Record observes, in reference to the vacant Primacy, that it 6eems like "a providential circum- stance" that Mr Gladstone is not at this time Premier. In that case it is probable, the Record thinks, that Dean Stanley would have been at once elevated to the Archiepiscopal throne, "for the proposal was made even and pressed in 1862, before he was elevated to the Deanery of Westminster. The John Bull says the Prince and Princess of Wales attended divine service at All Saints,' Margaret- street, on the Feast of St. Luke. They walked in and took their places with the rest of the congregation in the most unassuming manner, the Prince sitting with the men, and her royal highness with the women. The Princess looked beautiful, and was dressed most simply in a black silk dress piped, and wore a blue bonnet. The St. Albans Ritual case will be heard on the 16ili November, before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, on appeal from the judgment of the Arches Court. The Lord Chancellor will preside, and it is understood that, in addition to the members usuaHy attending the committee, some of the bishops will assist in the hearing. The questions to be raised in the appeal relate to kneeling or prostrating before able duriiemtin haviDg HShted candle3 on the Manv of thp6 |lon of the Holy Communion. Many of the Irish clergy, granting that nothing Wef,e 8J21 J1 on' f?uaranteeing their life interests, could well afford to dispense with State aid. Among the answers returned in the diocese of Dublin to the queries of the Royal Commissioners, we find that the Perpetual Curate of Sandford states that his endowment is only f J3 and parsonage-house, but his pewrents produce £ 324 and m other instances '« pewrents and other sources of income" aro retnmo,i j for the incumbent £ 300, £ 496, £ 556. Such clTrgymen do not stand much in need of State endowments. A clergyman at Harold's Cross a suburb of Dublin, states his yearly revenue thus Rent of land £ 67 pewrents and Sunday collections, £ 462. The "religious" papers are discussing the new editorial arrangements in connection with the Satur- day Review. The Guardian says Mr Philip Harwood, who has succeeded the late Mr J. D. Cook in the editorship, was formerly a Dissenting minister, and once in that capacity entered upon a controversy with the Rev. W. Maskell, Chaplain to the Bishop of Exeter, who at the time of the Gorham controversy seceded to Rome. Mr Harwood was in early life associated with the late Mr \V. J. Fox, and other dis- tinguished Unitaiians; and we believe he has been the working editor of the Saturday almost from the beginning. 11 IVe cannot," says the Record, "con- gratulate the electors of the University of Cambridge on the choice of an editor, made by their represent- ative, Mr Beresford Hope. If they select such a representative for the University, what becomes of their protest against Mr Coleridge's Bill Tile lAverpool Courier a Conservative journal, says -11 It would seem that the ritualists have become so bewildered with the excitement tbev continue to raise as to forget that honesty is absolutely essential to the character and usefulness of a minister of religion. Let them be as silly as they please in the matters of ceremonies and vestments, but wken a clergyman of the Church of England says—as the Rev. Arthur Wagner is reported to have said last Sunday—that Protestantism as a religion is on its deathbed; that its own children mistrust it that people now find out that to be a member of the Catholic Church is a safer thing than to sit in high places where Protestantism is that the ear of God's mercy is closed to Protest- antism,' and so forth, the question naturally occurs- Why does this gentleman remain in the Protestant Church of England ? Does he think it decent or honourable thus to abuse and defame the church whose bread he eats, and whose pulpit he employs as the vehicle of his vituperation ? This is one of the Briahton ritualists, and a pretty specimen he is." The Daily News says :—The Rev. Henry John Pye, whose secession (with his wife) to the Church of Rome is announced, was not a man of such mark in the Church of England, either for learning or iu- fluence, as to make it probable chat his example will have much force among his brethren; nevertheless, his conversion has a certain srcial importance which distinguishes it from the great majority of similar lapses which are now becoming so disagreeably fre- quent among our clergy. Mr Pye is not a young curate whose head has been turned by the folly of his seniors, tie must be more than forty years of age he is a son-in-law of the Bishop of Oxford and he gives up in the rectory of Clifton a family living worth from £865 to X950 a year. We may therefore"regard the step he has taken as evidence of deliberation and sincerity. It would not be difficult, were it worth while, to trace the gradual approximation of Ir Pye to the goal he has at last reached. He was first heard of as curate of Cuddesden, where the Bishop of Oxford has his palace, and the few works he has published treat of questions with which the extreme High Church and the Ritualistic party love to occupy them- selves—as whether non communicants ought to stay at the celebration of the Lord's Supper—whether the sick ought to be annointed-and the like. Now that he has taken a resolution conformable to his personal convictions, we can only hope he will be happy in the church of his choice, and that while his judgment is condemned, his honesty may have many in.itators. It is said that the Bishop is plunged into great grief by the secession of his son in-law and daughter.

Foreign. A letter from Berlin states that Count de Bismarck is not exclusively occupied with politics. In associa- tion with M. Coeslin, a manufacturer, the federal chancellor has founded in that locality a factory for making paper from wood. The count supplies nine- tenths of the capital for carrying on the business. The New York papers express much satisfaction at the republican victories in the late elections, and the news appears to have been received with great enthu- siasm throughout the country. In many places salutes of a hundred guns were fired, and bands of music paraded the streets. Grant was serenaded at Galena In Boston the convention of the Massachusetts meth- odist churches was sitting, and on the motion of one of the ministers taking part in it, the doxology, Praise God from whom all blessings flow," was ,sun, "in thankfulness for the great victories in behalf of ppace and righteousness which bad been achieved in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana." At a recent sitting of the French Academy of Sciences the perpetual secretary announce! that a newspaper bad recently revived au old story to the effect that the Academy was in possession of a consid- erable sum bequeathed to it as a reward for any person who might discover the quadrature of the circle. He, therefore, suggested the propriety of again publishing the decision the Academy came to in 1775, of never more devoting the slightest attention to the solutions that might be sent in of the following problems: the duplication of the cube, the trisection of the angle, perpetual motion by means of a machine, and the quadrature of the circle. It justified this course as regards the latter, by remarking that many weak- miuded persons; utterly ignorant of mathematics and labouring under the impression that large sums were ready to be handed over to them in case they suc- ceeded in solving that problem, devoted their time to it, utterly neglecting their regular business and the interests of their families, and even occasionallv losing their reason by fohowmg such a vain pursuit 0 j1'rom norm to south of New Zealand a curious tidal phenomenon was observed on Saturday, the 15th August. The sea rushed out aud in with extraordinary violence, and in some places in the south island great damage was done from the sea going far over the usual high-water mark. On Monday, the 17tb, shocks of earthquake were felt over a larger portion of New Zealand than is usually subject to"them. The north- erly point reached was Napier, and from there as far south as Otago. Auckland, as usual, was entirely ex- empt. The schooner Rifleman, which arrived at Dun- edin on the 18th August, from the Chatham Islands, brings sad news. These islands have been visited by three tidal waves, causing great loss of life and pro- perty. The settlement of Tupunga, on the north side of the island, felt the greatest force. It was entirely destroyed-no mark being left to tell where it stood. The ground was completely covered with sand and seaweed. The inhabitants barely escaped with their lives. The sea went inland about four miles. Along the coast, a house and its contents belonging to Mr Hay, sheep farmer, were carried bodily out to sea. Some Maories, in trying to save a boat which was being carried out to sea, were drowned. The settle- ment of Waitangi sustained great loss. Houses were shifted and carried away. A large quantity of govern- ment stores was destroyed. The schooner Rifleman, lying at Waengaroa, fortunately escaped. The force of the water at Tupunga smashed drays, and removed to a considerable distance stones half-a-ton iu weight.

Political. SEVe bien,?ome election riots in Blackburn. eie^n„,B7J,^ha,i8"ed m add'e» <° ««> Mr Stansfeld, Mr Hughes, and Mr P. Taylor, to whom the matter was referred, have recommended Mr Odger to retire from Chelsea. Mr Gladstone's Lancashire speeches (seven in num. culation g prmted in a form 8uiti**>le for wide cir- .Ase™f on political subjects is being given at St. Mark s Church, Whitechapel. The Rev. F. D. Maurice, the Rev. Llewellyn Davies, and the Rev. Stopford Broster are among the preachers. A second Liberal candidate has been found for the city of Dublin, in the person of Sir Dominie Corri^an the eminent physician. In his address, which has just been published, Sir Dominic says he will support the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church, and a measure to amend the land laws. An unfair attempt is made by a corespondent of the Standard to damage Mr Mill because he subscribed to Mr Bradlaugh's candidature. Mr Mill says he sub- scribed because he wanted to see working men's re- presentatives in Parliament, whereupon the corres- rXisr rTl°rtS"7i'YOaf,krleW ^"Bradlaugh was an atheist: I leave the public to judge your opinion of working men. Of course the writer knew that he was talking nonsense. Mr Gladstone, in reply to a note from Mrs Butler, of Liverpool, says Madam,—Pray be good enough to inform my constituents on whose behalf you write that I am favourable in general to an effective protec- tion of the earnings of married women, and that I think it deserves consideration in what way property in female bands can advantageously be represented in the con- stituencies. Beyond these points I must ask to reserve my full discretion." The chief poiut to be noticed in a speech just deli- vered by Sir George Grey, at Morpeth, is a declara- tion by the right hon. baronet in favour of conpulsory education. Sir George would very much rather avoid having recourse to compulsion, but he clearly indicated his readiness to support the principle, in the event of no other means being found to overcome the demon of ignorance. A meeting of the Liberal election committee was held on the 27ch ult. in Birmingham, when Mr Bright was assured by Mr Jaffray, the chairman, that the re- turn of the canvass showed that the lowest of the three Liberal candidates would have at least 4 000 votes ahead of the higher of the two Conservative candidates. Mr Bright said the whole country took a great interest in Birmingham, as the place where the minority clause would be really tested. Messrs Dixon and Muntz also spoke. Mr Bright has con- sented to address a meeting of gunmakers on the 10th Nov. He states that he had always been opposed to government manufactories. From a letter in the Daily News it appears that there are sixty-five constituencies in England and Wales, returning ninety-nine members, for which only Liberal candidates are standing, and thirty-two returning fifty-three members, contested only by Con- servatives. There are thirteen places returning two- members each where there is no contest and each party takes one seat; "and there are three three-cornered constituencies with six Conservative and three Liberal candidates. There are thus 113 constituencies (in which there is no contest between Liberals and Con- servatives) which will return 115 Liberals and seventy- two Conservatives. A similar analysis in Scotland shows a Liberal majority of thirty-six, and in Ireland ofhfteen. As far as we can judge at present the Liberal majority in uncontested seats will be ninety- two. Siace the above was written the situation has em somewhat altered. Mr Goschen, speaking in London the other day, siu i—" Nothing, he thoaght, could better describe Mr Disraeli's treatment of his party than Longfellow's song entitled Beware,' with the simple alteration of a word or two in one stanza. He would quote it for the benefit of the Constitutionalists as well as of that Q1éeting- There is a statesman fair to see, Take care He can both false and friendly be; Beware beware ( Trust him not, He is fooling thee! (Laughter.) He gives thee a. garland woven fair, Tako care It is a fool's-cap for thee to wear; Beware beware Trust him not, Ho is fooling thee!" The well-worn subject of the Irish Church was ffctively dealt with in a speech delivered to his con- stituents, the other night, by Mr Milner Gibson. After noticing several phases of the question, he proceeded to contrast the policy adopted towards Ireland in re- spect of the Anglican Church with the policy adopted by William III. towards Scotland. The people of Scotland rebelled successfully against the previous at- tempts which had been made to impose an Anglican Church upon them,and he believed the people of Scotland would rebel again if it could be conceived that the at- tempt would be repeated. The Irish rebellion was unsuccessful, and the Irish Church remained The consequences they knew had been that Scotland was united in the closest bonds of friendship with Ergland t le population was contented and prosperous while Ireland was chronically disaffected and had made no progress. He argued that the adoption of the policy advocated by Mr Gladstone would go a far way to- wards making Ireland what Scotland was.

Amongst the pass Q ;ers who left Southampton last week for New York was Mr Goldwin Smith. In three months, say the papers, there have been thirty-seven incendiary fires in Montreal. The Court of Rome has notified through the nuncio at Madrid that it is "opposed" to the establishment of religious liberty in Spain. A cheap book, designed for the neonlp I Memoirs of Qneen Isabel," has met with a I /in- flate at Madrid, aud is one ofTh* a prod.gjoua pictures ever held up to public execraTon. hamillatlBg their country, and advises them to establish freiublfc instead of a monarchy to fill the place of the govern ment they have overthrown. S"vern- There has been a demonstration of a novel character at Madrid. The populace, it seems, have been seized with a sudden and intense aversion to capital punish- ment; and in order to give expression to their feelintrs. iu the matter, they burned a scaffold on the nuhf square where executions have hitherto taken vlar *C The news from India is favourable. The British .&.1_- _h"L zorce engaged on iue uunu-west tronfcW hu the highest peak of the Black Mountains, and driven the enemy before them Some of the tribes were begging for terms, and the enemy showed si "nl of general submission. Shere Ali, the new ruler of Cabool, has expre-sed a desire to establish fdendly relations with the British government, to which the Viceroy has favourably responded. Preparations are already being made for the Great Ji,xhibition which is to take place at Brussels in 1870 An immense palace, which promises to surpass anv building for similar purposes which the world has yet witnessed, is to be erected in the Charap-de-illaDcovres and the Belgian government is just now busily en-' gaged in considering the pIans wbich numJ competing architects have submitted for approval. The question has been asked," says the Steele' « as to how the numbers of the Lanterne which circulate in i ranee could pass the frontier. The police is said to have been greatly puzzled, and might have been so th^attenfion f Unkn0Wn dividual who called It the No H 8fn t0C6rtalQ ^go packing-cases at tae INoithein railway station. These boxes con- tamed plaster busts of Napoleon III. whic^i nn l^- LcmP Up„Were f°Und t0 be tiIlcd witlj copns of the A let er from Madrid glves the following informa- tion :-«Our Protestant fellow-countrymof arc not hkeiy to let he grass grow under their feet. Distal utors of Bibles and tracts have already beguu fbpiV operations in the great cities, and yesterday two bold Lruons were seen giving the sacred volume to peonie in that very Plaza M«yor where not more than a centnry ago the population of the city sat down to eiijoy what was then the favourite national holiday —an auto-da-fe of heretics and Hebrews. HOLLOWAY'* FILLI.-The Female's Friend.-The wonderful cuies effected by these PilU kv„ „i m«b„d u™. to ,khtUad JX.S J" l'le kumblest hearths as whole <;v«r a tlj01-0a&h purification of the otherwise ,Wlthout dis°rderinp:, weakening, or or^n lnterfenn& Wlth the natural action of an I anne-i'f are, admlUod to be *be best restorers of defied £ tm'gth' an' Perfect to the most inieate constitution. Ihey give colour and freshness the face, aud by their gentle alterative properties eradicate from the system the germs o? complaints which, by the obstruction of humours, consign tens of thousands uf females annually to an early grave, who might, by the use of these Pills, be spared to their families and friends. '-i. 1,